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FOOTBALL, FINALLY

Sarah DeWolf, the forward for the Eastern women’s soccer team, is the only player to score two goals for the season so far.

The Eastern football team will play its first game of the season Thursday at Indiana State.

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Parker Park, a senior business marketing major, kicks a soccer ball Wednesday in the field near Fourth Street during the Soccer Shootout Intramural Challenge.

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By Cassie Buchman Editor-in-Chief | @cjbuchman A member of Eastern’s Board of Trustees could potentially be running for office in the future, though he has yet to make a final decision.

During a news conference reported on by the Herald and Review, trustee Caulkins Dan Caulkins confirmed his interest in running for state Rep. Bill Mitchell’s seat in the House of Representatives.

Mitchell held the conference to announce that he will not seek re-election in 2018.

According to the Herald and Review, Caulkins was one of six people identified by Macon County Republican Chairman Bruce Pillsbury as possible replacements for Mitchell.

Caulkins said he has been weighing his options regarding whether to run or not and is very close to making a decision about officially running for the position.

“It’s a difficult decision,” he said. “(It would) be a really big commitment on my part.”

He said he has been talking about it with his wife and friends.

The time commitment is one factor he is considering, as well whether or not he wants to expose himself and his wife to the “political process.”

“You look at anyone that puts themselves up for election and they immediately become a target of

one side or another, one faction or another,” Caulkins said.

However, Caulkins said if he does choose to run, he thinks he has something to offer.

“I think that my background, my life experience adds something to the discussion,” he said. “Right now the big issue for me is to decide if this is something I really want to do.”

Caulkins would not be able to continue being an Eastern trustee if he were to be elected as a state representative.

According to 110 ILCS 665, no Board of Trustees member “shall be an employee of the State Government.”

Candidates wanting to run for office in the November 2018 general elections can take out a nominating petition starting Sept. 5.

Formerly the vice president and COO of Patterson House Inc., which operates homes for adults with developmental disabilities, Caulkins sold his share of the business to his partner last September. He and his brother now own a supported assisted living facility called Franciscan Court in West Chicago.

Caulkins served on the Decatur City Council from 2005 to 2009.

After Gov. Bruce Rauner was elected, Caulkins submitted an application through his website offering to serve in the governor’s administration in some capacity.

Caulkins was offered several positions based on his resume, but ultimately chose to be an Eastern trustee.

He declined to say what other positions were offered, but said he wanted to be a trustee because he is an alumnus of Eastern.

“I chose to accept a position on the Board of Trustees at Eastern because I believe in Eastern,” Caulkins said.

To become a member of the Board of Trustees,

people apply online. The governor will appoint someone if there is a vacancy, then the Executive Appointments Committee confirms the person appointed to the position.

Caulkins’ appointment to fill the unexpired term of former trustee Robert Webb, who died on Oct. 5, 2015, was officially approved in Feb. ‘16 by the Executive Appointments Committee.

Approving his reappointment to a full term to the Board of Trustees was a task assigned to the Executive Appointments Committee on Aug. 17.

During appointment hearings, the governor’s appointees come in before the Executive Appointments Committee. The committee then asks the person about the office they are appointed to and their qualifications.

Sen. Dale Righter (R-Mattoon) is the minority spokesperson for the committee who confirmed Rauner’s appointment of Caulkins to the Board of Trustees.

Though it is still not certain whether or not Caulkins will run for office, if it starts to look like he will, it is something that could come up during his reappointment confirmation hearing, Righter said.

“If he was seriously exploring a run could that make his reappointment harder? Potentially,” Righter said. “At some point if it looks more and more like he’s going to do it, obviously myself, (and) a member of the legal staff will look at that.”

Righter said the reappointment process is usually easier, if the person coming before the hearing has done a competent job.

A hearing for Caulkins’ reappointment has not yet been scheduled. Righter said it probably will not be until October or November.

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The rough draft for the new Eastern marketing initiative was revealed by Eric Sickler, vice president of client services for the Thorburn Group, at open Town Hall marketing meetings Wednesday.

The initiative consisted of many pieces including four pillars, brand character, centering ideas and media strategy.

Sickler said the four pillars are made up of Eastern being an active community of opportunity, having a fully engaged faculty, staff and administration, being sized for success and being an accessible and inclusive experience.

