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Residence halls raced across Campus Pond for the latest ROC Fest activity.

Jackson Avenue Coffee is set to host a fundraiser for Housing, Outreach, Prevention Education of East Central Illinois

In honor of Latin Heritage Month, LASO will read stories about the Day of the Dead to children at the Booth Library

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CAA passes English course revisions

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Jinhee Lee, Asian studies coordinator and history professor, encourages students to pick up fliers about teaching and studying abroad in South Korea, Japan and China.

Opportunities to study in Asia available

By Kennedy Nolen Multicultural Reporter | @KennedyNolenEIU Students learned about opportunities to teach and study in Asia during an information session Thursday.

Natalya Rodriguez, a representative from the Consulate-General’s Office of Japan in Chicago, discussed the Japan Exchange and Teaching program, which she took part in after graduating from college.

Rodriguez taught elementary school and junior high school students for three years in rural Japan from 2013 to 2016.

The Japan Exchange and Teaching program is supported by the Japanese government.

The program allows native English speakers to obtain a paid, full-time job teaching in Japan.

Rodriguez explained there are two types of positions in the Japan Exchange and Teaching program.

The first is an assistant language teacher, and the second is a coordinator for international relations.

Assistant language teachers work with a teacher in a classroom planning lessons, creating games and helping students, Rodriguez said.

When Rodriguez was in Japan teaching, she got to go see traditional rice planting and go on field trips with the students.

The coordinators for international relations work in government offices, interpreting and teaching English in rural or small towns. They also help with communication between sister-cities.

Japan Exchange and Teaching program recipients are also offered a free languagelearning course online for free. It is through a company called CLAIR, specifically offered to those participating in the program.

Applications are currently available for people interested, and they are due by Nov. 9.

History professor Jinhee Lee, who is also the Asian studies coordinator, said she studied abroad in Japan during her sophomore year of college, and eventually studied in the United States.

She said she loved studying abroad because of the diversity and she got to learn about other cultures.

During the presentation, Lee encouraged students to take advantage of opportunities around campus to learn about other cultures.

Aleah Wunder, junior studio arts major, spent the spring semester of her sophomore year in Osaka, Japan.

She said her reason to study abroad stemmed from a childhood interest in Japanese animation that later developed into appreciation for Japanese culture and art.

Wunder said she used the efficient transportation system and appreciated the beauty in traditional Japanese architecture.

She also recognized things she learned from previous classes and applied them to her experiences in Japan.

“I really developed a lot of self-confidence by traveling to Japan,” Wunder said. “The environment was very welcoming.”

Wunder said she participated in novelty aspects of Japan, such as going to a themed café and stumbling across a cosplay convention in the middle of a park.

Senior English major Lizzie Bridges studied in South Korea at Sogang University in Seoul during the spring semester of her sophomore year.

Bridges said studying in Korea helped her communication skills and adaptability, and that she made life-long friends.

“I think it’s important to see different world views than your own,” Bridges said.

Two common programs let students study in Korea.

The Teach and Learn in Korea program lets people with an associate’s degree teach in rural towns for 15 hours a week.

The English Program in Korea requires a bachelor’s degree.

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Natalya Rodriguez, a representative from the Consul-General Office of Japan in Chicago, shares her experience with the Japan Exchange and Teaching program.

This program will more than likely pay for the teacher’s housing and a health care plan, and pay for travel expenses to and from Korea.

Kennedy Nolen can be reached at 581-2812 or kdnolen@eiu.edu.

In a unanimous vote, ENG 1009G, Stories Matter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and ENG 2011G, World/Multicultural Literatures proposed revisions were approved by the Council on Academic Affairs.

Dana Ringuette, chair of the English department, said the changes were made to make the courses more accessible to students.

“They’re pretty interdisciplinary and complement any number of majors and minors,” Ringuette said. “We believe they’re likely to be attractive to students.”

Revisions to ENG 1009G include the changing of the course number from a 2000-level course to a 1000-level course, making it part of the dual enrollment initiative and updating course themes.

CAA member Barry Kronenfeld said he questioned whether making composition 1, 2 or remedial competition a prerequisite for another course was needed.

“I doubt whether this additional prerequisite is even necessary if you’re designing a course that can be taken concurrently,” Kronenfeld said.

He said having prerequisites will add administrative complications.

Ringuette said the goals in composition 1, 2 and remedial composition are very different from ENG 1009G, which focuses on literature so students can be enrolled in both without having trouble.

“We didn’t want to restrict students who are in 1000 from the opportunity to take a literature course,” Ringuette said.

