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Snapchat has been wholeheartedly embraced by col-lege students for socializing and sharing photos with friends. But on many college campuses, Snapchat is now being used for an entirely different purpose.

Eastern has become one of the growing number of col-leges in the United States to use Snapchat as a tool to at-tract and communicate with incoming students. In De-cember 2014, the EKU Office of Admissions started up the school’s official Snapchat account, EKUstories.

So far the account has been used for recruiting and sharing news with potential Eastern students, said Beth Brashears, Eastern’s Digital Media Student Recruitment Specialist.

Brashears said she can connect with future students who provide their cell phone numbers and consent to re-ceive text messages from the university. If they already have the Snapchat app, she requests to be added to their contact lists.

When these students are accepted to Eastern, it is now standard procedure to send them a Snap along with tra-ditional notifications. This Snap is a picture of the East-ern Colonel and the caption “Congrats! You have been ac-cepted to EKU!” Students receive this news on Snapchat before getting their acceptance letters or emails from the Admissions Office.

Brashears said she often receives excited responses from students, many of whom simply write back “Real-ly?!” She said about one-third of students screenshot the message and share it on other social media sites.

“I think it is surprising for a lot of them,” Brashear said. “They’re shocked that a university is sending them a Snapchat.” She said future students also tend to ask ques-

By HANNAH [email protected]

THEDEBATE

Each candidate running for an elect-ed position in Student Government Association was given the chance the chance to share with the students their campaign points as well as address any questions the students had at the annu-al SGA Debate Tuesday evening in the Library.

With the new Constitution voted in by the entirety of SGA last fall, the ex-ecutive positions students are able to run for went from four to three, student body president, executive vice presi-dent, and vice president for student ac-

tivities council.There are two slates running for pres-

ident and EVP, Bailey Cox and Hunt-er Wilks against Katie Scott and Collin Potter; and one student running uncon-tested for VP of SAC, Karlee Tanel.

The elections committee made up of a member from each branch of student government, created their own ques-tions for each office, one of the ques-tions they asked the president candi-dates how they plan on improving SGA as a whole next year.

Scott said improving student govern-ment starts with the branches them-selves, improving the relationships within SGA, and being more approach-able to better help them serve the stu-

dents.“That’s what student government

is all about, it’s about representing the students,” Scott said. “It’s not a polit-ical organization, we’re non-partisan, we’re here for you. I really think just im-proving as a whole starts really building those relationships within the organiza-tion itself to reflect that to the student body.”

Cox’s plan starts with adding more delegation, to get everyone in the or-ganization involved with implementing the platform and make everyone in.

“A lot of times the cabinet and the vice presidents will try and do every-thing on their own and we don’t al-way have the best setup for delegation

among the people,” Cox said. “I want to try something where we can get every-one out and involved with the platform or whatever the students want.”

Both Cox and Scott currently serve as student senators, and a member of the audience asked them what they thought they biggest accomplishment has been so far in senate.

Cox said one of the coolest things he was involved with so far in Senate was helping the Library stay open for both dead and finals weeks.

He said during the fall of his fresh-man year the library was only going to be able to stay open during finals week.

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Future Colonels accepted through Snapchat

ELECTION GUIDECOXWILKS

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Eastern’s Student Senate had a full reading of each sen-ator’s vote for the $150 per semester student fee that was approved March 3, at its meeting Tuesday.

The Senate was instructed by the university counsel’s office to have the reading and to ratify the vote after The Progress submitted an open meeting complaint to Stu-dent Government Association President Kyle Nicholas on March 11.

The Progress objected to the Student Senate using a se-cret ballot and also to how the vote was recorded in the March 3 meeting minutes.

Committee-on-Committees Chair John Perrin in-structed the members that if their vote was accurate to vote ‘aye’ during the ratification. The votes were ratified unanimously and will be recorded in the March 17 meet-ing minutes.

The Kentucky Open Meetings Act was designed to ensure public business was conducted in public and that transparency exists at state and local government levels.

In 2001, the Attorney General’s office received an ap-peal where a board member nomination committee of the Murray-Calloway County Public Hospital Corporation conducted a secret ballot vote and the AG ruled the com-mittee failed to comply with the law because “the public was unable to ascertain how each member of the Commit-tee voted on each candidate, either by observing the vote, or by reviewing the minutes of the meeting reflecting the vote,” according to the Attorney General’s opinion.

The specific law that committee violated was KRS 61.835, which states, “The minutes of action taken at every meeting of any such public agency, setting forth an accu-rate record of votes and actions at such meetings, shall be

Senate ratifies student fee voteBy JACOB [email protected]

› SEE CHAT, PAGE 3 › SEE SENATE, PAGE 3The Office of Admissions has taken a new route in sharing acceptance news by sending Snapchats to students.

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Two of the candidates running for the position of Student Body Presi-dent and Executive Vice for Student Government Association are prom-ising a more social and safer Eastern through their campaign platforms.

Katie Scott and Collin Potter want to make this change at Eastern by phasing in alcohol in certain buildings on campus, having monthly stu-dent forums and improving student safety across campus.

The two are both student senators and are running as a slate for the respective positions. Scott currently serves as a chair for the ad hoc com-mittee senate created for dining services, and Potter serves as the chair of the Registered Student Organization’s committee.

They said bringing alcohol to those of age on campus is one of their points that has received the most doubt, but is something that is very doable.

“I’ve already met with President Benson,” Scott said. “And he’s told me if the students want it, then we’ll work on it.”

Scott made the point they will not be trying to make the campus fully wet next year, but rather implement alcohol-allowed buildings in phases.

Bailey Cox, a 19-year-old paralegal science and homeland security ma-jor from Virginia Beach, Va. and Hunter Wilks, a 20-year-old criminal jus-tice and police studies major from Tipp City, Ohio are two of your candi-dates running for Executive Slate.

Cox, seeking the position of student body president, currently serves as a student senator, and Wilks, seeking executive vice president, currently serves on the Interfraternity Council as the executive vice president, and has never served in SGA.

They are running as advocates for Eastern, and their campaign plat-forms include increasing colonel pride, community outreach, campus safety, and new student amenities.

They said these are just the main themes they are running under, of which Cox said there are several smaller goals under each theme.

“And that seems to be growing everyday,” Wilks said.One of their biggest goals under student amenities is improving the

laundry facilities across campus, in an ultimate goal of making it a free service to all on campus students.

