April 17, 2015

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RAGTIME BAND

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Jug band/ragtime group, Bones Jugs N Harmony, will bring an eclectic acoustic sound to Charleston.

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JP Goguen, Charlie Harris, Cody Jensen and Tim Berg make up Bones Jugs N Harmony, a jug band/ragtime group from Champaign, Ill. The band will perform at 9:30 p.m. at Macs' Uptowner on Saturday.

Senior outfielder Caleb Howell broke the record for all-time hits at Wednesday’s game.

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Jugs, ragtime band to perform at Macs' Uptowner

By Cayla Maurer Verge Editor | @caymaurer

The band consists of JP Goguen, banjo, jug and guitar player, Charlie Harris, upright bass player, Cody Jensen, lead vocalist, drummer and xylophonist and Tim Berg, steel drummer.

Berg and Jensen both studied percussion performance at the University of Illinois where they honed their crafts performing a diverse college of musical styles.

Goguen and Harris learned to play recreationally. Goguen works with the banjo, rolling finger style guitar and the buzzing jug. Harris showcases his vocals with unique songs and a different musical perspective.

The band formed with the inten-

tions of playing at farmers markets and on the street, busking style that would be loud enough to be heard with their unamplified acoustic instruments.

The band uses a wide variety of instruments including bones, jugs, xylophones, kazoos, steel pans, a resonator guitar, banjo, double bass and all kinds of other noisemakers.

“Because the instruments are different they give off a different sound,” Harris said. “They tickle parts of the ear that people don’t usually experience as often.”

The band gets inspiration from music groups like the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Devil in a Woodpile.

“Those bands had an acoustic music focus, but just had an incredible amount of energy to them and that was the idea we were going with,” Jensen said.

Since forming the group, they have branched out and looked for inspirations in other genres and styles.

When coming up with a name for the band, they let their fans at their hometown venue, the Urbana Hootenanny, vote on several options and use the winning name.

“We came up with Bones Jugs N Harmony, which made sense because we were using the rhythm bones as one of our instruments, we planned on using a jug or jugs

because that’s apart of the jug band style,” Jensen said.

The crowd voted and the name won by a landslide.

The band recently debuted their first album, "Party’s in the Kitchen," with 13 original songs. Soon, the band will also be releasing a cover of Bone Thugs N Harmony’s, ‘Crossroads,’ as a free download.

Harris encourages students to come out to the show for a good time and new experience.

This summer the band will playing at Summer Camp Music Festival in May in Chillicothe, Ill. near Peoria.

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Jug band/ragtime group, Bones Jugs N Harmony, will bring an eclectic acoustic sound to Charleston.

The show will start at 9:30 p.m.

Saturday at Macs’ Uptowner, located at 623 Monroe Ave. The cover is $3 and audience members must be 21 or older.

Bones Bugs N Harmony has been entertaining central Illinois music lovers with their 1920’s xylophone rags and not-so-classic Americana songs.

The band originates in Champaign.

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Student Students react to proposed athletic fee hike Action Team lobbies key issues

By Luis Martinez Administration Editor| @DEN_News The Student Action Team returned from Springfield Wednesday after lobbying two key issues, the proposed 31.5 percent budget cut to appropriated funds and the MAP Grant.

Shirmeen Ahmad, the student vice president for academic affairs, was one of the students to help oversee the process of the Student Action Team while they were in Springfield.

The Student Action Team brought 20 students split up into to two teams lobbying for the different issues.

“The main issue that we wanted to hit was the 31.5 percent cut that Rauner is proposing,” Ahmad said. “We were lobbying to make sure that we don’t get that hit of a cut and that the legislators vote on behalf of us and take that into consideration.”

The Springfield senators and representatives will be voting on the budget proposal before May 31.

“We’re already losing faculty, our students activities are dwindling because of the money, so this 31.5 percent is going to be a huge hit and we’re already in an enrollment crisis,” Ahmad said. “So, it’s going to let them know that we are university students, this is our education that they’re messing with and that’s not cool.”

Catie Witt, the executive vice president, said the trip went well in terms of the students successfully discussing the issue with the Springfield legislators.

“I think we did really well with Student Action Team just because we did have a lot of students that went,” Witt said. “Even before we started talking with legislators or speaking with other people at the capital, we already knew that they saw this sea of blue and that they knew what we were there for.”

Witt also said she knew the Student Action Team made an impact before anyone spoke because the Springfield legislators knew who they were.

The other issue that Student Action Team lobbied for was the MAP Grant for students, an issue that is always brought up each year by the students.

“Every single year, we would lobby on that because that is an important grant that out to different students on this campus, and for some of them it is a vital way that they pay for education,” Ahmad said. “We want them to vote in favor of the MAP Grant because if not, the funding gets cut from that and there are students that going to have to figure out some other way to pay.”

Ahmad also said that doing so would hurt Eastern as a whole, because if those students are not able to pay for their education, they will not choose to attend Eastern.

Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.

By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor |@BertoHodge

The Student Senate proposed a plan to increase student fees by a total of $6.30, which has not happened in about six years, making the mandatory fees about $116.79.

If passed, the fee increases will go into effect for the 2015-16 academic school year.

Daniel Nadler the vice president for student affairs, said tuition rates have also been proposed to increase by 2 percent for the following academic year. The average increase in tuition has been 1.3 percent throughout the past three school years.

Out of the $6.30 increase, the funds with be divvied out to var-

ious activities on campus such as: student legal assistance with $0.23, general student activity with $0.48, student publications with $0.33, academic technology with $1.67, concerts with $0.23, athletics with $5.36 and a $2 decrease for campus improvement.

If the Board of Tr ustees approves the resolution the increase will total $40.75. While some students are OK with the increase – noting the financial situation the institution if facing – others are upset about the increase for athletics.

Melanie Kaderabek, the vice chair of University Board, was one of the students upset with the $5.36 increase in student fees toward athletics.

“That’s wonderful that athlet-

ics might be able to do that— however, other boards are struggling just as much, so the fact that they’re getting an increase of $5.36 when UB is technically getting an increase of $0.12 is not fair,” Kaderabek said.

