March 6, 2015

MARCH 6, 2015

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The Eastern men’s basketball team loses its second round matchup against Belmont University.

On the Verge profiles the contestants for the Mr. EIU, Ms. Fitness and Ms. Physique.

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Four competitors for the Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique and Ms. Fitness bodyguiling competition strike poses. 13 men will compete for the title of Mr. EIU., six women will compete for Ms. Physique and three women will competee for the title of Ms. Fitness at 7 p.m. Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium.

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Fitness enthusiasts compete for title, prestige

By Cayla Maurer Verge Editor | @caymaurer

Months of training, dieting, countless hours in the gym and numerous hours of food preparation come down to one night to win the title of Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique or Ms. Fitness.

The 2015 Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique and Ms. Fitness bodybuilding competition is at 7 p.m.

Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium.

The Mr. EIU competitors are Joseph Thompson, Alex Wood, Justin Koeckritz, Joshua Hopkins, Cody Sanders, Kenneth Ballom, Taylor Bradley, Alex Westerman, Anthony Day, Cole Younger, James Mariani, Jared Buscher and Kyle Boewe.

The Mr. EIU competition is broken down into five weight divisions: bantam, lightweight, middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight.

The men will be separated into a specific weight class after the last weigh-in Friday.

A winner will be chosen from each division and those five will face off against each other in a pose down for the title of Mr. EIU. Anthony Day, a senior kinesiology and sports studies major, is competing in the Mr. EIU competition for the first time. Day is the oldest competitor at the age of 25.

“I always

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wanted to compete, I just felt like I didn’t have the time for preparation to complete what I needed to get done,” Day said.

Day decided he would compete by August 2014 and started prepping in December.

One of Day’s main reasons for competing is to prove people wrong who said he couldn’t do it.

“Nobody believed me, so it was to show them that I could do this if I set my mind to it,” Day said. “There are definitely a lot of haters out there so I just wanted to silence them.”

Day’s favorite thing about preparing for the competition is that he finally got abs.

“When they came in about four weeks out, it was like Christmas day,” Day said.

This is the fifth year of the Ms. Physique competition.

The Ms. Physique competitors are: Amanda White, Sabrina Wallrich, Kristin Stine, Morgan McDermott, Alexandria Stringini and Kaitlyn Corzine.

Alexandria Stringini, a junior kinesiology and sports studies major, is competing in the Ms. Physique competition for the first time.

Stringini is a member of Eastern’s ROTC program that has physical training at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday.

That training is extra to her prep for Ms. Physique. In total, she trains about four hours a day right now.

“The Army wants us trained for endurance and being in the best physical shape possible for potential deployment,” Stringini said. “My show training is to look the best I can so it’s very different.”

Even though Stringini is very competitive, she attributes her inspiration to her father who passed away in August 2014.

“He said why don’t you body build. You have the perfect build for it; I think you would go really far,” Stringini said. “He believed in me.”

For Stringini, one of the most difficult aspects of preparing for this competition is food and meal preparation.

“I can’t just stop in somewhere and get something to eat because it doesn’t work that way,” Stringini said. “I have to go home and eat or prep

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The trophies for Ms. Physique, Mr. EIU and Ms. Fitness will be awarded at 7 p.m. Saturday.

my meals for the week on Sunday or Monday.”

Stringini eats six to seven meals a day every two hours.

The Ms. Fitness competitors are Christina DeMuro, Samantha Pentrarca and Kelsie Abolt.

Kelsie Abolt, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major, decided to compete in the Ms. Fitness competition after learning that 70-80 percent of preparing is about dieting.

Because of her dietetics background, Abolt was intrigued and wanted to get involved.

“I’ve been able to further my knowledge in nutrition because of bodybuilding,” Abolt said.

“It adds a whole other side to the experience.”

Abolt said preparing for this competition has been fun because it isn’t just her dieting, training and preparing alone.

“There is a handful of students you’re doing this with,” Abolt said. “I get excited to go to the gym to see them because we’re all going through the same thing.”

The Ms. Physique competition focuses more on muscle tone, while the Ms. Fitness competition focuses on overall body symmetry.

Both groups will perform a 60-90 second routine showcasing their fitness abilities and posing.

Cody Schut, a graduate assistant for the Campus Recreation Center, is this year’s coordinator of the Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique & Ms. Fitness competition. Schut said this year will be very competitive for the title of Mr. EIU in regards to the weight classes because the competitors measure up similarly.

This year’s judges are Chad Graham, the ’97 Mr. EIU winner, Shannon Siemer, an International Federation of Bodybuilding professional, Tom Leon, a two-time competitor in Mr. EIU and James DiNaso and Jennifer Carter, co-owners of The Body Club in Charleston.

All judges are graduates of Eastern.

Tickets for the competition are $5 at the door.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

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By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News The University Board will announce the performer it has chosen for the Spring Concert of 2015 next week, said Darius Francis, the UB chairman.

He said he does not know what day of the week the announcement will be made.

Francis said the name of the performer would be announced through social media.

The UB social media websites include Facebook and Twitter.

The performer will also be announced through marketing materials including posters around campus and a press release.

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

Daylight savings hits Sunday Staff Report People will lose an hour at daylight saving time. at 2 a.m. Sunday.

Everyone should spring forward by setting their clocks one-hour forward.

George Vernon Hudson, from New Zealand, first suggested the idea of daylight saving time in 1895.

Since then, it has been an item of controversy as retailers, and other businesses benefit from it as it encourages customers to go out along shop.

Farmers, parents of young children and others who depend on the sun to work have opposed it in the past.

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Theatre professor Nick Shaw gives admitted students a taste of the college classroom during the classroom experience portion of Admitted Student Day on Feb. 16 in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

More than 300 families expected to visit

By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @DEN_News Eastern’s admissions office is expecting to see more than 300 families visit campus Saturday for its second Admitted Student Day of the semester.

Chris Dearth, the director of admissions, said 280 families made it to the last Admitted Student Day, which was Feb. 16, the Monday of Presidents Day. Many families could not make the trip because of snowy weather, which mostly affected the southern-Illinois area.

Dearth said the office called and emailed families encouraging them to come Saturday, while some chose to come during other weekdays.

As of Thursday afternoon, about 305

families had registered, but Dearth expects 25 or 30 more to register before Saturday, he said.

He said the office decided to host one of the days on a Monday and one on a weekend to give families more options and allow them to pick whatever was more convenient.

Dearth said this Saturday would run mostly like the previous Admitted Student Day, with some additions to be more accommodating to families.

“There will be some changes behind the scenes to make sure everything flows better,” Dearth said.

This includes a session to answer the top five questions admitted students have because last time many ended up asking the same things about housing, orienta-

tion and financial aid.

“It wasn’t admissions focused,” he said.

“This will allow us to directly address those questions.”

Another change will be that two welcoming sessions will take place instead of one because last time some parents had to stand, as the Dvorak Concert Hall did not have enough seats.

“Even with the weather, it was standing room only,” Dearth said. “It was not ideal; some drove for three hours, and then they had to stand 45 minutes through the welcome.”

Admitted students will also have the option to pay their $150 freshman enrollment deposits; last time 40 students paid, and Dearth said he is hoping for the same this time.

Dearth said Eastern has received close to 500 total enrollment deposits.

Like the last Admitted Student Day, this Saturday will also feature sessions for financial aid and scholarship information and courses for students to sit in to get a sense of the classroom experience.

Dearth said the “selfie station” will be present again as well, which was popular last time, especially among some parent alumni who took pictures with Billy the Panther.

“We are tracking slightly ahead (in deposits) and transfer reservations are up as well,” he said. “We are hoping Saturday gives us a boost.”

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

Campus Recreation, UB propose next year’s budgets

By Luis Martinez Administration Editor| @DEN_News Representatives from both Campus Recreation and the University Board to propose their fiscal year 2015 budgets at the Apportionment Board Thursday.

Da r i u s Fr a n c i s a n d Me l a n i e Kaderabek, chair and vice chair of UB, came to present their proposed budget. The proposed budget is $213,000, which is $8, 870

more than their proposed budget last year.

Despite the approved $204,130 UB budget last year, they only received $187,800. This was a result of the 8 percent budget cuts to UB. This year’s proposed budget is $25,299 more than what they received the year before.

