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BATTLE OF THE SEXES Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity hosted a forum Monday night that let the women and men compete against each other in trivia.
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Glassman discusses budget, dispels rumors By Analicia Haynes Administration Editor | @Haynes1943 President David Glassman dispelled several rumors about the budget impasse at a forum Monday afternoon in the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The purpose of the forum was to answer students’ questions regarding the state budget crisis that has left Eastern and other public universities without a state appropriation for eight months. “It’s important to me for all the students to know exactly what is taking place at Springfield and how it all works and how it affects Eastern,” Glassman said. Those who attended the forum heard a brief explanation on what has happened as a result of the budget impasse and what will happen in Springfield during the next two weeks. Glassman said the rumors, including the ones about Eastern closing, the school being sold to individuals and the cutting of programs and majors were not true. “We’re still okay,” Glassman said. “We are not closing, we are fiscally solid with an appropriation and we anticipate that we are going to get a appropriation relatively soon.” Glassman said the idea for the forum came after he sent another email to students, faculty and staff reiterating how the budget impasse has affected Eastern and addressing the rumors that have been circulating around campus. Glassman said it was suggested he host a forum to reach out to as many students as possible because the situation is bringing anxiety to them and their families. Glassman said students would hear the same information at the forum that was in the email he sent out. “It gives everybody another opportunity to ask their questions that I might not have addressed in the email and to give you any updates,” Glassman said. “Unfortunately there
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Eastern President David Glassman talks about the budget impasse and what it means for the university during a forum in the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Monday.
(are) not many updates from last week to this week.” Glassman said if an appropriation was not passed then the university would have to restructure their revenue and expense structure to resemble that of a private university but the school will not go in that direction. “If we’re not going to get any money from the
state then we have to make sure that our operations are such that it balances our tuition and fees,” Glassman said. “We don’t think the state wants us to do that because they own the university and that’s why we will get the appropriation.” Glassman explained how public higher education worked and why the university needs the state appropriation in order to keep costs down
and support the operation of the university. Glassman told the audience what Eastern has done to survive after Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed the FY16 budget. Glassman said the university paid for the Monetary Award Program grants using money from the university’s reserves. GLASSMAN, page 5
African-American Heritage events leave impressions By T’Nerra Butler Multicultural Editor | @DEN_News With 29 days to pay homage to AfricanAmerican Heritage, this celebration of it through events has reached its end and students expressed their thoughts about the month. The theme for the year, “The Black Awakening,” was something that stuck with JaLisa Smith, a senior psychology major, who said she thinks the African-American students on campus are not “woke” when it comes to being unified. Smith said when arriving to Eastern as a freshman, the month was a bit bigger. “The climate of the campus is changing so much that people aren’t as aware about the month,” Smith said.
The question of “Are students really woke?” was asked, Smith said. She said in order for the community to be more proactive, the underclassmen need to come out and show their support. Anthony Kyte, a freshman applied engineer technology major, said he attended most of the events, with his favorite being the Untold Truth’s “Chiraq Monologues” because it was relatable. He said he thinks the AfricanAmerican students are aware of the new age of racism in today’s society. “We need to come together as one,” Kyte said. “If we put our minds together, we’d be invincible.” In order to stay “woke” as a community, Kyte said African-Americans need a leader who will push issues. “Black people are not to be reckoned with,”
Kyte said. “If you push us, we will push back.” La’Quierra Briscoe, a freshman business management major, said after experiencing the month she can see that it is a time for students to recognize their history and take time to ponder what their ancestors went through. She said the “Soul Train” party was a great way to have people from different ethnic backgrounds integrate. “This month was to test our knowledge of our black history,” Briscoe said. “We should be telling our history to others, so that it will never die out.” The month is also about digging deeper, Briscoe said. She said African-American heritage is not just Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. “It’s not just about that era in history, it dates back to the early 1900s,” Briscoe said.
“We should have more events like the Soul Train one to bring all the races together.” Events were informative, said freshman business management major Roosevelt Martin. He said many things were brought up during the month that were usually never looked into, including the changing of the Panther logo. “(The message the month) left is that we’re strong as we want to be and we have power behind our race,” Martin said. Kesheena Heard, a senior communication studies major, said the month meant more to her when she was younger. She said now on collegiate level, it is just another month. She said events were publicized and encouraged by teachers.
