The visitor’s side of Roy Kidd Stadium could look a lot different in a few years after Eastern fin-ishes its planned $15 million con-struction project to build addition-al stadium seating complete with a multi-purpose facility.

The project received a kick-start this fall after the university re-ceived a sizable donation for the project from longtime Eastern sup-porters Donald and Irene Dizney.

Last spring, the state agreed to issue $15 million in agency bonds for Eastern to build the new struc-ture that will replace the grand-stands on the east side of the foot-ball field.

The three-story structure will house a new football locker room and training facility on the ground floor. The upper levels will include stadium and club level seating (which will boost capacity by about 4,000 seats), concession stands and restrooms, said Mark Sandy, inter-im vice president for development and athletics director. In addi-tion, the facility will include 12 box suites that will be leased.

“In the perfect world we would gather corporate sales, selling box-es for $10,000 a year,” Sandy said. “If we filled them all, that would be $120,000. Those sales could go di-rectly to offset the payment of the bonds.”

Sandy said the $15 million

in bonds will eventually need to be paid back, and gifts from pri-vate donors and revenue streams coming from the box suites, tick-et sales and money games (where Eastern receives payment to play out-of-conference teams) could be earmarked for repaying the bonds.

The project is slated for comple-tion by the 2016 football season, which means construction can start no later than the beginning of 2015, Sandy said. The architects for the project, once selected, will finish the plan’s designs and help Eastern select a contractor, he said.

The gift, which was donated spe-cifically for the multi-purpose fa-

cility, will free up some of the bond money for other athletics projects, such as adding new dugouts to the baseball fields, Sandy said.

The amount of the Dizneys’ gift has not been made public, Sandy said, but it gets the project off the ground and may encourage other donors to step forward.

Meanwhile, other athletics proj-ects are currently in different stag-es of development. For example, the renovations to the McBrayer Arena have already been made, which in-cluded a new court and new lights. Some improvements have already

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Benson headlines first Chautauqua lecture

The 2014-2015 Chautauqua series was kicked off Tuesday night with President Michael Benson’s lecture Why Plans are Important even if You are Punched in the Mouth.

The lecture was the first in a series entitled Strate-gizing. The series will feature a variety of lectures show-casing the importance of planning and succeeding through life.

Benson’s lecture began with a poem from William Butler Yates called The Second Coming.

“What we do at Eastern is an exchange of ideas and visions,” Benson said.

Benson went on to talk about people that have real-ly inspired him, one of them being famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who had plans to cross Antarctica. His vision didn’t work out for him when a glacier ended his journey.

Benson said Shakleton’s primary goal switched to protecting his 27 men on his ship.

Benson then listed the top 10 characteristics of a suc-cessful strategy.

He said that success is a very hard term to define, but with hard work and determination anyone can achieve anything.

Benson said the little things matter the most, you need a vision, attitude, and human capital, the role of failure, magnanimity, pure hard work, and the ability to not take yourself too seriously.

Benson shared stories from famous people that re-minded him of these topics. He also shared personal stories that many students felt were inspiring.

“His presentation was nothing short of insightful,” Ellie Saltsman, 19, Homeland Security major, from Can-ton, Ohio said. “What a great way to start off the series.”

The next lecture is titled The Evolution of Goodness and will be presented by Lee Dugatkin on Sept. 4 in the Whitlock Building. For more information about the Chautauqua lectures go to Chautauqua.eku.edu.

Got an idea for how to change Eastern for the better? If it’s a good one, it might just net you $10,000 in

cash.That’s the motivation behind President Michael Ben-

son’s challenge to the Eastern community: Whoever comes up with the best idea to improve campus for ev-eryone will win a $10,000 cash award.

“Our hope is to solicit as many good ideas as possi-ble,” Benson said. “And we will put into place one we can afford, and one that will make a big difference.”

Benson originally introduced the idea at his fall con-vocation Aug. 13. He said the idea may originate from anyone—whether it be students, faculty, staff or even people working together in a group.

The key, Benson said, is that the idea must prove ben-eficial to the entire university, not just to a few people or a single department.

Many of the contest’s details have not been final-ized—such as guidelines for submitting ideas or when the award will be decided—but once they’re completed, Benson said they’d be posted on the university’s web-site. He said he hoped to have the information up within four to six weeks.

The $10,000 cash prize is not coming from Eastern’s operating budget, but rather will come from private do-nations made to Eastern’s Foundation, Benson said.

The idea for the contest, Benson said, did not come from him but rather from Eastern psychology professor Matthew Winslow, who referred Benson to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayor’s Chal-lenge,” which awarded cash prizes to those with notable ideas to improve the city. The concept caught on and has since been applied in various cities around the world.

Winslow thought it would be a good idea to apply it to Eastern’s campus, and Benson said he agreed.

“Not one of us will have the corner on good ideas,” Benson said.

Once the ideas are in, an “expert panel” will narrow down the pool, Benson said, and the winning entry will be chosen by the chair of the Board of Regents and him-self.

“We hope this will be a way for everyone to bring for-ward an idea that they feel could improve EKU,” Ben-son said.

Benson’s campus challenge comes with $10K prize

Tobacco ban goes into effect across campus

Housing leases Grand Campus

Dizneys donate to new facility

Construction isn’t the only thing that changed the campus landscape, a new to-bacco-free policy enacted June 1 has also changed The Campus Beautiful.

Since the policy was enacted, an online reporting system has filed 50 complaints about tobacco-use on campus and three sanctions have been handed out to students in residence halls, said Jack Rutherford, co-chair of the Tobacco-Free Taskforce.

The entire campus community is re-sponsible for helping to enforce the ban, Rutherford said.

The taskforce wants to set up train-ing classes that will be open to students and university employees to instruct them on how to approach violators of the tobac-co ban and tell them there is a tobacco-free policy in a compassionate manner, said Re-nee Fox, co-chair of the Tobacco-Free Task-force.

The taskforce is currently interviewing candidates to serve as Tobacco-Free Am-bassadors to help police the policy and is-sue sanctions, Rutherford said. The Ambas-sadors will be the ones directly responsible for issuing sanctions to students and em-ployees.

The sanctions are as follows: the first of-fense for students includes one semester of social probation, completion of the tobacco education program, based on quizzes and video through Blackboard, a two-page edu-cational paper and written reprimand.

The second offense for students includes

one semester of university probation, two hours of university service assigned through the Student Rights and Responsibility Of-fice, an educational paper, a $100 adminis-trative fee and written reprimand.

The third offense for students includes one semester of university probation, four hours of university service, an educational paper, a $200 administrative fee and written reprimand.

Any subsequent offenses include a year of university probation, eight hours of uni-versity service, an educational paper, a $400 administrative assessment and a written reprimand that includes a warning of sus-pension or expulsion from the university.

Faculty and staff that violate the poli-cy the first time will have their supervisor contacted along with a written reprimand, Rutherford said.

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New maroon letters now f lourish the sign at the gate of Grand Campus, signifying that Eastern has leased the property as new housing for campus res-idents.

Eastern was seeking a way “to accommodate demand for mod-ern design and amenities and to enable Eastern to attract and re-tain high quality students,” ac-cording to lease documents ob-tained through an open records request.

Kenna Middleton, director of University Housing, said leas-ing Grand Campus was inf lu-enced some by the closing of two residence halls this semes-

ter, Combs Hall and Common-wealth Hall.

For each individual bedroom Eastern has to pay $5,040 year-ly. With a total of 512 individual bedrooms the total yearly cost is around $2.58 million, according to the lease documents.

In the lease there is an in-crease factor which states that after the first year, Eastern will have to pay 102 percent of the

Maroon letters and the Eastern logo now adorn the fence at the Grand Campus apartments after the university decided to lease the property for campus residents. The facility has 500 rentable rooms for students and is at 94 percent capacity.

The new facility for the east side of Roy Kidd Stadium will seat 4,000 at football games and offer modern classrooms, training facilities and locker rooms.

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10 a.m.Farmers MarketKeen Johnson

7 p.m.Funny Money with James CunninghamGrand HallEKU Center for the Arts

1 p.m.Challenge Course Grand Opening

5 p.m.Soccervs. Alabama A&M UniversityRichmond, Ky.

