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FLEXIN’ TO THE FINISH A total of 22 participants competed for
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Athletic budget specifics expanded By Luis Martinez Administration Editor| @DEN_News Eastern has been experiencing a lack of revenue over the years, mainly due to the enrollment decline. As a result, many areas have sustained losses in funding for their departments. Recently, many faculty members have questioned the athletics budget when it was reported that the athletic department spending resulted in a $1 million deficit. Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, said Eastern has experienced significant revenue loss because of the lack of enrollment. “Most recently, not unlike a lot of areas throughout the university, there’s been a shortfall of revenue, and that basically has been primarily because enrollment has gone done significantly in a short period of time,” Nadler said. Nadler said this past year athletics had its own shortfall of revenue, which resulted in the $1 million deficit. “What I have been doing is going around and trying to share some numbers and circumstances and situations with various groups,” Nadler said. “I’ve presented to the Faculty Senate. I’ve presented to Student Senate. I’ve presented to CUPB. I’ve presented to the Board of Trustees.” Nadler said Eastern has 452 student-athletes and they generate close to $3.8 million in tuition revenue on a yearly basis, which then goes into the university’s income fund. “From the income fund, athletics receives an annual allocation of $1.8 million,” Nadler said. Nadler also said subtracting the $1.8 million from the $3.8 million will result in a tuition revenue contribution of $2.8 million. Jonathan Blitz, a chemistry professor, said one of the problems with the athletics budget is the $3.8 million calculation is highly inflated. Blitz also said while $3.8 million is the true number, Nadler should not be counting on the assumption that the entire amount will be received. “What he’s assuming is all these 452 would leave and there would be no tuition revenue generated if they weren’t student athletes,” Blitz said. Blitz said this equates the students paying tuition with them being athletes. “The assumption that he makes in this number is that every one of these students would not attend EIU if they weren’t participating in athletics,” Blitz said. “That’s how he comes up with that number, that’s the implicate assumption.” Blitz also said Nadler did not include the amount of student fees that goes toward athletics. “This past year, there was a million-dollar shortfall,” Nadler said. “Basically, student athletes contributed about $900,000 to the income fund.” Blitz said the statement about student athletics generating $1 million is true. “The claim that student athletes generate $1.8 million in tuition factually correct,” Blitz said. “However, much if not most that is subsidized by student fee money in the form of grant-in aid scholarships go to support student athletes.” Blitz said Nadler acknowledges $2 million is provided from state appropriations, but he does not acknowledge as student fees as income.
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Greta Dieter, a sophomore political science major, gives tours of Andrews Hall to admitted students and their families on Saturday.
Admitted students tour campus By Cassie Buchman City Editor| @DEN_News Many prospective students and parents could be seen walking through campus, going on tours and attending different programs at Eastern’s Admitted Student Day on Saturday. Danish Mohiudden, an admitted student from Park Ridge, said he was really tired after the threehour drive to Eastern. He said he decided to apply to Eastern because he thought he could get in, and it was somewhat far away from where he lives. Finding out about housing, classes and the faculty-to-student ratio were especially important to Mohuidden. “Some friends said it was a good college,” he
said. “I’m just trying to see how it is.” Afrian Ali, from Norwood Park, also thought the distance was an important factor in choosing where to go. “I wanted to be away from all the distractions of home,” he said. Programs for prospective students included financial aid counseling, a “classroom experience,” where they could see what classes were like, an academic fair and a student involvement fair. At the academic fair, students like Conner Land, from Paris, Ill., were able to get information about their potential majors, which in his case was art. He said the people were helpful and answered a few questions he had. Eastern was the only school he applied to.
“I knew I wanted to go here,” Land said. Land said he wanted to go into video game designing, and Eastern had a good graphic design program. Amijah Collins, from Swansea, was also able to talk to people about her nursing major. “I talked to the biology department, the Lakeview College of Nursing,” she said. Her grandmother, Phyllis Goss, said her granddaughter wanted to become a nurse after seeing her grandfather in the hospital with cancer. “He was in the cancer department, and when she was a little girl she was always with us,” she said. Goss said she was looking for a school for Collins where she would be successful. ADMITTED, page 5
Glassman to face Eastern’s challenges By Luis Martinez Administration Editor | @DEN_News With David Glassman set to fill the president’s seat on June 1, many are anticipating how he will deal with two issues facing Eastern: low enrollment and decreasing state appropriations. Glassman said he is anxious and ready to get started. “Eastern is not unique in enrollment decline,” he said. “What I hope to do is develop a plan to move forward.” Glassman said he thinks the proposed 31.5 percent cut to higher education in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget should be discussed among all the public institution presidents. “I want for all presidents to come together and have a uniformed voice,” Glassman said. “I’m going to be a strong advocate and talk with our legislators, administrators and the media.” Paul Schroeder, the vice president for enrollment management at Bradley University, has worked with Glassman for two and a half years. Glassman is currently the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bradley. “I have seen him in the position of provost be
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David Glassman, the newly elected president of Eastern, answers questions at a press conference in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union March 2 in the University Ballroom. Glassman will begin his presidency in the summer of 2015.
able to work with the deans, with the faculty, work very closely with the president, worked with myself in terms of enrollment management issues,” Schroeder said. “And I believe he has a broad knowledge base on which to deal with the challenges that colleges and universities face today.”
