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SASHA’S SOFTIES

A SWIMMER’S STORY

Cancer survivor Sasha Edwards makes blankets and pillows for children with cancer.

Olga Livshits is an Israeli transfer student and is making waves on Eastern’s swim team.

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Students crowd the Grand Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union during the Spring Pantherpalooza where many student organizations attempted to accumulate more members. The event took place from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Organizations battle for attention at Pantherpalooza

By Chacour Koop Special Projects Reporter “How do I get a free shirt?” the student asked a member of the University Board at Pantherpalooza.

T h e U B b o o t h w a s c ov e r e d with cups, magnets and key chains — free for the taking if students stayed to hear what the organization is all about.

The student listened to the UB member then walked back to her own booth with a new shirt, showing it off to her friends.

Danny Turano, the UB chair, stood by his booth and greeted students as they walked by. “ We say, ‘ You have to learn about UB first before you can get free stuff,’” Turano said. “It’s definitely helping out.”

The whole room buzzed with conversation as students crowded into the Grand Ballroom filled with representatives from more than 200 student organizations Wednesday. Jenna Mitchell, the student vice president for student affairs, said the room was so crowded she may expand the event to the University Ballroom next year.

She said she hopes this will attract more people throughout the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Across the room from the UB representatives, there were less people at the EIU Bike Club booth.

Club president Mike Anderson said he is pleased with how much interest the booth generated.

He had 14 people sign up for information about the club that organizes group bike rides and promotes bicycle advocacy in the Charleston community.

He offered flyers to roaming students and a road bike was displayed behind the booth.

“I don’t think people come here for the free stuff,” Anderson said.

“I’ve just got flyers and you can look at my cool bike.”

Colleges Against Cancer, the organization that will plan Relay for Life on April 5, offered magnets and pens.

However, that is not why Brad Tribble, an employee for the American Cancer Society, thinks students came to his booth.

“I guarantee you go to every table here and everyone has been touched by cancer in some way,” Tribble said.

The Relay for Life is scheduled to be a kickoff for Greek Week this year and fraternities and sororities have signed up teams throughout the evening, Tribble said.

At the combined booth for the Astronomy Club and Physics Club, club members let students make their own lava lamp out of oil, water and food dye in a water bottle.

When Brian Wood, a Physics Club member, poured Alka Seltzer into the mixture the bottle boiled like a lava lamp.

He said it helped bring a lot of attention to their booth. .

“People are intimidated by physics, but not if you make it look like Bill Nye the Science Guy,” Wood said.

The American Chemical Society booth offered pencils, wristbands and cards with the periodic table of elements but did not have many visitors.

Logan Hurst, a senior chemistry major, said he only had five people sign up for information in three hours.

“People don’t come to our booth much,” Hurst said. “We know people don’t like chemistry, but it’s not that much chemical stuff. We do a lot of fun stuff together.”

He said he hopes people will come join the club because they take field trips to breweries and places like the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

Allie Rice, a member of the American Chemical Society, said

Senior history and political science major Aaron Sieben speaks with the director of Career Services Linda Moore at the Spring Pantherpalooza. Moore handed Sieben several sheets with important upcoming dates for graduating seniors to take advantage of, such as internship searches and resumé builder workshops.

chemistry should not be a scary

"You have to learn about UB first before you can get free stuff."

Danny Turano, UB Chair

thing to other students.

Hurst and Rice packed up their promotional items and folded the cloth covering their table an hour before the fair ended. Rice walked away from her booth.

“I want to go get free stuff,” she said.

Chacour Koop can be reached at 581-2812 or cmkoop@eiu.edu.

Free pens and pencil-shaped stress relievers are placed on the OASIS (Organizations of Adult Sudents Informative and Supportive) table for students to take at the Spring Pantherpalooza in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

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Sasha Edwards, senior at Charleston High School, is the owner of Sasha’s Softies, a charity that makes blankets and pillows for St Louis Children’s Hospital pediatric oncology unit. Edwards' goal last year was to make 150 blankets for the hospital. Edwards battled leukemia but is now in remission.

Teen's blankets comfort cancer patients

By Amanda Wilkinson City Editor After her leukemia went into remission, a Charleston teenager decided to donate blankets so children in hospitals could feel more at home.

Sasha Edwards, a senior at Charleston High School, created “Sasha’s Softies” in 2009 with the motto “Warming the lives of kids with cancer.”

Through Sasha’s Softies, Edwards hand makes then donates fleece knot blankets to children’s hospitals.

