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Todd Bruns (left), the institutional repository librarian and biological sciences professor Billy Hung (right) sit at the Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday in Booth Library.
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The area next to Lefty’s Holler on Seventh Street, was filled with water after the thunderstorms on Tuesday.
Provost Jay Gatrell (left) and C.C. Wharram (right), the director of the Center for Humanities, attended the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday at Booth Library. The meeting looked at Gatrell’s college reorganization plan, which was revealed on Monday.
Stormy weather causes major Faculty Senate raises flooding around city, campus some concerns with college reorganization By Olivia Swenson-Hultz Associate News Editor | @DEN_News
Flooding filled the streets of Charleston following severe thunderstorms on Tuesday. Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, Cameron Craig, an instructor and climatologist at Eastern, said 4.3 inches of rain had fallen so far, but another inch and a quarter is expected. This exceeded April’s average for rainfall in Charleston, which is 3.74 inches. The west side of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, including the Food Court and the bowling alley, were closed as a result of the flooding. They reopened around 3 p.m. Tuesday. “We had to shut down some electrical equipment because water was getting near it. We’ve got some leaks and water running into buildings, but that’s normal from heavy rain,” said Paul McCann, interim vice president forbusiness affairs. Eastern’s Physical Science building lost electricity around 11 a.m., getting it back later that day. Coles, Edgar and Douglas counties are under a flood warning until 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, Craig said. The rest of Charleston suffered from road closings and flood damage as well. Flooding, page 5
Members say issue is with ‘aggressive’ July 1 start date for the plan By Brooke Schwartz Administration Reporter | @brooke_schwartz
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Rushing water pushes through underneath a bridge on Seventh Street Tuesday evening. Severe thunderstorms caused major flooding throughout Charleston and Mattoon on Tuesday.
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The area behind Lefty’s Holler on Seventh Street was left completely flooded after the thunderstorms on Tuesday.
The Faculty Senate raised concerns with Provost Jay Gatrell’s college reorganization plan, which was first proposed Monday, at its meeting on Tuesday. The plan involves the creation of a new College of Health and Human Services, as well as combining the current College of Arts and Humanities with the College of Sciences to create a new College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A big concern for the senate was the aggressive start date Gatrell has planned for; he hopes to have new colleges started by July 1. Philosophy professor Grant Sterling raised the concern of a possible violation of senate bylaws, as it is written that before a big administrative change is made, the senate must have 90 days in advance to discuss the change. Gatrell said he was not aware of the bylaw. Senate members eventually decided the provost had given them as much notice as he had been able to,
given the long planning process that went into the reorganization plan. The timing of the plan, whether in violation of a bylaw or not, was still a problem for Sterling and other senators. “Faculty Senate will have no opportunity to discuss this plan. We only have one meeting left,” Sterling said. “It bothers me that a really major reorganization is proposed at a time when Faculty Senate has no opportunity to see it, think about it and discuss it.” Biological sciences professor Billy Hung said he agreed, especially considering much of the implementation of the reorganization plan will fall into the summer months. “Regardless of the 90 days, the feedback period did overlap with the period where the school is not in session,” Hung said. “That does bring issues about how to bring the comments to (Gatrell’s) attention, or to (Eastern) President Glassman’s attention in a way that would make a meaningful impact as the initial plans are laid out moving forward.” Some senators, such as history professor Bailey Young and family and consumer sciences professor Nichole Hugo, said they did not mind the timeline Gatrell had laid out.
