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Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington D.C., spoke with students Wednesday about their freedom of speech and how it relates to social media.
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Fashion show to ‘pop,’ awe with unusual objects By Savanna Tomei Staff Reporter
the clothing that’s (going to) be made, it all takes months.” The GLAM team did not go into much deaking everyday items like tissues, tail about the individual materials used or outgarbage bags and newspapers, mem- fits created so their audience will be more surbers of the GLAM Modeling will be prised. Nowell did let one hint slip: He said the hitting the catwalk Thursday. The president of GLAM Modeling will be most creative or obscure piece is made out of a part of his last show with the group when tissue. “It was really hard to make because it’s so models will wear everyday items as high fashdelicate and soft, and you have to be very genion clothing at their “Pop Art” show. “Pop art, to us, is taking everyday things tle with it,” he said. “I will say that when peoand making them art,” President Jeremy Now- ple see the tissue outfits, they’re not even going to believe it’s tissue. It’s that amazing.” ell said. He said he has Nowell said the oute n joyed passfits were made from all SAVE THE DATE ing the torch to kinds of unexpected who could items. What: Pop Art Fashion Show those become the new GLAM’s Pop Art Intimate Affair Fashion Where: University Ballroom l e a d e r s o f t h e group. Show will take place “It’s literally a at 7:15 p.m. Thursday When: 7:15 p.m. spectacle, I think in the University Ballit’s amazing. It’s room of the Martin Lumy last show bether King Jr. University cause I’m about to Union. Tickets are $3 in advance and $6 at the graduate,” Nowell said. “It’s even more amazing because we’ve been working with some door. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Miss Black and Gold Pageant Winner Brit- new leaders who can take it over next semester tany Staten will co-host the fashion show with and they’ve all been working so hard.” Nowell said he feels confident leaving what Ashlayah Hicks, a member of the dance team he calls his “baby” in the hands of his succesRhythm & Xtacy. Staten said her favorite part of the fashion sors. “It’s now not only my dream coming true, show is the overall concept GLAM has adoptbut it’s their dreams coming true too because ed for this show. “I was pretty amazed by the final product,” they’ve helped birth this baby. And I will alStaten said. “Some of your everyday items that ways look at GLAM as a baby. A baby that you use, even going to class, are made into needs a lot of attention,” Nowell said. “I’m just happy to see them take over as leaders so beautiful works of art.” Members of GLAM have been working on they can make GLAM even bigger than it is now.” the show for months now. “It takes months,” Staten said. “You have to Savanna Tomei can be reached come up with the scenes, you have to come up at 581-2812 or smtomei@eiu.edu. with the models that you want in the scenes,
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Perry, Nadler to address sexual assault at town hall By Chacour Koop Special Projects Reporter Chelsea Eversole does not want the dialogue silenced — she wants students and faculty to voice concerns about sexual assault at Eastern. The dialogue will continue at 7 p.m on Thursday in Lumpkin Auditorium when President Bill Perry, Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, and other university employees will take questions at a town hall meeting addressing the climate of sexual assault at Eastern. Eversole, a junior psychology major, is the co-president of the Women’s Empowerment League — the group organizing the forum. Lisa Moyer, a family and consumer sciences professor, will moderate the town hall meeting, and Roxane Gay, an English professor, will be a panel member. Eversole said she invited the Universi-
ty Police Department Chief Adam Due and na steps that read, “My rapist still goes here... Charleston Police Department Chief Bryan Will someone please listen to me?” Jennifer Hindes, a senior English major Baker, but is unsure if they will attend. She said Sandy Cox, the director of the who helped organize the town hall meeting, counseling center and chairwoman of the Sex- said she is disappointed Cox will not attend. “If you can’t make it to events about eduual Assault Taskforce, will not attend but is cation, that is a problem,” Hindes said. “I’m sending a representative in her place. extremely disappointed that Cox is in charge of the education"We’ve been handed an opportu- she won’t be there. I think it speaks volumes.” al campaign to raise nity to make some change on this In an email, Cox said she awareness about sexual assault at Eastcampus, and it’s important that is unable to attend because of a personal commitment. ern. we do not screw it up." Hindes said she hopes the The Sexual AsJeannie Ludlow, Engish professor town hall meeting will gathsault Taskforce — er a diverse group of people made up of staff, faculty and students — was charged with who share ways of improving reporting cases starting an educational campaign at Eastern of sexual assault. She said the reporting process at Eastern about sexual assault following a demonstraneeds to change. tions and a petition calling for action. Jeannie Ludlow, an English professor The protestors were responding to Eastern’s decision to erase a message on the Doud- and adviser to the Women’s Empowerment
League, said the town hall meeting was scheduled so the public could hear about the progress of the Sexual Assault Task Force’s educational campaign. She said she can tell there is improvement because more people know about the Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service located in the basement of Lawson Hall, but there is more work to be done. She said the town hall meeting Thursday is about reminding people there is still hope for change about sexual assault reporting at Eastern. “We’ve been handed an opportunity to make some change on this campus, and it’s important we do not screw it up,” Ludlow said. “We could be the model for other schools our size.” Chacour Koop can be reached at 581-2812 or cmkoop@eiu.edu.
