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Faculty Senate approves voting By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor | @cjbuchman A vote on the faculty’s confidence in Blair Lord, the vice president of academic affairs, will go forward following a petition started by faculty members. Faculty Senate is not sponsoring the vote of confidence or no confidence and are not telling faculty how to vote in either direction. According to their constitution, 20 percent or more of the faculty who are able to vote in faculty elections can petition the senate to hold a referendum on a question. The senate needs to hold the vote four weeks after it is brought up and the authors of the petition need to present the petition and explain the intended purpose of the referendum. Physics professor James Conwell and philosophy professor Gary Aylesworth spoke about the petition at the senate meeting Tuesday. Conwell said after he left the senate, several people approached him saying they needed to have an opinion on faculty governance and transparency. “Many times Old Main is not going to ask us this opinion, so I think we should give it to them whether they want to hear this opinion or not,” Conwell said. Conwell said this opinion was essentially on whether or not Lord has done a good job over the last 12 years and if they think he will do a good job in the future given the present circumstances. “I’m of the opinion that there are many shortcomings as far as transparency, governance, his choice of deans, essentially administration of the admissions department,” Conwell said. Conwell said when he asked how Lord allocated resources to his deans, he was not able to get a straightforward answer. “If faculty governance is to be true, we must have a person who will shed light on how they make their decisions, what their values are,” Conwell said. Aylesworth said he has seen support for doing this building. “I thought it was important to stress the petition is not a vote,” Aylesworth said. “It’s just calling for a vote.” What persuaded Aylesworth was talking to colleagues who are in what he calls the most vulnerable positions and seeing the difficulty they were in. “They were put in a very bad situation and they felt that they had no say in it, no way to participate in the process,” Aylesworth said. “I don’t want to see any of my colleagues in that situation where they’re vulnerable, they’re under threat and they have no say. This is giving people a say.” Jemmie Robertson, the Faculty Senate chair, offered the idea of having the vote in the first week of November during special elections in the fall. SENATE, page 6
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City council votes on Funfest permanent bar hours to replace concert By Mackenzie Freund City Editor | @mgfreund_news
Charleston bars are officially allowed to stay open until 2 a.m. after the Charleston City Council voted to amend the ordinance at their meeting Tuesday. The ordinance was made permanent after Charleston Mayor Brandon Combs and Charleston city attorney Rachael Cunningham met with the holders of the liquor license. “I had a meeting with all of the liquor license holders, and at that meeting there were no complaints either,” Combs said. Combs said he had not heard any complaints about the later bar closing time from police officers or firefighters. The council temporarily passed the ordinance for the later bar closure times to see if it would help cut down on the number of parties. The amendment to the ordinance originally went through a six-month trial run and was set to expire on Aug. 1 and was extended to Oct. 1. The council also voted to pass the request for certain street closures for two different events
happening on Dec. 5. The requested street closure for Eastern’s fourth annual “Holiday Hustle” includes the area around Eastern’s campus. The route runners will begin at Old Main and run around the entire campus, including the area around University Court and a part of the neighborhood just south of Roosevelt Drive. Runners will also run the Panther Trail and head back to the finish line at Old Main. “The streets will not actually be closed to parking and traffic,” Combs said. Volunteers will be placed with stop signs at certain busy intersections to help people cross. The other street closure request that was approved was for the annual “Christmas in the Heart of Charleston” also on Dec. 5. The streets that were requested for closure are Monroe Avenue from Sixth to Seventh Streets, Sixth Street from Monroe to Van Buren avenues, Jackson Avenue from Fifth to Eighth streets, Van Buren Avenue from Sixth to Seventh streets, and Seventh Street from Van Buren to Madison avenues. HOURS, page 6
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“Family Funfest,” a family version of UB’s “Up All Night,” will be the replacement for the concert. Three Dog Night, which was scheduled to be the Family Weekend concert, was canceled Friday because of health concerns with the band. Ceci Brinker, the director of student life, said the event would be free for students and their families. “We’ve just spent the last couple of days just lining up some live entertainment, some interactive entertainment,” Brinker said. “We’re just going to kind of just showcase stuff throughout the Union for three hours.” Brinker said there are three major activities going on during the event on Saturday, including an interactive game show, a ventriloquist comedian, and a hypnotist. “Family Funfest” is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.