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› SEE DEBATE, PAGE 4

› SEE SCOTT, PAGE 4 › SEE COX, PAGE 4

SGA Candidates spell out their campaign platforms before crowd of students

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� A fire alarm was activated in Wal-ters Hall at 9:45 p.m.

� An individual re-ported their person-al items were stolen in the Crabbe Library.

March 15 � A shattered win-

dow was reported in the tenth floor bathroom of Dupree Hall at 10:20 p.m.

� An officer stopped an individual at 12:57 a.m.,

due to an expired regis-tration tag. The driver also had two active war-rants for arrest in Mad-ison and Fayette coun-ties. The officer detected the smell of alcohol on or about the individual and conducted several field sobriety tests. The indi-vidual passed some tests while failing others. The individual was cited for driving under the influ-

ence and was transport-ed to the Madison Coun-ty Detention Center.

March 16 � An officer reported to

the sixth floor of Palmer Hall at 8:05 p.m., and de-tected the smell of mar-ijuana. The officer lo-cated the room and the residents agreed to a search, stating there was

drug paraphernalia. The officers found a grinder, glass pipe and 3.6 grams of marijuana. The two individuals were cited for possession of mar-ijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

� An individual re-ported criminal dam-age to their person-al property at Clay Hall.

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EKU STUDENT TUITION FORUM

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 2:00-4:00 P.M.

Brock Auditorium

This forum provides students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to hear information and provide input

concerning tuition recommendations for both undergraduate and graduate tuition rates for 2015-2016

Academic Year.

Extended campus students will be able to participate through I-TV.

Please join us on March 24 at 2:00 PM

tions over Snapchat that they aren’t com-fortable asking over email or on the phone with an intimidating university.

Brashears said one of the many reasons Eastern is shifting further into the world of social media is to stay competitive with other colleges.

“EKU is the frontline for criminal jus-tice, nursing, education and many oth-er excellent majors,” Brashears said. “But sometimes we are overshadowed with such a large school just down the road.”

“There are about 25 to 30 schools I know of that are using Snapchat,” Brashears said. “Still, that number is very, very small.”

These few schools seem to know what they’re doing: 77 percent of college stu-dents use Snapchat at least once a day, ac-cording to a recent survey by Stumpo, a network of college students promoting

brands on social media. “We’re always thinking of how to keep

EKU on the cutting edge, and Snapchat was just the natural choice,” Brashears said. “We’re trying to keep up with the kids.”

Some Eastern faculty and staff mem-bers have expressed concern about the stereotype of promiscuous activity asso-ciated with Snapchat, but Brashears said she has never run into any inappropriate material. As an added comfort to con-cerned faculty members, the Stumpo sur-vey revealed that only 2 percent of college students use Snapchat for sexting.

“Only myself and my supervisor have the Snapchat password,” Brashears said, adding that if any offensive material was discovered, she would immediately delete the offender from the school’s contact list.

“I think for current prospective stu-dents, the most important thing that mat-ters is ease of use,” Brashears said. “We need to stop making them come to us and instead go where they already are. I think EKU is moving in a really great direction.”

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Physical disabilities didn’t stop an ac-tress and comedian from living her life to the fullest as a television star.

Geri Jewell spoke about her experi-ences with having cerebral palsy in her lecture I’m Walking as Straight as I Can, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 12, in the Whitlock Building. The lecture was also served the keynote address for Women’s History Month.

Cerebral palsy is commonly associat-ed with birth defects, while some cases are also caused by child abuse resulting in a head injury, Jewell said.

“Cerebral palsy is not a disease,” Jew-ell said. “It’s head injury to the motor part of the brain that affects the central nervous system.”

She was the first person with a dis-ability to have a regular role on a prime time series.

“Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with actors with disabilities,” Jewell said.

One of her most well known roles is Cousin Geri on the NBC sitcom, The Facts of Life. Her other roles include The Great Space Coaster, the Emmy award winning movie Two of a Kind, Sesame Street, 21 Jump Street, The Young and the Restless, Strong Medicine and the HBO hit series, Deadwood, which she also re-ceived an Emmy consideration for her role.

Jewell also co-starred in the indepen-dent film Night of the White Pants and was featured on the FOX series, Alca-traz.

Jewell starred on I Love Liberty as The American Disabled Person in 1982. She wasn’t well known at the time and she joked about how her microphone was off for seven minutes on stage.

“Twenty-five thousand people didn’t laugh at my jokes,” Jewell said. “It was the longest seven minutes of my life and I thought wow, what a short career.”

In 1984, Jewell got the idea that chil-dren should be exposed to visible dis-abilities, so she met with a producer and landed a role on Sesame Street.

She flew from Los Angeles to New York City and had a dress rehearsal the night before the live show. Jewell ended

up falling while roller-skating on stage and skated into Big Bird in front of the live audience, but she didn’t let that stop her.

Jewell also spoke of a time where an airport employee took her to a table for children with coloring books and cray-ons on it. The employee proceeded to talk to her like a child.

Jewell said she normally has fun in those kinds of situations, but she also lets people know to treat everyone the way you would want to be treated.

“People’s perceptions about me are all right and all wrong,” Jewell said. “It doesn’t matter what people are, it only matters who people are.”

Jewell said the real disabilities in life affect everyone on this planet such as prejudice, hatred, abuse, hypocri-

sy, greed, false pride, despair and losing faith in one’s self.

There have been times when her self-esteem was so low that she didn’t want to go on. In 1999, Jewell crushed her neck and had to have neck surgery from the C1 to C7 vertebrae.

“It took five years for me to overcome that,” Jewell said. “But you have to be-lieve in yourself, never give up and never underestimate the power of the human spirit.”

Jewell expressed that she is grateful for her disability because it has taught her sensitivity, acceptance, patience and perseverance.

Another girl with spastic cerebral pal-sy in the audience asked Jewell how long it took for her to accept her disability. Jewell explained that college helped her

grow and accept her cerebral palsy for what it was.

“I accepted myself but I never had to visually accept it,” Jewell said.

Jewell kept the crowd laughing and gave a thorough explanation about what her cerebral palsy is really like.

“I had my own vision in my mind of what it looked like and it wasn’t near as bad,” she joked.

She used humor to talk about her per-sonal experiences in life with her disabil-ity. Jewell said she wouldn’t choose her life any other way.

