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Ryan Johnson, a junior biological sciences major, rides his longboard to class on Monday. Eastern students will host the Panther Push Saturday for longboarders to race on a 3.7-mile course.

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Students organize push race

By Kendra Cwikla Staff Reporter | @kendracwikla A longboarding race organized by two Eastern students will occur at noon Saturday.

The race will begin and end at the Doudna Fine Arts Center and follow a 3.7-mile course throughout Charleston.

The race is considered a sprint push race because the path follows a mostly flat surface and the rider has to continually push off the ground.

The race organizers are Samantha Marsteller, a sophomore psychology major, and Jessica Hegberg, a graduate student in kinesiology and sports studies.

Neither the city of Charleston nor Eastern sanctioned the race when the students petitioned to close the roads they would be using.

“Charleston has lots of races, but they don’t close for anything,” Hegberg said.

Marsteller said the city of Charleston has a penalty for longboarding.

“They don’t stop you unless you’re causing a traffic incident,” Marsteller said.

Marsteller and Hegberg began planning the event in July, emailing hundreds of longboarding companies to find sponsors for the race.

The race is considered a Rad Jam, which connects the organizers with sponsors who give donation prizes for the race.

The winners of the race will be separated by top three males and top three females 17 and older, and skaters under 17 will be in the “grom” category.

The first three to finish will win either a deck or a complete board. Other prizes include Orangutan wheels, bearings, hats, shirts and posters.

Sponsors sent most of the prizes, except for an Oblivion board, which was painted

by Hegberg and Marsteller.

“Ever y rider walks away with something, whether they come in first or last,” Marsteller said.

Registration for the race will begin at the Doudna steps at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

Those 15 and older can participate with a waiver from their parents. Participants must wear a helmet to be eligible for prizes.

In the case of rain, the event will be held at the same time Sunday.

For more event information, follow @PantherPush on Twitter or search “Panther Push 2014” to find the event on Facebook.

Kendra Cwikla can be reached at 581-2812 or kecwikla@eiu.edu.

Presidential search forum rescheduled

By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @DEN_News The presidential search forum for faculty members was cancelled because David Mead-Fox, the presidential search consultant, will not be on campus until Tuesday.

The forum was supposed to happen at 4 p.m. Monday, but is being rescheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday because MeadFox’s flight was delayed, said Cheryl Gil-

bert, an administrative assistant in the office of university advancement.

Gilbert said the forum for students and staff will still occur during its originally planned time at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

An additional forum for faculty is also scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

All forums will take place in the Charleston/Mattoon Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Mead-Fox is a consultant from the firm

Korn Ferry, which the board of trustees contracted with Eastern.

The forums are so Mead-Fox can hear feedback as to what the campus and community are looking for in a future president.

Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or samarkham@eiu.edu.

Student Senate continues to seek more students to get active and become interested in serving in the senate, and in turn, the campus.

Student Body President Reginald Thedford, along with other members of the executive board, have created a presidential cabinet that aims to represent particular areas of focus on campus.

“We want to have an essential focus on what we want to do at Eastern’s campus,” Thedford said.

According to the student senate website, the purpose of the cabinet is to provide Eastern students with “representation that empower, enrich, and enhance student and campus life.”

The presidential cabinet is a special committee governed by the executive branch with direct supervision of the student body president.

Thedford is looking to initiate the cabinet with nine members each serving different positions.

The nine positions available for the cabinet include chief of staff and chief of communications, along with seven advisors for Greek student, residential student, firstyear student, graduate student, athletics, multicultural student, and transfer student.

Thedford said the cabinet would help the campus come together. “ We want to unite student organizations and get the word out abouy different things going on in campus so we are all connected in a way,” he said.

The committee chief of staff will serve as senior advisor to the student body president.

It will also oversee all operations within the cabinet, while the chief of communications will oversee internal and external communications and provide that information to the student body.

All advisors will serve as liaisons for their particular areas of focus.

Thedford said few requirements must be met to serve in the cabinet “A student must be in good academic standing and cannot be a member of the supreme court or senate,” he said.

He added that experience is preferred but not necessary to be appointed.

He said experience in student life or other leadership roles are a plus, along with previous experience in student government in high school for incoming freshman students.

All applications are available through the student government website and will be due at noon Wednesday.