Edwards said she started making blankets after she was diagnosed with leukemia in 2008.

She said whenever she woke up from surgery, getting a gift made a difference to her.

“When I was in the hospital, I got a lot of knot blankets and different gifts,” Edwards said. “I loved receiving gifts. It made my day.”

She said she knew she wanted to make blankets because they are cozy.

“It just came immediately because I love blankets,” Edwards said. “I have a ton of them.

They’re very comforting.”

Her leukemia is now in remission, but she said she plans to keep making and donating blankets.

She said when she started “Sasha’s Softies” in 2009, her goal was to make 35 blankets in one year.

She said the first couple of years, she and her family made the bulk of the blankets.

“We have done that before, come home and make blankets after blankets,” Edwards said.

But in that first year, Edwards ended up making 96 blankets.

In 2012, her goal was to make 150 blankets and surpassed her goal again by making and donating 206 fleece knot blankets and 16 pillows.

Edwards said she had a lot of help this year than in past years because groups at Eastern and CHS made blankets for Sasha’s Softies. “ We a c t u a l l y g o t a l o t o f groups together last year,” Edwards said. “Eastern helped us out making blankets, and a high school club came and helped make the majority of them.”

Edwards said she also had blanket-making parties and her friends would come over to make blankets.

The Edwards family donated all the blankets to the St. Louis Children’s Hospital, SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center and St. John’s Mercy pediatric oncology units.

She said even though her goal is for the year, her and her family start making blankets again around August.

“We usually start sometime in August or September,” Edwards said. “I feel like I don’t want to

make any more blankets.”

She said she is not sure about a goal for 2013, but she knows she needs a break.

“I’m still trying to finish up this year with thank-you cards and stuff,” Edwards said. “We’ll probably increase it to maybe 200 (blankets).”

She said in that time her family takes a break and she focuses on school.

Edwards said when she graduates high school, she wants to go into nursing.

However, she said she still wants to continue blanket making.

“I want to get it to a non-profit (organization) eventually because that will make it easier to get donations,” Edwards said.

“Make it bigger, more hospitals.”

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.

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Council to vote on revisions Staff Report The Council on Academic Affairs will vote on several revisions during its meeting Thursday.

One course to be reviewed is BIO 3210: Immunology.

Jeffrey Laursen, a biology professor and the instructor of the course, said the proposal would add an hour of lecture each week.

He said the additional hour would allow the class to have more time for discussion of recent events dealing with immunology.

“It will allow me to get to case study type information,” he said. “So we can talk about the disease states associated with immunology, so what happens when the immune system doesn’t work right or what happens when the immune system is actually causing the problem,” he said.

The communication disorders and sciences department proposed revisions to the requirements for a CDS Bachelor’s degree.

The revisions are in compliance with new standards to be put forth by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.

By 2014, ASHA will require students who apply for its certification to complete a statistics course.

The council will also vote upon revisions to the pre-law studies minor.

Proposed changes include substituting the English requirement of ENG 4760: Studies in Professional Writing with ENG 3001: Advanced Composition.

ENG 3001 would be added to the list of electives along with PHI 3050: Social and Political Philosophy.

The proposal states that the additional electives would better prepare students for law school.

“The minor should contain a good mix of courses from various departments, and previously, only one Philosophy course was offered as an elective,” the proposal states.

The new course OPD 3020: Principles of Organizational and Professional Development will be reintroduced.

The council tabled the proposal for revisions during its previous meeting.

The council will meet 3 p.m. Thursday in Room 4440 of Booth Library.

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Guitarist leads classical ensemble

By Bob Galuski Entertainment Editor A visiting group of musicians will bring the unique sounds of a string quartet blending with the musical styling of a classical guitarist to Eastern.

The Petar Jankovic Ensemble will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the recital hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Dwight Vaught, an assistant dean in the college of arts and humanities, said Jankovic found a Latin style of guitar playing and brings that style to the ensemble, to contrast with the classical sounds of the other string instruments.

“You don’t normally find a chamber ensemble led by a guitar,” he said. “It produces a powerful and graceful sound.”

Jankovic, a Serbian native, began playing professionally in the mid-1980’s, Vaught said. Bringing

Jankovic to Eastern has taken a couple years, Dan Crews, director of patron services at Dounda, said.

“We’ve been talking about how we would fit the ensemble into our schedule for about two years now,” Crews said.

tar department there as well, Vaught said.

Vaught said by setting the performance in the recital hall, a smaller venue, it will offer a more intimate setting for both those attending and those performing.

