Western Courier | October 6, 2017

Page 2: Career fair brings opportunity to students.

Opinions: Events in Las Vegas aren't an excuse to avoid discussion

Sports: Leathernecks and Panthers prepare for battle.

Friday, October 6, 2017 - Vol. 118 Issue 20

Arrest made in car chase

JESSIE MATIAS/PRODUCTION MANAGER

By Nicholas Ebelhack editor-in-chief

In a special meeting on Sunday, the Western Illinois University Board of Trustees unanimously approved to sell the 60th Street campus building for $1.4 million to DJL Associates, LLC of Rock Island.

According to Vice President of Administrative Services Matt Bierman, Western has been in possession of the property since the 90’s at the Quad Cities campus.

“We operated that building until 2014 and for a while we operated both 60th Street and the Riverfront campus during Phase I of the strategic

plan,” Bierman said. “Then we moved out of that building and started to market that property.”

The sale of the property, a project three years in the making, has been a goal for Western as a part of the Uni-

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“This wasn't like selling a house, you have to find a specific kind of buyer ” - Matt Bierman

VP OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES versity’s strategic plan.

“This wasn’t like selling a house, you have to find a

specific kind of buyer and for those two years that was what we were doing working with a relator,” Bierman said.

“We had several possible buyers and we worked with a few of them that we couldn’t come to terms with. It just took a while, and commercial property tends to work like that.”

The property had gone through a number of steps before being sold over the last few years. Prior to its marketing, legislation was passed to the benefit of Western so that the sale would provide extra funds for the university.

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Macomb Police Department officers arrive on Stadium drive, where a stolen vehicle reached a dead end before the chase continued on foot.

By Isaiah Herard news editor The Macomb Police Department received a report yesterday of a vehicle that was stolen from Spoon River College. The vehicle was observed eastbound on W. Jefferson being driven by an assailant describe as a black male wearing a red hat.

Minutes later the vehicle was seen traveling westbound on W. Adams. Officers caught and stopped the vehicle at the intersection of N. Charles and W. Wheeler streets. The frisked vehicle matched the description of the stolen vehicle and after running the license plate officers confirmed the vehicle was

indeed stolen.

As the officer waited for back up, the driver pulled off and fled northbound on N. Charles.

The vehicular chase ended as the driver turned northbound onto Stadium drive, which is a dead end. The driver then abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.

Later the driver, identified as Justin Crawford, 20, from Chicago, was located on the 900 block of N. Charles.

Crawford was charged with two counts of disobeying a stop sign, reckless driving, no valid driver’s license, aggravated fleeing and eluding, unlawful possession of a stolen motor vehicle and motor vehicle theft.

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By Emily Stieren assistant news editor

To prepare Western Illinois University female community members in defending themselves against potential assailants, Western’s Office of Public Safety (OPS) is offering the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD).

The courses will run from 6-9 p.m. and will be held Wednes-

days, Oct. 19 and 26 and Nov. 2 and 9 in the Donald S. Spencer Student Recreation Center on campus.

The cost of the 12-hour self-defense course to all women is $20 per person. Sargent Derek Watts is among the RAD-certified officers teaching the lessons.

“Our first class is like three hours of risk awareness/risk reduction strategies.,” Watts said.

“The second and third classes we get into hands on stuff like how to punch, kick, and bear hug. We actually punch pads and things like that. In the last class, we review things and then we do full simulation. We dress up in big padded suits and the students have gloves, pads, and helmets on. We do a simulation where they actually have to get themselves out of a situation,

and they get to apply all the skills they’ve learned over the last month.”

The four classes include topics such as avoiding victimization, patterns of date rape encounter, basic principles of defense, full-speed hands-on exercise and dynamic simulation training. They are intended to make women more aware of potential assaults, and train them how to

react in alarming circumstances.

“We teach you how to do proper kicks, proper punches, and stuff like that,” Watts said. “You learn how to make a fist and how different striking motions might work in different situations.