11 a.m.Volleyball vs. Florida International UniversityOrlando, Fla.

4 p.m.Nathan Stites, Faculty Piano RecitalGifford Theatre

Labor DayUniversity Closed

4 p.m.Outdoor OverdriveIntramural Field 2

5:15 p.m.CyclingFor Martin Hall residents

6 p.m.Volleyballvs. Marshall UniversityRichmond, Ky.

4 p.m.Outdoor Circuit CityIntramural Field 2

6:30 p.m.ZumbaPowell Underground

8:15 p.m.YogaMoberly Gym 102

2 p.m. Soccervs. University of EvansvilleEvansville, Ind.

7:15 p.m.YogaFitness & Wellness Center Patio

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AUG. 23 � EKU Police and the

Richmond Fire Depart-ment responded to Keene Hall after the fire alarm was activated at 8:17 p.m. The fire alarm pan-el showed the location was in the 5th floor elevator lobby, but the fire depart-ment could not determine the cause for the activation.

AUG. 22 � An EKU Police officer

observed Blake Linville, 18, from Berea, stumbling into the bushes near the Grand Campus apartments and vomiting while he was on the ground at 12:37 a.m. Another EKU Police of-ficer responded and talk-ed to Linville. Linville was unsteady on his feet, had slurred speech and glossy, bloodshot eyes. Linville

failed the administered field sobriety tests and was transported to the Madison County Detention Center.

AUG. 20 � EKU Police and the

Richmond Fire Depart-ment responded to the Me-morial Science Building af-ter the fire alarm activated at 7:45 a.m. A staff mem-ber said they were stacking boxes when one acciden-tally hit the fire alarm pull station.

� EKU Police officers ob-served William Essington, 19, from Louisville after receiving an anonymous call reporting he was traf-ficking marijuana from the trunk of his Volvo at 8:15 p.m. At 9:05 p.m., offi-cers said Essington tried to drive away from the Mar-tin Lot, but police stopped him because he had a sus-pended license. After he gave consent for officers to search the vehicle, EKU Police found $250 in his wallet, 5.2 grams of mari-

juana in a baggie, 4.5 grams of marijuana in anoth-er baggie, two used glass smoking pipes, one digital scale, and one used grind-er in the trunk of the vehi-cle. Police also found one box of baggies in a back-pack inside the trunk. Ess-ington told officers he sold 1 gram of marijuana to somebody near the Grand Campus apartments and also told officers he had sold marijuana on multi-ple occasions since Aug. 18. The officer cited Ess-ington with operating on a suspended license, pos-session of marijuana, pos-session of drug parapher-nalia, and trafficking less than 8 ounces of marijua-na. Essington was trans-ported to the Madison County Detention Center.

AUG. 17 � An EKU Police officer

responded to assist another officer with a fight in prog-ress near the Powell Build-ing at 11:58 a.m. When the

officer arrived, the second officer had already hand-cuffed Justin Crockett, 21, from Stanford. The oth-er 18-year-old student in-volved in the fight told of-ficers he was walking to the Powell Building when he saw Crockett unloading his car. When Crockett tried to talk to him, the student said he was busy and tried to walk away. The student told officers Crockett had slurred speech and kept shouting at him and grab-bing his shirt several times. Another student stepped in and pulled Crockett off the other student and sep-arated the two while call-ing EKU Police. The stu-dent told officers Crockett made death threats toward him. Crockett was cited for fourth-degree assault, sec-ond-degree disorderly con-duct, resisting arrest, alco-hol intoxication in a public place, possession of mari-juana and drug parapher-nalia and was taken to the Madison County Deten-tion Center.

NEW COURSE OFFERS CHALLENGE FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS

Eastern’s Campus Recreation department is offering a new Aerial Teams Course at the Chal-lenge Course complex on the south side of cam-pus.

The grand opening will take place from 1-4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29 at the complex and the cost is free, according to the Campus Recreation Face-book page.

The course features a 600 ft. zipline, two differ-ent levels and is 30 ft. tall at its highest point.

To exit the course, participants can ride the zipline across the lake, use the Breath Taker swing, or take the Quick Jump free fall station.

The course can handle 40 participants at a time and has an age requirement of 12 years old.

The complex is accessible from Lancaster Ave-nue. Drive south past the stoplight at Kit Carson Drive and turn left as you come up the hill, ac-cording to the campus recreation website.

Questions and reservations should be made to Adrienne Fike, adrienne.fike@eku.edu or by call-ing (859) 622-5251.

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The John Grant Crabbe Library is getting a face-lift in the upcom-ing year, from replacing the carpet to adding group-oriented study spaces, big changes are in the works for a more student friendly environment.

Members of the Student Gov-ernment Association and library staff brought up the need for li-brary renovations after watching students study in the library.

While observing students, the library staff learned that students are mobile when they study, but the current library environment isn’t structured for this well.

“They’re pushing all those chairs together, moving tables,” said Betina Gardner, dean of Li-braries. “You all like to move things that aren’t made to move, which is fine with us, but we don’t want you to hurt yourselves ei-ther.”

Seeing this, Gardner said the library basement would become a more mobile, group study envi-ronment, much like the Noel Stu-dio. With movable furniture and

whiteboards in addition to new booth-style seating and individual study rooms.

“This part of the library will have a hum to it,” Gardner said.

Gardner also said more electri-cal outlets would be installed for use in the space, a feature many students need for laptops, smart-phones and tablets.

“Whenever I walk in, I can nev-er find a computer or an outlet available,” said Candi Agee, 34, a broadcasting and electronic media senior from Richmond.

With the current carpet re-placement already closing the ar-eas around the Grand Reading Room, other projects, such as the basement renovation, will possibly occur over the holiday break after the fall semester, Gardner said.

“We’re not going to do anything during the regular semester, like-ly, because we don’t want any more disturbance than what there has already been,” Gardner said.

Students have already been af-fected by the disturbance of the carpet replacement on the main floor. Some students said they wished the project had been com-pleted before the school year

started.The carpet could not be in-

stalled as quickly as what was originally planned because of a manufacturing delay. The rooms around the Grand Reading Room will be available for use again by the end of this week, Gardner said.

“We are very sensitive to stu-dent schedules and we are incred-ibly disappointed and very sorry that everything wasn’t back by the start of school,” Gardner added.

Other renovations, such as the new furniture on the fourth floor of the University Building, or the “silent study zone,” are steps the library is taking to provide stu-dents with various environments to study by themselves or with a group.

“I think you will see libraries begin to be more of a cultural hub on campus, so more activities re-lated to the student experience in terms of academics,” Gardner said. “Building the library into campus life more and more. That’s what we will do here.”

Funding for the renovations is being provided by the university and private donors.

The university lost a dedicated researcher, writer and friend earlier this semester.

Bracelen Flood, a New York Times best-selling au-thor and dedicated supporter for EKU libraries, died Thursday, Aug. 14. He was 84.

Flood was a large part of the library’s history, from helping Deans and other library staff, to breathing life into the Friends of EKU Libraries organization and en-couraging students.

“Bracelen really started giving me advice when I became dean, about leadership and how to approach trouble or difficulty or conflict,” said Betina Gardner, dean of Libraries. “He had such a huge life and had so many experiences. He was almost like a second father to me, he was that encouraging.”

Flood wrote more than 13 books that have been rec-ognized worldwide. Gardner said the books are “slic-es of life” of historical figures and events. His books shared the lives of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Adolf Hitler. Gardner said it was amazing to watch and help him work, be-cause he was so passionate.

“He was so thorough in his research, he would bring us a citation and it’s not an easy thing to track down,” Gardner said. “So it would take a couple people, real-ly digging through international sources and we loved it…it was very rewarding for [the librarians].”

Gardner said Flood would travel to wherever he thought he needed to be in order to get the essence of the characters. He wanted to try and feel the place and feel the character.

After becoming president of the Friends of EKU Li-braries organization, Flood worked as an advocate for the library.

The organization, which is the primary way the li-brary gets funded, aside from the university, is an or-ganization made up of community leaders and retired university members that raise money for library proj-ects, explained Gardner.

