10 06 2017

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Lafayette Wright brings laughs to the 7th Street Underground on Thursday night

The Student Senate stood outside the Doudna Fine Arts Center to ask students what could be improved on campus

The Eastern football team is looking for its third straight OVC game win on Saturday

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Students to celebrate Chinese holiday Festival gives students a chance to share their culture

Autumn Festival.

Pe o p l e i n t h e n o r t h e r n p rov i n c e s o f China usually eat sweet moon cake, Zhang said.

Raine Zhu, the secretary of the CSSA and a senior graphic design major, is from a southern province of China.

“I like the meat kind (of moon cakes),” Zhu said.

“In my hometown, people always like the sweet kind. I think it is too sweet.”

“We will see what the last (person) says,” Zhang said. “It will be funny.”

Zhang said the CSSA has never had students not from the club at the MidAu t u m n Fe s t i va l , b u t t h i s ye a r a l l a re

By Kennedy Nolen welcome to attend.

Multicultural Reporter | @KennedyNolenEIU The Chinese students are at Eastern and will celebrate not only for themselves, but Each year on the 15th day of the 8th to share their cultures with students who month of the lunar calendar, people in are interested, she said.

China celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

“Eastern is part of our family now,” Since the Zhang said. “We U . S . u s e s t h e "Eastern is part of our family now. We live here, we’ve been here every day, so l i v e h e r e , w e’v e Gregorian been here every c a l e n d a r, t h i s it is a different way to celebrate with family.” d a y, s o i t i s a festival happens different way to Zoey Zhang, vice president of the CSSA in September celebrate with or October. family, I think.”

The Chinese Student and Scholar Zhang said the first thing she thinks of Zhang said this holiday gives people a Association will share this piece of their when she hears Mid-Autumn Festival is direct way to celebrate a Chinese holiday culture with Eastern students at 6 p.m. definitely moon cake. withChinese people.

Friday in the basement of Andrews Hall.

Those at the festival on Friday can make “Also, it is part of our tradition. It is not Zoey Zhang, the vice president of the their own moon cake. something you can find on Google.”

CSSA and a graduate student studying They will also play a version of the game She said the Mid-Autumn Festival is clinical psychology, said the Mid-Autumn Telephone, where Chinese international something Chinese people have celebrated Fe s t i v a l i s a t i m e f o r f a m i l y t o c o m e students will alternate with non-Chinese for thousands of years. together for dinner, to eat moon cake and students in a line, Zhang said.

“It’s part of who we are,” Zhang said. to enjoy the view of the full moon.

Each person will whisper a word in the Kennedy Nolen can be reached at 581-2812 A moon cake is a dessert or savory cake next person’s ear, whether it be in Chinese or kdnolen@eiu.edu. with meat made especially for the Mid- or English.

Origin of Mid-Autumn

By Kennedy Nolen Multicultural Reporter | @KennedyNolenEIU Zoey Zhang has heard the story of the Mid-Autumn Festival’s origin ever since she was young.

The story is about an archer named Hou Yi who had a wife named Chang’e.

Ten suns rose in the sky and caused disaster on earth, so Yi shot down nine of the 10 suns, Zhang said.

One was kept to bring light to the people.

A god-like figure sent a pill to Yi and said if Yi took the pill, he could also become a god and live forever.Zhang said Yi did not want to leave his wife, so he did not take the pill.

Yi’s apprentice broke into his house while he went hunting on Aug. 15 on the lunar calendar. The apprentice told Chang’e to give the pill to Yi, but she refused and took it instead.

Chang’e swallowed the pill and claimed the moon as her new residence.

When Yi returned, he was saddened by what happened, so he displayed Chang’e’s favorite fruit and cake in the yard. In the story, the Chinese people did the same, and it became a tradition.

Kennedy Nolen can be reached at 581-2812 or kdnolen@eiu.edu.

A magical lunch

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Jill Schilling, a senior family and consumer sciences major, serves Harry Potter-themed food to mother and daughter pair Linda and Melanie Trent at the Klehm Cafe Thursday morning. “The food was so delicious,” Melanie Trent said. Linda Trent said she wanted to come back for other events in the future.

Police look into reports of shots fired Staff Report | @DEN_News Police investigated multiple reports of shots fired Thursday afternoon in the 800 block of Lincoln Avenue.

However, Charleston Police Chief Bryan Baker said when they were out searching the area, officers did not find any evidence of empty shell casings or bullet holes.

“Somebody reported what they thought was shots fired, so we were out searching the

area,” he said.

There was also no damage found on or around the surrounding buildings when they looked, Baker said.

Traffic in the area was blocked while police conducted the search.