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Student Senate talks attendance, incentives By Analicia Haynes Staff Reporter | @DEN_news Student Senate committee chairs created a plan Tuesday night at the Council of Chairs meeting. The plan addresses changes in bylaws that will be brought up at this Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting. Maralea Negron, speaker of the senate, will suggest a bylaw revision about senator attendance at future student senate meetings. Negron and the committee chairs agreed that senators will be allowed three unexcused absences and four excused absences for the semester, both for student senate meetings and committee meetings. The committee chairs also agreed to document attendance at committee meetings, but also to leave it up to the discretion of the committee chair
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ate work should be recognized, but she said that incentives and rewards should not be the main focus of student government. “Student government in itself offers a lot on it’s own, so it’s sad to me that people are looking for more things to get out of it other than the leadership skills that you get and the opportunities that you get like scholarships,” Negron said. “We’re here for the student body.” Small things, like potentially providing senators with student government polos and name tags, gift cards to the Union Bookstore and picking Senator Stars of the Month may be on the table, Negron said. However, incentives such as staff parking for senate members, which was proposed two weeks ago, are unrealistic and will not happen, Negron said. “There wasn’t enough research put into it this incentive, and because park-
ing was expanded for faculty parking, there is no way they will let students park (in preferred spots),” Negron said. Negron also pointed out the potential clash between students and student government. “Student government is here for the students, but if they’re getting parking spots, then what is the student body getting?” Negron said. As of right now, student senate has not done anything huge, and the committees have not completed their first project for the semester, Negron said. Though it takes a lot of planning for an event, when it happens senators will see their work pay off, Negron said. “The whole point of student senate is for us to do more things for people,” Lambert said. Analicia Haynes can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu
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The Health Education Resource Center will be giving a presentation on healthy sleeping habits for students dailyeasternnews from at 6 p.m. in the Greenup Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Universi@DEN_News ty Union. The presentation, titled “Snoozin’ Visit our website: dailyeasternnews.com Like A Panther,” will teach students About some of the benefits that come with deThe Daily Eastern News is produced by the students of Eastern Illinois University. It is published daily Monveloping better sleeping habits. day through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., during fall and Brittany Floyd, the health promotion spring semesters and twice weekly during the sumcoordinator graduate assistant, is facilitatmer term except during university vacations or examinations. One copy per day is free to students and faculing the presentation, and said it is a proty. Additional copies can be obtained for 50 cents each gram discussing sleep hygiene and sleepin the Student Publications Office in Buzzard Hall.aaaa ing environment. The Daily Eastern News
whether the tardiness or absence should be documented depending on circumstances. Negron said that there needs to be accountability at the committee meetings and attendance rules should be enforced. Ariannah Lambert, committee chair for university enhancement, also said that since the committee meetings are so small, members rely on each other to complete important tasks for a given week. Even when there is no pressing business, members rely on each other for feedback. The senate chairs agreed to hold a senator accountable if that senator is late to a meeting. Student Senate will also talk about incentives to keep senators on student government as well as for rewarding senators for their work. Negron agrees that Student Sen-
“It’s a paid program that discusses sleep hygiene and creating a healthy sleep environment in order to enhance the quality and quantity of sleep,” Floyd said. Floyd said students should be interested in attending the presentation because of the information that will be discussed and how they can apply those lessons to their normal sleep routines. “It goes over a lot of good information that they need to know in order to get better sleep each night,” Floyd said. “A lot of the situations that are discussed are real situations that college students face, so everything is very realistic.” Floyd said the presentation would also cover healthy sleep habits for students and how beneficial a full night’s sleep can
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be for students. “We talk about the benefits of getting more and better sleep, like how it affects your grades,” Floyd said. “Basically how it affects your mood and how it affects every aspect of your life.” Since midterms are coming up, the HERC also tries to schedule these kind of events to help students prepare for testing. “We’re having an event next week called “Don’t Stress! Ace That Test,” Floyd said. "We will be covering sleep, stress and nutrition, and we have that during midterm week and also the week before finals.” Floyd also said this will be the second open session for this presentation. “A lot of teachers or instructors or pro-
fessors offer extra credit (for students),” Floyd said. “Last time I think we had around 15 (students), which is decent.” Floyd also said she would like to see more students attend because the presentation can be very useful, but since it takes place at night, students might already busy and cannot make the presentation. “There’s usually a pretty good turnout, especially once teachers are offering extra credit,” Floyd said. “The more we get word about it, the more likely we’ll get a better turn out.” Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu
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Chicago dance company to experiment with power By Luis Martinez Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News Chicago-based dance group The Seldoms will be bringing their dance moves to the Doudna Fine Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The title of their performance is “Power Goes,” which describes the new theme of the group’s latest work. Daniel Crews, the director of patron services at Doudna, said this is the first time The Seldoms will perform at Eastern. However, this is not the first time a dance group from Chi-
cago has come to the university. “Over the past eight years, we have had several dance ensembles from Chicago perform at the Doudna Fine Arts Center,” Crews said. Some of the other more well-known dance groups that have performed at Doudna include: Thodos Dance Chicago and the Zepher Dance Ensemble. Carrie Hanson, the group’s choreographer, worked together with playwright Stuart Flack to create a performance to capture the essence of power and how it is used. Hanson used the presidency of Lyn-
don B. Johnson as a lens to look at the use of power broadly, according to the performance’s press release. During the 1960s, Johnson was said to truly want power during his term as president. This display not only helped his political career, but aided in pushing legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Medicare Bill. “It isn’t a dance presentation about (Lyndon B. Johnson)’s presidency,” Crews said. “It’s using his presidency as a metaphor in a contemporary dance piece.”
