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Brezzy Byrd, a freshman theater student hoverboards around the Doudna Fine Arts Center. “The Doudna’s a great facility for trying new things, and exploring,” he said.
Workgroup no. 9, Academic Visioning II, discussed the feedback they received from last week’s town hall during a general meeting Monday afternoon. Wo r k g r o u p c h a i r M e l i n d a M u e l l e r, a p o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e professor,said many of the surveys submitted ranged from neutral to negative answers in regarding the idea of consolidating department chair positions. During the meeting Mueller and education professor Jay Bickford also discussed a meeting they had with the Executive Council of Chairs. The Organization subcommittee discussed their recommendations and received feedback from executive chair members who were also not in favor of consolidating department chair positions. “They presented very good arguments,” Mueller said during the meeting. One of the executive chair
c o u n c i l ’s a r g u m e n t s w a s t h a t department chairs do not have the same type union-bargained raises in their contracts and it would be difficult to renegotiate a new contract. There was also feedback in favor of possibly making a new academic college instead of combining existing ones. A m a n d a H a r v e y, i n t e r i m associate director for Health Service said the recommendation for possibly decentralizing graduate schools was also met with negative feedback from the audience in attendance during last week’s town hall. She also said there was a lot of “strong support” regarding the Workgroup’s recommendation to change Eastern’s website course catalogue navigation. The Workgroup also discussed other ways members can improve their recommendations and provide more facts and figures.
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Factors considered in Facilities
By Cassie Buchman News Editor | @cjbuchman
When it comes to Facilities, many factors go into deciding what projects are started and completed as well as what is prioritized. Last semester, Workgroup No.5 looked at Facilities and made recommendations for them during the vitalization project. The group recommended several areas receive increased resources to upgrade the look and operation of the campus. This included an investment in facilities staff and the completion of already started projects. The number of employees working in Facilities has gone down from 220 in FY15 to 92 in FY17, according to information given to the News by Paul McCann, interim vice president for business affairs. As the university moves forward, McCann said, it will look at what needs to be done in regards to facilities on campus and what might be beneficial for any number of reasons.
Prioritization
Tim Zimmer, director of Facilities, Planning and Management, said emergency situations, such as an overflowing toilet making a mess, would get immediate attention. Anything that could impact safety is also highly prioritized. “We look at things that impact the educational experience, student life experience, we listen to our customers,” Zimmer said. McCann said the administration prioritizes what needs to be done in a similar way. “It could be for safety reasons, or we need to do it for comfort reasons,” he said.
“If it’s making something pretty and that’s all we’re doing, maybe we’re going to push that off until an appropriation comes through or we get a donation, or until the right times comes to do that.” Zimmer said Facilities meets with associate vice president for academic affairs Jeff Cross along with the associate deans and every month they talk about the priorities for academic affairs. “We use their input to help prioritize what we do every day,” Zimmer said. “It’s what important to the customer, because if it’s important to them, it should be important to us.” Some assignments come up more randomly, like the time Facilities found out it needed to get flags out on Lincoln Avenue for a Transfer Open House. “If you’re a carpenter and you’re supposed to work on doors over here? Well, if the president’s office thinks of a new priority guess what? Your priorities changed,” Zimmer said. Some of the recommendations made by Workgroup No.5 will take time to implement as they have not even been discussed and items still need to be prioritized. “It takes time,” Zimmer said. “How can you do it this spring if you haven’t started discussing it yet?” There are a series of steps Facilities has to go through before taking on a project. “We have to tell how much it costs, identify the materials we need, get the labor organized,” Zimmer said. “We have to go through all of the steps and then we can start.” Though the Workgroup might recommend an action, the people involved might not have agreed upon it yet. “Once I hear from the president and Paul McCann, everybody else what university thinks is most important, I’ll get
started on it,” Zimmer said. The money for Facilities comes from the campus improvement fee and appropriations, which includes money from the state, tuition and fees, and local fees. In FY15, total expenses were $15,134,014.26. In FY17, the total budget is $10,336,274.06. There is money in the budget that is not specifically allocated to any one purpose. “It’s for current operations and those monies then go to fix the pipes in Thomas or do anything else that we need to do at the time it happens,” McCann said. “... If something breaks, we have to take it out of current operations. We manage facilities like a business, we use th money as we need to.”
