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As the deadline for applications ap-proaches, two university committees are narrowing their searches for Eastern’s next vice presidents.
Th e two new positions are a direct re-sult of university restructuring through reallocations. Th ese administrators will be responsible for university branding and student success, respectively. Th e new vice presidents will report directly to President Michael Benson.
Applications for both positions will be accepted until Fri., Sept. 13.
Malcolm Frisbie, biology professor and chair of the search committee for the bi-
ology department, said the vice president for student success must be creative and innovative to bring students in as well as raising retention.
“It takes a village, this vice president is going to have to pull diff erent areas of the university together and unite them with a set of goals,” Frisbie said.
Similarly, the vice president for univer-sity relations will work to develop a “co-hesive and coherent message” to enhance Eastern’s brand, said Betina Gardner, dean of libraries and chair of the search com-mittee for the vice president of university relations.
“Th is committee won’t settle,” Gardner said. “We are looking for someone who is able to relate to Eastern and tell Eastern’s story.”
Frisbie said the vice president for stu-dent success qualifi cations requires a master’s degree and experience in higher education. He added that the primary fo-
cus for the job would be enrollment man-agement and student aff airs. Th e position will pay between $116,000 and $155,000.
Members of the branding and universi-ty relations vice president search commit-tee have a bit of a broader search, Gardner said. Th e qualifi cations are nearly identical, but Gardner said this position is accepting applicants from the private and non-prof-it sectors, as well as individuals with ex-perience in higher education. Th e position would pay between $90,000 and $121,000.
Gardner said that, in the past, the uni-versity has struggled to organize a strat-egy to rebrand the university, adding that school offi cials simply had more pressing priorities. Th is new position would place a constant focus on that aspect.
“Branding happens at every level of the university, there’s not a part of the univer-sity that is exempt,” Gardner said.
Frisbie said the position is important because the person hired will have to
unite diff erent people on campus to meet common goals.
“Student success is the bottom line for Eastern — It’s why we exist,” Frisbie said. “As higher education is rapidly transform-ing, it is important to have somebody that can move us forward into the next itera-tion of higher education.”
Both Frisbie and Gardner said their search committees are on “ambitious” timelines. After the application window closes on Friday, the committees will re-view the candidates’ applications and nar-row the list down to 10 or so.
Th e committees will then narrow down the search further to three to fi ve candi-dates, who will visit the campus for inter-views. Neither committee has said wheth-er it will hold public forums to review candidates, but it is a possibility.
Frisbie and Gardner said the commit-tees hope to make hiring recommenda-tions by the fi rst week of November.
Th e ladies of Chi Omega are host-ing their 12th annual Walk for Wish-es event Friday to help raise money for the Make-a-Wish foundation.
Th e sorority’s philanthropic work, raising funds for the foundation, helps grant wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses. Th e event will take place Friday at Alumni Col-iseum from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admis-sion for the event is $3 and addition-al donations are welcome.
Nikki Jackson, event coordinator, has been planning the event since May and said she is excited to see the turnout this year.
“We are all just very passionate about Walk for Wishes not only be-cause it is our philanthropy but also because it is a way to give back to the local community,” said Jackson.
Two past Make-a-Wish children will be attending Walk for Wishes. Chi Omega raised enough money to grant wishes for two 8-year-old girls. Both of the girls had their wishes
come true with a trip to Disneyland.Panhellenic President, Shaleeah
Smith, said the event has been one of the top earning philanthropic events put on by a Greek community.
“Walk for Wishes is one of the most successful fundraisers in the Greek community,” Smith said. “Raising over $25,000 with one event is really something to be proud of.”
Activities at the walk include a photo booth, face painting, cornhole and a silent auction.
Attendees will have the opportu-nity to bid on a gift card for a free pair of shoes from Rack Room Shoes, themed gift baskets, Vera Bradley merchandise, signed Notre Dame memorabilia, jewelry and many oth-er items.
A DJ is scheduled to play live mu-sic and local country singer Cory Kenton will give a live performance.
Prizes will be awarded to the par-ticipant who walks the farthest and for whoever has the best Disney character costume.
A Lilly Pulitzer booth will also be there for anyone wanting to pur-chase apparel, planners and other merchandise. Ten percent of the pro-ceeds will go to Make-a-Wish.
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Exiled rugby team finds new home off campus
Eastern may have exiled its club rugby team but the players have found asylum off campus.
Many former Eastern Club Rugby team members now play as Th e Richmond Exiles RFC (Rugby Football Club). Th e team added sever-al new members including graduates, students and community members. Th e team is current-ly sponsored by Art Attack Tattoos for the Fall 2013 season.
Eastern rugby is suspended from campus un-til Aug. 18, 2014. Th e team was suspended fol-lowing allegations of hazing.
Th e allegations involved a paddle known as “Betsy.”
