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CUPB analyzes economic impact study By Kalyn Hayslett Editor-in-Chief | @DEN_News A packet filled with statistical data addressing Eastern’s economic impact and a mobile platform proposal were presented during a meeting of the Council of University Planning and Budgeting Friday. Paul McCann, interim vice president for business affairs, said an outside consulting firm was responsible for organizing and collecting the data for the “Eastern Illinois
University Impact Study,” which took over a year to assemble. The final document will be completed and distributed by March 8 or March 9. The university used donated money to hire the consultants, so it did not cost anything but time, McCann said. The report consists of 18 pages with of data; however, during the meeting McCann highlighted the “Multiplier Effect.” “Somebody that works at the
university takes their earnings and they go out and spend it in the community. By spending it in the community, that creates jobs out there, so instead of having one job you have two jobs; then, that person spends additional (money) so you get a third job,” McCann said. The “Multiplier Effect” shows how much employees, staff and students from Eastern contribute financially to the surrounding area and the state as whole. McCann said Eastern’s budget is
somewhere between $214 million and $215 million. Whatever money Eastern receives is doubled when put back out in the local economy. “From the standpoint of the state, in 2015, they put about $40 million in to us they are getting somewhere around 10 times as much out of it to further our economy,” McCann said. The purpose of the study was to show that Eastern is a good investment for the state because it helps
the local and state economy significantly, McCann said. “It’s looking at some of that reinvestment into the state. There, they are looking at $72 million back in. So they invest $40 million and they get $72 million,” he said. “Almost any way you look at this, Eastern is good for the region, the state, for Charleston, so that’s the message we want to end up giving to our legislators and to Springfield.”
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statement has been issued by the Justice Department. White House press secretar y Sean Spicer said without elaborating Sunday that Trump’s instruction to Congress was based on “very troubling” reports “concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election.” Spicer did not respond to inquiries about the reports he cited in announcing the request. Spicer said the White House wants the congressional committees to “exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.” He said there would be no further comment until the investigations are completed, a statement that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi took offense to
and likened to autocratic behavior. “It’s called a wrap-up smear. You make up something. Then you have the press write about it. And then you say, everybody is writing about this charge. It’s a tool of an authoritarian,” Pelosi said. Sp i c e r’s c h i e f d e p u t y, Sa r a h Huckabee Sanders, said she thinks Trump is “going off of information that he’s seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential.” Josh Earnest, who was Obama’s press secretary, said presidents do not have authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of American citizens, as Trump has alleged was done to him. FBI investigators and Justice Department officials must seek a federal judge’s approval for such a step.
of March, too. State climatologist Jim Angel said the temperatures have raised concerns that a sudden freeze could damage Illinois orchards and other crops. “Seventy-degree weather belongs in April, not February,” Angel said. Some farmers are wondering whether the recent warm weather is a good thing, University of Illinois Extension Office director Aaron Dufelmeier said.
“Over the past couple of weeks, the almost summer-like weather has allowed farmers to put on anhydrous and do some early spring tillage,” Dufelmeier said. “Unlike most years, the soil conditions are more favorable than the so-called typical year.” Auburn grain farmer Tim Seifert said his crops are four weeks ahead of schedule as corn planted on a halfacre test plot has begun to come up. He said farmers also have begun pre-
paring for spring planting. “If it stays this warm and this dry, we could see planting in the third or fourth week of March,” Seifert said. Jeff Flamm, co-owner of Flamm Orchards south of Carbondale, said his peach and apple trees are well ahead of schedule. “We don’t have any blooms yet,” said Flamm. “We could still take temperatures below freezing, as long as it doesn’t stay there too long.”
