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Eastern’s Wind Symphony will perform Leonard Bernstein’s music Saturday.

The Men’s baseball team closed its homestand with a non-conference game.

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By Manuel Almanza Contributing Writer | @DEN_News For international students, each with their own cultures and values, entering a new country and university can be intimidating.

De s p i t e t h i s , s o m e s t u d e n t s have found acceptance from others during their time at Eastern.

After going to church one Sunday morning, Jeonghyun Kim, a junior sociology major from South Korea and Anita Ineh, a junior biological sciences major from Nigeria, met an older woman they referred to as Annie. Annie showed them a necklace depicting several flags from different countries and demonstrated her interest in their cultures.

Annie gave the women a box full of cooking supplies and offered to help them whenever they might need it.

“People in Charleston…like to help,” Ineh said.

Kim said everyone she sees on her walks through the city greets her.

“In my country, people ignore you,” Kim said. “I feel like I’m special. Now, I even smile (at people) I don’t know.”

Olubusola Akinpelu, a graduate student in communication studies from Nigeria, was shocked to see how easily she interacted with her professors.

“Professors are like gods from where I’m from,” Akinpelu said.

“You are expected to not speak.”

Akinpelu has a different relationship with faculty members at Eastern.

“Professors here are ver y approachable,” Akinpelu said.

While many international students feel welcome, some have to deal with stereotypes and assumptions that they lack knowledge of the Western world and its trends. “ On e t i m e , I w a s a s k e d i f I knew Twitter, not if I had one,” Akinpelu said.

Students looking for information on getting settled in the U.S. can visit the Office of International Students and Scholars in Blair Hall.

Brenda Cuellar, associate director of international recruitment, said she understands that coming to a new country can be intimidating.

“I respect the bravery that these students show,” Cuellar said. “I want students to succeed and achieve their full potential.”

Manuel Almanza can be reached at 581-2812 or maalmanza@eiu.edu.

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(Left to Right) Ian Corrigan, 7, Ellen Corrigan and Liam Corrigan, 10 of Charleston vote on entries in the Edible Books Contest in Booth Library on Monday. The Corrigan’s took home a prize for their entry in the student division of the contest.

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Students encouraged to bowl, eat pizza to ‘Strike Out Against Sexual Assault’

By Chrissy Miller Administration reporter | @DEN_News The student government aims to spread awareness about sexual assault through an “It’s On Us” activity where students can bowl, eat pizza and take a pledge to help keep women and men safe. “ St r i k e O u t A g a i n s t S e x u a l Assault” is set for 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday in the bowling alley of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and is a part of a series of activities happening throughout the month.

Though the It’s On Us campaign is only a few years old, Student Body President Cattie Witt said it has already started to have a positive impact.

She said she was inspired by past student body presidents from Eastern who organized activities for the campaign to continue bringing awareness to this issue.

“I thought it was a really cool idea,” Witt said. “So, I took it upon myself to take it further and I’d love for it to keep building from here and have people be more

and more aware of it.”

Witt said a lack of education is part of the reason sexual assault is such a prominent issue on college campuses.

While people know rape is wrong, Witt said, without clear identification of what is classified as sexual assault, students may not realize what they are doing is wrong.

Witt said by suppor ting the campaign, she hopes the number of sexual assault cases will dwindle.

“Bringing awareness about what it actually is can definitely help spread the word and make that number vanish,” she said.

Witt said two Charleston City Council members would be at Strike Out Against Sexual Assault to show community support of the campaign.

Bowling is a way to get students to participate in a fun activity while learning about something important, she said.

Senate member Will Outzen said this campaign will address an issue most universities would rather not discuss.

“The culture on a lot of college campuses is that ‘It’s OK, we’re just going to brush that under the rug,’” Outzen said. “(Sexual assault) needs to be addressed.

B y h a v i n g t h e “ I t ’s O n U s ” campaign, we bring the issue to the forefront.”

Outzen said his own experiences with sexual assault victims have left a powerful impression on his life.

One of Outzen’s friends is still dealing with the negative effects of being assaulted eleven years after it happened.

“No one should ever have to go through that and it’s terrible that people brush it under the rug and ignore it,” Outzen said.

Outzen said this matter affects not only the victims, but everyone else around them as well.

“You could know someone who has dealt with this, and chances are you probably do,” Outzen said.

“It affects everyone, and it’ll affect them for the rest of their lives. We need to fix that.”

Outzen said an important part of the campaign is that it does not

distinguish gender.

“It’s sexual assault no matter who it happens to,” Outzen said.