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Faculty Senate to review bylaw revisions, constitution Staff Report The Faculty Senate will discuss the bylaw revisions from the Feb. 16 meeting, their constitution and the addition of a Textbook Rental Service Committee at their meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Room 4440 of Booth Library. In a letter to the Faculty Senate, Holly Cox, an office support specialist in the office
of the vice president for student affairs, made an attempt to resurrect the Textbook Rental Service Advisory Committee as requested by Lynette Drake, vice president for student affairs. She also asked for the re-appointment or appointment of new representatives for the committee before spring break, which Cox said would be beneficial.
At their last meeting, the Faculty Senate approved bylaw changes and selected a replacement senator. The replacement was chosen after three individuals responded to the call for volunteers the Faculty Senate sent out. Jemmie Robertson, the chair of the Faculty Senate, said the call for volunteers was not the senate’s first option, though they had to
do it because there were no qualified alternatives could serve. Senators approved a change in the way vacancies are filled in elected committees. Last fall, they finished the process of revising our constitution. Another revision made was the role and function of the ad hoc committee on committees.
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Tylor Vannarath, a freshman business major, defends himself during the EIU Sword Fighters Guild meeting on Monday on the Library Quad.
UB hosts 2nd annual video game night By Abbey Whittington Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News The University Board will be having its 2nd annual “You Got Game?” video game night at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Aaliyah Stephen, the UB special events coordinator and communication studies major, said she initially came up with the idea to bring different cultures together to have fun. Stephen organized the game night. “Everyone knows how to and can play video games,” Stephen said. “(This game night) will bring people together to have a good time.”
There will be four consoles used for the game night. These consoles are the GameCube, Xbox One, Nintendo 64 and Wii. “Mortal Kombat” and “Mario Kart” are two of the many games that will be played on Wednesday. Students will be able to duel as characters from the Nintendo video game company such as Princess Peach, Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, Toad, Toadette, Yoshi, Birdo, Wario, Waluigi, or one of Warner Bros. companies’ many “Mortal Kombat” characters like Scorpion, Sub Zero, or Kitana. While the gameplay will be highly competitive, the event will not be crowning any one player as video game champion.
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There will also be prizes given out during the game night, however they will not be given out based on a competition, but by a raffle. Anyone who attends the game night will have their name entered into the raffle, and their name will be drawn to win a gift card. The UB will provide free hot wings, and there is no fee to take part in playing the games. Some other events the University Board has coming up are the “Eastern’s Got Talent” auditions taking place 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the 7th Street Underground of the Union. The UB will also host an open mic night at 7 p.m. on Thursday and a free stand-up comedy show with Nathan
Macintosh at 7 p.m. on Friday. The movie “Daddy’s Home” will also be showing at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Buzzard Auditorium. For more information about the open mic night and the auditions students can contact main stage coordinator Patrick Davis. In addition to the auditions, the UB will be taking submissions for the upcoming Artistry Film Festival at 6 p.m. April 9 in the University Ballroom. To submit works, people interested can contact English major Hillary Fuller. Submissions are due March 28. Abbey Whittington can be reached at 581-2812 or anwhittington@eiu.edu.
