MAKING HER WAY UP Elaine Richardson, a visiting professor, performs her triumph from prostitute to obtaining a Ph.D. PAGE 3
MUSIC CITY MADNESS The Eastern men’s and women’s basketball teams will be playing in the OVC Tournament Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn. PAGE 8
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Guest puppeteer tugs on heart strings Cashore Marionettes visits Eastern to bring puppets to life By Katie Smith Editor-in-Chief A petite head bent intently around the neck of violin as marionette hands interpreted the hasty tugs of their puppeteer, Joe Cashore. In a hushed auditorium as a tiny body suspended from string took its final bow, what began as a marionette show now more closely resembled a live classical performance. Cashore, who has been in the business of marionette-making and puppeteering for 30 years, performed “Life in Motion,” a 12-act series Monday in the recital hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The first time Cashore’s eyes met the dangling and purposeful joints of a marionette, he knew moving them, even just a little, would give him satisfaction. Unfortunately, Cashore came to this understanding as a 10-year-old boy, and his request to play with the puppet on display at a local store was denied. Just one year later Cashore would compose his own marionette of clothespins, wood, string and a tin can. “ It re a l l y w a s n’t a ve r y g o o d m a r i o nette,” he said. “But every once in a while it would move really well and look like it was alive.” Mike Finney, a Charleston resident, said the performance exceeded any expectations he had, in part because of Cashore’s commitment to the quality of his marionettes. “He has a ver y personal relationship with them,” he said. “I think you’d have to, to make the stor y seem real to
the audience.” A s e n s e o f re a l i s m i s p re c i s e l y w h a t Cashore said attracts him to marionettes. This is why he spends as many as 42 strings and at least six months of crafting, wiring and testing each of his marionettes. Although today he could have studied puppeteering at a public university, Cashore said the quality of a performance relies mainly on creativity. “All the ones I know who are doing really intricate work seem to be doing their own thing,” he said. The puppeteer has hand-made 150 marionettes, and for each, and outfit. A painter, Cashore said the developing process is an important and intimate experience. “I always tr y to feel with the character and it’s a big part – the longer you use marionettes the more the character reveals itself to you,” he said. Cashore said some of the marionettes create themselves along the way, and between their characters and Cashore’s imagination, he has composed a show he hopes speaks about the human condition to some extent. “It’s a metaphor for living,” he said. “ There’s an inherent poetic quality to these marionettes – there’s a very strong illusion.” Bart Rettberg, assistant sports information director at Eastern, said the show’s music took Cashore’s performance to a meaningful place. “It almost brought tears to my eyes because I like hearing Copland and he used a lot of Aaron Copland music, which is great,” he said. Although he may have seemed invisible, the climate of an audience is a factor Cashore is ever-conscious of.
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Joseph Cashore, uses himself as a prop for his marionette to climb up in the Cashore Marionettes at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Tuesday in the Recital Hall. “Quest” was the name of Cashore’s final act.
Grant-in-aid divided up strategically City urges to recruit various students to campus protection of By Luis Martinez Administration Editor | @DEN_News Eastern uses grant-in-aid, funded by student fees, to help recruit certain students and divides it among different departments. Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, said on a yearly basis, the president’s council members meet to look at the funds available, and how much each department will need “Ultimately, with consolation and feedback from others, the president has the final approval,” Nadler said. Grant-in-aid is divided up into the different areas and departments on campus. For example, the fees could be used to help gather talented musician to come to campus, or recruit athletes to come to Eastern. “Traditionally, the largest percentage (of grantin-aid) has gone to athletics, although that number is down over the last several years,” Nadler said. “There’s also an amount of money that goes to low socio-economic students, and that has bumped up over the years.” Aside from Nadler, the president’s council consists of President Bill Perry; Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs; Paul McCann, the interim vice president for business affairs; Bob Martin, the vice president for univer-
sity advancement; Judy Gorrell, the executive secretary; Rob Miller, the legal counsel; and Mary Herrington-Perry, the assistant vice president for enrollment management.
“Traditionally, the largest percentage (of grant-inaid) has gone to athletics, although that number is down over the last several years. There’s also an amount of money that goes to low socio-economic students, and that has bumped up over the years.” - Dan Nadler, vice president of student affairs Grant-in-aid fees do not increase after 12 credit hours, and the students taking traditional, oncampus courses have to pay them.
