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By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor
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Ka-Wai Yu performed at the Low Brass Day-Grand Finale Artist Recital Sunday in the Doudna Recital Hall. Yu is the instructor of cello at Eastern.
Musicians dedicate recital to deceased music teacher By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
After a day of performances and master classes, the fourth annual Low Brass Day, hosted by the music department, finished out with a recital dedicated to former New York Brass Quintet trombonist John Swallow. Swallow died Oct. 20 of an unspecified illness. He was a career musician and played at Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
funeral and the return of Dwight D. Eisenhower from World War II, as a member of the military band during the war. Swallow went on to teach trombone at multiple schools and universities including the Yale University School of Music, the Julliard School, the Manhattan School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. He also preformed with numerous groups including the New York City Ballet Orchestra and the Chica-
go Symphony. The daylong Low Brass Day offered nine different workshops and classes and featured multiple Eastern music professors and guest musicians like trombonists Chelsea French and Mark Fisher. Although the recital program was not originally dedicated to Swallow, that changed after Fisher gave a speech about Swallow before beginning his second piece.
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Teacher to perform one-man show By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor
A one-man performance will narrate a teacher’s first year at a school, the issues he faced and the connection he made with the students he taught. Jack Freiberger, an actor turned teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District, will be performing a one-man show about how he combined his love of teaching and acting to inspire his students. The performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Black Box Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Dan Crews, the director of patron services at Doudna, said they
wanted to bring Freiberger’s show to campus because it would introduce students to his experiences. “He was a young, eager person who wanted to get a job and was looking for a new place to apply his education,” Crews said. Freiberger originally moved from Indianapolis to Los Angeles to become an actor before starting as a substitute teacher. Freiberger said he loved being a substitute so he got his credentials and started full time, but he still acts from time to time. “I don’t know how you can be a teacher without being an actor; you need to have that skill,” Freiberger said. “You don’t necessarily have to be a teacher to be an actor or an actor to
be a teacher, but it certainly helps in the classroom, that’s for sure. Crews said Freiberger was thrown into a new situation where he had to make connections with children who have grown up in a dangerous area and with different backgrounds than him. “He was able to make a connection, change people’s lives because of his way of teaching,” Crews said. “This just chronicles his teaching experience and what he was able to do there,” he said. Freiberger said he teaches fifth grade, and his show is based off of his career. “My first year was very inspirational,” Freiberger said. SHOW, page 5
Since 2001, Soup Stop in Charleston has been providing meals to anyone who needs or wants one. Eastern sends volunteers to the First Presbyterian Church once a week to help hand out free meals to the community. Rachel Fisher, the director of EIU Student Community Service, said many students have been taking advantage of the opportunity to help the community. “We’re excited because Soup Stop is a great program that provides a free meal Monday through Friday,” Fisher said. The food is catered by What’s Cookin’ and anyone is eligible for a free meal and a to-go lunch when they leave, Fisher said. “The goal is that every person who comes can get two meals,” she said. Soup Stop runs on a volunteer basis, so Fisher said the organization is always needing more volunteers, especially around this time of year when the weather gets colder and Thanksgiving approaches. “What’s really neat about Soup Stop to me is that it was born out of a group of people coming together and saying ‘We need to do something in our community for the folks who don’t have the opportunity to have lunch every day,’” she said.
Soup Stop is tied in with Eastern’s Hunger Challenge, which seeks to provide hunger awareness in the Eastern and Charleston community throughout November. “The No. 1 reason that motivates volunteers to participate for the first time is that they were asked,” she said. “This gives students a direct call to action.” Fisher said out of this, she hopes students promote some advocacy. “We’re actually booked full (for volunteers) through mid-November, so it’s been amazing to see the support we’re getting for this program,” she said. Soup Stop serves the community from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Charleston Monday through Friday. Eastern’s community service program takes volunteers to Soup Stop on Thursdays during that time. Since Soup Stop has specific food items they put in the to-go bag lunches, Fisher said they always need food donations. Barbara Cooper, one of the volunteer coordinators for Soup Stop, said she calls for volunteers for about half of the year. “I very much enjoy helping people get connected with Soup Stop,” she said. “It’s such a wonderful organization, and the Presbyterian Church has excellent facilities for it.” Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or redexter@eiu.edu.
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Warbler wins first place in Best of Show, DEN takes third at conference Staff Report
The Warbler won first place for the yearbook fewer than 300 pages category Sunday in the Associated Collegiate Press’ Best of Show. The winners were announced during the 2012 College Media Advisers Convention in Chicago. This marks the second year in a row that the Warbler has taken first place in Best of Show. Danny Damiani, a senior journalism major and the editor-in-chief of the Warbler, attributes this success to the staff ’s switch in yearbook design. Damiani served as the managing editor of the Warbler last year. The yearbook staff used successful books in higher categories as a model to strive for, and they transitioned to a cleaner, less cluttered design, he said. “After the switch, we have photos speak for themselves and have content tell the story instead of distracting it with design,” Damiani said.
Kristin Jording, an Eastern graduate and the former Warbler editorin-chief, said they worked to achieve a classier, sleeker look to set the yearbook apart from others. “It felt rewarding that the book got the recognition it deserved for all of the hard work we put in,” she said. The Warbler was also a finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press’ Pacemaker, one of the most prestigious awards in student journalism. Also during the convention, The Daily Eastern News won third place in Best of Show for the four-year daily tabloid category. Elizabeth Edwards, a senior journalism major and the editor-in-chief of The News, said it is her staff’s philosophy to always strive for the best they can be. “I think our dedication shows through in every story and photo we do,” she said. “We are a small staff compared to schools we go against, which means we work even harder to compete.”