“You don’t normally find a chamber ensemble led by a guitar, it produces a powerful and graceful sound.”

-Dwight Vaught, assistant dean in the college of Arts and Humanities Although he has never seen the Petar Jankovic Ensemble live, Vaught said he has watched many of their videos online.

Jankovic will be accompanied by Sophie Bird and Minju Kim on violin, Rose Wollman on viola and Kyra Saltman on cello.

All of the performers, including Jankovic, are musicians from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Jankovic is the head of the gui-

“Sometimes simple is the most meaningful,” he said. “You get back to the purity of people just playing music. It won’t be a sound you’ll soon forget.”

Crews also said by scheduling the performance for a Thursday night, there will not be too much competition.

The ensemble will also be meeting with students and classes before the performance, where the ensem-

C AMPUS | STUDENT SENATE

A new Student Senate member viewed the meeting from the view of the u-shaped table instead of as an outsider in the audience on Wednesday.

Dani Swindel, a junior history major, said she was thrilled to join the Student Senate members at the table after watching for a semester in the audience.

“I feel special. I came to meetings sitting in the audience and now I’m official, so I get to sit at the big table,” Swindel said.

She said the meeting went smoothly because there was little discussion.

“This early in the semester there is not really a lot of stuff to talk about, even though we have big plans for this semester,” Swindel said.

Despite the short meeting, Swindel said she is excited about the rest of the semester and is looking forward to working on different projects.

She said she applied to the Student Senate because she wanted to get experience to use in real life.

“This is what I want to do in real life and I’m going to graduate school for Public Administration,” Swind-

Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or rggaluski@eiu.edu.

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Student Senate adds member

By Samantha McDaniel Student Governance Editor

ble members will give a small performance and answer any questions.

“Whenever we have artists come and play, we always stress these kind of classes for students and community members to connect with the performers,” Crews said. “They can share tips, anything from rehearsals to touring.”

Tickets for the performance are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $7 for students.

Crews said the Box Office is now accepting Panther Cards in order to purchase tickets .

“If you have money on your Panther Card you can buy a ticket,” Crews said. “People might pass through, see the performance and want to go but might not have enough cash, so this is an easier, simpler way to pay.”

el said.

Bill writing and governmental procedure is something Swindel said she imagines she will do in the future. “(I’m looking forward to) accomplishing things, good things, and moving the university in a good direction,” Swindel said.

She said she is looking to begin accomplishing things through the tobacco-free campus open forum.

“This tobacco-free thing is a big deal, and it’s going to be controversial, but it could be a good thing,” Swindel said.

She said she is excited to see what students want because that is how they will choose what to do.

Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gurick, a sophomore business major, said they will have the forum on Feb. 20 in the Grand Ballroom.

“I want to listen to what the students have to say about the issue so that we can make an informed decision about what we want to do,” Gurick said.

The open forum will provide students and faculty with the opportunity to speak about the pros and cons of the issue, he said.

Gurick said he wanted to have the forum sooner, but was not able to

schedule the Grand Ballroom for any time before that and he said that is the only venue large enough to accommodate a large number of students.

Students and faculty can also express their opinion by contacting Gurick through phone, email or in person.

Student Body President Kaci Abolt, a senior communication studies major, said she is working to appoint a student for the open spot for the Health Advisory Board that meets three times a semester.

“It’s another one of those boards that have a student representative and their board always goes to the student body president to appoint that representative,” Abolt said.

Most of the representatives for other campus boards were appointed in August and September, but the Heath Advisory Board representative was unable to continue because of a class conflict.

Abolt said she had Student Senate member David Wasserman show interest and hopes to have him approved at the next meeting.

January 17, 2013

Petar Jankovic Ensemble 7:30 p.m. at Doudna Fine Arts Center in the Recital Hall.

Tickets are $7-$15

January 18, 2013 Deadline to Drop Course with No Grade - All Day Deadline to Drop Hours and Not Be Charged - All Day

January 19, 2013

“W” for Course Withdrawal Begins - Spring 2013

January 21, 2013 No classes in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday

CRIME ON CAMPUS At 9:23 p.m. Tuesday a Disorderly Conduct was reported at Carman Hall. This incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards.

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Charleston to change energy provider

By Elizabeth Edwards Staff Reporter Residents will receive 28 percent worth of savings off their electrical supply bill because of a municipal electrical aggregation program, according to the Charleston city manager.