“Every student pays for it who are taking traditional classes, and it is billed on a per credit-hour basis,” Nadler said. “Based on projection of credit hours that would be generated over the course of the year, then there’s projection on the amount of revenue and then it is split into the different areas.” However, students taking classes in continuing education do not pay the fee. Eastern is currently working on creating online degree programs for students who are unable to come to campus for traditional degree programs. “The students who take continuing ed classes pay a different fee,” Nadler said. “It really helps to cover a lot of the technology that’s needed for offering courses online.” For the other online courses not having a fee, Nadler said it may change in the future, and the council will have to watch it closely. Nadler said every year the figures are reviewed, and grant-in aid receives an increase when the housing rates go up. “What ever percentage housing goes up, it’s tied directly to grant-in aid,” Nadler said. “Presently, the fee is $15.15 per credit hour, and that’s capped at 12 credit hours; for next year the approved amount was an increase of 30 cents per credit hour.” GRANT-IN-AID, page 5
local funds By Cassie Buchman City Editor|@DEN_News
The Charleston City Council voted to approve a resolution urging Gov. Bruce Rauner and the General Assembly to protect the funding of local government fund revenues at its meeting Tuesday. The state collects an income tax from individuals, businesses and corporations. A portion of this income is given to municipalities proportional to its population. Rauner proposed to cut the money set aside for municipalities by 50 percent, which would result in Charleston losing more than $1 million, or 10 percent of the general fund revenue. The amount for other municipalities was 3 percent. “Each municipality is different,” Rennels said. “In our case, we got a pretty good-size hit.” The resolution is going to be sent to the governor and the General Assembly in the hopes of protecting funds so the city does not have to make major cuts in services. CITY COUNCIL, page 5
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By Cassie Buchman City Editor|@DEN_News Katy Nieft said the craziest story she has experienced during her time bartending is when a 50-year-old woman stripped all of her clothes off and tried to go streaking in the bar. “She wasn’t completely drunk, but she had been drinking,” Nieft said. “We had to grab her, tell her to put on all her clothes. We were telling her to stop. Everyone in the place was laughing.” Nieft, a senior biology major and bartender at Mac's Uptowner, said one guy caught the woman and told her to put her clothes back on. After she put her clothes back on, she was told to leave. “She was a good sport about it,” Nieft said. “I’ve never seen her again.” Nieft has her hands full juggling her classes. “It’s stressful sometimes,” she said. “Especially when I close really late, then getting up for class at 9 a.m.” A usual night shift for Nieft starts at 8:30 p.m. and ends at 2 a.m. Two bartenders usually work weekends, and people start coming in around 11 or 11:30 p.m. A lot of the customers are able to get a lot of drinking done in the span of an hour. “I’ve noticed a lot of people are a lot drunker at 1 a.m. than at 2 a.m.,” Nieft said. “I swear, they realize ‘Oh my God, another hour!’ Ever since the bars have been open until 2 a.m., a lot more people have been puking and things like that.” Nieft has been working at the Uptowner for almost two years. She said she decided to become a bartender because she really likes people and wanted to interact with them. “Bartending seemed like a good way to do it,” she said. “I’ve made a lot of friends I wouldn’t normally have.” Nieft’s responsibilities include serving drinks, water for those who need it,
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Katy Nieft, a senior biology major, talks with her customers Tuesday at Mac's Uptowner. “You get regulars in and you start knowing exactly what they order,” Nieft said.
making sure everything is under control and ensuring no underage drinkers are present, and being friendly and nice. “My patience has gone down since being here,” Nieft said. “I get a little on edge from dealing with people who don’t make sense.” She has seen people throw a garbage can and people fall asleep at the bar. “It’s really awkward to wake them up, and be like, ‘Are you okay?’” she said. To deal with problematic customers, Nieft said she starts out by being nice. “If they are about to get sick, I say ‘How about a water first, we have really good water,’” she said. Some of the busiest days at the Uptowner occur when a band is playing. Bands who have played before include Squealer, a cover band that plays rock,
and Bone Jugs and Harmony, that plays jugs and country music. A majority of the customers are right out of college. “A lot of them work a lot, and don’t want to go to someplace with a lot of people,” Nieft said. “They want one on one interaction, where they don’t have to scream.” She said the laid-back atmosphere of the Uptowner could be an aspect that drew them in. The Uptowner also has its share of regular customers that come in. Nieft said she sees them a lot, even outside of work, and has maintained friendly relationships that way. “The girls that work with me, we’re all actually good friends; we go to the gym together, hang out outside of work,”
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Speaker to lecture on Latina body image By T’Nerra Butler Staff Reporter | @DEN_News The Latin American studies program will explore the issues of Latina body image in a lecture called “Brain, Brow, or Bootie?: Contemporary Latinidad In Popular Culture” at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Angharad Valdivia, a media and cinema studies professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is a transnational feminist scholar who studies the culture of Latina women and how they are represented in the media. Valdivia will speak on the topic of body image in her presentation, which is being co-sponsored by the Lat-
in American studies program and the women’s studies program. Linda Scholz, a communications studies professor, said she has been in contact with Valdivia since last year in planning for her to visit Eastern. Scholz said the coordinators strive to give awareness to the assumptions stated regarding Latina and Latino Americans. “It’s also about narrow assumptions that are made up and how Latina women are called exotic,” Scholz said. Scholz said this is not the first time a scholar has come to Eastern exploring the topic of culture, and Valdivia’s presentation is specific to an article she has published. She said a previous speaker came from Yale University to talk about Latin
American issues. “If you’re wondering about the terms ‘bootie, brow and brains,’ she is talking about Jennifer Lopez’s butt, and the brow is a representation of Frida Kahlo,” Scholz said. “She’s talking about these elements, but she’ll provide a critical lens, meaning that she is going to critique popular culture.” Scholz said she is looking forward to a nice crowd of people who will come with an open and positive mindset. She said the event will help to bring the subject of body image and stereotypes to campus, and she hopes for an atmosphere of learning and engagement. Scholz said Valdivia’s lecture would focus on contemporary representations
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Nieft said. “We help each other out, because we all understand what we’re going through.” Nieft said her bartending job has taught her responsibility and how to act in awkward situations. “When getting to know people, it’s important not to just talk to people but to get to know everyone by being really sociable,” she said. To Nieft, being a good bartender means being responsible and hardworking. “You’re on your feet for hours, you have to be patient,” she said. “It’s a fun job, a great job.”
