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contribute after the student receives grants or loans, he said. Perry said once families know that process, they may be able to receive more grants or loans. He also brought up the idea that many classroom materials cost money because they are copyrighted materials. Perry said he wanted to talk to the Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs, about the possibility of making classroom texts into Adobe PDF files so students could view them on a computer or print the texts out themselves.
A group of students hope to bring other students, faculty and the Charleston community together to help thwart discrimination. The Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.-Ominicron Delta and the EIU Youth and College Division of NAACP are hosting a meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Coleman Auditorium. The meeting, titled “Blue Alert: ‘Are We EIU?’” was organized after a shooting at the Penalty Box, 1419 4th St., on Jan. 26. According to a press release sent by the Charleston Police Department, a large fight broke out at the Penalty Box. Shots were fired during the fight. Police arrested Dionte McWillis, an Eastern student, on charges of battery, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct. The person who fired the shots remains under investigation. Kristina Graves, a junior English major, said her sorority wanted to do something about what happened after the incident. She said after the incident, the same press release was posted on CPD Facebook page. Graves said there were more than a hundred comments on the Facebook post. She said many of the comments were racially discriminating. Graves recalled a post that said, “we need to take our neighborhood back and shoot these n****rs.” She said many people see what others do and put blame on the whole black community in Charleston. “It’s crazy the way we get treated,” Graves said.
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Aseret Gonzalez, a graduate student, shakes hands with Imani McDaniel, a freshman English major, at Pizza with the Prez on Tuesday.
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University President Bill Perry talks with students during Pizza with the Prez program Tuesday.
Students bring issues to President Perry Amanda Wilkinson City Editor More than 20 students gathered in the Andrews Hall basement to eat pizza—and meet the president of the university. Pizza with the Prez is a meet and greet event put on by student government to give the student body the opportunity to meet President Bill Perry. The social is used to help students voice their ideas, opinions or concerns directly to someone in the administration. The new display boards on campus were one of the topics discussed at the gathering. Rachel Theesfeld, a junior busi-
ness management major, said she thinks it helps her job as a resident assistant to have the display boards. “I think it helps RAs for them to see what’s going on on campus,” she said. Perry said the display boards will be primarily used to get important information to the students and faculty. “It’s not like you have to have something up all the time, just special events,” he said. Perry said he did not expect everyone to on campus to love the display boards. “We didn’t expect people to like them or not like them,” he said. Perry said the administration is working on a plan to make Eastern
more technology savvy. “We should be able to give anything to anybody, anywhere, on any device,” he said. The idea of having financial aid cover classroom expenses was also brought to Perry. Several students at the social said they had to pay extra expenses for classroom materials or manuals. Perry said many students and families do not know the financial aid process, and that is where money can be lost. He said all the expenses and tuition a student may have to pay is calculated. When a student submits their FAFSA, the federal government calculates how much the family will
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Plastic sheets to protect Doudna glass, students By Stephanie Markham Administration Editor Sheets of plastic will be adhered to the glass panels in the east wing of the Doudna Fine Arts Center this summer to prevent any more from falling. Doudna contains several glass panels throughout the building,
including black, red, mirrored, opaque and frosted glass. Two of the frosted glass panels cracked and fell from the walls of the main theatre on Aug. 3, 2011. The Board of Trustees approved the installation of safety film for $310,786 by Illinois glass Solutions during its Jan.18 meeting. Rex Hilligoss, the university ar-
chitect, said installation of the plastic coverings would be a six-week project beginning May 1. “This window of opportunity is that six weeks where there are basically no public activities, so we can have an opportunity to work,” he said. Dwight Vaught, the assistant dean of Doudna, said no events
would be scheduled in the east wing during that time period to give the contractors space to work. Hilligoss said the panels that fell were made of tempered glass, which can expand once it becomes settled into its place in a building. “All the glass, with the exception of the mirror glass in Doudna, is tempered glass,” he said. “Tem-
pered glass has a construction flaw that has a little piece embedded in it that tends to grow when the glass becomes acclimated to the condition,” he said. The tempered glass can eventually break if it contains the embedded flaw, Hilligoss said.
