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Senator petitions to save higher education funding

By Luis Martinez Administration Editor| @DEN_News Illinois Sen. Scott Bennett started a petition in February to stop a $209 million cut to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2016.

Bennett represents the 52nd district containing the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign.

Rauner’s proposed 31.5 percent budget cut to higher education could lead to higher tuition costs and student fees to help the university make up the difference.

However, Rauner’s proposal came about

a month after the U of I’s board of trustees instated a tuition freeze to help families deal with the rising costs of higher education.

According to a press release, Bennett started a petition in late February to urge the governor to “consider the human cost associated with slashing the university’s budget.”

Bennett took the petition to Gifford, Rantoul, Tilton, Champaign, Georgetown and Danville.

The petition is also available on Bennett’s website, where he states the budget cut could mean a potential spike in tuition costs and fees, larger class sizes and a de-

crease in other resources.

“The University of Illinois is a vital resource not only to our community but for the entire state of Illinois. I’m asking the governor to consider the long-term effects of drastic cuts to higher education funding,” Bennett said in the press release.

“These cuts will result in lost opportunities and students graduating Illinois’ public universities with higher amounts of debt—this is unacceptable.”

Bennett also said the state should be looking for ways to make college affordable for families.

“Education increases opportunities for students and drives our economy,” Bennett

said. “If we want to continue to grow as a state, we need to continue to make investments in opportunities for our children.”

Reena Tandon, a member of the Senate Democrats Caucus Staff, said the senator is more worried about cuts than proposals.

“Each senator fights for resources in the community, for their constituents,” Tandon said.

The petition Bennett started was focused on the University of Illinois since the school falls within his district.

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

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The band The Down-fi sings “You Won’t Like It” to the crowd at the Cavetone Records’ seven-year anniversary concert at the Top of the Roc on Saturday. The Tim Blys band opened the event.

Cavetone Records rocks out for 7-year anniversary

By Cassie Buchman City Editor | @DEN_News Audience members were dancing to the music as they celebrated Cavetone Records’ sevenyear anniversary Friday evening at the Top of the Roc. The Tim Blys was the first band to perform that night, singing both original songs

and covers.

The audience could be seen mouthing the words and got even more excited as The Tim Blys sang pop culture songs such as the theme songs from TV shows “The King of the Hill,” “Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles” and “Batman.”

They sang more personal songs as well, such as one about singer Matt Davis’ friend committing suicide.

“I hope this letter finds you well; I hope this letter finds you,” Davis sang.

Davis also sang another song he said was a true story.

“Last night I dreamed it was the end of the world; I woke up disappointed,” he sang. “Every night could be the end of the world.”

Davis said working with Cavetone Records was a great experience.

“You could take anything away from working with Cavetone Records: delicious baked goods, Scott (Walus, owner) took off his shirt at one point,” he said. “They really wanted to work with us, and were friends of ours. It made the whole thing very pleasant.”

The next band, The Down-Fi, came to Charleston from Indianapolis.

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Community Theatre explores family dysfunction

By Carlita Dixon Staff Reporter | @DEN_News The Tarble Arts Center was packed with members from the Charleston community who were ready to watch the play “Daddy’s Dyin’…Who’s got the Will?” performed by the Charleston Community Theatre Saturday night in the Tarble Arts Center.

Se t i n t h e s u m m e r t i m e o f 1 9 8 6 i n the small town of Lowake, Texas, “Daddy’s Dyin’…Who’s got the Will?” is a play about a father named Buford Turnover who has recently suffered a physically as

well as mentally disabling stroke.

His four adult children arrive at the family’s homestead to spend time with him during his last days.

The family was dysfunctional, with each of them having multiple different and unique personalities.

A lot of chaos and drama took place within the family throughout the play. Two of the sisters got violent during its climax.

The brother Or ville, played by Cor y Knechtges, senior theatre arts major, was also very verbally and physically abusive to his wife Marlene, played by Meghan Kegeris.

“This is my third time coming to see this play. Every family goes through different things and just the feeling of family is a great thing to have.”

- Sherry Walker, audience member

Despite their differences, the family was still able to come together to practice the song they would be singing at his funeral at the end of the play after Buford’s death.

The setting of the play was entirely in the Southern family’s living room. Seating was placed close to the stage to provide a more intimate experience.

There were singing and parts of guitar and piano playing in this play.

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Truth about Mary Lincoln explored

By Mackenzie Freund Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Along with explaining 10 common myths about Mary Lincoln, Eastern graduate Stacy McDermott also addressed the people she called “Mary haters” who have negative ideas about the former first lady on Friday.

McDermott spoke about the research leading up to her biography called “Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern Woman.”