These pillars lead up to the centering idea that at Eastern, extraordinary investments are made in all the individual students who go to the university, Sickler said.

“This is going to take time. It’s never done. The best thing we can do is stay focused on the effort and the energy,” Sickler said. “We want to move from this cacophony to something that’s a little more fun, a little easier to follow and a little easier for us to wrap our arms around.”

Eastern President David Glassman said after working with a marketing workgroup during the vitalization project, they concluded Eastern was woefully under-producing in marketing and attracting students and needed to seek marketing assistance from a professional group.

After working with the Thorburn Group, Glassman said they have been able to put all the great things he already knew about Eastern into strong concepts that have shaped the branding initiative up to this point.

“This is ours and so we really have to know whether we buy into it,” Glassman said. “This is the time, because when it goes beyond this and then the artwork is created for the billboards and they’re designed based on that brand, then all of a sudden it’s out.”

Carolyn Davis, a graduate student in college student development, said the way students are being reached by marketing has changed since she completed her undergraduate program at Eastern.

“You can’t necessarily put an ad in the paper and expect a student to see it because students don’t necessarily search for those things anymore,” Davis said.

“It’s good that you thought about those things where maybe it goes to Pandora or Spotify so that student that’s never even heard of EIU before,now they can’t skip the commercial if they don’t have the paid version.”

Reaching out to students in this way gets them curious about what Eastern has to offer, Davis said.

Davis said this can get students in the mindset of “‘OK, EIU, what’s that about? Oh, I like that I heard that. Maybe I’m gonna go follow up and then go to that thing that is, you know, right there for my convenience.’ So now I’m already all in because I’ve chosen to go a little bit further than just the commercial.”

Richard England, dean of the Honors College, said he wondered why the quality of education was in the details of the marketing plan instead of clearly being a part of the main message.

“You have a sort of core message and four pillars, none of which are about education,” England said. “Is it necessary, and this is just again a marketing question, to sell education primarily (through) messages about community or social life or experience?”

In response, Sickler said the assumption is that every college provides an education.

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DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — The family of a Decatur sailor whose remains were recovered from the USS John S. McCain say they’re “heartbroken with the news and will miss him tremendously.”

The Navy said Monday that divers recovered the remains of 23-yearold Logan Stephen Palmer, who had gone missing after the McCain and an oil tanker collided near Singapore last week. He was one of 10 sailors whose remains were recovered.

Palmer’s family said in a statement provided by the Navy that he was a “loving and wonderful young man” who was their “pride and joy.” They remembered him as a brother, Eagle Scout and an active church member.

They said he “loved his family dearly and was committed to making the Navy a career.” Family say Palmer “was excited about the adventures the Navy would offer him.”

Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits southeast coast of Guam INARAJAN VILLAGE, Guam (AP) — A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the island of Guam.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake hit at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Guam.

The epicenter was 51.7 miles (83.4 kilometers) southeast of Inarajan Village, a community of about 2,300 people.

The earthquake had a depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers.)

North Korea threatened recently to launch ballistic missiles into waters near Guam.

However, leader Kim Jong Un said later that he would watch Washington’s conduct before executing the plan.

Illinois Senate approves school funding overhaul SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Legislature on Tuesday approved a school funding overhaul that supporters hailed as “historic,” saying it will increase aid to all of the state’s more than 800 districts and eliminate large disparities between rich and poor schools.

The Senate voted 38-13 to send the measure to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who has said he’ll sign it quickly to get money to districts starting a new school year. The House passed the bill late Monday.

Democratic Sen. Andy Manar, the bill’s sponsor, said the plan will fund schools fairly “for the first time in decades.”

Lawmakers have tried unsuccessfully for years to replace the current system.

This year’s state budget required for the first time that the formula be changed, and provided an additional $350 million to help pay for it.

No money can go to districts, however, until a new plan is in place. Although school officials have said they will be able to open classrooms for the new school year, many districts have

worried they would run out of money if a plan wasn’t approved soon.

The legislation passed Tuesday also provides $75 million in tax credits for people who contributed to private school scholarships.

Teacher unions and some school officials oppose the credits, saying taxpayer money shouldn’t be used to fund private schools.

They fear the scholarships — which lawmakers say would benefit as many as 10,000 students — will reduce enrollment at public schools, some of which are struggling to maintain enough students to stay open.