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Forum explores gender, college topics By Asia Hall Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Yellow caution tape divided Lumpkin Hall Auditorium with men on one side and women on the other at Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s forum on Monday. As students walked into the gender-divided auditorium, the women of The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs represented for the purple team and the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity represented for the gold team as they all participated in a “Battle of the Sexes.” With a “Jeopardy” and “Family Feud” inspired theme, the ladies of the purple team and the men of the gold team played rock-paper-scissors to decide who got to pick their category first. “Relationships for 100,” the women of the purple team yelled as the infamous “Jeopardy” music played. Phillip Love, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the organization is willing to collaborate with other organizations to make it fun, which is why they collaborated with the ladies of NACWC. Angela Davis, vice president of NACWC, said she wanted to collaborate with the fraternity because she thought the event would be successful and fun. Davis and Justin Earls, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, came up with the idea. Both agreed that the lack of knowledge people have about the opposite sex is the reason they had the forum. Davis and Earls also said they believe that it is something to bring the crowd out as well as make Eastern students participate because of the climate on campus. “The fact that males and females don’t know their counterparts of the opposite sex should be a good enough reason to come out to support (and) learn more,” Earls said. N’Keyah Taylor, a senior health administration major, said she enjoyed participating in the forum. She said she was happy to contribute to the
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Female students taunt the male students during the “Battle of the Sexes” forum on Monday in the auditorium of Lumpkin Hall. The event was hosted by the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
winning team. “I actually thought it was going to be informative, I did not expect a game,” Taylor said. Keeping close score as each team picked from four categories on the Jeopardy board, the categories ranged from relationships, appearance, after hours, slang words and sports. The categories about relationships and after hours got the crowd excited as they laughed at the questions asked. One question for the slang category was, “When someone says something hilarious, you usually respond by say-
ing these words?” As each team deliberated, one representative from each team came forth to quickly press the buzzer before the opposing team. The answer was, “I’m weak/I’m dead.” Davis said the crowd participation was a success. The purple team swept the board, leaving the gold team putting all their earnings on the last and final deal breaker question. The final “Battle of the Sexes” question asked the year Eastern was found-
ed. The gold team said 1865, which was incorrect, so they ended up giving all their points to the purple team. The ladies of the purple team beat the men on the gold team 6,750 to zero. Khayla Kelley-Morton, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major, said she came out to support an African-American event. Love said the purpose of the forum was to increase the knowledge of the two genders with gender-related questions.
“When you leave this event you should really think, I need to know more about the opposite sex,” Love said. Although there were no physical prizes awarded to the winning team, Love said, the real prize is knowledge gained. He said he is happy that students came out and supported the event. Asia Hall can be reached at 581-2812 or avhall@eiu.edu.
City council to vote on electricity proposal By Lynnsey Veach Staff Reporter | @DEN_News The Charleston City Council will decide on a proposal that will affect residents’ choice of electrical suppliers during their meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall. The council will be voting on an amendment to the Electrical Aggregation Program Plan of Operation and Governance. If approved by the council, this amendment would operate as an Electricity Aggregation Program, which is an electricity program
that applies to all residential and business customers unless they choose to opt out of it. Mayor Brandon Combs said the Electrical Aggregation Program allows the city to give residents the option of having a locked rate of kilowatts per hour of electricity. There are also other options to this program if they do not choose to have this locked rate. “Our city manager negotiated a new rate with the new contract,” Combs said. The council will be voting to renew the City as co-guarantor on a loan for
Charleston Carnegie Public Library. According to the agenda, the library is unable to receive financing without the City guarantying the loan. The loan would be from First MidIllinois Bank & Trust for the total amount of $263,091 for past construction that was done in 2010 on the library. “The construction has already been done and we are just locking in the remaining loan with First Mid-Illinois Bank at a good interest rate,” Combs said. “This is not for anything new to be done to the library, (the loan is)
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just paying off debt for what was done in the past.” An agreement between the city and Bushue Human Resources Inc. will be voted on at the meeting. The agreement would be to have Bushue Human Resources Inc. provide insurance consultation services associated with the City’s insurance requirements, with a monthly fee of $708.33 beginning this year on May 1 and ending April 30, 2019. Combs will be announcing the appointment of Steve Bennett to a 5-year term on the Electrical Com-
mission and the City’s appointment of Doug McDermand to a 3-year term on the Fire and Police Board of Commissioners. The council will be voting on the approval of a raffling license for Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1592, to raise funds for the Hutton Masonic Lodge. If approved, tickets will be sold at the Charleston VFW, beginning March 15 through July 3. Lynnsey Veach can be reached at 581-2812 or lmveach@eiu.edu.
