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EIU-UPI, administration enter contract negotiations By Cassie Buchman Editor-in-Chief | @cjbuchman The EIU-UPI and administration are entering the process of negotiating a new contract this semester. Both teams will meet on March 9, to talk about the issues they would like to see addressed. On the EIU-UPI’s negotiating team is philosophy professor Grant Sterling, vice
president of the EIU-UPI; English professor Lucinda Berry; Jeff Duck, an academic adviser from the Early Childhood/Elementary/Mid-Level Education department; biological sciences professor Billy Hung and business professor John Willems. The administration’s negotiating team consists of associate vice president for academic affairs Jeff Cross; Amie Calvert, the director of Employee and Labor Relations; Doug Bower, dean of the College of Educa-
tion and Professional Studies; Shellie Gregorich, chair of the music department and Austin Cheney, chair of the technology department. Sterling is acting as the lead negotiator for the EIU-UPI and Calvert is acting as the administration team’s lead bargainer. When The News asked about negotiations, questions were directed to university spokesperson Josh Reinhart. Newly adopted negotiation guidelines re-
quire joint statements from both sides to the media, and exclude both the EIU-UPI and university administration from sharing other details at this point, Reinhart said. In a joint statement from Calvert and Sterling, it said members of both bargaining teams met with facilitators from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services on two separate occasions.
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Office of Study Abroad searching for coordinator By Olivia Swenson-Hultz Associate News Editor | @DEN_News Eastern has narrowed down its search for a study abroad coordinator to three final candidates. Ryan Hendrickson, dean of the graduate school, said the position calls for someone who is able to work with faculty and students to further advance study abroad. “Kurt (Olausen, assistant dean for international education) has done a great job as director of the study abroad office, but he now has new administrative duties,” said Hendrickson.
Kurt Olausen, director of study abroad and assistant dean for international education Olausen has been serving in his position since January. He will continue to serve as the director of study abroad, with the study abroad coordinator serving beneath him. The three final candidates for study abroad coordinator are Tia Van Hester, the international education coordinator for Illinois Central College, Margaret Leimkueler, a program adviser for Institute for the International Education of Students Abroad and Emily Tooy, the associate director for global international programming at Utah Valley University. Hendrickson said all three candidates came in and interviewed in open sessions and that they are moving onto the next stage. Olausen currently is responsible for most Study Abroad duties. Olausen said that it will be great to have somebody working full time to fill in for some of them. He said that the new coordinator will help with student advising for prospective study abroad students and become the first point of contact for them. “We’re ready for new blood in the office,” said Olausen Olausen said the search committee has had their final meeting regarding the finalists and that somebody should be hired by the end of the semester.
All three candidates have studied abroad in several different locations. Hester has studied abroad in France, Cambodia and Colombia, while Tooy has studied abroad in France and Quebec and Leimkueler in Norway, Spain and Austria. “We’re always open to new ideas and programs and they can bring in knowledge and experience from previous positions and study abroad experiences,” Olausen said. “The three candidates have had a lot of positive study abroad experiences themselves and will be people that students can get positive feedback from.” Nima Lane, a graduate student in european history who works inside of the study abroad office, has studied abroad in Salzburg, Austria. Lane said bilingualism is an important trait for a prospective study abroad coordinator to have because many international students who might want to study abroad speak multiple languages. “People come from all over the place these days, so you never know,” he said. George Anaman, who is currently pursuing his master of arts in economics, initially came to the U.S in 2014 from Sekondi College in Ghana through study abroad, arriving at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He said as a result of the wonderful experience, he wanted to pursue his master’s degree in the U.S. as well. “I would love to see more students participate and apply to study abroad. It increased my confidence levels through participating in more classroom presentations and writing projects than I did in Ghana. We need a new director who is open and jovial and can share real experiences with students,” Anaman said. Anaman said he would love to see a new study abroad director who can drum up more support for the program so that trips will not be canceled. He suggested a new coordinator use international students like himself to help create interest in study abroad for prospective applicants. There are currently 583 different programs offered in 63 different countries for study abroad. Programs are structured into four different catagories of exchange programs—faculty-led programs, direct enrollment and third party programs. Olivia Swenson-Hultz can be reached at 5812812 or omswensonhultz@eiu.edu
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Zac Cohen (front), the student vice president of student affairs, stands with Will Outzen (left), the student speaker of the senate, during a diversity activity Wednesday night at the Student Senate meeting. Senate members participated in the “privilege walk,” where participants moved forward or back depending on their response to certain questions.