Even though questions over the prerequisite were raised, the ENG 1009G revision proposal was passed as written.

Revisions proposed to ENG 2011G included offering the course online.

“It’s a change that we wanted to make in terms of the study of multicultural and world literatures and be able to offer this to our students in the general education curriculum,” Ringuette said. “It satisfies the humanities of the gen ed, which it always has, and also now the cultural diversity, and depending on the topic, any number of the minor programs.”

Ringuette said with this proposal, the course would be changed from its current three sections, which are poetry, fiction and drama to a more updated curriculum including world and multicultural studies.

“Student-instructor interactions will take place via email, the discussion board on D2l, synchronous office hours and student-student interactions will take place on discussion boards,” He said.

CAA vice chair Richard Wilkinson said while it was not a deal-breaker in his voting in approval of the proposal, the proposal looked more like a sample or a model syllabus than a proposal.

“I just think in the future even things like daily in-class or online writing would clarify for us, I think,” Wilkinson said.

The revision proposal passed as written.

Chrissy Miller can be reached at 581-2812 or clmiller9@eiu.eduedu.

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Rauner agrees to allow Medicaid for abortions CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner ended months of speculation Thursday and signed legislation allowing state health insurance and Medicaid coverage for abortions, as the first-term Republican reversed his stance on the proposal from last spring.

The General Assembly controlled by Democrats approved the measure in May but delayed sending it to Rauner until Monday, in part because he has changed his mind about support of the plan.

As a candidate in 2014, Rauner said he would support expanding coverage for abortions. But last April he said he opposed the idea and said the state should focus on improving the economy.

Rauner announced his intentions to support the plan at a downtown Chicago news conference, saying he'd talked to advocates on both sides of the issue and both had good arguments. But he added that he's always supported abortion rights and won't change his views.

He signed the bill privately.

"The passions, the emotions, the sentiments on both sides of these issues are very powerful. I respect them very much," he said. "I believe that a woman living with limited financial means should not be put in a position where she has to choose something different than a woman of high income would be able to choose."

The proposal would allow abortions funded by state employee health insurance and Medicaid. Democrats argue all women should have the same access to abortion services. Republicans argued taxpayers should not be forced to fund a morally objectionable procedure, particularly during a state budget crisis.

The Department of Healthcare and Family Services estimates the annual taxpayer cost of abortions under the measure would be $1.8 million.

The decision has been politically difficult for Rauner, who's considered one of the most vulnerable governors nationwide in his 2018 bid for a second term.

The former venture capitalist first won elected office in 2014, in part by getting support from independent voters in the suburbs, especially women, with his pledge to have "no social agenda." He often campaigned with his wife, Diana Rauner, who calls herself a "lifelong Democrat."

Rejecting the measure would turn off those voters while signing it would risk enraging social conservatives and could mean a primary challenger for him.

The law takes effect immediately after he signs the bill.

The measure also removes language in Illinois law that states a desire to criminalize abortion if a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing the procedure is overturned. Democrats initially sold the bill as a means of keeping abortion legal if Roe v. Wade were dumped.

President Donald Trump, who took office in January, has promised to nominate Supreme Court justices bent on revisiting Roe.

Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner dies at age 91 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipesmoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s, has died at 91.

Hefner died of natural causes at his home surrounded by family on Wednesday night, Playboy said in a statement.

As much as anyone, Hefner helped slip sex out of the confines of plain brown wrappers and into mainstream conversation. In 1953, a time when states could legally ban contraceptives, when the word "pregnant" was not allowed on "I Love Lucy," Hefner published the first issue of Playboy, featuring naked photos of Marilyn Monroe (taken years earlier) and an editorial promise of "humor, sophistication and spice."

Playboy soon became forbidden fruit for teenagers and a bible for men with time and money. Within a year, circulation neared 200,000. Within 5 years, it had topped 1 million.

By the 1970s, the magazine had more than 7 million readers and had

inspired raunchier imitations such as Penthouse and Hustler. Competition and the internet reduced circulation to less than 3 million by the 21st century.

But Hefner and Playboy remained brand names worldwide.

Asked by The New York Times in 1992 of what he was proudest, Hefner responded: "That I changed attitudes toward sex. That nice people can live together now."

Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926, to devout Methodist parents who he said never showed "love in a physical or emotional way."

"Part of the reason that I am who I am is my Puritan roots run deep," he told the AP in 2011. "My folks are Puritan. My folks are prohibitionists. There was no drinking in my home. No discussion of sex. And I think I saw the hurtful and hypocritical side of that from very early on."