The program was passed by a referendum last November and allowed Charleston to partner with different municipals and counties to negotiate their electrical supply, said city manager Scott Smith.

After partnering with more than 50 municipalities and counties, Smith said they consulted Good Energy to help Charleston through the contract and bid process of selecting an electrical supplier.

Homefield Energy won the bid for the 50 plus communities includ-

ing Charleston, but each individual community entered into a separate contract and selected the best rate for their community.

to take part in the renewable energy program and now Charleston is the only city in Coles County that has 100 percent renewable energy.

“This will certainly help students off-campus and will put a little bit more money in their pockets.”

-Scott Smith, city manager “By going out together, we have saved the residents considerable money,” Smith said. “Communities like Charleston benefit from aggregation because on their own they likely would not get the interest from the energy suppliers afforded to the larger buying group.”

Homefield Energy also agreed to supply Charleston with 100 percent renewable energy.

The city and Eastern’s involvement in energy projects influenced Smith

The switch from Ameren Illinois to Homefield energy will take place in the next 30 days and most residents will see the switch in February.

Residents will still get a bill from Ameren, but the only difference will be the name of the electrical supplier on the bill, which will be Homefield Energy.

Heather Kukendall, city comptroller, said the city has already sent out a card informing residents about the

program and allowing residents to opt out of the program by sending the card to Homefield.

The opt-out period ended on Wednesday.

If residents did not get a card about the aggregation program, they should contact Homefield Energy if they would like to participate in the program, Kukendall said.

Next year, if students move into a different residence in Charleston, they should contact HomeField Energy to ensure they are participating in the program, Smith said.

“This will certainly help students off-campus and will put a little bit more money in their pockets,” Smith said.

Elizabeth Edwards can be reached at 581-2812 or eaedards@eiu.edu.

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Help students kick the habit, don’t force them

andating the prohibition of tobactobacco users would be reprimanded with informaOUR POSITION co products on Eastern’s campus • Situation: Faculty Senate passed a resolution tional pamphlets with the hazards tobacco leads to. represents good intentions to lightOn top of the bitterness the prohibition could in favor of becoming a tobacco-free campus. en a historic health risk, but it serves as a poor evoke, the ban would shame tobacco users into • Stance: Eastern should provide support for solution that has the potential to unleash a flood changing their lifestyle instead of constructively trythose who want to quit, but not ban smoking. of concern within the university community. ing to find a solution.

Last week, the Faculty Senate passed a resoWe advise that the university should seek alterlution in favor of implementing measures to become a tobacco-free campus, native measures to promote healthy activity by advocating quitting with a cammeaning no smoking, chewing or any other forms of tobacco use. paign.

Eastern, like other higher-education institutions, grants an extent of personThis campaign could include offering group classes open to tobacco users, al freedoms to its students in order to promote their growth. These freedoms, quitters and those with family who have been harmed by tobacco to provide a along with a greater sense of responsibility, help gradually mold these students forum where people can be comfortable expressing their opinions. into adults.

This would provide users who wish to quit — but do not have the motivaHowever, it is the adults’ decision whether or not to participate in tion — to have a support group and positive reinforcement. This could bring unhealthy behavior such as smoking or using other forms of tobacco. together students, faculty and staff.

Especially in the U.S., any semblance of diminishing freedom can lead to Neither a campus-wide ban nor a lengthy impersonal survey will drive anger and protest. We do not think students striving for independence will Eastern community members to quit using tobacco products on good respond well to the university holding their hands and saying “OK children, it terms. is time to kick that nasty habit.”

We support the promotion of healthier living on campus, but an indiStudents were not forced to start using tobacco products, and they should vidual must have the choice. Instead of dictating what legal activity people not be mandated to stop; they are responsible for their own actions. are allowed to subject themselves to, Eastern should provide joint collaboraIn addition to students, who are in the early stages of adulthood, we can see tion and support to persuade an action, not enforce it. faculty and staff having an even more difficult time accepting the change.

The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of According to the Jan. 9 article “Tobacco resolution passes Faculty Senate,” The Daily Eastern News. the enforcement of the tobacco ban would be a “soft-nudge approach,” meaning

Our generation is obsessed with ourselves Today, I want to tell you about my good friend Sarah, and why you are just like her — a member of this snap generation of 20-somethings.

On any typical day, it’s easy to catch Sarah looking silly — or more specifically, looking at her phone, making funny faces.

This is because Sarah, and I assume most of you reading this, are a part of this generation of youths (myself included) that should be called the snap generation.

