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Esperanza, a registered student organization, sold paletas on Wednesday in order to “bring a little home” to campus.

The Eastern volleyball team loses 3-1 to Southern Illinois University —Edwardsville on Wednesday.

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SACIS preps for annual 5K run/walk

By Travis Moody Contributing Writer | @DEN_News

Community members and students will “Take Back the Day” on Saturday at Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service’s annual 5K Run/Walk at Sister City Park.

Amanda Feder, the preventionist for SACIS, said the entire team has been working together to make this event possible.

“I’m really excited to see our supportive community come together for this collective event,” Feder said.

The annual run, which will be celebrating its fourth year, derives its name from the “Take Back the Night” march, which SACIS also hosts every year.

Erin Walters, the executive director of SACIS, said the march originated in the 1970s as a way for women who felt unsafe walking alone at night to make their voices heard.

“Everyone should be able to walk freely at night without the threat of violence,” Walters said, “But, it’s not just at night we should be able to walk freely.”

There is an entrance fee of $20 for those who register online, $10 for students and seniors and $25 for those who register on-site. Children six and under may enter for free.

There is also a one-mile option for those who cannot walk or run a full 5K. SACIS also allows student organizations to become a sponsor for $50. Members of organizations sponsoring the run/walk are able to participate for free. Becoming a sponsor also allows students of that organization to purchase shirts for $5.

Walters said some of the student organizations that have already become sponsors this year include Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Chi Sigma Iota and Alpha Sigma Tau. “The money raised goes directly to SACIS,” Walters said. “It goes to areas where we have less funding. A lot of it goes to prevention education programs that we do in the schools.”

SACIS goes to K-12 schools to help teach students with age-related materials concerning sexual assault and consent. Topics include teaching younger children to find their “safe grown-ups” and teaching older students about the dangers of the Internet, as well as the characteristics of healthy relationships.

While the amount of those involved in the run each year varies, the team at SACIS said they are expecting a good turnout to Saturday’s run.

With the weather looking to be ideal, Feder said they are hoping for the best turnout and the most enjoyable 5K run yet.

“I think people will enjoy walking through the beautiful neighborhoods in Heritage Woods,” said Walters. “Everyone I’ve spoken to has thoroughly enjoyed the routes we choose and getting to see the neighborhoods. They get to explore parts of Charleston that they don’t normally go to.”

Those interested can pre-register at www. firstgiving.com/sacis or sign up on-site as late as 7:45 a.m. the day of the run. The 5K starts at 8 a.m.

T-shirts will also be available to everyone at the event.

SACIS’s office can be reached at 217-3485033 with any further questions about the run.

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

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Students play a game of “Capture the Power Up,” an activity that is a part of Residents on Campus Fest. The game is played like Capture the Flag. During ROC Fest, residence halls compete against each other in different activities for points, which are added up at the end of the week to determine the winning hall.

Residents ‘Capture the Powerup’ Teams competed to earn points for ROC Fest

By Valentina Vargas Contributing Writer | @DEN_News Residence hall teams gathered in the North Quad for Capture the Powerup, a friendly competition that is part of Residents on Campus Fest.

Ma r y Fl e m i n g , L a w s o n H a l l C o u n cil president, said people in the ROC Fest competition are all trying, and the event will go well.

“The competitions are fun and taken seriously at the same time,” Fleming said.

Capture the Powerup, is a classic game of Capture the Flag.

The teams have to capture their enemy’s flag, but if a person is tagged by an opponent in the process of doing this the person is sent to jail until a team member tags them back in.

As the teams gathered near the Physical Sciences Building, each team waved their subtheme flag they needed in order to participate in Capture the Powerup competition.

Each team had to have at least five to eight people in their team in order to participate, which resulted in some resident halls teaming up.

Christopher Dixon, a freshman finance major, said the activity would be very interesting because Douglas and Lincoln Hall, which are normally enemies, united together to have sufficient team members to participate.

helped advertise the ROC Fest competitions to unite people in the experiences each activity provides.

“It will be a blast, and if we do not win, we will take it as an experience to learn for next year,” Krebs said.

"I have gotten to know more people and build unity in our whole RHA." Christopher Dixon, freshman finance major

“I believe (working with Lincoln Hall) will help bring new creative ideas and help move up (in the rank) because we have different mindsets,” Dixon said.