McDermott said she became a research associate at the Lincoln Legal Papers in November of 1996, and she has studied the Lincoln family over the last 19 years.

McDermott is the assistant director and associate editor of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln and, through her research, has made many discoveries about the whole Lincoln family.

“The biggest challenges that I had when starting out was finding some sort of an angle to help me condense Mary’s nearly 64 years of life and not leave out anything that mattered,” McDermott said.

McDermott said even though others had warned her that Mary Lincoln was crazy, she let herself get inside her head so she can have an idea of how Mary saw the world around her.

“Reading Mary Lincoln’s letters not only opened up her real life to me, it also exposed me to some of my own biases,” McDermott said.

When she got to the letters dating between 1868 and 1871, she said she realized she wanted to write a biography of a 19th century woman who was doing the best she could.

McDermott then listed 10 things she wanted her audience to know about Mary, the first being her name.

She said Mary Lincoln was Mary Anne, until her sister Anne was born.

She then became Mary Todd until she married Abraham.

Her second point was that Mary and Abraham saw marriage as more than just economic; they wanted to find a relationship with love and friendship.

McDermott also put a message out to the “Mary haters,” people who give out false ideas about Mary Lincoln, stating Abraham chose Mary because he loved her.

She then talked about how extraordinary Mary’s education was.

“At a time when most women never attended school and those that did only spent about two to five years in school, Mary spent 10 years in two very forward thinking academies in Lexington, Kentucky,” McDermott said.

She said because of the education

Mary received, she was always willing to try new things and she often had a forward way of thinking.

Mary grew up in an educationbased household where she was always encouraged to learn new things.

McDermott said Mary and Abraham spoiled their children with material objects, pets and even birthday parties.

“It was not common to throw birthday parties for children as it is today,” McDermott said. “It was virtually unheard of.”

McDermott said there is some evidence that some historians may diagnose Mary with bipolar disorder and having manic phases along with other physical problems.

She said she believes some of

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ive of, but more often if we were really opposed to something, I might get up and testify on behalf of EIU or for a bill,” Anselment said. “I help coordinate things for when our administrators are coming over or for anyone.”

“What I do especially for Eastern is I am based in Springfield; I am in the Capitol every day when they’re in session.”

- Katie Anselment, Eastern and state legistator liaison During her time at Eastern, Anselment started getting involved with the student government.

“I think I ran for Student Senate at the end of my freshman year, and then in my sophomore year there was a vacancy for the (vice president) for public affairs,” Anselment said. “I got put into that position after a vacancy occurred and then I decided to run for student body president.”

Anselment became student body president during her junior year.

“It was a great time. Eastern has a

good tradition of having a very involved student government,” Anselment said.

“We were mostly involved with tuition and fee type stuff that were very important then, trying to work with the administration on keeping costs down, but also making sure that within that same thing that we were getting the services that we wanted.”

She said she remembers contract issues and a bumpy beginning when the Panther Shuttle was just getting started.

“Those are just some of the things I remember working on in student government; it was a fantastic time,” Anselment said. “I spent probably more time than I should have in the student government office and working on student government stuff.”

During her senior year, Anselment ran for and won the position of the student member of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

“Back then, they had one student who could be a voting member, so I was in that role for my senior year,” Anselment said.

After graduating from Eastern in 2002, Anselment attended a graduate program at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

“When I graduated from Eastern, I had already been accepted as an Illinois legislative staff intern, which is a specific program run through the University of

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the main reasons there are so many “Mary haters” is predominantly sexist, but some historians believe Mary is actually a bad person.

Amy Wywialowski, a graduate history student, said this would be a great opportunity to learn about Mary since she studied Lincoln.

“I thought it was cool how (McDermott) had her 10 points,” Wywialowski said. “This is what you’ve heard, and this is what I want you to know.”

McDermott said after the discussion that she would like “Mary haters” to know she was not a bad person.

Mackenzie Freund can be reached at 581-2812 or mgfreund@eiu.edu.

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Illinois at Springfield,” Anselment said.”

Anselment also said she worked full time as a staffer with one of the four legislative caucuses for an entire year.

“That’s what I went straight to from graduation from EIU, I went to be a legislative staffer and I worked for (the) House Democrats.” Anselment said.

“If you do a decent job and if they like you, they tend to hire you on after your internship and so things worked out for me.”

Anselment said she handled secondary and higher education while she was on staff.

“I handled both of those issue areas for the speaker while I was on staff,” Anselment said.

Anselment said she worked on staff for Madigan for five years and spent another five years as a contract lobbyist.

Currently, Anselment is working on organizing things for the Student Action Team when they arrive on April 15 for lobby day.

