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Senate passes no-confidence, evaluation resolutions By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor | @cjbuchman The Faculty Senate passed two resolutions, the no-confidence vote results and the evaluation of administrative staff, at their meeting Tuesday. The no-confidence results came after a weeklong vote in their confidence of the performance of Blair Lord, vice president for academic affairs. Out of the 349 people who participated in the vote, 67.6 percent voted no confidence, and 261 eligible voters did not participate.
Although the meeting was originally going to be partially closed, the senate chose to keep the whole session open after consulting with the University Counsel. The resolution states the senate heard the votes and will continue to serve the faculty by “maintaining open communication with President (David) Glassman about this matter, inviting faculty feedback and responses regarding this matter and representing faculty concerns to the president, Board of Trustees, and other entities on campus as the matter is addressed.”
Jeannie Ludlow, the coordinator of women’s studies, said she proposed the resolution to reassure fellow faculty that the senate would not just put out the results of the referendum and be silent. “We will continue to represent the faculty on this matter,” Ludlow said. Teshome Abebe, an economics professor, said he did not think the resolution was necessary because the senate already works with administrators. “I think the way we are going to show that the message was received is what we do from this point on and not just passing this kind of resolution,”
Abebe said. Jason Waller, a philosophy professor, said he understood the job of the senate to make recommendations to the administration. “I think we would be remiss if we didn’t pass a resolution making specific recommendations to the president on the basis of this vote,” Waller said. “This isn’t a topic I want to have a conversation about. But that’s what (the faculty) wants us to do. They’ve spoken very clearly.”
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(Left): Tiyaji Williams, a junior communication studies major, and Angela Davis, a senior sociology major, practice a few of the self-defense moves taught by Candice Solomon- Strutz, the assisitant director of IT planning at the University of Illinois, on Tuesday during the Know Yourself Cyber Safety and Self-Defense forum in the auditorium of Lumpkin Hall. (Right): Solomon- Strutz uses Allante Nelson, a senior organizational and professional development major, to help demonstrate self-defense moves.
Forum teaches social media usage, self-defense By T’Nerra Butler Multicultural Editor | @DEN_News Students were found stretching and kneeing in Lumpkin Hall during a self-defense forum presented by the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. The “Know Yourself Cyber Safety and SelfDefense,” forum was led by Candice SolomonStrutz, the assistant director of IT planning at the University of Illinois. Solomon-Strutz is the lead Taekwondo instructor at the University of Illinois and started teaching self-defense 15 years ago. SolomonStrutz said one of her friends was attacked and the incident led her to teach self-defense classes.
“I said this is something that could happen to me so I joined to make sure I was able to defend myself,” Solomon-Strutz said. Solomon-Strutz said many people can access a college campus, so it is essential for students to know what to do in a threatening situation. She said students are more vulnerable on campus than any other public place. Solomon-Strutz started the forum with a presentation about the negative and positive effects of social networking. “A lot of times when people are in danger they are opening up the threat because they share too much information online,” Solomon-Strutz said. “It’s not as random as you would think on a college campus.”
A video was shown during the forum, which demonstrated a girl who put her address on Facebook and the aftermath of her openness. By the end of the video the girl was harassed through several phone calls then attacked by her harasser. Solomon-Strutz listed the good and bad of social media with the bad being hate crimes, cyber bullying and procrastination. Solomon-Strutz said things are never completely deleted off the Internet. Jarrett Moore, the president of Omega Psi Phi, said he was able to take a couple of pointers away from the forum. He said the event was a good opportunity for the future professionals of Eastern’s campus. “Social media is probably more than half the
students use everyday and if you’re not aware of its power, you can be taken advantage of,” Moore said. “You can put things out there that you only mean in that moment and it can still be looked at.” Moore said the event was food for thought and it probably helped audience members to analyze how they use their social networks. He said hopefully the students would use their future outlets wisely. Solomon-Strutz said lately, social networks have been used as a venting place and Moore said he often sees people putting their business out in the media.
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UB to fill comedy coordinator position vacancy By Luis Martinez Entertainment Editor | @LPMartinez20 The University Board comedy committee no longer has a coordinator and is currently looking to fill the vacancy. Lucas McGeath, the former University Board comedy coordinator, said he resigned as the coordinator because of personal reasons. “I just had too much on my plate and had
to put schoolwork first,” McGeath said. “I resigned a couple weeks ago.” While the coordinator position is now vacant, McGeath said everything that was scheduled by the comedy committee would still be going ahead as planned. “The comedy for this semester will go on as scheduled,” McGeath said. ”I think (the University Board) are advertising with posters that they are hiring for several positions.”
