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Committee sets specifics in presidential search process By Debby Hernandez Administration Editor | @DEN_News The Presidential Search Committee will review specific requirements for the position of Eastern’s president during a meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Effingham Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. David Mead-Fox, Eastern’s presiden tial consultant, created a draft summary of specifications for the president position based on the input given to him during the various forums available to the campus community. John Dively, chair of the presidential search committee, said Mead-Fox was also able to create several specifications for the presidential position from input of the administrators. “Mead-Fox was impressed with the input and open participation at Eastern,” Dively said. “He walked away with the ability to put job specifications in this.” The committee will also summarize the input given during the presidential search forums with Mead-Fox. The presidential search committee is made up of 18 members including Board of Trustees members, faculty, the vice president for student affairs, Student Senate, Staff Senate and community representatives. Members of the committee will identify and interview the finalists for the presidential position. Dively said the committee aims to ensure the campus community stays as active participants throughout the entire presidential search. “For the finalists, I encourage members of EIU to participate and give their feedback as well,” he said. “We are making this an open, transparent, and engaged process.”
Debby Hernandez can be reached at 581-2812 or dhernandez5@eiu.edu.
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An Illinois State Trooper with the traffic crash and reconstruction unit analyzes the scene of a hit and run accident on Fourth Street between Lincoln Hall and McAfee Gym Sunday evening.
CPD asks for help with hit-and-run By Jarad Jarmon Associate News Editor | @JJarmonReporter The Charleston Police Department is asking for the public to help in identifying an aqua green, full-sized truck believed to have been in involved in a hit-and-run Sunday. The CPD officers responded to a crosswalk at Fourth Street and Grant Avenue at 3:57 p.m. Sunday when a vehicle hit Alexandria Ward, a special education major, and fled the scene. Anyone with information regarding the hit-and-run is asked to contact the CPD at 217-345-8422 or to message them through their Facebook page. Those with information on the hit-andrun can also contact Coles County Crime Stoppers at 866-345-8488. All information provided is anonymous.
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Charleston Police Department released this photo taken by a security camera at Marty’s Bar & Grill of the alleged vehicle involved in the hit-and-run.
A life flight helicopter airlifted Ward to Carle Foundation Hospital Sunday. The police diver ted traffic from the crime scene by blocking off the corner of
Fourth Street and Grant Avenue to the intersection of Fourth Street and Roosevelt Avenue. The barricade was later moved north to Fourth Street next to Taylor Hall Sunday. Police have not been able to find the truck as of press time. The incident is still under investigation in a cooperative effort between the Charleston Police Department, the Illinois State Police and the Eastern Illinois Police Department. Lt. Brad Oyer of the CPD said more information involving the incident will be provided when it is available.
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UB updates on Homecoming 3 students arrested By Kevin Hall Staff Reporter | @DEN_News The University Board homecoming committee is planning to switch things up this year, mixing old events with new events in order to give Charleston a “Bright Lights Blue City” themed homecoming starting Oct. 20 through Oct. 25. Homecoming traditions including “Yell like Hell” and the annual Eastern parade will be featured throughout the week. “Yell like Hell,” an annual cheer competition, will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24 in the McAfee Gym. The parade will take place at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 25. Lori Knoechel, head homecoming coordina-
tor, said these are annually hosted so people can come out and display their school spirit. She added these returning events will be refreshed in order to coincide with this year’s homecoming theme. Even traditional events such as coronation will have a slight difference this time around. “It will probably be the most traditional event that we have. The format will be the same, but we do want to make it more interactive with the students,” Knoechel said. UB will be adding new twists to the normal homecoming routine including a bowling night, sidewalk parties, and even a citywide coloring contest. HOMECOMING, page 5
for gun, drug charges By Jarad Jarmon Associate News Editor | @JJarmonReporter The Charleston Police Department officers arrested three students on charges of being in possession of more than 90 grams of cannabis and a 9mm Glock handgun at 4:07 p.m. Saturday. Cameron Douglas, 24, was charged with possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver 30 to 500 grams. Lamarcus Cotton, 21, and Carolyn Boyd, 24, were charged with possession of
2.5 grams of cannabis. The CPD officers checked out the residence in the 200 block of Taylor Ave., because of a loud music complaint. Investigating the complaint, officers acquired a search warrant for the smell of burnt cannabis, according to a press release. Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or jsjarmon@eiu.edu.
