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Faculty Senate discusses Unit B involvement By Brooke Schwartz News Editor | @DEN_News The Faculty Senate met on Tuesday to discuss Unit B faculty members serving on the senate and the possible combination of the Academic Program Elimination Reorganization Committee and the Sanction Termination Hearing Committee. In the senate’s Sept. 4, 2018 meeting, they first discussed Unit B faculty’s role on the senate. Annually contracted faculty, a part of the overall Unit B faculty, make up from one-fourth to one-third of almost every department on campus, with some departments employing more or less ACFs. Although these Unit B faculty members are currently allowed to serve in any position on the senate, there has been historically no involvement from Unit Bs for many reasons. One reason discussed at that Sept. 4 meeting is the lack of incentive Unit B faculty receive compared to Unit A faculty, who are required to serve on campus. Despite this lack of contractual obligation, Todd Bruns, Faculty Senate chair and scholarly communication librarian and institutional repository director, said that in his visits to various departments around campus, when asked, Unit B faculty said they have interest in being a
part of the senate. In this spirit, Bruns suggested making one of the current senate positions a dedicated Unit B position in an effort to better invite those members to serve. Education professor Dawn VanGunten said she is unsure of the point of a dedicated position specifically for Unit B faculty. “I don’t understand; if (Unit B) are eligible to run for all of the positions, why does there need to be a dedicated spot?” VanGunten said. “The invitation is for us to include them in this process, to recruit them, not to dedicate a seat to them.” Bruns said having that dedicated seat would be a stronger invitation. “There’s something about that there is a Unit B seat that seems to really resonate with them. (VanGunten is) right, (Unit B) could have run any time, and they haven’t, they never have, and I point that out when I talk to the departments,” Bruns said. “But what I’m getting back is, they feel like a Unit B seat is an invitation to have a Unit B voice, they feel like there’s something about (a dedicated seat) that seems to formalize that.” Nursing professor Sue Gosse said the senate is getting to a bigger problem with these discussions.
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Eastern’s year in review President Glassman to give State of University address By Analicia Haynes Editor-in-Chief | @Haynes1943 Eastern President David Glassman will give his State of the University Address from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Glassman said in an email sent to the campus community that he will outline this year’s budget, goals and opportunities as well as talk about the “successes” Eastern has had. Year in Review Eastern has seen several changes this year compared to last, including receiving state appropriations, the deployment of a new college reorganization plan that was introduced in April 2018, enrollment increases, a new merit scholarship model and a grant opportunity for future students that is funded by the state. After Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a $38.5 billion budget into law in June 2018 for Fiscal Year 2018-2019, Eastern saw a 2 percent increase in state appropriations. This came after a two-year-long budget impasse that forced Eastern to dig into its reserves, front the money for the Monetary Award Program grants, lay off about 200 employees and establish the vitalization project, which resulted in the new college reorganization plan that was introduced by Eastern Provost Jay Gatrell last April. The Board of Trustees approved the new plan at a June 22 meeting. This plan created a new College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that combined the College of Arts and Humanities and the College of Sciences
and the College of Health and Human Services. This year, Eastern has seen an increase in enrollment according to the tenth day numbers. Overall enrollment increased by 7 percent, and freshmen enrollment increased by nearly 25 percent. In an article from Sept. 4 in The Daily Eastern News titled, “Freshmen numbers up 24.5 percent from last year, total headcount up 7 percent,” Paul McCann, the interim vice president of business affairs, said with the increase in enrollment he has to take another look at the proposed budget. In the article, he said it was nowhere near the initial 9 percent decrease he originally predicted at a June 22 Board of Trustees meeting. Ultimately, he said the increase is something to be excited about because of the large turnaround in enrollment, according to the article. Along with an increase in enrollment, Eastern revamped its merit scholarship model and revealed the EIU Promise Program, which is funded by the state’s AIM HIGH grant program. The new scholarship model has a base ACT score of 20 and looks more at a student’s GPA rather than ACT score in order to determine what award the student will receive. The EIU Promise Program is expected to reduce or offset the full cost of tuition and mandatory fees (except for room and board and course-specific fees) for qualified incoming Illinois students. This was introduced as a way to curb out-migration and encourage student retention. According to a Sept. 16 article in The Daily Eastern News titled “AIM HIGH Grant funding will make Eastern accessible to bigger pool of future students,” Josh Norman, the associate vice president of enrollment management, said this means Eastern will receive just shy of $1 million from the grant. Starting with its Fall 2019 incoming class, Eastern will use three funding mechanisms supported by the grant funding.
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Charleston Mayor Brandon Combs talks during the Charleston City Council meeting Tuesday night at City Hall.
