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Elizabeth Smith, senior communication studies major, speaks on the importance of young women protecting themselves from sexually transmitted infections Tuesday during "Letters to my little sister..." hosted by the Health Education Resource Center.
Women and men of all races gathered in Lumpkin Hall during “Letters to my little sister” to celebrate and educate the modern woman and the difficulties that they face, especially in sexual health. Topics that where brought up during the open forum ranged from questions such as “ Why do so many women allow men to have unprotected sex with them?” to “Do you think the media portrays an accurate picture of African American women?” to “Where do we go from here?” A board of panelists, including assistant professor of journalism Janice Collins; assistant professor of English and women’s studies Jeannie Ludlow; minority affairs director Yolanda Williams; and assistant director of student standards Shawn Peoples, guided the discussion that was sponsored by the Health Education Resource Center. Collins said she was asked to be a panelist and felt that the forum was necessary. She said she felt that HIV/
Student senate reps present billboard proposal to council Eastern’s student senate representative presented the City Council with the proposed measure to install eight electronic billboards on Eastern’s campus at Tuesday’s meeting. Blair Jones, a junior accounting major, said Eastern will sign a five year contract to display the proposed electronic billboards. Roughly the size of a poster board, the billboards will display national advertisements two-thirds of the time, and Eastern will have control of the remaining displayed content, she said. Jones said the top 25 percent of the billboard will belong to the University, displaying the time, day and Eastern’s logo at all times. If an emergency ever occurred, Eastern would get access to the boards 100 percent of the time. Jones said according to an online survey, 80 percent of Eastern students were in favor of the display boards; 90 percent said it was an effective way to advertise campus events; 80 percent said they would
• Hosted by the Health Education Resource Center in Lumpkin Hall • Panelists guided discussion about sexual health safety •Topics discussed included myths about African American women
AIDS is something that needs to be address. “To get a disease from making love is just tragic,” Collins said. The forum addressed why so many minority women engage in unprotected sex. “We don’t have that conversation,” Williams said. “We don’t communicate as women.” Ot h e r t o p i c s a d d re s s e d i n cluded how to diminish the myths about African American women. “ You know what the myth is. Why perpetuate it?” Peoples said. Elizabeth Smith, a senior corporate communication major, said she really enjoyed going to the forum. “I think this was a wonderful forum. We as women, no matter what race or size, need to en-
courage each other to be all we can be. Be beautiful, be successful and not to settle for anything else,” Smith said. The main goal Collins said she wanted to leave the attendees with was empowerment and education. “I want these women to take away the fact that they are in control of their own bodies,” Collins said, “I think women should have a choice, and women don’t have a choice in college.” Irvin Jean-Charles, a graduate student, said he attended the forum to listen to women share their experiences. “I felt like it’s important for African American men to support African American women,” Charles said. Before the forum ended, Collins had a fe w par ting words for the women in the audience. “Love yourself, respect yourself, and at all times try to be safe,” Collins said. Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812 or kjrichter@eiu.edu.
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approve the appeal of campus; and 95 percent said it would be an effective way to advertise community warnings. Jones said she is in favor of execution of the electronic billboards. “I think it’s a good idea to take some advertisements and get the boards for free,” Jones said. “It’s still good to use them to advertise campus events.” Jo n e s s a i d t h e m o n e y r a i s e d through these billboards will be enough to pay at least one student intern to do the graphics for the billboard. Council member Larry Rennels addressed concerns over whether the billboards would be changing rapidly. Jones said the adver tisements would change between every 45 seconds and a minute and the boards would be on for 16 to 18 hours every day. Jones said other universities such as Northern Illinois University, Murray State and Washington University in St. Louis also display the proposed electronic billboards. Jones said the student senate will
give their support for the billboards at today’s meeting. She said the university hopes to have the boards implemented some time next semester. The council approved to place a resolution for amending building regulations of the Charleston City Code on file for public inspection. Mayor John Inyart said the council and city planner Steve Pamprin have been working through changes trying to find what best fits Charleston. Pamprin said Charleston is currently operating under 2003 building codes. The council proposes to update to the one and two family residential homes to 2006 codes. Pamprin said this measure is primarily the reason for updating the codes for the health and safety of the community. “ We’re implementing the new codes to keep up with the new rules and regulations to hopefully make things safer,” he said. “Engineers didn’t know things in 2003 that they know now.” BILLBOARD, page 5