He said Glassman has encouraged deans and faculty to support enrollment management efforts and examined academic programs to make them more “robust and attractive” to incoming students. Schroeder said both private and public universities are having enrollment issues, especially in the Midwest with the declining number of students graduating high school, and both types are facing less state appropriations in Illinois. “Consequently with dwindling resources, they are going to have to think a little bit more like a private institution in terms of how to attract students to the university,” Schroeder said. Glassman said he plans on showcasing what an Eastern education looks like and talking to different areas on campus including admissions to examine ways to bring in more students. Glassman also said social media is important when it comes to attracting students to the university. Jason Blumenthal, the student body president at Bradley, said Glassman is a leader who wants to hear others’ opinions, and he often looks specifically at national trends for other universities.
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Students awarded scholarships for artwork By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News Students were collectively presented with nearly $19,000 in scholarships for their artwork Sunday at the 33rd annual undergraduate show at the Tarble Arts Center. The exhibit will display the winners’ artwork and will be open to the public until March 29. During the ceremony, students were given scholarships chosen by art faculty, and awards were presented to the students whom the jurors picked out. The jurors for the art show were Charlie Buckley, a landscape-cityscape painter; Haley Ahlers, a graphic designer and photographer; and Lisa Costello, the gallery director at Parkland College. David Griffin, the art department chair, presented the awards. The best in show of the 2015 undergraduate art show was Ashlynn Frey for her painting called “Windows.” Seven students won honorable mentions and 10 students won merit awards in their respected fields. “I am pleased to say that the art department will present just shy of $19,000 in scholarship award money today,” Griffin said. He said the reason the amount is high is because of donors, alumni and the department fundraising that goes
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on throughout the school year. The first awards presented were the departmental awards. “These awards recognize the academic and creative accomplishments for our students,” Griffin said. Different categories were in place for the departmental awards. For the first one, the Outstanding Senior Area awards, eight students won the award in their respec-
tive fields. This year a new award was created out of the contributions from the art foundations faculty. “The award recognizes the outstanding achievements of the freshmen in the foundation area,” Griffin said. Three first-year art students were presented with the award. Alexandra Sager, a senior graphic design major, won the Susan Stevens
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Earl Boyce, a senior art major, talks about art at the All-Student Show Awards Reception Sunday at the Tarble Arts Center. Boyce won five awards for his five pieces contributed to the show.
well as she could do it.” Sandra Rives was the “first lady” when Mills first came to Charleston in 1985. “I was impressed with her smarts, her wit and her tenacity related to fairness for women on campus,” Mills said in a commemorative Facebook post. Sandra Rives was an advocate for better local women’s health care. She helped in establishing the Women’s Resource Center in its original location in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. “Sandy was instrumental in helping to establish the Women’s Resource Center,” Mills said. She also fought against domestic violence and founded the Women’s Expo, which was a long day of conferences for the community and university. Sandra Rives organized the campaign for Normal’s first female mayor, Carol Reitan, who served from 1972 to 1976. She also organized the International Women’s Year conference at Illinois State University with an all women’s consulting firm she co-founded called CAMCO, Inc. Sandra Rives worked as a faculty member at Northwestern University and
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the University of Hawaii. She was recognized with many honors for her work, including a gold medal given to her by a public relations organization for her volunteer work. She was one of only four people in the United States to receive one that year. She was also name a Woman of Achievement by the Women's Studies Council at Eastern. Susan Kaufman was a journalism faculty member who became good friends with Sandra Rives. She said Sandra Rives worked with and supported women on campus and throughout the area, and she understood how women could become isolated in rural areas. “She knew it was important to bring women to campus,” Kaufman said. “She was a champion of that.” Kaufman also remembers a more personal and personable side to Sandra Rives. “She had a fantastic sense of humor,” Kaufman said. “She was a private person, very focused.” Sandra Rives was born in Warrensburg, Mo. on Sept. 17, 1935. “She grew up right on the Mississippi River, just across from St. Louis,”
Kaufman said. “She came from a working-class background.” It was because of this working-class background that Rives was able to understand how women’s lives in rural areas can be hard and isolating. Another influence in Sandra Rives’ life that caused her to become an advocate for women’s causes and domestic violence was the death of her close friend Carol Specht, who was murdered in 1983 in her Mattoon home. “It had a profound impact on her,” Kaufman said. Sandra Rives served on committees on domestic violence and was a president of the Coles County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which was not typical for women of her time. “Women just didn’t do stuff like that then, especially stay-at-home moms,” Jackie Rives said. In memory of Sandra Rives, it has been asked that donations be made in her honor to the Women’s Studies Program or the EIU Foundation. Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.
