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SLAMMED!People brought up violence and race issues and the “Rythm and WordsPoetry Slam” Wednesday at 7th Street Underground.
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MUST WINThe 1-5 Eastern football team approaches a must-win game at Southeast MissouriSaturday.
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By Samantha MiddendorfEntertainment Editor | @Samantha_EE
Homecoming 2014 will feature a wide variety of events for students and alumni of all ages when “Bright Lights, Blue City” takes over Charleston to get Eastern in the panther spirit.
Events for Homecoming begin Monday with a kick-off Homecoming Coronation.
Lori Knoechel, University Board home-coming coordinator, said voting for corona-tion, which took place Oct. 6 and 7, went well.
“We did have some mishaps in the be-ginning, but it was all figured out rather quickly by the Homecoming team, and for-tunately votes ran smoothly after that,” she said.
Coronat ion wi l l beg in a t 7 p.m. a t McAfee Gym, where the winners for king and queen will be crowned.
“Turn Up the Blue” sidewalk parties will also be taking place all day Monday. The parties will include spirit table displays, ac-tivities and giveaways on the Quad.
“These smal l par t i e s a re jus t se t -up games and activities for students to engage in while walking around campus or going to class,” Knoechel said. “We wanted stu-dents to know it was Homecoming week, and what a great way to tell them by giving them fun things to do.”
Bright Lights, Blue City takes over Eastern
FILE PHOTO | CHYNNA MILLER Last year's homecoming court makes an apperance during the Homecoming football game on October 19, 2014. This year the parade takes place at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 25.BRIGHT LIGHTS, page 5
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSEric Thorsland, the Democratic candidate for Illinois’ 15th congressional district, holds a question and answer session with university employees on Wednesday in the Sul-livan Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Thorsland, currently a re-search technician at the University of Illinois, supports unions and creating vocational programs in community colleges.
U.S. House candidateholds forum
Budget cuts affect UB, Rec CenterLuis MartinezStaff Reporter| @DEN_News
The three boards funded by student fees all suffered 8 percent budget cuts this year because of low enrollment.
These boards include University Board, student government and the Student Rec-reation Center.
Student government took out $4,000 from its annual budget, cutting costs from things such as its T-shirts for First Night and Panther Service Day.
The University Board had to cut its costs by getting rid of Panther Stock, a spring event, and they also had to take some of the funds for the cultural arts.
The Student Recreation Center Board originally had a budget of $211,000, with most of the budget aimed toward the equip-ment and student payroll; the cuts also may lead to a decrease in hours.
On Tuesday, Eastern’s apportionment board discussed the university’s current budget situation.
Yazmin Rodriguez, student vice-president for student affairs, then brought the issue to the Senate meeting Wednesday.
BUDGET CUTS, page 5 HOUSE CANDIDATE, page 5
By Stephanie MarkhamNews Editor | @stephm202
In campaigning for the Nov. 14 midterm elections, Eric Thorsland, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative for Illinois’ 15th congressional district, provided a Q-and-A session for Eastern’s faculty Wednesday.
Despite only three faculty members attend-ing the forum, Thorsland shared his plans to deal with legislative issues.
The Faculty Senate invited both Thorsland and John Shimkus, the 18-year incumbent Republican candidate for the position, to speak.
However, Shimkus’ campaign did not re-spond to the request, said Todd Bruns, a Fac-ulty Senate member.
Thorsland, a research technician at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, asked the faculty members what they thought about the Common Core curriculum, adding that he was reluctant to support it.
“I worry it’s trying to address a prob-lem that’s not a ‘how to teach’ problem, it’s a ‘where you learn’ problem,” Thorsland said. “What I really want to push for is to bring re-source to the area, but not dictate the entirety of how it’s used.”
Crystal Duncan Lane, a family and con-sumer sciences professor, said Common Core is frustrating a lot of teachers in Illinois, many of whom are looking for other careers
to avoid dealing with it.“They’re actually very bitter about the
Common Core,” she said. “They don’t feel that they are as well educated about it as they should be, and that it’s just being kind of thrown at them.”
Duncan Lane said one of her student was injured in Afghanistan, and she asked what Thorsland would do about getting veterans the services they need.
Thorsland said he wants to eventually serve on the Veterans Affairs Committee.
“We need to streamline it; we need to di-rect resource at it,” he said. “Rather than send
more into conflict, we need to take care of the people coming back.”
Bruns asked what Thorsland would do to address student loan debt.
Thorsland replied that congress should spend more money on grants such as the Pell Grant rather than on the military, as well as lower the interest rate.
“We are dropping billion dollar bombs on Iraq right now,” he said. “We can do with a little less guns and a little more butter.”
