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EKU students from Minority Collegiate Connections, a student organization, took part in the Women's March in Lexington the day after President Trump's inauguration.
By TAYLOR WEITER progress@eku.edu
Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump swore into office, millions of women and men across the world marched to support popular women’s
issues. From Los Angeles to Lexington, protesters arrived in droves, passing out Planned Parenthood paraphernalia and chanting “Women’s lives matter.” While several EKU alums went to the D.C. protest, students and faculty drove
Study abroad for free By CHLOE ROJAS progress@eku.edu
Want to win a free summer overseas? You could be one of several EKU students to be awarded an all-expenses paid trip to study abroad – the catch is you’ll have to spin the wheel first. This is all a part of the Study Abroad office's “Spin the Wheel Scholarship” event. Now in its third year, the event is open to all EKU full-time students with a 2.5 GPA or higher. This event is occurring on January 31 at 3:00 p.m. in the O’Donnell Auditorium in the Whitlock building. Students selected in a drawing get to spin a giant, colorful wheel that features 10 locations including Belize, Ireland, London, Scotland, Japan, Germany, China, Costa Rica, Italy and Spain. Wherever the student lands is where they are headed with all program costs and airfare covered by the university. “Spin the Wheel" provides an opportunity for students who wouldn’t normally be able to study abroad to be given a full ride to the country they land on,” said Jennifer White, who runs the Education Abroad program at EKU. To enter, students fill out an application on the study abroad page on EKU’s website, placing their name into a drawing with the other applicants’. On the day
of the event, seven students’ names will be drawn. Students who get their name drawn will get the opportunity to spin the wheel, White said. And their spin determines where they will be going this summer. Colin Compton, a senior Broadcast major from Belfry, Kentucky, was one of six EKU students chosen in 2015 to spin the wheel. He went to Japan during the summer of 2015. “I watched Benson pull my name out of the basket and say it to himself before he could read it into the microphone. I stood up and was halfway to the stage before he announced my name to the crowd. I read my name on his lips,” Compton said about winning the scholarship. “Japan was the most interesting place I've ever been. It was so clean, and everyone was so polite,” Compton said. “One of the highlights of my trip was standing next to the spot where the nuke went off in Hiroshima. It was an amazing experience.” On the wheel are possibilities for students to go to ten different locations. There are also two other spots, one labeled “Student’s Choice” and the other labeled “President’s Choice.” If a student lands on “Student’s Choice,” they can choose any of the places on the wheel. If
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to nearby Lexington to take part in what University of Connecticut and Denver researchers are calling one of the largest demonstrations ever recorded in America. Lucias Wallen, a women and gender studies professor and adviser, said he felt like it was necessity to be the voice for peo-
ple who are underrepresented. “This has been a tough year, and it’s important to show our voice,” Wallen said. Wallen said he was excited to see EKU students taking part in the march.
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Pedway up and running
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The pedway is currently open to the public, but construction is still ongoing.
By DYLAN COMBS progress@eku.edu
The pedway over Lancaster Avenue was reopened for pedestrian use last Tuesday. It had previously been closed since September after collapsing when a raised truck bed smashed into it. “Nothing in between [the stairwells] was salvageable,” said Paul Gannoe, EKU Director of Capital Construction and Project Administration. “We tried to keep some of the steel structure, but it proved more expensive than just rebuilding it.” Additionally, Electrical repairs needed to be made to the elevator as well as the fire alarm,. Gannoe said that everything is being covered by the universi-
ty’s insurance carrier, which has currently covered $188,611 in repairs on the pedway. The insurance also will pay for an additional EKU logo on the pedway, where there previously only had been one. The two logos will be placed on opposite sides of the bridge, Gannoe said. If EKU opts to make other changes to the pedway, those would have to be paid for by the school. “We might do something to make it more climate-friendly,” Gannoe said, adding that the university is considering adding windows with ventilation to keep the temperature down during the summer. The pedway will be finished once the roof has been repaired, which Gannoe projects will happen in the next 60 days. By TAYLOR WEITER / Graphic by COREY WALL
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CAMPUS BRIEFS
POLICE BEAT BEAT
Dr. Ryan Baggett – Winner of the College of Justice & Safety 2016 – 2017 Outstanding Mentor Award
Dec. 9 A student reported her Garmin GPS had been stolen from her car across from Telford Hall.