The UB started filling vacant positions earlier in the semester, including naming McGeath as the comedy coordinator at the beginning of the semester. “They are some of the greatest people I’ve had the pleasure of working with, and I wish I had the time in my schedule to stay on with UB,” McGeath said. This semester, Eastern students were able to see Giulia Rozzi, who performed in Septem-
ber, although the Bryon Bowers performance, which was originally scheduled for Oct. 15, was canceled. McGeath said the final scheduled comedy performance of the semester would be Adam Grabowski, who is scheduled to perform at Eastern on Dec. 3. Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.
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By Mackenzie Freund City Editor | @mgfreund_news The Charleston City Council voted to pass three resolutions along with the consent agenda at a meeting Tuesday. One of the resolutions voted on was about the revolving loan fund administration and coordinating services with the Coles County Regional Planning and Development Commission. Charleston Mayor Brandon Combs said the revolving loan fund is a fund used for economic development. “If someone comes along and needs a little bit of money to help them build onto their business, or they want to be able to hire more people, we can loan some money to them and then they pay us back,” Combs said. The funds for the loan are money that is given by the state and set aside so the city can loan it out as needed. Combs said the money gets loaned out and acquires interest, it then goes back into the fund to be loaned out again. “I remember when I was coming back to town it was something that I was looking into possibly using to help start up my business, but I ended up not needing to do that,” Combs said. The cost of the loan fund is $2,100, and it is billed monthly. The second resolution was about entering into a contractual agreement for technical assistance services with the Coles County Regional Planning and Development Commission. The technical assistance services provided to the city help them out with any services the planning department may need that they do not have the technology for. Some of the services that are provided include budgeting assistance, tax levy ordinance assistance, personnel studies and water rate studies. The sum of the agreement is up to $7,000 and it is used for the names services and the others on the list. Luke Young, a sophomore finance
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major and Student Senate representative for city council, was not in attendance, but he left a message with Combs to be read during the meeting. Combs said Young left a note saying that the Student Senate will be hosting a weeklong clothing drive the week after Thanksgiving break. The last resolution that was approved was in regards to authorizing the contract dental insurance with MetLife. The consent agenda was also approved by the city council, which included two raffle licenses. One of the raffle licenses approved was for the Citizens Against Child Abuse fundraiser being put on at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at 1821 20th St. The event is being used to raise money to buy Christmas presents for children in need.
The other raffle license is for an event being put on at the LifeSpan center on Feb. 20 by the Children’s Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois to raise money to provide services to child victims of physical and sexual abuse in seven central Illinois counties. The other approved items on the consent agenda were the approval of the Nov. 3 city council meeting, payroll for the pay period ending on Oct. 31, bills payable and the October comptrollers report. A Charleston High School senior also gave a presentation about the speech and drama team through the high school at the city council meeting. Katie Mueller, a senior at Charleston High School, CHS, has been part of the team for four years and the captain of the speech team for the last two years.
Mueller said the legacy of the team is that it has been going on at CHS for over 35 years and speech has been a long-standing tradition. Mueller also said the confidence she has gotten through the team goes beyond the confidence in herself. “I’ve always been a pretty introverted person,” Mueller said. “Speech has really given me the chance to still be my introverted self, but be confident in my words and be willing to speak in front of audiences and believe in the power of my own words.” Mueller presented during the time allowed for public presentations after all agenda items had been talked about and voted on. Mackenzie Freund can be reached at 581-2812 or at mgfreund@eiu.edu.
Whaling ship program sets sail at library By Alex Seidler Staff Reporter | @DEN_news
Adults in Charleston will have the opportunity to learn about the history behind a whaling boat called Charles W. @DEN_News Morgan in a program hosted by Charles Visit our website: dailyeasternnews.com Foy at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library at noon on Wednesday. Foy, a history professor, said the purAbout The Daily Eastern News is produced by the students of pose behind this event is to refocus peoEastern Illinois University. It is published daily Monple’s understanding of history. day through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., during fall and “I want people to get to reorient their spring semesters and twice weekly during the summer term except during university vacations or examiunderstanding on how American histonations. One copy per day is free to students and faculry was,” Foy said. “Who we once were ty. Additional copies can be obtained for 50 cents each in the Student Publications Office in Buzzard Hall.aaaa as a nation.” Foy rode the Charles W. Morgan ship Advertising dailyeasternnews
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Katie Mueller, a senior at Charleston High School and captain of the speech and drama team, gave a presentation about what the speech and drama team means to her at the Charleston City Council meeting Tuesday in City Hall. "Being captain for the last two years has been more important than any award I ever received at state," Mueller said.
in the summer of 2014. This was the first time the boat had sailed since 1921. Marita Metzke, the project coordinator, said the event would provide an educational experience aimed at adults. Metzke is also coordinator of the Academy of Lifelong Learning, which provides educational experiences to adults that are not related to academic education. Metzke said she hopes this event reaches many adults in the community; she said the event and organization does not offer any college credit courses. Rather, it is purely for people who want to learn more about history, politics and other subjects.