Home Grown
RUSSELL SILER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSAssistant professor of applied engineering & technology, Isaac Slaven, along with Richard Lombardo, an applied engineering & technol-ogy junior, and Nathan Rhebergen, an applied engineering & technology senior, setting up a stand in the quad where they sold caramel apples that they made using clean energy from the wind and the sun. The project is for The Association of Technology Management and Applied Engineering.
By Debby HernandezAdministration Editor |@ DEN_News
The Bridging Voices in Our Community Bullying Prevention Project Conference wil l have a keynote speaker on the psychology of hope and its influence on bul-lied individuals at 9 a.m. Friday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union Grand Ballroom.
This year’s conference theme is “A Time for Prevention and Inter-vention: Renewing Hope in Edu-cation.”
According to Eastern’s BVC reg-istration website, the conference
“unites living and learning com-munities in an effort to promote bullying prevention.”
Al lan Beane, founder of the Bullying Prevention Program, will be speaking on how to bring hope to people who have been bullied.
He will also be sharing his son’s experience with bullying, and how it led to his loss of hope.
Beane is an internationally rec-ognized speaker and author on bullying.
He has published six books on anti-bullying, served as a consul-tant in eight bullying lawsuits and been featured on various media
outlets, according to the Bullying Prevention Program website.
Beane also has 36 years of ex-perience in education as a teacher, vice president of a university, and as director of a school safety cen-ter, according to the website.
The purpose of the Bullying Prevention Program is to “pro-mote a sense of belonging and ac-ceptance of al l individuals and to promote the Golden Rule,” by communicating the message to others through different mediums.
The program has been adopted by schools and districts through-out the United States, according
to the website. Beane will also be having an af-
ternoon keynote address about mis takes that have been made with bullied individuals leading to their loss of hope, and how specif-ic strategies can be used to reduce bullying and implement hope.
The afternoon address will be at 1 p.m. Friday in the Grand Ball-room.
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By Margaret LangevinStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
California officials care more about fish than the people.
Cameron Craig, a geography professor, said 30 years ago Hu-ron, a town in Fresno, Califor-nia, was a booming, but now it is nothing more than a ghost town.
He said because of the lack of water, people had to leave in or-der to survive.
“It’s dead. There’s a couple of cars that run here and there and there’s peop le wa lk ing to and from,” Craig said. “When they described it 30 years ago, there was traffic. At lunch time it took forever to get to one side to the other.”
H u r o n i s f a c i n g a m a j o r drought and because there is a dwindled water supply, less job opportunities are available.
Craig and four students trav-eled to the Southwest to make a documentary about the lack of water supply.
The biggest shocker of the trip for most of them was Huron.
Sophomore Kines io logy ma-jor Aric Pelafas, a sophomore ki-nesiology and sports studies ma-jor, said he is never really been outside of Illinois before and be-fore the trip he knew there was a drought situation, but he didn’t experience it he saw it with his own eyes.
“I learned that I had been tak-ing advantage of my water, and did not even realize it ,” Pelafas said. “I now am always watching how much water I use, and every time I turn my water on I think about where it is coming from.”
Craig said soon the seven thou-sand population of the town is going to dwindle soon because of the water issue.
The farmers will not be able to plant, therefore, will not be able to go to the grocery store.
It is going to affect all of Cal-i fornia in a matter of t ime, he said.
Water for Fresno County once
went from Northern California, down the Sacramento River into the Delta.
From there, it is pumped into a reservoir, which is then dumped into the California canal system.
From the re , f a rme r s wou ld pump water out of that.
It is a constant battle between the biological opinion of those people protecting the fish species and the farmers, said Craig.
“Because of the dwindling pop-ulation of salmon and smelt in the Delta, the court said based on biological opinion, farmers will no longer receive water because of the fish population is more im-portant. ” Craig said.
Because of this, the drought is going to affect the United States.
Fre sno County i s the num-ber one agr icultura l county in the US, Craig said. Most of what people eat every day is produced in Fresno, he said.
Once Huron had eleven pack-ing plants for lettuce, and now they only have one.
Cra ig s a id we need to s t a r t thinking differently about how we use our water each and every day.
We n e e d t o s t a r t t h i n k i n g about things, like how often we shower or how long we allow the faucet to run while brushing our teeth, he said.
Craig said that is the ultimate goal of producing a documentary.
He along with the other stu-dents involved want to educate people the United States water re-source exacerbated by droughts.
In the past, Craig brought oth-er students on trips to research the causes and emotional struggle for Great Plain farmers and an-other trip to explore the impact the BP oil spill had on residents in Dauphin Island, Alabama.
“Expedition Endurance: With-out Water We are Nothing” airs on WEIU-TV November 5.
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More than half a million hours of service. That’s the recorded number of service hours
completed by students since President Bill Per-ry created the student community service office in fall 2008.
This shows a tremendous enthusiasm to vol-unteer, said Rachel Fisher, director of the stu-dent community service office.
