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Students participated in “Prowlin with the Prez: Presents with the Prez,” Monday evening by creating ornaments and cards that will be given to assisted living homes.
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Terrorism suspected in attack at Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by a police officer. Police said they were investigating whether it was a terrorist attack. Eleven people were hurt, one critically. The attacker was identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan. He was born in Somalia and was a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to a U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the case and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The FBI joined the investigation. The details emerged after a morning of conflicting reports and confusion, created in part by a series of tweets from the university warn-
ing there was an “active shooter” on campus and students should “Run Hide Fight.” The warning was prompted by what turned out to be police gunfire. Police vehicles and ambulances converged on the 60,000-student campus, and authorities blocked off roads. Students barricaded themselves inside offices and classrooms, piling chairs and desks in front of doors, before getting the all-clear an hour and a half later. Ohio State University police Chief Craig Stone said the assailant deliberately drove his small Honda over a curb outside an engineering classroom building and then began knifing people. A campus officer nearby because of a gas leak arrived on the scene and shot the driver in less than a minute, Stone said.
Most of the injured were hurt by the car, and at least two were stabbed. One had a fractured skull. Columbus police Chief Kim Jacobs, asked whether authorities were considering the possibility it was a terrorist act, said: “I think we have to consider that it is.” Leaders of Muslim organizations and mosques in the Columbus area condemned Monday’s attack while cautioning people against jumping to conclusions or blaming a religion or an ethnicity. “It is particularly heartbreaking to see this random act of violence come to this community I hold so dear,” said Ohio State graduate Nicole Ghazi, who is active in Islamic organizations. Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car
by himself just before the attack, but investigators are looking into whether anyone else was involved, police said. The bloodshed came as students were returning to classes following the Thanksgiving break and Ohio State’s football victory over rival Michigan, which brought more than 100,000 fans to campus on Saturday. “There were several moments of chaos,” said Rachel LeMaster, who works in the engineering college. “We barricaded ourselves like we’re supposed to since it was right outside our door and just hunkered down.” LeMaster said she and others were eventually led outside the building and she saw a body on the ground. Classes were canceled for the rest of the day.
Additional funding to be used for operations By Cassie Buchman News Editor | @cjbuchman
The $5.6 million Eastern is set to receive from the Illinois Board of Higher Education will be used to manage the university’s funds and for other operational expenses. According to the Chicago Tribune, members of the Illinois Board of Higher Education recently approved giving $17 million to Eastern, Western Illinois and Chicago State University. Eastern would receive $5.6 million of this, while Western would get $8.4 million and Chicago State would receive $3 million. The $5.6 million would be used for operations such as employee payroll, which costs the university about $6 million a month, Paul McCann, interim vice president for business affairs said. It would also cover any deficit the university has for the rest of the year, McCann said. “(The money) will just help us manage our funds better,” he added. “We’ll have a little bit more money to deal with.” In an email, Eastern President David Glassman said Eastern will continue to manage its finances through the next stopgap appropriation, or full appropriation if a state budget is enacted. Eastern was slated to receive $26.2 million from a stopgap budget passed in June. S o f a r, t h e u n i v e r s i t y h a s v o u c h e d for $24.9 million of that stopgap, with another $1.3 million yet to be received. “We haven’t vouchered all that yet because it’s utilities,” McCann said. “We’re waiting to accumulate enough dollars to do that.” After this stopgap and funding from the IBHE, the university will have the rest of the tuition funds. The university’s reserves are still at the same level as they were at the beginning of the year- about $3 million. McCann said the university is trying to get the amount of money from the state as high and as close to the $42 million the university would get if a budget was passed. Funding, page 5
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Christian Johnson, a sophomore secondary education major, plays a mentally and physically abusive partner while Keyana Latimer, a junior sociology major, plays the victim of this abuse, as part of a creative monologue, during the “Hear My Cry” event Monday in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Showcase unmasks victim’s stories NACWC organization pays tribute to victims of police brutality By Mallory Kutnick Staff Reporter | @DEN_News As incidents of police striking down African-Americans continue to breach the public eye, an academic advisor for Eastern’s Gateway Program stated Monday for fairer representation within the media. “There’s an African proverb that states, ‘Until the story of the hunt is told by the lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter,’” Yolanda Williams, academic advisor, said in a speech during the second annual “Hear My Cry” event Monday night. “Hear My Cry,” hosted by the National Association of Colored Women’s Club, focuses on the stories of black women harmed or slain by police, including Naperville resident Sandra
