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By Samantha Bilharz Associate News Editor

Eric Blanchette was more then just an Eastern student, he was also a veteran of the U.S. Navy for six years.

Blanchette, 30, a business major, was found dead on Saturday, Oct. 22 in his apartment in Charleston.

Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers said the cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage.

During his time in the Navy, Blanchette worked on the nuclear power plant of the ship, USS Abraham Lincoln.

He was also a graduate of Nuclear Power

School.

Before attending Eastern, Blanchette was a student at the University of Urbana-Champaign.

Blanchette’s friends described him as a great guy, smart, shy, but fearless.

“He was a really great ERIC BL ANCHET TE guy. He had some quarks, but he always meant well and like a typical veteran you could always count on him to be there when you needed him most,” DJ Terek, Blanchette’s friend and a member of the Illini Veterans Club at the U of I said.

Among Blanchette’s many Navy accomplishments was also the position of the vice president of the Illini Veterans at the University of Urbana-Champaign in summer and fall of 2010.

Chad Garland, Blanchette’s friend and the secretary for the Illini Veterans said he will miss just being able to talk to Blanchette.

“It's hard to say what I'll miss in the long term,” Garland said. “I guess I'll miss how he used to just Facebook message me or text me and say, ‘What's up?’ every once in a while. In the last few days, as I've scrolled through my contact list, I keep seeing his name and wanting to call his number.”

Garland said Blanchette liked to read, shop,

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play on his computer and loved movies.

When Blanchette was attending the U of I he was interested in pursuing a career in the field of science, but that changed when he attended Eastern.

“I think he was very interested in science, and he seemed to want to work in the sciences, but then when he decided to transfer to EIU he wanted to go into business. I think he got burnt out on science or didn't see a lot of potential in that area any more,” Garland said.

When Blanchette was attending the U of I he got many job offers to work at a nuclear power plant because of his nuclear training.

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AWARDS

DEN wins national award at convention Staff Report

The Daily Eastern News won second place for four-year daily tabloids at the 2011College Media Advisers Convention this past weekend.

The conference took place Oct. 27 to Oct. 30 in Orlando, Fla. at the Renaissance Hotel.

College Media Advisers, Inc. has been working since 1954 to help student media professionals improve their media operations. It has approximately 800 members from across the country. 35 publications from colleges throughout the state are members of the association.

More than 2,000 student journalists and advisers from all over the country attended the convention.

The Daily Reveille from Louisiana State Univ. in Baton Rouge, La. took first place in the fouryear daily tabloid category.

At the convention, Alex McNamee, The DEN’s editor-in-chief, said The DEN staff was able to meet other students from around the country, including California and New York. He is excited for The DEN’s win with the Oct. 7 Family Weekend issue.

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A student volunteer gets into character for the second annual Terror on the 8th in Carman Hall. Most of the residential floors in Carman designed a room for the event, and residents from each floor served as volunteers.

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BASIC SKILLS TEST

Faculty, staff volunteer with Students spooked during ‘Terror on 8th Floor’ skills prep

By Trevor Behrens Staff Reporter

Over 500 students, kids and community members came to Eastern for a scare from a multi-themed haunted house this weekend.

The University Board and the Carman Hall council hosted “Terror on the 8th Floor” for its second year Thursday and Friday.

The haunted house took place on the eighth floor of Carman Hall where students, UB members and council members decorated the halls and rooms in different themes.

The hallway was very dark and had an eerie atmosphere when you walked in.

Students were in charge of decorating the different themed rooms. The themes ranged

from clowns, hospitals and mental patients.

Students were taken up the elevator in groups to the floor, where they were then greeted by a tour guide who led them through the terror.

Jordan McCambridge, a junior psychology major, was one of the brave ones to enter the haunted house.

Afterwards, McCambridge said, “The room where they were about to cut the girls arm off and then shut the lights off and sprayed you with water, but making it seem like blood (was my favorite room).”

All of the rooms were decorated with great time and thought. From the blood on the walls to the fake tongues and brains; even the actors made everything seem realistic.

Bailey Tait, a junior communication studies major, said she was impressed with the time and effort that was put into the haunted house.

“I couldn’t believe how realistic everything looked, the fact that they even had things to touch and things being sprayed at you made it ten times better,” Tait said.

Tait said she thought all of the actors were great.

“All of the people involved seemed like they were having a good time and took it seriously. It seemed like they really wanted the people coming to the haunted house to really be scared,” Tait said.

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By Amy Wywialowski Staff Reporter

As students prepare for the November 12 Basic Skills test, they may not realize that they are not the only ones working to help them succeed in passing the test.

Joan Henn, a professor of mathematics and computer sciences, and Janet Carpenter, the reading center director, are two members of the Eastern community going out of their way to give students the resources to prepare for the Basic Skills test, especially now that the standards have changed and limits have been put on how many times students can take the test.

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Greek Court will be hosting trick or treating for Charleston residents from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday evening.

Everyone is welcome to dress up and explore the Greek life, said Kaitlin Van Scooter, president of Alpha Phi Alpha.

Bags of candy will be passed out to participating people from each of the houses.

Any children, students, faculty members and more are welcome to join in, Van Scooter said.

“We are not doing this because we have to,” she said. “It’s more for a good cause and it’s just for fun. It gives the Greeks a chance to see the children run around and have fun.”