Senate to present resolutions today By Kathryn Richter Staff Reporter
Two resolutions will be presented at today’s student government meeting. Student Senate Speaker Zach Samples, a sophomore history major, said one resolution that will be discussed at the meeting is whether they support having electronic billboards on campus. Peter Zizzo, a student senate member and sophomore mathematics major, said he is not sure which way he is going to vote regarding the electronic billboards. “I don’t mind (the boards), but I don’t see any true benefit,” Zizzo said. He said that for the past two weeks, he has been discussing the electronic billboards with students in order to best represent their views. Tommy Neirman, a student senate member and a senior management major, is one of the authors of the resolution regarding the electronic billboards. Neirman said the resolution took a week and a half to put together and he used “the power of Facebook” to promote a survey he co-created. He said more than 100 people re-
sponded to the survey and that the vast majority of students were in favor of the billboards. For the second resolution, the student senators will vote on whether the senators want to change the location of their meetings to the residence halls, which is titled the “Senate on the Road” program. Jenna Mitchell, a student senate member, said she is setting up a booth with the Student Outreach Committee today at the University Food Court in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to hear students’ opinions on the various resolution topics to be presented at the meeting. “We really want students to know what we do and what student government is about,” Mitchell said. Mitchell said she is in favor of the “Student on the Road” program because she feels the program is another good way to reach out to students. Mitchell also said she hopes the program will help students come to the student government meetings so they can voice their opinions. Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812 or kjrichter@eiu.edu.
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John Poshepny, a senior finance major, dresses as Uncle Sam to inform students of the student government voter registration drive Tuesday between Coleman and Lumpkin Halls. The voter registration drive continues Wednesday and Thursday from 11a.m. to 4 p.m in the Library Quad.
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Students explain smoking habits By Matt Forst Staff Reporter
Smoking kills. This slogan was exemplified during the mid-90s D.A.R.E. era where a majority of current Eastern students said the D.A.R.E program was somewhat helpful when it was presented to them in elementary or middle school. However, as the years passed the message that smoking is bad wore off and students forgot about the major risks of smoking cigarettes. Fiona Finnigan, a sophomore art major, said she did not like the D.A.R.E. program implemented while she was in school. D.A.R.E. was so vague when teaching students about drugs and it just left people confused, Finnigan said. “The main thing that really irritated me about my drug program was that their definition of a drug—‘any non-food substance that alters the way the body works’ that includes everything and anything,” Finnigan said. “It was a
stupid way to begin an increasingly stupid program—it was just dumb.” Finnigan said she does not think the drug education program caused members of the D.A.R.E generation to do drugs later on. Finnigan said she did not feel that the program led people to do drugs or sell drugs. “I don’t think the program inand-on itself led to more people doing drugs because I don’t think enough information was given,” Finnigan said. “If you didn’t know how to make drugs or get drugs then I don’t think it affected you at all.” Izzy Irizarry, a sophomore art major said she was terrified at first by the D.A.R.E. program and by the fact that smoking harms a person’s body. However, Irizarry said the last time the D.A.R.E. program was shown to her was when she was in elementary school and because of this she said the message has worn off. According to the article, “Tobac-
co Industry Research on Smoking Cessation” by ncbi.gov, college students are one of the most profitable demographics for tobacco companies. The tobacco industry has put forth a lot of time studying young adult smoking patterns, mostly between the ages of 18-24. According to the article “A Third of College Students Smoke” by abcnews.go.com, over the years, smoking among college students has increased to 30 percent, despite more programs that have discouraged people to smoke. Irizarry said she smokes because she is addicted. “At first I did it to socialize and I thought it was cool,” Irizarry said. “I started when I was drinking and picked up on it.” Irizarry said she feels smoking relieves some stress and when she gets upset or overwhelmed she goes outside to smoke. George Pappas, a sophomore accounting major, said he still smokes knowing the health risks because he enjoys smoking.
“It is available to me and I enjoy doing it,” Pappas said. Pappas said he first started smoking when he was 12 years old and he said his older sister got him hooked onto cigarettes. Pappas said he uses smoking as a way to help relieve stress from school and goes through about 7 packs a week, Braunz Baker, a sophomore French major said he goes through about three to four packs of cigarettes a week. “It helps relieve stress in the morning, but after that you do it just to do it,” Baker said. Baker said he started smoking when he was 17-years-old because he started to smoke socially with friends. “I like it. I am addicted to cigarettes and it makes me look cool,” Baker said. Matt Forst can be reached at 581-2812 or mjforst@eiu.edu.