The University Police Department and the Coles County Sheriff ’s Office were part of the investigation.

The News desk can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a $4.1 trillion budget plan that promises deep cuts to social programs while paving the way for Republicans to rewrite the tax code later this year.

The 2018 House GOP budget reprises a controversial plan to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for future retirees as well as the party's efforts to repeal the "Obamacare" health law. Republicans controlling Congress have no plans to actually implement those cuts while they pursue their tax overhaul.

That's especially so in the Senate, where the Budget Committee on Thursday gave party-line approval to a companion plan.

Instead, the nonbinding budget's chief purpose is to set the stage for a tax overhaul plan that is the party's top political priority as well as a longtime policy dream of key leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan.

The White House issued a statement saying the House plan is a key step toward "Making America Great Again."

The House measure, passed by a near party-line vote of 219-206, calls for more than $5 trillion in spending cuts over the coming decade, promising to slash Medicaid by about $1 trillion over the next 10 years, cutting other health care costs, and forcing huge cuts to domestic programs

funded in future years by Congress.

"It's a budget that will help grow our economy, and it's a budget that will help rein in our debt," said Ryan, R-Wis. "It reforms Medicaid. It strengthens Medicare."

But Republicans are not actually planning to impose any of those cuts with follow-up legislation that would be required under Washington's Byzantine budget rules. Instead, those GOP proposals for spending cuts are limited to nonbinding promises, and even a token 10-year, $200 billion spending cut package demanded by tea party House Republicans appears likely to be scrapped in upcoming talks with the Senate.

Passing the measure in the House and Senate would provide key procedural help for the tax measure because it sets the stage for follow-on legislation that can't be filibustered by Senate Democrats. Republicans used the same so-called reconciliation procedure in their failed attempt to kill "Obamacare," including its tax surcharges on wealthy people.

"Through reconciliation, our budget specifically paves the way for pro-growth tax reform that will reduce taxes for middle-class Americans and free up American businesses to grow and hire," said Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., who chairs the House Budget Committee.

Eighteen Republicans opposed the measure, including several from high-tax states like New York and New Jersey who are concerned that the upcoming tax effort would repeal the deductions for state and local taxes.

Democrats blasted the sweeping spending cuts proposed by Republicans — more than $5 trillion over 10 years in the House plan and somewhat less in the Senate GOP measure — as an assault on middle-class families and the poor.

"Is it a statement of our values to take a half-trillion dollars out of Medicare to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in our country?" said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

The Senate Budget Committee's companion plan approved Thursday differs in key details — but would still result in a deficit of $424 billion in 2027, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The House measure assumes the upcoming tax bill won't add to the deficit; the Senate version, however, would permit the measure to add $1.5 trillion to the $20 trillion-plus national debt over the coming 10 years. The final version is likely to stick closely to the Senate measure in key respects. A final House-Senate agreement won't come until November, Black said, but she anticipated conflict over the Senate plans.

Las Vegas gunman may have scoped out other music festivals LAS VEGAS (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston's Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans.

Paddock booked rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago in August and the Life Is Beautiful show near the Vegas Strip in late September, according to authorities reconstructing his movements before he undertook the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

It was not clear if he contemplated massacres at those sites.

Investigators looking into Paddock also came across mention of Fenway Park, Boston police Lt. Detective Mike McCarthy said, though he provided no further details.

The details came to light as investigators struggled to figure out why the highstakes gambler opened fire on a crowd of 22,000 Sunday night from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel casino in Las Vegas. He killed 58 people and injured

nearly 500 before taking his own life.

A federal official said authorities are looking into the possibility Paddock planned additional attacks, including a car bombing. The official wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Authorities previously disclosed Paddock had 1,600 rounds of ammunition in his car, along with fertilizer that can be used to make explosives and 50 pounds of Tannerite, a substance used in explosive rifle targets.

Investigators have been combing through his background but remain stumped as to his motive.

The profile developed so far is of a "disturbed and dangerous" man who acquired an arsenal over decades, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said. But investigators have been frustrated to find that he lived a "secret life," Lombardo said, "much of which will never be fully understood."

The coroner's office in Las Vegas would not release details of its autopsy on Paddock. Some behavioral experts have wondered whether the 64-year-old Pad-

dock suffered from some kind of brain abnormality or had a terminal illness that prompted him to lash out.

The weekend before the massacre, he rented a room through Airbnb at the 21-story Ogden condominiums in downtown Las Vegas and stayed there during a music festival below that included Chance the Rapper, Muse, Lorde and Blink-182.