She said the variety of ways that students vol-unteer excites her.
“At Eastern, (volunteering) means a commit-
ment to others and a commitment to make the community better,” she said. “And we show that in a lot of different ways.”
The student community service office part-ners with over 60 community organizations like the Charleston Food Pantry, Douglas-Hart Na-ture Center, the Red Cross and SACIS.
Fisher anticipates about 80 percent of the stu-dent body will participate in one way or anoth-er—from volunteering for one specific service day per year or making a weekly commitment to help others.
One way is the upcoming Hunger Road Trip to Indianapolis.
A group of students will travel to Indiana to assist the Gleaners Food Bank as the student community service office explores options on how to fight hunger in a larger metropolitan area.
“It’s so convenient that Indianapolis is very close to us—a large city that’s done great work in community building and certainly fighting poverty has been part of that,” Fisher said.
According to the Gleaners website, the food bank is a warehouse that stores food before be-ing distributed to the community. Gleaners provides services for various organizations like food pantries, soup kitchens and emergency
shelters.Students will be working in various capacities
as Gleaners works to provide food to nearly 400 agencies in a 21 county area.
“Our hope was to try to keep offering differ-ent cities in different areas,” Fisher said. “We also like students to not only explore their own backyard, but local yards as well.”
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By Nick RuffoloStaff Reporter | @ruffolonick
Performers at Wednesday night’s poetry slam used the medium as an opportunity to teach listen-ers about racial issues and civic awareness.
The event at 7th Street Underground featured five performers in all, reading either original poetry or works written by a favorite poet.
Shamerea Richards, a corporate communications major, used her poem “Chi-raq” to discuss issues surrounding her hometown of Chicago.
“Youth under 10 can’t enjoy the sounds [of] ice cream trucks, due to the young man hanging out of the sun,” Richards recited. “Crime was never the is-sue until the issue became crime.”
She said the “Anti Chi-raq” movement in Chica-go, a protest against the “Chi-raq” term given to the city based on its alleged violent nature, gave Rich-ards the motivation to write the poem.
“(The media) generalizes Chicago as a bad place,” Richards said. “Some parts are bad, but the city as a whole is great.”
She said the reason for heavy crime in some parts of the city is not because of race or age, but rath-
er a cycle.“(People involved with crime) never leave Chica-
go, leaving them stuck in the same cycle and doing whatever they can to make a living,” Richards said. “We need to teach our youth that history does not repeat itself … and get them to leave the city and see the outside world.”
Richards is also the president of Performing Arts for Effective Civic Education, which uses these po-ems, plays and other forms of art to better portray civic issues.
“When you perform the issues, you feel it,” Rich-ards said. “Just watching it on the news does not have the same effect.”
Other performers at the event used the poetry slam to talk about personal issues, something that Zayne McCorkle, a junior English education ma-jor, said is common.
“The best poets are introverts,” McCorkle said. “Poetry allows you to express yourself with words you may not normally have.”
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KE VIN HALL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Shamerea Richards, a senior communications major, performs one of her original poems Wednesday at the University Boards’ R.A.W Rhythm and Words Poetry Slam in 7th Street Un-derground .
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The unexpected rescheduling of Nev Schulman’s appearance on Eastern’ cam-pus is a blessing in disguise.
While it would have made sense for his speech on cyber bullying to be in line with the Bullying Conference Friday, a later date, Oct. 28, will garner more suc-cess because the it will not be set during a week full of other things to bide students time.
When it was scheduled for Thursday, it had the unfortunate timing of being scheduled at the same time Fall Break starts.
Fall Break is the time students, most-ly underclassman, go back to their respec-tive homes. This campus will be practical-ly empty by Thursday.
While numbers for tickets sold for the event were high, I am sure now that is not during Fall Break, University Board will see a larger amount of people attending.
Not only is it avoiding Fall Break now, it is also avoiding the event-filled week of Homecoming.
If it was during Homecoming, it might
have been lost in the shuffle. Now just a week after Homecoming, it will be the perfect space of time to fill a student pop-ulation thirsty for the next big thing to do.
Success is crucial for the Catfish appearance too because UB bet on it when they asked for an increase in their overall budget to make up for the cost to bring him. With nothing else to do, UB will likely see more students buy tickets making up for the cost to bring him.
Aside from the date, now that it is not associated with the Bullying Conference, he might focus less on the issues with bul-lying, but instead focus on what people
pay to see him for, his show “Catfish.”Even though he might have some
insight on bullying, it makes more sense for him to talk about his experiences with the show and the documentary. With-out the possible restrictions of talk about bullying, he might focus on it less. This would assuredly entice more students to go see him.
Personally, I try avoiding things that seem like lectures, and I assume that goes the same for most students.
As long as things go on schedule from now until the show, his appearance will likely be a success, especially with the hype surrounding the show.