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Kristen Webber, a senior English major, sells a T-shirt to Daniel Chism, a sophomore applied engineering and technology major, Monday in the Library Quad. The T-shirt sale is sponsored by RHA's ROCFest and the proceeds will go towards breast cancer awareness.
Career fair to help with jobs, internships By Ross Kwasneski Staff Reporter | @DEN_News
Students have an opportunity to develop their network skills and meet employers at the upcoming Career Night Chief Network & Diversity Fair. Anthony Catezone The fair is from noon until 4 p.m. Lead Designer Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of Dominic Renzetti Copy Editor/ the Martin Luther King Jr. UniversiDesigner ty Union. Lauren McQueen The career fair is for students to interact and meet potential employers who are looking to fill positions in their company. Get social with The Daily Eastern News This can be an internship in the upcoming summer of 2015 or even a The Daily Eastern News job for the following year after graduation. dailyeasternnews This career network fair happens twice a year. @DEN_News With a luncheon before the fair, Visit our website: dailyeasternnews.com it is for students who are members of panther recruiting plus, which is About an online membership and database The Daily Eastern News is produced by the students of Eastern Illinois University. It is published daily Monwhere students can have their resumes day through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., during fall and up online, and have their names out spring semesters and twice weekly during the sumfirst to employers if there is employmer term except during university vacations or examinations. One copy per day is free to students and faculment available. ty. Additional copies can be obtained for 50 cents each All companies attending are availin the Student Publications Office in Buzzard Hall. The Daily Eastern News is a subscriber to McClatchyable online at eiu.edu/careers. Tribune Information Services. aaaaaaaaaaaaa Along with the list of employers, it aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa also lets students know which compaAdvertising nies have internship opportunities. To place an advertisement or classified ad in The Students can expect to get a possiDaily Eastern News, call the ads office at 581ble internship or even a job, said Talia 2812 or fax 581-2923. Visit our online advertisements at dailyeasternnews.com/classifieds. Persico, who works at career services.
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Travon Moore, a junior business major, meets with a State Farm Insurance representative at the Career Fair on September 25, 2013.
Interviews with employers are Thursday and Friday through career services. It is free and open to all students. Bring multiple copies of your resume and look presentable in business attire. “The Career Fair is a perfect experience for future employment. This is
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ROCFest kicks off with a splash By Luis Martinez Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Coming out on top Monday at the annual ROCFest boat relay race across the Campus Pond, after a five-year dry spell, was Douglas Hall’s silver and pink boat. Participants had to rush across the pond in boats made exclusively out of cardboard and duct tape, whether it was to stay afloat or just to win. While the teams managed to paddle across the hall during their first run, one by one boats started coming apart, as the water made its way into the cardboard. The race quickly changed when paddlers had to improvise to continue the race, while their boats fell apart. Many resorted to using their arms as paddles. The teams had to get their residence hall boats across the campus pond three times, with two members pushing the boat into the water and one paddling across the pond. Once a team member made it across the pond, a new member had to paddle back. Thomas Hall’s team said they spent a few hours during the past few days in order to prepare for the race. The Douglas Hall team experienced difficulties with their boat at the start of the race. “The only problem we had was the start when we went down to push and it wouldn’t move,” a Douglas team member said. Despite their boat difficulties, members said things went better than they expected.
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Travis White, a sophomore art major, rows the Weller Hall boat during the residence hall boat race on Monday at the Campus Pond. Douglas Hall won the duct tape boat race which was part of RHA’s ROCFest.
“It actually felt like being in a real boat,” one of the members said. “It was better than last year when our boat fell apart halfway through the first lap.” Kadie Peterson, the Residence Hall Association vice president, said she felt ROCFest was off to a good start with the boat relay race.
“It went pretty well, we didn’t have to use lifeguards,” she said. “Most of the boats finished, with the exception of three but it went really well.” Peterson said she was surprised by the outcome. “I did not expect Douglas to win,” she said. “It was a great turn around.” Peterson said she hopes to see a good
turnout at this year’s ROCFest. “If attendance is anything like what happened today, this ROCFest is going to go amazing.” Roughly 100 people circled the pond to see the various teams either sink or to cheer their hall’s boat on. The winner for the best-looking boat will be announced during the
next RHA meeting. ROCFest will continue with a bingo game from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Lawson Hall basement. Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-28120 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.