Student Senate tables Apportionment Board bills By Analicia Haynes Managing Editor | @Haynes1943 The Student Senate introduced two bills asking for additional allocation for student government and the University Board during its meeting Wednesday night. In the first bill, the student government asked for an additional allocation of $8,363 from the Apportionment Board to help pay for the base, pad, brick work, labor and other materials for the recently approved Panther Statue. The second was for the University Board and asked for an additional allocation of $13,600 to pay for the PantherStock event that takes place before the spring concert, purchase a new lighting board for the UB productions committee, clean the tents the UB uses and replace the ropes used to hold down those tents. The additional allocations come from the Apportionment Board’s reserve fund, which is currently sitting at $117,543.19. Zac Cohen, the student vice president of student affairs, said the reserve fund is made up of student activity fee money that was left over from the student government, UB and student recreation center budgets over the years. The funds in both bills have already been approved by the Apportionment Board. However, Cohen said Senate approval is needed because it
is the “next step” in the bill process. Both bills were tabled for the next Student Senate meeting on March 7, where senate members will discuss the bills, ask questions and take a vote. Cohen said he felt a sense of accomplishment when the Apportionment Board approved the additional funds for the Panther Statue expenses. “(The student government) made it over another hurdle and onto the path for a new panther,” he said. Young said current senators who were appointed during this semester need to run as well. Young asked senators to “represent their school well” throughout the weekend since there is an Admitted Student Day on Saturday. “Unofficial,” a student-run holiday, is also on Saturday. “We all know what’s coming up this weekend,” Young said. “Please, please, please represent the school well. We’ve had good numbers with our Open Houses and our Admitted Student Days, we’ve had good weather and overall positive feedback, so let’s not let this one be the one that doesn’t get all of those things.” Analicia Haynes can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Harshly criticized yet again by his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday abandoned his usual stony silence and pushed back against President Donald Trump for saying Sessions' response to Republican complaints about the FBI was "disgraceful." Sessions gave no suggestion he would step down in light of the charge made on Twitter and insisted he would "continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor." Trump's latest tirade stems from a comment Sessions made Tuesday, when he suggested the Justice Department's inspector general will evaluate whether prosecutors and FBI agents wrongly obtained a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor the communications of a onetime Trump campaign associate. Sessions had asked the watchdog office to review the complaints in response to pressure from congressional Republicans, who, like Trump, have fumed about what they believe to be bias within the FBI. It was hardly the first time the president has aired his gripes against Session over the Russia probe. The former Alabama senator, an early supporter of Trump's candidacy, has endured a year's worth of Trump's wrath in order to hold onto the job he had long desired.
But even for Trump, who once called the attorney general "beleaguered," Wednesday's volley elevated the rhetoric to a new level. The exchange comes at a time of heightened tension between the Justice Department and the White House, which is mired in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice. Trump has long viewed Sessions' decision to step aside from that investigation as leading to Mueller's appointment. Sessions has become a Trump scapegoat, allowing the president to avoid some of the political consequences of directly attacking Mueller as his probe escalates. Trump this time is angry that Sessions referred the allegations of employee misconduct to the inspector general, but that's exactly what that office is charged with doing. Its lawyers are part of the department and, contrary to Trump's claims, can and often do refer matters for prosecution. The office has been working on a separate review of the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation under former Director James Comey, but that report is not late and is expected to be released around March or April.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz's office has acknowledged receiving Sessions' request but hasn't said it is investigating. Horowitz also launched the review of the FBI's handling of the Clinton case — the stated reason by Trump and Sessions for the dismissal of Comey in May. Until now, Sessions had largely keep quiet in the face of Trump's verbal and social media volleys, faithfully executing the president's agenda on guns, drugs, violent crime and illegal immigration. Some within Sessions' own department had criticized that silence as straining morale and making him seem too eager to appease the president at the risk of dangerously politicizing the institution. The two bonded early in Trump's campaign. But Trump has not been able to get over Sessions' withdrawal from the Russia investigation and has relentlessly belittled him and pressured him to investigate political rivals. The criticism was so harsh that Sessions offered last year to resign; Trump refused. Sessions has since tried to get back into Trump's good graces. His request of the inspector general should have appeased Trump, as White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested Tuesday it would.