In early August, Paddock booked a room at Chicago's 21-story Blackstone Hotel that overlooked the park where the Lollapalooza alternative music festival was being held, though there's no evidence he actually stayed there, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

The hotel confirmed a Stephen Paddock made a reservation but said he never checked in.

Lollapalooza draws hundreds of thousands of music fans every year to Grant Park.

Although Paddock killed himself as a SWAT team closed in, the sheriff said it appeared he had planned to survive and had an escape plan. Lombardo would not elaborate on the plan.

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White House open to some gun control WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association joined the Trump administration and top congressional Republicans Thursday in a swift and surprising embrace of a restriction on Americans' guns, though a narrow one: to regulate the "bump stock" devices the Las Vegas shooter apparently used to horrifically lethal effect.

The devices, originally intended to help people with disabilities, fit over the stock and grip of a semi-automatic rifle and allow the weapon to fire continuously, some 400 to 800 rounds in a single minute. Bump stocks were found among the gunman's weapons and explain why victims in Las Vegas heard what sounded like automatic-weapons fire as the shooter rained bullets from a casino high-rise, slaughtering 58 people in a concert below and wounding hundreds more.

The NRA, which famously opposes virtually any hint of new restrictions, said in a statement: "The National Rifle Association is calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law. The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."

Moments after, at the White House, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised the announcement.

"We welcome that and a conversation on that," Sanders said. "It's something we're very open to."

The device, which retails for around $200, is not known among gun dealers as an item that is hugely popular. It was created ostensibly to help people with disabilities more easily fire AK- and AR-platform long guns.

The device causes the gun to buck back and forth, repeatedly "bumping" the trigger against the shooter's finger. Technically, that means the finger is pulling the trigger for each round fired, keeping the weapon a legal semi-automatic. Because it creates a significant rocking motion it also means that the gun is "spraying" bullets and it's difficult to hit a target.

The issue of bump stocks came up aboard Air Force One as President Donald Trump traveled back from visiting Las Vegas on Wednesday, according to GOP Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada, who was on board and said Trump sounded open to a change.

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By Brooke Schwartz Staff Writer | @brookesch_wartz The Student Senate set up a table outside of the Doudna Fine Arts Center to survey students about possible campus improvements.

This table will be set up every Thursday of every month for the rest of the semester.

Senators had students fill out a sheet of paper that asked about any areas of campus that could be improved that the students might have noticed so far this year.

Speaker of the Student Senate William Outzen said this year, student outreach is of the utmost importance to the senate, which was what motivated him to start surveying the student body regularly.

“This is a new initiative I decided I wanted to start this semester,” Outzen said. “Every senator represents about 200 students here on campus.

We need to understand, what do they want to see? We were elected by

them, so we need to represent them.”

Outzen said he will be looking at the responses and sending them off to the proper committees on Student Senate.

He and the rest of the senate will continue working on the suggestions for the rest of the semester.

Jensyn Morrison, chair of the student affairs committee, said she agreed with the importance of student outreach, especially for student representatives.

“It is very important for us to get out there and understand what the students are thinking, what the students are saying, what they need, things like that,” Morrison said.

“Each one of us plays a very important role with the student body.”

Both Morrison and Outzen said it is important to speak for the students and explore how they are feeling so the Student Senate can better help them.

“We’re trying to get their voices a little bit heard,” Morrison said.

Outzen said the other goal of the outreach table was to put names to faces and help voters see who they have elected.

“We get a lot of good conversations with our students … They get to see we’re actual normal students,” Outzen said. “Also, we can come back next month when we do the event again and say hey, look, we listened to your responses, we went out and we fixed this. We made the improvement that you wanted to make.

That way, we’re actually representing their interests.”

This is not the only activity that Student Senate is planning to do this year.

Being planned now is an ROTC social and a potluck with the Student Senate, which the senate hopes will encourage even more conversations between groups of students, Morrison said.

Both Outzen and Morrison said they hope to continue improving the campus around them, no matter

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Kristen Heckel, a sophomore marketing major, fills out a form asking students what they think can be improved at Eastern outside the Doudna Fine Arts Center on Thursday. “I want some improvement on the residencehalls, the air conditioner is pretty old,” she said.

what activities they decide to host.

“My goal is to make every semester better than last semester,” Outzen said.

Brooke Schwartz can be reached at 581-2812 orbsschwartz@ eiu.edu.

Documentary focuses on discrimination

By Valentina Vargas Contributing Writer | @DEN_News Students and faculty gathered in the Buzzard Hall Auditorium for a screening of “Stolen Education," which opened some students' eyes to the discrimination people faced in the past, and still face today.

The documentary is about the lawsuit filed by the families of eight Mexican-American students against the Driscoll Consolidated Independent School District in Texas in 1956.

