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Students help Spanish-speaking Charleston residents learn English through Amigos and Friends.

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Blackouts roll through East Central Illinois

By Mackenzie Freund City Editor | @mgfreund_news Approximately 6,900 people in Charleston, Mattoon, Humboldt, and Lerna lost power around 10 a.m. Tuesday according to Ameren Illinois spokesperson Stacey Shangraw.

Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center was among those who also lost power.

Shangraw said in an email all customers except for the health center regained power at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

The health center is on a generator and it is likely staff and patients did not notice the outage, Shangraw said.

Shangraw said the hospital regained its power around 1:40 p.m. Tuesday.

Eastern students said some of their apartments lost power this morning around 10 a.m.

Tim Zimmer, director of facilities planning and management, said in an email Eastern has reduced the probability of the campus losing power. Zimmer said Eastern has also upgraded their power and distributed air conditioning equipment, which has helped reduce the probability.

Zimmer said Eastern buys its electricity in bulk through Ameren and said they are very reliable.

If Eastern were to lose power there are backup plans depending on the event, Zimmer said.

The university has emergency generators that would turn on to provide electricity for computing services, life safety systems and other critical functions, Zimmer said.

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Eastern to announce census numbers Staff Report | @DEN_News The number of students enrolled at Eastern is calculated on the census day, which was Friday.

The student census is counted 10 days after the first class day each semester.

As of the Spring 2014 census, Eastern had 8,214 students enrolled.

In a January 2015 issue of The Daily Eastern News, this number was down 700 students from the fall semester of the same academic year.

A total of 8,913 students were enrolled in the Fall 2014 semester.

This was a 9-percent decrease from the last fall semester’s enrollment, when there were 9,775 graduate and undergraduate students.

Vicki Shaw Woodard, coordinator of public information for Eastern, said the Fall 2015 semester’s census numbers would be available Wednesday, but did not know yet what time they would be available.

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Eric Micheli, a freshman chemistry major speaks with University Relations Manager, Ellen Knuth, Tuesday during the Study Abroad Fair in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Micheli was in attendance for general information regarding study abroad.

Study Abroad Fair welcomes nations, cultural exploration for students Students learned about experiences abroad at the Study Abroad Fair Tuesday.

By T’Nerra Butler Multicultural Editor | @DEN_news The Office of Study Abroad brought a wide range of nations to 34 tables for the Study Abroad Fair Tuesday afternoon in the University Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union.

Tionna Alderson, an advisor for the study abroad office, said the fair would give people a chance to learn about their options to go overseas.

“I never would have thought that I would be going to South America and climbing volcanoes; that was something I never would have done without going to study abroad,” Alderson said.

Alderson traveled to Ecuador for four weeks and said the experience was one of the reasons why she loved Spanish and made it her major.

She said the country gave her a chance to fall in love with the language.

One program involves students going to Guatemala for spring break.

The short trip is meant to give students a chance to see what they are getting themselves into before committing a semester or year.

The program in Guatemala allows students to travel to the country with two of Eastern’s faulty advisors.

After the week, students are given two

credit hours.

Alderson said if a student goes overseas for a semester, they could possibly complete a year’s worth of classes, and being with faculty members makes the trips less nerve-wracking.

Jalisa Smith, a senior psychology major, said she is a Spanish minor who got a chance to go to spring break in Guatemala.

“I never would have thought that I would be going to South America and climbing volcanoes; that was something I never would have done without going to study abroad.”

-Tionna Alderson, study abroad advisor She said attending class in a foreign country was an adventure every day.

“Depending on what we talked about in class a certain day, was the trip we went on,” Smith said. “If we talked about volcanoes in class that day or a coffee plantation in class, that was the field trip we went on.”

Smith said the worst part about the trip was that everyone got sick while being in the country.

She said she would not take the experience back for anything but noted people being in the hospital.

Kasey Adams, a sophomore Spanish education major, was with Smith when the illnesses sprang up.

“They told us beforehand to be careful of what you eat and what you drink. We couldn’t have ice, and only could drink water from water bottles,” Adams said. “And if you cooked anything with water it had to be boiled.”

Adams said one of the most memorable things was going to a restaurant and witnessing chefs carve an ordinary cucumber into a flower and dye it pink.

She said it was one of the most beautiful things she has ever seen.

Tw o s t u d e n t s re p re s e n t i n g St u d y i n g Abroad in India were dressed in the country’s wear, a Kurta.

Ashley Sheets, a senior elementary education major and Erin Hill, a senior early childhood major, were both wearing the traditional garb.