Illinois house debates gun laws SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House on Wednesday approved a ban on trigger-enhancing "bump stocks" in its first votes on gun control legislation since a Florida high school massacre and the fatal shooting of a police officer in downtown Chicago. The House voted 83-31 to prohibit the manufacture or sale of bump stocks or "trigger cranks," which increase the firing rate on rifles, effectively making them assault-style weapons. Lawmakers later voted 6451 to prohibit anyone younger than 21 from buying or possessing assaultstyle weapons of the type used in the shooting deaths of 17 students in Parkland, Florida. The Democratic-sponsored measures were two of seven on tap for
floor votes Wednesday. But some Republicans supported them. Despite decades of Democratic control of the Illinois House, measures to clamp down on firearms are few and far between. Chicago Democrats, faced with daily headlines of gun violence in the nation's thirdlargest city, come to Springfield only to lock horns with more conservative central and southern Illinois members of the same party who strongly support hunting and the 2nd Amendment constitutional right to bear arms. By mid-afternoon, the House was bogged down in debate over state licensing of gun shops. Advocates want state oversight of gun dealers to stem straw purchases, in which a gun-buyer then sells it to a criminal. The federal
government licenses them but sponsors say there are too few agents to sufficiently check. The sponsor, Rep. Kathleen Willis of Addison, eventually pulled the matter from debate over critics' concerns that they were asked to vote on it before changes Willis promised had been made. Another measure scheduled for a vote Wednesday includes a ban on high-capacity magazines and civilian use of body armor, both of which were used by the alleged killer of Chicago Police Commander Paul Bauer on Feb. 13. Others would create a tip line where anonymous callers could alert authorities to a neighbor or family member who appears to pose a danger, and a waiting period for purchasing assault-style weapons.
White House Communications Director Hope Hicks resigning WASHINGTON (AP) — White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's most loyal aides, is resigning. In a statement, the president praises Hicks for her work over the last three years. He says he "will miss having her by my side." The news comes a day after Hicks was interviewed for nine hours by the panel investigating Russia interference in the 2016 election and contact between Trump's campaign and Russia. She acknowledged to a House intelligence panel that she has occasionally told "white lies" for Trump. But she said she had not lied about anything relevant to the Russia investigation. Hicks served as Trump's one-woman communications shop during his winning campaign. She says in a statement, "There are no words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump."
Illinois taking steps against election tampering SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois' elections director says the state is taking steps to limit the possibility of Russian interference in the March 20 primary election. Steven Sandvoss, who heads the State Board of Elections, said Wednesday that the state is testing voting equipment and looking for vulnerabilities in the online registration system. The Department of Homeland Security says Russian agents targeted elections systems in 21 states ahead of the 2016 election, including Illinois'. Hackers accessed online voter registration records of 76,000 active voters. The elections board notified them by mail. Sandvoss says federal officials told him this month that the Russians likely will try again. The state requested in January a detailed federal assessment on its system's vulnerabilities. Sandvoss could not say if the assessment will be ready before the March election.
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GlobalFest to be at Eastern for first time By Brooke Schwartz Administration Reporter | @brookesch_wartz For the first time in its 25-year run, GlobalFest will be at Eastern this Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. GlobalFest is a program for Illinois high schools and middle schools that celebrates different cultures and foreign language education. Christiane Eydt-Beebe, the chair of the foreign languages department and a German professor, said Eastern will benefit greatly from hosting GlobalFest this year, as well as hopefully years to come. “Many high schools, I think, in Illinois, don’t know about Charleston, they don’t know about Eastern, and this event would bring high schools from across Illinois into our campus,” Eydt-Beebe said. “(It will) really (allow them to) get an impression of the campus, of the campus community (and) also, of course, (the foreign languages) department.” Spanish professor Kristin Routt said GlobalFest will allow students who maybe never considered college before to get a feel for what an actual campus looks and feels like. “I think it’s great to get high school students on campus,” Routt said.
“If Eastern is associated with GlobalFest annually as the established venue for this event,this would be a huge success for us.” -Christiane Eydt-Beebe, chair of the foreign languges dept. JORDAN BOYER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
Brandon McDaniels, a sophomore music education major, rides a longboard Tuesday afternoon outside of Lumpkin Hall. He just finished playing catch with other students.
Grad recruitment fair to give information on FCS master’s By Cassie Buchman Editor-in-Chief | @cjbuchman Those looking for more information on the master’s in family and consumer sciences can get it at the graduate recruitment fair from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in room 1418 of Klehm Hall. Linda Simpson, professor and graduate coordinator for the master’s in science for family and consumer sciences, said the fair would be an informal meeting for prospective students interested in the FCS graduate program. Graduate faculty members will introduce themselves, then Simpson has a brief powerpoint presentation and a Q&A with more information.
