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LIL BIBBY, page 5
DURBIN, page 5
LONG LIVE HAWKINSMary Hawkins’ great
grandnepew, Gilbert Hawkins, visited Eastern’s campus to share
the story of his grand aunt.
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FBS BOUNDThe Eastern football team plays its second FBS opponent in Ohio at 1 p.m. Saturday in Athens, Ohio.
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By Kevin HallStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
Rapping, singing, and an assortment of other talents will be on display at Eastern’s first EIU’s Wildin’ Out featuring up and coming Chicago rap artist Lil Bibby. The show will be taking place at 8 p.m. Saturday in the University Ballroom in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.
Tickets are on sale for $15 and are avail-able to be purchased from any member of the Untold Truth executive board or An-twione Smith, Twon’s Kitchen founder, the other host of the event.
The two organizations decided to collab-orate on this event in order to create some-
thing that could possibly impact the entire campus. EIU Wildin’ Out is a show with performances, including students across Eastern’s campus performing different forms of artistic expression, such as comedy, as well as two dance performances by Eastern’s dance teams Rhythm & X-tacy and Idioctic Jive. The dance teams will be competing for a $100 cash prize.
Performances by the students will only be a portion of the entire show. After they fin-ish, Lil Bibby will take the stage. Performing the last 30 minutes of the show, Lil Bibby will be the grand finale of the night.
Lil Bibby to perform
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS(Left): Senator Dick Durbin, D-IL, participates in a panel discussion that includes Eastern president Bill Perry and Carol Waldmann, Director of Finan-cial Aid at Eastern, on Thursday in the Tuscola-Arcola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. (Top right) Eastern president Bill Perry talks about how the university has been student-friendly by not raising tuition and other costs to students. (Bottom right) Business professor James Sysko speaks during the Q&A portion of a panel discussion. Sysko’s concerns included students and their families being uninformed about the risks
By Debby HernandezAdministration Editor | @DEN_News
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke Thursday about student loans and how a new proposed bill could help minimize debt.
Durbin said 1.7 million people in Illinois have a collective total of $47 billion in stu-dent loan debt.
“Student debt in America today is greater in total than credit card debt,” Durbin said.
According to Durbin’s press release, many borrowers with outstanding student loans have interest rates of nearly 7 percent or higher for undergraduate loans.
Durbin said 86 percent of student loans get their loans from the federal government, while about 14 percent use private loans ser-vices.
Carol Waldmann, the associate director of financial aid, said Eastern has good stand-ing in terms of student loans.
“Our average student loan debt for un-
dergraduates is $20,000,” Waldmann said. She said private loans are only offered to
students as a last resort. Waldmann said interest rates for federal
and private loans vary. “On subsidized and unsubsidized, inter-
est rates right now are 4.66 percent and they go up every year” she said. “Private loans vary based on a student’s credit and are any-where from 5 to 10 percent.”
President Bill Perry said Eastern has tak-en initiatives to help reduce costs for stu-
dents. “This year we did not raise tuition fees,”
Perry said. “The other thing is that our fi-nancial aid office works really hard with stu-dents on individual bases.”
Three guest Eastern students shared their experience with student loans.
Graduate student Liz Edwards said her situation with student loans has been man-ageable.
Dick Durbin addresses lowering loans
By Bob GaluskiEditor-in-Chief | @BobGaluski
When Gilbert Hawkins first began delv-ing into his family’s history, he had no idea it would be life changing.
“I was talking to my friend a few months ago, and he said, ‘You’ve changed,’” Gilbert Hawkins said. “I didn’t think I had.”
Now, a lmos t 100 ye a r s a f t e r Mar y Hawkins died, her great grandnephew Gil-bert and his wife Annette are walking the same halls that Mary Hawkins loved so much and left such an impression on.
For the first time, Gilbert and Annette Hawkins entered America, coming from New Zealand, and traveled into Charleston
to find out more about Mary Hawkins — the “second matron” and supervisor from 1910-1917 in Pemberton Hall.
Arriving Thursday, the Hawkins couple witnessed the history of Gilbert Hawkins’ great grandaunt by being inside Pemberton Hall and hearing stories from former resi-dents of Pemberton Hall.
As for being in a different country, Gil-bert and Annette Hawkins said they feel right at home.
“It’s a really beautiful place. It feels like family,” Annette Hawkins said. “It feels at home.”
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By Debby HernandezAdministration Editor |@ DEN_News
The Council on Academic Af-fairs reviewed changes made in the administration and management business programs offered at East-ern on Thursday.
Larry White, assistant chair of Management Information Sys-tems, said technological changes have become necessary in the MIS program due to advances.
“Businesses today are dealing with ‘bring your own device’ rath-er than having the employer give equipment,” White said.
He said Eastern has also experi-enced a technological change.
“We have had about two gen-erat ions of technology change in both hardware and software,” White said. “We are operat ing Office 2013 now and Windows 2007.”
Globalization acceleration has also occurred in the business field, White said.
“More businesses are outsourc-
ing; supply change is becoming more global, and to keep that all connected, they rely on informa-tion technology,” White said. “We have moved to instant communi-cation.”
Enrollment in the MIS business program reached its lowest enroll-ment last fall with 90 students.
However, enrol lment in this program had been steadily increas-ing from 2006 to 2011.