The gowns resembled tunics, but Sheets said they had to be modest by being clothed all the way down to their ankles.

She said they decided to wear the gowns to be in tune with the natives.

Hill said she wanted to show the cultural differences through clothing.

She said it shows how different Indian and Western views are.

“We see the Indian students on campus and we see them with their heads wrapped.

So we get to wear it too, and that promotes different cultures,” Sheets said. “You feel a sense of pride, supporting that country.”

T’Nerra Butler can be reached at 581-2812 or tabutler@eiu.edu.

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Students help others learn English

By T’Nerra Butler Multicultural Editor | @DEN_News A program built to teach Spanish speakers English, Amigos and Friends, gathers at 10 p.m. every Monday and Tuesday.

Volunteers go out to the community and find people interested in learning English and are driven back to the Newman Catholic Center to be taught English words and phrases.

The “Amigo” is the person learning English and the “Friend” is an Eastern student who is willing to lend their English speaking skills to an eager Spanish speaker.

The program is set up where an Eastern student is paired with a member from the community for the remainder of the semester.

Gladys Valentin, a senior elementary education and Spanish major, is in charge of the Amigos.

She said many of the Spanishspeakers work in restaurants around town and are not fluent in English, and the program begins late at night because most of them work nights and do not have a car.

“They shower, they dress because they want to give a good impression too,” Valentin said.

Valentin said Eastern students do not have to be fluent in Spanish to help; they just need to have the passion and time to help someone learn another language.

“The only education that some of them have is second, third, or fourth grade, not even high school, and sometimes you have to teach them Spanish first because they cannot write in Spanish (and) they do not have that education.”

Valentin said in the community, most of the aspiring English learners put education aside in order to work

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Chelsey Stinnett, a freshman psychology major and Spanish minor, has a conversation with one of the students improving their English as a part of the Amigos and Friends program on Monday at the Newman Catholic Center.

“People who have never worked with someone different from them will benefit from this and that is a valuable social skill, it'll help you become more of a human being."

- Kristin Routt, Spanish professor and provide for their family and this is seen throughout many cultures.

Jessica Bayles, a junior English major, said in the previous semesters, 10 people would show up to the program.

She said it was usually five tutors and five Spanish-speaking students.

The first Amigos and Friends this semester had nearly 20 English learners, and the program is facilitated by

the connections made between the Eastern tutor and community student, Bayles said.

Bayles said she benefited from the program as a student and her Amigo student would help her understand what was going on during the program.

“I worked with a student and he spoke a good amount of English,” Bay-

les said. “After class in the center, we would hang out and play pool and everybody would be chatting in Spanish and I would be totally lost and he would translate for me, which was super sweet.”

Bayles also said the Amigos’ ages can range from 20 to 50.

Kristin Routt, a Spanish professor, said she put her honors class to a service project and she wants her students to reflect on what the Amigos and Friends program tries to do.

“People who have never worked with someone different from them will benefit from this and that is a valuable social skill, it’ll help you become more of a human being,” Routt said.

“It helps you realize we’re all the same.”

T’Nerra Butler can be reached at 581-2812 or tabutler@eiu.edu.

Program to explore religious practices

By Luis Martinez Entertainment Editor| @DEN_News The Academy of Lifelong Learning is hosting a presentation focusing specifically on the death practices of religious groups at noon on Wednesday in the Rotary Room of the Charleston Carnegie Public Library.

The five major world religions are Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

The Academy of Lifelong Learning helps to create events focusing on the general topic of global diversity.

Marita Metzke, the program coordinator at the Academy of Lifelong

Learning, said the event would look at the death practices of these different groups and their mourning rituals.

“The event is an exploration in other cultures’ experiences with dying, death and mourning,” Metzke said. “The instructor is going to speak to the cultures that practice the five significant world religions.”

Metzke also said one of the reasons the academy is putting together this type of event is because of their global society.

“We have different cultures represented in our area and students, instructors, places of worships, so very

close in our area communities, these cultures are represented,” Metzke said. “(The) bigger picture is that we want to know more about the world and how these different cultures figure into the state of the world today.”

Metzke said they would not only focus on how they deal with death but how the differing cultures also handle life.

“This particular event was suggest by a gerontology student, who took a class with the instructor,” Metzke said.

“We always offer courses that teach about other cultures,” Metzke said. “The general topic is not new,

the specific class on death practices as they relate to the five world religions, that is something new.”

Metzke also said the academy usually spends a semester planning ahead for the following semester’s events.

“We are working on putting our spring schedule together, so we are contacting instructors and people that want to present and share their expertise on a topic,” Metzke said. “I have hundreds of ideas that people have suggested or we stumbled across in the community.”

Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.

CORREC TION In Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News, the article “Steeples sentenced to 45 years for murder” should have indicated that Steeples will serve a minimum of 45 years in prison, but he is still sentenced to life.

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HERC warms up cooking skills in Klehm

By Mackenzie Freund City Editor | @mgfreund_news Students came out to learn how to cook healthy versions of different Asian takeout recipes in Klehm Hall Tuesday night.

The Health Education Resource Center, also known as the HERC, hosted a “Healthy Cooking 101” program where students were able to learn how to cook healthy meals.

Caroline Weber, a family and consumer sciences graduate student, works at the HERC and is planning the healthy cooking classes for the semester.

Weber said she chose Asian takeout as the first theme because she figured most students would come back to school and eat mostly takeout food.

The students broke off into groups and went to different stations to make tofu pad Thai, baked egg rolls and sesame broccoli.

“People always think of more ethnic food as being really complicated and think they require a lot of ingredients,” Weber said. “I wanted to show how you can make ethnic foods with simple ingredients.”

Weber said she wanted to show that even the favorite takeout meals could be made at home.

Lauren Olsen, a freshman elementary education major, said she went to the class because she has been to previous like it. “( Weber) suggested it and I thought it would be delightful,” Olsen said.

Olsen went to the class with her roommate Alyssa Lepore, a freshman psychology major.

Lepore said she thought it would be a fun thing to do since she had never cooked Asian food before.

“I’ve only really cooked Italian food so I thought it would be fun to try something new,” Lepore said.

Robyn McKeown, a junior communication studies major, said she found out about the class after she Googled “cooking classes at Eastern.”

“I went to community college before I came here and I took cooking classes and really liked it,” McKeown said.

Weber said she plans out the cooking classes based on what is in season during the time of the class.

Weber said the next class is “a healthy take on game day favorites” because football season is right around then.

“Tailgating is usually associated with greasy and heavy foods, so we want to try and do something on

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Lauren Olsen, a freshman elementary education major, pours broccoli into boiling water while Alyssa Lepore, a freshman psychology major, cooks tofu during the Asian takewout themed Healthy Cooking 101 program Tuesday in Klehm Hall.

the lighter side,” Weber said.

Weber said the cooking class in November is planned to show how to make healthy sides for the

holidays.

Weber said students can register for any of the HERC programs through their section on

Eastern’s website.

Mackenzie Freund can be reached at 581-2812 or at mgfreund@eiu.edu.

Departments share recruitment strategies, tips

By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor | @cjbuchman Various academic departments around campus are getting active in recruiting potential students to their schools.

David Griffin, the art department chair, said the art department has several different events planned during the year and is even establishing a new committee for this purpose.

“That committee is charged with looking for ways to go out and publicize great things about us, like the great faculty, the great attention to detail,” Griffin said.

When senior and junior high schools have exhibitions for portfolios, the art department will have tables up for prospective art students.

State schools as well as private art institutes come to these areas to talk to students as well.

Along with going to exhibitions, the

art committee hosts tour groups and reaches out to alumni to recruit students because they play a significant part in bringing students to the art department.

“We have a good number of graduates from Eastern who are teaching in the surrounding regions, all around in a 300-mile radius,” Griffin said. “We have one alumni in Arcola, who, at the end of the month, is bringing his students to do workshops in Tarble.”

The art department takes advantage of the university’s open house events to educate potential students on the various options and degrees the department has and to interact with the students’ families, as well as the students themselves.

“I look at enrollment numbers and the number of freshmen who did come to campus and they’re both up,” Griffin said.

He said that on a good portion of enrollment sheets, he’ll be able to rec-

ognize the names of people he saw and met at open house and other events.

“We really try to take an active role,” Griffin said. “It’s really important to show that we care, to show that we are second to none,” he said. “I believe in what we’re trying to do here.”

Britto Nathan, a graduate coordinator in the biological sciences department, said they have been using their Web page, as well as going to different conferences, to meet students.

“There are many different ways we reach students,” Nathan said. “There isn’t one specific way, we try many different ways.”

Nathan said the enrollment has gone up in both the graduate and undergraduate programs.

“We tell students when they come here, they can get a hands on experience when they work with faculty members,” Nathan said. “We say we have tutoring services in our department to help students lagging behind. It all adds up.”

Nathan said this, along with the fact the job market is good in the health services area, could be why there are many students interested in the biology department.

Linda Simpson, the family and consumer sciences department chair, said they conducted recruitment events at the high school, along with using the open houses.