People asked to be paddled in order to sign the paddle. Among the names on the paddle
Sorority gives hope to local children
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CHI OMEGA HOSTS ANNUAL WALK TO BENEFIT THE MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION
AFTER HAZING ALLEGATIONS, CLUB RUGBY MEMBERS FIND ALTERNATIVE FIELDS AND SPONSORS
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Application process near compeletion for vice president search
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Members of The Richmond Exiles Rugby Football Club practice on a pitch outside of campus. The team currently has 29 players, and they hope to become a permanent Richmond team.
Participants from the 2012 Walk for Wishes circle the Tom Samuels Track to raise money for local children who are a part of the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Flags were placed on the west side of Keene Hall in rememberance of 9/11 for EKU Veterans Club Rememberance Ceremony early Wednesday morning.
Dominic Morra, 21, fire administration major and volunteer fireman attened the 9/11 Memorial Wall dedication at the college of justice and safety Wednesday morning.
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Java City health inspec-� on shows problemsLive roaches were reported
in Eastern campus’ Java City lo-cation during a health inspec-tion on August 27. Th e report, released by the Madison Coun-ty Health Department, also not-ed potentially hazardous food stored at unsafe temperatures.
Java City is centrally located in Eastern’s library and is a fre-quent stop for students walk-ing in between classes looking to pick up a coff ee, soft drinks and food.
Many students were shocked to fi nd out there were cockroach-es at Java City.
Shawna Hamblin, 20, from McCreary County, bought a
drink and after learning about the inspection said, “Th is is my fi rst time ordering from Java City and I probably won’t come back.”
Lexi Wolff , 20, communica-tion major from Louisville said she was also shocked to fi nd out about the report but said she would still be a regular customer.
“It’s very convenient and it’s open till 9,” Wolff said.
Java City scored a 90 percent overall on the regular health in-spection and will be reevaluated in a follow-up inspection.
Kate Smith, 20, communica-tion major, from Louisville works at the library computer lab as a GURU, she said she believes Java City is still sanitary enough to purchase from and is a frequent customer.
“We Guru’s go all the time,” Smith said.
EKU Dining Services was con-tacted but had not responded as of press time.
Story by Eric Kuertz
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Aug. 29 n An offi cer stopped three
students in Alumni Colise-um Lot at 10 p.m. after notic-ing that one of the students was having trouble walking. According to the police re-port, Abby McDulin was hav-ing trouble standing on her own and was having diffi cul-ty speaking. Th e offi cer also noted that there was a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage. McDulin was transported to the Madison County Deten-tion Center for her own safety.
Aug. 30 n An offi cer was called to Tel-
ford Lot after a student reported a theft from his vehicle. Some-time between 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 28 and 12:50 p.m. on Aug 30, someone had taken the faceplate from his CD changer and some change he left in the vehicle. Th e value of the stolen property was estimated at $105.
Sept. 1 n An offi cer responded to Case
Hall at 10:30 p.m. after a resi-dential assistant reported that Samuel Cripps, Morgan Mer-edith and Justin Smith were streaking between Clay Hall and Case Hall.
Sept. 3 n John McGlone contact-
ed Eastern Police after a female threatened him at 12:30 p.m. in Powell Plaza. Kimberlee Steele said that she told McGlone, “If I was gay, I would come over
those ropes and cut you,” accord-ing to the police report. Steele said her response was because his preaching was upsetting her and her friends. McGlone de-clined to fi le charges.
Sept. 4 n A residential assistant called
police at 12:05 a.m. to report an assault. Th e police reports said that Matthew Christopher punched Edmond Braley sev-eral times in the face. Christo-pher fl ed the scene after the as-sault and Braley declined to fi le charges.
Sept. 5 n An individual reported his
bike missing from the bike rack at the Northeast corner of Burnam Hall. Th e individual had last seen the bike in May and noticed the lock was cutoff at the end of July. Th e bike was valued at $2,000.
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5 p.m.Chi Omega Walk for WishesAlumni Coliseum
7:30 p.m.Spencers Theatre of IllusionCenter for the Arts
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7:30 a.m.Sixth Annual Diversity BreakfastKeen Johnson Ballroom
5 p.m.It’s Your TimeWhitlock 568
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were Shawn Philpot, a Richmond Exile and sophomore globalization and inter-national aff airs student.
“I don’t know how Betsy even start-ed,” said Philpot. “When I fi rst saw it, it was just this paddle with like 200 some-thing signatures on it. Th ere are names on there from people I’ve seen who played, like 20 years ago.”
Philpot said dozens of people with no affi liation to the rugby club even women are on Betsy as well. He add-ed being paddled was a “weird thing” people asked to do and was not hazing.
According to Ethan “Ogre” Farris, Th e Richmond Exiles administrator and Eastern graduate, Betsy was a con-solation prize given to the club presi-dent in 2010 for coming in second place in a beer pong tournament. Th e presi-dent decided to make a tradition that if anyone wanted to be paddled, they could sign their name on Betsy. Farris said the tradition was solely for the pad-
dle, not the rugby team.Betsy was once a “big deal” carried
by the president and hung up on the wall in the Rugby House. Now, Philpot says Betsy is gone and the paddle is not talked about.