Dec. 15 A faculty member reported that the basketball coach of the Richmond Model Patriots broke a glass pane out of a gymnasium door in Alumni Coliseum while upset due to a loss. The coach apologized for the damage and will cover the cost.
Dec. 16 Police were called to Keene Hall after two residents got into a physical altercation. Both accused the other of starting the fight.
Jan. 18 A resident reported her mesh bag of underwear was stolen from a Walters Hall laundry room. The resident also reported that underwear theft has happened to several other residents as well.
Dr. Ryan Baggett has been announced as the recipient of the College of Justice and Safety 2016-2017 Outstanding Mentor Award. As Program Coordinator of the College’s Homeland Secrurity program, Dr. Baggett has helped students with theses, produced the Homeland Security Undergraduate Research Showcase and served as the adviser for both the EKU Chapter of the Order of the Sword and Shield Honor Society and Homeland Security and Assets Protection Leaders of Tomorrow. The Outstanding Mentor Award (OMA) increases the scholarship for both students and faculty by providing funds for faculty members who have shown important mentorship opportunities with students over the past three years.
EKU Quality Enhancement Program: Reading with Purpose On Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, EKU is kicking off its “Reading with Purpose” quality enhancement program.
During both days, students will have the opportunity to attend workshops focused on reading and writing skills, including “Read Your Prompt with Purpose to Write with Purpose” in the Noel Studio and separate reading workshops located in resident halls. To take part in the program, pick up a QEP Passport and free hot chocolate and food from Powell Corner or Crabbe Library’s main entrance. For more information, go to http://qep.eku.edu/.
Frostbite 5K EKU Risk Management and Insurance is hosting a Frostbite 5K at the Business and Technology Building on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 9 a.m. Registration is $20 online and $25 at the door. All proceeds of the 5K will go toward the major’s student scholarships, and prizes will be handed out for men and women age group winners.
Healing from Racial Trauma with Office of Multicultural Affairs The Counseling Center and Office of Multicultural Affairs are teaming up to give students the opportunity to heal from racial trauma through expressive arts on January 26 from 1-3 p.m. in the Multicultural Center. Materials for painting, drawing and sculpting will be provided for students who have dealt with physical or physicological symptoms often experienced after some sort of encounter with racism.
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ORDER & CHAOS, Chautauqua National Juried Exhibition
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Solitude by Jose Robert. Painting.
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The Necessity of Opposition by Nicole Woodbury. Sculpture.
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a student lands on “President’s Choice,” President Benson gets to choose the place for the student. Another student who won from spinning the wheel was Mikayla Wilk, a junior ASL-English Interpretation major. Wilk won a trip to London for a month over the summer. “In London, I was able to see just about everything and more than I could ever dream of,” Mikayla said of her trip. “We had some free weekends over the month-long span that I was able to be there so I went to Scotland for a weekend and see Edinburgh and visit where Hogwarts was filmed for the Harry Potter movies, as well as go to France and see Paris and venture down to Normandy and see the beach of D-Day.” To participate in the drawing, students must first fill out an application
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Women in EKU’s Minority Collegiate Connections were only some of the EKU student who demonstrated in the downtown Lexington march, and MCC treasurer Kirsten Hodge-Reid said the experience was an inspiring experience. “I’ve never been to a march, but I thought it was very uplifting that everybody could come together and support the same cause,” Hodge-Reid said. Including Hodge-Reid, 14 MCC students carried signs and chanted in solidarity with women’s rights, gay rights and blacks lives matter. “Women have come way too far to still not be equal,” Hodge-Reid said.
online before Friday, January 27. The application, which is found on the study abroad page on EKU’s website, consists of fewer than ten questions and is easy to fill out, White said. Students must also meet eligibility requirements. For instance, students must be full-time and maintain at least a 2.5 GPA. After that, the only thing each student needs to do is be present in O’Donnell Auditorium in the Whitlock building on January 31 at 3 p.m. If a student happens to have class at that time (or is an online or extended campus student) and is selected as a winner, President Benson will spin for the student. White said that the trips serve as more than just a chance to see the world. They’re also a way to improve one’s career opportunities. “Many employers are actually looking for students who have had international experience,” White said, “Studying abroad has put them head and shoulders above others.”