“The sad truth is there’s this idea ‘Well, boys are stronger so they can (handle it)” or because of b i o l o g i c a l re a s o n s t h e y ‘ re a l l y wanted it.’ No, they didn’t. For biological reasons, the body will react even if you don’t want it to.”

Outzen said although he is not a professional by any means on this issue, if a sexual assault victim opens up, it is important to support and listen to them.

“Be that wall for them to lean o n , b e t h a t s h o u l d e r, b e t h a t person they can count on,” Outzen said.

By focusing on the topic of sexual assault with this campaign, Outzen said people will face the uncomfortable reality of the issue.

“People are going to hear it constantly this upcoming month,” Outzen said. “Hopefully that will lead to impactful changes in the future.”

Chrissy Miller can be reached at 581-2812 or clmiller9@eiu.edu.

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United stands by final decision to remove passenger from flight CHICAGO (AP) — Video of police officers dragging a passenger from an overbooked United Airlines flight sparked an uproar Monday on social media, and a spokesman for the airline insisted that employees had no choice but to contact authorities to remove the man.

As the flight waited to depart from Chicago's O'Hare Airport, officers could be seen grabbing the screaming man from a window seat, pulling him across the armrest and dragging him down the aisle by his arms. The airline was trying to make room for four of its employees on the Sunday evening flight to Louisville, Kentucky.

Passenger Audra D. Bridges posted the video on Facebook. Her husband, Tyler Bridges, said United offered $400 and then $800 vouchers and a hotel stay for volunteers to give up their seats. When no one volunteered, a United manager came on the plane and announced that passengers would be chosen at random.

When airline employees named four customers who had to leave the plane, three of them did so. The fourth person refused to move, and police were called, United spokesman Charlie Hobart said.

Tyler Bridges said that about 7 or 8 minutes later the man hurried down the aisle of the plane to the back of the aircraft and another video, showing the man, his lip bleeding and blood on his

mouth, chin and cheek and appearing dazed as he said, "I want to go home, I want to go home."

The AP was unable to confirm the passenger's identity.

Two officers tried to reason with the man before a third came aboard and pointed at the man "basically saying, 'Sir, you have to get off the plane,'" Bridges said. That's when the altercation happened.

"Our employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this," Munoz told employees.

"While I deeply regret this situation arose, I also emphatically stand behind all of you, and I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond to ensure we fly right."

One officer involved has been placed on leave, the Chicago Aviation Department said Monday.

After the passenger was removed, the four United employees boarded the plane.

A few minutes later, the man who was removed from the plane returned, looking dazed and saying he had to get home, Bridges said.

In a video, the man can be seen standing in the aisle near what appears to be the rear of the aircraft. Blood is on his mouth, chin and cheek as he repeated, "I want to go home."

Officers followed him to the back of the plane. Another man traveling with

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high school students said they were getting off the plane and about half of the passengers followed before United told everyone to get off, Bridges said.

The man who was originally dragged down the aisle was removed from the plane again, and United employees made an announcement saying they had to "tidy up" the aircraft, Bridges said.

Bridges' wife told him she saw the man taken away on a stretcher, he said.

After a three-hour delay the flight took off without the man aboard, Bridges said. A United employee apologized to passengers, he said.

Airlines are allowed to sell more tickets than there are seats on the plane, and they routinely overbook flights because some people do not show up.

It is not unusual for airlines to offer travel vouchers to encourage people to give up their seats, and there are no rules for the process. When an airline demands that a passenger give up a seat, the airline is required to pay compensation of double the passenger's one-way fare, up to $675, if the passenger can be placed on another flight that arrives one to two hours later than the first flight, or four times the ticket price, up to $1,350, for longer delays.

When they bump passengers, airlines are required to give those passengers a written description of their compensation rights.

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thing was stolen from the victims or the house. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Myles also "may have been targeted for one reason or another."

San Bernardino school shooting kills 2 adults, 1 student SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man was estranged from his wife before he shot and killed her in a special-needs classroom in San Bernardino in a murder-suicide that also left a student dead.

Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said Monday at a news conference that 53-year-old Cedric Anderson and 53-year-old Karen Elaine Smith had only been married for a few months and estranged for at least a month.

He says "no one has come forward to say they saw this coming."

Burguan also said Anderson had a criminal history of weapons charges, domestic violence and possible drug charges but did not provide details.

An 8-year-old student was hit by gunfire and died, while a second 9-year-old boy was wounded and is in stable condition.

Police identified the boy who died as Jonathan Martinez. Authorities didn't name the other boy who was wounded and is now in stable condition.

The 600 other students at the school were bused to safety at California State University's San Bernardino campus, several miles away. Television news footage showed students, escorted by police officers, walking off campus hand-in-hand.