If it is as successful as the Teen Mom speaker who came last year, his appear-ance will should see a good response from the campus community.
We can only hope it is not cancelled for a second date.
Jarad Jarmon is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-7912 or [email protected]
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Canceling ‘Catfish’ better in long run
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The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
It’s good to see that Council on University Planning and Budget-ing (CUPB) is taking a hard look at enrollment.
It is sad to note that they do not currently have graduate students in their representation.
Eastern should be doing much more to recruit graduate students to come here.
Considering graduate students can obtain more generous financial aid, are more likely to be employed after graduation and would boost our uni-versities’ scholarly credit, why is there a lack of effort?
Eastern offers a great deal in terms of tuition for graduate programs, yet all the focus seems to be on under-graduates.
It’s not that they are not important, considering they are the bulk of the student body.
If Eastern is serious about tackling it’s enrollment problem, they should pull the graduate school out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
This university cannot afford to put graduate students on the back burner.
Steve AndersonGraduate Student
Political Science Department
Yesterday, we reported on a measure approved by Eastern’s Faculty Senate that would scholarly publications within the uni-versity’s database to become publicly available.
The Open Access to Research Articles Act, passed by the Illi-nois General Assembly in Aug. 2013, requires all Illinois univer-sities to create a task force in charge of making an open access policy for scholarly publications. The Open Access Policy com-mittee—a ten person panel created approved by the Faculty Sen-ate—will be responsible for maintain the university’s correspon-dence with the new state law.
And while it would be somewhat preemptive to immediate-ly applaud the Faculty Senate for the decision (after all, this was a mandate passed down from Springfield), it should nonetheless serve as a great reminder to Eastern students of just how much information and resources are available to them on this campus, provided they are willing to look a little harder.
Databases like Easterns “The Keep,” which serves as the uni-versity’s primary archival platform, should be utilized by Eastern students as much as possible. And that goes beyond purely aca-demic research or for citing in class papers.
Most of The Daily Eastern News staff has, at one point or another, spent a few hours perusing The Keep, and many of us have stumbled across incredibly interesting and valuable tid-bits of information, not just for our own journalistic practices,
but also simply for the sake of knowing more about Eastern as a whole.
To truly understand something—whether it is an institution or anything else—one must be at least peripherally familiar with its history. Seeking out and understanding history not only fos-ters a new sense of appreciation for one’s alma mater, but it also instates a sense of context through which education is obtained.
We sometimes forget it—sometimes equate the flat, corn-lad-en fields of Coles County with a historical vacuum, see it as a rel-ative No Man’s Land in the epoch’s of the past—but this area is full of rich and interesting history.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates; the Charleston Riots in the Civil War—these are all episodes documented in Eastern’s archives, each providing a sense of history and understanding of this university and the area in which it resides.
Eastern students should try to set aside time to learn more about this institution, as doing so will not only provide a better understanding the university’s role in history, but will also con-textualize just where this institution has been, where it is now, and where it is headed.
There’s some incredibly interesting stuff out there. One just has to make a point to find it.
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A Family Fun Night will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in the University Union of the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Union for stu-dents and the Charleston commu-nity. Those attending may partic-ipate in bingo, carnival games, in-flatable games and prizes.
“Br ight Lights , Blue Lanes” will feature free glow-in-the-dark bowling games from 7 to 11 p.m. Wednesday at Eastern’s bowling lanes.
Students and faculty can partic-ipate in the free games and food and prizes at the bowling alley.
“Color Me Blue,” will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. Oct. 23 in the South Quad. Students can cele-brate their school spirit by throw-ing colored powder on one anoth-er.
The “Light It Up Blue” pep ral-ly will occur from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 24 in McAfee Gym.
The pep rally includes games and activities, emceeing by Mike Hightower and Omar Solomon and a performance by the Pink Panthers as well as the annual “Yell Like Hell” competition.
“Since Pep Rally is also linked to Yell Like Hell, we will be having fun games and activities during the beginning and the end and also in the breaks for the students to par-ticipate in,” Knoechel said.
Various organizations, such as fraternities and sororities, regis-tered student organizations and the Residence Hall Association, com-pete in “Yell Like Hell,” a cheer-leading style competition.
Homecoming weekend will come to a close with an annu-al parade at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 25 and the Eastern football game against Tennessee State at 1:30 p.m. at O’Brien Field.
Samantha Middendorf can be reached at 581-2812
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FILE PHOTO | CHYNNA MILLERAlexis Lambert, a senior psychology major, poses for photos after winning the Miss Black EIU pagent on February 22, 2014.
BSU hosts events during Homecoming Week
Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge
As part of tradition, Mr. Es-sence and Miss Black EIU will be showing up to various events dur-ing Homecoming Week.
Alex i s Lamber t , the current Miss Black EIU, and Brandal l Miles, the current Mr. Essence, will also be working closely to-gether on Black Student Union events.