“If this is the first time you’ve even thought about grad school, come so you can learn about opportunities that are available and the requirements for the program,” Simpson said. The fair is open to all majors and years. “It can be anybody. Sophomores, if they want to start looking at graduate programs to see what we offer, now is the time,” Simpson said. “If they’re graduating in May, absolutely we can still create a plan for them. If we’ve got some graduates or even if they graduated in Fall ‘17, they can still contact me.” The admission requirements are a minimum GPA of 2.75. Graduate students in the FCS pro-
gram work in non-profit organizations, social service agencies, court advocacy, outreach programs, or doctoral programs at other institutions, among other areas. Four graduate assistantships are available in the textiles and child development laboratories, Child Care Resource and Referral, Literacy in Financial Education Center and general support for the school of family and consumer sciences. Applications for assistantships are different from the ones for the program. They are due Feb. 15. The recruitment fair will be broadcast on Facebook Live @EIUMSFCS. Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu
“Sometimes there (are) high schoolers who never thought about going to college, never thought it was for them, or they were intimidated by the prospect of going to college, and you get them on a campus and they’re like ‘oh, this is friendly, this is really cool, this is neat,’ and all of a sudden, (college) seems like more of a possibility for them.” Eydt-Beebe said there are two main goals of this year’s GlobalFest. “This is what GlobalFest is all about, (getting) to know other languages that your school may not be teaching, and of course, (being) exposed also to a campus community of international students,” Eydt-Beebe said. GlobalFest will consist of an opening ceremony, lunch at Taylor Dining Hall, arts and crafts, discovery rooms and immersion rooms. The sessions will be presented by volunteer high school teachers, as well as international students and clubs from Eastern. Some of the immersion sessions will include languages from all over the world, such as Icelandic, Arabic, Swahili, Russian and other languages students might not normally be exposed to unless they went to a big university, Routt said. GlobalFest used to be held in more northern cities, many closer to the Bloomington/Normal area. Eydt-Beebe said it is time to bring a celebration of culture closer to southern schools. “In the past …. (GlobalFest) was never, I think, farther south than Urbana. So we thought (Eastern) is a great location to attract schools from the southern Illinois area, and the central Illinois area for these schools (where) it wasn’t possible in the past to travel all the way to Chicago,” Eydt-Beebe said. Eastern students who wish to volunteer can go to the website of the Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism to sign up for different sections of the day that need volunteers or can email Routt at keroutt@eiu.edu if the section they wanted to help at is filled. Eydt-Beebe said she hopes Eastern will continue to host the GlobalFest annually. “If Eastern is associated with GlobalFest annually as the established venue for this event, this would be a huge success for us,” Eydt-Beebe said. Brooke Schwartz can be reached at 581-2812 or at bsschwartz@eiu.edu.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods sets good example Responding to the cries of the Parkland shooting survivors, Dick’s Sporting Goods released a statement promising the following (this information can be found on the Dick’s Sporting Goods website and social media): 1. “We will no longer sell assault-style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles.” 2. “We will no longer sell firearms to anyone under 21 years of age.” 3. “We will no longer sell high capacity magazines.” 4. “We never have and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.” Much to my own surprise, Dick’s Sporting Goods also made the following statement: “Following all of the rules and laws, we sold a shotgun to the Parkland shooter in November of 2017. It was not the gun, nor type of gun, he used in the shooting. But it could have been.” I am unaware if that was public knowledge or not, but I had no idea that the Parkland shooter had purchased a gun from that establishment; however, the acknowledgement from this large of a corporation verbalizing that waiting for new legisla-
Abigail Carlin tion, thoughts and prayers are not enough to solve the current mass shooting epidemic is something that gives me hope. Dick’s Sporting Goods is not responsible for the shooting. In fact, I do not believe any establishment that sells guns is solely responsible for any of the tragedies, but Dick’s is doing what they can to make sure it does not happen again. For once in my lifetime, I see kids younger than I taking a stand against some really scary people, and their movement is gaining traction. Legislation might not have changed yet, but an entire company has listened and has made a public statement standing in solidarity with survivors. That
is no small feat. Additionally, this is a company that has nothing to gain from changing what they will and will not sell to eager consumers, other than some of the public’s respect. Theirs, like others, is an example to follow. One of the strongest pillars of activism is acknowledging privilege, bias and association. Dick’s was not responsible for the shooting, but just as they said, they could have been. I can only hope, and strongly urge, that more people will follow this example, if only until we figure out how to keep more children from dying. After all, if the corporate manifestation of physical and brute displays of masculinity can do it, anyone can. The second amendment, as it is, protects anyone’s right to own a firearm (almost any firearm, really), but it is time that our country realizes that the “right” to own a gun is not as valuable as a life, especially the life of a child. Abigail Carlin is junior English language arts major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or alcarlin@eiu.edu.
