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Students discuss their support animals, which can be approved in on-campus housing for students with disabilities.

Despite getting a lot of shots off, Eastern’s men’s soccer team tied its match with IUPUI Wednesday.

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Quese will be opening for the band Ballenger. He described his music as hip-hop, R&B style, pop style and soft worship. Quese said he hopes students come to “have fun and be unified.”

Quese encourages those attending the event to come with open hearts and minds, saying, “leave segregated hearts and minds at the door.”

He also hopes that those attending leave with this message: “You are enough. You don’t have to be something else, you don’t have to be like somebody else. Who you are is enough, just be yourself.”

Another theme of the event is suicide prevention.

Sarah Bush-Licoln Memorial Hospital is a sponsor of the event and those will have the option to learn about services offered at the hospital to they can receive help from in times of need.

Broad said he hopes students leave encouraged.

“We hope that they come with an open mind, and have fun in a positive environment.”

The Council on Academic Affairs will have their second meeting of the year on Thursday at 2 p.m. in Room 4440 of Booth Library.

The council has three discussion items on their agenda: potential changes in bylaws, the general education committee structure and the faculty senate shared governance proposal.

At the last Faculty Senate meeting, a new shared governance proposal was discussed.

Todd Bruns, scholarly communication librarian and institutional repository director as well as Faculty Senate chair, said he would support a resolution that included having CAA approvals of new programs listed on the senate’s agenda and liaisons who would not attend every meeting but who would keep up with CAA minutes and agendas.

The first structure proposed to the council at the last meeting included more of a senate oversight, with the senate having to approve all new programs that require Illinois Board of Higher Education approval after having gone through the council first.

Both senators and council members disagreed with this model, and the updated proposal will be voted on next week at the senate meeting. It will be discussed at CAA this coming week.

The general education committee, which was discussed and created last year, has yet to be fully discussed in terms of duties and make up.

The general education coordinator position proposed by the CAA last year is not being created until further moves with the transition process are made.

While the council is still working under suspended bylaws, reinstatement or changes will wait to be made official until restructuring and shared governance discussions are final and in place.

These items will be discussed in more detail and finality at Thursday’s meeting.

Corryn Brock can be reached at 581-2812 or at cebrock@eiu.edu.

Brooke Schwartz can be reached at 581-2812 or at bsschwartz@eiu.edu.

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Pascal Lu, an undecided freshman, plays pool Wednesday evening in Thomas Hall. Lu is from Hong Kong and Shanghai, and he said he likes the university. “I chose Eastern because of the quality of the academics and because of how friendly and safe the campus is,” Lu said.

Rise Up Tour to promote positivity

By Corryn Brock Staff Reporter | @corryn_brock The Rise Up Tour will visit Eastern on Thursday at 7 p.m. in McAfee Gymnasium. Doors open at 6 p.m.

The Rise Up Tour will feature a speech from Michael Cobb, the band Ballenger, Breaking the Grey and the performer Quese. The event is being put on

by Sports World. The theme of the event is to encourage people to make positive choices. The featured speaker and performers will give some insight to choices they have made in the past they feel impacted them negatively.

Tickets are currently available for the event. Those who would like to attend but are unable to get their tickets before the doors open can get their tickets at the event. General admission is free, and there will be standing room only.

Tim Broad, Director of Operations at Sports World, said while Sports World has been bring athletes to speaking to students at local middle and high

schools for over five years, they have not held a concert in the area before.

Broad says those speaking will talk about their experiences in life and he hopes it will leave a positive impact on those in attendance.

Headlining the event is Cobb. Cobb is a former NFL football tight end. Cobb was a first round draft pick for the Cincinnati Bengals in 1977 and later played for the Chicago Bears. Cobb has been in Central Illinois speaking with local high schools and middle schools about making positive choices.

The band Ballenger will be performing for the event. According the the band’s website, the front man of the group, Billy Ballenger, dealt with bullying growing up and later became incarcerated due to his “lifestyle of local burglaries and violence.” He later decided to pursue religion and music, which has led to his performances in four countries and appearances on international television.

Billy Ballenger will also be speaking with the group Breaking the Grey, of which he is the President and co-founder.