Under the broad umbrella of general student activity, four areas are covered, which include University Board, Student Government, The Recreational Center and the Apportionment Board. These areas will be getting $0.48, which will be split four ways making their actual increase about $0.12 each.

“We’ve had to make three budget cuts in the past two school years,” Kaderabek said.

Kaderabek said she was upset because of the low amount Uni-

versity Board is receiving compared to that of athletics. She was also curious if any students from the other areas were asked to see if they needed any financial assistance. She said because these fees aren’t updated often, she is confused about whether her organization will continue to get $0.48 to divide amongst the four areas, while athletics is given $5.36, which could potentially mean $1.1 million in yearly revenue.

If students are enrolled in the minimum required amount of 24 credit hours per year, they will be paying $128.64 per year for athletics. If Eastern maintains its enrollment of 8,900 students, athletics could see a potential yearly revenue increase of $1.1 million.

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Advocate talks sexual assault awareness

By Jehad Abbed Assistant Sports Editor | @Jehada Sexual assault prevention advocate Molly McLay used graphic poetry and past experiences Monday to convey her message about campus assaults and gender violence.

McLay is the assistant director for the women’s resource center at the University of Illinois. She began a workshop within the resource center known as First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education. She said it is “undertaking” for such a small staff to run such a program.

She said many students do not realize they are victims of sexual assault until they experience the FYCARE workshop.

She began her talk by issuing a “trigger warning” for those in attendance. She said anyone should feel free to step outside or seek support during the speech if something made them too uncomfortable.

McLay said she has tasked herself to inspire and motivate those in attendance to fight rape culture. She said 1-in-5 women are victims of sexual assault and 1-in-16 men are victims.

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Molly McLay presents a video discussing sexual assault and possible ways to prevent it in a meeting hosted by student government at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Thursday in the Arcola-Tuscola room. McLay also presented the audience with a poem to reduce sexual assault.

Charleston ranked as one of safest cities

By Cassie Buchman City Editor|@DEN_News Researchers from companies such as ValuePenguin.com, and other studies, such as The SafeWise Report, have listed Charleston as one of the safest cities to live in Illinois.

ValuePenguin.com listed Charleston as the second safest city to live in with a population of 15,000 to 30,000 people, and sixteenth in a study of 298 people overall.

Safe Wise analyzed the number of violent and property crimes given to them by an FBI crime report and calculated the chance of these crimes happening out of 1,000. Value Penguin also used the FBI crime report.

University Police Chief Adam Due said this safety could be attributed to the fact that Charleston in located in a rural area.

“We don’t live by a big city, we’re not in a big city,” he said. “In a rural area, you’re typically going to expect less crime.”

He also attributed the low crime rate to having attentive law enforcement.

“Charleston, Eastern, Coles County are all very proactive with their law enforcement,” Due said.

He said it is not so much a case of the law enforcement doing anything different than other cities, but the number of law enforcement officers there are.

“When you get a small area, there’s much law enforcement, with different type of enforcement,” Due said.

The amount of crime that increases and decreases in an area depends on the type of crime being committed.

“It may increase in some areas, or it may decrease in other areas,” Due said.

In Charleston, thefts and drug related crimes are on the police’s radar.

“Thefts go up and down,” Due said. “There’s been a continuing rise in drug use.”

Some problems exist on Eastern’s campus as well.

“I think open alcohol is higher,” Due said. “There’s more people, more underage people, so there’s going to

be a lot of alcohol violations.”

Charleston’s safety affects prospective and current students alike.

Christ Dearth, director of admissions, said the safety of a town is a major concern for parents when looking for a school to send their kids to.

“If they’re searching from a longer distance, they’re going to want to make sure the community or school is safe and secure,” Dearth said.

The admissions office mentioned the safety factor when trying to recruit students.

“We played it up a lot in recruitment material,” Dearth said. “They get that it is a safe community.”

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“A Clockwork Orange” on display Thursday in Booth Library for the 5th Annual Edible Book Festival. Katie Jenkins, an undecided freshman won first place in the Edible Book Festival for “A Clockwork Orange.”

Edible puns, books on display at library

By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News For the fifth year in the row, Booth Library presented the Edible Book Festival Thursday afternoon as a part of National Library Week.

Todd Bruns, the organizer of the event, said he brought edible books to Eastern. This is the first year the event was at the end of the week instead of the event that kicks it off.

The entries were placed in two categories, the dean’s choice and the people’s choice. The people’s choice had four subcategories, including funniest pun, student entry, family entry and children’s book.

The main winner of the contest was the people’s winner Katie Jen-

"It is a fun thing they could participate in.

Students who participate would learn about a bunch of books that they may not have heard of before."

- Todd Bruns, Edible Book competition organizer kins, a freshman undecided major.

Her piece was based off the book “A Clockwork Orange.”

She said her mother gave her the idea of the title of the book,

but she had the idea of using a real working clock in a cake.

“My mother helped me make the entry because it was a two person job,” she said. “We bought a $4 clock from Walmart and took it apart, created a hole in the cake to put the clock motor in and decorated around the arms of the clock.”

Jenkins said she decided to use real clock parts instead of frosting for the arms because she wanted to be different and go big for her entry.

She said this was her first time entering in the competition and she might do it again next year. “ This event is a celebration of reading. It was started in the year 2000 by two French women named Béatrice Coron and Ju-

dith A. Hoffberg,” Bruns said. “It is now a event that happens in libraries around the world.”

He said he loves how creative people can be with this but wishes more Eastern students would participate in the event.

“It is a fun thing they could participate in. Students who participate would learn about a bunch of books that they may not have heard of before,” he said.

During his time running the event he has learned about many books he did not know existed and he believes the students will have the same experience, Bruns said.

Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812 or at sewhtie2@eiu.edu.

Panel clarifies Middle Eastern beliefs T’Nerra Butler Staff Reporter | @DEN_news In effort to bring awareness to the diverse cultures at Eastern, the Asian-American Heritage committee presented a panel intertwining Middle Easterners’ beliefs Thursday afternoon.

Jinhee Lee, a histor y professor, said bringing in another culture was a way to start conversation about the Middle Eastern students’ and faculty members’ heritage and beliefs.

“A large portion of the Middle East is a portion of west Asia, and Asian studies wanted to include west Asian as part of the curriculum and we also don’t have a separate Middle Eastern studies program,” Lee said.