The lawsuit started after one girl was held back in the first grade for three years because she was Mexican-American.

Jasmine Richardson, a freshman psychology major, said she came into the screening to learn more about Latino culture during Latino Heritage Month. “(I wanted to) better understand what (Mexican-Americans) went through,” Richardson said. “(These are) things I do not know, so it is good to learn now.”

Amanda Travaglio, a senior history major, said the documentary gave her more better knowledge of

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Students watch the Stolen Education documentary at Buzzard hall Thursday afternoon. The documentary is about a school system that mistreated some of their students, this documentary was for Latin Heritage Month.

what Mexican-Americans face. "(I realized) how much of a challenge it is for minority groups,” Travaglio said.

The film “Stolen Education”

touches on topics of discrimination and segregation in schools directed toward minorities such as Mexican-Americans.

Emily Guerrero, a freshman-

nursing major, said she was already familiar with the challenges that Mexican-Americans face.

“To be honest, back home (discrimination) was an issue in my

community college, since (there were) a lot less Mexicans,” Guerrero said.

Travaglio said she thinks education for minorities is still a problem in society.

An example she gave was of some parents of minorities not having well-paying jobs to afford their children’s school costs.

“Just affording going to school is a struggle,” Travaglio said.

Richardson said minorities in society today are treated with disrespect because of their nationality. “(People) will look at (minorities) a certain way because of how society is today with looking at race and everything,” Richardson said.

Travaglio said overall, the documentary was a chance to learn about something different about minority groups.

“I think (minorities at Eastern) are represented ver y well," she said.

Valentina Vargas can be reached at 581-2812 or vvargas@eiu.edu.

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Personal Pesticide

Natasha Ellis

“Boys will be boys” Society is a dangerous thing. It shapes, rules over and defines life as it is.

Growing up, we learn right from wrong. We learn these things from our parents, and at school from our peers. Eventually, we create our own opinions, but these are usually shaped around what we learned growing up.

When we do something bad or something that society views as bad, we get punished. Simple.

When we were kids and we pushed someone else, our parents told us that it was not OK and there were consequences to our actions.

So why is it that when we go off on our own, we do not believe that our actions have consequences?

Why is it that when we go out, party and get drunk, we are not thinking about the next morning and the hangover that will leave us lying in bed all day, not able to get anything done? Why do we go out the next weekend and do it all over again?

Through observation, I have noticed that we college students do not care about the consequences of our actions. Although this in particular is directed to freshman college students.

We get out of the house, come to college and we think, “Wow, I am on my own now, rules do not apply to me.”

It boggles my mind to see so many of my peers act like children whose parents let them loose on the playground.

I have observed for the past six weeks that students do not think about their actions, they do not think what would happen if they were to go out and get blackout drunk, or say a sexist joke to someone, or a racist comment or post something on their Snapchat story.

On Tuesday night, a friend of mine who attends Dominican University was on the Snap Map looking at stories around campuses her friends attended. Eventually she got to Eastern’s.

My friend clicked around our location and an alarming video popped up, so she sent it to me.

This video was recorded in Thomas Dining Hall, where someone used Snapchat to draw a picture of a target on a student.

After seeing this video I became worried, since the shooting in Las Vegas had just happened this past weekend. I then called the University Police Department to inspect the situation.

I shared the video within my friends’ group chat, and I was alarmed when their response was “boys do dumb things.”

I then went with the police officer to the dining hall, and we talked to a manager.

She responded in the same way my friends had, enforcing the saying, “boys will be boys.”

After this I became enraged. I asked myself, “How can people say that when this is a current issue in today’s society?”

We as a society need to start changing things. This cannot go on any longer. No more “boys being boys,” no more exceptions.

It cannot get to the point where people only care when the gun is pointed at them.

Natasha Ellis is a freshman sociology major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or nrellis@eiu.edu.

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Know where to look to find fun A common occurrence that several staff members have noticed is the incessant complaining from our peers about having nothing to do in Charleston or the surrounding area.

Whether the complaint is fueled with the sentiment of not having a fun activity to do or some common hangout spot to go that is not one of the many college bars, we have heard it all.

However, though we feel bad for our fellow students, it is not for the reason anyone would expect.

We actually feel bad that our peers do not even bother to realize all that there is to do right outside their dorm doors.

Why must we be so entrenched with living around busy shopping centers and chain restaurants?

We should not sit here and mourn about not having a Target or Portillo’s.

Instead, we should be grateful that we live in a community where finding fun is in the eye of the beholder and does not require much effort from anyone.

Creativity flourishes in small towns,

and the possibilities of finding something to do really are endless; you just have know where to look.