“Flood was the one to breathe life into Friends of the EKU Libraries and it’s been incredibly successful since he took it over,” Gardner said.

Flood will also be remembered for his dedication to Eastern students.

“Everyday he would go sit in the café and he would watch the students,” Gardner said. “He would come into Java City and he would sit there and talk to stu-dents. He loved hearing about their lives.”

“One of the things he wanted me to do was fig-ure out a way for the students to not be alone or sit by themselves,” Gardner said. “He said, ‘Can’t you make a table for anyone to just come and sit at and strike up a conversation?’ He was very concerned about the stu-dents and he wanted them to have a great experience at Eastern. He saw that as his job.”

Student workers got to see, first-hand, how Flood enjoyed getting to know them.

“He would always stop and talk to us at the desk, he always cared a lot about what was going with you, and he’d always find something to connect with you,” said Alex Murphy, 22, a history teaching senior from Louis-ville. “One time I had a University of Texas shirt on and ever since then he would stop an talk to me about how beautiful the library was and he would always think I was from Texas, but it was just the T-shirt I was wear-ing,” Murphy said.

One of the best qualities of Flood was his humility, Gardner said.

“He was so humble; humility was his middle name, you would never know that he was as famous as he was around the world or as accomplished, he was a very ac-complished man.”

Flood’s books are on display in the library and are available for check out.

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Construction documents con-taining design elements and plans regarding phase two of the New Science building are nearing com-pletion.

President Michael Benson said that the construction documents are currently at 99 percent, and will be completed by the end of this month. These documents contain about 300 pages of sche-matics, blueprints and input from faculty and architects, including input from phase one, which will be used for enhancing phase two.

Once completed, the docu-ments will be used to establish a price for the bidding proposal to be given to contractors, and the lowest bid offered will receive the job.

Barry Poynter, vice president of Finance and Administration, said that the building will have to compete with other building plans from around the state for the bid.

The groundbreaking of the new structure will be on Oct. 23. Poy-nter said that phase two is expect-ed to be about a three year project, but if problems, such as the bid

coming in too high, arise, there could be delays.

Benson said he is excited and hopeful for phase two and looks forward to the positive impact it will bring to the university.

He said it is a huge project, cost-ing $66.5 million. The new build-ing will be over 300,000 square feet, on 7.5 acres. Benson said this makes it the largest construction project that Eastern currently has planned.

A new idea is also being used with this project regarding input between architects and the facul-ty of the school. Malcolm Frisbie, professor of Biological Sciences, is acting as the shepherd of the proj-ect.

He acts as a point of contact between the architects and facul-ty, Frisbie said. He is also assisting with the designs of the building.

He said for almost every room the architects would have dialog with faculty on the needs of each space. He notes that the biomed research and geotech suites in particular have had a lot of staff involvement.

This idea is taken from a meth-od used by Project Kaleidoscope, which is the center of the Asso-ciation of American Colleges and

Universities reform of higher ed-ucation and it aims “to graduate more students in STEM fields who are competitively trained and lib-erally educated,” according to the AAC&U’s website.

Frisbie said the current atrium at the back of the current building is to act as the linkage between the two phases. He also said the de-partments of Geology, Geography and Biological Sciences are being added in the new stage.

Geology and Geography are gaining new spaces that were orig-inally part of the phase one de-signs, although they were too ex-pensive for the first period, Frisbie said.

The biology department is ob-taining new collections of spec-imens including fish and inver-tebrates. Frisbie also said the building is receiving a greenhouse which will replace the one cur-rently on the roof of the Moore building.

President Benson assures that any potential disturbances caused by the construction of phase two will be minimized. While no road or sidewalk closings have been confirmed, Benson said students and staff will be informed of any traffic changes that are to come.

Modern study space coming to library Campus remembers Bracelen Flood

Science building to break ground in October

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“Flood was the one to breathe life into Friends of the EKU Libraries and it’s been incredibly successful since he took it over.”

Betina GardnerDean of Libraries

not yet started.“We have $15 million in bonds, and so what

we want is additional gifts to make sure we have enough money to do the baseball, softball, and football projects,” Sandy said.

“If our revenue stream covered the bonds, we could use the donation to make the [other athlet-ics] projects better,” Sandy said.

Plans to update the Begley Building on the oth-er side of the field have not been made at all, due to the large amount of concrete and steel.

“The Begley building is large, and there is so much concrete there that that would be a whole different project,” Sandy said. “I can’t imagine what the cost would be to take part of it down and refurbish it.”

Sandy said he is excited about the new multi-purpose building and all the other updates athletics has been getting.

“This project for football and the multi-pur-pose building that we’re going to make, is just an-other example of how we’re moving forward on campus,” Sandy said. “Whether it’s the new sci-ence building, or what we’ve done in Alumni Col-iseum…it just shows the university has a lot of ex-citement and we’re moving forward.”

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This means that for the 2015-2016 year Eastern will pay approximately $2.64 million, and then 102 percent of that price and so on until the lease ex-pires in 20 years. At that point Eastern will have the option to extend the lease for two 10-year lease terms, under these same guidelines.

For students to live here they will have to pay $3,240 a semester, and that covers all the amenities that Grand campus offers, a lounge area and full kitchen, swimming pool, clubhouse, a weight room, and a private bathroom to each bedroom, as well as free internet and cable similar to on campus.

The two percent increase will be factored in the housing rate each year, Poynter said.

Poynter said if Grand Campus reaches capacity, then Eastern should break even on the cost. How-ever, he said the university could lose a little bit of money the first year because there could be more expenses that they hadn’t anticipated.

As of Aug. 19, Middleton said Grand Campus was at 94 percent capacity.

With the 512 rooms Eastern leased from Grand Campus, Middleton said there are about 500 rent-able rooms available to students after leasing rooms for the residential assistants and the residence hall coordinator.

Middleton said there are two RAs in each of the buildings and they operate on more of a zone than each having their own f loors, and they share a lot of the same responsibility. She also said they are there as always to help out with any problems their residents have.

She said the RAs would be more of a resource than a policing force on campus because of differ-ent rules for the complex. Students at Grand Cam-pus are allowed to have alcohol on the property if they are of legal age; there is no check-in procedure and no restricted visitation hours.

Another big way this is different than residence halls is that the complex will not be closed during school breaks, students that have a room will be able to stay there throughout Thanksgiving, winter and spring breaks.

Students can also opt in for a mini-lease to pay to stay in Grand Campus for the summer months, and Middleton said students don’t have to be en-rolled in summer classes to stay.

Everything in the facility is run by Eastern now, Middleton said. Facilities Services will handle all maintenance requests and EKU Police will have ju-risdiction at the facility for any necessary respons-es.

Dec. 13, 2013, Eastern issued a request to lease approximately 500 “housing units” with availabil-ity for use beginning this fall semester, the lease stated.

Poynter said the discussion of leasing the prop-erty came up around October when they were look-ing at housing and space and what they had to of-fer.

He also said they looked at a lot of different uni-versities to see the types of rooms they were offer-ing and what their students wanted.

He said so many other campuses are now offer-ing new apartment style rooms that are attracting a lot of students and said for Eastern to remain com-petitive, they had to improve their housing options quickly.

After the request was issued, Grand Campus was the only apartment complex to respond to Eastern’s request. The university showed interest in leasing from them and negotiations began soon after, ac-cording to the lease documents.

At the June meeting of the Board of Regents, the Board authorized President Michael Benson and Poynter to complete negotiations with Grand Cam-pus.

The Board said completion of the negotiations was contingent upon obtaining property tax ex-emptions and Finance Cabinet approval, which Poynter said was received.

Middleton said all the students that initially signed a lease with Grand Campus for this year will be able to serve out the remainder of their lease, but since the rules are so similar she said it shouldn’t cause any problems.

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Eastern is going to have a new fea-ture soon near the intersection at Barnes Mill Road and Lancaster Av-enue. Combs Hall is slated to be de-molished this fall and in its place will be a new pedestrian entrance to campus. Ed Herzog, director of Proj-ect Administration, said he looks for this project to give the campus more curb appeal.

“You will be able to look straight through to the library,” Herzog said. “It will give you more breath of sight, as I call it.”