Staffing
McCann said the reduction in Facilities staff has been significant. As a whole, the facilities Workgroup thought staffing was the most important part to look at, Workgroup chair Steven Daniel said. He said it was this issue that came up often as the Workgroup conducted interviews during the vitalization project. “The reduced staffing was making it difficult to get projects completed in a timely fashion because they would have to move people from one project to another project rather than just sending people out to do the project, so people are moving around,” Daniels said. Zimmer said every time Facilities has to pull someone off a job because of an emergency, their efficiency is reduced. “They go do something for a couple hours then they wonder, where’d I leave off?” he said. “...Ideally we’d like to schedule it, stay on the job, knock it out instead of waiting for an emergency.”
With a larger workforce, Zimmer said, it would be easier to have more flexibility, but he has been “pleasantly surprised” at how much gets done every day, even with reduced staffing. “There’s people who work harder, that work smarter,” Zimmer said. Zimmer said people have been understanding of this. “We also have customers who understand that they can wait,” he said. “(They’ll say) ‘I know that you don’t have money today, have reduced staffing, how bout we put that on the back burner until you can handle it?’” According to the Workgroup’s findings, after the March 12, 2016 layoffs, facilities planning and management groups are responsible for twice, and in some cases three times as much, square feet or acres per FTE when compared to national averages among rather universities. “This reality has crippled the ability of maintenance shops to do anything except react to emergency repair needs,” the group wrote in its final report. McCann said people doing more work is a campus-wide scenario. “We’ve got some very good people in some case they’re having to do some more work that they’ve had to do before but they’re also being compensated for that,” he said. The university has been able to hire people back in some places on a temporary part-time basis with money from appropriated funds and tuition. “We hired them back based on what needed to be done,” McCann said.
Projects
One recommendation made by the Workgroup is finishing projects that have already been started. Ceilings removed in Life Science, tape
across parts of the south entrance stairway of Lantz Arena, fencing around the south end of McAfee Gym, scaffolding over the north west entrance of McAfee and fencing around a sidewalk at the west end of Douglas Hall are examples of dormant projects Workgroup No.5 cited in its recommendations. They also included finishing repairs on previously bathrooms in Coleman Hall as a recommendation. Facilities recently finished fixing Coleman Hall bathrooms, allowing them to reopen in February. “Vitalization thought it was important, others thought it was important, the president agreed,” Zimmer said. Zimmer said there was student, faculty and staff interest in fixing the bathrooms. High school students coming to the building for a Scholastic Bowl competition also provided incentive to get them done. To fix the bathrooms, Facilities already had almost all of the materials they needed and saw it was easy to pick up where they last started. For other projects, Zimmer said Facilities is willing to be patient, and will let the administration know what their priorities are. Some projects can wait, Zimmer said, but when things start to fail or break, they rise higher in the priority list. “If you have this maintenance thing and you just keep putting it off because you don’t have the money or it’s not broken bad enough you have to do it, then you keep deferring it until the point you have to do something,” he said. Zimmer said several projects were stopped and others were reviewed at several different levels.
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SpaceX says it will fly 2 people to moon CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX said Monday it will fly two people to the moon next year, a feat not attempted since NASA's Apollo heyday close to half a century ago. Tech billionaire Elon Musk — the company's founder and chief executive officer — announced the surprising news barely a week after launching his first rocket from NASA's legendary moon pad. Two people who know one another approached the company about sending them on a weeklong flight just beyond the moon, according to Musk. He won't identify the pair or the price tag. They've already paid a "significant" deposit and are "very serious" about it, he noted. Musk said SpaceX is on track to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA in mid-
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Greek organizations continue raising money for Alzheimer’s By Mandy Grepares Contributing Writer | @DEN_News Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. To h e l p f i g h t i t , G r e e k organizations have been raising money for Alzheimer’s research. Hugo Escobar, president of the Interfraternity Council, said the idea for raising money for this cause came to him last year, around the time his uncle was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Research led Escobar to comedian Seth Rogen, who puts t o g e t h e r c h a r i t y e ve n t s a c ro s s college campuses, called “Hilarity for Charity.” The organization donates whatever money it raises to the Alzheimer’s Association. Escobar said Alzheimer’s is not as
well known as other diseases. “ I d i d n’t r e a l l y k n o w w h a t Alzheimer’s was until I was in high school. When my uncle was diagnosed with it,” he said. “I did a little more research on it and I realized that it was one of those mental diseases that really isn’t out there and not a lot of people know about it.” In February, the IFC had a dating auction. The organization asked men and women to sign up to participate and be auctioned off in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Sigma Kappa sorority is one organization that has been raising funds for Alzheimer’s research. This semester, Sigma Kappa is having its annual Ultra-Violet G a l a f o r t h e w o m e n’s p a re n t s and families. The gala consists of a silent auction and luncheon.