Simpson said students are interested in the wide range of career opportunities the major can give them.

“We go to Charleston, Mattoon (and) looking at many other high schools,” she said.

They also host a fall and spring event on campus where they talk about family and consumer sciences.

“This year we are going to a regional meeting in Indianapolis with up to 3,000 high school students,” she said.

Janel Lyman, a freshman family and consumer science major, said when she came to Future Panther Day, she was

able to talk to the department chair.

“She was helpful, and told me an overview of the department,” she said.

Linda Reven, the interim chair of the early childhood, elementary and middle school education department, said they will have departmental showcases, where they show prospective students what they are all about.

“We are going to present a mock lesson, so they have an idea of what a methods class is like,” she said.

One of the education departments’ alumni donated Homecoming T-shirts to the department and they will have drawing for the shirt as well.

“We try as much as possible to give students an idea and have students be aware of the opportunities,” Reven said.

“We have a strong reputation in the education community, and the reputation serves us well.”

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

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Wednesday, 9.9.15

Adulting. You’re doing it wrong.

Megan Ivey

Find time to travel with a busy life Most people spend their Labor Day weekend on a boat or with family. I however, spent this Labor Day weekend at many places.

I took a trip and saw an action-packed chase in Russia. Then, I traveled to Iceland to help find a lost possession.

Finally, before returning back to reality, I went aboard NASA’s headquarters and learned about all that comprises our galaxy.

Do not write me off as an explorer just yet.

Those places were simply scenes from movies and documentaries, conveniently experienced from the comfort of my couch.

Only, traveling is not meant to be convenient.

My weekend movie marathon hardly compared to the majority of students and faculty who spent time somewhere other than Charleston.

In today’s connected world, we can gain considerable knowledge about a place we have never seen.

Convenience makes the “adventures” pretty lackluster, does not it? Convenience and traveling rarely go together.

Really, there is no right time for traveling.

While watching “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (also known as “My Trip to Iceland”), I saw the beautiful images of Europe, and came to the realization that, like Walter Mitty, much of my life has been spent preparing for the future rather than experiencing it.

College students are to map out their life in semesters. As a junior, my plan is already set with little wiggle room. It’s like an equation: four more semesters times 15 credit hours each equals what is left to earn a bachelor’s degree.

When I started at Eastern and heard about the Study Abroad Program, I just assumed I would take the opportunity.

For whatever reason, time got ahead of me, and planning to go away and experience new places never made it into the equation.

That seems to be the theme for most of my life. I was not one to go on annual family vacations, and any family vacation I did go to was in a bordering state or part of my childhood friend’s family trip if I was lucky enough to tag along.

For other people in my hometown, choosing an out-of-state college was their way of traveling to new experiences. I traded in my mecca of suburbia for Charleston, a town that closes shop at 10 p.m.

That has never bothered me, because Eastern, the town and those in it have made me grow far more in the last two years than living in my hometown of 18 years.

No matter how far a student wants to go, I believe Eastern has an opportunity to fit into each student’s equation.

My equation does not allow for a semester away while graduating on time. However, I have been fortunate to travel across the country as a part of the journalism department, and for now, that’s enough.

I encourage those who wish to travel to visit the Study Abroad office to talk through options.

Who knows, next Labor Day, one of our own Panthers could be experiencing and learning in Iceland, sans couch.

Megan Ivey is a junior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or at mkivey@eiu.edu.

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Treatment or prison time for mentally ill Friday signaled some closure for the family of Gina Giberson, the woman shot and killed

by Larry Steeples, as the presiding judge ordered him to spend the next 45 years, the mandatory minimum, in prison.

While residents might rejoice at the fact that a convicted murderer is off of the streets, one has to wonder about the burden this will take on taxpayers and the prison system, and whether or not Steeples would have benefited from help, or more than he may have been receiving, for the mental illnesses that afflict him.

Prison overcrowding is a very real problem.

A 2014 blog post published on The Washington Post’s website details 17 states whose prison systems are operating over capacity, and Illinois is on the list.

If the year were 2013 and Steeples were headed to an Illinois prison, he would be joining 48,653 others incarcerated in a prison system only designed to hold 32,075 persons.

That is 151 percent of operating capacity, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

At that time, six other states’ prison systems were operating at or above 110 percent.

Would it be better for Larry Steeples to spend a portion of the rest of his life in a mental health institution?

According to the American Psychological Association, America’s prisons are packed with people who suffer from mental health issues.

If Steeples and others who suffer from mental health issues were to find care in specialized institutions rather than the general, “catch-all” prison system, quality of life would increase for everyone.