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To assist Western Illinois University students with their future job or internship search, the Career Development Center (CDC) hosted the fall career fair in the University Union Grand Ballroom on Tuesday.

“The career fair is a good mixture of a lot of business, industry and technology,” said CDC director Martin Kral. “There’s some law enforcement in there, some education in there. There’s some health care fields in there, so it’s a good mixture of everything. It’s a good representation of what is available out in the job market.”

Kral said that the career fair was a good way for students to see how the job market looked based on what jobs

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“The state of Illinois owns all of the university property, so anytime we want to sell something we don’t get the money, it goes to the state,” Bierman said. “In this particular case though our local legislators carried legislation, and they specifically allowed us to keep the proceeds from the sale of that property with certain stipulations.”

Those stipulations allow for the university to use funds from the sale for the following purposes: demolition, land and property acquisition, streetscape and landscape work, lease agreements, surface and structure parking, sidewalks, recreational paths, street construction, utility infrastruc-

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were available and what employers looked for in hiring employees.

“It could be internships or it could be full-time jobs,” Kral said. “Yes, it can give students an overview of what’s jobs are available to them.”

Kral shared his advice on what students should look for when they are looking for future employment.

“First of all, is it something that they want to do long term?” Kral asked. “Second of all, are there a lot of opportunities within the organization? Most organizations will tell them that they’re great places for advancement within their organizations, so opportunities would probably be the biggest thing that the students should be looking for opportunities to move up within the company to better themselves, so basi-

cally to get their professional career off to a good start.”

As for the job skills, Kral believed that both the specific industry hard skills and the transferrable soft skills were very important in the job market.

“The technical skills, without a doubt and the hardcore skills, without a doubt,” Kral said. “It’s just as important to fit in and that’s the soft skills, the ability to get along with people, the ability to lead people and the ability to communicate with people.

All jobs are that way, so it’s a good mixture of both.”

For Western undergraduate students interested in graduate school, Western’s School of Graduate Studies showcased graduate programs during the graduate school fair outside the Grand Ballroom.

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ture, historic preservation and building rehabilitation.

Essentially, this gives Western $1.4 million to use toward improving buildings and other structures on campus.

“It specifically keeps us from using it to pay for utilities, salaries or pens and paper,” Bierman said. “It is specifically capital that can be invested back into the university.”

Western will also benefit from saving between $50,000 and $100,000 every year on maintenance costs pertaining to the 60th Street campus building.

According to Bierman, these continued savings will be able to be applied to areas in need.

“We will look at where our greatest needs are and where we want to invest in regards to different programs,” Bierman said. “The money is also not

specifically allocated for one specific campus or the other even though it is from the Quad Cities campus.”

While the building is being sold to DJL Associates, LLC, the temporary function of the 60th Street campus building will be hosting elementary school students while Franklin Elementary School recovers from a fire that occurred Sunday, Sept. 24.

“Two weekends ago there was a fire at an elementary school in the Moline School District, and since then we reached out to the school district and the buyer of the property,” Bierman said. “The school hosts about 280 elementary students and as for four days ago the Moline School District is occupying this building as an elementary school, and will be for some time.”

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at the graduate school guide students through the application process, but (Tuesday’s) expo is to have students really talk directly to each of the individual departments to learn more about those programs,” said School of Graduate Studies Assistant Director Gretchen Sullivan.

Sullivan said that the graduate school have both general admission and program specific admission requirements.

“Each program may differ in terms of GPA requirements, the base would be a 2.75 overall or a 3.0 within the last two years,” Sullivan said. “Also, it depends on the department and they may require three letters of recommendation, a statement of goals as well as a resume, so it really depends on each different department, each have their own admission requirements.”

Sullivan said that in addition, the graduate school programs has their admission requirements, potential graduate students that apply for assistantships must also submit letters of recommendation, a statement of goals and a resume, even if the department did not require the documentation.