Hummus is an underrated snack Guns are a hot topic right now, and if you’re like me, you lean a certain way.... *cough*... stricter gun control, please, for the love of all that’s good and holy *sneeze.* I am here to consider a lighter issue today, on something that gets swept under the rug way too frequently: hummus. This delightful, delectable and delicious dip consisting of crushed chickpeas and other lovely ingredients is looked over in college students’ diets. I think it’s the answer to getting a 4.0 GPA. How do you think I got a 103 on my last chemistry exam and a decent A on my Communication Law exam? I ate hummus for a week straight before both. It’s the trick of all tricks, and I think it can help each and every one of us out. It comes in billions of flavors. If you’re boring and have no taste buds, get the plain kind. If you’re in a fiery mood, get the supremely
Kennedy Nolen spicy. Spread that stuff on celer y. Slap that syrup on some pita bread. Dunk a crispy, fat tortilla chip into that Jesus juice. I promise, your life will change forever. It’s the best snack anyone could ever wish
for. I have never heard of a garbanzo bean allergy, but if you happen to be allergic to such, please do not consume. I’m not trying to get sued. Once you bite into this Middle Eastern delicacy, your brain will start to absorb each and every nutrient from the Vitamin B to the iron to the protein. Your brain cells will throw a fiesta when you eat this chickpea infusion. Your grades will go through the roof. When you’re feeling bored, go to the store and grab a little container or 12 of vegetable hummus or even roasted garlic hummus if you don’t plan on making out with anyone after. If you do, eat a mint. Kennedy Nolen is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at kdnolen@eiu.edu or 581-2812
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Examine your own privileges Self-improvement is always possible, no matter what stage of life you are. It is always a good idea to be grateful for what we have. To take a step back, and realize we may have had it better than some others. Having certain privileges in life, such as white privilege, able-bodied privilege, or others, does not mean you had it easy in life. It just means you might have had advantages others did not, because of things outside of your control. In a way, we are all privileged to be able to go to college and pursue higher education. But we all have varying backgrounds. There is nothing wrong with reflecting this, realizing this and taking steps to better ourselves. This can include learning about other people, keeping an open mind, and making sure we are always being compassionate. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 It was here that the techniques for bargaining contracts were reviewed, including traditional bargaining, interest-based bargaining and a new technique: “straight-up negotiations,” or SUN. Both Eastern and the EIU-UPI decided to use the SUN process. According to the statement, it would “offer the possibility of less time (than past years) spent engaged in negotiations.” Some of what the new contract will look like depends on what the Illinois state budget for higher education will look like, Blitz said. “I do not know when we’re going to know that,” he said. “Some of this is out of our control. It would be nice to know in the year what’s coming, what the fiscal situation is going to be. Maybe that won’t happen. We’ll have to deal with that as it comes.” Provisions for if a budget is not passed can be written into the contract, but Blitz said the idea of these negotiations is to write clear enough contract language so everyone knows what it is and everyone can follow the rules. “Whatever the contract says, that’s the law. We get into trouble when sometimes it’s either ignored or misinterpreted or differently interpreted by the two parties, but it depends,” Blitz
said. “The idea is to write clear enough contract language so everyone knows what it is and everyone follow it.” Though the UPI president and university president get the final say over the contract, they are not at the table bargaining. The EIU-UPI put out a questionnaire to all members to get an idea of what issues its membership is prioritizing. When looking at contract negotiations, oftentimes, the two sides are looking at problems that may have arisen, Blitz said. “Where are people unhappy?” Blitz said. “Of course, there’s always the across-the-board raises and the workload; there’s always stuff that just always crops up that you put in the back of your mind saying, ‘Well, that’s got to be fixed.’” One thing that could be looked at is the rehiring procedures for Annually Contracted Faculty members, Blitz said. “(This is) something that needs to be addressed,” Blitz said. “Both sides see that.” In 2010, the EIU-UPI and administration negotiated to put multi-year contracts in place for Annually Contracted Faculty members. However, Blitz said this was done before peo-