According to an article in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Online, the question of stable or unstable leads to the decision of someone being punished or treated for the illness.

If a patient is found to be unstable and

goes to treatment, this can eventually lead to a future problem of a possible relapse for the patient.

Who is to say that someone who is treated for a crime because of mental illness will not act again?

The accused pleading insanity for mental instability for possible illness has its difficulties, but it could be beneficial if it does help.

Also, costs to taxpayers would probably decrease as prisons would require less staff to watch over the proper number of prisoners the prison was designed for.

Don’t get us wrong – The News is not advocating dangerous, unstable prisoners have a better life than those outside the walls, but a balance should be struck with taxpayer cost and quality of life being factored in.

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

Open your eyes and open your ears I believe discrimination is still thumping as the pulse in my neck. It is alive and it is clear.

Do not be ignorant.

Just because African-Americans are allowed to drink from the same fountain and given the right to vote, does that make me free?

Because I am issued the right to sit at the front of the bus and can sit in the same restaurant does that make me welcomed?

Not everyone is prejudice, but I have experienced injustices around town and no; my story is not like my fallen brothers.

I will never say my injustices are like my sister Sandra Bland or my brother Mike Brown, but does it make it insignificant?

Does my struggle not reach the pits of your hearts because I have not seen the barrel of your gun?

I have been to County Market and looked in the face of someone who thinks of their race as superior.

This being came six inches from my face with the curled smirk of the devil plastered on her thin cheeks. She circled around the parking lot and did the same action.

I have been to Wal-Mart and have been completely ignored while handing my money over to a cashier.

Is my cash not green enough like my skin is not light enough?

And I have had peers express to me ‘Oh

T’Nerra Butler they meant no harm, do not take it that way,’ but girl, I want you to take these eight inch shoes and walk a BLOCK in them.

How can a majority tell me how it is to be a minority? I bet many would like to say racism is dead, but tell me, as majorities, do you face it?

I am not a blonde-haired, blue-eyed angel.

And here you walk in with a peppy smile and a 3.5 GPA and you tell me I will get the same job with baggy eyelids, a 3.7 GPA, experience, involvement on campus, and internships out of this world?

They are going to tell me to fix my toointense face. But should I not be angry?

Should I not feel oppressed?

Living in a world with oblivious activists is what harms the most.

They do not know how I truly feel. My mother, my father and my siblings have felt the knuckles of racism knocking at our door.

You cannot tell me how my life has been lived.

I find myself apprehensive to step foot in the community to prevent staring hatred in the face.

And if I do not express it then tell me who will. I aspire for this world to be filled with equality.

I want to believe I can have a black president who gets an inkling of the treatment as the person that put us in this mess had?

My president is black, but my world is white, and my people do not know how to join and fight for their rights.

And I will bet that is the only thing nonbelievers will see. That I said my president is black.

Non-believers are not the racists, but those who feel racism is non-existent. I mean, I do not pull this “black” card often, but this just seemed like a reasonable purchase.

And if we respect ourselves as black people, maybe I might get that greeting at my neighborhood Wal-Mart.

T’Nerra Butler is a sophomore journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or at denopinions@gmail.com.

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By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor | @cjbuchman The Council on Academic Affairs will add revisions for two chemistry classes to their agenda at 2 p.m Wednesday in room 4440 of Booth Library.

Both classes are general chemistry courses: CHM 1410, General Chemistry II and CHM 1415, General Chemistry Laboratory II. Ma r i t a Gro n n vo l l , t h e C A A chair, said they would be doing the usual waiver reports.

“They’re very uncontroversial so they don’t take much time at all,” Gronnvoll said.

CAA will add the revisions and vote to act on them in the same meeting because of extenuating circumstances.

“Usually the way it works with CAA is that we get a revised or a new course proposal and it’s added to the agenda on the first week and acted upon the following week,” Gronnvoll said. “But these are kind of rushes, they’ve got some deadlines, so we are going to vote to set aside the bylaws and add these to agenda and act upon them on the same day.”

That does not always happen, although Gronnvoll said it was not a particularly controversial thing to do.

“What that means is that the people who are coming to the meeting have to be sure that they have read those course proposals because we are going to act upon them the same day,” Gronnvoll said. “That is the only thing that kind of makes them more controversial.”

A representative from the chem

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CJ Navarro, a freshman undecided major, and Alger Saldana, a freshman undecided major, look through the poster book during the backto-school poster sale on Tuesday in the Library Quad. The sale will be all week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Library Quad.

istry department will be present at the meeting to talk about the changes.