Lee said even though the some view the Middle East as having a strict culture, many other cultures are strict in different ways.

“There are a lot of shared aspects of human life in human societies; for example, in Korea men and women are segregated because of it being conservative there,” Lee said. “That element can be found

in a number of cultures, but when it is viewed in the Islamic culture people immediately say it’s because of their religion, but nothing is genetically determined.”

Lee said if individuals took the time to befriend others their perspectives of the overall people in a given culture are bound to change.

“People tend to view this culture as if it’s unique; the misconception and strong desire to differentiate is partially because of the lack of knowledge and understanding,” Lee said. “Once you know a Muslim friend, you start feeling the common aspect of human life because now you’re connected.”

Ahmed Abou-Zaid, an economics professor, said Islam has been misunderstood because of its portrayal in the media. He said majority of the misunderstandings stem from people’s thoughts of a strict religion, when most religions of the world have some common values.

Abou-Zaid said the problems did not evolve from religion; they started from poor conditions of people who wanted to fight for a

better life.

“It’s pretty miserable in parts of the Middle East; some children have no water, no food, or families,” Abou-Zaid said. “When those children grow up what do you expect them to do?”

Abou-Zaid also clarified some of the thoughts on the role of Middle Eastern women.

“Saudi women are pretty pampered. They don’t drive; they have drivers and you might think they are deprived of one thing, but they are provided with another,” Abou-Zaid said. “Saudi women are treated as queens in their homes.”

Mai Alghamdi, an economics graduate student, said open discussions illuminate people’s beliefs on the Middle East.

“Women’s rights are a problem all over the world, if we need anything, we need more rights than driving, some women still are not getting education and it’s not just in Saudi Arabia, but everywhere,” Alghamdi said.

Hasan Mavi, a kinesiology and sports studies professor, said the news portrayed in the media does

not represent Middle Eastern people.

“I understand it if people are scared, or if they have negative feelings because they are bombarded with harsh ideas about the cultures,” Mavi said.

Mavi said upon coming to the United States he found himself engulfed with his religion. He said when someone comes to the states, their belief and trust in God strengthens. He said he followed his religion closely, but used to skip prayers. However, now he is consistent.

Lee said in this world there is more to a person than basing ideologies on their culture or ethnic background.

“We need to acknowledge that we do have university members who came from the Middle East; it’s not just Osama bin Laden or ISIS, but we have students, faculty, friends and community members who are human beings that are just ordinary people,” Lee said.

T’Nerra Butler can be reached at 581-2812 or tabutler@eiu.edu.

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Salt artwork honors late faculty members CUPB to

By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News To honor two members of the art department who have died this semester the art faculty got together to create a piece of art made entirely out of salt.

The piece can be found on the first for on the art wing of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The piece is made completely out of salt with no adhesives holding it in place. It is made out of swirls of different spaces and forms going in different directions. The width of the piece is about a foot long and the length of it is more than twice the size of the width.

David Griffin, the chair of the art department, said the faculty got together to create this piece to honor Sue Rardin and Denise Rehm-Mott.

“Sue and Denise did a lot for the art department and we are all saddened to learn they died,” he said. “They have done so much for the students, faculty and staff here at Eastern that the professors wanted to create something to represent all their hard work they have done in the past.”

He said Sue Rardin was a secretary for the department and Denise RehmMott was the printmaking teacher.

Irving Coleman, a senior art major, said he loves what the professors have done for the deceased faculty members.

“I think it is a beautiful dedication to two wonderful art faculty members who have had a mark on art students,” he said.

Coleman said Denise was his favor-

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ite teacher and taught him almost everything he knew about printmaking.

“She was the main printmaking teacher,” he said. “She not only taught me but I worked along with her as well.”

Other art students like Zoe Volk, a graphic design major, knew her and said they were sad to hear of her death.

“I did not know her that well but I know of all the things she did for her students and for the department,” Volk said.

She said she likes what the department and faculty did for the members, but she is upset people have stepped in it.

“I think that something as creative and nice as that should be respected.

It is not only disrespectful towards Sue and Denise, but it is hurtful toward the people who worked hard on it,” she said.

Griffin said he is not happy that people have stepped in the artwork but still wants students to know that it will not lose its meaning because of it.

“Just because some people have stepped in the artwork does not mean it matters any less what the art department did,” he said. “The hard work the professors and faculty put into the piece for the deceased members are what matters because it shows how much these people meant to them.”

Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812 or at sewhite2@eiu.edu.

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The art department faculty and staff joined together and created the salt artwork in memory of two faculty members that passed away.

Eastern alum returns, explains art process

By Richard Donaldson Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Jason Bly, an Eastern graduate, artist and teacher at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, spoke Thursday night in the Tarble Arts Center on his influences and “passion for mixing the real and unreal.”

Bly’s paintings, some of which are on display and some projected on a screen, focuses on issues of history, power and simulation.

Using oil on canvas style, Bly’s work features many images of high technology contrasted with basic backgrounds and non-traditional characters to examine people’s interactions with them.

“Treat each layer as new way of seeing,” Bly said.

Each painting can have 75 to 100 layers of imagery.

He said common threads and deliberate interruptions tie these

disparate elements together.

“There’s a term for this called ‘signal to noise’,” Bly said. “Signal is the pure message happening from a speaker to the listener.

You have to acknowledge the noise.”

In between the noise is a common tie, he said.

“An internal thought that I had was, ‘I have all these modular things that are unrelated, how can I relate them together?’” Bly said.

Bly said many of his influences come from realms of both childhood “low” art and “high” art of classical painters.

He g a v e a n e x a m p l e i n t h e comic book “Spawn,” which was drawn by Todd McFarlane. “ ‘ Sp a w n’ w a s s o r t o f a s i l l y book, but he described it in terms of Renaissance art and Baroque influences,” he said.

He takes that to combine serious topics with pop art; one paint-

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ing combined the arcade classic video game “Space Invaders” with biblical art, comparing the similarities in their basic stories.

He said he likens his painting technique to be similar to method acting. “Verisimilitude is this thought, and the short definition is ‘to verify a simulation,’ or to make it the simulation true,” he said.