In fact, part of the reason that these complaints develop in the first place has to do with the lack of knowledge as to what there is in Charleston or the surrounding area (Mattoon, Greenup, Arcola, etc.).

For example, did you know that if you travel south down 18th Street there is an apple orchard and a whole forest you could go exploring in?

Imagine the possibilities.

Plus, there is even a whole lake named after Charleston where people can go on boat or canoe rides or walk along the circumference of it, inhaling its vast glory.

Go figure, there are three places to explore and even more things to do once you get there.

There are countless shops that offer anything and everything from books to records to vintage clothing if that is your thing.

Also, if you are worried about getting

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Sean says: Keep your commitments Kyle is at it again. And this time, what he did means war. From the 4 a.m. fire alarm to the staining of our carpet because he spilled a crockpot, to waking me up at 1 a.m., this is by far the worst thing he has done.

Worst part was, he thought we were all joking with him. Man, was he wrong.

My friends and I had our intramural dodgeball game Tuesday night, just as we had for the previous two weeks. No surprises there.

We had to win this game to make the playoffs, and to be honest, Kyle was one of our better players. He caught anything that came his way and is a vital part of the team.

Or was, I should say.

All day we were talking in our group chat about our big game that night. My friend Devin and I also talked to Kyle in person about the game that night and the importance of it.

Our team was fired up. We were there early warming up a bit and everyone was there except Kyle.

For a little while, I just assumed he was moving at typical Kyle pace— slow and with little-to-no motivation to reach his intended destination.

It started cutting way too close to game time, so I gave Kyle a call. A few rings, then my call was ignored.

This warranted a few, we will call them,

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not-so-friendly text messages to be sent to Kyle. Still nothing.

Our team was livid. Where was Kyle?

Eventually we had to bite the bullet and play with one less man on the court.

Kyle never showed up to our dodgeball game. The one that if we won, would send us to the playoffs. And he had no care in the world for us. Some teammate. Heck, some roommate you are, KP. Long story short, since I am still pretty mad about this day, we lost the best-of-five series in five games. And without one of our best players, Kyle.

We continued our rants at Late Night Pizza in Thomas, when speak of the devil, Kyle calls.

“What’s up, bro,” is how he opens the

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to some of these places, there is no need.

If you are on campus, there are plenty of transportation methods, such as the Zipcar, Shuttle Bus, Dial-a-Ride (which is another shuttle bus service that takes you to Mattoon) or gather up a group of friends and carpool to these places.

Do not prevent yourself from discovering what is in your own backyard, so be open minded because there is always a way especially when it comes to having fun.

Instead of saying, “Damn, it is the same old thing, just a different day,” try changing your perspective and say, “I wonder what I can find to do today.”

Make everyday in Charleston and the surrounding areas an adventure.

You would be surprised as to what you could find.

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conversation. Are you kidding me? “Sup bro?”

You do not show up to the dodgeball game that we were talking about all day, did not even bother to say that you were not going to show up nonetheless.

Kyle’s excuse? “Sorry man, I got tired and took a four-hour nap.”

Save the excuses for someone who someone who is willing to listen and believe that garbage. You let your team down, Kyle.

Worst yet, you let down seven of your best friends.

When I got back to our apartment, I let him hear it, and all I got was laughs and empty apologies. Apology was not accepted.

I know it was only an intramural dodgeball game, but it was not. That was the most competitive thing that the eight of us were involved in.

I do not think I have ever been so angry with Kyle, and he has a long list of things that he has done for me to be mad. He just skipped the game and did not tell anyone and with no care in the world.

I do not think I need to even fire off any advice at anyone saying that you should show up for things that you commit to. But I guess I do for Kyle. Unacceptable.

Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.

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LASO to teach traditional dances Saturday Staff Report | @DEN_News Students can learn traditional Latin American dances from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Krishna Thomas, an admissions specialist in the Office of International Students and Scholars, will be teaching dances such as the salsa, merengue and bachata as part of Latin Heritage Month.

The Latin American Student Organization will also be collecting donations for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico.

According to its Facebook page, LASO is accepting batteries, wipes, water, rope, flashlights and other necessary supplies as donations.

The News staff can be reached at 581-2812 or denneewsdesk@gmail.com.

CAA cancels meeting

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Comedian Lafayette Wright entertains the crowd that came to see him at the 7th Street Underground. This was Wright's first time at Eastern.

Wright wows crowd during stand-up

Staff Report | @DEN_News The Council on Academic Affairs canceled its meeting Thursday because scheduled presenters were not available to talk about their proposals.