Abbi Chaeon, a junior history major, said since she lives in Pemberton Hall, she knows the North Quad more so she had a better hiding spot plan than other teams that live in the South Quad. She said although the competition is fun, the most important thing is about making the hall better solidify as a family.

“We’re very vocal and like to communicate, so (we) have to have everyone’s input,” Chaeon said.

As the competition went on shoes were lost, people threw Frisbees as a distraction and teams worked to run across the opponent’s territory for the hidden flag of the opponent.

Camr yn Krebs, a freshman in special education major, said her Ford Hall team

Krebs’ team is currently in first place for the ROC Fest.

“We are giving it our all and leave everything on the quad,” Kerbs said.

Natalie Santillan, a sophomore early childhood education major, said whether it is a loss or a win for her hall, the competitions bring people together.

“It brings the hall together and (we) get to meet people from different floors and build a community. We meet new faces on different days,” Santillan said. “(Also, it is) an opportunity to unite and participate in the campus (activities).”

Dixon said the ROC Fest has also been a very fun experience for him.

“I have gotten to know more people and build unity in our whole RHA,” Dixon said.

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

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New York rushes to aid in ravaged Puerto Rico

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York state, home to the U.S. mainland's biggest Puerto Rican community, is sending a lot more than thoughts and prayers to the hurricane-ravaged island.

Between them, New York state and city have committed hundreds of workers and organized aid ranging from rescue helicopters to field rations. Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the first flight allowed to land after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico last week, and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito joined city workers this weekend to aid relief on the island where her own mother lives.

Maria tore through Puerto Rico last week, killing at least 16 people and leaving nearly all 3.4 million residents without power and most without water.

Questions remain after Trump's tax cutting promises

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Lamar Demus, a junior applied engineering and technology major, talks to Joshua Flahaven, an Eastern alumna representing Caterpillar, about potential internship opportunities. Demus said having an internship before graduating is important. “It shows you exactly what you want to do because in the field is different than in a classroom,” Demus said. “So if I can pick up an internship, I can pick and see exactly what I want to do.”

WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — Pr o m i s i n g b i g t a x c u t s a n d a b o o m i n g e c o n o m y, Pr e s i d e n t Donald Trump and congressional Republicans unveiled the first major revamp of the nation's tax c o d e i n a g e n e r a t i o n We d n e s day — a sweeping, nearly $6 trillion tax cut that would deeply reduce levies for corporations, simplify everyone's brackets and nearly double the standard deduction used by most Americans.

Trump declared repeatedly the plan would provide badly needed tax relief for the middle class.

But there are too many gaps in the proposal to know how it actually would affect individual taxpayers and families, how it would be paid for and how much it might add to the soaring $20 trillion national debt.

Illinois adults now able to earn high school diplomas ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a new Illinois law that will let adults, 21 or older, earn high school diplomas instead of general-education certificates.

The new law also will allow for the creation of adult diploma programs run by community colleges or eligible nonprofit groups, such as Goodwill.

Urjoo Abbas, an economics alumna, returned to Eastern to find a full-time job Wednesday at the Job and Internship Fair in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Abbas said she hopes this fair will be an opportunity to use her Eastern experience and find ways to continue expanding her knowledge in her chosen fields.

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Esperanza shares culture through paletas

By Chrissy Miller News Editor | @DEN_News Along with popsicles, Esperanza, a registered student organization, brought childhood memories to campus with their Paletas Sale on Wednesday.

Esperanza’s president, Blanca Avagon, said the goal of the sale was to bring a little bit of home to Latino students on campus and to inform the campus community about what their organization stands for.

“No one’s ever thought of the idea so I was like, why not,” Avagon said.

Avagon said she has many fond memories of going to the park with her mother and getting paletas as a special treat.

“She was never big on sweets, but I remember just going to the park and asking for one of those and that would bring joy to my day,” Avagon said.

There were people waiting outside Coleman to buy the frozen treats before the group even set up, Avagon said.

She said she is considering the sale as a possible fundraiser for next semester because it went so well.

“We can draw them in with the paletas and then give them more information about what our RSO stands for,” Avagon said.

Avagon said Esperanza was founded by five women from different multicultural backgrounds and to educate the community about women empowerment, diversity and culture.

“We’re trying to educate everyone little by little about the different cultures,”

Avagon said.

Melissa Martinez, Esperanza’s special event coordinator who also handles public relations and marketing for the group, said she remembers paletas as an integral part of her elementary school experience.