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By Paige Bennett Staff Reporter Aerialists will dazzle the audience as they perform modern dance with special lighting effects, during the Kaleidescopika performance Wednesday. Kaleidescopika is a collaboration of dance, aerialists and music, and will feature the music of the Cordis quartet. The performance will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. It is a national preview tour, which means Eastern will be the first to see Kaleidescopika before they go on tour, said Dan Crews, director of patron services. “This is the first time that Eastern is doing something like this,” Crews said. Crews decides what productions the Doudna will show, and this time he said he really wanted to treat the students of Eastern by doing a show like this. “Kaleidescopkia will be visually stunning with music, light and contemporary dances,” he
said. “This will be a sight and sound extravaganza.” He also said the equipment is not from Eastern, but is instead being brought in from a different city. “We rented out special equipment and lights from Chicago for the Kaleidescopkia show,” said Crews. Cre ws also said the dance company wanted to perform in other areas rather than staying in Buffalo, NY. “The LehrerDance company and Cordis Band wanted to not only do performances in the New York area, but a l l a r o u n d t h e c o u n t r y,” h e s a i d . “ T h e y d e c i d e d t o p re view their show to the Eastern and Charleston community.” The quartet ensemble features Jeremy Harman on cello, Richard Grimes on concert cimbalom, Brian O’Neil on piano and Andrew Beall on percussion. The Cordis quartet ensemble fuses contemporary chamber music with custom made instruments to help create their own original signature sound, Crews said. The ensemble also uses oneof-a-kind creations such as the Electra Mbira and the melod-
“Kaleidescopkia will be visually stunning with music, light and contemporary dances” -Dan Crews, director of patron services ica to make their performances have a traditional, yet original feel to them, he said. Along with the music of Cordis ensemble, Kaleidescopika will also feature the company LehrerDance. Jon Lehrer started the company in 2007 in upstate New York. Lehrer said he always makes sure that his company stands out compared to other dance companies. He also said he never wants to do anything that seems like it can be done by anyone else. He said he always wants to give the best wow factor the company can give. Lehrer said that the dance company was not typical because many of the pieces showcase the athleticism of the dancers. Dancers in LehrerDance use athletics as a backdrop for dances because he was once a baseball player, That inspires many of the pieces his dancers do, he said. “The costume that the dancers wear can be described as sim-
ple and athletic. I want them to wear very minimal clothing, so the audience can really see their muscles,” Lehrer said. “That’s one of the main focus points besides the dance itself.” In addition to the athleticism, he said each of the performers can dance to any genre of music. For the Kaleidescopika show, the performers will be dancing to the Cordis quartet, which he described as chamber music fused with rock ‘n’ roll. Kaleidescopika will be not only a sight but something to hear as well, Crews said. After the show there will be a question and answer session with members of Cordis quartet and dancers from the LehrerDance company. Tickets will be $7 for students, $12 for Eastern employees and senior citizens and $15 for general admission. Paige Bennett can be reached at 581-2812 or pmbennett@eiu.edu.
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Game show contest offers gift card prizes By Marcus Curtis Staff Reporter Students will have a chance to win up to $50 in gift cards during the University Board’s version of the popular game show “Deal or No Deal” on Thursday. The game show event will take place at 6 p.m. at 7th Street Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Students who attend will receive a raffle ticket, and the winners of the raffle will get a chance to choose from a group of envelopes containing gift cards ranging in value from $5 to $50. The gift cards being given away include stores such as Subway, Wal-Mart or Eastern’s book-
store. David Sims, the vice chair for the UB, said the idea for the “Deal or No Deal” game originated from students who demanded more interactive games. He also said the popularity of the television game show is what influenced the creation of this campus event. The UB “Deal or No Deal” game has the same rules as the popular television show, Sims said. Si m s s a i d s t u d e n t s w o u l d choose a single envelope from a group of envelopes instead of suitcases, which are used on the television show “Deal or No Deal.” There will also be a banker making gift card offers to the
contestant in exchange for their envelope that they choose at the beginning, he said. However, unlike in the game show, contestants will be able to walk away with some sort of prize, Sims said. “Every contestant is guaranteed a prize,” Sims said. There will be multiple rounds in the game, he said. Each round, a different student is given the chance to participate as a contestant and win a prize. In other rounds, Sims explained, the UB members will raffle off door prizes in addition to the regular game, which gives more students the opportunity win a prize. He said one of the purposes of
the gaming event is to bring together different people and different groups on campus, which he said is the main focus of the UB, aside from providing entertainment. Sims also said this will be the first, and hopefully not the last, time that the UB members will be hosting the “Deal or No Deal” game. Sims said he hopes that Thursday’s event will gain enough publicity to promote other game show events in the future. “I just want everyone to enjoy (themselves) and have a good time.” Sims said. Marcus Curtis can be reached at 581-2812 or mlcurtis@eiu.edu.