“I’ll try and figure out when I can get appointments set up for them and with who,” Anselment said. “I’m the eyes and ears on the ground in Springfield when they’re in session every day for EIU.” Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.

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Theatre shows emotional range in ‘The Lion in Winter’

By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @stephm202 Mixing the drama of three sons fighting to inherit their father’s throne with swift lines of humor and a tense build-up of character conflicts, the Charleston Alley Theatre succeeded to put on a lively rendition of “The Lion in Winter” Friday.

While the theater’s limited set left much of the scenes to the imagination, the actors, especially Duke and Linda Bagger playing the roles of feuding husband and wife King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, brought the story to life with a realistic portrayal of the anger, love and chaos of a complex relationship.

The story itself was sure to have drawn audiences in during this weekend’s performances as well, as it contains universal themes like jealousy and power struggles common in Shakespeare plays and even inspired the TV show “Empire.”

James Goldman’s 1966 play takes place in 1183 and gives a glimpse into the life of King Henry II of England, who considers eloping with his mistress in the hopes of having new sons to offer his kingdom to.

He had four sons with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but the eldest has died, and the three other sons each have disappointed him or lost his trust.

The oldest son Richard (Jeffrey Augenstein) had moments of shifting anger as arguments commenced over which son truly deserves the crown, though the raising of his voice did not seem to convey the exact passion the scenes demanded.

However, his redeeming moment was when Henry lunges at his three sons with a sword threatening to kill them, and Richard matches his father’s attack with an intense, unflinching stare as his brothers cower behind him.

Another moment of strong emotion occurs when Eleanor challenges Henry to kiss his lover, Alias (Rachael Anderson), who was betrothed to marry Richard, so she could observe for herself if they really loved each other.

The short embrace was believable and conveyed a sense of longing and desire.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine, played by Linda Bagger, responds to the news of Richard Lionhearted’s marriage during the play “The Lion in Winter” Friday at the Charleston Alley Theatre.

The most humorous part was when King Phillip of France (Kent Wolf ), who was also Alias’ half-brother, allows the three sons to hide in his room as he questions Henry about his plans for passing on the crown.

Just as he reveals favor for one son or the other, each of them emerge from hiding, and Henry’s obvious frustration is portrayed in a way that was both funny and allowed the audience to better understand his conflict.

Eleanor has great moments as well; for example, she goes back and forth with being compassionate to Henry and enraged with

him, while both are equally convincing.

She also has dynamic interactions with her sons as she attempts to help them escape prison and disputes ensue over whether or not she wanted them to kill their father and how she wasn’t there to care for them like a typical mother.

The development of the king and queen’s relationship is the best part of the play.

While the main conflict seems to be about who will inherit the throne, the resolution is more centered on how the couple comes to terms with how they have failed at life and

their relationship.

The small size of the CAT’s stage limited the scene setting, as small wooden tables and chairs were the majority of the furniture.

However, this could also be seen as a plus, because it allowed the audience to focus in more on the actors themselves, who did a good job of making a classic story engaging with realistic emotions.

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

Music students perform to raise scholarship money Eastern’s wind symphony of 45 students raised money for scholarships during its Gershwin Gala performance Friday night in the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center as more students apply to be a part of the university’s music department each year.

The concert was the beginning of the “Earl Boyd Friends of the Band” scholarship campaign.

The concert hall was almost filled with an audience of all ages to help raise money and listen to the students perform the music of George Gershwin.

Alicia Neal, the director of bands, said it was nice to play in front of such a large crowd while standing on stage.

Neal said the music department does not have the scholarship money allowing the pro-

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gram to give out as much as it would like.

At least 70 new students have applied to be musicians at Eastern for the upcoming year.

The number of students applying is rising while the scholarship money is running out, she said.

“Everything we are doing at this concert is to raise scholarship money for Eastern students,” Neal said. “Every dime from ticket sales goes directly toward the campaign fund.”

She said the program is doing a good job recruiting, which is leading to the highest number of students interested in the music department.

The band has been on tour performing at different high schools, most notably in the St. Louis area.

Neal said between the recruiting and the concert touring, Eastern is making a good name for itself as far as the music department goes.

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The large crowd filling Dvorak saw performances from music instructor Jonathan Bowman on piano and Patricia Poulter, a mezzosoprano vocalist and the dean of the College of Arts at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Bowman is a graduate of Eastman School of Music as well as being an instructor of piano at Eastern.

He led what was the night’s finale performing “Rhapsody in Blue,” recognized as Gershwin’s best-known work.

Neal said the song was a significant reason of why Gershwin’s work was chosen to showcase after the idea came about.

Poulter is a former faculty member as well as a former associate dean in the College of Arts and Humanities at Eastern.