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Students interested in staying in for the night by watching a movie have more than one way to do so, however no one seems to have a clear favorite. Tito Franco, a freshman psychology major, said when he is in the mood for a movie he turns to friends’ collections. “We have a bunch of movies on my floor of the dorm,” he said. “We borrow movies from each other.” Franco said he also uses Redbox, a movie renting kiosk located in super markets or other large stores. When personal collections lack in variety or when renting costs too much, many students turn to Booth Library’s Media Center as a means of cost-free rentals. Jason Torres, a freshman journalism major, said he likes using Booth Library for renting television shows as well as films. “I started checking movies out at the library about a month ago,” Torres said. Doug Urbanski, a graduate student, said he enjoys using Netflix since it allows him to stream films and suggests movies he may not have previously been aware of based on his previously rented films. “I use Netflix and see what are in the top 10 picks,” said Urbanski. “It’s like it knows me.” John Holman, manager of Charles-
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Nick Fearday of Charleston looks through family video for a $1 video after picking out the game Rage. Family Video members can rent a video game and get a dollar movie out of their collection.
ton’s Family Video, said he does not worry about his store having to compete with Booth Library’s free DVD rental policy or Netflix instant streaming capabilities. “We have a lot more current releases and we stock multiple copies of them,” Holman said. “Netflix and Redbox don’t always have all of those new releases.” Holman said Family Video tries to offer customer services that a computer or kiosk can not replicate. “We require our employees to watch movies,” Holman said. “This way, if someone comes in and wants a suggestion we can give it to them.”
Robin Murray, Eastern’s film studies minor coordinator, said the personal factor that store rentals offer does not appeal to her. “I haven’t found people at movie places very well versed,” she said. Murray said she uses Netflix because of its wide variety, but said that it is not her favorite way to experience a film. “I go to the theater for a lot of movies,” Murray said. “There’s something about watching a movie on a big screen.” Andrew Crivilare can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcrivilare@eiu.edu.
Incoming students have the opportunity to be awarded $2,500 from the Panther Promise Scholarship to help pay for Eastern’s cost of attendance. President Bill Perry said the Panther Promise Scholarship is a promise that the university will work with families to make their students able to come to Eastern. “We know that the decision to go to college is a big decision, and we know that the cost is a real consideration for most families,” Perry said. “What we found out by looking at the profiles of our students was that in certain income ranges, the federal estimate of the expected family contribution is a daunting number for a family.” Perry said the scholarship is another way the university is trying to address the affordability issue by helping families cope with the financial burden they have to bare in order for their students to attend Eastern. Brenda Major, the director of admissions, said the Panther Promise Scholarship is directed toward families with low-middle and middle class household income. The income range to be eligible for the Panther Promise Scholarship is $33,526 to $67,050. “The cost to attend Eastern can be
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O pinions You’re in college; go out and date, the Web can wait College is about more than lectures and textbooks. It’s about making deep connections and falling in and out of love. It’s about having the courage to walk up to someone, spit mad game and get brutally rejected. You will probably hook up with someone you’ll regret, but you might just meet the one you won’t forget. It’s part of college, and you would be wise to embrace it. Flirt for fun or date for love, either way, it builds character. However, a new online dating website aimed at college students may well undermine that experience. CollegejunkEE.com, a new online dating site, requires the user’s Facebook login and password to become a member. The website currently has 3,000 college students, including 120 Eastern students, The Daily Eastern News reported Tuesday. This means that 120 Eastern students may be isolating themselves from having a true social experience. We’re not holding it against anyone who uses online services to find someone. Chances are, we all know someone who didn’t meet the Craigslist Killer online and met a wonderful person using a dating site. Many of these people use the sites because they are too busy working (most likely to pay off their student debt) to get out and meet someone. That’s completely understandable. If you have been crashing get-togethers and breaking out of your comfort zone, that’s great. You can use online dating as another push. Don’t let it be your crutch. Meeting new people can be petrifying. Spilling drinks, telling stories about urination that you probably shouldn’t be sharing – this is a part of the human experience. It’s the human condition to crave social interaction. We’re talking face-toface time, people. This doesn’t mean writing on someone’s Facebook wall, “Lol, you’re so cute.” And besides, there are so many better ways to creep on someone. You are in college, for goodness’ sake. There will never be a time in life better than now to meet someone completely out of your circle of friends. Are you a business major? Meet an artist. An English major? Find someone who has abandoned this ancient language in favor text speak. Regardless of who you meet, meet someone. Get out of your dorm room and become a part of the college experience. If this means being rejected, having that awkward first run–in or just all out making a complete fool of yourself, it’s okay. So don’t wait for hits, go get hit on. Don’t wait for people to like you with a click, let them prove it with a smile. Don’t sit there requesting friends, go out and make them. Get out there, you hot, young thing, you.