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ing for Bradlee Todd, as he was the captain of the “Alpha-Bears” plunging team. “It’s really fun to plunge for my fellow athletes and have all of these people from around the area come here and plunge with us and just have fun,” Bradlee Todd said. Along with supporting the cause, Lisa Todd said, plungers also get to have fun and express themselves through costumes. “They get to dress up in weird costumes, and jump in the water and they get to associate with like-minded people,” Lisa Todd said. “If I want to be crazy and I want to dress up like a zombie or like a princess, I can and still raise money for a
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Criticize social movements from within in order to grow Last week I argued that more people should seek out and dialogue with people they disagree with. I know this can seem counter-intuitive. Why should I waste my time talking to people who are never going to change their minds anyway? The main reason to seek out disagreement, however, is to improve oneself, not others. But I think more people also need to be critical of those who are “on their side,” primarily because it will improve those being criticized. One of our unfortunate flaws as humans is that we tend not to listen to people we disagree with, even when they make a good point. On the other hand, we are much more receptive to criticism when it comes from someone who shares our basic values. Each of us has the opportunity to call out people on our side whose views are wrong or overly simplistic and actually to be listened to in good faith. We should take advantage of that more often. As part of the nonreligious community, I find it important to criticize other atheists and agnostics when I think their reasoning has gone astray. For instance, when asked why they reject Christianity, I have heard many nonbelievers point to the hypocrisy of religious leaders. But this is not a good reason to reject Christianity; really, it is not even relevant. The central question is whether the claims of Christianity are true, like that God exists and that the Bible is divinely inspired. It simply does not matter to the question of God’s existence whether some of his followers are immoral hypocrites. And if anyone rejects Christianity primarily on this basis, they need to seriously re-examine their process for forming beliefs. If a Christian were to say this, it would probably be dismissed as self-motivated reasoning. But it is much more powerful coming from someone like me, who has no reason to defend Christianity from criticism other than by a concern for the truth. One objection to the idea that we should criticize people in our circle is that it is a misuse of time. We should be focusing on “the real enemy” instead of criticizing those on our side. If anything, it is more a misuse of time to focus our criticisms on those who disagree with us. Most of them will never change their minds, especially when the criticism comes from someone outside their camp. But we have a real shot at changing the minds of the people already inside our camp. The other criticism is that if we publicly disagree with each other, it will make the community look divided and unstable, like it is falling apart from the inside. Personally, I think it makes a community look much worse if some of its members make false claims and poor arguments. It makes the community look careless and dishonest. But more importantly, no community should be more concerned with appearances than reality. If we let people in our circle get away with making false claims, and if we stifle honest criticism because we want to appear to be a “united front,” then we really are falling apart from the inside. Leon Mire is a senior philosophy and English major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or lkmire@eiu.edu
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Intersectionality should be integral in social justice In the past few weeks, the editorial staff of The Daily Eastern News has highlighted social justice causes in our daily editorials. We discussed African American Heritage Month, Women’s History Month, the social stances noted by contestants at Miss Black EIU and several mental health issues. However, we thought it pertinent to tie all of our issues together. As many of you have noticed already, no two social justice issues stand apart from each other completely. In every life there are interactions between identities; similarly, almost no two identities are so contrary to each other than they will never meet. This, in short, is the idea of intersectionality at work. “Intersectionality” may be a long, unwieldy academic term, but the editorial staff of The News believes that it is wildly useful for every student on campus. No person can really be boiled down to a single part of their identity, no matter how much the world makes it sometimes seem as if you are. No woman is only a woman: a woman is a black woman or a disabled woman or a neurodiverse woman or a transgender woman. The interactions between identities change how