of Jennifer Lopez and Frida Kahlo and how those women are symbols in the Latina community. According to one of Valdivia’s research article on this subject, Latinos are sometimes feminized and fall outside of society’s margins of what is acceptable for femininity and beauty. “We don’t bring that many Latino scholars to campus, so for our Latino students they might be very interested in what she has to say because they might identify with some of the things that she says about stereotypes,” Scholz said. T’Nerra Butler can be reached at 581-2812 or tabutler@eiu.edu.
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By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor |@BertoHodge Life was hard for Elaine Richardson, who was a prostitute in the seventh grade. She was caught in the wrong crowd in her early teens. She was raped and aborted the resulting baby all before she reached high school. Despite the hardships, she earned a Ph.D. and became an educator, eventually writing a book about her life and struggle. “I didn’t know what I was doing throwing my life away,” Richardson said. “I didn’t know what I was saying swearing my life away.” Richardson was the keynote address and performance for this year’s Women’s History and Awareness Month Tuesday evening. Growing up, Richardson was surrounded by music and culture; her mother was Jamaican and her father was a traveling musician who played the trumpet. She said her friends started getting her interested in boys before high school. “Girl, you know what you need? You need a boyfriend,” Richardson’s friend told her. Richardson’s performance was acted out through changing her voices, spoken word, and even placing on a wig to portray a prostitute. She spared no secrets with members of the crowd who were mostly women, speaking on themes of self-doubt, low self-esteem and a desire to be loved. It was not long after she met the boy when he raped her in the room of a party and Richardson found out she was expecting his baby. “His mouth, his tongue was all over my mouth and his hands were going everywhere,” Richardson said. Eventually, her mother found out about her pregnancy months later and she went to have an abortion, but because of how far along she was at the time, the procedure could not be done in Ohio, so she went to New York with her mother. “They came in my room, and they had a long needle, and they stuck it in my stomach, and pretty soon my stomach started hurting real bad,” Richardson said, “Oh my God. I killed somebody. I killed somebody. God please forgive me.” Richardson said between the ages of 13 and 24 she had been with four different pimps. “Pimps play on three things: ignorance, low selfesteem and the desire to be loved, and I had all three in spades,” Richardson said. Richardson met the next boy who later became her first pimp and she began to break her curfew riding with him in his car; she called him a “tennis shoe pimp.” Richardson said he had older women work the streets for him, and little-by-little he taught her how to have sex with him and how she could depend
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on him. “Every time his older woman would take a customer into the ‘trick house,’ I would look out for him,” Richardson said. “Anything he did, I had his back.” Because of the lifestyle this man lived, he ended up behind bars. The older woman informed Richardson her body was just as good as the other woman’s, so she too needed to start working the streets—and she did. Richardson then placed on a wig and broke out in song to Donna Summer’s “Bad Girls,” which was able to narrate part of her experience while prostituting. She said men were buying her and she was making a lot of money doing her job. Richardson ended her relationship with her first pimp after he beat her. “It was hard being a seventh grader and a
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Three newly approved registered student organizations will give more details on their groups to the Student Senate during its meeting Wednesday. The senate approved three new RSOs during its last meeting, including the Longboarding club, Delta Alpha Phi and The Game of Thrones club. Reginald Thedford, the student body president, said the RSOs would come to the senate to give a presentation about their organizations. “They came to Student Government to be approved,” Thedford said. “Now they’re coming to discuss what their RSO is about and give a presentation.” Du r i n g t h e p re s e n t a t i o n , t h e s e n a t e members will look at what the mission statements for the organization are, as well as why the RSOs are important. The presentations will also provide an indepth look into the organizations. The senate will also discuss an upcoming recruitment event called “Bowling With the Senators” that will take place