Bland, who died in a jail cell in Texas after being arrested on a traffic violation. “The story is always going to be onesided,” Williams said. “So until the history of Africa is told by Africans, the story of greatness will always glorify imperialists – the white people.” Asked who was telling their stories, the audience chimed in with responses of “media” and “others,” but the answer on Williams’ tongue was “the lion.” “With access to social media, we are being able to tell our own stories,” Williams said, “And where sometimes our stories, to us, seem to be cut and dry, to others – the police, white people, the media – our stories are deemed more complex or complicated because our stories are muddied with how others perceive us and our own reality.” Despite this, Williams pointed the audience to The Counted, an interactive database of people killed by the police in the United States in 2015 and thus far in 2016. According to The Counted, police took the
lives of 229 African-Americans in 2015, out of a total of 1,146 victims. Williams said the information The Counted provides is crucial knowledge. “Hear My Cry” also featured a performance highlighting the troubles of an abusive relationship and tributes to multiple female victims, ending with a moment of silence. The issue of police brutality hits particularly close to home for NACWC President Kayla Slusher, whose mother is an officer and, though now on desk duty, works alongside people affected by the consequences of police brutality. The NACWC goes by the motto of “uplifting women and youth” and is a new club on campus. Community health major Shantel Hatcher, the club’s public relations chair, said they aim to develop bonds within the community. Corporate communication major Kendall Hurst added that they also aim to bring the community closer. Showcase, page 5
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A presentation on the evolution of salsa music will be given by Rose Cloud, a senior music education major, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Black Box room of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. According to the press release, the presentation will track the history and development of salsa mu-
sic from African and Cuban origins. There will also be a live band with Eastern students and music professor Jamie Ryan. “Cloud became interested in salsa music and dance when she studied abroad in Ecuador in 2014 and decided to combine her love of music and Spanish in her capstone project for the Departmental Honors in Music program,” the
press release said. Cloud is a tutor for Amigos and Friend, a counselor at Eastern’s Spanish Immersion Camp and is finishing her second semester of study in Latin music and percussion with professor Ryan. Her goal is to become a bilingual music teacher, according to the press release. Before the presentation there
will also be a basic salsa dance lesson at 7 p.m. The presentation and dance lesson are free and open to everyone. The Daily Eastern News can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.
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Mosul conflict challenges Iraqi Military BAGHDAD (AP) — When Iraq’s top generals finalized the plan to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group, they gave themselves six months to finish the job. Six weeks into the battle, the force made up of 50,000 troops, Shiite and Sunni tribal militias and Kurdish fighters is a long way from winning back the country’s second-largest city. The fight is showing the limitations of Iraq’s military and security forces, suggesting it has still not fully recovered from the collapse it suffered
two years ago in the face of the militants’ blitz across much of northern and western Iraq. As expected, IS militants are tenaciously defending their last major foothold in Iraq, and the 1 million civilians who remain inside prevent the use of overwhelming firepower. But what is alarming, according to Iraqi field commanders, is that the progress so far has been lopsided. The battle-seasoned special forces are doing most of the fighting and slowly advancing inside the city. Other mili-
tary outfits are halted outside the city limits, unable to move forward because of resistance, battle fatigue, inexperience or lack of weaponry suited for urban warfare. Another major challenge for the Iraqis is the command of large and disparate forces maneuvering for a coordinated assault on a large city, according to retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, the top American soldier in northern Iraq during the troop surge of 2007-2008. The special forces are under con-
siderable pressure to push on, slugging it out through treacherously narrow streets and alleys while enduring a daily barrage of suicide bombings and mortar and rocket shells. The special forces have driven IS militants from about 15 of eastern Mosul’s estimated 39 neighborhoods, some of which are no more than a handful of blocks. Their progress to date places them about 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) from the Tigris River, which divides the city in half.
