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The Eastern women’s basketball team suffered its fifth loss of the season, 77-69 to Cleveland State on Tuesday.
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Colleges Against Cancer hosted a drive to help people register to become donors on Tuesday.
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Music performance majors Grayson Proffitt (left), Craig Buckner (middle) and Jackson Frosch (right) perform at the reception for Ron Himes’s speech “Black Theater: Filling The Void” Tuesday night at the Black Box in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Guests were served food and drinks during the reception.
Director talks about impact of theater By Tom O’Connor Contributing Writer | @DEN_News Ron Himes, an award-winning director who created the St. Louis Black Repertory Company, addressed the value of theatrical performance and its ability to impact people on an emotional level in a speech Tuesday in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Himes said the theater possesses an unparalleled ability to unify emotions while also having the capacity to spur on societal change. During his talk, Himes set a stage scene familiar to the common playgoer. The audience filed into the auditorium, the lights dimmed and the curtain rose. These attendees shared in the same emotions implicit to the theatrical stage, regardless of race, sexual orientation or economic status, Himes said. “What you do realize is that they laughed when you laughed, they gasped when you gasped, they reached for a tissue and you handed it to them,” Himes said. “If we can experience in the dark of the theatre, we must learn to share when the lights come up.” Theatrical performances elicit a dialogue distinctive in comparison to conventional discourse, Himes said. The performances developed by Himes’ production company have touched on contemporary themes and addressed injustices experienced by the African-American community. “The theater, at its best, is a mirror of the community,” Himes said. “So, it gives us the opportunity to see an issue and to be able to talk about it in a context that allows us the freedom and some distance.” Many emotions are ubiquitous to society as a whole and fully manifest on the main stage, Himes added. He said although audience members may be different in one way or another, some experiences could be viewed as relatively analogous. Himes said theater can be universal as well because people all share the same feelings and problems.
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Ron Himes, an artist-in-residence at Washington State University, gave a presentation Tuesday night in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
“When you are hungry, it is no different than when I am hungry. You love the same. We have cultural differences,” Himes said. Himes narrated his own experiences in play productions, recalling a situation in which his friends told him the university had impeded African-American students from participating in theater. He reminded them that they were paying tuition, thus they were entitled to the art facilities on campus. Himes told them that if the university would not cast them in school plays, they could start their own productions. This chain of events paved the way for the Phoenix Theatre Troupe which, over the years, evolved into the St. Louis Black Repertory Company. In one of his first attempts at theater, Himes auditioned for “Death of a Salesman” as a student at
Washington University. While Himes made the final stages of auditions, the stage director cut him from the play, telling Himes that he could not see any way he could cast him in the play. Himes said he knew full well the reason behind his dismissal, as he was the only African-American left in the cast pool. The National Black Theatre Festival decorated Himes with the 2017 Larry Leon Hamlin Producer Award, an honor given to those producers who have made major contributions to the American theatre and entertainment industries. During his time at Eastern, Himes has collaborated with students to perform a theatrical piece, which he said will highlight social justice and change. Tom O’Connor can be reached 581-2812 or troconnor@eiu.edu.