Debby Hernandez can be reached at 581-2812 or dhernandez5@eiu.edu.

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Pokey LaFarge returns to campus Monday as part of his Central Time tour. LaFarge is working on a new album that will be released in the spring.

LaFarge brings unique music style

By Samantha Middendorf Entertainment Editor | @Samantha_EE Pokey LaFarge will return to both the Doudna Fine Arts Center and his roots as he takes the stage as part of his Central Time tour.

LaFarge will perform a 7 p.m. Monday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna.

LaFarge, born and raised in Bloomington-Normal, said his Midwest audience is a bit more attentive.

“People take a little more pride there, I think, because I’m a local boy,” he said. “There’s a lot of people that come out to see the show that I grew up with.”

However, some of his childhood companions may not be as eager to see him, LaFarge said.

“Some people are surprised I’m still alive,” he said. “One of these days, somebody will come up and ‘Dimebag Darrell’ me and shoot me while

I’m onstage.”

Dimebag Darrell was a musician who was shot onstage.

LaFarge also said that his fans and enemies alike might not be centralized in Illinois alone.

“In fact, there might be people that want me dead all over the place, I don’t know,” LaFarge said.

LaFarge said growing up in Central Illinois has had an effect on his music and songwriting.

“Music is made mostly subconsciously. When you sing, you don’t necessarily know why you speak a certain way,” he said. “I have to accept that where I grew up and what I’ve seen and what I’ve experienced in my 31 years all comes out in my music.”

Above all else, LaFarge said a mixture of personal experience and his imagination aids him and his songwriting.

“Personal experience is important,” he said. “You have to challenge yourself and keep trying to come up with

new things.”

He said his goal was to just make something that sounds pleasing.

“It’s like finding the ways to sing a line or a way to sing a song,” he said. “If you’re drawing inspiration from all over, you’re taking different pieces of things you hear in your head, and I’m just trying to make stuff that sounds good.”

His unique sound is constantly morphing, but not to accommodate what will make him more popular.

“It’s a mixture of many genres, and I wouldn’t delegate myself to just one,” he said. “To do that would probably be more marketable, but then again it wouldn’t necessarily do me much justice.”

LaFarge provides an old-time feel to his music, which is not easy to categorize.

“Some people would say I was born old,” he said. “I’ve always been drawn to things with a classic feel, things that are natural and unfiltered.”

However, it is easy to find critics that will try to pinpoint music to a certain genre, he said.

“It’s in everybody’s blood, whether they know it or not, when they hear a certain type of music or instrument, things will come to their minds to try and categorize it,” LaFarge said.

Listeners can expect new music in the spring, LaFarge noted.

“I’m recording a new record in Chicago right now,” he said.

With the time that he’s given, LaFarge plans to continue to play music and share his experiences, but he is not interested in making music a competition.

“I’m just another person in the sea,” he said. “When I’m here, I’m here and when I’m dead I won’t be, so you just have to make the most of it while you’re here.”

Samantha Middendorf can be reached at 581-2812 or semiddendorf@eiu.edu.

New student senators to be announced

By Debby Hernandez Administration Editor | @DEN_News New senators will be introduced at the student senate meeting at 7 p.m.

Wednesday in the Arcola/Tuscola Room at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Student Body President Reginald Thedford will induct new members during the meeting.

Of the 15 open positions, about 12 of them were filled. The new senators are expected to serve for the fall semester.

Yazmin Rodriguez, the student vice

president for student affairs, said new committee chair members have not been appointed, but student government might be looking to fill some chair positions.

“This year we are giving new members a chance to be committee chairs if they have experience,” Rodriguez said.

Each senator serves one-semester terms and must run for re-election if interested in serving another term.

Thedford said all students interested in becoming senators have an opportunity to run every semester.

“Students appointed and not appointed must run in elections at the end of the

semester to be considered,” he said.

Student Senate Speaker Courtney Sage appointed applicants for the senate positions.

All appointment recommendations were reviewed and approved by current senators.

The senate will also review Registered Student Organization’s feedback from Panther Palooza, and discuss plans for their outreach campaign.

Rodriguez said the senate sent out surveys to the RSOs at Panther Palooza to receive input about the event.

“We want to receive feedback on what we can change for next year,”

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In addition to addressing RSOs, the student senate will review ways to reach out to students.