He then began to compare his process to actors such as Daniel Day Lewis, who is known to never leave his character on the set of a film.

Bly said that process includes unusual tools.

He uses the tools of a printmaker and Photoshop as outlines for his work, along with more physical methods.

To create the image of a large crack in a painting, he said he took another painting and dragged it along the ground before taking

a razor blade to it.

That effor t impressed Eddie Garland, a junior 2D studio art major, who listened in on the lecture.

“I’m very interested in his pursuit of realism even though he’s not painting realistic imagery. For someone who works like myself, that seems unimaginable,” he said.

Bly had advice for students and artists at his old school.

Bly encouraged others to look for art outside their comfort zone and understand the access points where one sees it, and to create things someone care about.

“Take the thing that you care about, and find the way to make others care about it too,” he said.

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Richard Donaldson can be reached at 581-2812 or rrdonaldson@eiu.edu.

The Council on University Planning and Budget will review a program analysis of campus technology Friday in its last meeting of the spring semester.

The CUPB will continue to meet during the summer.

The original meeting was planned for last week; however, some of the council members had conflicting schedules were unable to make the meeting.

The council members will discuss four old business items, including the CUPB welcome packet, the EAB revenue generating and cost containment ideas, the technology review and the EIU Community Commitment to Excellence scholarship fund.

The EIU Community Commitment to Excellence Scholarships was an item brought up during the Feb. 10 Faculty Senate meeting by Andrew McNitt.

The idea of the scholarship programs is to provide 20 to 50 new, renewable scholarships. The EIU Community Commitment to Excellence Scholarships would receive money from appropriated funds. The scholarship would allow $2,000 for each student awarded.

David Emmerich, the chair of CUPB, said the technology review was an item brought up during the March CUPB meeting.

“At that meeting, Dr. Perry provided CUPB with a third part review that was done per the request of CUPB from program analysis last year,” Emmerich said. “In the March meeting, the results of the review were handed out and Dr. Perry asked CUPB to review it and provide a response by the May meeting.”

Emmerich also said during Friday’s meeting, the CUPB members will discuss a draft of their response to the technology review.

No new business will be discussed during the meeting, after which the council members will hear from the administrative and subcommittee reports.

The council members will also discuss the state of Illinois 2.25 percent reduction in the fiscal year 2015 funds.

The Council on University Planning and Budget will meet at 2 p.m. in the Effingham Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.

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Body-positive talking points Lately I’ve been seeing more and more coming from the body positive movement that is making a play in our society and while I am mostly pleased by it, there are a few issues I think it needs to better address.

One of the problems I see with the body positive campaign is that most people who support it forget to include men. I highly doubt that most of the exclusion is intentional; however, it is still a noticeable exclusion nonetheless.

I have seen plenty of pictures of plussized models that are female, but I cannot recall one instance where I’ve seen a plus-sized male model, and I’m beginning to wonder if they even exist.

The past two years I have bought a calendar that has graced the Wal-Mart shelves called “Studs N’ Spurs” which is basically a bunch of shirtless men holding farm equipment.

Yes, I’m a bad feminist who objectifies men, however, in my defense; I have no problem with men purchasing calendars of naked women.

I believe each person’s body is his or her own and they can do with it what they wish, even if that includes posing in a risqué calendar that no doubt gets a lot of “attention” from their purchasers.

The point is that I got this calendar, and I while I was overall pleased with my purchase, I couldn’t help but notice that most of the men in the calendar look like they have never actually worked on a farm in their life.

None of them had the body of a guy who’s gained his muscle from physical labor instead of the gym. All of them were sporting extremely defined six packs that don’t appear naturally without specifically working your ab muscles and only your abs.

I know that this was just a calendar and of course they were going to hire models to sell it, but I’m still disappointed that they didn’t instead just go and actually find good-looking guys who—gasp—actually have worked on a farm before and have a more realistic body to show for it.

There are plenty of them out there, I know it, and honestly, I would have preferred it.

I’ve seen more and more guys I know talk about getting abs or working their abs or generally trying to change their bodies regardless of the fact that some of them are already in extremely good shape.

Society has taken to praising healthy yet curvy women and I want men to know that they can be healthy and “curvy” (I’m not sure of the masculine equivalent of this word) too.

If we don’t want women to feel the weight of an unnecessary beauty standard, then we shouldn’t let men feel one either.

Jarad Jarmon is a senior journalism major and he can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com.

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Spring concert sales could help planning Sales for the University Board’s Spring Concert have been slow, with only 800 tickets for April 25’s Mac Miller show sold out of a possible 3,000, according to a story in Monday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News.

According to the article, Ceci Brinker, the director of student life, attributed the slow sales to the spring break interruption and to students’ tendency to make their plans late.

Brinker also said the UB is expecting to see ticket sales increase in the two-week span right before the show, according to the article.

While many students are admittedly too indecisive and overwhelmed with the chaos of classes in the midst of the semester to pick up their concert tickets early, seats might be selling at a faster rate with more timely planning on the UB’s part.

The Spring Concert artist was not announced until March 11. This gave students about a month and

a half to decide whether or not they want to spend the $21 to see the act.

A month and a half is a reasonable amount of time to buy a concert ticket; however, if the act were announced earlier, perhaps sometime in February, a larger percentage of the tickets would be in the hands of students by now.

Contract negotiations can sometimes cause delays in the process, which is understandable. The UB also has a limited budget to work with and has to carefully choose an act that will please the most students based on interest survey results.

On the other hand, being more open and vocal about the process throughout would have created some intrigue and made students care more about what the concert would be in the first place.

In the week before the announcement, the UB posted clues on social media, then announced Mac

Miller in the Bridge Lounge in a sort of “big reveal” style.

While this probably created some excitement, it can also be seen as unnecessary hype. Letting students know about the act or at least the process of finding the act sooner would have been more effective in getting them interested in budgeting their money for a Spring Concert ticket.

As with any concert, sales will probably spike right before the show, and the hardcore Mac Miller fans will secure their seats for sure.

However, getting into the middle of March, students are already stressed with classes and midterms, and announcing the concert then is less effective because they are more likely to brush the information off and forget about it.

The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.

