April 14, 2015

ART WITH MEANING

TWO IN TWO

Pearl Means speaks about her husband’s artwork, which is currently on display at Both Library.

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Tarble director announced

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Rehema Barber has been announced as the new director of the Tarble Arts Center. Barber is currently the coordinator for Figure One, the off campus exhibition space for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

She has worked in Hartfort, Conn., as a curatorial associate for the Amistad Center at the Wadworth Atheneum and has participated in professional development programs at the Henry Luce Foundation in Jewish Art in New York City. She has also held positions in Los Angeles for the Getty Museum Leadership Institute and Tokyo, Japan for the Japan Foundation.

Barber was one of the finalists in the new director search in the beginning of February. Her position as director of Tarble will start June 15.

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Unions disagree with city resolution

By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @stephm202 With a resolution supporting some of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s ideas on “empowerment zones” having passed the Charleston City Council April 7, some local union re p re s e n t a t i ve s d i s a g re e a n d b e l i e ve i t should have been brought forth for debate.

Despite the arguments on both sides, Mayor Larry Rennels said the resolution was only meant to tell the state that the council agreed with and wanted to consider implementing those ideas. “ With the whole issue, there are differing opinions, but our resolution didn’t enact anything the city can do,” Rennels said. “Anything like that would have to be signed by the governor.”

T h e Su p p o r t i n g L o c a l G ov e r n m e n t Empowerment resolution states that the community should decide whether or

not employees should be “forced to join a union or pay dues as a condition of employment.”

Derek Light, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local 981 chapter, said because of the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, workers who are not members of a union pay “fair share” to cover the costs of the union’s services.

The act states that labor organizations are responsible for representing the interests of all public employees in the unit they oversee.

Light gave the example of building service workers at Eastern like himself who all receive the benefits of having a local union regardless of their membership.

“If you get in trouble and have to go up to Old Main, whether you’re full member or fair share member, you still get the representation of the union body to help settle any claims,” he said.

L i g h t s a i d t h e i d e a o f n o t “f o rc i n g” others to join unions or pay dues would mean people who do not pay for the union’s services still have access to them b e c a u s e o f t h e Pu b l i c L a b o r Re l a t i o n s Act. He compared this to a citizen going into a restaurant and ordering food but claiming they have the right to it so they are not going to pay.

“Enough people finally said, ‘Why do I h a ve t o p a y f o r t h i s i f I g e t t h e f re e stuff?’” Light said. “Then everybody quits paying, and before long there’s no union and you have no representation.”

Light said although the resolution does not ch ange the law, he does not agree with the way the council voted on the resolution in one meeting without discussion or placing it on file for public inspection.

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Members of the Quad City Ballet perform traditional Mexican folk dances in front of the outdoor stage during Celebration on April 26, 2014.

Celebration festival to return at end of month

By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News Celebration: A Festival of the Arts will return to Eastern April 24 to 26 on South Seventh Street, between the Doudna Fine Arts Center and Buzzard Hall.

Dan Crews, director of patron services at the Doudna Fine Arts Center, said the Dounda’s final performance of the year will be the Saturday evening of the festival.

Celebration has been a Charleston tradition since 1977, and features a variety of arts experiences for three days.

Total festival hours are Friday at 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

“The festival will feature many musical performances, dance programs, art exhibits and the annual Prairie Plant sale, which features a variety of grasses and plants that are native to Illinois,” he said.

Crews said groups would perform to-

gether for one main music event on the Dvorak Concert stage.

The musical group Switchback, which was voted as a part of Doudna’s “Best Of ” series, will make its way back to Charleston for the collaborative performance. “ This time Switchback will be paired w i t h t h e g r o u p s T h e Tw a n g t ow n Pa r amours and Robinella,” he said.

Crews said each of the groups would perform their own set, and then join together for one large jam session at the end.

Cre ws said other per formers include The Turino’s; the reggae band Gizzea; native American singer song-writer Michael Jacobs; Dicky James and the Blue Flames; s t e e l d r u m m e r Ni g e l T h o m a s ; Te q u i la Mockingbird; The Moondogs; the ExBombers; The Unity Gospel Choir; The Cruddites and Charleston native Brent Byrd.

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When Dr. Matthew Kircher realized his career goals were buried somewhere in strangers’ equilibriums and nasal cavities, he was staring in reverence at the corroded arteries of an open cancer patient who was receiving surgery on his head and neck.

The only thoughts he could conjure were, “wow, this is really cool stuff.”

He knew nothing of surgery before his decision to spend years studying and observing it. What he did know, however, was how to play the guitar, so he considered himself rather “manually dexterous.”

If he had to tell it truthfully, Kircher said he might have missed his calling completely and never considered medical school if Eastern biology professor Britto Nathan had never taken an interest in him.

At about the time Kircher met Nathan, the now physician thought he might work toward his Ph.D. and wander in the direction of teaching.

But after leaving a message on Kircher’s answering machine inviting the undergraduate zoology major to join his graduate program, Nathan eventually persuaded Kircher that he had a future in medicine.

