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TAILGATE TRIUMPHS Students and families prepare for football with
The Eastern football team steamrolls Eastern Kentucky during Family Weekend. Page 8
food, drink, fun and games on Saturday outside O’Brien Field. Page 3
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family weekend | concer t
Cheap Trick rocks Lantz Arena with oldies, fun By Marcus Curtis Entertainment Editor @DEN_News Rick Nielsen, the lead guitarist for Cheap Trick, said students and their families were going to have fun, and the reactions from the audience confirmed as much. Students reunited with their family members Saturday to enjoy a performance from rock band Cheap Trick in Lantz Arena. The lights in the Lantz Arena dimmed as the sounds of a guitar and hard-hitting drums blasted through the speakers on stage, sending the crowd into an uproar of screams, claps and whistles. Cheap Trick opened up with a song to give the audience a proper greeting: “Hello There.” Robin Zander led the band in singing “Are You Ready to Rock?” to the crowd. The entire audience rose to their feet once Zander said, “I want you. ..” Zander completed his sentence to introduce their popular song, “I Want You to Want Me,” with an emphatic, “To want me” call. Pa r e n t s a n d t h e i r s o n s a n d daughters began to jump, dance and sing the lyrics to the song. Members of the University Board also participate by dancing and singing along to Cheap Trick’s popular track. After Cheap Trick left the stage, the audience united together to request an encore by holding up their cell phone lights and stomping their feet on the floors of the arena. The band returned and performed their other musical hit, “Surrender.” The crowd reacted by flooding the aisles to dance
Photos not to be published online Staff Report Photos of Saturday’s Cheap Trick concert at Lantz Arena will only be published in Monday’s print edition of The Daily Eastern News and not at dailyeasternnews.com as they normally would be. Before photographers for The News were able to enter the concert’s venue in an official capacity, they were required to sign a release limiting where the photos could be published. The release explicitly said photos of the concert could not be published online in any form. Seth Schroeder, the editorin-chief of The News, said this is not a problem the publication has faced with concerts in recent years. “It’s not been standard in our experience,” he said. “The print and online editions of The Daily Eastern News are the
same publication. Limiting us to print publication robs our online audience of experiencing those photos.” Schroeder said normally photos of the concert would not only be published at dailyeasternnews.com, but also shared on The News’ page on Facebook and posted through the newspaper’s Twitter handle @DEN_News. Though members of The News disagreed with the release, Schroeder said photographers signed it in order to bring images from a highlypublicized event on campus to as many people as possible. Katie Smith, the photo editor for The News, said she even though she disagreed with the release, she signed it under the condition that Cheap Trick Unlimited would not have prior review of which photos were published in The News’ print edition. k atie smith | The Daily Eastern Ne ws
Robin Zander, the lead singer of Cheap Trick, plays the guitar during the Family Weekend conc ert Saturday at 8 p.m. at Lantz Arena. Some of the parents who attended the concert dressed in black and white checkers to match the band and some even rushed the stage to get a closer look.
while the other people in the crowd waved their hands back and forth. T h e b a n d ’s p e r f o r m a n c e o f “Dream Police” was a creative one that the crowd enjoyed. The band
invited a police officer on the stage and handed him a guitar. The police officer simulated playing a guitar and sang the lyrics to the song along with Zander,
Nielsen and Tom Petersson, the bassist. Du r i n g t h e p e r f o r m a n c e o f “Dream Police,” the band threw autographed guitar picks into the
crowd. However, there was one audience member who received drumsticks from current Cheap Trick drummer, Daxx Nielsen. CONCERT, page 5
Family weekend | 2.5 and 5k
Families, friends gather to run race for Red Cross
By Jarad Jarmon Student Governance Editor @DEN_News
“Run for a Reason: Run Red” fundraiser ended New Student Program’s six-week Prowl program on Saturday, where roughly 75 people attended to either walk or run a 2.5K or 5K to support Red Cross disaster relief. Everyone participating ran or walked a loop starting at the Panther Pavilion and turned into Panther Trail. While some ran alone in support of the cause, people like Chelsey Johnston, a senior special education and psychology major, and her family ran together. Pat Johnston, Chelsey Johnston’s father, who placed first in the 5K run at roughly 22 minutes, said his family and he participate in these types of runs together when they can.
While he did not necessarily prepare for the race, Pat Johnston said he has been running for 35 years and tries to run every day. “I am always in training,” Pat Johnston said. Dawn Johnston, Chelsey’s mother, said they also normally do a race in Rockford together as a family. “We had one in Rockford every Labor Day weekend, and this is the first year they stopped doing that one,” Dawn Johnston said. Chelsey Johnston said she found out about the Red Cross run last year. “We usually go to the football game, but we’ve done that for two years,” Chelsey Johnston. “We saw it last year, and we were like, ‘Why didn’t we run the race?’” Chelsey Johnston said her dad pushed her sister Johanna Johnston and her into running, and she ended up eventually loving it after participating in track in high school.
was as mental sport as it is physical, which is why she listens to music to keep herself focused. “I always listen to my iPod. When I run, I love it just because I don’t like hearing the noise of cars because I run outside,” Johanna said. Unlike her sister, Chelsey Johnston said she finds that the music can be a distraction. Pat Johnston said he liked running, and it was also nice helping out the Red Cross. “I am in the Knights of Columbus, and we are a big supporter of the Red Cross,” Pat Johnston said. While there were many runners, some like Kelsie Abolt, a freshman amanda wilkinson | The Daily Eastern Ne ws family and consumer sciences major, Pat Johnston, of Rockford, finishes the 5k run by yelling “Go Panthers!” at and her father Doug Abolt walked the seventh annual EIU Run For a Reason: Run Red on the Panther Trail through the trail. Saturday near the Campus Pond. Johnston said his wife and two daughters “Usually, I run it and he walks it, also ran the event with him. but I am injured right now, so I can’t “I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to school, I just loved doing distance run,” Kelsie Abolt said. Abolt had shin splints, which run, Dad,’ and then I ran track,” now.” Chelsey Johnston said. “After high Joanna Johnston said running cause throbbing or aching in the leg. RACE, page 5