Booth Library hosting ‘Flu Then and Now’ exhibit Hannah Shillo Staff Reporter | @DEN_News “The Flu Then and Now” exhibit, beginning Thursday, focuses on influenza in 1918 compared to influenza in 2018, the importance of vaccinations and how to prevent influenza and infection.

Beth Heldebrandt, the public relations director at Booth Library, said the library hosts a major exhibit each year, and this year the focus is on the flu.

“It’s the 100 anniversary of the flu pandemic from 1918 where so many died, which affected EIU and Charleston as well,” she said. “We try to present a topic that many will be interested in. Everyone has had to deal with the flu at some point, and everyone is concerned about it.”

Sheila Simons, professor and graduate coordinator in the Department of Health Promotion, will kick off The Flu Then and Now series of events with the

opening program, “1918 Influenza: Impact, Implications and Uncertainty,” on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the West Reading Room.

Simons described her role as an epidemiologist as “the CSI of disease.”

“We focus on disease detection and the population that is sick,” she said. “We look at things like the number of new cases, how bad it is, death rates and illness rates, and all of those help us come up with a profile of the actual illness.”

She also said knowing the history of a certain disease can help with that research as well.

“By using that knowledge and the history of the illness,” she said, “we can track it and the number of cases we have, which helps us understand how effective a vaccine is for that year’s flu, if preventive methods are working, and it helps us prepare for the pandemic which, hopefully, we won’t have to endure.”

A pandemic can happen every 10-30 years, ac-

cording to Simons, which is what happened in 1918.

“More people died (of influenza) in 1918 in one year than in three years of the black plague,” she said.

“That was always considered to be ‘the great pandemic’ but that was just a fraction of the population.”

Simons said it is important to be concerned about the flu, especially these days because of the amount of international travel, as it is easier for diseases to spread.

“Two flights were detained at JFK airport last week because people had flu-like symptoms,” she said.

Some ways to prevent catching or spreading the flu, Simons said, involve the vaccine, having good cough and sneeze etiquette by coughing or sneezing into the crook of the arm, having good hand hygiene, social distancing and cleaning cell phones with rubbing alcohol.

“Whether people like it or not, vaccination is still our best method,” she said. “It’s not 100 percent effective, but you don’t get the flu from the flu vaccine. It is not possible. You’re a miracle if you can.”

She also said it is important to know that while hand sanitizer can kill bacteria, it is ineffective in protecting against viruses such as influenza.

Simons said in 1918 there were 75 million global deaths caused by influenza, and to put it into perspective, at that time New York City had a population of about 3 million.

“If we were to look at a similar strain (these days),” she said. “Global deaths would be estimated at 300 million.”

She said every year about 56 thousand individuals die from complications of influenza, but it is almost completely avoidable by getting vaccinated.

“I don’t want to create paranoia,” she said. “I’m just saying this is an easy method.”

The exhibit runs through Nov. 14.

Hannah Shillo can be reached at 581-2812 or hlshillo@eiu.edu.

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Officials weigh Attorneys accused of racial bias during Lab test may find vaping flavor ban, jury selection for white officer's trial dangerous gene CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys But Prosecutor Marilyn Hite-Ross arcalling teen use mutations—study sparred over race on Wednesday during gued that Van Dyke's attorneys had illean "epidemic" jury selection in the trial of a white Chi- gally used one of their challenges to reNEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are sounding the alarm about teenage use of e-cigarettes, calling the problem an "epidemic" and ordering manufacturers to reverse the trend or risk having their flavored vaping products pulled from the market.

The warning from the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cited recent data pointing to a sharp rise in underage use of the devices, including Juul, Vuse and others.

It marks a shift in the agency's tone on e-cigarettes. Since 2017, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb has discussed e-cigarettes as a potential tool to ween adult smokers off cigarettes, although that benefit hasn't been proven.

But Gottlieb said in an address at FDA headquarters that he failed to predict the current "epidemic of addiction" among youth, mainly driven by flavored products.

"The disturbing and accelerating trajectory of use we're seeing in youth and the resulting path to addiction must end," Gottlieb told agency staffers and reporters.

The FDA said it remains committed to exploring e-cigarettes as a less-harmful alternative for adult smokers, but Gottlieb added "that work can't come at the expense of kids."