from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday. The event will allow students to meet with the senators on a more social basis as well as express their possible interest in joining Student Government. Senators are encouraged to invite guests who show interest in joining as well. Thedford said he would be giving some updates on the future of “It’s On Us,” which is a national campaign for sexual assault awareness. He said he would introduce the presentation he is working on about how to avoid instances of sexual assault during spring break. Thedford said the presentation would talk about important facts for both male and female students to avoid these types of situations. The senate will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
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Ah, those midterm study breaks Kaycie Brauer
Bursting the campus’ tight bubble Over my time at Eastern, I haven’t been able to help but notice that we are forming a campus bubble cut off from the rest of the world that really isn’t healthy for us. An alarming number of major world events have gone unnoticed for days on our campus. Last year I remember reading about a shooting at Fort Hood where 16 people were injured and another four killed, only to find when I mentioned it to people that they had no idea it had ever even happened. Even reactions to The Ukraine being invaded seemed to hit our campus a bit later than would be expected. I understand that when students finally finish their homework or get back from their other tiring activities, often times the last thing they want to read or watch is the news. However, the same could probably be said for every other American who has a full-time job or is a stay-at-home mom or what-have-you but they still are much more aware than we are. It’s not like people aren’t reading any news at all anymore. People know about Kim Kardashian’s photo shoot or what happened at the Oscar’s almost immediately, even if they didn’t find out first hand from watching or reading about it. Even stories like the one about a car getting smashed in between two tractor-trailers and surviving goes viral. However, it seems more political stories or ones that matter more to the rest of the world than to ourselves directly seem to get pushed to the side of our thoughts, even though in the grand scheme of things they might be more urgent or pressing. We live on a campus or even just in a college world that is devoid of this sort of information. Occasionally a professor might mention a current event in a classroom setting but aside from that we are bombarded more with useless information than information that is necessary for us to becoming knowledgeable global citizens. There’s a McDonald’s by my house back home that has television screens in the eating area and is consistently playing news channels for patrons to watch on mute while they eat. Our campus dining halls, however, force us to be subjected to MTVU 24/7, except of course when the Super Bowl is on. I find it depressing that someone who sweeps up my local McDonald’s for a living is exposed to more relevant news stories than my fellow students and I who are attending and mostly living in an institution dedicated to higher learning. Rectifying our lack of awareness needs to happen on an individual basis as well as community one. We each need to strive to be more in the known personally, and we should be encouraging each other to do so and creating an environment that is conducive for these actions. Kaycie Brauer is a senior English major. She can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com
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Proposed budget cuts should not cause panic Gov. Bruce Rauner proposed cutting an unrealistic amount of funding to higher education, which would affect Eastern by means of a $13.85 million reduction in state appropriations if approved. While this 31.5 percent decrease is absurd in comparison to reductions in recent years, and it certainly warrants anger, frustration and even fear, the Eastern community should hesitate before completely panicking. In fact, people should be sending those sentiments over to legislators and forcing them to become unnerved on their behalf. Aside from appealing to the state themselves, all administrators can do at the end of the day if Eastern doesn’t have enough funding is decide how to trim while still being able to function. Though the budget is supposed to be signed off by the end of May, the legislature will likely continue debating until the next fiscal year nearly begins, especially because Rauner proposed controversial measures like defunding Medicaid and transportation. This means universities have some time to strategize, not to mention Eastern is no stranger to dealing with situations where cutting costs was necessary.