Lambert sa id BSU would be host ing i t s annual skate par ty for all Eastern students at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Silver Star Skate Center in Mattoon. She said the organization would provide shut-tle services to take students to and from the party.
The skate show is one of BSU’s more popular events and i t i s something the group hosts every Homecoming, Lambert said.
Miles and Lambert will be pres-ent at the event skating together; both laughed and joked about it being a “couple’s” skate.
Lambert said BSU would also be hosting a fashion show with
the models of Couture Models’ at 8 p.m. Oct. 24 in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union’s Grand Ballroom.
She said much like the skating event, the fashion show is a fun event for students and BSU has hosted fashion show events in the past.
Lambert sa id the group also wanted to do someth ing o th-er than parties for Homecoming Week. The fashion show is a way to go back to the organization’s roots.
The f a sh ion show wi l l a l so host a social media celebrity K.C. Clark from Instagram.
Lambert said Clark is an up-and-coming comedian and danc-er who wil l host the event and even perform his female persona “Kiki.”
BSU also participates in Uni-vers i ty Board events including a “Sidewalk Party” during that week, which will have various or-ganizations set up tables on the s idewalk showing school spi r -it and talking to students about their organization, Lambert said.
Lambert said all of the events put on during Homecoming Week are important for showing spirit and support for the school.
“We are all panthers and we are all here,” Lambert said.
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“Since there is a low student en-rollment this year, there’s less stu-dent fees,” Rodriguez said. “With less student fees, we’ve had to de-crease everyone’s budget.”
Rodriguez also said the boards met together to discuss the bud-gets and what they would be cut-ting out this year.
Besides the budget meeting, the
Sena t e a l s o vo t ed on th re e event s fo r Ea s t en’s upcoming Homecoming.
The events included Yell Like Hell, Family Fun Night, and Side-walk Party, with all three being passed with a unanimous vote.
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He also said universities should not be entirely funded by tuition dollars.
“I will work very hard to get re-focused on that resource so that EIU doesn’t need to lean on the undergrads and the graduate stu-dents,” Thorsland said.
Bruns also asked Thorsland to comment on tax breaks for corpo-rations.
“They don’t need them—peri-od,” Thorsland said.
Thorsland said his other goals include getting the Paycheck Fair-ness Act passed and to get the min-imum wage raised.
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Dameron said, parallel to Whitlow’s dual-threat ability, the Redhawks run similar plays with Snyder, who like Whitlow ranks in the top-10 in rushing in the OVC.
The Panthers received a boost to their overall running game, with the return of Shepard Little against Eastern Kentucky.
The red-shirt junior running back ran for a season-high 122 yards on 19 carries.
Southeast Missouri has beat-en two top-25 ranked teams this season in Southeastern Louisiana and Tennessee State.
Dameron said if there is one thing the Redhawks do the best is play hard for their coach.
“All you have to do is put the film in and you see they play hard,” he said. “They’re good fundamentally, schematically, I mean they’re an improved foot-ball team. They’re competing
their hind end off.”The Redhawks started their
OVC schedule with a 31-27 win against Tennessee-Martin and then beat Tennessee State 28-21. If they come away with a win over Eastern on Saturday, Matukewicz said it would not be because they have more talent, but because they play smarter.
“Our expectation is to play well every week,” Matukewicz said. “We’re not the most talent-ed team. We are a good football team. We have to just do a bet-ter job of playing smart because the difference between winning and losing in this league is so thin that I believe the team that plays the smartest will end up winning.”
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Also contributing for Tennes-see-Martin is senior Ashlie Wat-son with six goals this season. A transfer from NAIA Union Uni-versity in Jackson, Tenn., Wat-son is Tennessee-Martin’s second leading scorer.
Mariah Klenke, a senior from Highland, is in her fourth season as the Skyhawks’ starting goal-keeper. In her freshman year, she set the school record for wins, only to break it in her sopho-more year and then again last season.
A first team All-OVC selec-tion in 2013, Klenke has given up 12 goals so far this season, making 77 saves.
Eastern will honor five seniors this weekend, Radloff, Carter, Lauren Hoppensteadt,
Allie Lakie and Ellen Camp-bell, who will be playing in their final matches at Lakeside Field.
Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812
Bob ReynoldsStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
Eastern rugby coach Frank Graziano will see a familiar face on the opponent’s sideline Sat-urday, when the Panthers go up against Quinnipiac University.
Becky Carlson has coached the Quinnipiac rugby program since 2010, and it so happens to be that she played rugby un-der Graziano from 1999-03 and was the Panther rugby assistant coach from 2004-06.
Carlson’s assistant Michelle Reed also was an assistant coach under Graziano from 2002-04.
Graziano said he enjoys go-ing head-to-head against Quin-nipiac because of the familiar faces he sees on the sidelines.