E-cigarettes are vapor-emitting devices that have grown into a multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S. despite little research on their long-term effects, including whether they are helpful in helping smokers quit. They're generally considered a less dangerous alternative to regular cigarettes. But health officials have warned nicotine in e-cigarettes is harmful to developing brains.

They typically contain nicotine, and sometimes flavorings like fruit, mint or chocolate.

Health advocates have worried about the popularity of vaping products among kids and the potential impact on smoking rates in the future. A government-commissioned report in January found "substantial evidence" that young people who use e-cigarettes are more likely to try cigarettes.

Gottlieb cited unreleased federal figures that he says will be made public in coming months.

cago police officer charged in the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager.

An African-American woman who works as a FedEx driver was selected in the first hour of the second day of jury selection, but only after prosecutors in a motion accused Officer Jason Van Dyke's attorneys of illegally trying to keep minorities from sitting on the jury.

The issue came up when defense attorneys asked to keep her off the jury, pointing to the woman's reply to a questionnaire in which she said the shooting of Laquan McDonald 16 times was "horrific" and her hesitation when asked during jury selection if she'd be comfortable acquitting Van Dyke.

move the woman from the jury for no other reason than her race. Judge Vincent Gaughan denied the motion, saying that Van Dyke's attorneys, who removed two African Americans from the jury pool during jury selection on Monday, had given "race-neutral explanations." Gaughan refused to remove the woman for cause and the woman was subsequently selected for the jury.

The woman was one of four people who were selected for the jury on Wednesday, bringing the number of jurors who have been selected for the jury in less than two days of questioning by attorneys to nine. Twelve jurors and four alternate jurors will be selected.

U of I says enrollment is up 2.7 percent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The University of Illinois says it has a systemwide record number of students enrolled for the fall semester, including an eighth straight year of record enrollment at its main campus in Champaign-Urbana.

University officials announced Wednesday that total enrollment at its three campuses grew 2.7 percent to nearly 85,600 students.

The Champaign-Urbana campus saw a 3.2 percent boost in its student body

to 49,339. The Chicago campus grew by 3.7 percent to 31,683 students, while the Springfield campus enrollment dropped 7.7 percent to 4,575.

The university says the ChampaignUrbana campus has its most in-state freshman in 10 years.

University President Tim Killeen says work to improve affordability is helping enrollment growth, with steps such as keeping tuition for in-state freshmen frozen for the fourth straight year.

Boy survives after meat skewer pierces skull HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A 10-year-old Missouri boy is recovering after he was attacked by insects and tumbled from a tree, landing on a meat skewer that penetrated his skull from his face to the back of his head.

But miraculously, that's where Xavier Cunningham's bad luck ended. The skewer had completely missed Xavier's eye, brain, spinal cord and major blood vessels, The Kansas City Star reports.

Xavier's harrowing experience began Saturday afternoon when yellow jackets attacked him in a tree house at his home in Harrisonville, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of Kansas City. He fell to the ground and started to scream. His mother, Gabrielle Miller, ran to help him.

His skull was pierced from front-to-back with half a foot of skewer still sticking out of his face.

Miller tried to reassure her son, who told her "I'm dying, Mom" as they rushed to the hospital. He eventually was transferred to the University of Kansas Hospital, where endovascular neurosurgery director Koji Ebersole evaluated the wound.

"You couldn't draw it up any better," Ebersole said. "It was one in a million for it to pass 5 or 6 inches through the front of the face to the back and not have hit these things."

There was no active bleeding, allowing the hospital time to get personnel in place for a removal surgery on Sunday morning that was complicated by the fact that the skewer wasn't round. Because it was square, with sharp edges, it would have to come out perfectly straight. Twisting it could cause additional severe injury.

Doctors think Xavier could recover completely.

they've found a new way to help determine whether specific genetic abnormalities are likely to make people sick, a step toward avoiding a vexing uncertainty that can surround DNA test results.

Researchers used genetic engineering to create thousands of tiny variations in a gene linked to breast cancer, and tested each one in a lab to predict whether it would promote the disease if it appeared in a person.

When those predictions were checked against what scientists already knew about the BRCA1 gene, "we were very accurate," said Lea Starita of the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine in Seattle.