the world sees us and how we interact with the world. For instance, black women share experiences with black men and with white women, but at the end of the day, the experiences of black women are unique to their group, and the experiences of women within that group are unique based on their other identities: on class, on immigrant status, on occupation, on sexuality. The staff of The News believes that Women’s History Month is the perfect time to talk about intersectionality. We did allude to intersectional causes during our African American Heritage Month, but the feminist movement has historically struggled to accept and celebrate women of all sorts. Early feminists during the Suffrage era shunned poor women and black women, essentially keeping power in the hands of the already-powerful. Later movements continued to shun women of color even when poor women were given some power within the movement, and other feminist subsets pushed LGBTQA+ women (particularly trans women) out of the limelight. Even today, the movement struggles to recognize the voices of all women. Women’s March attendees
reported animosity towards Native American women; some longstanding feminist events still ban trans women from attendance; feminist icons in popular culture are disproportionately normative and traditionally attractive. Part of the problem is a lack of intersectionality. We assume that the traditional voices at the forefront of social movements are the only voices that have anything to say and that these traditional voices’ points apply to all people within that movement. But the qualms of white women do not necessarily reflect the lives of black women, and the issues that straight disabled people face are not identical to the issues that LGBTQA+ disabled people face. This year, as we cycle through another year of history months and diversity events, please keep in mind that all experiences are unique and that every identity overlaps. When you attend Women’s History Month events, do not fall to temptation and assume that “women” means “white women” or “straight women.” The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
Unofficial should not have a yearly body count Unofficial, arguably the biggest party weekend in Illinois behind Homecoming, has come to a close. As a new week begins, a majority of the student body will be dragging themselves to one more week of classes before going back home for spring break. It seems that many of us have gone adrift in the limbo that is college, and I ask myself: why is Unofficial so important to us? If you are anything like me, you spend Monday through Thursday hitting the books, going to class and participating in a variety RSO’s. For those four days, you contribute to larger conversations regarding academia and your future career, volunteer to make the world a better place and do your best to make your parents and professors proud of the work you do here at Eastern. However, when the weekend rolls around, you let loose and participate in a variety of activities that would not make your parents nor your professors proud. You spend the weekend in an inebriated stupor until you arrive hungover at Sunday evening, where you begin your prep work for another week. And you do this every week, every month, every semester.Unofficial weekend is really not all that different from any other weekend, but rather it is exaggerated to a point where all of the Greek life barriers dissolve enough for everyone to party together in stranger’s backyard, at least until it is late enough to move to the bars. It is a nice concept that all the students of Eastern can enjoy a drink and the nice
Abby Carlin weather together, but that is not what this weekend actually looked like. We all came together around 11 a.m. to celebrate the holiday and our youth, but even before 2 p.m., I saw people ages 17-45 who were absolutely plastered and puking on the sidewalks. Binge drinking has real consequences and Unofficial is pushing the limit. Almost every year, someone dies during Unofficial. Even more come close and get dangerously ill. Someone’s entire life, their accomplishments, their dreams and their future are all halted (or obliterated) in a single moment. As far as I know, Eastern was fortunate enough not to suffer the loss of one of our students, but the same cannot be said for the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The loss of Jonathan Morales is felt not only on his campus, but on ours and back with his family and friends on the west side of Chicago. Accidents happen, but participating in Unofficial is a calculated risk that many of take, dancing
the fine line between well-intentioned fun and disaster. I will be the first to admit that Unofficial has been a beacon of light on the horizon for weeks. When the weeks and the classes and the assignments all blur together in the stressful mess that is the modern college experience, it is not a surprise that many of us seek refuge in substances such as alcohol. When I think of drinking, I think of letting loose a little bit and having some fun with my friends, but the actual results of my actions are usually much messier than that. Binge drinking does not turn good kids into idiots, but make it significantly easier for any of us to make decisions that we may regret. I am not going to say that I will never drink again. I am not demonizing those who do drink or anyone who participated in this weekend’s festivities. I am not saying that it is impossible for decent people to have decent fun with alcohol, but I just want us to be careful. Many of us worked very hard to get to this place and we deserve to let loose every once and awhile, but do not let the fun blur your vision of your future and all you have yet to accomplish. Be smart, and please, look out for your friends, your neighbors and your fellow Panthers. Abby Carlin is a sophomore English language arts major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or alcarlin@eiu.edu.