The tax credit program will expire after five years if lawmakers don’t extend it. The credits would be worth 75 percent of a taxpayer’s annual contributions to a scholarship fund, with a maximum credit of $1 million annually. The money may be donated to a specific school but not a specific student.

Students receiving the scholarships must have a household income of less than 300 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $73,000 annually for

Bird's-eye view of flooded Houston captures Harvey’s totality Flying over the Houston area most days is a postcard of America: crisscrossing highways, skyscrapers, hulking shopping plazas, oil refineries, big houses, cattle pastures. Then there’s the view after Harvey.

“I had an idea, but once you can get up there and actually physically see it, the water is never-ending,” said David Phillip, an Associated Press photographer who has called Houston home for two decades.

Phillip got a bird’s-eye view this week after Harvey dumped more than 50 inches (127 centimeters) of rain in and around the nation’s fourth-largest city. His photographs show rows of suburban streets turned into canals and brownish floodwaters creeping up to rooftops. In one photo, a mansion’s

long cul-de-sac driveway resembles a drawbridge over a moat.

Phillip was taken aback by water submerging the Interstate 69 bridge over the San Jacinto River.

“It makes you pause and think about it. This is my home. It has been for 20 years. It’s tough to see your friends and neighbors and people in the community go through that,” he said.

Phillip hasn’t stopped often since Harvey made landfall Friday night. He started in Galveston and by Sunday was driving the wrong way down Houston’s flooded Interstate 610, normally one of the busiest sections of highways in the U.S. Later he was on board a rescue boat when it struck something, flipping him backward and out of the boat.

The propeller got his leg before Phil-

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Under Illinois’ current school funding system, districts must rely heavily on property taxes to fund schools.

That’s created large differences in funding levels, with some wealthier districts spending four times more per student than districts with less property tax wealth.

Under the new plan, the state will determine how much money each district needs to adequately educate its students, taking into consideration the number who live in poverty, are English learners or need special education services.

The state then looks at how much money the district is able to generate from property taxes, and directs aid first to districts that need it to reach the spending target.

The legislation also provides money to help Chicago Public Schools make payments to its teacher pension funds, as Illinois does for other districts, and gives districts relief from some state mandates, such as allowing them to offer fewer days of physical education each week.

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lip was pulled from the water, leaving a bruise. He lost his glasses and ruined a camera lens.

Phillip, who is 51, is no stranger to photographing major storms, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As the water from Harvey recedes he sees familiar devastation. “Everything, generally, 4 feet down is taken out of every house.”

Streets in Houston are now becoming lined with couches, hardwood flooring, baseboards and pianos.

He called covering Harvey more personal than previous storm assignments.

Phillip said Wednesday was his first day he could travel the roads freely again, and in the neighborhood of Meyerland, he found homeowners tearing out drywall and trying to salvage belongings.

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Fair helps students with volunteer opportunities Domonique Hill Contributing Writer| @Damal1972 About 30 people from over 70 non-profit organizations gathered Wednesday for the ninth annual Volunteer Fair hosted by the Office of Civil Engagement and Volunteerism.

Some of the organizations in attendance were Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service, the Mattoon YMCA, Camp New Hope, Community Blood Services of Illinois, Special Olympics, Habitat for Humanity and Douglas Hart Nature Center.

Beth Gillespie, interim director of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism, said it is important for students to understand they can help in more than one way.

“It is important for our students to understand that their time is valuable,” Gillespie said. “Sometimes, you might have 25 bucks to give or a $100 to donate to an organization, but even if you don’t, you can still make a difference.”

Latisha Owens, hospitality director for Carle Hospital, said this was her third time attending the fair.

“Most of the time, when you get someone that is interested they will engage with you,” Owens said.

Owens expressed her appreciation to students who volunteer.

“From a hospice perspective, five percent of all services have to be done by volunteers,” Owens said. “If the hospices do not have volunteers to do direct patient care or work in the office to help accumulate hours, then what happens is the program closes.”

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Amber Salutric, sophomore speech pathology and Spanish major, gets information about Camp New Hope from a representative on Wednesday during the Volunteer Fair in the Library Quad.

There are some non-profit organizations that cannot function unless they have volunteers, she said.

“Some non-for-profits do not have the money to pay (and) stay open with people,” Owens said. “So, it is very important that

people volunteer.”

