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By Elizabeth Edwards Editor-in-Chief

Corrine D-Joyner and Betty Dodson are still passionate about democracy and increasing citizens’ involvement in the electoral process after decades of loyalty to the League of Women Voters of Coles County.

Co-organizer D-Joyner joined the league 26 years ago after her neighbor convinced her to attend a membership tea, and within six months, she was secretary.

While co-organizer Dotson joined the league 38 years ago and has been a dedicated member ever since.

“I moved here in 1974, and as far as I know, I became a league member that year,” Dotson said.

“They were a group of women I had a lot in common with and offered me a opportunity to share my interest in legislation.”

The League of Women Voters is an international, non-partisan organization that promotes better government by advocacy and education and will take positions on certain legislation, D-Joyner said.

Before the league makes a decision on anything, they will reach a consensus in the group and will ask community members to comment before they make a decision.

The league will also conduct research and will ask experts before they make a decision.

Last week, the league hosted a local candidate forum to inform Coles County citizens about the candidates.

“I have always enjoyed a candidates’ forum—always,” D-Joyner said.

“It’s a wonderful idea for candidates to come before the public and give their ideas on how they are going to make democracy work.”

Both D-Joyner and Dotson said they love how the forum focuses on face-to-face communication with the public.

The league also has been studying pension reform,

By Elizabeth Edwards Editor-in-Chief

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Betty Dodson and Corrine D-Joyner, co-organizers of the League of Women Voters of Coles County, are ready for today’s election.

Amendment 49, and hosted a forum on the issue last week.

Right now, the group is in the process of revitalizing and reorganizing their league, D-Joyner said.

In the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, DJoyner said the group had 100 members, but when the group disbanded to reorganize, they had about 20 members in 2010.

All the leagues across the na-

"What happens next Tuesday is not going to affect me very much, but it is going to affect you.

It is a terrible mistake if you do not vote."

Betty Dodson, Co-Organizer

tion have seen a drop in members, D-Joyner said.

At one time, the League of Women Voters helped start the

recycling program and health department in Charleston.

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Citywide Election Day voting to occur Staff Report

There are currently eight positions up for election Tuesday with a total number of 16 candidates vying for an elected seat.

Seventeen Charleston polling precincts will open at 6 a.m and stay open until 7 p.m. for Election Day.

The Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union is one of the seven actual polling sites, but is identified by the Coles County Clerk’s website as the 16th and 17th precincts.

Voters are not required to have a form of identifications, but they may be asked to verify their signature.

Voting locations • CUSD #1 School Administra-

tion Office, 410 W. Polk St. • St. Charles Catholic Church, 921 Madison Avenue • Salisbury Church, 2350 Madison Ave. • Masonic Temple, 651 W.

Lincoln Ave. • First Federal Savings & Loan, 800 W. Lincoln • Newman Catholic Center, 500 Roosevelt Ave. • Bridge Lounge, Eastern Illinois University

Residents will be able to vote Tuesday on a program that could lower the electricity rates for Charleston.

A referendum has been placed on Tuesday’s ballot to allow residents to vote yes or no on an electrical aggregation program.

The municipal electrical aggregation program is “a program where a county or city can negotiate the purchase of their electric supply to its residents and small businesses,” according to Section 1-92 of the Illinois Power Agency Act. The act states only counties and cities that are Ameren Illinois and ComEd service areas can pursue an electrical aggregation program.

City Manager Scott Smith said the program is primarily a residential-driven program, but it does incorporate some small businesses.

The program is estimated to save residents and small businesses between 20-28 percent, Smith said.

The city of Charleston partnered with different municipalities and counties in the area to start the proposal process, and the city ended up selecting Good Energy to consult them through the bidding process for an electrical supplier.

The idea of partnering with different municipalities and counties is for the government entities together to have more buying power, Smith said.

“If I go out as Charleston, Illinois and buy power on the market, I am going to get a price, but if I go out on the market with a whole bunch of other communities, I will have more buying power, which means a better price,” he said.

The voters will have to approve the referendum for the city to bid for an alternative retail supplier in December.

After the city goes to bid in December, the city then would enter into a contract with an alternative retail electrical supplier based on competitive pricing, Smith said.

Then by February, residents will start to see a decrease in their electrical bill, Smith said.

Everyone in Charleston, who is an Ameren customer, will receive a period of time to opt-out of the program, he said.

If residents do not fill out the opt-out sheet, they will be part of the city’s electrical aggregation program, he said.

Residents’ part of the program will get the same bill from Ameren; the only difference is on the bill, a different electrical supplier’s name will be on it, he said.

Though, residents who already have a contract with an alternative retail supplier will not be part of the city’s program.

Indiviuduals can cancel their alternative retail supplier if they think the city program will save them money, but Smith encourages residents conduct research before making a decision.

Elizabeth Edwards can be reached at 581-2812 or eaedwards@eiu.edu.

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By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor

The Charleston City Council will vote on a resolution to a debt recovery program agreement with the state of Illinois.

The Charleston City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.

Mayor John Inyart said if a resident has a fee due to the city and they have tried to collect, the Local Debt Recovery Program Agreement will allow the Illinois Office of the Comptroller to take the money from any state refund and pay it to the state.