“Power Goes” is a performance for anyone who enjoys the art form of dance and the athleticism of modern dance, and it even appeals to people who appreciate history, according to the press release. Before the group’s performance, there will be a pre-show presentation by Michael Kramer, a visiting history professor from Northwestern University and the dramaturge for the dance group. Kramer will be leading the presentation, “How To Get Power: The Seldoms Dance with LBJ,” at 6:30 p.m.
in the Doudna Lecture. “Power Goes” was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with funding from both the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Tickets for “Power Goes’” are $15 for general audience members, $12 for seniors and $7 for students. Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.
‘Sex and Booze’ presentation to cover student safety By Adrian Bolaji Staff Reporter | @DEN_news Though Brittany Floyd, the health promotion coordinator at the Health Education Resource Center, will be giving a presentation on sensitive topics, she does not feel awkward doing so. “I don’t feel awkward giving presentations; although we may cover some sensitive topics, giving these presentations is a great opportuni-
ty to start the conversation about so many great health-related topics,” Floyd said. Floyd and Melany Zwilling, a graduate assistant and sexual health education coordinator for the HERC, will be discussing sex and alcohol at the Sex and Booze presentation 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Physical Science Building. At the Sex and Booze presentation, abstinence, consent, protection, the physiological and expectan-
cy effects of alcohol, the relationship between sex and alcohol, and how alcohol is portrayed in the media will be discussed. Floyd said she wants students to gain a higher, more thorough understanding of their sexual health and consent and to understand the difference between expectance effects and physiological effects of alcohol. Floyd said she encourages students to stop by and see what they have to offer.
“We can be beneficial to every single student in some way or another,” Floyd said. Floyd said students might be faced with some of these issues at some point in their college careers. “The information we provide students with will enable them to make more educated and healthier decisions,” Floyd said. The presentation is free of cost and open to all students, staff and faculty.
“We are students ourselves and have been in their shoes, so that helps us relate to the students,” Floyd said. “Our presentations are interactive and we encourage participation from the students. We also want to make sure we cover everything thoroughly and answer any questions a student may have.” Adrian Bolaji can reached at 581-2812 or aabolaji@eiu.edu.
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Student Senate needs to act Student Senate: If you need an incentive to do your job you need to be fired. If you are not passionate about what you are doing, quit and move on… what has Student Government done as a registered student organization to deserve staff parking? You are meant to be the voice of the campus, not an organization built to cater to personal whims. Student Senate is beginning to reflect the government of Illinois: slow, selfish and indecisive on things that matter to its constituents. Remember us—the 8,520 students you serve. While it is good to recognize a proper job done, the senators ultimately joined to, in some way, shape the student body. If the senators joined the senate looking to get anything more than experience, leadership opportunities and scholarships, politely allow the door to hit you on the way out. If a senator misses a meeting there should be ramifications and it should be counted as unexcused immediately. A professional senator would never get away with missing a meeting without consequences and if Student Senate’s wish is to be taken seriously like professionals then they need to act as such. Furthermore, all meetings and attendances should be well documented, as well as tardiness. In the real world, this is done meticulously; councils and senates have something called quorum, which means half of the members need to attend in order to have a full meeting. If quorum is not met, there legally cannot be a meeting and no official actions may be taken. If any of the senators wish to actually pursue a professional career in government, understand you all must, and will, be held accountable for such lack of actions and selfish incentives. The Student Senate Speaker has the right approach to how things should be done and her words should not fall upon deaf ears. If the senators’ own speaker has admitted to nothing significant being accomplished as well as uncompleted committees and projects, what gives the senators the right to ask for an incentive and reward? Nothing “huge” has been done and we are approaching midterm. Even though they are in the process of planning a midterm project, why does it have to take until midterms to plan an event? When did the senate become for themselves instead of for the students? There is a difference between having and presenting an idea and actually deploying that idea. However, the senate is only as strong as its weakest members and until the organization can fight for the entire student body working to better our campus, I vote no confidence overall in Student Senate. Roberto Hodge is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or rlhodge@eiu.edu.