“It has been my absolute, greatest blessing in life and it has been my wisest teacher,” Jewell said. “I wouldn’t trade my experience with anyone because of the gifts I have gotten from it.”

Actress shares story of embracing her disabilityBy BRITTANY [email protected]

Actress and comedian Geri Jewell reflected embracing cerebral palsy throughout her career in a light-hearted lecture Thursday, March 12.CHRIS BUNDY/PROGRESS

More than a month has passed since Feb. 11, the date marked in a terroristic threat about gun violence written in the Combs Building.

There are still no leads on any sus-pects, said Bryan Makinen, acting executive director of Public Safety.

He said the case would remain open until the person who left the threat is identified.

As for the response by all of the lo-cal law enforcement agencies, Mak-inen said he was pleased with all of the support Eastern received.

“We marshaled every resource we could think of and then some,” Mak-inen said.

The university worked with spe-cialty groups in local law enforce-ment, such as emergency response units, to get prepared for emergency responses on campus during the days leading up to Feb. 11, Makinen said.

“We had a tremendous outpouring of local support from the emergency response community,” Makinen said.

Working together with other law enforcement agencies also allowed the university to communicate ef-

fectively with other law enforcement agencies.

Makinen said the president’s council, including President Michael Benson, Laurie Carter and Scott Ca-son, managed the situation well and helped make decision in the best in-terest of the campus community.

“We took [Benson’s] tone and ten-or that he set and went from there,” Makinen said.

During the days leading up to Feb. 11, campus administrators start-ed campaigns to get more students signed up for the RAVE alert sys-tem. Campus email addresses and university-owned computers get the alerts automatically. Makinen said there was a statistical increase in the amount of users that registered their cellphones.

“It still could be much, much more,” Makinen said.

Students, faculty and anyone else that wants to receive campus alerts on their cellphone can register on-line through a link on EKU Direct or www.getrave.com/login/eku.

By JACOB [email protected]

promptly recorded and such records shall be open to public inspection at reasonable times no later than immediately following the next meeting of the body.”

When Student Senate had the vote on March 3, members were instructed by Ex-ecutive Vice President Rachael Lander to put their names on the ballot, but people at the meeting were unable to see how the

student representatives voted.The minutes recorded that the Senate

Act passed, but did not record how each senator voted or even the number of sen-ators who approved or did not approve the measure. It was also not announced during the meeting how many senators voted in favor of or against the fee.

“I didn’t feel it was necessary (to an-nounce how each senator voted), but ap-parently it was,” said Lander.

No new leads into last month's threat

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She said she wants to continue al-lowing alcohol in Grand Campus next year, as well as lifting the ban in New Hall and the Keen Johnson Building, when used for student group events.

"A lot of people think Benson is closed-minded to this because of his religion," Scott said. "And I would consider that not only an insult to Benson but as an insult to the university for thinking that they would hire somebody who wouldn't listen to new student ini-tiatives and inputs."

Potter said he has looked into more of the risk management por-tion of lifting the alcohol ban and looking at what other universities do, such as Kentucky and Florida.

“What other colleges do and what I would like to see EKU do is a course,” Potter said. “Either HEAT (Health Education Action Team) program comes or it’s in the curriculum that students go through an alcohol education be-fore they can even drink.”

Their second point is to have monthly student forums, as a

chance for students to air their grievances with the leaders of SGA about the campus.

During these monthly forums, they will be setting themselves a three-week deadline to address the issue the students bring up, such as potholes and lighting.

To make the campus a safer place they said they want to put more plans and contingencies into place so students know what to do when a campus threat comes like the sharpie threat in Combs a few weeks ago or doing a snowstorm that shuts down the campus.

Scott also said she wants to im-plement an app at Eastern that would transmit their location and notify police if the user is not safe.

“There should be, at no point, that anyone doesn’t feel safe on this campus,” Scott said.

A few other changes they would like to make from this year are im-proving the social media for SGA and enlisting someone in charge of community relations for SGA to help communicate with the city of Richmond.

“It’s not enough to just talk about change for EKU,” Scott said. “You have to fight for change at EKU. It’s not enough to talk about progress unless you actually go for something progressive.”

So he took it upon himself to meet with Dean of Libraries Betina Gardner and work out a plan that is still in effect to-day.

For Scott it’s the small things that make the biggest differences, like work-ing on Kyle Nicholas’ and Rachael Land-er’s, the current executive officers, plat-form to get more dining initiatives in place.

She said getting the trial run for ex-tended hours for Stratton Cafe and a menu for Fresh Food Company put in EKU Student’s Today are things that the students said they wanted and things she has had a direct role in putting into place.

Potter and Wilks also had the chance to answer questions from the student. One of those questions being how can they assure that each student group on campus will have equal representation.

Potter said senate always has sena-tors that represent specific organiza-tions, and when they apply for fund-

ing that is when they get their senator, and they always try to make their voic-es heard. He also said the monthly fo-rum him and Scott are going to try and do will allow for groups to come out and speak their mind.

Wilks said he didn’t think it would be a bad idea to send senators out to group meetings throughout the semes-ter, and to get different feedback other than greek which he said he is heavily involved in.

Tenal, a 19-year-old international business major from Cedarburg, Wisc., took a question regarding which events she wants SAC to go ahead with next semester and how she will market for them.

One of her campaign points is bet-ter marketing to get the word out there to more students in an effort to attract more of them to events. She also said she wants to stick to the more tradition-al events since they get more students and publicize those a lot more heavily, and look at what else they can do to in-crease attendance at the smaller events.

Students are able to vote in the elec-tion next Tuesday, March 24 between

8 a.m. and 6 p.m. online or in Middle Powell.

If students are unable to vote in ei-ther of these methods, students can pick

up absentee ballots from the SGA Of-fice in Middle Powell and turn them in Monday by 5 p.m.

ABOVE: Student Senator Collin Potter gives him opening statement for executive vice president. BELOW: A student directs a question toward Karlee Tanel, running unopposed for VP of SAC

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They would implement this in a two-phase plan, Cox said. First they would upgrade all the outdated ma-chines, which they said most of them don’t do their job. They would want to replace the first half over the summer and the second half over winter break.

“This is just a growing prob-lem that needs to be taken care of,” Wilks said.

Cox said he would then want to work with Housing to create some-thing like the printing quota, where students have roughly $25 dollars to use toward laundry at the be-ginning of the semester and then if they go over that it would be charged to their account.

He added that he would not pur-sue this if it came down to adding an extra fee on student’s accounts.