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Marchers light candles during a vigil and march organized by Occupy EIU for Scott Olsen Thursday night on campus. Olsen is a Marine veteran that was injured by police during Occupy Oakland in California during last week's clashes. Apart from organizing the vigil, Occupy EIU is entering their third week of camping outside of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

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Local actors entertain 48 spend night on Amtrak train with 'Life x 3' play

Play uses same dialogue, varied endings to tell story

By Sara Hall City Editor

It’s all about context.

This is the central theme behind Life x 3, a play currently run by Charleston Community Theatre at the Tarble Arts Center.

The play, written by Jasmina Reza, focuses on four adults, Sonia, Henry, Inez and Hubert, shown in three separate scenes.

While the dialogue is similar between each act, the outcome of each situation is different.

Actor Terry Davis, who played the character of Hubert, said these resemblances between acts often made it difficult to keep track of which way he was supposed to be performing his character.

“It’s a difficult show to memorize because of the similarities,” he said. “The tough thing is to make each character distinct.”

Kathy Davis, who played the role of Inez, said she also found it difficult to remember which part to play.

“It was confusing because the characters were so similar,” she said. “I always had to remember which tone I should be using for each character.”

Tim Mason, an economics professor at Eastern, played the role of Henry, whose actions drastically change between each act, said the only way to remember each character’s persona correctly is to continuously prepare. “ You had to rehearse it so much that you get the show down,” he said. “It’s all in the practice.”

Gail Mason, a retired Eastern communication studies professor and director of Life x 3, said the group has been rehearsing since the beginning of September.

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“It’s not a simple play; it’s complex,” she said. “I like that the characters faced challenges and consequences given the same situation, leading to different endings.”

As a director, Manson said she enjoyed the cohesive bond formed between the actors as the play practices progressed.

“They grew into the characters and it was fun to see that growth,” she said.

Davis, who has been through seven productions with CCT, said through acting with his cast mates, he saw a bond strengthen between the four “There’s a bond with most people who act,” he said. “There’s a kinship that develops. Acting exposes your soul if you do it right.”

Life x 3 will continue to run from Nov. 3 to 5 at the Tarble Arts Center.

Sara Hall can be reached at 581-2812 or smhall3@eiu.edu.

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Amtrak officials say a train got stuck overnight in central Massachusetts with 48 people aboard and they are being taken to their destinations by bus.

Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham says the train from Chicago to Boston got stuck in Palmer about 10 p.m. Saturday.

A ro c k s l i d e c a u s e d by t h e snowstorm that slammed the No r t h e a s t w a s b l o c k i n g t h e tracks.

Graham says the passengers had electricity and heat the whole time and got free food and drinks. Buses arrived about 11 a.m. Sunday to take them to destinations between Palmer and Boston.

The Lakeshore Limited train had left Chicago on Friday.

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CHS students to tour campus in EIU blue

By Nike Ogunbodede Campus Editor

Charleston High School students carrying blue flashlights will be taken on an unorthodox nighttime tour of Eastern’s campus on Wednesday.

“CHS at EIU” is a tour offered by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions allowing CHS junior and senior students to wander Eastern led by Eastern students who used to be CHS students.

In order to prevent another academic year with a 450-student enrollment decrease, Karenlee Spencer, the open house/special events coordinator, said the Charleston

community might not know everything Eastern has to offer.

“They may drive by Old Main many times a day and they kind of take it for granted,” Spencer said.

“They maybe don’t realize the wonderful opportunities and even just spaces and places that exist on our campus.”

Groups will meet in front of the clock tower at 7 p.m. after a reception at 6:30.

Mark Hudson, the director of University Housing and Dining Services, said the tour started during an admission brainstorming session.

Hudson said the flashlight tour will take people to places they

haven’t seen on campus.

“It helps them explore Eastern in a different way,” Hudson.

Hudson said tours of the residence halls will also be included.

“The idea of a flashlight tour just sounds intriguing,” Spencer said.

The Office of Admissions and the President’s Office are sponsoring the event. Spencer said other faculty and campus figures will be there as well.

“We have over 25 faculty and other support services and departments on campus that are going to come to the reception,” Spencer said.

President Bill Perry also participated by signing 445 letters sent

to the juniors and seniors of CHS, Spencer said.

“It says a lot about President Perry taking the time to sit there and sign every letter to these kids,” she said.

Spencer said by Eastern opening its campus exclusively to the upperclassman of CHS it will allow bonds to be formed. “ It s t a r t e d a s j u s t a w a y t o strengthen our relationship with Charleston High School, but it has really turned into a nice evening,” Spencer said.

Spencer said she thinks having former CHS students who have chosen to come to Eastern talk about why they chose to Eastern

Ensemble brings history to life Group focuses on adding music and readings to photographs

By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

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November food drive fights hunger The Eastern community can help fight hunger by taking part in the third annual “30 Days of Change: EIU Fights Hunger” in November.

Here is a roundup of the month’s events.

Month-long food donations, discounts The Student Community Service office will place boxes around campus for donations of food and will collect them at the end of the month.

If a department is interested in having a box placed in their office, they can request a box through the Student Community Service website. Also, every Wednesday during November students can take nonperishable foods to the University Bookstore and they will receive a percentage off of their purchase.

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will enhance the event.

“We’ve asked them to tell us some of their favorite places and out-of-the-way spots during the flashlight tours,” Spencer said.

Spencer said she thinks the personal experience of the students will have more influence than the facts and statistics provided by Eastern.