“We’re still fighting for things that should’ve already been done.” Hodge-Reid said that her hope is that people will have to pay attention to what the march is standing for, and hopefully things can change. “I think marches and protests will actually help,” Hodge-Reid said. “I’ve never seen so many Americans on one page and I think coming together might get the word out and make progress.” While the march was not strictly in opposition to President Trump, Hodge-Reid said she does not support Trump and fears he is already digressing women’s rights with recent executive orders. "I’m not supportive of it but I’m looking on the bright side,” Hodge-Reid. "You can’t wish for him to fail because that’s like a plane crash and we’re all on [the plane]."
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Daedalus by Winter Rusiloski. Painting.
EKU students at the Inauguration By TAYLOR WEITER progress@eku.edu
While some students watched the inauguration from home, a select few took the trip up to Washington D.C. to see the peaceful transition of power in person. Lynsey Kraftick, a sophomore public relations major from London, drove to her grandfather’s place in nearby Crystal City with her family in hopes of seeing the man she voted for swear in as president. “This was my first inauguration,” Lynsey said. “I voted for Trump and support Trump, but I also just wanted to witness history." Acclimated with D.C. and its difficult metro traffic, Kraftick said she had never seen the metro as crowded as it was that morning. “It was awful—everything was completely backed up,” Kraftick said. “I have never seen so many people in my entire life.” Kraftick said she waited in line at one of the many entrances to the inauguration from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m, before deciding her only chance at seeing the inauguration was to return home and watch on television. “By the time the inauguration was about to start, I was still four or five blocks from where I could see,” Kraftick said. “So I booked it back to my apartment to have a chance to watch."
While watching the inauguration, Kraftick said First Lady Melania Trump looked awe-inspiring with her now infamous Ralph Lauren dress. “Melania looked just like Jackie Kennedy,” Kraftick said. “I think [Barack] Obama and Michelle were more familial and tried to dress and look more like us, but Melania looked like a person to look up to.” One issue Kraftick said she did find with the inauguration: “It was very non-diverse.” Almost everyone Kraftick said she saw at the inauguration was white, and she said a lot of it may have had to do with Trump’s message during his campaign. “I did see an equal amount of men and women there, but everyone was the same color,” Kraftick said. The next day, Kraftick said she and her family went out of town in order to get away from the record-breaking Women’s March traffic downtown. “There was no traffic on the road—and if you’ve ever been to D.C. you know how unusual that is,” Kraftick said. While Kraftick said she respected the protester’s rights to free speech, she said she did think the march was over-the-top. “That’s not how women are supposed to act,” Kraftick said. “I think they were just making it worse.”
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Trump already doing exactly what we feared
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As most people know, on January 21 more than five million women worldwide marched in protest of Donald Trump’s inauguration and the policies he vowed to put in place in lieu of former President Obama’s. It has been three full days and here is what Trump has accomplished: nn Issued an executive order in an attempt to repeal Obamacare. nn Halted a reduction to annual mortgage insurance costs. nn Issued executive orders to withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership nn Threatened to defund foreign aid for places that provide abortions or information about abortions. Let’s discuss why the women and men who marched did so and how Trump did exactly what they expected him to do. Trump and the Republicans that back him do not have a plan to replace Obamacare. They want to repeal the act and leave millions uninsured for months. Men, women, and children who were not lucky enough to receive a “small loan of one million dollars” or a job that gives them proper insurance will face illness and injury with no way to afford a trip to their family doctor or local hospital. They will be faced with a decision: get help and go into more debt or suffer. For those with the radical notion that Americans should allow their people the right to live without the fear of dying due
to curable disease, I’m sorry that in his first 72 hours holding office, President Trump has failed you. Let’s not forget that Trump stated that he, “want[ed] to lower taxes for the middle class,” yet in his first few days in office, he decided to halt a reduction in mortgage premiums. Although mortgage insurance may not seem like it is that much, to the family that ends the week with less than $50 to their name, it is. President Trump is not a friend of the middle class. He will not defend it. He is the very epitome of a man who is causing the middle class to be “murdered,” as he described it. Now, let’s talk about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I will not pretend that I understand the trade deal entirely because I don’t. What I do know is that this partnership and the countries involved repre-
sented 40 percent of the world’s economic output. Slashing tariffs between countries the United States trades with often makes sense, doesn’t it? It gives incentive for countries to trade with us. However, this partnership did not include China, and for some reason Trump cares a great deal on not letting China feel left out. This may or may not work out in the United States favor, though. The action that Trump has taken that cannot and will not bode well for women around the world is his reinstatement of the rule that any business that provides abortions or informations about abortions will lose U.S. funding. In countries where women’s health is already something that is largely ignored, women will have to deal with a lack of information on their body because a small section of their
society requires an abortion. I will not go into another rant about how abortion is not murder and argue that those who call pro-choicers “pro-abortion” are actually religious fascists who value the concept of life more so than a life itself. Instead, I will say this. Abortions do not happen as often as pro-lifers care to believe. Women getting sick and dealing with problems directly related to their womanhood do. I wanted to give Trump a chance. I tried to give him a chance, but in his first few days, he’s let his nation down. That’s why these people are protesting. This nation was built on protesters, so to those who call the men and women marching “cry-babies,” they aren’t cry-babies. They aren’t feminazis or extremists. They’re patriots, fighting for what they believe.