Taylor Key, an intern at Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service, said there are many benefits to volunteering.

“If this is something you are passionate about, you really get to learn about it and see how it works,” Key said. “There’s a lot of experience you can get from volunteering or even just internships as well.”

Volunteering can be used to network as well, Key said.

“Volunteering is important. It can get your name out there, help you pull up friends and also expand your horizons,” Keys said. “(You can) let yourself get into something that you never thought you may like.”

DaNaya Burnett, a graduate assistant for the Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism, said volunteering changes people for the better.

“Once students realize what they are doing is helping and how much it’s helping then they come back, they always come back,” Burnett said.

Burnett said volunteering is something that is beneficial to most college students.

“I am a broke college student, I do not have a lot of money to donate to an organization but I do have a lot of time on my hands,” Burnett said. “I love helping people and I think giving back to your community, whatever community you live in at the time, or wherever you were born and raised is really important.”

Domonique Hill can be reached at 581-2812 or ddhill@eiu.edu.

Hello Dali to start semester with show, auditions

By Kennedy Nolen Multicultural Reporter | @KennedyNolenEIU Eastern’s comedy improvisation group Hello Dali will kick off the semester with its first show at 9 p.m. Thursday in the Coleman Auditorium.

Then, if they like what they see, at 9 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 7 in the same location, students can audition to become part of the group.

Hello Dali President Gavin Peterson said the group is inspired by sketch comedies including “Whose Line is it Anyway?”

Members typically perform twice a month for an hour.

Peterson said the group is all about teaching teamwork and communication.

“It is probably one of the oldest, underrated

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(registered student organizations) we have on campus,” Peterson said.

He said the show Thursday is a performance to welcome students back to campus.

During the show, Hello Dali will create scenes and play games to practice their impro-

tions.

When someone drove their car into the side of Marty’s in 2016, Peterson said the audience suggested the theme of the show be bad drivers. “(The show) was solely based off of someone

“Go see a show, audition; just put yourself out there.

-Hello Dali President Gavin Peterson visation skills.

“Based on the time of year, the audience has a sort of themed suggestion (for the sketches),” Peterson said.

During their performance, the members explain to the audience how each game is played so viewers are able to give their own sugges-

driving into the side of the wall,” he said.

The group holds two days of auditions each semester.

“Once you’re a member, you’re always a member,” Peterson said.

During auditions, Peterson said current Hello Dali members run recruits through a couple

shows to see how they do naturally as actors.

“We usually do two days of auditions to see if they have improved in the meantime, and offer a variety of times just in case someone can’t make the first (audition),” Peterson said.

For students who would like to audition, Peterson said having theater experience is great but not necessary.

He said good qualities of potential members include being comfortable on stage, witty, creative and being a good speaker.

Being “someone who is not afraid to get up there and make a fool of themselves” is also a plus, Peterson added.

“Go see a show, audition, just put yourself out there,” Peterson said.

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

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Take on less responsibilities to avoid stress

While sitting slouched over in my horribly uncomfortable chair during my professor’s lecture on Tuesday, I caught myself daydreaming.

I did not have a valid reason to drift away into dreamland early that morning. The lecture was not particularly boring, neither was the professor, and in fact I quite enjoy that class.

However, given the circumstances that have been the bane of my existence lately, my mind tends to wander even when I do not want it to.

Of course, daydreaming is harmless at times, but lately my distractions have been holding a knife to my back since school started, and to be perfectly honest I am getting rather annoyed with them.

Unfortunately, I have come to find that the greatest fall of any college student is a distracted mind.

We cannot think straight, and forget trying to pay attention in class. Once we start letting those distractions get the better of us we fall behind, and it starts to feel like there is no catching up.

So we panic, we cry, we plead with professors and some of us even drink our sorrows away.

We slowly sink into this oblivion that our distractions created until some of us give up because at that point we are so lost in our despair we forgot how to get out.

And still we let these distractions stronghold us and win, despite knowing what happens year after year.

So, what can we do when we feel like there is nothing else to do?

Drop whatever distracts us and drown out its calls.

Distractions visit us in all forms, whether it’s relationship issues, friendship issues or in my case family issues.

Letting go of what distracts us is a very difficult thing to do and can take time, but it is the only way to save ourselves from insanity.