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Campus to be stage Charleston plans for mayoral debate for riot anniversary By Liz Grubert & Amanda Wilkinson Staff Reporter & City Editor Students will have the opportunity to hear platforms on concerns by the three mayoral candidates on Thursday. The debate will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The three candidates running for mayor are Brian Myerscough, Troy Richey and Larry Rennels. Brian Myerscough is a substitute teacher for the Charleston Community School District, a lifelong resident of Charleston and served on the Board of Zoning and Appeals for 23 years.
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He said he wants to lower the bar entry age to 19 and increase student enrollment and employment. Troy Richey works at CHI Overhead Doors in Arthur and has lived in Charleston for 15 years. He said he would like to see Charleston be self-reliant from the state and would like to increase communication between the city and it’s members. Larry Rennels is a retired business owner and has been on the city council for 16 years. He said he would like to keep improving relations between the city and Eastern and start video streaming city council meetings. Richard Wandling, the political science department chairman, will moderate the debate. Each candidate will present a brief self-introduction in which they will elaborate on their political backgrounds.
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“I feel like the relationship between the town and the community is becoming stressed,” Scherle said. “It seems like tensions have definitely risen.” The debate will answer local questions such as the involvement with the police department and the current lack of social entertainment, he said. Topics of how the city and university plans to control the increase in crime will also be discussed. Justine Ryan, the external relations committee co-chairwoman, said the candidates could have a large impact on Eastern’s students and the town of Charleston. “I believe that the candidates in this election are capable of doing great things for us,” she said. Liz Grubert & Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.
By Josh Jones Staff Reporter The city and state are planning for the 150th anniversary of the Charleston Riot more than a year early. Thursday marks the 149th anniversary of the Charleston Riot – a day that is not only important to the history of Charleston, but to the state as well. Ann Winkler Hinrichs, chairwoman of the Charleston Riot steering committee, said the committee wanted to bring interest to next year’s event as soon as possible. “We really want to highlight Charleston and highlight the Square,” she said. Hinrichs said the committee do not have an exact number of people to attend the anniversary event but they are expecting increased tourism. She said the committee are expecting an estimated $80 in general tourism revenue per person who attends the event for one day. The Charleston Riot took place on March 28, 1864, on the Charleston Square after Union soldiers on leave clashed with Southern sympathizers known as Copperheads, who were opposed to Lincoln’s presidency and the Civil War. Hinrichs also said she has a vested interest in the history of the riot because she managed to trace back members of her family to being in the group of Copperheads on the Square that day. “They were not in the Confederate Army, they felt like people should have made their own decisions with slavery,” Hinrichs said. “They were Southern sympathizers.” The confrontation took place where the Charleston Square is today, and while the cause of the fight was unknown, the Union soldiers would run the Copperheads out of Charles-
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• At 11:57 p.m. Monday, a cannabis complaint was reported at Thomas Hall. This incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards. • At 10:50 p.m. Monday, a disorderly conduct was reported near Douglas Hall. This incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards. • At 2:25 a.m. Tuesday, Brandon Lang, 20 of Oswego, was arrested on a failure to appear warrant at Taylor Hall. He was released at 2:53 a.m. after posting 10 percent of a $3000 bond.
ton, but not without losing men. The Union soldiers had no support from local law enforcement and found themselves fighting with the Coles County Sheriff John O’Hair, who led the Copperheads. The Union soldiers suffered more casualties than the Copperheads with seven out of the nine dead being Union soldiers. “It mostly took place on the west side and south side of where the square is today,” Hinrichs said. The three-day anniversary event star ts March 28, 2014 on the Charleston Square, at the corner of Seventh and Jackson streets, featuring several tours and guest speakers including Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln. “He actually was a consultant in that new ‘Lincoln’ movie that is out, and he has written a companion book to the movie,” Hinrichs said. Reenactors will be depicting the events of the Charleston Riot as part of the anniversary. “On Saturday night, the Union troops will actually go to Mattoon and march to Charleston on the old railroad tracks,” Hinrichs said. The march will be followed by a ceremony when the reenactors arrive in Mattoon. The event will end on Sunday with a live reenactment of the Charleston Riot. Currently, the Charleston Riot committee is still taking in people to do the reenactment. Hinrichs said her brother Mark Winkler will be portraying their great-great-grandfather, Young Wing Winkler. Hinrichs said the committee is still working on a budget and determining the costs of service required for the anniversary. Josh Jones can be reached at 581-2812 or jljones8@eiu.edu.