The technique, which she and her colleagues hope to extend to other genes, is aimed at easing a frustrating problem in genetic testing. Sometimes those tests reveal an abnormality in a gene linked to the disease, but nobody knows whether that particular quirk is hazardous. It's called a "variant of uncertain significance," or VUS. Such a result can cause anxiety and worse: Experts talk about women who've had breasts removed after learning they had a VUS in a gene linked to breast cancer, only to find out years later that further research showed their variants were harmless.

The new work aimed to identify tiny variants in the BRCA1 gene's DNA code that keep it from working. Mutations that disable this gene greatly raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Results were published Wednesday by the journal Nature.

Researchers created nearly 4,000 tiny variations in key sections of the gene.

Then they tested whether each variant crippled the gene within cells that die when BRCA1 isn't working. That let them predict which variations would promote cancer if found in a person.

To check the accuracy of their predictions, they consulted a database that lists the effects of BRCA1 variants. Results showed 169 of the variants they generated had been declared dangerous in the database, and the test had predicted that in 162 of them. Similarly, the test correctly categorized 20 of 22 variants deemed harmless in the database.

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Students have animals to aid with disabilities

By Valentina Vargas Staff Reporter | @DEN_News If the school year presents some difficulties for a college student with a disability, then having a furry friend on campus is the solution.

Ann Sims, a senior early childhood education major, said the school year was getting hard for her with managing school and going to a lot of counseling last fall semester.

She then decided to adopt Bella, her emotional support Beagle terrier dog, last April who lives with her in a single-dorm room.

“She is a large help,” Sims said. “She gets me out of my room to walk her out.”

Sims said getting approved to have Bella on campus was a two-and-a-half week process, as it had to be approved by both the Office of Student Disability Services and the Housing and Dining Services, who has the final say.

Jody Stone, the senior associate director of housing, said they currently have 16 students in on-campus housing who have emotional support animals.

The most common disabilities on campus that Stone said students have support animals for is anxiety, in which the student has an emotional support animal, and a hearing or vision impairment, in which the student has a service animal.

Natalie Fadden, a junior communication disorders and sciences major, said this semester is the first time she has a 2-year-old cat, Theodore, who is an emotional service animal living with her in a residence hall to help cope with anxiety.

“I love having him here,” Fadden said.

“It’s been less stressful compared to the last

full years I’ve been here in EIU.” Fadden shared that she is both equally a cat and dog lover but thought a cat would be better for her lifestyle. She is now starting to adapt to having Theodore living with her.

“In the beginning it was challenging; I had to learn (to) take care of him, like know his feeding times,” Fadden said. “But now, my classes aren’t long, so I can check up on him in between.”

Stone said different rules and policies apply to each type of animal service, whether it is a service dog, therapy dog or emotional support animal, and if a handler has a hard time maintaining their service animal, then it would no longer be permitted on campus.

Sims said one of the policies is that if she is in the basement with Bella, it may not be for a long time because people might be allergic or scared of a dog.

Although, she said Bella loves attention and loves everybody or will approach someone if she senses they are having a bad day.

“She likes to cuddle me and snuggles,” Sims said. “She can also sense when people are having a bad day and will comfort them like once with a girl who was having a bad day.”

The advice Sims gave for those interested in having an emotional service animal is to ask and get informed at the Student Disability Office or their counselor.

There is also a page on the Eastern’s website titled Disability Services, Emotional Support Animal Policies and Procedures, which Stone recommended for students to get more information.

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

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Local news is here for you, always We have unfortunately reached an age where there is great distrust in the news media.

The worst part is, this distrust is in many cases justified.

Looking at most major news outlets, we find that reporters use biased language in both their stories and headlines.

The outlets that come to a lot of people’s minds are Fox News and CNN, but they are in the majority when it comes to biased reporting in major news networks.

This is not to say that most news stories by these networks are biased; they’re not. It is our opinion that softer stories, such as feature stories, usually do a good job of telling the situation as it is.

It is usually regarding controversial topics, such as politics, that a reporter might take a side.

And it is not just the wording that expresses a bias.

A news organization also shows bias when it only chooses to write stories from one angle, or it only interviews sources who agree with each other.

We at The Daily Eastern News are disheartened in these situations. We have been taught that the purpose of journalism is to inform the public of what is happening in the community and in society, not to push an agenda, as it has become for some.

We believe that local news is a great source for news, as local outlets have a duty to their specific communities rather than to a broader audience that nowadays seems to consist of either Republicans or Democrats.