Thedford said the goal is to give students a chance to speak out with the help of student senate.

“As part of our ‘your voice matters’ campaign, we want to get student voices heard and make sure their concerns are being addressed at student government,” Thedford said.

Debby Hernandez can be reached at 581-2812 or dhernandez5@eiu.edu.

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By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor |@BertoHodge The National Association for Colored Women’s Clubs, which is the oldest women of color organization in the country, is now a Registered Student Organization on campus.

Maya Pitts, president of NACWC, said the organization began in 1896 when a journalist published slanderous and unflattering remarks about African-American women as a whole.

Women then came together to form the organization, which began to focus on uplifting and supporting each other as a gender. Prior to the formation of the organization, all of the women existed in separate clubs.

Sarah Smith, NACWC vice president, said the organization focuses on helping women and children.

“This organization focuses on protecting the rights of women and children,” Smith said.

Because of how women were treated by men in the past, Pitts said there was a need for such an organization that can set a positive example for women and bring unity.

Those who wish to join must actually go through an induction ceremony before becoming an official member.

Pitts said women who want to be a part of NACWC must first learn about the history and charter of the organization and take a test prior to joining.

“Your organization was founded for a reason — you never want to forget and let that get washed away,” Pitts said.

Even though members must learn the history of the club and be inducted in, both Smith and Pitts stressed NACWC is not a sorority.

They added it was also not meant to be a political organization.

As part of the organization’s history, the women in the club participate in community service events and mentor their peers as well as the youth.

One of their duties is to educate people on things happening in society.

“If you need help we’ve been there, done that — here’s how we can help you,” Smith said.

Despite “colored” women being in the organization’s title, any female from any ethnic background may join their club.

Both women also expressed an interest to work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Sisters Utilizing Christian Challenges to Evolve into Successful Students and STRONGMENtoring organizations.

“That would definitely be a good collaboration,” Pitts said.

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Roberto Hodge can be reached at 581-2812 or rlhodge@eiu.edu.

The National Association for Colored Women’s Clubs is now being represented on campus as an RSO. Maya Pitts, president of the new RSO says there was a need for such an organization that can set a positive example for women and bring unity.

CAA to review mathematics programs Thursday

By Debby Hernandez Administration Editor | @DEN_News The Council on Academic Affairs will review updates on the bachelor’s of arts in mathematics and bachelors of science in mathematics and computer science at 2 p.m. Thursday in Room 4440 in Booth Library.

As part of the eight-year cycle, the CAA will be scheduling program reviews for departments during their meetings.

Peter Andrews, mathematics department chair, will assess changes, success and challenges in both programs.

Andrews said enrollment has been a factor for decreases in the

mathematics program in particular the teaching certification concentration, while the mathematics in computer science program has stayed constant in recent years.

He said changes made within both programs will be addressed at the meeting along with employment opportunities expected for students majoring in ei-

ther program.

The purpose of the program reviews is to keep an update on how each particular area is doing.

Andrews said the program review is a good way to keep the department in check.

“It is a good way to see trends and ask questions you should be asking and collect data you should

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FROM THE EASEL Bob Galuski

Life isn’t like a movie Let’s face it: there will be no swell of music, no inspiring of speeches, no rolling of credits. You won’t know how it ends, because it’s never happened before — and guess what? That’s not the worst thing in the world.

I love movies. They’re one of the few things I know a tremendous amount about and can talk for hours at end about.

But life isn’t like a movie and I think it confuses people sometimes. Not legitimately confuses — I give my fellow peers more credit than that. But instead, it seems like more and more people assume life will turn out like a movie in the sense that everything turns out nicely with a satisfying conclusion.

Honestly, for me—and it should be the same for you—I find it to be boring. Like I said, I love movies. I know how most romantic comedies will end. I know the hero will win against the bad guy. I know that Gary Cooper will walk away to the sunset with Grace Kelly.

Instead it’s a mixture of everything: comedy, action, romance and even tragedy. It’s a bit of a rollercoaster.

Don’t have assumptions about what is owed to you. Don’t figure life will hand you everything and it will just end perfectly. It’s a bit ridiculous to think that.

Life imitates art, but that doesn’t mean art imitates life.

Everything unfolds in movies because people got together and planned it out that way. Life isn’t planned out. You never know if you’re going to find ruby slippers and make it back home, or if you might find something more wonderful.