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McKinney to offer gender-neutral floors By Samantha McDaniel Student Governance Editor Men and women will be able to live on the same floor in McKinney Hall starting in Fall 2013. The University Housing and Dining Services approved the change from coed by floor to a gender-neutral housing style that allows both genders on the same floor, but not the same room. Mark Hudson, the director of University Housing and Dining Services, said it was proposed last semester to allow the change. Hudson said this option was not available for any of the residence halls on campus until they remodeled the bathrooms from a communal style bathroom to private ones. “Because the bathrooms are set up so they are private, whoever gets there first is the gender of the bathroom,” he said. Each room will be single-gendered, but the common areas, like the lounge and bathrooms will be shared. The bathrooms are designed so the each bathroom has a toilet, sink and a shower in its own private room, he said. “In the past, our bathrooms were geared to single-gendered usage, but with the remodel they are now private bathrooms,” Hudson said. Hudson said other universities are starting to have more of these options. “All other state schools offer this type of mix-gendered floor set up
where they are on the same floor,” Hudson said. Hudson said the housing office is still working to define the terminology to define this type of housing. They are trying to find a term for this type of housing that will help students understand the setup of the building, he said. Jacy Samet, a sophomore education major, said she thinks the conversion will allow more interaction between the different genders. “I like living in McKinney because girls and guys do stuff together,” she said. “Our council is awesome, so I don’t see a problem with it.” Samet said she will not be living on campus next year, but said she would like to see how it turns out and believes it will increase diversity in programs. “I wouldn’t see a problem with it, more friendships, more people,” Samet said. “They can do a lot more programs than girl programs and could do a lot more together.” Jordan Sigunick, a junior family and consumer sciences major, said it is what most universities are doing. “It’s the way of the future, if you will,” Sigunick said. She said it is not a big deal for women and men to be on the same floor. “We can all control our hormones enough to live next to boys,” Sigunick said. Housing is planning on converting more bathrooms to the private-style
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McKinney Hall will become a gender-neutral residence hall beginning in the fall semester. The building will be coed by room but members of the opposite sex will live on the same floor and will share the bathrooms, which were renovated from community bathrooms to communal bathrooms during the summer of 2012, and the common areas.
bathrooms in the other residence halls as funds become available. “Because of our current low enrollment, that cuts into our financial resources, so we are not doing any projects this summer,” Hudson said. The satisfaction survey has identified bathrooms as one of the areas res-
idents are dissatisfied with, Hudson said, causing it to become one of the top priorities for the housing office. Hudson said they are trying to give students what they want. “It’s all about offering a wide variety of options, whether single-gendered or coed or mixed-gendered floors,
we want to offer it to (the students) so they can find what works best for them,” Hudson said. Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.
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Eastern office workers agree on new labor contract By Stephanie Markham Administration Editor A new labor agreement was reached for members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local 981 clerical technical unit. The Board of Trustees approved labor negotiations during its Jan.18 meeting that will increase the wages of clerical-technical employees by 1 percent each year for the duration of their contract. The new contract will be in effect for
the next three years, from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2015. Tony Craig, the president of AFSCME 981, said labor negotiations took place from last July, when the previous contract ended, until Dec.12 when an agreement was reached. “The main thing we were negotiating was wages,” he said. “There were changes to some language in the contract, but nothing major.” The new contract affects the 119 members of the clerical technical bargaining unit, including secretaries, managers and other office workers.