Brother Jed is far more than just his words I love Brother Jed. That is a statement probably not normally said about the man who calls lesbians old, fat and ugly, and screams that most of the women who pass by are whores, but I do.

I love him, not for what he says or what he does, but the fact that he can do those things even though public opinion disagrees with him.

Honestly, these are the moments when I feel most patriotic.

Knowing that these awful and quite frankly incorrect statements could be said excites me, because if something like this could be said, it means other more substantial, meaningful things could also be said.

I can say that I do not like a government official without seeing repercussions. It is important that we all view a crazy eccentric person who voices their crazy opinion as just that, a crazy eccentric person who voices their crazy opinion.

While I hate that we have people like him testing the bounds of the First Amendment, I am glad someone is.

Easily one of the most important amend-

Jarad Jarmon ments, the First Amendment should not be easy to follow, but it should be followed.

It is difficult to hear a person call a certain group of people slim, evil or whores especially when they are wrong, but the amendment forces us to be good people. We have to force ourselves to accept another person’s views, not because we agree with them, but because you would want your view to be accepted by others.

The day someone like Brother Jed is punished for his beliefs is the day I will worry. What would be next? What else would be considered

wrong speech?

So, I urge students who get riled up by the words he spews from his mouth, which, apparently, “turned lesbians normal,” to understand the positives of the situation, and to not let him get in their heads.

He will return, and when he does, take what is said, and realize it is a sign that words can not be silenced because they are unpopular. Just walk past him instead of feeding into his awful language towards select groups on campus.

Understand what he actually is: bait. He is bait to lure in fame, or infamy.

Even better, scream out your opinions that he would consider awful. Drown him out with more socially useful statements like “Gay pride.”

Even when he is not here, exercise your freedom of speech. Say something others might disagree with and feel great knowing you will not and should not be punished for it.

JaradJarmonisseniorjournalismmajor.

Hecanbereachedatdenopinions@gmail.com.

Editorial Board Editor in Chief Katie Smith

Managing Editor Jarad Jarmon

News Editor Stephanie Markham

Online Editor Jason Howell

Opinions Editor Margorie Clemente

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CCAR manufacturing offers job skills, opportunities

By Cassie Buchman City Editor|@DEN_News All around CCAR Industries’ manufacturing plant, people can be seen working with metal, tools and other materials to make various products shipped to companies around the area.

Different machines and carts can also be seen and heard as they transport materials all around the spacious plant.

CCAR is a not-for-profit organization that provides a variety of services for people with developmental disabilities and other functional limitations.

It has other facilities as well, including one for recycling.

Many of the people who work to create and make products at CCARs’ manufacturing plant have developmental disabilities.

Chastity Parker, coordinator for CCAR’s manufacturing plant, said people who work at the plant want the people with developmental disabilities to have as normal of a life as possible.

“We want them to be a part of the community, not just part of the group home,” she said.

Much of the work done at the manufacturing plant at CCAR has to do with putting objects together, shrink wrapping, pouring wax, cutting and stripping wire, assembling gaskets, and more.

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local businesses bring paper, cardboard, aluminum and plastic materials to be processed and recycled. Those who work there spend time shredding and then processing the recyclables into compact squares using balers. The biggest one they make are 25,000 pounds.

Angie King, who manages the recycling center, said the center will take almost anything that needs to be recycled if its made with the right material.

“If it’s got some kind of paper, we’ll take it,” King said.

Students from Eastern recycle a lot; although some of the things they recycle can be questionable, she said.

“We’ve found beer cans, drugs, money,” she said. “You name it, college students will recycle it. We’ve found $100 once.”

People can drop off what they need to recycle 9 a.m. to 2 p.m Monday through Friday.

CCAR also offers residential areas for people with developmental disabilities.

Jenny Munro, the director of residential services, said CCAR has group homes for adults and children.

The group homes have 49 adults and seven children who are also separated by age group.

Parker said she sees an increase in independence in those who work at the manufacturing plant.

“They earn wages, they get self esteem

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Joe Carlen, a consumer at CCAR Industries, cuts wire in the manufacturing warehouse at the main building Tuesday. Carlen has been a CCAR consumer and employee for over 10 years.

in working,” she said.

Those who work in the plant are able to gain skills that allow them to work in restaurants and stores around Charleston.

“They learn basic work skills, how to show up one time, take directions, ask questions,” Parker said. “They learn social skills that are needed in life to be successful.”

Munro said 50 to 70 percent of the people who work with residents at CCAR are Eastern or Lake Land College students.

“We are always looking for people to work in the residential homes, and they are encouraged to apply,” Parker said.

To apply, a high school diploma is needed, and 120 hours of paid training are offered, with 40 hours in the classroom and 80 on the job.

ketball player, said she supported the increase in their fees because of how much athletes do on campus.

Oroszova said she believes the athletics department does more than any other because of the traveling expenses and the games they put on, but she hopes the

fees are used correctly like improving facilities.

Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.

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“If they’re going to ask us to increase our fees by $6.30 they need to know what that’s going to and they need to know which other areas are being potentially hurt or helped,” Kaderabek said.

Tom Michael, the director of athletics, said it has been a long time since having an increase in student fees and as enrollment has gone down that has affected things negatively.

Michael said because they have been able to maintain their standard of 21 sporting options and 450 student athletes, fees not being increased in six years explains why they have gotten this amount.

“We have continued to maintain the same number of sports, the same number of student athletics, but with less and less revenue each year and that has made it incredibly difficult to continue to support our student athletes in a variety of ways,” Michael said.

Michael said the athletics department is in a deficit of about $1 million and as expenses have somewhat increased the revenue from the athletic fee has dec r e a s e d a t a n “a l a r m i n g” r a t e

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Karen Torbeck, production manager of the plant, said the plant sends samples of silica all over the world.

“These are places I’ve never even heard of,” Torbeck said.

UPS picks up anywhere from 5 to 50 boxes of silica a day.

Accident reports at CCAR manufacturing are low, something Torbeck said is because of the supervision of the people who work there.

“They are supervised so well,” she said.

Supervisors make sure those who work at the plant have good hand-eye coordination and understand safety.

Workers are placed in their positions based on their own preference and where they would fit best.