Western Illinois University is mowing over the possibility of cutting 24 programs because it is faced with a potential loss of $16.6 million in state support. In an article in Monday’s edition of The News, President Bill Perry likened this strategy to the program analysis done by Eastern’s Council on University Planning and Budget last year, adding that the analysis concluded no programs warranted being cut because of low enrollment or not generating enough revenue. Instead of cutting programs, the council recommended saving money by means of attrition and restructuring certain areas. Thus, many departments across campus are already feeling the effects of not having enough money. Classes have to be canceled because they do not have enough students or a professor to teach them; the biology building is so behind in repairs that the cadavers started growing mold in September, and enrollment (and thus tuition and fee revenue) has been dropping every single semester for as long as any student on campus can remember. The fact that Eastern had already been prepping to try to save around $7 million before this threat ever sur-
faced is a good thing, in a way, because the university knows how to deal with the situation. The Charleston City Council set a good example on Tuesday by voting to send a resolution to the governor and General Assembly urging them to protect the funding of local government revenues. Other ways to reach out can include simply writing letters and making phone calls to local representatives or to the governor himself. More than likely, Rauner will have to compromise on higher education funding. No university in the state right now can operate with a third of its appropriations cut out. But no matter what, the governor will likely reduce funding by a significant amount in attempt to have a balanced budget, part of the rationale being that universities can generate some of their own revenue with tuition. However, enrollment (to get tuition dollars) is not Eastern’s strong suit, so the more noise Springfield gets in the meanwhile, the better. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
Attendance should be encouraged, not forced Professors need to reassess what a student in higher education is along with their relationship with these students. Professors are not meant to be a parent or guardian holding their hand throughout the course. They are instructors teaching students on a specific subject that will teach the student things they can use when furthering their career beyond the university. This is why I cannot understand why some professors feel the need to add a scoring penalty for not going to class. I have been to many classes, some I believed were taught methodically and intelligently, but this unfortunately cannot be said for all of them. There are some classes where I feel most of the learning is done outside of the class through homework or projects dispersed throughout the semester. Despite this, for some courses, I am forced to attend the class out of fear of being penalized for just missing class. I know I am not the only student who has felt like they were going to class solely for that reason, and not because they feel as if they gaining something from going. My favorite professors have always treated me as a university professor should treat a student. In their eyes, a student is paying to learn, and if they do not feel
Jarad Jarmon like it is important to attend class, it is on them. A key difference between a high school student and a college student that is lost on some professors is that those attending college are paying for their tuition, and therefore their education. If a student feels like they do not need to attend the class to maintain a good grade, they should not be punished for not going. Students should feel like they need to attend class to understand the material, and not to avoid penalties. Just in my college experience, I have noticed classes that have difficult material only understood in class do not have attendance penalties. This is because they do not need them. Those professors teaching those courses understand they need to provide legitimate reasons for attending
class. They arrange the course to make sure the classroom experience is essential to understanding the material. Normally, I noticed they would have in-class assignments or dense lectures to entice students to maintain their attendance. Professors should not be falling back on punishing those who do not attend to keep butts in seats. If students are not going to their classes, there is a larger problem in play. This is not to say attendance should not be encouraged. Faculty should always support attendance and inspire students to keep coming to class. Even though they should not have to, professors should always spur students to come to class. Attendance is important. A Georgia Tech study showed students with higher attendance received higher grades. I do not discount the importance of attendance (for some classes). I just think punishing those who do not go for the sole reason of not going is juvenile. When I see a professor dawn a punishment for not attending, I feel little respect is given from the professor to want to learn. Jarad Jarmon is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com.
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Tarble to show student artwork By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News
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Ramul, one of several marionettes that was in the Cashore Marionettes, prays at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Tuesday in the Recital Hall. Ramul’s prayer began after finding a blue ball in a bag.
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“I like feeling that connection with the audience when everyone is feeling the same thing at the same time in the same place,” he said. “There’s a sensation there.” Although children were present, Cashore does not write his shows to be viewed by a young audience. Topics like homelessness, death and elephant poaching are intended for a more mature audience, he said. “It’s not for toddlers. It’s not the appropriate audience,” he said. “I like to look out there and see mostly
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mature people.” If told he is an artist, he will explain he only tries to perform his best on a level of marionette performance most have never known – one he discovered at a young age. “I was just a kid and I was in a store,” he said. “It just seemed like it had a lot of possibilities.” Katie Smith can be reached at 581-2812 or kesmith2@eiu.edu
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Nadler said all of this dates back to when Eastern had the Board of Governors, a predecessor to the Board of Trustees. “Back in 1982, they created a policy that basically ties the grant-in aid to the rate of the housing increase,” Nadler said. “Generally speaking, that’s why
whether it’s January or whether it’s February, if there is a proposal to increase housing, then we try to do the grant-in aid at the same time.” Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.
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In Monday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News the feature photo on page six should have listed the faculty jazz musician on the left as Brian
Chesi and the member on the right as Sam Fagaly. The News regrets the error
Many Eastern undergraduate student artists will show their work at the Tarble Arts Center this weekend, but only one will persuade the judges and be the one to win. This show will be a competitive exhibit for all undergraduate students and will be displaying all forms of media from painting to ceramics. The show will be from Saturday until March 29. The show is co-sponsored by Eastern’s art department and by Tarble.
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The coordinator of the exhibition is Ann Coddington, an assistant professor in the art department. Michael Watts, the director of Tarble, said a panel of college and university art faculty as well as art professionals from around the area select the art that is going to be displayed. An awards ceremony will follow, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Atrium in Tarble. The awards will be presented at 2:30 p.m. The people who will judge the students’ artwork include Charl i e B u c k l e y, a l a n d s c a p e a n d
cityscape painter from the University of Mississippi; Haley Ahlers, a graphic designer and photographer from the University of Illinois; and Lisa Costello, the gallery director at Parkland College. Watts said the judges already selected the winners of the awards on Tuesday. The list of selected entries for the art show will be posted by 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the art office in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812 or at sewhite2@eiu.edu.