An agreement for the Building Service Workers’ bargaining unit was reached last June, Craig said. He said the union has a team of three to four members who negotiate the numbers. “This time we took a three-year deal, which is pretty average,” he said. “When the contract is up, we have to get together with the management, set up meetings and we go over issues that may have come up.” Craig said the wage increase percentage is an average number. “At a negotiation each side comes up
with a certain number,” he said. “We being the employees always come up with the higher number and the people that pay us come up with a lower number, and we meet in the middle hopefully.” He also said other unions achieved similar negotiations. “The 1 percent is pretty much average,” he said. “With the negotiations lately in our current economic state, 1 percent is pretty right along with everyone else what they got.” The contract also includes a $10,000 parity amount for each year of the con-
tract. Craig said the parity amount is used to adjust wages for employees who are getting paid below the benchmark. He said the parity amount was higher in previous years before universities experienced current economic difficulties. Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or samarkham@eiu.edu. For the in-depth version of this article go to:
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LOCAL CRIME Resident arrested Staff Report The Charleston Police Department arrested a Charleston resident on Jan. 25 after receiving a report of retail theft. According to a press release sent out by the CPD, County Market employees detained 24-year-old Christopher Phillips after he was suspected to have taken items from the store without paying for them. Officers spoke with Phillips and found a small caliber handgun where he had been sitting, which had been reported stolen earlier. The press release stated Phillips is a suspect in the burglary to motor vehicle incidents that have previously occurred. Phillips was arrested on charges of burglary, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, unlawful use of weapon, possession of a stolen firearm, retail theft and possession of drug equipment.
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Phillip Phillips poor choice for spring concert The EIU spring concert is Phillip Phillips. Seriously? Name three of his popular songs. I can’t, and music is a passion of mine. I’m not bashing Phillips as an artist whatsoever, I’m just saying if he came to U of I and played a show at the Canopy Club, tickets would be $10 in advance, $12 at the door and the place would be maybe half full. How do you go from Drake my freshman year, to Mike Posner/Far East Movement, on Easter weekend two years ago when more than half the school goes home in honor of the holiday? How do you expect to sell tickets to that? Poor planning. No concert last year and then to make it up you bring Phillip Phillips from American Idol for $20 a ticket. Who decided this? Was the student body’s opinion even a factor? I don’t even know who else was considered in coming. But just think about it: Dayglow comes to EIU or a semi-big name DJ or a rapper people know. That way, people from other schools will come to Eastern and spend money on tickets and it would make EIU just look better. I’ve been to concerts at ISU and U of I, and when a big name artist comes to their arenas, it affects a bunch of different things that are beneficial to the university. For one, it makes potential freshmen (seniors in high school) see that our school held an event like this and will make them want to come here. Also local businesses benefit. They’d be able to have “official after parties” for the concert generating them revenue, in time making their business look better, in time making the city of Charleston look better. All I know is, no one from other schools is coming to see Phillip Phillips and there’s a ton of disappointment surrounding the decision to go with him for our one and only Spring Concert this year. T.J. McGowan Letters to the editor can be submitted at any time on any topic to the Opinions Editor to be published in The Daily Eastern News. The DEN’s policy is to run all letters that are not libelous or potentially harmful. They must be less than 250 words. Letters to the editor can be brought in with identification to The DEN or to the DENopinions@ gmail.com.
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Don’t become an addiction statistic This might sound like common sense, Though, despite the increase in arrests, OUR POSITION but we all know that common sense can in the same article, “Meth comeback possi• Situation: Meth-related arrests in Coles be anything but common these days. ble,” Commander Tom Houser said several County have more than doubled. But please, don’t do meth. years ago, Coles County was above average • Stance: Use the resources provided to help In Monday’s edition of The Daiin meth use and production, but that curyourself and others with addiction. ly Eastern News, it was reported that the rently, Coles County is not seeing a large number of methamphetamine arrests in increase in production or use. Coles County has more than doubled in the last three years. So, there’s at least some good news there. Meth is a powerful psychoactive drug made with the key ingreIt’s no secret that Charleston has seen its fair share of rough dient pseudoephedrine, which is commonly found in cold meditimes lately and it seems like we can’t go a single weekend withcines. out an EIU alert text message, but it’s not just violence that is a The drug, which can be injected or snorted, is highly addictive problem. and carries incredibly dangerous health risks. Drug abuse is a big problem as well, but it’s one that can be It’s possible that you weren’t one of the 56 people involved in helped with a little support from loved ones and some professiona meth related arrest in 2012, but it could be possible that someal help. one you know is suffering from a harmful drug addiction. So, if you know someone who is in need of some help, do your If someone you know is struggling with a drug addiction, there best to point them in the right direction and put them back on are ways you can help and there are outlets that can help them. the right path to getting healthy again. Coles County has many outlets for drug and alcohol addicThe daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of tion, and Eastern has counseling available for you or for someone The Daily Eastern News. who needs help.