“Every Friday, that was like my reward for making it through the week,” Martinez said. “We would go to my grandma’s house and then my grandfather would drop my grandma off and then he’d take me and my older brother to the store.”

Martinez said this childhood routine has affected her tastes in frozen treats to this day.

“I would always get a lime and my brother would always get chocolate and I never changed,” Martinez said. “I love lime. It’s my favorite.”

Martinez said it was wonderful to see people coming to the sale who were not necessarily of Hispanic descent because of how open they were to experiencing a culture different from their own.

“It’s really nice that people are open to experiencing our culture, and what we find really special and something that is really important to us,” she said.

“Because who doesn’t like ice cream?”

All money raised by this sale will go toward funding future projects the group plans to do on campus.

The next project Esperanza is planning is a breast cancer awareness T-shirt sale in October.

Chrissy Miller can be reached at 581-2812 or cmiller9@eiu.edu.

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Melissa Martinez, (left,) a junior chemistry major and Blanca Aragon, (middle,) a senior community health major, serve paletas, or popsicles, to Pamela Padilla, a sophomore Spanish education major, outside Coleman Hall Wednesday afternoon. Martinez and Aragon are both part of the women’s empowerment registered student organization Esperanza. Esperanza raised just under $100 at the end of the sale.

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Ben Leman

Everyone has something to better themselves It does not matter what race you are, what creed you hold or what values you share.

We all have something dear to our hearts that drives us to do more and aspire further.

Everyone has something.

My “somethings” are three specific people who influenced my life. These are my heroes.

The first person is my father. Because of him, I have become a stronger person. I was raised to not be afraid to take risks and have integrity.

He showed me to stay strong in adversity.

He also showed me that the things you want most in life are not easy to obtain. His experiences growing up shaped him to want change and be something more for my sister and I. I am blessed to have a wonderful mother and father, not many people can say that.

My second hero is my grandfather. He died of Alzheimer’s Disease in 2002 before I really got to know him.

Just recently, after my grandmother passed last year, I read his writings from his time in Europe during World War II. I read about his experiences in war, and living a peaceful life after. My grandfather gave me the inspiration to write and push myself.

If someone like him can go to war, liberate a concentration camp and come home to his family in his early 20’s, then there is nothing I cannot do to be a better person and strive for more in life.

Finally, my third hero is my squad leader from my army unit, Sgt. Matthew Umfleet.

First off, nothing has changed my life more than enlisting in the army. I have met great leaders and bad ones. None, however, like Sgt. Umfleet. This man is the epitome of what a leader should be through and through.

I have several memories of him that will be in my heart for a very long time. He taught me one of the most important lessons I can learn as a future officer; take care of your soldiers and communicate.

This lesson goes beyond the army. He taught me to watch out for others. Period. Talk to your friends, smile to strangers, and be someone that people look up to. If you do that, then the rest will follow. Mutual respect is key, and that is what he taught me.

There is a reason why I stress the things I do. I want to give back what my heroes have given to me. I believe it is important to have heroes in your life, or at least someone to look up to that makes you want to be a better person.

We all have something we want to fight for, and it is important to have someone to push us. So go out and find your something.

Ben Leman is a junior journalism major.

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

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Bystander intervention is important Tragedies happen in life. This is an unfortunate truth people have to grapple with in this world.

However, a small reason to hope is that in the midst of these tragedies, communities often come together, and there is usually someone refusing to stand by and watch these bad things happen.

For example, there is the heroic teacher who stepped up to subdue a student shooter at Mattoon High School last week.

It may seem hard or scary to even think of what one would do in this situation.

Though we hope emergencies never happen, preparing is never a bad idea. In fact, it could be life-saving one day.

Last week, we wrote about how new Eastern students are required to learn how to help in an emergency situation. EIU StepsUP! Bystander Intervention is a mandatory one-time training program for new students, which helps them know what to do in problem situations.

What those who want to avoid becoming bystanders need to do, according to the article, can be remembered in five steps.

Managing Editor Analicia Haynes

another person from harm. Standing passively when you know a problem is happening almost guarantees nothing will get better and that something bad will happen.

It is depressing to think about these things, of course. No one wants to, and it is sad that we have to. But this is the world we live in. The way we feel less helpless and alone when tragedy strikes is by preparing and making sure we know what to do in emergency situations.

And of course, when terrible things do happen, it is important to lean on each other for support. While it is OK to have alone time and everyone deals with things differently, completely isolating yourself from others will only make you feel worse.