They had cuts costs for the previous year from marketing, cultural arts, production, comedy.

The general budget remains the same at $43,380, the same with the Homecoming committee with a $12,785 budget.

Fr a n c i s a n d K a d e r a b e k p ro posed a $4,850 increase to the comedy line item. There was also a $750 increase to the cultural arts. “ T h i s y e a r, w e w e re a b l e t o bring in some comedians to campus, our most successful event w a s L e o n Ro g e r s ,” K a d e r a b e k

said. “That was our highest event this year. We had over 75 people in attendance at that event, it was amazing.”

Kaderabek said the better known the comedian, the more likely students will show up to see them.

The proposed comedy budget will allow for two major comedians, as well as 4 minor comedians.

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with proposed increases are the mainstage committee with a $3,040, marketing-public relations with $1,433, Panther Fest with $6,035, productions with $1,315, special events with $2,000, and movies with $1.

The movies committee is responsible for bringing recent blockbuster films to the school, free to students.

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Ashley Howard, a senior psychology major, leads several of her sorority sisters in a stroll performance at the NPHC Stroll Off in McAfee Gym Thursday. The women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority were one of four organizations that participated in the stroll-off.

Students, city prepare for "unofficial"

By Cassie Buchman City Editor|@DEN_News Students and businesses alike are getting ready for “Unofficial” this weekend.

“Unofficial” is time where students party. The pseudo-holiday is synonymous with drinking and bar crawls.

Eastern students adopted “Unofficial” placing it week before the University of Illinois' “Unofficial. " Grant Simons, Gateway Liquor manager, said because of “Unofficial,” they have deals on different Irish based liquors.

“We have deals on Guinness, Bailey’s and other Irish creams,” Simons said.

The store is preparing themselves to deal with a weekend that is typically busier than most.

“It’s reminiscent of homecoming,” Simons said. “We usually put an extra guy on, so that we’re fully staffed.”

Despite the weekend’s reputation, Simons said they typically see less people than they do for homecoming. He added he still sees more people than normal.

“The more you sell, the more you gotta stock,” he said.

On the Friday or Saturday nights of past “Unofficial” weekends, roughly 1,200 people come in to the store.

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Mike Taylor, The Penalty Box general manager, said they are also preparing for Unofficial.

“We’ve definitely had to buy more food and alcohol than on other weekends because of the people coming down to visit Eastern,” he said. “We get crazy busy. A lot of people come.”

Unofficial gives employees a chance to make more money.

“Our staff loves Unofficial because they make a lot more tips than usual,” he said. “Everyone wants to work, to make more tips.”

This year, those going to the Penalty Box to celebrate Unofficial will see a slightly different atmosphere than in previous years.

“We’re really excited for this year because we remodeled, got a brand new bar,” he said. “Everyone’s gonna come in and see our new food menu, it’s a whole new place than last year.”

He said the bar was given a new Chicago theme.

One student is using this weekends popularity to support a good cause.

Kaelin Kwiatkowski, a senior marketing major, is using “Unofficial” as an opportunity to raise money for charity and complete a project for her Foundations of Entrepreneurship course.

She is selling sunglasses for 5 dollars during the weekend.

“There’s nice weather coming up, people coming up for spring break, and it was the best idea I could come up with,” Kwiatkowski said.

She said she thought the easiest way to sell them was during Unofficial since her deadline was before spring break.

“I thought it would be pretty popular,” she said.

Blanca Aragon, a sophomore nursing major, said this year she would not be able to participate in “Unofficial” because of a social event and work happening on the same day.

Last year, she remembers hanging out at one of the non-Greek houses off campus.

“Basically, its just day drinking,” she said. “Last year, it was from eleven to four or five-ish, I think there was drinking all day.”

Though some people think of Unofficial as a wild weekend, Aragon said she thinks it should not necessarily be seen that way.

“People think students throw stuff, set it on fire,” she said. “Some people might take it to the extreme, but it’s just a social gathering.”

Shannon Thodos, a sophomore elementary education major, said “Unofficial” is not as big of a deal at Eastern as it is at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

“It’s huge at U of I,” she said.

“The whole school get together, we

just don’t do that.”

Karle Weissenhofer, a sophomore hospitality major, agreed.

“I mean, to be honest, we don’t really celebrate it here,” she said.

“It’s more of a thing people do when not involved in Greek life.”

It’s not only students and businesses that are getting ready for Unofficial. Lt. Brad Oyer of the Charleston Police Department, said the police department will be vigilant just like they are any other weekend.

“We will do our best to provide a safe place for students and retailers alike,” he said. “In a drinking event as Unofficial tends to be, we are going to be increasingly vigilant on alcohol related offenses.”

He said their biggest concern is that the weekend ends as safely as it began.

“In a college town, there have always been alcohol related incidents,” he said.

His advice to those celebrating Unofficial is to be careful and responsible. “ We d o n’t w a n t t o s e e a c c i dents, we just want everybody to be safe,” Oyer said.

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

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Foreign Language Week events continue through Wednesday

By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor | @BertoHodge Students will be able to depart from their native tongue and culture behind for a chance to learn about other languages for the annual Foreign Language Week March 4 to 11.

Foreign Language Week is a national week where colleges and universities around the United States observe another way of speaking besides English.

Carlos Amaya, the coordinator for Eastern’s foreign language week, said the event happens every year during March both nationally and at the university.

Amaya said students with the idea of unifying the different cultures mostly organize the week at Eastern.

Students majoring in Foreign Languages at Eastern can take courses in Chinese, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, German and Russian.

Sabor Latino will take place at 5 p.m.

Friday in Coleman Hall room 1130. The event will be a culinary tour of Latin America featuring a discussion of foods common in the Latin communities as well as in specific regions such as Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

The following week, the German Sesame Street will be aired at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Coleman Hall room 1120, which will allow students to learn the language with Sesame Street characters.

A film will also be shown the same day titled “The German Doctor” at 5 p.m. in the Coleman Hall Auditorium. The film is about a German doctor who meets an Argentinean family and follows them to a small town where the family starts a new life. They welcome the doctor into the family not knowing they are harboring a dangerous criminal.

Students will also be able to learn what types of careers they can use with their foreign language degree other than teaching at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Coleman Hall 1120.

Stephen Canfield, the chairman of the department of foreign languages, will give an overview on what careers are open to them.

For a full calendar of events, those interested can visit The Daily Eastern News website.

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

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Tim Mason, an economics professor, Leah Davis, a senior communications major, and Rico Torres, junior theatre major, acts as Major Mercalf, Mrs. Boyle, and Paravicini in the performance, Mousetrap, at Doudna Fine Arts Center Thursday in the Theater.

‘Mousetrap’ mixes humor, suspense

By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @stephm202 Single piano keys echo “Three Blind Mice” from beyond the door when suddenly the room goes black; a Monkswell Manor guest drops to the floor, and when the lights return, Mollie Ralston shrieks in horror to find the woman dead.

This is the closing of Act I in Agatha Christie’s 1952 play “The Mousetrap,” which had its opening night Thursday in The Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Mollie (Christina Peter) runs the boarding house where the sophisticated, sassy and humorously pretentious Mrs. Boyle (Leah Davis) is murdered while a snowstorm blows outside, trapping the guests in for a night of tense arguments and accusations.

Detective Trotter (Jacob Cole / understudy Tom Travis) arrives during the storm and prods the guests for information along with Mollie and her husband Giles (Sullivan Peterson-Quinn), who has bursts of anger and suspicion himself throughout the evening.

All of the drama occurs in the wooden lodge-style parlor; a snowdrift falls behind the window and whistles through the room, and the radio plays from the corner in key scenes, which at first irritates Mrs. Boyle while she writes letters near the fireplace.

Christopher Wren (Christopher Sanderson), whose sanity is ambiguous throughout the ordeal, plays with the fire poker from time to time frightening the other guests.

Each character adds bits of comedy into the plot; for example, the mysterious foreign traveller Paravicini (Rico Torres) sings

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“There was a real unselfishness about this group, and it didn’t matter if some were more experienced than others. ” -Imani McDaniel, freshman theater major

sarcastically to Trotter, “Little Bo Policeman has lost his skis and doesn’t know where to find them. Leave them alone and they’ll come home dragging a murderer behind them.”