Jackson Avenue Coffee hosting Night of Hope By Cassie Buchman Staff Reporter |@DEN_News The HOPE center of East Central Illinois will host a benefit at 5 p.m. Friday at Jackson Avenue Coffee. HOPE, which stands for Housing, Outreach, Prevention and Education, is a non-profit organization that runs a shelter for victims of abuse. HOPE provides housing for battered women as well as many programs with the goal of decreasing violence in the local community. These programs include education in local schools along with counseling designed to empower those affected by domestic violence. HOPE helps those victimized by domestic violence by providing them with education, legal assistance, and more. Dano Reible, the owner of Jackson Avenue Coffee, said this is the eighth year
that they are having the Night of Hope at the coffeehouse, and that it has been their “busiest night of the year” in the past. He said they always get lots of support and have been getting a lot of bids on artwork. The event will include music, food, art and a raffle. The raffle prizes include a night’s stay at the Trump Tower in Chicago and a sailboat party on Carlyle Lake. Raffle tickets can be bought in advance or the night of the event. A silent auction will be going on throughout September. The silent auction is a part of the Night of Hope where people can bid on pieces from the art gallery. The Night of Hope will be the last night people can bid in the silent auction. The evening will begin with music from various artists, starting with Irish Music Circle at 5 p.m.
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HOPE will have a large turnout at this year’s event and bring awareness for the cause at hand. “A lot of people who are in abusive relationships don’t know that they can get help,” Reible said. The organizers are attempting to solve this problem by getting more people to know about the HOPE Coalition Against Domestic Violence. “The Night of Hope is always great for awareness, and we always receive great support from a great community,” Reible said. The Night of HOPE is open to the public and admission is free. “Everyone is welcome, and everyone will be working together to celebrate [HOPE],” Reible said.
An attendee of Bowls of Hope scrapes the last remains of a bowl of soup with a slice of bread Tuesday in the St. Charles Borromeo Church.
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Megan Ivey
The Summer days are drifting away As Tuesday officially marks the start of the fall season with the autumnal equinox, Charleston weather is about to see its prime. The autumnal equinox means the day will comprise of a nearly equal amount of daylight and night. While the equinox signals the transition of less daylight than we were used to in the summer, what we gain from the drop in temperatures is worth it. Maybe you have already noticed the transition. Do you take a deep breath as you leave class and feel at ease? Do you find yourself in awe at the noticeable amount of people roaming campus that were not there weeks before? In a place such as Charleston, where the summers hit heat indexes and the winters produce what can seem to be non stop snowfall, fall is the season to thrive. I am most excited to take the first couple of mild weathered weeks to explore the campus and Charleston. Even with a hectic schedule, students can take advantage and appreciate the beautiful campus we attend. Spend any and all free time outside. A favorite is to grab lunch take it to the Doudna steps. Or spend any free time at the steps. There you can eat, read or people watch, all while taking in the now less-offensive sunshine.There is more than the Doudna steps, however. Too often I see no one spending time on the North and South Quads of campus. The quads are for student use. Students should be using the green space as more than a route to get from one class to the next. Bring a Frisbee or football to pass around with friends. Buy a kite and re-live your elementary school days. The possibilities are endless. If you do not have free time, turn a task into one. Make studying more bearable by bringing a blanket and sitting under some shade. I think the best part of the season is having fun with the most simplistic hobbies. Studying, walking and exploring can all be fun when you add fresh air and sunshine. Yes, there are certain stereotypes that associate with fall (I’m sure my bank account will suffer with the amount of pumpkin spice lattes I purchase). Even so, they are stereotypes for a reason. This is one of the times I say jump on the bandwagon. Go apple picking. Carve pumpkins. Watch football. Plan a ton of coffee dates. The stereotypical experiences are not bad if you can create lasting memories from them. Megan Ivey is a sophomore journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or mkivey@eiu.edu.
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Wage increases should not even be a debate If ever there was a perfect microcosm of the problems with American politics, it’s likely the continuous fights over raising the minimum wage, both federally and in Illinois. Here, we have an issue that is both moral and economic; has been convoluted by misinformation (or, as we should really call it, propaganda); has given fair balance and credence to two otherwise unbalanced and unequal sides of debate; has produced essentially two talking points from two sides of the aisle; and has, since becoming a national issue, largely been marked for death by deep pockets and private lobbyists. And so, because of all these factors, the debate over minimum wage increases (again, both at the federal and state level) has been framed as one of moral, economic and political gray areas, of extremely complex and unpredictable consequences. And while the extent to which we should extend the minimum wage is absolutely a complicated question, there’s something we feel bears repeating: not paying employees a livable, decent wage is not just morally unacceptable, but it’s also financially ruinous. The difference, of course, is that those who can afford to weather such financial ruin are rarely the ones who feel such blowback. We feel raising the minimum wage should not even be an issue anymore. At it’s current $7.25 rate, the annual income for a full-time employee working at the minimum wage is a dismal $15,080 — less than $4,000 above the national poverty line. That means that, in a country that prides itself on the idea that “every person can make it if they’re willing to work,” a single fast-food employee working a standard workweek of 40-hours would barely qualify as having an economically livable life.