“I do encourage students if they want to, to provide additional documents,” Sullivan said. “Of course, we share those with the departments and if it’s not required, they don’t necessarily have to send them.”

Entering the workforce right after graduation or furthering one’s education with graduate school, Western undergraduate students do have some options to become productive members of the workforce.

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While her legal name is Katrina Ripoli, her friends call her Kat. A junior here at Western Illinois University studying social work, she has overcome quite tremendous obstacles in her life. She has also been able to thrive from being in multiple organizations such as being the President of Lincoln-Washington dormitory, in addition to being active within Hall Government and Inter-Hall Council (IHC).

Ripoli described her early adolescence as a period of enlightenment and tough-

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The Office of Public Safety aims to bring confidence to women and girls of all ages through the RAD courses.

“We’ve taught anywhere from nine-year-old girls that come with their older sister or mom to all the way up to women in their late 60s,” Watts said. “Any age is appropriate, but it mainly focuses on teenagers and college age women who take the class.”

The sessions are available at no cost for life after graduating the course. This allows for women to get the necessary defense training throughout their lifetime, rather than just 12 hours.

“I took the classes the first time in my undergrad at Illinois College in Jacksonville.

When I came to Western, they were offering the courses,” Trusley said. “With RAD, it’s free classes for a lifetime, and

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ening as she experienced verbal bullying.

“Growing up, attending middle school and high school and everything like that, I used to get bullied a lot so people would kind of call me names based off my real name due to the hurricane in New Orleans so kind of why I go by Kat now,” Ripoli said.

Ripoli continues to explain her learning experience from bullying and how she gained the virtue of self-consciousness from her experiences as a child.

“With the bullying, it kind of started to make me not like myself anymore and started making me very self-conscious I think it is so important, so I continued with it when I saw that it was being offered at Western.”

Thanks to the amazing officers at Western, women have the potential to save lives, whether it be a friend’s or their own. The RAD courses are a rare opportunity that should not go unnoticed.

“We have excellent instructors at Western with the Office of Public Safety,” Trusley said.“I think it’s a great idea for people to take advantage of this course. I really can’t emphasize that enough because how many times can you take a selfdefense course at no cost? It’s taught by the people who go and get special training, and you are actually utilizing it in the class.”

The class size is limited to only 20 students, so pre-registration is required. To sign up or get more information about RAD courses, contact Sarah Worthington at SE-Worthington@wiu.edu

about the way I looked and everything like that,” Ripoli said. “I started to develop an image where I needed to be skinny where I developed an eating disorder in approximately middle school which is not ideal at all.”

One of Ripoli’s greatest difficulties was dealing with suicidal emotions. She would frequently starve herself as a method of self-harm.

“I would starve myself to meet the ideals of society and somehow go about that with my life,” Ripoli said. “Later on, I developed self-harming issues because I was starving myself and I felt really bad about it, self-harming

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was kind of a way to balance it out, but at the end of the day, it didn’t make anything better.”

Even though Ripoli faced tremendous difficulties with her own struggles of selfharm and eating disorder, she was not alone in her time of need.

“I started to see a counselor and started to slowly work my way back into recovery,” Ripoli said. “The friend that helped me the most was my best friend Amber. She wasn’t pushing me to get into recovery mode, but she was that person if you needed someone to talk to, she would be there for you.”

Ripoli was able to pass forward some words of wisdom and offers hope to anyone who may be facing challenges in their own life.

“Don’t wait too long to get help,” Ripoli said. “I started full on recovery mode at the end of senior year of high school and still to this day, I’m a junior here, I’m twenty years old, and I am still recovering to this day. I’m slowly learning to love myself. You have to realize there are people there for you, you just have to tell them that you need help.”

Western also offers a Student Hotline service for those in need. You can reach them at (309)-298-3211.