The women’s, gender and sexuality studies department at Eastern has plans to expand and offer new classes as part of a nationwide movement. Jeannie Ludlow, English professor and coordinator of the program, said this movement began about 10 years ago. Ludlow said when women’s studies originally started being taught, was a corrective to change the curriculum and broaden students’ knowledge about women’s lives and experiences. “What we found out when we did that was it was not just enough to learn about women’s lives and experiences,” Ludlow said. “When we think about gender and how it shapes our lives, we need to look at relationships because of how much they tie together.” Ludlow said realizing this led to changing the name of the program from women’s studies to women’s, gender and sexuality studies. “Some women’s studies programs changed their name to gender studies, some changed their names to gender and sexuality studies. But a lot of us are keeping women’s studies in the name to honor the history,” Ludlow said. The women’s, gender and sexuality studies program at Eastern will be adding two new classes this fall and spring as part of this broader expansion. French professor Ryan Schroth will be teaching Introduction to Sexuality and Gender Diversity, which is the first of the two courses being offered. “It will educate students more on gender as a system of analysis and how gender and sexuality work together,” Ludlow said. The goal is for students to learn about the history and importance of sexuality in society, AIDS activism, global queer rights and more. “In this course, we will discuss about queer history, trans history and all about the terminology of (the LGBTQ+ community,)” Schroth said. Schroth said readings for the class will be a combination of theoretical articles and different types of queer arts. “We might engage with short films or documentaries and graphic novels,” Schroth said. Ludlow said the difference between the two courses is that Queer Theory will be an advanced class about how being a gender minority group shapes a person’s reality. “The Queer Theory class will be a mirror of the Feminist Theory class,” Ludlow said. Ludlow said the department hopes to add additional classes within the next few years, though a low amount of faculty members makes this challenging. Sexuality and Gender Diversity will begin in spring 2018. It will be offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 3:15 pm. Queer Theory will be offered fall 2018. AJ Fournier can be reached at 581-2812 or ajfournier@eiu.edu.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, a Democratic party leader on efforts to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, announced Tuesday he won't seek reelection next year after 13 terms. "This is my time to move on," the congressman said at a Chicago news conference. "I want to take my energy and abilities to somewhere where I know I want to place them." Oscillating between emotional and spirited, Gutierrez refused to call it a retirement, saying he still plans on advocating for immigrant rights and for storm-damaged Puerto Rico, where his family is from. After his term ends in 2019, he said he will travel nationwide with his family and wants to do it while he's healthy. He appeared alongside Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and endorsed him as his replacement. They both started their political careers together as protégés of the late Chicago Mayor Harold
Washington. Word of Gutierrez stepping down came as a surprise, especially since the 63-year-old filed candidate petitions for the Illinois primary with the State Board of Elections a day earlier. The late announcement gave potential successors to his predominantly Hispanic Chicago-area district less than a week to gather signatures to get on the March 20 ballot. Gutierrez, first elected in 1992, is a leading member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and has become one of the most visible figures in the push for immigration reform. He's been arrested for civil disobedience outside the White House and federal immigration offices numerous times, has backed legislation to help young people brought to the country illegally and has called for more English language proficiency programs and citizenship workshops. In immigrant circles and in his district, Gutierrez remains very popular and has easily won re-election
over the years. His office has run robust constituent services, with immigrants nationwide seeking his help on their cases. The congressman has clashed repeatedly with President Donald Trump, accusing him of committing "deep, permanent damage to the United States." Gutierrez is among a small handful of House Democrats who have signed onto a largely symbolic effort to impeach Trump. But Gutierrez was also critical of former President Barack Obama, whom he supported, for not halting deportations or doing enough on immigration reform. Though born in Chicago with parents from Puerto Rico, he's talked about how his family faced similar challenges as immigrants, like struggling with English and being treated like foreigners. In recent months, Gutierrez, who maintains close ties in Puerto Rico, has pushed for federal aid to help rebuild after Hurricane Maria and brought relief
supplies to the U.S. territory. Gutierrez's announcement raised questions about his political future. He said he had no immediate plans to run for office in either Puerto Rico or Illinois, but didn't exclude it in the future. "I'm not going to rule that out," he told AP. "I think there might be a possibility for me to run for public office." Gutierrez has previously flirted with a run for Chicago mayor, circulating petitions ahead of the 2011 election before deciding to sit out the race. The next city election is in 2019. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former White House chief of staff under Obama, has said he's planning on a bid for a third term. With just days until major party candidate petitions are due for the Illinois primary, candidates began jockeying to replace Gutierrez. Democrats trying to replace him need over 800 signatures; the requirement for Republicans in the Democratic stronghold is far less.
GOP shoves tax overhaul ahead; shutdown possible
But the fate of the legislation remained uncertain as it headed toward debate by the full Senate, which Republicans control by a slender 52-48. GOP leaders can afford just two defectors, and a half dozen or more in their party have been uncommitted. They include some wanting bigger tax breaks for many businesses but others cringing over the $1.4 trillion — or more — that the measure is projected to add to budget deficits over the next decade.