Th e Richmond Exiles formed on Nov. 18, 2012. Th e team has approxi-mately 29 players, fi ve of which are of-fi cers. Philpot said four team members quit the football team to play rugby for Th e Exiles.
Practice varies in time on weekdays. Th e Exiles’ Fall 2013 season began Aug. 24 and ends Nov. 9. Th e team plays exhi-bition matches rather than league games due to its suspension from Eastern.
Th e Richmond Exiles have a team dinner Friday nights at the “Rugby House.” Th e “Rugby House” is a place for the players, friends and family to hang out, strategize and party. Six play-ers live in the house. Farris says the house refl ects rugby as a culture and is about bringing people together.
Philpot said rugby is a brotherhood. Both Farris and Philpot said each
Richmond Exile may have their own
lineage. Rookies (new players) get an Olde Boy (experienced player) who may also have an Olde Boy and some lineag-es go further.
Philpot said rugby becomes your life. He said when he meets fellow rug-
gers (rugby players) from diff erent plac-es it is an instant conversation starter and can lead to close friendships.
Farris is striving to make Th e Ex-iles a permanent team for Richmond. He wants to fi nd a pitch (rugby playing fi eld) to be sponsored by local business-es and hopes to get more sponsors for the team.
“We’re here to stay in Richmond. I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon,” said Farris. “Our club president doesn’t plan on leaving anytime soon. I plan on hanging out in my rugby fortress com-manding my men. I enjoy the lifestyle. I enjoy the sport, the culture and tradi-tions that we have.”
Th e Exiles’ next game is a round robin tournament Oct. 5 in Lexington. More information about Th e Richmond Exiles can be found on their Facebook page.
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SGA pushes for Colonel Cash expansion for off campus use
Th e Student Government Association’s (SGA) off campus Colonel Cash initiative is gaining traction and could be implemented as early as next spring.
Th e idea behind off campus Colonel Cash is that students or their parents can put money into an account and the money can be used off campus at select merchants and restaurants. Th is will be paid from their Colonel 1 Card, but will come from a sepa-rate account other than their fl ex dollars.
Th e Colonel 1 Card offi ce along with the SGA and the Finance and Administration offi ce are preparing for what they hope is an exciting unveiling.
“Th e planets kind of collided a little bit,” said Barry Poynter, vice president for fi -nance and administration. “I know it was a platform Sarah Carpenter ran on. It all came
together at a good time; everybody was working on the same thing.”
Poynter also said that the legwork for the initiative came from Jeremy Raines, card services administrator, and the Colonel 1 Card offi ce.
“SGA wanted to be involved in this as well,” said Raines.
Members of SGA are glad to see an off -campus option implemented for the money they spend at the university.
“SGA has been working very hard to get this passed and we are very excited to see our hard work paying off ,” said Senator Rami Baldwin. “We think students will re-ally love the ability to use Colonel Cash off campus.”
One thing Poynter wants students to un-derstand is the diff erences between a meal plan, optional fl ex, and Colonel Cash.
“Colonel Cash is not new, it is just being expanded,” said Poynter.
Currently, Colonel Cash can be used on campus for laundry services, bookstore pur-chases and at any of the campus dining facil-ities. Once the new program is established, Colonel Cash will expand off campus, pro-
viding students the option to pay for their shopping and food purchases directly from their Colonel Cash account.
Th e company behind Colonel Cash, CBORD, will recruit any interested local vendors to join the program. Once estab-lished, a list of participating merchants will be made available to students.
“SGA has already provided a list of po-tential vendors,” Raines said.
Th is initiative has been talked about for some time and action is fi nally being taken to make this a reality for students.
“We are actually going through the con-tract process right now to get everything set up,” Raines said. “My goal is to have it fully in place and up and running by spring se-mester.”
One aspect of this program that appeals to both students and parents is the fl exibil-ity of account management. Both parents and the student can have access to deposit money into the account. Th is also gives par-ents access to see how those funds are be-ing spent.
A list of FAQs will be on the Colonel 1 Card website. Th is will explain the diff er-
ences between a meal plan, optional fl ex, and Colonel Cash to help students better understand the various options available.
Th e only exclusions to what can be bought using the account are alcohol and tobacco. Raines said that parents like know-ing that their money isn’t being spent at Li-quor Barn every week and that it is a con-cern they continually hear about.
“I think not allowing tobacco and alco-hol to be purchased through the account is a good idea,” said Lauren Dolen, 19, an unde-clared major from Berea. “It helps students make better choices than they might other-wise make.”
“Th e main thing I want students to know is we hear them and we’re trying to be re-sponsive to them,” Poynter said. “We want to serve their needs. We also want to let them know that we have heard their par-ents. Be patient; it’s coming.”
