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BOT starts search for VPAA requests Staff Report |@DEN_News The Board of Trustees will hear a request to approve an external search for a new vice president of academic affairs at their meeting Friday.

This search comes after the announcement of Blair Lord, the current vice president of academic affair’s retirement after a faculty vote of no confidence.

According to a board report, the cost to recruit applicants for the position of provost and vice president for academic affairs is set to not be more than $90,000. The recommended vendor is Witt Kieffer, an executive search firm serving healthcare, life sciences, higher education and not-for-profit organizations, according to its website.

The source of funds are from appropriated and income.

“An external search firm can provide significant assistance in this process by developing and enhancing the quality of the candidate pool, recruiting and screening potential candidates, and coordinating search and recruitment logistics,” the board report said.

The BOT is also slated to discuss enrollment, recap the State of the University and hear an update on the Vitalization Project.

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Jessica Knell, a sophomore Theater major twirls her flag in the library quad on Thursday afternoon in preparation to perform at the football game next Saturday.

Mansa Bilal Mark King explains Invisible Matters

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Mansa Bilal Mark King, an associate professor of Sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta discusses how Africana Muslims are marginalized in our society, and the need to end racial injustice in general during a lecture in The Doudna Lecture Hall on Thursday night.

Mansa Bilal Mark King, a sociology professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, spoke about the influence of Africana-Muslims, and how they have been marginalized, in the liberal arts.

King gave his lecture Thursday at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall for Phi Beta Kappa’s 26th annual fall lecture titled, “The Invisible Matter.”

King, himself a Muslim, discussed his studies on the marginalization of AfricanaMuslims in liberal arts education.

“I hope (this lecture) opens doors to solving problems and sheds a new light on something we never understood or knew about,” King said.

He talked about the misconceptions people have of Islam and the generalizations made about Muslims.

King said many teachings neglect to acknowledge Africana-Muslim contributions to the liberal arts.

King did not always practice the Islamic faith. In 2005, he took a trip to Senegal that exposed him to the different cultures and practices of Islam.

When he returned to Senegal in 2006, he

made his conversion.

“The call of prayer made sense (after going back),” King said. “I felt a degree of harmony, spiritually.”

Using a slideshow presentation, he gave examples of how Africana-Muslim culture has influenced contemporary art and is still found in music and literature today.

“I hope (this lecture) opens doors to solving problems and sheds a new light on something we never understood or knew about ” -Mansa Bilal Mark King, sociology professor “(Africana Muslim influence) is an important piece of jazz and hip-hop,” King said. “I lived through that golden age of hip-hop, that late ‘80s, early ‘90s era and so much of it comes from that. People need to know that (these influences) didn’t come out of thin air, it was already in the air.”

During the presentation he listed many hip-hop artists and groups who had an Africana-Muslim influence in their lyrics and style.

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By Janet Pernell Multicultural Reporter | @DEN_News Another year comes with another chance for international students to show their cultural talents and customs with others.

“Global Cultural Night” will allow international students to come together on one stage and perform cultural dances and songs to celebrate cultural diversity on campus. The show will take place 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The event is free and refreshments will also be served.

George Anaman, the public relations officer for the Association for International Students and an exchange student from Ghana, said this is an important event because the show will bring awareness to other cultures to those who are not familiar with them.

This is Anaman’s first year as a public relations officer as well as his first year at Eastern. During the show, there are performances planned by international students from Ghana, Saudi Arabia, India, Nigeria, China and more. The winners of the “Coming to America” essay competition will also be announced.

For the competition, international students had to write about their experiences about living in America. There will be first, second and third-place winners. The first-place winner will receive $100, the second place-winner will receive $75, and the third-place winner will receive $50.

Anaman said he expects Global Cultural Night to have a high-attendance rate because he has been telling many people about it. The AIS has been planning Global Cultural Night for about two weeks.

“You get to learn something from other countries, you will get to meet different people from all over the world,” Anaman said.

Anaman said he hopes students will come out and appreciate the global cultures and the beauty it holds.

“I hope students learn to appreciate what other countries have to offer,” Anaman said.

Janet Pernell can be reached at 5812812 or jopernell@eiu.edu.

Sandra Bland lawsuit settled CHICAGO (AP)-The mother of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died last summer in a Texas jail after a contentious traffic stop, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in her wrongful-death lawsuit, her attorney said Thursday.

Local officials in Texas insisted the agreement was not yet final, but the mother’s attorney said the deal was “absolute” and that the family’s lawsuit would be dismissed in several days.