“By connecting students who made the decision to stay in Charleston with students who are in process of deciding where they want to go—that will literally strengthen the ties,” Spencer said.

ticipate in “Freeze Out Hunger: Two-Mile Trail Run” at 2 p.m. on Nov. 6.

The event is a two-mile run on the Panther Trail around the Campus Pond.

Registration for the race is $10 and all proceeds go to the Charleston Food Pantry.

Students can also learn about how the economy is affecting families.

Let Them Build There will be a chance to donate through artistic means.

“Let Them Build: Nonperishable Food Sculpting Contest” will be held at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 7 in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Participants can build a sculpture either on location or before hand.

All sculptures have to be completed and checked-in by 11 a.m.

Each sculpture must have a minimum of 50 cans, but can have more.

Each additional can equals a point.

The sculptures can have a foam

core, cardboard, Scotch tape, rubber bands and paper, but can not have any type of strong adhesives such as glue, duct tape, packaging tape, rubber cement, wood or wire.

The sculptures will be judged at 2 p.m. and all sculptures must be broken down by 4 p.m. to be donated.

Anyone who would like to participate in this competition need to register by Nov. 3 by filling out the registration form on the Student Community Service Website.

The Hunger Shames Lisa Taylor, an associate professor of family and consumer sciences, will be presenting “The Hunger Shames” on Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. in the Rathskeller (7th Street Underground) in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Flash Mob There will be a Flash Mob Experience from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 10 in various locations around campus.

Members of Ensemble Galilei used historic music, readings and photographs to bring history to life and connect the audience to the past on Friday.

Neal Conan, Lily Knight and members of Ensemble Galilei combined visual and audio to tell the story of 19th- and early 20th-century pictures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The pictures, taken from the time of the Civil War to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, were coupled with works from leaders of politics and culture such as Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and Jane Addams.

Conan and Knight took turns reciting selected readings which went along with the story of the pictures and the music.

Sue Richards, the harpist for Ensemble Galilei, said each of the elements add to the story.

“You start with the images, then you add the words to place image in time and space and then the music brings out the emotion of the image and readings,” Richards said.

Through these elements the history is easier to connect with, he said.

Conan and Knight told the stories of the past by acting out the parts of the speaker of the poetry or readings.

The program included poems that tell the experience of the people.

Conan read “I Started From Baltimore” by Frederick Douglass to help illustrate the treatment and life of slave and escaped slaves.

While reading this, pictures of slaves, white families with their slaves, and slave families were shown on the screen and Ensemble Galilei played “Polonaise,” a traditional Swedish song, and “Squire Wood’s Lament” by Turlough O’ Carolan. The music gave emotion to the reading and pictures.

Kim Christensen, a freshman elementary education major, said she thought the different elements were interesting.

“It was the way they combined everything so you understood it better,” Christensen said.

Brittney Kemper, a junior biological sciences major, said she learned from the program.

“It’s been hitting in subjects from different points of views,” Kemper said. “It’s very eye-opening to different scenes in history.”

Conan started out in his career by saying the radio name for a radio station before calling baseball play-by-play. He is now a host for National Public Radio and has won many awards during his career.

Knight is an actress and has performed in movies such as “My Sister’s Keeper.”

The Ensemble Galilei includes: Hanneke Cassel, fiddle; Kathryn Montoya, recorders, whistle and oboe; Jackie Moran, percussion; Sue Richards, Celtic harp; Carolyn Anderson Surrick, viola da gamba; and Ginger Hildebrand, violin.

This is the third First Person event that Ensemble has done.

They have also done “A Universe of Dreams,” where they played music and read selections that went along with pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope and First Person: Stories from the Edge of the World with pictures from National Geographic.

While at Eastern, Ensemble Galilei taught a master class where they listened to students perform and gave them tips.

Hildebrand said she thought the class went well.

“I thought it was great,” she said. “We heard a bunch of students play. I hope we were helpful.”

The ensemble also played for the VA Illiana Health Care System in Danville.

Richards said the ensemble likes to perform for veterans because it gives them a good feeling.

“The people there have so little in their lives,” Richards said. “It’s always rewarding to see the looks one their faces while we play.”

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

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Halloween Student debt in America a truly scary story is for kids, don’t ruin it

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Mia Tapella

clearer the options provided by different lending institutions. This is an important element of the plan as many of the terms under which students borrow are unclear, often unnecessarily sinking unsuspecting students even deeper into debt.

Some say this isn’t really solving the problem.

While this plan will relieve some of the burden students have in paying off their astronomically large loans, it doesn’t address the costs that make these huge loans necessary. According to the Washington Post, “Education advocates hailed the announcement as a modest first step toward addressing the increasing costs of higher education, but they warned that more must be done as interest rates on federal student loans are set to double in July.” Higher education costs are increasing every year, 8 percent compared with last year alone, and triple-fold in the last thirty years.

No administration can propose even the most in-demand legislation without igniting criticism, which includes that legislation’s impact on taxpayers.

While the President claims this plan will impose no burden, many disagree and feel any taxpayer contribution to student loans is unfair.

Some critics feel that federally subsidized student loans drive up the cost of education in the long run, creating an unending circle of higher costs and bigger loans.

Another major complaint surrounding Obama’s student loan forgiveness plan is his decision to bypass Congress and act by executive order. While I do not have the answers to solve the rapidly expanding student-debt bubble, regardless of whether I agree with its projected effectiveness in solving this problem, I do support the President’s decision to executive order this legislation.