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — A woman opened fire at YouTube's headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday, wounding four people before she shot and killed herself and prompted panic as employees hid and tried to flee, police and witnesses said. Officers and federal agents swarmed the company's headquarters complex in the city of San Bruno as multiple 911 reports came in reporting gunfire. San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini told reporters that the victims have gunshot wounds and were taken to hospitals. A spokesman for San Francisco General Hospital says it received three patients. Spokesman Brent Andrew says a 36-year-old man was in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman was in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman was in fair condition. The hospital was expecting more patients but Andrew did not know
their conditions. Television news footage showed people leaving the building in a line, holding their arms in the air for police to inspect as they were leaving the building. Officers patted down people to make sure none had weapons, and police vehicles surrounded the area YouTube employee Vadim Lavrusik posted on Twitter that he heard gunshots and saw people running. He said he was barricaded in a room with his co-workers before being safely evacuated. Will Hudson said a friend who works for YouTube texted him about the shooter. "I think there might be a shooter in my building," read one text. "The fire alarm went off so we started to evacuate and then people (started) running saying there was a shooter." Northern California's Stanford Hospital said it has received four to five patients, but a hospital spokes-
woman did not have information on their conditions or their wounds. Google, which owns the world's biggest online video website, posted on Twitter that the company is coordinating with authorities. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also said it responded to the shooting at YouTube's suburban campus. The White House said President Donald Trump was briefed on a shooting and that officials were monitoring it. Hudson said his friend made it safely back to San Francisco and was in contact with his family. Hudson said he's become used to hearing about gun violence but has never been so close to it before. "It just feels strange. It feels like it could really be anyone. That's really the strangeness of it," he said. Calls and emails to YouTube representatives seeking comment were not immediately returned.
Russia investigation continues WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explicitly authorized the Justice Department's special counsel to investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman colluded with the Russian government, according to a court filing. Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors included that detail in a memo defending the scope of their investigation, which so far has resulted in criminal charges against 19 people and three Russian companies. Paul Manafort, who led Trump's Republican campaign for several months in 2016, has challenged Mueller's authority and asked a judge to dismiss an indictment charging him with crimes including money laundering conspiracy and false statements. He said Mueller, who was assigned to investigate potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, overstepped his bounds by charging him for conduct that occurred years before the 2016 presidential election. But in their new filing late Monday,
prosecutors revealed that Rosenstein — who appointed Mueller — wrote a memo last August that outlined the scope of Mueller's appointment. The memo, which had not previously been released publicly and remains redacted in parts, said Mueller was empowered to investigate allegations that Manafort "committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials" to interfere with the presidential election. None of the charges Manafort faces alleges coordination with the Kremlin, and Manafort's attorneys had used that point to argue that Mueller had exceeded his authority by bringing charges against him accusing him of various financial crimes and acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of Ukrainian interests. But Monday's filing appears to undercut that argument. In addition to authorizing the Russia collusion investigation of Manafort, Rosenstein also specifically authorized Mueller to investigate any crimes related to payments Manafort received from the Ukrainian
government during the tenure of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The description largely outlines the charges against Manafort, which mostly relate to allegations that he conspired to launder tens of millions of dollars he received from his Ukrainian political consulting including his work on Yanukovych's behalf. Manafort has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing related to Russian election interference. Prosecutors say in their court filing that given their mandate to investigate links between Trump associates and Russia, it was logical and appropriate to investigate Manafort for ties to Russiabacked politicians and oligarchs. "It would also naturally look into any interactions they may have had before and during the campaign to plumb motives and opportunities to coordinate and to expose possible channels for surreptitious communications. And prosecutors would naturally follow the money trail from Manafort's Ukrainian consulting activities," they wrote.
Mattoon evacuates homes after heavy rain and flooding MATTOON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are evacuating homes in the eastern Illinois city of Mattoon due to flooding following heavy rains. The Mattoon Journal-Gazette and (Charleston) Times-Courier report that boats were used to take out at least a dozen people Tuesday. The First Presbyterian Church in Mattoon is serving as a shelter. City officials say everything along Kickapoo Creek is flooding. The heavy rainfall has left many streets and roadways flooded and partially flooded, forcing them to be closed. The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for parts of eastern Illinois. Forecasters say Charleston and Mattoon received between 3 and 7 inches of rain. They say flooding will start to subside but more rain is expected Tuesday afternoon and could renew flooding concerns. Officials say Interstate 57 between mile markers 173 and 198 is at risk for flooding.