Talk to a counselor or trusted friend and family member. Reach out to someone you trust and just talk. Remember, you are not alone. By communicating with those around you, a sense of healing may begin to develop.

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

Understanding through calm discussions An evangelical Christian and an atheist walk into a coffee shop.

No, I am not telling a joke.

Last week, Stephen Lucas and I had coffee and a 90-minute discussion in Java.

Lucas is a professor in the education department, where he teaches secondary education and foundations courses. He is a self-described evangelical and is active in his Urbana church.

He sat down with me, a self-described atheist, to hear about the doubts my generation often has with organized religion. We talked about the ways that young atheists and agnostics find their morals and their places in the world as well as how the older, more religious crowd could find common ground.

It was a great conversation; about halfway through, I wished I had recorded it.

We both worked out the fine points of our moral understandings and we learned a good deal about each other’s worldviews. At the end, we both walked away with things to ponder about each other and about ourselves.

I think that is the mark of a good conversation: you end up with as many questions as you started with, but they are all

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The first step is looking for red flags, or situations that look problematic. Next, the article states that one should identify the problem and see if what is happening is an emergency.

The third step involves the person assuming responsibility for the situation and seeing if there is someone who can help. The fourth step is knowing how to get help and the fifth is actually getting that help.

These five steps seem simple enough to remember, but in an emergency, remembering something as simple as knowing where emergency lights are on campus or how to get ahold of the University Police Department can prove difficult, especially in a time-sensitive situation.

So be sure to brush up on these things often, to make sure you remember what needs to be done. Maybe stick emergency numbers on your fridge, or have them saved on your phone for when you are out and about.

It may seem hard to be the one person in a crowd willing to jump in when something feels wrong, but it will be worth it when you save

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Shelby Niehaus different ones. There is room for growth on top of what growth has already happened.

Scattered around us in Java while we talked were other groups. Some folks discussed classes and others discussed society and culture. I like to think that all these coffee-facilitated discussions, from the superficial to the entertaining to the philosophical, helped those engaged learn and grow just a little bit.

I believe deeply in the power of discussion. It is a proven classroom tool—it endures well into the digital age even when other ancient learning methods shrivel up.

We play ideas, fragmented and whole, off

each other and refine them through peer inquiry and through our own mental-toverbal translations.

There are some ideas that can only transform, I believe, by letting them escape the confines of the brain.

My classmates from the English department are probably very familiar with discussion and its benefits, but some other students might be more accustomed to a more passive education.

For these students, I highly recommend peer discussion as a way to deepen your learning.

Your discussions do not have to be about class materials. They can be about anything from social trends to politics to films. Lucas and I talked about science fiction and managed to both learn a little about the genre— anything is fair game if you can hold a detailed, thoughtful conversation about it.

Finally, I encourage the reader to discuss with someone very different from themself. Finding common ground in unexpected places is always a pleasure.

Shelby Niehaus is a senior English language arts major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or scniehaus@eiu.edu.

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Senate plans outreach to student body Senators plan to call the event ‘1st Thursday’

By Samuel Nusbaum Contributing Writer | @DEN_News The Student Senate discussed a proposed Aldi’s bus stop and introduced a new event during itsmeeting Wednesday evening in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Speaker of the Student Senate William Outzen introduced his event “1st Thursday” to the senate.

Outzen said the senators will go in front of the Doudna Steps from 1-3 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month to gather information about what students want to see changed on campus.

“A lot of students do not know what we do, they do not know who we are, they do not know what we stand for and how we help them,” Outzen said. “The purpose of these Thursdays is to try to fix that.”

“1st Thursday” will be held for the first time on Oct. 5.

Outzen said he will read all the responses students give and hand out the recommendations to the proper committees so issues are taken care of.

If an issue needs to be brought up to the administration, the senate will keep talking to the administration until a resolution can be made.

Student Body President Luke Young gave an update on the proposed bus stop at Aldi’s.

Aldi’s will not have an official stop because it is not feasible, Young said. He said there was not enough time to make Aldi’s both a drop-off and pick-up destination.

“Aldi’s will be having a drop-off point by request,” Young said.

Young had sent a draft memo to Kent Martin, chief of the University Police Department, to send out to the student body.

Young said a person may be dropped off at Aldi’s if the bus driver thinks there is enough time, weather permits a drop-off to occur and it will not make the rest of the route late to their destinations.