Unfortunately, he is left with little choice by obstinate, uncooperative Republican congressmen more concerned with keeping him from serving a second term than enacting real change. That the President is seen taking action in spite of a static Congress is of great importance in the shadow of the approaching election.

The success of this plan (as well as the mortgage relief and military veteran employment plans; not discussed here, but also part of the administration’s three-course serving of executive orders) will undoubtedly be a determining element in the race for the presidency.

Mia Tapella is a senior English and political science major. She can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com.

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We hope you had a good time this weekend and that most of your darker needs were sated.

Maybe you’re wearing your costume to school and maybe you’re going to one last soiree to exercise the demons.

As always, be smart, responsible, respectful of others and watch your drinks.

But please, please remember that people’s kids are going to be running around town tonight, celebrating a holiday that is rightfully more theirs than ours.

The city of Charleston has designated the hours of 5 p.m. to 8 p.m for trick-ortreating. Try to be mindful of a few things during that time.

While you’re driving around town, keep in mind that little ones will be running across at random intervals.

The good news is Charleston drivers are well trained in the art of dodging random pedestrians, and the children will likely be more aware of their surroundings than the drunken college students who play frogger at 2 a.m.

Still, the children are smaller and could be wearing masks that obscure their vision and costumes that make them more difficult to see. Drive slow.

Remember that kids will probably be showing up at your door if you live off campus. They’ll want candy, and we suggest you give it to them, or course.

You might think you’re pretty tough, but you’ve never gone up against a pack orfpreteens on a sugar high, armed with various plastic weapons, looking for their next hit.

Have fun with them. Pretend to be scared, or come to the door in your costume or a mask. That said, be considerate.

If you have decided the fairy costume three sizes too small is flattering in the way it allows you to show the world your skivvies, we suppose it is your right to define “tasteful” any way you please.

But at least wait until after 8 p.m. to put it on if there are going to be kids coming to your door.

You may not want kids coming anywhere near your door. You could always just not answer.

But these kids only get three hours a year where they are allowed to run around town looting neighbors’ sugar supplies.

Don’t waste any of that precious time.

Instead, throw up a sign that says, “No Candy, Move On,” or “Raisins Only,” or “Go Away (please and thanks).”

We love that so many college students celebrate Halloween. It’s a perfect celebration at a perfect time. It’s a nice last hurrah from the revelries of summer, tucked nicely between fall break and Thanksgiving break. But remember that today is mostly for the kids.

Like the Arab Spring demonstrations earlier this year, the Occupy Wall Street movement is populated largely by jobless and dissatisfied university students. The mounting costs of student debt, therefore, are among the chief concerns that unite this movement, with over 150 campuses having participated so far.

Now around $1 trillion, national student debt has exceeded national credit card debt.

Most graduates are leaving school saddled with between $22,000 and $28,000 in payments, and for some, including those whom attended private institutions, that debt is approaching the hundreds of thousands. For them, and especially for lower-income students, the unrest of a 9.1 percent unemployment economy is reaching a breaking point.

In a speech delivered at the University of Colorado in Denver, President Obama promised a new plan that would help around 1.6 million Americans reduce their payments by several hundred dollars a month.

His plan, in many ways an extension of legislation passed last year, proposes to extend the income cap from 15 to 10 percent and shorten the forgiveness deadline from 20 to 25 years. It will also offer those eligible the option of consolidating their loans for a better interest rate.

President Obama sympathized with the Colorado students, lamenting of having to write “five different checks to five different loan agencies” in trying to pay off his own student loans.

The plan also promises to simplify the process by which students pay for college, in making

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Horror films replaying the same story, only less well

By Alyssa Pracz Northern Star - Northern Illinois University

Watching scary movies is a must during Halloween. There’s just something about the season that makes watching them a little creepier than watching them in the summer. I feel, though, some of the latest horror movies are slacking in their fear factor. Probably because most of it is unoriginal. There needs to be less remakes and some new and different ideas. And why are there so many disgusting scenes in movies nowadays? Maybe directors are starting to confuse the words gory with scary.

An obscene amount of blood and the view of intestines or brains being ripped out isn’t scary... it’s just gross. Movies are supposed to make you jump, scream or break the person’s hand next to you because you’re squeezing it too hard.

Watching someone’s eye be burned out (like in Hostel) or some crazy doctor sewing people together (like in The Human Centipede) instead makes you turn your head away so you don’t vomit in your popcorn.

Sequel “The Human Centipede 2” obviously invokes the same reaction if not worse. The

movie was banned in the UK by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and is unavailable to air in theaters, be sold on DVD’s or be downloaded in the UK. But then again, who would want to see it when the movie is about an insane man who gets aroused from seeing people tortured and mutilated? Movies like this don’t scare people; they sicken them. Just because a movie is graphically violent doesn’t make it scary.

When questioned about his favorite scary movie, senior marketing major Ryan McCool said, “The Shining because of the suspense, and it’s a well laid out movie compared to the new blood-and-gore-type movies.”

With the right sound effects, lighting and storyline, a movie can easily be made scary. The original Halloween, directed by John Carpenter in 1978, is better than the remake directed by Rob Zombie in 2007. Although special effects may have lacked in 1978, the original Halloween brought more terror than the remake primarily because of the iconic creepy theme song that played when Michael Meyers was coming.

The idea that we can relate to something or that it’s true also invokes fear in horror movies.

“Texas chainsaw massacre is my favorite scary

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movie because it’s based on a true story and actually happened,” said Sergio Vazquez freshman accounting major.