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Metzke said the organization holds different events each semester, and said next semester there would be an event covering the 1855 murder on Sixth Street and Monroe Avenue in Charleston. The murder involves a son-in-law who did not get along with his in-laws and ended up fighting with his fatherin-law, resulting in two pistol shots being fired. “We’re very rich in history and people are fascinated by it,” Metzke said. “You don’t have to know anything about it before coming.” Metzke said she would suggest people bring a pencil and paper, in case they
want to take notes, and their library card, if they want to look up more about the event afterwards. Foy said he would talk about history that will give a more honest interpretation than popular beliefs. He said that the history includes the accurate representation of the role of Native Americans and American lifestyle in the late 1800s and early 1900s. “I hope people come away with a greater sense of the importance of whaling and what our history tells us what America was,” Foy said. Alex Seidler can be reached at 581-2812 or at ajseidler@eiu.edu.
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Louis Marinaro: Recent Sculpture & Drawings l 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Featuring works by the artist. Tarble Arts Center Breaking Writer’s Block | 3:30 PM Writing Center Coleman Hall 3110 Thanksgiving Dinner | 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Thomas Dining Center Check out more upcoming events at www.eiu.edu/eiu360/
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Jaylashawn Dildy and Denisha Olasupo, both junior family and consumer sciences majors, catch up in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Tuesday night. Dily and Olasupo met freshman year in English class. “We’ve been friends that long?” Dildy asked. When one of them would miss a class, the other would text her and tell her what she missed.
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Students that are interested in eating a Thanksgiving dinner with their families away from home can do so at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Taylor Dining Hall and 5 p.m. at Thomas Dining Hall. The annual Thanksgiving dinner will include a traditional holiday menu for students to eat, such as turkey breast, black oak ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, stuffing, maple and brown sugar sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, holiday salads and rolls. Mark Hudson, the director of Housing and Dining Services, said “(The Thanksgiving dinner) is hosted to give students an opportunity to celebrate with their EIU friends.” Students with a sweet tooth can also choose from two different kinds of pie: pecan and pumpkin. The menu served at each Thanksgiving dinner typically remains the same, staying true to the traditional dinner served for the holiday of giving thanks, Hudson said. Hudson said this dinner, which is usually well attended, has been hosted for many years, and is a student favor-
ite. “Employees who have been here 25 years say we have ‘always’ done this,” Hudson said. Students who attend this dinner might be coming out for the first time, but Hudson said there are always students that attend the dinner each year of their college career because it’s “special” to them. Hudson said he hopes to see a great turnout, since this annual “festive” Thanksgiving dinner is an opportunity for students to enjoy the company of their friends and peers. Housing and Dining Services is told often by students that this is the event of the year, Hudson said. To attend the annual Thanksgiving dinner at Taylor or Thomas dining halls, students would have to use a meal swipe, or pay $7.25 of their dining dollars. Students can also use cash, but will have to pay $10. There also will not be any to-go meals available, since the dinner takes more time to prepare than a typical dinner served during the semester, Hudson said. Lynnsey Veach can be reached at 581-2812 or at lmveach@eiu.edu.