Originally scheduled was a vote on a new online course in supply chain and logistics management, a new online course called Introduction to Studies of Sexuality and Gender Diversity, a revision to a feminist theories course and a new class on queer theories.

The meeting was also supposed to vote on changing the women’s studies minor’s name to women’s, gender and sexuality studies.

These topics will now be brought up at the CAA’s Oct. 12 meeting.

According to the CAA’s website, per CAA Bylaw VII.4.d. (6), CAA chair Stacey Ruholl added a new course, Spanish for the Health Professions, a course revision for food and agriculture, a revision to the psychology minor and revised waiver rules to the agenda for action at a future meeting.

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By Travis Moody Contributing Writer | @DEN_News Comedian Lafayette Wright wowed the audience at the 7th Street Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union during his stand-up routine Thursday night.

Wright, who has been doing comedy for 13 years, said the crowd was responsive, encouraging and overall great throughout the night.

It was Wright’s first time performing at Eastern, and he was accepted by a large round of applause when he took the stage.

“I got into comedy because I didn’t know

what else to do with my life,” he said.

Jordan Jackson, a junior biological sciences major, said this was one of her first stand-up comedy experiences.

Before the routine began, Jackson said she did not know what to expect, but she was excited to see what Wright was going to do.

“He’s a comedian, so if I laugh even two times I consider it a good show,” Jackson said.

The skits in Wright’s comedy routine included issues about dating and critiques of scary movies, as well as a variety of other topics.

After the performance, Jackson said she

wished it would have lasted longer than it did.

“I didn’t necessarily have a favorite part, but was super good. Plus I laughed way more than two times,” Jackson said.

Jackson said Wright did well touching on modern topics such as racial issues in society and some controversial subjects.

“He stayed away from politics, which was good because I feel like every comedian right now is doing political stuff in their shows,” Jackson said.

Travis Moody can be reached at 581-2812 or at tlmoody@eiu.edu.

CUPB to hear Health, Counseling Services report Staff Report | @DEN_News The Council on University Planning and Budgeting will hear a report on Health and Counseling Services at its meeting Friday.

Health Service and the Counseling Center, formerly two separate entities, have merged as the Department of Health and Counseling Services following a vitalization project recommendation to reorganize student services.

Also at the CUPB meeting will be some subcommittee composition changes, according to the meeting's agenda.

Eric Davidson, interim director of Health Service, is joining the vice president for academic affairs subcommittee, Melody Wollan, associate chair of the School of Business will has moved from the vice president of business affairs to the president’s subcommittee and CUPB chair Kathlene Shank, also the chair of the special education department, will represent the executive committee on the vice president for student affairs committee, according to the meeting’s agenda.

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By: AJ Fournier Campus Reporter | @DEN_News Members of the Student Art Association will show off and sell their work on campus at the print sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday.

If it is not raining, the sale will be in front of the Doudna Steps.

If it rains, the sale will be underneath the tent in the Library Quad.

Art professor Alan Pocaro, the adviser for the Student Art Association, said the work sold is created in the printmaking classes.

Members of the registered student organization also create work for the sale.

“It is really a great opportunity for the students who are selling the work, but also for students who come and buy it,” Pocaro said.

90 percent of the sales come from students.

“It is students creating their own culture and exchanging work and talking about art, buying art and exchanging art,” he said.

The sale will have mobile

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“Anybody from off the street will be able to come and participate and learn about the print making process, because we will be printing live,” Picaro said.

Prices range from $5 to $20.

Students get to keep the money they make from sales of their own art, but all members donate a part of what they get back to the Art Association, which helps fund the RSO. Pocaro said the sale also could help arts students get out of their comfort zone and attempt different types of art.

“It gets students thinking about what is popular and teaches you to talk about your work,” Pocaro said.

Even though a majority of the students involved in the RSO are art majors, students who are not art majors can still join and learn about printing art.

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Eastern swim teams to open at Valparaiso

By Adam Shay Swimming Reporter | @DEN_Sports

The Eastern men’s and women’s swim teams begin the season as the Panthers travel to Valparaiso this Saturday.

Despite having losing records last season, both teams are ready to begin their season and to make i m p r o v e m e n t s . Fo r t h e m e n’s team, they are looking to improve from their 2-6 record and so far this offseason, the men’s team has a different outlook compared to previous years.

“Returning members worked h a rd ove r s u m m e r t o c o m e i n ready for this season, more so than any other year I’ve been here,” junior Nick Harkins said. “With the work we have put in the first two months, we’ll be ready to do well this season.”

Last year at the Summit League Championship, Harkins finished eighth overall and with a time of 52.97 in the 100-yard individual medley, breaking the school record.