ple knew there would be a fiscal downturn as a result of the budget impasse. “What has happened is a situation we didn’t foresee, and that is, let’s say a person is in the second year of a third year contract. Another person who is ending their contract with more years of service would be eligible to not be rehired, while the person with less seniority, because they are in a multi-year contract...would have to be rehired,” Blitz said. “So there’s this thing here and nobody likes it, because there’s nothing worse than what people envision as an unfair situation.” The next session of negotiations will include submitting a maximum of ten issues from each team. “The goal will be to understand the issues involved as clearly as possible and to understand the needs and concerns behind the requested items,” Sterling and Calvert’s statement said. “Another objective for our next session will be to determine other relevant information needed in order to address the issues.” According to the statement, the SUN process permits each participant to identify proposed suggestions from the other team that could be a
workable solution. “The general concept of the SUN process is that both EIU and UPI will work together to craft various ideas and suggestions into a package in which an acceptable successor agreement will be achieved,” it said. When the teams have reached an agreement on the non-economic issues, they will have a final meeting where issues surrounding economic implications will be discussed. After an agreement is reached on this, a sub-group will craft the final language, which will be submitted for approval by EIU-UPI and the Board of Trustees. The statement said both Eastern and the EIU- UPI were agreeable to the goal of completing the process by Memorial Day. “The timeline is somewhat aggressive, however, the FMCS facilitators were reasonably optimistic that it could be achieved within this time frame, especially given their experiences with other agencies utilizing the SUN process,” the statement said. Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.
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Men's tennis team returning home By Vince Lovergine Men’s Tennis Reporter| @DEN_sports The Eastern men’s tennis team added a road match to its schedule Saturday against University of Illinois -Chicago and will return to Darling Courts this weekend against Lindenwood. Because of new banners being installed at Darling Courts, there is a possibility Eastern will play in Champaign. Eastern coach Sam Kercheval said the team will announce on Twitter if a change occurs. The Panthers are coming off a weekend split against North Central College and Southern Utah, which has them standing at 3-8 on the year. Eastern has more wins on the road at this point in the season then they did all last year. Through 11 games to this point, Eastern has won two games on the road, already beating out its 1-15 record a year ago. Consistency has been the problem for the Flames this season. University of Illinois -Chicago lost its first four matches of the season, before notching its first win against Illinois State 7-0. Before University of Illinois - Chicago takes on Eastern, they have a match with Chicago State at 1 p.m., then hit the court at 6 p.m. against the Panthers. The Flames currently are winless at home this year. This spring has been difficult for the flames, earning just one win in singles play by sophomore Johan Hedstrom
which came at the No. 3 singles position. Hedstrom has been the Flames best player this year with a 2-6 singles record. If the Panthers play at Darling Courts Sunday, the Panthers have come out with wins in their first home matches the past two years and this could mark another win in the books for Eastern if it defeats Lindenwood Sunday. This season, a large part of Eastern’s success has come from sophomore Freddie O’Brien. O’Brien leads the team in wins this spring, posting a 7-2 record at the No.1 singles position. Also, sophomore Braden Davis and senior Grant Reiman both have earned three wins a piece this spring. Eastern coach Sam Kercheval noted earlier in the season the team’s doubles play needed improvement, and lately, it’s shown. “There is a little different pressure having to play as the favorite team versus from playing behind and playing as the underdogs,” Kercheval said. “Doubles is still something we're working on and will spend the next two days working on it before the weekend.” In the Panthers last two wins, they have earned the point in doubles play, winning all three double matches. For O’Brien and Trent Reiman, they lead Eastern with three doubles wins, while the teams of sophomore Gage Kingsmith and senior Jared Woodson, freshman Logan Charbonneau and Grant Reiman all have two wins and just one loss. Lindenwood comes into the match
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Eastern sophomore Gage Kingsmith returns a ball in practice at Lantz Fieldhouse in October 2017. Kingsmith has a 4-13 overall record this season.
with a 3-3 record, but in the spring, the Lions are 1-2. Lindenwood has lost its last two road matches at the hands of Oklahoma Baptist and Drury University. The Lions are 1-2 on the road, with its only win coming against William Jewel College. “We’re going to have to come and play Sunday,” Kercheval said. “Linden-
wood is one of the toughest D-I opponents this year. This game is almost called a 'trap game' where you know the name but you don’t know who your battling and we just got to prepare the way we usually do and be ready to go.” Senior Andrei Masin is the standout for Lindenwood, posting a 10-1 overall record and a 2-0 record this spring in the No. 1 singles position.