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Last Sunday, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock ended his own life in Las Vegas. Before doing that, however, he shot hundreds of rounds of ammunition from a high floor in his room in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He killed at least 58 people, injured hundreds more, and along with many other domestic terrorists who use firearms, reignited the national debate about gun rights and control.

The response from both the left and right sides of the political spectrum was swift. Before the information about the shooter arose, liberals and leftists were claiming that this is yet another reason to either ban guns altogether or, at the very least, create more restrictions to keep people from obtaining absurd amounts of firearms.

People on the right, like The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro and anyone writing for Breitbart or The National

Review called for a national indefinite moment of silence. They also asked not to politicize the tragedy, saying something along the lines of, “After a tragedy like this one, it is not the time to talk about gun control.”

Anyone remotely familiar with my political disposition should know on which side of this issue I reside. Throughout the industrialized world, the U.S. owns the most firearms per capita and has one of the highest figures of firearm-related deaths, with the title of more deaths per 100,000 people belonging to countries like Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador and Swaziland as found in the congressional research service. The common rebuttal for an argument about gun ownership and gun deaths usually follows as such: “We can’t draw a conclusion from correlations.”

Though annoyingly pedantic, the rebuttal is ultimately correct. To counter that rebuttal, consider this.

According to the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. owns nearly half — approximately 48 percent — of all of the world’s firearms. A 2016 study from the University of Alabama showed that, although the U.S. makes up only five percent of the world’s population, it holds nearly one third of the world’s mass shooters. Finally, according to the World Health Organization and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, controlling for national gross domestic product and industrialization, the U.S. has the highest homicide rate. At 36 homicides per 100,000 citizens, the U.S. dwarfs Portugal, Canada, Finland, Australia and the United Kingdom, which has, respectively, five, five, three, two and zero gun homicides per 100,000 citizens. There comes a time when the border separating causation and correlation nearly disappears. That time is now.

The arguments from NRAsupported politicians and NRA-

loving public figures don’t stop there. Another common claim against gun control, especially here in Illinois, argues that if gun control doesn’t work in Chicago, the gun homicide capital of the country, it won’t work anywhere. The main problem with the “guns in Chicago” argument is that the vast majority of recovered guns either from arrests or crime scenes come from areas around the city or even out of the state. Phillip Cook, a public policy professor who works with the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, found that 60 percent of recovered guns in Chicago came from states like Indiana or Wisconsin, where it much easier to get a gun.

I’ll concede that gun control in Chicago is not as effective as it could be; however, gun control in New York City is far more successful.

It was reported by the NY police department that the city’s murder rate was reaching historic lows thanks to gun laws. In fact, New York City is on track to be one of the safest places in the country, not just cities. Just like Japan, Australia and many other wealthy nations,

it’s incredibly difficult to get a gun in New York City. Obstacles include forms, background checks, fingerprinting and wait periods.

After the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the federal government created safeguards against plane jacking in the form of the Transportation Security Administration. Since then, there hasn’t been a successful plane jacking. Throughout the 1950’s and 60’s, the U.S. was filled with poorly maintained roads and shoddy automobile safety precautions. The federal government stepped in and created, among other things, seatbelt laws and road maintenance ordinances. Now we enjoy safer roads and cars.

The time to talk about gun control is every day, before and after a tragedy like Las Vegas, like Orlando, like Virginia Tech, like Columbine and the hundreds of mass shootings that go unnoticed each year.

Guns are a strain so infectious on our society, it may seem impossible to stop them.

The solution is as a simple as taking an antibiotic for an infection: more gun control is the solution, not the problem.

many government officials to introduce support and enforce stricter gun control laws or prohibit guns for civilians all together.

However, many government officials still advocate the current state of the Second Amendment, which clearly notes, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Since the Second Amendment is a part of the Constitution – and the bill of rights – for that matter, it bears extensive credibility. However,

I don’t believe the government should have this high magnitude of dictatorship over our country.