“He was really right, and he was the reason I went into medicine,” Kircher said. “It really never crossed my mind to do medicine until I met with him and until I was his graduate student. He was really transformative for me.”

On Friday, Kircher and seven others were presented with Eastern’s Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award from their respective departments.

Throughout the evening, people would comment on Kircher’s accomplishments and his Eastern roots, but the physician was adamant on relating his successes to the encouragement he received from the professor who nominated him: Nathan.

“I said, ‘some other people are applying for medical school. Do you think maybe I could do that?” Kircher said.

“He said ‘absolutely you could do that.’”

Kircher was raised in Illinois, and before attending Eastern’s graduate school, had never known anyone to be a solid role model in his field of study.

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“I come from a very humble background. I have 12 brothers and sisters; my parents couldn’t pay for any of my education,” he said. “Everything that I did was taken out on loan. From where I came from to where I ended up – it was the opportunities that Eastern gave me.

You don’t have to come from exceptional means to get to your end goal.”

Kircher hopes he can be the example he found in Nathan, for his younger sister.

“No one in my family had ever been a physician before so I guess it just wasn’t on my radar,” he said. “My younger sister is now at U of I doing pre-med, probably in part because she sees that I did medicine; she views it as an option for herself.”

When Kircher began Nathan’s graduate program, was surprised to discover how much of the learning would be performed independently.

If Kircher had a question, he looked it up, and if he wanted to stay on top of his coursework, he did his own research.

Admittedly abandoning the physical classroom for some time, Kircher devel-

oped parts of himself he did not know were there.

“I really kind of stopped going to class and suddenly I figured out, ‘I’m pretty smart actually if I read on my own’ – because you’re more efficient if you do it that way,” he said.

As Kircher’s drive to learn improved, so did his grades.

“Suddenly I was a straight-A student and through him I think I realized my own academic potential,” he said. “I think that’s really the bottom line.”

Kircher went on to pursue 11 additional years of schooling after his time at Eastern: four years at Rush Medical School in Chicago, five years of residency in Michigan, and a two-year fellowship at Loyola.

“The first two years are like memorizing a phone book,” he said. “They hit you with a ton of material.”

After participating in Nathan’s graduate program, however, Kircher realized he was more prepared for medical school than he felt, and found himself at the top of his class.

“It was actually easy for me when I

got to medical school, honestly,” he said.

Kircher encourages even those who school does not come naturally for, however, to consider medicine as an achievable goal.

“I guess you probably think, ‘I need to be really smart to be a doctor.’ I would say you have to be really hard working to be a doctor, to be a physician,” he said.

“Smart is maybe part of it, but you have to be willing to put in the time and if you do that, anyone can do it.”

Today Kircher is a professor of otology, neurology, and skull-base surgery at Loyola University Medical Center.

He said sometimes all it takes to gain the confidence to accomplish a goal is to see someone close to you do it.

“The way (Nathan) really showed me how to be a scientist completely changed my potential,” he said. “He completely changed my career trajectory.”

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

Auction to raise money for animal shelter

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Britto Nathan and Matthew Kircher stand together before an graduate alumni awards dinner Friday at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Kircher said had it not been for Nathan, he may have never gone into medicine.

Crafts, purses, gift certificates and more will be auctioned at Mattoon American Legion’s Vendor Quarter Auction to benefit the Coles County Animal Shelter at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Mattoon American Legion.

The American Legion is a veteran’s organization.

Gena Murphy, a member of the American Legion who helped organize the auction, got the idea for the quarter auction when she went to one in another area.

“I thought, ‘Wow, that would be cool,’” she said. “I brought it back to the membership. I thought we could do this for other organization as a nonprofit.”

Quarter auctions are somewhat different than regular auctions.

“At a regular auction, participants would receive a paddle, bid on an item,

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and it would sell for whatever it sells for,” Murphy said. “At a quarter auction, you buy a paddle, the vendors put merchandise into the auction, and you bid quarters in response to the items you’re interested in.”

Participants bid quarters on items based on their retail value. One quarter can be bid for an item that is valued at $15, two quarters can be bid for a $16 or $20 valued item, and three need to be bid for any item valued at $31 or more.

“Someone could bid one quarter and win something valued at $15,” Murphy said.

The bids will then be collected, and a random number will be called. The person whose number is called will win the item.

The vendors at the auctions will all be from around Coles County.

“It’s all local people, from Mattoon, Charleston, Greenup,” Murphy said.

“We found some on Facebook. I’m a

vendor myself, and I find some at other vendor shows.”

Vendors and crafters will be auctioning off jewelry, spices, purses, wallets and makeup, among other things.

Murphy will be auctioning off her own crafts as well. She creates glass yard flowers.

Vendors at the auction include 31 Bags, Professional Therapeutic Massage, Perfectly Posh, Unique and Avon among others.

About 21 vendors and crafters are expected to auction off their wares at this quarter auction.