The settlement includes a requirement that the jail have a nurse or emergency medical technician on duty 24 hours a day, the fam-

ily’s Chicago-based attorney, Cannon Lambert, told The Associated Press in an interview at his office.

The jail must also install electronic sensors to ensure guards are checking on detainees, and the defendants agree to help push for statewide legislation in Bland’s name that would require training to ensure jail personnel are properly caring for inmates, Lambert said.

Bland’s mother, Geneva ReedVeal, said those requirements beyond the monetary settlement are what really mattered to her, and she vowed to make sure they are

carried out.

“Today is a victory for all mothers across the country,” she told the AP. “It was never just about Sandy.

It was about all mothers who have lost their children unjustly to police brutality, to senseless gun violence.”

Waller County attorney Larry Simmons confirmed that a potential settlement had been reached but said it was not final. He also said the parties agreed in writing to keep the agreement confidential until it was complete, and the county intended "to honor this commitment."

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13-year-old with BB Gun fatally shot by police COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)- Police in Ohio responding to a report of an armed robbery shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who they said pulled a gun from his waistband that was later determined to be a BB gun.

It happened Wednesday night in Columbus.

Police said officers were responding to a report of an armed robbery involving multiple suspects. When they arrived on the scene, they said the victim told them that a group of people approached him and demanded money. The victim said that one of them had a gun.

Police said the officers saw three males matching the descriptions of the suspects and tried to speak with them, when two of the suspects fled on foot.

The suspect, later identified as 13-year-old Tyree King, was taken to a children’s hospital, where he died.

The male with King was identified, interviewed and released pending further investigation. Police said additional suspects were being sought.

The officers and the other suspect were not injured.

Illinois job creation, unemployment drops CHICAGO (AP) — The state Department of Employment Security says unemployment decreased in Il-

linois in August, the fourth-straight monthly drop.

But state officials were not celebrating the drop in the unemployment rate to 5.5 percent from 5.8 percent in July.

Instead on Thursday department Director Jeff Mays noted that the state also lost jobs in August. According to the department’s monthly report on statewide unemployment, nonfarm jobs in Illinois decreased from 6,016,900 to 6,008,700.

Percentage wise the decrease is very small, far less than 1 percent.

But the loss of 8,200 jobs included a drop of 4,400 manufacturing jobs.The labor force also decreased .3 percent in August.

Illinois education board reworking expulsion rules SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois education officials are beginning to draft legislation that would prohibit school districts from dropping students from enrollment lists because they don’t meet minimum academic and attendance standards.

Illinois State Board of Education officials say that current state law increases the chance that at-risk students will drop out of school.

The Herald & Review reports that under current state law, districts can deny enrollment for one semester to students 17 and older who failed to earn at least a D average in the previous semester or were absent more than 20 percent of the time without credible excuses.

The new law, sponsored by state

Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, is aimed at reducing the racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions as well as cutting down on their overall use.

Indiana’s Syrian refugee order questioned by judges CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys defending Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s order to bar agencies from helping Syrian refugees resettle in his state faced unusually fierce questioning before a federal appeals court Wednesday, suggesting the panel might side with a lower court that found the order discriminatory.

A three-judge panel for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago zeroed in on the intelligence and intent behind the Republican vice presidential candidate’s order, which a federal judge said in February “clearly discriminates” against refugees from the war-torn nation. Judges suggested that Indiana could’ve had a stronger argument for entirely opting out of the refugee program — for which states disperse federal money to resettlement organizations — instead of excluding Syrians.

The oral arguments came the same day the White House announced that the refugee program will be expanded in the next year as concern continues about the refugee crisis stemming from Syria’s civil war and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Eastern Euphonics to hold open auditions Kalyn Hayslett Editor-in-Chief | @DEN_News The Eastern Euphonics A Cappella group looks to add approximately 17 students to their organization after open auditions.

Regardless of the student’s major or year, students can participate in the auditions held at 7 to 10 p.m.

Sept. 16 and 17 in Room 1360 of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Students need to prepare a verse and a chorus from two songs of their choosing.

To prevent students from becoming distracted or discouraged, the participants will only audition in front of three judges, while the rest of the students will wait in the hallway, President Brian Hartman said.

Haley Altgilbers, senior vocal performance major, said the students will participate in a pitch matching exercise.

The group is open to hear students perform a variety of music because that is what the group is familiar with.

“It’s fun; you get to sing all different types of music from Taylor Swift to Phillip Phillips,” Hartman said. “If we can arrange it then we will sing it.”

The different roles involved in the group are sopranos, altos, tenors, basses, soloist and voice percussionists.