City Council approves contract for resurfacing Madison Avenue By Corryn Brock Staff Reporter | @corryn_brock The Charleston City Council approved accepting a bid award for the Madison Avenue Resurfacing project along with 11 other actions items during the Oct. 2 meeting. The contract for the Madison Avenue Resurfacing project has been awarded to Neco Asphalt Company, the contract price being $99,986.80. Work will be done on 0.2 miles of Madison Avenue, spanning from 4th Street to 7th Street and include the milling of two and a half inch-
es of asphalt, the resurfacing of two and a half inches of asphalt, partial depth patching, detector loops and re-striping of the road. A raffle license was also approved for Court Appointed Special Advocates of East Central Illinois. Funds raised from the raffle will be used to assist with the training of CASA volunteers for abused and neglected children. The raffle sales began Sept. 27 and ended on Sept. 29. The winner of the raffle was determined on Sept. 29 at the Brickhouse Bar & Grill in Charleston.
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Pritzker to repay tax breaks after report calls them fraud SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday he will repay more than $330,000 in property tax breaks he received on a Chicago mansion after a county investigator accused him of a "scheme to defraud" taxpayers by taking toilets out to lower its value. Campaign officials for the billionaire said he will pay the county treasurer by the end of next week. He will pay nearly $133,000 for refunds obtained on a Chicago mansion for 2012, 2013 and 2014 and nearly $199,000 for additional tax savings for 2015 and 2016. In a review first reported Monday by the Chicago Sun-Times , Cook County Inspector General Patrick Blanchard found that family members and associates made "false representations" to the county assessor about the condition of the mansion on Chicago's Gold Coast, which sits adjacent to another Pritzker
owns. Pritzker, whom polls indicate leads Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner with little more than a month before the November election, moved swiftly Tuesday to remedy a problem that likely will be a focus of attacks by Rauner in the pair's second face-to-face debate Wednesday in Chicago. Key to Blanchard's findings was an October 2015 email in which contractors contended that Pritzker's wife, M.K. Pritzker, wanted to declare the mansion uninhabitable and directed that toilets be removed before a property tax reassessment. The Chicago Tribune said that the report indicates that M.K. Pritzker's brother and her personal assistant made "false representations" in sworn affidavits to the assessor about the home's condition and the timing of the toilet removal. The newspaper said that an assessor
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California bishops are targeted in sex abuse lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is unveiling a mobile program intended to make it easier for students to apply for federal financial aid. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rolled out the myStudentAid app on Tuesday. She says applicants will now have the necessary tools to apply for loans and grants "in the palm of their hand." Students and parents have long complained that the standard paper-based application form is long and cumbersome and could deter many from seeking federal aid and thus going to college. The department said the "engaging and user-friendly" app allows applicants to compare information about schools of their choice and electronically transfer their tax data from their tax returns. Every year, the Education Department awards about $120 billion in student aid in grants, federal student loans, and work-study programs.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who claims he was sexually abused decades ago by his parish priest said Tuesday he is suing all Catholic bishops in California and the Archdiocese of Chicago, seeking to compel church officials to release records on clergy abuse. The filing Monday in Los Angeles by Thomas Emens claims a civil conspiracy among church officials to cover up clergy sexual assault and move offending priests to other parishes. Emens said at a news conference that he was abused for two years starting in 1978 when he was 10 years old by Monsignor Thomas Joseph Mohan. The priest, who is deceased, arrived at St. Anthony Claret Catholic Church in Anaheim in the early 1970s from Chicago, according to the lawsuit. Attorney Jeff Anderson said the goal of the so-called "nuisance" lawsuit is to force the church to reveal the names of all priests accused of child molestation. He said church documents would reveal a "playbook" among bishops and other officials
then lowered the mansion's property tax value from $6.3 million to about $1.1 million. Blanchard mentions the state perjury law and federal conspiracy and mailfraud laws, but does not indicate whether he referred it to law enforcement authorities. Earlier, Pritzker complained that Blanchard's report, meant to be confidential, "was leaked for political purposes in this last month of a campaign." Rauner, who has used the incident to call his opponent a "tax cheat," was unimpressed by Pritzker's attempt to make amends. "A bank robber who gives the money back is still a bank robber," Rauner campaign spokesman Will Allison said. "Pritzker's offer to pay back the money he conned out of Illinois taxpayers is nothing less than an admission of guilt that he committed fraud." to protect offending clergy by keeping files under wraps and moving the priests across the country and, in some cases, out of the U.S. The lawsuit asks a judge "to abate the continuing nuisance" of abuse by ordering each diocese to name all accused priests, detail their history of alleged assault and identify their last known addresses. A call seeking comment from officials at the California Catholic Conference of Bishops, which oversees the state's 12 dioceses, was not immediately returned. A call to the Archdiocese of Chicago was also not returned Tuesday. The court filing invokes both public and private statutes of nuisance law in California. Such laws generally involve behavior that negatively affects a community or interferes with the use and enjoyment of private property, said John Nockleby, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Alleging nuisance violations in relation to past sexual abuse by a single priest is a "creative approach" by Emens' lawyers, said Nockleby, adding that it will be very difficult to prove in court. Criminal charges are not feasible in this case because they would fall outside California's statute of limitations.