To battle sexual assualt, battle purity culture Check your watch. In the two or three minutes it takes you to read this column someone in the United States will have been sexually assaulted. It’s harsh, but the recent fervor over awareness on campus seems somewhat misguided. I feel the source of our culture’s attitude towards women’s bodies, power and sexuality are more complex than can be addressed with a littering of post-it notes. Hotlines and awareness aren’t enough to get to the heart of a problem on a campus that erases a written public message from a sexual assault victim but allows anti-abortion protestors to loiter on our sidewalks bearing gruesome images if the weather is nice. I’m impressed with the breadth of the response and the desire of the students to make sexual assault victims feel loved, but I’m not sure that can be achieved with a Bible verse when the same Bible is used to condemn women who don’t remain chaste until marriage. Rather than relying on the same models that have been failing women and their bodies for centuries, perhaps we change our
Mia Tapella understanding of rape, and empower—not pity—women and men who have been victimized. When I heard about the chalk message on the Doudna steps, I was reminded of a recent article by E. J. Graff for “The American Prospect.” She says: “A culture in which women are expected to remain virgins until marriage is a rape culture. In that vision, women’s bodies are for use primarily for procreation or male pleasure.” I think that if we continue to collectively promote ideas and values that take women’s bodies and sexual identities out of their control and place it in the hands of men, it won’t matter if we bury the entire campus in post-its and host a six-week rape prevention training camp.
We’re still going to live in a rape culture. Rape has nothing to do with sexuality or sexual desire. As Graff states and any good feminist will tell you, rape is an exercise in brutality that is all about power and rage. Rape is a weapon of mass destruction used to keep women too afraid to be independent beings. By elevating values like sexual “purity” in women, you tell them that their value as human beings is contingent on being part of an increasingly smaller percentage of women who make it out of college without having to face sexual assault. I would also like to think that the logic behind our understanding of sexual assault is not “it’s happened to so many people that we can’t possibly judge them.” If you really want to raise awareness, stop equating women’s worth and identity with their sexuality and allow them the same rights to their bodies as men. Mia Tapella is a senior English and political science major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@gmail.com.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE1 Andrea Yarbrough, a senior English major, said in an email that she noticed the next day that all the comments had been removed. She said there was no reason stated why all the comments were removed. “As students at the university and members of this community, they should not have to be subjected to this type of racial discrimination,” Yarbrough said in an email. “Black students at EIU are constantly being harassed in this community, yet no one is speaking about it.” Graves said discrimination on the campus and in Charleston is a problem that needs to be solved. The meeting will include a panel of Eastern faculty and Charleston leaders. Graves said President Bill Perry; Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs; Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs; Mayor John Inyart; Council Member Larry Rennels; Council Member Jim Dunn; Council Member Jeff Lahr and Council Member Tim Newell were invited to attend the event and be a part of the panel discussion. She said no one has confirmed they are participating in the panel as of Tuesday night. Graves said they started planning the event on Sunday, so they did not have time to make sure anyone is confirmed. “I’m hoping we have a big turnout of officials,” she said. Graves said she does not expect to have a solution to racial discrimination in one night. “I don’t want blame to be put on anybody,” she said. “It’s about addressing the problem and coming up with a way to fix it.” Graves said she hopes people know how black students are depicted in the community. Graves said on the small scale, she hopes the meeting has the ability to influence even one individual. She said there is a possibility someone will go to the meeting, realize they were being discriminatory and change their ways. “Our objective is to bring awareness to the portrayal of black students on and off campus and provide solutions to (combat) discrimination,” she said.