Hefner ran Playboy from his elaborate mansions, first in Chicago and then in Los Angeles, and became the flamboyant symbol of the lifestyle he es-

poused. For decades he was the pipesmoking, silk-pajama-wearing center of a constant party with celebrities and Playboy models.

Hefner was host of a television show, "Playboy After Dark," and in 1960 opened a string of clubs around the world where waitresses wore revealing costumes with bunny ears and fluffy white bunny tails. Playboy's clubs also influenced the culture, giving early breaks to such entertainers as George Carlin, Rich Little, Mark Russell, Dick Gregory and Redd Foxx. The last of the clubs closed in 1988, when Hefner deemed them "passe" and "too tame for the times."

After a stroke, Hefner handed control of his empire to his feminist daughter, Christie, although he owned 70 percent of Playboy stock and continued to choose every month's Playmate and cover shot. Christie Hefner continued as CEO until 2009.

Hefner is survived by his wife, Crystal, as well as his daughter, Christie; and his sons, David, Marston and Cooper.

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Builder of pipeline gives North Dakota $15 million BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The builder of the Dakota Access pipeline sent North Dakota $15 million on Thursday to help pay law enforcement bills related to months of sometimes violent protests over the project's construction.

Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners has wired the money, said Mike Nowatzki, a spokesman for Gov. Doug Burgum.

Company investors also contributed, he said.

The $3.8 billion pipeline began moving oil from North Dakota to a distribution point in Illinois in June. The project is still being contested in federal court by American Indian tribes who fear a leak could endanger their water supply, and protests from August to February resulted in a large-scale police response and more than 700 arrests.

The state has arranged for a bank credit line of up to $43 million to cover policing costs, including $5 million just added this week. Maj. Gen. Alan Dohrmann, who heads the North Dakota National Guard, has said costs shouldn't go past that figure.

Burgum said in a statement he was grateful for the contribution.

"We remain committed to pursuing all available avenues to ensure that North Dakota taxpayers alone don't bear the enormous costs of law enforcement, life safety and other resources expended on the protests," he said.

North Dakota officials, including the state's congressional delegation, have long pushed for federal reimbursement to cover all costs related to the protests. Burgum asked President Donald Trump for a disaster declaration earlier this year to cover the costs of the protest, but the request was denied.

The state on Monday did get a $10 million grant from the U.S. Justice Department to help pay some of the policing bills.

State officials have argued the federal government should pick up the entire tab because the protesters based themselves on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land without a permit, and federal officials wouldn't evict them due to free speech reasons.

ETP had a longstanding offer to help reimburse the state for law enforcement costs. Former Gov. Jack Dalrymple declined the offer, saying it was unclear whether the state could legally accept it.

Burgum had long said he was open to the offer.

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Night of Hope set for Friday

Bang the drum

By: AJ Fournier Campus Reporter | @DEN_News

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Chris Aghaei (left), a graduate student and music major, Victor Kindermann (middle), a sophmore music major, and Kennedy Steben (right), a freshman 2D studio art major, play drums outside of the Doudna Fine Arts Center Thursday night. “It will make you a better person,” Kindermann said about the Panther Marching Band, which he is a part of. “I like the family aspect.”

Annual Fall Festival celebrates community, local businesses

By Brooke Schwartz Staff Writer | @brookesch_wartz The fifth annual 18th Street Fall Festival will feature in-store sales and activities for everyone, including a new cookout this year.

Also set to be seen at the festival, which will take place around 18th Street, will be live music, such as Ron and Jan Easter, as well as carriage rides.

The carriage ride will be free, and is scheduled from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. and will start from Bartley’s Garage.

The Charleston Farmers Market will participate with the festival, as well as restaurants and different food vendors that businesses have chosen.

According to Steve Runyon, who owns the Home Again Consignment shop, this event is

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put on by various businesses on 18th Street, who originally wanted to get the word out about their products.

Runyon said what started out as a business promotion has turned into a community tradition.

The festival is family-friendly and is open to everyone, with activities for all age groups, he said.

Runyon said there will be face painting, and many craft vendors have been invited to join the festivities.

Out of the 18 businesses participating, 14 will provide games or activities outside of their in-store sales, he said.

The participating businesses get to decide which events or activities they will feature.

The Charleston Fire Department is a new addition to this year’s festival, holding their first annual “smoke-house” cookout.

Sharon Hunter, who owns the 18th Street Gar-

den Stop, has participated in the 18th Street Fall Festival every year.

She said it keeps growing in popularity, which is good for the businesses and community alike.

“We hope that this keeps growing in the future,” Hunter added.

Hunter and Runyon said they hope people who attend the event will learn about the many unique local businesses that Charleston has to offer.