Other student amenities in-clude ice machines and hydration stations in each residence hall, the only cost being the devices them-selves and the addition to the wa-ter bill.

Another ambitious goal they have is moving completely from Colonel Cash to off-campus Flex

dollars, of which Wilks said they will be picking up the ball and moving it forward.

Addressing the concern that people have been working for off-campus flex for several years, Cox said that one person can only do so much.

“I think Sarah Carpenter[former student body president] did a good job making those first few steps,” Cox said. “Now we just have to col-laborate and move forward with it.”

He added that it would probably be easier now with new leadership across campus and in the Colonel Card office. They have new faces and fresh ideas flowing in.

Their goal for campus safety would be to keep safety in mind as Eastern moves ahead with all these building projects, lighting detoured pathways because of construction.

They also said they want to be proactive rather than reactive in adding lights, call boxes, and cameras across campus. Saying it shouldn’t take a gun threat to start improving things.

Wilks said one of the changes he wants to make in Student Sen-ate is to make it more professional. He wants to build cooperation be-tween senators and admin and he never saw the point in fighting.

Students can vote on March 24.

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Tobacco-free has failed and we all know it

“I'm voting for Katie because I believe that her platform includes things that this campus does not have yet and it creates big goals for her and Collin to achieve next year."

Paige FettersHometown: FlorenceMajor: Criminal JusticeYear: Junior

Who has your vote on election day?

"Katie Scott because I feel like she has a very well thought out plan and agenda and has the determination and drive to fulfill it."

Nolan PetittHometown: SebreeMajor: AgricultureYear: Freshman

"I plan on voting Katie Scott. I re-ally like the whole alcohol thing not because I'm a big drinker, but be-cause I believe in freedom. People should be left to their own devices."

Colin ComptonHometown: BelfreyMajor: Broadcasting and Electronic MediaYear: Junior

"I honestly have no idea. I came [to the debate] because I want an expla-nation of each platform. It's just a matter of me figuring out who I think has the best vision of the future."

Teresa SpareHometown: HebronMajor: Homeland SecurityYear: Junior

Campus Sound Off

Some people have a tendency to over pack for Spring Break. You don’t wear half of the outfits and shoes you bring, and your luggage is too stuffed to fit the new items you purchased while on vacation. You pack pounds of make-up, but it’s just going to melt as soon as the hot sun hits. The eight bathing suits and ten different outfits are just unnecessary.

Spring Break can be tons of fun,

but it can be frustrating when try-ing to pack. You have so many clothes and commodities you just don’t know where to start. However, there are a few basic items that you can’t go wrong with packing. To help, here is a list to get your packing started:

n Insect Repellent: While you’re drinking lemonade on the beach, bugs are trying to drink your blood. So, if you don’t want to itch or break out, a repellent may be a good idea for your skin.

n Shampoo: Swimming in pools filled with chlorine can harm your hair if you don’t properly wash it with a deep cleaning hair product. You don’t want to return from Spring Break with

major hair breakage and damage. n A book: Road trips and flights can

be long and boring, but books can keep you relaxed and entertained.

n iPod: Listening to your playlists can soothe you no matter if you’re lying on the beach tanning or trying to tune out your friend snoring on a road trip.

n Phone charger: Your phone char-ger gives your phone life. It can be nerve-racking to have to constantly ask to use a friend’s charger. If you don’t have it, it can feel like the entire world is coming to an end.

n Pain Killers: Just in case you de-velop any headaches or muscle aches while partying too hard.

n Emergency Money: Put a set amount of cash to the side. You nev-er know what may happen during your trip. A flat tire, lost wallet, lost phone— always be prepared for the worse.

n Photo I.D.: Your personal identi-fication card is extremely important. If you forget your I.D. then you won’t be allowed in certain bars, clubs and par-ties.

n Digital Camera: You may have a camera on your smart phone, but it is always beneficial to have a back-up in case your phone dies from a low battery. You’ll surely want to cherish Spring Break memories when looking through the week’s photos.

Outside the Combs building on a sunny Monday, I sat mulling over how to begin writing on the failure of East-ern’s tobacco-free policy. However, wafting smog kept finding its way into my atmosphere from nearby smokers. It didn’t bother me much, but I have a history of developing headaches when around cigarette smoke for too long, and once one formed I gathered my computer and backpack and found a new spot at one of the picnic tables of Powell Corner.

At this point the sun was lowering to the horizon and the red brick build-ings were glowing orange on campus beautiful. I had written the bulk of the story, but I still hadn’t found a proper beginning. I looked up in thought and

discovered that a small group had gath-ered at the table next to me. Lighters in hand and smokes in mouth, they each lit a cigarette and enjoyed the late eve-ning just the same as I was.

This didn’t bother me either, but I decided to go back to my room and finish homework there. On the short walk from Powell to Burnam, I passed a handful of people smoking by the side of Keen Johnson and another group on Case’s front lawn.

Here’s a big fat truth: Eastern Ken-tucky University is in no way, shape or form tobacco free. Eastern would like to be tobacco free, but it simply isn’t. Know the difference.

This fact is well known and under-stood amongst students and perhaps hesitantly admitted from faculty. It’s a campus-wide running joke to walk by a tobacco free sign, then immediately by a group of smokers or cigarette butts littering the ground and say “tobacco free” with finger quotations. I know it, you know it— hell, Ruric Nevel Roark knows it.

Smoking is not a sad or shameful

thing, and neither is having a tobac-co-free campus. Smokers know the im-plications and affects of tobacco, and more power to them to go on with it, so long as others aren’t being harmed in the meantime. The design and pur-pose of a tobacco-free policy is to in-spire healthier lifestyles and clean up an area, and more power to who tries to implement it.

The despondency of the whole or-deal comes from such a well-intended idea being purely face value, having no spine and being made a mockery by ev-eryone it encompasses.

The tobacco-free policy holds no respect amongst students, and at this point it doesn’t deserve to. Efforts to enforce tobacco-free can be summed into posting signs across campus and having a passive patrol team pass out citations—or at least that’s what I’ve heard and been told. Never have I ac-tually seen tobacco-free patrolling, ci-tations being given or even heard of citations being given. And we all have clearly seen plenty of opportunities to discipline those who break policy. Not

only that, but I’ve seen plenty of oppor-tunities for law enforcement to step in a group of smokers and at the very least break it up.