Order could have little effect on protesters BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A government order for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for months to oppose the $3.8 billion project. A North Dakota sheriff on Monday dismissed the deadline as a meaningless move aimed only at reducing the government’s legal responsibility for hundreds of demonstrators. The Army Corps of Engineers “is basically kicking the can down the
road, and all it is doing is taking the liability from the Corps and putting it on” the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said. The Corps said last week in a letter that all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed to the public for “safety concerns” starting Dec. 5. The order includes the encampment called Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp. The agency cited North Dakota’s oncoming winter and increasingly contentious clashes between protesters and police. But in a statement issued late
Sunday, the Corps said it “has no plans for forcible removal.” Anyone on land north of the river, including the main protest camp, after the deadline may be prosecuted for trespassing. The 1,172-mile pipeline is nearly complete except for a small section beneath a Missouri River reservoir near the encampment, which is about 50 miles south of Bismarck. Opponents, who call themselves “water protectors,” worry about potential effects on drinking water on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and farther downstream on the Missouri River, as well as destruction of
cultural artifacts, including burial sites. They also believe the land near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers is still rightfully owned by the Standing Rock Sioux under a nearly 150-year-old treaty. County and state officials have been seeking federal law enforcement help for months and were initially buoyed by the Corps’ order for protesters to move off the land. The agency’s later announcement that it would not forcibly evict any demonstrators dampened hopes that the issue would soon be resolved, Morton County Commission Chairman Cody Schulz said.
U.S plane leaves for Cuba in historic flight MIAMI (AP) — Just three days after the death of Fidel Castro, the first regularly scheduled flight to Cuba’s capital in more than a halfcentury has left from Miami. Several airlines began routes
to other Cuban cities earlier this year; Monday morning’s flight was the first of the new Havana-bound service and the first of four daily flights American Airlines plans out of Miami International. The Miami Herald reports Jet-
Blue will start twice-daily service from Orlando on Tuesday and Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday. On Thursday, Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines begin flying from Fort Lauderdale and Delta flights will take off from Miami, New York’s
JFK airport and Atlanta. Southwest starts daily service from Fort Lauderdale on Dec. 12. The flights were made possible under newly restored ties between Cuba and U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration.
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3 Workgroup no. 8 debates signature programs TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016
By Analicia Haynes Managing Editor | @Haynes1943 Identifying the criteria and process for establishing signature programs and how the colleges will have a role in the programs was discussed at the Academic Visioning Workgroup I meeting Monday. Jeff Stowell, psychology professor and workgroup chair, said his impression was that everybody was kind of OK with saying that suggestions the members originally created were good suggestions for identifying these programs. Stowell said his concern had to do with how the colleges will have a say in what it takes to be a signature program and recommended to different reviewing committees. “Each college should have the opportunity to contribute to our portfolio of signature programs,” Stowell said. “So that means that you can either have a college level review committee in addition to a broader umbrella committee who makes the final decision on what is considered a signature program.” Members also focused their attention on the actual process of choosing these programs and how they would find the criteria for them. Kelly Miller, the interim director of admissions, asked Ryan Hendrickson, the interim dean of the
graduate school, what the graduate school did when identifying its “first choice” programs. First choice means that a graduate program meets the highest standards of study at Eastern by achieving certain criteria based on the mission of graduate education. Hendrickson said the school has 13 first choice programs that were all identified by members of the Council of Graduate School Studies. He said the criteria were created by the CGS and the process was a combination of forces that came together to determine what program received first choice. Amy Rosenstein, a special education professor, asked why the workgroup could not use the same criteria as the CGS used for identifying first choice programs. “So looking at the first choice information, I think it makes sense and it’s applicable to the undergraduate program so I don’t know why we couldn’t use the same criteria,” Rosenstein said. “We might be able to tweak it a little bit if it really needed it but looking through it I don’t know why it would be.” However, Nora Pat Small, the interim chair of the history department, said before members can establish the criteria for a signature program they have to decide what the definition is first.