Murphy said they usually have crowds of about 40 people besides the vendors and crafters, as well as 15 to 20 people who come to help with the event.

These 15 to 20 people set up the room, get the crafters and vendors, advertise and get all the materials needed to have the auction.

The Mattoon American Legion has

sponsored quarter auctions to help other organizations as well as the Coles County Animal Shelter.

Last month, they had one for the Mitch Webb Wrestling Scholarship, where they raised $770. They have also raised money for the Mattoon Youth Wrestling Club, the Mattoon Pompon Squad, the JROTC, and Operation Sleigh Ride, which benefits firefighters. Committee Members from the American Legion are the ones who decide what organizations they will give the money from the quarter auctions to.

“People will purchase, say they want to participate,” Murphy said. “Vendors will sometimes say, ‘This organization needs help.’”

People have had a positive response to the quarter auctions.

“People love it. It’s fun,” Murphy said. “It’s a great way to pay it forward.”

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

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Pearl Means, wife of the late artist and activist, speaks to an audience about Russell Means’ life and art at the opening reception for his exhibit at Monday at Booth Library.

Activist, painter display open at Booth Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor |@BertoHodge

The artwork and life of political activist, painter, actor and leader of the American Indian Movement, Russell Means, will be on display in the Marvin Foyer of the Booth Library until May 15.

Russell Means, who was born in 1939 on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, created dozens of paintings in his lifetime, including five series. One of the series titled “Indian Killer,” features 12 “alleged American heroes,” according to the program.

Gordon Grado, an oncologist from Arizona who treated Russell Means for his cancerous tumor against his throat, was one of the many speakers during the exhibition. Grado, who also collects some of Russell Means’ artwork, said it was fun to be able to know Russell Means and the causes he fought for.

Pearl Means, Russell Means’ wife, spoke a little of her husband’s life as an activist, artist and of the

causes he cared for while he was alive.

“There is no death, just a changing world,” Pearl Means said.

Pearl Means said her husband had a full life, and was best known for his work as an American Indian Activist. She said Russell Means would have wanted his work to be shown to everyone.

Don Holly, an anthropology professor said during the time when Russell Means was born, American Indian children who were born on reservations were sent to boarding schools far from their homes and were taught to assimilate into Caucasian culture, learning their norms and values. He said these laws and practices also outlawed American Indian religious ceremonies and cultural practices.

Holly said when Russell Means went to Cleveland he met Dennis Banks, who had helped form the American Indian Activist organization. He said the organization began in by a group of Chippewa Native Americans in Minneapolis in 1968, which was then called the Indian Patrol. It was formed

to deal with the police treatment of Native Americans.

The Indian Patrol taped police actions and provided legal counsel and as it became more popularized, the missed changed to broader activism and charters were started in various cities, Holly said.

“We’re less than 1 percent of the population today—that is 99 percent genocide,” Pearl Means said.

Pearl Means said in recognition of his life’s work and activism, a library is to be built in Pine Ridge, S.D. She said it is a way to continue educating and celebrating the Lakota Sioux youth.

Pearl Means said her husband did everything with a reason in mind. “’Everything I do is connected, related—artists are the true revolutionaries. For they see the need for change first,” Pearl Means said recalling her husband’s words.

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

Couture models ‘dare to go bare’

By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor |@BertoHodge In an effort to have a public conversation about female and male body image, Couture Models’ will “Dare to go Bare” at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Doudna steps.

DeVonte Dixon, the president of Couture Models’, said the discussion will focus on the image of beauty standards when it comes to women having to put makeup on or wear hair extensions to feel beautiful.

“Why? What’s wrong with your natural hair?

What’s wrong with your natural beauty?” Dixon said.

Dixon said the group hopes to encourage everyone to go natural without makeup or hair extensions to show that in their natural state they are

beautiful.

“Own up to natural beauty,” Dixon said.

Many other organizations have been called on to assist with the event, including the Divine Nine, Latin American Student Organization and Rhythm & X-tacy.

Each of the organizations can help by supporting the overall message of loving someone for their natural skin and beauty, Dixon said.

“They beat their face up (with makeup) and they call it beauty—but why?” Dixon said.

Dixon said even males have been subjected to the issue of body image by now wearing makeup, having facial hair extensions and the increase in male care products.

“You should look like this, you should have a six pack,” Dixon said.

However, he feels some men are also not help-

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ing to end the issue, but perpetuating it by wanting their girlfriends to wear lots of makeup and have hair extensions.

He said they also perpetuate the problem by trying to find a woman who tries to have their image resemble that of female celebrities.

“We’ll never look like that—they don’t even look like that, it’s important to be yourself,” Dixon said.

Dixon said the discussion is important to have because of how social media and magazines airbrush and glamorize others. Dixon said he hopes to shed light on the topic should build confidence and self-esteem.

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

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The Students for Peace and Justice will bring a speaker to discuss first-hand experiences during time spent in Iraq at 7 p.m Wednesday in Lumpkin Auditorium.