And if that wasn’t clear enough, al-low me to restate: I have witnessed Eastern authority blatantly ignoring students, faculty and staff who were blatantly ignoring the tobacco-free policy on several occasions.

It’s not hard to enforce the policy, as violators are extremely habitual and go to the exact same spots to smoke every single time. Actually, it’s gotten to the point where you can simply walk from one building to another and will most likely pass by a violator. It’s elementary.

I’ve asked many questions about the tobacco-free policy, with some answered and many not. But it real-ly comes down to one question: what gives? Where’s my tobacco-free cam-pus? And if the university is giving up and just won’t admit it, where’s my re-peal of the tobacco-free ban so I can stop living behind a front with no back-ing? I love you, Eastern, but stop blow-ing smoke.

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True or False: St. Patrick’s Day is just another Tues-day in Ireland; just another party, another day of drink-ing, just like any other day.

If you picked false, you were right. At the heart of St. Patrick’s Day is a history of Irish livelihood that no oth-er country has been able to mimic on March 17. There isn’t another place that celebrates the holiday quite like the Irish themselves. America makes a good attempt, with its green painted streets and rounds of alcoholic drinks like Irish Car Bombs, but at the end of the day it’s just not the same. Fun fact: the Irish Car Bomb isn’t ac-tually Irish at all.

“I only learned that when I came over here,” said Me-gan Kiely, sophomore communications major from Ire-land. “I had no idea what that was.”

Kiely, 21, knows first-hand how different St. Patrick’s Day can be in Ireland versus America. One major differ-ence in celebration, that most Americans could under-standably be jealous of, is school is canceled for the hol-iday. If only that no-school tradition could’ve found its way to the States.

“I’m kind of disappointed about that over here,” Kie-ly said.

Kiely said a typical St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland starts with a number of parades throughout the day then time spent with family. Once you’re old enough, one would most likely head to a pub with some friends.

The celebration can be somewhat compared to Fourth of July here in the States. Roads are blocked off and people line the streets to catch sweets thrown from the parade floats. Kiely, being on a sports team, said she would have participated in a parade, along with other sports teams and clubs.

St. Patrick’s Day is a huge family event, which is something America hasn’t really picked up on. Where the States enjoy the holiday as mostly a good reason to cut loose, Kiely said the actual holiday has a deeper his-tory and meaning to Irish people.

Just like the not-really-Irish Irish Car Bomb drink, the family aspect of St. Patrick’s Day has been lost to other countries. Kiely said that’s mostly because other countries are missing what she calls “the Irish banter”.

“Basically, banter means fun for us,” Kiely said. “Peo-ple love to just go for a chill pint, hanging in the pub. That’s what I love back home.”

Drinking in general is a major difference between Ireland and America on St. Paddy’s Day. It’s well known the States’ drinking age is 21 but people in Ireland can legally drink at 18. That puts a damper on the celebra-tion if you’re an underage Irish person in America on the big day. That also means anyone legal could walk around the streets in Ireland freely with a pint in hand, which could get someone arrested for public intoxica-tion in America.

A term you’re almost guaranteed to hear in Ireland and not in America, or anywhere else, is craic (pro-nounced crack). When an Irishman asks, “Where’s the craic”, it’s not a reference to the American version of crack. Craic refers to that Irish banter, or fun, Kiely said.

Another point to make with terms and phrases around St. Patrick’s Day is when wishing someone a

“Happy St. Paddy’s Day”, Kiely said Americans tend to spell it incorrectly. Where Irish say Paddy’s, with an em-phasis on the “d,” Americans have a habit of pronounc-ing it Patty’s, as if the word were spelled with a “t.”

“I understand where you get it from, because it’s St. Patrick’s,” Kiely said. “I think that really grinds Irish people’s gears when they hear people say ‘Patty’s.’ ”

Though the differences between American and Irish celebration of St. Paddy’s Day are many, the fact that the day is so widely celebrated at all is one to take pride in, regardless of where you come from or how you spend the day.

“It’s funny that such a small place can project inter-nationally,” Kiely said.

St. Patrick’s Day is a day of family and fun, stemming from a country as small as or smaller than the whole state of Kentucky. Yet, despite Ireland’s small size, it has a large influence around the world with St. Patrick’s Day.

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Patrol Officer Tim Gunn, 30, spent his Friday night, March 13, making his nor-mal rounds around, on and nearby East-ern’s campus.

For 24 hours a day and seven days a week, the Eastern Police Department has 24 officers with full jurisdiction pa-trolling the main campus, Model Lab, Department of Criminal Justice Train-ing Academy and all other properties be-longing to the university.

“We look at campus like a city within a city,” Gunn said. “We deal with most-ly faculty and students but many mem-bers of the city actually gravitate towards campus because of events, classes and programs offered to the public.”

Gunn, originally from Lebanon, grad-uated from Eastern in 2009 with a degree in fitness and health. After graduating, Gunn said he worked at a Sears and at Sherwin Williams distribution. He then decided that becoming a police officer was what he wanted to do. He went on to graduate from the police academy in 2014.

“Growing up, I watched the police offi-cers in my hometown,” Gunn said. “They were the good guys, who always helped out in the community. For me, being a policeman is the best way to serve the place and the communities you love. I love Eastern and I love being on campus. This is my dream job.”

He and his wife of almost eight years have a 7-year-old son that Gunn said thinks, “daddy is a superhero.”

“In his mind, I’m like Batman or Su-perman out taking criminals to jail,” said Gunn with a laugh.

While Gunn is connected to his 2013 Dodge Charger cruiser 10 hours a day and three days a week, he said time flies because he never stops working.

“I conduct building sweeps, go out on foot and make sure faculty and students see me out and about, ready to help them out if needed,” Gunn said. “The campus can dictate how fast or slow a shift can run, but it’s really up to the individual police officer to be a self-starter.”

In his cruiser, Gunn keeps a large metal ring containing the keys to every building, fire panel and mechanic room on campus. The center console has a built-in radio with a loud speaker set to speak directly to dispatch, but can also scan nearby police departments.

Around 7 p.m., Gunn circled the

cruiser around Arlington Golf Course looking for people or vehicles that shouldn’t be there.

He then drove around each parking lot on Eastern’s campus shining the ve-hicle-mounted spotlight through the rain and darkness, onto the seats inside parked vehicles. At 7:20 p.m., Gunn finds a couple of students “hanging out” in the backseat of a parked car and profession-ally tells them to move along.