(620 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan within 370 nautical kilometers (200 nautical miles) of Japan's coast. It flew for 53 minutes, Japan's defense minister said. South Korea, a key U.S. ally separated from the North by a highly militarized border, responded with shorter-range missile tests of its own to mimic striking the North Korea launch site, which it said lies not far from the North Korean capital. The launch, in the wee hours Wednesday in Asia, is North Korea's first since it fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan on Sept. 15, and it appeared to shatter chances that the hiatus could lead to renewed diplomacy over the reclusive country's nuclear program. U.S. officials have sporadically floated the idea of direct talks with North Korea if it maintained restraint. An intercontinental ballistic missile test is considered particularly provocative, and indications it flew higher than past launches suggest progress by Pyongyang in developing a weapon of mass destruction that could strike the U.S. mainland. President Donald Trump has vowed to prevent North Korea from having that capability — using military force if necessary.
In response to the launch, Trump said the United States will "take care of it." He told reporters: "It is a situation that we will handle." He did not elaborate.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans held together and shoved their signature tax overhaul a crucial step ahead Tuesday as wavering GOP senators showed a growing openness. But its fate remained uncertain, and a planned White House summit aimed at averting a government shutdown was derailed when President Donald Trump savaged top Democrats and declared on Twitter, "I don't see a deal!" "It's time to stop tweeting and start leading," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer retorted after he and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi rebuffed the budget meeting with Trump and top Republicans. Tuesday's developments also emphasized the leverage Democrats have as Congress faces a deadline a week from Friday for passing legislation to keep federal agencies open while leaders seek a longer-term budget deal. Republicans lack the votes to pass the short-term legislation without Democratic support.
N. Korea launches ICBM in possible longest-range test WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea abruptly ended a 10-week pause in its weapons testing Tuesday by launching what the Pentagon said was an intercontinental ballistic missile — apparently its longest-range test yet — a move that will escalate already high tensions with Washington. Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the missile was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, and traveled about 1,000 kilometers
Royal wedding set at Windsor Castle during springtime LONDON (AP) — It will be a spring wedding on the glorious grounds of Windsor Castle for love-struck Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The wedding will be in May, but the date has not been chosen, Harry's communications secretary, Jason Knauf, told a packed briefing at Buckingham Palace. Knauf said Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, had given permission for the couple to wed at St. George's Chapel, the historic church on the Windsor Castle grounds that has long been a touchstone for royal rites of pass a g e . He s a i d t h e 9 1 - y e a r - o l d monarch will attend the wedding.
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RSO registers people to be bone marrow donors By Dillan Schorfheide Contributing Writer | @DEN_News Because Madison Carlson has had cancer twice in her life, she knows the importance of bone marrow donations. Now she also wants to help others, which is why she, along with other members of Eastern’s chapter of Colleges Against Cancer, helped people on campus register to become bone marrow donors on Tuesday in the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. “(Cancer) has always been a part of my life,” Carlson said. Although Carlson, a junior family and consumer sciences major and president of Eastern’s chapter of Colleges Against Cancer, does not recall ever getting a bone marrow transplant, she knows it can help those with a disease like cancer get better. At 10 months old, Carlson had Wilms Tumor, a cancer that starts in the kidneys, and last year, she had thyroid cancer. Her father was also diagnosed with Wilms Tumor at 18 months old. In 2004, he was diagnosed with a different type of kidney cancer that spread to his bones and killed him. “Even though it may potentially hurt getting the bone marrow extracted, it can save someone’s life and give them a second chance,” Carlson said. Carlson said it was great to see so many students register to donate. Colleges Against Cancer is a nationwide collaboration of students, faculty and staff who work to try and eliminate cancer. Cecilia Yoakum, a transfer counselor at Eastern and the adviser for Colleges Against Cancer, was approached by DKMS to hold a registration drive. DKMS is an international organization that fights blood cancer by working with communities and families to recruit bone marrow donors.
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Madison Carlson, president of Eastern’s chapter of Colleges Against Cancer and a junior family consumer sciences major, and vice president Catherine Lestina (front), a junior elementary education major, help students sign up to become stem cell or bone marrow donors at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Tuesday afternoon.