We are thankful for the quality of teaching we have are receiving in Eastern’s journalism program, which iterates how to report in a fair, unbiased manner. Our training comes through lectures and a great deal of hands-on experience in the various aspects of the field. We practice getting a variety of sources for each story, including ones with differing opinions.

We try to cover all of our bases.

Of course, every reporter makes mistakes from time to time. We wish we could say we got it right every time, but we do not. No one is perfect even at what they specialize in.

Yet, we learn from our prior faults and try to do better the next time.

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Netflix’s ‘Atypical’ is representative Netflix released its series about a teen on the autism spectrum trying to get a girlfriend in August of 2017 titled Atypical.

Netflix recently released its second season on September 7, 2018. The show centers around Sam Gardner and his family. Typically, what we’re used to digesting when reading or watching a show with a character like Sam—who is on the autism spectrum— is that the main conflict revolves around autism. Or, the character with autism is a secondary character and the main character’s conflict comes from dealing with the character that is on the autism spectrum.

And while we recognize Sam’s struggles to connect and deal with over-stimulation, this is not all that the show is about.

Minimal conflict results from Sam’s autism in the show. The family is breaking apart because of a adulterous decision made

by Sam’s mother. Sam’s sister, who doesn’t want any distractions from the possibility of earning a track scholarship, gets distracted.

The first season got some backlash for making Sam the cookie-cutter character we’ve come to expect, but with its second season, Atypical broke the mold of what we’ve come to expect of a character with autism. Normally, what is portrayed is a

MEGAN KEANE character who struggles socially, has a lot of quirks and is really smart. Sam Gardner is all of that: he exceeds at biology, has an affinity for penguins and wants a girlfriend, but doesn’t know how to go about getting one. How do you “put yourself out there” when you have a hard time recognizing social cues?

Besides Sam internally struggling with his autism, his mom tends to use his autism as an excuse of conflict. While Sam is fighting to be independent, Sam’s mother attempts to shut that fleeting independence down in an overprotective manner.

But by the second season, Sam has been

in a relationship, has decided to go off to college—for art, because he draws very well—and has learned (and is still learning) how to be independent.

Netflix actually casted a full crew of actors on the spectrum for the second season who also give a broader perspective of the spectrum. As much as the show is about Sam and his family, it also works to educate a wider audience on autism.

Kier Gilchrist, who plays Sam, is not on the spectrum, and some people found that misrepresentative or faux-diverse. Because of that, for the show’s second season, Netflix reached out to David Finch, an author and public speaker on the spectrum, to work on the show. This has improved the quality of the show’s goal to show an authentic experience of someone on the spectrum.

The important thing to note is that not every experience is like Sam’s. I think it’s clear that the show’s intent is to help its audience understand the autism spectrum and I think it’s doing a wonderful job.

Megan Keane is a senior psychology and English major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or at mkkeane@eiu.edu.

Check on your parents during breaks Labor Day weekend feels like it was just yesterday. Every year, so many students leave campus that weekend that some people call it “Creepy Weekend”. Most people go home to visit family that they missed for the few weeks after classes began or to celebrate the unofficial last weekend of summer. I go home to check on my parents.

I am an only child and my parents were in their early 40s when I was born. Now they are in their 60s and I feel a lot of responsibility to make sure they are ok and have what they need. My mother has lots of medical issues and often needs help. The summer before my freshman year at EIU she had her appendix taken out and was in the hospital twice. The next summer she had a bad fall and hurt one of her legs, and this year she has been using a cane to walk around after another bad fall in January. I go home on breaks to make sure she has everything she needs and to take her places that she needs to go. My dad also battles skin cancer and severe back problems so I go visit him as well to make sure he is doing fine. As their

K ATE REHWINKEL child, it is my duty to make sure they are taking care of each other and to make sure they get the help they need.

This past Labor Day, my parents did something really extraordinary for me. They had been researching cars for me to buy that would accommodate my tall height and spent weeks looking for the perfect one. On Saturday we went to a car dealership and looked at a used 2009 Hyundai Santa Fe SUV for me. My mom had already checked

it out so all I had to do was take it for a test drive. I loved how it drove on the roads and had plenty of room that made it comfortable for me to drive. After a little paperwork and a big check had been exchanged I had bought my first car. The only way I was able to afford a car was from money I got from a car accident claim. I feel very blessed and privileged to have a car and I understand all the responsibilities that come along with it.