Altgilbers said sopranos and al-

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Students audition for the Eastern Euphonics, Eastern’s A Capella group. Students of all majors who are interested in performing, especially males and vocal percussionists, can audition at 7-10 pm Sept. 16 and 17 in Room 1360 of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The group performs many different genres in various settings on and off campus.

tos are typically female parts while tenors and basses are typically male parts.

Hartman said the group is untra-

ditional and will accept any student who has the skills available for the positions. “ We have some really strong

women tenors,” Hartman said. “I will gladly take women tenors. I don’t care about the gender.”

However, male students and stu-

dents who are proficient in beat boxing are needed the most.

Altgilbers said she is the main arranger of the music the Eastern Euphonics but would be open to more help.

“If someone has skills in that department then we are looking for that too,” she said.

Participants will be notified next week if the students will become members of the A Cappella group.

Altgilbers said Eastern Euphonics is the perfect place for students who are looking for a group to belong to.

Rehearsals begin Tuesday, Sept.

20 where the members will begin completing the audition tape for the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Competition.

Hartman uses the rehearsal times to socialize, eat and work on arrangements.

“Our rehearsals are structured to an extent but we have fun,” Hartman said.

The rehearsal tape is due by Nov. 15, so the group needs members who are willing to start working right away.

“We are going to be hitting it hard until November 15 for ICCA, which is “Pitch Perfect” in real life,” Hartman said.

Kalyn Hayslett can be reached at 5812812 or kehayslett@eiu.edu.

Dean of Booth Library obtains Luminary status

By Kennedy Nolen Contributing Writer | @KennedyNolenEIU Music-professor-turned-librarian Allen Lanham followed in the footsteps of former Eastern librarian, Mary J. Booth, as the Illinois Library Association granted him Luminary status earlier this year.

The ILA began in 1896 and represents Illinois libraries and those who use them. The Luminary program started in 2009, and it recognizes people who have held a place of influence in the library and library science profession.

This award is a way for librarians not only to support colleagues but also to support the ILA, as people donate money in the person’s name that they want to nominate.

Lanham, who has been dean of the Booth Library for 25 years, was on the committee that created this Luminary program.

Lanham’s passion for libraries started when he was working on his doctorate in music education at

the University of Rochester in New York, where he spent many hours in the music library.

“I just felt so empowered by what was there on the shelf for me to use,” Lanham said. “Everything you could think of was there.”

Lanham would spend his time searching for whatever his professors taught in the classroom and beyond.

After Lanham finished his doctorate, he decided to go to School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in which Booth is also an alumna.

Since the program’s beginning in 2009, the ILA has inducted 32 members, including Lanham and Booth, whom Eastern’s library is named after.

“I was very humbled and honored,” Lanham said.

Booth was posthumously honored in 2009 with Luminary status, with Lanham following in 2016 alongside Secretary of State Jesse

White and only four others.

Both Lanham and Booth have made several improvements to Eastern’s library and libraries across the state.

Like Lanham, Booth also was a teacher before to pursuing a career in library science, according to university archives.

Booth taught primary grades for three years before attending college in Beloit in 1900. She then went to the School of Information Sciences at UIUC from 1902 to 1904, according to a May 26, 1945 edition of Eastern’s Teacher News.

In 1904, Booth started as a head librarian at Eastern with one other librarian Inez Pierce, working at a small loan desk.

The present-day library took years of planning by Booth. She was the first groundbreaker with the building of the new library in 1948.

In the past years, Lanham has developed plans to renovate and expand Booth Library even more.

He said the library had been going without renovations for too long when he first arrived.

“It did take six years or so to get administrative and governmental support for renovating,” Lanham said.

Lanham and other librarians planned the renovations for three years, and it took three more years to construct the building. Lanham said the renovated library opened up many avenues for students and staff, such as group study rooms, the computer labs, a good home for the university archives, and a good place to work and study.

Lanham and Booth have both served as president of the ILA during their careers. Booth attended conferences for the ILA all across the U.S. from the early 1900s to the 1940s, according to university archives.

As Booth was the library director, she also compiled books for the library, which listed the titles of books teachers would be search-

ing for.

Lanham and a team of librarians also compiled a book of art and architecture terms and connected them to photographs from libraries across the state.

He and his team visited 1,000 public and academic libraries in Illinois and took photos, paying special attention to artwork and architecture. The basis of this project was to document libraries 100 years after Andrew Carnegie made contribution to American public libraries.

“In 100 years, I hope people will look back and remember ‘The Lanham Project,’” Lanham said.

