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APPROACHING MATCH
Eastern’s volleyball team is preparing for their next match against Chicago State after their 3-0 loss to Tennessee State on Saturday. PAGE 8
The German Club held a celebration of the German festival Oktoberfest on Monday. 2018 marks the 208th anniversary since Germany’s first Oktoberfest. PAGE 3
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Lincoln Trio piano group to perform at Doudna By Mercury Bowen Entertainment Reporter | @DEN_News
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Emma Dambek, a senior history major, and Mariah Slaughter, a junior sociology major, try to figure out the answer to a question at the ROCFest Trivia Night Monday afternoon in Pemberton Hall’s Great Room. They were on the Lincoln Hall team.
ROCFest: Residence halls play trivia By Hannah Shillo Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Trivia night kicked off the beginning of ROCFest on Monday night in the Great Room of Pemberton Hall. Team members of the residence halls on campus gathered at 5 p.m. to compete for points that will add to their total for the whole week. The first game played was based on the players’ knowledge of movies. It asked players to identify which characters said certain quotes and showed pictures asking what movie took place in the photos. McKinney Hall team members won this
game, while Pemberton Hall came in second, and Thomas Hall in third place. Amber Bradfield, president of McKinney Hall and sophomore accounting major, said she and her teammates did not prepare for the game. “It was kind of like a big wing thing,” she said. After the first round, everyone decided to play another game to earn more points for their teams. The second game was based on Disney trivia, however, most of the questions asked were based on the knowledge of Walt Disney himself, rather than the movies associated with his name.
Thomas Hall took the lead and won this round, with McKinney Hall in second place and Lawson Hall in third place. Ryan Moore, president of Thomas Hall and freshman history major, joked that he had been preparing for this throughout his entire life. Samuel Damon, vice president of Thomas Hall and freshman accounting major, said the second round of trivia was harder because “it was all Disney-based things that no one would have known.” Bradfield said the first game was easier than the second.
TRIVIA, page 5
Students teach English to local minorities through Amigos and Friends program By Valentina Vargas Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Amigos and Friends program is looking for Eastern students to help local minorities learn how to speak and write in English both in the morning and afternoon time depending on the availability of the individual. Campus minister Doris Nordin formed the Amigos and Friends program in 2004 along with a Spanish professor and a community member from the Newman Catholic Center, which is where the program takes place every Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:15 p.m. until 11:15 p.m. Nordin said the program started because back in her time, there was a program in the Booth Library where she went to learn English once or twice a week during the day, but because it was a volunteering program, the person teaching her would not be
"(Amigos and Friends) is about sharing and giving dignity to people, because sometimes people who come and study are just seen as a group of immigrants, a group that does not speak English." -Doris Nordin, campus minister at the Newman Catholic Center able to attend each session. “I saw the reaches we have with the university,” Nordin said. “And thought why we don’t invite other (non-English) people, who need English, but don’t have access to the library (to learn English during the night).” Nordin said in the name Amigos and Friends, amigos represents anybody who
wants to learn English and friends represents anyone who wants to teach English. “(We have) people who are from Vietnam, people from China and international students who want to practice their English speaking, so we practice conversational English,” Nordin said.
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The Grammy-nominated musical group The Lincoln Trio will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Recital Hall at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The Chicago-based piano trio consists of pianist Marta Aznavoorian, cellist David Cunliffe and violinist Desirée Ruhstrat. Tickets for the performance will be $7. Much of the music the group will be performing will be in honor of Latino Heritage Month. “The music will have a very definite Latin American and Spanish feel to it,” Cunliffe said. “I think people will really enjoy that.” Some of the pieces the trio will be performing will be music by Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla as well as some by Spanish composer Joaquín Turina. “They’re basically tangos, modern tangos,” Cunliffe said of Piazzolla’s music. “It’s a very Argentinian idiom.” The group is especially looking forward to the program they will be performing, Cunliffe said. “It is very favorite music for us to play,” Cunliffe said. “It is in our repertoire, and we play it a lot.” Cunliffe said he hopes attendees will see the performance as a chance to hear music that they may have never heard before. “I think (attendees) will find it very approachable,” Cunliffe said. “There are a lot of very, very beautiful melodies.” Dan Crews, the director of programing for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he thinks students will be surprised at how much they enjoy the concert. “They’ll really get caught up in not only what’s happening on stage, but in the quality of music, and I think they’ll be just entranced by what they hear,” Crews said. According to Crews, it was The Lincoln Trio’s reputation as a first-class musical group that drew him to suggest that the group perform at the Doudna. “Classical music is one of the things that we have a large audience that enjoys seeing those kind of performances,” Crews said. “The performance is going to take place in the Recital Hall, so that’s going to be a really intimate place to see this chamber group.” Having heard the group perform before, Crews said he is looking forward to hearing them again. “ There’s something that is just absolutely enchanting in the attraction to that kind of music,” Crews said. “It’s one of those things where once you hear it you’re just kind of drawn to it, and (The Lincoln Trio’s) performance ability is just phenomenal.” Mercury Bowen can be reached at 581-2812 or mjbowen@eiu.edu.