It’s going to be unexpected and full of twists. It’s not going to be easy. Even at just the two decades of being here, I think everybody knows that. But really if life were like a movie and predictable, it wouldn’t be any fun.

Stop assuming life will be handed to you in a neat package. It wouldn’t be life if it did.

Don’t think that in the end everything will work out just because you give an impassionate speech or a coincidence will save everything.

Not going to happen.

Instead, make sure you work toward what you want. Fight for what you believe in.

If something doesn’t go your way, it won’t be the end of the world—or the end of the movie. In fact, it might just be the start of something better.

Your expectations won’t always align with reality and that’s fine. Let life happen. Roll with the punches. Go with the flow. You know, all those clichés.

Sometimes you’ll be Dorothy on a great adventure and sometimes you’ll be the witch under the house. There’s no control, so let go and let it happen.

Bob Galuski is a senior English and journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@gmail.com.

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Eastern must support its student groups Attending a university should mean that students are encouraged to grow personally both academically and creatively; however, it is disappointing when that same encouragement is diminished.

With the group putting on the event called “Panther Push,” it should have been a no-brainer. Events put on by students for other students and locals with similar interests always happen at Eastern. But in the case of “Panther Push,” the city denied their request to close down the roads.

While closing down the roads for a single event that isn’t a parade or anything like that is understandable, we believe there could have been a different solution. Because the city of Charleston would not support the students of “Panther Push,” neither did Eastern.

The people of Charleston and the people of Eastern should work together in cases like these. While Eastern is home to students, so is Charleston.

Support of the students and their ideas, within reason, should always take top priority whenever possible. Eastern should support its students in their endeavors because it helps students flourish.

That’s the reason everyone is in college, isn’t it? If we don’t give the students room to express themselves and try new things, then it’s all been a pointless cause. Without the ability to make choices, plan events and create new opportunities, students will chafe against the strains of only academia.

Education is a key foundation of the university — that’s a given — but without support in other activities it’s pointless.

Eastern should stand by its students. It’s a longboarding event, not the end of the world. If the university or city were worried about safety, then they should have sponsored it and had more control of the rules.

As it is, a group of students will be getting together for a perfectly legitimate activity, without the support of its school — a school that throws support for other events similar to these.

When the university has events that take up the entire quad and feature zip-lines and bouncing houses, a longboarding race could be a university-sanctioned event.

The city and the university need to work in conjunction with one another. Students are also residents, whether they are here for nine out of the 12 months or the full calendar year. For four years, Charleston is our home. Eastern is our home. Our home should support us.

If the city or the university sanctioned this, then it could have been something the university or city could have kept going after this year — something new students could look forward to happening.

Instead, it will most likely be a one-time thing at a university where longboarding is a common enough mode of transportation. Much like bicycles and roller blades, these are ways students get around. Longboards aren’t going anywhere, as evident by recent events, even without the support of Eastern.

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“Green” initiatives beginning at the dining halls When I first arrived at Eastern my freshman year in 2012, one of the first things that stood out to me was the college’s emphasis on trying to be a sustainable and “green” campus.

Besides being a well-known journalism school and being just far enough away from home where my parents could not stop by for a surprise visit, Eastern also apparently cared about the environment and its carbon footprint. Awesome, right?

Eastern’s website boasts having 12 straight years of diverting over a million pounds of waste away from landfills through its recycling program on campus until 2010.

The recycling page on Eastern’s website reads “after all, it has always been a presidential goal to see Eastern’s recycling total hit 1.6 million pounds in a year, and that goal should serve as a reminder that EIU will never stop looking for additional ways to improve its recycling efforts.”

This all sounds positive and inspirational, but I have noticed Eastern’s recycling program is not as glorious as it seems, specifically in the dining halls.

I worked at the Stevenson Hall dining center my sophomore year, making sandwiches on the deli side and working next to the chef at R.O. The deli side of Stevo offers a lot of

Liz Purcell food in plastic and foam containers that can all be recycled, but they are rarely, if ever, recycled.

Students place their garbage and unfinished food onto a conveyor belt that goes back into the kitchen.

Now, if you haven’t had the joyous opportunity of working in the dish room at a dining hall, it is a really difficult job to keep up with when you have 20 trays of trash and silverware coming your way at once and about half a second to sort each one out (sometimes completely on your own).