We are obsessed with having everything in a snap, quickly. We make snap decisions and snap judgments, each typically pairing with unfortunate consequences. We want our drinks refilled quickly, our Internet access quicker, and our gas filled Qik-n-EZ. Now, we even want our photos to be quick, effortless and erased from the face of the Earth in a matter of seconds after your friend sees it.

Snapchat gives us this capability. So, no wonder everybody (especially those with iPhones) is downloading the app and snapping their friends.

I experience a funny, awkward feeling every time I see Sarah (or anybody else, for that matter)

Alex McNamee making a silly face, taking a picture of herself and sending it to a friend. The moment only becomes especially awkward if the recipient of Sarah’s snap is in the same room.

The same goes for any two people out on a date with each other, who sit in a cozy booth texting each other — or checking their Facebook and “liking” each others’ statuses about being with one another.

The rate of awkwardness skyrockets when you see somebody trying to look like the devil or temptingly sexy for a friend on the other end of a snap.

I’m not exempt from this. I look ridiculous, too.

Hell, I took a picture of my shoes the other day

— in response to my friend Colleen’s snap of the shoes she wore to work.

We are obsessed with ourselves, sort of.

MySpace started it. Everbody who used MySpace knows the typical “MySpace photo” where you hold a camera in the air, above your head, and make your best depressed face.

There may be no weirder moment then catching somebody snapping a picture of themselves.

It may even be weirder than how I felt when I saw a triple-trailer FedEx freight driving on the highway near South Holland this fall. Then, I started to wonder if FedEx freight trucks were similar to Barrel of Monkeys — just attach as many trailers as you can to the back of the truck, until it’s too much to handle and the monkeys break apart.

I haven’t seen a triple-trailer freight since, but I don’t think I can get away from self snaps everywhere I look.

Alex McNamee is a senior journalism major.

He can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@gmail.com

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UNIVERSIT Y BOARD | TALENT E VENT

Attendance scarce at talent show Staff Report In less time than it took to set up the sound equipment, members of the University Board shut down “EIU’s Got Talent” for lack of attendance.

The event started at 7 p.m. in the 7th Street Underground, and by 7:15 p.m. the University Board Vice Chair David Sims canceled the talent competition after only four students had arrived.

Sims said the nearly non-existent number of students at “EIU’s Got Talent” was surprising.

“I don’t know what happened,” he said. “We had people handing out flyers and posters were put up, it was pretty promoted.”

If students had participated, the winner would have won a 15-minute set at the University Board’s next open mic event.

However, since there was no winner, Sims said he was unsure of how the University Board would go about deciding who would perform

the set.

“We’ll have to see if we’re even going to have somebody perform now, since the winner was supposed to keep going on to every open mic night,” he said.

Sims also said he had heard about a similar event, “Eastern’s Got Talent,” which is separate from the University Board.

“I don’t know if that’s going on, but that could be where some of the confusion came from,” Sims said.

Alex Dodge, a freshman family and consumer sciences major, was one of the few people attending.

Dodge said she had heard about “EIU’s Got Talent” during another University Board event – “Up All Nite Anything Glows.”

Although she was there, Dodge said she had no intention of performing during the competition.

She also said the low turn-out was expected.

“This happened last semester with one of the comedians, no one really showed up,” Dodge said.

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An open microphone stands on stage in front of numerous empty seats in 7th Street Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Members of the University Board had planned the event "EIU's Got Talent" to start at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. However, no performers decided to attend the event, leaving an almost empty room. The talent competition was canceled by 7:15 p.m.

C AMPUS | BOARD OF TRUSTEES

BOT to vote on housing rate increases

By Stephanie Markham Administration Editor The Board of Trustees will vote on a proposal to increase housing rates during its meeting Friday.

The proposed increase would raise housing rates 2 percent for residence halls and Greek court and 3 percent for university apartments.

Mark Hudson, the director of university housing and dining services, said the increase would be low compared to changes in the past.

“I’ve got 37 years worth of history of room and board rate increases and that’s the lowest one in our records,” he said.

Hudson said the housing rate for University Court apartments would stay the same.

“There’s a lot of apartment availability in town and most people are keeping their rates flat, so we’re doing the same,” he said.

Hudson said the increases would help to cover the increased costs of utilities.

Paul McCann, the university treasurer, said housing rate modifications generally follow changes in the consumer price index.

He also said the rate in which the prices increase has been declining.

“The rate of increase has been dropping in the last few years,” he said.