Guest director Marnie Andrews said the quirkiness of the characters is what draws the audience into the play, and finding themselves in the play is what keeps them.

“Either as an outsider, or trying to make things right and having all kinds of things gone wrong, or a marriage spat, they’ll see something of themselves,” Andrews said.

She said “The Mousetrap” is the longest running play in history, having run for 63 years.

“The reason it’s run so well is she has that gift of mixing humor and suspense, Agatha Christie, and we don’t get to do in college

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theaters very often this style of work,” Andrews said. “It’s a very specific, sort of ‘Downton Abbey’ style.”

Imani McDaniel, a junior theater major, played the role of the guest Miss Casewell.

McDaniel said the character stuck out to her from the beginning, and she was able to draw on experiences from her own life to channel her character, though it caused her some nerves at first.

“The whole time I was trying to figure out who did it and trying to go about simply solving the crime myself, and while we were working more and more on it, there were a few days I would struggle with personal connections I had with my character that were very similar to things that I have experienced in my own life,” McDaniel said.

Andrews said her favorite part of directing the play was working with students; she said they were not the types to become preoccupied with status as can often happen in theater.

“You don’t always get a group that works this well together, that has that kind of willingness to dedicate themselves to the group,” she said. “There was a real unselfishness about this group, and it didn’t matter if some were more experienced than others.”

The production will continue at 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for seniors and employees and $12 for the general public.

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

What’s Happening at EIU?

Foreign Language Week Event - ¡Sabor latino! | 5 - 6 PM Take a culinary tour of Latin America with discussion and food; Coleman Hall 1130

“The Mousetrap” | 7:30 - 10 PM The world’s longest-running play from author Agatha Christie; Doudna Theatre, $5-12.

Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker: The History and the Legend Exhibit | All Day Booth Library’s spring program and exhibit series; free and open to the public Check out more upcoming events at www.dailyeasternnews.com

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Literally drowning in your work Marge Clemente

Why we should tone it down on Yik Yak You know there is something seriously messed up with your campus when issues like sexism, homophobia and racism pervade Yik Yak. Has anyone ever wondered before why this campus is so segregated?

I’ve noticed that whenever there’s an event that takes place on campus supporting a specific group of people, Yik Yak blows up with some of the most horrifying comments I’ve ever seen (and I have seen some pretty disturbing things in YouTube’s comment section.)

However, there are some filthy things that come up on Yik Yak’s feed. Now, normally I would ignore these comments and shrug it off. I would like to think to myself, “Well, I’m sure most of these people are uneducated, ignorant or just plain hateful.”

The scary part about thinking that is that it probably isn’t true. We’re all collegiate folk here and should be striving to educate ourselves. And yet here we are on Yik Yak, indulging in racist, homophobic and sexist nonsense.

What’s even more frightening than the comments themselves are the amount of people up-voting the original, hateful comment and replying that they agree. It’s terrifying living on a campus where I know I’m secretly hated by hundreds of kids in one way or another.

Why aren’t we doing anything about it, anyway? We sit there laughing at the comments or forgetting about them because eventually they’re lost somewhere into cyberspace.

But it really isn’t that simple.

Has no one ever thought about the lasting impression that is left on people who might take the comments personally? I thought Eastern was supposed to be a safe and civil environment for us all? We shouldn’t feel threatened or stalked by other people here at our home away from home.

If anyone outside of Charleston were to log into our Yik Yak, I could only imagine the disgusted impression they would have of our university and student body as a whole. People won’t necessarily consider us as individuals because that’s human nature. We judge people—we are always prejudiced.

Of course there are ways we control that if we’ve learned to consider people’s emotions first and not measure them by their beliefs, lifestyle or skin tone.

If Yik Yak had existed before I applied here at Eastern, I would feel slightly skeptical in living on a campus that almost constantly expresses such hatred through their social media. I would be living in fear and feel terribly ashamed of those that surround me at my Alma Mater.

Marge Clemente is a senior English major.

She can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com.

Today’s quote: Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

-Brooke Shields

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STAFF EDITORIAL It is time to acknowledge the glaring stereotype that athletes are less focused or less intelligent than the remaining population of students. This is a terribly insulting and false belief.

Quite the contrar y, most athletes are encouraged to be consistent with their schoolwork.

Student-athlete Kate VanHootegem, a swimmer, to the Daily Eastern News in a story on March 3, she believes she does not attend school solely for swimming; she is a student before an athlete.

Part of the discipline of being a student-athlete is learning to juggle different tasks.

Ju s t a s a t h l e t e s a r e t a u g h t t o w i s e ly manage their time while taking classes and staying in shape for their desired sport, non-athletes also struggle with in-

tersections in their life as students and employees, good children, mothers, brothers, sisters, and fathers.

It is rare that people consider the amount of pressure put on athletes during a demanding school year.

In fact, this past fall semester, the Easte r n w o m e n’s s w i m t e a m t i e d C l e m s o n University for the highest grade point average in the nation for all Division I teams with a 3.59.

They also received the Fall Team Scholar All-American Award for having a 3.0 GPA. These swimmers have submerged themselves into their studies and breast stroked their way to success.

Because of first-year coach Jacqueline Michalski’s impressive efforts and goals to improve the swimmers’ GPAs; these hard-

working athletes have courageously taken the challenge to do what they love while maintaining spectacular grades.

Just as athletes’ successes are worth recognition, so are their academic achievements.

Other areas in Eastern’s athletics have strengthened this argument, such as the w o m e n’s g o l f t e a m , w h i c h e a r n e d t h e highest collective GPA among Eastern sports.

Our students are determined and multi-talented. Our national ranking proves we are capable of both academic and athletic successes.

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

Put the awkwardness aside and your health first Editor’s note: This is the first installation of a series of columns in recognition of Women’s History and Awareness Month.

It’s a moment every woman dreads--her annual women’s health exam.

According to Health Services, women ages 21 and older are advised to have a Pap smear, a screening for cervical cancer, each year.

If sexually active, it is recommended to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases/ infections before each sexual partner.

Last week, I took my first exam. Like most women, I was not thrilled to join this passage of womanhood.

There are a lot of parts leading to the exam that exude awkwardness.

A nurse escorts you into a room, where the environment smells stale, full of sterile equipment.

You remove your clothes, cover up with what feels to be an oversized-napkin, and wait for the doctor patiently.

While waiting, the only reading material are medical posters hung about the room. The charts and diagrams do one of two things: one, teach you about biology you never learned in school, about parts of yourself you did not even know you had,

Megan Ivey or two, show all the possible abnormalities that could happen “down there,” scaring you into believing you have some sort of mutation.

By the time the doctor arrives, you have played through every exit scenario in your head.

“Can I make a phony emergency call?”

“How hard would it be to jump out the window and never look back?”

Of course, putting the dramatic thoughts aside, the exam is not so bad.

It is not necessarily the doctor who makes it uncomfortable.

Yes, the small talk can seem odd, especially when you cannot make eye contact because you are on your back, legs spread and facing the ceiling, but it could be a lot worse.

The room smells sterile because the nurses and doctors follow protocol to keep the environment safe and clean.

The medical charts and diagrams are placed to be used as easy reference for questions and relevant information.

The doctor is making small talk because they treats their patients as people, not simply some object they have to inspect for faults.

For OB-GYNs, this is what is routine.

It is not the nurse or doctor that makes the ordeal uncomfortable -- it is the patient.

You are the factor in which makes or breaks the tone of the exam.

I wish I could say that my first women’s health exam was not awkward, but I do not think any woman can say she is 100 percent comfortable when present in the situation.

However, the uncomfortable feeling should not hinder a woman’s knowledge about her sexual health.

You are not the first woman the doctor has seen, and you will not be the last.

Ask questions, get informed and take the doctor’s counsel.

Megan Ivey is a sophomore journalisn major.

She can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com.

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Visiting professor debates media perception of Latinas

By T’Nerra Butler Staff Reporter | @DEN_News The hypersexuality of the Latin culture in mainstream American media was a topic for discussion Thursday evening.

A lecture presented by Angharad Valdivia, as a part of Foreign Language Week 2015, opened up dialogue on the issue.

Valdivia, a media and cinema studies professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is a transnational feminist scholar who co-wrote the research article “Brain, Brow, or Bootie? Contemporary Latinidad In Popular Culture.”