If what distracts us causes us mental harm in the end, then there is no reason to hang onto those distractions.

I am far from a realist, but being an idealist and trying to help everyone by giving them everything I have is becoming unbearable, impossible and is limiting my opportunities to advance my abilities and potential.

But, sometimes we all have to be a little harsh and a little blunt in order to put ourselves first in our lives.

We are young, in college and we should be able to make this time ours, not anyone else’s.

So, here is to making this year a little less stressful and a hell of lot more fun by dropping those burdensome distractions and making our lives a little more bearable.

Analicia Haynes is a junior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu.

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As the second week of school slowly reaches an end, classes, the homework that accompanies them and all the other responsibilities that college students endure are just picking up in speed and capacity.

However, as everyone finds their place on campus and settles down, whether it be for the first time or the fourth time, a common threat begins to reemerge and sneaks up on many unsuspecting students.

The culprit, is stress.

With that said, on several occasions one of the many things that several staff members do is take walks down memory lane.

We remember anything and everything whether it is about what it was like being a freshman or what our first breaking news story felt like.

But, we also remember the seemingly endless stress that came with taking on multiple responsibilities and cannot seem to talk enough about it.

Stress kills.

Maybe not literally but it does kill spirits, personalities, hopes and goals if we

allow it to do so.

It is very easy to fall victim to stress especially if you are taking on more than you can handle.

That was a common problem that many of us on staff had with the evolution of stress; we were taking on too much and we could not handle it all at once.

Some of us worked nonstop at the paper, contacting sources, trying to beat deadline all while going to class, making sure homework was done and finishing work in whatever other registered student organization we were a part of.

It was hard and it still is hard but we learned to adapt and make things easier for ourselves.

It never fails. Students take on more than they can chew and we do not blame anyone.

The start of the year is always the hardest because there are tons of RSOs, fraternities, sororities and other organizations on campus that are trying to recruit people, and as a student we want to do as much as

we can.

Why? Because we told to do ever since we were young. We were told to “broaden our horizons” or “try new things,” and more often than not we struggle to maintain all that we are involved in.

Therefore, the staff at The Daily Eastern News encourage our peers to take it easier.

You do not have to try everything and if you are overloaded with clubs and activities, it is OK to walk away from some.

Of course, you want to let someone know that there is too much on your plate at the moment but we digress.

Do what you can, during the time that you have and please, do not forget about class or homework.

After all, you are paying for your school, so that should come first.

College is a great place to explore, experiment and meet new people, but you should not have to feel stressed doing so.

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

Do not be afraid to talk to new people The number of articles and pieces written about how millennials are glued to their cell phones and addicted to social media is similar to the amount of times I checked my phone during my 10 a.m. lecture: countless.

As a young adult who chooses to spend her free time scrolling through social media, I have noticed a few trends that my fellow millennials have fallen victim to.

These include posts claiming they are from the “wrong generation,” coupled with a glamorized description of a generation they have no knowledge of outside their elementary school social studies classes.

Other posts complaining about trivial matters, such as not being able to finish an hour-long episode on Netflix in the 20 minutes before they have class, also constantly pop up on my feed.

We are all guilty of being petty on social media and prioritizing our gadgets, myself included.

However, a herd I will never find myself following is the “I Hate People” trend.

Meeting new people and talking are two of my favorite things.

They are the reason I decided to be a journalism major— I can make the two things I love to do into a career.

With no car and a six-hour roundtrip on the road my parents preferred not to make, taking the train was the only way I could go home for long weekends and holidays.

Without fail, I always found a row to myself and placed myself in the window seat so I could write, sleep and roll my eyes at whoever talked too loudly on the phone in the rows adjacent to me without any interruption.

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Managing Editor Analicia Haynes

Carole Hodorowicz During the train ride to kick off my Thanksgiving break during my freshman year, an older woman politely asked to take the seat next to me after the conductor made a scheduled stop at the Champaign station.

A nap was not in my schedule for the ride and I predicted she would be a better companion than an empty seat.

I planned on dedicating the entirety of my ride to writing in my journal After I noticed the woman next to me had a book in her hand, I came to the conclusion she had the same idea for escaping reality in her own way.

My train ride and train of thoughts continued to chug along smoothly.

I forgot that someone was even next to me until I felt a nudge on my shoulder.

“Why are you writing? What is it for?” the woman next to me asked.