“It is always fun playing against them,” he said. “I enjoy Coach Reed and Coach Carl-son immensely as people. I have the utmost respect for them as colleagues. Just from a people standpoint, they are wonder-ful people. I really like coaching against them. We learn so much from playing against them.”
The Panthers faced off against Quinnipiac last season at Lakeside Field in the first game of the season and lost 65-7.
Quinnipiac has lost two games in a row and Graziano said he is going to try and take advantage of that.
“They may be feeling a lit-tle bit vulnerable right now,” he said. “If you can get them to think about their vulnerability, then that may become an ad-vantage for us. But, that comes on the field, while you are play-ing, by the players.”
Last time out for the Pan-thers was a game to forget as they went down to Life Uni-versity and lost 61-0 and were hampered by injuries, as two Panthers were taken out of the game within the first three min-utes.
With having two weeks in between games, that gave both players time to heal their inju-ries.
Graziano said both players are at 100% and with that, the Panthers are feeling confident heading into this game.
“If you play them to a draw in the first twenty minutes, then you feel really good about your chances,” he said. “We have been struggling to do that for an entire game. We have not reacted well as a team to where suddenly we lose momentum or suddenly something happens to us.”
The Panthers and Bobcats will kick off at 11 a.m in Ham-den, Conn.
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By Blake NashStaff Reporter | @Banash5
The Eastern volleyball will contin-ue its Ohio Valley Conference season this weekend, with matches at Ten-nessee-Martin on Friday and South-east Missouri on Saturday.
Eastern’s middle hitter Al l ie Hueston, despite being a freshman, will find a familiar opponent playing for the Skyhawks on Friday, in Ten-nessee-Martin setter Madison Ber-gren.
Hueston and Bergren were high school rivals from Anderson and Muncie, Ind., respectively. They were also teammates during club play last summer for the Munciana Samurai Volleyball Club in Muncie.
“We played together this past year during club season,” Hueston said. “We even finished second at Na-tionals and played against each other during the high school season.”
Munciana finished last season as the runner-up at the AAU Nationals in the 18 Open division after post-ing a remarkable record of 76-5 dur-ing the club season. Both players were frequent all-conference players, with Hueston making the all-Hoo-sier Heritage Conference team all four years in high school.
As for their teams, the Panthers come into Friday’s matchup with an 8-11 overall record, while the Skyhawks are currently 9-11. Both teams are an identical 2-4 in OVC play.
Eastern has currently faced four of the conference’s top five teams, but Panthers’ head Coach Kate Price said that records do not have much meaning to her.
“Records do not mean much to me,” she said. “I think every week-end in the OVC is a tough week-end.”
Bergren, one of the Skyhawks’ top players, currently leads the team with 782 assists this season, while
Eastern’s Marah Bradbury has ac-counted for 829 assists for the Pan-thers. Both are in the conference’s top five in that category.
Southeast Missouri, Saturday’s op-ponent for the Panthers, has an iden-tical 2-4 OVC record, while its over-all record is 6-14. The Redhawks have only played three home games this season with one win and have one of the conference’s best blockers in Nzingha Clarke.
Clarke’s 28 blocks are the best in the OVC, just ahead of Tennessee-Martin’s Mandy Glon, who has 18.
“I think they each have a few key kids that we need to work to con-tain,” Price said. “But they are going to be tough opponents and we need to expect to have to go into their gyms and fight for every point.”
Another member of the Eastern freshman class finds herself with a new challenge. Last Saturday, Ma-ria Brown played her first game as a member of the back row, tallying her first double-double with 16 kills and 21 digs, despite having played front row throughout the first half of the season.
Price has not decided if Brown will become a routine member of the starting back row, but will make that call after practice this week.
“Maria did play as the six rotation outside hitter,” Price said. “Howev-er, we will see what practice shows us this week. Positions are earned every day in practice.”
First serve for the Tennessee-Mar-tin game will be at 7 p.m. on Friday in Martin, Tenn., while the South-east Missouri game will start at 5 p.m. in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
“Our freshmen have earned big roles which will definitely help them in the future,” Price said. “I am looking at this weekend and I hope that experience helps them.”
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Senior red-shirt Kelsey Brooke dives for the ball at the volleyball game Oct. 4 vs Belmont University.
By Sean HastingsStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
The Eastern men’s and women’s swim teams will begin their sea-sons with a meet against IUPUI at 5 p.m. Friday in Indianapolis, Ind.
Eastern coach Jacqueline Mi-chalski is in her first year leading both squads after taking over for Elliott McGill.
Michalski is in her first head-coaching job at Eastern, but this is not her first coaching experience.
She coached at St. Francis Uni-versity, while she was getting her Masters there.
She also coached club and “learn to swim programs” when she was younger.