Upper Midwest buffeted by heavy spring snowstorm MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A storm expected to dump 10 inches of snow Tuesday in central Wisconsin and southern Minnesota was making April feel more like January. Unrelenting snowfall was expected all day, making the commute home challenging in Minnesota's Twin Cities and other locations. Six to 8 inches of snow was forecast to accumulate in the metro area, where more than 180 plows worked to clear roadways, with 10 to 11 inches possible to the south in Red Wing and St. James, Minnesota. Minnesota Department of Transportation spokesman Kevin Gutknecht said travel will be difficult. The National Weather Service posted a winter storm warning for a large area stretching from southwestern Minnesota east through central Wisconsin and into northeastern Michigan. Snow was expected to mix with rain late Tuesday in Chicago.
TODAY ON TODAY ONCAMPUS: CAMPUS Yoga Flow | 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM | Student Rec Center Circuit Training | 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM | Student Rec Center Informational Meeting: New Majors, Minors, Courses | 4:00 PM | 1210 Coleman Hall All students are welcome to attend the New Majors, New Minors, and New Courses informational meeting. New majors include Television and Radio production. New minors include Radio and Audio Production. New courses include Documentary Filming. Pilates | 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM | Student Rec Center EIU Writing Center Workshop: Avoiding Plagiarism | 4:30 PM | 3110 Coleman Hall HIIT | 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM | Student Rec Center TRX + Core | 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Student Rec Center
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Fraternity, sorority members talk Greek Week plans By Maggie Runge Contributing Writer | @DEN_News Members of sororities and fraternities on campus have been gearing up for this year’s Greek Week. From April 7 through April 15, sororities and fraternities will compete with each other in a range of activities from physical events to community service. There are three main events in this year’s Greek Week: Airband, Tugs and Pyramids. Senior kinesiology and sports studies major Alex Hinzpeter, an Alpha Phi member, said Airband is a competition where sororities and fraternities show off their dancing and choreographing skills. Members of different chapters on campus choreograph a full dance routine to perform. Pyramids is a competition where chapter members discover which sorority or fraternity can build the fastest human pyramid. This event requires participants to sprint 25 yards, build a human pyramid and hold it steady for three seconds. Tugs is the final competition, where participants play a giant game of tug-ofwar over the Campus Pond. Sigma Nu member Jacob Wilson, a junior marketing major, is participating is two Greek Week events this year, Tugs and Airband. He said he chose to participate in these two events because they are the
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Members of Alpha Sigma Tau's tugs team battle against Delta Delta Delta in April 2017 at the Campus Pond. Alpha Sigma Tau defeated Delta Delta Delta with a time of 2:10 during last year’s Tugs competition.
ones he found the most interest in. For Wilson, preparation is the “most important part” of doing well. He spends almost seven hours a week preparing for the Airband competition and another seven hours preparing for
Tugs. Airband practice consists of learning the dance their coaches choreograph, and practicing and perfecting it until competition day. Wilson said his preparation for tugs is
“very physical.” Those participating do not only practice pulling on the rope, but also do exercises to gain physical endurance and strength before Tugs. Kappa Delta member Paige Olsby, a
sophomore psychology major, is not participating in Tugs this year, but she will be getting on stage to perform for her sorority in the Airband competition. Olsby is also the coach for Sigma Nu’s Airband team, and has found preparing for the event as a coach to be a little different than as a dancer. Olsby spends 10 hours a week preparing with her Kappa Delta team and around four hours a week coaching Sigma Nu and preparing them for competition. For the Sigma Nu team, Olsby chose the music, choreographed the dance, helped them decide on costumes and created a script for when she would like the lights to shine on dancers during their performance. All of these things require extra time outside of scheduled practices. For Olsby, this is part of what she has been working on to prepare for Greek Week. “There are a lot of deadlines and dates that need to be handled before you actually perform,” she said. Airband is set for 7 p.m. April 7 in McAfee Gym, Tugs will be over three days, taking place on April 9, 11 and 13 at the Campus Pond and Pyramids is scheduled for 11 a.m. April 14 at Campus Pond. The Tugs final will be directly after. Maggie Runge can be reached at 581-2812 or mgrunge@eiu.edu.