“We think, ‘Oh, they’d be great at this place, but they might be overwhelmed by the noise,’” Parker said. “We give them that choice as well.”

CCAR has been outsourcing to manufacturing companies since the 1970s. Roy Cuppy is CCAR’s building contractor and has been working for CCAR since it first opened.

“It was a bowling alley and a restaurant before that,” Cuppy said.

He said it took most of the summer to turn it into the manufacturing plant it is today.

CCAR Industries also has a recycling program where community members and

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while maintaining their stand a rd , w h i c h i s w h y t h e y h a v e that deficit.

The money gained from the student fee increase will help fix that issue. “ We h a ve n’t m a i n t a i n e d t h e s t a n d a r d , b u t w e ’v e t r i e d t o maintain the number of opportunities for our student all of our student athletes in the sport p ro g r a m s ,” Mi c h a e l s a i d , “ It’s not like our student athletes are over here living lavishly.”

Despite the proposed increase, Eastern’s athletic fee will be $14, which is still the lowest in the state compared to the other public institutions. Illi nois State University’s athletic fee is $19.42, while Southern Illinois University-Carbondale is $26.25.

Ja L i s a Sm i t h , t h e p r e s i d e n t of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, said she didn’t see any improvements happening on campus and wanted to know where her money was going in terms of the student fees.

“Athletes suck. The athletics here aren’t good so why are they getting more money? Why can’t it go to Greek life?” she said.

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Because of Charleston’s rating, parents and prospective students assume Eastern to be safe as well.

“It goes hand in hand,” Dearth said.

Parents care about these factors as well.

Dearth said having the university in Charleston could be seen as a reason why it is so safe.

“There’s a more educated population,” he said. “The city police and campus police work together to make sure students are safe, keeping an eye on everything.

The town and campus work well together in keeping things under control.”

Even with all these precautions, some students do not feel completely safe.

Kendall Smith, a junior health studies major, said he would not feel safe going to certain parts of Charleston later at night.

“I wouldn’t go downtown, because of the atmosphere,” Smith said.

He recounted an incidence where his friends felt unsafe.

“Racial slurs have been happening to them,” he said.

Sh e s a i d i f a b e d i s n’t f i l l e d in a Greek house they are fined $850 per empty bed. “ Why is our money going to them? The athletes thing something is owed to them,” Smith said.

Sabina Oroszova, a senior management major, who is a bas-

Courtney Gast, a senior kinesiology major, lives 25 miles away and commutes to campus, but comes to Charleston often for school.

She said she feels the city is safest when school is not in session.

“When school is in session, it’s a lot more crowded,” Gast said.

She also said she felt safer being by herself in the daytime.

“One time I came through here late at night, and there was some guy walking in the street with a knife,” Gast said.

Other students agreed with the study.

Clara Matthessen, a junior history major, said she would say Charleston is very safe.

“I wouldn’t mind walking by myself,” she said. “Everyone here is really chill. I’ve had no issues in the community.”

Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.

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“We need to always stand with survivors,” McLay said. “To respect and honor the courage it takes to share their stories, to believe them and let them know that it is not their fault.”

She said she uses poetry because she studied creative writing as an undergraduate and it helps to motivate her to fight rape culture.

McLay said she did not realize she was a victim of sexual assault until recently when she heard the story of another survivor who shared a similar experience.

She said there is no better evidence of a rape culture than someone who works within these support resources not realizing they are a victim.

McLay said people should start questioning why others commit sexual assault instead of asking “victim blaming” questions.

She said everyone can be a personal support system outside the many resources provided by universities and

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

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communities all over.

“Offer them your support and help them brainstorm resources,” McLay said. “But remember that everything is up to them no matter what.”

She said whatever a survivor is doing is what they are doing to make it through coping with their experience.

She said some people have friends who say they are tired of looking after one another because they get “too drunk.” She said that is the type of attitude that upset her and motivated her to support the “It’s On Us” campaign.

The campaign is focused on getting people to look after each other and find ways to avoid being a bystander when they see a problem.

“We have a responsibility to create a better world for our youth and those who have not been born,” McLay said.

She said the University of Illinois’ sexual assault resource website can be confusing and would like to see it changed to be more like Eastern’s.

Eastern’s student body president Reginald Thedford said McLay’s talk was very “enlightening.”

He said issues were brought up that he did not know about and which he expects others perhaps were also unaware of.

“It gets them thinking and maybe having discussions with their own peers and friends in their own circles,” Thedford said. “This sets the tone for kind of like a platform for them to feel comfortable to do that with each other.”

He said there are a lot of good resources for sexual assault victims at Eastern, but thinks the school could do a better job making them more visible for the students.

“It is just a matter of getting the word out to the students,” he said.

Jehad Abbed can be reached at 581-2812 or Jaabbed@eiu.edu.

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By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern baseball team is heading into a weekend Ohio Valley Conference series with offensive powerhouse Belmont coming off a sevengame home stand in which it went 4-3.

The Panthers defeated Illinois College, Benedictine, Southeast Missouri and Indiana State for their four straight home games.

Eastern had its ups and down during the home stand. The Panthers scored a combined 42 runs in its last three wins, piling up over 35 hits as a team.

The Panthers were held to just one run in two of the games against Southeast Missouri over the weekend.

Eastern coach Jimmy Schmitz said his team has been playing good ball as of late with winning four out of their last seven games.

“The practices have been good,” he said. “The meetings, the workouts have been good. We are starting to win, and that is where confidence comes from.”

Eastern takes on a Belmont team that is 20-15 overall and has a 9-5 record in the conference. The Bruins are coming off a win against Memphis and a win against reigning NCAA Divison I National Champion Vanderbilt.

The Bruins lost their last conference series to Austin Peay in Clarksville, Tenn.

Belmont had a three-game stretch in late March where they scored 75 runs. The Bruins scored 34 runs and belted out 31 hits In the final game of a three-game series against Tennessee Martin. The Bruins had a 20-run sixth inning in that game and had 12 home runs.

The Bruins scored 17 runs against Lipscomb University on March 31 and scored 21 runs against Southern

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Hunter Morris, a freshman catcher, makes his way back to first base to avoid being tagged out by the Illinois College first baseman Wednesday at Coaches Stadium. The Panthers won 18-3 against Illinois College.