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Signature programs presented to workgroup No. 8 By Analicia Haynes Online Editor | @Haynes1943 Two departments presented ideas for signature programs at Workgroup No. 8, Academic Visioning I’s meeting Friday. Physics professors Jie Zou and Doug Brandt presented on behalf of the physics department and proposed a bachelor’s degree program in electrical engineering. Kathleen O’Rourke, graduate coordinator for the master’s program in aging studies and Melanie Burns, the interim chair of the family and consumer sciences department, proposed making the graduate program in aging studies a signature program. Zou said there is a strong need for graduates in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Currently, she said, Eastern has degree programs in science, technology and math but not a stand-alone degree program in engineering. Referring to a table from the U.S. Department of Education, Zou said Eastern needs an engineering program because jobs in the field will increase by 14 percent. She said the most common degree prospective students inquire about is engineering and there are thousands of students involved in engineering programs at other universities. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville alone has 1,400 students in its program, she Zou said. “Certainly, this shows how attractive a stand-alone engineering program is to students,” she said. Zou said the coursework required for an electrical engineering major reflects work already needed for
math and science majors in their first two years. This means it requires a minimal amount of additional resources to start the program, she said. Zou said the proper facilities are already available for the program, such as the electronics laboratory and a laboratory used for circuit analysis. In terms of faculty who will teach the required courses, Zou said there are professors in the physics department who can teach the physics portion of the material and in the math department who can teach the math portion. Zou said these courses would act as general education courses for electrical engineering majors. There are currently only two faculty members who can teach upper-level courses, including Zou and Brandt. What the major would require is one tenured faculty member who can teach the electrical engineering courses and who also has strong industry contacts. The reason for these contacts is to offer students a bridge to internship opportunities, which are needed for the program to be approved by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology. Zou said an Annually Contracted Faculty member to teach physics courses would be needed because she and Brandt would be teaching electrical engineering courses. Starting a full-blown College of Engineering would be too costly and therefore needs to be done in increments, Zou said. “If this implementation is successful, then we can consider expanding from a single electrical engineering degree program to a full College of Engineering,” Zou said.
She said one way to attract students to Eastern’s potential program is by recruiting those who may have been rejected from other universities. Zou said the total applicants who applied to the electrical engineering program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, according to 2017 data, was about 800 students, though only 558 were accepted. “So about 239 did not get admitted, that’s about 30 percent of the total applicants,” she said. “So that’s why we chose electrical engineering… We want to catch that 30 percent.” For the proposal to make the graduate program in aging studies a signature program, O’Roarke said there is growing demand in the field. She said upon graduation, students can enter the career field of a gerontologist, addressing the physical, social, emotional and mental needs of older adults and those who care for and serve older adults. She said some examples depicting the major issues and trends related to aging and leading to the growing demand for this career include current debates on Social Security and Medicare and the impact of the baby boomer generation. “Our baby boomers have started turning 70 and the demand is significant on society,” O’Rourke said. “If we think about those aging demographics right now, we have 46 million individuals in the U.S. who are 65 and older and mid-century projection is 98 million so there is a demand, people are aging, so it’s now and it’s the future.” She said when it comes to aging studies there are six signature features making it a signature program. “We are reputable, interdisciplinary, flexible and
affordable,” she said as the first feature. The program is one of four schools in the state to offer a graduate degree in aging studies or gerontology. Eastern offers the lowest tuition of the four schools, at $289 per credit hour. O’Rourke said higher education collaboration results from working with the other schools and works as another key feature. Student leadership development throughout the program and after graduation is another key feature, she said. O’Rourke said the program has developed several community partnerships and integrative learning opportunities with these partnerships. The program is partnering with Arbor Rose Memory Home Care, the Coles County Lifespan Center, the Academy of Lifelong Learning and Fellowship Center in Mattoon. O’Rourke also cited the program’s external research grant activity as a signature feature. The central goal, she said, is to professionalize the aging studies program and therefore make it stand out because of the growing field. O’Rourke said because of the outline of the program and the potential in continued growth in enrollment, with more resources, the program should at least warrant a discussion about pursing a signature program. Analicia Haynes can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu.
Booth Library now accepting entries for Edible Book Festival Staff Report | @DEN_News The Booth Library is now accepting entries for the seventh annual Edible Book Festival as part of National Library Week. According to a press release, anyone in the community can enter a work made out of edible mate-
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CUPB chair Kathlene Shank said Eastern representatives should have a conversation with State Sen. Dale Righter (R-Mattoon) discussing the study’s impact and adding a cover sheet with bullet points summarizing the major statistics. McCann said staff members from Eastern will go to Springfield and personally hand-deliver the impact study to legislators, senators, representatives and their associates next week. “We go to Springfield and they say ‘Wow, what good are you,’” McCann said. “This (report) now says what we do for the state of Illinois.” Sace Elder, the EIU-UPI representative for the CUPB, said the impact study should include information and statistics that show how efficient Eastern is. “When this document was first announced our state, (Gov. Bruce Rauner) said, ‘Yes, we know
rials if it has something to do with books in shape or content. The awards given out will be in the Dean’s Choice, People’s Choice, Children’s Book Theme, Student Entry, Family Entry and Funniest Pun category. There is no fee to participate in or view the show.