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Eastern students walk past the new digital sign in the South Quad Tuesday. The signs started displaying information Monday and show upcoming events on campus, advertisements for various companies, the current weather conditions and temperature, time and extended forecast.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE1 “If this imperfection is in that layer of temper, it will cause the glass to fail,” he said. “Once the tempered glass fails, the entire piece shatters.” He said tempered glass shatters into small pieces, opposed to standard glass that breaks into jagged shards. He said airports use the same plastic to resist high-impact conditions like hurricanes.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE1 Many of the students at the gathering spoke about how they love Eastern and that they get to meet with the president of the university. Mitch Gurick, a sophomore career and technical education major, said Eastern is great because he has a chance to talk with the president. “Here you have a human being here,” he said. “What university can you sit down and have pizza with the president?” Alexis Weck, a sophomore special
“It’s a clear plastic, almost like saran wrap, but it’s going to be 7 mm thick, and it’s designed to resist impact,” he said. Dave Crockett, the associate director of Facilities, Planning and Management, said the tempered glass was chosen to fit with the architectural vision for the building, and the plastic coverings would fix the problem without compromising those artistic elements. “It kind of adheres to the glass, and it’s totally transparent,” he said. “You can hardly see that it’s there, so it education major, said at other universities, she would not have been able to meet with someone in administration in an informal setting. “It’s nice to meet with the president,” she said. “At (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,) you’re just a statistic.” At one point during the social, Perry replied to a comment about the pizza party being a good event. “This pizza is a really good thing,” he said. “I love pepperoni.” Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.
doesn’t change the look or color of the glass to any appreciable amount, but then offers that stability.” Crockett said the defect that causes the instability in tempered glass only occurs occasionally, but safety is still a priority. “This gave everyone a chance to keep the glass and the look of it and the wow factor and still accomplish public safety, with glass where you have it 60 ft to 75 ft feet in the air.” Vaught also said the plastic coverings are a solution that can provide
safety without disrupting the aesthetics of the building. “It was a major architectural element in the building itself, and so they didn’t think that just removing them and covering the wall with something else really carries the spirit of the building,” he said. “So were trying to do everything we can to maintain that design element.” Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or samarkham@eiu.edu.
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Junior Janis McGee, swims the breast stroke during the meet against Ball State at Padovan pool on Nov. 9. The Panthers host Saint Louis University Friday at Padovan Pool.
Swim teams size up competition By Aldo Soto Assistant Sports Editor
ed about what the team could accomplish with more rest.
The Eastern swim teams will only have one final home meet to prepare for the long-awaited, end of the season, Summit League Championships starting on Feb. 20. After a 34-day layoff between meets from Dec. 15 to Jan. 18, the Panthers swam tightly contested races against Western Illinois and the University of South Dakota. As for the women’s team, head coach Elliott McGill described their performance as, “probably our best all-around meet thus far,” where the women’s team outraced the Leathernecks, defeating Western by final scores of 72-28 and 90-44 on Friday and Saturday, respectively. The Panthers will have 19 days between their final regular season meet on Feb. 1, against Saint Louis University and the Summit League Champions, starting nearly three weeks later. McGill said the team came out a little fatigued on the second day of the meet in Macomb, adding that it is difficult to compete at a high level with so many events occurring with a time span of 24 hours. However, McGill added that before the Western meet, he implemented new training into practices that focused on endurance, something the swimmers will need to compete at a high level at the multi-day Summit Championships in Michigan. The almost three-week-long layoff between the final meet and championships should benefit the Panthers as McGill said he was pleased with the results at Western but was more excit-
Around the Summit League A familiar Summit League foe in IUPUI recently snapped a three-meet losing streak by defeating one of Eastern’s last opponents, Western. The men’s team won a close meet defeating the Leathernecks 73-67 on Jan. 12. The men’s team finished 4-4 in the regular season as they lost to Oakland University last Friday. The Jaguars last competed on Sunday at the Butler Invite, finishing last out of four teams. The women’s team also lost against Oakland 162.5-125.5. The women’s team also competed in the Butler Invite and finished in third-place. IUPUI women’s team completed the season with a 7-4 record. The Eastern men’s and women’s teams both dropped their season opening meet against IUPUI, losing 112-88 and 64-31, respectively. Red-shirt senior Anders Jensen and senior Vanessza Balogh were named The Summit League’s Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Athletes of the Week. This marks Jensen’s second weekly award of the season and the sixth of his career. Balogh earned her first weekly honor of the year and the eighth of her career. Balogh won five events, including four, first-place finishes in individual races against Michigan State and won two more events in the team’s dual-meet against IUPUI. Jensen posted three individual wins and was a part of relay victory for the men’s team, which helped defeat the Spartans on Saturday. The women’s team for the University of Ne-
braska at Omaha has one final meet before the championships. The Mavericks are 5-6 on the season, including their last meet, which they won 148-106 and took first-place out of 11 teams at the Grinnell Invite on Jan. 19. Earlier this season in December, after defeating league rival South Dakota State, freshman Natalie Renshaw earned her first weekly award from the Summit League. South Dakota State is 5-0 heading into its final two meets of the season. The Jackrabbits will also compete in the Minnesota Challenge on Feb. 8-9. Along with their undefeated season, the Jackrabbits finished second at the Tampa Relays in early January. South Dakota State recently defeated St. Cloud State (Minn.), 177-123. The 54-point victory is the lowest margin of victory for South Dakota this season. Eastern will be familiar with Western and South Dakota, as they recently raced against one-another two weeks ago. Since the three-team meet in Macomb, South Dakota raced against in-state rival North Dakota and both the women’s and men’s teams lost, 163-137 and 173-127, respectively. Western swam against Eastern’s next opponent, as Saint Louis defeated both of the Leathernecks’ teams. The men’s team lost 165-113 and the women’s team 178-84. Western has two more meets before the championships, racing in Monmouth on Friday and then against Iowa one week later. Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu.
