HUSKIES ATTACK
WIN SOME, LOSE SOME
The Eastern women’s basketball team lost 93-64 against Northern Illinois Friday night in Lantz Arena.
The Eastern volleyball team defeated Tennessee-Martin Friday but lost against Southeast Missouri.
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Legion of Valor Cross awarded to Eastern cadet By Analicia Haynes Managing Editor | @Haynes1943
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Johnathan Jones (left), junior geography major, Tim Steiner (middle), senior kinesiology and sports studies major and Joseph Winkler (right), senior sociology major, shake hands with third graders from Carl Sandburg Elementary School after the Veteran’s Day Ceremony in Old Main on Friday. The three are members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Eastern. Winkler received The Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement during the ceremony, which is a prestigious award that was only given to 80 cadets nationwide.
It all started with a desire to help people. That is what Joseph Winkler, an Eastern Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet said Friday morning after receiving The Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement during the Veteran’s Day Ceremony in Old Main. Winkler led the ceremony, introducing each speaker and guiding audience members through each presentation, but had no idea he was going to receive the award. “I actually almost passed out,” he said after hearing Eastern President David Glassman announce his name, asking him to come up to the podium and accept his award. Winkler is a senior sociology major and currently serves as the cadet battalion commander for the ROTC Panther Battalion. Glassman said in his speech Winkler will receive commission as a transportation officer in the National Guard after graduating Eastern in May and will pursue his master’s degree in clinical psychology and counseling. “He looks very humble right now,” Glassman said after reading off the lists of achievements Winkler
accomplished such as graduating from air assault school in Fort Benning, Ga. and finishing in the top 15 percent of his class at Advanced Training in Fort Knox, Ky. “And he’s that kind of an individual,” Glassman said. However, though the award is one of the highest honors a cadet can achieve and was only given to 80 cadets in the nation, Winkler maintained his humble demeanor. “I almost don’t feel deserving and I normally don’t because I don’t feel like I’ve put forth as much sacrifice as (veterans) have,” he said referring to the room filled with several veterans, including student veterans, who clapped as he shook his head and made his way to the podium, graciously accepting the award. Winkler said he has been in the service for about seven years and is just starting off his military career. Therefore, he said it was also humbling to be able to speak for the veterans and on the behalf of the fallen. “This award, I didn’t expect at all. They weren’t lying when they said I had no idea,” he said. After joining in high school, Winkler said he always wanted to be in the military but not because of family ties or tradition. Award, page 5
Review committee hears of enrollment trends, proposals By Brooke Schwartz Administration Reporter | @brookesch_wartz Management professor Michael Dobbs presented research on enrollment trends in higher education, showing that while Eastern’s enrollment went down, other universities’ in Illinois went up, at Friday’s meeting of the Workgroup Review Committee. The committee also looked at proposals for new programs such as ones in social work and agriculture. Dobbs showed the committee different graphs he had worked on with colleagues about the state of Illinois higher education after the recent budget impasse. One graph showed fall enrollment trends from 2006-2016. Though Eastern’s had fallen by 40 percent, other universities’ enrollment has stayed the same and some have increased. “Unfortunately, there have been times when I’ve heard, in various meetings and press releases and things, that people have said ‘well, the whole state is down. All institutions’ enrollments are down,’” Dobbs said. “I just want this committee to know that that’s not the case. Half the universities over the same period had increased enrollment.” He said it is important for people to know these enrollment trends so Eastern can learn from the past and continue to im-
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Stephen Lucas (left), the interim associate dean of the College of Education and Professional Studies, Institutional Repository Librarian Todd Bruns (middle), and Rebecca Throneburg (right), communication and disorders and sciences professor, listen to Michael Dobbs’ presentation on enrollment in Illinois’ higher education. The presentation showed that, on average, from 2006-2016 enrollment in Illinois universities was down six percent, while Eastern’s enrollment was down 40 percent alone at the same time.
prove. “I think it’s important for (the Workgroup Committee) to know, also we as an institution need to acknowledge this, and acknowledge our own culpability,” Dobbs
said. “That’s the only way we can adjust the changes that we need to make.” Dobbs also looked at the generational trends involved with going to a university. He found that future generations are sta-
tistically not as likely to go to college at the same rate as this generation, which will lead to a massive drop in enrollment in the future. Committee, page 5