The government should not control gun rights to such tyrannical extremes, but they should not let us have too much freedom either.

Gun ownership has been an American tradition since the origin of the country and should remain protected by the Second Amendment. An increase in gun control laws would infringe upon our right to bear arms. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in District of Columbia v.

Heller (2008) stated in the U.S. Supreme Court opinion that “The Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a

militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.”

The McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) ruling also stated that the Second Amendment is an individual right acknowledging that, “The Founders of this country understood that the right to own and bear arms is as fundamental and as essential to maintaining liberty as are the rights of free speech, a free press, freedom of religion and the other protections against government encroachments on liberty delineated in the Bill of Rights.” as declared by the supreme court.

Growing up on the Southside, Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago, I witnessed a magni-

tude of murders; from gunshots, burdened bodies lying on the ground in broad day to overhearing gunshots within 100 feet of my residence. At one time, the City of Chicago was the murder capital, eclipsing Iraq for the most murders across the world.

Moving forward, eliminating guns altogether will be the detriment of a country whose slogan is “The Land of the Free.” The people of America reserve the right to bear arms, but the problem may be the caliber of guns regular pedestrians can purchase.

Maybe, the government can regulate who can purchase a gun or upgrade Homeland Security services to prevent future mass shooting epidemics.

Upgrade gun regulations

Gun control policies have been frequently argued by lawmakers and citizens of the U.S. today.

An abundance of catastrophic events such as the mass shootings in Connecticut’s elementary school, Sandy Hook, the shooting in a Colorado theater at an early morning viewing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” the shootings in a Charleston Church, the shooting of Columbine back in 1999 and now the travesty in Las Vegas have raised skepticisms amongst

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The illegal Catalonian referendum in Spain on Sunday sparked a debate across Europe and the Spanish state about the ability of a territory to secede from the nation of which it is currently a part. The Spanish police used rubber bullets to dissuade Catalans from voting in the region-wide referendum as reported by CNBC, after the highest court in Spain ruled that the vote was illegal.

However, early reports from Bloomberg claim that a massive supermajority — over 90 percent — of the estimated 2.3 million Catalonian voters cast their ballots in favor of secession of the entire Catalonian region.

Moderates, while still favoring the secession of the region, note the

documented economic troubles that would be associated with an immediate break, and instead have advocated for a long-term negotiated settlement.

Spanish officials, on the other hand, have blasted what was declared an illegal vote. Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, focusing on the economic side, claimed that Spain “has nothing to discuss” with the secessionists until they back off independence declarations. Seeing as Catalan banks have indicated that they would be “totally open” to relocating their headquarters should the secession process continue.

On the side of secession side, many different groups have called for a referendum on Catalonian

independence, but none have been more vocal than Candidatura d’Unitat Popular (CUP) – or Popular Unity Candidacy in English – which can be most easily described as a far-left version of the UK’s UKIP. While putting forth Catalonian independence as their primary goal, CUP is an openly socialist and anti-capitalist organization, advocating direct democracy and, even more laughably, a “planned economy based on solidarity.”

Further, they advocate nationalization of all transportation, communication networks and public utilities. CUP calls itself rabidly environmentalist, going so far as to calling for an end to all nuclear energy, and a ban on genetically modified organisms.

Apart from breaking off entirely from Spain with no backing or financial assistance, CUP also wants implementation of an economic system with no real-world examples of success without mass

death accompanying it. And despite there being a great number of groups advocating Catalonian secession with what appears to be more power, CUP has suddenly and inexplicably risen to seemingly becoming the ones calling the shots within the Catalan government.

For me, I say let them. Socialism, defined as the collective control of the means of production by the workers, has both in theory and historically been entirely debunked; in theory it was Eugen Böhm von Bawerk and Ludwig von Mises, and in practice it was 1930s Catalonia and modern-day Venezuela. If the people in Catalonia are so deluded to think, “it’ll work this time” then so long as they receive permission from the Spanish government to secede, they can implement their socialist system with no nuclear power or GMOs and let the results speak for themselves.