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Magic numbers can be defined in at least two ways: a) the atomic number of an extra-stable, strongly bound atomic nucleus: two, eight, 20, 28, 50, 82 or 126 and b) the number, commonly used in baseball, to indicate how many games away a team is from clinching a title or championship of some sort. In basketball, specifically for the Eastern women’s basketball team, it could have a different meaning. The term could refer to the total points Eastern needs to score to win a game on any given night. The Panthers’ magic number is 70. The Panthers are 13-8 this season. They’re excellent at home, in Lantz Arena, and off to a good start (7-2) in the Ohio Valley Conference. Also, they don’t lose when they score 70 points or more. The Panthers are 12-0 this season when they hit their magic number. In fact, the Panthers are winning by an average of 13 points per game when they score at least 70 points. They’ve beaten opponents by at least 20 points four times this season. This statistic is a little jarring at first glance, but by digging deeper into the history books I found that it has been a trend in recent years. In the three seasons before this one, the Panthers are 45-10 when scoring at least 70 points — meaning that in the four years the current senior class has been here, the Panthers win 85 percent of the time they score at least 70. Maybe more shocking, though, is the story we can tell when the Panthers fail to reach their magic number. The Panthers are 1-8 this season when scoring 69 points or fewer, which is a worse record than any of the previous three years. Previously, the Panthers were 18-23 when scoring below 70; in fact, they won 50 percent of those games during the 2011-2012 and 2009-2010 seasons. Then, ironic maybe that the Panthers finished with their best records those two seasons. The only game the Panthers have won this season when scoring fewer than 70 points was against Austin Peay on Jan. 19. In that game, the Panthers scored 68 points and won by 25. They coasted to a win late in the game, with their starters on the bench. At this point, I’m not sure whether to be confident or hesitant moving forward with the information provided. The numbers don’t lie — Eastern increases its odds of winning when they score a certain number of points. But by scoring 70 or more points, the Panthers are also playing a certain way. They pick up the pace of the game when the see fit and slow it down when they need to. The reason I’m not worried is because the Panthers have lost close games when they’ve failed to reach 70 points. The Panthers only lost by one or two points in three of the eight losses when they scored less than 70 points. Moreover, two other losses were against teams head coach Lee Buchanan said Eastern would probably lose to most of the time — Wisconsin, from the Big Ten, and Indiana State, from the Missouri Valley. Take away those games and these stats look a lot different. Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-2812 or admcnamee@eiu.edu.
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Big game opens new opporunity for Blanford Junior forward speaks about past, recent success By Anthony Catezone Sports Editor Sherman Blanford made a big mistake. Eastern’s junior forward should not have averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds, 3.3 assists, two blocks and two steals over his last three games, including the first two double-doubles of his career. Most recently, he should not have recorded career highs with 21 points and 16 rebounds in the Panthers last game, a 78-72 overtime win against Southeast Missouri. Meanwhile, Blanford should not have guided the Panthers on their current three-game win streak, allowing them to enter the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament conversation – something nobody would have imagined a week ago when they were sitting at 3-16 overall and 0-6 in conference. It is a dangerous path Blanford has navigated himself down – head coach Jay Spoonhour said so himself. “He shouldn’t have done that because now I know what he is capable of,” Spoonhour joked of Blanford’s recent play. “Now, I’m going to demand it of him.” It is safe to say, though, the expectations were already emerging for Blanford. “I was mad at him the whole game (against Southeast Missouri) for different stuff,” Spoonhour said. “I think what you can attribute that to is when you play well, there are more expectations.” Despite his monster double-double, Spoonhour did what he does whenever a player upsets him: sent Blandford to the bench.