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The five finalists for the Mr. EIU competition pose for the judges in the last round of the competition Saturday in McAfee Gym. One individual from each weight-class was elected by the judges to participate in the final round.
Students flex for fitness titles By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News Many months of strict diets and workout plans all led up to the Mr. EIU, Ms. Fitness and Ms. Physique bodybuilding competition Saturday in McAfee Gym. The competition included 13 men for the title of Mr. EIU, three women for Ms. Fitness and six women for Ms. Physique. The winner of the Ms. Fitness competition was Kelsie Abolt, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major. This was the first year Abolt participated. Samantha Petrarca and Christina DeMuro also competed in this section. The three contestants performed personal routines and group symmetry. The judges were Chad Graham, Shannon Siemer, Jennifer Carter, Jim DiNaso and Tom Leong; all are Eastern graduates. Graham saw the stage from a different perspective this year. He was the ‘97 Mr. EIU winner. Competitors for Ms. Physique focused more on their muscle tone, while those for Ms. Fitness focused on their overall body symmetry. The winner of Ms. Physique was Amanda White, a senior art major. This was her first year in the competition, and her boyfriend, Cody Sanders, was in this year’s Mr. EIU competition as well. Others vying for the Ms. Physique title were Morgan McDermott, Kaitlyn Corzine, Alexandra Stringini, Sabrina Wallrich and Kristin Stine. White said she was shocked and happy that she won the competition. “The reason why I entered the competition was to set goals for the show and to reach a physical goal,” she said. “If I get into the graduate program at Eastern, I might do an-
other competition here, but since I’m graduating in the fall, I am probably going to do shows after then.” White said the kinds of competitions she might enter are bikini and figure. Even though she was unsure in the first, she said her boyfriend, Sanders, talked her into finally entering into the competition. White said she recommends only competing against one’s self in competitions like this. The Mr. EIU competition included five weight classes: Bantam, which is 155 pounds and below; light, which is 156 to 165 pounds; middle, which is 166 to 175 pounds; lightheavy, which is 176 to 184 pounds; and heavy, which is 185 pounds and above. The winner of the competition was Alex Westerman, a kinesiology and sports studies major, from the Bantam weight class. This was his first year competing for Mr. EIU. The other men who participated in this year’s Mr. EIU competition included Taylor Bradley, James Mariani, Kyle Boewe, Kenneth Ballom, Jared Buscher, Joseph Thomson, Anthony Day, Cody Sanders, Joshua Hopkins, Justin Koeckritz, Cole Younger, and Alex Wood. Wood was the winner of last year’s Mr. EIU competition. For both Ms. Physique and Mr. EIU, the participants performed the same three routines; group symmetry, personal routines and mandatory poses. The routines are what the judges used to decide the winners of the completion. “If you are thinking about being a part of this competition, just take the dive and go for it,” she said. Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812 or sewhite2@eiu.edu.
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Amanda White, the 3rd competitor and winner of the Ms. Physique competition, poses during the Mr. EIU, Ms. Fitness, and Ms. Physique competiton.
Alex Westerman, Mr. EIU 2015, squats down after accepting his trophy for the Mr. EIU title.
Jared Busher (left) and Alex Wood (right), both competitors in the middle weight-class of the Mr. EIU competition, face-off. Wood, who won Mr. EIU 2014, went on to win the middle weight-class for the evening.