Poulter performed after a brief intermission and sang “Someone to Watch Over Me,” which is a Gershwin tune from 1926.

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The student symphony began the evening with Gershwin’s “An American in Paris.”

The gala featured a medley of songs by Robert Russell Bennett titled “Suite of Old American Dances” from 1949.

Bennett worked with Gershwin’s music as a principal arranger on Broadway.

“Song for Band” by William Bolcom is the only song the wind symphony performed that has no direct Gershwin affiliation.

The music department sold shirts outside the concert hall to raise money on top of the ticket sales.

The final performance for the members of the wind symphony this semester is April 23 in Dvorak Concert Hall as they are joined by the Centralia High School band.

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

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Where has my time gone?

Margorie Clemente

You cannot cheat sleep, even if you try Has anyone ever wondered why they can’t seem to get to sleep at night sometimes? We tell ourselves and others, “I don’t know. I felt like I couldn’t get any sleep, so I just went on YouTube for a while and before I knew it, it was like 5 in the morning.” Or you find yourself spewing the Netflix excuse, the so-and-so-kept-texting-me excuse and then there’s FaceTime.

I know. Sometimes it’s a daunting idea to set your phone on silent or on the “do not disturb” mode, and while we should be making an effort to do it, of course we don’t.

Even forgetting your phone or any other electronic device at home sometimes feels like you’ve left a defenseless, squirming infant at home—unattended and unfed. It’s scary to admit that it truly has gotten that bad.

We get up in the morning, and before even opening our eyes, some of us are already pawing blindly beneath our pillow and around our bedsheets for our phones, tablets and handheld game consoles. The same devices that have caused us serious sleep-deprivation the previous night and in the small hours of the morning just so happen to be the very first thing we reach for as soon as we’re awake.

Why is that?

The hours we spend thumbing through Tumblr, editing our Instagram photos and subscribing to every BuzzFeed channel we can find, we could have spent catching up on our REM cycle.

Why do we insist on sacrificing healthy hours of sleep and suffering the consequences the following day?

One of the most important factors of being successful in college and performing well is getting the necessary hours of sleep you need. And besides, it’s never attractive to show up to class looking like an extra from MJ’s “Thriller.”

In order to fix that, first you have to pinpoint what it is you’re doing wrong in the first place.

Look, bedtime is sleepy-time. I understand that some of you dedicated lovers on FaceTime have trouble parting from your significant other and would rather fall asleep watching them sleep, but it just isn’t helpful.

So I want to help some of you chronic texting sufferers, handheld game console aficionados and FaceTime lovers to kick the habit of staring dully into the little glow coming from your devices.

Try reading if you know you love to read, and I don’t mean on a device—real pages, back to back covers and all.

Try transforming your bedroom solely into a stress-free environment—into a place that’s as unstimulating as possible. Kick those books off of your bed, turn off the lights and make your bedroom a place for relaxation and sleeping.

Always keep cozy pillows around and soft blankets. Maintain your room clean and filled with soothing incenses. Add mellow, relaxing colors around your bed like tones of blue or even pink.

Do with your sleeping environment whatever you will. Make it soft, make it yellow, make it Zen, make it new, make it you.

Oh, and above all things my fellow insomniacs: Don’t you fret because your Facebook, Google, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, YikYak, FaceTime, Vine, Timehop, YouTube and Instagram accounts will all still be there and active in the morning. So turn off the world for a few hours and have sweet dreamZzz… Marge Clemente is a senior English major and can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com.

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Understand racial profiling and its consequences Recently, the University of Minnesota decided not to have the race of suspects included when sharing the alerts with the campus unless that specific description helps identify who the suspect is and where they are located.

By omitting the race of the suspect, the university hopes to stop the stereotypes that make the campus community feel uncomfortable and hostile toward people of color.

The Charleston Police Department and University Police Department both said they would most likely never implement this policy. To them, race is a big identifier of the suspects and too important to leave out. They did also mention that to them it does not matter what the race is, what matters is that the “bad people” are caught.

When trying to find someone, the biggest things to look for are their specific physical characteristics because they can then be easily be picked out of a crowd or when trying to reference someone or

something to another, one relies heavily on the details so others can imagine what is being explained to them.

By negating race when trying to describe suspects, possibly criminals that need to be found right away, a big description factor is missing that can lead to the search taking longer than needed, and the suspect’s getting farther away. As they keep moving, people’s safety could be at risk.

However, the University of Minnesota did have a point when they explained their reasoning for leaving out race. Many times, people of different races feel as though they are being racially profiled particularly when the police are sending out crime notifications.

Officers do not want others to feel that they are being stereotyped or targeted because of their race.