“In the last couple years it has been rising while university en-ro l lment has been dropping ,” White said.
The demand for informational system professionals has been ris-ing.
According to a survey conduct-ed by Eastern’s Career Services, 86 percent of MIS graduates found employment within six months of graduation during the 2011-2012 academic year.
White said the curriculum has been revised twice since the last review.
He said in 2008 the program
was changed from Computer In-formational Systems to Manage-ment Information Systems.
Further changes were made to the program in 2012.
“The curriculum was revised again in 2012 to formally elim-inate the concentrations so stu-dents didn’t have to choose one or the other,” White said. “We gave flexibility to students to look at all sides.”
White said retirees have also af-fected the program.
“During this period, we have lost three full time Unit A faculty members,” White said.
Future plans for the program include continuing to make tech-nological advances, he said.
John Wil lems, the school of business interim chair, said the bachelor’s degree in business ad-ministration has undergone two changes since the last program re-view.
He said one of the changes the program is currently undergoing is the rotation of courses.
For the first two years, students take courses at Parkland College where they receive their associate’s degree, and then they get their bachelor’s degree at Eastern.
Willems also said changes have been made in the Parkland Col-lege office.
“The office in Parkland College is now fully staffed and at a visi-ble location across from the police station,” he said.
Enrollment in the bachelor’s in business administration pro-gram is low because part of it is only available at Parkland, Wil-lems said.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the business and financial operations group, which is one of the concentrations most business students go into, is ex-pected to grow by 13 percent from 2012 to 2020.
Debby Hernandez can be reached at 581-2812
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By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor | @BertoHodge
Having little money to spend on living amenities is not uncom-mon to the average student, but some students have been working to alleviate their burdens by sacri-ficing things in their life.
Before blacking out during a drive, Austin Haddock, a senior psychology major, would spend $40 a night over a five-day peri-od on alcohol.
He said at one point, he spent on average around $150 on alco-hol alone.
Haddock has quit drinking ever since that night and become more involved with religion.
“It kind of scared me. I became a Christian after that,” Haddock said.
Haddock said there were many issues going on in his life during that time and his black out made him realize there was a limit and point not to cross.
Since that incident , he quit drinking and now hangs out with friends who do not drink.
“It’s too expensive (and) I got burnt out on the whole par ty scene,” Haddock said.
Now most of his money is spent on food, rent, utilities and dining out, which is about $500 a month with rent and utilities being a lit-tle more than half of that.
Haddock said his scholarship handles most of the cost, covering 80 percent of his expenses for tu-ition and housing, but like many students he also takes out loans to cover the rest.
Since he does not have a job this semester, he generally saves most of his money with the help of his mother.
“I typically try not to spend it all,” Haddock said. “I feel like I do a decent job on my own.”
Morgan Thompson, a freshman communication disorders and sci-
ence major, said her biggest ex-pense is food at $80.
Thompson said she spends on average $100 a month, and when it comes to food, she buys peanut butter, fruits and water.
In order to afford her expens-es, Thompson said she worked a job in her hometown saving mon-ey, but her parents also send her money every two months.
Thompson said when she did have her job she would save ev-ery paycheck, placing it in her ac-count.
With expenses for students fluc-tuating between food, alcohol and day-to-day living, one professor was able to give students an advice to budgeting their finances, which can help them in the long run.
Patrick Lach, an associate pro-fessor of finance, said the best way students should approach saving is to keep a written record of how
much they spend. Lach was not surprised with the
knowledge of hearing how stu-dents on average spend more on food.
“It’s one of the things that adds up quick,” Lach said.
Students on average eat around 60 meals a month if breakfast is skipped, if students would save $2 per-meal, they could quickly accu-mulate $120 in savings, Lach said.
Lach said spending and saving is a lot like weight gain and loss; he said students can either make more money and spend less, or earn less and spend more.
Lach said the important tip to keep in mind is to save money.
The mos t common mi s t ake students make along with poor spending habits is a lack of career planning.
Though some students may not realize it, poor grades and GPA
can also lead to not getting the job they want straight out of col-lege.
Just graduating may not neces-sarily be enough because some ca-reers require seeing a GPA on the resume, Lach said.
Lach said saving can be as sim-ple as putting a little bit away over a long period of time, which is highly beneficial.
He a d d e d i f s t u d e n t s h a ve $1,440 in savings at 8 percent in-terest, in 10 years that could easi-ly amount to $20,860.
“That’s a down payment on a house—that’s a lot of things,” Lach said.
Roberto Hodge can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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On average, college students spend around $400 every month, with the biggest expense being food.
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Gaelic Storm will be performing at the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 as part of Doudna’s “Best Of ” series.
Gaelic Storm, an Irish music band, will be coming to Eastern for a second time after a poll took place to see what performers stu-dents and community members wanted to return to campus.
According to the Eastern web-site, Gaelic Storm blends indie-folk and world grooves with Celt-ic tradition.
They wi l l be s ing ing songs of plight and plunder, whiskey-drenched pirates, flying cannon balls and the ladies of ill repute.
Dan Crews, director of patron services at Doudna, said tickets for the event are selling regularly.
“We have about 50 percent of the seats sold for the concert, which is exciting,” he said.
Crews said they preformed in the “Titanic.”