Student Senate to discuss bylaw change, forum ideas By Analicia Haynes Staff Reporter | @Haynes1943 The Student Senate will be presented with a bylaw change as well as discuss ideas from the “I Am Because We Are” forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Tuscola-Arcola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Maralea Negron, the Student Senate Speaker, said committee chairs have been discussing potential bylaw changes at their Council of Chairs meetings every Tuesday. However, not all of the information will be presented to the senate if it is not planned out all the way, Negron said. The bylaw change titled Student
Attendance 15-16-03 will be presented by the student internal affairs committee and is authored by Katie St. John, the chairwoman for the committee. Bylaw change 15-16-03 calls for an amendment and addition to article two, letter B, number five in the Student Senate bylaws, which covers the powers and responsibilities of the student internal affairs committee. The change plans to eliminate the appointment of a student government webmaster and their responsibilities, which included maintaining the student government website, according to the current bylaw. The bylaw change said the internal affairs committee itself would maintain all social media sites for student
government with information regarding student government and all other activities on campus. The change wants to add the new senator attendance bylaw in the committee’s procedure for notifying senators of their absences. The addition of the Student Senate Star program, which lists its purpose and goal at every meeting, will be added to the bylaw as well as the requirement for the committee to host a minimum of one student senate bonding experience. The change also plans to add the responsibility for the committee to organize and make the “Paper Plate Awards” at the end of each semester. Ariannah Lambert, the chairwoman for the student university en-
hancement committee, said the bylaw changes are a way to clean the slate and start fresh. The bylaw change is required in order to assure that the senate is running smoothly and the responsibilities of the chairperson for the committee are clearly outlined according to the rationale for the bylaw change. The student internal affairs committee will present these changes and the Student Senate will go into a period of question before voting on the changes next week. JaLisa Smith, the chairwoman for the student diversity affairs community will give senators a report on the “I Am Because We Are” forum she attended last week, which doc-
umented issues regarding racial tensions and raise awareness to race culture. Smith will share ideas that were presented to her at the forum, Negron said. The Student Senate Business Affairs Committee will also discuss their outreach initiative for the student body to inform them on the budget impasse and the ways they can get involved, Negron said. The Student Senate also plans to approve Cause for Paws as a Registered Student Organizations at Wednesday’s meeting. Analicia Haynes can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu.
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Avoid stress, do work over holiday break Taking breaks from school is a time that is looked forward to by many, many people. Though I am so very excited for the break itself, I am not excited for the amount of stress that comes with break. Not only is break the time to relax and work at your own pace, but it is also the time that allows students to work on projects without the distraction of going to class. I am not sure how many people do follow that, but it is something that can help limit the stress. Making a to-do list to go along with break is something that also can be helpful, and sometimes it makes people more stressed. I know that my own list is a page long and it is not even done yet. With the semester coming to a close, stress levels are rising in many students, and it is seen in different ways. When I walk around campus I can see different people and how stressed out they are based on their facial expressions. Some people zone out while looking at their textbooks, some do not talk while they are with friends and some just spend countless hours in a quite place so they do not have those everyday distractions where they can get their work done. Thanksgiving break is a great time to knock out some of that work and studying. Yes, it is also a time to be with family and friends that go to other schools, but there are a couple of days before Thanksgiving where time can be fit in between catching up with friends and family, and doing those last minute Thanksgiving dinner preparations. Doing homework over break is not the most fun thing, but it can drastically lessen the amount of stress you will end up putting yourself under when there is two weeks left before finals. Think about that 10-page paper you have due after break for your hardest class. You have to find 10 sources and make a presentation along with it. On top of that, you have a major art project to work on for your art class that you have not even thought about what the subject will be. You could stress yourself out trying to get everything done before you leave Friday, or you could space out the amount of time you work on those projects while you are on break. Taking this break time to get the bulk of your major projects done is going to help reduce stress levels while it gives you the time after break to start studying for the finals coming up not too long after we get back to school. Mackenzie Freund is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or mgfreund@eiu.edu.
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Be careful when traveling during break The holiday season is quickly approaching and many students will be returning home for Thanksgiving and winter break. The holiday season usually comes with a well-deserved break, merriment with friends and family, and most importantly: ice and snow. In such weather elements, it is important for everyone to be safe while driving during the holiday season. According to the U.S Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration website, an average of 6,250 people are killed every year due to weather related accidents and out of those, 12-14 percent of those are due to ice and snow. With that being said students, faculty, administration and staff need to take the correct precautions when driving in these types of conditions. The American Automobile Association suggests some of the following tips to stay safe during the winter weather.