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Glassman makes difference Perry could not In the words of the great LeBron James, “It’s about damn time.” It really is. We can finally say Eastern has a president who is devoting himself to the university’s wellbeing and not just playing the part of the campus grandpa. We all know how loved former president Bill Perry was, and he was surely a good person, just not a good president. President David Glassman came to campus this summer and has since been footing the bill left by Perry. It is as if Perry built a zoo and decided to leave the year before all the feces compromised the structural integrity of the surrounding walls. Eastern now has more than a president in Glassman. We have a leader. We have someone who is not afraid to hold others accountable for their actions. Glassman has made tougher decisions to help Eastern in the time it took him to open the door to his office for the first time than
Perry did in eight years. Glassman quickly became the face of layoffs happening this year, but it is something being done in an effort to keep the university operating. Perry left Glassman a budget deficit of $13 million during an already tough time for Eastern, not to mention the budget impasse Springfield is causing. The State Senate Higher Education Committee chaired by Sen. Pat McGuire held a budget hearing in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, and Glassman let the committee know what is up. He told the state senators how badly we need the state’s budget impasse to be resolved as quickly as possible. Glassman estimates the doomsday date for Eastern to be sometime next semester. If our state government does not do its job, Eastern could shut down the semester some of us are supposed to graduate. Why is this even a thing? People making
more money than probably most people you know are failing to do their job and jeopardizing what is probably the biggest thing a lot of us are trying to accomplish this year. Eastern is a state funded school and right now the state is weakening your education, weakening your future and diminishing the value of your diploma. Most of us came to school with an understanding there is a sort of commitment from the state. Glassman stuck his neck out for you. “Our quality of students is strong and will remain strong,” he said. “The state needs to honor that commitment to those students.” Gov. Bruce Rauner needs to get something done. Glassman is doing his job. We are doing our jobs. Now it is time for the state to do its job. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
Our private lives are not private anymore Why is it that people in today’s world are so interested in not having an actual private life? I have heard so many people talking about how they post “literally everything” on some form of social media. I understand that some things are fun to share. In fact, I sometimes quote things that happen in the newsroom on Facebook or Twitter. I think that some people are too concerned with what people think about them, or they have this idea that everybody in interested in every single detail of their lives. What gets me is that there really is no such thing as a private life anymore. Why does it matter if I start dating someone and do not immediately put in on Facebook? Where did this idea of “Facebook official” even come from? Being a college student and seeing how much everybody cares about broadcasting themselves makes me honestly wonder why we think we need people to care. I could not honestly care less if people know my private life because that is just what it is. It is my private life. I see people post every single second
Mackenzie Freund on Facebook and Twitter and most of it is pointless. I personally do not care what you had for breakfast, or what animal you saw on your way to work, unless it is a unicorn. I might care then. But really, why is it that we need to have all of our lives out in the open? I would not want people to know every single detail because there is no point. I do not think most of the people I am “friends” with on Facebook or my Twitter followers actually pay attention to what I tweet. When people post all of their lives, I start to wonder if they think they need the attention they are seeking through their constant social media posts.
I have also noticed that some people rely on the likes they have on the things they share on their social media accounts. My grandmother and I have had numerous conversations about this, and the point we have come to is valid: most people in our generation think something is wrong with them if they do not have a popular point. I personally do not care if 100 people do not like something I post. I still have not figured out why we let social media control our entire lives. My main point with this is that it does not matter how many posts we have or how popular we need to be with the people we think care on social media. Why can we not keep our private lives just that? Why do we have this need to not have anything be private or personal? Why have we let social media take everything about us and push it out to the public? I think we would be a lot happier if we all just stopped letting these outside sources control everything we do. I think we will be a happier generation if we kept our lives private. Mackenzie Freund is a junior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or mgfreund@eiu.edu.