Th e Colonel 1 Card offi ce wants to hear the suggestions of students to help make this initiative a positive experience for them. To submit ideas for vendors and merchants to the Colonel 1 Card offi ce, contact your SGA representatives.
Friday is the kick off for Eastern’s annu-al Family Weekend sponsored by First Year Programs.
Students are encouraged to invite fam-ily members and attend a variety of events including group fi tness classes, tours and Saturday’s football game against Coastal Carolina University.
“Turnout is looking good as usual,” said Lori Beth Miller, director of First Year Pro-grams. “We usually have about 800 to 900 families in attendance.”
Several local businesses are off ering dis-counts to students and their families dur-ing the weekend. Miller said there are more community retailers and restaurants par-ticipating this year than previously.
Adventure Falls Miniature Golf is of-fering a dollar off for each member of a student’s party, Galaxy Bowling is off er-ing a buy one get one deal and Richmond Skate Center is off ering a dollar off each member in a student’s party when stu-dents present their EKU student identifi -cation cards.
A variety of tours are available on Sat-urday and Sunday, including White Hall State Historic Site, Fort Boonesborough State Park, winery and vineyard tours, tours of Meadowbrook Frams and various Walking Tours of over 70 historical build-ings, homes and churches.
For families interested in a more hands-on experience, Golf at Arlington, Adven-ture Falls Miniature Golf, Galaxy Bowling, Richmond Skate Center, Richmond Under-ground, Family Fun Festival, group fi tness classes, bingo and tailgating are places to visit throughout the weekend.
Families interested in a more casual and relaxed experience can go to events such as Th e Spencers: Th eatre of Illusion, Lunch at Acres of Land Winery & Restaurant, and Family Weekend Picnic and Brunch at Ar-lington Club.
Many students are taking advantage of this weekend to spend quality time with families they don’t get while away at school.
“I don’t get to see my family often so I’m really excited for Family Weekend,” said Alyssa Stump, 17, criminal justice ma-jor from Lexington, SC. “We’re pumped for the football game since they’re playing Coastal Carolina.”
Family of the year is a popular Fami-ly Weekend tradition. Th is year each reg-istered family will receive one ticket at the check-in tent to turn in at the entrance gate of the football game. Th e Family of the Year will be honored at halftime and win four tickets to Family Weekend 2014 events, a gift certifi cate to the EKU Book-store and more.
Th e football game is Saturday at 6 p.m. against Coastal Carolina University. Spe-cial ticket prices can be redeemed at the check-in tent before 5:30 p.m.
Many accommodations are available for visiting family members. Local hotels are off ering special rates for Family Weekend visitors. Parking is located in the Brock-ton Parking Lot behind Brockton apart-ments and in front of the intramural fi elds. Churches are also welcoming families who
don’t want to miss their weekly services. While pre-registration is closed, walk-
in registrations will be available while sup-plies last at the check-in tent on Saturday, September 14th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Th e check in tent will be located in the Fitness & Wellness Center Parking Lot.
Weekend of events provides family fun
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Students and their families participate at last year’s Family Weekend, sponsored by first year programs. Activities are designed to acclimate new students to campus.
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Eastern plans to do away with the old “kicker K” logo and adopt a more sleek and modern design, complete with a new motto: “Come here. Go Anywhere.”
President Benson unveiled the prospective logo during his Fall convocation. Current-ly, there are two versions of the new logo, which can be spotted on campus: one which is simi-lar to Eastern’s current athlet-ics logo appearing on Eastern’s website and another superim-poses the E in EKU over a com-pass background image. Th e logo featuring the compass can be seen all over campus on the backs of the t-shirts given out at Th ursday’s opening game.
Eastern is poised to make several changes in upcoming months, which makes this an ideal time for Eastern to move forward in developing clear branding and creating its own identity in the ever-growing college marketplace.
No doubt Eastern is a little late to the game. Competitive universities within the region have long been modernizing their images and logos.
Morehead State’s slogan “Much More” and new adver-tising campaign portrayed the university as one more relat-able to today’s student. It’s a move aimed at helping More-head stake its claim as a sig-nifi cant contender to larger universities such as University of Kentucky and University of Lousiville.
Eastern’s most recent mar-keting campaign prior to its new push featured the slogan “You can get there from here” and showed the university’s alumni in successful jobs. In ef-fect, it was meant to showcase Eastern’s strengths in preparing its graduates for fruitful careers.
It was a good starting point, but a more youthful approach is needed, one that relates to the modern student.
But that of course raises a big question: What is impor-tant to students today?
Eastern’s appeal lies in its holistic approach to education, where smaller classrooms and hands-on experience create a welcome learning environment for a university of its size.
Th e new branding initia-tive should communicate these strengths because it sets East-ern apart from other state uni-versities.
Th e current administration created a new vice president position in charge of branding and university relations, a po-sition that will help with the transitions related to branding changes and future growth.
To solidify Eastern’s brand, the administration needs to connect with current students and fi nd out what drew them here in order to help pinpoint Eastern’s strengths. Such in-sight could be invaluable to re-cruiting measures in the fu-
ture. President Benson referred
to collegiate sports programs as the “front porch” to any uni-versity. A strong sports pro-gram, without a doubt, gen-erates exposure and brand loyalty. While it may draw peo-ple in the door, it’s the academ-ic programs and learning en-vironment that ultimately get students to stay.
Eastern is known statewide for its strong academic pro-grams, many of which draw students from across the na-tion. Academic strengths are the university’s strongest asset and should be a top consider-ation when determining East-ern’s identity and what sets it apart.
As long as that shows up in Eastern’s new branding, the university should be on solid ground.
So now comes the fun part: Who are we and what makes us Eastern?
Finding a brand that fits
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Campus Sound Off
“I would go to Hibbets because that’s where I spend a majority of my money now.”
Boone Saylor Hometown: RockcastleMajor: BiologyYear: Freshman
“Botany Bay! That is my favorite store. I wouldn’t have any fl ex le� .”
Shawn Schrewe-IsaacsHometown: RichmondMajor: UndeclaredYear: Freshman
“I would spend my fl ex at any shoe store. I have to buy shoes regularly for orchestra so I think that would be great.” Amber PeckHometown: LexingtonMajor: UndeclaredYear: Freshman
“I would go to Taco Bell. Everybody loves Taco Bell and it’s my favorite restau-rant.” Alexus YoungHometown: LexingtonMajor: Social WorkYear: Junior
If you could spend your fl ex dollars off of campus,where would you spend it and why?
Learn to walk on your hands–and other ways to succeed in college
ZacZacShoopmanShoopman
“Sonnys. I love Sonnys BBQ. It’s my favor-ite.”
Lamar WalkerHometown: LexingtonMajor: Sport ManagementYear: Senior
“I’d spend it at Walmart because I get my groceries there most of the � me.”
Kim SmithHometown: Phoenix, N.Y.Major: Forensic ScienceYear: Freshman
My two years at Eastern have helped me improve both socially and academically. Not only can I write an acceptable paper in a night, I can also dominate in fl ip-cup and follow up with shit talking. Hopefully in 10 years when I get home from the offi ce, I’ll sit on my Lazy Boy and stare at my degree hanging above my fi replace.
Of course, what I learned in class is go-ing to be the primary reason for my dream job and fi replace. But I like to think the things I’ve learned just by living on cam-pus will have helped.
For most students, the college experi-ence begins with leaving your parents’ nest and moving into a strange room with a stranger on a campus full of more strang-ers. Th en you’re expected to sit in a class-room with these strangers and listen to an older, wiser stranger tell you things. With any luck, you’ll adapt quickly and make a few friends that will always be there to drink your beer and eat your Pizza Rolls.
But before that happens, you’re going to mess up.
1. You will embarrass yourselfWe’ve all seen the movies where the
awkward kid walks by the popular kids’ table in the cafeteria and trips face fi rst into his beef stew. Th at’s going to happen to you one day. While you may not end up covered in meat sauce, you’re probably go-ing to make a fool of yourself in some way. Th at’s okay though because you can recov-er from it.
Here’s a tip: Learn how to do a hand stand and whenever something embar-rassing happens to you, bust one out and walk away–on your hands. Not only will ladies swoon over your mysterious perso-na, you will always be “that guy who can walk on his hands,” rather than “beef stew face.”
2. People like making their lives sound more interesting than they are
You will come across people that are just as nervous about meeting new faces as you are. Maybe you manage to spark up an interesting conversation with someone, but somehow, you stumble onto a topic where the spark turns into a wildfi re of ex-aggeration. And before you know it, they’re telling you how many Jello-shots they did off of Angelina Jolie’s ass while dirt biking through the Amazon River.
I’m not saying every person you’ll meet is that excessive, but most people exag-gerate at least a little bit. Hell, I’ve done it a few times, and I’m the coolest person you’ve never met.
Most everyone wants to make them-selves seem cool and edgy, but some people are so hell-bent on it that you don’t know whether to believe if they actually ate a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch or not.
3. It’s easy to get distractedHomework sucks, you know this, but
you have to do it if you ever want to get out of this place. Sometimes it can be hard to focus whenever there is a carnival of ac-tivities between you and your study desk. Even now, you’re probably reading this article and putting off math homework, which is perfectly fi ne with me because screw math.
Th ere are a million things to do that are better than homework—like running shirtless around campus while yelling pro-fanity, or having your having your hand ran over by a Land Rover. Anything will sound like a good idea as long as it keeps you out of the books. Th e trick is fi nding the balance between leisure and academ-ics. Th e next time you go on your shirtless profanity run, bring your books with you. Eastern off ers many picnic tables for you to catch your breath and get a couple para-graphs done on that paper that was due
last week. Productivity at it’s fi nest.
4. We’re not in the real world yetWe’ve all heard it our whole lives from
our parents and the adults in sitcoms. “Wait until you get into the real world. Th en you’ll see”–as if our young age doesn’t make us valid members of society. I under-stand what they’re getting at. When I lived with my parents, they covered my ass like a bad roommate while I spent most of my time lying in my own fi lth.
I was always under the insinuation that the real world happens as soon as you move out of your parents’ house, but now I think otherwise. When you live on cam-pus, you don’t have to worry about keep-ing up with rent, utilities, and all the oth-er things that come with being in the real “real world.” Most of the time, your tuition is paid for with magical money called Fi-nancial Aid. And even if you have student loans, you don’t have to pay them back un-til you graduate.
While you may have more responsi-bilities than you did in high school, like a job, Greek life activities, and remember-ing when you’re hungry, you aren’t experi-encing what the grown-ups are really talk-ing about. Maybe after three divorces, two bankruptcies, and a few mortgages you’ll fi nally be there. But let’s face it: how many of us even know what the hell a mortgage is?
I hope you will investigate what’s go-ing on with the new pedestrian walkway, crossing Lancaster. It was designed to be fully accessible (to wheelchairs), but since it opened there is no way for a wheelchair to get from the parking lot onto the ramp–the space in the parking lot that holds the “curb cut” is a regular parking space and is continuously occupied, completely block-ing any use of the ramp! A second accessi-
bility issue currently involves the elevators: the one on the west side is “Out of Service,” with no work being done and no notice about how soon it might be repaired. Th e whole situation provides the chance for some remarkable photographs.
Gene KleppingerOnline learning manager
New pedestrian walkway of no use to those in wheelchairs
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Th e Eastern Progress, Th ursday, September 12, 2013A6
Morning show to revisit weather forecaster’s alma mater
Eastern’s campus will appear in a live remote airing on Good Morning America on Friday morning between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.
Th e EKU Marching Colonels and the dance team, along with more than 200 communications students have been invited to bring signs and wel-come the crew who will be fi lming in Powell Plaza early Friday morning.
Th e show is part of a series featur-ing the Good Morning America hosts’ alma maters and takes a glimpse back to the early 1980’s when weather an-chor Sam Champion attended Eastern. Champion, who is originally from Pa-ducah, attended Eastern and graduated in 1983 with a degree in broadcasting. Good Morning America producer Dar-
cy Bonfi ls visited Eastern’s campus on Wednesday Aug. 28. and fi lmed at var-ious sites on campus and interviewed students.
“It really was a beautiful campus,” Bonfi ls said.
Caitlin Jackson, 19, a broadcasting major, hosted Bonfi ls and her crew during their day of fi lming. Th e pro-ducer said Jackson made a good im-pression with her job as host.
“It was good southern hospitality for a New Yorker,” said Bonfi ls.
Jackson said she plans to intern at WKYT next summer, which is also where Champion interned prior to graduation. Jackson also said she en-joyed the opportunity to gain some hands-on insights into the fi eld.
“We ended up shooting all day, and I actually had a chance to host them as a student guide,” Jackson said.
By ZEYNAB [email protected]
Submitted PhotoCaity Jackson showed the producers of Good Morning America around campus on Aug. 28 for an upcoming shcw featuring weather forecaster Sam Champion’s life while he attened Eastern.
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Twitter has taken over this generation and its effects are visible on campus. The man or woman behind the mask is shed-ding some light on the latest phenome-non to sweep the Eastern Twittersphere.
One of the most popular Twitter ac-counts at Eastern is @eku_confession. This profile features anonymously sub-mitted tweets by Eastern students that deal with everything from sexual en-counters, drunken escapades and all the behind the scenes details that happen on our campus.
“With 3,193 followers the populari-ty is unexpected,” said the creator of the account, who wished to remain anony-mous.
“I created this account because I saw a similar one for a different school, and thought EKU needed one,” the account’s creator said via an interview on Twitter. “I thought it would be fun to see how it went. I have over 3,000 followers now, and that’s pretty cool.”
Of the more than 50 accounts with some tie to Eastern, the @eku_confession handle stands out the most. Other than that, not much had been known prior to the direct message exchange with the anonymous administrator.
The account’s origins can be traced back to spring around finals week. Dur-ing that span, the account has amassed more than 1,400 tweets (the account took a summer break as well).
In order to have your confession tweet-ed anonymously you can direct message the @eku_confession account on Twit-ter, or submit your tweets on www.ask.fm/EKUConfession. Or you could just @ the confession account if you don’t care to hide your identity.
“If someone direct messages me a con-fession, I delete the message immediately after I tweet it,” the account creator said. “Even if I didn’t, I wouldn’t remember who sent what anyways.”
The person said despite the number of tweets the account posts, he or she is the sole proprietor of the account’s content and management. Your secrets are safe.
“I’m not going to lie, I have submit-ted a few,” the account creator said. “The weirdest part was when my friends were
Stress is one of the greatest prob-lems in our society. When it comes to college life this seems to be particularly true. Dealing with a troublesome room-mate, writing papers and studying for exams occupy so much of our time and attention, we apparently forget some of our own needs. Under these conditions,
even a rather simple action like breath-ing correctly appears to be diffi cult to us. Can we stay focused and relaxed even with the crazy life we lead?