Sister Marceline Koch, who has been a member of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield for 54 years, will also summarize the humanitarian crisis occurring in that region.

Koch and two other nuns from the Dominican Sisters traveled to a region of Iraq that was in a state of mass exodus, with over 100,000 of the region’s residents fleeing from the advances of ISIS. Koch said ISIS was only 25 miles from their location at one stage of their journey.

The threat of ISIS has greatly affected the Christians of Iraq and Syria, as Koch said that after ISIS took the Iraqi city of Mosul, the practice of Mass was interrupted there for the first time in 1,600 years. “(ISIS) is destroying the cultural pieces in Iraq,” says Koch.

Koch said that the refugees that were in the camps constantly struggled to survive. By the time the sisters had arrived at the camps, tents were running scarce, families were forced to live in cold, metal sheds and electricity was hard to come by.

Koch, as well as the other three Dominican sisters, was sent to visit with other Dominican Christians of that region and show their solidarity with them.

Koch also said she went to Iraq to gain perspective on the crisis to help understand the conflicts that are happening there and to figure out how to spread her knowledge of the tragedies she has witnessed.

“To see it and to be able to share what I’ve seen is different than sharing what someone else says,” Koch said.

Courtney Osborn, an Eastern student and one of the members of the Students for Peace and Justice, helped put the event together in order to inform students about what is happening on the other side of the world.

“We wanted to bring Sister Marcelline here to share her story about the displacement of so many people in Iraq and her journey of love and solidarity,” said Osborn.

The event will also include an introduction by Ed Wehrle, a history professor at Eastern. Wehrle says that he will also briefly describe the refugee and humanitarian disaster occurring now in Iraq, Syria and the rest of the Middle East.

Osborn, speaking on behalf of the Students for Peace and Justice, is proud that the group is able to receive Koch this Wednesday in Lumpkin.

“As part of the title of our organization, we want justice for those people who are displaced,” Osborn said.

Derrin Coad can be reached at 581-2812 or dkcoad@eiu.edu

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SIU petition against Rauner is necessary

Remember when your boss gave you that 30 percent pay cut — then proceeded to give you a motivational speech you about what an important asset you are to the company and how you will really go places in your future?

Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, that might be the reality if Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s keynote speaker comes through for one of the campus’ graduation ceremonies in May. According to an article on The Daily Egyptian website, Southern President Randy Dunn invited Gov. Bruce Rauner to speak back in January, which was before Rauner gave his budget address announcing his plan to cut 31.5 percent from higher education funding.

Rauner’s proposed budget would cut $44 million from the Carbondale campus, and students have started a change.org petition asking the administration to find a replacement speaker. The petition has received more than 2,000 signatures so far, according to the article.

The students at Southern have the right idea by starting this petition.

If administrators do not listen, they will have walked right into a painfully ironic disaster at what is supposed to be one of the proudest days of their students’ lives.

But an aversion to irony is far from the only reason Southern’s president should reconsider who he books for graduation.

Rauner is a horrible public speaker.

Anyone who watched his budget address — aside from the fact that he didn’t even mention higher education funding as if it weren’t important — certainly must have noticed how boring and unenthusiastic he sounded.

And they must have noticed how he, perhaps strategically, cuts the G’s off gerunds to sound more relatable. An example of what he might say would be, “We are workin’ on fixin’ this budget.”

We can’t all be Barack Obamas. I get that.

While public speaking is a crucial part of a politician’s job, it is far from the only consideration that should go into evaluating their effectiveness as a leader, though it is often the first thing people notice.

But not only would it be a stretch for Rauner to relate to a bunch of 20-somethingyear-olds with his slow, calculated drawl, he would also be yanking the carpet out from under the rest of the university on his way out.

One could only hope that Southern’s president would not need more than 2,000 signatures to realize he should reconsider his choice.

Rauner shouldn’t be able to step foot on a Jimmy John’s across the street from a college campus without being swarmed by angry professors and students with a few choice questions and suggestions.

As suggested by the originators of the petition, having him as a speaker would be too much of a distraction from the purpose of a graduation ceremony, though it would be incredibly entertaining to watch him sweat up there.

Stephanie Markham is a junior journalism major and can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com.

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Greeks can work within Housing’s system To afford the living expenses racked up

by Greek Court, Housing needs a majority of the houses filled.

Un f o r t u n a t e l y, e i g h t o u t o f t h e 1 5 houses do not meet the minimum requirement of rooms filled causing them to pay a hefty fine.

These fees can be staggeringly high.

For instance, Lambda Chi Alpha, which currently houses 18 of its 31 required residents, would have to pay $11,050 to make up for the 13-member difference.

That is a large sum of money to make up, even between all of the members— fees that do not make it easy to sell themselves to their own organization or to others who wish to join when fees such as this are attached to them.

Even though the fees are large, those in Greek life can easily avoid them. Membership for all of Greek Life exceeds the

minimum required students in the each Greek house.

Even though it might not be an attractive sentiment to some, the houses can be filled to avoid these fees.