As word of the shooting spread, panicked parents raced to the school, some in tears, some praying as they anxiously sought information about their children. They were told to go to a nearby high school where they would be reunited.Four hours later, the children began to arrive at the high school, getting hugs from emotional parents. As the students got off the buses, many of them carrying glow sticks they had been given to pass the time with, police officers applauded and high-fived them.

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By Chelsey Milligan Contributing Writer |@DEN_News The “Homework Heroes” tutoring program is currently looking for a diverse group of majors to help mentor others.

Mentors must have a declared major, at least a 2.75 cumulative GPA and a flexible schedule.

The Homework Heroes program was designed to give struggling students an academic mentor on campus.

Those who need tutoring will meet with their Homework Hero in any of the residence halls on campus to discuss how their classes are going, seek help in the areas they are struggling and discuss academic goals.

To keep tutoring sessions one-on-one, the organizers of the program are looking for more mentors to join.

There is a current need for Homework Heroes who major in math, geology, history, chemistry, and English.

Those interested can sign up online at www.eiu.edu/housing/homework.php to be a Homework Hero or if they need a “hero” themselves.

Kelsey Cripe, assistant director of residence life and conference services and Thalia Frederick, the chair of academic initiatives and retention, co-coordinate the Homework Heroes program.

The coordinators of the Homework Heroes program give shoulder tap cards, similar to business cards, to students who BLOT TER JUSTIN BROWN | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS

Junior Gabbi Numi, a communication disorders and sciences major looks over entries during Monday’s Edible Book Festival in Booth Library. Numi said she was a big fan of the Funniest Pun division winning entry titled Harry Potter.

Hyun to present ‘Ghosts of a War’

By Kennedy Nolen Multicultural Reporter | @KennedyNolenEIU Korean photographer Sohn Sung Hyun will present the film “So Long Asleep: Waking the Ghosts of a War” 7 p.m. Tuesday in Lumpkin Auditorium with a discussion to follow.

The film was made by David Plath, an anthropology professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will be shown as a part of Asian Heritage

Month.

“So Long Asleep” documents the decades-long process of World War II volunteers carrying the remains of Korean men who died in Imperial Japan during the Asia-Pacific War in the 1940s.

Before they died, thousands of Koreans were forced to build a dam and work in factories or mines.

Families of the victims were never told where the remains of their loved ones were buried.

The search for the “lost” Korean men and women who died during World War II began in 2004.

Hyun’s photo exhibit “Waking Japan’s War Ghosts: Recognition, Remorse and Reconstruction in East Asia” will be in the Booth Library until Tuesday, May 2.

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

Mob action reported in South Quad • A cannabis complaint was reported 6:28 p.m. Friday at the Campus Pond pavilion. The incident has been referred to the Office of Student Standards.

• The consumption of alcohol and possession of a fraudulent ID by a minor was reported 2:11 a.m.

Friday at 1666 4th Street. This incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards.

• A theft was reported 10:18 a.m.

Friday at Douglas Hall. This incident is under investigation.

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show good signs of being an academic mentor.

“We know when someone is the right fit to be a Homework Hero based on their hard work and dedication they put forward in order to help someone succeed,” Frederick said. “We look for people who want to make an impact on someone’s life in the end.”

Frederick said a few of the benefits of being in the program include the development of interpersonal skills, that it helps students grow as a leader on campus, and that the program counts as community service.

“This is also an amazing experience to use on a resume,” Frederick said.

Homework Heroes are students who excel in a particular subject. For Allison Koch, a junior kinesiology major, her specialty is math.

Koch tutored in high school and has been a Homework Hero since the fall of 2015.

She said the Homework Heroes program is helpful because “it is easier to learn from people your age.” “(Being a Homework Hero) has helped me meet more people,” Koch said. “I like seeing people across campus and being able to reach out to them… especially people I help mentor.”

Chelsey Milligan can be reached at 618540-9732 or cmmilligan@eiu.edu.

• The University Police Department received a report of mob action 2:14 p.m. Sunday in the South Quad. The incident has been referred to the State’s Attorney and remains under investigation.

• Antoine McKinney, 20, of 2400 Cambridge St., was arrested 4:23 p.m. Sunday at 4th Street and Taft Avenue. McKinney was charged for driving with a suspended license and released at 6 p.m. after posting 10 percent of a $1500 bond.

• A criminal trespass was reported 11:50 a.m. Monday at Weller Hall.

The incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards.

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Cindy Huff

Escape the blame game Staff Editorial by taking responsibility English Studies Conference showcases hard work COURTNEY SHEPHERD | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS

In 2017, Randy Pausch said, “We cannot change the cards that we are dealt in life, only the way that we play the game.” I agree with Mr. Pausch; sometimes we feel like we are being punished in life for things that we have no control over.