Valdivia said Latinos were finally being noticed in media when women like Jennifer Lopez and Frida Kahlo appeared in the entertainment industry.

Valdivia also explained how some mainstream and independent films attempt to represent the Latino community, but portray a story negatively and often fail in the box office.

“They are underrepresented either in front of or behind a camera,” Valdivia said.

Valdivia said Latina Americans often play a different nationality by altering their physical appearance.

“In order for Sophia Vergara to crossover mainstream, she had to dye her hair brown because she was a blonde,” Valdivia said, “She wouldn’t make it as a mainstream actress without (having) brown hair.”

Valdivia also said Vergara and Jennifer Lopez have idolized Latina bodies.

Valdivia said she found eight overlapping patterns, frequently found in the media.

One of the patterns is Erasure, where one ethnicity is excluded and is not established in the media. Valdivia used the examples of the shows “Friends” and “The Brady Bunch.” She said ethnic variety is eliminated in those shows.

Another pattern was Binary, where Latino Americans are found in shows, but star as a side ethnic character to the other “token” minority on the show.

“Ambiguous ethnics” are used heavily, Valdivia said.

An “ambiguous ethnic” is someone who is hard to characterize in a specific minority group.

Valdivia explained that often in advertising a sequence in races are found, Americans reads left to right, so often an African-American is positioned in a photo or advertised on the left, ambiguous races stand in the middle.

Keila Ortiz, a sophomore family and consumer major, said she was not aware of some of the things in the media occurred.

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Dr. Angharad N. Valdivia, an associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, discusses gender and race issues displayed in the media at the “Brain, Brow, or Bootie?: Contemporary Latinidad in Popular Culture” presentation in the lecture hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center Thursday. Valdivia mentions several examples in today’s society that are ambiguously placed in advertisements.

“It was informative because we don’t have discussions like this on campus,” Ortiz said, “We Latinas are perceived as showing our bodies, but its not always like that.”

Valdivia also reviewed the topic of how children networks work towards a broader audience.

“Channels want to maximize profit so, they can make more with ambiguous characters but reach out to the white community,” Valdivia said.

Valdivia used examples like “Cheetah Girls” and “Lizzie McGuire.”

“It’s difficult to say media over culture because culture is media. The media does not work on its own,” Valdivia said.

Valdivia said the sexuality of Latina Americans, African-Americans and Asian-American

women differ.

“Latinas are represented as hypersexual and hyper fertile. The Asian body is shown as pliable,” Valdivia said, “In terms of African-American women sexuality in the U.S., it’s displaced, not as sexually desirable but sexually aberrant.”

The topic of a newly-aged generation Latina was also mentioned.

Valdivia said women born with AfricanAmerican and Latin descent are called Afro-Latina.

Afro-Latina, Zoe Saldana is playing the role of an African-American singer Nina Simone and in order to play that role she has to darken her skin, Valdivia said.

“Hollywood has displaced any sexually femininities to women of color,” Valdivia said, “Lati-

nos and other minorities seek a rightful place in the culture.” Valdivia said.

Jeannie Ludlow, a coordinator of Women’s Studies, said this is what Eastern needed considering this is Women’s History Month. Ludlow also said she was taken back by some of the topics discussed.

“To see her made-up like that broke my heart because that’s a cultural history we are supposed to move from,” Ludlow said, “It feels like every time we do something better in terms of race, we take steps backward and we’re back to where we were at again.”

will help cover costs for graduate assistants, student payroll, and equipment repairs.

Campus Recreation has proposed 211,000 since FY2013.

The Apportionment Board will be meeting again to vote and finalize their decisions on the four budgets proposed to

them including the student government, Apportionment Board, UB and Campus Rec at 7 p.m. March 26 in the ArcolaTuscola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

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

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“ When we first star ted out the year, our movies were averaging 300 people between the two days,” Francis said. “It kind of varies between the different movies, we do get really high attendance at some of the movies.”

Panther Fest is a three-day event, which includes the new student mixer, Quakin’

In The Quad, and Up All Night.

O n l y t w o l i n e i t e m s s e e a d e c re a s e .

Id e a s a n d Is s u e s i s p r o p o s e d t o s e e a $9,575 decrease, and Pantherstock is proposed to see a $950 decrease.

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Women’s tennis to host Chicago State

By Chris Picazo Staff reporter|@DEN_Sports The Eastern women’s tennis team (4-3) will be facing Chicago State University (2-8) at 1 p.m.

Saturday on the Darling Courts.

The team is coming off a winning weekend having beat Butler University 5-2 on Friday and Western Illinois University 7-0 on Saturday.

Wo m e n’s t e n n i s c o a c h Jo h n Bl a c k b u r n s a i d t h e w i n s ov e r weekend gave the team a confidence boost in preparation for the match against Chicago State. “ The team felt ver y positive about the wins over the weeke n d ; t h e m a t c h a g a i n s t Bu t l e r was tightly contested,” Blackburn said. “I thought the team did well in the critical moments of the match, which is a big confidence booster.”

Freshman Grace Summers def e a t e d Bu t l e r f re s h m a n Ba i l e y Padgett 1-6, 7-5, 7-5. Junior Ali Foster defeated sophomore Kailey Eaton 6-2, 7-6.

Junior Hannah Kimbrough defeated senior Angelina Qin 6-3, 6-1; and sophomore Kamile Stadalninkaite defeated freshman Jordan Minnick 6-3, 6-4.

Su m m e r s a n d s e n i o r Se p h o ra Boulbahaiem defeated sophomore Kylie Haviland and Eaton 7-5 in doubles. Sophomore Kelly Iden and Stadalninkaiteof defeated Qin and junior Michelle McFerran 6-2.

Unbeaten against Western Iden defeated freshman Courtney Lubbers of 6-1, 6-2. Summers defeated sophomore Jenna Wallace 6-2, 6-4. Foster defeated freshman Arianna Demos 6-0, 6-0; Boulbahaiem defeated sophomore Nicole Jones of WIU 6-0, 6-1.

Stadalninkaite defeated sophomore Andriana Johnson 6-4, 6-0 and sophomore Maria Moshteva defeated sophomore Jamee Hale 6-0, 6-0.

Summers and Boulbahaiem defeated Lubbers and Wallace 6-2, 6-0 in doubles; Foster and Kimbrough defeated Demos and Jones 6-3; and Iden and Stadalninkaite defeated Johnson and Hale 6-0.

The Panthers are looking to grab the win against Chicago State and are preparing for Ohio

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Sephora Boulbahaiem, a senior member of the women’s tennis team, returns a serve in a match Oct. 6 at Darling Courts.

Valley Conference play beginning March 13 against Tennessee State University in Nashville.

“ We are focusing on playing a very good Chicago State team, but also focusing on preparing

for OVC play at the same time,” Blackburn said. “We know Chicago St. will be a good match that will help us prepare for conference play.”

The team is also focusing on different aspects of the game compared to what they did against Butler and Western.

“I think the big focus change will be on preparing to play outdoor tennis in the OVC,” Blackburn said. “We can’t get on our courts due to all the snow yet, but there are some things we can do to prepare with how we practice.”

T h e Pa n t h e r s a re p r a c t i c i n g hard for their match by focusing on big points, and are continuing to use matches as preparation for conference play.

“I think it will be a good match that could go either way, which are the matches that help us the most right now to get ready for conference play,” Blackburn said. “I think just playing the big points with focus and p l a n n i n g w i l l g i ve u s t h e b e s t chance to be successful.”

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

Women’s basketball games Panthers head to pushed back because of weather Kennesaw State

By Jason Howell Online Editor | @thejasonhowell

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The women’s Ohio Valley Conference tournament basketball games were pushed back an hour Thursday to accommodate for the impending winter weather that moved through the area Wednesday night into Thursday morning.

In an update published to their website and posted on Twitter, the women’s games scheduled for 12 p.m. (Belmont and Jacksonville State) and 2 p.m.

(Tennessee State and Morehead State) were delayed by an hour.

The men’s games are still on schedule for 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Kyle Schwartz, the assistant commissioner for media relations, said attendance for games on Wednesday was a little lower than normal than in previous years.

Schwartz estimated that 400 people attended the women’s games with 700 in attendance for the men.

“Usually it’s more like 700 for the women and 1000 for the men,” Schwartz said. “You could tell last night was definitely affected by people who didn’t come because of that or waited or left early if they were here.”