The men’s team only lost two seniors from last year. This year, the men’s team has six seniors and has also brought in six freshmen. The incoming freshmen that coach Jacqueline Michalski brought in have impressed Harkins so far.

“Jacqueline brought in an incredible freshman class that’ll add both speed and depth to the

team,” Harkins said.

Individually, Harkins has set the bar high for this upcoming season. Harkins said his goal for the season is to not only match his success from last year, but to improve and help the team score as many points as he can.

As for the women’s swim team, their team also has high expectations going into this weekend’s meet. The team’s high expectations come from their training ethic over the past couple weeks.

“I expect our team as a whole to do really well,” junior Lauren Oostman said.” We’ve had some hard training the last couple weeks, so I think this will be a very good meet for us.”

Oostman also had a successful previous year as she moved into the record books in three categories. She is now second in Eastern history with a 1:01.55 in the 100IM, third in the 100-Back with a 57.32, and with a 2:10.38 in the 200-IM, she is now fifth all-time.

In order for Oostman to match her success, her training has been going on much longer than the beginning of school. Going into Saturday, she has a different mentality compared to years prior.

“I trained a lot more this past summer than I did last year, so I already feel better in the pool this year,” Oostman said. “I’m planning on working harder in an out of the pool and hopefully it will show in my times.”

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Junior Lauren Oostman broke the 200-yard backstroke Padovan Pool record during the Panthers’ meet against Valparaiso Oct. 29. Oostman said she is excited for this year and has trained differently hoping to find success.

The Panthers are going into Saturday with not only a positive attitude to win the meet, but to win a lot of meets this season.

“A s a t e a m , w e’re e x p e c t i n g to go in and win this meet, and hopefully a lot of meets this season,” Harkins said.

The Panthers’ meet begins at 1 p.m. in Valparaiso. Eastern is home next week against Lewis at the Padovan Pool.

That will be the star t of a a three-meet home stretch for the Panthers.

Eastern’s biggest meet of the

season, House of Champions, is Nov.17-18.

Eastern will have close to three weeks off following its final home meet before the House of Champions.

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Women’s soccer team has 2 upcoming home matches

By Dillan Schorfheide Women’s Soccer Reporter | @DEN_Sports This weekend provides Eastern’s women’s soccer team with two chances to end its six-match losing streak.

The chance to end the streak could not come at a better time for the Panthers as Sunday is senior day.

While Eastern is trying to end the streak, doing so has more implications: the team needs conference points.

Eastern has lost its first and only five conference matches so far this season, resulting in a last place standing in the OVC and no conference points.

Eastern’s first chance to end the streak comes Friday against the Jacksonville State Gamecocks, the team ahead of Eastern in OVC rankings by one position (10th place).

The Gamecocks are 4-7-2 overall and 1-4 in OVC play. The one OVC opponent the Gamecocks defeated is Austin Peay, who de-

feated Eastern 2-0 on Sept. 24.

Sunday, for senior day, the Pant h e r s f a c e t h e Te n n e s s e e Te c h Golden Eagles. Tennessee Tech is the tougher of Eastern’s two opponents for the weekend, with a 6-41 overall record and a 3-1-1 conference record. That conference record has earned the Golden Eagles third place in the OVC, just behind Murray State and Eastern Kentucky.

Tennessee Tech has also found success against OVC opponents whom Eastern has lost to. The

Golden Eagles defeated Jacksonville State, Belmont and Austin Peay. Belmont defeated Eastern 2-0 the same weekend Austin Peay did.

Both of the matches this weekend would have been at Lakeside Field, where the Panthers have a 4-4 home record, but Friday’s match against the Gamecocks has been moved to Champaign due to the recent weather.

The match will be played at 1 p.m. instead of 3 p.m., and the match will be played at the Judah

Christian Academy Soccer Complex. Plans for the Sunday senior match against the Golden Eagles will be determined based on the forecasts for the remainder of the weekend and announced on Saturday.

Eastern has five seniors who will be recognized Sunday: Carrie Caplin, Ali Carlson, Chloe Gottschalk, Madi Fisher and Emma Scaro, the redshirt senior on the team.

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Eastern seeking 3rd-straight OVC win

By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports The Eastern football team picked up two wins to start Ohio Valley Conference play by matching scores of 19-16, and the defense has been the anchor for the Panthers to start play and for the entire season so far.

It has taken some time for the offense to get going. It is starting to, but still has a ways to go. However, senior Nick Horne and the defense has been strong.

And this week will be no different for Eastern.

“It’s just a different opponent,” Horne said. “We’ll still come out, we’ll play our game, it doesn’t matter what team we play. We’re just going to come out and play our game.”