In The Strangers when the victim asks the killers at the end, “Why are you doing this?” the killers’ simple response, “Because you were home,” made me believe the story.

The Paranormal Activity movies are popular because their premise can happen to anyone.

However, having just come out with its third installment, you can only have so many “paranormal activities” before you over do it like the Saw series.

The remakes need to slow down as well, especially in the recent phase of taking an original movie that was scary and turning it into a blood fest. I’m sure someone has a new, different and creative mind out there: one that can stop the horror genre from taking a possible plunge. I beg you: Please make your way to Hollywood.

It’s not to say that all recent movies aren’t scary; that’s not true. But most of them are going in the wrong direction and missing the simple things that makes a movie great. One rule to remember: In horror, sometimes less is more.

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Dirty’s Bar and Grill opens for business

By Sara Hall City Editor

After a frenzied opening on Friday, Dirty’s Bar and Grill, on the location of the now-closed Georgie Boy’s, is officially open for business.

Beverly Herr, general manager and owner of Dirty’s, said although the restaurant encountered a rushed start by last-minute production of menus and computer system changes in the first two nights of business, they are now on the right track for business.

“It was hectic, but fun,” she said.

Herr said while the fastpaced atmosphere was initially s t re s s f u l f o r t h e i r e m p l oy e e s , as they talk to customers and prepared orders, it soon became a fun hands-on learning experience.

“It was almost like their training,” she said.

Herr said as the staff settled into the flow of business, customers did not mind the initial wait.

“Everyone was very patient and understanding,” she said.

Herr said because Dirty’s never uses frozen food, many of the cooks are adjusting to the different method of cooking.

“Cooking food that is fresh and not prepared is a lot of work,” she said.

Herr said so far, burgers are proving to be the most popular item on the menu.

“We had so many people wanting them that we ran out of sirloin after the first day and had to get more,” she said.

Herr said the customers especially enjoyed the unique bar atmosphere at Dirty’s.

“A lot of people just hung out and had fun,” she said. “It isn’t a typical bar.”

He r r s a i d t h e m o s t p o p u l a r drinks included martinis and mojitos.

Once business at Dirty’s begins to settle in, Herr said she has goals she would like to achieve for the

restaurant.

She said their main aspiration is to expand their customer base.

“We hope to get people from Mattoon,” she said. “ We want them to know they can come to Charleston and eat here.”

He r r s a i d s h e a l s o h o p e s t o eventually be able to hold once-amonth charity events, in which a percentage of customers’ total bill would be donated to local charities.

Herr said Dirty’s also hopes to eventually hold a once a week breakfasts, most likely during the weekend.

In the mean time, Herr said Dirty’s is working to create a solid ground from which they can work their way up.

“We’re all excited,” she said. “It’s been a rocky start, but everyone’s doing a great job. It can only get better.”

Sara Hall can be reached at 581-2812 or smhall3@eiu.edu.

MEMORY, from page 1 “He was a smart enough guy that he could have done pretty much anything he wanted,” Garland said.

Members of the Illini Veterans presented Blanchette’s family with a shadow box and a flag after his burial on Oct. 28.

Members of the Illini Veterans also want to make sure Blanchette’s memory lives on through the organization.

“We have discussed ways to make sure Eric's name lives on through the Illini Veterans, but we're not sure yet how we will do that. If nothing else, he will be listed in the history of our organization as the second vice president and for having had a big influence on the organization in its early development,” Garland said.

Garland said he hopes to establish

a scholarship in Blanchette’s honor someday.

“He was like a brother to us. The shared experience of the military really brought us all together,” Terek said.

Samantha Bilharz can be reached at 581-2812 or slbilharz@eiu.edu.

HORROR, from page 1 Forrest Roof, a junior biology major at Lake Land Community College, said the actors are what made the haunted house great.

“The actors are really what made this haunted house scary, they knew what the people wanted and gave it to us 110 percent. I would for sure go back and do it again next year,”

Roof said.

Roof said he isn’t normally scared of clowns, but he was after he went into the clown room of the haunted house.

“I’m usually not scared of these things, but when I entered that clown room things just got really creepy.”

Mc C a m b r i d g e a l s o s a i d t h e clowns scared her the most.

“I hate clowns, so when I saw them I just got freaked out,” McCambridge said.

Trevor Behrens can be reached at 581-2812 or tjbehrens@eiu.edu.

SKILLS, from page 1 “It’s upsetting that that students can’t pass this test,” Henn said. “We’re talking about intelligent people, the admissions department makes sure of that, it’s crazy, and we know their intelligence.”

Henn said this is why she works so hard to help students at her weekly math workshops sponsored by the education department.

“I was asked to help out in the spring of 2011,” she said “I always enjoyed working with struggling students, after hearing about all the trouble they were having, it was an easy decision.”

At the workshops Henn usually has 25-30 students to whom she passes out a study guide to and then goes over the strategies to help students understand the test better.

“It is not just memorization; I try to help students understand, as well as use process of elimination if they get stuck.” Henn said. “When someone says they understand and don’t get stuck anymore its really rewarding.”

Henn said another part of the workshops is instilling confidence in the students who struggle in this area.

“I work with the students to make them believe they can do it,” Henn said. “It’s really a shame when I work with a student and see the test has made them doubt their abilities.”

The other area of the test where students can receive help through a workshop setting is through the reading center, located in Buzzard Hall Room1330.