The same businesses that are in charge of the festival also host a similar event in the spring, called the Spring Block Party.

Both the Block Party and the Fall Festival are a good mix of supporting local businesses and uniting the community, Runyon said.

Brooke Schwartz can be reached at 581-2812 or bsschwartz@eiu.edu.

People can listen to music and participate in a silent auction to help support Housing, Outreach, Prevention and Education of East Central Illinois at “Night of Hope.”

The annual fundraiser is set for 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday at the Jackson Avenue Coffee shop.

Angie Hunt, director of housing programs for HOPE, said all proceeds donated will go to HOPE, but specifically be designated to the emergency domestic violence shelter program.

The fundraiser will have a silent auction and two different bands are set to perform.

“It is a great night for the community to come together and have a lot of fun,” Hunt said.

Hunt said the silent auction would feature a variety of items for people to buy.

“The auction has a little bit of everything from art pieces, jewelry, gift certificates, paintings,” Hunt said.

Hunt said the fundraiser has been hosted at the JAC for the past 13 years, beginning when she met with the coffee shop’s previous owners.

“We usually get a great crowd of Eastern students and community members,” Hunt said.

Dano Reible, co-owner of the JAC, said his business helps HOPE because the shop is communityoriented, and this event gives the JAC the opportunity to give back and HOPE the opportunity to host a fundraiser without having to deal with costs.

“We provide the space and all the silent auction items are donated, and we don’t charge any fee to HOPE, and the bands volunteer their time,” Reible said.

The two different bands that are playing are Big Blue Moon, a bluegrass folk band and Motherload, a folk and rock band.

The bands will start playing around 6 p.m. and will be followed by the silent auction, which has over 130 items being auctioned.

Reible said the turnout has always been positive from the community and Eastern students.

“A lot of the students that come in and study are also around to stick around and help support any community event,” Reible said.

Hunt said that in addition to this fundraiser, HOPE does host additional fundraisers throughout the year, such as Bowls of HOPE, which is hosted in February.

AJ Fournier can be reached at 581-2812 or ajfournier@eiu.edu.

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Budget Cuts

Abbey Whittington

Skip the sweets, take the medicine

You take a bag of your favorite candies and you cannot wait to taste them; so much so that your craving goes beyond the ideas of savoring the sweets and you decide to purge them all in one sitting.

In the moment you do not care about the later consequences; the sweet flavors taste better than the reality of rotting your teeth, a stomach ache or acne.

Our gluttonous, careless behaviors allow our pleasantries to temporarily blind us of the truth. Which might be nice for the moments of endless pieces of candy until you are getting cavities filled.

These candies are just like the little white lies we tell people to make our lives easier. Just like candy, lies are what most people want to hear because they are usually sweeter than the truth we are hiding from.

It is always harder to swallow the medicine, and more importantly our pride. We would rather do what is easier than what might be uncomfortable, even if it will help us in the long run.

This is a personal truth I seem to be facing a lot lately, not only with myself, but also with the people in my life.

The thought of talking through conflict with an open and honest mindset makes most people want to squirm in their skin suits.

We instantly want to rank someone else’s actions as worse than our own, because competition and justification is easier than owning up to our mistakes.

I know I would rather shut someone up quickly with a white lie than to hurt them with the truth, but in the long run, there is no weight left on my shoulders if I am just honest with myself and everyone I associate with.

And I especially hate when I am lied to, so it is only fair that I give everyone else the same honesty that I expect.

On top of that, little lies generally spread quickly into bigger lies, so it is easier to avoid them altogether rather than making a mess.

Even if it is harder to work through cringy conversations that might hurt our egos, I think it is important and healthy for us to see ourselves for who we are, even if that means we are being rotten.

I am a stickler for the idea of honesty being the best policy, and in the end, I find it more beneficial if everyone takes the medicine.

Abbey Whittington is a junior journalism major and can be reached at 581-2812 or anwhittingtona@

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Support the work SACIS does Since The Daily Eastern News delivers news and sports content to a primarily college-based audience, the staff is familiar with the unfortunate fact that sexual assualt has been a reoccurring (not to mention unnecessary) problem on college campuses.

Therefore, with a staff made up of primarily women, we are not oblivious to the ugliness and truth that hides on college campuses and do our best to look out for each other.

We always remind each other to lock apartment or dorm doors, or insist on walking someone home because we never know who might be lurking in the shadows just waiting to prey on someone they feel is powerless and therefore a target.

The idea that this is a way of life for women on college campuses and within our staff is troubling, to say the least.