Pompeo heads to North Korea for nuclear talks WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading back to North Korea for another round of talks aimed at getting Kim Jong Un to give up nuclear weapons. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday that Pompeo will meet with Kim on Sunday, following a daylong visit to Japan. This will be Pompeo's fourth visit to North Korea since he became secretary of state. He made an earlier trip there, in April, when he was director of the CIA. "Obviously these conversations are going in the right direction, and we feel confident enough to hop on a plane to head there," Nauert said. President Donald Trump and Kim agreed to denuclearization only in vague terms at their summit in Singapore, the first meeting between leaders of the U.S. and North Korea. Since then, North Korea has suspended missile testing and has taken some steps to dismantle facilities associated with its nuclear program, but it has not halted weapons development. North Korea says it first wants relief from punishing international sanctions. U.S. officials have said the sanctions will remain in place until North Korea has "fully" and "verifiably" denuclearized. Asked about sanctions, Nauert told reporters, "Our policy has not changed." The meeting between Pompeo and Kim may also chart a possible second meeting between the two leaders. At a campaign rally on Saturday, Trump seemed to signal he was open to the prospect, when he spoke about the "beautiful letters" he had received from the North Korean leader. "We fell in love," he said. Nauert said Trump's effusive comments were a positive sign for diplomacy. "I think if our leaders have relatively friendly relations, that that's a good thing," she said. "That that can only help us to achieve our final goal."
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Students learn about healthy sex at Rubber Lovers By Logan Raschke Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Students learned how to apply condoms correctly at the Rubber Lovers open session, and they all received a safe sex packet punch card. Students can take the punch cards to the Health Education Resource Center or to the Health Services Building to receive a free safe sex packet, and they can get one once a month for twelve months. These packets contain 14 male condoms and one or two receptive condoms. Health promotion coordinator Ashton Beaver conducted the open session at 5:30 p.m. in the Loft of the Martin Luther King Jr. Union. She said there are a total of 18 steps to correctly put a male condom on, and the first one is asking for consent. “Consent means a verbal ‘yes.’ (Nothing) vague or anything like that,” she said. “Even if (a partner) said ‘yes’ earlier and they decided ‘no’ now, that’s a no.” Beaver also said if someone is unable to give a verbal ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to have sex, because they are intoxicated for example, then they are incapable of giving consent. Ke-Ara Cherry, a sophomore computer technology information major, said consent is one of the most important aspects of healthy sexual intercourse because it requires the two partners to be on-board and understanding of each other’s needs. “(Sex) has to be mutual,” she said. “You have to ask each other.” Quinten Abrams, a sophomore construction management and health administration major, said he was surprised when he discovered there are 18 steps to correctly put on a male condom. “I thought there were only three to four steps,” he said. “I thought it was just a quick little thing.” There are also female condoms, also
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Rubber Lovers had an open session Tuesday, where students learned about safe sex. The next Rubber Lovers sessions will be Oct. 16, Oct. 30 and Nov. 13 in the Martinsville Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
known as receptive condoms, that prevent sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy in the same way male condoms do, Beaver said. “(A receptive condom) is just giving the woman a chance to know that she has protection for herself,” she said. “If a man, or another partner, says, ‘Oh, I did not bring another condom,’ the woman has a chance to say, ‘Well, I
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have one.’” Junior psychology major Tanzania Henderson said she would recommend students to attend the next Rubber Lovers open session because what people learn about are subjects many people do not like talking about. “People say, ‘Sex is bad.’ … It’s really not,” she said. “It’s something natural.” She also said a lot of people think
they know everything about healthy, safe sex, but they likely do not. Cherry said everyone learns something new at Rubber Lovers, and that is why she and other attendees will invite their friends to come to the next session. “(Rubber Lovers) is interesting,” she said. “(Safe sex) is something that we need to talk about because people don’t want to talk about it.”
1. Ask for consent 2. Get sexually aroused 3. Check the expiration date on the condom 4. Squeeze condom to ensure it is air-tight 5. Open package carefully 6. Make sure it is right-side out with the tip up 7. Check for any rips or tears 8. Pinch the tip of the condom 9. With tip pinched, roll the condom down onto the penis 10. Squeeze out the air in the condom 11. Insert into orifice 12. Ejaculate 13. Hold onto the base of penis 14. Withdraw slowly 15. Remove condom 16. Check for any rips or tears again 17. Wrap condom up and tie ends together 18. Throw it away in the garbage For students who would like to learn more about using condoms to prevent pregnancy and contracting STIs, the next Rubber Lovers open sessions will be Oct. 16, Oct. 30 and Nov. 13 at 5:30 p.m. in the Martinsville Room at the Union. Logan Raschke can be reached at 581-2812 or at lrraschke@eiu.edu.