All of the trash gets thrown into the garbage can because there simply is not enough time to ever be able to sort landfill trash from recyclable trash.

My question is, how difficult is it to place a recycle bin next to the conveyor belt so students can recycle these containers on their own?

In the kitchen, there is a large garbage can for recycling next to a regular trash can. I had no idea it was even there until I asked one of my managers where I could recycle a large empty tub of Italian dressing.

I am pretty sure I am the first employee to ever ask that question in the history of time because when I found said garbage can, there was nothing in it, and nothing ever was in it for the entire year I worked at Stevenson.

It is possible a few items may have slipped past my guard, but I checked this bin every time I worked and there was never anything being recycled despite the large amount of items used in the kitchen that can be recycled. It is rather ironic that a dining hall as popular as Stevenson kind of forgot about the whole “green” thing.

I am not necessarily blaming the kitchen staff for this problem. However, if Eastern is so keen on being a sustainable school, I recommend the administration looks at one of the largest contributors to landfill waste on campus: its very own dining halls.

Liz Purcell is a junior journalism student.

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The Ball Busters high five Kiss My Ace at Volleybrawl Competition on the courts near Thomas Hall on Monday night. Along with the Rim Rocker Basketball tournament, Volleybrawl is an opportunity for incoming freshman and transfer students to meet each other. The Volleybrawl prize is $400 in gift cards. The Rim Rocker prize is $500 in gift cards.

Black Graduate Student Association helps minorities

By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor | @BertoHodge When Sherry Gunn graduated in May, her father gave her two options — get a job or go to graduate school.

Unsure if she was ready to jump into the workforce, she decided graduate school was her best choice.

Gunn, the president of Black Graduate Student Association, said even though she was not sure about what to study at graduate school, she knew she enjoyed the aspects of college and helping fel-

low minorities.

This is why she chose to get her master’s degree in student affairs and work in the Gateway office.

“I wanted to make sure that I was there to promote an opportunity for them,” Gunn said.

BGSA is an organization dedicated to helping African-American graduate students or those thinking about pursing graduate studies.

This program has been at Eastern for at least five years, Gunn said.

Gunn said students in the organization are able to discuss the

challenges, stresses and issues minority students may face being in graduate school.

In any given class, there may be only two or three minority graduate students.

Gunn said there are approximately 80 black graduate students on Eastern’s campus. “ Ev e r y o n e n e e d s a p l a c e t o vent; our issues may be different from everyone else’s,” Gunn said.

BGSA is also a national program with the members often participating in conferences and getting professional development skills as well as networking,

Gunn said.

The program will help students with figuring out when to apply for graduate school, or give them information about if graduate school is something they may want to pursue.

BSGA will also assist students with the graduate record exam if it is needed.

Gunn said students sometimes miss out on getting a graduate assistantship because they apply too late.

Gu n n s a i d o n e o f t h e h a rd est parts about any student being in graduate school or being in a

graduate assistantship is finding where to fit in while being on and off campus.

As graduate assistants, they are still students, but they often work on campus as well. Therefore, going out to any of the bars within Charleston is somewhat frowned upon, Gunn said.

Many of the students in BGSA are also in Graduate Student Advisory Council, but the two organizations are different.

Roberto Hodge can be reached at 581-2812 or rlhodge@eiu.edu.

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By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor | @BertoHodge T h e Na t i o n a l A s s o c i a t i o n f o r C o l o re d Wo m en’s Club will host a forum about college survival skills and tips at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Robertson Auditorium in Lumpkin Hall.

Officially called “Freshman 411: The Naked Tr uth,” the event will be for women only and geared s p e c i f i c a l l y a t f re s h m e n , said Maya Pitts, the Na tional Association for Colored Women’s Club presi-

dent.However, upperclassmen will be welcomed.

During the for um, the women will have an open discussion on topics of importance and relevance to women.

Many of the issues discussed will relate to health, all types of relationships, how to be safe at par ties and around others, as well as information about every aspect about a student experiences in a college lifestyle.

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issues discussed at the forum are going to be things women need to know about — especially if they’re firstgeneration college students.

She said the women would be able to learn the truth about what college is actually like from someone older and possibly have a different experience.