The pick-up point will still be at the Walmart parking lot.

In his presidential cabinet report, Young said he still needs a representative for on-campus life.

Rebecca Cash, the vice president of Academic Affairs, said 13 students total showed up to her first Prowlin’ with the Prez event and Trivia with the Prez.

“You guys are the faces of the student body, you guys are supposed to be gung-ho about everything hap-

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The Student Senate waits for its weekly meeting to start Wednesday night in the Arcola/Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

pening on campus,” Cash said. “If you guys do not want to go to stuff, then why would the 200 students you represent want to go?”

Cash said she will be visiting EIU

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She hopes to have it accom-

Harry Potter ties into intellectual freedom for banned books week

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Jazz studies professor Paul Johnston and Shellie Gregorich, chair of the music department, discuss work topics for the rest of the week by the Doudna Fine Arts Center on Wednesday afternoon.

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The “Dark Arts and Other Wicked Ideas: Harry Potter, Banned Books and Intellectual Freedom” lecture will be held from 4-5:30 p.m. on Thursday in Witters Conference Room 4440 in honor of Banned Books week.

“Identifying certain ideas as dangerous – and therefore banned or otherwise restricted – is a perennial phenomenon, manifesting throughout every time and culture,” the Booth Library website said.

This phenomenon and intellectual freedom itself will be examined through the lens of the Harry Potter series during this lecture.

Ryan McDaniel, a communication studies professor, will offer some historical background and context for considering this theme in the Western cultural tradition.

According to the Booth Library website, the lecture will cover everything

from the trial and execution of Socrates, to the Papal Index of Prohibited Books, to irreplaceable collections of Jewish books going up in flames during the Renaissance.

Michele McDaniel, a reference librarian, will then examine the problem of intellectual freedom in the Harry Potter series, book challenges in school and public libraries and the role of libraries in protecting intellectual freedom in the lecture.

Though this is their first academic partnership, Ryan and Michele have been partners in life for almost five years, according to the Booth Library website.

The website said when they are not reading banned books and pursuing other academic interests, they can be found spending time with their 2-and-a-half year old son, Killian.

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Crossword CELEBRITY CROSSWORD To mark the 75th anniversary of the New York Times crossword, which debuted in 1942, we are publishing a series of puzzles cocreated by famous people who solve the Times crossword, working together with regular Times puzzle contributors.

This collaboration is by the actor, comedian and emcee Neil Patrick Harris — the star of TV’s “Doogie Howser, M.D.” and “How I Met Your Mother” — working together with Stanford University student David Steinberg, who has been editing a weekly puzzle for the Orange County Register since he was 15. This is Mr. Steinberg’s 66th crossword for The Times.

The celebrity collaborations will continue periodically through the year.

More information about the making of today’s puzzle appears in the Times’s daily crossword column (nytimes.com/column/wordplay).

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Panthers look to snap four game skid

By Adam Shay Women’s Soccer Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern women’s soccer team looks to end a four game losing streak against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels this Friday, hoping to restart their offense.

Last weekend, the Panthers were held scoreless against Belmont and Austin Peay as they lost both games 2-0. This week in practice, the Panthers are making adjustments in order to return to their scoring ways.

“We are focusing on being more offensive-minded and taking more shots while we are in the offensive third,” senior Madi Fisher said.

The Panthers have been held scoreless the past four games; however, the team has been working on returning to form on offense.

“We’re working on timing our runs up top while staying onsides,” junior Kayla Stolfa said. “That way, when we get opportunities to attack, we can capitalize on them.”

Injuries are still lingering among the Panthers, which has caused them setbacks over the past couple weeks. A goal for the Panthers is to continuously try and help their players become healthy again.

“We’ve also had a lot of injuries in the past couple weeks so we’re also working on getting those people healthy,” Stolfa said.

Stolfa is one of those injured players as she suffered a sprained ankle in Friday’s

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Eastern freshman Caitlin Hawley runs away from Western defender Alexandra Siavelis during a game at Lakeside Field on Sept. 10. The Panther beat the Leathernecks 2-1 in the contest.

game, but is hopeful to return to the lineup this weekend.

However, some Panthers have returned to the lineup. Sophomore Henar Urteaga,

a starting defender for the Panthers, played the last two games after missing time. One of the key injured players for the Panthers is junior Kate Olsen.