Women should not be afraid to walk alone at night or during the day, period.

They should not have to be forced into a life contaminated with “what-ifs” and horrific possibilities that plague the back of their minds.

To live with the constant risk of rape or

to have to walk on the other side of the street because we are afraid of the stranger walking toward us is not acceptable.

Women should not have to fear for the worst when they are simply trying to get home.

Women should feel safe anywhere they go and wearing anything they want.

We believe that blaming the victim is not an option and permits rape and sexual violence to continue.

Such attitudes toward these atrocities make the situation worse and are a step back.

Progress is achieved when everyone comes together to not only offer support for survivors of sexual violence but to also recognize that it is a major problem that happens everywhere, including college campuses.

That is why The Daily Eastern News supports the work that Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service does, especially as it gets ready for its next event this Saturday.

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Sean says: Don’t ‘tip’ too far, too fast Nothing scares me more than the Chicago Cubs becoming TOO successful. I only say that because I watch way too much “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and I saw what success did to “The Gang.”

If you have not seen “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,” it is essentially about five ragtag, alcoholic, insane friends who own a bar in south Philly.

Nearly ever ything they do would be frowned upon in the real world.

The fictional characters, called “ The Gang,” as well as the professional and very real Chicago Cubs baseball team, are similar in their path to success.

Again, I watch way too much of the show and have a deep love for it, so that is why I have this crazy thought.

Some more background on the show.

The Gang is Charlie, Dennis, Dee, Mac and Frank.

Charlie is basically the janitor for the bar, which he attributes the success of the bar to because of how clean it was.

Dennis, a bartender, says it is because of his good looks, Dee thinks the success is because of her being the pretty waitress with “one-liners,”—even though her jokes never land.

Mac considers himself “the beef ” of the bar, the security tough guy, which he really is not. And Frank basically just hangs around and does nothing.

Sean Hastings They spend more time drinking in their own bar than they do serving the extremely limited customers they do get, but after years of failing, they tip and become successful.

For the Cubs, their tipping point last year was when the won the World Series, obviously.

They started doing all the right things a couple years before and eventually they tipped.

And if you follow baseball, you know they clinched the National League Central Division Wednesday.

Now this is where I get scared. The Cubs have gotten so good, so can they tip too far?

If they are as similar to The Gang as I see

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ness of the issues and effects of sexual victimization through training programs….we also protect the rights of victims by influencing the creation of sexual victimization laws and policies.”

As a result it is without a doubt that The Daily Eastern News tips our hat to SACIS and applauded their continuous effort in supporting survivors and encouraging awareness to eventually put an end to sexual violence.

As college students, we also encourage our peers to step up and support SACIS and the survivors they represent.

We encourage anyone who can make it to go to the Take Back the Day march this Saturday to stand in solidarity with survivors and their supports.

We encourage the campus to do what they can in order to help survivors take back the security and the peace of mind they rightfully deserve.

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it, maybe.

What happens to The Gang is that Dee spends too much time being funny, Charlie gets way in over his head because he has to bartend, Mac gets severely obese and Dennis puts chemicals on his face trying to live up to physical perfection.

Put all that together, and they are back to their original ways of being complete failures.

Javy Baez is a fun player to watch.

Can he become so flashy that he focuses too much on that instead of being successful? Can John Lackey get way in over his head trying to do too much and start yelling at his teammates, just like Charlie screamed at customers?

Can Anthony Rizzo get extremely fat and stop being the player he is?

And will Kris Bryant be too focused on being a poster boy for the Cubs, like Dennis wanted to be for the bar?

Who knows? All I know is that The Gang failed horribly and went back to their original ways after getting the bar packed. Can the Cubs get too good and go back to their 100-loss season ways?

Tipping too far can be costly.

Just kidding. The Cubs are winning it all again.

Sean Hastings is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or smhastings@eiu.edu.

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ROC Fest boat races signal end of this year's competition

By Mary Ellen Greenburg Staff Photographer | @DEN_News The annual Eastern boat races signal that the end of ROC Fest is quickly approaching.

The residence halls spend almost a week every fall collecting boxes that they can use to build their boats.

ROC Fest is an annual competition between the residence halls, who participate in various activities.

Douglas Hall won the boat race for the second year in a row Thursday evening.

Shawn Hammers, the president of Douglas Hall Council, was happy that they had “back PHOTOS BY MARY ELLEN GREENBURG | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS to back wins."

Amber Clark, a freshman elementary education major, paddles across Campus Pond in the annual boat races. The races are one of the last "We were defending our title," he said. events for ROC Fest, a competition between residence halls. Clark is representing Lawson Hall in the races.