Schwartz also said different scenarios have been discussed in case the weather forces postponement of games.

The schedule has some flexibility, but the men’s games on Friday are being televised on ESPNU. “We kind of almost have to play them when they want to play them, with TV,” Schwartz said.

Morehead State women’s head coach Greg Todd said the roads were icy on the way back to Nashville Municipal Auditorium, but the team took it slow on the way back.

According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, most of the state roads and interstate have patches of snow and ice, with a portion of northern Tennessee labeled “extremely hazardous.”

Softball team enters with 4-8 record

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An estimated 2 -4 inches of snow fell on Nashville, Tenn. according to the National Weather Service before the start of the second day of OVC basketball tournament action on Thursday. The Eastern men’s basketball was forced to practice in the ballroom of their hotel.

Travel is not being recommended on any of these roadways.

Nashville is under numerous weather advisories according to the National Weather Service.

A winter storm warning has expired, however a wind chill advisory is

in effect for the area until 6 a.m. Friday, with portions also under a flood advisory.

Jason Howell can be reached at 581-2812 or jlhowell3@eiu.edu.

The Eastern softball team will continue its non-conference schedule this weekend when the Panthers head to Kennesaw, GA for the Kennesaw State Owl Invitational.

The Panthers come into the weekend with a 4-8 record on the year and will look to improve that taking on Cleveland State University, Northern Kentucky University, Indiana University, and Kennesaw State University.

The first game will be on Saturday at 9 a.m. against head coach Angie Nicholson’s former team, Cleveland State.

Nicholson spent seven seasons as the head coach of the team Cleveland State comes into the weekend with a 7-4 record.

The Panthers will be taking on a 0-6 Northern Kentucky team at 2 p.m. in their second game on Saturday. NKU has dealt with many cancellations to start their season.

Nicholson doesn’t know who is going to be on the mound starting, but said it will be between the ‘1-2 punch’ of freshmen Jessica Wireman and Michelle Rogers.

Wireman is now available after having to sit out two weeks ago due to an injury she sustained in practice. She was hit by a line drive in the side of her body.

Rogers is 3-3 and has a 3.56 ERA with 26 strikeouts in 41 1/3

innings pitched.

Wireman is 1-4 with a 4.75 ERA, striking out 13 batters in 28 innings.

The Panthers’ offense is led by seniors Hannah Cole and Bailey O’Dell who are both off to strong starts at the plate.

Cole is batting .375, and O’Dell is batting .351 along with a combined total of 15 RBIs. The Panthers have not seen live action in two weeks.

“I don’t think it’s good,” Nicholson said. “Especially when you have to go back inside. I think if we were still able to go outside it wouldn’t be as bad.”

They have been working on things they know they need to improve on during their time off and also watched video to analyze what they are doing.

The Panthers will then play two more games on Sunday.

The first game will be against a 3-16 Indiana University at 9 a.m.

The second game will be against Kennesaw State University at 1 p.m.

Kennesaw State has started the year 10-5. Nicholson said that Kennesaw is a solid team.

“They can do a little bit of everything well,” she said.

Nicholson said she would like to see a little bit more from junior Jennette Isaac this weekend.

“She’d be huge for us,” Nichoslson said. “She’s our leadoff batter, and she sets the tone. She’s been struggling to get on base for us, so we’d love to see that.”

She would also like to see a little bit more leadership this weekend.

Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu

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Junior forward Trae Anderson attempts a shot during the Panthers’ 97-64 loss to the Belmont Bruins in round two of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament on Thursday in Nashville, Tenn. Anderson scored 13 points for the Panthers.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.— Belmont defeated the Eastern men’s basketball team Thursday 97-64 in the quarterfinals of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.

10 Bruins players scored in the game, with senior guard Craig Bradshaw leading the way with 23 points. Belmont had five players reach double figure scoring including freshman forward Amanze Egekeze, sophomore forward Evan Bradds, freshman forward Mack Mercer and sophomore forward Nick Smith.

Bradds and Smith finished with 14 points each, while Egekeze scored 12 points.

The matchup pitted one of the OVC’s best offensive teams, in Belmont, against one of the conference’s top defensive teams, in Eastern. The Bruins offense was too much for the Panthers, as they shot 36-for59 from the floor, including 16-of-27 from three point range.

The game started with a 15-0 Belmont run, forcing Eastern to use two timeouts in the first three minutes of the game. The Bruins went 17-for-29 from the floor in the first half, and took a 47-24 lead into the locker room.

They led by as much as 36 points in the second half.

“When we got in there at halftime it was like a picket fence on the made three pointers,” Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said. “It was like one, one, one, two, two, just everybody on their team was hitting them.”

Belmont advanced to Friday’s semifinal round, where they’ll face the No. 2 seed Eastern Kentucky Colonels.

Eastern’s leading scorer was senior guard Reggie Smith. He led the Panthers with 17 points against Belmont’s 2-3 zone defense, in his final OVC game. The Bruins outrebounded the Panthers 38-23 and held junior forward Chris Olivier to four points, his lowest scoring total since November.

“We knew it was going to be a tough match for us if we let them get open and make shots,” Smith said. “ That’s what they did and there wasn’t much we could do about that. It’s just a tough loss for me right now.”

Eastern was able to shrink the deficit when Smith hit his fourth three pointer the game to make it a 59-42 game with 12:57 remaining. A couple of defensive stops gave the Panthers a chance to get back in the game, but Eastern couldn’t capitalize on their next two possessions.

Egekeze would hit a three pointer to make it 62-42, dashing any hopes of an Eastern comeback.

Junior forward Trae Anderson scored 13 points, and freshman guard Cornell Johnston finished with 11 points.

The loss ended Eastern’s NCAA tournament hopes. It was their first winning season since 2010.

“I told the guys that reality is we’re postseason eligible,” Spoonhour said. “We’re not going to go the NIT, but there are other tournaments that are really good tournaments. We’re not saying goodbye to anybody, yet because we still want to play some ball.”

Blake Nash can be reached at 581-2812 or banash@eiu.edu

Panthers open OVC play at Austin Peay Bob Reynolds Sports Editor|@BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern baseball schedule has been changed for the third-straight week as it will now play in Clarksville, Tenn., starting Sunday and will finish Tuesday.

The Panthers were schedule to open conference play at Coaches Stadium, but the weather forced the teams to move the games to Austin Peay and Eastern will still be the home team on the scoreboard.

“We have to go in there not expecting to be handed anything. They’re a good team, but we have to play our baseball and we will be fine.”

-Dan Sauer, senior second baseman Eastern senior second baseman Dane Sauer said the switching of sites will only change things if they let it.

“We have to go in there not expecting to be handed anything,” he said. “They’re a good team, but we have to play our baseball and we will be fine.”

Sauer said it is good to know that there

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Pitcher Joe Greenfield pitches against Tennessee Tech on April 13, 2014 at Coaches Stadium.

Greenfield threw six runs in the game.

will be baseball played this weekend.

“It seems like early on, so far, this weather has just been a burden,” he said. “It is nice to know that we have games that are scheduled.”

The last two weeks the Panthers came into the week not knowing if they were going to have a game or not.

The Panthers are coming off a weekday series sweep at the hands of the University of Arkansas in which they lost 4-1, 7-0 and 8-1 in the three games.

Panther coach Jimmy Schmitz said his

team has been progressively having better at bats.

“I think we hit some balls hard,” Schmitz said. “Guys are just a little late on the fastball. Hopefully we can get that corrected by the weekend.”

Eastern enters the weekend with a .144 team batting average.

The Panthers have left 34 runners on base in the first six games, and Sauer said to get over the hump, they have to capitalize on their opportunities.

“We have certainly had the opportunities

and been in situations to get it going, we just haven’t capitalized yet,” he said. “It just takes one lucky hit or walk, or anything to turn it around.”

Austin Peay comes into the game with a 5-4 overall record after starting of its season with two-straight wins. They have lost the last 4-of-7 games. They are coming off a series loss to Western Michigan last weekend.

Sophomore infielder Ridge Smith leads the Governors with a .472 average through nine games. He has 17 hits including eight extra base hits and seven runs batted in this season.

Schmitz said the excitement should be there to get on the field since its the start of conference play.