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Pride to show documentary on politician By T’Nerra Butler Multicultural Editor | @DEN_News The documentary “Milk,” which is based on Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office, will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Room 2120 of the Physical Science Building. Titled “Harvey Milk and Cookies,” the film and discussion is part of LGBT History Month to educate the campus on the political figure. Jo Stauder, the president of Pride, said Harvey Milk is influential in the LGBT community. They said Harvey Milk was on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and it is important to talk about those figures in the LBGT community to add representation. Lauren Eberle, a social co-chair of Pride, said it is good to show the movie because many of the Pride members are not familiar with the film, so other students might not be aware of it as well. She also said the new term ‘gender and sexual minority’ is something Pride wants to push. “ We have all these historical GSM figures, and not many people know much about them including us, and we should remedy that,” Eberle said. Stauder said gender and sexual minorities make up a relatively large part of the population that is underrepresented in the government. They said if a high figure in government is in the LGBT community, the issues concerning GSMidentified people would be talked about. “It can be validating some people as well if there’s someone in a political position that is the same as them, it makes them say ‘Oh, they accomplished this and they’re just like me,” Eberle said. Eberle said gender and sexual minority issues have been in the open since marriage equality became legal; she said there are still miscon-
“We talk about the civil rights movement and the suffrage movement, but we really don’t talk about the LGBT rights movement, which is still going on, so we need to talk about it.” - Jo Stauder, Pride president
ceptions about LGBT history and people do not always know. Often the misconceptions are seen as truth and the facts are being cut out by some of history, Eberle said. “We talk about the civil rights movement and the suffrage movement, but we really don’t talk about the LGBT rights movement, which is still going on, so we need to talk about it,” Stauder said. Stauder said if people come into the screening with a preconception of what the movie is going to be about, they will not take much from the story. They said if students come in with an open mind, their knowledge on the community will increase. “When you think you know everything, you’re less inclined to listen,” Eberle said. “I find all the time that I’m learning new areas in the GSM that I didn’t know before so it’s important to know that you’re always learning, you’re never done.” T’Nerra Butler can be reached at 581-2812 or tabutler@eiu.edu.
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Charleston library to allow children to feel reading force By Mackenzie Freund City Editor | @mgfreund_news The Charleston library will be hosting their annual “Star Wars Reads” Day at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Rotary Rooms A and B. Beth Lugar, the youth services manager at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library, said this year is going to be different from previous years. “It’s universal appeal for girls and boys, adults and kids,” Lugar said. The theme for this year’s Star Wars day is “The Science of Star Wars,” and families are invited to come and engage children in reading. During the event, children will be able to make Luke Skywalker’s robotic hand out of straw, paper and string, make a slimy nebula and be placed into a scene from Star Wars. Lugar said there will also be a
Jedi training area and kids will be able to create their own Cloud City. “(The kids) will put ivory soap in the microwave and then just mess around with it,” Lugar said. The children will be able to be placed in a scene with characters Ray and BB-8 after they take their picture in front of a green screen. They will also be able to test their Star Wars knowledge and see how many characters they can name from the first six movies. “One of our Eastern student volunteers, Daniel Curtis, has a hovercraft,” Lugar said. “The kids will get to see a real live hover craft.” Lugar said there would be a raffle that will be called out every 15 minutes with different prizes, including Star Wars plush toys and a Millennium Falcon necklace. The children will also be able to take a photo with the cardboard cutouts of some of the char-
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Kadie Peterson, a senior family and consumer sciences major, brings her hedgehog Daisey to campus on Tuesday. "I only bring her out on nice days so she can soak up some sun," Peterson said. Lauren Eberle, a sophomore sociology major, stopped by the Doudna steps and saw the hedgehog then asked to pet her.
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acters and posters that are hanging around the rotary rooms. Lugar said the events are aimed at kids to keep them engaged and let them have fun. “There’s really nothing you can do that doesn’t involve reading as far as careers,” Lugar said. “If we keep on them while they’re young enough, by the time they’re in college, if they have a really low reading level, it’s very difficult to catch up.” Lugar said all of the programs the library provides are free and that people do not need a library card to attend. “You don’t even need to live in town, so anybody can do it,” Lugar said. “We try to offer programs that the community will respond to.” Mackenzie Freund can be reached at 581-2812 or at mgfreund@eiu.edu.