“The state has created a means where we can file with the state if someone owes us money, and if the state is going to pay those people anything, like a tax refund, then they would take our money out of that tax refund

first,” Inyart said.

Inyart said this program will not be the first way they try to collect debt, but will use it after they have exhausted the other means of collection.

The debts could be anything from a fine or bill to the city.

The council will vote on an ordinance to allow PP & W Properties to build an eightunit apartment building at 1919 Ninth Street.

Inyart said the owners planned to build eight two-bedroom apartments.

He said under the current zoning ordinance, they cannot build eight units on that size of a lot.

T h e zo n i n g b o a rd re c o m mended to the council that they approve the zoning variance.

“Typically, the two-bedroom apartments are going to have fewer people in them, and they

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are generally more in demand by the students,” Inyart said.

The council will vote on a noparking zone of Taurus Loop.

This resolution was tabled at the council last meeting and will open up the floor to the public to present a case for or against the no-parking zone.

“There is more than enough parking on Taurus Loop, a lot of off street parking,” Inyart said.

The no-parking zone would be on the inside of the loop.

A no-parking zone will also be voted on for Kenton Street.

The zone will be about two houses long on the inside curve

of Kenton Street.

This resolution was also tabled at the last meeting and the floor will be open for public comment.

Another resolution the council will vote on is to sell surplus equipment, specifically three police cars and a motorcycle.

The resolution allows the city to sell a 2005, 2006 and 2009 Ford Crown Vic police car and a 2000 Suzuki GSX-R600 motorcycle.

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Artist presents perspective pieces at Tarble Exhibit showcases art, watercolor and digital media

By Shirmeen Ahmad Staff Reporter

A visiting artist who combines watercolor and digital media gave a presentation on his work Monday at the Tarble Arts Center.

Artist Carmon Colangelo gave his presentation on his two themes “Eyedeas” and “O Land O.” The presentation was called “iM here.”

The viewers were able to go into the gallery before the presentation to see the different works.

Gary Henigman, a ’77 Eastern graduate, said he came to be supportive of the arts.

“I like abstract works,” Henigman said. “I am pleased with the colors, shapes and line balance that Colangelo uses.”

Henigman said he is always curious to hear artists’ perspectives of their own works.

Malaya Smith, a freshman biological sciences major, said she came to the showing to learn a different perspective that she does not already see.

Colangelo started off with a quote.

“Your environment matters, and it affects you,” Colangelo said.

He then proceeded to explain

the different ideas behind his works. Most of them are responses to what is happening every day, such as media being an everyday thing.

“The process of media is generic,” Colangelo said. “Everyone has access to it.”

Colangelo explained his exhibition of his group of artwork called “Eyedeas.”

He said he started fresh when creating “Eyedeas,” having cleaned his studio and cleared his head.

He also said he likes to see his images as playful and not serious.

“It is important to have an attitude that’s playful,” Colangelo said.

Colangelo said he goes through an order of starting with watercolors, scanning images to add to the watercolor and finally applying more watercolors.

These images are both drawn and digitized.

Colangelo said some of his pieces have also been created with post-it notes, images from magazines, and many of them have been worked on with Photoshop.

The other themed series of paintings that he talked about was “O Land O.” Colangelo said this set of paintings were meant to be a map of his trip to Orlando, but it did not work out that way.

There are seven paintings in this set, one for each day he was there.

Each canvas had a painting on both sides. The fronts of the paint-

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Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University, talks to students and community members during his electronic exhibit 'iM here' Monday in the Tarble Arts Center. Colangelo has been featured in 30 solo shows.

ing were colored while the backs were only black and white.

Colangelo said each painting represented different things that happened to him every day.

He said some of them have aspects of Disney in them.

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see some cool stuff.

“I like art, and this lecture gets me familiar with different artists and different types of art,” Sherman said.

In the presentation, viewers were also able to see pictures of Colangelo working in his studio along with different sketches he made.

Colangelo said when he enters

his studio, he likes to draw sketches because that is how he captures his thoughts.

“Drawing is a way of thinking,” he said.

Shirmeen Ahmad can be reached at 581-2812 or sahmad@eiu.edu.

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Comic auditions canceled; Family dynamics submissions still welcome subject of lecture Last Comic Standing still on, comedians can apply online

By Tim Deters Features Editor

Last Comic Standing contest auditions for Monday were canceled, but students still have an opportunity to audition for the contest.

The Last Comic Standing contest is organized by the University Board comedy committee and will take place on Dec. 6.

The contest will welcome student comedians to showcase their talents and compete for a Fujifilm digital camera.

Stephanie Cianciolo, the UB comedy coordinator, said the auditions were originally scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in the 7th Street Underground.

However, because of scheduling conflicts with student comedians, the comedy committee decided to cancel the auditions.

“We changed the process because of people who couldn’t come because of work or other obligations,” she said.

Instead of having auditions on a single day, Cianciolo will be accepting video auditions through email from students until Nov. 9.

Cianciolo said the videos should

" It’s a way for students to show their talent and what they are interested in. My committee and I are excited to see what EIU comedians have."