Yoakum knows the impact of a bone marrow donation because it helped her cousin live longer. In 1996, a first cousin of Yoakum’s had stage four non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Yoakum, along with some other family members who were registered, were checked to see who was the best match for her cousin. Yoakum’s cousin had a 4-year-old son who was a better match for her. Yoakum said she thinks it is worth becoming a donor to help someone else live a little bit longer. Her cousin lived about a year longer than the family ex-
pected from the transplant she got from her son. Yoakum said cancer patients need the best possible match for transplants. “If I could have saved her life, that would have made me the happiest cousin ever because I miss her greatly,” Yoakum said. Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside some bones in the human body, including the thigh and hip bones. Bone marrow used for transplants is taken from the hip bones, according to MedlinePlus.gov. Bone marrow contains stem cells
that can turn into red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets, MedlinePlus.gov states. Healthy bone marrow is needed to help keep a person’s body healthy. Some diseases, such as leukemia or aplastic anemia, may require bone marrow transplants. The people who wanted to register through the process were led by junior pre-med major MacKenzie Scroggins. After filling out a form for personal information and ancestral information, their cheeks were swabbed so their DNA could be checked as a po-
tential match for somebody. The ancestral information and cheek swabbing is necessary because genetics is a big part of someone’s ability to be a match for others. Carlson said her group was hoping to get around 30 people to register Tuesday, but ended up getting around 53 people registered. “We’ll call that a successful day,” Yoakum said.
Dillan Schorfheide can be reached at 581-2812 or dtschorfheide@eiu.edu.
Discussion to support communicating despite differences By Kennedy Nolen Multicultural Reporter | @KennedyNolenEIU Marne Austin, a professor from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Ind., will give an interactive speech at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Tarble Arts Center for the second annual Camille Compo Memorial Lecture. Austin’s discussion is titled “Buoys Instead of Anchors: Connecting with Each Other Through Language To Go Beyond.” Compo was a one of the founders of the women’s studies department, now women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Eastern, and a former staff member
in the business office. Jeannie Ludlow, coordinator of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, recalled a conversation she had with Compo when she was new in town and new in Compo’s neighborhood. After Ludlow told Compo she was the new coordinator of the woman’s studies department, Compo told her “You have the best job ever.” “Then she told me all this history of the women’s studies program,” Ludlow said. “She was there for all of it.” Ludlow met Austin through a mutual colleague and friend at Bowling Green State University a couple years ago.
“(Austin) was talking about her research and how her research was about how to think through how we communicate across differences, and how people can be better at that,” Ludlow said. “And how we can work toward social change jut by listening to other people—people maybe we don’t get to usually listen to.” As these kinds of social issues become more talked about across the country, Ludlow thought Austin would be a perfect person to bring on campus for this particular event. Ludlow said Rehema Barber, the director and chief curator at the Tarble, is a genius who sets up wonderful events
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at Tarble and makes sure everything runs beautifully. “She honestly did most of the work,” Ludlow said with a smile. She said the staff at Tarble was warm and welcoming to her idea of bringing Austin in for the discussion. Austin plans to make the discussion very interactive. “(Austin) is not using PowerPoint slides. She doesn’t want a stage; she wants a cordless mic so she can walk around,” Ludlow said. Ludlow said she encourages students to attend Austin’s discussion tomorrow, especially if they think the world has been taking a turn for the worse re-
cently. “I would encourage students to attend (Tuesday), because right now in the United States and all over the world, the primary way that we talk about politics is arguing,” she said. “Arguing is going to sink us all. It is making us less smart, it is making us less kind, it is making us less valuing of others. I think that finding ways to have conversations that are difficult—and not change people’s minds—but have the conversations and be respectful is what will save us.” Kennedy Nolen can be reached at 581-2812 or kdnolen@eiu.edu.