Stowell said the working definition of a signature program, which he included in his draft of the report, is a degree program or collection of degree programs that “epitomize your institutions mission and define its distinctiveness in the market place.” Stowell said signature programs can also be used as a marketing tool to help boost enrollment in high interest majors. Pat Small said the criteria established for the first choice programs had nothing to do with our distinctiveness in the market place, it was strictly about the expectations and the quality at the graduate level. Britto Nathan, a biology professor, said his concern is more about not making any other program less marketable. Stowell said he understands that concern and said the Eastern President David Glassman does want to tout programs for marketing purposes. “I can’t imagine us in this report devising specific criteria but if this is epitomizing the institutions mission and defining distinctiveness in the market place do we turn this over to the colleges and say this is what we’re looking for you chairs, you deans, identify however many (programs) that meet this,” Pat Small asked. Stowell said that is his thinking
and offered two more options. The workgroup would allow the college to create their own criteria that falls under an umbrella like this or they could come up with some standard criteria across the colleges. Stowell said each college would identify three or four programs, though that is not guaranteed. Because Stowell said the president wants the criteria they plan to use, Nathan said they could write the criteria based on the first choice programs criteria and what they found from Western. Stowell said members should focus on identifying the criteria they are happy with and a process they can recommend for the next two weeks. Stowell then asked Hendrickson what he thought was a logical choice for evaluating signature programs. Hendrickson said he would look to faculty input and suggested the workgroup conduct an open survey for all faculty and students to suggest what they think qualifies as a signature program. Rosenstein said having a survey could get tricky because how much more students would know about other programs outside of their own. “They’re only going to know about their own program,” Rosen-
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stein said. “If we have this criteria but you only know what you know about your own program how do you get the information to make a valid decision.” Hendrickson said they can hope that not everyone will be as parochial as Rosenstein described and said the survey would function as just one tool for the workgroup that could potentially help them. “For somebody who does survey research this is scaring me to death,” Rosenstein said. Workgroup members said they can wait till January before thinking about having a survey. In the meantime, they said they would work on developing recommendations for establishing the criteria for signature programs. The preliminary report for the workgroup is due Dec. 15 and Stowell said he will include what they discussed in the report. Rosenstein also gave a presentation regarding the redesign of the special education program and offering an education doctorate to help students be more marketable in the workforce. Analicia Haynes can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu.
Panthers to use ‘Giving Tuesday’ to show school pride By Kalyn Hayslett Editor-in-Chief | @DEN_news Eastern will join thousands of organizations that participate in the global philanthropy campaign #GivingTuesday by encouraging Alumni to donate money as well as promote students, faculty and staff members’ experiences on social media platforms. Josh Reinhart, director of the annual fund, said that this would be the first time Eastern will participate in the campaign that was established five years ago. “EIU has a very broad base of friends and donors that would be enthuiastic about supporting EIU through Giving Tuesday so we
thought it was a perfect time to participate,” Reinhart said. Besides donating money to the university, anyone can share their experiences by writing posts about their time at Eastern with the hashtag GivingTuesdayEIU. The primary social media platform will be Facebook but people can still participate by sharing and using the hashtag on Instagram and Twitter. The main Facebook pages include the official Eastern Illinois University page and the Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association page. “One of the ways we think Giving Tuesday will be successful is participations of our students,
alumni, our friends and information and positive stories about EIU to sort of reinforce the reputation Eastern already has,” Reinhart said. The department of University Marketing and Creative Services have created graphics and media that can be shared on social media as well. Reinhart said one way to assess if the campaign is a success is by checking the number of participants, shares, likes and comments on the Facebook pages. “I think one of the opportunities Giving Tuesday will give Eastern Illinois and everyone it touches is a chance to share how Eastern has impacted their lives in a positive way whether it’s a current stu-
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dent, an alumni or perhaps a friend from the institution,” Reinhart said. “One thing we are sure of is that there are hundreds of wonderful stories available about how great an institution EIU is.” The campaign will serve as a marketing tool to express the quality of the classes, different programs and services people have used on campus. “In the Eastern community we are very aware of the wonderful programs and services we have and the education our students get,” Reinhart said. “It’s certainly a way to market what we do to a larger audience to also share the information that is not well-known.” The organizers include staff
members from Alumni services, development team, and the marketing and communication department. Tuesday morning there will be a surprise announcement shared on Eastern’s official Facebook pages that will help encourage members to contribute to the campaign according to an email President David Glassman shared. “We are optimistic about it because EIU has many good things happening in every department around the campus,” Reinhart said. “We hope people latch on to the campaign to share it.” Kalyn Hayslett can be reached at 5812812 or kehayslett@eiu.edu.