Senior Naoufal El Idrissi and junior Antoine Barraud both have three wins a piece this spring, in a variety of different singles positions. After these two weekend matches, Eastern is two matches away from conference play getting underway. Vince Lovergine can be reached at 581-2812 or vplovergine@eiu.edu.
After weekend off, women’s tennis team ready for action By Dillan Schorfheide Women’s Tennis Reporter | @DEN_Sports With the women’s tennis team not having any matches last week, freshman Claire Martin used the weekend to go home and visit her family. She said it was a great opportunity to do so while also catching up on some sleep and homework. “We’ve been playing a lot and I love playing the matches, but it was good to have a bit more spare time,” Martin said. Last week was the first time the Panthers (4-8) had a weekend off from matches this season, coming off a split
weekend when Eastern defeated Chicago State 5-2 on Feb. 16 and lost to Northern Illinois 4-3 on Feb. 17. Martin said she thinks the team needed a weekend off, but it was definitely ready to get back into the routine when practice came along this week. “We’re so used to playing almost every day during season that we feel like we’ll lose something if we don’t play,” she said. Although the off-weekend was nice to have, Martin said she thinks the Panthers will be ready to compete this weekend on Friday and Sunday. Interim director of tennis Sam Kercheval said the weekend was welcome and
good for the team to get some extra recovery, since the season is tough, long and grueling. But he said the team has gotten right back into the swing of things and has gotten back to its good form quickly. Even the weather has helped the team out. “Coming back though, we had our first two outdoor practices so the break, combined with the good weather, has had everyone back into it right away,” Kercheval said. Getting back into its schedule, the Panthers will be greeted by a three-match weekend. On Friday, Eastern has a doublehead-
er in Champaign against IUPUI (3-8) at 11 a.m. and against the University of Illinois—Springfield (6-2) at 3 p.m. To close out the weekend, Eastern faces DePaul (4-5) on Sunday at 3 p.m. Like Eastern, IUPUI defeated Chicago State, 6-1 and has lost to the University of Indianapolis. Eastern lost to Indianapolis 4-3 and IUPUI lost 8-1. Last year, Eastern shut out IUPUI 7-0. The only common opponent Eastern shares with University of Illinois-Springfield this season, so far, is Saint Louis, whom the Panthers defeated 5-2 on Feb. 4. University of Illinois-Springfield lost to Saint Louis by the same score Eastern
won with. DePaul also defeated Saint Louis earlier this season 5-2 and the only other common opponent the Blue Demons have with Eastern is Northern Illinois, who DePaul shut out 7-0. This weekend is the last weekend of matches before Eastern starts its conference play, which opens on Friday, March 16 against Jacksonville State at the Darling Tennis Courts.
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Panthers advance in OVC tournament Eastern beat Tennessee State 73-61 Wednesday night By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports EVANSVILLE, IND.— Sometimes things go as planned, sometimes they do not. Eastern’s OVC Tournament opening win was proof of that. Eastern escaped with a 73-71 win over Tennessee State to advance to the second round of the OVC Tournament Wednesday night at the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind. Right out of the gates, the game was what coach Jay Spoonhour expected; a tough defensive game and low scoring. One thing remained true; it was going to be a tight game. It took a while for the Panthers to get going in their OVC Tournament opening game, but Eastern found a groove in the second half. The Panthers and the Tigers both scored 49 points after scoring 24 and 22 in the first half, respectively. Senior Montell Goodwin continued to play the way he has all season and scored 20 points to lead the Panthers. Wednesday night’s game started just as the Panthers’ expected. Spoonhour jokingly asked when all those points were scored in the second half. “The first two times we played against them, it was a dog fight,” Goodwin said. “It was a low scoring game and we just had to pull it out.” All game long, especially in the first half, Tennessee State did not let Goodwin or freshman Mack Smith find open shots. Eastern did the best it could to get the ball to those two, but the shots they took were contested. Goodwin and Smith scored nine points and four points in the first half, respectively, and Smith did not get one three-pointer to fall. “We got more rhythm when they started trapping,” Goodwin said. “We were open more. We just slowed down and (became) patient. We let them come to us and foul us. We just went from there and
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Junior Jajuan Starks dribbles past a Tennessee State defender in the second half of Eastern’s 73-71 opening round win at the OVC tournament in Evansville, Indiana’s Ford Center. Starks came off the bench to score 8 points in an 2-for-3 effort from three point land.