Black Mirror is more than just another TV show
NOENA ZERNA Have you ever watched a show that made you question the choices you’ve made in your life? If you haven’t, Black Mirror will make you feel that way. It’s a Netf lix original series and was first released in 2014 and currently has three seasons. Each episode focuses on various people’s lives in near-future, semi-dystopian societies and how technology affects them and the world around them. When I first started watching Black Mirror, I thought it was just about how the usage of technology corrupts people and is changing the world for the worst. However, as I continued watching the show, I noticed the social commentary. Each episode explains how technology affects the person the storyline is about, but it also opens a discussion about how society acts towards certain people. For example, one of the episodes focuses on a woman living in a world where ratings matter. She has an app that is similar to the social media sites
we have today, and she gives a rating of one to five stars to each person she encounters and vice versa. The higher your rating is, the more you’re able to purchase things – i.e. she is trying to purchase a house and must have a 4.5 out of 5 rating – and the more “friends” you gain. One misstep, though, can cause your rating to suffer and you can lose everything. Without spoiling too much, this episode is a clear example of the society we are heading into now. Many of us care about how people perceive us that we end up pretending to be someone we’re not just to f lourish in attention. As previously mentioned, each episode showcases a new character and how their decisions affect the world around them. Each episode can be applied to our reality. The characters make us wonder, at least this is what happened to me, if we would do the same thing he or she did if we were placed in the same situation. Regardless of the fact we don’t have the technology the show provides, the characters are still human with similar emotions and thought process as the viewers. Watching one episode will truly make you wonder if our society is heading towards the same ones shown on the screen. It’ll also make you rethink how you use technology, from what you share to who you interact with. You will more than likely cycle through your emotions while watching each episode and may end up caring about the characters you see on the screen until you find out why they are in that situation. I highly suggest you give Black Mirror a chance. As the show’s slogan says “the future is bright” and you wouldn’t want to miss out on being a part of that.
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Budget cuts hurt EKU's hiring of quality professors I was about to make my annual contribution to the Roberta Hill Memorial Fund, which has provided scholarships to students in Family and Consumer Sciences (formerly Home Economics) since 1977. Then, I read the article in today’s Herald Leader regarding the cuts in academic programs, cuts made necessary by the $13 million shortfall. What particularly provoked me was Mr. Turner’s attack on the faculty for taking so long to make the cuts in academic programs and to increase the costs in the employee health insurance (by a staggering 400 percent — unbelievable). As regrettable as the academic cuts are, such cuts in benefits have to be harmful to established academic programs, the future of which depends on retention and hiring of quality professors. Where were the administration and the Faculty
Senate on these decisions? Perhaps their “time-consuming” deliberations prevented further damaging cuts, but how much more burden should the faculty bear? Mr. Turner’s own profile (EKU News, Oct. 8, 2013) suggests he is all for the values of smaller classes, individual teacher-student ratios and shared governance, which his current remarks contradict. Mr. Turner’s argument that the athletic budget of $14 million is necessary for “better retention and graduate rates” is peculiar at best. To add to the possible cost of the athletics program, AD Lochmueller has promoted a much greater budget - up to $24 million in order to “reach the next level.” Apart from the fact that the athletic budget is about equal to the deficit, I am not sure how such a budget is going to help graduation success for most students
who are not athletes in history or biology - or Family and Consumer Sciences, for that matter. This doesn’t make sense. Yet, as unhappy as I am about the current academic situation at EKU, the university to which I have dedicated 36 years of my teaching career, I am going to continue to support the Roberta Hill Family and Consumer Sciences endowed scholarship, the recipients of which are non-traditional students. I can imagine their sympathies lie with the worthy faculty members who will stay at EKU if they have affordable health insurance rather than whether EKU will make it “to the next level” or not. Ordelle G. Hill Professor Emeritus, English
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Local jam band Sully & The Odditoriums, which recently released a six-track EP “The Basement EP,” cites a diverse range of influences: everything from B.B. King to The Grateful Dead to singer John Mayer.