It is even worse when race is mentioned in the police blotters and notifications because people of color feel like they are will be generalized, grouped

as malicious individuals and blamed because of their skin color. There is still too much racial tension and stereotyping in a country.

If the person is already caught, then details like race can be eliminated because they no longer hold any importance in identifying a suspect.

Nevertheless, when the police are still out searching for someone, race is an important identifier to find the suspect. Even so, the process of describing a suspect, particularly when race is part of that description, needs to be universal.

If a police department releases a crime alert identifying a suspect as a Hispanic male, they should not later release an alert describing a Caucasian suspect by just his or her height and clothing.

When including race in a crime alert, race needs to be an important specificity, not a way of perpetuating harmful stereotypes.

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

Safety first, remember to always have a peephole It’s that time of year again when students go out in droves looking for suitable off-campus housing and while everyone is out finding a new place, I am confronted with evaluating my own current living situation.

I live in a nice, fairly new apartment which is further off campus than most students consider, but I have tolerable neighbors, a washer and drier and an affordable rent. There are very few things that I really wish I could change about it on the whole, but that being said, I do have one piece of advice for all of you doing some house hunting: choose a place with a peephole.

This may not sound super important, but trust me, I am currently living in one which does not have this wonderful invention that the more fortunate take for granted and there have been many occasions that I wish I had one.

If your apartment is like mine where your door is outside or directly in front of the parking lot, where potentially creepy people don’t even have to work

Kaycie Brauer hard enough to get inside of a building to walk up to your apartment door, you need a peephole.

Furthermore, if you live in an apartment also like mine, across the street from a trailer park with the all too fitting name “Shady Point” then you especially want a peephole.

There have been multiple times that I have opened the door for people that I wish I had not, expecting them to be people that I would gladly open a door for.

When I first was looking at places

with my roommate, we were concerned with security, however it never occurred to us to check and make sure the apartment we were putting a deposit on featured a peephole.

Because of this oversight, I have opened the door to my fair share of solicitors and on a scarier note, I recently found myself opening the door to a drugged out teenager looking for money and standing out on my porch, knocking on the door for approximately 20 minutes straight.

You don’t know fear until you realize that you are a small, relatively unarmed girl, sitting in an apartment with easily penetrable windows, having it dawn on you that next time it might not be a stupid kid with a habit just trying to drum up some cash, but it very well could be a more imposing threat.

So here is my PSA for the day: make safety a priority. Get a peephole.

Kaycie Brauer is a senior English najor and can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com.

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The audience responded to the play with laughter at several moments; during some of the more emotional scenes of the play, some of the audience was crying.

Audience member Sherry Walker has seen the play multiple times. “ This is my third time coming to see this play. Every family goes through different things and just the feeling of family is a great thing to have,” Walker said.

Sara Gronstal, a communication studies professor, said she enjoyed Mama Wheelis’ acting.

The cast members connected with their characters throughout the play.

Tanille Yow Ulm, who played the youngest sibling Evalita Turnover, said she could relate to her character.

“I think that there is a little bit of Evalita in everybody that just wants to come out,” Ulm said.

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Kegeris, who played Marlene, s ai d s h e ha d a n a ma z in g t i me working with all of the other actors and also enjoyed her character in the play.

“She was a little spit fire,” Kegeris said.

Director Richard Jones Jr. said his vision for this play was for it to be relatable.

He said he really wanted to show the interesting family dynam ics and to allow the humor of this family to also show.

Jones said he sees different aspects and characteristics of these characters in his own family and community.

“I’m actually from the South and so I grew up with these types of people,” Jones said.

Carlita Dixon can be reached at 581-2812 or cbdixon@eiu.edu.

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The group played some original songs, including “You Won’t Like It” and “Everything Now.” The band played a song from singer Craig Willis Bell’s former band Rocket From the Tombs.

The members of The DownFi were different than usual, as its drummer of seven years, Blane Slaven, left after the birth of his second child.

In his place was Phillip Kitchel on the drums.

“Phil and I worked together before, and we learned he was available,” Bell said.

Bell said it was great to be part of the scene in Charleston.

“People are not here to see or be seen. It’s what rock ‘n’ roll is about,” he said.

Cedar Plank Salmon, a self-described “echoey noise pop” band, played to a packed room after The Down-Fi. The band members got louder and more intense as their set went on, with the guitarist even attempting to smash his guitar on the stage.

The Ex-Bombers took a more mellow approach, playing what bass player and singer Scott Walus called

“dirt bag spy jazz.”

“We now know that Charleston is the dirt bag spy jazz capital of the world,” Walus said.

The Ex-Bombers announced a record coming out in May. “Clap your hands, clap your hands, that’s not punk rock,” Walus sang.