After Combs Hall is demolished, the area will be overlaid with topsoil and grass, Herzog said, and serve as a lawn until walkways are added later.

Once completed, students walk-ing across Lancaster Avenue will be able to travel straight onto campus, passing in between the Keith Build-ing and McCreary Hall, into the ar-eas that include the John Grant Crab-

be Library and the Combs Building.“It will include steps and it will tie

into some sidewalks that are already there [on University Drive],” Herzog said.

The University had a bid opening last Friday, where bids were collected from different demolition companies interested in taking on the project. Herzog said that he and his depart-ment are currently in the process of checking the qualifications for the different companies that placed bids, and that he hopes a decision will be made by Monday or sooner.

There were nine demolition companies that submitted bids to Eastern. The cheapest being HLC Inc. from Louisville coming in at $325,240 and the most expensive was Superior Demolition from Lex-ington that bid $647,000. The average for the other seven companies was just more than $400,000.

Once a crew is selected, the dem-olition process has been allotted 60 calendar days for completion, Herzog said. No explosives are being used on

this project, due to Combs’s proxim-ity to the surrounding buildings, so a wrecking ball will be used and water will be used to control dust.

Herzog said that the demolition crew is responsible for recycling the materials from the building, such as copper, steel and aluminum. The in-side of Combs Hall has already been cleared, with all the valuable items salvaged for use in other buildings across campus, President Michael Benson said at the fall convocation.

“Facilities services worked in sal-vaging the building, and housing worked with taking furniture and moving it out,” Herzog said. “They worked all summer long.”

This project is one of many across campus intended to improve the campus appeal, and though it’s still in its early development stages, it is scheduled to be completed sometime this year, Herzog said.

“We want people to know what’s going on,” Herzog said. “I’m not sit-ting idle. We want to get this done.”

Combs Hall to become campus entrance

Incentives offered for using EKU license plates

Does your car have an Eastern li-cense plate?

If so, you’re likely eligible for a free campus parking permit thanks to a new program rolling out this year.

The program, which was first brought up by President Benson at last year’s convocation, grants any student, faculty or staff a free park-ing permit if they show proof their car is outfitted with an Eastern li-cense plate. The Eastern license plates are available at any state De-partment of Motor Vehicles office and cost $56.

For those who have an Eastern

plate and already purchased their parking permits, they may bring their registration to the parking of-fice in Mattox Hall to receive a re-fund for the cost of their parking permit.

If they do this before the end of August, they’ll receive a full $60 re-fund. If proof is displayed to the parking office after the end of Au-gust, parking permit holders will re-ceive a $30 refund.

For those who continue to re-new their Eastern plate each year, they will not have to pay for a park-ing permit so long as they bring their registration to Maddox Hall.

President Benson first hinted at the idea for a license plate program after he oversaw a similar program

while at Southern Utah University and touted the intangible benefits it brought the school.

“We hope [the license plates] will create visibility for the university by essentially being a rolling billboard for Eastern,” said Mark Jozefowicz, director of parking and transporta-tion. “There’s been a lot of buzz sur-rounding the program, so we’re ex-cited to see it get moving.”

Currently, Eastern offers two li-cense plates—one with the universi-ty’s logo and another that honors the university’s veterans. But the univer-sity is working with the state to un-veil a new license plate early next year, one with a new logo showing the Keen Johnson clock tower, Joze-fowicz said.

By TYLER BROWNprogress@eku.edu

By BRITTANY ELLISprogress@eku.edu

EKU Dining has added The Wedge to replace Zoca in the Fountain Food Court on the lower floor of Powell, among other changes made since Spring 2013.

Larry Puscizna, resident district man-ager of EKU Dining, said Zoca was not do-ing as well as some of the other restaurants in the food court and sales were dwindling to almost nothing.

The decision to replace Zoca was made based on results from a general survey tak-en last semester.

The Survey results showed that a pizza place was the first choice, but pizza restau-rants do not make a good profit on col-lege campuses, said Bryson Alford, loca-tion manager for EKU Dining. Fresh Food Company also has pizza, so adding a piz-za place would be unproductive, Puscizna said.

One of the top three requests in the sur-vey was a healthier food option, which is why The Wedge was chosen as a replace-ment, Puscizna said.

“We thought the menu would appeal to many,” Puscizna said.

The Wedge offers salad and toppings as well as a couple soups and baked potatoes.

Charlie Brubeck, director of opera-tions, said the transition from Zoca to The Wedge took five weeks. Which took just as long as expected, Puscizna said.

Among other changes, Puscizna said the entire menu has been changed at other Fresh Food Company restaurants. Subway will now be open until 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays instead of the normal 5 p.m.

Starbucks in the Weaver Building will now serve hot foods due to the addition of an oven, Alford said.

Subway and Grille Works’ menus change constantly because of limited time offers they have monthly, the restaurants said.

Changes may be coming to Provisions On Demand soon as well. Poppy’s Donuts, a local bakery, may be adding their prod-ucts to POD in the Fountain Food Court this semester, Puscizna said. Next semes-ter, a POD will be added in the Business and Technology Building.

Puscizna said since enrollment is up this semester, EKU Dining has run into some issues this first week with dining ca-pacity and large crowds. New staff was add-ed to compensate for long lines so they can

be more efficient. Students have also taken initiative by not showing up as frequently at peak business times, Puscizna said.

“We’ve worked ourselves through those

challenges,” Puscizna said. “We’ve added some additional people and the students have taken it upon themselves to may-be not come right smack in the middle of

By KELLI STOKESprogress@eku.edu

Downstairs Powell adds salad bar to dining options

Kasey Kennedy, 19, from Oldham County, orders a salad from EKU Dining’s new restaurant The Wedge in the Fountain Food Court located in downstairs Powell.

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POLICYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Any visitors that violate the poli-cy will be asked to leave campus, Fox said.

Signs are posted along all of the roads that enter the university, the EKU Center will have the policy post-ed in brochures, and a message will play at the university’s athletic events, Rutherford said. Football Coach Dean Hood also recorded a message that will play at the home football games.

The only setback the taskforce faced during the summer was not re-moving all of the smoke shacks. Ruth-erford said a buyer was lined up to move some the shelters across cam-pus for bus stops and to potentially use them for transit stops throughout Richmond, but the buyer backed out at the last minute.

The taskforce has a website estab-lished with a reporting form that up-dates Rutherford and Fox on viola-tions across campus.

“It’s pretty detailed. You can de-scribe the individual,” Rutherford said.

The discussion of enacting a ban began in 2006 when a taskforce was first created and the end result was the old policy, which was no smok-ing within 25 ft. of building entranc-es. When President Benson came to Eastern, Rutherford said they asked Benson to reconvene the taskforce.

“If it hadn’t been for his support, this never would’ve happened,” Ruth-

erford said.The taskforce examined tobac-

co-free policies at other universities such as the University of Kentucky and decided anything that would be enacted need all of the university property to be tobacco-free. Grand Campus at EKU, leased by the univer-sity, also falls under the tobacco-ban as the policy forbids smoking on any leased, owned or university con-trolled property.

To educate nearby property own-ers, the taskforce distributed fliers to the neighboring properties of the campus and also offered to give the homeowners yard signs, Rutherford said. He said when Morehead State enacted a tobacco-free policy three years ago; people went to the sur-rounding properties to smoke and left the yards full of litter.

Violations of the tobacco-free pol-icy can be reported anonymously on-line at http://tobaccofree.eku.edu/to-bacco-violation-report.

Daniel Klapheke, Editor The Eastern Progress | www.easternprogress.com Thursday, August 28, 2014, Page 5

PERSPECTIVES

Alas, the fall semester has finally be-gun.

Last week saw the arrival of budding new freshmen eager and nervous to be-gin their adult lives, as well as equal-ly fearful upperclassmen wishing they could hold on to their adolescence just a few more semesters. Then begins class, which will soon be followed by stressful nights and hair-pulling galore.

This isn’t to say, however, that the be-ginning of the school year is the most dreaded of times. New semesters mean

new beginnings. Your mistakes and fail-ures from spring shouldn’t follow you to fall, so long as you don’t let them. Your whole life’s direction can be changed en-tirely with just a simple change in atti-tude.