“If you have seen the movie Ti-
tanic with Leonardo DiCaprio, they were the band performing in the steerage compartment when Jack asks Rose, “Do you wanna go to a real party?’,” he said.
Ryan Lacey, the percuss ion-
ist for Gaelic Storm, said he is ex-cited to be coming back to East-ern to perform especially because of the smaller venues offered by Doudna, compared to the festivals they normally go to.
“It’s the same vibe as if we were playing at a music festival, it’s a little quieter but we get to show off our musicianship,” he said. “It’s also way more intimate when we play at venues like this, we get
to share our stories and interact with everyone in the audience.”
While touring, the band also dropped an album.
“We have a new album out that released in July called the “Full Irish”; it’s a best of with three new songs,” Lacey said. “The album actually hit No. 1 on the world music chart , which is the f i f th time we’ve hit that in our career.”
Lacey said from his past experi-ence passing through Charleston, their past show at Eastern went over well.
“Our last show here was great, the town was receptive. We had a great time after the show too,” Lacey said. “The energy of the show was enormous as well, we re-ally fed off of Eastern’s energy a lot.”
Ticket prices for the show vary. Student tickets cost $7; seniors and employees, $12; and general admission, $15.
Mace Mackiewicz can be reached at 581-2812
FILE PHOTO BY MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSGaelic Storm performed in the Dvorak Concert Hall on Sept. 16, 2012. The Irish music band mixes indie and world music.
By Luis MartinezStaff Reporter| @DEN_News
Students roamed all over cam-pus in search of the panther ba-bies during the scavenger hunt on Thursday.
Students had to search high and low in order to gain the most points for their residence hall.
The panther babies could have been located anywhere on campus, from Old Main all the way down to Andrews and Lawson halls.
At 9 a.m., res idents grabbed their phones and flashlights and set out on the hunt to locate the panther babies.
While the scavenger hunt offi-cially began early Thursday morn-
ing, many residents began search-ing Monday night.
During the hunt, residence had to follow clues posted by the Resi-dence Hall Association in order to locate the babies, which were pa-per cutouts of panthers.
Some o f the c lue s inc luded “This hall was named after the woman who wrote EIU’s Alma Mater” and “Need a parking per-mit? You can buy one here.”
One of the clues included for participants to take a picture by the University Police Department; however, after participants were told that they could not take pic-tures of the building, RHA mem-bers changed the clue from taking a picture of the police station to
taking a picture of a parking per-mit.
As the residents were able to de-cipher these clues, they were able to find the panther babies.
Each panther baby was worth one point with the exception of the golden panther baby worth 50 points.
When residents are able to lo-cate the panther babies, they take the code that is located on the in-side and upload their photo to get the points.
Tyler Gordon a sophomore spe-cial education major, said finding the babies was a challenge.
“I thought it was a lot of fun, even though my group wasn’t able to find any of the panther babies,”
he said. “They were really well hidden but it was still a lot of fun to go out and look for them.”
Cameron Greenbaum, a fresh-men kinesiology and sports stud-ies major, reflected on his experi-ence participating in the hunt.
“I didn’t find one panther baby; they were really well hidden,” he said. “I looked over by the library, the bushes, by the clock towers and by heath services.”
Each res idence hal l had one person in charge of a flash drive.
The points that the residents gathered from the hunt went into the flash drive.
At 9 p.m., all the halls met at the clock tower to turn in their flash drive.
RHA vice president Kadie Pe-terson reflected on the success of the hunt.
“So far this week has gone really well; we’ve had a lot of attendance for the events,” Peterson said. “It’s been a team effort with my entire (executive) board and I’m proud of all of them.”
ROC Fest will conclude with a closing picnic from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridady on South Quad.
The results from ROC Fest will be announced in the RHA meet-ing next week.
Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812
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FRIDAY, 09.26.14OPINIONS
JOHN WARD | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
Editors note: In an attempt to mix up our Opin-ions Page, the Daily Eastern News will now be imple-menting the occasional non-traditional column format. The following took place over email between Managing Editor Anthony Catezone and Opinions Editor Robert Downen. All feedback is appreciated.
(Robert): Hey, Anthony. I don’t know if you’ve been hearing all this commotion and controver-sy across campus over the bowls at Eastern’s dining halls, but I know you’re pretty passionate about your cereals, so I figured I’d ask: what’s the deal?!
(Anthony): Right? These new bowls are so small I might as well be eating the cereal out of my own hand. I went to Thomas’ dining hall last Tues-day and rediscovered my love for Lucky Charms. I embarrassingly admit that I had gone several years without tasting that marshmallowy-goodness.
Once I did taste it, I was taken back to my child-hood. But that vision was immediately interrupted when I ran out of cereal in a matter of seconds. Ter-rible.
(Robert): It’s with a heavy heart that I recant a similar experience at Stevenson last week:
Broccoli Cheddar has always held a special place in my heart. It was there for me in the trying years of adolescence. It was a place of comfort in my first days away from home, with no one to talk to, no one who’d listen.
I met the first girl I’d fall in love with over a bowl of Broc Ched. For me, it’s been like a close family friend, there at a moments notice in times of despair, offering a shoulder to cry on or whatever those kind of people do.