It all comes down to whether or not the chapters as a collective are willing or not to stay in their own chapter houses to avoid the fees. The ball is in their court.

They cannot stay in an apartment or one of their houses off campus, or they can bite the bullet and stay in the Greek houses they essentially need to pay for, even though Housing and Dining Services facilitates it.

Housing and Dining has even offered incentives other than not paying addi tional fees to fill their houses including moving funds to go toward renovations within the houses.

If they are unwilling to stay in their

own chapter houses, they should make more aggressive recruitment efforts bringing in more freshman and sophomores.

Whether it is through more formal recruiting or by lowering standards, efforts can be made in order to boost chapter membership.

Many of the sororities do not have that many issues, which could be attributed to their more formal recruitment efforts.

Lowering enrollment has hit every organization on campus, but with these changes, and organization, even a Greek one, should adapt to the more dire circumstances.

While these fees may not be practical, they can be avoided. Greek chapters just need to adapt with the changing times.

It is not easy, but it is necessary.

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Brand New finally releases new music for fans Five years, six months and nine days. That is how long it took for the band Brand New to release new material. The band’s most recent album titled “Daisy,” was released September 2009. Since then, the band has been relatively quiet when it came to new music.

There have been hints of new music dating back to 2011, but the band never came through on any of it--they were going to release new music on their own terms.

Fans have yearned for Brand New’s long-awaited fifth album for years.

In Absolutepunk.net the new album was a top 10 most anticipated release in 2012 and 2013, and has been the No.1 most anticipated album for 2014 and 2015.

No news was coming out of the band until November 2014 when the band announced they were in the studio again to record new music.

The band recorded away from the public eye, releasing no studio updates or tentative release dates for new music.

It was starting to seem like the same Brand New pattern from the past by saying the band was in the

Chris Picazo studio, but nothing coming out of it. But just when hope was beginning to seem lost again for Brand New fans, Brand New did what they do best by sending their fans and the internet to a frenzy. They began a nationwide tour on Wednesday in Denver, and their opened their set with an entirely new song.

It was the first new material any fan has heard in almost six years.

The song, titled at the time “I Don’t Feel Anything,” was recorded by fans using cellphones and the only quality available was terrible, but it was enough to satisfy fans after so many years.

Fans knew something was coming, and it was coming soon. The long wait was almost over.

The band changed the name of the song to “Mene” and placed a pre-order on Amazon.com for a Wednesday release.

However, on Monday morning, the band released the studio version of their new song on their website Fightoffyourdemons.com for free download, showing that that once again, they’re going to do what they want.

It only took five years and six months from their previous release to finally to get to this point, but it finally happened.

The wait for new Brand New is finally over and news of their highly anticipated forthcoming fifth album should be released within the coming weeks but knowing the band, they could release their new album without any warning in the coming days if they really wanted to.

For now, fans, including myself, will be playing Brand New’s new song on repeat for the next month while watching the internet vigilantly waiting for any news related to Brand New. Chris Picazo is a journalism major and can be reached at denopinions@gmail.com.

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By Luis Martinez Administration Editor| @DEN_News St u d e n t s h a ve c a n p u rc h a s e used textbooks at a discounted price through April 17 during the Spring Sidewalk Sale at the Textbook Rental Service.

The books on sale during the we e k a re d i s c a rd e d t e x t b o o k s , meaning they are no longer used in any of the courses on campus.

Students can purchase paperback books for $1 and hardcover books for $5 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day.

The sale occurs once a semester, one happening in October and the second happening in April.

Christina Coffey and Bryan Walden, workers at Textbook Rental, help run the sale during the week.

Coffey said departments choose whether or not they want to continue using a textbook for a course.

“The departments tell us when they want to get rid of a book, like they get a ne w edition or they are no longer using it, and so those are the ones we discard out of our inventory,” Coffey said.

Walden said the textbook rental has a lot of textbooks in inventory, and the sale does manage to get rid of a lot of books.

“They have to use the book for two years or three semesters before they can possibility discard it,” Walden said. “The department chairs decide how much they want to spend out of their budget.”

Walden also said the departments do not have to get rid of the textbooks after two years; it is just the minimum time frame before they can purchase new books.

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Students browse through books being sold at the Textbook Rental Book Sale Monday in the Textbook Rental Services. it is because of a new edition being available, or the department no longer likes the current textbook and they decided to find a separate book.

“There’s a few instances, like when they’re out of print, when we get new editions because we can’t get anymore copies of it,” Coffey said. “For example, we don’t get copies back from the previous semester or students pur-

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directly with reporters.

Kor y said she also disagreed with several aspects of the resolution itself including the language, which she does not believe is objective.

She said calling “fair share” a means of “forcing” people into unions is using loaded language to get a message across.

Kory said the council should have analyzed and processed each part of the resolution rather than restating Rauner’s ideas. “ If yo u we re g o i n g t o p a r a phrase something, you would have to put it in your own words to show you understand it, whereas when you just parrot somebody else’s words, they are talking through you,” she said.