During the Panthers’ first OVC game against Southern Illinois University­­—Edwardsville, Olsen was injured with a shoulder subluxation. Olsen’s timetable for return is not determined specifically, but she is hopeful for a speedy recovery.

“Normally with an injury like mine, the doctors said it could take up to six weeks to come back,” Olsen said. “They are going to take it a week at a time to determine if I am ready to come back or not. It’s hard to know an approximate time.”

Eastern Kentucky is 5-3-3 this year and is coming off of a tie. During practice this week, the Panthers have been working on making sure everyone is on the same page.

“We’re really working on our communication. We want to be more directive and clear with it. If our communication gets better, the little mistakes that have been costing us goals won’t happen,” Stolfa said.

Despite their recent losses, the Panthers head into Friday’s game looking to snap their losing streak. The Panthers have had a positive mentality so far this week in regards to Friday’s game.

“We know all it takes is one win to get back into the swing of things,” Olsen said.

“We might have to dig ourselves out of a hole, but our goal for making the conference tournament is still in reach. We have a game plan and are holding each other to it as a team.”

Adam Shay can be reached at 581-2812 or acshay@eiu.edu.

Cross country team heads to Louisville Classic

By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports The Eastern men’s and women’s cross country team is competing again after having last weekend off from competition.

The Panthers are competing at the Louisville Classic Saturday.

Last time out, the men and women earned second place finishes out of six teams at the Bradley Intercollegiate.

The women are regionally ranked for the third consecutive week in the United States Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association. Eastern is ranked 15th in the Midwest region.

Iowa State moved into the No. 1 spot for the Midwest region, becoming the third different team to have the first-place spot in three weeks.

Minnesota is tied with Oklahoma State for second place with Missouri and Kansas rounding out the top five.

Senior Maria Baldwin built on to her strong season last weekend with her second-straight second place finish on Bradley’s 3-mile course.

Baldwin finished the race with at 17 minutes, 42.5. Baldwin was the only top 10 finisher for Eastern, but freshman Kate Bushue finished just outside in 11th. She earned a time of 17 minutes, 42.5.

Baldwin earned OVC Female Runner of the Week for her performance at the Bradley Intercollegiate last week.

After a week off, she said the team is ready to go.

“This is a big meet and while we’re young, we have prepped the last two weeks and are prepared with the size of the race,” Baldwin

said.

The last time the Panthers competed at Louisville was in 2014.

Eastern is going to experience cooler temperatures this weekend than it did at the Bradley Intercollegiate.

The team has still been training and running in the heat the past week, but a drop in temperature this weekend may help Eastern’s runners, Baldwin said.

“I’m sure many of us will see (personal records,)” she said. “Hopefully the women can keep their top 15 mark in the Midwest.”

The two-week break in between meets is nothing new for the Panthers, as they had a two-week break between their opening EIU Walt Crawford open and the Bradley Intercollegiate.

The extra time off gives the Panthers some extra time to train and work on little things

to help them each weekend, Baldwin said.

“We’ve been seeing a ton of improvement on both sides of the team at practice and just doing all the right little things, like hydrating and sleeping,” she added.

While the men are not ranked in the USTFCCCA, they are still running strong.

Last weekend, freshman Dustin Hatfield placed third overall for the men. His time of 25 minutes, 23.1 gave him his third-place finish, while the rest of the men competing finished inside of the top 20.

Freshman Jaime Marcos came in ninth, finishing in 25 minutes, 58.3 seconds.

As Baldwin said, even though the team is young this year, they are getting contributions from everyone, top to bottom.

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

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Volleyball team falls at home 3-1

By Kaitlin Cordes Volleyball Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern volleyball team could not quite edge Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in the Panthers’ first home conference game of the season (19-25, 25-18, 19-25, 13-25).

Eastern’s back row was forced to step up as the Cougars rarely let the ball drop. Sophomore libero Ann Hughes notched 20 of the team’s 55 digs, attesting to the hustle that fueled Eastern throughout the four sets.

Eastern head coach Sam Wolinski said Hughes was a crucial part of Wednesday’s game play. “(Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville has) always been very scrappy. I thought Ann Hughes did really well digging balls from them,” Wolinski said.

Wolinski said she emphasized the importance of not getting discouraged by Southern Illinois-Edwardsville’s digs. She said it is crucial that her team continued to be relentless hitters.

The Panthers did just that, earning just 10 less kills than the Cougars at 48. Freshman outside hitter Laurel Bailey had a team high of 13 kills.