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Students to share work at Graduate Expo Research and Digital Presentation Exhibit in the Doudna Fine Arts Center
EIU Graduate Student Appreciation Day set for Wednesday throughout the city
Staff Report | @DEN_News Graduate students will show off their research at the Graduate Expo Research Poster and Digital Presentation Exhibit. The exhibit is set for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the main concourse of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Easels will be provided for posters, which can
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be dropped off starting at 1 p.m. Tables for digital presentations will be made available. The Graduate Student Advisory Council, the Council on Graduate Studies and the graduate school all sponsor the exhibition. An awards ceremony will follow the exhibit, recognizing the Williams Trav-
el Grant winners; Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award winner; King-Mertz Research/Creative Activity Award winner; the Distinguished Graduate Student Award and the Hamand Scholars. The News desk can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.
This Wednesday will mark “EIU Graduate Student Appreciation Day” in the city of Charleston. This was decided during Tuesday’s city council meeting. A resolution cited the fact that alumni from the graduate schools occupy leadership roles in
different areas and the Graduate Student Advisory Council being named the 2017 National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Member of the Year as reasons for this proclamation. The News desk can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.
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Think before you post, your future may depend on it With technology and social media, we have seemingly unlimited access to information and communication in seconds. And more times than not, we don’t give our own posts a second thought before we share our own information, pictures and whereabouts with our followers and the Internet in general. Facebook resurrects for our generation when we enter college, becoming another landscape for us to share what we are up to—everything from prospective job interviews to nights out on the town. These posts also make their ways to our Instagram feeds, become the subject of our tweets and make debuts on our Snapchat stories for 24 hours. While college is meant to be a fun and exciting time for us both professionally and socially, caution must be taken before we make a post. Although our profiles may have the highest privacy settings or posts expire and are “taken down” on their own after a certain amount of time, that information shared was still seen by an audience and can still be found somewhere in some copied form on the internet. Even if we delete something, it is not entirely gone forever. That is one of the most terrifying and powerful things about the Internet. Social media has become a huge resource for companies and employers to find future employees. Recruiters comb through the social media profiles of potential employees, searching for red flags in order to progress to the next step in their part of the hiring process. A CareerBuilder study reports that 70 percent of employers use social media to screen
candidates before hiring them. Sure, we all have embarrassing posts and statuses we made when we were in sixth grade and too young to have that much access at our fingertips. Those posts, however, are the least of your worries. Here is a list of the kinds of posts and information to check your current social media for and what to avoid the next time you share, courtesy of businessnewsdaily.com: 1. Inappropriate photographs, videos or information 2. Photos of you drinking or using drugs 3. Discriminatory comments related to race, gender or religion 4. Harshly criticizing previous companies or fellow employees 5. Posts linking to criminal behavior 6. Sharing confidential information from previous employers 7. Using an unprofessional user name We all make mistakes and get carried away with our social media. Getting likes, receiving buzz and feeling like people care about what we are sharing is what makes social media so fun to use. However, if used incorrectly, it can do more harm than good. Before you post, consider this: is what you are sharing something you would want a stranger to know? Is it something you would want to see on the front page of a newspaper or magazine? Is it something that defines you completely or are there other qualities you could highlight? The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
A letter to Mother Nature Hey, Mother Nature. It’s me, Kennedy. I have a few things to tell you that I need to get off my chest on behalf of (most) humans. I know for hundreds and thousands of years, we humans have caused some damage to you. Pollution in all aspects like air, water and land pollution from factories, vehicle exhaustion, landfills and everything in between have caused you harm. I want to sincerely apologize for this abuse we have caused you, primarily within the past 100 years. New inventions and new technology have caused us to make very poor decisions when it comes to conserving you and the planet. How can someone be so mean to their own mother? I feel awful. I am guilty of it, as well as 99.9 percent of the humans who have lived on your beautiful planet. I have definitely traveled by plane, train and automobile multiple times…even when walking or biking was an option. I want to say I am sorry. I also have thrown plastic, paper, aluminum and other recyclables into the trash when, indeed, I could have put them in the blue or green bin to be made into something else. I feel awful every time I do it, because I do not want to hurt you. As technology has improved, you now have to deal with our electronic waste. This was not a problem until the past 50 years or so, and I again, want to apologize. This should not be your burden. We should be innovative and find new ways to make sure each and every used cell
Kennedy Nolen phone, computer or technological device finds a way of being recycled. That way, you do not have to deal with the consequences of land and water pollution. I hope you, Mother Nature, accept my apology. I know this open letter to you will not cure the damage to our planet, or change the erratic weather you have been ejecting onto us, but I wanted to show my feelings and support for you. I will do better. I know you have been mad at us for neglecting and abusing you, so you decide it is a good idea to have snow fall one day, be 55 degrees the next and even flood the day after that. I think we deserve this, for we have not preserved you or been kind to you in the past and present, and I am sure things may get worse in the future if we don’t change now. Climate change is real. Let’s try harder. Let’s do better. Kennedy Nolen is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or kdnolen@eiu.edu.