Sometimes people are punished for things outside their control, like if someone has a car accident that is not their fault, breaks their leg and has to take a leave from their studies or job.

Other times people tend to feel sorry for themselves because they think that they are not smart enough, pretty enough, skinny enough, rich enough and cool enough to get what they want out of life.

We often blame others for things that did not go our way because we do not want to look at ourselves as being the cause of the problem.

When our grades are low, we blame the instructors for not teaching us correctly, when in actuality we did not pay attention in class or do the required coursework. If our boss gives us a bad review, it is because they have something against us or they do not like us.

Reality tells us that is usually not the case; if you get a bad review, it is probably because you were lax in your duties on the job, or because you came to work to get paid without doing any actual work.

I have a few friends that I have heard complain that life is not fair, and that the world is against them. It is not their fault that their life is caving in around them; they cannot possibly be to blame for all the bad vibes that life has thrown their way.

I am sure that we all know people like this.

In truth, most of us are guilty of blaming others for our disappointments at one time or another. Shifting the blame from ourselves to others is our way of feeding ourselves excuses, attempting to find the easy way out and putting a BandAid on our pain, just like mommy did when we skinned our knees in childhood.

Blaming others for our problems will never get us anywhere. We have to learn to take responsibility for our actions, and realize that if things go wrong, its usually because we have not put enough thought or effort into what we were dong in the first place. Understanding why we want to shift the blame from ourselves to others is the first step in changing how we will play the cards that life has dealt us. We must rearrange our hand and go from Jacks to Kings or better; that will help put us on the right course to win the race through life.

No one can change your hand except you.

You control what you do. If you see yourself losing you will always lose; if you think of yourself as a winner and take responsibility for the hand that you were dealt, you can become a winner.

You can become a winner by changing the way that you think about yourself and by taking charge of your own emotions.

We all have to learn to accept life’s trials; however, we can come out winners if we learn how to stop playing the blame game.

Cindy Huff is an aging studies graduate student. She can be reached at 581-2812 or clhuff2@eiu.edu.

Tonight at 5 p.m., students attending the English Studies Conference kickoff event have a chance to take home a graphic novel for the low, low cost of free.

Yes, you heard that right. The kickoff event, a yearly arm of the We Need Diverse Books! campaign, is called “We Need Diverse Graphic Narratives!” It will highlight diverse casts and authors in graphic novels. In the hour-long presentation (led by the English department’s own Dr. Tim Engles), students will snack on free food and drink while learning about the necessity of publishing and narrative diversity.

To help students build up their own personal libraries (or their classroom libraries, in the case of teaching candidates), the event organizers have supplied 20 graphic novels to be distributed to kickoff attendees.

This is a perfect chance to learn more about diverse graphic narratives. The editorial staff of The News eagerly anticipates the kickoff event; amongst our staff is a healthy mix of future teachers, current comic readers and people with a deep interest in publishing diversity.

However, we do not want to overshadow the rest of the event by highlighting only the kickoff. As many of you know, the English department shuts down for an entire day once a year in order to host the English Studies Conference, a celebration of student work and writing lasting most of Wednesday.

This year’s conference features a 1 p.m. keynote speech by Dr. Robin Murray highlighting comedy in eco film and how laughter can help audiences learn about current and pressing environmental issues, as well as a 7 p.m. poetry reading by Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds, Elegy and a notable and unique 2012 translation of Dante’s Inferno.

The bulk of the Conference’s events, though, are student presentations, put together by classes of creative writers, future teachers, editors and analysts.

Topics range from classroom strategies for incorporating multimedia to close reading skills to reproductive discourse to creative how-to essays.

Top the day off with a noontime panel of alumni English teachers and all-day poster presentations and you have a brilliant showing of student excellence.

The editorial staff of The News has friends and classmates at events throughout the day, and we intend to sit in on their panels and readings to support them. While it might not seem exciting to spend all day sitting through lectures, we think that student presentations can be exceptionally interesting, and we are excited about the recently-released list of panel topics.

We encourage students from other departments to spend time watching some of the English Studies Conference presentations. Those outside of the English major can still find enjoyment in many of the topics presented—elementary educators, for instance, might appreciate some of the teaching discussions, and fine arts students might appreciate the poetry readings.

And finally, as we stated previously, this is a perfect opportunity to support your friends and classmates.

The News will largely be in attendance, and we look forward to seeing our readers there.