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Walden said the book sale has been in practice for over a decade.

“I’ve been here almost 15 years and we’ve just done it ever since I have been here,” Walden said.

The books can continue in future sales if not all copies are sold.

“It just depends on when we’re able to get books discarded out of our system,” Coffey said. “A lot of these books we have them go through two sidewalk sales. They

go through twice before we get rid of them.”

Walden said students are a priority during the book sale.

“When we discard them, we set some aside for students to buy,” Walden said. “We save them for the students.”

ies should be pushing back at the state rather than asking local workers to chip in.

“Basically the crisis keeps gett i n g p a s s e d d o w n ,” s h e s a i d .

“What they’re being ‘empowered’ to do here is to make the same shortsighted choices that the state legislature has made.”

Kory also said though the resolution seeks to save the city and taxpayers money by going against the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act, she does not believe the city should be run like a business, and taxpayers should be considered “stakeholders” rather than “shareholders.”

Paul Wieck, the chairman of t h e C o l e s C o u n t y De m o c r a t i c Party, sent the mayor and council members emails with his con-

cerns and said he most likely would address them at a future meeting.

His message also mentions biased language as well as the differences between public and private spending and concerns with changing worker’s compensation.

“I believe city council had no reason to jump on this since (it is) illegal and unlikely to ever be enacted,” Wieck said.

Although some disagree with the resolution, Rennels said the council does not presently have plans to bring it up again at a future meeting.

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

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“We didn’t like how they kind of done it behind everyone’s back by not putting it out and let everybody talk about, but it doesn’t really affect us here at Eastern,” he said. “It affects the city workers, the firemen, the police officers.”

Fern Kory, the vice president of Eastern’s chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois, also said the resolution should have been discussed more openly.

“This seems to me to be the local version of a ‘shell bill;’ we’ll just tuck it in here so we don’t have to talk about it,” she said.

However, Rennels said the resolution was published on the city’s website several days before the meeting along with the council’s agenda, which he discussed

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Wa l d e n s a i d s t u d e n t s c o u l d benefit from the books that will no longer be of use.

“The students are allowed to buy their textbooks at a greatly reduced rate, any book they’re taking the class of,” Walden said.

“When we get rid of books like that, we have to replace them when they are out of print.”

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Freshman infielder Katie Watson throws the ball to Sophomore pitcher Hannah Rachor during the Eastern women’s softball game on April 4.

SIU-E tops OVC softball EIU in far behind

By Sean Hastings Staff reporter|@Den Sports The Eastern softball team is currently in seventh place in the Ohio Valley Conference standings with a 9-8 record.

Southern Illinois-Edwardsville is the top team in the conference with a 14-3 record.

Murray State and Tennessee Tech round out the top three with 12-5 and 11-6 records.

Tennessee State sits at the bottom of the conference with a 2-14 record and Belmont is right above them with a 4-12 record.

All teams are fighting to host the conference tournament at the end of the year, which is hosted by the top team in the OVC. Sophomore Jessica Twaddle of Murray State leads the conference with a .434 batting average on the year. Murray State has the highest team batting average in the conference at .315.

Senior Eastern Panther Hannah Cole has the seventh highest batting average in the conference at .361, and fellow senior Panther Bailey O’Dell is 11 th with a .354 batting average.

O’Dell has the 4th most home runs in the conference with nine. Junior Olivia Bennett of Tennessee Tech leads all hitters in that category with 12.

Tennessee Tech also has the most combined home runs with 43.

O’Dell is also in fourth for slugging percentage with .673, 10 th in hits with 40, seventh in runs batted in with 31, seventh in doubles with nine.

Senior Kayla Fortner of Southeast Missouri State leads hitters with 37 RBI’s.

Senior Laurel Burroughs of Austin Peay leads all base runners with 19 stolen bases on the season. Junior April Markowski leads the Panthers and sits at ninth in the conference with nine stolen bases.

Junior Haley Chambers of SIUE leads all conference pitchers with a 1.46 ERA. Freshman Bailey Douglass of Edwardsville (1.97), sophomore Danielle Liberatore of Tennessee Tech (2.01), sophomore Taylor West of Jacksonville State (2.27) and Logan Green also out of Jacksonville State (2.46) round out the top five for ERA in the OVC. Eastern freshman pitchers Jessica Wireman and Michelle Rogers have the best team ERAs and sit in 14 th and 16 th place in the conference at 3.97 and 4.07.

Chambers leads in almost every other major pitching category.

She has 18 wins in 24 appearances, she is holding opponents to a .186 batting average, has pitched 148 and 1/3 innings, and has 218 strikeouts.

Chambers not only has great success on the mound but she also leads all hitters with hits. She has 50 hits on the year.

Liberatore is second in the conference with 179 strikeouts. Wireman is eighth with 69.

Eastern pitchers Wireman and Rogers are in sixth and 11 th for innings pitched with 105 and 97.

Wireman is third on the list for saves with two sitting behind Douglass and freshman Whitney Gillespie.