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Extremism is on the rise There has been a disheartening rise in religious, as well as ideological, extremism in America. You can see it in the comment sections of Facebook. You witness it when someone you once respected uses the word “crisis actor” or when a church advocates a political platform “in service of almighty God.” I’m not particularly keen on inviting the ire of these extremists, but at the same time, I’m not in the mood to explain to my grandchildren that I was one of the “good Germans,” either. The problem with extremism in America is that it is a growing reactionary movement to cultural change. That in itself is historically normal, but the extremist factions have amplified societal schisms and resisted these changes to the point of violence. Even more troubling, the extremists’ views have hijacked Christianity much in the same way the Taliban hijacked Islam in Afghanistan; neither are accurate representations of their faith, and both are fueling a culture war. The radicalized conservative “Christian” (we’ll call them Talibangelicals to avoid confusion with real Christians) has married their convictions to politics and extreme ideology. It is the Talibangelicals who allow select Caliphs like news sites or their religious leaders to dictate the terms of their cultural Jihad. They do this by promoting narratives that fear-monger and alarm. They do not seek out differing opinions, because they are secure in their politico-religious views, to the point of accepting and spreading misinformation across social media (and all the unfortunate consequences that come with that). Now again, this isn’t unique to any one group, but once you look at the politics of the extremists, you start to see a familiar pattern: a desire to arm their communities, a heartfelt belief that their faith should have authority in government, an allegiance to a single, often flawed narrative that reinforces their religious and extremist views. You know, ISIS stuff. Now before I go further, I need to address what some of my readers are likely thinking. These extremists are liberal fake news, and I’m instigating a war on Christians. First, you are part of the problem. How long have white conservatives chastised African-Americans for supposedly not “policing their own community and taking care of their own problems?” I’m white and Christian, and so, apparently, are the mass-shooter terrorists and right-wing militant groups that have sprung up in recent years. That’s a problem. I’ve seen the vitriol and the exponential growth of these views, and I want to address it. Now, I’ll be the first to admit liberals can also be extremist. But flavor of the month groups like Antifa and Occupy Wall Street are nothing compared to the power of the Talibangelicals. To further that point, let’s quickly compare America’s extrem-
Colin Roberts ist groups. Antifa, Occupy Wall Street and, well, I don’t know any other extremist liberal groups. Native Americans trying to protect their version of a church? College professors? I guess if you’re the kind of jerk who thinks “Black Lives Matters” is the slogan of an extremist group, that’s one. But radicalized liberal groups are generally working toward the protection of something, be it minority rights, ecological rights or worker rights. Do they always go about it the right way? Oh hell no, but that’s to be expected when you’re fighting for what you believe in and the deck is stacked against you. Now let’s talk about the other side: the MAGAs, the white nationalists, the Twitter patriots and all the other hardline conservative groups. They, too, are fighting for what they believe is right, but they are also better armed, better at information warfare and better funded. Super PAC donors and massive Christian networks, whether they intended to or not, have supplied their supporters with weapons, words and hardline views. I guess my greatest fear is that the God the Talibangelicals believe in is real, that he does want me to give money and efforts to policing marriage, that I should own any weapon and not pay taxes and resist globalism. That a man can act as sinful and vindictive as he wants, but it’s okay as long as he somewhat represents the political needs of the church while in office. That Jesus blesses the faithful with monetary wealth and is also on the side of Western culture. But I don’t think that’s what God is like, and I don’t believe that’s what Jesus taught. I know many who agree. So I encourage the conservative Christian community to get their house in order and denounce radical Christianity. It’s okay if you don’t value my words, as I’ve always encouraged independent research. But America popularized judging the many by the actions of the few. So let’s work towards being a source of good in the world, not strife. Colin Roberts is a senior English major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or clroberts4@eiu.edu.