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

Weight loss easier, more fun with friends around Throughout my semesters at Eastern, I have tried to maintain a healthy lifestyle but to no avail. Although I was working out, I was not keeping up with healthy eating habits, and then when classes started getting more vigorous, my gym habits would falter. This led to lots of stress eating and in turn, weight gain.

Now, I am a strong believer in the fact that weight does not determine one’s beauty, but it is hard to stay objective when you are gaining weight and your clothes stop fitting right. Even when I would lose weight over the summer, I would come to school and lose my healthy eating and gym habits, causing me to just gain back what I lost.

I started noticing this pattern and found myself trying to figure out how I could break it. Looking back, I realized that my problem was that I was trying to do it alone and because of that, I had no one taking the health journey with me. Either I had friends who could eat whatever they wanted or I had friends that were trying to gain weight, so our habits had to be very different. So I thought I had to do this all on my own.

Another reason I thought I had to do it alone

Alex Bonnot was because I was constantly hearing that I should not be making life style changes for anyone but myself, and that I should not be depending on others to make sure I keep up with it. I tried losing weight on my own even though it was not working.

Finally, over winter break I decided that I was not going to keep trying to do it alone. I asked one of my close friends if they would like to get healthy with me. They said yes, and now I will never look back.

By going through this together, we have been able to keep each other motivated, even on the days when the only motivation was feeling bad if we bailed on our scheduled gym time. Another plus

was that we both had the same goal which was to lose weight in a healthy way, so we were able to keep each other accountable when we ate. We both made sure that we did not overeat or undereat, and supported each other when we veered off of the healthy track, and now, ten pounds lighter, I can say that the hard work paid off, and I was taught an important lesson.

Everyone loses weight differently, which means that everyone’s regime will be different as well. There is no set way that weight loss happens, and it will take time to find out what works for you. Do not let what you read or hear dictate how you choose to get healthy, unless of course what you are reading is trying to get you to lose weight in an unhealthy way.

Yeah, you can take the helpful tips and ask for advice, but if you find that it is not working for you, do not be scared to change how you approach getting healthy. It is a hard process, but in the end it is worth it.

Alex Bonnot is a senior English language arts major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or agbonnot@eiu.edu.

Letter to the Editor

Pro-LGBTQA+ court decision flies in the face of reason (Editorial note: the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQA+ employees from workplace discrimination.)

The odd pro-LGBTQA+ decision just handed down by the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a perfect example of judicial overreach and a perfect example of irrational ideology trumping science, logic and natural law. Thinking people from Plato on down have known for centuries that homosexual activity is immoral, a bad legal precedent and an objective disorder.

All the arguments the pro-LGBTQA+ judges had to back them up were logical fallacies, like Judge Posner’s evolving-norms-call-for-a-change-in-

interpretation-of-the-Civil-Rights-Act argument. So I guess if society was becoming more racist, Judge Posner would decree that racist behavior is constitutional. Ridiculous.

The values of many pro-LGBTQA+ people are so upside-down and backwards they actually believe it is okay to ignore the feelings of decent moral parents who do not want their children to share restrooms with sexually-confused adult transgender people. In other words, many pro-LGBTQA+ people actually place the disordered feelings of transgender people above the feelings of normal people. Truly bizarre.

And what kind of people believe in discriminating against and making criminals out of decent

moral businesspeople who merely do not want to cater to the weddings of heterophobic homosexuals? Could the answer possibly be ignorant liberal bigots?

Trump handily beat Clinton in part because a lot of decent moral people are getting really fed up with liberal judgmentalness, self-righteousness, namecalling, violence, hate, intolerance, bullying, prejudices and discrimination.

Liberals are showing us just how extreme and irrational they are and how corrupt their values are.

Let us use that to really do a number on them in the next elections.

-Wayne Lela can be reached at wlela@yahoo.com

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Eastern Wind Symphony concert to feature Bernstein’s musicals Staff Report | @DEN_News The music of Leonard Bernstein, known for composing the music from “ West Side Stor y,” will be featured as Eastern’s Wind Symphony presents its “Bernstein Bash” Saturday.

The show is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

According to a press release, all proceeds from the concert will support the Earl Boyd Friends of the Band Scholarship Campaign.

The Bernstein Bash will include a range of works including selections from the operetta “Candide,” “MASS” and “Slava!” along

with the famous musical, “West Side Story.”

Alicia Neal, conductor of the Wind Symphony, said the members of the symphony are excited to present the concert.

“The students have been working extremely hard in rehearsing the music that so many people are familiar with and love,” she said in a press release.

In addition to the Wind Symphony, made up of 45 student musicians, a student Musical Theater/Opera small ensemble and a student Jazz Combo will also be performing.