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Edgy humor is not funny Recently some comedians have started to say they won’t do shows anymore at universities. Comedians have started to blame “political correctness” for their jokes falling flat or people not finding stale jokes funny anymore. I propose it could be a very different reason that people aren’t laughing at these stand-up comedians’ jokes. It’s quite simple really. Maybe it’s just that they’re not funny? I don’t understand how someone could blame everyone else but themselves for people not laughing at their jokes anymore. People’s taste in comedy changes over the years, and individual tastes in comedy is vastly different from person to person. For a while, edgy jokes made people laugh because of how shocked they were that someone would say something so “shocking.” People don’t laugh at jokes about how annoying your wife is anymore. People don’t want to hear your “ironically” racist jokes or at least not as many people are laughing at them. The idea of someone being gay is no longer a punch line. Comedians need to evolve with the times. Sure they can survive for a while on our parents and grandparents who still think their stale comedy is funny, but when that group stops being able to go to their shows, they’re going to have to say hello to the 21st century. Comedians like Jerry Seinfeld, who in their heyday were at the forefront of comedy, can’t seem to comprehend that in 2016 the jokes they were using decades ago aren’t going to hit the mark anymore. Instead of modernizing their comedy, they decide to blame “political correctness.” It’s not just comedians who blame political correctness on why people don’t like what they have to say. I’ve seen people online make transphobic remarks and when they get called out on it, they blame political correctness for people questioning their remarks. Society is progressing and starting to leave old ideas behind. Your “ironic” racist and sexist remarks are no longer giggled at because people are more mature than they were years ago. There will always be people who think super edgy humor is funny. Most of these people are high schoolers who will eventually grow out of that kind of humor. Eventually we all grow up. People like Dane Cook and Jeff Dunham aren’t funny to us anymore. You can say and believe whatever you want but don’t blame “political correctness” when people respond back against remarks you make that they don’t like. That is an important part of the freedom of speech these type of people scream about when they can’t get away with saying anything with no consequence. Mace Mackiewicz is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or mmmackiewicz@eiu.edu.
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Surround the castle raises awareness Surround the Castle, which took place in front of Old Main on Sunday, was a celebration of the school that brought the community and university together in a way they might not have been before. It was heartwarming and inspiring to see people come to Eastern on a Sunday afternoon and take time out of their day to show their love and support for the faculty, students and staff that are affected by the ongoing budget impasse. Although everyone acknowledged that Eastern is going through a challenging time, along with other state universities, there was a lot of optimism and talk of pulling together to get through this hardship. As Charleston Mayor Brandon Combs said, hardship has been able to bring people together, and it is important to keep up an open dialogue between the university and community during these times. The fact that there were so many people at Old Main that everyone was able to
completely go around the whole castle is impressive. As President David Glassman said, the number of people who showed up and surrounded the castle was incredible, and it was a positive and uplifting day for everyone. The event itself also served as a way to get people to feel a bit more hopeful and a bit less fearful in the face of a lack of funding from the state. According to The Daily Eastern News, Glassman said that the day was just one of celebration for Eastern and what it means for the community and for everyone in the Eastern and Charleston community. While Glassman pointed out and emphasized the fact that Surround the Castle was not political, seeing the amount of people who support and need Eastern to be funded and survive will hopefully spur some legislators to action. And even though the event was not meant to be political or a message to
Springfield, further political action, such as the kind seen at the Fund EIU rally or in the students going to Springfield to rally, is still needed to raise awareness and make sure people know how intense the situation at all state universities still is. These movements have already made progress in getting the word out. After their rally, Fund EIU was trending on Facebook, and many people are becoming more and more aware of how the budget impasse is really affecting the Charleston and Eastern community. While the ongoing budget crisis is ridiculous and utterly senseless, continuing to speak out about it and become activists for Eastern can help boost the campus’s morale and make an impact in the future of higher education.