After dropping the first set, the Panthers came into the second set with newfound energy. Junior setter Taylor Smith fired off a service ace followed by a kill by senior middle Allie Hueston to go on a short twopoint run to start set two.

Eastern held the lead until the Cougars crept up to tie the score at 13 a piece with a kill by Dylynn Otte.

Eight serves by sophomore setter Gina Furlin and kills by Smith, Bailey and senior outside hitter Maria Brown propelled the Panthers to the 25-18 win.

The Cougars’ Taylor Joens was a dominating force at the net with 16 kills. Hughes, Smith and Brown made for a solid back row with Smith re-

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Redshirt sophomore Anne Hughes digs the ball in the Panthers’ 3-1 loss to Southern Illinois Edwardsville Wednesday night in Lantz Arena. She had 20 digs in the match.

cording her sixth double-double on the season.

The Cougars took control of set four early on, letting Eastern take the lead just once. Wolinski said her team was not expecting the tip kills Southern Illinois-Edwardsville was sending over the net.

“We just didn’t do a good enough

job of being prepared. The setter got a couple good drops against us,” Wolinski said. “Those are just things that can be easily fixed though.”

Southern Illinois-Edwardsville setter Mallory Nicholson earned 10 assists and just one kill while setter Samantha Knight notched six.

The loss puts the Panthers at 0-3

in the conference, and the Cougars walk away with their first Ohio Valley Conference win of the season.

Wednesday’s match was the first of a four-match conference home stand for Eastern.

The Tennessee State Tigers will travel to Lantz Arena this Saturday for Eastern’s fourth conference match up.

The Tigers enter the match at 1-2 in the conference.

Belmont currently leads the conference standings at 3-0 followed by Austin Peay and Murray State who are each 2-0.

Kaitlin Cordes can be reached at 5812812 or krcordes@eiu.edu.

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Panthers in top half of OVC standings

By Maher Kawash Football Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern football team is set for its second Ohio Valley Conference matchup of the season this week, and after one week in the books there is still plenty of balance.

The Panthers found their way to the top for now with a victory over Southeast Missouri State while some teams such as Jacksonville State begin conference play this week.

For Eastern, conference play rolls on with a road game at Tennessee State. The Panthers are in search of breaking their .500 record.

That is the story for most of the conference, as the non-conference slate offered some up and down results.

Tennnesee-Martin and Jacksonville State are the only teams above .500 on the young season, both fresh off wins.

Tennessee-Martin opened its OVC slate with a 31-16 victory over Tennessee State and now turns focus to a matchup against Austin Peay, in which both teams come in at 1-0.

The matchup is a road game for the Skyhawks. Their only loss of the season was on the road, but that came againt FBS opponent Ole Miss.

Jacksonville State is set to be a favorite to win the conference once again and to back that they begin action against Tennessee Tech.

The Gamecocks' one loss this season

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Junior Isaiah Johnson cuts to the left on a run in the Panthers’ 19-16 win over Southeast Missouri Saturday at O’Brien Field. Eastern continues OVC play this weekend at Tennessee State.

came against an FBS opponent too, with a 37-10 defeat against Georgia Tech.

The matchup against Tennessee Tech is Jacksonville State’s third road game in

four weeks.

As for the rest of the OVC, Eastern Kentucky is the other 1-0 team, after they escaped against Tennessee Tech with a 24-

21 victory one week ago.

This week they face a struggling Southeast Missouri squad that has lost seven consecutive games dating back to

last season, so there is a solid chance to stay atop the OVC. Eastern Kentucky has seen its fair share of competition as well, and that may be a factor why its overall record is 1-2.

The Colonels opened their season against some tougher FBS opponents with matchups against Western Kentucky and Kentucky as each loss came by more than ten points.

It is still way too early in the conference slate, but right now the bottom of the conference is held out by three teams struggling to find any momentum this season.

As mentioned before, Southeast Missouri is in the midst of a losing streak, but Murray State and Tennessee Tech are right there too.

Tennessee Tech has lost all four of its game to begin the season with key losses to Ball State and Western Illinois.

Murray State has not faced the greatest competition to start, but has lost three straight with their biggest test coming two weeks ago against Missouri State.

A one-score defeat on the road is tough to swallow, but a conference opening loss to Austin Peay did not help either.

The conference is sure to shake up some more this weekend as favorites will begin to emerge.

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