Of course, I had to name my car. My mom told me I should name it after a strong woman. Then she got all teary after I named her Donna after her late mother and my grandma. My parents have always been there for me and always make sure I have everything I need. It’s another reason why I try to do the same for them.

Whether your parents need help or not the breaks are a good way to stay in touch with family, even they struggle while we are away at college.

Kate Rehwinkel is a junior management major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or at kerehwinkel@eiu.edu.

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Ben Hahn, a junior biology major, speaks to a group of students Wednesday night in the Paris room of the Martin Luther King Junior University Union. Hahn spoke about helping with Habitat for Humanity and other projects students could help out in. Hahn tells the students about a trip he made while volunteering. “We went to Baton Rouge, and I got to be a real part of change in someone’s life. We worked with a woman who lost everything in the flooding down there. She lost her son in the flood, and she was living with just walls, a hard floor and a roof. It was amazing to be a part of helping her,” Hahn said.

RAs give advice for living with roommates

By Logan Raschke Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Resident assistants shared their professional and personal advice for students having trouble adjusting to living with roommates.

Natalie Fadden, a junior communication disorders and sciences major and RA for Andrews Hall, said it is common for new roommates to not connect immediately.

“Living with people can be very hard, especially if you aren’t good at communicating,” she said.

In case a student wants to switch roommates, Fadden said they first need to contact the assistant resident director.

“It is fairly easy to switch roommates,” she said. “The (student) would have to meet the ARD in the building and then

pretty much just sign some paperwork … They just move all their stuff and return their keys.”

There is no time limit for students to request switching rooms, but there is something called “housing lockdown” for the first week of school that prohibits it, she said.

“We can’t actually switch any roommates around the first week of the semester,” she said.

Even though switching roommates can be done easily and quickly, Fadden said residence halls prefer to help roommates communicate to solve their problems themselves.

“Usually switching rooms is one of the worst case scenarios that we do, because we want (roommates) to talk about it,” she said. “A lot of the issues they want to move out over can be easily solved.”

Steven Connor, a junior marketing major and RA for McKinney Hall, said he hardly ever receives complaints concerning roommates. “(A roommate complaint) is definitely one of those things that happens once in a blue moon,” he said. “The people I do find complaining the most are people who have been best friends their whole lives, or people who have talked a lot before moving in.”

For students who need a lending ear during hard times, especially when it comes to living with another person, Fadden said resident assistants like her and Connor can help.

“Sometimes (students) just want someone to vent to,” she said. “A lot of the time I am just a facilitator in that conversation (roommates) have together.”

Connor said his role as an RA is to make sure all students, with or without roommates, feel comfortable with where they live and who they live with.

“We want to have everybody on our floor feel like there’s a sense of community,” he said. “We try to have a program every six weeks and make sure everybody understands that even though it’s our jobs to be policy enforcers and handle that side of it, that’s only 50 percent of what we try to do.”

RAs have an open door policy, which means they always welcome students who may feel isolated to speak with them about the issues they’re experiencing living on campus, he said.

Fadden said it is normal for students to have arguments with their roommates, but sitting down and solving their problems together is the best solution.

“You just have to be really upfront and honest with each other,” she said. “I tell all my girls that there will be a time when they’re annoyed with each other, even if they’re the best of friends, but if (they) can talk about it and kind of overcome it, it’s really important.”

Fadden said having a roommate, despite the inevitable petty arguments, can be one of the most rewarding experiences and she recommends everyone to try it.

Both Conner and Fadden know a number of students who met from living together as roommates on campus who are still good friends after graduation, and some of them choose to continue living together.

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FOOTBALL | PLAYER SPOTLIGHT

Crittenden back after missing all of 2017

By JJ Bullock Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports If you were to travel back in time one year and comb the Eastern football team’s sideline, mottled amongst players suited up and those not suited up you would find sophomore safety Raymond Crittenden in the mix with the latter.

Crittenden, a two-sport athlete who plays football currently and also ran hurdles for Eastern’s track team, missed all of last season after breaking his wrist in fall camp.