Richmond group channels jam band roots on new EP By STEPHANIE DARIA progress@eku.edu
Whether playing songs that make you dance or songs that make you contemplate the message, Richmond jam band, Sully & The Odditoriums offers groovy vibes and a powerful voice. Drawing inspiration from artists such as B.B. King, The Grateful Dead and even singer-songwriter John Mayer, the band presents a singular sound that is not only pleasing to the ear but also offers a platform for social and political commentary. One of the band’s founders, Louisville native Sean Sullivan, said he draws a lot from his roles in theater for inspiration. “Educational theatre is about getting your point across or finding your voice and letting it be heard,” Sullivan said. Sullivan said that he likes to write his songs to inspire change within the realm of political and social structures. He does so in a way “that can relate with more people,” even if it takes the form of a love song. The group is a four-piece band with Sean Sullivan on the guitar and vocals, Bauner Chafin on lead guitar, Gerek Patrick on bass and Jon Watts on drums. Three members attend EKU while the drummer attends school in Ohio. Sullivan, Patrick and Watts met
through the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on campus which eventually connected them to Chafin through mutual friends. The birth of the band’s name came from Sullivan’s nickname, “Sully.” The addition of the back-up band, “The Odditoriums,” came after Sullivan traveled to St. Louis where he saw the term in the city museum and again in Maryland painted on a wall. Sullivan took it as a sign and ran with it. Sullivan’s first songwriting experiences initially mimicked the “singer-songwriter” style, but after collaborating with the other musicians and hearing his love of deep acoustic tones complemented by Chafin’s electric guitar, they soon found themselves toward the extended grooves that characterize the jam band sound. “I think we have a good mix of where we can get to that point of where we’re blowing your ears out with supersonic guitar solos, but at the same time we’re going to swoop you back into this reality of spaceville,” Sullivan said. “I call them swimmers. I like people to be swimming and be active with the music.” For those who aren’t familiar with the term jam band, it is a term to describe music that is heavily based on improvisation. “It’s not too terribly intricate,” Sullivan said. “It’s all pleasing to the ear, and groovy, and wavy.” The band recently released a six-track EP, called “The
Basement EP”, which was recorded in their friend’s basement in a single day. The EP features a range of instrumental grooves while showcasing persuasive tunes like “Stand Together.” “I wrote [Stand Together] amidst all that Bernie Sanders stuff, and I wrote it as a call to action,” Sullivan said. The end goal for the band is to make enough money to avoid a real job and pursue a musical career, Sullivan said. However, getting started is a challenge. “It’s hard to get going and convince people you’re worth investing in,” Sullivan said. “With that being said, I love being a musician, and I wouldn’t trade it for world.” The band is currently in transition and is coming up with a more cohesive band name as well as working on another EP which they will record the first week of February at a studio in Louisville. The band has played at local restaurants and bars such as Madison Gardens, Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar in Louisville, Tee Dee’s in Lexington, and Halls on the River in Winchester. For more information, follow their Soundcloud and Facebook accounts for new releases and information on local shows at soundcloud.com/sullyodditoriums and facebook.com/sullyodditoriums.