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Feminism is not the same as man-hating When people hear the word feminist, different images may pop into their heads. They may think of a liberal fanatic wearing a pink hat and screaming into the void about the patriarchy, or maybe a leftwing goddess who doesn’t shave her legs to shove it to the patriarchy and who subtly thinks herself above the entire male population. In reality, both of these images are as different as they are harmful. Feminists, real and true modern feminists, are nothing like these imagined extremes. Those harmful stereotypes, especially the man-hating one, are used by those who oppose feminism to destroy it. If you only look at the minority of extreme feminists while ignoring the majority, you are playing into the hands of those who feel threatened by feminism and want to destroy it or, at the very least, squash the movement. Just the ‘me too’ movement is proof that we still are very much in need of a strong feminist movement, one that advocates for victims and holds accused accountable for their actions. One that fights for equal pay in all workplaces and for women to be taken as seriously as their male counterparts. This version of feminism, the real version, is one everyone can and should get behind. Support the mothers, sisters, daughters, but mostly support the people who deal with very real sexism on a daily basis. She shouldn’t have to validate her existence through her relationship to a man for you to care; stand as a feminist for the good of the world. Be a strong, intersectional feminist who stands strong for all women of all races and classes. Look past the stereotypes and figure out what feminism means to you and the best actions you can take to incorporate it into your life and work. Pay attention, and stay strong in your values and morals. Fight against injustice, and fight for the future.
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‘Because we are here, let us dance’ In 2016, Hulu released a mini-series based off of the Stephen King novel 11.22.63. The show stars James Franco as Jake Epping, a man whose life changes when his friend Al shows him how to travel back in time. In Al’s diner, there is a closet that acts as a time portal transporting whoever enters back in time to Oct. 21, 1960. Al has been using the portal to travel back and trying to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but when he becomes ill, he asks Jake to take over for him and do what he never could. Jake is hesitant at first, but then he agrees. While in the past, Jake runs into several roadblocks as he tries to finish his mission. The show is filled with darkness and twists, and the ending might even make you shed a tear. While I believe that the whole show is worthy of watching, my favorite part of the show was actually in the last episode. There is a scene in which a friend Jake meets in the past reads a poem, and this poem fits the show very well. The poem reads: “We did not ask for this room, or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We
JESSIC A STE WART have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room, or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.” This has become my favorite poem. I think this poem fits the show very well, and it also represents life in general. You can’t change the past, no matter how much you would like to. You should live
in the moment, because some things aren’t worth stressing about. We did not ask to be here, we were invited in. And since we’re here, we shouldn’t worry about little things as much. We will face hard times, but we will also experience joy. Since we’re here, we should try to live life to the fullest. We should “dance,” as Stephen King so perfectly put it. College is hard, and there are a lot of things that easily stress us out. Money and homework have been stressing me out specifically lately, and I need to remember to take a step back and breathe. These things are definitely important, but we shouldn’t be stressing about them so much. If you’re stressed about these types of things too, just remember that you have your whole life ahead of you. The things you’re worried about right now may seem huge, but ten years from now you won’t even remember what you were stressed about. We can worry about things all we want, but in the end, all we can do is dance. Jessica Stewart is a sophomore English education major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or jrstewart3@eiu.edu.
The gender pay gap: Any solution in sight? The United States of America prides itself on equality between gender, race and class but there are still serious problems on “equality” in our country. When it comes to the gender pay gap, there is a solution in sight but no viable solution in the near future. Before I am attacked for what I am about to say, the U.S. is a very equal country and is far more accepting and prosperous than other countries. However, there is no denying the issues in the country, especially when it comes to the pay gap between men and women. According to The Equal Pay Act (1963), “To prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.” The Equal Pay Act was the one of the first federal laws passed that addressed gender discrimination and gender discrimination in the workplace, but it has been many years later, and women still receive lower pay then men. According to US Census Bureau, on average, a woman earns 80.5 cents for every dollar a man earns, and the median annual earnings for women are $10,086 less than men. Other charts done by The Business Insider illustrate the difference between states when it comes to the gender pay gap. While some states are not as bad as others, there is still a prevalent gap, and this is unlawful under the federal law. It
is unsettling that so many states and, in turn, employers, blatantly violate The Equal Pay Act on a regular basis, and it goes against the ideals of freedom and equality that the U.S. was built on. There is also a gap between women of different races that were done by the Business Insider. They show that African American and Hispanic women face the biggest pay gap when compared to white men. On average, black women’s annual earnings are 63 percent of what white men make, while Hispanic women’s annual earnings are 54% of what white men make.