For a country so proud of its work ethic, of its “we can all make it” promotions, that’s embarrassing. Coupled with the fact that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, an increased federal minimum wage to just $9 an hour would reduce employment by less than .01 percent, it becomes increasingly clear that even a minor increase would be wholly-beneficial to the working force. And yet, politicians and voters alike continue with this fight, the same tired and baseless points recycled over and over, claims like “minimum wage jobs are only supposed to be temporary,” or the oft-touted “this will kill jobs.” The latter, we feel, speaks volumes to the increasing corporatism of America, placing the wallets of business owners over the basic necessities, livelihoods and survival of the same workers who help them turn profits in the first place. It’s a line of reasoning that, unfortunately, seems to parallel a growing trend of income inequality in this country. That, at a time when inequality is at its highest rate since the Great Depression, at a time when 1 percent of Americans own 40 percent of the nation’s wealth, we still place blame on the worker, is a testament to just how easily the powerful and privileged can buy public opinion. That we care more about a Walmart CEO, who makes more in one hour than most of his employees make in a year, than we care about a single mother trying to feed our child through a job at Walmart, isn’t just extremely disturbing, it’s morally confounding. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
If you’re going to be the DJ, please do it right We’ve probably all been in these situations before, where you’ve either been granted the authority to be the house party DJ or you really really wish you were because man, this music sucks. There need to be some guidelines in place for house party DJ etiquette and that’s hopefully what I can accomplish here today, but before I continue, I have to say: we are lucky to be alive at this time. Can you imagine what college was like before mp3s? How did they do it? I’m just imagining stacks and stacks of CDs in broken cases, mismatched with their correct case, scratched beyond belief, many of them probably ended up becoming coasters. We live in an age where we can literally hold Ludacris’ discography in the palm of our hand. It’s a beautiful thing. We need to cherish it. So, it’s 2014 and we need to start living like it. I’m talking to you, guy DJing an entire party off YouTube from his phone. If you’re in charge of the music for a party, it should definitely be preload-
Dominic Renzetti ed, meaning played from an MP3 file from your iPod or phone or even laptop if you’re crazy enough to bring your laptop to a party (pro-tip: don’t). Pandora is bad enough with advertisements— we don’t need to hear one before every song, and we definitely don’t need to hear the song stopping and buffering every 12 seconds because you’re streaming it from YouTube. C’mon. Have some respect. Second, I’m a big believer in respecting whosever’s space you’re in, so if there’s already a DJ in place, either listen to their music until they give up their post or politely make a request. If you are going to make a request, you should ask the DJ if he or she has whatev-
er song you’re looking for, not hand them your greasy iPhone with whatever (probably terrible) song you want to hear. It just makes things easier that way. The third point is to do as the scouts say and be prepared. If you’re doing it right, you should have a playlist already ready to go that should at least last a few hours. If you’re doing it on the fly, you should know as soon as you press play what song is going to come next and maybe the next few after that. Nobody wants to hear a song, followed by a minute and a half of silence, followed by a song, followed again by a minute and a half of silence. The transitions should be smooth and seamless. Can you imagine me reading you my column over the phone, but stopping after every three sentences so I could think of what I was going to say next? Sounds nauseating, and your party will be just that if you don’t follow these guidelines. Dominic Renzetti is a senior family and consumer sciences major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinons@gmail.com.
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Mona Davenport, director of minority affairs, Terra Vail, office support associate and Juanita Cross, gateway advisor, enjoy a laugh and a lunch during the Latin Heritage month reception in the attrium of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Faculty reading groups battle stereotypes By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor | @BertoHodge For three years, about 35 faculty members from various departments have been meeting and forming reading groups in order to take part in discussions on how to better their teaching and communication skills. The reading groups, which are part of Eastern’s faculty development office, gears itself toward promoting faculty morale and facilitating timely responses to situations. Dagni Bredesen, the director of faculty development, said once the groups de-
cide on when and how often they want to meet, members then decide on how much they want to read and their choice of books. Faculty development members also participate with Making Excellence Inclusive for the first time this semester. Making Excellence Inclusive deals with identifying how not to stereotype people and ways of inclusion — both in and out of classroom settings. Reading group members spend an entire semester on one book, which is provided to them, and many of the books chosen are related in someway to teaching and institutional concerns, Bredesen said.