So imagine my heartbreak when I dove into that to-go bowl from Stevenson, only to finish in a mere 30 seconds. Think the tragedy and defeat in Per-
cy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” but with even less cheddar cheese.
The real question, though: why? WHY?!
(Anthony): I believe it was it was author Eric Carle who theorized, in his most famous work to date, “The Hungry Caterpillar,” about the impor-tance of food. By not having sufficient food within the bowls, Stevenson Dining leaves us with a terrible ache in our bellies.
Budget cuts is the answer to your question, but budget cuts are not a viable excuse for us to suffer with this ache in our bellies.
How much are these smaller bowls actually sav-ing the university? The people must know.
(R): And a follow up: what happened to my beloved Bronco BLT?!?!
But that’s a question for another time. I digress. Really, though, there’s something to be said of a soci-ety that places more importance on saving ~$.05 than they do on feeding their students. If this is East-ern’s plan to trim the $7 million off the budget for next year, we might be in trouble.
I believe it was Mel Gibson who once famously said, on the fields of Shiloh, “they can take our lives, but they can never take our appropriately-sized din-ing hall soup bowls!”
I could be wrong though.
(A): Though I don’t always agree with Mel Gib-son’s religious views, I do fully support that state-ment.
Since these minuscule bowls are creating mam-moth gaps between childhood friends — Lucky Charms and I, Broc Ched and you—I propose that Eastern eliminates forks to ultimately save money and bring back our beloved appropriately sized din-ing hall bowls.
Who really needs forks? I know the brave-heart-ed Mel Gibson of the 13th century would support this decision. Those were good days, barbarian days.
(R): What are these “forks” everyone keeps refer-ring to? I always just put the plate right into my mouth and shovel the food in with the back of my hand. Pasta nights are the worst.
But really, is a normal-sized bowl too much to ask?
I understand we’re trying to cut costs on every-thing at this school, which is fine. Milton Friedman himself said that, in dire economic times, there exist only two certainties: there will be drastic cuts to the national soup budget, and Michael Bay will, some-how, still be allowed to make movies. These are dark times, indeed.
But how far must we go? How far down this path of treachery must we follow blindly the lead-ers of now? I call upon all Eastern students, standing hand-in-hand with my Lucky Charms-less breth-ren, asking— nay, pleading—you to rise up to tyran-ny alongside us.
Let us fight the good fight! Let us see a new dawn! A better dawn, one of prosperity and kind-ness! Of morality and rectitude! Of marshmallows and cheddar!
(A): Let us all stand together, and sing, in a cho-rus of justice and harmony: “THESE BOWLS ARE TOO DAMN SMALL.”
(R): Amen! Amen! Amen!
Robert Downen and Anthony Catezone are both senior jour-nalism majors and soup/cereal enthusiasts. They can be reached
at 581-7912 or [email protected]
This column is mainly about bowl crap
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR:Focus should be on people, not reforms
Dear editor; The final verdict on global warming has not been rendered, and neither has it been rendered on the statutory minimum wage.
With a higher statutory minimum wage, people receiving it should not be surprised to see their cost of living rise.
How will that help people as they wait in line for slower service.
Higher wages, when linked to higher productivity, can avoid causing increases in the cost of living.
The ages-long argument over wages is for now the wrong topic of discussion.
What for now is needed is poli-cy reforms with greater opportunity for people as the goal.
Such opportunity for people can only be achieved by tax and regula-tion reforms, even replacement of the “ affordable health care act.”
The needed reforms could rescue the 40-hour, full-time job from its path to extinction as we “slouch toward Gomor-rah.”
What is needed is greater opportunity for gainful employment.
The legalism of the wrong regulations and taxes only erect barriers to opportu-nity for a “free” people.
Truly yours, Leonidas H. MillerMattoon, Ill.
We’d like to preface this editorial with the following: no member of our staff is opposed to Lil Bibby’s music. In fact, many of us are actually quite big fans of him.
However, we nonetheless feel that Eastern, as a university, should have no part in sponsoring his upcoming performance on campus.
That is not an indictment of Bibby’s music, nor is it a judgment of who he is as a person. It is not a smearing of the people involved with the event. It is, however, a question of oversight within our own administra-tion.
While we understand that Bibby’s music is meant to present grit-ty, uncomfortable stories through in-your-face, abrasive hip-hop, many others—many people, judging the event from an outsider’s perspec-tive only—simply are incapable of drawing a line between art that speaks about violence and crime, and simply violence and crime.
And so, less than a year after Eastern’s administration was dealing with the ramifications of the Barn Party shooting, here we are, not only pro-moting the event as being in conjunction with the university, but allow-ing posters featuring phrases like “put ‘em in coffins” to adorn billboards all around campus.
Simply put, this sends a very poor message to the outside community, and even worse, sends an extremely mixed and confusing message to East-ern’s student body.
To host this event off campus would be a completely different story. But allowing such an event to occur on university property, with universi-ty blessing, and through help of university promotion, we feel is question-able.
Again—and this bears repeating—this is by no means an indictment of Lil Bibby, either as a person or as a performer. And while it is unfortunate, sometimes decisions necessitate looking through a number of lenses. And, again, unfortunately, to the outside viewer—those unfamiliar with Bibby’s work or the entire message of the performance—the university’s hosting of the event simply looks like an endorsement of violence and crime.