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Fact check instead of spreading rumors In this day and age, most people will believe anything they are told without checking the facts. I can tell you that 70 percent of all statistics are made up for the purpose to see who will believe it. For my integrity, I’ll tell you that statistic was made up, but how many of you would’ve believed it without fact checking it? People believe anything, and with the way technology has progressed it has become so easy to spread lies and rumors. People may read about something, and without checking the facts, will spread what they read, and this just starts a vicious cycle. You’re probably thinking right now, “how does this affect me and why am I reading this column right now?” This is a problem that actually affects this campus because people take what they hear and tell it to others on just about anything they hear. A common rumor that has been spreading since the start of the spring semester is about the beloved Bamca Mexican Grill. Every few days, people start spreading the rumor that Bamca is closed and or will be closing permanently soon. Once that starts, people start freaking out and posting on all sorts of things on social media about the news they heard. This is something that happens literally once a week, and the thing I always thought was, why don’t you just go ask Bamca about what is going on? To the people who worried about Bamca,
Chris Picazo don’t worry. The restaurant isn’t closing anytime soon, so you can stop starting up that rumor every few days. You’ll be surprised to learn what people will tell if you just ask. But the rumor that seems to run rampant on this campus is the future of the school. People are always saying that Eastern is closing. People say that they are already applying to different schools to be ready when the school shuts down. Where did the information that the school is closing even come about? Every email and news story I’ve read about the future of the school says Eastern is staying open. You can ask any faculty member here, and they will probably tell you the same thing. But once someone hears or reads something, they believe it to be true without checking any other source.
You cannot believe everything you see or read if it is not from a credible source. I wouldn’t consider Yik Yak the most credible or trustworthy social media outlet to get your news from. Fact checking could change everything. You are actually contributing to the problem if you are not actually checking if what you read is true. The most likely outcome of you not checking something is that you will believe it to be true and tell as many people as you can. Then those people will tell as many people as they can and so on. If you do this and help spread rumors of things without fact checking, you’re probably known among your circle of friends as an unreliable person or liar, and that’s not something you want to be known as. There are ways to help stop spreading rumors about the school or anything on campus. Two easy ways to do it is to just double check or go directly to the source. How can you assume something about the school if you asked everyone you know except an actual source? That just doesn’t make any sense. So the next time you see something online or hear a rumor about something, please fact check about what you learned. You’ll be doing everyone a favor if you do. Chris Picazo is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or cepicazo@eiu.edu.
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Graphics RSO educates members By Abbey Whittington Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News The Graphics Technology Club, which is an organization of students who work with industry in conjunction with faculty members, is a registered student organization that allows members to learn the processes and theories related to graphics production. The group meets at 4 p.m. every Thursday in Klehm Hall room 1125, where a one-hour workshop is held for its members. Gabriel Grant, the club’s adviser and technology instructor, said last week the organization worked on specialty screenprinting and members made T-shirts using different inks. The T-shirts had words with UV activated ink in them that would cause the lettering on the shirts to become a darker, more solid color if hit by sunlight. Some of the other letters on the shirt were made with foil from a gold metallic film. Grant said some other projects technology club has worked on are learning how to capture high quality video with drones for promotional purposes, 3-D printing, interactive 3-D photography and high dynamic range photography. The weekly workshops are planned in the beginning of each semester. Grant picks 20 possible topics for workshops, and the members of the technology club vote on what they want to do. “We try to make it as democratic and as relevant to the students as possible,” Grant said. Grant is a member of an organization called the Graphic Communication Education Association that has conferences throughout the year where teachers share can share ideas with each other. It was through these conferences that he was able to come up with some of this
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year’s workshops. Other workshops have been based off of students’ suggestions and research. Grant said members of the club have had many different majors and minors including advertising, print and textile design, business and management. The Graphics Technology Club was created in 2001 and first operated under the name Technical Association of Graphic Arts. Jean Dilworth, who retired in 2009 and Phil Age, who died of a heart attack in 2007, founded the RSO. Grant joined the organization in 2004 during his sophomore year of college at Eastern and has been a part of the Graphics Technology Club for 12 years. He said the group was initially more of a business operation where students designed T-shirts and sold them, however the club has evolved over the years to be purely educational, and they no longer sell their products. “Now we mainly just hold workshops and teach students about graphic technology,” Grant said. “This is good because students get a chance to come in every week with a new topic, and there’s always variety.” While Grant does present some of the same concepts in the organization that he has taught in his classes, the club offers the opportunity to learn about graphics technology to any student. Students who have already taken Grant’s class or those who are already familiar with the content of the workshop can use their knowledge to assist members who have not been involved with that aspect of graphics technology before. “The club is open to anyone who would like to come,” Grant said. Abbey Whittington can be reached at 581-2812 or anwhittington@eiu.edu.