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The council also voted to accept the purchase of a right of way to build a sidewalk on Garfield Avenue that would extend from Eastern’s campus to Walmart. Mayor Larry Rennels said when the sidewalk is built, people will be able to walk all the way from Walmart to Eastern’s campus. “To do this, we need two pieces of right-of-way,” Rennels said. These pieces of property needed are 36 and 42-square feet. They would each cost $300. The property owners have already been contacted and agreed to sell the property, which will be surveyed to see how much can be offered. The sidewalk will be built in spring depending on the weather. A resolution to approve an agreement made with Homefield Energy was passed as well. The current contract expires in October. The city is currently paying 4.798 cents per kilowatt-hour for electrical services.
The city manager and others have been watching the open price and waiting for it to drop below five cents. The new price of electrical services will be 4.793 cents per kilowatt-hour. When this new price opened up, the city manager R. Scott Smith was authorized to make a decision, and accepted the agreement for two years. The council also approved an agreement with ABM Farms, which leases farm property to the city. The property is located by the wastewater treatment plant and is 13.3 million acres. “The property is used to spread sludge, and we don’t want to sell it,” Rennels said. The council voted to renew the lease, which will expire at the end of March. It is a three-year lease from 2015 to 2018. Rennels also brought up Eastern’s international students and a program called Family Friends. “Volunteers will be connected with one international student,” Rennels
said. Gary Henigman, a Charleston resident, had a question about the Homeland Energy Agreement. He asked if it was required for part of the electricity to be powered by renewable energy sources, as dictated by federal guidelines. Smith said the electrical purchase only had to do with municipal buildings, and the federal guidelines were not applicable in this case. Henigman also had questions about this three years ago, when electricity was being talked about for the residents of the city of Charleston. “When entering into purchase agreements, using coal and natural gas is cheaper than hydroelectric and renewable energy,” he said. Henigman also brought up updates on the historic preservation commission. Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.
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Johnston wins OVC Freshman of the Year By Blake Nash Staff Reporter | @Banash5
points per game in conference play. He placed eighth in the top 10, ahead of Murray State senior Jarvis Williams and senior Marshun Newell of Tennessee-Martin. Newell was also named to the OVC’s second team. Anderson also finished in the top 10 in field goal percentage, finishing seventh with a .524 shooting percentage. He finished the season averaging 12.5 points in the last four games for the Panthers, totaling 30 points in the final two games of the season. Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said Anderson makes a lot of plays. “He’s way better now than when he first came here,” he said. “He’ll gradually get more and more confidence and know what he can do. He’ll help us win a lot.” Joining Johnston and Anderson on the all-newcomer team were Tennessee Tech junior Charles Jackson and senior Deville Smith and junior Twymond Howard of UTMartin. Smith also made the all-OVC second team with Anderson and Newell, with that trio being joined by Belmont freshman Evan Bradds and senior Jarekious Bradley of Southeast Missouri. Murray State’s Steve Prohm was named the OVC Coach of the Year for the second time in his career. Prohm led the Racers to an unbeaten OVC season, which hasn’t occurred in almost a decade. The Racers ended the season on a 24-game winning streak, and were rewarded with a double-round bye in this week’s OVC Tournament in Nashville.
Eastern men’s basketball guard Cornell Johnston was named Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year Tuesday. The Ohio Valley Conference released their list of award winners in men’s basketball on Tuesday. First year Eastern forward Trae Anderson and Johnston were both named to the all-newcomer team, with Anderson also being named to the All-OVC second team. Johnston broke the school’s freshman assist record a few weeks ago and said he is not too worried about the accolades. “I try not to pay attention to the numbers or awards,” he said. “I just want to go out there and help our team get a ‘W.’”
“Our offense is great. It puts our players in position to succeed and helps the guards penetrate the basket and our post players.”
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Oroszova gets OVC First Team Johnston finished the regular season averaging 8.7 points per game, including a season-high 22 points in a 65-62 win at Morehead State on Jan. 17. He was also 4-for-4 from three-point range in that victory. His .582 shooting percentage from that range ranks first in the OVC. The five-foot-seven-inch freshman from Ladue, Mo. averaged 34.4 minutes per game this year and played every minute of the Panthers’ last three regular season games. “Our offense is great,” Johnston said. “It puts our players in position to succeed and helps the guards penetrate the basket and our post players.” He finished the season ranked third in the OVC with 74 assists, behind red-shirt senior Reece Chamberlain of Belmont and sophomore Cameron Payne of Murray State, who finished with 91, apiece. Payne was named OVC Player of the Year, after
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Freshman guard Cornell Johnston goes up for a layup in the game against Southeast Missouri on Feb. 22 in Lantz Arena. Johnston was named OVC Men’s Basketball Freshman of the Year on Tuesday.