Bredesen said the reading groups garner positive feedback. She added the groups add ideas to instructors for teaching. In the past, the members have read “Teaching Naked,” by José Antonio Bowen, “The Courage to Teach,” by Parker J. Palmer and a few others. Currently, members of the reading groups are reading the “Whistling Vivaldi,” by Claude M. Steele, which teaches others of how not to stereotype those who may be different. Early on in the novel, there is an excerpt about an African-American male who noticed whenever he walked near
those who were white, they seemed to tense up. In order for them not to be scared and see him as a threat, he would whistle classical music. The male instantly noticed how whites would relax after hearing that he wasn’t a threat; he did this so they would know he was harmless — even though he was more frightened of them. Bredesen said similar groups at Northwestern Illinois University and Elon University in North Carolina have also used the novel. “I felt like this would be a great book for our campus.” Bredesen said. “What we thought was important was forming
inter-disciplinary dialogue about shared interests and concerns.” Bredesen said there are ways individuals affect one another that goes unrecognized and how stereotypes can impact faculty influencing how they react to students in classroom settings. From this novel, faculty members will be able to be a little more sensitive to those who are different, Bredesen said. “(It’s) a shared language for discussing fraught topics like stereotype threat and micro aggressions,” Bredesen said. Roberto Hodge can be reached at 581-2812 or rlhodge@eiu.edu.
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HOMECOMING CONTINUED FROM PAGE1 University Board looks to give Charleston a “Bright Lights Blue City” theme for Homecoming, highlighted by several old and new events from Oct. 20-25 For sidewalk parties, stations will be set up throughout campus with different RSOs manning the stations. Each station will have different games and activities that students as well as staff and faculty can partake in. Not only attempting to grasp support from the campus, Knoechel and
the homecoming committee will be attempting to reach out to the Charleston community through the their first ever coloring contest. The contest will start on Oct. 13 and will go throughout the week before homecoming. Charleston Elementary School students from kinder-
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garten through third grade are the targeted crowd for this contest, Knoechel said. “EIU is really trying to reach out to the community, we want people to know that we are not just a university here,” Knoechel said. “We actually care.”
The contest will give kids a chance to win different prizes and the board will announce the winner at the homecoming game. Knoechel said her vision of homecoming is just to strengthen the unity between the students, staff and faculty through homecoming festivities.
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Rugby game rescheduled By Bob Reynolds Staff Reporter | @BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern rugby team had its game against Southern Illinois-Carbondale canceled Saturday because the Salukis did not have enough players to fill out their roster because of injuries. Eastern coach Frank Graziano said the Panthers plan to reschedule this game on Nov. 2, as a home game at Lakeside Field. This is the third time this season the Panthers have had a game canceled. The first
two were because of scheduling conflicts and those have no plans to be rescheduled. Graziano said the Panthers were told on Thursday about this cancelation, so the team had enough time to tell parents who had made plans to head down to Carbondale. Graziano turned his Saturday into a three-hour practice, which he said was the best of the season. “I was really happy with the attitude the girls brought,” he said. “Initially they were a little disappointed they didn’t get to play, but we put that behind us
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and had a great practice. It was intense. It was fast and the kids were in a good mood. Other than playing a game, we got the next best thing.” The team still watched film on Sunday for three hours, which is the normal after a Saturday game.
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Women’s basketball schedule released By Bob Reynolds Staff Reporter | @BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern women’s basketball 2014-15 schedule was released on Thursday. Eastern will play 13 home games, five of which are nonconference games and one including the return of Katlyn Payne, who transferred from Eastern to Northern Illinois over the summer for non-basketball reasons. Eastern will host Northern on Nov. 26 at 2 p.m. The Panthers will also par-
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ticipate in two tournaments, including one in North Texas on Nov. 21 through the 23rd, where they will face Florida State and North Texas. Eastern will also participate in the Arizona State Wells Fargo Holiday Tournament December 21 and 22. Those matchups are to be announced. Eastern will kick off its season and home schedule against the University of MissouriKansas City on Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. Other non-conference games include home against
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Nebraska-Omaha on December 5, Illinois-Chicago on Dec. 14 and St. Louis on Dec. 28. The Panthers will travel to Indianapolis to take on IUPUI on Nov. 18, also head to Loyola-Chicago, WisconsinMilwaukee, and Western Illinois to finish their non-conference road schedule. The Panthers will have 16 conference games this season, eight of which are at home. Eastern’s conference games will be played normally on a Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday.