Her bold question left me speechless, which is a state I rarely find myself in.

Although I have written for student publications, my creative writing pieces are more

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personal and I am often hesitant to share them.

She sensed my hesitation and then challenged me with another question.

“What is it you want to do with your life?” Again, I was speechless.

She took control of the silence and told me about her son, who she was on her way to visit in Chicago.

He was a writer and she said I reminded her of him after watching me scribble in my journal during the train ride. After telling me about him, I opened up about my dream to write a book one day.

Before I knew it, we had arrived at Chicago Union Station.

As we rose from our seats and started collecting our belongings, she asked for my name.

After I told her, she said “I know I’ll be seeing that name somewhere big one day.”

Maybe she was a fortune teller or maybe she was senile, but I know for certain that the conversation I had with this woman will always be something I remember, especially when I come across one of my followers preaching about how they wish they never had to interact with a member of the human race again and just binge watch Netflix forever.

Next time you find yourself waiting in a long line or sitting next to an open seat, do yourself a favor and start up a conversation with a stranger. You will stumble across something you will not find on your phone.

Carole Hodorowicz is a junior journalism major.

She can be reached at 581-2812 or cdhodorowicz@ eiu.edu.

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Student Senate Good doggie talks expectations

By Samuel Nusbaum Reporter| @DEN_News Bylaw revisions, including one to change audience participation rules, were brought up at the first Student Senate meeting of the year.

Speaker of the Student Senate William Outzen introduced these revisions, which the senate will vote on later.

In regards to audience participation, those who say in advance they wish to speak at a Student Senate meeting will be allowed ten minutes.

Those who do not will be given five minutes. Campaigning will not be allowed at this time.

Part of the revisions to the bylaws include streamlining the addition of new registered student organizations to campus.

“We (changed the bylaws because) they because they were pretty outdated. There was a lot of duplicated, outdated stuff, so we wanted to clean them up, make them look prettier and update them to fit the modern senate,” Outzen said.

Student Body President Luke Young laid out plans he has for three

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 In the past few days, the Illinois Public Policy Institute’s Illinois News Network and NowDecatur.com have both quoted Caulkins as saying the GOP appalled him when it overrode Rauner’s veto on three bills this summer, which resulted in the state getting its first budget in three fiscal years.

“We got nothing out of (the override),” he said in the articles. “The people of Illinois got nothing but higher income taxes.”

Caulkins said he made these remarks because Illinois has a spending problem.

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“If we fall into the trap of saying, ‘If I don’t see it on the screen then it’s not important to the university.’ That’s the higher education marketing trap,” Sickler said.

projects this semester.

They include creating a presidential cabinet, working with the enrollment office to get more students involved in recruiting on campus and visiting RSOs. He said he wants to visit RSOs to get the student senate more involved.

Another plan Young has is to get more students, especially senators, out recruiting at their old high schools with recruitment counselors by their side.

Young said the point of his cabinet will be to focus on more individual issues people notice around campus which need to be addressed.

The senate told its six new senators what is expected of them for the duration of their term.

Each senator is required to fulfill diversity requirements over the course of the semester, Outzen said.

Senators will fill out a form explaining their diversity experiences to the senate’s Diversity chair, who still has yet to be selected.

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truly addressed in the budget bill was more revenue and raising taxes,” he said in an interview with The Daily Eastern News. “We got no reform, no spending caps, no reduction in spending.”

Though he did say there is a benefit to having a budget in place, he maintains the position that it would have been better for the state of the Illinois if the Senate and House had upheld the governor’s amendatory veto instead of their original budget plan.

“We still would have ended up with higher taxes, but we would have gotten something for it,” Caulkins said.

Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu

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DeWolf comes up clutch for Eastern

By Dillan Schorfheide Women’s Soccer Reporter | @DEN_Sports Nothing was going into the goal for Eastern’s women’s soccer team against Green Bay Friday, until sophomore forward Sarah DeWolf broke the 0-0 tie with barely any time left in regulation.

It was one of those games where one team was able to dominate throughout the contest, but nothing they did seemed to help them, in this case Eastern.

The lack of Eastern’s goal-scoring was not for a lack of trying: nothing would go in the net for them.

Eastern had nine total shots, four less than Green Bay in the contest, but had one more shot on goal than the Phoenix with five.