Attitude, which is the core of many problems, is a tricky issue. In order to see success you have to have the right atti-tude, but to have the right attitude you must be in a comfortable environment, but being in a comfortable environment proves to be much easier when you are successful. The cycle goes on like this and can catch some students disoriented and sometimes nauseous.

Amidst this, there is a happy medium to be found.

Balance between an optimistic fu-ture and a focused present is the key to a sane college experience. Dreams are important to goals and motivation, but it shouldn’t leave you playing a beat up 6-string with a cup of change on the side

of I-75. That is, unless you are perfectly happy doing so.

The best thing to pair aspirations with during college is optimism. Passion is a vital tool, as it is the basis of all your pur-suits. Passion shouldn’t, however, have you dancing all day with your head in the clouds. Instead of letting your farfetched dreams such as owning a fleet of jets or a personal zoo cloud logical thinking, al-low yourself to envision a comfortable future. Reaching unrealistically high will result in stress, as you’ll never quite feel that you’re making the grade compared to your deepest wants. This isn’t a dicta-torial call for the end of any and all hope, but instead a reasoning for the separa-tion of dreams and aspirations. There is a difference, and it needs to be understood.

The present, above all else, is the most important aspect of success. There is no optimistic next without a focused now, which some students fail to realize. An easy way to tackle the task at hand is to

do some simple prioritizing. The paper keeping you up until midnight may be incredibly duller than the smartphone sitting in your pocket, but it is by far the most important between the two. Going out with the friends sounds like a great time, but the project due next week that you’ve kept putting off the past three weeks demands more attention.

The same scenarios may not apply to everyone, but the idea can be grasped. Allow your aspirations and passions to guide you as motivation, but don’t follow them into the dirt if that’s where you’re being led. Don’t let distractions take your eye off the task at hand, because the ul-timate prize is waiting just around the corner. Success is what every Eastern student desires and it is surprisingly at-tainable. It just requires a perfect balance of thinking towards the future and living for the now.

Balancing hopeful futures and the persistent presentDaniel

KlaphekePerspectives Editor

daniel_klapheke@mymail.eku.edu

Many students at Eastern are involved in some sort of romantic relationship. It’s a good thing, but some are faced with the trials of distance.

The miles away from your signifi-cant other can feel like an eternity. Their voice on the phone doesn’t have the same warmth as in person, and calls can only be made during downtime. It doesn’t

compare to their hand in yours, or their head on your shoulder.

My view is that love makes the world go ‘round. With an effort of dedication and the love you already share, you can make this work. Distance may be new to you, but it doesn’t mean you have to find a new love interest.

Dedication is key when distance is in-volved. Any romance is like a flower, as it needs care, attention and love. If you take care of your flower the only thing it can do is grow. Call your flower, let your con-versations be loud. Let your smile show, laugh with them and if you keep all this up, you can keep your flower from wilt-ing. Doing this can shrink the distance between you, and it will help greatly. Dedicate yourself to any relationship, re-

gardless of the miles.Make time for your significant other.

College is a busy time and homework can be grueling if you let it be. After class, af-ter homework and on your days off you should call them. Time is precious, and it’s the best gift you can give your roman-tic interest. This applies especially in a long-distance relationship where it feels like you haven’t seen them in months. Be willing to make a visit, because it goes much farther than the distance traveled. Call them when you have time and laugh when you do.

Do something thoughtful. Don’t get me wrong; your time, love and dedica-tion are important components of any relationship. Every now and then, how-ever, you have to do something thought-

ful. Money can be hard to come by, but sometimes you have to surprise them. You don’t necessarily have to buy a gift, but do something sweet for them and you won’t regret it.

Distance can be terrible, but it doesn’t have to. Dedication will keep your flower alive so don’t let it wilt. Time is the most precious gift of all, and the crazy thing is that it can be made from seemingly noth-ing. Sometimes a thoughtful gesture will make your significant other’s day just a bit brighter. Don’t ignore these crucial el-ements to keeping your long-distance re-lationship happy and healthy.

Above all else, let love work its out-landish magic and it will make your world go ‘round.

How to maintain a relationship when the issue is distance

Three millennia ago, the writer of the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes keenly observed, “What has been will be, and what will be has been.” I recently re-watched the political drama, Good Night, and Good Luck. This film illustrates es-sential aspects of the McCarthy era, such as the HUAC (House Un-American Ac-tivities Committee) and the hundreds of innocent citizens that had their lives and careers ruined as a result of the aggres-sive actions of the HUAC and the atmo-sphere of mistrust they created.

This week, an email was sent from President Benson to the campus commu-nity announcing the “Colonels Comply” program. While I fully appreciate and understand the need for law and order, I have serious concerns about the imple-mentation and structure of the program. Prior to being approved by the Board of

Regents, the program was never brought before any of the branches (e.g., Student Court, Student Senate) of the Student Government Association (SGA), nor was there an opportunity for input from the general student body.

I also find the timing of the announce-ment disconcerting; the campus commu-nity was notified of the program a little over two months from the time it was ap-proved by the Board of Regents. Further-more, the announcement was made just days prior to the start of the fall semester and in between semesters, when many students, faculty and staff would be away from their email or busy preparing from the upcoming term.

While there is one student representa-tive on the Compliance Oversight com-mittee, I am puzzled as to why there is no student representation on the Com-

pliance Working Group committee. The mission statement for Colonels Comply states that the goal is, “…to promote an institutional culture of compliance by effectively identifying, prioritizing, and managing potential violations of law, reg-ulation, and University policy and pro-cedure and by effectively establishing a controlled environment.”

Two phrases jumped out at me: po-tential violations and controlled envi-ronment. What is meant by the word potential? Is the program attempting to address violations before they occur? While the program’s mission statement uses many popular buzz words, I believe the mission statement can be reduced to “controlled environment.” The ultimate objective would appear to be to a defen-sive maneuver to avoid offending anyone at any time, thereby dodging any poten-

tial liability issues or even worse--public relations debacles.

When I read through the guiding principles of the program I couldn’t help but reflect back on my freshman year of high school when I studied 1984, partic-ularly when I read that the program is to, “develop or purchase technological tools or resources that can assist the Universi-ty with gathering data.”

I fear that Colonels Comply could fos-ter the same spirit of mistrust as was cre-ated when it was revealed last October that the U.S. had been “collecting data” on leaders in Germany. Perhaps the pro-gram has adopted the advice of President Truman, who once said, “If you can’t convince ‘em, confuse ‘em.”

Candace MoberlyEastern graduate student

Colonels Comply program reeks of Big Brother-esque authority measuresL E T T E R S T O T H E E D I T O R

John Goodman

Guest Columnistprogress@eku.edu

“The EKU Green Crew. They’re a club that supports being one with the envi-ronment.”

Amira TrimnellHometown: Runnels, Iowa Major: Animal StudiesYear: Junior

“Meeting new people. I’m a people person. I’m outgoing and I love to have fun.”

Michaela WestHometown: Danville Major: Criminal Justice Year: Freshman

What are you most excited about for the new school year?

“I’m most excited about football games. They’re exciting. All the crazy fans will be pretty awesome.”

Cody AdamsHometown: BereaMajor: UndeclaredYear: Freshman

“Just getting my life started. I can finally take classes that I want to take.”

Breanne NicholsHometown: LousivilleMajor: Forensic ScienceYear: Freshman

Campus Sound Off

Kayla Lasure, Editor The Eastern Progress | www.easternprogress.com Thursday, August 28, 2014, Page 6

FEATURES

The heavy downpour that kicked off Rec the Ravine did not effect attendance. Students said it was worth being momentarily drenched for this outdoor adventure extravaganza.

Hosted by Campus Recreation, the event had root beer pong, a big wheel driving course, football toss, a soccer game, tree climbing, tie-dyeing and slip and slide as the main attractions.