Lauren Cramer, vice president of philanthropic services for the sorority said it is a great time for families to interact and learn more about why the cause is so important to Sigma Kappa. Raising money for Alzheimer’s research is very important to Sigma Kappa because there is currently no cure for the disease and it is commonly overlooked, Cramer said. The funds the sorority raises will go to female researchers. “We are a women’s organization and we believe it is important to fund other women in their efforts t o f i n d a c u re ,” C r a m e r s a i d . “The money we raise is given to the Alzheimer’s Association and they then give the money to the appropriate recipients.” Mandy Grepares can be reached at 581-2812 or mgrepares@eiu.edu.
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I Choose You!
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Follow your dreams no matter the Staff Editorial cost, pains Take care of yourself as midterms loom
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All of us have at one time or another heard the old saying “follow your dreams.” I believe that we all want to follow our dreams, except sometimes real life gets in the way. We have bills to pay, we go to school, and we may work at jobs that we hate just to survive. However, it is still good to dream. Dreams are the things that keep us moving forward in life because dreams give us hope: hope that we might not always be stuck in a job that we hate, hope that we graduate with our degrees and hope that we will save enough money someday to pursue what we really want out of life. We can never give up on our dreams; even as we age and grow old, our dreams may fade a bit, but we will always have them to hang onto. We have that little place inside our hearts where are dreams are living and hope to flourish someday. Without our dreams, we become empty shells, and a life as an empty shell is not a life worth living, is it? The best part about our dreams is when we actually accomplish them. By accomplishing our dreams, we give hope to others that they too can accomplish their dreams. We become an example and a reason for them to keep pursuing their goals. We are motivators; we can show others how to overcome many things. By keeping their eye on the prize they can find ways to get what they want. It may take a while for them to achieve their dreams, but they have to keep the end goal in sight, just like you did. What a great compliment it is when others want to be like you and follow their dreams! You have become a shining example for everyone. However, everyone has to remember no one is going to hand you your dreams on a silver platter; you have to get them for yourself by setting realistic goals and sticking to them. I cannot imagine giving up my dreams. Life without dreams can be empty and when I think about pursuing them it makes me happy. You may find that your parents do not always agree with your dreams and may want you to pursue a completely different life course. However, if you are adamant about what you want to do and who you want to be, they will be very proud when you finally accomplish your dreams. Life is short, and we only go around once, so do not spend your days doing something that you hate. Chart your course and follow the waves to dreamland. Good luck. Cindy Huff is an aging studies graduate student. She can be reached at 581-2812 or clhuff2@eiu.edu.
Midterms are swiftly approaching. For some of us, the work is already here, even if the actual tests are still a week away. For others, the tests are the only hurdle to overcome, but studying in preparation for those tests is almost more than is manageable. The staff of The Daily Eastern News is in the same boat as the rest of the campus community. Our copy editors are scrambling to reread Shakespeare’s histories, the news desk is juggling communication law work and the opinion section is trying to steadily plug through unit plans and research. So when we say we know how you feel at this time of the year, trust us. Everyone is drowning in work at this time of the year. However, we think that one our duties as a newspaper is to help the student body cope with college life in all aspects. We frequently help our student readers stay informed and involved on campus, but sometimes we have to step back and encourage the student to focus on the student. You are the most important person in your life. If you struggle through midterms worse for wear, then you may have your tests done, but what progress have you really made if you sabotaged the person you came to Eastern to improve? Because you are every bit as important as (and arguably more important than) your grades, The News wants you to spend some
time taking care of yourself these next two weeks. Of course, if you spend entire days away from your studies, you might not do well on midterms, but we do recommend that you take short breaks to keep yourself in good working order. If you dig into your textbooks with snacks handy and spend some two hours working, do not plug through your last hour if those snacks are gone and your surroundings are messy. Take a break to give your eyes a rest and clean up your workspace. You will come back refreshed and ready to work, and you will be more productive if you avoid having to see trash constantly. A mess is a terrible thing to work through. Do not keep plugging through your work if you are bothered by chip bags and candy wrappers. Similarly, do not keep working if you cannot shake the sensation of sticky hands or greasy hair or clammy skin. Even if you do not plan to leave your room, your physical hygiene can be a barrier to your studying or working abilities. If a shower will make you feel cleaner, more centered or more clear, take a shower. Treat yourself to that fifteen-minute escape. Speaking of escapes, plan escapes of all sorts for yourself this week. Having little treats to look forward to can help your work-