averaging 20 points and nearly six assists per game. Johnston’s teammate Anderson joined him on the all-newcomer team in his first
season, after transferring to Eastern from Southwestern Illinois College this year. Anderson finished the year ranked in the OVC’s top 10 in scoring, averaging 15.2
Panthers lose 3-straight to Razorbacks By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern baseball team was swept by the University of Arkansas in a 3-game series over the past two days. The Panthers and Razorbacks were scheduled to play Saturday to Monday, but winter weather pushed the series to start on Monday. Eastern lost 4-1 in Game 1, 8-1 in Game 2, and 7-0 in the final game of the series. Red-shirt junior pitcher Matt Wivinis pitched in the first game and let up one earned run in four innings of work but took the loss after the Panthers could not muster anything on offense. Arkansas sophomore pitcher Dominic Taccolini allowed just one run on two hits in six innings pitched. He struck out for Eastern batters as well. Senior pitcher Jacob Stone closed out the game for the Razorbacks. Eastern’s lone run came in the sixth inning on a sacrifice fly by junior infielder Mitch Gasbarro scoring freshman Joseph Duncan. The Panthers opened the scoring in Game 2 on a single to center field by sophomore outfielder Frankie Perrone in the 4th inning, scoring freshman Hunter Morris to take a 1-0 lead. Arkansas tied the game on a home run to left
field by junior infielder Bobby Wernes. The Razorbacks would add three more runs in the fifth inning to take a 4-1 lead. Four more runs would be added by Arkansas in the sixth inning after junior infielder Mark Bernal hit a grand slam to give the Razorbacks an 8-1 lead. Panther senior pitcher Garrison Stenger pitched 4 1/3 innings and allowed four runs, walked five batters and struck out four. He took the loss and is now 0-2 on the season. Eastern senior infielder Dane Sauer said it was great to see the pitchers pitch well in the first two games, especially Wivinis. “Wiv pitched great for us,” he said. “We need that. With him getting healthy and going out and doing pretty well in Game 1, that’s what we need. Stenger pitched well at the beginning too. We just couldn’t get any offense going for them.” The Panthers were shutout in Game 3 and only had two hits. Arkansas got on the board in the first inning with a single to left field by sophomore Andrew Benintendi. Arkansas would tack on two more runs in the next two innings to take a 3-0 lead. Benintendi homered to right-center to give the Razorbacks a 6-0 lead in the bottom of
On the women’s side, Eastern senior forward Sabina Oroszova was named to the OVC women’s basketball first team All-OVC for the first time in her career. She ranks second in the league with 10.1 rebounds per game, while also putting up 16.2 points a game. She is the only player in the league that is averaging a double-double. Also, she is the OVC leader in blocked shots averaging near two blocks per game. In other awards, Tennessee-Martin coach Kevin McMillan won OVC Coach of the Year after leading his Skyhawks team to a 16-0 conference record. Murray State freshman Ke’Shunan James was named the OVC Freshman of the Year. Austin Peay junior Tiasha Gray was named OVC Defensive Player of the Year. Blake Nash can be reached at 581-2812 or banash@eiu.edu.
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the fifth. The Razorbacks added another run in the fifth after junior infielder Max Hogan scored on a wild pitch by Eastern pitcher Ben Hughes. Despite the three losses, Sauer said the three games were better than the outing two weeks ago against Georgia. “We did play better baseball,” he said. “But, we still didn’t play the best we could. It’s tough to get in a rhythm when you haven’t played in two weeks because of weather.” Sauer added this week the Panthers will have to stick to their approach and their roles in order to get back on track after losing sixstraight games. “Although we didn’t score a lot of runs, we did get in several situations to score a lot, which is good,” he said. “Then it comes down to capitalizing on our opportunities. We’re close. It’ll come.” The Panthers are supposed to play Austin Peay in a home series starting Friday, but there is a good chance the game will be canceled due to the winter weather in Charleston.
“Part of it is the job Coach Spoonhour and his staff has done in putting them in position of having success,” Forrester said. “Sometimes when you look at players, you just never know how they’re going to pan out.” Johnston led the OVC in three-point field goal percentage this season shooting 52-percent. Edwardsville senior guard Kris Davis is second on the list shooting 45-percent from beyond the arc. Edwardsville and Eastern are top-five teams in the OVC in terms of three-point field goal percentage. The Panthers lead the conference in scoring defense allowing the fewest amount of points per game in the OVC while holding teams to the lowest field goal percentage in the league. Tennessee State University is the only team that sits above Eastern for three-point field goal percentage defense while Edwardsville is the third best three-point shooting team in the OVC. The Panthers and Cougars tip the game off at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Nashville at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium.