First, make sure you’re not fatigued while driving. Making sure you’re alert and awake while driving reduces the risk of getting into an accident. So if you are going to be driving, especially on the highway, make sure you get a good night’s sleep before you get on the road. Secondly, make sure that your car is in proper condition to drive through the winter elements. That includes making sure you have the proper amount of air in your tires or making sure you keep your gas tank at least half way full so your gas lines don’t freeze up and your car starts. Making sure that you keep your car in proper driving condition is half the battle and will make you feel better about driving your car when the weather gets bad. Lastly, make sure you make sure you drive slowly and only go as fast as you’re comfortable driving. If that means you have to drive slower than the speed limit then so be it, in the end it’s better to be safe than sorry. Make sure you’re accelerating and decelerating slowly and giving
yourself enough time and space to do both. The normal distance of three to four seconds should be increased to eight to ten seconds in these types of conditions. If you do find yourself in a predicament where you feel like you’re losing control of the car remember to keep calm and do what they say in driver’s education classes and steer into the skid. That means taking your foot off both the gas and the break and steer your car in the direction you it want to go. Remember to always wear your seatbelt regardless of what the weather conditions are and if you don’t feel comfortable driving in certain weather conditions, you don’t have to. Driving in these icy and snowy conditions can be scary, but if you use the right precautions you can keep yourself and the people on the road around you safe. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
Students should not need to pay for laundry One of the most ridiculous things about living in the dorms is that we have to pay to wash our clothes. How is that not somehow put into the $20,000 that we pay a year to go here? It is also pretty inconvenient that you can only use the chip on your Panthercard and cannot use cash or a debit card. But I don’t think we should really have to pay at all. A lot of the times the boxes that you put your card in to get money on the chip, doesn’t even work, now you’re screwed until they get that fixed. Every time I have to do my laundry, I always have to do two loads because it all doesn’t fit in one washer. That costs me $3.50 each time I have to do laundry. It also doesn’t help that when it comes to doing laundry, I tend to forget that I started it. So sometimes they may sit in the wash for a couple hours long, and I have to rewash them because they smell pretty awful. Then I have to spend a few more dollars to rewash. Also, I’ll forget they are in the dryer about 75 percent of the time and some-
Sean Hastings times the dryer will not stop so my clothes will dry for many hours. I think my record is towards nine. Then my clothes shrink or come out an absolute wrinkled mess. It is pretty ridiculous that we have to pay for our clothes to be washed. With us being college kids, money is not always the easiest thing to get ahold of. How do you do your laundry then? Instead of being able to buy food or pay for other essentials, I have to put $20 on my card so I don’t have to keep worrying about getting money on my card to do laundry. For some of us, we have to wear shirts for
work and it’s not like we have a lot of those. How often do you have to wash that shirt to make sure you are ready to go to work? I have to wear polos to all of the athletic events I cover for The Daily Eastern News, and I don’t have too many of those so sometimes I have to do laundry just for that reason. It just baffles me that with the $20,000 we pay a year and whatever amount we pay for room and board, free washes for our clothes is not included. I get that water is expensive but come on. Pretty soon we’ll have to pay to take a shower, too. I know that nothing will ever change with that but that’s just how I feel. I think using washing machines should come included in room and board fees, and I think many students would agree with me on this. It is only $1.75 for each wash, but all of that really adds up especially if you have to do more than one load each time. School is already expensive, so adding this washing fee would ease the financial situation of students. Sean Hastings is a sophomore journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
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Steven Scher, a psychology professor, said he did not think they needed to make a resolution that tells the president the results of the vote, because Lord is a well-known person. Waller said since the president received the results he needs to decide what to do with them. “He’s going to receive advice from lots of people, and one of the people he’s going to receive recommendations from is this body,” Waller said. “We can’t force the president to do anything. We’re just making a recommendation for what we believe.” Grant Sterling, a philosophy professor, said one of his concerns was he did not think the senate needed to tell the president what happened during the vote. “I am hearing from faculty who say ‘OK, now that the referendum is over, now that the votes are in, Faculty Senate as representatives of the faculty ought to at least say something about what it means,’” Sterling said. Sterling said the senate went out of their way to say it was not their idea to have the vote and he did not want the perception to be that all the senate was going to do was hand over the results to the president. “I would like us to pass a resolution that’s at least a little stronger than this,” Sterling said. Amy Rosenstein, a special education professor, said she heard other people say they are wondering why they are just looking at one vice president. “There are a lot of things we’re really not talking about and I don’t know if
that’s because they’re uncomfortable topics,” Rosenstein said. “I don’t know why we’re looking at this in different ways.” Rosenstein said it was important to think about the fact that not everyone was thinking about the issue in the same way. Bailey Young, a history professor, said he had heard that there are people who had reservations about the timing of the vote. Abebe said people could have stopped the vote and circumstances surrounding the vote from happening a long time ago. The second resolution the senate passed was about the current administrator evaluation system. Abebe said the perceived weaknesses of the current evaluation is that it has failed to identify weaknesses of administrators at all levels; it has not adjusted to the demands of the times and there is the possibility of collusion between supervisors and administrators. It ignores faculty, some administrators are not evaluated yearly and the people who have the capacity to create the most damage are evaluated the least. The resolution advises President Glassman to change the current system or find a new system of evaluating administrators so that is transparent, effective, less prone to misuse and includes faculty involvement. The senate also named Linda Ghent, an economics professor, as the winner of the Luis Clay Mendez Distinguished Service Award. Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.