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “There’s a momentum that’s been gathering force over certainly the course of this year, but certainly got stronger this last year with vitalization groups, and I think that it’s important that we stay with the momentum,” Young said. He said it seems that often what happens in these situations where institutional change is considered, there is an instinct to “slow things down.” “But in this case, I don’t have the sense that we’re moving too fast because I think, as has been said here already, that we have been talking about this in various ways and thinking about it and communicating about it (for years),” Young said. Hugo said her department had been on the fence for a while and had been confused about what direction to head in. She added that she is glad there is finally a chance to start evolving her program in the same direction as the campus. Because Gatrell’s plan differs from the Workgroup Review Committee’s reorganization plan, more discussion needs to be had, Hung said, and the success of the new plan will rely on the details that come out of those discussions in the next month. Any feedback on the reorganization plan can be emailed to Gatrell at jgatrell@eiu.edu.
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Curt Buescher, Charleston’s director of Public Works, said residents have significant flooding damage to private property along Towne Branch Creek and elsewhere in the city. Buescher said the private property damage included water in basements, crawlspaces and houses, which impacted the typical contents of a home. Six streets had been closed throughout the day: Eighth, 11th, 12th, 14th and West Polk were still closed at 5 p.m. Tuesday. According to Dairy Queen’s Facebook Page, the restaurant will be closed because of damage to its roof. It will remain closed until its roof is repaired.
Lake Land College in Mattoon reported on its Twitter page that its campus closed at noon Tuesday. Craig said sunshine is expected on Wednesday, with more snow expected at the beginning of the weekend. Craig said the sporadic weather changes are caused by an active jet stream, which is a fast panel of air that fluctuates north and south. “Fast flowing air in the upper atmosphere basically tells us whether it’s going to be cold or warm,” he said. Olivia Swenson-Hultz can be reached at 581-2818 or omswensonhultz@eiu.edu.
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7 Men’s golf team finishes in last place in meet WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2018
By JJ Bullock Assistant Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports Seventy-two shots separated the Eastern men’s golf team, who finished in last place at the Bubba Barnett Intercollegiate Tournament, from Arkansas State who placed first with a team score of –26 par. The Panthers shot +24 par in 18 holes on Tuesday, with sophomore Romeo Perez once again shooting the low score for the Panthers at +2 par. Perez had three birdies on Tuesday, two on the front nine, but added four bogeys to those. Perez finished the tournament at +2 par overall and in a five-way tie for 13th place. Perez said the toughest part of playing today was the conditions, as the wind was blowing in at 28 mph, he said. “I played as good as yesterday, but the conditions were way harder,” Perez said. “It was really windy out there, so I am happy with my score.” To battle the wind Perez said he hit a lot of knock down shots and tried to put the ball in safe areas to in an effort to make easy pars. Sophomore Marco Verdolin shot +5 par on Tuesday to finish at +12 par on the tournament. That put him in a tie for 46th