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There is a very shocking inequality in overall income between men and women, and it does not end with the normal everyday middle- or low-class worker. This effects the high class and Hollywood as well. The projection that stood out the most to me when researching for this article comes from the Women’s Institute of Policy Research. Based off a decennial census from the American Community Surveys, The WIPR projects that the pay gap will not be solved overall in the U.S until the year 2059. Given that The Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963, that means that there is a possibility that it would take 96 years for the gender pay gap to be solved. This is outrageous. This is a projection, so there is no way to tell if it will really take this long to solve the issue, but even today, it has been 55 years since the act has been passed. Imagine if it took 96 years to follow other major federal laws, the U.S. would be in a frenzy. To answer the question I stated earlier, there is a solution in sight, but it is not the solution you wanted. Look into the statistics yourself, and you will see the blatant disregard for the federal law by many different employers. Jordan Boyer is a senior history major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or at jtboyer@eiu.edu.
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They are: • EIU Promise Eastern will offset the remaining balance of a student’s tuition and fee costs for resident families demonstrating a family income of $61,000 or less. • EIU Cost Match Eastern will match the out-ofpocket cost of attendance of any regionally accredited public university in Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. To qualify, Illinois students can submit their financial aid award letters from qualifying institutions in those states. • EIU Merit Scholarship Bonus An additional $500 will be added to any of the three merit scholarships provided by Eastern. The distinguished merit scholarship currently offers $4,000 annually, the high achieving merit scholarship offers $3,000 annually and the academic merit scholarship offers $2,000. By combining merit scholarship benefits with state-funded AIM HIGH scholarships, qualified Eastern students are eligible to earn up to $18,000 in scholarship funding over four years or eight semesters. Analicia Haynes can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu.
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Mayor Brandon Combs appointed new members to two committees. B r e n d a n Ly n c h , G r e g Culp, Ruth Cooper, Aaron Lock, Marcus Ricci and Tim Zimmer were appointed to the Charleston Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee for two-year terms. Jay Gatrell, Tina Held, Deb Hutti, Jeff Lahr, Jill Nilsen, Hadley Phillips and Ryan Siegel were appointed to the Charleston Comprehensive Plan Update Advisory Committee for twoyear terms.
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Street closures were approved for the Jefferson Elementary School Halloween Parade, the EIU Homecoming 2018 2.5K Race, Annual Charleston Challenge 40-Mile Relay Foot Race, “Christmas in the Heart of Charleston” Celebration. No public presentations were brought to the council after the action items were voted on. PHOTO BY CORRYN BROCK | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
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Eastern’s Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity will hold an open house for the Trans*formation Station in their office located in the lower level of Stevenson Hall on Oct. 3 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Trans*formation Station provides clothes for anyone who needs them, escpecially transgender and non-binary peoples.
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“I think the problem we’re confronting is that (the senate is) an incomplete voice of the faculty if we don’t have the representation, and yeah, it might be a matter of recruitment, it might be just a change in language,” Gosse said. “I think we’re just acknowledging that, if we’re going to have a shared governance, we do need (Unit B) voices.” Another problem the senate brought up is many Unit B faculty may be interested, but they might just not know that they are able to serve on the senate. The senate’s executive committee will draw up more con-
crete plans about a possible seat dedicated to Unit B faculty on the senate. The possible resolution will be discussed at the senate’s Oct. 16 meeting. The senate also discussed two possible models to reduce the number of faculty that serve on APERC and STHC. Currently, the committees are separate and are called to meet rarely, senators said. The first model discussed would create one pool of faculty members who would technically be on both committees, and APERC and STHC would be
populated from that pool whenever called. The second model would involve adding APERC duties to the Council on Academic Affairs, while giving the STHC duties to the senate. All members said they agree that there were pros and cons to both plans. Economics professor Teshome Abebe said he supported the first model more and that he was worried the second model might be too messy or might allow for these committees to become more political. Steve Brantley, head of ref-
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erence and institutional services, said the second model makes more sense to him due to the fact that the senate and the CAA are already staffed, so it would not mean picking faculty members who might not have expertise from the pool of members. Health administration instructor Joan McCausland said that, having served on APERC, she was worried about the CAA dealing with the intensive time that that committee requires. The discussion was tabled to give senators more time to consider the options and time to consult with CAA members.