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Remember daylight saving time Margorie Clemente
Desperately missing summer, letting winter go I cannot wait for that weather where it’s 8 p.m. and the fiery sun is still fizzling out behind wisps of bright pink and orange clouds. I miss the warm glory rays and sitting out on my porch, enjoying a cool, cherry Popsicle. I miss my plaid shorts and tank tops. I miss marinating in pools of sunlight and walking around sprinklers. I miss the smell of burnt rubber on bike tires in the street. I miss the strident shrieks of children that reverberate in the alleys. I was born to run in flip-flops, to sit and soak in the fumes of a barbeque. What I need right now is the scent of freshly cut grass and Novi’s Beef hotdogs and fries with a chilled soda waiting for me on the corner of Ogden avenue back home—to sit at the park and fish around the greasy brown paper bag with my mother. I miss running into stores and banks and houses to escape the sweltering sun and sigh with relief, ever grateful for the air conditioning that showers my in all of its chilly splendor. Surely the heat can sometimes make me lazy, but there’s nothing like a summer night. Those balmy summer nights when I began to shiver against the laps of chlorine in my best friend’s pool. More than the summer, maybe what I miss the most are some of the older memories that came with it—summers where I was almost completely free of responsibility, and summers when I didn’t have to go to sleep with deep furrows in my brow, thinking about applications and studies and work. Even then—that’s the best part. A summer when I’m finally independent and don’t have to necessarily rely on others for a ride or for buying my own clothes. Now my summers don’t consist of curfews or limited allowances for the week. Going to sleep some nights with creases on my face is worth getting up on my days off to thoroughly enjoy myself. Anyway, I need the snow gone now. We could all use a break from these biting, freezing temperatures that have stifled our excitement from enjoying our weekend and have threatened to keep us from showing up to class. Hopefully this spring break will serve as a healthy disruption from midterms stress and this nightmarish weather for us all. I want to sincerely wish everyone a happy and safe spring break. This one is for a warm and welcoming start to our summer. Marge Clemente is a senior English major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@ gmail.com.
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Springing forward is an optimistic reminder If waking up Monday morning was not uncomfortable enough, it is likely students will arise in a panic throughout the week, with bodies that feel positive they deserve one more hour of sleep. Daylight saving time threw schedules ahead one hour Sunday, and while cell phones, laptops and tablets will automatically make the switch, manual clocks in cars and more importantly on alarm clocks need to be changed to accommodate for losing one, precious hour of sleep. It is not a bad idea to adjust daily routines to better utilize the inevitably longer daylight while the time-change is still new. Professors will not likely accept the excuse “I forgot to change my clock” and
the change’s jet-lag effect will wear off. Despite its minor inconveniences, “springing forward” signifies an optimistic changing of seasons, which almost make up for the first week’s paining sleepiness. Eventually, the rush to finish jobs “before the sun goes down” will become less frequent, which may allow for more time spent outside, which has biological benefits. Although early classes will begin an hour before students feel biologically prepared to attend, starting the day earlier has its profit. From the time hands hit “snooze” in the morning until they clock out at the end of a work day, the sun will be out, which has been shown to encourage better sleep, produc-
tion of vitamin D and improved mood. The benefits of sunlight alone suggest the importance of spending time outside throughout the day – a task simple enough for college students. Soon enough students will be able to ditch their mittens, ride their bikes to campus and maybe even catch the breeze from an open classroom window. The sooner Eastern’s community can comfortably spend time outside rather than shivering under the buildings’ awnings, the more tangible the end of the school year will seem. The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
Support the causes, groups you believe in PETA found me. Their people know where I live, and they are coming for me. Thankfully, this group is not hunting me down for committing some wild injustice to my fellow sentient beings. What I experienced was more of a recruiting measure. The organization wants me to join, to call myself one of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. I received a packet in my mailbox from the infamous animal rights group. The large folded envelope contained a letter asking me how much I knew about the horrors of the fur trade in China and prompting me to donate $16 for the cause. It also included sheets of stickers with my name and address printed alongside various PETA logos and pictures of cats, dogs, cows and bears. Finally, I was sent a survey sheet asking me questions like, “Were you aware that fur traders use methods such as drowning animals, bludgeoning them and skinning them alive in order to save money and avoid damage to the fur?” Yes, PETA survey, I knew this. I have seen your video narrated by actress Olivia Munn talking about cats and dogs getting mixed up and mislabeled in the trade, and I saw the clip where a dog looks up from a pile of corpses, stares at the camera and blinks—all with no skin on its body whatsoever. But chances are, you knew I saw that video, PETA survey.
Stephanie Markham I must have signed up for some kind of mailing list at some point, which is how they got my name and school address, though I’ll admit I was confused at first. “How did they know I was one of them? Maybe they could smell it,” I thought. I may or may not donate the $16. I feel the same way when the Human Rights Campaign people harass me on the streets of Chicago; I am making a difference by the way I live my life, and I have to focus on paying my bills before I can pay someone to do my activism for me. I also felt hesitant to add, “I heart PETA” to my collection of laptop stickers because I know most people scoff at this organization for being extremists. While some may not agree with the way PETA goes about its fight, the group should not be entirely discredited. Causing a general disturbance to what people are comfortable thinking about does not negate the
legislation PETA has changed or the realities it has unveiled. The group has seen its fair share of controversies. Some are against sexualizing women to say “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” in ads, while others argue that sex sells all sorts of merchandise, so ideals should be no different. Others argue for calling PETA’s headquarters a slaughterhouse because it ends up euthanizing the majority of the cats and dogs in its shelter. No-kill shelters can contribute to overpopulation and animal death as well, though some feel the ratio at PETAs shelter is unreasonable. The biases in PETA information are obvious, but this isn’t necessarily a fault; the group is clearly and obviously advocating for something, and it does provide useful facts, like lists of what companies test on animals. While the gruesome imagery may turn some people off, not seeing it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. I would not feel comfortable knowing that research laboratories, factory farms and circuses were free to operate without scrutiny, which is why undercover operations like the ones PETA does are crucial. At the end of the day, the animals are a lot better off having someone in this world willing to go to the extreme to protect their rights. Stephanie Markham is a junior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or samarkham@eiu.edu.