Gillespie of Jacksonville State has given up the least amount of hits on the year.

She has given up 60 hits in 73 innings of work. Gillespie has a 2.88 ERA on the year, which is good enough for 7th in the OVC. All schools will continue their conference schedules this weekend.

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

Pitching dominates Panthers offense over weekend

By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN Southeast Missouri junior pitcher Alex Winkelman threw a complete game shutout Sunday at Coaches Stadium against the Eastern Baseball team, which earned him Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week.

Winkelman threw nine innings allowing six hits and walked one batter in his first win of the season.

Eastern senior third baseman Brant Valach was the only Panther to figure out Winkelman going 3-for-4 against the Redhawks’ starter.

Winkelman is now 1-2 on the season with a 3.57 earned-run average in 58 innings pitched.

Eastern coach Jimmy Schmitz said Winkleman did a good job of pitching inside to the Panthers’ left handed hitters.

“ Ou r g u y s a re s t r u g g l i n g w i t h re a lly good fastballs,” he said. “You got to be able to hit the fastball, and our guys were late on the fastball all weekend. If you can’t hit the fastball, nothing else works.”

Winkelman wasn’t the only Redhawks pitcher to shut down the Eastern offense over the weekend.

Junior Joey Lucchesi threw eight innings Friday and picked him his fifth win of the season in the Redhawks 21-1 victory Lucchesi is now 5-1 on the season with a 3.63 ERA. He has struck out 49 batters in 44 2/3 innings of work.

T h e Pa n t h e r s we n t 1 3 - f o r - 6 3 a t t h e plate in the two losses over the weekend Friday and Sunday. In the win Saturday, the Panthers Eastern was able to figure out Redhawks starter Travis Hayes Saturday in the 9-5 win at Coaches Stadium.

Senior Caleb Howell, senior Brant Va-

lach and red-shirt junior Demetre Taylor make up went a combined 6-for-9 at the plate with two runs batted in and four runs scored.

Eastern knocked out Hayes after 6 1/3 innings after he allowed four earned runs, six total, with two walks and eight hits on the day.

SEMO continues to lead OVC After winning two of three games against Eastern, the Redhawks continue to stay atop the OVC. The Redhawks are 13-5 in the conference, just one game ahead of second place Belmont.

The Redhawks have also won four of its last six games and scored a combined 40 runs in the four wins.

Southeast Missouri is currently fourth in the conference in batting average with a .299 and leads the conference in ERA with a 4.14.

The Redhawks’ pitchers have thrown 315.1 innings striking out 280 batters while allowing 145 runs and 157 walks.

The Redhawks have the best fielding percentage in the conference, making 29 errors in 35 games played.

The Redhawks have two hitters on their team that are in the OVC top-10 in batting average in senior Andy Lennington and junior Clayton Evans.

Lennington is sixth in the conference in batting average with .382. He has four homers on the season and 25 RBIs Evans is hitting .367 on the season with four home runs and five doubles.

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

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Senior outfielder, Caleb Howell runs to third base in the Eastern men’s baseball game vs Southeastern Missouri Friday in Coaches Stadium.

Panthers host non-DI opponents

By Bob Reynolds Sports Editor|@BobReynoldsDEN The Eastern baseball team will host two non-Division I opponents over the next two days as Benedictine University (Springfield) and Illinois College come to Coaches Stadium.

T h e Pa n t h e r s w i l l h o s t B e n e d i c t i n e Tuesday at 2 p.m. and Illinois College Wednesday at 3 p.m.

Last season, the Panthers defeated Illinois College 8-2 in April, but they did not face Benedictine.

Eastern is coming off a tough threegame series against Southeast Missouri, where they lost 2-of-3 and had a hard time figuring out the Redhawks’ pitching staff The Panthers come into these two games with a 3-26 record overall.

Benedictine University comes in to the season with a 15-18 record overall. Illinois College is 9-12 overall on the season.

The Blueboys are led by junior outfielder Austin Dormire who is hitting .406 this season in 19 games and 69 at bats. He has one home run on the season and has 28 hits.

Jonathan Schrage is hitting .381 on the season for the Blueboys and has 15 runs

batted in and has 24 hits.

Pitching-wise, freshman Dylan Jones has a 4.15 earned run average on the season in six appearances and is 2-1 overall.

Eastern will be only the second DI opponent the Blueboys play this season. Illinois College played Bradley University early this season and lost 11-1.

Senior third baseman Brant Valach said playing these two games will be really good opportunity for some guys that don’t get as much playing time to get some at-bats.

“Although they aren’t DI, they are still college ball players and certainly can’t be taken lightly,” he said.

The Panthers offense has been struggling as of late with going 13-of-63 in their two losses over the weekend against Southeast Missouri.

Eastern second baseman Dane Sauer said in order to get back on track the Panthers need to keep doing what they have been doing.

“If you go back to Saturday, we played really well,” he said. “Sunday was tough.

That was a good pitcher who went for (Southeast Missouri). We should be fine offensively.”