Fast forward back to the present, and you would not find Crittenden on the sideline; instead, you would find the now redshirt-sophomore starting at safety for the Panthers, a role they dearly missed him in last year.

“We really missed him last year because we were planning on him being a big part of our defense last year, and he broke his wrist during fall camp and it was tough, you know,” Eastern head coach Kim Dameron said.

Ev e r y o n e c a n n o w p u t t h e struggles of not having Crittenden in the defensive backfield behind them, because now he is back.

And since the beginning of fall camp this season there has been little doubt that Crittenden would not only step into a starting role, but also make a big impact on defense. All that can be credited to the hard work he put in during his recovery process.

Crittenden never missed a position meeting with the safeties while he was injured and tried to make it feel like he never left the team as much as possible, even going as far to help with making calls to the safeties from the sideline. But still, the completion of a successful recovery process was no walk in the park.

“It was tough,” Crittenden said.

“It was a lot of mental recovery, taking reps, watching, learning more about the game of football.

Really just taking time growing as

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Eastern redshirt-sophomore safety Raymond Crittenden stands in the defensive backfield in a 48-10 loss against Illinois State in week two. Crittenden is back as a starter after missing all of last season with a broken wrist.

“It was tough. It was a lot of mental recovery, taking reps, watching, learning more about the game of football. Really just taking time to grow as a man."

- Raymond Crittenden, safety a man.”

Cr i t t e n d e n p l a ye d i n a l l 1 1 games on special teams and as a reserve safety his freshman year, so he was used to being on the field and was most likely poised

to play a much bigger role his sophomore year had the wrist injury not sidelined him. But now he feels his hard work has paid off and led him to a starting role this season.

Being a dual-sport athlete in both track and football speaks for itself as far as Crittenden’s athleticism goes. Being 6 foot 1 and 200 lbs, Crittenden is also fairly large for a defensive back; he also brings much-coveted length to the secondary with his long arms.

But what Dameron really feels has separated Crittenden from others is his smarts and instincts on the field.

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understands coverage, he understands what we’re trying to get accomplished defensively,” Dameron said. “But the big thing is he just has a knack and instincts, and that’s just kind of where people have separated themselves in this game. Some guys know what to do but just don’t have the instinct to do it, and he’s got both.”

Dameron said the instinct Crittenden possesses on the field is especially impressive for a player as young as Crittenden.

Crittenden tries to bring a certain vibe to the field when he is out there; to put it simply like he did, he plays with “swag and intensity."

“Swag is just the way you play and the way you carry yourself,” Crittenden said. “When you hit someone and you get up, you have got to let them know that ‘I’m here.’”

Crittenden is joined in the secondary by all-conference cornerback Mark Williams, also a redshirt-sophomore, but the two go further back than playing together in Eastern’s secondary; they played each other in high school, and as Williams was quick to point out, his team beat Crittenden’s.

But, high school rivalry aside, Williams said he is very happy to have Crittenden back playing in the secondary and shared similar thoughts to Dameron on what the safety brings to the team. “(Crittenden) is very football smart, so he adds a lot to our game,” Williams said. “He’s a great asset to our team.”

There were some bumps in the road for the secondary in the first two games of the season against Arkansas and Illinois State, but the corners and safeties are a confident and smart group, and if Crittenden can bring his intensity and swagger to the field every week, to put it in his words, “the sky is the limit” for the secondary.

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Eastern ties 0-0 with IUPUI on road

By Dillan Schorfheide Assistant Sports Editor | @Eiu_journalist In almost every statistical category possible, the men’s soccer team outperformed IUPUI Wednesday.

The only thing IUPUI (1-22) had more of than Eastern (2-22) was saves, which attests to the fact that Eastern had more shots and shots on goal. Other than that, Eastern and IUPUI tied with their respective amount of corner kicks (2).

But despite leading the Jaguars with multiple statistics throughout the match, the one thing that did elude the Panthers was the back of the net.

It was just one of those matches where everything goes right, but the final step to coming home with a victory was somehow elusive.

The biggest disparity between Eastern and IUPUI Wednesday was the shot totals for both teams.

The Panthers fired off 14 total shots, compared to IUPUI’s four.

On top of that, Eastern finished the match with four shots on goal, two times IUPUI’s mark of two.