RHA to nominate committee chairs The Residence Hall Association plans to nominate Committee leadership positions on Thursday. RHA will be meet at 5 p.m. at the National Pan-Hellenic Council building in the Greek Court. Eddie Hillman, a junior biological sciences major, said they would also be talk about plans for Social Justice and Diversity week. The LGBTQA community and race and ethnicity are topics that will be focused on throughout the week. Hillman said that the cinder block wall of oppression will be erected again this year and be torn down to symbolize breaking down barriers.
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Speech encourages students’ Jupiter to be visible freedom of speech in college from observatory By Lauren Morrow Staff Reporter
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Students were urged to take a stand for their freedom of speech and First Amendment rights Wednesday by the executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington D.C. “Censorship and the Law: Student Speech Rights in a Social Media World” was delivered by Frank LoMonte, lawyer and First Amendment advocate. During LoMonte’s speech he stressed the importance of students of all ages standing up for their first amendment rights. LoMonte said that it is the duty of the legal community to provide protection for students that is just as good as the professionals when they gather news in the field. He said that this means students should have the full benefit of the First Amendment, not the “training wheels” version of it so that schools and their administration cannot pressure students into changing what they want to say. LoMonte challenged students to say whatever they want, even if it’s crazy. “You’re allowed to say crazy things in college because if you’re not allowed to say crazy things in college, where are you ever going to say them?” he said. LoMonte told various stories of students being hushed for trying to embrace their freedom of speech rights, including the Manti Te'o scandal. “The story was not broken by professionals at ESPN, it was not broken
To let the public get a glimpse of the universe, James Conwell runs an observatory open house on the last Friday of every month at 8 p.m. to midnight. Conwell, the EIU Amateur Astronomer’s Association and observatory director, said even though the open observatory does center on looking at planets and stars through a telescope, the open house is also a place to learn more about astronomy from members of the organization. “It’s more than just looking,” he said. “It is asking questions like, ‘How does a star work?’ and we would be more than happy to answer.” Jupiter and Orion will be visible on Friday, during the open house at the observatory, and even if it is too cloudy to see, there will still be an open house. The open house is free to anyone wanting to do stargazing or to learn about the universe, Conwell said. He said that he has had a mixed bag of people come. While some who come out do not know much about astronomy, some have been amateur astronomers who know a lot about stargazing, and some even bring there own telescopes, Conwell said. “It is sort of like a telescope-fest, upon occasion,” Conwell said. He said one guy brought a 30-inch telescope a few times, which was twice as big as the one in the observatory. “The thing is everyone wants to look through the 30-inch telescope until they realize the eye piece is 15 feet in the air and then they look at the 15-foot ladder,” he said.
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Frank LoMonte, the executive director for the Student Press Law Center, speaks about the First Amendment and it’s impact on today’s society as well as journalism. LoMonte came to Eastern for four days attending a total of eight classes.
by professionals at Sports Illustrated. It was not broken by the professional news media at all, it was broken by two college students,” LoMonte said. As far as court cases go, LoMonte said as far as his research goes back he cannot find a First Amendment case ever where a college student speaker has lost at the U.S. Supreme Court. He also spoke of the importance of student journalists and said that increasingly, the entire adult world is reliant on college and even some high school students to bring them the news. LoMonte praised the Illinois’ “College Campus Press Act,” which was passed by state legislature in 2007.
He said this act gives students the benefit of state law, which elevates their rights beyond to the professional and adult status. So far nine states have some form of this law. “Are students the future of journalism? No, they’re the present,” LoMonte said. LoMonte’s speech was followed by a question and answer period, where he was asked about many different cases involving students finding themselves in trouble because of the media. Laura Morrow can be reached at 581-2812 or lfmorrow@eiu.edu.
While there are telescopes set up around the observatory at the open house, the main telescope used is the one inside: a 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. “(The Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope) is a special one that uses both a lens and a mirror,” Conwell said. “Most of the focusing is done with a mirror, but then they have what they call a corrector lens to make the image sharper.” He said that there are things bright enough and luminous enough like a galaxy that we could photograph them from three or four billion light years away. Work on the observatory started in 2004 with Randy Wright, an Eastern physics alumni, and P. Scott Smith, a physics department faculty retiree, who donated to the funding of project, which was handled by former physics department chairman Keith Andrews. Other than the actual building itself, most of the work on the telescope was done by students with Conwell’s advisement. Later that year on Halloween, the first open house was run that was also the first time the telescope was unveiled to the public. While the open house normally has around 100 people show up, the time that Mars would be the closest to the earth for 24 thousand years had about 380 people showed up, Conwell said. He said it was the highest number in attendance that year. “There is nothing more important than understanding how where you live works,” Conwell said. Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or jsjarmon@eiu.edu.