The panther statue, which was approved by Student Government last year, is currently being worked on and will hopefully be up in time for this year’s graduation, Carson Gordon, member of Student Government, said. Gordon also said that Student Government will need to redo their vote for the position of Student Speaker of the Senate after the organization violated their bylaws at Wednesday’s meeting by voting with paper slips. Brooke Schwartz can be reached at 581-2812 or at bsschwartz@eiu.edu.
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Documentary highlights immigration hurdles By Madelyn Loellke Staff Reporter | @DEN_News The Students for Peace and Justice showed a documentary called “Hear My Story” Tuesday night in the Lumpkin Auditorium. Members of the registered student organization spent a year creating the documentary, which raises awareness and shares a new perspective on immigration in the US. The documentary featured several individuals from multiple parts of Central and Latin America with only their shadows visible in order to remain anonymous. They shared details of their life and what drew them to take the risk of migrating to the U.S. It showed how hard it is and how long the process takes in order to cross the border legally, which is not possible for most that are desperate and come to the U.S. hoping to have a new start, according to the documentary. Those featured had similar backgrounds, most living in rural areas of their native countries where they could not afford to go to school or any other luxuries when they needed to first pay for daily food and the clothes on their backs, according to the documentary. Most of the narrators were fathers; one was a mother who made the journey with her four young children. “It’s not easy to leave your family, it’s all I think about—trying to send money so that my children can eat,” one man said. The same man shared that he
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that interacts with our own.” Fellow member Lydia Schrock said she agrees and she said she uses these events to help herself grow further toward a future career. Schrock said as a political science major who wants to go into international relations, Americans can grow up very sheltered to other nations.
“This is a very interesting group to be a part of,” Schrock said. The RSO is planning to have a world-hunger awareness event later this school year, and members said they hope people become just as engaged in that topic as they did in this one. Madelyn Loellke can be reached at 581-2812 or mcloellke@eiu.edu.
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7 Men's golf team finishes last in tournament WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018
Oscar Rzodkiewicz Men’s Golf Reporter | @ORzodkiewicz For the third time this season, the men’s golf team finished last in tournament play, ending the Drake Zach Johnson Invitational at +102 as a team. The Panthers finished the first day just 9 strokes behind 11th-placed Northern Iowa, but a few tough rounds kept Eastern at bay, falling 36 strokes back of Northern Iowa and 75 strokes back Bradley, the winner of the event. Junior Romeo Perez had one of his worst showings of the season this week on the par-71 Glen Oaks Country Club course. Perez posted 10 over-par scores in his 18 holes Tuesday, including a rough 10-stroke 15th hole that punctuated an 84-stroke round. Perez said he was just a little off. “Yeah, it was a very bad tournament for me,” Perez said. “I played really bad from the tee and couldn’t hit a fairway, and on a tough course like this, it’s the main key. My second round was ok, but the other two were too far off to compete.” Eastern had both familiar and
more inexperienced silver linings this tournament, though: senior Charlie Adare and freshman Nic Nguyen. Adare finished tied for 10th overall, his first top 10 finish of the season, after going just +7 in 54 holes. Adare’s final round 73 included an even-par front nine and three birdies overall. Nguyen’s strong 79-stroke final round, the lowest behind Adare for Eastern, serves as his season-low for 18 holes. Nguyen said the successful round was a matter of confidence and calmness of mind. “I just have to believe in myself more because I know I have it,” Nguyen said. “Sometimes I press too hard because I want to do well, which causes me to overthink, but today I played well because I wasn’t thinking all that much.” The collegiate rookie Nguyen struggled in his first two competitions this season, but he said his older teammates have been great role models and helpful teammates. “[Charlie] and Romeo are great,” Nguyen said. “They’re good golfers and even better people, and they’re very welcoming to freshman like
Team Standings 1. Bradley - 879 2. North Dakota State - 886 3. Creighton - 888 4. IUPUI - 893 T5. Drake - 896 T5. Loyola-Chicago - 896 7. South Dakota - 899 8. Western Illinois - 908 9. Green Bay - 913 10. Valparaiso - 914 11. Northern Iowa - 918 12. Eastern - 954
Pierce [Allord] and I. They’re great teammates and are always positive after I don’t do my best.” Allord finished the day at +14 and +36 for all three rounds, struggling to eight over-par holes on the front nine of Tuesday’s play. Junior Marcello Verdolin was the final competitor for Eastern this
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Player Standings 1. Anderson, Loyola: 214 T2. Bushong, Bradley: 215 T2. Crowder, IUPUI: 215 4. Jahn, Bradley: 216 T5. MacDonald, Drake: 218 T5. Lensing, Bradley: 218 T7. Kanaak, Creighton: 219 T7. Holmgren, ND State: 219 T7. Wetherbee, W. Illinois: 219 T10. Hicks, South Dakota: 220 T10. Bienz, IUPUI: 220 T10. Adare, E. Illinois: 220
week, and his +37 final tally ranked him 70th overall in the field. Just one more tournament remains for Eastern in its fall season, and Perez said the team needs to keep working to get out of the cellar of these events. Perez said, “We’ll keep grinding, trying to improve on our weakness-
es and try to finish on a good note.” Eastern’s final fall event takes place on Oct. 15 and 16 at the Austin Peay F&M Bank Intercollegiate at Greystone Golf Course in Dickson, Tennessee. Oscar Rzodkiewicz can be reached at 581-2812 or orrzodkiewicz@eiu.edu.