Illinois-Edwardsville on April 2.

Belmont is led by Matt Beaty, who is hitting .415 this season and has 10 home runs on the year. Belmont, as a team, has 49 home runs, which is atop the OVC. Beaty’s slugging percentage is .775 and has 52 runs batted in.

Eastern senior third baseman Brant Valach said the series between the

Panthers and Bruins should be a good one.

“They can hit, but so can we,” he said. “I think if we keep hitting like we are, then we can make it a great series.”

Eastern is starting freshman Andy Fisher Friday. This would be Fisher’s third collegiate start, and he has earned another shot. In the game

against Southeast Missouri Sunday, Fisher threw 5 1/3 innings of shutout baseball.

He is 0-3 with a 7.77 era and has struck out 12 batters this season. Junior Jake Johansmeier will start Saturday’s game, and red-shirt junior Matt Wivinis will start in Sunday’s game.

The Belmont rotation for the weekend has yet to be announced.

Eastern and Belmont will get underway in Nashville, Tenn. at 3 p.m.

Friday at Rose Park.

Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.

Softball team hosts 2 doubleheaders at home

By Olivia Scordato Staff Reporter|@DEN_Sports The Eastern softball team has a couple days to prepare for their doubleheader’s against Tennessee State and Belmont at home on Saturday and Sunday.

The Panthers come into the weekend with a record of 14-22 and a 9-8 conference record.

The Panthers are coming in off of a loss to Butler in a non-conference game on Wednesday by a score of 8-5.

Eastern is currently in seventh place in the Ohio Valley Conference right behind UT Martin and one slot ahead of Morehead State.

Tennessee State has struggled this season to find ways to win.

The Tigers are 9-28 overall and have a 2-14 record in conference games which puts them in last place in the conference.

The Tigers were swept in three games by Eastern Kentucky last weekend.

Kailey Richard is the Tigers’ top hitter with a batting average of .330. She also has 17 runs batted in.

Belmont is also struggling this season. The Bruins come into the weekend with a 9-27 overall record and a 4-12 record in Ohio Valley Conference play.

Belmont has lost eight-straight games, which included losses to

Tennessee-Martin, Middle Tennessee, Morehead State and Southeast Missouri over the past couple of weeks.

Kat Hollingsworth has the highest batting average for the Bruins at .350.

All pitchers for Belmont have over a 5.0 earned run average.

Senior shortstop Bailey O’Dell said even though both teams are at the bottom of the conference, the Panthers cannot take either team lightly.

“We have to play each like it’s any other team out there,” she said. “We can’t settle and play at their level.”

O’Dell said the team needs to mentally prepare themselves by going into each game wanting to run rule them.

Freshmen Jessica Wireman and Michelle Rodgers are expected to be the pitchers this weekend for the Panthers.

Wireman leads the Panthers with a 4.07 earned run average and is 7-10 on the season in 25 appearances.

Rodgers has pitched in 24 games this season and has a 4.21 era and is 6-11 in 24 appearances.

The two freshmen have combined to throw over 200 combined innings this season and have combined to strike out 125 batters.

O’Dell said there are a few parts of their game that they will have

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Hannah Rachor, a sophomore pitcher, attempts a hit in the Panthers match-up against Jacksonville State Sun. April 5 on Williams Field.

to clean up in order to get the wins this weekend. “ We h a v e t o d o a l l t h e l i t tle things right,” she said. “Stupid mistakes will cost us games, and we can’t beat ourselves and let

them take the win.”

The Panthers will take on Tennessee State Saturday with the first pitch scheduled at 1 p.m. Game two will follow at 3 p.m.

Sunday’s games against Belmont

are scheduled for 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. starts as well.

Olivia Scordato can be reached at 581-2812 or orscordato@eiu.edu.

@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Junior Caleb Howell hit a single to right center field and is now the all-time hits leader at #EIU.

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Howell breaks Eastern hits record Track heads to the Illinois Twilight meet

By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN

Eastern baseball senior outfielder Caleb Howell was tied with Ryan Campbell heading into Wednesday’s game for most hits in a career at Eastern with 260.

Howell singled to right field in the second inning against Illinois College Wednesday, which gave him his 261 st career hit, breaking Campbell’s record.

Campbell held the record since the 2007 season, playing baseball at Eastern from 2004 to 2007.

Howell said breaking the record at home makes it even more special, especially against the team from his hometown of Jacksonville “It’s awesome,” he said. “I was trying not to think about it over the past week or so, but everyone kept telling me your three hits or two hits away. It’s a great honor. I am just happy about it.”

Howell’s grandpa was there at Coaches Stadium to see him break the record.

Howell came into the season with 223 hits and a career average of .367 in his first three years at Eastern, but coming into this season, he said it wasn’t really a goal of his to break the record.

He went hitless in his first 17 at-bats this season and has since turned things around.

Howell said he was able to turn things around by staying more focused.

“I was trying to press too much,” he said. “I was thinking ‘I am 0-for-10, 0-for-11. I got to get a hit.’ I was trying to swing at everything. It was just trying to stay focused and not do too much.”

His average is now .355 on the season and is showing no signs of slowing down. He ranks 14th in the Ohio Valley Conference in batting average.

Eastern coach Jimmy Schmitz said Howell is such a humble person, which is a big reason why his emotions don’t get so high or don’t get so low.

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Caleb Howell, a senior outfielder, step up to the plate for hit turn at bat before he broke the all-time career hits record Wednesday at Coaches Stadium.

“There have been some really good hitters that have played here,” Schmitz said. “There have been a lot of guys that have played here and to be the career hits leader is pretty amazing.”

Fellow senior Dane Sauer said Howell is everything you want as a teammate.

“Nicest kid around,” he said.

“He is so humble, just amazing. It’s unreal He’s the best hitter I’ve ever played with. The kid just always gets it done.”

Senior Brant Valach said Howell means everything to their team.

“He basically is our team,” he said. “He’s so incredibly humble and leads by example. He always does everything right.”

Last season, Howell was one of the top hitters in the nation. At the end of the season, Howell finished with a .420 batting average, which was third best in all of the NCAA Howell had 94 hits in 224 atbats last season in 55 games played.