Sierra Headrick, a senior sociology major from McKinney Hall, said before the race that she was really looking forward to going in the pond.

“I’m looking forward to getting in," she said.

Annie Pettit, a senior communication studies major from Andrews Hall the hall started working on their boat on Sunday night.

“It’s fun to see something you worked on come together," she said.

Residence Halls clapped and cheered for their teams in the water.

Even students who were not competing were at the races, rooting for their favorites to win.

Mary Ellen Greenburg can be reached at 5812812 or meegreenburg@eiu.edu

Natalie Santillan, a sophmore elementary education major, tries to stay afloat in her boat for Taylor Hall.

Douglas Hall residents celebrate their second win in a row at the ROC Fest boat races at Campus Pond.

'Story time' to teach children about Latin culture

By Kennedy Nolen Multicultural Reporter | @KennedyNolenEIU The Latin American Student Organization will introduce Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, to children by reading them picture books, explaining the holiday’s history as well as making sugar skull masks.

As part of the Booth Library’s ‘Story Time’ series, LASO will read 10 a.m. Saturday to children ages 3 to 7 in the Ballenger Teachers Center at the Booth Library.

Katrina Thompson, the secretary of LASO and a sophomore early childhood education major, said Day of the Dead is an important holiday and tradition in Latin America, and it is around the same time as Halloween in the U.S.

LASO will give children a view on different cultures by teaching them about Día de los Muertos and how it is celebrated in Latin American countries, Thompson said.

Thompson said LASO wants to show visual representations of the altars used in the celebration and what they are made of.

There will be books available on the history of Día de los Muertos at a higher reading level for older children who attend, Thompson said.

Children will also have the opportunity to create their own calavera, or sugar skull mask, with supplies brought in by LASO members.

LASO has already celebrated Latin Heritage Month by having an elote sale and blood drive. Elote is a cup of corn

with mayonnaise, butter and chili pepper.

Thompson said the elote sale on Sept. 19 was successful, with the organization making about $142 by selling around 72 cups.

27 people donated blood in the lobby of Andrews Hall during the blood drive, Thompson said.

The final celebration LASO will be hosting for Latin Heritage Month is called Vamos a Bailar, where participants will get the opportunity to learn different dances from Latin America. Vamos a Bailar is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 7.

Kennedy Nolen can be reached at 581-2812 or kdnolen@eiu.edu.

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Michele McDaniel, coordinator of the Ballenger Teachers Center and Reference Librarian, gives a presentation for the Booth Library’s “Dark Arts and Other Wicked Ideas: Harry Potter, Banned Books and Intellectual Freedom” lecture that took place on Thursday.

Ryan McDaniel, a communication studies professor, also spoke during the lecture.

“I’m hoping that students will come out knowing that there’s different ways of looking at things, and being a little bit better prepared to engage ideas that might scare them or that they might not agree with,” Michele McDaniel said. “A lot of times, we can only be comfortable talking about what we’re passionate about and what we know.

I also hope they’ll realise that libraries are great places that are committed to fostering a love for information and reading.”

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Men’s soccer team heads to Western

By JJ Bullock Assistant Sports Editor | DEN_Sports

The Summit League’s top defensive team will meet two of the conference’s top three scorers Saturday when the Eastern men’s soccer team travels to face Western Illinois.

Eastern and its defense, which has five shutouts to its name this season, will face a scoring tandem from Western on Saturday in the form of the Summit League’s leading scorer Fernando Pacheco (six goals) and his counterpart Drew Whalen, who is third in the conference, with five goals.

The senior-junior attack of Pacheco and Whalen have accounted for 11 of the 13 goals scored by Western this season.

The pair will not be a new challenge to the Eastern defense, as two years ago Whalen was the Summit Attacking Player of the Year and Pacheco is a returning se-

nior who scored four goals last season.

“Western has always had attacking threats,” Eastern coach Kiki Lara said. “We just make the guys aware and we build our team with players that can neutralize that.”

As a whole, Western is averaging 1.63 goals per game and 11.6 shots. Both of these totals are lower than what they allow as a unit of defense, as the Leathernecks surrender 2.13 goals per game and 13.3 shots.

“Western is always a gritty, hardworking and competitive team with a lot of experience in getting Summit Conference tournament births,” Lara said. “They have a lot of know how. So, we are just expecting them to be exactly what they have always been which is that.”

For Eastern, the game will be its second conference matchup in cross-state battle.