Garlic Heads vies for best pizza in town By COREY WALL corey_wall4@mymail.eku.edu
I’ve eaten a lot of pizza in my life, especially in the past two years. I’ve taken it upon myself, recently, to try pizza everywhere I go and to try to understand what makes good pizza good. I’ve tried pizzas from across the country, and I’ve had pizza that made some of the finest dinners I’ve ever had look mediocre in comparison. Recently, I had a pizza I would consider amazing for the first time in Kentucky. Garlic Heads’ pizza comes in a nondescript, brown cardboard box with no logo or markings—normally indicating that its contents were nothing special. However, first impressions can be deceiving. I knew Garlic Heads did something right the moment I opened the box. As a fan of New York-style pizzas, I find the first indicator of exceptional pizza to be when the cheese runs together causing the cut lines to nearly disappear. Typically, cheese running together is a sign of quality. Fresh mozzarella doesn’t hold its shape after being melted and cut—it flows and runs together. The first bite rewards the taste buds with this cheese—oily, greasy and packed with flavor—the way mozzarella is meant to be. The way pizza is meant to be. The most critical mistake one can make when crafting a pizza is to use low-moisture cheese. Pizza is, in its essence, three ingredients (cheese, bread
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and sauce) and it is vital that these three ingredients have quality. Good cheese is extremely flavorful, and using a low quality cheese that lacks flavor and moisture inhibits the most important element of a pizza. The only other place to deliver cheese like this in Richmond is Mad Mushroom, and that doesn’t even compare to how good Garlic Heads’ cheese is. It is on a whole other level. It cannot be emphasized enough how important quality cheese is, but sauce and bread also contribute to the overall quality of a pizza, and this is where Garlic Heads begins to falter. The bread of Garlic Heads’ pizza is largely inoffensive,
though it doesn’t stand out. Notably, the crust isn’t as dry as that of chain pizzas and local pizza places (Apollo’s being one of the greatest crust offenders), and while it isn’t exceptional, it is largely neutral in a way that I find adequate. The sauce was Garlic Heads’ worst of the three primary pizza elements. The tomato sauce seemed to simultaneously be too acidic and lacking in acidity. It had a bite, but not in a good way. It lacked the flavor of tomatoes — the primary element of a pizza sauce. The flavor wasn’t bad, it just tasted like something was missing. I want a tomato sauce to burst with flavor, and this sauce didn’t. It was, by all means, okay. However, the disappointing sauce doesn’t make this a bad pizza. Actually, it’s quite the contrary. While the sauce wasn’t exceptionally good, it wasn’t bad, and that’s more than I can say for many pizzas. The sauce was good enough that it didn’t distract from the rich flavors of the cheese, and that’s a big deal. Garlic Heads was certainly not the best pizza I’ve ever had, but I didn’t expect it to be. What Garlic Heads was, though, is the best pizza I’ve ever had in the state of Kentucky. With fresh cheese, delicious and reminiscent of the best pizzas I’ve had the pleasure of tasting, and crust that wasn’t bad at all, within a few bites I knew that Garlic Heads was the best pizza in Richmond, and I can’t imagine myself getting pizza anywhere else any time soon.
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EKU’S hockey team defeated their crosstown rival University of Kentucky in the schools’ annual midnight showdown in Lexington. The overtime win was a watermark for the club team’s progression.
In annual ice showdown, EKU pushes UK to the brink By ROBERT RISTANEO robert_ristaneo1@mymail.eku.edu
EKU Hockey defeated its biggest rival in the University of Kentucky last Saturday. Both teams share the same rink, but Eastern was awarded home status and they took full advantage of it, winning 6-5 in overtime. Eastern drew first blood just a minute
into the game on a goal from right wing Ryan Gustafson. The goal was assisted by defender Christian Purdom and forward Timothy Muhsman. Kentucky answered 10 minutes later to tie the game up. Eastern broke the tie with two straight goals from Muhsman and forward Corey Jenks to start the second period. Kentucky proceeded to rattle off four straight goals to take a 5-3 lead with ten
minutes left in the game. Center Eric Jones and Gustafson both scored just in time to send the game into overtime. Jones came through big again, ending the game three minutes into the extra period to give the Colonels a 6-5 win. The Colonels’ win over UK added to an already impressive record with wins against Tennessee and Xavier. Head Coach Joel Cormier, who has
Colonels struggle against OVC rivals
won three provinicial championships in Canada and coached three players who made the NFL, said the win Saturday was worth every second of work. “Coming to EKU was a culture shock... but when we won, everything was worth it,” Cormier said. The win gave the Colonels the most points in the mens independent division with an average of 6.11 goals a game.