It’s unfortunate that some people are incapable of differentiating the two. But the university needs to keep even those people in mind when they consider how internal decisions might affect outside perceptions of Eastern.
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Lil Bibby, recently releasing his mix tape titled “Free Crack 2”, was one of the top choices for the two organizations when deliberat-ing on the event.
“The event is a variety show, and what i t does i s a l low up-coming artists the chance to net-work, seeing as though he’s a pret-ty mainstream artist now after his new mix-tape.” Smith said.
Even though they have been planning the show since the sum-mer, the Untold Truth and Twon’s Kitchen both made the decision to host tryouts Thursday.
Farrah Dean, the Untold Truth special events coordinator, said they wanted the tryouts close to the show in order to insure the opportunity for all students to get a chance to showcase their talents.
Also, along with performanc-es by Lil Bibby and Eastern stu-dents, the show will be co-hosted with rapper and comedian, Vomar and Chris Carter.
“The Untold Truth just wants to inspire other RSOs in taking chances in having larger events for the campus such as this.” Seve Day, Untold Truth president said.
Janae Houser, the Untold Truth secretary, said they are attempting to build upon the image of the black community.
“Through hosting a successful event, it can possibly make better for the future,” Houser said.
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Graduate student Jarrod Scherle also shared his experience.
“I currently have about $10,000 in debt, but my monthly payment is very manageable,” Scherle said. “I have friends who have moved back with their parents, some longtime boyfriends or girlfriends they may or may not have put off popping the question because the situation was not manageable.”
Meanwhile, Shelaina Reids, a se-nior family and consumer sciences major, said she worries about her stu-dent loans on both federal direct sub-
sidized and unsubsidized loans.“My biggest concern is paying
them back and balancing my liveli-hood,” Reids said. “Right now I am about $40,000 in debt; upon gradu-ating it should be about $50,000.”
James Sysko, a business professor, shared his concerns about the lack of information that students and their families have prior to taking a loan.
He said the solution would be to consult students and their families on their obligations to pay back loans and how long it would take them to repay.
“Many people today just want fast money,” Sysko said. “We need to have intelligent students and parents and a system that encourages that fact of sensitivity.”
Durbin said the situation places students in a tough decision-making process.
“It’s a circumstance there where many young people really count on others to give them advice as to what is a sensible decision to make,” he said. “Then they have to make an al-most impossible calculation, ‘Is this debt worth that diploma?’”
Durbin said the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, which he is one of the sponsors of, would be a solution to help students pay their debts.
The act would allow students to pay off their outstanding loans at a lower interest rate.
According to Durbin’s press re-lease, the bill would save the average borrower $2,000.
In addition, the new legislation would allow borrowers with Feder-al Family Education loans or Direct Loans taken out prior to July 1, 2013
to refinance their loans at 3.8 percent.The legislation would be paid for
with the Buffett Rule, which would limit tax breaks for the wealthy, ac-cording to the press release.
Durbin said the proposed bill did not have enough votes to be passed.
“ We f e l l two vo t e s sho r t ,” Durbin said. “This is not over yet. We believe we have to get in and make this happen so students can have a lower interest rate.”
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» DURBIN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B ank on Students Emergenc y Loan Ref inancing Ac t would a l low students to pay off their outstanding loans at a lower interest rate.
Gilbert and Annette have traveled the globe in search of the last branches of Gilbert Hawkins’ family tree. It was in England that they found the head-stone of Mary Hawkins, which men-tions Charleston.
“We found out she was actually bur-ied in Charleston,” Gilbert Hawkins said.
After that, it took one phone call to “get the ball rolling,” he said. And be-fore they knew it, they were finding out all about Mary Hawkins and the impact she had on campus.
Mark Hudson, the director of Hous-ing and Dining, said Mary Hawkins’s ef-fect on campus was so far reaching that, when she died, school closed down for half a day for a memorial service.
“This history has opened my eyes to her impact and effect on students,” An-nette Hawkins said. “I’m really amazed by the lasting impression.”
In the meantime, the Hawkins cou-ple are staying in a room across the hall from where Mary Hawkins slept during her time at Eastern.
Mere steps away from where his an-cestor slept, Gilbert Hawkins said he couldn’t imagine a better way to relive the history and memories.
“When you use Google, you get a picture of the place, but not the feel,” Gilbert Hawkins said.
And to be immersed in this kind of history is a unique and special experience for Gilbert Hawkins.
“This is all because of being onsite. I’ve changed,” Gilbert Hawkins said. “And it’s only by going through this ex-perience.
History comes full circleAs part of the trip, Gilbert and An-
nette Hawkins bestowed a gift to the campus: a sculpture that is only one of three.
One of the pieces resides with Gilbert and Annette Hawkins; the other, with Gilbert’s relative. And the final piece will be displayed at Eastern.
Made from a kauri tree, native to New Zealand, the piece is made from a specific tree that is between 45,000 and 55,000 years old.
The piece is a large circle that wraps into a smaller circle with a space in the middle.
Gilbert Hawkins said it is a living piece, which means it is meant to be touched.
“You have good days and you have
bad days. When you’re having either of those days it is time to touch the sculp-ture,” he said.
Gilbert Hawkins commissioned the piece to a sculptor and informed him of Mary Hawkins’ history.