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Until then, Glassman said the university would continue to use their reserves until an appropriation is received. He said there is no set day to determine when the reserves run out because it does not work that way. “Really, as strange as it sounds, it’s a stroke of a pen that brings everything back to normal,” Glassman said. “We have every reason to believe that we are going to get our (FY)16 appropriation before our (FY)17 appropriation.” Brinton Vincent, a graduate student in the college student affairs program, asked if the university would receive both the FY16 and FY17 allocations in the same year. Glassman said though he was not sure what might happen, if the
appropriation for this fiscal year was enacted, then the university will begin to receive pieces of that allocation and those pieces will overlap into the next fiscal year. Glassman said he believes this will happen because he does not believe the states have the funds to give the university the anticipated $40 million all in one lump sum. Glassman said he believes the money will come from a combination of making significant cuts across many areas including the 8.6 percent cut to higher education and raising taxes. Akeem Forbes, a junior English major, asked what might happen to the university if there was a drastic decrease in enrollment. “There are a lot of students that are already talking about leaving
Eastern and a lot of staff and faculty suggesting that students transfer,” Forbes said. Glassman said it is not necessary for students to transfer. He said if there was a decrease in enrollment then the university will have to restructure their budget in order to balance it. Glassman said he has already adjusted all of the expenses for the expected 8.6 percent budget cut. “That’s already taken care of,” Glassman said. “But if it’s more than 8.6 percent that would be an additional cut that I have not worked out yet and so we would have to see what that is.”
round?” Fullerton said. “Are black people are only important in February?” To an extent, all of the students agreed that African-American histo-
ry should not be dedicated to just one month. “You need to be well-rounded,” Smith said. “It should be a year-round thing be-
cause black history is your heritage.”
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Andrianna Fullerton, a junior communication studies major, said the lack of support is one thing she noticed during the month.
She said people have to honor their heritage throughout the year, not just one month. “Why can’t we have it all year-
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The Eastern men’s basketball team will play as the 7th seed in the OVC tournament starting Wednesday. The Panthers will take on No. 6 Murray State at 8 p.m. Eastern finished the regular season with an 8-7 OVC record. Eastern finished the regular season shooting 44.1 percent and 34.9 percent from beyond the arc. Senior wing Trae Anderson was the Panthers’ leading scorer scoring 435 points in the regular season. Sophomore guard Cornell Johnston was the team’s leading assist man with 168. Anderson was also the team’s biggest threat in the paint grabbing 150 rebounds, averaging 5.2 a game.
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The Eastern men’s track team took 1st -place in the Ohio Valley Conference Championship over the weekend. The women took second place in the championship. The Panthers combined for 18 top-three finishes and nine first-place finishes. Eastern also combined for nine first-team All-OVC honorees. Junior Bryn Buckwalter (shot put 48’11”), senior Eric Gordon (heptathlon 4814 points), senior Janie Howse (weight throw 62’03.”), junior Riley Kittridge (shot put 57’00.25”), sophomore Haleigh Knapp (high jump 5’09.75”), junior Riley McInerney (mile run 4:12.56), junior Paxson Menard (5000-meter run 14:52.20), junior John Piper (55-meter hurdles 7.60) and junior Jamal Robinson (200-meter dash 21.69) all earned All-OVC honors.
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The Eastern baseball team will be taking on No. 14 ranked Arkansas March 11. The Panthers have lost their first eight games of the season. Four of the games were decided by two or less runs. Sophomore Josh Turnock leads the team with a .500 batting average. Turnock is 5-10 on the year. Sophomore Cale Hennemann leads the team with 28 at-bats and has a .393 batting average. Hennemann also leads the team with six RBIs. Red-shirt senior Matt Wivinis has 13 innings pitched and owns a 6.23 earned run average.