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Sierra Falk
Supportive friends, staff deserve our true thanks As I sit here stress-eating jalapeño flavored potato chips off of my stomach, I realized that I am beginning the draft of my final Daily Eastern News opinion article. I could not think of a more appropriate outlet to express my final thanks for the amazing people I have met at Eastern and the plentiful opportunities that have been presented to me because of those people. From my freshman year living at Weller Hall, thank you to my floormates who, although tempted, did not smother me in my sleep. I am mainly referring to those nights where I kept you all awake due to the cacophony of my notable hyena-esque laughter, sticking my legs through the arm holes of my hoodie and attempting to run down the hallway like the strange creature I am. Also thank you to the Weller Hall BSW for making all of my groggy morning classes just a little more bearable with your daily, “Hello, how are you?” Thank you to campus dining halls for providing the delicious convenience of ready-to-eat food, a delicacy which I took for granted when I was forced to cook my own meals junior and senior year. Thank you to the entire English department for looking at your class roster and internally screaming as you read my name. Thank you for your patience as you stood deliberately in front of the classroom, silently begging for participation from anyone besides me (who often makes a low-effort attempt to break the silence by flipping to a random page, reading a line, and asking a question about it). While we are on the subject, thank you for teaching me the valuable skill of improvisation. Also, it is not you… it is the fact that somehow you made the decision to incorporate Jane Austen into 50 minutes of my day that I will never get back. Thank you to the members of my sorority, who know that I will never be the person to fall into the traps of the cliché sayings like “My sisters are my future bridesmaids!” (And who would never hold their breath on being one of my bridesmaids as I am probably too awkward of a human being to marry someone anyway). Thank you for teaching me patience and showing me acceptance. I have never been more comfortable in my own skin than I am now and you were all there to tell me how well it fit me. Lastly, thank you to my close friends and those who I have not met yet. My close friends know where I have come from and those I have not met yet know where I am headed to. I trust that both of you will wish me off with success and as few mental breakdowns as possible. But I will go ahead and thank you for the mental breakdowns in advance and apologize to those who have had to sweep me off the ground in the past. Eastern, it has been a great four years. Thank you for the memories. Sierra Falk is a senior English language arts major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or stfalk@eiu.edu.
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Eastern cannot afford to be a secret any longer It has long been said that Eastern is Central Illinois’ “best-kept secret.” The small, strong little university located in a cozy location with personable professors and a tight-knit community has always been something students, faculty, staff and alumni alike take pride in. However, the university can no longer afford to be a secret. With enrollment down, everyone feels the effects of a smaller campus. Having fewer students affects the tuition dollars the university receives and lowers the morale of those on campus to boot. We commend the marketing and admissions team at Eastern for doing as much as they can and working as hard as they do to get Eastern’s name and brand out there, especially to potential students in times that are so challenging and stressful for public universities in Illinois. It is no easy task. But there are also actions students, faculty and staff can take themselves to boost and help
with recruitment efforts as well, to help out and show school pride. In an article in The Daily Eastern News, interim admissions director Kelly Miller said alumni are writing letters to potential students and students are going through training sessions to be able to speak with their old high schools over breaks to talk about their experience at Eastern. She said that “everyone has been called to action” to tell Eastern’s story and to let prospective students know about its positive aspects. These are all great, personable steps the admissions office is taking to get the university’s name out there, and these are things everyone can take part in. Even without a training session, students can wear Eastern gear and talk to prospective students about what they like about their university. If you see a high school senior wanting to pursue the major you are in, tell them what you like about Eastern’s program. If you love the university enough to want to help grow its en-
rollment, your passion for it will come through in what you say and do. Even posting about Eastern on social media can be effective, especially in today’s technological age. There is no telling where a simple Facebook post, tweet or Instagram photo will go and who it will be seen by. As mentioned before, there are many things the Eastern community is proud of. So why not shout it from the rooftops? In times as dire as these for higher education, it would be remiss to shirk our responsibility and not take every opportunity there is to do our own recruiting. Even and especially with the challenges Eastern is currently facing, the campus community cannot afford to step down or claim defeat. Instead, everyone needs to do their part and make sure our “secret” gets told. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
First day back not a good turn-in date As an English language arts major, I have been taught to take into consideration that the student’s schedule may be pretty jam packed during the holidays. This means that educators should think twice about having big assignments due immediately after a long break because students may not do that assignment. Not just because they do not want to, but because they may not be able to in the chaos of a holiday break. While college is a completely different ballpark than high school, I believe that that logic should still stand for college students as well. If anything, it makes more sense for that logic to be present in a college setting because the breaks are far longer than that of a high school. Now, I am not talking about a 3-day weekend-- I do not believe that to be a long break-but for week long breaks that are meant to give students a chance to unwind and spend time with family, teachers need to be a little more considerate when creating assignments. I know that there is only so much that can be done in 15 weeks, so assignments over breaks make sense, but catching up with work is hard to expect of a college student because that is not
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Alex Bonnot the only thing they have on their plate. For example, when I go home, my breaks do not just consist of spending time with friends and family. I also use those breaks to make doctor’s appointments and to get in as many hours as I can at work. Somewhere in there I also try to fit some relaxing in since it is a break and all, but after all that, I really do not have a lot of time to catch up with school work. Even though we are adults and are responsible for what needs to get done, I really believe that breaks are meant for just that: stepping away from the chaotic nature of college and taking time to yourself. So it can be frustrating when the teachers telling you to take stu-
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dent schedules into consideration are the ones that do not do the same for their own students. Again, I am not saying that that is an excuse for not getting work done because at the end of the day if it is assigned to be due the day after break, you can bet that I will have that assignment in on time. I just think that teachers need to take that into consideration when creating assignments. Maybe instead of having those assignments due at the beginning of class, you can have it due by midnight that way students at least have some extra time to work on it, and they have time to ask some questions in class if something is unclear. Yes, we could ask those questions ahead of time and get the assignment done early, but that is hard to do when you have 4 other classes that require assignments all of their own. So, all I ask is for a little leniency after long breaks, and if that does not appeal to you, then just consider it an early Christmas present that costs no money.
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Alex Bonnot is a senior English language arts major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or agbonnot@eiu.edu.
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5 Faculty Senate plans downsizing, replacement TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016
By Samuel Nusbaum Administration Reporter | @DEN_News Faculty Senate will talk about possibly downsizing and voting on a new replacement for a Council on Academic Affairs member in their next meeting tomorrow at 2 p.m. in room 4440 of the Booth Library.
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Vice Chair of the Faculty Senate Jeffrey Stowell said an item that may be discussed is downsizing the senate. Stowell said senate chair Jemmie Robertson has brought up downsizing the senate from 15 to 12 members. Stowell also said the subcommittees made up of senate members may be combined as well.
“We are looking for a replacement for Marita Gronnvoll while she is on sabbatical,” Stowell said. Stowell said he has found another potential replacement for the CAA from the College of Arts and Humanities. If the vote for this potential replacement passes, then all the vacancies for the spring semester will
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Wiletra Caldwell, a senior psychology major, reacts to one of the numerous signs that showed and told about the minority women victims of police brutality. The particular sign she was reading said a witness testified that the 23-year-old woman who an officer shot and killed begged for her life just moments before the gun went off. Caldwell said she thinks there is a better way to go about a situation rather than shooting someone who might not have been guilty of any crimes.
Their efforts include frequent community service, and they will be hosting a taffy apple fundraiser
be filled. Stowell said the senate is usually proactive in its work, deciding whom to hear from and why but this semester it was more reactionary in how it has operated overall. The senate’s conversations have mainly revolved around how the members should handle the Vitalization project, which is a project
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Wednesday. “It’s all about giving back,” Hurst said.
Mallory Kutnick can be reached at 581-2812 or mbkutnick@eiu.edu.
According to the Chicago Tribune, to receive the money, universities were required by state law to show their fiscal status was at a “financial emergency” to receive the money. Universities also had to show their cash flow statements, cash management strategies, pending debt payments, and an analysis of possible use of restricted funds, the Tribune wrote, but McCann said Eastern has not used restricted funds. “We provided the information IBHE requested, basically cash flow information,” McCann said. Eastern also showed how they have enacted furloughs and layoffs, and other ways the university has been saving and managing its money. McCann said the university is “not necessarily” in a financial emergency, but that was the definition they had when working with current legislation. “That’s the question- what is a financial emergency?” McCann said. “The law doesn’t define that.” McCann said it was attorneys who reviewed the information and said Eastern could proceed with its case. The university provided financial documents to the IBHE, Glassman said, and they deter-
mined it was eligible for additional funding. Though cash flow showed the university could make it through the year end, McCann said they would need to go back through the legislator and deal with the budget again for the following year. However, McCann and Glassman both said they do not think the funding will affect legislators’ movement on higher education funding. “Eastern, like each of the other public universities, will continue our strong advocacy to the General Assembly and Governor for stable and predictable funding of public higher education,” Glassman said. Though the funding was approved, it is unknown when universities will see the funding, as according to the Chicago Tribune, the $17 million approved Wednesday comes from the state’s general funds, which are deep in the red. McCann said the money will have to be requested before Dec.31, and will be vouchered in a manner similar to the stopgap budget.
Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.
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6 Season’s Greetings THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | NEWS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016
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Brandon Berglund, a senior English major, considers what to write on a card he was making during “Prowlin with the Prez: Presents with the Prez” Monday in the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The student-made Christmas cards and ornaments will go to local senior citizens in assisted care facilities.
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Mariah Weghorst, a junior elementary education major, writes “Merry Christmas” on an ornament she created for a local senior citizen during “Presents with the Prez” Monday in the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
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7 Panthers host Braves for first time in 97 years TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016
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By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports Home has been pretty sweet to the Panthers to start the year, the men’s basketball team remains 4-0 in Lantz arena and will have a chance to make it 5-0 when it hosts Bradley on Tuesday. The last meeting between the two schools was in 2012, which resulted in a decisive 76-53 loss for the Panthers. But Eastern has not hosted the Braves since 1919. The game in 1919 ended a little bit differently from what any fan or player is used to today. Bradley took that 1919 contest 19-15. The game was not even played in Lantz Arena. The Panthers and the Braves squared off in the Pemberton Hall Gym. Eastern is riding a three-game win streak coming into this matchup and since losing back-toback games, the Panthers got back on the right track and have since stepped back up to their level of play.
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Junior gaurd Cornell Johnston looks downs court for an open teammate Sunday Nov. 6 at Lantz Arena. The Panthers defeated the Red Devils 94-58 in their only exhibition game of the season.
And in the losses the Panthers suffered, it was a tough one to swallow because Eastern was right there and it ended up slipping away. “I think that we were kind of just sick of losing,” sophomore guard Casey Teson said of the Panthers’ mindset in their three wins. “We all told each other that we were going to lock in on defense and not take any plays off throughout the game.” At the beginning of the season coach Jay Spoonhour and junior guard Cornell Johnston said the junior transfers the Panthers brought in were fitting in nicely,
and that is still standing true. Mu u s a D a m a i s m a k i n g h i s presence known around the Ohio Valley Conference and the NCAA as a whole. Dama, standing at 6 feet 9 inches, is second in the OVC averaging 10.5 rebounds a game and is 16th in the NCAA. Dama’s height and speed has allowed him to make plays down low and block shots. He leads the OVC with 11 blocks and has at least one per game, with a season high of four coming against the Saint Francis Fighting Saints in Eastern’s home opener. Ray Crossland has also played an effective roll on defense and
is quickly making his mark in the OVC and the NCAA. Crossland averages 2.8 steals per game and has recorded 15 in his last four games. His 2.8 steals per game is good for second in the OVC and 11th in the NCAA. The wing has also scored in double figures in his last three games and averages 10.2 points per game. His season high of 17 came against Western. The disruption by Dama and Crossland on defense is one thing that Eastern will need as they attempt to even up the all-time series with the Braves. “One thing that is really impor-
tant is that we keep the pressure on the other team and continue to make them turn the ball over and not let them run the offense they want to run (it),” Teson said. The Panthers have forced 121 turnovers this season and have only turned the ball over 81 times themselves. Eastern has outscored its opponents 435-378 this season and have held its opponents to an average of 63 points per game. Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
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Current number of consecutive wins for the men’s basketball team. After back-to-back losses to Troy and Saint Louis the men have defeated Western Illinois, Troy and South Alabama to bring their season record to 4-2 heading into tonights matchup with fellow Illinois school, Bradley (3-3).
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Number of football players to earn ALL-OVC honors. Devin Church led the OVC with 1,066 rushing yards earned first team honors along with Seth McDonald. Evan Kanz and David Johnson earned second team honors and Mitch Kimble and David Johnson were named to the OVC AllNewcomer team.