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CAA to discuss retention data Thursday By Stephanie Markham Administration Editor The Council on Academic Affairs will be discussing data on student retention and graduation rates during its meeting Thursday. Karla Sanders, director of the center for academic support and assessment, said in an email that the committee on retention efforts would be presenting the data from its February retention forum. Blair Lord, the provost and vice
president for academic affairs, asked the committee to present its data to various administrative councils, Sanders said in the email. The data includes comparisons of Eastern students’ graduation and retention rates and ACT scores with students at other universities. President Bill Perry set the goal of an 85 percent retention rate by 2013, according to the committee’s report. The report states that Eastern’s freshmen-to-sophomore reten -
tion rate is currently at 79 percent, which is 10 percent higher than other “traditionally selective” universities. During the forum, committee members discussed challenges faced by at-risk students and initiatives to increase retention, such as the early alert system that allows professors to send alerts to students who do not attend class. Kimberlie Moock, the director of new student programs and cochairwoman of the committee, said
they would be talking about specific ways for faculty to help improve the retention and graduation rate. “We really want to just be able to start a conversation with individuals that sit on CAA and get them thinking about retention and how that also might affect the work they’re doing as they approve academic courses,” she said. She said committee members have presented the data with the colleges and would be presenting it to the Faculty Senate.
“The data we are presenting is going to be the same data we presented at the forum, but then we are focusing on some specific ways in which departments and faculty could be helping with retention,” she said. The council will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday in Room 4440 of Booth Library. Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or samarkham@eiu.edu.
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Template for cutting programs may hurt students With the university doing whatever it “the summer.” Our POSITION can to save money, the next step will be Goals are good, and so is progress, but these • Situation: The program analysis steering the program analysis steering committee are only useful if they are carried through. committee is completing the budget template. • Stance: Cutting programs hurts students and which is in the process of completing a It would be nice to see a more clear-cut deadmay not be the best option. template to guide budgetary decisions in line for when this data needs to be evaluated by. the Fiscal Year 2014. A program is no good unless it does what The template will be used to alloit’s supposed to do, or else it’s simply a waste cate and reallocate funds, while strengthening programs that fosof time. ter sustainable enrollment, support financial stability and identiHowever, even though the state budget appropriations have been fy opportunities to decrease cost. decreasing steadily over the years, are programs the first thing we need to The template is a good idea to see what’s working and what be cutting in order to save money? isn’t working. We’ve seen before in David Carwell’s March 5 letter to the editor, However, the template doesn’t seem to have much of a direc“Cleaning out Old Main would save millions,” that perhaps one solution tion or goals in mind. to save the university from its financial woes would be to reevaluate the For example, William Weber, the vice president for business “well compensated individuals” in the administration. affairs and chairman of the committee, said there is no specifIt’s tough in these times where we have to save at every opportunity ic amount that programs will have to reduce their budgets by at we can, but at what cost? this time. Who will cutting programs hurt the most? According to the committee’s website, the template will be refined Students. from March to April, the design will be finalized in May, and program The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of heads will have the summer to complete the narrative data, but there’s The Daily Eastern News. no clear-cut goal of when the data needs to be completed other than
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So often we rush to praise social networking for its positive nature, and for good reason. The Internet has by and large ushered in a new era of global communication, progress and curiosity. Quite frankly, it “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” has changed everything we know about thought, intellect and social development. But what happens when social networking becomes the dominant forum for dialogue and debate? What happens when “likes,” “retweets,” “upEditor in Chief Managing Editor votes” and “shares” become the fundamental ways Tim Deters Rachel Rodgers by which we express ourselves? In a world dominated by 140-character diatribes Associate News Editor News Editor and meme-driven discussion, the ability — or moSeth Schroeder Robyn Dexter reso, the willingness — of our generation to engage in legitimate dialogue has been reduced to the clickOnline Editor Opinions Editor ing of a button, the thought being that regurgitation Sara Hall somehow equates to substantive thought. Dominic Renzetti The ideologies of our generation have been, in many ways, compressed into what Robert LifCONTINUE THE DEBATE ton called “the thought-terminating cliché.” “Brief, highly-reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easiONLINE ly memorized and easily expressed” are the new language of the net, and we are often too consumed by • Extended letters the ridiculous notion of online popularity to realize • Forums for all content how insufficient this type of communication truly is. Don’t believe me? Look at your Facebook news www.dailyeasternnews.com feed. There are examples everywhere. For every