Hudson said Jeff Boshart, a former Eastern art professor, came to see how to mount the piece, since he is an expert in wood pieces.
His answer: Boshart would create a frame from the pieces of the burr oak tree that, until the previous summer, had been outside Old Main for decades. Af-ter a storm made the tree a safety hazard, the tree was cut down.
Hudson said President Bill Perry ac-cepted the gift on behalf of Eastern ear-
lier Thursday. And it will be a lasting memory once
Gilbert and Annette Hawkins take off next Saturday, back to New Zealand to add more info to their family histo-ry box.
But for now, Gilbert Hawkins will continue to have a life-changing expe-rience while following his great grand-aunt’s footsteps.
“I’m seeing things I never even thought I’d hope to see,” Gilbert Hawkins said.
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Eastern was able to get four wins l a s t weekend , sweep ing Olney Centra l College and Parkland Col-lege in both double head-ers and look to do this same this weekend. Coach Angie Nicholson wants to make sure they continue to make the right plays and be in the right places doing the right
things, also wants them to stay aggressive.
“We’re a little banged up so we’re just trying to stay healthy, so we’re not going to go too hard, but contin-ue to focus on what we have been focusing on,” she said.
The Panthers are going into the weekend with three pitchers available to pitch.
The team will be with-out starting shortstop Bai-l ey O’Del l on Sa turday, who will be in class. With O’De l l no t in the l ine -up, Nicholson will have to move around some of the players to play different po-sitions.
T h e Pa n t h e r s s t a r t e d practice on Thursday and
all pitchers got workouts in and the team also did bat-ting practice to get them ready for the four games this upcoming weekend.
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» SOFTBALL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8Eastern enters weekend games whi le t r y ing to stay healthy, moving around players on the diamond.
By Dominic RenzettiAssistant Sports Editor | @domrenzetti
The Eastern hockey club continues its season on the road this weekend, travel-ing to take on the Universi-ty of Iowa.
The Panthers and Hawk-eyes will play two games, with the first at 6 p.m. Fri-day and the second at 4:45 p.m. Sunday. Both games are at the Coral Ridge Ice Arena in Coralville, Iowa.
The Panthers are coming off two losses against the
University of Illinois-Urba-na Champaign last weekend by scores of 9-1 and 11-4. The Panthers, 0-4, are still searching for their first win of the season.
Sophomore Andy Insala-co, who has scored in both of the club’s two series so far this season, understands the difficulty that being a young team brings.
“We played some decent teams so far,” he said. “It’s hard being an up and com-ing t eam. We’re p l ay ing competitive schools with a
lot of talent and full ros-ters. Early on, we ran into some injuries and our roster is starting to slim down.”
Iowa is 1-2 coming into this weekend’s series. The Hawkeyes topped Bradley 6-5 in the opener on Sept. 6, but lost their last two to Waldorf by scores of 4-3 and 2-1.
Junior goalie Zach Peif-er knows that it might take time for the Eastern roster to settle in.
“ We’re a re a l l y young team, so once we find some
chemistry and start working as a team, all of the other pieces will fall into place,” he said.
Despite the club’s short-comings early on, Insalaco, now in his second season with the Panthers, said they won’t go down easily.
“One thing about Pan-ther hockey is we won’t ever give up,” he said. “It’s in our DNA.”
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By Bob ReynoldsStaff Reporter | @BobReynoldsDEN
The Eastern rugby team takes on the Tennessee Volunteers Sat-urday at Lakeside Field for what will be its first home game of the season.
Last time out, the Panthers had a tale of two halves against Lin-denwood on Sept. 16. At the half, the Panthers were leading 8-7, but Eastern coach Frank Graziano said his team just looked like they fell asleep in the second half.
Lindenwood scored 17 unan-swered points to claim a 24-13 victory.
As for Saturday’s game, the Pan-thers will take on a team they lost to 33-17 in Knoxville, Tenn., last season.
Graziano said the Volunteers bring a physical style of rugby to the table, but expects his team to handle better this year than they did last year.
“It is still going to be about us though,” he said. “We are still a team that is growing and certain-ly improving every day. We are ex-pecting to be better on Saturday. The key is can we make the key plays at the key moments and ac-tually win the game.”
The Panthers had extra time to practice leading up to this game because of their canceled game against Southern Illinois-Carbon-dale.
Graz i ano s a id h i s t e am ha s practiced extremely well this week and he has tweaked some things during that time.
“We have given our better run-ners an opportunity to handle to ball a little more,” he said. “It still
has to be executed on game day.”From the start of the season
Graziano has preached defense, which he says is improving pret-ty well. In their last game the Pan-thers held Lindenwood to zero points in the f irst 15 minutes,
which he said was the game plan.Graziano said one of his keys
to victory on Saturday is to play more of an aggressive style of de-fense.
“We’re getting better at that,” he sa id. “The gir l s are gett ing
much more confident of doing that, which will potentially create turnovers and at least control the field position a little bit. I think at the level we play, our field posi-tion is kind of important.”
The Panthers are heading into
the game with no major injuries.The Panthers and Volunteers
will kick off at 3 p.m. Saturday at Lakeside Field.
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FILE PHOTO BY K ATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRugby players wrestle one another to the ground to gain possession of the ball during a game against the Wisconsin All-Stars on Sept. 9 , 2013 at Lake-side Field.