Keri Cousins, the drummer and singer from the Ex-Bombers and cofounder of Cavetone Records, said she did not originally expect Cavetone to have as many records.

“I’m happy we have so many releases,” she said. “Vinyl is slowly but

surely getting bigger.”

The last two bands of the night, Wild Cat Daddies and Pat Boone’s Farm, both reunited at the anniversary concert.

Steve Andsager of the Wild Cat Daddies said the group reunited because Walus asked them to.

“Everything was perfect,” Andsager said. “It was just like deja-vu. We just had a lot of fun playing together.”

He said all of the members had family, which led to the band not being able to play together.

Pat Boone’s Farm closed out the night playing songs from when the

band was still together.

Jessica Thornton, a senior biology major, said she loved Free Music Fridays.

“I love to support local bands,” she said.

She said she had gotten to know Walus and Cousins of Cavetone Records.

“They do a lot of cool things,” Thornton said. “Offering free music is just one of them.”

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Freshman pitcher Joseph Duncan narrowly makes it to first base during the Panthers’ 18-7 loss to Murray State Saturday at Coaches Stadium. Duncan had one run on two hits during four at bats during the game. Murray State beat the Panthers in Sunday’s doubleheader, 8-4 and 8-2. The Panthers are 0-9 in the OVC and 0-20 overall.

Baseball team swept by Murray State

By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern men’s baseball team fell to 0-20 on the season after it was swept by Murray State over the weekend.

The Panthers were never able to take the lead in the first game on Sunday in the second game of the Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader at Coaches Stadium.

Eastern lost 18-7, 8-4 and 8-2 in the three-game series.

The Panthers are now 0-9 in the OVC. Murray State improved to 1117 overall and 7-5 in the conference.

Eastern coach Jimmy Schmitz said the team is not finding ways to win. “ We are just not putting together the different phases of the game,” he said. “In the second game (Sunday) we took the lead and committed an error and gave it back to them. When you are 0-20, everyone is fragile. (Saturday) we didn’t pitch in the opener.

In game one (Sunday), we didn’t hit, and in the second game we didn’t play defense.”

Senior starting pitcher Garrison Stenger gave up nine earned runs in the first game Saturday in the first inning.

Stenger was pulled after 2/3.

All nine runs came with two outs.

Stenger struck out the first batter then senior John Devito threw out Racer red-shirt sophomore Matthew Johnson trying to steal second.

The next nine racer hitters reached base with three walks and seven hits.

“We are just not putting together the different phases of the game. In the second game. (Sunday) we took the lead and committed an error and gave it back to them. When you are 0-20, everyone is fragile.”

-Jimmy Schmitz, Eastern head coach Freshman Kipp Moore hit a 2-run homer to push the lead to 6-0 in the top of the first inning.

Johnson hit a homer his second time around in the first to give the

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18-7 8-4 8-2 Racers a 9-0 lead.

The Panthers were able to add a couple of runs in the first inning as senior Brant Valach had an RBI double.

Valach finished the first game going 3-for-5 with a home run.

Junior Jason Scholl added an RBI single to right field to cut the lead to 9-4.

Murray State would add two more home runs in the second inning as senior Anthony Bayus and junior Nick Moore added a solo shot and a 3-run home run, respectively.

Senior Andrew Grahn pitched three scoreless innings for one of the lone bright spots in game one.

Game two and game three were no different for the Panthers as the pitching staff gave up a combined 16 runs in two games.

Racer junior pitcher Brad Boegel went the distance for Murray State and allowed two earned runs, four total, on eight hits and struck out four Panther batters.

Schmitz said Boegel located his pitches well.

“He threw fastballs away and mixed a little bit in,” he said.

“That is what people are doing this year; they are mixing in and out, which we are not at all. It is pretty simple stuff.”

T h e Pa n t h e r s h a d a p r i m e chance to break the game wide open in the bottom of the fifth inning after freshman Joe Duncan, freshman Cale Hennemann and senior Caleb Howell all singled to start the inning.

Valach hit a sacrifice fly to right field to tie the game at four.

Red-shirt junior Demetre Taylor flied out to right field and senior Adam Casson grounded out to the pitcher to end the inning.

The Panthers did not threaten to score the rest of the game.

Junior pitcher Jake Johansmeier took the loss for the Panthers.

He finished the game going 7 1/3 innings pitched, allowing six earned runs on 10 hits.

Eastern took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first in game three after Howell had an RBI double and Taylor added a sacrifice fly.

The Panthers committed two errors in the top of the second that proved to be costly.

Nick Moore hit a two-run single to right field to give the Racers the lead.