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Philosophy professor Grant Sterling said it was important to have a large voting turnout. “Faculty senate definitely does not have to take a stand on whether faculty members should vote confidence or no confidence,” Sterling said. Although they could debate the issue, they have not done so. Debate has not been suggested. “I do think Faculty Senate should do everything they can to try to see to it that the turnout to the vote is high as possible,” Sterling said. “The worst thing that could happen is faculty send the results to the president, but only 30 percent of the faculty have
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Nitt said. Ba i l e y Yo u n g , a h i s t o ry professor, said he did not think it is a bad time for the initiative. “Here is an opportunity for the faculty and staff of this institution to stand up and show support for students at a time when they particularly need something,” Young said. “Because we’re being let down by the politicians.” Student Body President Shirmeen Ahmad also came to the meeting and talked about senate participation in the It’s On Us Campaign. The It’s On Us Campaign is a nationwide campaign about sexual assault making sure college campuses are pro-
active with the issue. Ahmad brought up the ideas of making videos with faculty, administration, and staff and putting together a committee. “When people see you guys are in this video, it shows our faculty is also committed to this campaign and this issue,” Ahmad said. Ahmad said a faculty member could come to the committee with ideas and things they have seen, hear the other committee member’s ideas, and bring them back.
ing to the memorandum sub- handle debt,” Combs said. Other approved items on mitted by Steve Pamperin, the the agenda were the updated city planner. The city will use the prop- 2015 Emergency Operations erty to construct a walking, Plan, an intergovernmental hiking and bike path that will agreement to use ambulance connect to the existing city billing software and procehiking trails as well as Sister dures with the Kansas Fire Protection District and a resoluCity Park. The council also approved tion supporting a whole comthe adoption of the new debt munity approach to emergenpolicy, which will help estab- cy management. “We have FEMA, but we lish objectives and practices for debt management for the city recognize that there is more and assist all concerned parties that can be done locally,” in understanding the city’s ap- Combs said. “It helps us to beproach to debt management, come a ready to respond community and it shows that the according to the resolution. The current rating for the city of Charleston is ready in Thepolicy New York Syndication case anySales disastersCorporation happen.” debt has anTimes AA minus 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 Luke Young, a sophomore rating, which is a high rating. FortoInformation Call:finance 1-800-972-3550 major, said he was rep“We want be able to keep For Release Wednesday, October 7, 2015 student government it so we can review how to resenting
and shared some ideas that student government is planning. “One of the big projects we’re working on is going local into the schools and getting Eastern’s name out to the local kids,” Young said. Young said they want to bring Eastern into a brighter light and try and give people a new perspective on Eastern. Young said student government would like to build a relationship with the Charleston Police Department and is also trying to plan a basketball tournament between Eastern students and CPD.
voted.” The senate received an email in support of Lord and expressing sadness at the proposed no-confidence vote on the senate agenda. The senate also voted to approve to give political science professor Andrew McNitt access to the email listser v to ask faculty about Commitment to Excellence Scholarships. McNitt said he wants to send people an email explaining why he is asking for money from them and tell them about progress towards fulfilling his goals. “I realize this is not a good time, but it is never a good time in recent memory,” Mc-
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Eastern men’s soccer team drops 5th-straight game By Maher Kawash Staff Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern men’s soccer team dropped to 2-7 on the season as they lost their fifth-straight game Tuesday in a 3-0 loss to Missouri State. “In my opinion, Missouri State was the best team we played all year, and they showed that they were better than us (Tuesday),” sophomore forward Justin Oliver said. The Panthers could not find much success against Missouri State as they gave up an early goal in the 23rd minute and were unable to bounce back as they later gave up goals in the 57th and 73rd minutes of the game. “MSU was the most organized team we’ve played all year, and they were very solid defensively,” senior captain Kyle Callender said. “We played OK but not well enough to get the result.” The struggle to score goals has been a trending issue for the team as they have only been able to score three goals over the past five games while allowing 16 goals from their opponents.
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of some close games as well as some blowouts. “We’ve played some quality opponents, and things just aren’t click-
ing in front of the goal,” sophomore goalkeeper Mike Novotny said. “We just need to get back to training and work on that finishing product, then
victory on Saturday. Liberty senior quarterback Josh Woodrum continued his solid season, completing 25-of-32 passes for 239 yards, but all the Flames’ touchdowns came on the ground. Red-shirt senior running back Desmond Rice scored three touchdowns for the Flames, and rushed for 87 yards on 22 carries. Georgia State allowed a total of five rushing touchdowns for the game.