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Senior outfielder for the softball team April Markowski is tied for the conference lead in home runs with 4. Markowski has half of the Panthers’ long balls this year. Markowski hit six home runs last year total. The softball team is currently 4-11 on the year after starting the season, 3-2. Sophomore pitchers Jessica Wireman and Michelle Rogers have handled most of the pitching duties. Wireman has a 6.71 earned run average. She has 52 strikeouts in 56.1 innings pitched. Senior shortstop Katie Watson is the Panthers’ top hitter with a .364 batting average. She is the only one on the team with above a .300 average. Freshman Kayla Bear has the next highest at .256. On the team’s latest road trip, they went 1-4. PHOTOS BY MACKENZIE FREUND; REPORTING BY SEAN HASTINGS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
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OVC tournament to begin Wednesday By Maher Kawash Staff Reporter | @DEN_Sports The men’s basketball Ohio Valley Conference tournament is set to get underway after a season filled with chaos. The tournament tips-off Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., where an automatic NCAA Tournament Bid will be awarded to the last team standing. Only the top eight teams in the conference qualify for the tournament, and the Panthers will go in as the 7th seed. Eastern will begin action Wednesday night in a rematch against conference foe Murray State at 8:30 p.m. The Racers come into play as the 6th seed in the tournament, after finishing the season at 10-6 in OVC play. As for other teams in the tournament, Belmont comes in as the favorite after earning the top seed. Belmont earned that number one seed after going 12-4 in the OVC, winning the OVC East, and finishing atop the whole conference. Belmont has finished as regular season champions in three of its last four seasons since joining the OVC in 2012. The top two seeds in the conference earn a double-bye to begin the tournament, and automatically advance to the semi-final round.
The other division winner is Tennessee-Martin, who was crowned champion of the OVC West. Tennessee-Martin is the 2nd overall seed in the tournament, after finishing 10-6 in conference play. The Skyhawks will be the other team with a double-bye in the tournament, and will need just one win to advance to the championship. The rest of the OVC held a tight race all season long, and tiebreakers were needed to decide some seeds. No. 3 Morehead State and No. 4 Tennessee State finished the season at 11-5, and earned a first-round bye in the tournament. Tennessee State made a staggering improvement this season, as the team won just five games a year ago. Tennessee Tech also finished at 11-5, but earned the 5th seed after losing the tiebreaker to those two teams. Tennessee Tech will take on 8th seed Austin Peay in the opening game of the tournament at 6 p.m. The winner of that game will advance to the next round, and go up against Tennessee State. Austin Peay snuck into the tournament as the 8th seed, finishing one game ahead of Eastern Kentucky at 7-9. It is also Austin Peay’s first OVC tournament berth since 2012. Morehead State enjoys its firstround bye as the team awaits the
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Junior guard A.J. Riley looks to pass the ball to a teammate during the game against Murray State Thursday in Lantz Arena. The Panthers head to Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday to face Murray State in the first round of the OVC tournament.
winner of Eastern vs. Murray State game. The first round of the tournament takes place Wednesday, while the
quarterfinals are played Thursday. The semi-finals will be in action on Friday, and the conference championship will begin Saturday at
5 p.m. Maher Kawash can be reached at 581-2812 or mwkawash@eiu.edu.
Softball team drops 4 of 5 at Frost Classic By Sean Hastings Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports The Eastern softball team started the weekend with a 9-1 blowout win over Northern Kentucky, but things went downhill from there as they only scored two runs in the final four games. The Panthers had a good start to their season going 3-2 at the Iowa State Cyclone invitational Feb. 1214, but the Panthers have gone 1-9 since then. The Panthers’ lone win from this weekend came by way of a run rule in the fifth inning. All the scoring was done in the first two innings. Senior shortstop Katie Watson hit a home run in the first inning, but the Panthers put up eight runs in the top of the second.