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“As far as I know, Dr. Nadler does not acknowledge much, if any, studentfee money as income for athletics, but really it’s probably somewhere north of $4 million,” Blitz said. Blitz said at the same time, Nadler does not acknowledge student-fees money is going to help subsidize athletics. “He claims that he reason athletics is in deficit is because of the unexpected reduction in student fee money from enrollment decreases,” Blitz said. “These enrollment decreases area hardly unexpected since enrollment declines are a multi-year trend.” Nadler said last year, there was a net contribution to the tuition revenue of $937,480, which was the tuition from 452 student-athletes. “Of those 452 athletes, 161 of them receive absolutely no athletic aid, 101 received a full scholarship, and 235 receive partial scholarships,” Nadler said. “There’s a good number of student athletes who might (receive) a thousand dollars, a couple thousand dollars, the rest of that money then to make up the difference in the cost of attendance is
coming out of their pocket and their parent’s pocket.” Nadler said regardless of the source of the funds, student athletes are contributing $3.8 million dollars to the yearly tuition revenue. He also said when Eastern has an average year, there is a $1 million dollar net contribution to the income fund. Not included in the 452 student athletes are the dance team, the cheer team and the marching band; therefore, Nadler said he is not calculating the tuition revenue generation on them even though there are some athletic-related expenses. “I started putting this information together because there was some concern that perhaps this deficit was causing the income fund to deficit which then impacted a number of other people,” Nadler said. “While the contribution to the income fund was not as much as it normally is, there still is a net contribution to the income fund.” Nadler said the reduction in the amount of students paying fees caused a loss of grant-in-aid revenue. Nadler also said during this time, a little more
than $1 million in revenue for the student athletic fees was generated, and both have contributed to the shortfall of revenue Eastern is experiencing. “This past year, because there was a million-dollar shortfall of various sources of revenue, that net contribution was reduced to $937,480,” Nadler said. “There still was, even after looking at the allocation from the university in terms of the income fund to athletics, after the amount that’s generated by the athletes in tuition revenue, minus the original allocation minus an additional million dollars, there’s still is a net contribution of $937, 480.” Nadler said the money used toward the income fund is used to help pay salaries on campus. “When you look at the income fund, only 4 percent of the income fund goes to the division of student affairs, which also includes athletics,” Nadler said. Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.
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Jaimal Shelton, Collins’ father, said he hoped for his daughter to gain some cultural experiences while in college. “I want her to meet students from other parts of the country and other countries,” he said. Chris Dearth, the director of admissions, said about 300 students and parents came to the Admitted Student Day. Some changes were made to programs to make them more family friendly. “For the younger siblings, we made some activity stations so they wouldn’t get too bored,” he said. Dearth said volunteers were trying to get the frequently asked questions answered for everyone. “We understand there are a lot of good schools, a lot of questions,” he said. “Parents want to make sure they get a final look, we tell everything they can offer them.” Admitted students had the opportunity to submit their enrollment deposits that day. Dearth said the yield from this is close to 60 percent. “I’m hoping a good number of students are still deciding, and I’m hoping any final questions they have are answered,” he said. “I hope that helps them make their decision.” The bookstore was fairly crowded
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with people, and many students were buying Eastern merchandise. Michael Jean, a sophomore accounting major who works at the bookstore, said the store was busier than usual. “We’ve had like 20 or 25 people in the last 20 minutes,” he said. Tours of the residence halls were also available for the admitted students and parents. Vicki Bezpalko, a junior health studies major, volunteered to show prospective students Andrews Hall. She said sometimes parents would ask her questions she did not know how to answer. “Someone asked me about theft; I said I’ve never had anything stolen. I don’t know of any crimes happening on campus,” she said. Ricardo Correa, a prospective accounting major from Romeoville, said he was also looking at Lewis University and Northern Illinois University. He said he liked that Eastern was a medium distance from where he lived. His father, Herman Padilla, liked that Eastern had smaller class sizes. “The campus is a little smaller, not overwhelming,” he said. Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.