However, they were able to counter the Flames offense with a great passing attack. Senior quarterback Nick Arbuckle completed 18-of-29 passes for 394 yards and three touchdowns but threw an interception in the final moments of the game.
we’ll be in good shape.” With that being said, the Panthers are still confident in their play, and believe that they are close to turning things around. “Despite the losing streak, we are confident because we are going to continue to build and grow each game despite the losses,” senior midfielder Nick Smith said. “We are very optimistic for our upcoming conference game.” With this loss the team drops to 2-6 in non-conference play, but they still believe they are trending upward in conference play because of the high competition they have gone up against recently. “All these tough games are preparing us for our conference games as we have developed our attacking and defending principles,” Smith said. “We are going to continue to play our style of soccer and continue to get better and better at it.” The Panthers will head to Fort Wayne, Ind. to take on conference opponent IPFW on Saturday. Maher Kawash can be reached at 581-2812 or mwkawash@eiu.edu.
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Northern Iowa was kept out of the end zone in the second half, but it had its chances. A pair of potential touchdowns were dropped, forcing senior kicker Michael Schmadeke to give the Panthers points. His field goals of 25 and 35 yards resulted in the final score of 21-13. Sophomore defensive backs Alec Kocour and Davontae Harris led the Illinois State defense with 11 and 10 tackles, respectively.
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The game marked the Missouri Valley Conference opener for both teams. Northern Iowa dropped to No. 10 in Monday’s rankings. North Dakota State beat South Dakota State, 28-7, in the other battle of top 10 teams in the FCS. Flames light Georgia State A balanced offensive attack by FCS member Liberty left the FBS’s Georgia State without answers, as the Flames left Atlanta with a 41-33
Columbia holds workouts on campus quad The Columbia football program announced that Friday’s walk-
throughs will now be held on a lawn on the school’s Manhattan campus. Head coach Al Bagnoli thought that the location would be better for the team because it is closer than the training facility. He also wanted the team to have a better connection with the students. The Lions will host Wagner at 5 p.m. Saturday. Blake Nash can be reached at 581-2812 or banash@eiu.edu.
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Eastern volleyball team 2nd in conference standings By Sean Hastings Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports After a 3-1 start to Ohio Valley Conference play, the Eastern volleyball team is in second place in the OVC standings. Eastern has been dominating in the kill game this season, having five players with over 100 kills. Sophomore Allie Hueston leads the team with 164. The Panthers are all also getting involved in getting digs, but that category is mostly dominated by senior libero Stephanie Wallace. Senior setter Marah Bradbury has 538 assists on the year, over 300 more than freshman Taylor Smith, who has the second most with 219. Murray State is leading the conference with a perfect 3-0 record. Murray State will take on Austin Peay Wednesday. The Racers have won all three matches without losing a single set. Murray State defeated Southeast Missouri to start the season, then won in straight sets against Tennessee-Martin and Eastern Kentucky a few days later. Murray State is 13-1 overall this season. Junior Scottie Ingram leads the Racers with 167 kills this season. Unlike Eastern, Murray State has many players getting digs and is not dominated by one player. Belmont is tied for second with Eastern with a 3-1 record. Belmont has defeated Eastern Kentucky, Morehead State, and Eastern, but lost to Tennessee State. Belmont has been strong all around except in their blocking game. Their opponents are out-blocking them in all blocking categories. Opponents have 36 more assisted blocks and 19 more solo blocks than the Bruins. Jacksonville State is 2-2 and in fourth place. After losing to Southern Illi-
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nois-Edwardsville and Eastern, the Gamecocks have won two straight against Tennessee Tech and Tennessee-Martin. Senior Emily Rutherford has
dominated the kill game earning 228 kills this season. Rutherford is also in second for digs with 206, 79 behind the leader. Tennessee State is also tied for
fourth place with a 2-2 record. Just like Jacksonville State, Tennessee State lost their first two matches and then won two in a row. TSU was defeated by Morehead
State and Eastern Kentucky. They beat Belmont and SIUE. Junior Chloe Watson leads the Tigers with 218 kills. Tennessee-Martin, Morehead State, Tennessee Tech and Eastern Kentucky all have 2-2 records as well. Just like the Panthers, Tennessee-Martin likes to share the ball on kills. They have five players who also have over 100 kills on the year. Sophomore Lael Ceriani leads that category with 190 kills. Morehead State spreads the ball out a little for kills but it mostly is coming back to freshman Merideth Jewell to kill it home. Jewell leads the conference with 305 kills, 282 of those coming in conference play. Tennessee Tech also has mostly one target in senior Cody Dodd. Dodd has 252 of the team’s 696 kills. The rest of the kills are spread out among six players with only one having over 100. Eastern Kentucky has played two of the top teams in Murray State and Belmont and lost both matches. They were able to come away with wins against Tennessee State and Morehead State. Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and Austin Peay have all had rough starts to the season. Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville are both 1-3 and Austin Peay has yet to win a match. For Austin Peay, that win may have to wait as they are taking on Murray State Wednesday night. It is early in the season, but winning early can be crucial for some teams to make runs at hosting the OVC tournament at the end of the year. Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
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McInerney earns OVC Co-Male Top-ranked Redbirds defeat Northern Iowa Runner of the Week award 2 Eastern cross country runners earn OVC honors By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN Eastern junior cross country runner Riley McInerney was named Ohio Valley Conference Co-Male Runner of the Week after his third place performance at the Notre Dame invitational over the weekend in South Bend, Ind. This is the second time this season that McInerney has earned such an honor. With his time of 24 minutes and 40.7 seconds, he helped Eastern turn in its best performance at the Notre Dame invite since the 1970s. McInerney’s time was a lifetime best, which ranks as the fifth best time in the OVC this season. He finished 10 seconds behind the race winner and less than a second out of second place. This was the third time this season that McInerney has placed in the top three in a race.