Those shots came from different opportunities for the Panthers: corner kicks, shots outside and inside the box, and passes down the field that lead to crosses into the box.

That is how DeWolf netted her second goal of the season Friday.

“I don’t really think I had too many defenders around me, and I was able to get my head on it and place it in the net,” DeWolf said.

Eastern’s defense and midfield were able to advance the ball up the right side of the field to freshman forward/midfielder Niondina Nystrom.

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Sophomore Sarah DeWolf dribbles past a Milwaukee defender Saturday at Lakeside Field. DeWolf netted the Panthers’ game winning goal with 61 seconds left in the game the day before against Green Bay.

After battling against a few Green Bay defenders, Nystrom was able to break and continue her dribble toward the corner.

DeWolf, along with a few other Eastern

attackers, positioned themselves inside the box.

Nystrom was able to get what DeWolf said was a great cross into the box, and DeWolf

was able to head the ball into the back of the net.

Her goal came with 61 seconds left in the game, something she and assistant coach Jake Plant both said was a relief.

“We were working really hard to get a goal that game, and it was good to finally get it,” DeWolf said.

Plant said getting the goal was great for the team because the win is better than the possible tie the team was facing.

With the goal Friday, Nystrom got her first assist of the season, and DeWolf got her second goal of the season.

With the goal, DeWolf is now the leading scorer for the Panthers. Her first goal came in the Panthers’ 2-0 win against IUPUI. “I guess it just kind of happened,” she said, referring to if she was expecting to be the leading scorer. “It was a goal of mine this year to get a lot of goals.”

That first goal against IUPUI was the team’s first of the year, and both of her goals have been game-winning scores.

Two other Eastern players have scored this season so far: junior Kate Olson scored in the IUPUI game, and freshman Pilar Barrio saved the team from a loss against Indiana State, tying the game 1-1 with her goal.

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

Opening race for cross country this Friday

By Alex Hartman Cross Country Reporter | @DEN_Sports

The competition will be commencing on the Tom Woodall Panther Trail, and Eastern will be hosting some conference competition by way of Murray State and SIUE, as well as Bradley, Southeast Missouri and Illinois from Division I athletics.

Other schools that will be running include Danville CC, Kaskaskia College, Illinois Central College, Vincennes University and Lincoln College.

The season opener will set the tone for the runners this season, and the team is looking to have a great start from the new additions to the team. The team is also looking for both men’s

Friday marks the opening race for the men and women of Eastern Cross Country and is their first of five regular season races. Then they go onto compete in the OVC Championship and the NCAA Midwest regional races.

There are many new faces on both sides for the Panthers, who will host the Ohio Valley Championship Oct. 28th.

The Walt Crawford Open will start with the 5K for the women at 4:45 pm, and the 8K for the men will begin at around 5:30pm.

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In total there were nine seniors who departed the team via graduation from last season. There were five on the women’s side, which included standout cross country running sisters Ruth and Rachel Garippo. The men had four departures on their side, and both sides will build their young talent throughout this season.

For the team’s next race in two weeks, they will travel to Bradley University on Friday, Sept. 15th for the Bradley Intercollegiate in Peoria.

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and women’s veterans to lead the way.

The men have a leading senior group that includes Chris Orlow, Tyler Keen, Karson Hahn and Michael Mest, while the senior Maria Baldwin is the leading senior for the women, also joined by fellow seniors Caroline Collet and Lea Viano.

For the last two seasons Baldwin has won the opening race for Eastern and looks to come out of the gates strong for a rare three peat.

And the men’s side will inevitably have a new champion, since the graduation of Eastern runner Riley McInerney opens up the first-place spot for someone else.

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Football team opening at Indiana State

By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports For the past three seasons, the Eastern football team has lost its season op ener.

The Panthers played Western the last two years and hurt themselves by turning the ball over.

Eastern lost to Big 10 opponent Minnesota, a game that Eastern coach Kim Dameron said the Panthers played better in.

“Both of our games against Western Illinois we’ve turned the f o o t b a l l ove r,” Da m e ro n s a i d .

“We’ve moved it, but we turned it over and we’ve given up big plays on defense.”

Eastern has not played Indiana State in a decade, and Dameron said there are three things the Panthers have to do to win the open-

er Thursday night in Terre Haute.