“We wish we had four or five more games in,” he said. “We don’t. It is a new level when you are in conference play, everything matters. Seeing the guys play at just another level, is what I am looking for.”

Last weekend the Panthers allowed Arkansas runners to advance on the base paths too many times Schmitz said. He wants to cut those down this weekend.

“You should actually have no advances in a game,” he said. “We are going to walk people. We are probably going to make an error, but to allow that team to run, to allow that team to take extra bases, that is the key right there that we really don’t want to do.”

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

MARCH 6, 2015

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Four competitors for the Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique and Ms. Fitness bodybuilding competition strike poses. 13 men will compete for the title of Mr. EIU, six women will compete for the title of Ms. Physique and three women will compete for the title of Ms. Fitness at 7 p.m. Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium.

Fitness enthusiasts compete for title, prestige

By Cayla Maurer Verge Editor | @caymaurer Months of training, dieting, countless hours in the gym and numerous hours of food preparation come down to one night to win the title of Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique or Ms. Fitness.

The 2015 Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique and Ms. Fitness bodybuilding competition is at 7 p.m.

Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium.

The Mr. EIU competitors are: Joseph Thompson, Alex Wood, Justin Koeckritz, Joshua Hopkins, Cody Sanders, Kenneth Ballom, Taylor Bradley, Alex Westerman, Anthony Day, Cole Younger, James Mariani, Jared Buscher and Kyle Boewe.

The Mr. EIU competition is broken down into five weight divisions: bantam, lightweight, middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight.

The men will be separated into a specific weight class after the last weigh-in Friday.

A winner will be chosen from each division and those five will face off against each other in a pose down for the title of Mr. EIU. Anthony Day, a senior kinesiology and sports studies major, is competing in the Mr. EIU competition for the first time. Day is the oldest competitor at the age of 25.

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The trophies for Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique and Ms. Fitness will be awarded at 7 p.m. Saturday.

wanted to compete, I just felt like I didn’t have the time for preparation to complete what I needed to get done,” Day said.

Day decided he would compete by August 2014 and started prepping in December.

One of Day’s main reasons for competing is to prove people wrong who said he couldn’t do it.

“Nobody believed me, so it was to show them that I could do this if I set my mind to it,” Day said. “There are definitely a lot of haters out there so I just wanted to silence them.”

Day’s favorite thing about preparing for the competition is that he finally got abs.

“When they came in about four weeks out, it was like Christmas day,” Day said.

This is the fifth year of the Ms. Physique competition.

The Ms. Physique competitors are: Amanda White, Sabrina Wallrich, Kristin Stine, Morgan McDermott, Alexandra Stringini and Kaitlyn Corzine.

Alexandra Stringini, a junior kinesiology and sports studies major, is competing in the Ms. Physique competition for the first time.

Stringini is a member of Eastern’s ROTC program that has physical training at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday.

That training is extra to her prep for Ms. Physique. In total, she trains about four hours a day right now.

“The Army wants us trained for endurance and being in the best physical shape possible for readiness for what our job entails,” Stringini said.

“My show training is to look the best I can so it’s very different.”

Even though Stringini is very competitive, she attributes her inspiration to her father who passed away in August 2014.

“He said why don’t you body build. You have the perfect build for it; I think you would go really far,” Stringini said. “He believed in me.”

For Stringini, one of the most difficult aspects of preparing for this competition is food and meal preparation.

“I can’t just stop in somewhere and get something to eat because it doesn’t work that way,” Stringini said. “I have to go home and eat or prep

my meals for the week on Sunday or Monday.”

Stringini eats six to seven meals a day every two hours.

The Ms. Fitness competitors are Christina DeMuro, Samantha Pentrarca and Kelsie Abolt.

Kelsie Abolt, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major, decided to compete in the Ms. Fitness competition after learning that 70-80 percent of preparing is about dieting.

Because of her dietetics background, Abolt was intrigued and wanted to get involved.

“I’ve been able to further my knowledge in nutrition because of bodybuilding,” Abolt said.

“It adds a whole other side to the experience.”

Abolt said preparing for this competition has been fun because it isn’t just her dieting, training and preparing alone.

“There is a handful of students you’re doing this with,” Abolt said. “I get excited to go to the gym to see them because we’re all going through the same thing.”

The Ms. Physique competition focuses more on muscle tone, while the Ms. Fitness competition focuses on overall body symmetry.

Both groups will perform a 60-90 second routine showcasing their fitness abilities and posing.

Cody Schut, a graduate assistant for the Student Recreation Center, is this year’s coordinator of the Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique & Ms. Fitness competition. Schut said this year will be very competitive for the title of Mr. EIU in regards to the weight classes because the competitors measure up similarly.

This year’s judges are Chad Graham, the ’97 Mr. EIU winner, Shannon Siemer, an International Federation of Bodybuilding professional, Tom Leon, a two-time competitor in Mr. EIU and James DiNaso and Jennifer Carter, co-owners of The Body Club in Charleston.

All judges are Eastern graduates.

Tickets for the competition are $5 at the door.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

Cayla Maurer can be reached at 581-2812 or ccmaurer@eiu.edu.

2B W eekend P lans Friday - 3/6 'The Mousetrap' Doudna Theatre 7:30 p.m. , $5 for students -T h e M o u s e t r a p i s t h e world's longest running play, now celebrating its Diamond Anniversary in its 60th year. A group of strangers are stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm, one of which is a murderer.

UB Movie: 'Horrible Bosses 2' Buzzard Hall 7 p.m., Free -Dale, Kurt and Nick are back and decide to open their own business, but things don't go as planned. Then they must pull of a misguided kidnapping scheme.

Saturday - 3/7 Unofficial at EIU Charleston All day - Shenanigans. Debauchery.

T-shirts. Mischief. Green beer.

Bars. House parties. Drink specials. #UnofficialStPatricksDay Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique & Ms. Fitness Bodybuilding Competition McAfee Gym 7 p.m., $5 -13 men will compete for the title of Mr. EIU, six women will compete for Ms. Physique and three women will compete for Ms. Fitness. Come watch as months of preparation come together in one big show.

S u n d ay - 3 / 8 EIU Athletic Training Awareness 5k Campus Pond 1 p.m., $15/$20 - The Athletic Training Club is hosting its first 5k awareness event. To sign up, go to signmeup. com/106165.

3.6.2015

Musicians reflect on award nominations

By Katie Smith Editor-in-Chief Editor’s Note: The Daily Eastern News was invited to participate in a conference call Wednesday with 2015 MTVU Woodie Award nominees: Rae Sremmurd, Raury, Misterwives, and Hoodie Allen.

Rapper Iggy Azelia has earned $5,160,000 for her single “Fancy” based on iTunes purchases alone. Before her success, however, the artist debuted her hit single at the 2014 MTVU Woodie Awards, where Ryan Kroft, executive producer of this year’s show, said collegeaged listeners often discover up-andcoming artists before they make it big.

“It’s been really cool to see that artists are now seeing the show as a launching pad, and coming here and having big years,” Kroft said.

The Woodie awards are based on an indie label, Sub Pop’s tradition of issuing their artists wooden plaques because their albums were not ones that generally received gold or platinum recognition.

Kroft said idea of college-aged audiences choosing who the music industry recognizes as influential is rewarding for both the fans and musicians.

“I think it’s huge. I think for artists to really achieve success and get their music heard they need to connect with a young audience and then it’s that young audience that gets out that and is most passionate about music and really talks about the artist and socialize with the artist and get the older audiences hearing about them.”

This year’s show will be live-streamed online at 8 p.m. Friday March 20 from the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX. Audiences can vote online at MTV.com, where polls are currently open.

The show’s early years, beginning in 2004, generally featured rock artists, although Kroft said hip-hop has become a new popular genre at the Woodie Awards.

Some of this year’s nominees agree, however, they prefer not to be classified in one specific genre because of its limiting nature.

Rae Sremmurd Musical group Rae Sremmurd knew they were famous “the girls at Starbucks” knew who they were.

Sremmurd is nominated for the Woodies’ Artist to Watch (best emerging artist) award.

Singles including “No Flex Zone” and “No Type” have earned Sremmurd a swiftly growing and young fan-base.

Despite the duo’s quick success with a distinct sound, they expect a strong loyalty from their fan-base should they decide to go in a different direction.