attacked.” Smith hit three three-pointers in the second half, including a bank three pointer to give Eastern a 68-62 lead with 1:04 left in the game. Tennessee State cut the score to three points the possession before. “It’s crazy. How many has he banked in?” Spoonhour said. “It’s a back-breaker for them because they had a good defensive possession going and we were just standing, not sure what to do, trying to get to the end of it and those kind of plays
are back-breakers.” Tennessee State’s back did not break, as it was able to still get the game close. Spoonhour said that is why the Panthers have to continue to play. Spoonhour said coming into the game that games like this come down to one or two possessions, and it did just that. The two teams posted near-identical stats and Tennessee State’s Delano Spencer’s attempt at a game-winning threepoint shot at the buzzer almost was that
final play. Senior Devantae’ Price was key at the end of the game as he brought down seven rebounds. “I like to rebound, so I try to get down there as much as possible,” Price said. “I have to box out. I know that the guy down there is bigger than me, but I just try to get the positioning I do and get the rebound.” With Austin Peay Thursday night, another tough defensive game is expected
and Price is ready to get in the paint and bring down more rebounds. “I know they play really hard on defense and we have to play with poise,” Price said. “(We have to) come to the open spots and catch the ball.” Eastern and Austin Peay play Thursday at 8:30 p.m. Sean Hastings can be reached at 5812812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
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Frontcourt crucial for Eastern men in tournament By Maher Kawash Basketball Reporter | @DEN_Sports EVANSVILLE, IND.—Survive and advance becomes the common phrase when March Madness arrives in college basketball, and the Eastern men’s basketball team is living up to that with their seventh OVC tournament win in program history. But something was slightly missing in that two-point, 73-71, win over Tennessee State Wednesday night; it was the Panthers’ front court. Eastern played the latter half of the second period without one of its most important players, Muusa Dama. Not only did the Panthers suffer a setback when he had to sit out, but they also suffered when he had to play through foul trouble, which was nearly the entire game. Dama was limited and not able to be his usual tenacious self because of the foul trouble, which allowed the Tigers to dominate the post early on. “We swat at it too much,” Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said. “We have times where we get in
Maher Kawash there and we’re not disciplined enough just trying to make plays that aren’t there.” In fact, half of Tennessee State’s 24 points in the first quarter came in the post with the Tigers’ big man, Christian Mekowulu, earning 13 of those. He was also one of the main reasons for Dama being in foul trouble, as he went 5-5 from the free-throw line in that half. Adjustments were crucial in this one though, as Mekowulu did not get to the line once in the second half, compared to their two meetings in the regular season, where he was 19-of-23 attempts at the line. “ Te n n e s s e e St a t e i s g o o d a t making you foul, but so is Austin Peay,” Spoonhour said. “We swing at the ball when a lot of those
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Senior Montell Goodwin looks for an open teammate to pass to after driving into the lane in the opening half of Wednesday’s round one game. Goodwin led all scorers with 20 points and added two steals, two assists and a block.
times we already have them guarded well.” But as the game went on, it was also clear Eastern needed help down low for rebounds. That will be the case once again when the Panthers face Austin Peay Thurs-
day night. It is wor th noting that even though Eastern won the rebound battle in this one 34-31, not many came from the frontcourt of Dama, Aboubacar Diallo and Lucas Jones.
That trio combined for just eight of the Panthers’ rebounds. What makes that stat stand out even more is Eastern’s guard Devantae Price had seven. But, that is why the Panthers prevailed in this first round game. It is not always going to be a common victory, especially once the postseason rolls around and that is enough for Eastern. At least for now. The Panthers are about to take on a team in Austin Peay that ranks fourth in the OVC in scoring offense, but offers a unique approach to the rebounding game which can prove to be so crucial. The Governors are first in offensive rebounds with an average of 13 per game, but they rank last in defensive rebounds. As far as the need to avoid foul trouble, Dama will need to contain Austin Peay’s six-foot-seven forward Averyl Ugba, who is a force in the paint and proves that by ranking ninth in the OVC with an average of 15 points per game. Maher Kawash can be reached at 581-2812 or mwkawash@eiu.edu.