On Fr i d a y Sept. 11, McInerney placed second out of 82 runners at the Illinois State invitational, which earned him his other Runner o f t h e We e k Riley McInerney award. He covered an 8k course in a time of 24:41.7, which placed him just three seconds behind the race winner from Illinois State. At that time, his time was the 22nd-fastest in school history. Erick Rotich was the other part of the Runner of the Week award. The freshman from Eastern Kentucky finished 15th out of 213 competitors in the top-level blue race at the Greater Louisville Classic on Saturday at the E.P. “Tom” Sawyer Park. Rotich had a time of 24:20.4 in the 8k course in a field that included four of the top 13 teams in the country. His performance helped his nationally-ranked Colonels finish
sixth out of 24 teams just ahead of No. 4 ranked Wisconsin. Eastern sophomore Maria Baldwin was nominated for Female Runner of the Week after placing seventh in the 5K gold race at the Notre Dame invitational. Baldwin ran a time of 17:44.5 which was a personal best. Belmont senior Hannah Wittman was named Female Runner of the Week after finishing 10th out of a field of 260 in the gold race at the Greater Louisville Classic. Wittman posted a personal best time of 17:12.72 in the 5k race, which ranks as the top time in the conference this season. She helped her team to an 18thplace finish in a field that included five teams that were ranked in the top 30 nationally. This is the third time the senior took home the award. Eastern, along with two other OVC teams will be at the Bradley Pink Classic on Oct. 16 in Peoria. Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.
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A battle of two top-10 teams in the Football Championship Subdivision took place in Normal, Ill. on Saturday. Illinois State, ranked No. 4, defeated No. 7 Northern Iowa, 21-13, for the Redbirds third consecutive victory. Senior running back Marshaun Coprich aided the Redbirds’ flight to victory and established himself as the university’s best rusher in history. His final total of 169 yards on 33 carries, resulted in him breaking the school’s career rushing record of 3,702 yards. Coprich now has 3,738 yards in his career. The Redbirds’ offense opened the game with a 12-play, 75-yard drive, capped off by a one-yard plunge by Coprich. Three straight completions from freshman quarterback Jake Kolbe to freshman wide receiver Bryce Jefferson helped set up the first score of the game. The scoring did not stop there in the first half. Coprich and the Redbirds opened
the second quarter with another scoring drive, capped off once again by the All-American tailback, to extend the Illinois State lead to 14-0. Northern Iowa’s defense was able to make a stop on the next drive, in the form of an interception. Senior strong safety Tim Kilfoy picked off Kolbe, as the Redbirds’ quarterback was hit, and he returned it for 27 yards. Junior quarterback Aaron Bailey and the Panthers’ offense capitalized on the change in momentum, by scoring on a 45-yard touchdown pass from Bailey to junior running back Michael Malloy. The Redbirds’ rushing attack would get back their two-touchdown lead before halftime. On the final drive of the first half, Coprich broke loose for a 61-yard gain, which put Illinois State in the red zone. Junior Jamal Towns, Coprich’s backup, finished the drive with a 10-yard rushing touchdown. Following halftime, it was the Redbirds’ defense and critical mistakes by the Panthers that preserved the victory.
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