Stephanie Cianciolo, UB comedy coordinator be appropriate and not include a large amount of crude or offensive language or material.

As well, she said videos should be around 10 minutes long because that is about the amount of time each student will be permitted on stage during the contest.

However, if students cannot produce a video and email it, Cianciolo said arrangements can be made to make sure all students have the chance to audition.

“If they want to be a part of (the contest), we will get them up on that stage to participate,” she said.

“The more people, the better.”

After Cianciolo has received all the audition submissions, she and the comedy committee will schedule a screening to determine how many acts will take part in the contest.

Cianciolo said the contest is not limited to traditional stand-up comedy.

She and the committee want to see a diverse range of comedy styles and acts compete to be in the final contest, she added.

“Anything they want, they can send over,” she said. “The more variety the better.”

One aspect of the students’ acts Cianciolo wants to see in the videos is the ability to grab the audience’s attention.

“They need to engage with the audience and keep them going,” she said.

Cianciolo said the Last Comic Standing contest is a great way for students to showcase their talents and express themselves, and she looks forward to watching the submissions.

“It’s a way for students to show their talent and what they are interested in,” she said. “My committee and I are excited to see what EIU comedians have.”

Cianciolo requested that students send their auditions as an attachment or a website URL in an email sent to her Panthermail (smcianciolo@eiu.edu).

Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812 or tadeters@eiu.edu.

By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor

The Symposium on Ancient Greece will end this week with several lectures including one Tuesday that will focus on the family life of Ancient Greeks and the role of women in society.

Mikki Meadows, an associate professor of family and consumer sciences, will present “Ancient Greek/Contemporary U.S. Families: Both Alike and Different.” Oyindamola Idowu, a technology graduate student, will present “Ancient Greece Funeral and Marriage: Beliefs and Philosophy.”

Both lectures will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 4440 of Booth Library.

Idowu said she chose to focus on the lives of women in Ancient Greece because it was something she simply wanted to know more about. She said she has always had an interest in history but not necessarily Ancient Greece.

“I wanted to know how women in Ancient Greece lived, how they were treated, since a happy home is every woman’s dream,” Idowu said. “ I wanted to know what that meant in Ancient Greece.”

She said as she began general research on the lives of women in Ancient Greece, she became more captivated with the subject and expanded her topic to the belief system of the women she was studying.

“When I started studying documents about the Ancient Greeks, I discovered very amazing things, and I began to ask

myself ‘Why did they do this and that?’”

Idowu said. “That led me to study a little bit about their belief system.”

Along with learning about the culture of Ancient Greece, Idowu said she also learned about herself and the beliefs of current society through her research.

“I have learned not to criticize other people’s beliefs or values or to assume that the ancient man was less intelligent than we are,” Idowu said. “For every action that people take, there must be a reason, and until you find that reason, do not judge others.”

She said because of learning how the women of Ancient Greece were treated, she now better appreciates her rights as a woman living in the current age.

“My study into history has helped me to better appreciate the world I live in, the morals that my religion teaches and one more important thing—not to take the freedom that I now enjoy as a woman for granted or see it as an avenue to be immoral,” Idowu said.

Through her presentation, she said she hopes to educate people on the role of women in Ancient Greece but also hopes to start a discussion.

“The most interesting part, however, will be why women and girls were treated as such,” Idowu said. “Together with students and community members, we will determine if Ancient Greece holds any appeal for today’s woman and why.”

Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812 or alwywialowski@eiu.edu.

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No excuses; do not give up your vote We are lucky to live in a democracy. Though the rights and freedoms we often take for granted are not completely uncommon now in the world, it does not make them any less important.

Through voting, we have the incredible opportunity to let our voice be heard, yet many Americans are going to willingly give it up.

According to the United States Election Project, only 61.6 percent of the voting eligible population bothered casting a ballot in the 2008 presidential election. That’s less than two-thirds of our citizens 18 or older.

Our staff has collectively heard all the common reasons, including: “I don’t have time,” “I hate waiting in line,” “there’s no way my candidate will win in my state,” “my candidate will win without me,” “I don’t like any of the candidates,” “I don’t know anything about the candidates,” or “politics are a bunch of bull.”

To those of you making these excuses, why are you so willing to give up?

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tion convention in Chicago this weekend, some of our staff met with Jackie Spinner, a former staff writer with the Washington Post who covered the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Spinner said she is passionate about voting because while she was in the Middle East, she saw numerous bodies of the people who died for the chance to vote.

But here in America over one-third of our population just let this chance go last election, with no fight or fuss.

We understand the frustration with politics.

The system often does not give us what we want and at other times it can seem broken.

But you know what will break things completely? You know a sure fire way for us to lose all chance at making the society we dream for and losing complete control of things?

Not voting.

Staying silent, staying ignorant and giving up your right to decide means you are one step closer to losing it permanently.

We know it is so incredibly easier to be apathetic, but that is no way to go through life.

Find something to be passionate about and fight for it.

If you have not voted yet today, make the time.

There are polling places on campus. Educate yourself on the issues (might we recommend the election guide we printed yesterday, it can be found online). Think over your decision. It might not be perfect, but we are all human, just do your best.