Shady Omar led Eastern with four shots, none of which ended up on goal. Kris Luke finished Wednesday with the second-most amount of shots (3) and half of the team’s shots on goal in the match (2).

Three Panthers, Christian Sosnowski, Jake Andrews and Cole H a r k r a d e r, e a c h h a d 2 s h o t s Wednesday, and Cameron Behm added one shot to round out the team’s total. Andrews and Harkrader each had a shot on goal to their name Wednesday too.

Last season, when the two teams met, they ended their match with a 1-1 draw.

Eastern’s prolific attack Wednesday is adding to what is becoming one of the team’s narratives this season.

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Freshman Cole Stephens tries to do a move with the ball to get around an Evansville defender during Eastern’s 1-1 draw with Evansville at Lakeside Field on Aug. 31.

In only six matches so far this season, the Panthers’ offense has already made strides compared to last season. Last year, Eastern averaged 7.7 shots per game, and so far this year, Eastern is averaging 9.2 shots shots per game (not including Wednesday).

To add to that, Eastern’s goal total last year was 10, and the Panthers already hit the halfway mark of that total in five matches this

year.

Lara has mentioned how he and his coaching staff and team have noticed a progressive increase and improvement in the team this year from the last few seasons, and a big part of that is the offense putting out more production.

Even Eastern’s shot on goal percentage (.391) is up a slight amount from last year (.384).

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ern’s shots found the back netting Wednesday, firing off 14 shots could still be viewed as a positive for the rest of the season to come.

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

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Denver still rolling in Summit League soccer

By Oscar Rzodkiewicz Men’s Soccer Reporter | @ORzodkiewicz The Eastern men’s team soccer saw mixed success along with many of the team’s Summit League counterparts heading into week three of the season.

Eastern (2-2-2) split its matches in the Bradley Invitational last weekend, losing 1-0 against Bradley Friday and downing Mercer 2-1 Sunday morning.

Eastern a lso tied a match 0-0 versus IUPUI yesterday, after sophomore goalkeeper Jonathan Burke received a nomination, though not chosen, for Summit League Defensive Player of the Week yet again.

Me a n w h i l e , D e n v e r ( 4 - 0 - 1 ) continues to pull away from the Summit League pack, forcing a 1-1 draw against Colgate, thenranked 13th in the country, then went off to secure a commanding 4-0 victory over North Florida.

Denver nabbed both the Summit League Offensive Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week honors, with senior Andre Shinyashiki taking home the former and redshirt senior Scott DeVoss acquiring the latter.

Shinyashiki received the honor for the second time this season after scoring four goals in three

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Cameron Behm tries to block a Green Bay attacker’s cross into the box during Eastern’s 1-0 loss to the Phoenix at Lakeside Field on Sept. 2.

matches, while DeVoss led the Pioneers defense that allowed just 10 shots in the same three contests.

D e n v e r m ov e d u p o n e s p o t to the 5th in the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Poll this week.

Second behind Denver in the Su m m i t L e a g u e s t a n d i n g s s i t s Oral Roberts (3-2-1) which forced a 0-0 draw against Houston Baptist last Friday and finished off Incarnate Word 3-0.

Oral Roberts freshman goal-

keeper Miles Motakef recorded seven saves in the win Sunday.

Motakef ranks first in the Summit League with a .861 save percentage among keepers that have started in every contest.

Oral Roberts faces Gonzaga on

Friday night.

Fort Wayne’s (3-2) hot streak ended this week as they dropped a match against Northern Illinois 4-2 on Friday.

Fort Wayne still ranks third in the conference despite the team ranking last in the preseason coaches’ poll.

The Mastodons take on Bradley Friday night.

Western Illinois (1-3-1) won its only match last week in a 1-0 contest against Dayton on Friday.

Despite being outshot 11 to 6, Western Illinois senior Daniel Kadima found the back of the net off a penalty kick rebound in the 70th minute.

Western Illinois faces Valparaiso on Saturday.

Omaha (1-3) finally found its first win of the season against Utah Valley by a score of 2-0 on Friday.

Omaha failed to score in its first three matches of the year, but sophomore Diego Gutierrez and freshman Martin Veys provided a goal apiece to open up the match in the first half.

The Mavericks take on UCLA today at 9 p.m.

Oscar Rzodkiewicz can be reached at 581-2812 or orrzodkiewicz@eiu.edu.