“I don’t know who that will be at this point, but they will come and talk about why they are proposing these changes, and it looks to me the reason they are proposing the changes are in keeping with the new university learning goals,” Gronnvoll said. “So they just want to update their courses.”

These updates include making the learning goals more explicit.

“I think in some cases, these courses have been around for such a long time that the original proposals have been misplaced, like they don’t have the original proposals,” Gronnvoll said. “So they figured it’s probably a good idea to have some

paperwork in the mix somewhere that shows what these courses are doing. I think that’s really all it is.

It didn’t look to me like the changes were really controversial.”

CAA is still waiting for a new member to be appointed by Faculty Senate.

“To my knowledge, they have not done that yet,” Gronnvoll said.

“I haven’t been informed that they have done that yet so I don’t know where it is.”

Because CAA is down one member, this means they might have problems reaching quorum in the future.

The vice-chair will not be present at the meeting because she is traveling, so they will be down two people for the meeting.

“If we don’t have eight voting

members then we can’t do anything,” Gronnvoll said.

CAA might not be able to do anything about the two chemistry proposals if they do not have eight members at Thursday’s meeting.

She said the chemistry classes are facing a deadline for the courses to be revised, and this is concerning because if CAA does not reach a quorum they will not be able to vote on the courses on the same day as they were planning to.

“The bylaws are very clear that you have to have eight voting members, which means everyone has to show up at the meeting Thursday,” she said.

The missing member of CAA is going to be back from sabbatical in January.

“It’s kind of scary because there

are so many weeks when we need things to be approved,” she said. “I don’t know if we’re going to have a quorum. The tough part is November when the faculty is traveling on conferences. It’s not unusual to have two or three faculty members gone at a given time. It’s gonna be a challenging semester as far as that goes.”

Gronnvoll said she did not anticipate the meeting taking more than a half an hour, but there will be heavier agendas in weeks to come.

“As we start facing catalogue deadlines, getting things ready for spring and for next fall, people are going to be really pushing to get things through,” Gronnvoll said.

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By Luis Martinez Entertainment Editor| @DEN_News An upcoming University Board documentary series by UB Ideas and Issues, “It’s A Girl,” will be shown at 7 p.m.

Wednesday in the Coleman Auditorium.

Ariel O’Neal, the coordinator for the board’s ideas and issues committee, is in charge of the event.

“This event is the beginning of a documentary type series for University Board,” O’Neal said. “Basically I’m showing documentary about some issues that are going on.”

“It’s A Girl” is the first in the series and focuses on the topic of “gendercide,” the killing of a member of a specific sex, which is an issue in China and India.

“They have this thing where girls aren’t wanted, and they rather have boys, so whenever they have baby girls, sometimes the baby girls are abandoned, or aborted, or killed, or given away,” O’Neal said.

O’Neal also said she is showing this film to shed some light on the topic and inform students.

“I thought it would be nice to spread some awareness about some of the issues that these documentaries show,” O’Neal said. “I chose ‘It’s A

Girl’ because I’m a girl and because a long time ago, I read a book about this and it really touched me and I watched the documentary, and I thought this would be something interesting to share.”

While “It’s A Girl” will be the start of the documentary segment, the series will focus on a variety of different topics throughout the semester.

After watching “It’s A Girl,” those in attendance will also have a balloon release for all the baby girls that have passed away. ”It really wasn’t no rhyme or reason, this was kind of the order I decided to present them,” O’Neal said. “I have movies planned out for just this semester, now as far continuing with this would depend on the success of these events and how they go.”

O’Neal said though she would like as many people as possible to come to the documentary series events, it is more about how the shows make an impact.

The film will last for an hour, followed by a brief discussion of the film, and the event will conclude with the balloon release.

Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.

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Volleyball team starts season strong The Panthers began their season with a 3-0 record

By Sean Hastings Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports The Eastern women’s volleyball team is 5-2 at the start of the season after playing in two tournaments and a home match against Indiana State.

The Panthers started the season, 3-0, after winning the University of Illinois- Chicago Invitational. In the tournament, the team defeated UIC, Central Michigan and tournament host University of Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne.

Seniors Kayla Nesbitt, Marah Bradbur y and sophomore Allie Hueston all earned All- Tourney honors.

Central Michigan was a tough opponent for the Panthers, but Eastern was able to come back in sets four and five to beat Central Michigan.

Indiana State ended Eastern’s winning streak when they came into Lantz Arena and beat the Panthers in their home opener (19-25, 25-16, 1725, 26-28).

The Panthers were able to get back to their winning ways when they competed at the DePaul Invitational this past weekend. They finished 2-1 and took second place.