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Dwain Naragon, an art professor, works on some clay mugs for an upcoming fundraiser for a grade school in Mattoon on Tuesday in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The fundraiser will take place at Riddle Elementary School.
Fraternity forum to analyze ‘Netflix and chill’, dating By T’Nerra Butler Multicultural Editor |@DEN_News As a way to start a conversation on modern day chivalry and whether it still exists, the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity will be presenting a forum. “Netflix and Chill” is a forum targeted toward students as a way to provide an open discussion on whether chivalry exists at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 1205 of the Physical Sciences Building. Jarrett Moore, the president of Omega Psi Phi, said he wants to see the female and male perspective of how a date should be conducted. He said the forum would bring up the social issues of dating and the generational change when it comes to pursu-
“I think that social media is more important than what it needs to be, but we have to realize that this is our generation and we have to adapt to it.” -Jarrett Moore, president of Omega Psi Phi ing a relationship. Social media has made it harder for people to interact and have a regular conversation, Moore said. He said instead of people going on dates, they have been going back and forth on the Internet and the next step is watching Netflix and hanging out. Moore said the lack of personal engagement is what influenced the forum. He said relationships are not built through the Internet. “Things like Snapchat and Insta-
gram make people feel as though they are connected and they aren’t,” Moore said. “If they were to actually meet the person they wouldn’t know them, they would just have an idea of who they are.” This forum is a part of the fraternity’s founder’s week, which Moore said is vital to Greek students. He said without the founders, the fraternity would not be able to work the way they do today. He said the week is based on the history of the fraternity.
Tuesday was founder’s day for the fraternity. Julian Robertson, the vice president of Omega Psi Phi, said the organization plans to talk about certain aspects of a date, like who picks up the tab and if people still care about dating etiquette in today’s generation. He said the goal is to see how students go through the dating process. Moore said he hopes to engage the audience and for them to voice their opinions about modern day chivalry. “I think that social media is more important than what it needs to be, but we have to realize that this is our generation and we have to adapt to it,” Moore said. Moore said years back people were able to go out in public and get to
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know the person before going to someone’s house. He said in this generation it is not out of the norm to meet someone for the first time and then they go to one another’s house. “We’re trying to figure out, how we got from how our parents dated to what it’s like now,” Moore said. Robertson said in modern times, people move quickly when it comes to dating. He said little-to-no effort is put into building a solid foundation. “You should still be able to take somebody out and get to know them, and things move along from that than just coming over and watching TV,” Robertson said. T’Nerra Butler can be reached at 581-2812 or tabutler@eiu.edu.
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pus, the forum was timely. “We’ve been getting consistent emails about things going on, on campus.” Horton said, “It was just a great way to stay safe.” This semester, the community has experienced several incidents of crime including a string of robberies, a home invasion and most recently a report of shots fired. T’Nerra Butler can be reached at 581-2812 or tabutler@eiu.edu.
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By Sean Hastings Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports Before the start of the 2015-2016 NCAA men’s and women’s basketball seasons there were some new rules put into effect. There were over 25 rule changes made for the men to increase the speed of play, reduce the number of stoppages and provide better balance between offense and defense according to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee. The men and women each had different rule changes, meaning that a change for the men does not mean that rule will be put into effect for the women and vice-versa. One of the key changes for the men is that the officiating community will reduce physicality to create freedom of movement specifically in hand checking/bumping the ball handler, physical post play and rebounding, freedom of movement for players without the ball, or cutters, a stationary screen is required and offense initiated contact with legal defenders. Another change for the men is the shot clock is reduced from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. Also, the restricted area arc is expanded from three feet to four feet. There were also some key changes regarding timeouts for the men. Each team will only get three 30-second timeouts instead of four and only two will carry over to the second half.