“I think it has to do more with

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Freshman Shady Omar attempts to kick the ball away in the Panthers’ 1-0 win over Saint Francis Sept. 10 at Lakeside Field. The Panthers play at Western Saturday.

conference play. The guys are built now to know that every conference match there is always an added perk with points on the line. With six teams in conference now it’s a battle,” Lara said.

Lara said there is not a weak team in the conference; while Omaha and Denver are in the top 10 in the region, the other teams in the Summit are capable of winning a match.

“So there is never an easy game, it’s very competitive and I think our guys get up for conference and they know what to expect,” Lara said.

Coming off a 0-0 tie with one of the top teams in the country in Omaha last weekend, Eastern is feeling like it can compete at a high level with any team right now.

“Confidence is high with our guy,” Lara said. “But again, confidence is a mind-set thing, it’s something that we work on every day with our guys, with our program. So yeah I would say that at the moment confidence is high, because our guys are playing well and they know it, and we just have to keep progressing on both sides of the ball and specifically find ways to get aggressive and get forward and be positive so that we can find a goal or two on the weekend.”

JJ Bullock can be reached at 581-2812 or jpbullock@eiu.edu.

Women’s soccer team set for two at home

By Dillan Schorfheide Women’s Soccer Reporter | @DEN_Sports

The Panthers were 5-2-1 two weeks ago, before losing the four matches, three of which were on the road, a place where Eastern has struggled this season, resulting in a 1-4-1 away record.

The Panthers have two home matches this weekend against Eastern Kentucky Friday and Morehead State Sunday.

E a s t e r n’s o f f e n s e h a s b e e n blanked over the stretch of those four matches, something the team had experienced only once before

against Milwaukee on Aug. 27.

“We have had trouble keeping our possession in the final third,” said junior defensive midfielder Kate Olson.

With everything seemingly going against Eastern recently, the team will get a break and will play two home matches this weekend, where the team has thrived (4-2 at home).

Three of the four losses were to conference opponents, so while Eastern will get a break from the road matches, they will not get a break from the pressure of conference play.

But Olson said this weekend is

an opportunity to turn the season around.

“It’s still earlier in conference play, so getting our first win at home is crucial for us to be able to change our momentum into the upcoming games,” she said.

Eastern is currently tied for last in the OVC with Jacksonville State, both 0-3 in Ohio Valley Conference play.

Eastern Kentucky will be the highest-ranked OVC team Eastern has played so far, sitting in second place in the conference with an undefeated (2-0-2) conference record.

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Eastern will have to contain the Colonels’ two leading scorers, senior forwards Jordan Foster and Emmi Carroll, who both have four goals this season.

The Morehead State Eagles are 2-7-1 overall with a 1-3 away record. Morehead State beat OVC opponent Tennessee-Martin and tied Southeast Missouri, giving the Eagles a 1-2-1 conference record, which puts them in ninth place in the OVC. Easter also holds the series record over Morehead, with a 12-8-3 series record. This is the 24th meeting be-

tween the two teams.

The Panthers’ defense will be taking a hit. Olson has a shoulder subluxation and will not play this weekend, and senior defender Carrie Caplin will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL. Fellow defender, junior Kayla Stolfa, sprained her ankle but will play, and freshman defender Eva Munoz will miss the weekend with a concussion.

Eastern’s match Friday will start at 3 p.m., and Sunday’s match is set for 1 p.m.

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Eastern with OVC road test Saturday

By Sean Hastings Sports Editor| @DEN_Sports Coach Kim Dameron gave his team the music back at practice this week— at least he tried to, because the O’Brien Field speakers were not working.

For the first time in two weeks, the Eastern football team played a sound game and picked up an Ohio Valley Conference win against Southeast Missouri last week at home.

Now, the Panthers are going to be tested on the road against Tennessee State Saturday. The Tigers lost their opener 31-16 to Tennessee-Martin.

Eastern’s win was a positive way to start OVC play, but the Panthers had a hard week of practice, and even though Dameron brought the music back after the win, it is off their mind now.

“We’re happy that we won, but our sights are on TSU,” Dameron said. “We know that we have to put the work in to make sure that we’re supposed to down (in Nashville).”

Redshirt freshman Scotty Gilkey Jr. is the team’s quarterback again this week after making his first career start last week.

Gilkey Jr. connected with junior Alexander Hollins for two touchdowns last week, and Hollins said he is comfortable with Gilkey Jr. as quarterback.

“We’re feeling great with Scotty,” Hollins said. “We get chemistry with all our quarterbacks, whether it’s Mitch (Kimble), Scotty or Bud (Martin). We’re going to get chemistry with all of them, and whoever goes in we’re going to be pretty good with any quarterback.”