“We are aware that students are having to pay more and more of the expenses, and it's getting harder to make ends meet, so we’re trying the very best we can to keep our cost increases to a minimum.”

The board will also vote on recommended purchases, which includes nearly $869,000 to improve the east half of the University Court parking lot.

McCann said this allowance would pay for completion of the

two-year project.

“We started tearing up the parking lot and putting some drainage in there so that, in effect, what happened was when it rained a lot of the water would come into the apartments,” he said.

Another proposed purchase is nearly $311,000 for the installation of protective film over the windows in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

McCann said the investment would go to making the building safer for students.

“We’ve had problems with some of the glass in Doudna,” he said. “We had two panels break and fall a couple of years ago, so this project is to put a clear, plastic safety film over the glass so it won’t fall.”

In other business, the board will consider approval of a revised union contract from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The contract is up for renewal ev-

ery three years.

The board will also vote on a revision to the board regulation that specifies rules on public comment during meetings.

Part of the revision would add the sentence, “The board chairperson shall have the ability to limit comments if deemed irrelevant, repetitious or disruptive.”

McCann said the revision would be a relaxation of existing rules.

“In general, you have to call and get on the agenda to make a presentation to the board and this whole process just allows some of that to happen a little bit easier,” he said.

The board will meet 1 p.m. Friday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union.

Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or samarkham@eiu.edu.

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ATHLETICS | MEN’S BASKE TBALL

Panthers seek to halt Racers’ offense

By Anthony Catezone Sports Editor

Murray State was picked to win the Ohio Valley Conference for a reason.

The reigning OVC champion Racers’ offense is entirely opposite from that of the Eastern men’s basketball team.

“Their offense is very fast, up-tempo and athletic,” junior guard Morris Woods said. “We have to get back on defense and not allow them to score in transition. That starts with containing their offense and containing Isaiah Canaan.

The Racers rank second in the Ohio Valley conference averaging 74.3 points per game, while the Panthers rank last scoring an average of 56.7 points per game.

Woods said the Panthers must have a near perfect game to match the Racers on offense.

“We have to guard more and make them work for it on defense,” he said.

“We can’t give them anything. We can’t take quick shots, we have to work for lay-ups, post-ups and get in the paint.”

The two offenses will meet at 7

p.m. Thursday in Murray, Ky. Murray State enters the match up 12-4 overall and 3-1 in the OVC. The Racers lead the west division of the conference.

The Racers have split their last six games.

Eastern is last in the OVC at 3-15 overall and 0-5 in conference. The Panthers have lost 11 straight games.

Canaan is Murray State’s NBA prospect guard and the defending OVC Player of the Year Award winner.

Just like the Panthers said they would do with Tennessee Tech standout Jud Dillard, Canaan will not be given any special attention.

Head coach Jay Spoonhour said Eastern will not game plan around Canaan, similar to how the Panthers approached Dillard. But, to Eastern’s dismay Dillard exploded with a career-high 34 points, resulting in a 7773 loss.

Canaan ranks sixth in the nation in scoring, as he averages 21.9 points per game, making him the focal point for Murray State’s potent offense.

Canaan was recently named to the John R. Wooden Award Midseason

Top 25 list. According to ovcsports. com, the John R. Wooden Award is bestowed upon the nation’s best collegiate basketball player, while maintaining progress toward graduation and possessing a minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA. Murray State forward Ed Daniel is one of two OVC players that average a double-double each game with 15.1 points and 10.8 rebounds per game.

Woods said Eastern will try to slow down the high-powered offense by using the same approach the Panthers’ have all season: defense.

Eastern’s defense ranks fourth in the OVC, giving up 64.3 points per game, but that is something that can easily crumble at the hands of a roaring Murray State crowd, a crowd that leads the OVC in attendance.

“We don’t tend to get caught up in crowd noise,” Woods said. “As long as we stick together on the court and try to leave with a win, we won’t focus on the crowd. When we’re out on the court we become a family.”

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.

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VIE WS | MEN’S BASKE TBALL

Murray State, please be gentle tonight

By Anthony Catezone Sports Editor After back-to-back gut-wrenching conference losses at home, 7773 to Tennessee Tech and 61-55 to Jacksonville State, the Eastern men’s basketball team is asked to do its toughest test all season.

The Panthers will have to forget the last two games, forget its current 11-game losing streak and battle Ohio Valley Conference preseason-favorite Murray State.

How do you stop a team such as Murray State? Well, if you’re Eastern you don’t. It is as simple as that.

Which is why I am here to ask Murray State: please be gentle.