Eastern cannot let up big plays on defense like it had in the past two seasons, has to stop turn ing the ball over and stop making early mistakes such as penalties, Dameron said.

Putting last year and the previous season-opening losses behind them, redshirt senior quarterback Mitch Kimble said he and the Panthers are feeling good for this year.

“We’re excited,” Kimble said.

“It’s crazy it’s already here. Last year we haven’t really had a good start so this year we’re really trying to come out fast, execute, and hopefully get the win.”

Kimble has sophomore running back Darshon McCullough lining up behind him in the backfield, with redshirt junior Aaron Gooch

and senior Dennis Turner as two of the receivers.

But a few new faces to the Panther offense include redshirt junior Nick Atoyebi, redshirt freshman Robbie Lofton and redshirt junior Javon Turner. The trio did not see any time last season.

Kimble said the offense is running smoothly and ever yone is starting to connect.

Both Dameron and Kimble were happy with how spring ball and preseason training went as well.

“I think they’re going to be good,” Kimble said. “We’ve got some special guys out there. We’ve got some talent at wide receivers and we’ve got some new running backs too. I think they’re going to be special players.”

McCullough has some big shoes to fill in replacing Devin Church,

but Kimble said him and the other running backs are fitting in well and will have to be ready when their number is called.

Although Eastern lost a few of its leaders to graduation last year with linebacker Seth McDonald and Church graduating, he said there is something even more special about this year’s group.

Kimble, senior safety Bradley Dewberry, redshirt senior tight end Addison Bounds, redshirt senior safety Tray Mitchell and senior center Louis Vailopa are the captains for the Panthers this season.

“We’re excited about the leadership and the overall attitude about the football team,” Dameron said.

Indiana State brings back Isaac Ha rk e r, w h o w o n t h e s t a r t i n g quarterback job, so Eastern gets

a little bit of a look at him even though they did not play the Sycamores last year.

Dameron said they have seen that he can run for yards a little bit as well as scramble.

Indiana State’s entire coaching staff was revamped in the offseason with Curt Mallory taking the reigns of the football program.

The Mallory name is a popular name among football coaches.

His dad, Bill, is the winningest coach in Indiana University history and has two brothers, Doug and Mike, with assistant coaching gigs for the Atlanta Falcons and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. ET and 6 p.m. CT. Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.

Panthers looking for fresh start in 2017

By Maher Kawash Football Reporter | @DEN_Sports At times last season, the Eastern football team seemed like one of the best across the entire Ohio Valley Conference.

But when all was said and done, the Panthers had little to show for it, and one reason why is because little mistakes turned into major losses.

For example, near the end of the season the Panthers were fighting for their postseason chances against Tennessee-Martin, until a late-game penalty changed the outcome.

A little mistake on the defensive side of the ball allowed the oppo-

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Go o d n e w s i s E a s t e r n h a s a fresh slate, fresh faces and a fresh opportunity to build off last season.

To build on that, it is clear the team is focused on their opponent for the week in Indiana State, with little regard to what happened anytime before this campaign.

Despite losing their past two season openers, Eastern linebacker Nick Horne said it does not mean a thing.

“If we lost the past five or ten years it doesn’t matter because this is a new year and we’re just taking it one step at a time,” Horne said.

That is taken a step fur ther when considering the depth on both sides of the ball and how the trend of avoiding little mistakes continues on offense.

The revolving door at quarterback because of Mitch Kimble’s

injury issues played a major role in that.

The Panthers’ inconsistency at the position led to some costly turnovers. What also needs to be considered is how that affected the offensive line.

The lineman had to adjust to a couple different styles of play, which led to some little but hurtful false start penalties.

What hurts the most about little mistakes is it seems like they come at the most inopportune times such as late in the game in losses.

What helps the Panthers with being able to avoid things like that this year is all the returning starters and experience.

As long as the injury bug stays away, Eastern has large amounts of potential to continue the success they found at times a year ago.

The defense finished top five a year ago and did not lose many starters, so key cogs like Horne will go a long way in shoring up any loose ends on that side of the ball. “ We c o m e i n t o e v e r y g a m e wanting to win and this one is going to be a great one,” Horne said.

“Indiana State is a great program and we have a lot of respect for them, but I think it’ll be a defensive game that we’re ready for.”

Maher Kawash can be reached at 581-2812 or mwkawash@eiu.edu.