“I don’t want to know what they were doing,” Gunn said, smiling and shaking his head. “Sometimes you just have to wing it.”

Gunn pulled over a gray car around 6:30 p.m., for not making a complete stop at a stop sign. He immediately called in the license plate number to a dispatcher so they could run it through the Nation-al Crime Information Center database. Gunn skimmed the license and registra-tion, and then sent the driver on his way. However, when he pulled over a red truck at 7:39 p.m., for not wearing his seatbelt, Gunn wrote him a ticket after following the same protocol.

“It’s police discretion whether or not to issue a ticket,” Gunn said. “I let the first guy off, but it would be different if he blew right through it.”

At 8:20 p.m., Gunn spotted an emp-ty car with its lights on and engine run-

ning in the middle of the road just off the Alumni Coliseum Lot and the East-ern Bypass. When he pulled up behind it, three women ran to him.

“For some people it’s a comfort to see a police officer,” Gunn said.

Gunn said the owner of the car got out when the light turned red to say hel-lo to a friend, but accidentally locked the doors. While she ran home to look for a spare key, Gunn stayed with her vehicle and when the key didn’t work, he helped her find a wrecker. Forty-five minutes lat-er, a tow truck owner unlocked her door and she was on her way, after thanking the patrol officer who patiently guarded her vehicle.

“We aren’t here just to lock people up or hand out tickets,” Gunn said. “We are here to help. Everything we do is com-munity-oriented to the campus and we want people to know we are here to serve and protect them.”

Anyone can request a ride-along with EKU Campus Police. Students can fill out a waiver in Mattox Hall and then provide identification so dispatch can verify the student is not a criminal in the National Crime Information Center database. Af-ter that quick process, the student can sit in the front seat of the cruiser and gain some perspective of what it’s like for the “boys in blue.”

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As it grows, the Netflix streaming ser-vice is slowly developing its own brand of shows. Netflix is able to have all the free-dom of a private channel while also en-joying commercial free entertainment. Orange is the New Black is surely one of the more popular Netflix original shows.

The series is inspired by the book of the same title by Piper Kerman who wrote about her experience in federal prison in detail. The book gives the show a running line of realism that makes it that much more interesting. OITNB de-tails the story of Chapman, played by Taylor Schilling, who winds up in feder-al prison after she is found helping her lesbian partner during a drug smuggling operation.

Ten years later, Chapman is admit-ted into the women’s prison, putting her hopes of marrying her new fiancé, Lar-ry Bloom (Jason Biggs) and starting her business on hold. Chapman must do her best to stay true to herself as she is faced with several obstacles, one of the biggest being that her old girlfriend Alex Vause (Laura Pepron) is being held in the same prison.

Set in a fictionalized version of a state penitentiary, OITNB brilliantly depicts a more comedic and somewhat esoter-ic version of federal prison, the comings and goings and all its inhabitants. The show is filled with a cavalcade of char-acters, each with their own quirky per-

sonalities. Watching them interact and share in the Stockholm syndrome expe-rience is nearly perfect.

One of the main draws of OITNB is that it’s not just about the main charac-ter, Chapman. In fact her story seems relatively minuscule to the plights of other inmates. The show, while primar-ily being a comedic affair, still boasts a good deal of drama as each character has a story to tell that will engage the viewer every step of the way.

It achieves this by revealing bits and pieces of backstory while each charac-ter’s story is told in the present, making the intriguing question of what makes a “monster” unfold. You feel a sense of em-pathy for how and why the women ended up in the prison, all while it relates to the current plot thread.

Of course being set in a women’s pris-on a majority of the cast is female but that doesn’t stop OITNB from making the most out of the male characters as well. Playing off the, “man in a woman’s world,” trope to the fullest extent of hi-larious character moments. The male correctional officer’s also have great per-sonalities beyond being just regular se-curity guards.

OITNB is one of the most engaging shows out there and shows a lighter and more interesting side of prison and what it means to know who you are when soci-ety doesn’t distract you.

The show has finished its second sea-son and the third season is set to air June 12.

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Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt brings family friendly comedy to Netflix

Movies to watch with strong female roles

A new comedy show, called Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, was released as a Netflix original show Fri-day, March 6. Much like other shows produced by Net-flix, Kimmy Schmidt is able to be what the creators plan without the limitations of television, and to great effect. What’s more refreshing is that this is probably the first Netflix show that the entire family can enjoy.

The show stars Ellie Kemper from The Office as an optimistic country bumpkin from Indiana named Kim-my Schmidt. Schmidt moves to New York City after be-ing liberated from an underground cult where she was held captive for half of her life by a crooked preacher. This takes the phrase, “living under a rock,” much more poignant. After news coverage of her dilemma, Schmidt

decides to stay in Manhattan to try and experience life to the fullest.

Given the unusual premise, the show abides by a standard of fish-out-of-water jokes. This makes it more hilarious, since not only is Schmidt reasonably naïve to the new world she’s entered, but she’s also not complete-ly helpless as she’s old enough to understand the world.

Schmidt pays attention to her surroundings in order to come up with reasonable and often clever solutions to the problems she or her friends find themselves in.

Another great factor to the show’s credit is that Schmidt is not a boring Mary Sue, displaying flaws and character growth after her previously isolated exis-tence. Paralleling a character such as Anna from Fro-zen, both have been separated from a community they are desperate to explore and interact with it without thinking about the consequences.

This factor more often than not is what leads into the conflicts Schmidt deals with on a daily basis as well as the people around her. The supporting cast is composed of great actors, some familiar and some new who bring a lot more life to the show. At first the characters are introduced as “seen it before” stereotypes, such as her flamboyantly gay roommate or her “50 is the new 25” boss.

Yet the show doesn’t just stick to their stereotypes and allow characters to have their own depth and lay-ered personality, which is the source of heart and clev-erness in the show. As if cut from the same cloth as golden age NBC shows such as Parks and Recreation, not surprising since Tina Fey created it, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt does well to keep its own identity and make a comedy that is both funny and memorable.

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In honor of Women’s History Month, here are five films with strong heroine characters.

Beatrix Kiddo — Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2

This two-part movie was originally released in 2003 with the second part released in 2004. Uma Thurman plays Beatrix Kiddo, mostly known as “the bride.” The bride is a former member of an assassination squad who

wants revenge on her ex-squad that killed members of her wedding party and attempted to kill her.