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Robert Downen hot-button social issue, 2,000 responses arise, each bogged so heavily by cliché and factual-negligence that they almost pass as satire. A quick example: “Taking guns away to stop gun violence is like stopping drunk driving by taking cars away from sober people.” Ambiguous analogy? Check. Arbitrary analysis of a complex issue? Yep. Attention-grabbing picture? Absolutely. Seven-thousand “likes” and 2,000 “shares?” You got it. But does it really? Is it really fair to equate gun violence to something like drunk driving? Simply put: no. Yet we pass these arguments as valid, the simple clicking of a button serving as a declaration of our consent, every “like” and “retweet” encouraging cliché whilst barring hopes for legitimate dissection. These arguments pass the smell test, sure. But once
held to even a modicum of scrutiny, they fall apart entirely. Of course, this trend is understandable. It’s much easier to simply regurgitate someone else’s opinion rather than form our own. In a fast-paced day and age, such thoughts are time-savers, and the simple act of “sharing” something shields us from any potential blowback. Memes, retweets, etc. allow us the rare opportunity to throw our hats into the intellectual ring while hiding behind the idea that “someone else said it before me.” I’m not discarding the essence of such dialogue as entirely flawed — debate, however superfluous, is debate nonetheless, and we should never take for granted the immense power that falls at our fingertips every time we jump online. What I am discarding, however, is the notion that these clichés, regardless of what social hub they arise from, are substitutive for true thought or analysis. The clicking of a button is not the working of a mind, and if it only takes 140 characters to express the deepest of our thoughts and beliefs, we need to think harder. Robert Downen is a senior journalism and political science major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@gmail.com
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Alyssa Galster, a senior family and consumer sciences major, holds a plate as Jaclyn Bartz, a senior family and consumer sciences major, prepares a plate of spaghetti, salad and garlic bread Wednesday for a spaghetti dinner fundraising event in The Café in Klehm Hall. The fundraiser was hosted by the Club Managers Association of America, a registered student organization, which promotes awareness of the hospitality industry and is open to any students who wish to participate.
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Senate hears from Dial-a-Ride By Samantha McDaniel Student Governance Editor The Student Senate members heard a presentation from Dial-aRide requesting for help to gauge student interest in expanding hours at their meeting on Wednesday. Brian Peterlich, the operations director for Dial-a-Ride, said this month will mark the 20th birthday of the program, starting with just senior citizens and moving to include the entire community. Peterlich said he wants the Student Senate members’ help to promote Dial-a-Ride and to collect student needs. “We are trying to provide a service for the community and we’re trying to expand it to the population of Eastern,” Peterlich said. At the end November, Dial-aRide started a new Zipline program that provided a fixed route in and around Charleston and Mattoon, he said. Peterlich said while the route is fixed, drivers will often make minor detours to drop people off within a few blocks of the original stop. “We do it quite often, especially in bad weather,” Peterlich said. Fr o m A u g u s t 1 5 , 2 0 1 2 t o Wednesday, Dial-a-Ride has served 586 students to take them to and
from the Amtrak, which is why Peterlich said it is important to see what the needs are of the students. The Dial-a-Ride program is looking into the possibility of expanding their hours to provide for more students. “We need to know, is there a demand, if Eastern students would be using it, if we expanded the hours,” Peterlich said. The proposal would expand weekday hours from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. to 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. as well as weekend hours, but Peterlich said the program does not want to make a commitment unless they know it will be used. “We don’t want to be committed with the budgets and grants from the state being very tight,” Peterlich said. He suggested Student Senate have different things like surveys, but said they have plans to advertise through housing and orientation. The Student Senate also voted on a bill to donate $125 for T-shirts to raise money for the Student Veterans scholarship. Brandi Binder, a Student Senate member, said the money will go to provide a scholarship for student veterans. Binder said there are 299 veterans on campus.
The T-shirts will go along with a program where students can write notes to soldiers overseas with a care package and information about Eastern. “We are trying to get student veterans more involved,” Binder said. The Student Senate also discussed a bill to spend $312.74 for snacks that will be given out the Sunday before finals in the Booth Library. The money will provide mini pretzels, Goldfish, Rice Krispies, Nutri-Grain bars, bananas, apples, lemonade sticks, tea, bottled water and coffee. Kathryn English, a Student Senate member and an author of the bill, said the snacks will be given to students who are studying in the library so they do not have to leave. Shawn Allen, another author of the bill and a Student Senate member, said other universities provide programs like this. “This has been done by student government at (Illinois State University) and they got a lot of positive feedback saying they were a lot more comfortable without leaving the library,” Allen said. Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.