Senior third baseman Haylee Beck and Watson each had two RBI’s in the game. Freshman outfielder Kayla Bear, senior first baseman Kylie Bennett, freshman second baseman Mady Poulter and sophomore outfielder Andrea Roberts each had one RBI. Sophomore pitcher Michelle Rogers got her first win of the season pitching five innings and allowing just four hits. She had five strikeouts and allowed just one run. Tournament host TennesseeChattanooga shut out Eastern, 3-0, in the second game of the weekend. The Panthers out hit TennesseeChattanooga, 7-6, but all of the Panthers’ hits were singles, and the Mocs had three extra base hits. Watson went 3-4 at the plate
and freshman designated hitter Jennifer Ames went 2-4. Despite the losses, the Panthers have been getting contributions from many different players at the plate. Wireman was on the mound for the Panthers and suffered the loss. She went six innings giving up three runs and striking out five. The loss puts Wireman’s record at 3-7. Senior outfielder April Markowski got the Panthers on the b o a rd f i r s t i n t h e f i r s t i n n i n g against Kentucky off a home run to left field. She has four home runs on the year. The lead would not last for too long as the Wildcats would go on to score nine unanswered runs; run ruling the Panthers in five innings. Kentucky put three runs on the
board in the bottom half of the first. Wireman took the loss again. She went two innings, giving up six runs before being replaced by Rogers. Rogers gave up three runs. The Panthers had to play comeback the entire game against Lipscomb. Lipscomb scored one run in the first, second, third and fifth innings. Bennett hit a pinch-hit home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to make it 4-1, but that score would stand as junior catcher Ashlynne Paul would strike out right after. Eastern limited Lipscomb to just three hits, but Wireman and Rogers combined to walk five batters. Things did not get much bet-
ter for the Panthers against MiamiOhio as they were shut out, 7-0. Miami-Ohio put up three runs in the first and the third. Michaela Schlattman of the RedHawks got the scoring started with an inside-the-park home run. Johniann Wahl led the RedHawks with three RBIs. She got her RBIs off a single past shortstop Watson and a double down the left field line driving in two runners. Wireman unfortunately took another loss on the mound dropping her record to 3-10 on the year. Eastern will head to the Southern Illinois Coach B Classic next weekend to take on Kansas, Butler and Southern Illinois Carbondale. Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
Baseball team to face Arkansas for 3-game series By Jack Arkus Staff Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern baseball team will have to wait until it faces a ranked opponent to get its first win, as Tuesday’s game was postponed due to soft field conditions. Indiana State was expected to be the Panthers’ first opponent at home this season. The make-up game between the two will take place on April 27 at 3 p.m. at Coaches Stadium. Fayetteville, Ark., is where the Panthers will head for a three-game series this upcoming weekend. Arkansas is currently ranked No. 18 in the nation and will be the second SEC ranked opponent Eastern has seen already this season. Up until this weekend, the Panthers are winless in the eight games they have played, but the run deferential between them and their oppo-
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Redshirt-senior outfielder Demetre Taylor stands ready at the plate while waiting for the pitch during the game against Eastern Kentucky on April 24, 2015, at Coaches Stadium.
nents has not been extremely significant. Half of the games they have contended in have been lost by two runs
or less. As the team slowly rolls into March, games begin to progress and Coach Jason Anderson feels so far
that his team has made no inadvertent mistakes. “We’ve lost eight games, but we’ve been in seven of them,” Anderson said. “This weekend is going to be an extremely tough weekend and a good challenge for us, but we’ve competed well and played well, we just haven’t come out with a win yet.” The message Anderson gives to his team in the winless drought is to keep coming out and expecting to win. Highly energetic is the way Anderson describes the young team that continues to battle each and every game while making quick jumps at the plate to adjust when necessary. Starting senior catcher, Jason Scholl, one of Eastern’s top hitters, was cleated in the eye this past weekend at a play at the plate, forcing him to miss last Sunday’s game. “He received a few stitches and his vision is fine. But he is lucky,” An-
derson said. The team hopes to have him back by this weekend but he remains dayto-day. The small ball aspect of things is allocative to the Panthers’ offensive scheme. Laying down bunts, hitting sacrifice flies, and just coming through with a clutch hit all need to be in a line for every game in order to get runs across the board. Anderson senses right now that is not consistently happening because of his team’s inexperience. With every game comes another adaptation for the Panthers in the early weeks of the 2016 season. The first home game for the Panthers will be March 22 against Robert Morris at 3 p.m. Jack Arkus can be reached at 581-2812 or jtarkus@eiu.edu.