Thurman is good in almost everything she does, es-pecially when she’s paired with the movie’s director, Quentin Tarantino. Just a short list of the bride’s ac-complishments along her bloody path of revenge in-clude, fighting off a Kung-Fu attack squad of at least 88 people, rising from a premature grave, fighting a samu-rai assassin and blowing up a man’s heart. Talk about a tough female character.

Ellen Ripley — Alien and Aliens

Most of us got to know Sigourney Weaver as children watching her performance in Ghostbusters, but her best work comes from the Alien films. The original Alien film was released in 1979 with the sequel following in 1986.

Ellen Ripley, played by Weaver, is an astronaut in the far future. Ripley and her coworkers fight the titular creature portrayed by the movies title. Though her per-formance may be better in Director Ridley Scott’s orig-inal, James Cameron’s action-sci-fi sequel shows Ripley in an even cooler light. She even gets to fight a gigantic queen alien in possibly one of the most awesome action sequences ever.

Laurie Strode — Halloween 1, 2, and 7

Hands-down, Jamie Lee Curtis’ best role is still her first as Laurie Strode in the Halloween film series. De-spite criticism of many of her movies being anti-wom-an, Curtis’ character Strode is a fine example of women using their best qualities to their advantage while main-taining moral truths.

Strode is a girl-next-door, a babysitter, and a great student—yet unknown and plain. However, when she’s pushed into fighting the force of nature that is Michael Myers, it’s her womanhood young nature that saves her. Without a strong maternal instinct, a heightened atten-tion to detail or strong perseverance, Strode wouldn’t have made it. Later in the Halloween series in a movie called H20, Curtis gets to have the ultimate revenge on her tormentor—you’ll have to watch the series to find out the result.

Clarice Starling — The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal

In the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, the only one able to take on the serial killer, Hannibal Lecter, was Special Agent Clarice Starling of the FBI. In this film, Starling is portrayed by Jodie Foster, and the same character is then portrayed by Julianne Moore in Han-nibal. Starling is a woman with many emotional and psychological problems, plus the added weight of hav-ing to overcome many odds to become one of a select few female FBI agents. Eventually, however, her in-stincts and natural abilities kick into high gear as she strives to defeat serial murderer Buffalo Bill. Her strug-gle and ultimate fate in 2001’s Hannibal also shows how women can fall into traps of evil men like Lecter, which is just as important as showing their strong side.

Sidney Prescott — Scream 1-4

Not everyone would put Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) on the list, but let me have my say. Before the franchise even begins she’s in an abusive relation-ship and her mother is brutally raped and murdered—she’s got her obstacles for sure. Then, throughout the se-ries she has to survive multiple psychopaths, all of her friends are murdered, useless, or turning against her—and still she survives through her extraordinary surviv-al skills. She uses every bit of natural ability she has and stays faithful to her core friends. If that’s not a strong gal, I don’t know one. Don’t try to change my mind, ei-ther—Neve Campbell’s my actress crush.

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Eastern’s women’s tennis team swept the board March 14 in its first OVC match of the season. The Col-onels won almost every singles spot in straight sets against the Jacksonville State University Gamecocks.

Senior Amandine Faouzi only dropped two games at No. 1 where she picked up a 6-0, 6-2 win against Jack-

sonville (2-9, 0-2 OVC) while fellow senior Kristina Labeja followed at No. 2 singles with a straight-set win. The victory was Labeja’s fourth consecutive win.

Sophomore Marina Marti also won in straight sets at No. 3 singles.

At the No. 4 spot, senior Marcela Jimenez pulled off a straight-set victory and dropped no games in her match.

Senior Melissa Gerritsen earned another point for the Colonels in the No. 5 spot with a second-set tie-

breaker. Like Faouzi, freshman Raquel Montavlo also dropped just two games in her singles play. Montalvo pulled off a 6-1, 6-1 victory at the No. 6 singles spot.

The Colonels (6-6, 1-0 OVC) return home for anoth-er round of OVC play March 21 and 22. Eastern will take on Tennessee Tech University on March 20 and the Belmont University Bruins on March 21 at the Greg Ad-ams Tennis Courts.

Eastern’s softball team opened its OVC with back-to-back wins against the Bel-mont University Bruins on March 15. The doubleheader victories came after a com-bo of big tough early offense and strong pitching from seniors Leanna Pittsenbarg-er, Shaylon Robb and junior Hayley Flynn.

Game One

The first game against the Bruins (5-14, 0-2 OVC) saw a big first inning, where the Colonels scored four points straight out of

the gates for a 10-0 win.

Sophomore Krislyn Campos had the ball rolling for Eastern after she connect-ed for a triple down the center field line. After freshman Paige Murphy walked then stole second base, junior Sarah Fobbs stepped up with an RBI single to give East-ern its first run. A few batters later, fresh-man Johnkyria Alston hit a three-run RBI to move Murphy, Fobbs and senior Shan-non McQueen home.

The Colonels tallied another run in the second inning with a solo home run from

Sophomore Amber Murray. Senior Katie Tackett’s two-run homer aided another four-run inning for the Colonels. One last run in the fifth and final inning put the game out of the Bruins reach as the East-ern earned its first OVC win of the season.

PIttsenbarger held up the defensive front where she kept the Bruins at one hit, struck out seven and walked one in her five innings of pitching.

Game Two

The Colonels gained another early lead in the second game of Sunday’s doublehead-er and led Belmont by two heading into

the fourth inning.

Murphy stepped up then and knocked a two-run home run over left-center to lead by four in the fourth inning. The Bru-ins tried for a comeback in the bottom half of the inning, but only managed one run.

Murray had a highlighted day as she was a perfect 6-for-6 from the plate in game two.

Robb allowed just five hits and one run in five innings while Flynn pitched the fi-nal six outs and kept the Bruins at no runs.

The Colonels (11-12, 2-0 OVC) open home play March 21 against Southern Il-linois University Edwardsville and March

22 against Eastern Illinois University. Both days are scheduled as double headers and begin at 1 p.m.

Eastern’s baseball team lost both games of its double header matchup with Belmont University. The Colonels have now lost four consecutive games, while the Bruins (8-8) move to 2-0 in OVC play. Both teams were sched-uled to play their first game Saturday, March 14, but it was canceled due to inclement weather.

Game OneThe first game of the weekend saw the Colonels fall

by seven, losing to the Bruins 11-4. Eastern held a 2-0 lead going into the fifth inning,

and scored another in the fifth, but Belmont answered with eight runs over the next two to take an 8-3 lead.