The program analysis steering committee is in the process of completing a template to guide budgetary decisions in the Fiscal Year 2014. William Weber, the chairman of the committee and the vice president for business affairs and, will be sharing the template during an open forum at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Effingham Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. President Bill Perry created the committee in October charged with creating a template to allocate and reallocate university resources, strengthen programs that foster sustainable enrollment, support financial stability, and identify opportunities to decrease cost. Weber said there is no specific amount that programs will have to reduce their budgets by at this time. He said when the day comes that they have to make a major cut, then they will consider the data provided on the template. Weber said the committee is using the Banner financial system, which identifies the area each program it is in and where its funding comes from using a six-digit code. “By using the Banner financial system, we can make sure that all programs at the university are involved and are considered in this program analysis,” he said. “We’re tying the definition of programs to the university’s financial statement to make sure that all areas are covered.” He said a program is defined as any activity at the university that uses resources and a listing of about 300 programs has been shared with the vice presidents. Weber said the template would rely on data provided by the office of planning, budget and insti-
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tutional research, and on narrative data provided by program heads. “Some data we’ll generate centrally, primarily enrollment data and financial data, then program heads can review that data for correctness and accuracy, and we’re also asking them to respond to some of the narrative questions,” he said. The narrative questions ask things such as why the program exists, how its mission statement aligns with the university’s mission statement and what services the program provides. According to the committee’s website, the template will be refined from March to April, the design will be finalized in May and program heads will have the summer to complete the narrative data. Weber said the vice presidents would be in charge of using the data in consultation with the Council on University Planning and Budget. He said Perry did not establish a deadline by which to analyze and use the template data once it is completed. “It’s a recognition that we are in a very competitive environment,” Weber said. “It’s a recognition that simply being good is not good enough; we have to be excellent in everything we do.” Another open forum is scheduled for April 3 at 3 p.m. in the Effingham Room of the Union. “We’re at the stage right now where we’ve been sharing a current draft of the template with all the major governance groups on campus, and all of that is online for anyone who wants to check it out and has any comments or concerns to share,” Weber said.
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By Aldo Soto Assistant Sports Editor The Eastern baseball team won three of the four games played last week, scoring 30 runs against Southern IllinoisCarbondale and Illinois State, respectively. First baseman Treysen Vavra led the Panthers with a .375 average (6-for-16) including seven RBIs and two runs. The junior hit three doubles and aided the Panthers to an overall .292 batting average for the week. But Vavra was not the only Eastern hitter who hit over .300 last week. Red-shirt freshman Demetre Taylor went 5-for-14 (.357) with two RBIs, three runs and a double. Brant Valach joined Taylor and Vavra, by also hitting .353. The third baseman scored three runs, drove in three and out of his six hits, two were doubles. The trio increased Eastern’s batting average, from .240, up to .253 for the season. Coach Jim Schmitz said Taylor and starting catcher Jacob Reese are two batters who have been getting better after starting off to a slow start. Reese has currently recorded a hit in four straight games after being held to only one hit in his previous four starts. “(Reese) is doing a great job,” Schmitz said. “We simplified his approach and he seems to respond really well to that.” Caleb Howell led the Panthers in batting average until this weekend, as Valach now leads Eastern at .298. Despite that, Howell comes into this weekend series against Jacksonville State with past success. The outfielder has played three games against the Gamecocks, in which he has hit .615, (8-for-13) having scored four runs with two RBIs. Reese has played six previous games against Jacksonville State, and has gone 5-for-18, driving in a run and scoring two. The Panthers have also made a concerted effort in bunting this season. Schmitz said the team did a great job last weekend sacrifice bunting against Illinois State. Eastern is ranked fifth in the Ohio Valley Conference in sacrifice bunts with 18, eight behind the leader Southeast Missouri, which has played four more games than Eastern.
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Nathan Sopena, a senior infielder, runs from second base to third on Mar. 19 against Southern Illinois Carbondale. The next home baseball game is scheduled for 3 p.m. April 4.
Around the OVC Jacksonville State’s Michael Bishop and Southeast Missouri’s Andy Lennington were awarded co-Ohio Valley Conference Players of the Week. Bishop batted .481 tallying up 13 hits in 27 at bats. The junior scored five runs and had four RBIs while hitting four doubles in five games last week. Lennington hit .444 (8-for-18) in four games with the Redhawks. The sophomore had five RBIs, five runs scored, a home run, two doubles and two triples in a game against Morehead State. The OVC Pitcher of the Week was
Murray State’s Cameron Finch. Finch made history, pitching the first no-hitter in the OVC since 2006. The no-hitter came in a 1-0 win against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville last Friday. It was Murray State’s first nine-inning no-hitter in school-history and its first no-hitter since 1986. Finch improved his record to 3-1 in six starts after the history-making performance. Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu.