The will kickoff the conference schedule on New Year’s Day against Tennessee Tech at home at 1 p.m. Eastern finished last season with a record of 12-16 and a conference record of 7-9. The Panthers season ended with a 75-52 loss in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament quarterfinals against Western Kentucky.
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Golf team places last at SIU event By Bob Reynolds Staff Reporter | @BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern women’s golf team finished in last place out of seven teams in the Saluki Shootout in Carbondale during the weekend at the par-72 Hickory Ridge Golf Course. The Panthers finished with a team total of 644, which was 28 strokes behind the sixth-place finisher Evansville. Senior Tiffany Wolf led the Panthers with another impressive two rounds. Wolf shot a two round total of 158 (78,80) for a second-consecutive top20 finish for the season. Freshman Chloe Wong finished six strokes behind Wolf, shooting a 164. Fellow freshman Hannah Magda finished 32nd overall as an individual for Eastern. Magda shot a combined score of 167 for the two rounds. Alex Pickens and Annie Getzin finished with a 170 and a 172, respectively for the Panthers. The host, Southern Illinois-Carbondale, won the team title with rounds of 299 and 302 as a team. Mattie Lindner led the Salukis with rounds of a 1-under 71 and a 3-over 75 and also tied for the individual title with a two-day score of two-over par. Lindner was also the only golfer in the tournament to shoot an underpar round. The Salukis also had two other players in the top-10. Brook Cusamano finished fourth with scores of 76 and 73. Kris Grimes tied for seventh
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with scores of 76 and 75 for the two rounds. Southern Illinois-Edwardsville came in second place, finishing five strokes behind Carbondale. Edwardsville shot a team total of 606 and was led by Allison Gorman. Gorman tied Lindner for the individual medalist, with rounds of 74 and 72 for 2-over par for the tournament. Edwardsville’s Madison Frerking tied for seventh place, with Grimes carding a 75 and 76 for the tournament. Brittany Jostes had a consistent two rounds of 77 and finished in 11th place for the Cougars. Rounding out the top three teams in the tournament was Indiana State, which finished with a team score of 618 for the tournament. Gina Della Carmen came in third for the individual title and shot a 4-over 148 for the tournament for Indiana State. Madison Uradomo finished in ninth place and had the second-best shot, a 9-over 153. Rounding out the top-five individuals was Hanna Netisingha from Southern Illinois-Carbondale. Netisingha finished in fifth place and shot a 150, which was 75 for both rounds played. The Eastern women will next play in the Butler Fall Invitational on Oct. 5, in Indianapolis, Ind., at the Highland Country Club. Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.
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Around the OVC Southeast Missouri defeated Southeastern Louisiana 24-23 Saturday in Cape Girardeau, Mo., as Paul McRoberts caught a two-yard gamewinning touchdown pass with four seconds left. McRoberts and quarterback Kyle Snyder led the Redhawks defeat the school’s highest-ranked opponent in program history as Southeastern Louisiana entered the game ranked No. 3 in the FCS.
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Last season, Eastern lost to Northern Illinois, which is also in the MAC, 43-39. The Bobcats are 2-2 and are coming off a 36-24 home win against Idaho. Ohio scored more than 17 points for the first time since its season opener on Aug. 30, when the Bobcats beat Kent State 17-14. Ohio head coach Frank Solich said his team is preparing the same way this week as it would against an FBSlevel opponent. “We know the quality of the program and the quality of the players (Eastern) has,” Solich said. “We’ll prepare for this one the same way we prepare for all of our football games. Every game, if you’re not playing your best you can be defeated.” Since 1989, Eastern has five wins against FBS programs, with four of those coming against teams from the MAC. The latest win over a MAC team for the Panthers was on Sept. 25, 2004, when they defeated Eastern Michigan 31-28. The Panthers lost 42-20 to Minnesota to start their season this year. Eastern is 1-2 in its last three games against FBS schools.