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Recognize excellence at Eastern Given that Eastern is located in a small town, it may be hard for some to believe anything remarkable could come out of such a tiny community. After all, one of the biggest prides of the town is being the start of a fast food chain, along with being the site of a debate most college students could not tell you much about. Even though attendance at Eastern has fallen over the last few years, people continue to make a difference that stretches far beyond the university. To honor these individuals who are excelling in unique and extraordinary ways, we created the student spotlight, which was published for the first time this year in Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News. It is a time to showcase all the hard work students on this campus are doing, whether it be creating a work of art, participating in a highly competitive internship or becoming a student laureate. Although this spotlight will focus on students and their accomplishments, faculty and community members also have incredible projects they are working on as well, and they deserve to have their stories told. To nominate a student for our student spotlight, simply email us at dennewsdesk@gmail.com or our reporter at tlmoody@eiu.edu with their first
and last name, their year and their major, as well as why you believe them to be deserving of this recognition. These student spotlights will show what Eastern is and what it can be. Most students on this campus have opportunities to succeed in ways that deserve to be noticed if they only apply themselves and seek those opportunities out. This spotlight will strive to show the public what has been there all along. When our strengths are known, we can utilize them more effectively. A simple series like this can even change the way we view the world around us. The random student you see from time to time doodling stunning pictures could have another hidden talent. The professor who gives your lectures could be researching to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. You never know what you will find or who could truly be an amazing nominee until you begin to engage more with the community around you. Being a student can be difficult enough on its own some days. The students who will be featured go above and beyond normal expectations, and this will let them know their effort does not go unnoticed. Great works continue to be considered great, whether they are done at a tinier or larger universi-
ty. Small does not mean insignificant. We as a community are as powerful as we choose to be. With the amount of dedication and determination members of the university have, we should have no problem continuing to shine spotlights on their successes. Because when it comes down to it, there is more to this community than debates and fast food restaurants. It may come as a surprise to some, but there is even more to this community than just bars, pizza joints and cornfields. The main reason this community is more than these things is the people in it and what they bring to the table. These individuals make this community a better place to live in. They lead by example and are invested in a way that we all should be. After all, for the short time we are here, this is our home. Just because we may leave this place someday to get a job and continue our lives does not negate this fact. Whether we get honored with an award or spotlight for our hard work or not, we should leave it in such a way people say we made the community grow in a way as positive as it made us grow. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
Good stories are hidden in plain sight On Monday, I walked to the Effingham County Courthouse and asked for original copies of the 1890 census. The official census of 1890 was lost to time, of course. It burned in an archival fire in the early 1920s. And before this week, I would not have been able to tell you that, reader. I spent a few days reading shelves in Effingham Public Library’s genealogy room, making sure items were properly filed, labeled and indexed. Each outlying county has a section for census materials and in every section, the 1890 census book is a black binder with one article inside. This binder tells the story of a poorly stored major document with no backup. It tells of how a fire ate some volumes and how water ate others and how nobody thought to recover anything until months later. I sat down to discuss the article with one of the historians who spends her mornings in the genealogy room. As a paranoid millennial, I told her I would not feel comfortable with only one copy of anything, much less the census for the entire country. She was about to correct my anachronistic thinking when she paused. Did the census not, she said, come from numbers at the county level? Twenty minutes later, she sent me to the
Shelby Niehaus courthouse to see if an original Effingham census existed in some forgotten basement. So far, I have yet to find an original copy of the local 1890 census, but we still have other routes to pursue. I am very excited to potentially re-discover a piece of history lost to time. The 1890 census was not even the first fascinating story I found in the genealogy room at the library. Between stacks of plat books and family histories for people I have not met, there are records of newsworthy hospital fires, WWI veteran groups who met yearly to watch their numbers dwindle and old letters from people who left their ancestral homes. Unex-
pectedly, I found myself interested in other people’s little stories. When I go into the genealogy room to read shelves or research a name, I only ever find older folks. There are always the same two ladies preparing the Nave history or the latest estate box for the collection and sometimes an older man who likes to read local history. Sometimes, another local will be looking for their family name, fumbling with the microfilm reader. But I never see anyone else remotely near my age. I think that other people my age would be good additions to genealogy research. We are finely attuned to research and digging for information in ways that older folks may not be. While young people do not often find ourselves interested in our family stories, we are often fascinated by odd circumstances. Local histories are full of strange happenings. If you like old stories, strange people and stumbling across your grandfather’s name, visit a genealogy room or your local historical society. Good stories are everywhere, and you might even find the prologue to your own story. Shelby Niehaus is a senior English language arts major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or scniehaus@eiu.edu.