Also, a 30-second timeout called within 30 seconds of a media timeout when there has been no stoppage in play will become a media timeout. Coaches can only call timeouts during a dead ball situation. The rule of the 5-second closely guarded count on a dribble has been eliminated. Airborne shooter charge plays cannot score a basket. Arm bars are allowed in the post area when the offensive player has his back to the basket without the ball. The 10-second backcourt count resets except when the defender causes the ball to go out of bounds. The offense retains possession on a held ball or a technical foul is called on the offensive team. The women also saw a fair share in rule changes for the 2015-2016 season. Some of the key rule changes include the teams will play four 10-minute quarters instead of 20-minute halves. Teams will be awarded two free throws after the fifth team foul of each quarter; there will be no more one-and-ones. Fouls reset after each quarter. Overtime is considered an extension of the fourth quarter. Each team will now have three 30-second timeouts and one 60-second timeout per game, down from four and one last year. Media timeouts now occur at the
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first deadball or below the five-minute mark of each quarter. If a team calls a timeout before the media break for a quarter, the timeout becomes the media timeout break. There is one additional media timeout in the second half on the first called team timeout. During the last 59.9 seconds of the
game in the fourth quarter or overtime, when the team that has control of the ball is granted a timeout, the team will have the option to move the throw-in to the 28-foot line in the front court. If the team chooses to advance the ball by dribble or pass before the
timeout, it will no longer have the option to advance the ball. The 10-second rule change for the men is the same for the women. Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
Eastern women’s swim team lands 2 new recruits By Sean Hastings Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports The women’s swim team has signed two recruits for the 2016-2017 season. Coach Jacqueline Michalski brought in Sara Dains and Karleen Gernady. Dains and Gernady are both seniors at their respective high schools. Dains is a four-year varsity swimmer at Peoria Notre Dame High School in Peoria, Ill. She was selected captain of her swim team in her junior and senior seasons. Dains has been named to the all-sectional team three times. Gernady is also a four-year varsity
swimmer at Lakes Community High School in Lake Villa, Ill. She is also a participant in club swimming. Gernady has been a state qualifier in the 400-yard individual medley, which is a tough race to be good at in high school, Michalski said. “(Gernady) is a very diverse swimmer,” Michalski said. “The 400 IM is not an event most high schoolers are good at and that’s one of her strongest events, so to swim that event strong is really going to help our team and add some depth.” Dains dropped 2.5 seconds in her 100-yard breaststroke in her sectional meet.
“Sara (Dains) is a really dedicated swimmer,” Michalski said. “She’s had some ups and downs I think in her career a little.” Michalski said for Dains to drop time shows that she is really motivated and for a senior to drop times in their senior year is exciting. Dains and Gernady both have personalities that are going to mesh well with the team, Michalski said. The women’s swim team got the top GPA in the nation back-to-back semesters and also won the EPIC award in August, too. “They want to stay on the same academic path that we’re on so they re-
ally fit in with the team,” Michalski said. Just because both swimmers are swimming certain events in high school, it does not mean that they will be swimming the same events here. Michalski said that Dains will swim some breaststroke to start out, and Gernady will stay in the 400 IM. “I don’t like to pigeon hole people in events when they come here,” Michalski said. “I like to explore what they can swim and what they might need a little more developing in.” The women’s swim team is off to a 2-4 start this year and will be heading to the House of Champions at Indi-
ana University-Purdue University Indianapolis this weekend. The women beat Valparaiso two weeks ago in Padovan Pool, finishing in first place in a majority of the events. It will be about a year before Dains and Gernady get on campus and start swimming as Panthers, but Michalski said she and assistant coach Meghan Cotugno are excited to see both swimmers grow in their time at Eastern. Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
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Eastern falls to Loyola-Chicago in overtime By Elias Albert Staff Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern women’s basketball team fell short to Loyola-Chicago, 86-75, in overtime despite coming back from an 11-point deficit. With the loss, Eastern falls to 1-2 and has now lost two games in a row. It is also the second-straight home game that went to overtime. Coach Debbie Black said she was disappointed in the close loss, but she was happy with the effort that her team put forth. “It was tough to come up short even though we fought hard to get back into the game,” Black said. “I thought we played well enough to win the game, but it wasn’t enough.” Eastern had a 68-65 lead over Loyola-Chicago with time winding down in the fourth quarter. Sophomore forward Grace Lennox fouled Loyola-Chicago sophomore guard Sam Lambrigtsen with just five seconds remaining. Lambrigtsen hit all three of her free throw attempts to send the game to its eventual overtime. Black said her team tried to put the game away but could not use up enough time. “We went on the attack on those final possessions,” Black said. “All we needed to do was hold onto the ball and force them to foul us.” In overtime, Eastern was outscored, 18-7, despite holding a lead at the 3:06 mark of the period. Black said her team just lost control of the game, and Loyola-Chicago took advantage of Eastern’s mistakes. “They just managed to pull away when it mattered the most,” Black said. “Their shots began to fall, and we just made too many mistakes.” Throughout the game, red-shirt senior guard Shakita Cox consistently made shots, including two three pointers, on her way to her team-leading 18 points. Black said Cox’s production was a bonus but her 10 turnovers were a downside to her play. “I thought she was playing too fast at certain points in the game,” Black said. “She was a spark for us even though she gave the ball away a few too many times.” Senior guard Alece Shumpert and junior forward Erica Brown posted 15 points each for a tie for second on the team.