Tennessee Tech is at the bottom of the OVC, as it is still searching for its first win in conference play, as well as for the season.

The Panthers’ defense forced four turnovers last week in a double overtime win against Tennessee State, giving the Panthers’ offense multiple chances to score.

Playing in tight games does not change the defense’s mindset or add any pressure to their game.

“We don’t worry about anything on the other side of the ball. We worry about defense only,” Horne said. “We just play our game and we know we play a tough game and it’s going to be hard to score on us.

If it’s hard to score on us, it will be hard to beat us.”

Just as the Eastern defense does not worry about what is happening on the offensive side of the ball, the entire team has already forgotten about last week’s win, and are preparing the same way as they did last week, coach Kim Dameron said.

Even though the offense has struggled to put up points, Dameron said he does not want to take anything away from the talented

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Tray Mitchell (top) and Corneliuss Page (right) celebrate Mark Williams’ interception in the Panthers’ 19-16 win over Southeast Missouri Sept. 23 at O’Brien Field. Eastern plays at home this weekend against Tennessee Tech.

defenses they have played.

Tennessee State’s defense has only allowed 17.6 points-per-game.

Southeast Missouri does a good job stopping the run, allowing 605 through five games this season. And the run game is what the Panthers used to just get by the Redhawks.

Northern Illinois has allowed 21 points-per-game to its opponents, but after beating the Panthers in week two, the Huskies went on the

road and beat Nebraska.

“We’ve played some really good defenses,” Dameron said. “But we have to get more people on the same page more times, and the timing of everything has to improve.”

Dameron said he wants more execution from the offense.

One thing that is no secret for Eastern in the past two weeks especially, is that it likes to run the ball.

And it all starts with redshirt fresh-

man Scotty Gilkey Jr. If the run game stops for the Panthers, that is when mistakes happen and ends up leaving the defense on the field longer that they want to.

“That’s the thing about being able to run the ball, is that you are able to control clock,” Dameron said. “I know that’s not a big thing and that’s probably not in vogue right now, but for our foot-

ball team right now and who we are and how we win football games, that is who we are right this minute.”

He said what they have to do is control the football and keep the defense off the field, but when they are out there, they have been pretty good.

Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.

Eastern men’s soccer team travels to Denver

By JJ Bullock Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports When it comes to men’s soccer in the Summit Conference, there are two teams that are considered the teams to beat by the other four programs in the conference: Omaha and Denver.

The Eastern men’s soccer team already had a shot at one of those teams, when it tied Omaha 0-0 earlier this season, and it will have a chance to seek an even better result Saturday against Denver.

Last season Denver made it to the final four in the country and was ranked the third-best team in the nation at the opening of this season.

However, with a 5-5 record, the Pioneers have played below expectations for their program. Eastern coach Kiki Lara views them as being better than what their record shows.

“Any time you go to a final four the year before, you have been to that kind of pinnacle of college soccer, there is something to you,” Lara said. “There is going to be something that we haven’t seen yet this year.”

Denver on offense this year has scored 13 goals on 98 shots. The 98 shots taken by Denver ranks second to last in the conference, ahead of only Eastern which has 77.

Andre Shinyashiki has been the focal point of Denver’s offense this season.

The junior leads his team in both goals and shots, with three and 30 respectively. Alongside Shinyashiki is redshirt sophomore Ryan Barlow, who has also had three shots find the back of the net this season and is second on the team with 11 shots.

Lara feels that his team and its aggressive defense matchup well with the Denver offense.

“We match up very well because we can play with anyone in the country defensively,” Lara said. “But I mean we are going to have remain focused. We weren’t very focused against Western defensively as we have been in the past. We are going to have to be that way against Denver because we cannot take a night off.”

It has been a rough go as of late for the Panthers in the goal column as they have failed to score in five straight games. However, this streak has come with shots frequently deflecting off crossbars and narrowly missing their marks.

“We are getting more shots, we are getting better looks, we are getting more looks,” Lara said. “It really is about just staying the course. We look at the season as a whole. We have gone from an ultra-defensive team that doesn’t really

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Shady Omar dribbles past midfield in the Panthers’ 1-0 win over Saint Francis Sept. 10 at Lakeside Field. It was Eastern’s last win.

have a threatening punch to becoming a team that does have some threatening punches and some young guys stepping up and playing well and some veteran guys stepping up and playing well.

It’s just rounding out the game and being patient and you know overall it’s still a very new team.”

The Panthers will still be without starter Alex Castaneda, reserve goal-

keeper John Burke and Marcus Menniti, who suffered a pulled groin.

JJ Bullock can be reached at 581-2812 or jpbullock@eiu.edu.