Since Lanham has a doctorate in music and was a music professor, he oversees the music collection in Booth and works with the music department. This way, his love for music and his love for libraries are intertwined.

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

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Civil servants should care about their constituents When an individual is in power, they have the ability to either be inspirational and loved by all or be the bane of everyone’s existence.

Of course, what makes this land so great is that we the people have the ability to vote in who we want to be in power based on the belief that the individual can deliver our messages and grievances to those who are higher up on the totem pole and can do their job in a non-corrupt sort of way.

So when we elect an official into power, we expect them to look out for us, to take care of us, to answer our questions, to incorporate our concerns into their plans of action, but most importantly to be responsible for those actions.

Regrettably, it is apparent that this belief is only an ideal and those people who we voted into office, especially our current state representative, have neglected their power and ignored our demands especially for a state budget.

The staff at The Daily Eastern News feel that our elected representative has done the exact opposite of what he promised he would do in terms of defending this university and its occupants and of fighting for the funding we desperately need and deserve.

We also feel that by pointing a grimy finger at an organization that has done more for this university and its students by mustering the hope that has held this university together is not only irresponsible, but is also extremely tacky.

An individual in power who takes his job seriously and wants to remain in power does not say one thing then make an about face and say another.

That same individual also does not bad mouth an organization, such as Fund EIU, which helped motivate students to get involved and fight for a budget.

However, we believe he is not wrong for voicing his opinion or possessing the opinion because we live in an open market place of ideas.

What we feel is wrong is his blatant disregard for an organization that helped the students of a university he claims to adore and care for feel proud enough to car pool to Springfield and Chicago to rally for a budget.

We want a representative who is honest, transparent and tenacious and will fight for our university and defend the organizations that boost morale and not turn his constituents into his enemies.

The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.

Political Letters In order to offer the best, most up-to-date coverage on the upcoming 2016 presidential election, the opinions page is actively looking for politically-minded guest columns and letters. We are particularly interested in political science students, but writers from all disciplines are, of course, welcome.

If you wish to send a letter, please email a 250-word or fewer piece to the opinion editor at opinions.den@gmail.com. If you want to write a guest column, email your ideas, angle or lead to the same address.

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Students should be sure to vote this year The 2016 Presidential Election is just a two months away, and that raises the ultimate question.

Who should I vote for?

Well, I am not going to tell you who to vote for or anything like that, but I will tell you one thing.

Go vote.

When it comes to most college students and politics, there are a few different types of people. There is your casual person who has a decent amount of knowledge about what is going on in politics, and has a pretty set idea of who they are voting for.

There is your politic know-it-all who fills up their Twitter feed or Facebook timeline with a plethora of one-sided comments and arguments. Chances are you will unfollow that person by the time November rolls around.

But anyway, then there is your typical careless person who says they probably will not vote because they do not know enough or simply do not care.

Do not be that person.

I am nothing close to a know-it-all when it comes to politics, but in all honesty I would say I know just enough. I will not run to social media to put my thoughts out there at all, but I do take the time to gain some knowledge about what is going on in the world and politics.

Now I am also not saying go run to CNN or Fox News and watch it for hours on end, but I am

Maher Kawash saying you should maybe think about the election.

Whether it is Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, chances are your life will be somewhat affected by the one elected to take the Oval Office.

According to CNBC.com, college students are barely voting. In 2008, just 44 percent of 18-24 year-olds voted in the election.

If you think that figure is low, just wait. In 2012, only 38 percent of 18-24 year-olds used their voting rights and chose a candidate.

College students struck the lowest percentage off all age groups in both years, and if the trend keeps going then it will only get worse.

It should be the complete opposite if anything. It seems as if us college students always have an opin-

ion on something. Every time a big issue comes up in the world everyone is so quick to point fingers, but we do not realize what opportunity voting gives.

Voting allows you to take a stab at this whole being an adult thing and to have a say in who you want to run this great country.

Voting has also become extremely easy. At Eastern you can take a five-minute walk to the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and make your vote.

Chances are you will pass it several times in the day anyway, so just go vote. Do not be that person who just does not care.

And do not blow off voting if the candidate you loved does not get nominated. Find the similarities in the one of the two candidates that were nominated and vote. If you hate Trump or Clinton, then you are only making it worse by not voting at all.

So get out there and use the great voting rights we are given and make your vote. You can even get one of those cool little stickers your parents always got after voting.

Go vote. It is worth it.

Maher Kawash is a sophomore journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or mwkawash@eiu.edu.

Sean Says: Spend money on your passion So lemme tell you this. Things can get expensive, and it always seems like the things that we want the most are the ones that society will look at as “things we don’t really need.” Forget what they think and buy the things you want that make you happy.