Those of us who promote free markets and private ownership of the means of production, with

the backing of theory and history, will have simply another example of socialism’s failure to point to. The Catalonian populace will have no one to blame but themselves when their economic system fails for the second time in as many centuries.

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The Panthers are not going to be an easy matchup for the Leathernecks, but Taylor and junior linebacker Quentin Moon should have a great day facing the weak UNI offense.

The Panthers are only averag-

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Offensively, the Leathernecks are being led this season by Redshirt Freshman middle hitter/outside hitter Mackenzie Steckler with a season total of 156 kills. Just trailing Steckler, freshman outside hitter Emma Norris has a total of 155 kills earned for the leathernecks.

Defensively, Senior outside hitter Shalyn Greenhaw is lead-

ing 366 yards of total offense, which ranks 66th in the FCS. The Panthers have had a nearly non-existent running game; they are only averaging 82 yards per game, which places them 107th in FCS play.

While the Panther ’s quarterback is not going to dominate the game like Coyote’s quar-

terback Christ Streveler did, the Leathernecks cannot sleep on this high ranked opponent.

Three of the Panthers’ four games have been within two touchdowns. They are used to playing in tight matchups, while this young Leatherneck team is not.

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ing Western with a total of 221 digs so far. The key to winning tonight’s game for the Leathernecks will be keeping their strong offense and defense all while maintaining their high energy and momentum in order to beat the Jackrabbits.

The game between Western and South Dakota State should be one full of energy and intensity. The Leathernecks need to continue to bring their strong defense and offense to the

court. Both teams have yet to win a Summit League game so far this season, which makes the stakes for tonight’s game even higher. One team will be leaving with their first conference win — let’s hope that it’s the Leathernecks.

The Western Illinois Leathernecks will play against the South Dakota State Jackrabbits tonight in Western Hall at 7pm.

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Friday, October 6, 2017

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Men’s soccer prepares for Lincon Land

By Haley Richards courier staff

The Western Illinois University men’s soccer team will be taking on Lincoln Land Community College Loggers this Saturday.

Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. at John MacKenzie Alumni Field. The Leathernecks are currently 4-5 on the season but 2-0 in conference play. This game against Lincoln Land will give Western a break from Summit League play.

The Loggers are currently 0-10 on the season and will face their first Division I opponent this weekend against the Purple and Gold. Lincoln Land has lost every game by three goals or more, and seem to be having a tough season. They have scored a total of four goals this season and have a combined four assists. Freshman forward Murphy Domitien leads the team with two goals and one assist, but has had 21 shots on goal.

After this weekend’s game, our category leaders are senior forward Drew Whalen and senior forward Fernando Pacheco, who are both at six goals on the season. They are tied at sec-

ond in the Summit League for goals. As of now, Whalen and Pacheco are two goals behind sophomore forward Elvir Ibisevic of the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Taking a defensive look at the Leathernecks, sophomore goalkeeper Tim Trilk has had 30 saves this season. His save percentage is .789 which leaves him tied at second in the conference standings. He is tied with freshman goalkeeper Will Hathaway of Fort Wayne. The two of them sit behind senior goalkeeper Mike Novotny, of Eastern Illinois University, with a save percentage of .855.

Trilk was also named Defensive Player of the Week for the Summit League after Saturday’s game. This was his first career accolade as a Leatherneck. In the match against Eastern Illinois University, Trilk recorded five saves off of 11 shots.

This was the third week in a row where a Leatherneck has received a Summit League Player of the Week award.

Starting with Pacheco the week of Sept. 11, followed by Whalen the week of Sept. 18, and now Trilk this week.