Before the concer t, the EIU

Bands will host a silent auction from 6 to 7:20 p.m., and 20 minutes after the show, in the Doudna’s concourse.

Music students and local businesses donated good and services, such as piano tuning services, baby-sitting, art pieces and more.

Tickets for the Bernstein Bash are $13 for general admission, $11 for seniors and $5 for students.

They can be bought online on the Doudna’s website or at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Box Office.

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At 7:30 p.m. Saturday April 22, The Eastern Illinois University Wind Symphony, pictured here, will perform the music of Leonard Bernstein during The Bernstein Bash concert, which will also feature a silent auction to support the music scholarship fund.

6 Teson, Blackmon, Muldoon decide to transfer TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017

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By Sean Hastings Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports Sophomores Casey Teson, Marshawn Blackmon and Patrick Muldoon are transferring and will no longer play in the Eastern basketball program.

As a freshman, Teson was relied on heavily but saw his minutes severely decrease from 848 to 603 as a sophomore. In his freshman year Teson shared the team high in 3-pointers with 64, but that number dropped to 41 in his sophomore campaign.

Eastern was just not a fit for Teson.

“I wasn’t happy with the environment I was in and was wanting to be closer to home,” Teson said. “ I h a v e n’t d e c i d e d o n where I’m transferring but I should know within the next week or so. At my future school I want to bring the ability to score the ball and be a leader.”

Although Teson did not have the year he did in his f re s h m a n s e a s o n , h e w a s still a strong 3-point shooter that teams needed to be

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Teson is from St. Charles, the season.

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“I wish all my old teammates and coaching staff the best of luck next year.

Mu l d o o n’s d e c i s i o n t o leave Eastern is also to be closer to home. He is from Basehor, Kan. He has not decided where he is headed, however.

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The biggest thing he brought to the team was his energy. But even as a bench guy, Muldoon was active in the rebounding game.

He also had speed and height, he put in an effort that sometimes went unmatched. He was a big t h re a t o f f t h e b e n c h f o r Eastern.

“I plan to show up with the same attitude, energy, and effort at my new home that I did here,” Muldoon said. “I’ve been blessed with opportunities EIU has given me, but unfortunately it is time to make a change.”

C o a c h Ja y Sp o o n h o u r coached the three sophomores for their two seasons.

“I appreciate their hard work and wish them well,” Spoonhour said. “All three are great people.”

These three transfers make it five players leaving the Eastern basketball program after this past season.

Senior Demetrius McReynolds and redshirt senior Joe Kuligoski graduated.

Eastern will be an experienced team next year,

though. With this year’s additions of junior star ters Muusa Dama, Ray Crossland and Montell Goodwin will compliment nicely with Terrell Lewis going into his senior year.

Assuming those four continue to start next year, the Panthers will have to find just one more player to have a “set” starting five. And if no one else transfers, Eastern will return eight players for next season.

Besides the four players already mentioned, returning for the Panthers will be Aboubacar Diallo, Lucas Jones, DeVantae’ Price, Logan Koch.

Ko c h w i l l b e a s o p h o more, Diallo will be a junior, Jones will be a junior and Price will be a redshirt senior.

The loss of Teson, Blackm o n a n d Mu l d o o n w i l l leave some extra spaces for t h e Pa n t h e r s t o f i l l , b u t Eastern still has an incoming class on the way.

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

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Tennis finishes winless in OVC play

By Dillan Schorfheide Men’s Tennis Reporter | @DEN_Sports Samuel Kercheval, coach of Eastern’s men’s tennis team, said it looks like the team will not make the OVC tournament, something he said was “all in our control.”

With the loss Saturday, the Panthers finished their conference play winless this spring season, while also finishing last in the OVC. The match Saturday was consistent with the theme the team has played with in the later part of the season.

After the Panthers lost to Belmont and Tennessee State last weekend, Kercheval said the team has put itself into positions to win, but the players have not been able to get over the last hump to get the victories.

This was the case again Saturday against conference opponent Austin Peay.

The match was the last chance for the Panthers to get a conference win and keep their postseason chances alive.

In the doubles part of the contest, all three duos for Eastern grabbed an early 1-0 lead against their opponents. Only the duo of junior Trent Reiman and freshman Ferdinand Ammer would get a doubles victory, after defeating their opponents 6-3.

The duo of junior Grant Reiman and freshman Gage Kingsmith led 2-1 in their doubles match, but after they committed some mistakes, they lost 6-4 after a late push for a comeback.

The third duo for Eastern, made up of junior Jared Woodson and redshirt senior Jacob Wendell, also led early in their match, but fell to their opponents 6-4 as well.

Kercheval said the doubles part of the match was a big deal, but the energy, from the beginning of the match, needed to be better.