Neither candidate may be appealing to you, but you should focus on the issues and the larger things they stand for. That is what truly matters.

Get over the fact that you may have to wait in line. It is a small price to pay compared to what some people have gone through for this.

There is no doubt our nation’s political system could use system could use some reform, but that starts with each of us. We are not asking you to become political experts, but we guarantee this is worth your time.

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News Editor Rachel Rodgers

Managing Editor Associate News Editor Ashley Holstrom Nike Ogunbodede Online Editor Sara Hall

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Celebrities should not be influencing your decision

As Election Day bears down on us, and we must cast our ballots for our country’s upcoming four years, we should not base our decisions solely on the voice of celebrities, but rather our own voice.

In the past year, there have been numerous reports of who has Obama’s vote in this upcoming election, most of whom have been film actors, comedians and musicians.

Everyone from George Clooney and Neil Patrick Harris to Justin Timberlake have given Obama their symbolic two thumbs up. Should we listen to these giants of industry and mark Obama’s name just because they say so? Absolutely not.

This campaign trail has been littered with facts that seem to be overshadowed by celebrity endorsement. Instead of listening to 50 Cent or Angelina Jolie on whom to vote for, we should become more educated.

We should look at the plans Obama has for the country, and base our decision off of what he says, and what he has done. Looking at his plans for the economy for example. He wants to eliminate tax cuts for the wealthy – which, against Mitt Romney, has been the most discussed issue this election.

Obama says he wants to stop giving the wealthy tax breaks, and help to give back to those who do not have as much. In this unstable economy, this topic has become quite heated.

Though his campaign has been strong for most of the election year, it was not without faults. One fault came in the first debate on October 3, where it was almost universally thought that Romney won.

Obama was not at the top of his game during that debate, and allowed Romney to bulldoze through the issues, while he stood there gasping for air in Denver. However, Obama came back fightLetters to the editor can be submitted at any time on any topic to the Opinions Editor to be published in The Daily Eastern News.

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Bob Galuski ing in the next debate, constantly pushing Romney’s buttons, and pointing out falsehoods in Romney’s statements. One of the biggest issues brought up during the Obama campaign was the fact that the economy was not fixed yet.

We need to relax about the economy a little bit.

It’s only been four years. Our last major economic crisis, the Great Depression, took longer than four years to recover. It might still take a while for the economy to become stable again, no matter how hard politicians work.

Even if they have every celebrity endorsing them, the economy is too complex for a quick solution.

The opinions of famous people are not worth as much as strong political action. We cannot expect it to be fixed just because Obama places his hand on the Bible and gives an inaugural speech – but he has put us on the right track. When you place your ballot today, don’t think about who Robert Downey, Jr. or Snoop Dogg, or who I’m voting for, but put your decision in who you believe will best run this country.

Bob Galuski is a junior English major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@gmail.com.

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Economic issues are what truly matter this election As the marathon presidential campaign finally comes to an end, the recaps and implications for the future will be clogging the airwaves for weeks to come.

Between 2008 and now, we have gone from “Hope and Change” in 2008 to “Forward” in 2012 with a continued “Hope” that things will “Change” for the better.

I know that sounds corny, but if there were a better way to sum up the President’s attempts to cast a positive outlook for electing him for another four years, I haven’t seen it.

In 2008 “Hope and Change” sounded like a wonderful dream within reach, but four years later America is still speaking within the frame of whether or not the economy is anywhere close to where it’s supposed to be.

The simple fact is that we are barely there, but don’t let President Obama’s campaign tell you that.

Instead the President has tried to focus on the fact that Mitt Romney has money and is a Republican.

At least, that’s the basic summary of his attacks.

Obama called Romney’s higher income and previous work at Bain Capital into question early on, including repeated demands for Romney to release more than a few year’s worth of tax returns.

Last time I checked, though, this wasn’t really what was affecting people’s abilities to find jobs.

Then there is this strange focus on social issues.

You know, that “War on Women” supposedly being committed by Republicans and conservatives, and therefore by Mitt Romney.

Ideological differences aside, the Obama campaign have made some interesting choices when attempting to, let’s be honest, divert voters’ attention away from the lack of “Hope and

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Greg Sainer Change” taking place in the economy.

Two examples of this desperation are the use of the controversial Sandra Fluke on the campaign trail and comedian Lena Dunham’s campaign video likening voting for Obama for the first time to one’s first sexual experience. That totally has everything to do with slow economy growth, right?

Mitt Romney has obviously taken the youwould-be-stupid-to-miss-this political road by attacking the incumbent Obama about America’s lack of economic growth.

The response from the Obama camp, however, is somewhat more surprising. With a focus on issues that bear no real weight on determining Romney’s ability or inability to govern and promote effective economic policy, Obama has come off this election appearing more desperate than he should for someone who portrays such confidence in his own record.

Apparently, Obama’s “Hope” is that voters will “Change” their focus from their pocketbooks and lack of a job to blindly vote for him again. Zing.

Greg Sainer is a senior communication studies major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@gmail.com. the author’s EIU e-mail address to DENopinions@ gmail.com.