The Panthers scored nine runs in the win Saturday against the Redhawks. East-

ern had 11 hits on the day and senior Caleb Howell went 3-for-5 with two RBIs. Howell has his 11-game hitting streak snapped Sunday, but he needs two hits to tie the Eastern career hits record of 260.

He leads the Panthers in with a .340 batting average.

Valach said pitching, defense and timely hitting will be the key to getting two midweek wins, which the Panthers have been struggling to get all season.

“When we get a lead, we need to keep staying aggressive and expanding on that lead,” he said. “The pitchers need to be aggressive and pound the zone.”

Eastern coach Jimmy Schmitz is starting senior pitcher Andrew Grahn Tuesday.

Grahn has a nine ERA on the season with six strikeouts.

Red-shirt senior Christian Slazinik will start Wednesday. He is 0-4 on the season with an 15.1 ERA and has 21 strikeouts.

The Panthers will get underway Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Coaches Stadium and 3 p.m.

Wednesday.

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

The Eastern women’s golf team finished in 11th place out of 13 teams in the Indiana State Spring Invite at the par-72, 6,055-yard course of The Country Club of Terre Haute.

Eastern was led by freshman Anne Bahr who posted a total of 10-over 82 Sunday and 9-over 81 Monday. She tied for 40th place.

Alex Pickens finished in 55th place with a 23over 167 for the tournament. Freshman Annie Getzin, who shot an 8-over 80 Sunday, added eight strokes to her total Monday and finished 56th overall.

Senior Tiffany Wolf shot a 26-over 180, and sophomore Chloe Wong shot a 27-over 171.

Host Indiana State University captured the title after shooting a team score of 301 Sunday and a 308 Monday.

William Woods University came in second with a team total of 616. Tied for first on Day One with a score of 301, Bradley University fell to third place after shooting a 317 Monday.

Western Illinois and Loyola rounded out the top five. The Leathernecks shot a 624 as a team and Loyola shot a 626 as a team.

Indiana State was led by sophomore Marissa Uradomo, who shot even-par 72 Sunday and a 4-over 76.

Uradomo placed first for individuals, and right behind her was senior Amanda Smith from Indiana State.

Smith shot a 3-over 75 Sunday and a 2-over 74 Monday for a total of 149 for the tournament.

Smith was tied with Bradley freshman Ally Scaccia, who shot a 2-over 74 Saturday and a 3-over 75 Sunday.

Placing fourth overall was William Woods University junior Myriam Hassan, who shot a total score of 151 for the tournament.

Rounding out the top five for individuals was Indiana State senior Erinn Sutton who shot two rounds of 4-over 76 for the tournament.

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

Men’s tennis team closes season with wins

By Cody Delmendo Staff Reporter|@DEN_SPORTS The Eastern men’s tennis 2015 season was full of potential but was never able to get going in the right direction.

Coming into the season, the Panthers were coming off an Ohio Valley Conference tournament appearance last spring.

After getting the four wins needed to qualify for the OVC Tournament, the team fell to Austin Peay 4-3 in the first round.

This season, Eastern had four players returning from that team including junior Robert Skolik, junior Rui Silva, junior Ryan Henderson and senior David Constantinescu.

There were more expectations of winning after missing the tournament for five straight seasons prior to the 2014 campaign.

None of those expectations and hopes of a winning year happened for Eastern by the end of the season.

The Panthers ended the season 4-15

“We competed well throughout the season and our handful of points being 5 -2 consistently. We have been in every match, but we just didn’t close out matches.”

- Eric Stark, men’s tennis coach overall and 3-6 in the conference season after going 7-10 overall with a 4-5 conference record last season.

Eastern finished towards the bottom of

the conference standings with only Tennessee State and Murray State below them.

Those numbers may not look much different but according to Eric Stark, Eastern’s men’s tennis coach, Eastern expected much more from their squad.

The Panthers struggled out the gates starting the season on an eight-game losing streak.

Eastern went 1-9 in their non-conference schedule with their only win coming at Chicago State on Feb. 28.

The Panthers conference wins were at Tennessee State, Murray State and Morehead State.

Though the season ended in disappointment for Eastern, the team will have all but one of their players returning next season, which will include three seniors to lead the way.

The Panthers will have a large amount of sophomores as well, which will include freshman Preston Touliatos, who showed signs of becoming one of the better players for the team this year.

Touliatos led all freshmen on the team with 10 wins in singles matches. The freshman also helped lead the team in doubles wins with his partner Skolik with five wins.

Stark will look to come back next season looking to build up leadership with a roster that won’t have had much change.

Th e pl ayer s a nd Stark b elieved they played a tough schedule and were always in every match. The Panthers were only shutout four times throughout the season.

“We competed well throughout the season and our handful of points being 5-2 consistently,” Stark said. “We have been in every match, but we just didn’t close out matches.”

The Panthers will return to action in the fall.

Cody Delmendo can be reached at 581-2812 or cddelmendo@eiu.edu.