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Before my ethics classed was dismissed on Tuesday, journalism professor Bryan Murley handed everyone an article to read for our next lecture. I have been trying to stop my terrible habit of procrastinating and hitting the snooze button, so I decided to read the article right away. The article, “The News Industry Has a Sexual Harassment Problem. #NowWhat” was from Nieman Reports and discussed several allegations women made against men in the newsroom for sexual assault. Of course, after reading the material I was furious and startled by the many statistics listed in the article. It made me think of my past, present and future with a familiar fear. I have been in relationships that were emotionally, physically and sexually abusive and experienced this kind of harassment in the workplace. The article discussed how most newsrooms consist of men who deal with such harassments by either mocking the victims or not saying anything because they are “uncomfortable.” Looking at The Daily Eastern News and The Warbler yearbook, I see our staff is mainly made up of women and men who (I hope) would have the human decency to stand up for their peers in such a situation that should not be happening in the first place. When I worked at McDonald’s in my hometown at 17 years old, I had a manager who instigated political arguments and made comments that made me very uncomfortable in the workplace. I was helping with dishes for my coworkers who had to close, and when I dropped the lid to the tea urn, my manager said I should “do him a favor while I was on my knees.” When I got pissed he laughed at me. I found out later that several other girls were receiving the same type of harassment along with racist comments. As soon as I heard all of the other girls saying they experienced the same thing, I knew I had to report his actions. When I was done, I had 14 different reports and notified my general manager. He said nothing, so I put my two weeks in. A few months later the same manager who harassed several employees was promoted to the general manager position. This article reminded me of this, and at the time, I assumed this was typical of big corporations like McDonald’s. But people were in the same or worse situations as me and they left in what is obviously supposed to be a professional, comfortable work setting. The article showed the clear need for education for EVERYONE in the newsroom and, of course, any other job. These men might have felt “uncomfortable,” but they should think about how uncomfortable the victims probably were when harassed. Several of my friends who have applied for jobs at different news organizations noticed the overwhelming lack of diversity in race, gender and minorities. Putting someone in power other than a white male might help situations like this from being swept under the rug. Abbey Whittington is a junior journalism major and can be reached at 581-2812 or anwhittington@eiu.edu.
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Stevens out as Eastern football offensive coordinator By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports After spending four years as the offensive coordinator of the Eastern football team under head coach Kim Dameron, Greg Stevens was relieved of his coaching duties Tuesday afternoon, Eastern sports information director Rich Moser confirmed. Dameron also confirmed over text message that Stevens is no longer with the program. Stevens joined the Panthers’ coaching staff in 2014, when Dameron was hired as the head coach of the program. He spent the prior two seasons at the offensive coordinator at Southern Louisiana. At the start of his tenure with the Panthers’ football team, Stevens battled non-Hodgkin Large B Cell Lymphoma after being diagnosed in June 2014. He underwent chemotherapy until October, but never missed a game or practice that season. Eastern made just one trip to the FCS playoffs in the last four seasons, coming in 2015, which ended in a first-round loss to Northern Iowa. This past season, however, the Eastern offense struggled to get yards and put points on the board, which is in part for it having to deal with the revolving door at the quarterback position. Although in his first year, when Eastern did not make the play-
offs, the Panthers had a great offense with Stevens as the coordinator. Eastern had two 600-plus-yard games and averaged an FCS 13thbest 480 yard per game and had the 11th-best rushing offense in the country ,with 236.3 yards per game. The Panthers finished the 2014 season with a 5-7 record. Eastern also missed the playoffs in 2016, but did not have the struggles offensively it had in 2017 or the revolving door at quarterback, which was also a huge part. The Panthers were without redshirt senior starting quarterback Mitch Kimble since the fourth game of the season. Kimble suffered an arm injury against Illinois State in the third game of the year and was out for the remainder of the season. Redshirt freshman Scotty Gilkey