Rugby readies for home opener
By Blake Nash Staff Reporter | @banash5
The long wait is finally over for the Eastern volleyball team.
The Panthers’ Ohio Valley Con-ference play begins this weekend, when the Panthers travel to Ten-nessee Tech and Jacksonville State on Friday and Saturday, respective-ly.
The Panthers start their conference sea-son, with a 6-7 re-cord, following tour-n a m e n t s a t Pe n n State and South Da-kota State.
T h e y c o m b i n e d for a record of 2-5 in those tournaments, but Eas te rn coach Kate Price said her team is in good posi-tion to make a good run this sea-son.
“We ironed out some kinks we had during the previous weekend, and that was our goal,” Price said. “We’ve moved forward as a team instead of as individuals, which is a huge positive and what we’ve been looking forward to all week.”
A few Panthers said practice sessions have been more up-tem-po this week, most notably setter Marah Bradbury.
“Our energy is high going into conference,” she said. “We’re very excited about playing teams that count towards the conference tour-
nament.”Friday’s opponent, Tennessee
Tech, comes into the match with a 4-11 record, but despite that re-cord, Price is not overlooking the Golden Eagles.
“If you aren’t focused on every team in this sport, then they’ll put you in your place,” Price said. “Ev-ery night is a big match, and you
have to take it that way.”Tennessee Tech’s right-side at-
tacker Cody Dodd has impressed the Panther coaching staff during this week’s film session, and Price said it would be up to the outside blockers to limit her production.
Jacksonvil le State, which the Panthers play Saturday, is current-ly 6-8 thus far, and is led by center Nicole Merget.
She had a combined 31 kills in the Gamecock’s last tournament at Auburn.
“Merget’s been taking some big swings this year, and we need to slow her down if we’re going to be
successful,” Price said. Freshman Al l ie Hueston has
been one of those players tasked with limiting Merget for Eastern.
“They want me to focus on a certain ball that she’s going to hit,” Hueston said. “So we’ve been prac-ticing blocking those shots, most-ly this week.”
The match against the Game-cocks begins at 2 p.m. Saturday in Jacksonville, Ala.
Eastern outside h i t t e r C h e l s e a Lee said the Pan-thers are looking forward to play-ing against one of their biggest r i-vals.
“Jacksonville Sta te i s usua l ly one of our big-
gest rivals, but if we practice like we did this week, I believe we can handle them pretty well,” she said.
Practices this week have also been more team-oriented, Hueston and Bradbury said.
“We’re focusing more on what we need to do as a team, rath-er than individual stuff,” Hueston said. “It hasn’t got much harder, just more focused.”
Eastern starts OVC play at 7 p.m. Friday in Cookeville, Tenn., against the Golden Eagles.
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FILE PHOTO BY AMANDA WILKINSON | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMarah Bradbury, a junior setter, prepares to bump the ball during prac-tice in Lantz Arena on Sept. 4, 2013.
What: Match vs. Tennessee Tech
Where: Cookville, Tenn.When: Friday 7 p.m.
PANTHERS VOLLEYBALL
What: Match vs. Jack-sonvile State
Where: Jacksonville, Ala. When: Saturday 2 p.m.
Eastern sets off OVC with Tech, J-State
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JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior quarterback Jalen Whitlow runs with the ball down field against Austin Peay on Sept. 20 at O’Brien Field. Whitlow set an Eastern record, with 137 rushing yards by a quarterback, as the Panthers won 63-7.
By Aldo SotoSports Editor | @AldoSoto21
The Eastern football team has established an identity and it be-gins with its starting quarterback Jalen Whitlow.
Heading into their game against Ohio at 1 p.m. Saturday in Athens, Ohio, Panthers’ head coach Kim Dameron is no longer keeping his starter a secret.
“We’re going with Jalen and we’re going to stay with the way we were a week ago,” Dameron said. “We’re really starting to gain some-what of an identity and I want it to be an identity that we can run from the tail back spot, quarter-back spot, throw and have a bal-anced, well-rounded offense.”
The Panthers tied a program re-cord rushing for 413 yards against Austin Peay.
Eastern did it without a running back surpassing the 100-yard mark, as Whitlow led the team with 137 yards on the ground, breaking a re-cord of his own.
Red-shirt junior Shepard Little missed his first game with an ankle injury and his status for Saturday’s game is still unknown.
“Well, we really don’t know yet,” Dameron said.
During Tuesday’s practice, Dam-eron said he expected Little to be more active, but he was not.
Eas te rn o f f ens ive coord ina -tor Greg Stevens said it would be a game-time decision for Little to play or not following Thursday’s practice.
Without Little, the Panthers still showed versatility against Austin Peay, as four other running backs had carries.
Dameron wants Eastern’s offense to establish the run early and hav-ing backs that can fill in as Lit-tle still recovers from his injury is a nice commodity to have for the first-year coach.
“You have to have depth and it’s
important that we not only have depth, but we’re building more depth in our running back posi-t ion,” Dameron said.
Eastern is pit-ted against Ohio for the first time in school history.
The Bobcats , under head coach F r a n k S o l i c h , h ave h ad th e i r own dual-quar-terback system this season, but af-ter Derrius Vick injured his right knee against Idaho, Ohio named JD Sprague as the starter.