Bruins infielder Drake Byrd started the attack with a single up the middle, and then scored three batters lat-er on a double by catcher/infielder Alec Diamond. The Bruins scored on four of five hits in the fifth, and were a perfect 4-for-4 in the sixth.

Infielder Mandy Alvarez helped Eastern get on the board in the first inning, hitting a double which allowed Shea Sullivan to score. Infielder Kenny Hostrander sin-gled to left center in the second, bringing in Ben Fish-er for their second run, but the Colonels managed only two more runs over seven innings.

Game TwoBelmont scored five runs in the third inning and

never looked back, going on to beat the Colonels 8-3 in

the second half of the doubleheader.Infielder Matt Beady started the scoring for the Bru-

ins in the third with a two-run home run, and infielder Tyler Walsh followed with a RBI double resulting in an-other score.

Outfielder Kyle Nowlin got three runs for the Colo-nels in the fourth inning. His home run over center field brought him, along with outfielder TJ Alas and Man-dy Alvarez, across the plate. Eastern was able to cut the deficit to 5-3, but the Redbirds scored two in the fifth and one more in the sixth to put the game out of reach.

Eastern (5-11, 0-2 OVC) will travel to face Missou-ri Valley foe Illinois State University on Friday, March 20, for a three-game series with the Redbirds. The first game will begin at 4 p.m.

Eastern’s men’s tennis team swept a weekend of OVC matches after close-call singles play. The Colonels played Tennessee Tech University on March 13, where the match came down to No. 5 singles play then went head to head against Jacksonville State on March 14 and pulled the win off with multiple tiebreakers.

Tennessee Tech 3 Eastern 4

Sophomore Sebastian Mueller won the No. 5 decid-ing match against Tennessee Tech (3-11, 1-1 OVC) for the final win.

The Colonels entered singles play with the doubles point on its side, but then quickly fell behind as Tennes-see Tech took a 3-1 lead with singles victories at No. 1, No. 3 and No. 4. Eastern came back, however, with wins in the final three matches.

Freshman Ramon van Flymen started the rally at No. 2 where he won in straight sets of 7-6, 7-6. Senior Juna-jo de le Llera also won in straight sets to tie the match 3-all.

The match then came down to Mueller at the No. 5

spot. He entered the third and final set with momen-tum, earning the first three games to pull off the win.

Jacksonville State 2 Eastern 5

Again, the Colonels won the first point in doubles against Jacksonville State (5-7, 1-1 OVC). Jacksonville State was voted preseason OVC co-favorites this spring, but Eastern put a stop to them in singles after winning multiple tiebreakers.

Jacksonville’s only points came at No. 1 and No. 3 singles.

Van Flymen won his No. 2 singles and de le Llera won his No. 6 singles, each in straight sets. This was de le Llera’s fifth consecutive singles win.

Mueller also gained his fifth consecutive singles win after winning a third-set tiebreaker in the No. 4 spot. Mueller was named OVC Co-Men’s Tennis Player of the Week for his efforts.

At No. 5, sophomore Diogo Soares earned another point for the Colonels with a second-set tiebreaker.

The Colonels (8-5, 2-0 OVC) return to the Greg Ad-ams Tennis Center against OVC foes March 20 versus Tennessee State University and March 21 against Bel-mont University.




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Senior Katie Tackett (21) had a two-run homer, March 15, against the Belmont University Bruins.

Early Belmont lead puts baseball team at fourth consecutive loss

Strong offense pushes softball to double-header win

Mueller clenches first OVC match of season

Womens tennis sweeps OVC openerSenior Marcela Jimenez didn’t drop a single game in her No. 4 singles match, March 14, in the win against Jacksonville State University. The Colonels are 1-0 in conference play after Saturday’s win.

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Senior Juanjo de le Llera won his fifth consecutive singles match, March 14, against Jacksonville State University.


Eastern’s women’s golf team fin-ished just 18 shots behind first place March 16 and 17 to finish at second in the Bob-by Nichols Intercollegiate. Belmont University won the tournament (602) and host Tennessee Tech Universi-ty (629) finished in third be-hind the Colonels.

The event took place at the par-71, 5,803-yard High-lands Course and the Sevier-ville Golf Club.

The Colonels scored a to-tal of 620 in the 36-hole event with a first-round score of 309 and sec-ond-round score of 311.

Junior Becky Sharpe led Eastern and finished third with a two-round total

149. Sharpe was four shots shy of the lead with rounds cores of 75 and 74. Her efforts earned her a spot on the

all-tournament team. Sophomore Emilie Sim-

mons was close behind and tied for fifth with a total of 152.

Junior Anna Gleixner (160) tied with fellow Colonel junior Rachel Welker (160) in 23rd place while sophmore Sofie Levin (162) tied 30th. Senior Nicki Henry com-peted as an individual and placed 36th with a total score of 162.

The Colonels return March 29 and 30 in the John Kirk/Pan-ther Intercollegiate hosted by Georgia State University.

After three rounds at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate, Eastern’s men’s tennis team used a strong third round to tie for sixth place. Tennessee Tech University hosted the event at the par-72, 6,928-yard River Course at the Se-vierville Golf Club on March 16 and 17.

On Monday, day one of the tourna-ment, the Colonels shot 298 in the first round and 290 in the second round. This put Eastern entering the third round on Tuesday at 13th place. After a lower-scored round of 282, however, Eastern was able to push its way up to sixth.

Senior Taylor Riggs led the way for the Colonels and finished fifth. Riggs shot an even-par 72 in the final round

and finished with a total 211. Fresh-man Noah Combs was close behind Riggs where he tied 11th. Combs had a 5-under 67 score on the final day of the tournament, which was the best Colo-nel score of any round.

Senior Patric Sundolf (224) tied 51st, freshman Jared Brown (226) tied 59th, junior Daniel DeLuca (229) tied 68th and freshman Will Sallee (222) played as an individual and tied at 40th.

Jacksonville State University (852) won the tournament, followed by Southern Illinois (861) and Murray State University (861).

The Colonels return to the green March 22 through 24 at the Middle-burg Bank Intercollegiate in Williams-burg, VA, hosted by the College of Wil-liam and Mary.



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Womens golf finishes just shy of first place

Strong third round moves Colnels to sixth

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March 19, 2015 Eastern Progress