Alumnus Erik Lora returns to athletics department By Eric Hendrix Sports Reporter | @DEN_Sports Erik Lora came to Eastern as an undergraduate student athlete, majored in sports management and played four and a half years for the football team. He is a graduate of the KSS, now KSR, program. Lora was hired in July as Assistant Athletic Director of Development. This is the fundraising arm of the athletic department. Lora looked back at his Eastern experience fondly. “It’s one of the sole reasons why I’m back here; my experience at Eastern was absolutely fantastic. I created camaraderie with people. Being away from Miami, Fla., which is my hometown, it was something that I was looking for,” Lora said.
“I was looking for a community, I was looking for people I could make friends with, and Eastern certainly provided a community that was open-armed and embraced me as a student and as an athlete. My experience here was great, it was second to none, and I would do it all over again.” Lora credited his college experience as the push that brought him to this position and even spoke about his expectations and motivation. “This is kind of my first go round as an administrator here, It’s something that I’m very excited about and something that I’m very blessed to have the opportunity to do, so I’m certainly excited for that,” Lora said. “My job entails handling the panther club, which is our athletic
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donor ship member club where we put on events and have certain benefits for kind of the levels of donation. It’s my job to help cultivate and create relationships with donors to advance the university and our athletic department.” Lora used previous connections to other alumni and even meeting new people in the search to recruit support and donor ship for Eastern. “Eastern’s been around for a long time and we have plenty of influential leaders and influential people in many different industries, and it’s my job to get with them, create a relationship and see how we can ad-
vance this university for the betterment of them, their degree and the student athletics and the students that go to this university right now,” Lora said. Lora went on to say that he was aiming to make the college experience at Eastern better and advance the college and the community around it. He also said he aimed to be able to compete with peak division one athletics. “We have to continuously grow if we want to keep up and stay up with other universities and what they’re consistently doing,” Lora said. Lora spoke more about the ad-
vantages that being a former student athlete would yield for him. “Allows me to use my passion for the university as a tool,” Lora said. “I firmly believe in Eastern, I firmly believe that this is great university and community that we can build upon. I have a connection to those guys, and I have connection to the community.” He spoke about not only making an effort, but making that effort known to the students and community. “It’s important that our student athletes know that we care about their advancement, their progression and their experience here,” Lora said. Eric Hendrix can be reached at 581-2812 or emhendrix@eiu.edu.
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Men’s soccer shut out 3-0 by Norse By Dillan Schorfheide Assistant Sports Editor | @Eiu_journalist Eastern’s men’s soccer team had its second straight match against a team with leaders in national offensive categories, but Tuesday’s result was different from Eastern’s first match of such caliber. The Panthers (2-6-3) lost 3-0 to the Northern Kentucky Norse (8-3) Tuesday, but they struggled on both sides of the field. Tuesday’s result is a polar opposite to Eastern’s outcome Saturday against Summit league foe Denver, who has the nation’s leading scorer in Andre Shinyashiki. Eastern held him to only four shots in the match, only one of them on goal, which was a penalty kick that Eastern goalkeeper Jonathan Burke stopped. Eastern head coach Kiki Lara and some players mentioned after Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Denver that the match was going to give them confidence and momentum going forward, but Northern Kentucky put a hard stop to that momentum. And while Eastern held Northern Kentucky’s go-to man in check, freshman Alex Willis who is second in the country in goals scored, the Norse still found other ways to get its victory. Northern Kentucky had three goals on 17 total shots, eight of which were on goal. The Norse also beat out Eastern in the number of corner kicks taken (6-4). Northern Kentucky got its scoring started early, when Calvin Murphy put a shot into the back of the net in the 15th minute. Murphy was set up by teammates
Felix Komolong and Stian Joergensen; when both headed the ball off a kick into the box the ball fell to Murphy, who finished in front of the net for his fifth goal of the season. The Norse controlled the ball most of the game and continued to get multiple chances to score throughout the match. The second chance to score that Northern Kentucky converted for a goal was in the 53rd minute, when Murphy added an insurance goal and his sixth of the season. Murphy’s two goals move him into second place for the most goals on the Norse, only behind Willis, who has 11. The Norse’s final goal came from Rizwaan Dharsey, who added another goal in the 81st minute. Dharsey got a pass from teammate Rikard Lindqvist in the box and beat a couple of Eastern defenders and squeezed the ball between the goal post and Burke. One of the assists on the second goal for Northern Kentucky came from Alex Greive, who leads the nation in assists. His assist Tuesday is his 11th on the season. In an opposite showing offensively, the Panthers had a difficult time, especially in the first half, getting chances to score. Finding space and creating chances was something Lara wanted to see his team improve on Tuesday. Eastern finished Tuesday’s match with eight shots, only one of which was on goal. The Panthers’ next match is Saturday at noon when Eastern hosts Western Illinois for its second conference match of the season. BRYAN BUND | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
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Two Eastern players collide with a Northern Illinois defender as all three of them leap in the air to head a ball. Eastern lost the game 2-0, which was played at Lakeside Field on Sept. 21.
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OVC showing parity all across league this season By JJ Bullock Sports Editor | @DEN_Sports To say the OVC has been weird this season would be an understatement. Outside of betting on Jacksonville State, now 2-0 in the conference, to win every week, the rest of the conference has been wildly unpredictable. Austin Peay came into the season projected to finish second in the conference, behind Jacksonville State and after week three were ranked 20th in the national FCS poll, but after two conference games, the Governors are now 0-2 and in second-to-last place in the OVC. Two weeks ago Austin Peay was shocked by Tennessee-Martin in a 37-7 blowout loss, one which dropped Austin Peay out of the national rankings and had a lot of heads turned towards the Skyhawks as being a potential top team in the conference. The Tennessee-Martin win over Austin Peay was shocking enough in the conference, but this past week is where things really got weird across the conference. Jacksonville State put down Austin Peay on Saturday 48-32, really coming as no surprise to anyone. But it was Tennessee-Martin that would once again find itself involved in the shock of the week. Coming into the game flying-high after pummeling Austin Peay, TennesseeMartin was delivered a humbling blow by Murray State, who entered the week 0-3, losing to the Racers 45-38 on the road. The game now raises a big question of who is who across the conference, as Tennessee-Martin was considered a top team after the Austin Peay win and Murray State was looked at as an OVC bottomfeeder, but now it is really difficult to say
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Eastern cornerback Mark Williams brings down an Indiana State ball carrier in a 55-41 loss to the Sycamores in week three. Williams did not play last week against Tennessee Tech. He hopes to be healthy Saturday against Murray State.
where any team not named Jacksonville State ranks in the conference. The Murray State win does have a little bit of a fluke-win factor to it as the Racers scored three touchdowns on defense, one on an interception returned for a touchdown and two on fumbles recovered in the endzone. A win is a win, but certainly the circumstances around Murray State’s first
conference win should leave some question marks as to where they really stand in the conference. Tennessee-Martin, despite the loss, had another good game from quarterback Dresser Winn. He threw for 331 yards, adding to his conference-best total which is now 1,354. He also added two touchdowns, he leads the league with 10, but also threw another interception, where he
also is the conference leader with seven. Jacksonville State quarterback Zerrick Cooper, a transfer from Clemson, continued his dominance in the conference Saturday against Austin Peay. Cooper scored five total touchdowns, three through the air and two on the ground, passing for 268 yards in the process. Jacksonville State is a very good team without Cooper, but having him this sea-
son has added a whole other level of scary to the Gamecocks. The Gamecocks lead the OVC averaging 48 points per game and lead the conference holding teams to 18 points per game. Jacksonville State is heading into a week six match with Eastern Kentucky and have shown no plans to end the 34game conference winning streak they are on. Eastern beat Tennessee Tech 52-38 this weekend, leaving the Golden Eagles as the only winless team in the conference this season as they fall to 0-5 (0-2 OVC). Next week, however, should help clear up the bundle of teams in the conference all competing for legitimacy as Eastern will square off with Murray State at home, in a game of two teams both trying to prove their first wins were not flukes. Tennessee State is coming off a narrow four-point loss to Vanderbilt of the SEC and is probably feeling pretty confident with its 1-0 conference record. However, the Tigers will be met by an Austin Peay team trying to prove they still are one of the top dogs in the OVC. Expect this to be the conference’s most intriguing game this weekend. JJ’s OVC Power Rankings: Jacksonville State (3-1, 2-0) Eastern Kentucky (2-2, 1-0) Tennessee State (2-1, 1-0) Southeast Missouri (2-2, 0-1) Tennessee-Martin (1-4, 0-1) Murray State (1-3, 1-0) Austin Peay (2-3, 0-2) Eastern (1-4, 1-0) Tennessee Tech (0-5, 0-2) JJ Bullock can be reached at 581-2812 or jpbullock@eiu.edu.