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Scherle aims to register 1,000 voters By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
One thousand people, roughly one-tenth of Eastern’s population, is the goal amount of people Jarrod Scherle, the student executive vice president, hopes to register to vote in the course of a week. “A thousand is how many Eric Wilber, Eastern’s last two-term executive vice president, got in 2008,” Scherle said. “With this being my second term, I set a lot of my goals based on what he did, I want to beat him.” Wilber served from Fall 2008 through Spring 2010. Currently, Scherle said he is satisfied with the way the voter registration drive is going, having registered 935 people from Monday through Thursday. “We may even be able to reach 11 or 12 thousand,” he said. Scherle said he wanted to organize the drive in order to give students a chance to be politically involved. “I feel like students are more politically active than we are often given credit for,” he said. “A lot of people want to do something but they do not know how—most do not even know they have to transfer their voter registration in order to vote in Charleston.” The drive has had three locations on campus each day throughout the week—on the North Quad, Library Quad and South Quad. On Thursday, the group relocated to the North and the South quads. The North Quad location moved to near the Food Court in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and the South Quad location moved to the corner of Ninth Street and Roosevelt Avenue. “We noticed yesterday that the same people kept walking past and our numbers were slowing down, we had ‘milked the area dry,’” Scherle said. “We moved to Ninth and Roosevelt to get the Greek Court and Carman Hall traffic.” Although Scherle was in charge organizing the weeklong event, it was not a one-man operation and was co-sponsored by the Black Student Union, Epsilon Sigma Alpha and the student government. The League of Women Voters also sent volunteers. “I am very proud of the small army I have working with me,” Scherle said. “We have more than 80 volunteers and logged over 270 community service hours.” Corrine Joyner, a Charleston resident, has been a member of the League of Woman Voters for the past 30 years and currently works with Coles County’s Chapter of the organization. On Thursday, Joyner helped work the table set up by the food court in the union. “We heard about the drive and wanted to help out, we sent a volunteer on Tuesday and I am here today,” she said. “I joined the league because I wanted to be a part of the democratic process, and by being an advocate for voting I am sharing in that process.” Students took advantage of the drive, many registering to vote for the first time. Kristen Nazorek, a freshman special education major, turned in her application on Thursday and said she decided to register after seeing the tents around campus. “I’m excited,” she said. “It feels good to be a part of it after watching my parents vote for so many years.” The voter registration drive runs through Friday with the booths will be open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812 or alwywialowski@eiu.edu.
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Music student Steve Kasier plays the guitar at the Jazz Band’s concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the theater of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The concert featured Eastern Jazz Lab Band, Jazz Ensemble, as well as the Vanaguard, Birdland and Blue Note Quintets.
Jazz band opens with old favorites By Amy Wywialowski & Shirmeen Ahmad Assistant Daily Editor & Staff Reporter
Fi v e E a s t e r n j a z z b a n d s started their season on Thursday night with a 55-year-old tune that has been featured in various forms of media from airline commercials to movies. “Come Fly with Me,” composed by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, is most famous for being the title track
on Frank Sinatra’s 1958 album of the same name. The song was also the opening track for Eastern’s Jazz Lab Band. Sarah Gorecki, a freshman music major with teacher certification, attended the concert to support her friends, but was also looking forward to a night of good music and people doing what they love. “I grew up on Frank Sinatra,” Gorecki said. “Jazz is my favorite genre.” After the group preformed the song, Paul Johnston, a jazz
professor and the director of the Jazz Lab Band, introduced the tune and gave some background on it. “We are excited you came to our first concert, we’re off to a good start and hope you’re up to ‘finding the flight’ for the rest of the show,” Johnston said. The group played two more songs, “For Lena and Lennie” and “Maiden Voyage” before lending the stage to three jazz quintets. Kurt Swan, a music major
with a concentration in piano performance, performed as a part of the Birdland Quintet. The group preformed “Groovin’” by J.J. Johnson. “It is really bluesy, it swings and it is a toe-tapper,” Swan said. “It makes you want to dance even if you don’t want to.” For Swan, the piano is more than his major—it is something that has been a part of his life for the past 16 years.
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Professor prompts minorities to vote By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor
During the “Who is Worthy of the Minority Vote?” presentation, the discussion switched gears by focusing why minorities should vote, and not which presidential candidate is more deserving. Presenter Kevin Anderson, a political science professor, focused on the 1957 integration of the Little Rock Nine to show how the government regulates everything, especially issues pertaining to minorities. Anderson said the Little Rock Nine affected everyone in America at that time, and minorities more than anyone, mostly, it all led back to the government, which is why he stressed the importance of the minority vote to enforce equal opportunity.
He said he wanted those who came to the event to understand why voting is important, especially among minorities. “Understanding for minority voters especially, paying close attention to the issues is essential to citizenship,” Anderson said. “So understanding what the candidates are advocating, that winds up having a very important impact, especially on college students.” Anderson used the term “linked fate” to show the importance of minorities voting as a group to what is important to them. Meaning, if something happens to a member in a group, it affects everyone in that group as a whole. Event director Anastasia Lindser, the president of the Latin American Student Organization, said she
thought the event turned out better than she thought and believed everyone was able to take away something. “I think the event went really well because people were interacting, asking questions, and there weren’t any silences,” Lindser said. “I feel like every person was able to take something away from it.” Ryan Plunkett, the president of EIU College of Democrats, said he took away the fact that minorities need to vote in groups because they have similar issues in politics. “I think he makes a good point that there’s a common misconception that all voters in a certain demographic group have the same interest at heart,” Plunkett said. “For minority groups, there is cohesion and they vote mostly for what
is this candidate going to do for them. There is this sense of ‘us.’” Plunkett said he thinks students should find out what issues are the most important to them, and then vote for which candidate can best resolve those issues. The biggest misconception in Anderson’s eyes is that voters believe their vote does not make an impact in the electoral process. “I think for individual students, when you realize the role that government plays, you want to protect not only your own personal interest, but to preserve that these things are essential to your future,” Anderson said. Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.