APRIL 3, 2015
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Vocalist Steven Kaufman, bassist Dustin Politsch and drummer Shayne Cordevant make up Copecetic, a local favorite. Copecetic will perform at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Macs' Uptowner.
Copecetic, Todd Hazelrigg to perform at Uptowner By Kara Baker Verge Reporter Two Charleston favorites are performing together this Saturday at Macs’ Uptowner, located at 623 Monroe Ave. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. and cover is $3. Patrons must be 21 years or older to enter. Copecetic, a three-piece band that consists of vocalist and keyboardist Steven Kaufman, bassist Dustin Politsch, and drummer Shayne Cordevant, has been performing at Macs’ Uptowner for three years. This time, they will be joined on stage by guitarist Todd Hazelrigg.
“It’s great to have someone new play with us. It keeps me on my toes,” Kaufman said. “I’m looking for ward to what he’ll do.” Hazelrigg himself has played at Macs’ Uptowner four times in the past six months, opening for Copecetic during their last show, as well as the The Fights and Montreal Screwjob. “I’m happy to be a regular at the Towner. It’s a good hometown bar,” Hazelrigg said. Hazelrigg is a Kankakee native, but is moving to Charleston in the fall to study engineering at Eastern. Copecetic asked Hazelrigg to join them on a series of shows this summer. Saturday’s show is
the first of those shows. All their summer shows are promotion for Copecetic’s music
Kaufman said. “A good number of people coming back to Illinois for it.”
"It's great to have someone new play with us. It keeps me on my toes." Steven Kaufman, Copecetic vocalist festival, RageFest. Copecetic will be raffling off a pair of tickets to RageFest at Saturday’s show. RageFest is June 26-28 in New Athens, Ill., in St. Clair County. Kaufman expects 700-1,000 people in attendance to see the festival’s 24 artists. “ I t ’s g o n n a b e a h o o t , ”
Kaufman said RageFest started “as a party in a barn on a farm.” “ It g o t b i g g e r a n d b i g g e r. Eventually it got too big for the farm,” Kaufman said. “ It’s more work for me this year because it is so big. But we do it for the same reason we keep playing music anywhere: to share the love, have some fun, make a living.”
The full line-up and ticket information can be found at ragefest.com. Kaufman and Hazelrigg both said they’re excited to be playing together. The two have jammed together a few times, but this is their first attempt at working together professionally. “It’s been fun ever y time,” Kaufman said of playing with Hazelrigg. “I can only imagine it’ll get better with a little practice, dedication, and homework.”
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Two Charleston favorites will perform together Saturday at Macs’ Uptowner.
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Kara Baker can be reached at 581-2812 or kabaker2@eiu.edu.
'Sounds of the World' to represent four countries
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By Darronte Matthews Verge Reporter
at 7 p.m. Friday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Grand Ballroom. This event will feature students representing four different countries: Nepal, China, India and Korea. Saudi Arabia was expected to be included, but due to the students not showing up to the auditions, that country will not be included. The is not only a performance special where attendees simply watch foreign dances and musical
performances, but there will also be four social activities for everyone to participate in such as musical chairs, guessing games and cultural trivia. Tickets are $2 before the event at the International office and $3 at the door. Kevin Vicker, the director of the Office International Students and Scholars, said the event is normally annual; however due to its popularity last semester, it was includ-
ed again this semester. Vicker said this is not only a learning experience for everyone, but also a chance to simply blend the different cultures together and have a true sense of community. “It’s a chance to really learn about other cultures, but also to interact and have the feeling of community with the international students,” Vicker said. While this event will showcase the diversity on campus in an en-
tertaining way, Vicker says it also gives international students the opportunity to form relationships with other students on campus and not simply with those from their respective countries. Shifa Shamim, senior accounting major, is an international student and the president of ASI and she sees the event as pure entertainment while learning is merely up to those who choose to do so.
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Eastern’s melting pot is mixing up a foreign treat as its international students bring their culture to the small town with a blend of singing, dancing and musical performances. For the second time this year, The Association of International Students is putting on the two hour “Sounds of the World” event
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The participants of the “Take Back the Night” march prepare to begin marching around campus for sexual assault awareness on Thursday in the University Ballroom.