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Panthers fall to 4-3 after Monday’s loss By Mark Shanahan Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports The Indiana State Sycamores came out shooting 6 for 8 from 3-point range in the first quarter and never looked back with an 8861 over the Eastern women’s basketball team. T h e Syc a m o re s f i n i s h e d t h e game shooting 57.9 percent from 3-point range and shot 60.3 percent from the field. Indiana State made the Panthers pay with 14 second-chance points and 36 points in the paint on Monday night. The combination of Ashley Taia, Wendi Bibbins and Rhagen Smith gave Eastern problems all night. Taia led all scorers in the game with 19 points while adding three rebounds, two assists, one block and one steal. Bibbins and Smith each had 16 points. The primary rebounders for the Sycamores were Bibbins who had nine and Smith who had six rebounds. After beating Cincinnati and getting blown out by NebraskaOmaha, Eastern coach Debbie Black said they knew this team was going to come out hot. “We knew they were going to come out firing and we just didn’t match their intensity,” Black said. With the loss, Eastern falls to 4-3 on the season and Indiana State improves to 3-3. Junior guard Grace Lennox led the Panther scorers with 16 points and four assists. Senior forward Erica Brown was the only other Panther to reach
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Junior Grace Lennox dribbles the ball while she scans the floor for a open teammate Monday against Indiana State at Lantz Arena. Lennox finished with 16 points in the 88-61 loss.
double figures with 14 points and she led the team with six rebounds. Eastern was out rebounded 3326 in the game and 25-15 in de-
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fensive rebounding. Brown said the lack rebounding reflected the team’s effort. “It is pretty black and white. There is nothing to go around about it. It is just straight up effort,” Brown said. “I feel like we weren’t doing the little things. I feel like were just a step behind and that carried over into rebounding.” Eastern was outscored 29-19 in the first quarter in large part from two 3-pointers from Taia and nine points from Smith. The Panthers fought back in the second quarter and matched Indiana State with 14 points each trailing 43-33 at
the half. Lennox had 11 of her 16 points in the first half. Brown said the Sycamores were using physical play to their advantage in the rebounding. “Every team you play is physical in the post, it is always a battle down there,” Brown said. “On the road there was a couple of bigger girls that I went up against but these girls were using more of their physicality as they were obviously putting in more effort.” The defense is what failed the Panthers throughout the game. “We have to get stops,” Black said. “We’re really good because I think this team is capable of scor-
ing points. They weren’t really stopping us from doing anything, but they still had 43 points at halftime.” Indiana State scored 24 points in the third quarter to jump out to a 67-47 lead going into the final quarter and Eastern was never able to get back into the game with the Sycamores keeping a 20 point cushion. The Panthers will be back on the road to take on Illinois State this Thursday. Mark Shanahan can be reached at 581-2812 or mmshanahan@eiu.edu.
Three-point shooting sinks Eastern in loss By JJ Bullock Women’s Basketball Reporter | @DEN_News The Eastern women’s basketball team was given a spoonful of their own medicine, shooting efficiency, in a 88-61 loss to Indiana State Monday Night at Lantz Arena. Eastern led the Ohio Valley Conference in field goal percentage prior to the game had the script flipped on them by Indiana State who shot 60 percent from the field, including an impressive 11-19 from the three-point line. The Panthers were unable to match the lights-out shooting of Indiana State, Eastern shot just 40 percent from the field, and just 3-17 from beyond the arc. “It always plays a big factor, I mean that’s 33 points and we had nine,” Eastern coach Debbie Black said of the three-point shooting. “We were in a two-three (zone), I got out of that, and we went to the man, and they were still shooting three’s in our face.” “So its huge, if they’re making that kind of percentage we’re in trouble. It’s a long night and it proved to be,” Black added. “And they were beating us off the drib-
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Sophomore Halle Stull looks for a teammate to pass the ball to on Monday against Indiana State at Lantz Arena.
ble, so if they weren’t making three’s they were beating off the dribble.” Indiana State’s three-point onslaught began early; the Sycamores
went 6-8 in the first quarter from three, giving them an early 10-point advantage. “We were just a step slow on ev-
erything today and I don’t know if I have any answers for it, they (the players) don’t have the answers for it,” Black said.”We tried zone, we
tried full-court pressure, to their credit they came out firing.” Getting beat off the dribble was one the largest factors that led to Indiana State getting so many open three-point looks according to Black. “I think the biggest thing then, we talked about it, was they beat us off the dribble, so our second line help had to rotate and I think our on the ball defense wasn’t very good,” she said. “So when they beat us off the dribble they could kick it out and our rotation wasn’t very quick.” The three-point damage from Indiana State came from all over the roster, the Sycamores had six different players make a three in the game. Sycamore forward Taia Ashley was the one that hurt Eastern the most with her efficiency, she shot 8-10 from the field and 3-5 from three-point range, in route to a game-high 19 points. Indiana State’s Freja Christensen was equally impressive, going 3-3 shooting threes. JJ Bullock can be reached at 581-2812 or jpbullock@eiu.edu.