Because Sprague has exper i -
ence this season, coming into three games, including the entire second half against Idaho, which Ohio
beat 36-24, Dameron said the only disadvantage the Bobcats have is not running the ball more out of the quarterback position.
“With just having the one quar-
terback it might cause them to not have as much quarterback-run play, but who knows,” he said. “It
just g ives them one less option.”
That does not mean Sprague is not a viable op-tion. He finished 8-of-13 for 165 yards and rushed for 30 yards and scor ing a rush-ing touchdown
against the Vandals. Dameron said both quarterbacks have been run-ning the same offense when they are in the game, so having Vick out does not change the game plan
against Sprague.Solich also changed his starting
running back this week, as fresh-man A.J. Ouellette will make his first start of his career.
“He’s a complete back,” Sol-ich said. “He’s a good receiver, a very good receiver actually out of the backfield, with his size and strength he has the ability to pro-tect the passer when called upon.”
Ouel l e t te l eads the Bobcat s with 202 rushing yards, averaging 5.3 yards per attempt and has two rushing touchdowns, while record-ing five receptions for 47 yards.
Against Idaho, Ouellette rushed for 132 yards and two touchdowns. Another Bobcat who had a break-out game against Idaho was line-backer Quentin Poling.
The red-shirt freshman led Ohio with 14 tackles and intercepted three passes, returning them for a combined 77 yards to set up scor-ing opportunities for the Bobcats’ offense.
“That’s one heck o f a day,” Dameron said. “I don’t care who you are playing. That’s a heck of game there and obviously he’s a good player.”
Both teams enter Saturday’s matchup looking to win consec-utive games for the first time this season. At 1-3, Eastern makes its second trip to an FBS school this season.
The Panthers lost their season opener 42-20 to Minnesota.
Dameron said his team has head into Peden Stadium with one goal in mind.
“One thing is, we have to under-stand that we’re going over there to win a football game,” he said. “We’re not going over there to play. We’re not going over there to pick up a check. We’re going over there to win.”
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1-3 (1-0) OVC 2-2 (1-0) MAC
EASTERN ILLINOIS VS.
OHIO
SATURDAY | 1 P.M.PEDEN STADIUM
ATHENS, OHIO
By Mark ShanahanStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
The Eastern men’s soccer team begins Summit League play tomorrow against the Omaha Mavericks after going 2-5 in non-conference play.
Omaha went 6-9-1 last year, going 3-3 in conference, finishing third.
This will be the third meeting be-tween Omaha and Eastern. Oma-ha leads the all-time series 2-0 and de-feated Eastern 3-0 last year on the road. Omaha is currently 3-3-1 this year and is coming off a loss against Cal State Fullerton.
The loss against Cal State Fullerton was Omaha’s first loss of September. Fullerton outshot Omaha 20-4, causing red-shirt freshman goalkeeper Joseph Ghitis to make a career high 6 saves.
Red-shirt junior Josh Christensen also had time at goalkeeper this year. Ghitis and Christensen have a com-bined 1.34 goals against average. Chris-tensen and three others have won Sum-mit League Player of the Week honors this year for Omaha.
Vance Rockwood is Omaha’s lead-ing scorer on the year with eight points
and four goals matching his goal total from last year. The senior from Jamaica was awarded Summit League Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 9 and was named to the All-Summit League sec-ond team in 2012.
Eastern head coach Mark Hansen is familiar with Omaha.
“They are going to be aggressive, they are attack oriented, and they like to play,” he said. “It’ll be a tough match-up for us but I think if we prepare prop-erly we’ll be in the game at the end of the day.”
Hansen is looking at his upperclass-men to make an impact for the first conference game of the year.
“We definitely need the upperclass-man to step up this weekend,” he said. “We’ll be looking to our senior lead-ership and the juniors to really make a statement in that game and show us what we need to do going forward.”
Hansen said Denver, Omaha and Western Illinois are the top teams to beat in conference but acknowledges a tough Summit League field.
“Not to take anything away from the other teams because they are all very good sides that haven’t gotten results
and on the day can beat you,” he said.Denver is the preseason favorite to
win the Summit League this year after going 6-0 in conference and winning the conference tournament last year.
Hansen has not determined who will be in goal or any starter for that matter.
“Every week, every position is open,” he said. “We really allow the guys to
battle. Not any one name on the roster right now in regards to starter or not.”
Eastern seeks its first road win since 2012 when it plays Omaha at 7 p.m. on the road Saturday.
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JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRed-shirt freshman Sean Kirwan sprints ahead of two opponents during a match against Culver-Stockton on Sept. 8 at Lakeside Field.
Panthers open Summit Lague play
By Sean HastingsStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
The Eastern softball team will fin-ish off its fall season this weekend with a pair of double headers on Sat-urday and Sunday at Williams Field.
The Panthers will host Illinois Central College, Wabash College and Lake Land College this week-end.
The first game is scheduled for noon on Saturday against Illinois Central College with game two scheduled for 4 p.m. against Wabash College. Illinois Central College will take on Wabash College in between games.
The Panthers will then take on Lake Land College in a double head-er on Sunday. The first pitch for game one is scheduled for 11 a.m. with the second following at 1 p.m.
Softballto finish fall season
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