The defending conference champions are 12-4 on the year, not as daunting as last season’s 31-2 re-

cord, but still a clear powerhouse among OVC teams.

There is no way the Racers aren’t a clear powerhouse as long as guard Isaiah Canaan and for ward Ed Daniel are on their roster. In other words, there is no way Murray State will be gentle.

Because the last time I checked, Canaan and Daniel are on the roster and are worth mentioning.

Canaan will bring his 21.9 points per game, sixth-best in the nation, to the table. That is more than double any Eastern player’s points per game.

The defending OVC Player of the Year winner also pulls down 3.8 rebounds per game and dishes out 3.9 assists.

All three statistics have increased from last year, making Canaan a candidate for the Naismith Award,

Anthony Catezone top men’s basketball player in the NCAA, as he has already been named to the watch list.

Yet, as spectacular a player as Canaan is, he is not the only Racer the Panthers need to have their eye if they have any hopes of pulling such an upset.

Daniel is a 6-foot, 7-inch, 230-pound force in the post. He leads the OVC in in field goal percentage shooting 59.1 percent. He finds himself ranked eighth in the

conference in scoring, as well, with 15.1 points per game.

Meanwhile, Daniel ranks inside the top 10 in the Nation with 10.8 rebounds per game, one of only two players in the OVC to average a double-double each game.

Together, Canaan and Daniel average nearly 40 points a game, whereas Eastern’s entire team scores 56.7 points per game. Both players are obvious NBA potential.

How has Eastern done against NBA potential? No so good.

Guard Jud Dillard of Tennessee Tech torched a Panthers for 34 points, a defense that ranks fourth in conference in scoring. A Dillardless Golden Eagle squad might have otherwise fell in Lantz Arena – but Dillard was more than present, so they didn’t.

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as a surprise, but the Panthers do not stand a chance against a foe as superior as Murray State. After all, a better-rounded Eastern team lost by 33 points at home and again by 15 on the road last season.

So chalk this one up as a loss already, something Eastern soon might have to do with its entire season, and look forward to next year’s dates with the Racers, simply because seniors Canaan and Daniel will have moved on to bigger and better things: The NBA. And once again, I ask you Murray State, please be gentle with Eastern, and don’t send them back scarred for the remainder of this season.

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SWIMMING | SPOTLIGHT

Making a splash miles from home

By Aldo Soto Assistant Sports Editor On a hot summer day, with the temperature soaring past 90 degrees, a normal day for the port city of Ashdod, Israel, the tranquil atmosphere is suddenly disrupted.

Bombs cascade from the sky upon city as the Mediterranean Sea, when minutes before peaceful, now shivering as the bombs pound the streets of Israel.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has its roots stretching back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, continues to this day.

For Eastern swimmer Olga Livshits, the memories of going to the beach located on the coast of her home town are interrupted by the flashbacks of booming rockets that destroyed parts of Ashdod as she grew up.

Now, Livshits enters the second half of her red-shirt sophomore season on the Eastern swim team, thousands of miles away from the daily chaos; however, Livshits still experiences the scary moments her family goes through by watching the news.

Growing up in Ashdod, one of the most bombed cities in Israel, Livshits said you become numb to the fear.

“It is scary with bombs going off, but even though it sounds crazy, I got used to it,” Livshits said.

Most homes have designated rooms inside that act as a bomb shelter, Livshits said. Once she or one of her family members heard an explosion, they would all hustle into a room in their apartment to take shelter.

“We did this every time we heard a bomb go off,” Livshits said. “It became almost like a normal thing: Bomb goes off, then rush into the room.”

Originally born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Livshits first saw the Israeli landscape when she moved there as a 1-yearold.

Despite the turmoil back home, the 23-year-old chemistry major still misses home.

It was her first time being away from her family for an extended period of time.

Coming from Israel, Livshits had one option if she wanted to continue swimming competitively while attending school: Recruit herself.

“I had to call coaches myself so that they could notice me,” Livshits said.

With little to no international recruiting in swimming, Livshits had to do all the legwork. Because of her prior experience competing all across Europe including Greece, Italy and Spain, Eastern coaches noticed her once she called.

But once she began her freshman year, Livshits became homesick. Starting in the Fall 2010, Livshits stayed in the

United States, not going back home during winter break.

“Even now it’s hard having my family so far away, but the toughest time for me was near the end of my freshman year,” Livshits said.

“Swimming wasn’t going as well as I wanted it to, and I hadn’t seen my family for almost a year,” she said. “I missed my family, I missed going to the beach. I still wish I could bring the beach here.”