Marcus Oswald, 21, a family studies junior from Crestwood said every year he looks forward to coming to the Rec Ravine for the four

way tug of war and tree climbing. “Participating in the Rec Ravine is like a ritual since attending

EKU my freshman year,” Oswald said. “I appreciate competing against friends in the tug of war game and seeing who can climb the tree the fastest. This event also encourages me to work out and stay fit because exercising is the number one component

that is pushed by Rec the Ravine.” Students received a free T-Shirt and all the ac-

tivities were open to everyone. Free food was on hand including Domino’s pizza, Jimmy John Sandwiches, snow cones and frozen yogurt.

The purpose of the event was to promote the activities Campus Rec provides.

To highlight their cycling classes, a large cycling group was taking place on the Ravine stage. More 20 cyclists were participating.

Students, faculty and their children were all dancing on the ravine steps to a Zumba rou-

tine. The routine was set to beats from the Eastern Percussion Ensemble.

Bailey Rice, 18, a nursing freshman from Houston said she was amazed that everything was free, including

the food. “If I was to tell my parents about Rec the Ravine they wouldn’t

believe it,” Rice said. “I didn’t think a school was capable of holding something like this. There are many things to do here. It is impossible to get bored, you meet new people and try new things. What more can you ask for?”

Some students said this event was not something students should miss.

“This is better than a county fair,” said Lexi Ashford, 20, an art sophomore from Hardin, Iowa said. “You can win shirts and play un-limited games with your friends. I feel sorry for people who didn’t show up, they are truly missing out.”

Rec the Ravine reigns despite the rain

Postponed from last year, carnival greets students

By PHILLIS DUNCANprogress@eku.edu

The campus welcome back carnival that took place Friday, Aug. 22 did not reach the expectations of many students who attended.

The carnival was one of many events the Student Ac-tivities Council (SAC) puts on for students to get famil-iar with the campus and celebrate the new school year.

The carnival was scheduled for the end of the school year but was postponed until the first week of school due to complications, said Ryan Poynter, the Student Government Association vice president for student ac-tivities

The carnival offered thrill-seeking rides like Berry O’ Round, a strawberry-themed spinning ride, Footloose, a ride the suspends riders in the air and the swings down again. Other rides included The Scrambler, bounce box-ing, joust stick and football and basketball air hoops.

Some students in attendance thought the carnival appeared poorly planned, lacked snacks (the event only offered popcorn and snow cones) and had low atten-dance.

Shonda Bennett, 19, a computer science sophomore from Savannah, Ga. said she only stayed at the carnival for twenty minutes. She said she was unhappy about the carnival because it was falsely advertised.

“What the Student Activities Council printed on the posters they didn’t uphold to what they publicized on Twitter and throughout the dorms,” said Bennett. “I ex-pected better. A few of the rides look like they are about to break down any minute. I could’ve had this in my backyard.”

Desmond Russell, 24, a business senior from Lou-isville, said he knew the carnival wasn’t going to be a spectacular affair but thought it was going to be better than what is was.

“There was no fortune telling, face painting, or an-imal balloon creations,” Russell said. “Nothing to take home to show that I was here. Usually there are some type of commodities at a carnival. I don’t know if this was arranged last minute or what but it sure does look like it.”

Even though there were a few displeased responses,

there was also some positive feedback. Rachel Hunt, 22, a general dietetics junior from Lake Mary, Fla. said she had no complaints and was grateful to come to a carni-val without waiting in long lines.

“This event is a laid back atmosphere,” Hunt said. “I had a chance to socialize with people I never met before and encouraged them to ride some of the rides that are a bit scary.”

Poynter responded to the news of the disappointed students by saying he wasn’t aware of any negative criti-

cism because he hadn’t heard anything yet. “I can understand,” said Poynter. “We did have issues

like the weather and mechanical malfunctions with one of the rides.”

Poynter also explained the benefit of the carnival. “I served as a manager and a facilitator,” Poynter said.

“The carnival is still one of our largest events. The Stu-dent Activities Committee thought the carnival would fit pretty well into our programming vision by getting students connected, involved, and to let them enjoy

By PHILLIS DUNCANprogress@eku.edu

De’ Lana Birdsong, 17, a pre-medical freshman from Louisville, works her way into the pool inside of a giant beach ball at the SAC Carnival.

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A cycling class takes place on the Ravine stage at Rec the Ravine, highlighting exercise classes offered by campus rec.

DANIEL KLAPHEKE/PROGRESS

Shelby Bolan, 18, nursing freshman from Cincinnatti; Abbie Woolum, 18 nursing freshman from Cincinnati, and Melissa Scheidler, 18, a preoccupational therapy freshman from Cincinnati take a spin on the Scrambler at the SAC Carnival Friday, Aug. 22.

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Rather than watch professional sports teams on television, two Eastern stu-dents had the opportunity to work with them in person.

Jared Estridge, 22, received an intern-ship working alongside the athletic train-ers for the MLB Pittsburgh Pirates. Ryan Madaleno, 21, interned with the athletic training staff for the NFL New York Gi-ants.

Estridge, a sports medicine senior from Annville, interned with the athletic trainers for the Pittsburgh Pirates from May 23 through Aug. 17. Estridge, ac-quired the position through the Profes-

sional Baseball Athletic Trainers Intern-ship program. He was chosen out of 450 applicants.

Estridge said he told the program di-rector in Pittsburgh that he hadn’t really been exposed to the sport but he wanted to be a well-rounded athletic trainer and learn from the experience.

“I’m interested in the injuries that oc-cur in this sport in particular,” Estridge said. “A lot of the injuries occur in the shoulder. I like learning about the up-per extremities and just how the human body works.”

When he was a freshman, Estridge suffered a severe injury in his shoulder due to power lifting. Estridge said he was drawn to sports medicine to learn how he could help others work through their

torn ligaments or damaged knees. “Athletic training is the only profes-

sion that you can work with the athlete as soon as the injury happens all the way to returning them to playing the sport,” Estridge said. “It’s rewarding when you see an injured player you’ve worked with every day for three months return to the field.”

Estridge said he watched over the ath-letes to make sure they were using prop-er form, took athletes to doctor visits, assisted the athletic trainers, and some-times gave recommendations on rehab exercises for players. He said he was also in charge of cleaning up blood after inju-ries, and keeping the training room san-itized.

Estridge said he used some of what he learned in class during the internship, especially when the players got hurt during practice.

“We had two players collide in the outfield and they were both lying on the ground,” Estridge said. “One of the athletic trainers and I had to split up. We tested them out and made sure they didn’t have any concussion symptoms. I sat my guy out for three innings, and the other one sat out the rest of the game.”

Estridge said he would return to the Pirates next summer, after accepting the paid internship again.

While Estridge was monitoring the baseball diamond, Madeleno was down on football gridiron, interning with the New York Giants.

Ryan Madaleno, an athletic training senior, began his paid internship with the NFL team in mid-July, helping the players stay hydrated during their sum-mer practices.

He said he assisted players with dai-ly treatments and helped tape up players before their practices and scrimmages. Madaleno said he spent up to 14 hours a day with the players.

Madaleno said he grew up playing sports, and developed a knack for know-ing how to take care of sports related in-juries. Madaleno, a Lexington native, said he gets most of his inspiration from his father, an athletic trainer at the Uni-versity of Kentucky.

“Watching my father...is mostly where I got my motivation from,” Madaleno said. “It’s also fun to take care of an in-jured guy and watch them succeed on the field after coming back from an injury.”

Madaleno said he likes working with football players because they present a challenge, given the sport’s rough nature and reputation for injuries. He said he was shocked when he got the opportuni-ty to work with NFL players.

“It’s been interesting interacting with people that I’ve grown up watching on TV,” Madaleno said. “Traveling with the team is also awesome. They travel so lux-urious. They have a massive plane where every seat has its own TV and 200 mov-ies to choose from. They get fed very well, steaks and all. They also have police es-corts everywhere they go.”

He said he roomed with other interns and during their down time they liked to play cards, take the train to visit Hobo-ken, N.J. and once they went to New York City to watch a Yankees game.

Madaleno said he hopes to obtain a season-long NFL internship in the future as well as attend grad school for athletic training.

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Raising Cane’s opens its doors in Richmond Centre

Eastern sends two interns to the big leagues

After a year of planning and four months of con-struction, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers opened its doors to Richmond customers in Richmond Centre at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 26.

Raising Cane’s is a fast-food chain that has made chicken fingers and their famous “Cane’s dipping sauce” is staple.

An estimated crowd of 150 people were in atten-dance for the official ribbon cutting ceremony. The first 100 customers could register in a drawing for free Cane’s for a year and receive a free T-shirt.

Craig Turner, co-owner of the Cane’s family owned franchise, said the Richmond Cane’s is the eighth store he and the other owners have opened after opening their first location in Louisiana in 2005.

Turner, who is not only an Eastern alumni but also serves as the chair of the Board of Regents, started the event off by bringing the crowd’s attention to the ma-roon number one that spanned the height of the build-ing and the Eastern flags on the roof.

“I’m extremely excited to finally open a Cane’s in Richmond,” Turner said. “This is my favorite and most special store.”

Mendi Goble, executive director of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, said she was excited when Raising Cane’s wanted to be a part of the Richmond community.

“We’re super excited to have a business that is so supportive of EKU,” Goble said. “We’re happy that they are so supportive of the relationship between town and gown.”

Turner, members of the Richmond Chamber of Com-merce, Richmond Mayor Jim Barnes and others in part-ner with Cane’s held a ribbon cutting ceremony as a sym-bol of the official opening day. Turner announced before the ribbon cutting that 10 percent of the proceeds made by the opening day would be donated back to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Garrett Thomas, a 3-year-old who is diagnosed with End Renal Disease and Cerebral Palsy, was selected as the winner from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to re-ceive the opening day proceeds. Turner told the crowd of Thomas’ wish of going to Disneyland.

Thomas, with the help of his parents, Alison and Dale, was asked to cut the ribbon and officially open the restaurant.

“We entered the Make-A-Wish Foundation on the recommendation from a friend,” Alison Thomas said. “I never assumed he would win because he can’t verbalize his wish. He’s so excited that he won and can’t wait to meet Mickey Mouse and Woody.”

Eastern’s mascot as well as members from the dance team created a tunnel into the building for what seemed like a never-ending line of incoming customers.

Connor Nowak, an Eastern sophomore from Florence, and Jacob Hilen, a sports management sophomore from

Lexington, both woke up early just to attend the event. “We decided we wanted to be one of the first custom-

ers,” Nowak said. “Neither of us have classes before 12:30 p.m. but we love Cane’s enough to set our alarms just to come.”

Hilen said they’re both glad they have a Raising Cane’s closer to Eastern now. He said the two would usually make special trips to the restaurant located in Lexington just to eat their food.

“We’ll probably end up coming here twice a week,” Hilen said. “I come especially for the Cane’s sauce.”

Turner said there are plans to open three more restau-rants; two in Louisville and one in Charleston, S.C.

By KAYLA LASUREkayla_lasure@mymail.eku.edu

By KAYLA LASUREkayla_lasure@mymail.eku.edu

Craig Turner, store co-owner and Eastern alumnus, assists the Make A Wish Foundation winner, Garrett Thomas in cutting the ribbon. A portion of the days proceeds will go to Thomas’ wish of going to Disneyland.

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SPORTS

Eastern’s soccer team made a grand entrance to the season after a victory at Western Carolina Uni-versity Aug. 22. The win came with help from freshmen Anna Hall and Emmi Carroll.

In her first collegiate game, Hall had a shutout game in the net, while Carroll scored Eastern’s lone goal against Western Carolina [0-0-2] off a pass from sophomore Mikayla Brillon. Hall and Carroll are among nine recruitments for Eastern.

Along with the newcomers, East-ern has returning standout players on its roster. Senior Paige Larkin, who was named first team All-OVC last season, returns, as well as se-nior Erika Wolfer.

Wolfer has started as East-ern’s goalie in 33 games over the past two years. Senior Emily D’Italia also returns

after an injury kept her out of the majority of the 2013 season.

Sophomore Cassie Smith sits on a team-best five goals and three as-sists from the 2013 season and adds to Eastern’s depth.

Eastern was picked to finish eighth in the OVC Preseason Poll. Head coach Melissa Barnes said the ranking is a reflection of last season and the players the team lost, but will not determine the team’s efforts this season.

“We’re just looking at it as a way to prove the people in the confer-ence wrong and that we are bet-ter than they think we are,” Barnes said.

Last season Eastern finished 5-12-2 (4-5-1 OVC) and missed the OVC tournament for the first time since 2007. The team also lost expe-rienced players such as midfielders Brittany Nomady and Kristen Payn-ter. Nikki Donnelly, Eastern’s all-time leading goal scorer, also grad-uated after the 2013 season.

Despite the graduated players, Barnes said the newcomers and re-turning players have the chemistry needed for a successful season.

Not only have players been added to the roster, but also a new coach has been added to the team’s staff. Nicole Costa joins Eastern’s staff as a graduate assistant.

Costa comes from the Univer-sity of North Carolina at Wilm-ington and started in 45 games during her four-year career. Costa also played under Barnes from 2010-2012, which Barnes said gives a sense of familiarity among the coaching staff.

“I coached her for three years and hoped to recruit her there,” Barnes said. “So that’s a familiar face for me and she’s familiar with what I’m try-ing to do with this program.”

Eastern’s (1-0-0) home opener takes place at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29 against Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) at the EKU Soccer Field.

Chemistry between newcomers and veterans shows promise for Eastern soccer

Volleyball leans on senior leadership in upcoming 2014 seasonBy ASHLEY OWENSashley_owens46@mymail.eku.edu

By ASHLEY OWENS ashley_owens46@mymail.eku.edu

Eastern’s volleyball team looks to returning upper-classman to lead the Colonels into a winning 2014 season. Head coach Lori Duncan said the leadership of the re-turning upperclassman is a key aspect to the 2014 sea-son.

“I couldn’t be more pleased with the leadership cou-

pled with the skill of the new people,” Duncan said. “There’s an urgency. Those seniors’ window of being able to win a championship is getting smaller. It’s either now or never, and they know that.”

In addition to the returning players, a six-player re-cruiting class joins the Colonels’ roster: Ciera Koons, Celina Sanks, Lauren Osuch, Mallory Maxwell, Dan-ielle Hicks and Hannah Kaup.

In its 2013 season, Eastern finished 18-16 (9-7 OVC) and hit an Eastern milestone after beating Morehead State University for the first time since 2006, while also breaking the Eagles’ 36-match OVC winning streak.

Five starters from last season’s team return to the court, including senior hitter Alexis Plagens. Plagens was picked All-OVC during preseason for the Colonels.

Senior Abbey Cvelbar said the team plans to add onto last season’s achievements and move further in the upcoming season.

Fellow senior Dena Ott added the team also wants to work toward a better preseason this time around.

“We’re going to have that winning record and we want to stay together as a team,” Ott said. “We definite-ly want to start off better in the beginning than we have before.”

Additions to coaching staff also join Eastern. John-na Fouch joins as graduate assistant coach and Lauren Snyder joins as assistant coach. Snyder played for the Colonels during her last two collegiate years and re-ceived two All-OVC selections as a Colonel.

As a team, Eastern was picked fifth in the OVC Pre-season Poll. Duncan said the team’s reaction to this rank is only one of many key decision making opportu-nities in the season.

“We get picked fifth. Okay, that means absolute-ly nothing,” Duncan said. “It’s what we’re going to do about it. We could sit back and allow that to dictate or we can put that chip on our shoulder and say ‘We’ll show you.’”

The team has readied itself for the tough 2014 sched-ule after weeks of practice on McBrayer Arena’s new floor and under its newly installed lights.

Cvelbar said the updated arena gives a spring in the players’ movements, which will help during the season’s home matches.

The first of 11 home matches begins Sept. 3 against Marshall University. Eastern looks at 14 matches against teams that had a winning in 2013.

The four-match UCF Classic in Orlando will open season. The Colonels’ will take on Northeastern Uni-versity and University of Central Florida on Aug. 29 and Florida National University and hosting team Western Carolina University on Aug. 30.

“We’re getting a little anxious but we have to try to cool our excitement,” Cvelbar said. “This coming week-end is going to be a really big weekend. We’re excited for it.”

A large crowd showed up from all over the Richmond area for the first Colonel Fan Day at Roy Kidd Stadium Aug. 23. Fans got the chance to run drills and get to know some of Eastern’s athletes.

“This is a fantastic event,” volleyball head coach Lori Duncan said. “I think that it is super important for the com-munity.

Members from the foot-ball, cross-country, soc-

cer, volleyball and cheerlead-ing teams came to meet the fans. Coaches and athletes alike said they were happy to get to know the commu-nity and teach the children some new tricks and run drills with them.

In order for everyone to have a turn with each sport, the attendees rotat-ed from team to team. Once everyone finished with the different drills, the children had the opportunity to run through Eastern’s football tunnel and were introduced by age group. Athletes then gave out the 2014 fall sports post-ers to be signed for the children.

“I like teaching the kids a little some-thing,” senior linebacker Khiry Maddox said. “It’s good to give a little something to kids.”

Bounce houses and food booths were also set up for parents and chil-dren, with free food samples from Eastern sponsors such as the recent-ly opened Raising Cane’s, Papa John’s, Jimmy John’s and Zaxby’s.

“They are all good kids,” sophomore cheerleader Lexi Taulbee said. “This is something great and fun for the little kids.”

Senior Alexis Plagens (No. 2) is one of five returning starters for the Colonels. Plagens was named preseason All-OVC.

Brittany Nomady (No. 24), former Colonel midfielder, graduated in the 2013 season, along with three other Colonels.

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Eastern’s football team signed 2014 schedules for fans at the first Colonel Fan Day on Aug. 23. The volleyball, soccer, chearleading and cross-country teams attended Saturday’s Colonel Fan Day and took part in clinics and drills with fans.

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Fans gather to support Eastern athleticsBy SETH GRAHAMprogress@eku.edu

Confidence is key for this year’s Colo-nels’ squad, as coaches and players alike consistently rave about each aspect of a deep, explosive and healthy roster.

The staff and team continually men-tion the hardworking approach that not only reliable upperclassmen bring to the table, but also humble and coachable freshmen and transfers.

Both players and coaches say they have seen improvements on offense and de-fense, as the Colonels bring back a solid run game, and big play defense, while also providing an aerial attack that seems fo-cused on big time playmaking ability.

The defense should also be more ef-fective than ever, with returning veterans quickly melding with young, fast-paced talent, from the front seven, and through the secondary.

Depth at each position is impressive this year as well. Coaches made it a point that this is the deepest roster at each posi-tion in quite some time.

It should be noted that there is much competition at every position this year, so several names, new and old could see plenty of action come Thursday.

Coach Dean Hood has taken notice of the team’s work ethic, and ability to get on the field and improve. When asked about how the team managed on their own over

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the summer, he made it known that the players had worked extremely hard while preparing for camp over the summer.

“There’s no way these guys were sitting on the couch eating potato chips,” Hood said.

Key players have made themselves pres-ent since training camp, and moving for-ward. Highlights of camp and scrimmages were loaded with positive words regarding new transfers, Bennie Coney and Dy’Shawn Mobley, from Cincinnati and UK respec-tively, among others.

Quarterback Bennie Coney made a lot of noise at scrimmages earlier in the month, mainly attributed to his big-play-making ability.

Coney threw several major completions, including four touchdowns in his scrim-mage efforts, two of which going for 40+ yards.

When asked about his transition to East-ern, Coney mentioned his comfort at his new school, mainly attributed to the team-first attitude of his new teammates. The competitive, yet humble new QB said he feels like the team immediately accepted him, and feels confident in his ability, as well as his teammates’.

Fellow teammate Mobley has also made his presence known, presenting a powerful, and electric running style. Mobley made an immediate connection with Bennie Coney, and they’ve proven that on the field.

Each brings a style of play that Eastern is used to, while also bringing explosiveness and playmaking ability that should improve both the running and passing game.

The 2014 Colonels are a hardworking crew. Paired with confidence for the team, and humility amongst themselves, this adaptive crew could see their hard work tru-ly come to fruition this Thursday against the Colonials of Robert Morris University.

Their recent improvements should give the Colonels a great chance of starting off this new season with a win.

The Colonels’ season opens Aug. 28 at Robert Morris University, with its home opener Sept. 13 against nearby OVC rival Morehead State University.

FOOTBALLCONTINUED FROM PAGE 8

The first home event to take place on the updated floor is a volleyball match scheduled for Sept. 3 against Marshall University. JACOB BLAIR/PROGRESS

McBrayer Arena gets needed makeover

Eastern unveiled the new floor of McBrayer Arena early in August, which cost approximately $450,000. This came in continuation with a project that began last year in Alumni Coliseum.

The project featured a new video board and sound sys-tem. Last year’s renovations totaled to nearly $1,000,000. Students should still sleep easy at night knowing that the cost of these renovations will hold no effect on the exist-ing price of admission to sporting events. Students will still only need to bring their valid EKU student I.D. to the event and admission is free.

A few of the noteworthy renovations over the summer included a new court, LED lighting, new basketball goals and energy efficient air returns. Alumni Coliseum still used the same court and air returns that were installed during 1963.

The new court, known as a Connor Floor, is made of grade one maple and was installed by Kiefer USA. The new floors will ultimately offer better traction to athletes, cause less wear and tear on their knees and provide more spring for athletes.

So far, the volleyball team has gotten the most use out

of the new court. “You can see the give to the floor that in the past you

couldn’t seem,” said head volleyball coach Lori Duncan. “When you’re talking about that, you’re talking about the (impact) joints and that will be much better for the stu-dent athletes.”

Coach Duncan said she has already witnessed in a short time how the new floor will ease the grind on her athletes.

As far as the new lighting, Eastern is now one of less than 10 schools nationwide to feature the new indoor LED lighting system.

Dan McBride, Associate Director of Athletics at East-ern, oversaw the entire project. Mcrbide said his favor-ite aspect of the new arena is the “simple and classic look that it brings.” McBride discussed the urgency to keep the momentum running off of last year’s men’s basketball NCAA tournament appearance.

When asked about how the newly renovated McBray-er Arena would honor the old court and the 50 years that were spent on it, McBride said graphics are being add-ed to the walls to celebrate Eastern and a piece of the old floor was kept and will be presented in the concourse to celebrate Alumni Coliseum and McBrayer Arena’s |history.

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New signs unify campus and RichmondThe city of Richmond will join

with Eastern in adopting new ma-roon road and street signs like the new signs that were installed across Eastern’s campus over the summer.

Eastern President Michael Ben-son announced the city was planning to adopt the new signs at his convo-cation to faculty a few weeks ago.

The city will soon replace street signs with new ones that have ma-roon color in an effort to bring East-ern and the surrounding community together.

“I feel really good about this idea and how it can unify the university and Richmond as one,” Benson said.

The signs began as a trial idea for a few campus buildings last April. When members of the local commu-

nity started telling the president how clean and concise the signs made the campus appear, he had more signs installed in front of almost every building and on every street of the university this past summer .

“Citizens who have lived here their whole lives came up and thanked me because now they could navigate campus and know what each of the buildings were,” Benson said.

Benson said he has a great team of people who tried different fonts and logos, but they really liked what they ran with on the current signs.

“These EKU signs have a contem-porary logo on them of the tower of the Keen Johnson Building,” Ben-son said. “We believe the Keen John-son Building has a great historical and inspirational story and we really wanted to project that.”

Richmond Mayor Jim Barnes be-

lieves the signs show good initiative on the president’s part.

“The president put them up and I really liked them; so, we followed suit,” Barnes said. “These new signs accomplish two things: they beautify the area and will eventually provide a consistency and progression to the city.”

Barnes went on to say that the city signs are on order and should come in sometime within the next two weeks. They will be located from the first exit off the bypass, to the corner of Lancaster Avenue and Main Street.

Barnes also said the signs are only the beginning of beautifying the city.

Over time, and when the budget allows, the city will eventually re-place all the signs, unifying the city and the university.

By REBECCA WOODprogress@eku.edu

The City of Richmond plans to adopt the new maroon street signs that Eastern installed over the summer. The new signs help to identify buildings and street intersections across campus.

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