Two years ago, Brady Sallee sat at a press table in the dark shadow of another early exit from the Ohio Valley Conference tournament and promised his team would keep trying to “break down the door,” and “be on top of the ladder one day.” He meant the Eastern women’s basketball team was not going to fade away or give up. He meant the team would be on the championship ladder, climbing up it to cut down the nets one day soon. O n Mo n d a y, t h e t e a m w a s knocked out of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament in the second round; however, it had already broken down the door and was on top of a ladder — though with a different head coach. When Sallee announced he was leaving Eastern for Ball State in May, I wasn’t the only one a little surprised. I talked to senior guard Kelsey Wyss immediately after the announcement, and she mentioned that the news caught her off guard. I talked to red-shirt sophomore guard Katlyn Payne this year, and looking back, she was shocked, too. We all knew that day was coming, but didn’t know when. Nobody I talked to expected it to be before a season like this one, when Eastern returned its four-star seniors for one final run at postseason glory. The team won the OVC regular season title this season, and coach Lee Buchanan was voted OVC Coach of the Year, but the Panthers didn’t win in the OVC tournament. So people dismissed the Panthers entering the WNIT because they hadn’t won a postseason game in the program’s history. But they got a good draw in the brackets. They played and beat Missouri in the last two years and now they had another chance to do it in the first round. They did, breaking down the door and climbing to the top of the ladder. It wasn’t a championship,
Alex McNamee but it was an important step for the program. Eastern cemented itself as legitimate competition for power conference schools like Missouri, from the Southeastern Conference. On Monday, they had chance to do it again — against Illinois in the second round of the WNIT. They lost, but had the Illini on the ropes for about 30 to 35 minutes of the game. It was unfortunate, not only because it’s the end of a great four years from this senior class — Ta’Kenya Nixon, Mariah King, Kelsey Wyss, Sydney Mitchell — but because the magic of March seemed like it was in their favor. Buchanan said after Monday’s game that the team thought it could just keep winning. It was more than just his feeling. The vibe of Eastern’s first two games in the WNIT was that something special was going on — the seniors didn’t want to be done yet. The magic had to end somewhere, though, and it seems fitting that Eastern’s season ended at Assembly Hall, the Mecca of Illinois college sports, where the Panthers had the Illini on the verge of losing. Questions definitely emerged after Sallee left: Will Eastern plummet without the coach that had built the program, basically from the ground up? The players endured, led by a group of special seniors, who refused to lose. Those who followed this team wont soon forget these faces of history. Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-2812 or admcnamee@eiu.edu.
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Pole vault coach considers leaving Eastern By Jaime Lopez Verge Editor
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Pole vault coach Kyle Ellis returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach in 2009, and in that time, he started a grassroots program for his athletes. He turned Eastern pole vaulting into a program that caught the attention of redshirt pole vaulters Mick Viken and Jade Riebold, who transferred from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Georgia, respectively. Ellis has been working for four years as an assistant coach and helped Viken and Riebold reach new heights with his system of training. During this time, he has been considering
Pole vault coach Kyle Ellis has worked to improve Eastern’s pole vaulting program since he returned to his alma mater in 2009. Ellis has helped red-shirt pole vaulters Jade Riebold and Mick Viken rise as athletes in that time, but he is considering leaving Eastern to coach at another school.
leaving Eastern for a school that offers him a higher salary. “I could go to Family Video and make more in a year,” Ellis said. But Ellis said he made a promise to both athletes. “I gave the two kids going to nationals a promise that I would stay here for two years,” Ellis said. Though he has received offers from other schools, Ellis said he stayed true to his word and remained at Eastern, training his first batch of pupils, even when seasoned coaches told him not to stick with a job because of an athlete. With the success he has seen with
athletes to buy into.” As much as Ellis loves his job as a coach at Eastern, he has considered jobs elsewhere because of his salary. Ellis said he is currently making $20,000 a year. The debt left over from the student loans he took out forced him to join the National Guard, and Ellis will be starting basic training in the summer. Ellis said he likes his job at Eastern, but his pay does not help him with his bills and all of the debt he has accumulated. “I’ve got my college degree, and I’m working hard,” he said. “I love working with these kids.”
"I could go to Family Video and make more in a year."
Kyle Ellis, pole vault coach
his athletes, Ellis said he felt compelled to stay and continue with the program he built. Viken cleared the bar at 17-feet, 8.5-inches numerous times this season, and Riebold broke her personal record when she reached a height of 14-feet, 7.25-inches. “When I got these offers from these other places, that’s just something that I kind of had to weigh out,” Ellis said. Most of the vaulters currently on his squad only know Ellis as their coach at the collegiate level. Ellis said pole vaulting is a sport that differs from all the others because there has to be strong relationship between both the athlete and the coach. “As a pole vault coach, I feel it’s really different from other sports,” he said. “These kids put a lot of trust in me. I mean I have my own little system that I get my
A couple of years ago, Ellis said, a position opened up at Northern Iowa and his coworkers told him to consider applying for the job. However, Ellis said he did not consider leaving his post at that moment. Ellis said leaving for a bigger school is lucrative because the pay is higher, but he disapproves of coaches who build successful athletic programs at small schools and then leave when athletic powerhouses offer them a better salary. But he also tried to comprehend why coaches leave for these kinds of jobs since he faced the same dilemma. “From an outsider’s perspective, you probably wouldn’t respect a decision like that,” Ellis said. “I’m kind of keeping my options open.” Ellis said he has only stayed at Eastern because of his athletes. Jaime Lopez can be reached at 581-2821 or jlopez2@eiu.edu.
