HEROES ASSEMBLE
GOING THE DISTANCE
A fraternity and sorority will host a super hero themed 5K run on Saturday.
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The women’s basketball team has been invited to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament after winning the regular-season OVC title. Page 8
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Harold Ornes shares his longtime passions outside of the academic spectrum
Chicago man faces felony charges
Dean by day, drummer by night By Bob Galuski Entertainment Editor Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a series focusing on Eastern faculty members and uncovering their unique hobbies. In order to escape the realities of work and everyday life, Harold Ornes likes to submerge himself in his two favorite hobbies: drumming and flying. Evidence of Ornes’s favorite pastimes are scattered throughout his office in Old Main. Small trinkets, such as Bugs Bunny flying a plane, or a clock disguised as a drum set, fill the dean of the College of Sciences’ office, as a constant reminder of what he enjoys to do. Ornes said he uses his hobbies to take a break from the pressures of his job and life. “I don’t have to worry if the budget is going to balance. I can just focus on what I’m doing,” he said. Playing the drums since he was in the second grade, Ornes said his passion came at an early age when he would be constantly banging or hitting any object in his house. “I was always drumming around, just all over, and my parents finally decided I should get lessons,” he said. “Now I could just go into a room, close the door and do my thing.” He added that around the time he turned 15, he was playing genres of music that included big band and blues. While he does not have an official band he performs within Charleston, Ornes has been playing with different local musicians. “I just played with Chat Noir at Dirty’s (Bar and Grill) for a charity event,” he said. “We raised around $400.” Each of the musicians rehearsed about four times before the performance at Dirty’s, which Ornes said worked into his schedule of being a dean. “In the 80s, I would rehearse about two nights a week, but now with one time a week, it works,” he said. Ornes said he has mostly played at roadhouses and different Moose, Eagle and Elk clubs. “Old folk entertainment,” he called it. However, the most memorable venue he has played at was in a funeral home in Missouri. “It was in this big castle-like building, like Old Main,” he said. “The owner wanted to throw a party for the community.” Ornes also mentioned he had recently begun to learn how to play the harmonica – a skill that originated from a joke.
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Harold Ornes, the dean of the College of Sciences, has been playing the drums since he was in the second grade. While he does not have an official band in Charleston, he has performed with local musicians. He also has his pilot’s license, which he uses to fly around the country.
A Chicago man who was accused of causing a fatal accident on March 2 is facing felony charges. Michael Fogarty, 25, is being charged with aggravated driving under the influence for an accident that killed Amy Thomas of Springfield. The four-car accident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. on March 2 at a red light at Route 16 and Lerna Road in Mattoon, injuring nine people. Fogarty was ticketed for DUI, driving too fast for conditions and failure to reduce speed, and no seat belt. Thomas had been traveling to Charleston over the weekend to support Taylor Jones, an Eastern basketball player, who had lost his mother to cancer, at a basketball game that day. Fogarty had a blood alcohol content of more than the legal limit when the accident occurred and was driving at an excessive speed. He is scheduled to appear in court on April 9 at 9 a.m.
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A wooden drummer sits on Ornes’ desk in his office in Old Main.
A metal plane sits in the windowsill of Ornes’ office. Ornes began piloting planes about 35 years.
“It takes a while to load and set up a drum set, so I was joking saying I would learn how to play the harmonica – I just need to throw it in my pocket, and I’m good to go,” he said, laughing. When he is not rocking out with his drum set, Ornes said he likes to turn his attention on another diversion – flying his airplane. “This guy I knew took me out to a country airport where they were offering flying lessons,” Ornes said. “The woman told us all about it, and
the guy I was with said he wasn’t interested, and then she looked at me and asked if I was interested.” Ornes said he told her he did not know that much about it, and asked if they took people up in the airplanes. “She said absolutely, and I got into the plane, and she knew I was hooked,” he said, smiling at the memory. He said he was placed in the cockpit with the pilot, and while the pilot had the controls, Ornes flew for the most part.
After that, he said he began taking lessons and received his license. One of the things Ornes said he enjoys most about flying is the people he meets while traveling in his 1967-model plane. “It’s not unheard of to land in Nebraska or somewhere and have a farmer get off his tractor and fill up your plane,” he said. “They’ll loan you a car and you can go get food, or stay the night, return the car and be on your way.” DRUMMER, page 5
A former Charleston police officer who was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl had additional felony charges brought against him Monday. David Iwaniw, 33, a former employee of the Charleston Police Department, made his first court appearance Monday. Lorinda Lamken of the Illinois Appellate Prosecutor’s Office filed charges of child pornography against Iwaniw for an incident that allegedly took place in February. The charge accuses Iwaniw of recording video of the alleged sex act with the girl at his charleston home. According to the case records, Iwaniw’s preliminary hearing will take place on April 9.