In addition to Carpenter being the director of the reading center, she also runs workshops throughout the year.

“We’ve always had these types of

workshops, but after the push from the Deans we got more aggressive,” Carpenter said. “We started looking at the areas where students are struggling and based the workshops more on critical thinking. We also purchased the self diagnostic computer software so students can do self assessment.”

Carpenter said what is different about practicing for the reading section is that critical thinking skills have to be built up over time.

“Students cannot just go into the test and expect to do well,” Carpenter said. “At the workshops we show what is supposed to happen, model the questions they should be asking themselves to draw the correct conclusions.

We do group work and go through passages. The hardest thing is jumping to faulty conclusions, students need to keep digging for facts and practicing.”

According to data collected by Carpenter, students have begun using the reading center as a resource more and more as the test approaches.

Since week three of the semester, individual students have been logging about four hours a week in the center, which Carpenter said will give them about 36 hours of study time before the test.

“Word is spreading about us, it’s wonderful to see students coming back and asking me the questions I taught them to ask,” Carpenter said. “They are starting to make sense of it; it’s great to hear of their progress,” Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-7942 or alwywialowski@eiu.edu.

AWARD, from page 1 “I think for The DEN, it’s really important for us because it nudges us and tells us we’re doing a good job,” McNamee said. “Putting out a daily is tough and to know we are doing well compared to other newspapers in the nation speaks volumes for the type of people we have on our staff.”

At the convention, The Warbler yearbook took first place for the fewer than 300-pages yearbook category.

Kristin Jording, The Warbler editorin-chief, acknowledges the hard work of her staff for the award.

“I’m really excited, it’s different from a daily newspaper because it’s all or nothing,” Jording said. “We also got to hear all the troubles other yearbook’s have from their staff with

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The Warbler staff for the “Capture” 2010-2011 yearbook was comprised of photo editor Danny Damiani, design editor Brittany Ferris, and writers Cyndi Francois, Beth Steele and Barbara Harrington.

Also at the convention, journalism department chair James Tidwell was inducted into the CMA Advisers Hall of Fame.

Journalism professor Lola Burnham was also recognized as an honor roll adviser for her work as Editorial adviser for the The Den.

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Postseason in trouble

By Rob Mortell Staff Reporter

Eastern’s men’s soccer team may have dashed its postseason tournament hopes with a 2-0 loss to Oakland Saturday.

On a cold, windy day at Lakeside Field, the Panthers needed to win their last two Summit League matches to secure a spot in the conference tournament, but it was not to be.

Oakland scored almost immediately as Josh Bennett scored in the second minute. The Golden Grizzlies would be in control for the rest of the match.

Senior forward Ryan Child said it was a very tough loss, especially since it was on Senior Day. “I’m bitterly disappointed, to be honest,” Child said. “We have a really strong senior class and it’s just disappointing that we couldn’t finish it off with a really good season.”

The Panthers struggled to be productive offensively. They did not have a shot on goal until 14 minutes into the second half. Eastern was outshot 18-15 and only four of Eastern’s 14 shots were put on frame.

Oakland added insult to injury with a penalty kick by Johnny Dreshaj with 10 minutes left in the match.

Head coach Adam Howarth said the team is very disappointed with how it played in such an important match.

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Ian McCausland, a junior midfielder, dodges Josh Bennett, a midfielder from Oakland University, during the Panther’s game against Oakland on October 29 at Lakeside Field.

“I think we underperformed today,” Howarth said. “We really didn’t get anything clicking today for whatever reason.”

Freshman defenseman Spencer Filosa left the match early in the first half with a head injury. Howarth said he was not sure of the extent, just that Filosa was headed to the hospital for stitches.

To make the tournament, the Panthers must win their final conference match against Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, and then their fate rests in the hands of

three other teams.

Either Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis or Oakland will make the tournament because they play each other. Then Oral Roberts must lose to first place Western Illinois. If that happens the Panthers will be in a three-way tie for fourth place and the final tournament spot.

The Panthers play Tuesday for a non-conference match against Belmont.

Rob Mortell can be reached at 581-7944 or at rdmortell@eiu.edu.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Team suffers loss on Senior Day

By Brad Kupiec Staff Reporter

Eastern’s women’s soccer team lost its final Ohio Valley Conference match yesterday, falling 1-0 to Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville at Lakeside Field.

The loss drops the Panthers into a tied position with The Cougars at 4-5 in conference, but because Southern Illinois- Edwardsville is ineligible for the tournament, Eastern is in as the sixth and final seed, despite losing three consecutive matches to finish the OVC season.

The game’s only tally came early, as Cougar forward Meagan Iffrig scored in the 21st minute to give Southern Illinois-Edwardsville a lead they would not give up despite allowing more shots than they shot, as the Panthers put six balls on net to the Cougars’ four.

Despite winning the shots on goal battle, the Panthers were out-shot overall 16-13.

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The match was the Panther’s Senior Day, as their five seniors played their last home match at Lakeside Field, and the game was also played on the birthday of senior defender Erika Prazma.

“I was really excited, but anxious to play today,” Prazma said. “I knew the team and I had to leave it all out on the field being our last game at Lakeside for the season and my last game ever at Lakeside. It was really bittersweet; unfortunately we couldn’t get the win.”

Despite the loss, the Panthers played a solid game, according to head coach Summer Perala, and they improved over last weekend’s losses to Murray State and Austin Peay.