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Sophomore guard Mariah Madison drives the baseline during Tuesday’s game against Loyola-Chicago in Lantz Arena.
Brown led the team in rebounds, with 16, to complete her double-double. She also saw 40 minutes on the floor. Sophomore forward Jalisha Smith hit every one of her four field goal attempts and added three free throws on an 11-point night. Eastern shot 41.7 percent from the floor including 55.6 percent in the second half. Their comeback was staged during the third quarter as they outscored Loyola-Chicago, 2517, during the period. Eastern committed 25 turnovers, compared to Loyola-Chicago’s 17, but they did see an edge on the rebounding side as they outrebounded Loyola-Chicago, 41-35. At the free throw line, Eastern was 17-21 for
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81 percent. Following another overtime game at home, Black said the season is off to an entertaining start. “It’s been fun to play in games like this,” Black said. “I’d rather it be a bit easier, but we’ll
work on it.” Eastern will see action again on Thursday at 6 p.m. as they travel to 0-2 Indiana State. Elias Albert can be reached at 581-2812 or at ewalbert@eiu.edu.
Panthers control own destiny following win By Blake Nash Assistant Sports Editor | @Banash5 Last week’s victory by the Eastern football team came at an opportune time for the Panthers. Eastern had lost its first Ohio Valley Conference game to No. 1 Jacksonville State the week before and the hopes for a postseason berth got slimmer. But a 23-21 victory over Tennessee-Martin on Saturday resulted in the Panthers being the only one-loss team in the OVC. A victory over Eastern Kentucky this week will result in a second-place finish in the conference and a possible FCS playoff berth, coach Kim Dameron said. “We are extremely excited to be at this point,” Dameron said. “This is what we fought our rearends off for all fall, a game late in the year with playoff implications.” If Eastern wins, it will be in the running for an at-large bid, but Dameron feels that its record is decent enough for consideration. In the last nine weeks, Eastern lost to a Top 10 ranked Illinois State in overtime, and were defeated by the OVC regular season champion Jacksonville State. “We would’ve been 7-2 in that last stretch,” Dameron said. “Saying that, none of it matters. We’re not talking about that, other than that is where we would like to get to. Our hardest part is just finishing it off.” For seniors such as running back Shepard Little, defensive tackle Dino Fanti and linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill, this will be their last chance to compete in the FCS playoffs. All three were part of the Panthers’ 2013-14 team that made
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Senior quarterback Jalen Whitlow threw six passes for 55 yards and rushed 81 yards during the Panthers' 24-3 loss to Jacksonville State on Nov. 7 at O'Brien Field. The Panthers beat Tennessee-Martin, 23-21, in Martin, Tenn. Whitlow ran for 142 yards and passed for 80 yards during the game.
it to the FCS quarterfinals after being nationally ranked for most of the regular season. Fanti also earned attention from the nation after being named the STATS national defensive player of the week, following the win at Tennessee-Martin, a game that Fanti changed late in the fourth quarter. The Panthers were leading the Skyhawks, 2019, when Fanti rushed through the line and hit
Tennessee-Martin quarterback Jarod Neal. Neal was looking to throw short and to his right, but the hit by Fanti forced the ball to float through the air and into the hands of defensive end Thomas Coronado. Coronado, a senior, raced 45 yards down the field to make it a seven-point Eastern lead. That would not be the last time that Fanti met Neal in the backfield on Saturday.
The Skyhawks scored a touchdown with 4:51 left to play and were going for two to tie the game. Neal took the snap and was forced to scramble. Eventually he went left where Fanti had broken through the line. Fanti brought him down near the line of scrimmage to help preserve the victory. Dameron said he was pleased with Fanti’s performance and said his ability to play up and down the defensive line helps defensive coordinator Kane Wommack strategize for games. “Coach Wommack does a great job of moving him on the line and in the right spot on pass rush situations,” Dameron said. “He is a heck of a young man. He is smart and plays with tremendous effort and intensity.” Fanti recorded seven tackles, including 2.5 for loss and a sack against the Skyhawks. He ranks eighth nationally in tackles for loss with 17, and has already broken the school’s career record for that category. He needs only two more to break the singleseason record. Even with last week’s success, the Panthers are not thinking they are in the postseason yet, Dameron said. They still need one more win and it will have to come against a Colonels team that has only lost two OVC games this season. “We have one more game that we have to win against a team that is used to playing those type of games,” Dameron said. “We are not thinking in any shape, form or fashion that we’re there.” Blake Nash can be reached at 581-2812 or banash@eiu.edu.