M a t t h e w s a n d Ni c k Mo o r e drove in runs in the seventh inning to push the Racer lead to 8-2.

Red-shirt junior pitcher Matt Wivinis took the loss as he pitched four innings and allowed three earned runs, six total, on four walks and struck out three batters.

D u n c a n a n d Va l a c h w e n t a c o m b i n e d 1 1 - f o r - 2 3 ov e r t h e weekend, and Schmitz was pleased with those two at the plate.

“I thought that was a big weekend for (Duncan),” he said. “I think Brant had a big game (Saturday) and (Sunday) had the big hit. We have to find someone behind Brant. With Brant, Howell and Demetre it seems like one has a good game and the other two don’t have a good games.”

The Panthers will take on Illinois State at Coaches Stadium Tuesday at 3 p.m.

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

Panthers shutout Redhawks, beat UT-Martin

By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern women’s tennis team had a shutout and a comefrom-behind victor y in its two matches over the weekend.

The Panthers defeated TennesseeMartin, 4-3, Friday in Martin, Tenn.

Eastern shutout Southeast Missouri Sunday, 7-0.

After losing the doubles point, Eastern won 4-of-6 singles matches against the Skyhawks Friday.

The Skyhawks opened the match earning three quick wins in double play.

Tennessee-Martin duo of sophomores Hitomi Naito and Burcu Tari

defeated the Eastern duo of freshman Grace Summers and sophomore Sephora Boulbahaiem, 8-2.

Eastern juniors Ali Foster and Hannah Kimbrough lost, 8-4, to Skyhawk sophomore Sarah Candeloro and freshman Elina Geut.

T h e m a t c h b e t we e n E a s t e r n sophomores Kelly Iden and Kamile Stadalninkaite and Skyhawk senior Jessica Silva and sophomore Tamara Klimek was at 6-4 before it went unfinished.

Eastern tied the match at one after Stadalninkaite defeated Skyhawk junior Florence Nicole in straight sets 6-0, 6-0.

The Skyhawks took a 2-1 lead after Geut defeated Boulbahaiem

6-3, 6-4.

Kimbrough defeated Silva 7-5, 6-1, in the No. 5 singles match to tie the match for Eastern.

Eastern won two out of three matches to give them the victory.

Ali Foster got back on track with a victory after she defeated Candeloro 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Also, Iden defeated Naito 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.

Summers lost to Tari 6-3, 4-6, 10-8 in the No. 3 singles match.

The Panthers picked up nine match wins in Sunday’s match against Southeast Missouri, including six in singles matches and winning all three doubles matches.

Iden defeated Redhawk freshman Mariya Kostyuk in straight

sets 6-1, 6-3.

Foster picked up her second win in a row by defeating Redhawk freshman Kateryna Stoianova in straight sets 6-2, 6-0.

Boulbahaiem got back on the board after losing Friday by defeating Redhawk freshman Viviana Ortiz.

Summers, Kimbrough and Stadalninkaite finished the singles matches with wins over their opponents.

Summers defeated Southeast Missouri freshman Maria Montenegro 6-3, 6-7, and 10-7, and hers was the only match that went to a tiebreaker.

The Panthers were successful in

doubles matches as well.

The match between Summers and Boulbahaiem and Kostyuk and Ortiz went unfinished after the Panther duo was winning, 6-5.

Foster and Kimbrough picked u p a v i c t o r y, a s d i d Id e n a n d Stadalninkaite.

The Panthers are now 5-1 in conference, and 10-4 overall and in second place in the conference.

Eastern will be back in action Saturday at Jacksonville State at 11 a.m. in Jacksonville, Ala. Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.

@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: FINAL: @EiuSoftball defeats Murray State 7-6. Panthers win the series and will go for the sweep tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Williams Field.

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Freshman pitcher Michelle Rogers pitches during the first game in a doubleheader against Murray State on Sunday at Williams Field. The Panthers swept the doubleheader, 3-1 and 7-6. The Panthers play Murray State on Monday at 2 p.m. at home.

Panthers come back to earn series win

By Sean Hastings Staff Reporter | @Den_Sports The Eastern softball team won 7-6 in the second game of a doubleheader after scoring seven unanswered runs in the final two innings.

Junior April Markowski was hit by a pitch, which forced in a run to tie the game at six, then senior Bailey O’ Dell hit a sacrifice fly to right field scoring the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth.

The Panthers were down, 6-0, in the third inning when the game went into a 45- minute rain delay.

The teams came back out and the score remained the same after the fourth inning.

The Panthers started their comeback in the fifth.

During the rain delay, coach Angie Nicholson just wanted the team to stay loose and not focus too

much about the game.