Eastern stands up against sexual assault By Cassie Buchman City Editor| @DEN_News Chants such as “Stop the violence; end the silence!” could be heard around campus during the Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service’s Take Back the Night march. The evening started with a performance by The Moondogs and keynote speaker Erin Walters, the executive director of SACIS. The University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union had booths for SACIS as well as a black sign people could write on in gold and silver markers. Wr i t t e n o n t h e b o a r d w e r e phrases such as “Consent is sexy,” “ We are listening,” “No means no,” and “You are not alone, speak out and speak up!” After The Moondogs finished
its set, Walters spoke about SACIS and sexual violence. “It is on all of us to make a change for sexual violence,” she said. “It is not a women’s issue; it’s an everyone’s issue.” She said anyone and everyone has been impacted or even experienced sexual violence. “People try to engage men and say, ‘Well, you have a mother, sister, aunt, girlfriend,” she said. “ We still believe the women in their life are important, but isn’t it a human rights issue?” Walters also talked about the history of Take Back the Night, which started in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. “It’s basically saying we deserve to live in a community free of not just violence, but gendered violence,” she said. She said one in five women will experience sexual assault in col-
lege, often during their freshman and sophomore year, and 75 percent of these women know their attacker. “There’s no stereotypical rapist in an alley, hiding behind a dumpster,” she said. Walters said it is rare to hear about children experiencing sexual violence even though it does occur often. “Only 12 percent of these will be reported,” she said. Walters talked about misconceptions about sexual violence and assault. She said some people think it’s the fault of the victim if she wears a short skirt or drinks. “That’s absolute bulls***,” she said. “I’m calling bulls***. It’s always 100 percent the responsibility of the person who chose to do it.” She said society still blames the victims.
Glow sticks were passed around during her speech to carry through the march. “ We’ll use the glow sticks to shine light with campus,” Walters said. The march started in the University Ballroom. Volunteers held a sign with the words “Take Back the Night” on it decorated with yellow stars. The march went from the Union down toward the South Quad, then looped around to Old Main and returned to 7th Street Underground. Two, four, six, eight, Stop the violence; Stop the Hate,” they chanted. “My name’s not honey; my name’s not baby. No means no; it don’t mean maybe.” Kathryn McIntosh, a senior kinesiology and sports studies major, said she came to the march to see what it is about. TAKE BACK THE NIGHT, page 5
Doudna uses state money, donations By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News Doudna uses multiple ways to pay for the variety of acts it brings in, including a portion of Eastern’s appropriated money from the state, the New and Emerging Artist Series Endowment Fund and other funds created by donors. Dwight Vaught, the assistant dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, said he manages Doudna’s budget. “The administration here will divide that money among all the departments, which Doudna gets a little bit of appropriated money,” he said.
The other source of Doudna’s funding is the New and Emerging Artist Series Endowment Fund. “This endowment fund started when the building was opened, and the way endowment funds work is that you put the money in a principle which is not touched,” Vaught said. “Then you are able to have the proceeds of the interest every year.” He said the EIU Foundation holds the series’ principle money, and every year Eastern tells them how much interest the fund has earned. “We also have some smaller funds like the classical music series endowment fund, which was started by some very generous donors many years back,” Vaught said. “So
if we are looking at something that is a classical music artist we can use some of that money to help underwrite those.” He said those are the main sources of funding for Doudna. The Doudna budget as a whole funds other things that go on in the College of Arts and Humanities, Vaught said. “There are visiting artist through the music and theatre departments as well as events like the Embarras Valley Film Festival, Lions in Winter and some of the humanities performances that happen along with the art events in Tarble,” he said. Vaught said the money is not just for Doudna to spend to bring the
artists onto campus; many local pieces need to be divided up. “The amount we have to spend on bringing tourist artists here is really only about a third of our budget total,” he said. The other parts of the budget are divided up to fit some of the other local needs. Vaught said when they have a contracted guest to come perform at Doudna, no matter how much is in the budget for that year, they have to pay what was promised in the contract. Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812 or sewhite2@eiu.edu.
The Apportionment Board listened to and approved the revisions for Student Government Association, Campus Recreation, and University Board budgets. The revised budgets will go to Student Senate, where they will decide the final vote on the revisions. Reginald Thedford, the student body president, presented the student government budget, go over what the student senate executives came up with in the allotted funds. “We took out $200 from the graphic design position and the social media marketing position,” Thedford said. “We wanted an increase from last time, we went up $100, and so we decided to decrease that amount.” Thedford also said the executive took out $1,000 from professional services, $400 from non-employee travel, $2,000 from wearing apparel, $900 from other commodities. Thedford was originally going to present the revised budget to student senate during its meeting on Wednesday; however, he was unable to. “It’s not the end of the world because I will present to them next week,” Thedford said. “I did want to get to them this week so that they will have a week ahead to look at the budget.” Thedford also said the senators would have been able to voce their opinions about what was cut from the budget but since the meeting was not in quorum, they were unable to do so. “It’s very likely that they may ask questions or question where we decided to cut,” Thedford said. “After explaining, I think they may understand where we decided to cut, I know it was it’s hard for us to cut where we did cut, but I think we made a good decision or good decisions on where we decided to cut from the budget.” Sarah Daugherty, the assistant director of facilities at campus recreation, was unable to attend the meeting to present the revised campus recreation budget. However, she was able to provide a power point detailing what campus rec revised in their budget. In the original budget proposal, campus rec request $211, 000, which was divided into $7,000 for maintenance costs, $54,000 for the six graduate assistants, and$150,000 for student employment. The revised changes would take away the $7,000 for maintenance and reduced student payroll to $131,485. BUDGET APPROVALS, page 5