Entry forms are due Thursday, April 6 and can be brought to Booth Library, emailed to library@eiu.edu or mailed to the library at 600 Lincoln Ave., Charleston, IL 61920, Attn: Edible Books. For more information on the contest, those interested can call 5818381.
Entries will be installed in the library after 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 10. Voting will be 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and winners will be announced after.
Eastern is very important to our state and to our region, we just want it to run efficiently,’” Elder said. “It’s the language of efficiency is what I think is going to get us in trouble, because efficiency is defined differently.” The document does not currently have any language about efficiency. Also at the meeting, Lynnette Drake, interim vice president for student affairs, said the Office of Student Affairs is working on creating a mobile student engagement platform that would be a readily available place so people can know what is happening on campus. “It’s like a guidebook on steroids,” Drake said. According an email distributed at the meeting, the platform would offer event management, texting, participation tracking, to-do lists, resource-sharing and news capabilities. The types of apps Student Affairs is looking at would be able to filter students based on information from Banner software, so they could send messages directly to certain groups, such as different majors.
An outside company would create the mobile platform. Drake said the cost could range from $10,000 to $15,000. She said it is a good investment because it could increase students’ knowledge about what is happening on campus and increase participation in these events. “When they are having conversations with people who are thinking about coming here, they can say we have a lot of stuff going on our campus,” Drake said. The mobile platform will be similar to the weekly campus events email that is currently sent to students notifying them of different activities from Athletics, the Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism, Doudna performances and Tarble exhibits websites. Drake said the activities promoted in the campus events email are downloaded from the campus events calendar, so if people do not contribute to the events calendar, they will not be promoted in the weekly email. Richard England, dean of the Honors College,
said because he is now aware of the weekly campus email, he will now promote his department’s events more often. “It’s probably chicken and the egg. If I would have known that students are receiving the weekly email, which I have learned today, I would put the events that I have planned in a different way. If there was an app they’re using, I would do it the same way,” England said. Drake said Student Affairs is considering hiring someone who will maintain the mobile platform. The Office of Student Affairs has already selected three mobile application companies that could possibly create the platform and are asking people to participating in a demonstration. If people are interested in testing out the apps, they can call the Office of Student Affairs for more information.
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Panthers fall in rollercoaster series By Maher Kawash Baseball Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern baseball team knew it had a tough matchup ahead coming into the weekend, but giving up 41 combined runs was not part of the plan. The Panthers were swept in a three-game series against Division I powerhouse Kansas State, but it was not all bad, but they were also able to have some success. Eastern faced two pitchers who came into the series with a 1.80 ERA, but still managed to score double-digit runs in two games. But, unfortunately the Panthers just could not string together the pitching needed for a win. Eastern’s toughest loss came in day two of the series. Much like the first game, the Panthers tacked on a few runs early on to hold a lead, and also like the first game Kansas State responded quickly. The Wildcats struck Eastern for seven runs in the fourth inning to seemingly kill all momentum for the Panthers. But a combined eight runs scored by the Panthers in three innings put them ahead heading into the bottom of the ninth with a one-run lead.
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Junior Michael Starcevich Delivers a pitch in the bottom of the 9th Saturday at Tointon Family Stadium. Starcevich picked up the loss giving up two earnes runs in an inning and 1/3 in game two of the weekend series.
Kansas State prevailed. The Wildcats took advantage of a young East-
ern bullpen scoring two runs in the final frame to complete the walk-off comeback 12-11 victory.
A 15-10 loss in game one came after Brendon Allen was run out of the game early, and the pitching staff gave up 12 runs in four innings. The highlight of that game was seeing what a young Eastern lineup could do on its brightest days. Despite the loss, the Panthers did get to a tough Wildcat starter who leads his team in ERA. Behind home runs from Joe Duncan and Frankie Perrone, Eastern scored 10 runs in a game that was supposed to sport a strong pitching duel. Game three was Eastern’s roughest appearance of the series as the team just appeared to run out of gas while running into a tough pitcher in the 14-0 loss. Duncan continues to head that attack as he has gotten a hit in all but two games to start this season, while hitting .357 from the plate against the Wildcats. Perrone’s homerun in the series marks his second of the season as he tries to continue boasting power in the middle of that young Eastern lineup. Maher Kawash can be reached at 581-2812 or mwkawash@eiu.edu.
Men’s tennis team blanks over the weekend By Dillan Schorfheide Men’s Tennis Reporter | @DEN_Sports Eastern’s men’s tennis team lost all three matches this weekend, following a trend it has this season. The team’s first match was Friday against Wisconsin. The Badgers are ranked No. 31 in the country. Wisconsin shutout Eastern 7-0. Freshman Marko Stefan Janjusic was the Panther closest to winning a set, eventually losing 6-1, 6-4. “Wisconsin is a nationally ranked, Big Ten program so we knew that match would be tough,
coach Samuel Kercheval said.” The Badgers handed Eastern its ninth loss of the season. Eastern had a double header in Chicago Saturday, facing the Detroit Mercy and Chicago State University later in the day. Detroit shutout the Panthers. “We had a really slow start in the doubles which you can’t afford,” Kercheval said. “It was disappointing because we are better than what we showed.” In the one spot of Eastern’s lineup, freshman Gage Kingsmith forced his opponent to a third set before losing 6-2, 7-6, 1-0.
Two other Panthers got close to winning a set before losing in straight sets: juniors Trent Reiman and Jared Woodson. Reiman got close in his second set (6-4), and Woodson nearly won his first set (7-6). The Panthers performed better against Chicago State. In the No. 3 position against Chicago State, Janjusic got the first point for the Panthers; he won in the three sets, 5-7, 7-6, 1-0. Janjusic’s has the best singles record on Eastern’s team at 6-7. Woodson got the second point for Eastern, also winning in three sets. He defeated his opponent
2-6, 7-5, 1-0. The final point Eastern got before losing 4-3 came from Ammer in his singles match: he won 6-3, 6-1. Eastern remains positive despite the losses. “The guys see the progress we are making and know it takes a lot of work and it takes time. We definitely have some frustrations but there is a lot of tennis to be played,” Kercheval said. “We will get back to working on what we have been and continue to move forward as a team to prepare for next week.” Dillan Schorfheide can be reached at 581-2812 or dtschorfheide@eiu.edu.
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Poulter drives in 6, Panthers split weekend By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports Sophomore Mady Poulter launched her first career home run in the Panthers’ second game of the weekend against Stony Brook that started Eastern’s blowout win over the Seawolves. Poulter was not much of a power hitter in her first year as a Panther in 2016, but got ahold of one in the first inning and sent it over the left center field wall. She did not know it would head over the fence when she hit it, and it shocked her teammates as well, getting the Panthers started off on the right foot. “It felt really great to finally hit one out,” Poulter said. “I think everyone was surprised so it really got everyone going and picked up the energy in the dugout.” Her homerun was a three-run shot that gave Eastern essentially all it needed to defeat Stony Brook. The Panthers tacked on seven more runs to win 10-1 following an 8-0 5-inning shutout loss to Lipscomb. Poulter drove in one more run later in the game. Junior Jessica Wireman got back on the right track and picked up the win in the circle; one of two wins on the weekend for her. Wireman also bailed out the Panthers in their win against Valparaiso. The Crusaders put up five runs in the first three innings on starting pitcher junior Michelle Rogers. Sophomore Jennifer Ames started the Panthers 12-5 comeback win with a tworun home run in the fourth inning. Senior Amber Toenyes followed the homerun hitting weekend trend with one of her own in the fifth inning. This one being a two-run shot as well. Poulter kept her hot weekend alive and drove in two more runs on a single to give the Panthers their first lead of the game and all they needed to roll away with the win. One thing that has been different this year compared to last season is the different number of players getting involved and playing. Last year it was a set line-
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Sophomore Mady Poulter gets into position before the pitch in a game last year against DePaul at Williams Field. Poulter hit her first career home run and drove in six runs over the weekend at the Lipscomb Tournament.
up day in and day out, with very limited changes. This year more players are seeing the field, including freshman as well as players who have been her for a year or two. And with five key spots to fill for the Panthers’ graduated seniors, Eastern has been able to do that and play well under coach Kim Schuette. Schuette figured out how to win in her first go around with the Panthers and has it going on the right track on the second. And all of this has to do with the team’s success, Poulter said.
“I think things are going really well under coach’s system,” Poulter said. “We are very lucky to have her back at EIU. I think we are meshing really well based on how many different players are on the field in comparison to last year’s lineup.” And filling the formally vacant spots of first base, shortstop, and the entire outfield, it has not only been one player penciled in at each spot. This year’s team is showing lots of versatility. “Everyone is stepping up and filling big shoes and we have a lot of girls that can play a lot of spots,” Poulter said. “Ev-
eryone is doing a great job of embracing their roles.” Eastern’s run scoring onslaughts came to a halt in the games against Lipscomb. The Panthers pitchers could not keep the Lady Bisons. Lipscomb shut out the Panthers in both games over the weekend including the 8-0 run-rule loss. The Lady Bisons handed the Panthers a 4-0 loss in the Purple and Gold Challenge finale. Wireman’s only loss of the weekend came in the 4-0 weekend finale loss, but with the way she pitched against Val-
paraiso has her looking like 2016 midseason form. Lipscomb improved to 14-5 with the wins and Eastern is 10-7 to start its season. Conference play is nearing for the Panthers, but will head to Oxford, Ala. next weekend for the SEMO Invite for four games against Alabama A&M, Loyola-Chicago, Valparaiso and Samford. Sean Hastings can be reached at 5812812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
Women’s tennis team splits Chicago matches By Parker Valentine Women’s Tennis Reporter| @DEN_Sports The Panthers saw a weekend of ups and downs against Chicago teams. The Eastern women’s tennis team started their weekend against a slate of Chicago opponents off right this weekend, although the ending could have been better for the Panthers. Saturday was a strong showing from the Panthers against Chicago State. Even with junior Grace Summers out, the Panthers did not miss a beat, winning by a score of 6-1. This weekend’s matches were the first time this season Summers did not see game action. With her out, a bit of rotational change took place. One thing that didn’t change was stalwart senior Kelly Iden starting things off for the Panthers. Iden defeated junior Mariya Kostyuk in a second set sweep (6-4, 6-0). Freshman Stella Cliffe backed that up, defeating junior Leshia Gadacz (6-4, 7-5). Sophomore Shristi Slaria put together a strong showing Saturday, dropping only two games as she defeated junior Lorea Gamboa (6-0, 6-2). Senior Maria Moshteva earned a win as well, just in more competitive fashion. Moshteva defeated redshirt senior Carynne Lloyd in a hard fought tiebreak (6-3, 7-6, [8-6]).
Freshman Emily Pugachevsky is another Eastern freshman off to a strong start to spring play. Pugachevsky defeated freshman Judit Aubets (6-2, 7-5). The Panthers loan defeat in singles came as Cougar senior Hanna Pangestu defeated senior Kamile Stadalninkaite in three sets, winning (6-3, 3-6, 6-3). In doubles play, Cliffe and Iden started things off right. The freshman/senior duo defeated Pangestu and Gadacz (6-2). The Panthers statistical strongest duo was up next, Pugachevsky and Slaria defeated Lloyd and Gamboa (6-4). Senior duo Moshteva and Stadalninkaite finished doubles play. The two were defeated by Kostyuk and Aubets (6-3), although the Panther point had already been won. Sunday against Depaul was a different story. The Panthers ran out of steam against the Blue Demons, as they were defeated 6-1. The Panthers did avoid a sweep though. Cliffe notched her 10th win of the season Sunday. The freshman defeated junior Patricia Lancranjan (6-3, 6-4). With that win, Cliffe is the first Panther to reach double digits this season, with a record of 10-1. “Stella was already a very talented player coming to EIU, but she has made many improvements to her
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Senior Kelly Iden prepares to serve the ball in practice in the spring of 2016. Iden continued to find success in the No. 1 spot after defeating her opponent in singles and also winning in her doubles match.
game, especially in doubles. Stella is and will continue to be an asset to our team,” coach Emily Wang said. The Panthers continue their sea-
son this Sunday, with a rare one meet weekend. They will travel to Des Moines, Iowa to take on Drake Sunday. The first matches get an early
start, as play is set to begin at 11 a.m. Parker Valentine can be reached at 581-2812 or pivalentine@eiu.edu.