Sophomore Ashlynne Paul started the sixth inning with a single, and junior Katie Watson and junior Kylie Bennett followed behind with two more singles.

Junior Haylee Beck came up with the bases loaded and singled up the middle to score Paul to put the Panthers within one run.

Bennett struggled in the first game, but she started a four-run rally in the fifth with a single.

Despite the struggles in the first game, Bennett was able to refocus and come through in the second game.

“Every at-bat is a new one,” Bennett said. “I try to never let other at-bats influence then next. When I started it, it felt so good to finally pull through for my team.”

Freshman Taylor Monahan, who pinch ran for Bennett, would eventually score on a double by O’Dell

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3-1 7-6 that also scored Markowski.

Senior Hannah Cole kept the scoring going with a single to center that scored O’Dell and junior Jennette Isaac.

Cole was thrown out at second.

Before all of the scoring by the Panthers, Markowski made a key play in the field throwing out the leadoff hitter at second.

“I feel like throwing that girl out at second was very important,” Markowski said. “Every girl on base is a possible run so to get her out felt amazing, and it got me really hyped and the team.”

Nicholson was happy with how the Panthers fought through the game.

“It speaks a lot that we had people contributing from one to nine,” Nicholson said. “That is just what we needed.”

Freshman Michelle Rogers got her second win on the day after coming in on relief for freshman Jessica Wireman, who started the game but was pulled after giving up four runs in two innings.

Freshman Tori Johnson pitched one inning, allowing two runs, both unearned.

Game one was a close game all the way through.

The Panthers won the game, 3-1.

Eastern got the first two runs of the game in the 3rd inning.

Freshman Andrea Roberts got the scoring started driving in Isaac on a single and advancing O’Dell to third.

O’Dell scored what would be the winning run on a Watson walk.

The Panthers added one insurance run in the fifth when Beck drove in Roberts on a single.

Rogers got the win after allowing one run on six hits and striking out two in five innings of work.

Wireman got the two-inning save.

The Panthers will go for the sweep of Murray State on Monday at 2 p.m.

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

Eastern track, field teams take 2nd place at classic

By Mark Shanahan Staff Reporter | @DEN_Sports Eastern men and women’s track teams opened up the outdoor season with 13 first-place finishes at the Bill Cornell Spring Classic at Southern Illinois. Both teams finished second in team scoring.

Red-shirt junior Norvel Mohammed and red-shirt senior Danny Trevor each had two first-place finishes.

Tre v o r c a m e i n f i r s t i n t h e 110-meter and 400 hurdle events.

His time in the 110 was 14.75 seconds and 53.58 seconds in the 400-meter hurdle.

Trevor also ran the first leg of the 4x400 relay team that earned a time of 3:17.54.

Teammates for the relay were freshman Michael Brown, junior Mark Pedziwiatr and freshman Christopher Orlow.

Mohammed won in the 200-meter and the 400-meter sprints with times of 21.02 seconds and 47.95 seconds.

His time of 21.02 in the 200 places him 9th on the Eastern career list.

The men’s 4x100 relay team placed first with a time of 40.76 seconds.

Sophomore Johnathan Boey, junior Calvin Edwards, sophomore Jamal Robinson and junior Christian

Ilunga-Matthiesen ran for that team.

Boey edged out Ilunga-Matthiesen in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.62 seconds.

The men took the first five spots in the 100 meter.

Robinson was third; freshmen Davion McManis and Zach Booth were fourth and fifth.

Senior Ephraim Dorsey, red-shirt junior Joe Calio and senior David Johansson were the other men to earn first-place finishes.

Dorsey won the 800 with a time of 1:55.15, Calio won the steeplechase with a time of 9:17.22 seconds and Johansson won the javelin with a throw of 188’03.”

For the women, freshman Nyjah Lane was the lone first-place finisher in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.13 seconds.

Lane also ran as the anchor of the 4x100 relay team, which featured teammates junior Angelica Anyaogu, junior Briana Walker and sophomore Anita Saffa.

They had a time of 47.13 seconds.

The 4x400 relay team, which included juniors Amina Jackson, Kristen Paris, Amy Yeoman and Dhiaa Dean took first place with a time of 3:54.69 seconds.

In field events, freshman Haleigh Knapp and Jackie Jones tied for second in the high jump clearing 5’05.”

Anyaogu took second in the long jump at 17’3.50.”

Walker was also second in the 100 with her time of 11:35.04.

Sophomore Ivy Handley took second in the steeplechase with her time of 11:35.04.

Pa r i s f i n i s h e d t h i r d i n t h e 1500-meter run and junior Annemarie Reid also finished third in the pole vault.

Eastern is back in action with the Big Blue Classic April 2-4 at O’Brien Field.

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