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“He really wants to have feedback when he brings something up,” he said. Blumenthal said he has worked with Glassman on a strategic planning committee; he cited one of the issues the provost helped to resolve was getting priority class registration for ROTC students. He said the Student Senate asked for an hour priority for those students, but Glassman went “above and beyond” to make it so advisers could guarantee their spots. “The senate has passed a lot related to academics,” Blumenthal said. “We would even bring him six or eight things, and he would always be willing to dive in.”
He said Glassman has also worked on consolidating university resources and programs to balance the budget. Blumenthal said he is interested to see the differences in Glassman’s approach at a public university, seeing as Bradley is private. “It’ll be a challenge to start, but he’s smart enough to figure it out,” Blumenthal said. Stephanie Markham contributed to this article.
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Bruins upset Racers in OVC win Men’s golf team’s season begins By Blake Nash Staff Reporter | @Banash5
A three pointer by Taylor Barnette with 3.2 seconds left in Saturday’s Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship game gave Belmont their seventh NCAA tournament berth in school history, as they defeated No. 1 seed Murray State, 8887, in Nashville. Barnette, a sophomore, hit an offbalance shot to give the Bruins the lead late, as Belmont coach Rick Byrd called timeout. On the in-bounds play, Murray State senior guard T.J. Sapp drove the ball down the court, and threw up a long jumper, which failed to reach the basket and hit the glass. The shot clock appeared to run out on Sapp, who finished with 28 points to lead the Racers. He was one of five Racer players to reach double-figure scoring. Byrd said in his postgame press conference that he knew Barnette would make that shot because of his quick release and clutch shooting in those situations. “Taylor Barnette gets the ball off quicker than anyone else on our team and he had great range. I knew that he wouldn’t miss it because of the situation,” Byrd said. “It worked and it was a matter of going for the win instead of going for the tie.” Barnette finished with nine points for the Bruins and made all of his baskets in the second half to finish 3-for8 for the game. He said that play is usually designed for sophomore guard Nick Smith to take the last shot. “I was excited when he drew it up for me, and I just said ‘Lord, give me the strength to hit this shot,’” Barnette said. “Nick set a great screen and Reece [Chamberlain] made a great pass and I just let it fly and it went in. It’s surreal.” The game-winning shot ended the nation’s second longest men’s basketball winning streak. The Racers had won 25 games in a row and were ranked No. 25 heading into the contest. Before the game, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi said Murray State, despite its great season, would be eliminated from the NCAA Tournament with a loss.
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Belmont’s Reece Chamberlain goes in for the layup during the Panthers’ 97-64 loss to the Belmont Bruins in round two of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament on Thursday at Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. The Bruins would go on to beat Murray State 88-87 on Saturday to win the OVC tournament and secure a spot in the NCAA tournament.
Murray State coach Steve Prohm addressed the issue after the game and said the resume of the Racers and the OVC speaks for itself. “Look at what we’ve (OVC) done in the postseason,” Prohm said. “OVC teams have won multiple NCAA tournament games. If you’ve watched us play, then you would agree.” Prohm said even if things do not go their way on Selection Sunday next week that his team will be gracious, and hope to play as a No. 1 seed in the National Invitational tournament. The Bruins won three games in
three days to win the tournament title, including a 97-64 victory over Eastern Thursday and a 53-52 victory over Eastern Kentucky Friday. This is the second time in three years they have won the championship in their hometown of Nashville. Other than the Racers, a couple of OVC teams have expressed interest in playing in smaller postseason tournaments, including the Panthers. With a final record of 17-14, Eastern is sure to be denied consideration for the NIT tournament, but coach Jay Spoonhour expressed interest in
playing in other postseason tournaments. “I told the guys that the reality is we’re postseason eligible,” Spoonhour said. “There are other tournaments that we could go to that are really good tournaments. That’s a heck of an accomplishment and we still want to play some ball. We’ve earned it.” Blake Nash can be reached at 581-2812 or banash@eiu.edu.