ing abilities significantly. If you finish the textbook chapter you needed to read, give yourself a social media break. You deserve it. When that big paper is all cited and formatted, curl up for some Netflix. Try not to get too distracted, but give your mind and body the break it deserves. You might cut some deadlines close, but a few close calls are a small price to pay for an easier midterm season. Finally, plan something relaxing to do over Spring Break. Work towards that goal. Make it a lofty-enough reward to match all your hard work. If you have a vacation planned over break, then plot a day to take a relaxing walk in a scenic location, or promise to find yourself a spa to visit. If a staycation is in your future instead, find time to indulge with your local favorites and your old friends. Most importantly, try to keep a good, balanced view at all times. Know when you are working too hard and when you are slacking. Find a way of your own to maintain your work-life balance, even in rough times. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
Self-help books can be spellbinding, helpful In his best-selling autobiography, Bill Clinton wrote “When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction.” He continued on to say: “I bought one of those how-to books: How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan Lakein” The book’s main idea was about listing and grouping one’s goals in order of importance, with A being the most important, followed by B and C, and stating specific followthrough actions. Clinton concluded ”…I do remember the A list. I wanted to be a good man, have a good marriage and children, have good friends, make a successful political life, and write a great book” I do not know if he is a good man, but he became president, made many friends all over the world, kept his marriage despite all and, yes, he wrote one hell of a book: My Life. That is perhaps how a good how-to book can help keep you on track. But you see, I am not really a big fan of these motivational or how-to books, especially since the proliferation of this genre. Some years ago, as an undergraduate student, I remember writing an article about my distrust of authors of motivational books. Since then my view has not changed much. There were just too many titles, most of them with du-
Kehinde Abiodun bious substance. But with a generation constantly in need of help and quick fixes, the authors of these spurious books continue smiling to the bank. However, every now and then, one finds a book that is worth the while. Four years ago, when I laid hands on Stephen Covey’s much talked about Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I knew it was a different kind of book. I was spellbound from page one until the very end. The writing is clean and crisp, and the narrative drives you on and on as a good book should. More importantly, the book is full of rare and original insight on every page. In short, Seven Habits touched my life in a big way. I still go back to the book. Like the friends we keep, books are major influence on our lives. Perhaps John Wood-
en’s quote echo this thought eloquently. He said “Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.” But of course you may argue that books and friends are not the only influence on our lives. One cannot argue, however, that a good book is like a tonic to the soul. In this sense, Covey’s Seven Habits is one hell of a tonic. Covey distilled life-changing advice into seven simple habits. First, he urges: be proactive. This is about taking responsibility for your life, knowing that often, you are the architect of your fortune or misfortune. The second habit is just as important: begin with the end in mind. This is about having a vision and planning, creating an A, B or C list just like Clinton did. All seven habits are instructive. My favorite of all is habit four: think win-win. If you decide to read Seven Habits of Highly Effective People someday, you sure will find it refreshing and practical. Perhaps it might nudge you into a new, better way of living. Or maybe like Clinton, it will help you write your A list, and take you where you want to be Kehinde Abiodun is an economics graduate student. He can be reached at 581[2812 or kaabiodun@eiu.edu.
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French, German clubs to host Mardi Gras By Kennedy Nolen Multicultural Reporter |@KennedyNolenEIU
Eastern’s French and German clubs will celebrate the traditional festivities of Mardi Gras, French for “Fat Tuesday” and Karneval from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in room 1170 of Coleman Hall. Mardi Gras and Karneval are festivals traditionally celebrated by people of the Catholic faith before Lent begins. Lent takes place in the 40 days be-
fore Easter, during which Catholics fast and give up other pleasures. The holidays before then give them a time to indulge in alcohol, food and fun. The world “carnival” is said to have derived from the Latin phrase “carne vale,” which means “farewell to meat.” This signifies the fasting to come. People wear masks and costumes to let go of their own personality and to be someone new for the day, since mainstream actions and norms are disregard-
ed on Mardi Gras. Ryan Schroth, a French professor and adviser to the French club, said the French and German clubs will have a mask-decorating contest and a beadthrowing game, as well as French and German trivia. The clubs will also play Cajun music and German Karneval music, he said. A traditional food eaten in New Orleans is “king cake,” made with different fillings and decorated with purple, green and gold icing. A small plastic
baby representing Jesus is baked inside. The person who gets the piece of cake with the plastic baby is named “king” or “queen” for the day. In French society, the reason people made king cake, waffles and crepes was to get rid of all of their eggs before the fasting began. Schroth said since giving up fatty foods for Lent was common, making these treats was a good way to use the eggs before they went bad. Schroth said the French and German
clubs will have donuts and pizza to eat. Beads and masks will also be available. Schroth said he hopes this year’s Mardi Gras and Karneval celebrations will be bigger than ever. He said he just wants students to have fun, and everyone is welcome regardless of their ability to speak French or German. Kennedy Nolen can be reached at 581-2812 or kdnolen@eiu.edu.
Ahl-e Qulub, Persian music group, to perform meditation music concert Tuesday evening
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Dating back thousands of years, meditation is one of the most common forms of relaxation. To inspire students to try it out for themselves, Eastern’s own Meditation Club will be hosting a concert on campus featuring Ahl-e Qulub, a musical Persian group. Several members of the Meditation Club are a part of the group, which has been around for about a year. Ahl-e Qulub, which means “people of the heart,” will be performing 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The concert was moved from its original location in the 7th Street Under-
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“I’ll say the majority of projects were put on hold until we decided what’s most important for the university,” he said. As a result of the budget impasse, Glassman announced a delay of all deferred maintenance and repairs not related to safety as well as a delay to non-capital projects, but Zimmer said there are several reasons deferred maintenance might occur. “There are no two reasons exactly the same, it’s hard to say there’s one reason we have deferred maintenance,” Zimmer said. “It’s not just one reason we held off on projects.” Daniels said deferred maintenance was an issue the Workgroup discussed during the vitalization project.
ground. This will be Ahl-e Qulub’s first time performing on Eastern’s campus. Ahl-e Qulub member Alex Hill said the group only uses percussion and vocals during its performance. “We don’t use other instruments because the focus is more on the audience to make it an internal listening experience,” Hill said. The percussion instruments that will be played are congas, djembes and dafs.
A conga is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum that has origins from Africa and Cuba. A djembe is a rope-tuned, skincovered drum that is played with bare hands, originally from Africa, and a daf is a large Persian frame drum that is usually made of hardwood with metal rings attached. Hill said for some who are not familiar with meditation, the music can help enrich the experience and get them in the right mind-set.
Ahl-e Qulub member Ali Fisher said although there are many different forms of meditation, the group never deviates from the form they use. “This particular meditation method we use has been around for about 1,400 years, and we teach it the same way every time,” she said. “We encourage, if you do want to try meditating, just try to choose one method and go deeper in that. Cultivate that one meditation method.” Meditation is really simple, Hill said. “There are a few preliminary steps to get you in the right mind-set,” he said. “Like most meditations that you will find, you focus on your breathing and your words. Sometimes it’s known as positive affirmation.” Hill said the words people choose to focus on are completely applicable to any-
“We’ve got a lot of need for things to be fixed, not a lot of resources to fix them,” he said. Zimmer said from a university-wide perspective, if there is not enough money, there has to be prioritization, not just in facilities. “Let’s say that I spent $4 million dollars on projects, then that $4 million dollars was not available to hire faculty,” Zimmer said. “Which is more important to the university, is it $4 million for projects or is it to have faculty in the classrooms?” McCann said one thing the university has been trying to work on is the Life Science Building, which is a fairly major project. “We asked for state money to do that, they’ve never come through with that, so we’re trying to do that project on our own. It’s a very expensive project, very extensive project,” he said.
Other projects, such as leaks in buildings that need to be fixed, will not be done until the university is given an appropriation, but McCann said this does not mean the university will stop doing things. McCann said an appropriation would help, but the university is trying to address what it can with the money it does have. This includes working on and updating some classrooms to put in more modern touches. “We’re trying to identify the things that are smaller bites that we can fix,” McCann said. “...We’re going to do the best we can, but those major projects are not moving forward very fast right now.” While the university has stopped some projects, others have been stopped because they were funded by the Capital Development Board. These projects include the elevator
projects in Student Services and McAfee Gym, sidewalk paving projects and automatic doors in Buzzard Hall. The Capital Development Board gets money from the state to take care of assets of the state. McCann said periodically, the university can get the board to take care of its assets, but for multiple years the Capital Development Board has not been able to do much because it has not received an appropriation. “The state stopped (the funding) because their appropriation stopped too, just like ours did,” McCann said. “...Legislators decided not to fund that. They want to pay for social services; they want to pay the pension they want to pay for operation in the department of corrections. They don’t have enough money to give it to everybody that they want to.” While Workgroup no.5 suggest-
“We don’t use other instruments because the focus is more on the audience To make it an internal listening experience. ” -Alex Hill. Ahl-e Qulub band member
one and anyone can use meditation to better themselves and find what is purposeful in their life. “It’s really interesting because we are telling everyone in the audience to say the same thing, ‘truth you are,’ but for each individual person that can mean something totally different,” Fisher said. “It’s universal.” Fisher said the goal of the Meditation Club is to give students a tool to help themselves and enrich their lives. “When you close your eyes, you are imagining something that brings peace to your heart,” Hill said. The concert is free and open to the public.
ed Eastern take control of and finish the projects, McCann said he does not know whether the university could do that or not. “We’d have to take on any liability that’s been created in that project, we don’t know exactly where that project is,” he said. “They know what they’ve done what they haven’t done; they’ve got the design, architect, engineers, we do not.” Zimmer said it would be great it they were able to finish it. “I’d like to have those elevators and the stuff that they’ve got stored out there on the ground, and they’ve got stored outside of McAfee and the construction fence outside of McAfee and the sidewalk,” Zimmer said. “I’d like to have all that stuff back, but I can’t impact it.”
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Men’s tennis team picks up second win By Dillan Schorfheide Men’s Tennis Reporter | @DEN_Sports Eastern’s men’s tennis team ended its four-match losing streak Sunday after defeating St. Joseph’s College (Indiana), improving to a 2-8 record. The losing streak was the second of the team’s season, after they went 0-4 in their first four matches before winning against St. Francis in their fifth match to get their first victory. Before the win Sunday, Eastern played Friday in Carbondale against Southern Illinois University, losing 6-1. The lone point for Eastern came from freshman Marko Stefan Janjusic, who improved his singles’ record for the season to 5-5, after the win Friday and his win Sunday. Janjusic has played well this spring in the No. 5 spot in the team’s singles lineup, and he now has the best singles record on Eastern’s roster.
“(Marko) played a really complete match from start to finish,” coach Samuel Kercheval said. Eastern came close to getting another point in the match. Freshman Gage Kingsmith lost to his opponent Michal Kianicka in straight sets: 6-4, 6-3. Despite the loss, it was the closest any other Eastern player came to winning their singles match. Kercheval said SIU, now 7-1 on the season, was really aggressive with how they played, but he said Eastern handled it for the most part. In a couple spots, he said, a break of serve was the difference. Eastern nearly swept St. Joseph’s College Sunday winning 6-1; the only lost point came from Kingsmith who lost 7-6, 6-4. “Gage has been playing well and embracing the tough matches and finding ways to compete,” Kercheval said.
Freshman Ferdinand Ammer got his first win of the season after winning in straight sets 6-1, 6-2. Against St. Joseph’s, Kercheval said his team emphasized getting off to a strong start and focusing on playing the ball, not the opponent. “We wanted to come out and control what we can control which was ourselves,” Kercheval said. He said his team did that for the most part, and the win took care of itself. While Eastern got its second win of the season, St. Joseph’s is still looking for its first win, holding an 0-4 record. Eastern will start practicing this week with a big challenge ahead: three games in two days. On Friday, Eastern will travel to Madison, Wis. to take on the University of Wisconsin. Then Saturday, Eastern will be in Chicago for a doubleheader to face the University of Detroit Mer-
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Junior Grant Reiman returns a serve during practice . Reiman is currently 2-8 in singles play for the Panthers. cy and Chicago State. “Next week is a huge test for us and our mental fortitude,” Kercheval said. “We have been improving each week and will continue to work as we have.”
Dillan Schorfheide can be reached at 581-2812 or dtschorfheide@eiu.edu.
Panthers split weekend matches on road
By Parker Valentine Women’s tennis reporter| @DEN_Sports
The Eastern women’s tennis team saw mixed results over the weekend. The weekend started with a dominant sweep, but it ended with a heart breaking nail biter to an in state rival. The Panthers’ weekend of competition began on Friday at Saint Francis. The Panthers dominated the Fighting Saints, completing a sweep of all events, ending the day with a score of 9-0. This was one of the first meets that coach Emily Wang significantly tweaked her lineup. Senior Kelly Iden held down the top spot as usual, defeating senior Gabriella Demchenko (6-3, 6-1). From there Wang’s lineup was a bit different
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than usual. Freshman Stella Cliffe competed from the No. 2 spot, defeating Junior Eva Lopez in a second set sweep (6-3, 6-0). Junior Grace Summers was next, Summers defeated Junior Merle Schlaeger from the No. 3 spot (7-6, 6-1). Senior Maria Moshteva defeated Junior Brittney Kupiec from the No. 4 spot, dropping only game (6-1, 6-0). Sophomore Abby Carpenter backed that up at No. 5, sweeping fellow sophomore Erika Edrada (6-0, 6-0). Freshman Shelby Anderson had a successful day as well. The freshman notched her first win of the spring season, defeating senior Katie Monahan (6-1, 6-2). She also found success in doubles later in the meet.
In doubles play, the duo of Cliffe and Iden defeated their singles opponents, Demchenko and Lopez, by a score of 6-3. Anderson and Summers defeated Kupiec and Schlaeger 6-3. Carpenter found success in a rare doubles appearance as well, she and partner Moshteva swept Edrada and Monahan 6-0 to close doubles play. The sophomore/senior duo only dropped one game collectively in the entire meet. Sunday’s meet was a much different story. The Panthers went back and forth with rival Illinois State all day. The eventual result was only the second defeat the Panthers have faced this season losing 4-3. The Panthers split the singles matches with the Redbirds 3-3. Iden started the
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Doubles play was not much easier for the Panthers. Cliffe and Iden started off doubles playing with a defeat to Tere-Apisah and Vujicic (6-1). Slaria and freshman Emily Pugachevsky suffered their first defeat as a duo to Kustkova and Sprague. Stadalninkaite and Summers did hold their own. The veteran duo defeated Gercar and Beneroso (6-4), to close out doubles play. The Panthers resume play this weekend. They will be matched up this Friday against Chicago State and will finish their weekend on Sunday against Depaul in Danville. Parker Valentine can be reached at 581-2812 or pivalentine@eiu.edu.
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action with a rare loss. She was defeated by senior Marcia Tere-Apisah in a second set tie break (6-3, 7-6 [1]). Summers got the momentum back for the Panthers, defeating freshman Jelena Karla Vujicic in two close sets (7-5, 7-5). Cliffe kept the pace going with a win over sophomore Jana Kustkova (6-2, 6-3). Sophomore Shristi Slaria notched the Panthers’ last singles win, in her first action of the weekend. Slaria defeated freshman Gabriela Sprague in a third set tie break (4-6, 7-5, 7-6 [4]). The Panthers’ momentum in singles play took a turn after that. Moshteva was defeated by junior Valerija Gercar (6-3, 6-3). Fellow senior Kamile Stadalninkaite was defeated as well, falling to freshman Andrea Beneroso (7-5, 6-4).
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Men’s soccer ‘Tortino’ wins Jock ‘n’ Roll By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports The Eastern men’s soccer team won Jock ‘n’ Roll Monday night, dethroning reigning champions women’s basketball. All the acts gave the men’s soccer team a run for their money as each act received big cheers from the crowd. Most of the Eastern athletic teams were in attendance to watch their fellow Panthers compete for the Jock ‘n’ Roll title. The men’s soccer team’s winning act opened the night. The act consisted of them dancing in black clothing with glow sticks lighting them up in a stick figure. The danced to songs like ‘Don’t Stop Believing,’ ‘Closer,’ and a few other popular songs. The team’s freshman took care of handling the Jock ‘n’ Roll skit, which was put together a 3 a.m. Monday. Anton Olsson, Yann Nsoga, Jonathan Huerta, Marcus Menniti, Cole Harkrader, Jonathan Burke, Alex Castaneda and Andre Nappa performed the winning dance. Nappa gave a thanks to his coach Kiki Lara in his acceptance speech. The women’s soccer team followed that up with their take on the ‘Bachelorette.’ Freshman Malorie Henderlong was the bachelorette looking for love Monday night. Junior Chloe Gottschalk hosted the show and Henderlong received proposals from the ‘contestants,’ who were pretending to be athletes from the men’s teams. They made up names and gave sexual sports references in their proposals that had the crowd in shock and erupting in laughter. Unfortunately for the contestants, Henderlong chose her true love: soccer. Eastern’s men’s freshman swimmer Ethan Wallace was the event’s Emcee and almost had a perfect night, but as we have learned, even the Oscars can have a little blooper. Wallace was unaware of a video that was going to play and announced it at the wrong time, but caught himself before it happened. Next Oscar host, maybe. Wallace showed off his talent of being able to do a walking handstand and told his fair share of jokes, keeping the crowd entertained in between acts. The volleyball team used a prerecorded video for their skit called
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Andre Nappa, a freshman psychology major gives a quick acceptance speech on behalf of the men’s soccer team, who were the winners of Jock ‘n’ Roll which featured skits from members of sports teams at Eastern.
“Stuff Girlfriends Say.” The women acted out a bunch of scenes pretending to be angry, upset, confused girlfriends. Freshman Alissa Danosky questioned her ‘boyfriend’ as to why he has been liking another girl’s tweets. Redshirt sophomore Gina Furlin was hanging out with her ‘boyfriend,’ and kept bugging him to say hi to his mom, who he was on the phone with. Before the next act began, Wallace reminded everyone in attendance that it is Athletic Director Tom Michael’s birthday Wednesday, resulting in the crowd singing happy birthday to him.
The softball team also used a pre-recorded video showing ‘A Day in the Life of a Softball Player.’ Senior Ashlynne Paul acted as coach Kim Schuette. The video was far from serious and gave the audience a good laugh. It showed all of the players dropping all the equipment at the feet of Katie Grunert to bring to the field for practice. The team also showcased some basketball skills in the batting cage, throwing the softballs into the bucket. Clean up took a little while to get through. The women’s tennis team’s act ‘Mannequin Takeover’ had the
women running around campus with mannequin heads tucked under the hood of their sweatshirts and doing different things across campus. They interrupted their fellow teammates’ tennis practice, they played some softball, did shot put and javelin. One even had to fight off the cold and jump into Campus Pond. The women’s basketball team’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ was clever but could not sway the judges for a repeat championship. Sophomore Brittin Boyer and f re s h m a n Da n i e l l e Be r r y we re members of Florida Georgia Line
for a day, sophomore Karina Chandra was PSY, junior Grace Lennox was Justin Bieber, freshman Zharia Lenoir was Beyoncé, Jalisha Smith was Kodak Black and freshman Allison Van Dyke was Adele. Jennifer Nehls was ‘Carpool Karaoke’ host James Corden. The women were able to dress the part and act like the musicians they impersonated. The amount of money raised to send Army Veteran Justice Long to the OVC Tournament this weekend was not available after the show. Sean Hastings can be reached at 5812812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
Basketball team handed fitting loss By Maher Kawash Basketball Reporter | @DEN_Sports It is safe to say the Eastern men’s basketball team had no idea it would be in this position with March Madness just a few weeks away from taking over college basketball. After being projected to finish second in their division to enter the season, the Panthers are not only eliminated from the OVC tournament but also suffered their worst loss of the season. Now Eastern Coach Jay Spoonhour did say Southern Illinois Edwardsville was going to offer a difficult matchup despite them being winless in conference play.
But it is also safe to say that a 7958 loss to the Cougars was not expected for a Panther team that fell just short of a playoff berth. Eastern was on the cusp of pulling off a steep comeback in the standings after a devastating start to conference play. After Tennessee State clinched that final eighth spot in the OVC stand-
ings, it seemed as if Eastern’s desire to do anything else was lost. Despite the Panthers not being able to participate in the conference tournament, they did still have a shot at another postseason chance. If Eastern would have earned a win Saturday against SIUE, their over .500 record would be enough to qualify for an outside postseason tourney. But not many people can blame a team that gave its all to clinch its conference tourney to have the tires run out on a long exhausting season in the final game. Southern Illinois Edwardsville just capitalized on a team that had suffered a devastating blow to its comeback attempt, and that pushed them
to their first conference win of the season. That does not go to say the Panthers are bad or that their players do not care though. In fact, this team clearly had the chemistry and want to win throughout the season but things just did not come together the way they thought it would. The transition of three transfers who only improved the lineup on both sides of the ball just seemed to fit perfectly into the plans of the Panthers coming in. And it was still anything but. We still saw the growth of many players on the team throughout the rollercoaster season, and that by it-
self may be worth more than a playoff berth. Eastern is losing one starter in senior Demetrius McReynolds after this season, but this team is staying together for the most part. If anything, this can serve as a great learning experience for a veteran team set to return under a head coach like Spoonhour who is the perfect man to guide the comeback for the Panthers. It is a tough pill to swallow for Eastern not being in any postseason action, but the future could still be bright for the program. Maher Kawash can be reached at 5812812 or mwkawash@eiu.edu.