I am not saying going out and spend thousands of dollars on things you want, but right now, the way I see it, we do not have any real responsibility yet like raising a family and so on. Live a little while you still can.

The reason I say this is because the main thing I like to spend my money on costs a pretty penny. I enjoy going to see Dave Matthews Band live and listening to his music more than anything.

This past summer I saw him five times and it ran me about $550, give or take. Yes, it was a really expensive summer, but I do not regret it at all. I would do it again in a heartbeat. I would even like to see him some more times.

My tickets ranged from $85 to $95 each. Some people think I am crazy for buying tickets at that price, but I do not let other people’s opinions dictate decisions I want to make.

My friends will complain, “why would you spend so much money just to see Dave Matthews

Sean Hastings Band? And why do you need to see him five times?”

But that is the thing: I do not need to see him that many times, but that is where I get my excitement, and that is where I decide to spend my money.

They will say “he just plays the same stuff every night.” I do not believe that is the case; it is a different experience every night, and getting to spend it with my cousin and my best friends makes it even better.

I am sure there are some of you who want to go to multiple Chicago Cubs games, or want to spend money on gym stuff or buy music equipment. Whatever it is, we all have our loves for cer-

tain things.

Nothing is cheap, and that will never change.

Pretty soon for us, life is going to hit, and it is going to be like getting hit by a bus. We are still kids as much as we are growing up. This time is going to go by fast, so why would we limit ourselves on doing things we want to do?

Sometimes we want something so much, it seems like a need. That is how it is for me with Dave Matthews Band. I feel like I need to see them at least three times a summer. Maybe you want to spend your money on going to some Cubs games over a summer.

We are in college, and soon we will be out and real life is going to come rolling around. Right now, we still have time to enjoy ourselves. My advice for you is: if there is something you want to do, just do it, even if it costs a decent amount of money, because you obviously love it if you would consider buying it. In the end, you will regret the experiences you did not have.

Sean Hastings is a junior journalism major.

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

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Doudna Fine Arts Center to screen film ‘First String’

By Angelica Cataldo Entertainment Reporter | @DEN_News Tw e n t y - f i v e C h a r l e s t o n a c tors will be featured in the debut screening of the film “First String” 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday in the Theater of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

“First String” is a film that was partially shot in Charleston, and one of the 25 Charleston actors involved is English professor Robin Murray.

Director Dean Christakis, from n o r t h w e s t In d i a n a , w r o t e t h e screenplay and worked with Diane Grove of Charleston to find the numerous Charleston actors who make up over half of the entire cast.

Christakis said he and Grove found the local actors through shows they have seen in the past and other theater companies.

Christakis decided to shoot about eight different scenes in the city. The scenes were filmed around various parts of Charleston, including the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Christakis said the scenes filmed in town are part of flashback sequences.

“It will be interesting to see that part of the film (and) how the story juxtaposes the Doudna Fine Arts Center’s contemporary architecture against the vintage scene they were filming,” Dwight Vaught, director of the Doudna Fine Arts Center, said.

The film was shot in Chicago as well as the Chicago suburbs and took about a year and a half to complete.

The film is about a 14-year-old

cellist named Aleksandrya who is preparing for an audition to fill a guest seat on an adult symphony orchestra.

While preparing for her audition she is faced with a number of trials that push her skills and character to the limit.

Other subplots include a group of young musical artists who have challenges of their own. The actors featured in the film are also musicians.

“Before the whole thing came up, I originally just had a cello player and imagined her going to a practice and having to fight all the elements (of nature),” Christakis said. “Then it grew to her having to fight things like her family and (her) instructor.”

Although this is not the first film screening to be held at Doudna, Vaught said it was a unique circumstance because of the local angle. There will also be a red-carpet event before the screening that Christakis is doing that will include photo-ops. “(The red-carpet event is) new for us but important since many local people appear in the film,” Vaught said.

Admissions costs $8 for both the Friday and Saturday showings.

“We have a film suitable for all ages,” Christakis said. “All ages are represented and everyone in the audience will be able to relate to the story in some way, shape or form.”

Angelica Cataldo can be reached at 581-2812 or amcataldo@eiu.edu.