“We’re gonna keep doing Rae Sremmurd stuff,” brothers Kahlif “Swae Lee” Kahlif and Aaquil “Slim Jimmy” Brown said. “We have the type of fans that are gonna evolve with us. We’ll always have a unique sound but when we change our sound, if we’re gonna elevate our fans are gonna elevate with us.”

For Sremmurd, rising to a new level of fame has provided them with a positive outlook they attribute to a sense of confidence in themselves and one an-

we decided, ‘instead of going to the bar let’s go to the studio and make a song’ and ‘All about it’ is that song.”

He said the recording process went favorably, and described Sheeran as “a dream collaboration,” feeling optimistic abut the final product.

“I think I do put a lot of value in wanting to be a positive influence and in the stories that I try to tell and convey the message is supposed to be positive and one people can follow,” he said.

“Our responsibilities as artists is to feel passionate about things and to communicate that and make them feel their best as well.”

Markowitz is currently working on new music, which he plans to release samples of.

“It’s in its early stages,” he said. “I’m always trying to give people previews so hopefully you can expect a mixtape-type

“We take the music and work together it becomes cohesive without being cacaphonic.”

-Will Heir, bassist for MisterWives other.

“Our confidence, it just comes within us from where we’re from,” Khalif and Brown said. “You have to stand out, you know? They’re gonna throw you in the jungle with all the other wild animals and you just have to know that you’re an elephant.”

Just 20 and 21 years old, the hip-hop artists said they were startled to learn they had been nominated for an award.

“It felt like I had just won the lottery,” they said. “I jumped up and down. I spilled my Starbucks and everything.”

Hoodie Allen Steven Adam Markowitz’s, “Hoodie Allen” remembers experiencing music for the first time with a young girl at a Britney Spears concert.

“I was 9 years old,” he said. “She was the first girlfriend that I had.”

Now his single “All about it,” featuring singer, songwriter and friend Ed Sheeran is nominated for the Co-Sign Woodie as a potential best collaboration between two or more artists.

Markowitz said the collaboration was not planned for his album, rather the two stumbled upon the idea nonchalantly.

“He’s been a buddy of mine for a couple of years now. Every time he’s in New York we hang out,” Markowitz said. “So it was a very casual thing where

project on the way.”

Raury Artist Raury’s album “Indigo Child” has been described as hard categorize in both its lyricism and sound.

The Georgia-native is nominated for the Artist to Watch Woodie alongside Rae Scremmurd, who say they are personal fans of Raury’s.

“Indigo Child” combines folk, rock and rap styles that create a sound Raury is proud to say cannot be pigeonholed.

“That comes down to egos and how critics and readers feel about their ability to identify something,” he said. “You may take offense if someone produces so many different genres. You may think they don’t know what they’re doing or they don’t know who they are yet. I’m always going to create what I feel like making. I’m maybe a product of this internet age.”

Raury introduces psychic associations with his generation in the song “God’s Whisper,” in which he says, “We are indigos/Living lives we chose/Show you’re brave/Those with faith/On a mission/ Led by intuition/You should listen . . .”

“I make music and aim to create and maybe inspire these young kids and make them become better versions of themselves because you are what you listen to not what you eat.”

Despite his nomination, Raury said

he still does not feel he has accomplished the level of success he strives for.

“I still see a much more work to be done,” he said. “My goals and my vision and perception of having made it is being in a situation where I don’t have to worry about anything.”

MisterWives Though their album “Our Own House” debuted just last week, MisterWives, an American indie band is in the running for MTVU’s Artist to Watch Woodie.

Bassist, Will Heir said the album’s popularity caught on almost immediately, evident by the band’s sold-out first show since the release of “Our Own House” on Feb. 25.

“I think probably the most monumental moment was finally playing that first show and coming off stage and seeing the reaction we got from our managers and our family and our friends,” he said. “To see them actually almost beaming with pride was incredibly humbling. It almost brought a tear to my eye. But I’m super manly so it didn’t happen.”

The band’s songwriter and singer, Mandy Lee, found inspiration for the albums lyrics while seeking solitude outdoors.

“We actually locked her in a tree house for a while and she found some inspiration there,” Heir laughed.

“There’s almost an immediate connection between her heart and her hand.”

Drawing influence from a wide range of musicians, members of MisterWives are careful to not be catalogued into genre-specific labels.

“It’s almost schizophrenic,” he said. “I think it’s humbling to a certain degree and it’s definitely reassuring when people don’t know how to classify us because we’re all inspired by so may different shapes of music.”

More than anything, Heir said the group strives to produce a sound that is creative, cohesive, and overall makes people want to move.

“When we take the music and work together it becomes cohesive without being cacophonic,” he said. “But it’s happy music. It all comes from the show. We’re trying to get people to get up and dance.”

Katie Smith can be reached at 581-2812 or kesmith2@eiu.edu.

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A woven eco-yarn, textured fabric, bright colored and printed textile hoodie caught my eye around campus because it followed me throughout my day with so many students rocking it.

This usually doesn’t happen when a piece of clothing transcends the lines that categorizes us like race, age and sex.

The Baja Mexican hoodie, also comes in a zip up jacket design, is essentially meant for comfort and warmth.

The lack of curved seams or stretchy material allows the fit to be loose because of its iconic box shape.

Warmth is established with the amount of fabric students are covered from the top of their heads by the hoodies to their upper hips with thick woven material that adds layers of protection from the bitter winds of the winter, late fall and early spring.

Most Latin American countries have adopted the iconic poncho design, long rectangular sleeveless fabric with a cut out for the head that flows over shoulders and torso.

However, this design was originated in Argentina and Chile from the Mapuche people, who were skilled weavers, with a purpose of socially distinguishing the males in their society with specific color combinations and symbols.

The poncho was essentially used for warmth being that it is very similar to wearable blanket or comforter but overtime has evolved throughout nations and cultures to become a fashion statement.

Mexico has created its own take on the poncho by creating the Baja style which is known for its intricate knitted environmentally friendly eco-yarn into patterns that are artwork.

Clothing itself is a basic need that

Kalyn Hayslett Verge Reporter humans must meet in order to survive. However, each clothing item meets a specific need for the consumer whether that is getting attention, providing protection or allowing comfort.

Most college student’s desire for comfort, flexibility and respect drives their fashion choices in every setting they face, which makes the Baja hoodie extremely appealing.

Which is understandable, I myself am guilty of it, creating this throw-n-go philosophy, of picking the coziest clothing in my closet, putting it on and running to class, ultimately putting style on the end of my priority list.

Not only for convince, so we can quickly get from class-to-class it also helps us focus in our classes because it is one less thing to worry or concern ourselves about.

It is the worst sitting in a lecture for 50 plus minutes in restricting clothing that distracts you from focusing on the professor: the seams dig into your skin, tags stab you relentlessly or the top keeps rides up in the back.

However, style doesn’t always have to be sacrificed just so the consumer can feel relaxed in their clothing which is what this hoodie capitalizes on with its bold, flashy and colorful prints that add personality to what would be a typical pull over hoodie.

Style is subjective. One person may consider one item of clothing hideous while the next thinks it’s ge-

nius, but all clothing should cause a reaction a double-take effect.

The pullover hoodies have a kangaroo pocket on the lower front with a neck detail that connects the front collar to the hood which creates its own graphic element.

They purposely overlap the front of the hoodie in a perpendicular way causing a more visually interesting hoodie because the vertical lines of the print are now being crossed by these contrasting horizontal lines from the pouch and hood.

The print is the focal point combined with the fun, unified placement of the fabric allows the wearer to showcase their personality because with such a loud print there is no way of staying in the background.

The bagginess of the fit and loudness of the print combines the over-arching style of the ‘80s and ‘90s without completely copying it yet using these decades as inspiration.

In these decades, very graphic prints slapped viewers in the face forcing them to recognize its vibrant flair which is found in this hoodie.

The color combinations are endless from a Bob Marley feel of red, yellow and green color scheme to a multicolored pattern inspired from grandma’s woven pot holders.

These hoodies can be matched with a pair of skinny jeans and ankle or calf-length leather combat boots for the fall or winter.

For the spring it can be complemented with a pair of colored shorts and a simple loafer gym shoe design or a pair of strap sandals.