Staying consistent with the theme of the late part of the season, the Panthers had chances to win in the singles portion of the match, but only a few of the players got wins.

After the strong doubles win, Trent and Ammer carried their play

over into their respective singles matches.

Tr e n t , a s K e r c h e v a l p u t i t , “smacked” his opponent, who beat him last year, in his singles match.

He won in straight sets 6-1 6-2.

Ammer won his first set 6-3, but after losing the second set, he lost the match to his opponent in the tie-break third set.

Ammer’s opponent, James Mitchell, had a shoulder problem during the match and had to serve underhanded, something Kercheval said is psychologically “hard to get over.”

The other singles win for Eastern came from Woodson, who battled against his opponent to win in three sets.

Woodson narrowly won the first set 7-6 after taking an early 3-0 lead. After losing the second set 6-1, Woodson came back in the third set with great intensity and won the third set and the match.

Kercheval said Woodson’s win was a big step for him, especially since he has gotten close to winning a lot lately.

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Freshman Ferdinand Ammer attempts a return at the net against Austin Peay’s James Mitchell Saturday at the Darling Courts. Ammer fell to Mitchell in 3 sets, 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (5).

Eastern had a lot of chances in the 5-2 loss, but the lack of energy at times and some mistakes hurt the Panthers in the end.

Eastern has its last two matches of the season Saturday, first at 9

a.m. against Hanover, then at 3 p.m. against the University of Illinois Springfield.

Dillan Schorfheide can be reached at 581-2812 or dtschorfheide@eiu.edu.

Eastern finishes tournament in 10th

By Adam Shay Women’s Golf reporter | @DEN_Sports

Even though the Eastern women’s golf team lowered their first round score of 328 to 323, they finished 10th at the Indiana State Spring Invitational with a total score of 651.

Ten out of the 12 teams all lowered their first round scores, making the tournament more challenging for the Panthers. For the Panthers, senior Chloe Wong, junior Anne Bahr, and senior Madison Burgett all made improvements in the second round.

Bahr said having three players with

comeback rounds was a really good feeling, even though the Panthers did not have their best team score.

“Three of us had comeback rounds so that was a really good feeling,” Bahr said. “We also dropped a few strokes off yesterday’s today, and although it wasn’t the best team score we’ve ever had, it wasn’t bad.”

Individually, Wong led the way as she improved 10 spots from being tied for 33rd to finishing tied at 23rd with a 159 total score. Wong said her improvement from yesterday’s 82 round score to today’s 77 score was due to better tee shots and more patience.

“I was a lot more comfortable off the tee today then I was yesterday,” Wong said. “I stayed patient throughout the round which really helped.”

Right behind her was Bahr, who finished tied for 26th, and also improved seven spots from 33rd as she lowered her round scores from 82 to 78. Despite having back pains Sunday, Bahr said her back held up better and her consistency helped lower her score.

“I was a lot more consistent today, which was easier to work with,” Bahr said. “My back held up better, and my swing seemed to be clicking more than it was yesterday.”

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Senior Alexandra Pickens was the next highest placing Panther, finishing tied for 43rd with a 165 total. In 62nd place with a total score of 171 was junior Hannah Magda, followed by senior Madison Burgett who ended with a 173 score, improving her ranking from 66th to 63rd.

Next week, the Panthers will close out their spring season as they travel to Huntsville, Ala. for the Ohio Valley Conference Championship. Wong said if the team focuses and makes every shot count, the Panthers will be able to compete and do well at conference.

“Our team has what it takes to shoot low and really compete with the other schools,” Wong said. “We need to stay focused and remember that every shot counts. If we do that, I know we’ll do well at conference.”

Indiana State jumped from third place to first as they improved their first round score of 315 to 295, totaling their score at 610. Evansville senior Kayla Katterhenry finished first individually with a score of 145, just one shot over par.

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By Maher Kawash Baseball Reporter | @DEN_Sports Between rainouts and blown late leads it has not been the homestand the Eastern baseball team had in mind.

But, a non-conference matchup against Illinois-Springfield could turn things around for the Panthers as they conclude a four-game home slate.

Eastern heads into the single-game affair with a 6-25 record after a series loss to Southeast Missouri State in conference play this past weekend.

The Panthers have been able to produce wins against some tough teams though as their schedule continues to be one of the tougher ones in the conference.

This upcoming matchup serves as somewhat of a relief to that schedule, and Eastern gives the ball to Dustin Wilson starting things out on the mound.

Wilson makes his fifth start and 11th appearance Tuesday, and despite his 1-4 record, he has performed well as of late.