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ROTC recruiter Karl Horn shows cadet how to properly complete Pre Combat Checks for the weekend field training trip. Horn said the purpose of the PCC process is to prevent any equipment mishaps. “We conduct PCC to make sure everybody has the right equipment,” Horn said. “So we won’t have to worry about any deficiencies.” It takes approximately 5 minutes to complete PCC with a trained unit but it takes longer when explaining all the steps to the freshman and sophomores Horn said. The camp is located in Marseilles which is about 3 hours north from Charleston and is south of Ottawa. The training will mainly consistent of field training, land navigation and individual movement said Zach Steidel (not pictured), senior exercise science major, said.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The list included artists such as Queen Latifah, Ice Cube, members of Wu-Tang clan and members of Public Enemy.

He explained how many people do not know about the AfricanaMuslim population in the music industry and that overlooking this factor contributes to the misunderstandings of Islam.

Aside from his lectures, King will also be leading a study abroad program from Morehouse College that focuses on Africana-Muslims.

A colleague of King organized a study abroad program through the School for International Training that takes students on trips thorough all of the countries Africana-Muslims have migrated to throughout the world.

Some of the locations include Senegal, Italy and China. The program will extend through the entire spring 2017 semester.

King encouraged his audience to further their understanding of Islam, and to look past the surface

of the current perception of Muslims.

“It hurts to hear the assumption that today’s young people make (about Islam) and hip-hop,” King said. “I want people to be unable to believe only what they hear.”

King’s slideshow presentation will be available on the Center of the Humanities’ website.

Angelica Cataldo can be reached at 581-2812 or amcataldo@eiu.edu

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By: Samuel Nusbaum Administration Reporter | @DEN_ News E a s t e r n Pr e s i d e n t D a vid Glassman got a chance to loosen his tie and have fun with the student body at “Prowlin’ with the Prez” Thursday.

There was a group of tables with “Minute to Win It” and other simple games.

In one game, participants tried to stack pennies on their elbows. In another, contestants sucked on a straw and moved M&M’s o n t o a P r o w l i n’ w i t h the Prez flyer. People attempted to knock cups over with a beanbag during a different game.

There was also a game of Bags set up and Spikeball, which involves a ball and a small trampoline.

Pl a ye r s we re s e t u p i n t o teams and hit the ball with their hands onto a trampoline with the goal of making other team miss the ball.

Contestants won tickets with ever y game they would play. At the end of the festivities, there was a raffle with prizes, such as a $20 gift card to the bookstore in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, a tea maker and a Google Chromecast, which sends movies and music from the user’s phone onto a TV it is plugged into.

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ganizers encouraged passersby to compete against the president.

Glassman said it is important for students to interact with the president and each other in an informal and fun setting so they will not be afraid to ask him questions.

He said these events are all about friendliness and building a fun environment for everyone to come into.

Glassman said he had fun at the Prowlin’ event and enjoyed stacking pennies on his elbow, a game he won twice.

Jasmine Martinez, a sophomore psychology major, heard of Prowlin’ with t h e Pr e z t h r o u g h a n e x ecutive board meeting of the Latin American Student Organization.

Martinez had her eye on the gift card to the Union Bookstore.

“I like some of the stuff that is there like the shirts,” Martinez said.

K ALYN HAYSLET T| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS She said her favorite game Hawah Abdulrasaq-coker, sophomore pre-medicine major, completes with President David Glassman in a 30 second ‘minute was the one with the cups. to win-it’ game during the “ ‘Go for the Gold!’ Prowlin’ with the Prez” social. The game required the participants to use straws to Claire Boarman, a stu- move as many M&Ms as possible. “You have to have really good lungs for that,” Abdulrasaq-coker said. “It’s not that easy.” EIU dent senator, said she liked Student Government hosted the olympic themed games from 4 to 6 p.m. in the South Quad on September 15. the game where she blew M&M’s on to the flyer, as ic affairs, said it took some It will consist of hay bales Charleston has to offer. get to win the prizes. she went undefeated.

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Men’s soccer starts road trip at WMU

By Mark Shanahan Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports The men’s soccer team will face a tough task when they travel to Western Michigan this Sunday after a recent four-game home stand.

The Broncos are coming in at No. 5 for the second week in a row in the Great Lakes Region. They have also received votes for the national poll coming in at No. 30 unofficially. Western Michigan sports a record of 5-1, four of those wins have been shutouts.

While the Broncos have been tough to score against, their offense has been hard to stop as they are outscoring their opponents 14-2 this season. WMU is ranked top 10 in the nation for team goals against average (7), total goals (5), total assists (4), and total points (5).

Western Michigan has played two Summit League opponents that Eastern will see in the near future and beat them both. The Broncos played Fort Wayne and IUPUI earlier this month and beat Fort Wayne 2-1 and IUPUI 6-0. WMU also beat Marshall this year 2-0, a team Eastern was beaten by 1-0.