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By Kara Harris Staff Reporter

Members of the Eastern Wind Symphony and Five Star Brass will make tribute to the country’s veterans through a musical performance on Thursday at its “Call to Duty” concert.

The concert will be at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Alicia Neal, the director of bands and the director of the Wind Symphony, said the Five Star Brass, an ensemble from the 144th Army Band, will make an appearance and perform four patriotic pieces. “(It is) a musical celebration of the sacrifices that all of our men and women in combat make,” Neal said.

She said without the military, our experiences would be different.

“The military is such an important part of why we are able to go about our daily lives,” Neal said.

The concert will include a performance of the “Star Spangled Ban-

ner” and “Heroes Lost and Fallen,” a Vietnam veteran’s memorial piece.

“I hope that we can provide a place to honor veterans during this evening of music-making, and hopefully the audience members will leave and feel that they participated in something that was meaningful,” Neal said.

Neal said her favorite aspect of conducting this concert was the opportunity to thank and recognize veterans for all they have done.

Molly Elvert, a senior music major, will be playing the trombone during the concert.

She said the Wind Symphony is a musical ensemble that is made up of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments.

Elvert described the piece “Armed Forces Salute,” which she has been working on in rehearsals.

“At one point, we play a piece that has all of the different branches’ songs in it, and we have the veterans stand when they hear their song,” Elvert said. “Many (veterans) will show up in clothing that represents the branch they served with,

and you can see the pride that they have.”

She said she has many relatives that have served in a variety of branches, and that is why this performance has a special significance for her.

“It reminds me how lucky I am to have family members who have fought for our country and freedom,” Elvert said.

Matthew Dennison, a senior music major and alto saxophone player, said the concert would include the performance of “An American Elegy,” which was composed in memory of those who lost their lives in the Columbine shootings.

He said it was an emotional piece that he believed the audience would enjoy.

“I think the audience will have a greater appreciation for our country, the veterans and those overseas that fight for our country now,” Dennison said.

Kara Harris can be reached at 581-2812 or kmharris2@eiu.edu.

LEAGUE, from page 1 The league also helped improve the sidewalks in Charleston because they were not structurally sound and not in the right places for students, Dotson said.

The league is not just for women, and six men have been involved in the local chapter, D-Joyner said.

The league got its start after 1920 when women received the right to vote and were an out branch of the women’s suffrage

movement.

Women have made improvements since the 19th amendment in representation in government, but they still have more to do, they said.

“I can’t imagine we will go on indefinitely without a woman president,” Dotson said.“I do not know if I will live to see it, but I would like to.”

Dotson recommend students to

dissect the relevant information to see what is factual in regards to Tuesday’s election.

“What happens next Tuesday is not going to affect me very much, but it is going to affect you,” Dotson said. “It is a terrible mistake if you do not vote.”

Elizabeth Edwards can be reached at 581-2812 or eaedwards@eiu.edu.

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Eastern offices have made efforts to adapt to a social media-integrated campus in order to reach students and connect them with the community.

Rita Pearson, the senior assistant director and transfer coordinator for admissions, said the Office of Transfer Relations has increased its efforts on Facebook.

“We’ve been giving students updates through our page by liking other pages and having students like our page so we can connect them,” she said.

She said the office does not use Twitter to reach out to students because she heard it was not as popular as it used to be so the Office of Transfer Relations has not pursued it.

Pearson said the office uses electronic media to coordinate with students and their families during the transfer process at Eastern.

“We use email as a primary way to converse with students, and we also do electronic evaluations,” Pearson said.

In this process, students will send the office their transcripts, and the staff of the office will evaluate them and send them back to the student.

One of the new efforts the Office of Transfer Relations has been doing is setting up appointments via Skype to communicate with students.

“Though Skype is a very useful tool, we can also do advising over the phone or by email,” she said. “We just started the Skype advising this year so we’re still experimenting with it.”

Pearson said technology and resources such as Skype have helped the office be more detailed in their evaluation process of future students.

“We can now help them in a more detailed way without the student being right in front of us,” she said.

New Student Programs also uses technology and media to reach out to new students at Eastern.

Tyler Micek, a graduate assistant and program coordinator for New Student Programs, said New Student Programs does not necessarily go after potential students on social media, but they focus more on current students.

“We are focused on the students that are already enrolled at the uni-

“We can now help them in a more detailed way without the student being right in front of us.”

Rita Pearson, senior assistant director & transfer coordinator for admissions

versity, and we have Facebook groups that people can join either during or after their debut here at Eastern,” he said.

Micek said New Student Programs uploads pictures onto its Facebook page that allows students to tag themselves and connect with other students in the photos.

New Student Programs has also started using Twitter to connect with students.

“It’s been really useful for promoting some of our events,” he said.

The office also uses Twitter and Facebook in reaching out to students who are potential staff members.

Lori Henderson, the publicity and promotions specialist for the Graduate School, said she has not found Facebook to be successful in recruiting graduate students.

She said the success of Facebook has mainly been because of current graduate students and alumni.

“We try to keep our page populated of current student success and alumni success,” she said.