“You don’t do it because you have too, we do it because we want too,” Smith said.

Both women agreed because the forum will be women only, women will

be more open to talk about their feelings in a closed, intimate setting without fear or embarrassment of men, their discussion should be more meaningful than if it was opened up to both sexes. “ Yo u h e a r t h e s a m e things in the same forums all the time — I think it’s going to be deeper,” Smith said.

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Radloff, Reed pace Panthers’ offense

By Dominic Renzetti Assistant Sports Editor | @domrenzetti Eastern women soccer players Meagan Radloff and Chris Reed both had the same thing to say after each of this weekend’s matches: they must have something going on.

Radloff assisted Reed in scoring in Friday’s match against Missouri-Kansas City, then set up what would be a penalty shot goal for Reed in Sunday’s match against IUPUI, both at Lakeside Field. “(Reed) always comes and checks to me when I’m looking for her and I know she’ll always get ahead on the ball if I send it in,” Radloff said after Sunday’s match. “We have something going on, I guess.”

Reed said the same thing when describing her goal against MissouriKansas City. “[Radloff] shot it and it hit off the crossbar, I don’t know if the goalie tipped it or not, but it bounced back out and I just headed it into the corner,” Reed said. “Got something good going on with Meagan, I guess.”

Reed’s goal against Missouri-Kansas City was her second of the season, with the first coming against Louisiana Tech on Aug. 31. The assist came from Radloff. Reed added her third goal of the season on Sunday against IUPUI. Radloff and Reed have accounted for 100 percent of the Panthers’ offense so far this season, with all four goals coming between them. Radloff and Reed are also accounting for more than a quarter of all shots taken by the Panthers so far this season, with the two combining for 17 of the team’s total 45 shots, equaling about 38 percent. Radloff has the team’s highest shot total with 10, while Reed sits close behind in second with seven.

Despite the production on offense, the Panthers are still winless in six matches into the 2014 non-conference schedule. Even without a notch in the win column, the Panthers steady streak of scoring at least once in their last three matches is a promising sign.

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Senior forward Meagan Radloff battles two opponents in a match on Aug. 31 at Lakeside Field. The Panthers lost to Louisiana Tech 3-1. The Panthers are 0-6 overall.

The Panthers’ four goals in six matches tops not only their performance from the first six non-conference matches of last season, but of the entire 2013 non-conference schedule.

Eastern scored just two goals in nine non-conference matches in 2013, scoring one in the season opener against Oakland and one in the non-conference finale against Valparaiso. During that stretch, the Panthers were shutout in seven straight matches and gave up at least three goals in five of those matches.

It was during the Ohio Valley Conference portion of the schedule last year that Eastern saw its surge in offensive production, with 13 goals scored against conference opponents,

including a four-goal performance against Tennessee Tech.

Eastern head coach Jason Cherry said he thinks the Panthers have been in every match except one so far this season. He said if the team can minimalize its mistakes, it could be bound to make some noise in the OVC again this year.

“We just need to keep practicing and working on those mistakes,” he said after Sunday’s loss. “If we do that, I think we’re going to be really tough to play in the OVC.” Cherry said he hopes to have those issues worked out before the team begins conference play on Sept. 26 against Southeast Missouri at Lakeside Field.

Even with the recent hot streaks of Radloff and Reed, part of that success could hinge on the health of two players who were hurt this weekend.

Freshman defender Gabby Mclaurin was injured during warm-ups before Friday’s match against MissouriKansas City and team captain Lauren Hoppensteadt left the field on crutches early in the first half Sunday against IUPUI. Mclaurin sat out both matches this weekend. Both were ankle injuries and Cherry said both players would be evaluated this week.

Hoppensteadt took a medical redshirt in the 2012 season after suffering an injury, but was able to bounce back in 2013 to make the All-OVC second team, playing 1,392 minutes

and scoring one goal.

Mclaurin, a freshman from Barrington, had appeared in each match before Friday, seeing extended minutes against Marshall and Louisiana Tech, where she logged 30 and 40 minutes, respectively. The only freshman to see more minutes in those two matches was fellow defender and high school teammate Carrie Caplin, who played 65 and 70 minutes against Marshall and Louisiana Tech, respectively.

The Panthers have just one match this weekend, hosting WisconsinGreen Bay at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812 or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

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Lakeside Field, but that was denied because of more paperwork issues.