He had 11 doubles, 32 runs batted

in and no home runs.

He had a .469 slugging percentage, a .492 on-base percentage and struck out only 15 times in 55 games played last season.

Heading into the season, Howell was tops among all NCAA hitters with the highest returning batting average from the previous season.

He set the Eastern single-season record for hits last season with 94, which also ranked seventh in the country. He was the first player to hit over .400 in a season since Brett Nommensen in 2009.

Howell also had eight multiRBI games last season through 30 multi-hit games and was named to the All-Mideast Regional ABCA/ Rawlings First Team.

Howell had to have knee surgery in the summer of his freshman season, which was his first surgery since he had foot surgery.

He said having to go through that knee surgery was one of his biggest challenges he has had to overcome.

Howell picked “Gods Gonna Cut You Down” by Johnny Cash for his walk-up song every time he comes up to the plate at Coaches Stadium, and he said picking that was not an accident.

“I heard it at a (St. Louis) Cardinals game,” he said. “Lance Berkman had it. I thought it was pretty cool, so sophomore year I picked it, and I kind of stuck with it.”

Eastern senior pitcher Jake Johansmeier said no matter what you throw to Howell, he is going to hit it.

“You can hit your spot and somehow he’ll find somewhere to put it,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like it. He’s a freak.”

Howell and the Panthers will get a three-game series underway Friday at Belmont.

Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.

Women’s tennis begins OVC tournament

By Chris Picazo Sports Writer|@DEN_Sports T h e E a s t e r n w o m e n’s t e n nis team (12-6) finished its regular season Saturday with a 5-2 loss against Eastern Kentucky and is now heading to Nashville, Tenn. for the Ohio Valley Conference tournament as a No. 5 seed.

Wo m e n’s t e n n i s c o a c h Jo h n Blackburn said the team is eager to compete in the OVC tournament. “ We are really excited about competing,” Blackburn said. “The venue in Nashville is awesome, so it should be a great atmosphere.”

The Panthers finished the season with a 7-3 record in OVC play, and they will be going up against No. 4 seed Southern Illinois-Edwardsville who also finished with an OVC record of 7-3.

This will be a rematch from March 25 when Edwardsville defeated the Panthers with a score of 7-0.

Blackburn said the team is ready for the first round rematch against Edwardsville. “ We’re excited about playing them,” Blackburn said. “We feel like we didn’t play our best match last time, and we think there is a

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Sephora Boulbahaiem, a senior member of the women’s tennis team, returns a serve at the women’s tennis practice on Darlings Courts Mon. Oct. 6, 2014.

lot of room for improvement.”

The winner between Eastern and Edwardsville will face No. 1 seed Murray State in the semifinal Saturday.

The Panthers defeated Murray in a close match with a score of 4-3 at home March 21.

The Panthers have had a successful season thus far and the team improved its overall record from 2013-14 season to 12-6 this season.

The team played as a No. 5 seed in the OVC tournament for the 2013-14 season and was eliminated in the first round with a 4-1 loss against No. 3 seeded Morehead State.

Blackburn said he was satisfied with how the team has played this season.

“I’m very proud of how resilient and tough our team has been this year, that’s a big part of being successful,” Blackburn said.

He also said the team has improved aspects of its game from the beginning of the season to now, and is ready for competition in the tournament.

“I think our overall consistency and physical and mental toughness has improved this season,” Blackburn said.

T h e Pa n t h e r s w i l l p l a y t o day at 10 a.m. in the Centennial Sportsplex Center in Nashville, Tenn. against Edwardsville.

The semi-final will be played Saturday at 10 a.m. with Murray facing the winner of the Panthers and Edwardsville match.

Blackburn said for the Panthers to come out victorious this weekend, the team must be ready to play and execute.

“I think coming out strong and executing our game plan in doubles will be really important,” Blackburn said. “Also, we have played all these teams once before, so making some adjustments to improve from the last match will be important.”

Chris Picazo can be reached at 581-2812 or cepicazo@eiu.edu.

Eastern’s Track and field teams will compete this Saturday at the Illinois Twilight; an annual meet the Panthers participated in last year .

It’s going to be a scored meet including Eastern, Bradley, Butler, and DePaul, among others.

“The meet was probably not as competitive as most of the meets we have been in thus far,” Eastern coach Tom Akers said. “We’ve had some great weather and I think our kids were just relaxed in a little bit smaller atmosphere and I thought we had many good performances.”

Junior Christian Ilunga-Matthiesen is someone that has stood out to Akers so far since the season went outdoors.

“It has sort of been changing from weekend to weekend. We have kids continue to step up and do good things,” he said. “Christian Ilunga has continued to run very well all three weekends, he sat out big blue, but came back and ran a new PR (Personal Record) at Western Illinois in the 100 there.”

Junior Eric Gordon and freshman Elliot Krause are both also coming off of a good meet, Akers said.

“Eric Gordon had a nice personal record in the javelin, throwing 172 feet and ended up taking third at Western Illinois,” he said. “Did a good job in the pole vault, Elliot Krause our freshman pole vaulter had a very good vault meet, almost cleared 15’1, which would’ve been a PR for him.”

“The sprinters are doing really well right now,” Akers said. “We left Norvel and Calvin at home last week because of some minor injuries, but they’re healthy and will be back and hopefully ready to roll this weekend,” he said.

Junior Katie Ryan set a new personal record in the 100-meter hurdles over the weekend.

“Katie Ryan had a great meet this last weekend,” Akers said. “Big breakthrough in the 100 hurdles and ran our fourth fastest time ever. She improved her PR more than half a second and when you’re talking about sprint events, that’s huge.”

Akers said he sees a different personality for each team that comes through each year and thinks this one is still struggling to find that.

“Every team and every year, it has sort of a different personality,” he said. “I think this team is still struggling to find its personality and identity of some sorts. We’re pretty strong across the board, we got to continue to work hard and get better.”

Akers acknowledges that track and field is an individual, but said that the team aspect is what helps you become a better athlete.

“It is an individual sport, but if you have good team unity, that’s something that can really help you as an individual continue to grow and work hard and be encouraging to each other and stuff like that,” he said.

Mark Shanahan can be reached at 581-2812 or mmshanahan@eiu.edu.