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Abandoned by institutions, Americans take Wall Street “We the 99% will not be silent and we will not be intimidated.” Thus proclaims the homepage of a relatively new and rapidly growing protest movement, Occupy Wall Street. Since about the middle of September, there have been continuous protests in New York, over 700 people have been arrested and more continue to join the ranks every day. While they don’t yet have a concise mission statement, list of demands, or official leaders, the movement and its participants do have a clear enemy: corporations. The most that has been compiled from the Occupy Wall Street movement is a Declaration of the Occupation of New York City, which, reminiscent of our own Declaration of Independence, includes a list of grievances against the offending party. The list is not a short one, so here are just a few examples: They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility. They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce. They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil. They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media. Whether or not you agree with these views, it would be impossible to argue that major American corporations have not been involved in any of these issues, and that involvement with the sole purpose of profit is likely corrupt, and not benefit, the society these related institutions and policies are directed to serve. The
Mia Tapella group frequently calls itself “The 99 percent,” which refers to the 99 percent who are not the wealthiest (in dollars and overarching control of government) people in the US. With millions of Americans out of work and social aid programs perpetually on the chopping block, it’s unsurprising that people are frustrated. How could we not be, watching so many major American companies rake it in every quarter, all while receiving the fullest benefits of an unbalanced tax system. In an amazing BBC broadcast, one Wall Street trader (who will go unnamed due to his lack of a soul) said that traders “don’t really care how they’re going to fix the economy. We just try to make money from it. Personally, I’ve been dreaming of this moment for three years.” After all, as he awesomely continues, there are special strategies to making money from recessions (“recessions,” of course, being other people’s livelihoods) like hedging strategies, treasury bonds, that sort of stuff. Honestly, he assures us, it’s not just for “the elite,” anyone can do it. Not all of his words, however, were so flippant: “This economic crisis is like a cancer.
If you just wait and wait, thinking this thing is going to go away… it’s going to grow bigger and it’s going to be too late.” Obviously, based upon the speed with which the Occupy Wall Street movement is growing, people are already aware of his ominous drippings of wisdom, and it’s clear that these sentiments aren’t limited to the greater New York area. There have been Occupy Wall Street movements cropping up in front of major banks and corporations in cities like Chicago, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and, next Sunday, in Indianapolis. The only thing that could be holding this movement back is the lack of a clear goal, but that may not be the problem just yet. Perhaps this early in the game, in order to achieve real, widespread change, it’s of greater import to preserve the momentum this idea seems to be carrying. Sidney Tarrow, emeritus professor of government at Cornell University, told the Huffington Post that there has been very little support from the left, and I think that’s unfortunate. The fact that both parties have failed to lend support to this movement is further proof of the imbalance of power between the individual and the corporation in our government. However, professor Tarrow did offer some encouraging words: “If this movement is real, and if it’s powerful, it will create its own institutions.” Mia Tapella is a senior English and political science major. She can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com.