Women’s hoops struggles against Morehead State By IAN TEASLEY progress@eku.edu
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Freshman guard Asante Gist drives during the Colonels’ game against Murray State on Thursday. EKU came up short, losing 86-79.
By IAN TEASLEY progress@eku.edu
The Eastern Kentucky Colonels started their four game on-the-road journey with a pair of disappointing losses to a pair of in-state rivals. EKU (8-13, 1-5) traveled to Murray State (11-9, 5-1) on Thursday the 19th trying to notch their second conference win of the season. The Colonels hung tough for the entirety of the game, but ultimately fell to Murray 86-79. The dynamic duo of sophomore forward Nick Mayo and freshman guard Asante Gist put up 45 points combined, but the lack of contribution from other players and 19 turnovers cost the Colonels in the end. Even in the loss, the Colonels had a good shooting night shooting 51 percent overall and 42 percent from behind the three-point line with As-
ante Gist hitting three of them. Conference play has started off rough for the Colonels who had high hopes after a strong non-conference showing. Eastern Kentucky (8-14, 1-6) traveled to Morehead to play in-state rival Morehead State (9-11, 5-2), in what was an abysmal game for the Colonels. The duo of Nick Mayo and Asante Gist combined to score 30 points, but the rest of the team combined to score only 24 points. Eastern ultimately ended up getting beat by a score of 80-54. The team had a very poor shooting night, only hitting 35 percent of their shots while shooting a horrendous 22 percent from the three. 15 turnovers certainly didn’t help the team either as they played one of their worst games of the season. The Colonels seemed to have taken a step back this particular game after having played Murray tight the whole
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game. The Men’s next game is Thursday, January 26th at Jacksonville State at 8 PM. Over the winter break, Eastern saw the breakout of point guard Asante Gist. Gist is currently averaging 14.8 ppg as well as 3.8 assists per game - good enough to lead all freshman in the OVC. Gist was recently voted OVC freshman of the week this past week. After starting the season with a 6-4 record and a convincing win over rival Western Kentucky, the Colonels are just 2-10 in their last 12 games and are currently on a 5 game losing streak, with the only bright spots on the team being Sophomore forward Nick Mayo and Freshman point guard Asante Gist. Mayo is currently averaging 17.3 ppg to go along with 6.1 rebounds per game. Those are the only two Colonels currently averaging in double-figures.
The Colonels (7-12, 4-2) traveled to Morehead State to take on the Eagles (15-5, 5-2) on Saturday, January 21. The game was one of the worst of the season for the Colonels as nothing seemed to go their way. Eastern was led by Shavontae Naylor with 15 points while star Jalen O’Bannon was held to only 7 points on 2-9 shooting. The Colonels suffered their second worst loss of the season losing by a score of 80-54. The Colonels had one of their worst shooting nights of the season by only hitting 30 percent of their shots and shooting a terrible 12 percent (2-16) from threepoint range. The 16 turnovers were also one of their worst of the season. Over the winter break, the EKU Women’s team had been struggling up until the point of conference play. Heading into OVC play, the Colonels had suffered 4 straight losses and were sitting at a 3-10 record. The Colonels got hot and rattled off 3 straight conference wins, including an overtime thriller over Eastern Illinois, to start 3-0 in the OVC. The Colonels have three players averaging double figures for the season so far; OVC pre-season player of the Jalen O’Bannon leads with 13.9 ppg, Alexus Cooper with 12.7 ppg, and Shavontae Naylor with 11.8 ppg. The Colonels have had a fairly rough time scoring the ball this season as they are only shooting around 39 percent on the year while shooting 32 percent from three. It’s safe to say that through the half-way point in the season, the Colonels have not played up to expectations or up to the level that they are capable of. The Colonels will look to rally late in the season and make a run at the OVC title. The womens’ next two games are January 25 at Home against Jacksonville State, and January 28 on the road at Tennessee Tech at 6:30 PM.
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