Men’s soccer coach Kiki Lara said WMU will be similar to teams they’ve played, much like most teams in the Midwest region. “ T h e y’l l b e s i m i l a r i n s o m e ways,” he said. “In terms of ranki n g s , e ve r yo n e w h e re We s t e r n Michigan, we’re similar built teams, but they’re a very strong opponent.”

Junior Brandon Bye is the team leader with 14 points on five goals

and four assists. Bye has scored a goal in four of the six games the team has played so far this season and was just recently named MidAmerican Conference Player of the Week. He is ranked 11 in the nation in points per game and 25 in goals per game.

Lara talked about what has made Western Michigan successful.

“They’ve been successful,” he said. “They’ve had things figured out there at Western Michigan for three, four years. I think they have a continuity in their coaching staff, they have continuity in the type of players they get and I think they just play with a chip on their shoulder and that makes them successful for sure.”

Redshirt junior goalkeeper Drew Shepherd is ranked eighth for goals against average in the nation with an average of .333. Shepherd is responsible for all four shutouts the team has this year.

For the Panthers, they received good news on junior defender Zach Medawattage who went down with an injury in Wednesday night’s game. Lara said that he is day-today right now and it does not seem like anything major. If Medawattage is not able to go on Sunday, Lara said junior Tyler Enright would play center back for the Panthers.

The game is set to begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday.

Mark Shanahan can be reached at 581-2812 or mmshanahan@eiu.edu

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Junior Zach Medawattage looks for an open teammate to pass to during Wednesday's match againts Saint Ambrose. Medawattage exited the match in the first half with an injury and is currently day-to-day.

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Defensive identity is key for Eastern’s success

By JJ Bullock Men’s soccer reporter | @DEN_Sports One of the things Eastern’s dire c t o r o f s o cc e r K i k i L a r a h a s preached to his team during his two-year tenure in charge is maintaining a strong defensive identity.

This identity is beginning to translate into success for the team in 2016. The Panthers are just five games into the season, but are already one win away from tying their win total from all of last season.

Only one team this season has managed to score multiple goals

in a game on the Panthers, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee scored twice in a late August matchup. In addition, Eastern has held three of the five teams they’ve played to just one goal.

The idea behind the success is simple, play harder than the other team and keep them out of the net. This philosophy, while simple on the surface, is an ideology that runs deep within the Eastern program and is made known to athletes very early on.

“Before day one, it’s recruited,” Lara said. “We recruit players that have characteristics like that

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(identity). Just awareness. But we also recruit players that are naturally going to commit themselves to things. You know, we look for players that have stayed with clubs for long periods of time and come from good pedigree and coaches and clubs that have similar mindsets defensively.”

Lara said the defensive roots of the team can be seen in the athletes’ mindsets and their play on the field.

“There’s a lot that goes into it.

There’s the cultural aspect, you k n o w j u s t b e i n g c o m m i t t e d ,” Lara said. “There’s a lot of details

that just involve good defending, good team defending. So there’s individual defending, which we take pride in. Just being committed and not getting beat one-onone. Then there’s team defending, that in the 11 positions that are on the field at a given time, we want them to be thinking the same thing.”

The reason Lara and the coaching staff impose this defensive identity has to do with the programs lack of defense in the past.

“It’s the most important to us now. I think you know Eastern, the teams of the past have given

up goals just too easily,” Lara said.

“And I think I want to make sure that our group of people in this organization that they really care about not giving up goals. So we want to highlight it, we want to make sure it’s an important aspect.

And we want to focus on it everyday.”

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

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Panthers and Redbirds square off in Normal for Mid-America Classic

By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports

One year ago Illinois State came into O’Brien Field, things went their way late in the game and the Redbirds stole a win from the Panthers on their own field.

Now, for redshirt senior running back Devin Church, it is the Panthers turn to go into Hancock Stadium and do the same to them. One of the bad breaks the Panthers got last year was a Church fumble on their opening drive in the overtime period.

Both Eastern and Illinois State came up with big FBS wins last weekend, which is adding to the intensity of this week’s game, Church said.

“If we go over there into their stadium and we beat them on their field, it’s going to be a huge win for us and be great for us going into conference,” he said.

The Panthers will open up Ohio Valley Conference play the following week with a home game on Family Weekend against Austin Peay.

Still a week away, Eastern’s focus is on Illinois State. The Panthers went into their game at Miami of Ohio after suffering a loss to Western, now they’re heading into Normal looking for a win.

Coach Kim Dameron said there was different excitement at practice on Tuesday.