Hollins is the Panthers’ leading receiver with 19 receptions and 229 yards. His two touchdowns last week were his first two of the season.

He said Tennessee State likes to press, something that Southeast Missouri did not do, and that when the Tigers do that, the receivers have to win the oneon-one battles.

Eastern has tried to make things eas-

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Redshirt freshman quarterback Scotty Gilkey Jr. celebrates a rushing touchdown with James Sheehan and Aaron Callaway in the Panthers’ 19-16 win over Southeast Missouri Saturday at O’Brien Field. Eastern is on the road this weekend to take on 0-1 Tennessee State.

ier on Gilkey Jr., making the calls from up in the booth rather than on the field.

Gilkey Jr. is the second-leading rusher for the Panthers just behind junior running back Isaiah Johnson.

He is in the midst of improving his pass game, but Dameron said it is going to come down to what looks they get in the game for what they will call for Gilkey Jr.

“(We’ll call) what he plays he likes, the plays he’s comfortable with,” Dameron said. “Those are things we want to do with him. The same way we do it with Mitch. It’s just a different guy.”

Although the Tigers gave up 31 points last week to the Skyhawks, 24 of those points came in one half, but defense has been their strong suit in Dameron’s four years at Eastern, he said.

“That’s one thing you know about a TSU team, they’re going to play great defense,” Dameron said. “They’re going to be athletic, they’re going to be well coached and they’re going to play their hind end off.”

Tennessee State’s quarterback Treon Harris was hurt last week, but is expected to play for the Tigers on Saturday.

Michael Hughes is the backup for

Tennessee State, and Dameron said the Panthers are preparing to defend against the Tigers’ offense and will figure out which quarterback they are going after when the game starts.

Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.

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

Eastern volleyball team seeking first OVC win

By Kaitlin Cordes Volleyball Reporter | @DEN_Sports The Eastern volleyball team is still searching for its first Ohio Valley Conference win of the season and will have a chance to get it Saturday when it hosts Tennessee State.

The Panthers have yet to topple conference competition, dropping matches to returning conference champions Murray State, Austin Peay and Southern Illinois Edwardsville. Tennessee State is 1-2 in the conference, tied for third with Edwardsville.

Tennessee State recently played crosstown rival Belmont for its second Ohio Valley Conference game of the season.

Tennessee took the match to three sets, but winning just one (16-25, 18-25, 2521, 22-25).

Despite losing, the Tigers recorded several season-high statistics. Setter Samantha Beltran had her ninth doubledouble of the season with 28 assists and 12 digs. Middle Maya Evans notched her career high in blocks with two solo and five assisted. The team earned their season-high blocks at 11.

Middle Rachel Henderson led both teams in kills at 18. Henderson is a junior transfer but has already proven she is a dominating force for the Tigers. She recorded 58 total kills in the teams’ last six matches.

Tennessee State won the last meeting against Eastern. The match was a sweep

for the Tigers (8-25, 23-25, 13-25). Senior outside hitter Maria Brown led last season’s efforts against the Tigers with eight kills and one ace. Junior setter Taylor Smith was also an anchor for the Panthers in last season’s matchup. Smith recorded five kills and one block.

Brown is currently the team leader in kills at 158. She is also the team leader in service aces with 16. Another threat on Eastern’s side of the court is freshman outside hitter Laurel Bailey. Bailey has recorded 141 kills this season and 16 blocks.

Smith has truly polished her setter position this season as she is looked to as a team leader. She has earned 118 kills, eight services aces, 322 assists and 158 digs.

Eastern is 3-4 at home for all games and 0-1 in home conference games. Tennesse State comes into the match 0-5 away and is on a one-game losing streak.

The Tigers’ overall record is 5-11, and Eastern sits at 6-9. This is the only time the Panthers will face the Tigers, barring a conference championship appearance for either team.

The Panthers host the Tigers Saturday afternoon at Lantz Arena at 2 p.m. Eastern will then go on a five-day break before facing Southeast Missouri at home.

Currently in conference standings, Belmont, Murray State, Austin Peay and Tennessee-Martin are in a four-way tie for first. Jacksonville State, Southeast Missouri and Eastern Kentucky are

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Freshman Laurel Bailey goes up for a kill in the Panthers’ 3-0 win over Alabama A&M Sept. 8 in Lantz Arena. Eastern is still looking for its first OVC win.

in the running for second at 1-1 apiece.

Tennessee State and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville are tied for third

at 1-2 while Morehead State, Tennessee Tech and Eastern are tied for last with no conference wins.

Kaitlin Cordes can be reached at 581-2812 or krcordes@eiu.edu.