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Eastern quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was honored with his third consecutive Ohio Valley Conference Offensive Player of the Week Award.
A new course, Diverse Contexts that Influence the Learning Process, focuses on working with Charleston youth received praise from volunteers at multiple nonprofit organizations.
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single mom is sharing life events of her son, Bentley, with her ex-boyfriend Ryan. While she tries to make it easier for Bentley having split parents by telling him he gets double presents and parties, she knows one day it will not be enough. Jordan Landeck, a sophomore communications major, said she was surprised how much Bookout opened up to the audience. She said she learned the most important thing is to make sure she is happy. Bookout stressed the idea of making yourself happy before moving on to new endeavors. “There’s nothing stopping you but yourself,” she said.
A homemade video of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity’s “Barn Party” was uploaded on YouTube Sept. 16, the day after the shooting took place. The video depicts students and “Barn Party” attendees getting on buses and being driven to 634 W. State St., the location of the party, as well as the actual party inside the warehouse. The “Barn Party” resulted in police responding to gunshots fired. Three victims were taken to Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center – two for gunshot wounds, one for battery. The video edits down the entire night into roughly seven minutes of footage – including when the initial gunshots were heard. At about the 4-minute mark, the first sounds of gunshots are audible. At around 4 minutes and 30 seconds, another round of gunfire is heard. At around the 5 minutes and 30 second mark, the camera focused on an unidentified man being lifted into a stretcher. It is unknown if the man was one of the gunshot victims or the battery victim because Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center does not release patient information. Although the video surfaced online on Sept. 16, it did not receive much traction until Friday and throughout the weekend. The views totaled at most a little less than 2,000 views until Friday and Saturday, where the views spiked to just less than 6,000. The amount of views was at more than 8,000 at around 8 p.m. Monday. So far, only two people have been arrested in connection to the “Barn Party” shooting. Marquis Green, 24, of Park Forest, Ill., and Kajuan Wright, 23, of DeKalb, Ill., were arrested Sept. 16 after allegedly deterring attempts by police officers to provide assistance to the injured victims, a press release sent by the Charleston Police Department stated. As a result of the “Barn Party” shooting, Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, sent out an email Sept. 17 to various registered student organizations, informing them that all late-night functions at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union were suspended while the investigation was ongoing. President Bill Perry clarified that it was not supposed to be just the Union parties suspended, but instead all on-campus events. Perry added policies were being revised and after which the suspension would be lifted. He said a task force headed by Nadler would let him know about the revised policies Wednesday, and they would go into effect Thursday. The “Barn Party” investigation is currently ongoing. Lt. Brad Oyer of the Charleston Police Department was not available for an update on the investigation or a comment about the posted video.
Emily McInerney can be reached at 581-2812 or ermcinerney@eiu.edu.
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or rggaluski@eiu.edu.
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Maci Bookout, a “Teen Mom” star, speaks to a group about how she is not wealthy from being on “Teen Mom”, an MTV reality show about teenage mothers, in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Monday. Bookout said she likes to joke that she is so rich that she has a Bentley vehicle when actually, the only Bentley she has is her son.
‘Teen mom’ visits campus, shares experiences By Emily McInerney Staff Reporter @DEN_News As a DJ played music in the baby shower-themed Grand Ballroom, of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, the lights dimmed to welcome “Teen Mom” star Maci Bookout onto the stage to more than 500 attendees. Bookout began her lecture by addressing how her life was prior to getting pregnant. “I was a typical 16-year-old girl,” she said. Bookout became pregnant when she was 16 by her boyfriend Ryan. “I honestly thought we would be together forever,” she said. Lindsey Finchum, a sophomore psychology major, said the most shocking thing about Bookout’s lecture was that she got pregnant the night she lost her virginity, which Bookout revealed during her lecture. Finchum said she learned to remain herself, despite the circumstance. “No matter what people say, be who you want to be,” she said. Finchum has a hometown friend that was pregnant at 19 and plans on telling her some of the major ideas brought up by Bookout. One of the topics Bookout discussed was the perceived thought that the television show, “Teen Moms” increased the pregnancy rate amongst teenagers. According to Bookout’s research, right before the show came out in 2009 teenage birth rates were one of the highest. Bookout said her research concluded that today, in 2013, there are some of the lowest pregnancy rates recorded. She argued it seems to have gone up because many remain in school and are in the public eye. Bookout talked about her life beginning a few months before she got
Amanda Wilkinson | The Daily Eastern News
Maci Bookout, a Teen Mom star, speaks to a group about how she got involved with Teen Mom, an MTV reality show about teenage mothers, in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Monday. Bookout said she first heard about the show though a Craigslist ad.
pregnant and what she has learned since being on the show. “It did open opportunities career wise,” she said. “At the same time it’s hell having a bunch of morons tell you what to do.” Melanie Kaderabek, the University Board lectures coordinator, said the process in bringing Bookout to Eastern was a nine-month-long endeavor. Kaderabek said she wanted Bookout to speak at Eastern because she was inspired by how much she had accomplished given her circumstances. “She’s a very successful woman,” Kaderabek said. “She was able to make the best out of a not so good situation and accomplish her dreams.” Kaderabek added she wanted students to take away from the lecture
the idea of not giving up, and hoped Bookout would provide inspiration. “Bad things happen to college students, but they shouldn’t let it drag them down,” she said. “Instead they should be motivated to do better by whatever bad things may happen.” Currently, Bookout is going to school for radio and television broadcasting, while waiting to release a book in 2014. She also gives talks similar to this one to high schools. She wanted to keep her situation and Bentley’s situation from happening to other teenage girls. Bookout also shows students ways to get different forms of birth control, whether their parents know or not, she said. Bookout said one of the hardest things about being a teen, and now