Tennessee State wins OVC title By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN The Tennessee State women’s basketball team is heading to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1995. The Lady Tigers upset No. 1 seed Tennessee-Martin in the Ohio Valley Conference Championship, 6460, in overtime Saturday. Lady Tiger coach Larry Joe Inman was pleased with the effort from his team to capture the OVC Championship. “It’s like the films and movies you see, the overcoming of adversity that happens,” he said. “We kept talking about what we wanted to do and how we were going to do it. We made plans to win it and we won. We played well, we didn’t play as well as I’d like, but we had good defense and timely shooting.” Tennessee State junior guard Brianna Lawrence won tournament MVP after her 22-point performance Saturday. Lawrence made back-to-back shots for Tennessee State, but Tennessee-Martin countered with four free throws to tie the game with 53 seconds to play in the second half. In over time, Lawrence hit a
jumper to start it off, and then with less than a minute to play, she hit a 3-point shot to give the Lady Tigers a four-point lead. UT-Martin sophomore Ashia Jones turned the ball over late in overtime to give Tennessee State the chance to take a two-possession lead. Skyhawk coach Kevin McMillan credited Tennessee State for being able to strip the ball away from Jones. “We talk about someone has to make a play, and (Rachel) Allen made a play and stripped Ashia, who may have spun back and been able to make a play, but we will never know,” he said. “They killed us on the boards, they got 17 offensive rebounds and at the end of the day, we just couldn’t get them off the glass.” Tennessee-Martin has represented the OVC in the NCAA Tournament the last three years and was three points away from upsetting North Carolina in the first round of last years’ tournament. The Skyhawks will represent the OVC in the National Invitational tournament. Jones, Lawrence, Tennessee State red-shirt senior Chelsea Hudson
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The Tennesee State women’s coaching staff celebrates as the Lady Tiger’s score during their first round win against Morehead State on Thursday in Nashville, Tenn. The Lady Tigers would go on to beat Southern IllinoisEdwardsville and Tennessee-Martin to win the Ohio Valley Conference championship and advance to the NCAA tournament.
and senior Rachel Allen, and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville senior Tierny Austin were all named to the OVC All-Tournament Team. The Lady Tigers came into the championship after upsetting Edwardsville, who was the No. 2 seed. Tennessee State won, 71-59, Friday. Hudson and sophomore Jayda Johnson each scored 17 points in the semifinal win. Tennessee-Martin entered the championship game after defeating Belmont, 71-65, in the first
semifinal game. Ashia Jones scored 39 points on 16-of-30 shooting in that game. Belmont had four players in double figures. The Lady Tigers will find out where and who they will play in the NCAA tournament March 16. Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.
The Eastern men’s golf team will begin their spring campaign on Monday at the Appalachian State invitational. This three-day tournament will be held at the Cape Fear National Golf Course in Leland, N.C. In the last tournament, which took place on October 21, the Panthers took eighth place in a 12team tournament, but moved up one spot on the last day, after a Top 25 finish by senior James Jansen. He finished 24th, finishing with a final score of 218 at the Austin Peay Intercollegiate Tournament. Jansen sliced a stroke off his first day of play to finish with a 218 (+2) score to jump up and earn a 24th place mark out of 74 competitors. He ended the final round of play at the two-day event tied for 30th. Jansen has a season average of 76.33, and has scored 458 points this season in two meets this season. He scored a season-high 240 points at the DePaul John Dallio Memorial tournament from October 4-5. Junior Austin Sproles led the Panthers in season average with 74.63, with senior Oscar Borda and sophomore Marcus Dahlin following with averages of 75.70 and 75.91, respectively. Sproles had a season-high 223 points at the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Fall invitational in September. In that tournament he tied for 18th place. He has a total of 597 points this season. Borda finished tied for 14th at the DePaul tournament, with a s c o re o f 2 2 9 , a f t e r i m p r ov ing his total to 81, after averaging 74 points through the first two rounds. Dahlin’s season high also came at the DePaul tournament, when he totaled 232 points. However, his best finish came at the Chicago State Fall classic, where he finished tied for 13th place. Sophomore Ryan Hughes said the team has not had much luck practicing this winter; however, warmer weather is on the rise and just in time for their season. “Practicing has been pretty hard because we’ve been having trouble with our practice facility,” Hughes said. “With the warmer weather coming up we should have enough time to get our swings back.” Hughes also said next week will be a big test for the Panthers regarding their skills since they have not played in a long time. “Next week will be a test of our skills because we haven’t played in so long,” Hughes said. “At the same time it’s going to be exciting to get out and compete again.” Blake Nash can be reached at 581-2812 or banash@eiu.edu.
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Panthers lose first 2 games in OVC play Senior Brant Valach hits 2 home runs during 1st game of doubleheader By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN Austin Peay scored 11 runs on 17 hits to defeat the Eastern baseball team in the Ohio Valley Conference opener Sunday. The three-game series was originally scheduled to be played at Coaches Stadium in Charleston, but it had to be moved to Clarksville, Tenn. because of inclement weather. After an Austin Peay run in the first inning, red-shirt junior Demetre Taylor tripled down the right field line, which scored senior Caleb Howell, to tie the game at one in the bottom of the first inning. Junior Issac Sampen gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the 1st after a single to center field. Sampen and Taylor went a combined 3-for-8 on the day with two runs batted in. Austin Peay sophomore Chase Hamilton gave the Governors the lead in the top of the second with a two-run home run to right field. Ju n i o r Pa t r i c k Ma s s o n i s c o re d o n a throwing error by Panther junior Mitch Gasbarro to give the Governors a 4-2 lead after 1 1/2 innings. Panther senior Brant Valach hit his first of two home runs in the bottom of the third to cut the Eastern deficit two 6-4. Austin Peay would tack on three more runs via the long ball in the top of the eighth inning. Clayton Smithson hit a two-run home run to score sophomore Alex Robles. Massoni followed up with a homer of his own to left-center field. Massoni went 5-for-5 on the day with an RBI and two runs scored. Valach’s other home run was a solo shot to cut the Panther deficit to 9-5. Valach finished the day 2-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs scored. The Governors put the game out of reach in the ninth inning by adding two more
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11-5 6-3 runs. Red-shirt junior pitcher Matt Wivinis started the game and took the loss for the Panthers. He threw five innings, allowed five runs and struck out six batters. Red-shirt senior pitcher Christian Slazinik followed Wivinis and allowed three runs on four hits and struck out five batters in three innings of work. Austin Peay sophomore Levi Primasing got the win for the Governors.