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Obama’s jobs bill will work, Congress should employ it President Obama has been flying all over the country for the past week singing the praises of the recently announced jobs bill, or as it’s officially known, the American Jobs Act. It costs around $447 billion, and the day after it was announced the White House released a budget explaining how they planned to pay for it. The jobs created are mostly what we’ve seen before: construction, teaching, farming and any other job the government can create on its own. Reactions have been predictable. The Republicans refuse to support it. Democrats are divided. Economists are divided. It’s not an ideal situation. It’s a short-term solution for a long-term problem and it reeks of political opportunism coming up in the year before an election. Congress should still pass it, and here’s why: There is no doubt that American infrastructure is in desperate need of attention. In 2009, the last year available, the American Society of Civil Engineers released their report card for America’s infrastructure and called the grades “embarrassing.” What is the price tag for fixing our infrastructure in the next five years? According to the ASCE, heart-attack-inducing $2.2 trillion. Obviously, no one’s going to spend that much within five years, and not everything is going get fixed with a half-trillion dollar budget. The White House says the jobs bill is aimed at creating 1.9 million new jobs in 2012, including nearly 400,000 new teaching jobs. Even if those numbers are inflated, it would go a long
Sarah Bigler way to getting some Americans back to work. In the short term, we need these jobs. We need people willing to pour concrete, build schools and fix levees. We complain about potholes and constant construction, and then enjoy the benefits when those problems are fixed without ever thinking about the jobs created while we’re temporarily inconvenienced. As for the long term, we don’t have those jobs yet. America will never be a manufacturing economy again. We excel in innovation and technology, it’s where our niche is and it’s where we grind the rest of the world to the dust. We need to focus on those areas, and on bringing our country further in terms of cleaner energy, environmental technology, solar and wind power, and computer and Internet technology. Those are where the future jobs lie, and they involve intense education and training. There should be an initiative to start that training early so that, by the time our current middle- and high-school students are ready to enter
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the working world after college, there are jobs waiting for them. There is another huge reason we need to pass this bill: there’s no other option being presented to us. The Republican presidential contenders are as lost as everyone else in the nation. The only idea we keep hearing from their camp is to cut corporate America’s taxes. Cutting corporations’ and wealthy Americans’ taxes won’t create jobs. It actually never has, and never will. Take South Dakota for example. The state has no corporate income taxes and ranks number one in the Tax Foundation’s Business Climate Index. Yet, according to CNN Money, even the governor has admitted the state has a tough time attracting big corporations to set up shop there. CNN Money also reports that, historically, lower corporate taxes not only don’t create more jobs, they also don’t raise wages for the workers they do have. Since 1989, productivity has far outrun wages by a margin of 63 percent to 12 percent. There are no perfect solutions in this economy. It’s an immensely complex issue, and nothing will be solved overnight. All we can do is look at what’s worked so far, what hasn’t, and make our best guess using logic and reason. Political partisanship has to be left at the door. Sarah Bigler is a senior political science major. She can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com.
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Persimmon Lane is a vintage and antique shop located on 510 6th Steet in the Charleston square. It offers a variety of products ranging from retro appliances to antique furniture and toys.
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Eastern students looking to satisfy both their wants and needs while being budget conscious can take advantage of the many antique and vintage stores Charleston has to offer. Elizabeth Marlow, a junior English major, said she frequents many of the antique and vintage stores located on Charleston’s downtown square, especially Spence’s on Jackson, to buy the unique items she may not find anywhere else. “I get mostly jewelry, but clothes too, especially dresses,” Marlow said. “I would usually choose a vintage store unless I’m looking for something specific.” Marlow said in addition to cloth-
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ing, she also likes to visit vintage stores to look for something that she may not find somewhere else. “I really like old and used things, things that have a history,” she said. “They’re attractive to me, and the price helps a lot.” Buska Cornwell, owner of Persimmon Lane, said she notices college students coming into her store more frequently, often with a specific purchase in mind. “I think they mainly come in
looking for a lot of retro items. Right now college kids seem to be into the 60s and 70s kind of vibe,” she said. Cornwell said she thinks that because price is such a primary concern for college students, they often opt for antique or vintage stores to get the items that express their personality, while still accommodating their budgets. “They’re kind of on the verge of being on their own, and they want to buy things that define who they are,” Cornwell said. “They want to decorate their apartments and dorm rooms, and they want something unique, not cookie cutter.” Marla Shoot, an employee at the Lincoln Book Shop, said many Eastern students come into their shop looking to buy vinyl records. “They like to sort through them
CONCERTS
Duo to perform classical concert By Lenny Arquilla Staff Reporter
An associate professor of English and a classically trained pianist, John David Moore, will be performing a concert with Elaine Fine, a violinist and teacher at Lake Land College. The Tarble Arts Center is sponsoring a two-event series titled “British Music from the Eve of the Great War 1904-1914” and “British Music Written during the Great War and Published 1915-1920” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Atrium of the Tarble Arts Center. The duo will perform works from after World War I and this will be the first concert of the two that will take place Oct. 6 and Nov. 17. Thursday’s event will showcase “Sonata” by York Bowen; “Mouvement de Sonate” and “Humoresque” by Frank Bridge; “Sospiri” by Sir Edward Elgar; “Sonata No.