After the game this past week-

end, Western Illinois remains at the top on the Summit League. Omaha sits in second place with a record of 0-0-2, followed by Fort Wayne and Eastern Illinois who have a record of 0-1-1 in conference play. The University of Denver and Oral Roberts University have not seen any conference opponents yet.

The Leathernecks have had a tough schedule so far, so this weekend should give them a break before they face some tough opponents in the upcoming weeks. They will not see another conference game until the end of October.

Although Lincoln Land is not a huge game for the Purple and Gold, the program still does have a big weekend ahead of them. Western’s men’s soccer will celebrate their 50th anniversary this weekend. Alumni from the first season all the way up to the 2016 season will return to Macomb for a weekend full of events. The celebration starts Friday night with a social and will continue into Saturday with an alumni match, which is followed by dinner.

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Fernando Pacheco trails the ball in a home match.

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NHL season coming back with a bang This 2017-2018 NHL season looks to be the best one yet, but why? After last season and all of the Centennial festivities, and some rather spectacular playoff series, the league is looking to move on to even bigger and better things.

Everything about last season was amazing: for instance the 2017 Bridgestone Winter Classic at Busch Stadium with the heated rivalry of the St. Louis Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks; or the 2017 Coors Light Stadium Series game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers at Heinz Field; and let’s not forget about the first ever NHL Centennial Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings, a rivalry that dates back 1927, at BMO Field in Toronto.

All of those special outdoor games, as well as a stellar post season, led to an exciting season, so how does the league plan on doing it better? To me it’s up to the players. The NHL draws out the best hockey players in the world, and it is by far the most difficult hockey league in the world. Some would even say,

including myself, that the NHL is the greatest sports league in the world. Now with that in mind, the season has already started off great for some players.

Wednesday night, the opening night for the season, there were already some spectacular games.

The Toronto Maple Leafs took on and beat the Winnipeg Jets 7-2, the St. Louis Blues beat the returning two-straight Stanley Cup winners, the Penguins 5-4 in overtime. Another game that happened was a 3-0 victory for the Edmonton Oilers against the Calgary Flames, sounds normal enough, right?

Well this is the NHL where anything can happen, and Connor McDavid showed just what can take place. McDavid scored all three of those goals for a home opening hat trick. It’s the high scoring games and players like these that really define the NHL and the way the game is played.

Without the greatest hockey players in the world, there obviously would be no such thing as the NHL. However, the league is signing better and better players every year, coming out of

the American Hockey League (AHL), as well as the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), a league hosting Belarus, China, Finland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia and Slovakia. Primarily, the AHL is the minor leagues, players get straight out of college and go to these teams to get better and hopefully get drafted to the NHL, just look at Patrik Laine and Auston Mathews for example. On the other hand, you have the KHL; where players will leave for a couple months or years just to keep playing and stay in shape, such as Alex Ovechkin during the 2012-2013 NHL lockout.

Continuing along with that idea, stars are made in the NHL. Right winger for the St. Louis Blues, Vladimir Tarasenko, made his debut in the NHL during the lockout season, and scored two goals to lift them up over the Redwings 6-0 back in 2012. Where did he start playing? You guessed it, the KHL in Russia. Tarasenko is just one of many players who had the opportunity to make a name for themselves in the league, but most importantly, it’s the players like him that make the NHL what it is.

Another example of an exceptional player making a name for himself in the NHL, McDavid.

If there is one player in the NHL that you should know, it’s this

guy. When he was 15 he was already playing in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), as an exceptional center forward. This gained him so much attention that by the age of 18, he was starting and the new captain of the Edmonton Oilers and scoring hat tricks on opening night.

Now we could spend all day going on and on about how good the players are, but that isn’t the point. Everyone knows they are good. Hockey fans know who and what they are looking for. The point is, that after the Centennial NHL season, the league has some extremely high expectations to live up to.

Sure, we have two confirmed outdoor games already and those are guaranteed a good time, but nothing in the league really matters if the players aren’t out there playing to their full potential each and every one of those 82 regular season games, and say if their team reaches the Stanley Cup Playoffs, fan expectations just keep going up and up.