Blanford was benched for not posting up, not hustling back on defense and, believe it or not, not chasing after rebounds. “I’m on him the whole game, then I looked down and saw he had 21 (points) and 16 (rebounds), and I thought, ‘Sherman (Blandford) is going to think I’m nuts,’” Spoonhour said. It is not like Blanford was always happy during the game either, but he said that is just basketball. “Of course there are times when I get mad at my coach, but we always see eye-to-eye,” Blanford said. “He knows what’s best for me, so when he took me out, of course I was mad, but I got myself together and went back out.” Spoonhour was not kidding about the higher expectations for his starting forward. But, the Philadelphia native is more than OK with that. Blanford said he is ready for the responsibility from coach Spoonhour, considering he lives for moments such as his game-tying free throws against Southeast Missouri to send the game into overtime. He described his recent success as coming natural. He said that a life of basketball is what he chose and also what he lives for. Blanford’s path toward a Division I basketball career has earned him his second consecutive OVC Newcomer of the Week honors for his performances against Southeast Missouri and Tennessee-Martin (15 points, seven rebounds). After Blanford’s first career double-double of 19 points and 10 rebounds at Austin Peay, he said double-doubles would be a regular thing to expect in the future. But, after his career day against Southeast Missouri, Blanford said he did not know what to expect next. Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.
Sherman Blanford, a junior forward, scored 21 points, a season high, Saturday during the game against Southeast Missouri State University. He has scored a total of 240 shots this season. DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
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Unexpected offense powers Eastern’s recent success By Anthony Catezone Sports Editor If the season ended today, the Eastern men’s basketball team would be the No. 8 seed in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. For most, that would be a positive outcome for a team that suffered a 12-game losing streak in the heart of its season, including an 0-6 start to its conference schedule. But for the Eastern men’s basketball team, that is not enough. In head coach Jay Spoonhour’s mind, the Panthers have not arrived at where they want to be. Still, the Panthers have come a long way, now sitting at 6-16 over-
all and 3-6 in the OVC (third place in the west division). But, if recent games are any indication, they have certainly not arrived as they have improved every game during their three-game win streak. Even through their win streak is not a long one, senior guard Taylor Jones said the recent success has been a long time coming. He said the Panthers home losses to Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State were games where they competed, but the inexperience with a lead is what ultimately caused the loss, but the game against Austin Peay was a break through game for the Panthers.
“I think guys are buying into the system, realizing this is how we can win games and beat good teams,” Jones said. Spoonhour has said all season that the Panther defense must be near perfect for Eastern to have success, because the offense has a ceiling, whereas the defense does not. However, Eastern has scored 69 or more points in four of its last six games – moving the Panthers from last in the OVC in scoring offense to 10th in just a matter of a few games. “Offensively, we have been trying to move at a slower pace,” Jones said. “If we don’t get anything right away, then we purposely work the shot clock down and try to get a lay-
up or an open 3-pointer at the end.” Jones said, though, that the offensive game plan has remained the same all season, it is just the fact that more shots are falling for the Panthers. Eastern has been shooting 46 percent in its last six games, compared to 42 percent for the entire season. Jones even said that the Panthers’ success at the free throw line has been a factor of late. Eastern is shooting 72 percent from the free throw line in conference play – compared to the 59.5 percent it was shooting from the free throw line in non-conference games. In its most recent win, 78-72
against Southeast Missouri in overtime, Eastern shot 85.2 percent (23of-27) from the free throw line for the game, 12-of-13 of those free throws came in the overtime period. Eastern’s next game is at 7 p.m. Saturday at Southern Illinois Edwardsville. The Cougars are 7-11 overall this season, but 3-5 in the OVC. If the Panthers extend their win streak to four games, they will possess second place in the west division and the No. 7 seed in the OVC Tournament. Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.