place. Verdolin had four birdies on Tuesday, but a triple-bogey on the 16th hole all but negated those. Junior Charlie Adare shot +22 in the tournament to finish in a for 66th place. He shot +6 on Tuesday, made one birdie on hole number six, but had seven bogeys on top of that. Eastern senior Alex Gowin followed closely behind him in 69th place, shooting +11 on Tuesday with one birdie, one double-bogey and 10 bogeys. Rounding the Eastern team was freshman Sebastian Olrog who finished in 73rd place at +33 par in the tournament. Olrog shot +17 on Tuesday with a triplebogey and two double-bogeys on his scorecard. Perez felt the lack of practice Eastern had in the winter hampered the team. “The field was the strongest field we play all year with conference,” Perez said. “We just need to avoid big numbers and we’ll do better.” Arkansas State’s Matthew Cole won the tournament individually shooting –10 par in the tournament. He shot –3 par on Tuesday with four birdies and one bogey. Cole finished with a two-stroke lead over Hunter Richardson of Tennessee-Mar-
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Individual standings
1.)Arkansas State (-26 par, 838)
1.) Matthew Cole, ASU (-10 par, 206)
2.)Arkansas State (B) (+3 par, 867)
1.)Hunter Richardson, UTM (-8 par, 208)
3.)Oral Roberts (+7 par, 871)
3.)Peyton Wilhoit, SIU (-7 par, 209)
4.)Texas-Arlington (+9 par, 873)
4.)Joel Wendin, ASU (-5 par, 211)
5.)Missouri State (+12 par, 876)
5.) Mike Biata, OR (-4 par, 212)
6.)Tennessee-Martin (+14 par, 878)
5.)Tanner Gore, UTA (-4 par, 212)
7.)Southern Illinois (+17 par, 881)
7.)Cody Burrows, OR (-3 par, 213)
8.)Austin Peay (+23 par, 887) 9.) SE Louisiana (+28 par, 892) 10.)Belmont (+30 par, 894) 11.)Florida Atlantic (+33 par, 897) 12.)Samford (+45 par, 909) 13.)Omaha (+47 par, 911)
7.)Andrew Huseman, ASU (-3 par, 213) 9.)Jakub Bares, ASU (-2 par, 214) 10.)Zan Luka Stirn, ASU (-1 par, 215) 11.)William Meyers, SEL (0 par, 216) 12.)Tanner Napier, ASU (+1 par, 217)
14.)Eastern (+58, 922)
13. Romeo Perez, EIU (+2 par, 218)
tin who shot –4 par on Tuesday with seven birdies, one double-bogey and one bogey. Arkansas State won the tournament by 29 strokes, shooting –26 par, ironically placing first over Arkansas State’s B-team which finished in second at +3 par.
Arkansas State’s B-team finished four strokes ahead of Oral Roberts who placed third. JJ Bullock can be reached at 581-2812 or jpbullock@eiu.edu.
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Different backgrounds shape Panthers By Dillan Schorfheide Women’s Tennis Reporter | @DEN_Sports Eastern is no stranger to international and out-of-state athletes. These athletes have made names for themselves as Panthers and have become key players for their respective teams. For example, Grace Lennox, the senior point guard on the women’s basketball team, is from Hobart, Tasmania. But no other team at Eastern can boast the same unique identity that the women’s tennis team has: not one player is from Illinois. Every other athletic team at Eastern has at least one of its players from various parts of Illinois (the men’s golf team is close, but senior Alex Gowin is from Charleston). Four players from the women’s tennis team are international players, while the other five are from four different states. Srishti Slaria, a junior from Hyderabad, India, has the second-longest trip to get home from the U.S. (sophomore Stella Cliffe has to fly a couple hours longer to get back to Auckland, New Zealand). “I dread the traveling part the most,” Slaria said. “I usually take a direct flight home which is about 15 hours long. And as luck would have it, I am a pathetic sleeper while traveling, and so by the end of the journey I am so tired that I can’t even think properly.” Not to mention, Hyderabad is approximately 10 and half hours ahead of Charleston, so Slaria said her sleep schedule is disrupted completely when she travels. But playing with her teammates is an experience Slaria loves. Because everyone is from a different area, she likes the different perspectives everyone has. “For me, life is an amalgam of experiences, and the more diverse the expe-
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Sophomore Stella Cliffe hits a forehand in her doubles match with partner Grace Summers. Cliffe and Summers won 6-4. The women’s tennis team does not have a player from Illinois, but all agree the different backgrounds have helped them grow together.