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Eastern was outscored, 45-20, in the second half. McMillan said the 30-point differenThe Eastern women’s basketball team is tial in the first game was not indicative of not overwhelmed over the fact it has to how close of a matchup he thinks Wednesplay top-seeded Tennessee-Martin in the day’s game will be, but he thinks the secfirst round of the Ohio Valley Conference ond game does indicate the parity between tournament. the teams. UT-Martin finished the conference sea“The game at EIU was almost the idenson with a 16-0 record and has the leadtical game,” he said. “EIU didn’t run out ing scorer in the conference in sophoof gas. They kept playing like you would more Ashia Jones in its starting lineup. expect. They have a young team. They Jones is averaging 23 points per game. learned from one game and played well Eastern freshman guard Grace Lennox enough to win the second time.” said her team is unfazed at the fact the Eastern senior forward Sabina Oroszova Skyhawks are undefeated. scored 18 points on 8-of-18 shooting and “Our team wants to win,” she said. corralled 10 rebounds in the last matchup. “We know that if we play like we can for Senior forward Arnisha Thomas scored 16 -Grace Lennox, 40 minutes, we can win the game. We points on 4-of-8 shooting, including 8-offreshman guard have learned from our mistakes from last 10 from the free-throw line. game and worked on improving those arMcMillan said the one thing he took eas during practice.” away from the previous matchup is the The Panthers played the Skyhawks just as well. Panthers have greatly improved since their a week ago and lost, 63-60, at Lantz Are“It is good as we can remember how last matchup. na. they play,” she said. “On the other hand, “Oroszova is the best player in the conEastern coach Debbie Black said with they also got to know us better. Since the ference,” he said. “That is what I took away it being so fresh in her teams’ head and game was only last week, they wouldn’t from it. She does so much for Eastern. that they were one shot away from pull- have changed too greatly, which has en- Also, their young kids have grown up. They ing off the upset, she knows they can play abled us to well prepare for them.” are playing really good.” with the Skyhawks. This is the eighth-straight “Three out of the OVC Tournament appearOVC CHAMPIONSHIP| WOMEN’S BASKETBALL four halves we have ance for the Panthers. They been right there,” played for three-straight EASTERN ILLINOIS she said. “We have OVC titles from 2008-2010. VS. to maintain our This is the third time the UT MARTIN composure and obPanthers will be playing the viously play like Skyhawks and have a 1-1 reit’s our last game, cord against them. The last WEDNESDAY | NOON which it is, unless win came in 2010 in the NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL we win.” semifinals. AUDITORIUM In t h e p re v i o u s Eastern and UT-Martin NO. 8 NO. 1 NASHVILLE game against Tenwill tip-off at noon at the nessee-Martin, the Municipal Auditorium in Skyhawks needed a late 3-point shot by In the first matchup, the Skyhawks de- Nashville. junior Katie Schubert to defeat Eastern. feated the Panthers, 81-51, back on Jan. Lennox also said with the game fresh 21. Skyhawk coach Kevin McMillan said Bob Reynolds can be MORGAN MARTIN | FRESHMAN in their minds, while it could be a good he felt the Panthers ran out of gas with reached at 581-2812 FORWARD thing, it can turn around and hurt them about 10 minutes left in the second half. or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.
“Our team wants to win. We know that if we play like we can for 40 minutes, we can win the game. We have learned from our mistakes from last game and worked on improving those areas during practice.”
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Rematch awaits Eastern in Nashville By Jehad Abbed Assistant Sports Editor | @Jehada The Eastern men’s basketball team matches up with Southern Illinois-Edwardsville for the third time this season in its first round game of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.
“Part of it is the job Coach Spoonhour and his staff has done in putting them in position of having success. Sometimes when you look at players, you just never know how they’re going to pan out.” -Lennox Forrester, SIU-E coach The Panthers and Cougars have an even record against each other on the season, both winning games on their home courts. Eastern came out on top on Jan. 31 beat-
ing Edwardsville 57-54, while the Cougars won the second matchup by 17 points on Feb. 14. Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said his team was beat convincingly by Edwardsville during the second game of its conference series. “If we don’t play any better than we did over there, it will happen again,” he said. The Cougars averaged seven points more than the Panthers in their two-game season
son led the series in scoring with 15.5 points between both games while junior guard Donivine Stewart led the way for the Cougars with an average of 13.5 points in the series. “They have a four-man in Trae Anderson who is just tough,” Forrester said. “You know (he is) hard to handle because of his size, strength and versatility.”
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Belleville in the surrounding area. Forrester said he was able to see those Eastern players a lot during their high school and junior college careers because of the proximity of Edwardsville to St. Louis. He said his impression of the Panthers from that area has changed since seeing what they have done at Eastern.
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series in which Eastern averaged 60 points. Edwardsville coach Lennox Forrester said they were very fortunate in the second game against Eastern, because junior forward Chris Olivier was in his first game back after sickness. Eastern’s junior for ward Trae Ander-
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Anderson leads the Panthers in scoring with 13.1 points per game on 48 percent shooting, while grabbing an average of almost five rebounds. Anderson is from St. Louis along with OVC Freshman of the Year guard Cornell Johnston and senior guard Dylan Chatman who is from
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