Livshits is thankful for the marvelous technological age we live in today as she said although there are times when she desperately misses home, she can communicate with family back in Israel through Skype.

It does not equate to being in person with some of them, but it is better than not seeing them entirely Livshits said.

As a citizen of Israel, every woman is required to serve two years in the military while men are required to serve for three years. Livshits, after graduating from Mekif Gimel High School, served two years in the intelligence field of the Israel Defense Forces.

“I can’t say much about my service time, but I worked with intelligence material, mostly dealing with analyzing pictures,” Livshits said.

Her older brother, Igor, is currently a part of the IDF also working in the intelligence field of the military.

Livshits looked at the situation that Israel is in and said even though the country mandates the service time, she would have joined the military regardless.

“Compared to (the United State), Israel has a lot less people, and because of all the things that are happening I feel that I would want to join to help the country,” Livshits said.

Livshits, you could say, started swimming thanks to her brother’s back.

At the age of seven, Igor, one year older than Livshits, was taken to the doctor, who told their mother, Alla, and father, Gregory, that their son had back problems. One form of treatment the doctor told the two parents for Igor was swimming.

“Because my brother was swimming to fix his back, my parents asked if I wanted to swim, and I said, ‘Sure, why not?’” Livshits said.

Not only did Livshits start swimming she started winning – a lot. Her first competitive race took place when she was 10. She was successful, but she excelled three years later.

“Once I turned 13, I started to win at almost every race,” Livshits said. “I would at least be in the top three in every race I had.”

Now in her junior year academically, Livshits is starting to look around at pharmaceutical companies to start the next chapter of her life.

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Olga Livshits, a red-shirt sophomore and chemistry major, is from Ashodod, Israel. Livshits holds the second-fastest time in the Panther record books for the 200M backstroke and sixth-fastest time in the 100 backstroke.

Livshits is not only leaving her name on the Eastern swimming record book, but also making her name stand out academically as she made the Dean’s list in the fall of 2010 and in the spring of 2012.

“My mom has always pushed me when it comes to education and so has

my dad, but he has pushed me more on my swimming,” Livshits said.

The talented swimmer holds the sixth and second best times all-time in Eastern history in the 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke, respectively. To go along with these record times, the Israeli transfer student also earned the Edward O.

Sherman Memorial Scholarship and the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Award in 2012 given to students majoring in chemistry who show great promise and purpose in the field.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu

TR ACK | O’BRIEN FIELD

Track completion awaiting an early spring

By Aldo Soto Assistant Sports Editor Continued delays and setbacks to the $3.1 million renovation project of O’Brien Field have continued to push back the completion date of Eastern’s track.

It will take anywhere from 25 to 30 days of dry weather for the contractor to finish the renovation is Stephen Shrake, associate director for Design and Construction.

Shrake is hopeful for better weather conditions in the coming weeks.

“We are hoping for an early spring

so that the contractor can finish up,” Shrake said.

The delay back in October surfaced because of inclement weather, but there was also bad soil beneath the surface of the track that caused extreme rutting by the construction equipment. The construction crew was forced to use lime stabilization to harden the surface of the soil because of the unstable soil.

The second of the three-layer track surface being installed needs warmer temperatures, said Tom Akers, director of track and field.

“I’ve been told the second layer of

the track can be installed once the temperature reaches approximately 60 degrees, ” Akers said.

Akers said he was told the final layer of the track could be installed with cooler temperatures.

The Panthers’ first appearance at home for their outdoor track season is set to be March 28.

Eastern is scheduled to host the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championships on the first weekend of May. Akers said he has been told the track will be completed by then.

Although Akers was given that information, the completion of the ren-

ovation is at the mercy of Mother Nature.

“As we know when dealing with Mother Nature, we have no guarantees; however, past tendencies in the weather for spring time in Illinois have shown the temperatures that hopefully will allow the construction to be completed,” Akers said.

Hellas Sports Construction is responsible for completing the track renovation.

The project was first developed last April and Mark Bonnstetter, senior athletic sports director, said the surface of the old rubber track would form

large bubbles when the temperatures rose for more than 10 years, previous to last spring. The renovation should eliminate this issue.

Akers and Shrake both said it is now a matter of waiting and seeing and hoping the track will be completed.

“We are now at the mercy of Mother Nature and hope that the track installation crew will be watching the weather closely and be here when temperatures allow them to apply the next two layers,” Akers said.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu.