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By Stephanie MarkhamVerge Editor@den_verge
During the University Board’s Up All Nite party Friday, a group of students became pop stars, racecar drivers and better test takers using nothing but their imaginations and a bit of subconscious suggestion.
The night began with come-dic hypnotist Rich Aimes taking the stage and announcing that he was sorry if people in the audience mistakenly heard the name “Rick James.”
Aimes, a certified hypnotist from Las Vegas who said he has hypno-tized more than 10,000 people in nearly 20 years, explained to the au-dience how hypnotism works.
“Hypnotism is not mind con-trol,” he said. “It is simply relax-ation followed by suggestion.”
Aimes said participants would go into a trance-like state and awak-en feeling like they had six to seven hours of extra sleep.
After selecting volunteers from the audience, Aimes explained that nothing bad or strange would hap-pen during the process.
“If you feel weird at any time while you are being hypnotized, you were probably weird before you came up here,” he joked.
He told his subjects to imagine they were championship racecar driv-ers, ballet dancers and to dance “The Twist” when the music came on.
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By Seth SchroederEditor-in-chief@DEN_News
Water-based games, grilled food and wide-ranging prizes greeted Eastern students as they packed into the South Quad Saturday night for a “Blue Lagoon”-themed Quakin’ in the Quad.
The University Board-sponsored welcoming celebration acted as a grand finale for “Welcome to Pan-therdise,” a series of nights aimed to give a tropical taste for Eastern’s “Welcome Back Weekend.”
For many freshmen and transfer students, these events helped serve as a first impression for life at Eastern.
Selena Wilson, a freshman busi-ness major, said she was glad to have fun at Quakin’ before classes started, and she was able to meet new people.
“Everyone’s been very friend-ly and welcoming,” Wilson said, soaked after going through an in-flatable “Surf ‘n Slide” ride.
She said she did not plan to go through the ride at first, but said it was amazing.
“I’ve been through 15 times,” she said before jumping through again.
In addition to the “Surf ‘n Slide,” students could run through an inflatable maze while shooting each other with water guns, or ride a mechanical shark before being in-evitably thrown off.
Smells of grilled burgers, hot-dogs and shish kabobs wafted throughout the quad and drew lines of students.
Gary Kepley, owner of Kep’s Cooking, the company that pro-vided catering for the party, said his company brought 500 chicken ka-bobs, 500 fruit kabobs, 500 bags of chips and about 250 hotdogs and hamburgers to feed the hungry Eastern students.
Other catering included Papa John’s pizza and snow cones pro-vided by Vinnie & Al’s.
Freshmen roommates LeeAnn Reid, a journalism major, and Jodi Lawry, a clinical laboratory science major, said they had been relaxing in their room but the mixer’s music drew them out.
Both of them ended up going through a jungle-themed inflatable obstacle course.
“It’s awesome,” Lawry said. “It was so much fun.”
Reid agreed with her and said she loved meeting the diverse
group of people at the event.Students also had the chance to
win prizes at bingo tables ran by UB coordinators. Prizes included movie packs, board games, kites and iPods.
Kara Butorac, the UB chair, stood by the tables to help organize the games. She said she and other UB members helped organize Quakin’ in the Quad to give students a fun, laid-back setting to meet people.
Since Quakin’ in the Quad is funded by student fees, Butorac said members of the UB try to serve students as best they can.
“We just try and provide the most opportunities and give them an alternative to drinking,” she said. “We want them to have a good time.”
Seth Schroeder can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
First Weekend ends with tropical-based fun, food
photoS By K atie SMith | the Daily eaStern ne wS Dominique Washick, a sophomore elementary education major, laughs after falling on a surfing simula-tor at quakin’ in the quad in the South quad Saturday. Washick is a member of Alpha Phi and came to the event with her sorority.
kaity Vader Ploeg, a senior accounting major displays paint-marbeled sunglasses Saturday at quakin’ in the quad on the campus’ south quad. Ploeg said she participated in the event because she is a mem-ber of New Student Programs.
By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor@JaradJarmonReporter
Members of student government be-gan the school year with an Eastern tra-dition, which involved music, dance and war chants.
The theme of student government’s first night was “Make it a blue night,” and students came out to show their support for Eastern.
To excite Eastern for the rest of the night, the marching band sounded its drums for the “March of Champions.”
As the night went on, more and more students, and even faculty mem-bers, crowded the South Quad to ex-claim their spirit for Eastern.
Kaylia Eskew, the student body pres-ident, said she was proud of the night and the turnout.
“We had a good variety of new stu-dents, returning students, Greeks and athletes, so I was very happy with it,” she said.
Rhythm and X-tacy, an Eastern dance group, started off the celebration with a performance with mascot Billy the Pan-ther guest appearing in front of the stage.
President of Rhythm and X-tacy Keaira Williams said the performance turned out well for the group.
“This is an opening thing besides Pantherpalooza where (students) know stuff that goes on at the school,” Wil-liams said.
After a welcome from President Bill Perry and Eskew, members of all the Eastern athletic teams got the crowd jazzed up with a shout-out to all of the Eastern teams.
JeSSic a SvoBoDa | the Daily eaStern ne wS Eastern cheerleaders perform at First Night Sunday in the South quad.
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By samantha mcdanielassociate news editor@samMcDaniel20
On Thursday a group of East-ern students took to the streets and parking lots surrounding the residence halls to help the stu-dents attempting to unload cars and move into their rooms on Move-in Day.
The Panther Pals are a group of students who moved in early to volunteer by helping incoming students move all of their belong-ings into their rooms.
Le’Vetta Doxie, a junior fami-ly and consumer sciences major, was one of the volunteers and has helped for two years.
The first year Doxie volun-teered was not as a Panther Pal, but as a Prowl Leader.
“I had a fun experience, and I wanted to be more of a higher standard so I can help more peo-ple,” Doxie said.
Last year, Doxie said she was helping move students into An-drews Hal l and one s tudent dropped her keys in the elevator shaft.
“They had to wait for their roommates to get there, which was four hours later,” Doxie said.
Even with difficulties last year, Doxie said she has volunteered for a second year because she has enjoyed seeing the new students and because of her experience when she moved in her freshman year.
“It’s like giving back to the others,” Doxie said. “It’s a fun and new experience where you can meet friends and talk to the families to see how their experi-ence is going so far.”
When Doxie moved in her freshman year, she was required to move in early because of the Gateway Program.
“Gateway had no help, and I remember it was hectic,” Doxie said. “I know if it was hectic for us, imagine everyone on move-in day, so I think we should all help.”
Marlynn Reuter, a junior psy-chology major, also volunteered for her second year.
She said she was also influ-enced to join because of her expe-rience with the Panther Pals when she moved in.
“I know when I moved in as a freshman it was really over-whelming and just the fact that you are greeted with smiling fac-es makes you feel so much more welcome,” Reuter said.
The Panther Pals who helped her move in asked questions and tried to get to know her, Reuter said.
Because she was greeted in a
good way and saw how involved some students were, she wanted to get involved as well.
“In the long run, you’ll want to get move involved and when I was a freshman I was like ‘Oh I want to do that one day,’ and it is what encouraged me to become a Prowl Leader,” Reuter said.
Despite some problems, like a cart that would not steer right and caused a new student’s shirts to fall everywhere, Reuter said she had a lot of fun helping peo-ple move in.
She said all of the hard work they do is worth it because there are many people who appreciate what they are doing.
“This one lady’s grandma of-fered to pay us 10 dollars and kept trying to give us money, but we told her no,” Reuter said.
For Lauren Dowd, a sopho-
more family and consumer sci-ences major, this was her first year helping as a Panther Pal.
She said the day was a good ex-perience for her.
Dowd volunteered because she wanted some more service hours and when she heard about the Panther Pals last year, she thought it would be a good way.
She said it was also a good way to meet new people on campus.
Dowd said she was surprised to see some of the things people bring for their rooms.
“They bring their whole house pretty much,” Dowd said. “I’ve seen more desks, extra chairs, ev-erything. I don’t know how it is going to fit.”
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812
Panther Pals help new residents
By samantha mcdaniel associate news editor@samMcDaniel20
Between learning new faces, get-ting ready for classes and just figur-ing out that Old Main and the Doud-na Fine Arts Center are not the same building, the first week at Eastern can be a hectic one.
However, there are ways to help with the transition from home life to residence hall life.
Mark Hudson, the director of Uni-versity Housing and Dining Servic-es, said one of the best ways to get ac-climated to a new residence hall is to branch out.
“The most important thing about having a successful experience in your residence hall is to get out of your room and enjoy the activi-ties that are available to you,” Hud-son said. “Get to know the peo-ple on your floor, get to know your (resident assistant), participate in hall activities.”
Hudson said residents should knock on the doors on their floor and meet their neighbors or get din-ner with others in their residence community.
“Sit down and chat with them and find out just how similar they are,” Hudson said.
He also said this is a time of ma-jor transitions and added that oth-er students are going through them too.
“That is why friendships that come out of your college years are typically the ones that stick with you for a lifetime because it is such an intense experience that if you connect with somebody, it is a deep connection,” Hudson said.
By getting active in the hall and becoming a part of the hall, Hud-son said it gives the residents more ownership over their living space.
“All the Prowl activities are geared toward helping you become more comfortable with your new environment,” Hudson said.
Hudson also said it is important to get to know the RA on the floor.
“They are trained to be a resource person — to help students figure out how to resolve any issue they might have,” Hudson said.
Roommates should also get to know each other when they move into the residence hall, Hudson said.
One way to get to know a room-mate is to talk, Hudson suggested.
“The art of conversation is an im-portant one, and one of the things we offer students is something called the roommate agreement that outlines basic things,” he said.
Hudson said even roommates who know each other should still talk because sometimes there are things that are taken for granted and could cause problems later.
He said if problems arise, students should take care of them as early as
possible. “My experience over the years
has been that good conversation be-tween roommates, there’s no replac-ing that,” Hudson said.
It is also important to get com-fortable with campus, Hudson said.
“One thing I suggest that students do is in those days before the actu-al class days is go out and walk their schedule,” Hudson said. “That way you are not under the pressure of be-ing there at a certain time.”
Hudson said he tries to reassure students that they are not alone in their feelings and others are trying to
figure things out. “We know that when students
come in, they are anxious,” Hud-son said. “They are wondering if they are going to fit in, if this is going to work for them and often times they are sure they are the only ones feel-ing nervous.”
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amanda Wilkinson | The daily easTern ne Ws A group of Panther Pals cheer outside before students begin to move in on Thursday. The Panther Pals as-sisted students and their families in unloading their cars and moving belongings into residence halls.
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By Jarad Jarmonstudent Governance editor@JaradJarmonreporter
The Grand Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union on Sunday was filled with laughs as hypno-tist Frederick Winters took 17 students through an adventure under hypnosis.
This was the 11th year Winters was booked and hosted by the Residence Hall Association.
Winters brought the 17 students to the stage, and was able to keep most of them under hypnosis for the duration of his performance, however five woke up during the performance.
He said that this is very possible with every performance.
“Hypnosis is natural but a lot of peo-ple actually resist a hypnotist,” Winters said. “Their subconscious mind may not be ready for it.”
Throughout the performance, stu-dents were put in various situations, such as being told they were on a beach, which caused many to lay back and re-lax beside what they thought was the cool water.
Andrew Lilek, a senior communica-tion studies major, and Shea Brendel, a freshman kinesiology and sports studies major, ended up taking off their shirts from the heat at the supposed beach.
After the show, Brendel said his friends recorded the performance and he is nervous to find out what he did.
“I remember him calling me down and falling asleep,” Brendel said. “It didn’t feel like two hours.”
Winters also put the students on-stage through a game of hide and seek in which they were all terrible hiders and they were only allowed to be on the
stage. He then flipped the game making
the students the seekers and told them he was invisible.
The audience was not off limits ei-ther with Winters suggesting the audi-ence was full of the most adorable pets in a petting zoo.
They then went through the crowd petting everyone they saw.
Winters said when hypnotizing someone, the hypnotist does not force them to do anything.
“It looks like I do, but I don’t have control over people,” he said. “I only give suggestions.”
Learning on past experiences, Win-ters said he also tried to make sure it is a safe environment for those that are un-der.
“I have been punched and have been kicked,” Winters said. “I ended up learning the hard way.”
After the show, Winters said the 12 who were under hypnosis for the entire show were supposed to feel invigorated, like they would after a good night sleep.
Francesca Hebert, a freshman art major, said she felt refreshed.
“You know how you jump in a cold pool and you come out of the pool freezing but you feel good,” Herbert said.
While RHA had a multitude of peo-ple go to the event, it was much smaller than previous years.
RHA adviser Laura Imbirowicz said it came down to just being a coinci-dence.
“We both ended up planning it and we were both booked for a hypnotist before we realized we both doing the hypnotist,” Imbirowicz said. “The con-tracts were signed already.”
At the end of the show, Winters told those that were under to show their
panther pride, yelling “Go Panthers.” Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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• At2:19a.m.onFriday,ZackKings-bury, 19, 72 Circle Drive West,Montgomery, Ill.,wasarrestedon4thStreetnearW-Lotandchargedwith DUIAlcohol and DUI-BACgreaterthan.08.Hewasreleasedat4:10a.m. afterposting10per-centofa$1,000bond.
• At9:45a.m.onAug.8at9:45a.m.,a theftwas reported near Lump-kinHall.Thisincidentisunderin-vestigation.
• At 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 5, CharlesPoag, 23, 509 Dante Ave., Glen-wood, Ill.was arrested atUniver-
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• At11:35a.m.onAug.2,acriminaldamagetopropertywasreportedinW-Lot.Thisincidentisunderin-vestigation.
• At 8:33 p.m. on Aug. 3, CharlesHunter, 32, 23275Route 16, Ash-more, Ill. was arrested at 1500Blockof4thStreetforasuspend-ed license, Illegal Transportationof Alcohol and was released at10:26 p.m. after posting 10 per-centofa$3,000bond.
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Letters to the editor can be submitted at any time on any topic to the Opinions Editor to be published in The Daily Eastern News.
The DEN’s policy is to run all letters that are not libelous or potentially harmful. They must be less than 250 words.
Letters to the editor can be brought in with identification to The DEN or to the [email protected].
Here’s the thing, this is a brand new year and I know you have an opinion, so why not write a column or draw a comic and get your opinion out?
The rest of the paper is great, and I have dabbled in most of the areas, but I am the opinions editor for the semester and so I am going to stick to telling you what the Opinions Page is about.
The Opinions Page is the page of pure opinion so this tends to be the page that attracts a reader who may not be into strictly news.
We have opportunities for you to write columns, draw comics and even write a let-ter to the editor.
On The Daily Eastern News staff, we have plenty of columnists and also some who draw comics too, but we are only a small part of the Eastern community.
Our campus is made up of so many dif-
ferent groups, all from different walks of life. Everyone has their own opinions, and I want to hear them.
Please send me your columns, cartoons or a letter to the editor. I will look over what you write and do my best to get your opinion out in the open.
You don’t need to be the best writer or have the greatest drawing skills. We will work with you. You can write about most anything.
Please tell us your opinion, tell us about a life experience or maybe you’re an expert in something and can tell us about that, too.
This is also a way to help you in the future. Writing for a school paper can boost your resume and portfolio.
Hopefully you will like writing columns and drawing comics so much you’ll want to be on staff. We would love to welcome you here, so don’t hesitate to come by the newsroom or give us a call.
I am looking forward to the semester and want this page to be a successful expression of the Eastern community, and since you are part of what makes the community, I hope the words will come from you.
Emily Provance is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812
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Welcome back to Eastern. If this is your first time here, then simply, welcome.
The weekend is over and now it’s time for us to get back to our responsibilities. Yes, actual school. So, while this past weekend was great, it’s time to take that bottle of Burnett’s out of your backpack and put some actual books in there. Have you even gotten your textbooks yet? Yeah, maybe you should get on that.
Believe it or not, you might actually learn something today on your first day back at college. We live in the age of the Internet. If you’ve both-ered to check Desire2Learn, you will probably find that your syllabus has probably already been posted by your professor.
If you’re a freshman, a great way to avoid look-ing like a total dork on the first day is to familiar-ize yourself with the campus. This way, you won’t be strolling into some senior seminar when you’re supposed to be in freshman English. Eastern isn’t a big school, but it’s big enough to become em-barrassingly lost. What you should have been do-ing this weekend is taking one of those “find your classes” tours, but if you forgot about all that, don’t worry too much. The great thing about col-lege is that you have tons of free time, so you’ll have time to get acquainted with where every-thing is, if you haven’t already.
If you’re an overachieving freshman or a griz-zled Eastern veteran and you already know your way around campus, you can put some of that free time to good use at the Student Recreation Center that you are “totally going to start going to this semester.” You’re probably thinking that you’ll get a quick run in around 3 p.m. or so, right af-ter your last class gets out, but you are definitely not the only person with this idea. The rec will be packed around then. If you’re too afraid to be seen sweating in the presence of your peers, try going when it will be less crowded. You can also take a class with an instructor if you’re a fitness newbie. They can help you stop curling in the squat rack.
And finally, is Eastern a “party school?” Quite frankly, pretty much every school is a “party school.” It’s just up to you to decide if you want to go to those parties or not. You don’t have to say yes to every drink somebody gives you, but you don’t have to stay in your wroom 24/7, either. En-joy yourself, but know your limits.
So, welcome to Eastern. There are a lot of ways to not mess up this semester, but those are just a few suggestions.
Don’t mess up this semester
STAFF EDITORIAL
Journalists are like superheroes.That’s not to say they are. Of course they can’t
fly or throw cars around. But when they do their jobs properly, when they are at peak quality, they take on heroic qualities.
It’s actually one of the main reasons I want the job, and I know the rest of my staff is the same. We strive to achieve a greater good the best way we know how. We want to help Eastern and we want to help you.
We’re not out there fighting crime (direct-ly anyway) and we aren’t properly equipped to stop a bank robbery, but we strive to help peo-ple in other ways.
Our goal is to keep you informed about the campus and the world around you. We want to promote a public forum for community mem-bers to present ideas and work out problems, and we keep an eye on what’s being done with stu-dent fees — your money.
Our team at The Daily Eastern News works every day to make sure you’re equipped with the knowledge you need to make decisions about your life.
Like superheroes, we hold the truth in high regard. We battle to save the world not from
monsters or dastardly foes, but from ignorance and a lack of information.
This isn’t achieved with heat vision or invulnera-bility, but with reporting and asking questions.
Thankfully we’ve got some gadgets to help us out. Our staff wields high-tech cameras, smart phones, and voice recorders, as well as simple pen and paper. We have an arsenal of social media tools like Twitter and Facebook to bring the news to you and we constantly strive to master new technology as it develops.
What we have may not be as exciting as what you can find in a comic book or a Hollywood blockbuster, but we recognize the power of mass media.
While at Eastern we study the effects of dis-
seminating information to a wide audience and how to harness it responsibly to achieve a greater good. At The News we then put what we learned to the test.
We don’t have powers, and we’re still in train-ing. We may not be the champions of truth or justice, but it is our passion to support those ide-als as best we can.
This isn’t a fantasy for us. We are working in the real world to help make it a better place, and that’s why it’s exciting even without the colorful costumes.
Our staff is here to draft your history and tell your story. It’s nothing out of fiction, which makes it all the more interesting.
As a community, our time at Eastern will be an ongoing storyline not divided into issues, but continuous and real. We’ll be here to write it all down and record it for you.
We don’t wear capes, and we can’t go toe-to-toe with a super villain, but we will fight for you regardless.
Seth Schroeder is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812
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Aimes then had certain people lip sync and dance as if they were pop stars like Beyoncé, Jay Z, Mi-chael Jackson, Nicki Minaj, Tay-lor Swift, Britney Spears, Fred-die Mercury, Lady Gaga and El-vis Presley.
Olivia Thelen, a junior English major, was hypnotized to believe she was Lady Gaga.
She said she did not think she could really be hypnotized, but the experience felt like a “cleans-ing” afterward.
“I’m new here, so I’m just try-ing to experience all that I can,” Thelen said.
She said her favorite part of the show was when Aimes told them to point and laugh at the audience because they were all in their un-derwear.
Marika Rosenberger, a senior math major, watched from the au-dience.
She said she would not want to be hypnotized and doubted that it would work on her because she
tends to be more skeptical.“I don’t want to put my actions
in somebody else’s hands,” she said.
Aimes said some people have negative opinions because they have seen “junk” on TV, but hyp-notism can be both entertaining and useful.
“The fun stuff is great, but it’s a lso nice to know we can help people,” he said.
After his performance, Aimes offered a 10 minute sess ion of
“light hypnosis” to make students more confident when taking tests.
He said college students are his favorite people to work with.
“Colleges are the greatest au-diences in the world,” he said. “They aren’t kids and they aren’t stuffy like adults.”
After Aimes’ show, s tudents helped themselves to free T-shirts and various crafts having to do with the “Honablulu” theme.
Dominique Gilliam, a sopho-more early childhood education
major, took pictures wearing silly hats with her friends and decorat-ed a pair of flip-flops.
She said she was making hers with glittery stickers and letters and would probably hang them on her wall.
“I didn’t come last year, and I couldn’t miss it for a second year in a row,” she said.
Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812
Dino Babers, the head football coach, stepped up to the stage to sound off the roll call of Eastern’s football team.
However, before announcing the play-ers, Babers gave his praise to the football team’s home game record from last year.
The Pink Panthers and EIU Dancers performed following the football roll call.
Sam Beumel, the Pink Panther cap-tain, choreographed the performance.
Beumel said only veteran Pink Pan-ther dancers were performing.
“It is important to perform our best in front of new people and get the spir-it of EIU,” Beumel said.
The EIU fight song was also per-formed and taught by the Eastern cheerleaders, and afterward they per-
formed additional cheers to familiarize students and promote athletics.
The cheerleaders also taught the war chant, which J. Corey Francis, the di-rector of bands, wrote last year for foot-ball games.
During the celebration, members of student government also had peo-
ple jumping as Eskew and the executive board threw out 500 T-shirts to the au-dience.
This year was Eskew’s first year run-ning the night.
“I was nervous, but it’s exciting, and I love kicking off the school year like this,” she said.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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PHOTOS BY DOmINIc BaIma | THE DaIlY EaSTErN NE wS ABOVE: Students fall into a hypnotic trance at Up All Nite, Friday in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Grand Ballroom at 7 p.m.
LEFT: A crowd of students gather to recieve free T-shirts Friday at Up All Nite in the Union.
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Allie Moran leads the crowd in singing the fight song at First Night
Sunday in the South Quad.
“i was nervous, but it’s exciting, and i love kick-ing off the school year like this.”
-Kaylia Eskew, student body president
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“We all knew he could do that, but I think the biggest thing was that we needed to make sure he was fit.”
Moreover, the entire roster is filled with youth. Nearly a third of the team is comprised of first-year freshmen.
Despite the depth and youth, however, a number of Eastern play-ers are still recovering from injuries.
Red-shir t sophomores Garet Christianson and Spencer Filosa still leave gaps at forward and defender,
respectively. Red-shirt junior mid-fielder Chris Boswell is also missing from the list of active Panthers.
Eastern is on the road this week as it travels to Butler for another ex-hibition match Tuesday Aug. 20. The team will be back in Charleston to take on Dayton next Saturday Aug. 24 at Lakeside Field to wrap up the preseason.
Michael Spencer can be reached at [email protected] or at 581-2812.
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DOmINIc BaIma | THE DaIly EasTErN NE wsJake Plant, a senior defender/midfielder, heads a ball during the exhibition game against St. Xavier Saturday at Lakeside Field. The Panthers won 4-2.
Anthony Catezone
Football schedule presents uphill battle for Panthers
Look it up in the record books — that’s an order from coach Dino Ba-bers. The 2013 schedule is the most difficult in Eastern football history.
“It is the toughest schedule in the history of EIU football. Google it,” Babers said.
The Ohio Valley Conference sched-ule is routine. Routinely difficult, I might add. But what separates this schedule from those past is its non-conference schedule — a schedule that could very well have the defend-ing OVC champions heading into conference play at 0-4.
The first four games on the Pan-thers’ schedule has them traveling to San Diego State, Southern Illinois-Carbondale and Northern Illinois, while hosting Illinois State in the 102nd Mid-America Classic.
“We’re playing San Diego State,” Babers said. “That is one of the pre-miere programs on the West Coast. Unless you’re west of Mississippi, you have no idea what that school repre-sents.”
Babers said San Diego State is a program that has “talent coming out of its ears,” as he considers it to be a
Pac-12 Conference caliber team.Eastern will then travel to Carbon-
dale to face the Salukis, which many have ranked as a top 25 FCS team. The Salukis, a team that openly over-looked Eastern in its 49-28 loss to the Panthers last season, will surely not being doing the same this season.
“Southern Illinois has the advan-tage right now,” Babers said. “Psy-chologically, it’s going to be easier for their coach to get them to play than it will be to get my guys to play.”
The 102nd Mid-America Classic will follow, in which Eastern fell to Il-linois State last season 54-51 in dou-ble overtime.
This season, the Redbirds are ranked as high as No. 5 in FCS polls, while the Panthers highest ranking is No. 19.
“That game, the rankings won’t
matter,” Babers said. “Whatever you print in the paper won’t matter. Whatever I say to the team won’t mat-ter, it’s Illinois State, it’s Eastern Illi-nois. It’s going to be a war.”
To round out the grueling non-conference schedule, Eastern travels to DeKalb for its toughest game of the season against the Northern Illinois Huskies, a team that competed in the Orange Bowl last season.
Northern is led by Heisman can-didate Jordan Lynch, who ranked fourth in FBS in total offensive yards per game with 353.79.
It may seem unprecedented that the same Eastern football team from last year could begin its season 0-4, but with two FBS opponents and two top 25 FCS opponents, it is not out of the question.
OVC play is where Eastern will look to defend its title as conference champions, but the pressure to per-form will start long before the Pan-thers see any OVC action.
Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or
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staff report
Eastern will air the Panther Foot-ball Coaches Show this season on its Panther Football Radio Network stations with the first show airing at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 29.
The show will take place ev-ery Thursday throughout the 2013 football season.
It will broadcast live from the Brickhouse Bar & Grill in Charles-ton, located at the Unique Suites
Hotel.Shows will run live from 6:30 to
7 p.m. on location. Dates a re se t f rom Aug. 29
through Nov. 21. The show is open to the public
and free to attend.It will air on WRJM 1270 AM
in Charleston, WHOW 1520 AM in Clinton and WTIM 97.3 FM in Taylorville.
All games will also be aired on Panther Football Radio Network
stations. It will air on WRJM 1270 AM
in Charleston, WEIU 88.9 FM in Charleston, WHOW 1520 AM in Clinton and WMKR 94.3 FM in Taylorville.
Eastern will kick off its 2013 sea-son at 7 p.m. Aug. 31 at FBS oppo-nent San Diego State.
Eastern has been ranked in the preseason top 25 in several publica-tions, and is ranked No. 23 in the FCS Coaches Poll.
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By michael spencerStaff Reporter@tmskeeper
The Eastern men’s soccer team opened its exhibition season with two matches ending by a score of 4-2, one coming as a win over St. Xavier on Saturday, following an intrasquad scrimmage on Friday.
In the first half against St. Xavi-er, junior forward Lorenzo Savino opened the scoring when he man-aged to find the back of the net for St. Xavier.
His shot from the top of the pen-alty box was deflected past freshman goalkeeper Austin Miller and slotted into the top corner with 14 minutes to go in the half.
However, Eastern managed to draw even seven minutes later. Captain and senior midfielder Jake Plant’s shot took a deflection that chipped goal-keeper Andreas Pfatschbacher and lev-eled the score at 1-1.
Eastern’s superior numbers and match fitness were able to break down the Cougar’s in the second half as the Panthers broke through three more times. The scoring ended on a shot from junior left wing Will Butler.
His attempt bent into the top cor-ner from more than 20 yards out. It was enough to put Eastern over St. Xavier, 4-2.
Coach Adam Howarth said the match only confirmed that this team has quality across the entirety of the depth chart, and Plant agreed with his coach.
“What we have as a squad is real depth in numbers,” Plant said. “We have a lot of games, and I think the squad is going to utilize that.”
Eastern and St. Xavier played to a 1-1 draw in the exhibition season last year. Since then, the Cougars lost three of their five All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletics Conference play-ers from last season.
The intrasquad scrimmage allowed Howarth a chance to see all his play-ers on the field, but most important-ly, the weekend was about getting in shape for the official start of season Aug. 30, Howarth said.
“The biggest thing is fitness,” he said. “We are trying to increase our fitness over the course of the week. We’ve only been together since Mon-day. The guys came in on their own before and were doing stuff on their own but from Monday on, that’s real-ly all we’ve had.”
Howarth said the depth of his team would be what sets it apart this sea-son.
“I think we’ve got a lot of depth this year which is really very nice,” he said. “I think we have a lot of players that can really push to start.”
One of those players bidding for a starting role is freshman midfielder Nick Wegrzynowicz. He scored twice in the intrasquad match with both goals coming from the buildup play of sophomore defensive midfielder Tony Meza.
In addition to his role in mov-ing the ball through the center of the pitch, Meza also scored a free kick from just inside the attacking third.
“(Meza’s) come in a lot more fit and that’s why he is doing so much better,” Howarth said.
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Who’s on first?
women’s soccer
Team to host open tryouts WednesdayBy Dominic renzettiManaging Editor@domrenzetti
The start of the Eastern women’s soccer season may be just around the corner, but the team is still looking to add a few new members.
Newly named interim head coach Jason Cherry’s team will hold open walk-on tryouts at 6 p.m. Wednes-day at the team’s practice field.
Students interested must receive a physical exam at Health Services in order to be eligible.
Physicals done by an outside phy-sician will not be accepted.
A Sickle Cell test will be per-formed at the cost of the student.
Previous tests will be accepted
with proper documentation.All forms required by students
are available on the Eastern athlet-ic department’s website.
Students must wear proper attire and footwear during the tryout.
“I want to do open tryouts be-cause I always want to give some-body the opportunity,” Cherry said. “It’s tough for coaches to go out and go all over the country, or all over the world in that aspect, and find these kids in these plac-es, and sometimes they get over-looked. So, I want to give them the opportunity.”
Cherry said to make the team, players will need to be one of the top 18 players on the roster.
“If (a player doesn’t make the
team), maybe it’s something they can develop and tryout again, but I just want to give the opportuni-ty to see.”
The team’s first game is at 3 p.m. Friday at Lakeside Field against Oakland.
The match aga ins t Oakland will be the first of two matches this weekend for the Panthers, the second being on the road against Northern Illinois on Sunday.
The Panthers finished 6-12-1 last season, missing the Ohio Val-ley Conference tournament.
This season, the Panthers were picked to finish ninth in the pre-season voting.
S o p h o m o r e f o r w a r d H a n -nah Miller was named to the Col-
lege Sports Madness All-Ohio Val-ley Conference Pre-Season Second Team.
Miller had two goals and one as-sist last season.
Eastern Athletic Director Barba-ra Burke announced on Aug. 1 that last year’s assistant coach, Cherry, would be the team’s interim head coach following Summer Perala’s resignation in July.
This will be Cherry’s second year at Eastern.
Cherry named Tony Castelon as his assistant. Cherry and Castelon were assistants together at Western Illinois.
Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
By Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor@AldoSoto21@DEN_Sports
Eastern’s former starting first baseman, Treysen Vavra, transferred to Florida Southern College during the summer, leaving the Panthers without their best power hitter from the 2013 season.
Vavra led Eastern in home runs (eight), RBIs (47), runs scored (37), doubles (20), and slugging percent-age (.568) last season.
The Wisconsin native started all 49 games at first base in 2013 and finished with the team’s third-best average (.318). Vavra also ended the year with 24 walks and an on-base percentage of .406, both of which were second to Caleb Howell (27, .442).
Vavra said the transfer was best suited for him at the moment.
“It’s a better fit for me and my family at Florida Southern,” he said.
Now, with a starting job vacant, coach Jim Schmitz said Vavra’s de-cision would lead to opportunities for players who were primarily rel-egated to back-up spots last season.
“It’s too early to determine who will be the starter at first, but it will give many guys like Jason Scholl a chance to play,” Schmitz said.
Vavra’s transfer followed a 22-27 record that left Eastern in seventh place in the Ohio Valley Conference standings and out of the postseason tournament.
On July 16, Vavra tweeted, “It’s official, heading to Florida South-ern next year!”
Jake Johansmeier, now enter-ing his sophomore year at Eastern, spent part of his summer playing baseball in the Northwoods League with Vavra.
Johansmeier said Vavra did not let any of his Panther teammates know about his future plans.
“As far as player-wise, I don’t think anyone knew until after he left,” Johansmeier said.
The right-handed pitcher also
said that after he found out about Vavra’s transfer, he did not feel the need to talk with his ex-teammate.
“If (Vavra) wants to leave the team without telling us, then I didn’t see a reason to talk with him,” he said.
Trey Russell, a senior on the East-ern roster, said he was taken aback when he first heard the news.
“It was a little bit of a surprise, but he had to do what was best for him and go with what made him happy,” Russell said.
Vavra’s stay at Florida Southern College will be his third school in as many years after playing for Madi-son College in 2012.
Schmitz said he found out about the Vavra transfer in June.
“Trey was not happy at EIU and I wish him well,” Schmitz said.
Although Schmitz said Vavra was not happy at Eastern, Schmitz also said Vavra never gave him a reason why he decided to transfer.
Russe l l a l so sa id that noth-ing stood out in Vavra’s behav-ior throughout the year that might have implied that he was not con-tent with his stay at the school.
Mitch Gasbarro was a freshman last season and said he had a close relationship with Vavra.
Gasbarro said it was difficult see-ing his former teammate leave.
“It’s tough to lose a good guy and good friend, but as you get older, I have realized it is part of the game,” Gasbarro said.
The Eastern infielder said losing players gives the team a chance to adapt to new situations.
“We’ll have to learn to adapt and play with new situations all the time,” he said. “Whether that means losing a player or getting
new guys.”Eastern’s pitching coach, Jason
Anderson, said he talked with Vavra and wished him the best.
“(Vavra) has the work ethic that whatever route he takes he’s going to do just fine in life,” Anderson said.
Anderson praised Vavra on and off the field and said the senior was a good player and an even better kid, but was still disappointed.
“I’m not really sure of all the reasons why he left, but we’re definitely disappointed that he’s not here,” Anderson said.
Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
FILe pHoTo | THe DAILY eAsTern ne ws
Treysen Vavra, a former Eastern first
baseman, transferred to Florida Southern College during the summer. Vavra led
the Panthers in homeruns, RBIs and
runs scored.
Players react to Vavra transferring to Florida Southern College