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McRoberts finished the game with seven catches for 89 yards and two touchdown receptions. Snyder completed 16-of-31 passes for 141 yards to go along with his pair of touchdown passes. He also carried the ball 17 times for 95 yards. Snyder’s biggest run came with the final seconds ticking off the clock. On 3rd-and-10, 17 yards away from the end zone, Snyder rushed for 15 yards up the middle of the field down to the two-yard line. The next play he delivered the game-winning touchdown pass to McRoberts. Both players were named co-OVC Offensive Player of the Week. The Redhawks improved to 2-2 and begin conference play at Tennessee-Martin at 6 p.m. Saturday. Eastern Kentucky remained undefeated, as the Colonels beat Tennessee-Martin 49-24 on the road to begin OVC play at 1-0 and improved to 4-0 overall. The Colonels are the only team in the conference without a loss. Running back Dy’Shawn Mobley scored three rushing touchdowns, running for 183 yards for Eastern Kentucky. He had 11 carries, averaging 16.6 yards per attempt. Mobley had touchdown runs of 14, 68 and a career-high 75 yards, which came in the third quarter. He was also named co-OVC Newcomer of the Week along with Eastern’s Whitlow. Both Whitlow and Mobley were teammates at Kentucky for the previous two seasons before transferring to their respective schools in the OVC. Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu.
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Red-shirt senior Lauren Hoppensteadt reaches for the ball during a match on Friday at Lakeside Field. The Panthers lost 3-1. The Panthers beat Chicago State 2-0 on Sunday and improve to 1-7-1.
Aubuchon had a goals against average of 1.37 last season, making 101 total saves. Aubuchon was a first team All-OVC selection. The Redhawks do return second team All-OVC selection Natasha Minor, who finished with a team-high 12 points. Minor started 16 matches last year as a true freshman. So far, she has just one goal this year. Also returning are sophomore
Christina Rohde and senior Breana Beine, who were members of the OVC All-Newcomer team last year. Rohde started 18 matches last year as a true freshman and was twice named OVC Player of the Week. Beine, who sat out 2012 after transferring from Evansville started 17 matches and registered a goal against Eastern last October. A native of St. Peters, Mo., Beine attended
Francis Howell Central High School in Cottleville, Mo., the same high school as Eastern’s Lindsey Marino and Cassie Willhite. Eastern and Southeast Missouri open OVC play at 3 p.m. Friday at Lakeside Field. Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812 or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.
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Nicholson said she was really impressed with how consistent the hitting was, but knows not every game will be perfect “Of course we made some young mistakes, which I did expect, but the fact that we are able to see those mistakes no and correct them is what the fall is all about,” she said. Johnson led the team with a .769 batting average going 10-for-13 over the weekend. “I was really happy with how I was hitting helping contribute to the team,” Johnson said. Johnson also said that there is a big difference from high school to college.
“The level of play in high school is totally different from college, where in college you have to focus and be thinking two plays ahead of time,” she said. The Panthers will be back at Williams Field on Saturday and Sunday to finish off their fall season. They will host Illinois Central College at noon and Wabash College at 4 p.m. on Saturday. Eastern will take on Lake Land College in a double header Sunday at 11 a.m., with the second game scheduled for 1 p.m. Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.
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Miller adds two goals in first win By Dominic Renzetti Assistant Sports Editor | @domrenzetti The Eastern women’s soccer team’s 2-0 win over Chicago State on the road Sunday marked a number of firsts for the team heading into its Ohio Valley Conference schedule this weekend. The win was the first non-conference win since Sept. 7, 2012, when the Panthers beat Evansville 2-1. It’s also the first non-conference w in f o r h e a d coach Jason Cherry, now in HANNAH his second year at MILLER the helm. Hannah Miller’s two goals make her the first Panther to score multiple goals in a match this season, and the first player to score multiple goals since Sept. 29, 2013, when Meagan Radloff did it against Tennessee Tech. Miller, a 2012 selection to the OVC All-Newcomer team, scored two goals last year, including the team’s second goal of the season against Valparaiso in 2013. Miller had two goals in her freshman season as well, both during OVC play. Preparing for Southeast Missouri Southeast Missouri, the first OVC opponent on the list for the Panthers, beat Eastern 4-0 last season. Miller and Radloff had one shot each in that match on Oct. 27, 2013. It was the Panthers’ worst OVC-loss of the year. So far in non-conference play, Southeast Missouri is an even 3-3. The Redhawks opened 1-7-1 the season with 3 P.M | FRIDAY a win over Division II MissouriSt. Louis of the LAKESIDE FIELD Great Lakes Valley Conference. Southeast Missouri competed in the Falcon Invitational hosted 3-3 by Air Force and came away with a 2-0 win over Big West opponent California-Davis. Southeast Missouri concluded its Colorado road trip with a loss to Northern Colorado of the Big Sky conference. The Redhawks dropped a 3-0 loss to Illinois State on Sept. 12 and a 1-0 loss to Evansville on Sept. 17. Illinois State, a member of the Missouri Valley, is 6-4 this season, while Evansville, also in the MVC, is 7-2-1. Southeast Missouri’s most recent match was a 3-0 win over Arkansas State of the Sun Belt conference. Arkansas State is 3-6 so far this season. Like the Panthers, Southeast Missouri was eliminated in the first round of last year’s OVC tournament. The No. 3 seeded Redhawks gave up a goal in the final five minutes to No. 6 seeded Austin Peay to lose 1-0. The Redhawks are without last year’s OVC Defensive Player of the Year in goalkeeper Ashton Aubuchon, who graduated.