At Eastern, one of the solutions to this problem is an informal meditation class taught by John Fitch, associate pro-fessor in the Department of Communi-cation. Fitch became interested in med-itation after he graduated from college. For about ten years, he studied Qigong, a Chinese exercise that mixes stretching and meditation.
With the knowledge he acquired,
It’s a Thursday night and you’ve had a rough week. You may feel like going out, but you may not feel like hitting up a lo-cal club. Maybe you just want a sooth-ing atmosphere, a chance to kick back
and relax a little. Maybe get away from the stresses of everyday life. Well have no fear, I have your solution!
Go to Babylon and have yourself some amazing food as well as entertainment. Located at 213 W. Main S, Babylon hosts an Open Mic Night that gives individu-als a chance to express their creativity to the public.
Open Mic Night is really just a chance to experience literature on a more per-sonal level by seeing what your peers are
Th e hit crime and drama series, Break-ing Bad, is in its fi fth and fi nal season. Th e show is one of the most engaging television shows to date as it takes a look into the sto-ry of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and his rise to infamy as the notorious drug lord known as, “Heisenberg.”
Th e show details White’s story as he transforms from mild mannered chemis-try teacher to drug lord over the span of the show’s run. Of course at fi rst he goes into the meth-making business as a means to take care of his family since he has been di-agnosed with lung cancer and fears for his
family’s survival. Working with his for-mer student and delinquent, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), Walt develops his own chemi-cally pure meth, the off colored “Blue Sky”, and starts to gain the unwanted attention from that of other drug dealers and major criminals who to make his family-saving venture into an all-out war for his product and his soul.
Created by writer Vince Gilligan, Break-ing Bad proves to be a show that can excite and pull at the diff erent strings of an audi-ence’s heart, not to mention sprinkling some well-placed levity throughout the drama.
Each episode raised the stakes and had you wanting more as you tried to piece the story together only to have the show twist and turn in surprising places, making it
that much more engaging.Th e partnership between Walt and Jesse
grows into one of the most solid and believ-able relationships between two characters as they struggle to keep their head above water while keeping what’s most important to them safe.
Walt’s brother-in-law and DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) tirelessly tries to hunt down “Heisenberg,” all with-out knowing that it’s Walter. Th e emotional roller coaster gives each character, wheth-er good or bad, their own moments of drive and clarity into how they’ve become what they are in the shows theme of reaction and change which parallels the study of chem-istry itself.
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Christina Lovin, an English professor at Eastern, read some of her poetry at open mic night, which is held monthly on Thursdays at Babylon restaurant on Main Street in Richmond.
John Fitch, associate professor of the Department of Communication, teaches meditation class to offer a different outlet for stress release.
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talking about my post and I had to stand there and act like I didn’t submit it or even run the thing.”
Tailored to the needs and wants of its followers, the founder considers what students like or don’t like on their profile.
“At first I tweeted every submis-sion,” the account creator said. “Lately I’ve started just tweeting what I think is funny, or what I think everyone will like.”
Some submissions even mention, or tag, specific Twitter users or Eastern students, which some find negative or degrading.
Allie Crouch, 19, a nursing major from Louisville, said she doesn’t check the account often and doesn’t think the confessional account is appropriate.
“I think it’s trashy and gives EKU a bad name and reputation,” Crouch said. “I think the things that are posted promote inappropriate and unaccept-able behavior. It’s not something you want going on at your campus.”
The account’s creator doesn’t find it harmful at all.
“I’ve told everyone a couple of times that I don’t post anything mean. If someone has a reason and they mes-sage me their reason, I will take a post off my profile.”
Keisha Matney, 19, a communica-tions major from Phelps, said she found out about the account from retweets in her timeline.
“I really enjoy reading the tweets
from their site because they are fun-ny,” Matney said. “However, I can’t be-lieve that people do and say some of the things I read on there. I personal-ly don’t find it offensive but I’m sure they’re some people that do.”
The account hasn’t even been active a year, which poses the question: how long will the creator keep it alive?
“I’m going to keep it up for as long as people keep submitting things,” the account creator said. “Hopefully it’s a long time. I like running it and obvi-ously people like the account. Hopeful-ly it will last until I graduate, at which point I will then pass it down to some-one else.”
Other state schools have similar ac-counts, but the only account with as large of a following as @eku_confes-sion is at Western with 3,737 followers.
“I think people like this profile so much because they like to know what’s going on,” the account creator said. “Some of the stuff is a little ratchet [vulgar], but I think that people like that these submissions can be disturb-ing but still funny in its own way.”
Trying to balance a personal Twit-ter and the @eku_confession account sometimes becomes overwhelming and the creator discloses that he or she are sometimes afraid they will accident-ly post a confession to their personal profile instead of the @eku_confession account, which would give away their identity.