“We had more attacking opportunities in this game than we did over the past weekend,” Perala said. “We had several chances, we just couldn’t find the back of the net to save our lives.”

Sunday’s match saw the Panthers take only one corner kick to the Cou-

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gars’ five. The match’s only caution issued in the contest was a yellow card shown to senior defender and all-time Panther minutes leader Sam Balek in the 80th minute.

The Panther offense was led Sunday by junior midfielder Kristin Germann, who took five shots, including one on goal. Also leading the Panthers was freshman midfielder Meagan Radloff, who took three shots, with two on goal. Radloff was the only Panther with more than one shot on target.

The Panthers will now travel to Cape Girardeau, Mo., for the OVC tournament where they will take on No. 3 seed Tennessee-Martin Thursday at 4 p.m. The Panthers beat Tennessee-Martin 1-0 in the only 2011 meeting between the two teams, a match that took place in Martin, Tenn., and served as Eastern’s only OVC road win of the season.

Brad Kupiec can be reached at 581-7944 or bmkupiec@eiu.edu

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RUGBY

Road ends undefeated Staff Report

The premier team in NCAA Division I women’s rugby ran their record to 8-0 on the season with a road win against the Iowa State Cyclones. The Panthers defeated the Cyclones 50-22, sealing the win. With the win, the Panthers came out on top in each of their four road matches this season.

The Panthers came out with energy and passion, and were able to put Iowa State in an early hole. The offensive attack was out in full force Saturday afternoon as the Panthers tallied 50 points for the second time this season.

Eastern’s speed and quickness were too much for the Cyclones to handle as they were outran by the Panthers. The offensive explosion that the Panthers displayed was a rare sight this season, but it will certainly give them momentum and confidence as they look to end

their season with a perfect 10-0.

Although the Panthers offensive performance was top notch, the Panther defense left some room for improvement. Eastern was coming off of an incredible defensive performance against a very physical Northern Iowa team, in which they gave up just five points.

The defensive effort was not up to their usual standard against the Cyclones, as they gave up a season-high 22 points.

With the win, the Panthers are close to recording their third perfect season in the last four years.

The two remaining opponents left on the schedule are the Quinnipiac Bobcats and the Purdue Boilermakers.

The Panthers are 2-0 against the Bobcats this season and will look to make it a perfect 3-0 when they welcome the Bobcats to Lakeside Field on Sunday. Kickoff is scheduled for noon.

SWIMMING

Swim team winless

By Nick Blankenship Staff Reporter

The Eastern swimming teams once again failed to tally a win this past Saturday, this time at home in a dual meet against the University of Illinois-Chicago Flames.

The men lost their third straight meet by a score of 122-76, while the women have lost their fourth straight by 137-60. Both teams are still winless on the season.

The Panthers have only registered three-first place finishes and ten-second place finishes combined for both teams. Junior Hailey Foss won the women’s 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:17.34.

The men won the 200-yard freestyle led by senior Rich Waszak, junior Daniel Enge, junior Michael Lacine and junior Joe Ciliak with a final time of 1:29.95. The women also won their 200-yard freestyle by the team of junior Kelli Dicanio, sophomore Mary Lacine, Foss and sopho-

more Olga Livshits timed at 1:45.93.

Freshman Nikki Peck won second place in the women’s 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 11:59.15, while junior Christian Rhoten also won second place in the men’s 1000-yard freestyle at 10:46.61.

“We lacked a lot of energy today,” head coach Elliott McGill said in a press release. “The last few weeks of training have crept up on us, and even though we had some solid swims and times, we struggled as a team to swim through the soreness.”

The Panthers will have a chance to recover mentally and physically, as they do not have any meets for the next couple of weeks.

Their next meet will be at the House of Champions Invitational in at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11 and 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12 in Indianapolis.

Nick Blankenship can be reached at 581-7942 or nrblankenship@eiu.edu.

FOOTBALL, from page 8 This was the Panthers’ first game since wide receiver Kenny Whittaker and defensive lineman Michael Letton were dismissed from the team earlier last week after a violation of team rules.

Bellantoni said the removal of the two players was not a distraction to the team, but a motivation.

“I thought it was more of a rallying point for our team, that if you’re not going to do the right things, you’re not going to be around here,” he said. “I

think it was a statement we made as a staff and I think our guys rallied around each other, and they know they have to do the right things in order to be apart of the team.”

The Panthers play Tennessee State next week for Spoo’s final game at O’Brien Field. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m.

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Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942 or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

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VOLLEYBALL

Panthers stun OVC in match upset

By Lenny Arquilla Staff Reporter

The Panthers swept the undefeated-in-conference Morehead State Friday in a shocking Ohio Valley Conference match-up.

The Panthers lost their opening match this season to Morehead State, who have beaten them the last nine match-ups.

The Panthers showed a spark on both offense and defense to dethrone the 18-6 Morehead State, giving them their first conference loss.

Head coach Kate Price said she is very proud of what the team accomplished. She said Morehead State was the heavy favorite and the win was very unexpected.

Earning one of the biggest upsets in school history, the Panther team showed that although its record may not show it, it is a threat to the OVC. The Panthers ended Morehead State’s impressive 16-match OVC home winning streak in dramatic fashion as Eastern limited the league-leaders to a low .070 attack, thanks to 16 blocks, a new school record.