1 in D Minor” by John Ireland; and “Elegy,” “Valse Triste,” and “Romance” by Cyril Scott. “The goal was to showcase classical music that many people may not be aware of that happened after World War I with the help of my friend (Elaine Fine),” Moore said. Fine is a graduate of The Julliard School of Music and the daughter of a principal violinist in the Boston Symphony. “She is more of a professional musician than I am,” Moore said. “I am also a teacher, so it is hard to focus on just one thing and put one over the other.” Fine served as the classical music director of Eastern’s WEIU-FM for 12 years and is currently the principal violinist of the Eastern Symphony Orchestra. “People have heard music from these people; I am sure they have,” Moore said. “They are just unaware of what they are hearing.”
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Sir Edward Elgar is most known for composing “Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1,” and “The Graduation March.” The second concert, “British Music Written during the Great War and Published 1915-1920” will feature music by Arnold Bax, Thomas Dunhill, John B. McEwen, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. This series of concerts is sponsored by the Eastern department of English and is presented with Moore’s senior seminar “Literature of the Great War 1914-1918 and After.” “I teach a British Literature class and (the concert) ties in well to my teachings,” Moore said. “It is nice when two things compliment each other and work well together.” Both concerts are free and open to the public. Lenny Arquilla can be reached at 581-2812 or lrarquilla@eiu.edu.
with no rhyme or reason of what they’re looking for,” she said. Shoot said many students also come into their shop looking for items to furnish their apartments. “Some buy lamps or dishes, and some will buy things just because they think they’re cute,” she said. “They like to have odds and ends.” Nancy Kuykendall, owner of Twice is Nice, said she has also seen an increase in college students looking to save money. She said they buy both clothing and decorative items at her store. “We get quite a few college students, and more and more all the time,” she said. “College students on a budget should definitely consider a resale shop. Anyone can be a thrift shopper.” Kuykendall said while her busi-
Pamprin also said by updating the codes, it will help keep Charleston homeowners’ insurance costs down by maintaining the city’s good ISO rating. The council also approved a resolution to execute engineering service contract with ESI Consulting, Ltd. for stairwell construction supervision. Inyart said this contract will allow structural engineers to oversee digging and framing of the stairwells located on the Downtown Square. He said he thought the measure was needed. “Those concrete stairwells against 100 year old buildings definitely need a little supervision there,” he said. The engineers’ contract is set to not exceed $1,500. The council also approved construction supervision, staking and project supervision with Consolidated Services for the rest of the project. The total cost of the contract for sidewalk work and street milling is set to not exceed $15,000. The council approved an ordinance to prohibit parking on the north side of Harrison Avenue.
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SPORTS
W E D N E S DAY, O C TO B E R 5, 2011
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Offensive explosion will keep coming By Jordan Pottorff Staff Reporter
The Panthers continued the good play this season as they recorded their first road win over the weekend. The Panthers put it all together and had everything clicking for the first time since the season opening win against Grand Valley. The Panthers are 4-0 and looking better than ever now that they have found their offensive groove. Eastern impressed over the weekend as it beat up on its in-state rival, Illinois, by a score of 91-7. It was the first time the Panthers have scored more than 50 points in a game this season, and they reached that milestone at halftime as they led 55-0 at the break. The scoring outburst was nice to see since consistency and timing has been the major problems that have plagued the Panthers this season. Eastern executed its set pieces to a tee as it scored the majority of its points off designed plays. The 91 points was the most points the Panthers have scored since they tallied 96 points against the Illini in last years match-up. Head coach Frank Graziano has preached the importance of timing and consistency, and after four games it appears that the Panthers are putting everything together. The Panthers had been in a scoring funk, but still managed to come out on top in every game so far this season. The Panthers are a young team and as they near the halfway point of the season the underclassmen are improving and understanding the general rug-
Jordan Pottorff by play. Although the timing is not perfect, the Panthers are improving on a week-to-week basis and steady progress is the key to a successful season. Although the Panthers have had substantial success against the Illini and seemingly blow them out every time they step on the field, I expect the offensive outburst to continue for the Panthers. I would like to think that Eastern has turned the corner and those 20 point offensive performances are a thing of the past. The Panthers remaining opponents have never beaten them, and I don’t see that trend changing this season. The Panthers will face University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Quinnipiac, Northern Iowa, Iowa State and Purdue to round out their season. None of those teams have held the Panthers under 30 points in any contest. The Panthers are finding their groove and a high scoring end to the season looks probable. If the Panthers can continue to improve and put up points on the scoreboard, a perfect season is falling in line. Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-7942 or jbpottorff@eiu.edu.