“Our Tuesday practice had a little bit more juice to it than last Tuesday,” Dameron said.

One common trend through the first two games was being unable to get a solid running game going. Redshirt junior quarterback Mitch Kimble had no problem throwing the ball, but Church and redshirt junior running back Korliss Marshall have yet to rush the ball into the end zone.

Kimble has the teams only rushing touchdown.

Church and Marshall have both seen playing time, and after having an improved game running the ball against Miami, Church only sees it getting better.

Having the slow start on the ground the Panthers have had, it would be easy to get discouraged, but Church said to get better is to not let that happen. Eastern has just 144 combined rushing yards between the two backs.

The running game started slow for the Panthers last year as well, and Church had his first 100-yard rushing game against Illinois State, three games into the season and he plans on doing the same this week.

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but it comes,” Church said. “I’m just trying to get the first down and trying to help the team any way possible. I’m not too concerned about my stats. As long as we’re getting that win, that’s all I care about.”

Church may not have a rushing touchdown this season, but he did catch Kimble’s pass last week for a 7-yard touchdown pass with 56 seconds left to win the game.

Marshall, in his first season with the Panthers after redshirting in 2015 after he transferred from Arkansas, gives the Eastern two steady options at the running back position.

“We have a little rotation going,” Church said. “I may get a run, get a little winded, Korliss will come in and get a

run. We’re just going back-and-forth with it. We were cool when he got here and even better now.”

As far as Illinois State, all of their pieces are in place, Dameron said. Illinois State is 2-0 to start the season.

“There’s really nothing that they don’t have offensively,” he said. “It’s going to really test our defense. We just have to tackle well. If we tackle we’ll have a chance to be successful.”

The Panthers and Redbirds are set for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff in Normal at Hancock Stadium.

Sean Hastings can be reached at 5812812 or smhastings@eiu.edu

Volleyball team wraps up non-conference play

By Maher Kawash Volleyball Reporter | @DEN_Sports Non-conference play gives teams in any sport a chance to see where they stack up against the rest of the playing field.

And that hasn’t panned out very well for a young Eastern volleyball team.

The Panthers have just two wins in their first 11 matches of the season, but have a chance to wrap up their non-conference slate on a good note this weekend.

Eastern travels to Starkville, Mississippi for the Mississippi State fourteam tournament beginning Friday and concluding Saturday night.

“We lost two tough five-set matches last weekend where we were close

to pulling out the wins,” Eastern coach Sam Wolinski said. “We need to cut out two errors and find a way to earn two more points.”

While the Panthers win column has not seen much success, their growth as a team has proved otherwise.

Eastern continues to carry along this season with no seniors on the team, and it has given some younger players a chance to step up into bigger roles.

Sophomore Taylor Smith has emerged as a top player for the team, in the conference, and even across the nation.

Smith recorded two triple-doubles in last weekend’s Panther Classic, and now leads all of NCAA Division-1volleyball with five on the season.

But the growth of talent has not stopped there for the Eastern squad.

Freshman Maggie Runge has adjusted quickly since joining the team, notching 22 blocks last weekend to lead the Ohio Valley Conference in blocks and blocks per set.

Sophomore Abby Knight has also given the Panthers a boost in her second year as the team’s most consistent hitter.

Knight leads the team with a .252 hitting percentage, ranking her tenth in the conference.

“Every weekend we are making progress, and everyone is becoming more comfortable,” Wolinski said.

That progress will need to continue if the Panthers are going to have any success during the Mississippi State tournament.

The highlight or toughest match of the weekend will come against the tournament host Mississippi State.

Mississippi State comes into the tournament at 5-5 on the year, but is also the only team to come from a Power 5 conference to face the Panthers this season.

The 2 p.m. Saturday match will be the third and final match of the tournament for Eastern.

The two teams have seen each other just once in program history, a threeset win for the Panthers in 1989.

The unfamiliarity will continue throughout the whole tournament as Eastern has never faced Troy or Florida International in program history.

The Panthers open tournament play against Florida International today at 5 p.m., and that will be a battle

of sub .500 teams.

The Golden Eagles come into the tournament with a 4-5 record on the season, but are coming off a four-set win against North Florida.

Troy will be the second matchup of the tournament for Eastern, and the Trojans come into the tournament with a 6-5 record on the year.

“FIU and Troy will be good matches for us but our toughest test will be against Mississippi State,” Wolinski said.

The Panthers begin OVC play Sept. 21 against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, followed by a clash with Belmont Sept. 23.

Maher Kawash can be reached at 5812812 or mwkawash@eiu.edu.