Henderson said the Graduate School itself is not using Twitter, but the Graduation Student Advisory Council does.

“What we’ve heard from our colleagues and other institutions is that they’re not finding (Facebook and Twitter) to be useful in the recruiting process,” she said. “It seems it’s more useful for current students and alumni.”

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or redexter@eiu.edu.

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By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

Before talking about the upcoming Eastern women’s basketball season, we should recap the handful of changes over the summer.

The man at the top, former head coach Brady Sallee, left Eastern and took a head coaching job at Ball State – a bigger school.

This was bound to happen sooner rather than later.

Sallee was also a finalist for the head coaching job at Bowling Green in the spring, among potentially a handful of other openings we didn’t know about.

I saw Sallee at Dairy Queen, holding an ice cream cone, with his kids about a week before he announced he was taking a new job. He shouted to me, “Don’t tell my team I’m here,” as if they’d rag on him for surrendering to his taste buds.

He was gone before they probably had a chance.

After leaving, Sallee immediately endorsed Lee Buchanan for the Eastern opening. Buchanan got the job. Former assistant coach Rachel Galligan followed Sallee to Ball State, as was expected.

Former assistant coach Quacy Timmons headed to the southeastern U.S. to be closer to her husband and family, who were living down there. This, reportedly, was going to happen regardless of Sallee staying or going.

Ripples of Sallee’s departure were minor throughout the team – only one player left. Jessica Parker transferred to Southern Indiana. She was the second or third player off the bench last season.

The rest of the team stuck together, no recruits rescinded their commitments as far as we know and only Chantelle Pressley graduated as the lone senior on the roster.

Now to present day: We are days away from the first regular season game against Indiana State in Terre Haute, Ind. As for predictions and expectations, here are some that should be rock solid: • Seniors Mariah King, Sydney Mitchell and Ta’Kenya Nixon will finish their careers as 1,000-point scorers.

Senior Kelsey Wyss will be just short of 1,000, but will have the best season of her career.

• Nixon will narrowly become the program’s all-time leading scorer. If she

Alex McNamee manages to score her career average of 15.3 points per game, she’ll surpass Galligan’s record in her 30th game this season. Keep in mind, Nixon’s average has gone up almost one point every season.

Last year, she averaged 16.3 points per game.

• King will have the best season of her career, switching between playing power forward and center. She scored 17 points as the starting power forward in the Panthers’ exhibition game on Sunday.

• Back problems will keep Mitchell from having a fast start to the season, but she will have an unquestionably important role in the Panthers’ success. In games where Mitchell scored 14 or more points last season, Eastern was 10-1.

• Red-shirt sophomore Katlyn Payne will emerge as a top bench player on the team, coming on strong at the end of last season. Payne may start in place of Mitchell if her back keeps her out of games. Payne did so in Sunday’s exhibition and scored a game-high 20 points.

• Junior forward Taryn Olson will have a big year. Buchanan said she’s playing with a lot of confidence. She’s only averaged 1.2 points per game in her career.

• Even in breaking the program’s scoring record, Nixon will not be the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year – making it three consecutive seasons she could’ve won it. I’d be happily proven wrong.

• The senior class of Wyss, Nixon, King and Mitchell will become the winningest class in program history with 14 wins this season. The class has been a part of teams that have won 23, 18 and 22 games each season.

It’s going to be an exciting season with all that could happen, but most exciting of all is going to be watching this team to see if they can win the OVC Tournament in this senior class’ final season.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-2812 or admcnamee@eiu.edu.

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Cierra Calloway-Overall of Lindenwood University evades Eastern Illinois University women’s rugby players on Oct. 4, 2012 at Lakeside Field. The Panthers beat Lindenwood 43-10.

Poor tackling made game closer than expected

By Nicholas Ruffolo Staff Reporter

In rugby fifteens format, the Eastern rugby team yields an average of seven points per game in their history.

The 31-point outburst by Middle Tennessee State left the Panthers and their head coach, Frank Graziano, scratching their heads.

“Our offense was good, we were able to read the defenses better,” Graziano said. “The defense was adequate though, and our tackling was not great. I am not sure why (it) happened; we are usually a good tackling team.”

Some of the credit can go to MTSU as well, as they were able to break key tackles and stay in the game.

“The MTSU girls were able to get their hands free and pass the ball,” Graziano said. “We practiced not only wrapping up the player, but wrapping up their hands so they could not get rid of the ball.

Some of those plays were poor tackling and others were just nice plays

by MTSU.”

EXHIBITION, from page 8 Despite the lopsided victory Spoonhour still saw several areas on improvement among his team.

“We are by no means a finished product and we’re not even partially constructed,” Spoonhour said. “We have a long way to go. There are a lot of guys who don’t understand help defense, who don’t understand how to deny.”

The defensive side of the ball is where the most adjustment is needed, Spoonhour said. He said the Panthers ran into

screens on defense, which allowed Trinity to have more open shot opportunities than intended.

Positioning on offensive rebounding is another aspect that needs improvement Spoonhour said, as the Panthers only managed three in the first half.

However, Spoonhour said he was pleased with the team’s toughness, as that was something it lacked one week ago.