Michalski has the Panthers prac-tice twice a day Monday through Friday for two hours in each prac-tice.
“Practices have been rough in terms of that we have put a lot of yards on them, really trying to get them in shape and ready for the season,” Michalski said.
Michalski said she loves how both teams have come together and have become a family.
Both the women’s and men’s teams have many freshmen on the roster.
On the women’s side, some of them being Renae Johnson, who competes in the backstroke and the butterfly.
There are also Amy Smith who competes in freestyle and back-stroke, and Melissa Hepler who competes in freestyle and individ-ual medley.
Michalski said that all three have come and brought a new element to the team and the same with the other freshmen on the roster.
On the men’s side, nine out of the 20 swimmers on the roster are freshmen.
A couple of the freshmen are, Mitch Carzoli who competes in the freestyle and Steve Fishman who also competes in the freestyle, backstroke and individual medley.
“You can’t real ly tel l who’s a freshman and who’s not because they have integrated so well with the entire team,” Michalski said.
Both teams have been pushing each other during the fall in prep-aration for the start of the season.
Both teams also have many re-turning swimmers.
On the women’s side, they have returning swimmers in seniors Ka-tie Vanhootegem and Nikki Peck, both of which have been swim-ming since their freshmen years as true freshmen.
The men’s side does not have a returning senior on the roster, but they do have four juniors on the team this year. One of them being Jake Roberts, who competes in the freestyle event.
Michalski said she is confident that both teams are 100 percent ready for the season to start.
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By Mark ShanahanStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
After losing two games on the road, the Eastern men’s soccer re-turns home to play Western Illi-nois at 3 p.m. Saturday at Lake-side Field.
Western currently sits at the top of the Summit League, with a 7-4-1 record and has a perfect 2-0 re-cord in conference play.
Western won at home against For t Wayne and Omaha w i th identical 1-0 finals.
The Lea thernecks’ p rev ious scheduled game against Loras was canceled on Monday and will not be rescheduled.
Therefore, they wil l be on a week’s rest when coming to play Eastern, while the Panthers are coming off a 3-0 loss at Bradley on Tuesday night.
Po int l e ader fo r Wes te rn i s Charlie Bales, who has five goals and two points with a total of 12 points.
Jacob Bevan i s the i r second leading scorer with three goals and one assist with a total of sev-en points.
Goalkeeper Yves Dietrich has started all 12 games for the leath-ernecks and has an impressive six shutouts so far this year.
Dietrich has a 145-minute shut-out streak going and earned player
of the week last week along with his teammate Bales.
Western went 6-13 last season, finishing fourth in the Summit League.
A big part of the turnaround is the 23 players that returned to the roster, including eight starters and only losing five players.
Eric Johnson coaches the Leath-ernecks. This is his 18th season with Western.
He led Western to the confer-ence tournament last year, where they defeated Oral Roberts and then lost to Denver in the confer-ence championship 1-0.
Eastern head coach Mark Han-sen is mainly focused on how his team will perform.
“We’re our biggest enemy right now,” he said. “We’re trying to be-come more consistent, try to cre-ate more of a killer instinct and try to go out and win the game.
So for us i t ’s just about be-ing more consistent, game in and game out.”
Hansen sa id there a re some positives heading into Saturday’s game for his team.
“I think our biggest strength is the resiliency of this group and the determination of this group to
not quit,” Hansen said. “You look at the results and nobody’s pulled away from us, most of our games are one-goal games.
D e f e n s i v e l y, t h e y ’v e d o n e very well to this point, not good enough, but competitively well enough.”
Despite playing the top team in conference, Hansen said it would not matter to his team.
“The th ing I ’m most proud about this group is the fight that they have and the resiliency that it doesn’t matter the opponent, doesn’t matter the score, they’re going to keep playing till the final whistle,” he said.
The next two home games are very big for the route this season will go for the Panthers.
“If you’re going to look at the end of our schedule, the three conference games are huge, the two games at home against West-ern and IPFW and the next two games at home are massive,” Han-sen said. “If this team wants to reach its goal of being in Den-ver for the conference tournament then they have to get results in both of those games.”
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JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSEastern freshman defenseman Zach Medawattage dribbles the ball past a defender. The men’s soccer team will play Western Illinois on Oct. 18.
Men’s soccer returns home for Western Illinois
By Dominic RenzettiAssistant Sports Editor | @domrenzetti
The Eastern women’s soccer team is set for its final two home matches of the season this week-end, hosting Murray State at 3 p.m. Friday and Tennessee-Martin at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The Racers enter in a similar situation that the Panthers found themselves in last season.
Coming into 2014, Murray State was on the outside looking in, again picked toward the bottom of the Ohio Valley Conference pre-season rankings after missing the tournament last year.
Now, with two weeks left in the season, Murray State is tied for first place with Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and looking to make its first postseason run since 2011.