Purdue was not allowed to travel.

Graziano has been dealing with cancellations since he began to coach at Eastern in 1999.

“For me it’s not as frustrating as it is for the student-athletes, and certainly for the parents, who have made plans to come watch their daughters play,” he said. “That is what becomes the frustrating part, but for me it is a part of the business.”

Graziano has since added two games to replace the cancellations this year and an additional game at the end of the season.

The Panthers will play at Lindenwood in St. Charles, M.O., on Sept.

16, and then four days later they will travel to Southern Illinois-Carbondale.

Graziano said he was pretty lucky to add those two games into Eastern’s schedule.

“There was an opening down at Southern on the 20th,” he said. “They had an opening on their schedule to where they said they were going to take the weekend off.”

The Panthers just recently added a game at Northern Illinois on Oct. 15., as well.

Brillhart said he sees a difference between this year’s team and last year’s team.

“From the start of the season you can tell this team definitely wants it more and are more goal driven,” he said. “Last year you could see it kind of just trailed off towards the end of the season.”

Brillhart still sees room for improvement before the conference schedule approaches, though, he said.

“We have a lot of communication to work on and a lot of little things during the game,” Brillhart said. “It’s coming along.”

Hansen has not named a starting goalkeeper for the next match, but is

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During the start of the scheduling process for the Eastern rugby team, which typically starts in the winter, Panthers’ head coach Frank Graziano tries to put a schedule together of 10 games, five at home and five on the road.

Graziano has to make sure that all of the games, especially road games will fit inside the budget, and has to make sure hotel rooms are available.

Typically the first game Graziano puts on his schedule, is against Quinnipiac – its head coach is Eastern rugby alumna Becky Carlson.

“That is just two or three emails to coach Carlson and that is done in winter,” Graziano said. “We are communicating in January and February.”

He said the biggest challenge he faces is being an independent program in the Midwest, which makes it difficult for Eastern because every team the Panthers play are in a league.

“They tend to get their league schedule very late, which creates more of a problem for us, because I need to do my scheduling early,” he said.

“While teams will schedule games with us, they do not have their league schedule in their hand.”

In every year of the Panthers’ rugby program existence they have had

10 or more scheduled games on their schedule and that is because league administrators were much more accommodating to where the leagues in the Midwest only had about five games. But in the last three seasons, only eight games have been scheduled.

Now, because the leagues have grown to about nine to 10 teams, Graziano said it is becoming more difficult for teams to fit Eastern in their schedule.

This season, Graziano did not reach his 10-game schedule mark; by only having six games on the schedule originally, three on the road and three at home.

Since then, the schedule has changed almost completely. Before the start of the season, two games were cancelled. One of which was a home game against Kentucky, which was cancelled because Kentucky had a league game scheduled that day.

Also, the Panthers were scheduled to travel to Purdue this season, and that game was cancelled because of paperwork issues.

The field the Boilermakers use is a multi-use field, and they did not get their paperwork in time that led to access not being granted to play that day.

Graziano had to then see if Purdue could come to Charleston to play at

pleased with how both have played.

“I think Ben has done a good job to this point and I think Novotny has as well,” he said. “I look at it as I have two starting goalkeepers, not just one.”

Hansen said Novotny earned the start against Culver-Stockton.

“Novotny has trained hard so we wanted to give him that opportunity,” he said.

Eastern’s next match is at Western Michigan, starting at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Dameron searching for new playmakers

By Aldo Soto Sports Editor | @AldoSoto21 Red-shirt senior Adam Drake leads the Eastern football team in receptions with 20 through the first two games of the season, but head coach Kim Dameron is looking for more receivers to step up.

After debuting against Minnesota with 11 catches for 109 yards and a touchdown, Drake led the Panthers Saturday against Southern IllinoisCarbondale with nine catches for 139 yards.

In Eastern’s home opener against the Salukis, five other receivers combined to catch seven passes for 122 yards.

“Adam continues to make plays, but we need some guys to come along,” Dameron said.

Red-shirt junior running back Shepard Little was the second-leading receiver against Southern, making five catches for 57 yards.

South Florida transfer Stephen Bravo-Brown only caught two passes for 38 yards Saturday. That came after having six receptions for 66 yards against Minnesota.