Toledo was more of a test for the Panthers, but they pulled through and grabbed their second win of the weekend.

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Their match against DePaul was close every step of the way as the last three sets all ended in 26-24 scores, (21-25, 26-24, 24-26, 24-26).

But playing a match like that only made the team better, according to coach Sam Wolinski.

The team had to really dig deep and fight to get some key points and the team knows that will help them in future matches.

Hueston received All-Tourney honors again for her play over the weekend.

None of the matches the Panthers have played have been Ohio Valley Conference matchups.

OVC play will start Sept. 25 when the Panthers host Tennessee Tech.

They will also be hosting Jacksonville State Sept. 26.

Throughout the first seven matches, the Panthers have seen a lot of success from everyone on the team. Senior captain Stephanie Wallace leads the team in digs with 123, averaging 4.39 per set.

Fellow senior captain Marah Bradbury leads the team with 287 assists with the next closest being Wallace with 25.

Senior Chelsea Lee leads the team with 87 kills. Hueston and senior Abby Saalfrank are right behind her with 74 and 56 kills respectively.

The Panthers’ season will continue this weekend at the Dayton Flyer Invitational in Dayton, Ohio.

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

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Eastern will also take part in the Global Sports Classic tournament in December.

The Panthers will open tournament play with games at Marshall and Houston on Dec. 9 and 19, respectively.

The Panthers will head to Las Vegas for the final two games of the tournament on Dec. 21 and 22.

Ohio Valley Conference play will begin on Dec. 31, as Eastern will travel to Cookeville, Tenn., for a game with Tennessee Tech.

The conference home opener will be on Jan. 6, when the Panthers host Tennessee State.

Eastern Kentucky, Morehead State, Tennessee-Martin and Murray State will be key matchups on the Panthers’ conference schedule during January and February.

Murray State, which won the

OVC regular season championship last year, will be the final home game of the season.

“This year’s schedule, I think, is equally tough,” Spoonhour said.

“We were really fortunate to get some home games against teams that our fans will enjoy seeing.”

Fans will get their first glimpse of this year’s Panthers on Nov. 3, when they host St. Francis (Ill.) in an exhibition game.

Eastern returns two All-OVC players in guard Cornell Johnston and forward Trae Anderson.

Season tickets will be available in early September, while single game tickets will not be available until mid-October.

Blake Nash can be reached at 581-2812 or banash@eiu.edu.

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Senior outside hitter/setter Abby Saalfrank had nine kills and four errors out of four sets played during the Panthers' 3-1 loss to Indiana State on Sept. 1 in Lantz Arena.

Tennis team begins season at Edwardsville tournament New coach to be named following Blackburn’s departure

By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern women’s tennis team will begin its fall season at the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Fall Tournament under a new coach.

Eastern will have a new coach after former coach and director of tennis John Blackburn took a coaching job at Methodist University in Fay-

etteville, N.C., over the summer.

The Panthers have five events on their schedule including two home matches against Murray State and St. Louis on Nov. 26 at Darling Courts.

Eastern will also head to the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Fall Tournament on Oct. 10.

Starting on Oct. 22 through Oct. 24, the Panthers will travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., and compete at the ITA Regional, which is hosted by the University of Michigan.

The Panthers will be returning everybody from last season except recent graduate Sephora Boulbahaiem.

Senior Ali Foster is the key returner from last season as she went 16-4 overall in singles and has a 36-13 ca-

reer record overall.

Sophomore Grace Summers finished her first season with a 12-7 singles record and a 7-3 record in Ohio Valley Conference play.

Eastern finished its season with a 13-7 record overall and a 7-3 record in OVC play.

The Panthers defeated Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, 4-3, in the first round of the OVC tournament last season but were knocked out by Murray State in the OVC Semifinal.

There has been no announcement of who will be the next women’s coach for Eastern.

Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.

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Smith adjusting well to college volleyball

By Sean Hastings Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports

Taylor Smith, a freshman from Mattoon, has had to learn college volleyball and has succeeded at it through her first seven games at Eastern.

Smith is an outside hitter/setter, but can play just about anywhere on the court, and she is counted on to get the job done.

“She’s had to play a couple different roles for us,” coach Sam Wolinski said. “That’s part of Taylor’s versatility. She can pass, she can play defense, she can swing out of the back row, she can set, and she can swing out of the front row.”

Wolinski added that it is nice to be able to tell Smith to go do something on the court, and she will always go out there and do it the best she can, ‘no questions asked.’

Last weekend, Smith was shining in the back row and was able to earn some points for the Panthers.