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Taldone stops 28 shots By Brad Kupiec Staff Reporter
Women’s soccer played twice this weekend, losing to Southeast Missouri and beating Tennessee-Martin by identical 1-0 scores, but the two games had several things in common beside the score. Both games featured a Panther opponent receiving a yellow card midway through the second half, with Southeast Missouri forward Jessie Crabtree being shown the yellow late in the 60th minute while Tennes-
see-Martin’s Midori Sera got it in the 66th minute of Sunday’s match. The lone goal in each match was scored after the issuing of the yellow card. Another parallel between the two matches was Panther red-shirt sophomore goalie Jessica Taldone making 14 saves in each match, for a total of 28 stops against one goal allowed, good for a 1-1 record between the pipes. Taldone now has a 0.33 goalsagainst average in her three conference match appearances. Conversely, the Panthers opposing goalies only made four stops on the
weekend and allowed one goal. This means the Panthers nailed five shots on goal throughout the weekend, compared to 29 for their opponents. The weekend leaves the Panthers at 3-1 in Ohio Valley Conference play, just one game behind first-place Southeast Missouri, who sits at 4-0. The Panthers will now have a weekend off as they return to action at Lakeside Field Oct. 14 and 16. Brad Kupiec can be reached at 581-7944 or bmkupiec@eiu.edu.
AGAIN, from page 8 The win continues the Redhawks’ perfect home record, bringing it to 4-0 so far this season. The Redhawks’ overall record to 7-11, with a 5-2 record in the OVC. First year Southeast Missouri head coach Julie Folliard notches her first ever win over Eastern as the Redhawks head coach. Folliard was previously an assistant coach at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale under former Eastern head coach
Brenda Winkler. The loss marks the second time this season Eastern has lost to Southeast Missouri, after previously falling on Sept. 16 in three straight sets. Eastern has been shutout in three sets a total of seven times this season. Since the month of September, the Panthers have won 14 out of 53 sets played. The loss brings Eastern’s road record to 1-5, with the team having sev-
en more road matches remaining on the 2011 schedule. The Panthers will continue their OVC road trip with a match against Tennessee-Martin at 1:30 on Friday. The team will then continue at Jacksonville State and Tennessee Tech on Oct. 14 and 15. The Panthers will not play at Lantz Arena again until Oct. 17 when they take on the University of Illinois-Chicago.
LOSING, from page 8 Taylor has the second most tackles on the team with 40, trailing behind fellow red-shirt senior linebacker Cory Leman, who has 51. Leman had six total tackles in the game against Southeast Missouri State. Charleston native notches first touchdown Red-shirt freshman wide receiver
Adam Drake, a Charleston native, recorded the first touchdown in his Panther career on Saturday. Drake caught a 22-yard pass from sophomore quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo with 1:04 remaining in the fourth quarter. Drake’s touchdown capped off a six play, 72yard drive to bring Eastern within seven points of the Redhawks. Drake has a total of four catches
for 61 yards this season. He averages 12.2 receiving yards per game. The Panthers will be back in action this Saturday for the Family Weekend match-up against Ohio Valley Conference opponent Eastern Kentucky. Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7944 or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.
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Right place, right time Heal leads undefeated team By Jordan Pottorff Staff Reporter
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Junior wing Kayla Heal completed a career-high six trys Saturday in Eastern’s 91-7 victory against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Saturday.
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Kayla Heal has been a major contributor for the Panthers so far this season, as she leads the team in trys and points scored. Heal has been a major source of energy for the Panthers as she seems to be a part of every big scoring play. Although Heal does the majority of the scoring for the Panthers, she is not one to take the credit. “I just play. I don’t really play for me,” said Heal. “I didn’t even know I had a record number of trys last weekend; I play based off of what my teammates do and what they present in front of me.” Heal said for her, it’s a matter of being in the right places at the right times. “The wing doesn’t do much, everything happens in the right places at the right time and the wing is just the last person and they go and get the job done,” she said. “All those girls are the ones doing all the hard work, I just finish it.” Heal had a big weekend in what could be seen as a season defining win down the road. Heal shouldered the offensive load and was single handedly responsible for getting the Panthers out of their scoring funk. Heal had a career day as she ran all over the Illini. Heal racked up three 20-yard runs in the route of the Illini, and she recorded the third most trys in a single game in program history.