“We had a scrimmage last week, at this time, the effort and a lot of the

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The Wauconda, Ill., native registered a game-high 29 digs in the Colonels non-conference win over Wright State. She then led all players on the court with 35 digs at Belmont. Ott capped the week off with another match-best of 19 digs at Tennessee State.

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.

Carr became the lone quarterback in Division I to throw f o r s e v e n t o u c h d ow n s i n t w o different games this season.

Carr first accomplished the feat against Murray State before accomplishing the feat against Jacksonville State this past Saturday. Against the Gamecocks, Carr threw for 402 yards, seven touchdowns and zero interceptions.

Five of Carr’s seven touchdown tosses went to wide receiver Quentin Simms as he set an OVC record for

problems with toughness during that scrimmage, they were not here tonight,” Spoonhour said.

The Panthers will open their regular-season schedule on the road as they take on Bradley at 7 p.m. Friday Nov. 8 in Peoria.

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.

touchdown catches in a single game.

Eastern Kentucky defensive back Brooklyn Fox garnered Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Week honors for his performance in the Colonels win over Southeast Missouri.

Fox totaled four tackles, intercepted a pass and recovered a fumble. Fox’s .6 interception-per-game average ranks fourth nationally.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-2812 or jbpottorff@eiu.edu.

Despite the dismal defensive performance, sophomores Kim Youhas and Carissa Burge were still able to record six solo tackles each.

Along with those individual efforts, the squad was able to get the job done with their offense.

Eastern scored nine trys in the game, with six of them coming from sophomore center Madison Kissner and senior standout Lauren Doyle.

Doyle returned from her trip to China with the U.S National Women’s Rugby Team and participated in the contest with the Blue Raiders, scoring 15 points in the match.

Her participation marked only the second time she has been in the lineup for Eastern this year, after playing in 31 straight games heading into the season.

“We are just trying to keep her sharp,” Graziano said. “She came back and told us she wanted to play, so we found a way to work her into the lineup.”

Eastern will travel to Georgia Tech this weekend to take on the Yellow Jackets in the first-ever meeting between these two teams.

The game is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Sunday in Atlanta, Ga. Around The League Among those feeling the effects of Hurricane Sandy was the Rutgers women’s rugby team. With damage to their facility, the storm forced the Scarlet Knights to postpone their meeting with Quinnipiac for a later date.

Up next for Quinnipiac is the Tri-State Conference Tournament, which begins on Sunday.

In other action, West Chester closed out its fall season by besting Shippensburg 25-5 to improve its record to 4-1-1 on the year.

Bowdoin squeaked past Middlebury 15-10 in the New England Small College Rugby Conference championship game Saturday to cap off its first-ever conference title. The win gives the Polar Bears an automatic bid to the National Division II Championships in the spring.

Nicholas Ruffolo can be reached at 581-2812 or nfruffolo@eiu.edu.

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Club sports! RSOs! Musical Groups!

Calling ALL campus groups!

Get your group together and come and get your picture taken.

Two nights of organizational photos scheduled.

5-9pm Monday, Nov. 5 Thursday, Nov. 8 Paris Room, 3rd floor, MLK Union

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Panthers dominate Trinity in exhibition

Team climbs in OVC standings Bradbury receives second ‘Setter of the Week’ honors

By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

The Eastern men’s basketball team gave Trinity International a shellacking beating the Trojans 87-34 in exhibition play Monday night.

The scoreboard reflected nearly every category, as the Panthers overmatched the Trojans across the stat sheet, most notably, Eastern out-shot its Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference opponent 54.8 percent to 21.2 percent.

However, head coach Jay Spoonhour said the most important aspect is something the stat sheet doesn’t show.

“I thought we really did a nice job concentrating,” the first year head coach said. “Sometimes when the score gets lopsided, every team relaxes and starts to do things they shouldn’t do, and you end up building bad habits. I thought we did as good of a job concentrating as any team I’ve ever had.”

The game was never in question, as the Panthers jumped out to a 29-5 lead twelve minutes into play. The Panthers were able to maintain that tempo from start to finish, as they took a 46-13 lead into halftime, where they eventually outscored the Trojans 41-21 in the second half.

“We had a lot of fast break points, a lot of easy transition buckets that helped us get our offense flowing a little bit,” senior guard Austin Akers said. “We shot well from outside too, so hopefully that’s a sign of good things to come.”

Three Panthers finished the game in double figures as senior guard Malcolm Herron led with 15 points, shooting fiveof-eight from the field and a perfect fourof-four from the free throw line.

Freshman guard Alex Austin finished five-of-seven from the field including three-of-five from three-point range.

Sophomore forward Josh Piper followed, as he recorded 11 points on five-of-six shooting.

Junior forward Sherman Blanford grabbed in eight total rebounds, while adding three blocks and two steals.

The offense was run by Akers, as he had a team-high nine assists in the winning effort.

The Eastern volleyball team is no stranger to adversity this season.

The Panthers are coming off of a weekend where they jumped two spots in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament standings, going from eighth to sixth, where only eight teams qualify.

This comes shortly after the Panthers suffered a non-conference loss at home to IUPUI last Tuesday.