The junior college transfer has allowed just two earned runs in his last six appearances on the mound, while his most recent performance ended in under two innings of one-hit ball against Saint Louis.

R.D Lutze opposes Wilson on the mound for Illinois-Springfield, and he comes in as one of the better pitchers on the entire team.

Lutze is a freshman right-hander who boasts a 2-0 record and 3.86 ERA in 11 games this season.

The Panthers have some answers to that though as some guys are streaking at the plate.

Jimmy Govern comes in as arguably the hottest hitter on the team as he extended his hitting streak to 11 games over the weekend.

In that span, Govern has hit .571 at the plate and has seen his season batting average rise to .386.

Joseph Duncan continues to succeed atop Eastern’s lineup as well and he snuck into a tie for 10th all-time in program history for stolen bases.

His 35 stolen bases are not the only record total for the Panthers as Chase Thurston is doing some of the same on the mound.

Thurston recorded his 70th career appearance this past weekend, which tied him for seventh all-time in program history.

The Panthers bullpen has been the victim of some late-inning losses with the series-finale against Southeast Missouri proving to be a fine example of that.

But Brendon Allen seems to be improving and that could be big for Eastern.

Allen limited the Redhawks to just one hit in six total innings pitched and also notched eight strikeouts.

What was more impressive was Southeast Missouri’s struggling batting average of .053 against Allen this weekend.

The Panthers try to do that against Illinois-Springfield Tuesday but especially this weekend as the team dips back into conference play.

Following this matchup, Eastern heads to Nashville, Tenn. for a threegame series against Belmont beginning Thursday.

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Junior shortstop Andrew Curran throws to first for a double play after getting Southeast Missouri’s Josh Haggerty out at second base.

Softball team taking one-game conference break JJ Bullock Softball Reporter | @DEN_Sports Taking a short break from Ohio Valley Conference play, the Eastern softball team is travelling to Indiana for a single game with a Big East opponent, Butler.

The matchup with Butler comes after a streak of 10 straight conference games for Eastern and will give coach Kim Schuette and her team a chance to face a fresh face and potentially make some changes of their own.

“This is an opportunity to play some more innings, get a fe w more at-bats and possibly play other lineup combinations,” Schuette said.

Eastern played very well over that 10-game conference stretch, going 8-2 and outscoring their opponents 47-24 over that time.

However, the team has been careful not to let their confidence get the best of them.

“We do not talk about streaks and continue to remind each othe r ; n o t t o h i g h , n o t t o o l ow,” Schuette said. “We were bummed that we lost a close one on Sunday, but on the other hand, we have won some close ones too. It was anyone’s game. Each day the sun comes up and brings a new opportunity to improve on 0-0.”

Butler and Eastern mirror each other in many ways, both team sport sub-.500 non-conference records, Eastern (14-14) and Butler (12-16). Neither team lights up the stat sheet on offense; Butler is currently fifth in the Big East with a .284 batting average, while similarly, Eastern is eighth in the Ohio

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The Panthers have been on a hot stretch winning eight out of their first 10 games in OVC play. Tuesday’s game agaisnt Butler will be a one-game OVC break before playing Tennessee-Martin Friday.

Valley with a .285 batting average.

Butler, ranks second to last in its conference with a .380 slugging percentage, while the Panthers are last in that category with a .398 slugging percentage.

Where the Panthers draw a clear advantage in the matchup however, is in its pitching.

Butler’s pitching has been relatively average this season. The Bulldogs have a 4.27 team ERA, a 2.85 opponent batting average and have struck out just 100 batters in 36 games played.

Eastern on the other hand, led by junior aces Jessica Wireman and Michele Rogers, have a team ERA of 2.57, an opponent batting average of .244 and have struck out 215 batters in 38 games played.

Wireman is coming off a weekend where she struck out 27 batters in 16 innings pitched and saw herself climb fifth on the conference leaderboard with 121 strikeouts on the season.

“Wireman is attacking out there right now and throwing pretty

well,” Schuette said. “Of course we want strikeouts, but we do not stress on strikeouts. Instead we focus on what we want to make the batter swing at or chase. She is mixing her pitches and doing pretty well being sharp, aggressive and focused.”

Although they rank near the bottom in almost every offensive category, Butler will still be no walk in the park for the Eastern pitching staff if the Bulldogs’ outfield tandem of Sarah Dixon and Jenna Foreman have anything to

say about it.

Di xo n i s t h e t e a m l e a d e r i n home r uns (4), RBIs (21) and slugging percentage (.563). Foreman on the other hand, has a .373 batting average and is dangerous on the bases, stealing 18 bags in 21 attempts this season.

The game will take place at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Indianapolis.

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