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The Eastern football team dropped to a record of 1-4, following a 37-30 loss against Southeast Missouri. Special teams gets going Sophomore defensive back Tavares Crawford became the first Eastern player to return a kickoff since red-shirt senior Lorence Ricks returned one in the team’s 2009 game against Jacksonville State. Crawford took the kick back 83 yards for the score, returning kicks in place of the injured Ricks, who typically returns kicks. The Eastern special teams returned five kicks in the game for a total of 190 yards. Crawford currently leads the team in total return yards this season with 312 on a total of 10 returns. Ricks, who was injured in the team’s game against Tennessee Tech, has the second most with 307 yards on 12 returns. Crawford averages 31.2 yards per return, while Ricks is averaging 25.6 yards per return. Ricks has not played since leaving the Tennessee Tech game in week three.
Defense misses senior Red-shirt senior strong safety Nick Martinez was limited in last weekend’s loss. The Miami native was limited due to an injury, playing in only one series. Eastern defensive coordinator Roc Bellantoni said Martinez played for about one series in the game against the Redhawks, but was removed due to his lack of productivity. Martinez currently holds the teams only two interceptions, both of which came in the final two minutes of the Panthers’ season opener against Illinois State. Martinez currently has 11 solo tackles and four assisted tackles, totaling 15 tackles so far this season. Taylor steps up at linebacker Red-shirt sophomore linebacker Antonio Taylor was one of two players to led the team in tackles against the Redhawks. Taylor had nine total tackles, three of which were solo and the other six were assists. Red-shirt sophomore defensive back Alex McNulty also had nine total tackles, with five being solo and four being assists. LOSING, page 7
Kayla Heal recorded the thirdmost trys in a single game in Eastern’s rugby program’s history, in the team’s win over the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign on Saturday.
“I did a lot of running and after they noticed I was getting around them they started lining up bigger girls on me,” Heal said. “We have been real focused on improving and we were really focused against the Illini,” Heal said. “Everyone was doing good and the last two weeks of practice pulled through for this weekend.” Heal also dished out two assists to go a long with the six trys. Heal led all players with 30 points scored on Saturday afternoon. A long with holding big expectations for herself, Heal also has hefty expectations for the team this season. The Panthers are off to a 4-0 start and are poised for big things this season. “I think this season has been really good. The first game we had was intense and we were focused and driven,” Heal said. “The second and third game was uncharacteristic for us, but now that we have our focus back I think we can continue to turn in good games this season.” Kayla Heal and the Panthers will be back in action this weekend when they hit the road to take on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers. Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-7942 or jbpottorff@eiu.edu.
Team loses to OVC again
Losing streak continues By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor
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Junior outside hitter Emily Franklin sets up to serve the ball Saturday in a game against Morehead State in the fieldhouse of Lantz Arena.
The Eastern volleyball team lost on the road to Ohio Valley Conference opponent Southeast Missouri in four sets Tuesday night. The Panthers lost the first two sets by scores of 25-9 and 25-19, but rebounded in the third set to win 25-21. In the fourth and final set, the Panthers fell by ten, losing 25-15. The nine points the team scored in the opening set of the match was the lowest the team has scored all year. The loss drops the Panthers’ record to 4-14 overall with a 2-6 record in the OVC. This brings the Panthers’ losing streak to four games, having previously lost to the Tennessee State, Eastern Kentucky and Morehead State. The team’s longest losing streak so far this season stretched for five matches. Junior outside hitter Emily Franklin led the team with 15 kills, while sophomore outside hitter Reynae Hutchison followed with 13. Franklin also led the team in overall points with 15.5, while Hutchison led the team in digs with 12. The leader in kills for the Redhawks was split between two players, Emily Coon and Karlee Lursen, who each had 14 kills. Julie Shives had the most assists on the team with 45 total for the match. Paige Dossey led the Redhawks’ in digs with 16. AGAIN, page 7