Murray State has not made it out of the first round of the OVC tour-nament since 2009, the same year it made it all the way to the NCAA tournament, only to be knocked out by Virginia Tech in its open-ing match.
Things are looking different in Murray, Ky., this season.
The Racers score more than any other team in the OVC and no-
body in the conference can seem to find a way to score against them. Murray State has scored 15 goals this season, averaging 2.5 a match.
Most of the scoring has come from the reigning OVC Offensive Player of the Week, Julie Mooney, who recorded her second hat trick of the season last weekend against Morehead State. Mooney, a senior for St. Peters, Mo., leads the OVC with 12 goals so far this season.
On defense, freshman goalkeep-er Shelby Haworth has only giv-en up four goals against OVC op-ponents and is coming off two straight shutout wins.
Haworth averaged less than one goal given up per match at Hill-iard Bradley High School in central Ohio in a career where she record-ed close to 4,000 minutes.
Haworth has help in front of her as well, with reigning OVC Defen-sive Player of the Week Taylor Ste-vens.
The junior defender recorded an assist in both of the Racers’ wins over the weekend.
For the Panthers, currently 1-4-1 in conference with four points in the standings, two wins are need-ed to stay in the race to be one of the top six teams to make the tour-
nament.Offensively, Eastern’s Madison
Carter is coming off a three-goal weekend against Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State. Carter is one of three other Panthers with four total goals for the season, ac-companied by Meagan Radloff and Chris Reed.
Sunday’s match features anoth-er team with an offensive weapon in Tennessee-Martin’s Rianna Jar-rett. Jarrett also scored a hat trick over the weekend, finding the back of the net three times against East-ern Kentucky.
The Tennessee Sportswriters As-sociation named Jarrett Women’s Soccer Player of the Week for her performance.
Originally from Wexford, Ire-land, Jarrett played on the Re-public of Ireland team in both the UEFA U17 and U19 Champion-ships, scoring seven goals in inter-national play.
Jarrett has 11 goals for the Sky-hawks so far this season.
By Aldo SotoSports Editor | @AldoSoto21
At 1-1 in the Ohio Valley Con-ference, the Eastern football team knows that a loss at Southeast Missouri could very well cost the Panthers a chance for their third straight league title.
Although Eastern is 1-5 overall, head coach Kim Dameron said his team is improving despite what the record portrays.
But a loss in Cape Girardeau, Mo., on Saturday might take away any hopes of a three-peat in the OVC.
“I look at i t as two footbal l teams this week that are looking at each other dead in the eye, and whoever comes away with the vic-tory this week down there kind of stays with a possibility of maybe still being in the conference race,” Dameron said. “The other one is going to be awfully hard.”
The Redhawks are in the midst of their resurgence from last season under first-year coach Tom Ma-tukewicz.
At 4-3 overall and 2-1 in confer-ence play, Southeast Missouri has already surpassed its win total from last season, when the Redhawks finished 3-9 and 2-6 in the OVC.
Southeast Missouri suffered its first conference loss against Mur-ray State, losing in double overtime 44-41. Nevertheless, Dameron said the Redhawks are playing well.
“We’re just trying to embrace the challenge, stay positive and keep getting better everyday,’ Dameron said.
Part of the Redhawks’ success this year fal ls on the shoulders of senior quarterback Kyle Sny-der, who is leading the Southeast Missouri offense to 36 points per game, which is second-best in the OVC.
Snyder began the season strug-gling with interceptions. After the season opener, he went through a four-game stretch throwing an in-terception.
He has six this season, but has also thrown a conference-best 13 touchdowns.
“He’s been a guy who’s always been a good player, but he turned over the ball a couple times,” Ma-tukewicz said. “This has been the second consecutive week that we’ve done a good job with the football.”
In Snyder’s last two games, he has thrown three touchdowns and no interceptions.
Eastern quarterback Jalen Whit-low has not thrown an interception since the Panthers’ 34-15 loss at Il-
linois State on Sept. 13.He has five touchdown passes
and no interceptions in Eastern’s
last three games.Statistically, both teams are sim-
ilar, as they rank No. 3 and 4, re-spectively in rushing yards per game, with Eastern slightly ahead.
Defensively, Southeast Missouri is just ahead of Eastern in rushing defense, allowing 176.7 yards per game, compared to 177.3 allowed by the Panthers.
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JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRed-shirt senior defensive back A.J. Woodson leaps in the air to avoid the tackle during a game on Sept. 20 at O’Brien Field. The Panthers beat the Gover-nors 63-7.
Eastern tries to keep hopes alive at SEMO
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Sophomore forward Gabby Charles moves the ball around senior Frankie Carbajal during a match against Austin Peay on Oct.5 at Lakeside Field. The Panthers beat the Governors 3-1.
Women’s soccer faces top OVC talent this weekend