Junior Alison Berens hit seven blocks and seven kills. The dynamic duo of junior Emily Franklin and Brittany Wallace, senior libero, goes for the ball during a game against Illinois-Chicago on Oct. 17 in Lantz Arena. sophomore Reynae Hutchinson scored 10 kills a piece and seven and prevail, and lost in a 3-2 nail-biter.

Eastern Kentucky, however, had against Eastern Kentucky. six digs, respectively. Senior Brittany The Panthers had everything strong performances from Ashley The Eastern Kentucky Colonels Wallace recorded 15 digs. going right with four players nailing E d m o n d a n d H a n n a B u r k l e , improve to 12-13 overall and 7-7 P r i c e s a i d w h e n t h e t e a m d o u b l e - d i g i t s k i l l s , i n c l u d i n g whom had 17 kills and 14 kills, in the OVC while the Panthers has a good night, she can see a Franklin with a career high 24, and respectively. split the weekend and move to 9-18 momentum change in the team.

Hutchinson with her 14th career Libero Dena Ott recorded a overall and 6-10 in conference play.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Women take home title

By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

For the first time in ten years, the Eastern women’s cross country team took home the Ohio Valley Conference championship, upsetting the favorite and defending champion, Eastern Kentucky. The title is just the second in Eastern’s program history, as Eastern had five runners named to the All-OVC team.

Leading the way for the Panthers for the second straight week was junior Erika Ramos, finishing fourth with a time of 18:18.72. Ramos was one of three Eastern runners to notch first team All-OVC honors.

With the meet being held at Eastern Kentucky’s home course, Ramos said coming out on top felt even better.

“It feels great because it was at our rival school, EKU, and we totally wanted to go down there and beat them at their home course,” Ramos said.

Ramos said the keys to being the Panthers’ top finisher two weeks in a row was a combination of a positive attitude and effective practicing.

“A bunch of positive thoughts and great workouts throughout the week,” she said. “Coach (Erin Howarth) tells me she believes in me all the time, and I just put it all together and it all works out.”

Ramos said that beating Eastern Kentucky has been a goal of the Panthers for awhile.

“It’s been our goal since last confer-

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ence (championships),” she said. “We lost to them by, I think, 25 points, and pretty much we need to put six of our runners in front of their top five, and once we had all crossed the finish line, Coach (Howarth) was making some calculations, and we pretty much knew once we had all cross the finish line that we had won.”

Ramos said that the keys to winning the meet were the team’s confidence, having a healthy team, and having three seniors on the team.

Head coach Erin Howarth was also named OVC Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year. Ramos said Howarth, only in her second year at Eastern, has made great improvements to the program.

“It’s unbelievable how she’s brought

everything she knows with her philosophy on running to our program and just changed everything,” she said.

The men’s team finished in second place, just behind Eastern Kentucky, with red-shirt senior Brad LaRocque earning All-OVC honors for the second straight season. LaRocque led the Panthers, finishing in seventh place with a time of 25:44.93. LaRocque was one of four runners on the Panther men’s team to earn All-OVC honors.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will return to action in two weeks for the NCAA Midwest Regional.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942 or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

to Murray State for a 7 p.m. OVC contest before coming home to play three consecutive league matches to finish the regular-season.

Lenny Arquilla can be reached at 581-7944 or lrarquilla@eiu.edu

FOOTBALL

Streak finally ends for football team

By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

Members of Eastern’s women’s cross country team pose with the OVC Championship trophy at Eastern Kentucky on October 29.

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After seven straight weeks of losses, the Eastern football team finally pulled off its second win of the season and first Ohio Valley Conference win of the year. The Panthers now stand at 2-7 overall and 1-6 in the OVC. Sophomore quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo led his team to the 1910 victory over Austin Peay. Redshirt junior Jake Walker rebounded the Panther rushing attack from last week’s -5 yard performance to finish with 124 yards by himself, while the team finished with 181 yards with red-shirt freshman running backs AJ Woodson and Jimmy Lera.

The defense saw red-shirt senior linebacker Cory Leman finish with ten tackles, moving him into the top ten all-time Eastern tacklers.

Red-shirt sophomore linebacker Antonio Taylor led the defense with 12 tackles. The Governors had 215 yards rushing and 111 yards passing.

Sophomore kicker Cameron Berra kicked two field goals from 25 and 29 yards out, moving him into a tie for tenth place on the all-time Eastern list for most field goals.

Garoppolo finished with 201 yards, completing 10 of 18 passes, and connecting on a 52-yard pass to junior wide receiver Chris Wright for his only touchdown of the game.

Wright was Garoppolo’s leading

receiver with four receptions and 88 yards. Garoppolo threw two interceptions in the game.

Defensive coordinator Roc Bellantoni said with the team’s string of close losses, they just needed a different outcome.

“I’ve been telling our guys for a few weeks how close we’ve been, and I’ve been telling them we need to learn how to win again,” he said.

Bellantoni said the plays by the Panthers’ rushing attack and defense helped secure the win. “(Saturday) was a great example of finally learning how to win one of those close games, and it’s the way we’ve won a lot of games around here,” Bellantoni said. “Our offense ran the ball, controlled the ball, our defense kept points off the board, it’s just nice to finally win one the way we know how.”

The Panthers’ defense was able to sack Austin Peay quarterback Landon Curtis four times.

Bellantoni said getting pressure on the quarterback is always something the Panthers are trying to do in their game plans. “ We got (Austin Peay) in a passing situation and the defensive line pinned their ears back and we got a lot of pressure on the passer, so I’m definitely happy with how they played up front,” he said.

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