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Pitcher might return from injury in time for OVC who come into the series at 12-14 and 6-3 in the OVC. Jacksonville State won its last game against Austin Peay, which broke the Gamecocks four-game losing streak. Through their first 26 games, the Gamecocks have hit 14 home runs, which has them tied for third most in the OVC. Schmitz said Jacksonville State is a different team from last because the Gamecocks lost their top two power hitters, including Ben Waldrip who led the Gamecocks with 18 home runs. Despite the difference from last year, Schmitz said that the Jacksonville State coach, Jim Case, has a couple of the same tendencies. “He’s not really a hit-and-run guy,” Schmitz said. “Pitching wise, they are going to throw a lot of breaking balls when we have guys in scoring position.” Last season, the Last season the Panthers were 1-2 against Jacksonville State and were outscored 3022. Game one of the series will start at 3 p.m. in Ruddy Abbott in Jacksonville, Ala. Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu.
Pitcher Lineup Eastern v. Jacksonville State Andrew Grahn
from being a thrower his freshman year to a pitcher now.” Eastern’s third OVC series of the season will bring another change to the lineup. With senior infielder Nathan Sopena out indefinitely with a wrist injury, Schmitz said shortstop Tyler Schweigert will be the team’s new leadoff hitter. Dane Sauer will also take Sopena’s spot on the field, as he will be the new starting second baseman. “Dane is very solid defensively, and we really like what he does for us at the end of the lineup,” Schmitz said. One of the decisive factors Schmitz said Schweigert was put into the No. 1 spot in the order is because of his experience in the OVC. This is Schweigert’s third season as a Panther. Schmitz also said the shortstop could add another element to the top of the order. “We want Tyler to get on base, but he can also hit extra base hits if pitchers elevate the ball,” he said. “I like the lineup with him at the top; he has a good feeling for stealing and a little bit of pop in his bat.” Eastern will face the Gamecocks,
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Junior pitcher Christian Slazinik has been eased back to pitching since he suffered a knee injury in his first start of the season. Coach Jim Schmitz said the goal is for Slazinik to pitch in game three of Eastern’s road series against Jacksonville State, which begins Thursday. The left-handed pitcher was slated to be Eastern’s No. 1 pitcher to start the year, but after only one pitch thrown against Jackson State on Feb. 17, Slazinik has not made an appearance for the Panthers. Slazinik threw a simulated game indoors Monday and will throw a bullpen session Thursday. Schmitz said he wants Slazinik to pitch around three innings, but that is predicated on how the junior pitcher feels after he throws on Thursday. “If there are any reservations, then Christian will not throw,” Schmitz said. “We still have eight weeks to go, and we don’t like being 0-5 (in conference play) but we know we’re a better team with Christian there. So if he’s not ready then we’ll put him off until next week or whenever it takes.”
The Panthers are still looking to win their first Ohio Valley Conference game of the year after losing three games at Southern IllinoisEdwardsville and two home games against Austin Peay. Schmitz said he will go with the same starting rotation he had against Illinois State last weekend. Schmitz changed the order of the starters heading into the weekend series against the Cardinals and after winning the series Schmitz said he would stick to that model of success. “We’re really big on duplicating what worked,” he said. “It worked this weekend, so we’ll stick with it.” Andrew Grahn will make the game one start followed by Joe Greenfield and Matt Borens. Greenfield leads Panther starting pitchers in ERA (3.54) strikeouts (27) and innings pitched (40.2). Greenfield is coming off a season-high eight strikeouts against Illinois State when he also pitched 8.1 innings giving two runs in the Panthers 7-2 win. “The biggest difference I’ve seen from (Greenfield) is his ability to locate the fastball; he can control and command it on both sides of the plate,” Schmitz said. “He went
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Date: Thursday Time: 3 p.m. ERA: 5.75 Record: 0-2 W-L vs. Casey Antley ERA: 3.54
Date: Friday Time: 6:30 p.m. ERA: 3.54 Record: 1-2 W-L vs. Taylor Shields ERA: 3.55
Date: Sunday Time: 2 p.m. ERA: 5.45 Record: 0-4 W-L vs. Adam Polk ERA: 4.66