Jr. took over the quarterback duties until he was injured against Tennessee Tech after leading the Panthers to two straight wins. Redshir t junior Bud Mar tin then had to step up and take over at halftime of the sixth game of the season, where he threw three touchdown passes to lead Eastern to a win. He was the starter for the next three games and led the Panthers to one other win. Eastern dropped two games in a row near the end of the season to Jacksonville State and Tennessee-Martin, derailing playoff hopes for 2017. Martin was benched for the final home game of the season against Eastern Kentucky, where Gilkey Jr. took the offense back over and led the Panthers to a last second gametying score and an overtime win. The Panthers’ wins this season all came by three or fewer points, with three of them coming in overtime and the other three to the last play. Exciting wins or head scratching wins, Eastern’s offense was only able to just slip by its opponents and have just enough in the tank to pull out its wins. The Panthers were eighth out of nine teams in scoring offense with an average of 17.6 points per game, fifth in passing offense with an average of 165.5 yards per game, eighth in total offense with an average of 293.5 yards per game and sixth in rushing offense, which was
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Wide Receiver Alexander Hollings runs the ball on an end-around for Eastern in the Panthers’ 23-20 win over Eastern Kentucky Nov. 4. Hollings led the Panthers with 694 yards receiving under the offense of now let-go coordinator Greg Stevens.
relied on heavily (third most in OVC) and ended with an average of 128 yards per game. And while the passing game was a question that had to be answered every week, the run game was hitor-miss. T h e Pa n t h e r s h a d f i v e s u b 100 yard rushing games with two less than 30. They had 351 yards against Murray State in week seven, but followed that up with just 28 against Jacksonville State a week later. The offense came alive when the
Panthers needed it to and at the time it was worth celebrating, but over the course of the year, it never caught stride. It had three come-from-behind wins, two where it led the whole game and one where the Panthers blew a two touchdown lead—Eastern had three turnovers in that game. Stevens’ contract officially runs through early January based off the hiring cycle at Eastern, Moser said. Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
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Cleveland State beats Panthers 77-69 By JJ Bullock Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports The one thing the Eastern women’s basketball team had in mind coming into its match with Cleveland State Tuesday night was to play better on offense than they did in its weekend loss against Delaware. The Panthers did just that, improving significantly from their last game, in a game coach Matt Bollant said was a “step in the right direction.” However, while they saw a marked improvement in execution, they were handed the same result and suffered their fifth loss of the season to Cleveland State 77-69. A season high 24 points from Eastern point guard Grace Lennox was not enough for the Panthers, as five Cleveland State players scored in double-digits, led by Ashanti Abshaw with 20. Cleveland State’s versatile scoring duo in Abshaw and senior guard Khayla Livingston seemed to be involved in the play one way or another every time momentum swung back in favor of Cleveland State. Late in the fourth quarter when Eastern trimmed the Vikings’ lead that had been as large as 12 in the quarter down to six points, it was Abshaw with 1:14 to play that made a three-point basket to giver her team a nine-point lead. Abshaw was a player Eastern knew could be a big-time game changer for Cleveland State, and she proved it, scoring her 20 points in just 21 minutes on the court. “She is just a really good player. She had a big three on top late in the game that really put it away for them,” Bollant said of Abshaw. “She can do everything, and we did a decent job of attacking her and making her play defense. But yeah, she can play. We lost her a couple of times in the zone and let her get by a couple of times, but she does a lot of good things.” Livingston would make four key free throws, including the last two of the game, in the final two min-
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Eastern freshman Taylor Steele guards a Northern Illinois player in the Panthers’ 93-64 loss to the Huskies Nov. 10 at Lantz Arena. Steele had nine points off the bench for the Panthers Tuesday night in the teams 77-69 loss to Cleveland State.