He pitched one inning, allowed one hit and no runs. Robles started the game for Austin Peay and allowed four hits and four runs in 4 1/3 innings. In the second game of a doubleheader, the Panthers lost 6-3. Massoni scored on an error by Panther senior second baseman Dane Sauer to open the scoring. Robles followed up with an RBI single to give Austin Peay a 2-0 lead.
The Panthers scored a run in the bottom of the first to make it 2-1. After Austin Peay scored a run in the top of the second, senior catcher John Devito homered to left center and Howell doubled down the left field line to tie the game at three. The Governors would tack on three more runs, including a RBI single by Massoni to push the lead up to 6-3. Sophomore pitcher Caleb Powell got the win for Austin Peay going six innings, allowing three runs on six hits. He also struck out six Panther batters. Eastern senior pitcher Garrison Stenger took the loss and allowed six runs on six hits, but he did strike out nine Austin Peay batters. Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.
Softball team finishes weekend 1-3 at invitational By Sean Hastings Staff Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern softball team went 1-3 over the weekend in Kennesaw, Ga. at the Kennesaw State Owl Invitational. Despite the losses, the Panthers’ bats were alive for most of the weekend senior Bailey O’Dell said. “Well this weekend, especially in (Sunday’s) games our hitting really showed up,” O’Dell said. “We were getting on base and getting hits we needed during crucial situations.” The Panthers’ lone win came in the second game of the weekend against Northern Kentucky in walk-off fashion. The team was lead by O’Dell who drove in four out of the six runs. Her home run came in the sixth inning to cut the Northern Kentucky lead to 4-2. Heading into the bottom of the seventh inning, the Panthers were down by a score of 5-2, but Eastern would score four runs in the bottom half to win the game. The scoring was started by freshman Tori Johnson who singled to right field to drive in junior April Markowski. O’Dell drove in two more runs to tie the game and fellow senior Hannah Cole ended it with a double to center that scored freshman Andrea Roberts. Freshman pitcher Jessica Wireman got the win for the Panthers after coming in for relief of freshman pitcher Michelle Rogers.
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Carly Willert, an outfielder, bats with bases loaded. Willert hit a single to center field to put the Panthers in the lead and helped secure a victory.
The Panthers dropped the first game to head coach Angie Nicholson’s former team, Cleveland State. The game was scoreless up until the bottom of the fifth inning when Cleveland State homered to score two runs. They would add one more in the sixth to win the game 3-0. Wireman was on the mound and took the loss. After the Panthers walked off against
Northern Kentucky, the tables were turned and Indiana University won on a walk off to win 9-8. Eastern had five different players drive in runs. Eastern got on the board first on a 2-RBI single by junior Kylie Bennett. Bennett later scored on a double by Markowski. O’Dell hit her two home runs in the g a m e , m a k i n g h e r t o t a l t h re e f o r t h e
weekend. Sophomore Ashlynne Paul drove in Markowski on a single in the sixth. The Panthers had the lead in the top of the seventh, 8-7, but Indiana junior Kelsey Dotson hit a two-run walk-off home run to give the Hoosiers the victory. Wireman would take the loss again on the mound. In the final game of the weekend, the Panthers fell to tournament host Kennesaw State 6-4. Eastern scored three runs in the top of the first, but the Owls would score four runs on a grand slam off of Wireman in the bottom half. Cole and Bennett were the run producers for the Panthers in the game. Cole had two RBI’s and Bennett also had two, including a solo home run. Bennett finished the day 2-3. The Panthers now begins conference play with three games against Austin Peay March 14 and 15 in Clarksville, Tenn. O’Dell said the team has a different approach to the rest of the season with the conference games. “We have to have a kill or be killed attitude towards these games,” she said. “ Ev e r y s i n g l e o n e c a n m a k e a d i f f e r e n c e i n o u r s u c c e s s f o r t h i s s e a s o n .” Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.