riences, the better and more challenging life,” she said. “If everyone does things the same way, then it will get boring.” Freshman Claire Martin agrees with Slaria and enjoys the diverse background each player has. Both said they have gotten to learn about the different places everyone is from, and Martin believes the diverse backgrounds helps the team. “I think by being from other countries and not all from the Midwest or
somewhere nearby adds another aspect to the college experience,” Martin said. Martin is from Chesterfield, Missouri, but she is able to have some common ground with junior Abby Carpenter, who is from 18 minutes away in Wildwood. “(The topic of our backgrounds) comes up especially when it’s around a major break when people start going home,” she said. “Also just in casual conversations someone will talk about something back from their home
that’s either similar to or different from here.” Hometowns are not the only differential between the players, as sophomore Shelby Anderson, from Lake Elmo, Minnesota, has another sport in her portfolio: she played one year of hockey in high school. Even though the athletes can share their backgrounds, the difference in travel time will always be something only some of the players can relate to each other about. Freshman Rachel Pa-
pavasilopoulos who, by car, has approximately a 17-hour ride home to Boca Raton, Florida. Even though it is a tiring journey, Slaria loves going home when she can. “I keep joking my teammates that if I went back home for a long weekend holiday, I’d have to land and take off immediately in India to be back in time,” she said.
Dillan Schorfheide can be reached at 581-2812 or dtschorfheide@eiu.edu.
Eastern baseball team staying busy on off days By Adam Shay Baseball Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Panther baseball team has been left with multiple days off as a result of late March and early April showers. Baseball players usually do not have off days due to single weekday games, or weekend series that last from Thursday to Saturday, or like last weekend, Friday to Sunday. The constant practices on those scheduled off days are what the players are used to. On days when a game is canceled due to snow, players are given the rare chance to choose how to spend their off days. Some may play Fortnite, some may use their free time to practice, but days like Tuesday give players a chance to focus on themselves. “Off days are mainly for recovery, school work or doing some other hobby to give the mind a break from baseball,” said senior pitcher Michael Starcevich. “But, it’s also a good day to improve on something specific that you need to work on in preparation for the next games.” For Starcevich, he said he enjoys shooting hoops and hanging out with his teammates. Also, when he is with the guys, aside from physical activity, they will stay in and watch a movie or T.V. series, such as the series WACO. However, a true day off with no baseball is not happening for the
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Senior Andrew Curran throws the ball over to first to get the Tennessee Tech runner. Eastern had its Tuesday game against Illinois State rained out.
Panthers. Coming off being swept by Tennessee Tech last weekend, the Panthers were hungry to get back to work and have practice Tuesday night
from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Baseball is a long season, given that injuries will happen between midFebruary to mid-May. Rest is essen-
tial for players, but even if there is not a scheduled practice, players like junior pitcher Carson Haws still log in their own personal practices.
“We have practice tonight, but when we get days off, I usually spend it taking care of my body and resting,” Haws said. “I’ll play light catch or get a light lift in if I’m feeling good. It’s basically a day for recovery.” To take care of his body, Haws goes for treatment in the training room, working on sore areas with stim, pads that send electricity through muscles, causing them to contract and relax. Once that is finished, Haws ices, stretches and returns home to catch up on homework and relax. As for redshirt junior catcher Josh Turnock, his focus is catching up on end of the semester papers and projects. Once that is finished, Turnock said it is always a good idea to get in with the athletic trainer if there is anything bothering him physically. Regardless of having practices, off days, or games, it is rare for baseball players to be separated from one another. One thing is for certain though, the Panther baseball team is as close to family as it gets. “The teammates hang out all the time,” Starcevich said. “All of us are really close and rarely do things without each other.” The Panthers’ next series will take place at Camp Girardeau, Missouri, against Southeast Missouri in an OVC battle. Adam Shay can be reached at 581-2812 or acshay@eiu.edu.