Luckily, the NHL has the best players in the world for us to watch week in and week out who go out and perform for their teams, and more importantly, their fans. So, with that, it is only up to the players to keep improving the league, because in the end, it all starts with them.

Monday, August 21, 2017

Football looks to ruin UNI homecomming

By Mat McClanahan sports editor

Western Illinois University’s football team heads into its second straight top-25 matchup when the 15th-ranked Leathernecks travel to Cedar Falls, Iowa to take on the 21stranked University of Northern Iowa Panthers.

The Leathernecks, who are 3-1, are coming off a tough first loss to the University of South Dakota Coyotes on a failed two-minute drill. Junior quarterback Sean McGuire threw an interception on a drive that would have won the game for the Purple and Gold.

The Panthers have not been able to string any wins together, but they are 2-2 and took their first conference win of the year against the Southern Illinois University Saluki’s last Saturday.

Last season, the Panthers got the best of the Leathernecks on senior night and beat Western by a touchdown, 23-30. However, Western looks to start the season 4-1 for the first time since 2003 and get their first conference win of the season.

It is unlikely that Western will be able to put up as big of number as they did in their homecoming game, last weekend.

Senior wide receiver Jaelon Acklin led Western in receiving after a single game record in Western football history, when reeling in 19 catches for 343 yards, which was also a Missouri Valley Football Conference record in yards.

“He's certainly capable of it by the way he's performed since January. I've done this a long time, 37 years, and I've got a lot of games, and a lot of really good quarterbacks and receivers. “The performance that Acklin had today was short of nothing just unbelievable. His effort and determination, I tip my hat and I told him that in the locker room,” said Western’s head coach Charlie Fisher. “I haven't seen a performance like that since going back to what (former North Carolina State and NFL standout) Torry Holt did a number of times.”

He was not the only Neck to put his name in the record books; senior Linebacker Brett Taylor accomplished a feat that only a two-time NFL pro-bowler has done when he recorded 28 tackles. Prior to that game, Taylor only had 30 tackles on the season, which was still leading the Leathernecks.

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Sean McGuire yells the cadence in Western’s homecomming weekend.

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Volleyball searches for first conference win

By Becca Langys courier staff

Shalyn Greenhaw goes for the kill for a Leatherneck point in Macomb.

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The Western Illinois University volleyball team (5-12) has been gearing up this week to face off against the South Dakota State Jackrabbits (2-15) tonight at 7 p.m. in Western Hall. This will be their fourth Summit League game of the season.

Now nearly halfway through their season, the Western volleyball team has been taking great strides to improve their game-play, yet continue to come up short. The Leathernecks have especially put a large emphasis on bringing energy to the court and keeping the momentum high.

Whilst their record hasn’t improved like they had hoped, the improved quality of the gameplay how hard the team has been working to get back on track.

The past two weeks of the season have been especially tough for the Leathernecks, and they hope to bounce back and turn over a new leaf during their fourth Summit game.

Their past three conference games have resulted in losses for the Leathernecks, and a win now could really turn

around their overall momentum pushing further into the season. The Western Illinois record is, so far, better than that of South Dakota State, so the team has high hopes for this upcoming game. By bringing high energy, momentum, and strong gameplay to the court, the Leathernecks have a good shot at coming out on top against the Jackrabbits.

The Jackrabbits also experienced a tough couple of weeks, losing four straight games in a row previous to the one being held tonight in Macomb. The Jackrabbits have been struggling defensively this season, earning a total of 758 digs so far compared to the 1105 digs by the Leathernecks. The leathernecks also lead the Jackrabbits in kills, with a total of 764 kills compared to South Dakota State’s 549 this season. Statistically, Western dominates South Dakota State both offensively and defensively, putting the odds of the match in favor of the Leathernecks.

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