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Junior quarterback Jalen Whitlow runs with the ball down field against Austin Peay Saturday at O'Brien Field. Whitlow set an Eastern record, with 137 rushing yards by a quarterback, as the Panthers won 63-7.
Whitlow, Johnson receive weekly awards By Aldo Soto Sports Editor | @AldoSoto21 Eastern quarterback Jalen Whitlow was named co-Ohio Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week, following the Panthers’ win Saturday over Austin Peay. Whitlow, who transferred from Kentucky, set a new Eastern rushing record from a quarterback, carrying the ball 15 times for 137 yards, while scoring two touchdowns and throwing two more. The junior started his third game this season and for the first time, Eastern head coach Kim Dameron kept
Whitlow into the second half. In the Panthers’ first three games, Whitlow and red-shirt sen i o r A n d re w Manley shared playing time. Dameron said JALEN the main reason WHITLOW Whitlow played the majority of the game against Austin Peay was because of his running ability. “I felt we didn’t do much of the QB run play in the first couple games
and we felt that we’re in league (play) and this was the week to break it out,” Dameron said. Whitlow also passed for 159 yards on 13of-15 pass atANTOINE tempts. JOHNSON Eastern defensive back Antoine Johnson also earned conference honors, as the junior defensive back was named OVC Specialist of the Week. Johnson blocked Ben Campbell’s
punt at the 12-yard line in the third quarter, with the Panthers leading 427. As players scrambled to locate the ball, Johnson raced toward the end zone, where the ball landed after he blocked it. He secured it for an Eastern touchdown that gave the Panthers a 49-7 lead with 9:37 remaining in the quarter. Next opponent Eastern heads into its second game against an FBS team, as the Panthers play Ohio of the MAC at 1 p.m. Saturday in Athens, Ohio.
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Softball sweeps weekend double headers By Sean Hastings Staff Reporter | @DEN_Sports Angie Nicholson began her second season as Eastern softball coach with a perfect 4-0 record in the preseason. Eastern hosted two double-headers at Williams Field against Olney Central College and Parkland College on Friday and Sunday, respectively. The Panthers outscored their opponents 36-1 in their four wins. Without her top two pitchers from last year, Nicholson was able to see several freshmen play for the very first time in college. Freshman Michelle Rogers, in her first collegiate softball action, threw seven shutout innings with seven strikeouts, one walk on eight hits. She picked up the 6-0 win in Eastern’s first game Friday against Olney. Eastern freshman Taylor Miokovic went 2-for-3 at the plate, along with juniors Katie Watson and Kylie Bennett and freshman Tori Johnson. Bailey O’Dell led the Panthers with two RBIs.
In game two of the double-header on Friday, Eastern won 9-0. The Panthers got another complete-game shutout from freshman Jessica Wireman against Olney. Wireman had nine strikeouts, giving up only two hits, allowing no walks in her collegiate softball debut. At the plate, Wireman went 3-for-4. Eastern recorded 15 hits, including a two-run home run from Bennett, who finished with three RBIs. Junior Jennette Isaac was 2-for-2 and ended the weekend 6-for-11. Freshman Andrea Roberts went 2-or-3. In game one of the double header against Parkland College, the Panthers won 9-1 with the only run coming off an error. Freshman Michelle Rogers pitched all seven innings, striking out nine, walking three and allowing only one hit and one unearned run. Eastern recorded 12 hits with Johnson leading the way going 3-for-4. Isaac went 2-for-3 with 2 RBIs and O’Dell went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. The Panthers got another shutout
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Junior infielder, Haylee Beck throws the ball to first during the second game of a double header against Parkland College Sunday at Williams Field.
winning 12-0 in the second game of the doubleheader. Rogers was on the mound again and threw four shutout innings with
four strikeouts, no walks and only one hit allowed.
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