Wolinski said soon everyone is going to see the full part of Smith’s game and what she can actually bring to the table.

Smith’s adjustment to playing at the college level has been made easier by the upperclassmen on the team who have been helping her.

“My first match I was actually really nervous,” Smith said. “I wasn’t really sure what to expect in my first game, but after playing with all the girls being so welcoming, they definitely make the process easier.”

She showed her versatility in that first match by doing a little bit of everything on the court. Smith had three kills, two assists and eight digs in the match against Illinois- Chicago.

Her success on the court contributed to the team winning the University of Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne Invitational Aug. 28-29.

She finished with seven kills, and 19 digs in the three matches over the

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Freshman outside hitter/setter Taylor Smith had two kills in four sets played during the Panthers' 3-1 loss to Indiana State on Sept. 1 in Lantz Arena.

“She has no fear in her. I think that’s a great attribute to bring to the floor.”

-Sam Wolinski, volleyball head coach weekend.

Even though she is succeeding in her first seven matches, Smith said the speed of the game is totally different than in high school.

She said she is also trying to get used to playing with everyone on the

team.

But one thing that amazes Smith when they have a match is the atmosphere of college volleyball.

While Smith is still adjusting to college volleyball, Wolinski said her versatility gives her a leadership role even as

a freshman.

“She has no fear in her,” Wolinski said. “I think that’s a great attribute to bring to the floor.”

If Smith makes a mistake, she does not let it bother her and she just goes out there and gets the next one.

That is another place where Smith brings in a leadership role. She said she always has a positive attitude and brings a lot of energy to the team.

Other teams have targeted Smith on the serve-receive because they see a freshman standing out there, but Wolinski said she has done a great job handling that.

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Senior midfielder Molly Hawkins had four shots on goal out of six shots during the Panthers' 3-1 win against IPFW on Friday at Lakeside Field.

Hawkins wins OVC honors Eastern senior Molly Hawkins was named the Ohio Valley Conference women’s soccer Offensive Player of the Week as announced by the conference Tuesday.

Hawkins helped her team pick up its first win of the season as she took part in all three goals against IndianaPurdue at Fort Wayne Friday in the 3-0 win.

She scored two goals in the second half, including the opening goal of the game during the second half.

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

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Smith knows during her freshman year she has a chance to make a name for herself, and she said every time she goes out on the court she is going to give it all she has. She wants to prove to everyone that she should be out there playing in her first year as a Panther.

Smith and the rest of the Panthers will be on the road again this weekend when they travel to the Dayton Invitational in Dayton, Ohio.

Hawkins then assisted on what was the game-winning goal by senior teammate Hannah Miller.

After not scoring a goal since 2013, Hawkins now has four goals and one assist on the season and leads the team with nine points.

Teammates junior Kalyn Pruett and freshman Kari Naerdemann from Tennessee Tech took home the other two awards announced by the OVC. Pruett won Defensive Player of the Week after playing all 220 minutes in the Golden Eagles’ two games last week.

She also scored the Golden Ea-

gles’ lone goal of the weekend against Georgia State.

It was the first goal of her career.

Naerdemann made 10 saves and gave up just one goal last week in the two draws for Tennessee Tech. She picked up her first career shutout in the game against Mercer.

Currently, she leads the OVC with a .857 saves percentage.

The Panthers will be back in action Friday at 3 p.m. against Bowling Green at Lakeside Field.

Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.

The Eastern men’s basketball team has released its schedule for the upcoming season.

The Panthers will open their 2015-16 season at Big Ten member Indiana on Friday, Nov. 13.

The Hoosiers will be the only NCAA tournament team the Panthers will face in non-conference play.

Following that game, the Panthers will end a tour of the Hoosier state when they travel to Muncie for a matchup with Ball State.

The regular season home opener for Eastern will be on Saturday, Nov. 21, as the Panthers will host in-state foe Western Illinois.

That will be the first of a fourgame home stand, which will see the Panthers host Green Bay, Indiana State and Northern Kentucky at Lantz Arena.

Last year, Eastern made it to the postseason for the first time in 14 years.

The Panthers defeated Oakland in the first round of the CollegeInsiders.com postseason tournament before losing to Evansville in the second round.

Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said Eastern’s success during non-confer-

“Last year, our non-conference schedule was the toughest in the league, and winning some of those tough games is what allowed us to make it to the postseason.”

-Jay Spoonhour, Eastern head coach

ence games played a big part in its success last season.

“Last year, our non-conference schedule was the toughest in the league, and winning some of those tough games is what allowed us to make it to the postseason,” Spoonhour said.

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