Following Drake and his 20 receptions, Bravo-Brown is second on Eastern with eight catches on the season.

Little ranks third on the team with seven receptions.

“We have to do a better job of maybe spreading the ball around a little bit,” Dameron said.

The Panthers have been without junior wide receiver Keiondre Gober for their first two games of the season. At Minnesota, Gober was asked to go in but declined to do so, offensive coordinator Greg Stevens said. Then, Gober was suspended for disciplinary reasons going into Saturday’s game against the Salukis.

Dameron said Gober did not receive any playing time against Minnesota because red-shirt freshman Anthony Taylor had simply outplayed Gober heading into the start of the season.

“Anthony Taylor started and played the vast majority of the snaps in the game and that happened because of practice and those are the decisions coaches have to make on who gets the

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Red-shirt senior wide receiver Adam Drake finds an open route during the Panthers’ home opener against Southern Illinois-Carbondale on Saturday at O’Brien Field. The Panthers lost to the Salukis 38-21.

snaps,” Dameron said. “Anthony Taylor, we felt like gave us the best chance to win.”

Last season, Gober had 48 catches for 894 yards and scored nine touchdowns, which was third most for wide receivers behind Erik Lora (19) and Drake (13).

After two games this season, Eastern wide receivers only have two touchdowns. Taylor caught two passes for 30 yards against the Salukis that included a six-yard touchdown at the end of the first quarter. He only had one catch for four yards against the

Golden Gophers.

Drake has Eastern’s other touchdown from a wide receiver, which came on the final play against Minnesota. Red-shirt senior quarterback Andrew Manley has the Panthers’ three touchdown passes, with his first going to running back Jimmy Lera.

Eastern is ranked No. 4 in total offense in the Ohio Valley Conference, behind three teams that all played against NAIA teams to start the season. Despite ranking near the top in total offense, gaining 860 yards in its first two games, Eastern is ranked No.

6 in scoring.

A problem for the Panthers’ offense inability to consistently score has been turnovers. After three against Minnesota, the Panthers had two more turnovers against Southern. Manley threw two interceptions Saturday and said he has to improve going forward.

“I just need to make better decisions with the ball,” Manley said. “I had a couple of picks. One, I tried to back shoulder, but I should’ve just thrown it away.”

Eastern has been shutout in five of eight quarters so far this season. In

the second half in their home opener, the Panthers’ offense gained 112 yards and after going 7-for-10 on third downs in the first half they only converted 1-of-7 opportunities to end the game.

“We’re struggling right now, obviously – trying to find an identity defensively and offensively,” Dameron said.

The Panthers have been outscored 80-41 in their first two losses.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu.

Men’s soccer team tops NAIA Culver-Stockton

By Mark Shanahan Staff Reporter | @DEN_Sports Freshman goalkeeper Mike Novotny won his first career start against Culver-Stockton 5-1, as Eastern men’s soccer captain Jake Brillhart scored two goals and added an assist in Monday’s win at Lakeside Field.

The Panthers’ first goal from Brillhart came two minutes into the match after a shot that was initially and then bounced back out to him.

“Tayron had a good look, hit it pretty well and the keeper deflected it out and I tapped it right in,” Brillhart said.

Davis Wegmann added his second goal of the season late in the first half to give Eastern a 2-0 lead at halftime.

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Culver-Stockton started goalkeeper Ricky Meyers, but he was pulled at half after giving up two goals.

Jason Ebbing took over for Meyers in the second half and he gave up three goals, while saving four shots.

Dominic Recca and Brillhart were the goal scorers for Eastern in the second half. The Panthers’ also received a break, as Culver-Stockton scored an own-goal in the 70th minute.

Eastern head coach Mark Hansen did not change the Panthers’ style of play after going into the half up by two scores and said he liked what he sees from his bench players.

“If we go into half up 1-0 or 2-0 my opinion is it’s even or we’re down,” he said. “Anyone we’ve called into the game as a substitution has done a good job of lifting the level, which you want from your subs.”

The four-goal win Monday for Eastern is the Panthers’ second win of the year and is already an improvement of last year’s record, when they won one match.

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Freshman defender Jeffrey Etter tries to advance the ball past Culver-Stockton’s Dominic Caruso Monday at Lakeside Field. The Panthers won 5-1 to improve to 2-2 on the season.