You can purchase one of these hoodies from Positively Fourth Street store, across the street from Old Main, for approximately $20$30 as well as from Hotrags store online.

Kalyn Hayslett is a sophomore journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or kehayslett@eiu.edu.

Review: 'Xenoverse' impresses Dragon Ball Xenoverse is the Dragon Ball game I have been waiting for since I was a kid. A game that captures all the high-speed action of the show and lets the player have a ridiculous amount of fun with it. This game is what every Dragon Ball fan has been waiting for since they first saw the show on Toonami years ago.

The game takes place throughout the Dragon Ball timeline. Time travelers run amuck and start changing things and the player’s character must fix everything. The game allows the player to make a character from one of five races and customize how they look and fight.

The story is fun and while it’s not going to win any awards I think it’s perfectly serviceable for fans of the franchise.

You are given the ability to choose your characters move sets from every single possible attack you could think of in the Dragon Ball universe.

Mace Mackiewicz Verge Reporter The battle system is just fun. The battles are dynamic in that the fights can take place in the air, on land, and in certain maps in the water.

The fights are like something taken straight out of the anime with the player able to teleport behind an enemy and hit them.

The Ki or beam attacks are also satisfying. If you hit another character without them blocking it it’ll sent them reeling across the map.

It’ll be nice if in a future install-

ments these became permanent just so you could see how ridiculously destructive these fights are.

You can also unlock other characters to use in offline and online battle modes as you progress through the story. As well as other alternative versions of those characters.

The main fault of the game, at least at the moment is the online aspect simply isn’t stable, which is actually kind of inexcusable.

As a Dragon Ball fan I recommend this game to other Dragon Ball fans and give it a 7.5 out of 10.

I would have given it an 8 or 8.5 if the online was functioning correctly at least on the PS4. If you know nothing of this series though I recommend staying away unless you want to watch a lot of episodes and movies before jumping in.

Mace Mackiewicz is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or mmmackiwicz@eiu.edu.

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Miles Over Mountains is a four-member high-energy bluegrass band that has toured across the country. Miles Over Mountains will perform at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Macs' Uptowner.

High-energy bluegrass band to play at Uptowner

By Kara Baker Verge Reporter An Illinois bluegrass band will play on Saturday at Macs’ Uptowner., located at 623 Monroe Ave. The show starts at 9:30 p.m.. Cover is $2 and patrons must be at least 21 years old to enter.

Miles Over Mountains has a lot to celebrate. In just their first year together, they’ve played coveted venues, finished their debut CD, and spread their highenergy bluegrass sound from Minnesota to Arkansas.

Mandolin player Sean Shiel called Miles Over Mountains his “most mature and fruitful musical endeavor.”

He talked about the camaraderie among band members Steve Hansen (upright bass), A.J. Knaack (banjo), and Caleb Peters (guitar).

“We like hanging out, spending hours together touring in the van,” Shiel said. “We’ve become better songwriters, and it’s tough to write a good song. We’re really proud of Miles Over Mountains.”

Recently, Miles Over Mountains performed on Blue Plate Special, a nationally syndicated ratio show based in Knoxville, Tenn.

“We were super honored to be a part of it. Some of the greats play on Blue Plate,” Shiel said. Other notable bluegrass acts to share that stage include Trampled by Turtles and Carolina Chocolate Drops.

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Sean Shiel (mandolin), Caleb Peters (guitar), A.J. Knaack (banjo) and Steve Hansen (upright bass) have been playing together for one year.

“The name Miles Over Mountains is semi-descriptive of our music. The implications of travel and the visualization of mountains really jive with bluegrass and Americana music,” Shiel said.

Fans are in for a treat because the band’s debut album “Five Star Heart Breaker” will be available for sale at Saturday’s show ahead of the official CD release.

“Technically, our CD release date is March 20,” Shiel said. “But we’re offering the CD in Charleston because we won’t be back for a while.” Miles Over Mountains posters, stickers and beer coozies will also be available.

Miles Over Mountain is celebrat-

ing its debut album release at Mackey’s Hideout in McHenry, Ill., where the band is from. The CD release party will also mark their 100th show.

At Saturday’s show, Miles Over Mountains will play a “steady mix of original and cover material,” Shiel said.

“We like to write high-energy songs, but we like to bring it down, too. This makes for a dynamic show. We like to flow, to connect with everyone."

“The main goal is to have a good time. The audience can’t have fun if we’re not, so we try to have a blast ourselves," Shiel said.

Shiel said they stay away from covering bluegrass songs. “We cover oth-

er styles and make it bluegrass,” he said.

“Lately, we’ve been doing classic rock— like “Baba O’Riley” by The Who—but redone in bluegrass.”

In November, Miles Over Mountains played a Green Day tribute set, with each song redone in their bluegrass style. Miles Over Mountains has this and nine other live sets available for download at archive.org. Two of these recordings are from their appearances at Illinois music festivals Down on the Farm and Shoe Fest.

With band permission, Lonnie Fitzgerald, sound engineer for Macs’ Uptowner, will upload Saturday’s show to archive.org.

“This is the only bluegrass show of the school year,” Fitzgerald said, who also books shows for Macs’ Uptowner.

“Sean Shiel has been playing Charleston since 2007 as a solo act, but he’ll be putting down his guitar for his mandolin for Miles Over Mountains’s first Uptowner performance,” Fitzgerald said.

Future Macs’ Uptowner shows include a St. Patrick’s Day show on March 17, Overserved Gentlemen on March 28, Copecetic with Todd Hazelrigg on April 4 and Thinner Teed on April 11.

Kara Baker can be reached at 581-2812 or kabaker2@eiu.edu.

'Mousetrap' will catch audience attention, curiosity

By Darronte Matthews Verge Reporter Eastern will go British and bring mystery, mischief and murder to the Doudna Fine Arts Center with the performance of Agatha Christie’s 1952 murder mystery play “The Mousetrap."

The play will be presented for a four-day, four-show run Thursday through Sunday in the theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The world’s longest running play, entering its sixth decade, is directed by visiting teacher and actress, from New York, Marnie Andrews, who says although she did not come in with any expectations, she was very delighted with the outcome of the production.

“I didn’t know what I was com-

ing into, I knew it was a small department,” Andrews said. “But I was very pleased when I got the cast, as good of a cast as it was.”

The play centers around the ever popular whodunnit concept as it follows a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a blizzard. After a murder is committed, the strangers find themselves trying to figure out which one of them is the murderer.

Despite the play having begun in the 1950s, Andrews believes the secret to its continuous success and universal approach lies in the mystery mixed with humor and that is what draws the audience to the show.

“A lot of people love murder mysteries, but it’s also the humor,” Andrews said. “Hopefully when they [the audience] come, they will see a little bit of themselves in one of these char-

acters and they would want to follow the path of that character.”

Not only does the director see that it is the play’s plot twists and surprising ending that captivates a crowd, but also those who worked behind the scenes were able to feel the magnetism of the show’s mystery.

Assistant stage manager Francis Monier, a freshman theatre arts and business manager major, said people should definitely come out and see the play if they enjoy a good thrill.

“The audience will enjoy this show because it’s thrilling,” Monier said.

“It’s a murder mystery with multiple suspects and I think it’s always fun to watch a mysterious show and try to figure out who the murderer is before the ending is revealed.”

Monier also said theater is a form of entertainment needed for every-

one as it tells a story with each story meant to connect with the audience.

This concept of audience connection is a reoccurring opinion that also dwells within the minds of the actors.

Christopher Sanderson, a freshman theatre arts major, said watching this play will show the audience that anything is possible.

“People should come to see the play to see that anyone is capable of acting,” Sanderson said. “You also get to see what the theatre department can produce with the help of a guest director who has an excellent vision for this play.”

Sanderson, who got into acting as a freshman in high school about four years ago, said his first role in the musical “Hairspray” was the starting point for him in acting.

From then on, pursuing theatre

was the path that led him to portraying one of the oddest characters in the Mousetrap.

Sanderson ultimately agreed with the other members of the "Mousetrap" team saying that all those who come to the show will experience the exhilaration and shock that will be left on the stage at the end.

“By seeing 'Mousetrap,' you get to see the excitement and terror of the game of whodunit and learn about these strange and interesting eight characters on stage,” Sanderson said.

Darronte Matthews can be reached at 581-2812 or dqmatthews@eiu.edu.