The loss resonated throughout the locker room as a disappointment, but the Panthers knew in the grand scheme of things the loss was miniscule.

“Obviously, right now we’re just worried about conference,” freshman setter Marah Bradbury said.

“This loss doesn’t really mean anything for us other than our overall record, which won’t affect conference.”

Bradbury, who has come through at key times in this conference schedule by tying or setting new career-highs nearly every week, and her teammates knew the best thing to do in order to see success this season was to move on.

“We’re just putting this aside, learning that we need to finish out games, not let refs affect us and then be ready to close out for conference this weekend,” Bradbury said.

That is just what the Panthers did over the weekend in two convincing conference wins over Tennessee Tech (25-23, 19-25, 25-19, 25-20) and Jacksonville State (25-20, 2518, 23-25, 25-18).

Bradbury may have been the catalyst for that formula, as she was named the adidas Ohio Valley Conference Setter of the Week, following her play for Eastern volleyball last week, as she dished out a total of 163 assists last week.

The Decatur, Ind., native dished out 50+ assists in all three Eastern matches last week, including a new career-high of 58 in the loss at IUPUI at home.

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She earned her fifth assist-dig double-double of the season with 12 digs against the Jaguars.

She guided the Panthers to an overall .260 hit percentage over the three matches, including a teambest .277 attack in the road win at Jacksonville State.

Bradbury ran the offense with 54 assists in the win over the Gamecocks.

The freshman also nailed seven kills of her own with zero errors for a .583 attack.

In the latter match, Bradbury dished out a game-high of 51 assists and recorded six kills with zero errors again for a .545 hit percentage.

The Panthers are 10-19 overall and an even 7-7 in the OVC. Since starting 0-5 in the conference, Eastern has reeled off seven wins in its last nine conference matches.

The Panthers will look to continue that success and move up in the OVC tournament standings, as they close out the regular-season at home for a pair of conference games against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at 7 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 11, and then Belmont at 5:30 p.m. Friday Nov. 11, in Lantz Arena.

Around the OVC Yet again, Morehead State senior outside hitter Ellie Roberson was the recipient of the adidas Ohio Valley Conference Offensive Player of the Week for her performance in wins over Tennessee State and Belmont.

Roberson tallied 23 kills while hitting for a team-high .333 as the Eagles clinched the OVC regularseason title with the victory at Tennessee State.

She followed that with 19 kills and again led the team with a .405 attack in the win over OVC newcomer Belmont. Roberson, who leads the league in kills, had a .365 hit percentage for the weekend, only making 11 errors on 85 swings.

Another familiar face saw the award of adidas Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Week in Eastern Kentucky’s senior libero Dena Ott. OVC, page 7

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Marah Bradbury, a freshman setter, sets the ball to Stephanie Arnold, a red-shirt junior middle hitter, Oct. 19 at Lantz Arena.

FOOTBALL

Panthers snubbed in rankings

By Jordan Pottorff Sports Editor

Despite being in a tie for first place in the Ohio Valley Conference and in position to win its first conference championship since 2009, Eastern’s football team continues to sit outside the top 25 rankings. Although the Panthers are not among the teams in the top 25 they are one of the first teams receiving votes.

Top 25 Polls The Panthers currently rank as the No. 27 team in the nation in the Sports Network FCS Top 25 poll, and are the No. 29 team in the nation in the FCS Coaches

poll.

The No. 27 ranking is the highest the Panthers have been ranked this season, and with a win over Southeast Missouri on Saturday the Panthers would move into the top 25 for the first time since this season.

Several other OVC schools are receiving national recognition as Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee-Martin and Tennessee State each rank inside the Sports Network Top 25.

Eastern Kentucky paces all OVC schools, ranking as the No. 22 team in the nation. TennesseeMartin and Tennessee State rank immediately behind the Colonels, holding the No. 22 and No. 23 rankings, respectively.

In the “other teams receiving votes” category, Eastern leads all OVC schools while Jacksonville State is also receiving votes.

In the FCS Coaches poll, Eastern Kentucky again leads all OVC schools, holding the No. 18 ranking in the nation.

Tennessee-Martin joins Eastern Kentucky as the other OVC school to be ranked inside the FCS Coaches poll as it ranks at No. 24.

Tennessee State and Eastern are among the top four teams receiving votes in the FCS Coaches poll, holding the first and fourth spot, respectively.

At the top of the polls, both the Sports Network poll and the FCS

Coaches poll has North Dakota State, Montana State, Sam Houston State and Old Dominion as their top four teams.

The lone difference in the top five is Eastern Washington ranking at No. 5 in the Sports Network poll, while an undefeated Lehigh team holds the No. 5 ranking in the FCS Coaches poll. Lehigh is the lone undefeated team remaining in the FCS. Weekly Awards Tennessee-Martin quarterback Derek Carr was named the Ohio Valley Conference Offensive Player of the Week.

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Assistant Coach Brian Callahan yells at the officials after a simultaneous possession call during the game against Jacksonville State on Saturday, Oct. 13. The Panthers look to face Southeast Missouri on Saturday at O’Brien Field.