utes to add to her 12 total points in the game, putting the game out of reach for Eastern. Both teams could rest easy throughout the game when their starters came off the floor as Eastern and Cleveland State had big games from their reserves. Freshman Taylor Steele had nine points off the bench on 3-of-5 shooting from three- point range, and forward Jalisha Smith added nine points and four rebounds for the Panthers. Bollant said the play of the bench was “huge” for the
team. “I thought Taylor (Steele) really made some big shots in the fourth quarter and just today had her best game of the year for sure. She played with a lot of poise and both of those guys (Steele and Smith) gave us a big lift off the bench for sure,” he said. Off the bench for the Vikings, guard Mariah Miller had 14 points and a team-high seven rebounds. Eastern shot 46.7 percent from the field, a 28 percent difference from the 18 percent they shot
against Delaware. While the Panthers did not come away with the win they wanted, the refined offensive game is something they can hang their hat on. “It was definitely a step in the right direction. Our approach was way better, our belief in ourselves was there,” Bollant said. “I thought Grace Lennox played her best game of the year and Jalisha Smith played probably her best game of the year, Taylor Steele really had a great approach and did some good things.”
The team’s improvement on offense manifested itself in Lennox’s 24-point performance. Against Delaware, Lennox scored 16 points on a 4-of-17 shooting performance that left much to be desired. “ (Lennox) has to play well for us. She is our leader, she is our best player and she played with a ton of energy tonight,” Bollant said. “She had five steals and five assists and did a little bit of everything for us.” JJ Bullock can be reached at 581-2812 or jpbullock@eiu.edu.
Men’s and women’s tennis finish fall seasons By Parker Valentine Tennis Reporter | @DEN_Sports As Eastern’s fall semester heads for a close, the men’s and women’s tennis teams have finished their fall schedules. Eastern’s women’s team comp l e t e d t h e i r e n t i re f a l l s e a s o n without a head coach, but after fall play ended Eastern did hire a new coach, Lois Alexis. Alexis comes with championship pedigree from coaching both t h e m e n’s a n d w o m e n’s t e n n i s teams at Jackson State. In her time at Jackson State, Alexis led the men’s team to two straight conference championship appearances, with one championship victory. Sh e a l s o l e d Ja c k s o n St a t e’s women’s team to a HBCU Fall National Championship immediately before earning the job at Eastern, a job she refers to as a very prestigious position. Alexis says the Panthers are a hardworking, talented group with a great sense of humor.
O n e a s p e c t o f t h e Pa n t h e r s training regimen Alexis noticed needed some improvement when she arrived was cardio. She says cardio training has gotten much better since her arrival though. “They have been working hard and showing signs that they want to get better. They are very hungry,” Alexis said. The Panthers completed three fall invitationals as a unit. A select few also participated in the ITA Midwest Regional Tournament at the University of Michigan. Junior Srishti Slaria, sophom o re s St e l l a C l i f f e a n d Em i l y Pugachevsky and freshman Rachel Papavasilopoulos all competed in regionals. They won a combined six matches in qualifying play. Papavasilopoulos earned three straight victories, qualifying for the main singles bracket, where she was defeated by Notre Dame’s Rachel Chong. The women’s team star ts its spring schedule Jan. 20 in Normal against Illinois State.
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Junior Abby Carpenter backhands a ball back to sophomore Emily Pugachevsky in practice at the Darling Courts Sept. 21. The Panthers are in their offseason getting ready for the spring season.
On the men’s circuit, coach Sam Kercheval says at times the team may have underperformed, but he did see progress from the Panthers
throughout the year. Two athletes Kercheval has noticed significant progress from are sophomores Freddie O’Brien and
Gage Kingsmith. “ When they’re talking to me about their evaluation of their weekend, or what they’re thinking, they’re starting to say the things that we’ve been talking about. They are starting to feel like that it is actually making a difference,” Kercheval said. Kingsmith and O’Brien both earned doubles wins in their last i n v i t e a t I l l i n o i s St a t e . K i n g smith with his partner senior Jared Woodson and O’Brien with senior Trent Reiman. Reiman has been the Panthers’ most successful athlete of fall play. He earned at least one victory in all three of the Panthers’ matches this fall. He and O’Brien partnered up in doubles for a portion of fall, earning victories as well. The Panthers commence spring p l a y a b i t b e f o re t h e w o m e n’s team. They will be in Bloomington taking on the University of Indiana on Monday, Jan. 15. Parker Valentine can be reached at 581-2812 or pivalentine@eiu.edu.