“It’s not too hard,” the account cre-ator said. “Just whenever my friends talk about the account I have to stand there and act like it’s not me. I haven’t really come close to telling anyone yet though.”
Fitch decided to do something to improve the welfare of the campus community.
“I want to provide the service to peo-ple on campus who might be able to ben-efi t from stress reduction, better health and improved concentration,” Fitch said.
Like Yoga, Qigong focuses on building the vital energy, also called chi, and let-ting it fl ow freely through the body. In tra-ditional Chinese medicine, Qigong is used as a treatment for diseases and a way of im-proving one’s health.
According to that tradition, negative conditions such as stress and illness can cause imbalances in a person’s chi. In order to recover health, a person must restore the balance of vital energy in his or her body and renovate his or her chi. Th e means of accomplishing this include eatings and drinking as well as having a contact with nature and practicing physical exercises.
Qigong’s meditation is somewhat simi-lar to Buddhist’s: the person focuses on his or her own breath and lets the thoughts come and go without judgment. Fitch ex-plained that this is called mindful medita-
tion, in the sense that the purpose is not to have the mind free of thoughts.
“Th e goal is to accept the thoughts, not seeing them as a threat or something that is going to hurt you or distract you,” he said. “It’s like exercise for the mind.”
Fitch says Western medicine acknowl-edges the benefi ts of Qigong. Th ese bene-fi ts come primarily from learning how to breathe correctly. Breathing from the chest activates the sympathetic nervous system, which is related to what is popularly known as the fi ght or fl ight reaction. As a result, our bodies get ready for a negative event, generating tension and anxiety. Breathing from the diaphragm, however, activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which is associated with relaxation and tranquility.
Th e positive feedback the students of the class give also shows the benefi ts of Qi-gong.
“Qigong is so much better than regular meditation,” said Heather Morris, adminis-trative assistant in the department of com-munications. “You don’t have to think.”
If you are interested in attending the class, you do not have to register. It meets on Tuesdays and Th ursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. in Library 208. Students, faculty and staff are welcome to join.
Have you ever had the sudden urge to throw colored powder at peo-ple and in a sense, go crazy? Th at’s
what one Eastern student did over the summer. Eastern senior and Campus Recreation employee, Kevin Morgan, 23, stumbled upon an opportunity to intern as
an event coordinator with an event production company called Buck-et List Productions, which helps to
produce 5K
color runs. Th is was no ordinary internship.
Along with the stereotypical intern duties, Morgan fi lled roles such as Event Emcee, Assistant Volunteer Co-ordinator, and Co-Producer for the events.
“Th e most diffi cult aspects of the internship were managing and under-standing all the tasks associated with coordination such large scale events,” Morgan said. It was during this excit-ing opportunity that he realized that he had something valuable to contrib-ute to the experiences of the partici-pants.
What is a color run? Imagine start-ing a 5K run completely clean in all-white attire. Now imagine running through four stations full of artists hurling paint. Th e outcome looks like you got into a fi ght with a rainbow and lost.
“Th e main focus of the color runs is to provide a quality, excit-
ing way (and of course family- friendly way)
to get people of all ages physically ac-tive and healthy,” Morgan said. “In kindergarten, they taught us all to col-or inside the lines; the color runs teach us to color outside the lines. I like to think of it as a kindergarten col-oring lesson gone wrong.”
A southeast
Kentucky native, Morgan had nev-er been in charge of a group or led a crowd. On June 29, 2013, that all changed when he got up on stage in front of a crowd of 5,000 at the start line and yelled “Cincinnati!! Who’s happy to be here today!?”
Th e crowd roared with excitement as Morgan began the countdown for the fi rst wave of runners to start. It was in this moment that it fi nally be-came clear where his true passion lies.
“Getting the crowd up on their feet and making noise just gives you such an adrenaline rush,” Morgan said. “It’s so much more rewarding when you see the excitement on the runners’ fac-es, knowing that I was able to add to their experience. It’s the perfect, so-cially-acceptable way to get completely messy.”
From Morgan’s time as a competi-tive cross country runner at the Uni-versity of the Cumberlands to his time here at Eastern being known as “5K runner guy at the gym”, he has be-come involved with a number of dif-ferent campus groups including the Campus Recreation FITNESS depart-ment’s Couch-to-5K program, reboot-ing the EKU Runner’s club, and help-ing coordinate a new campus event to be named later this month.
Morgan has big ideas for his future and for future events he is involved with. “Try new things,” he said. “Keep a positive and proactive mindset to-ward putting yourself out on a limb and take hold of the opportunities you may never have again. Money isn’t ev-erything, so think to yourself ‘carpe diem’ and just seize the day.”
Th is show is in its last season and the culmination of over fi ve years of story and character development is coming to an end as the fi nal episodes are emerging in the coming weeks. With this in mind, now more than ever is the perfect time to start
watching, because if the rest of the show is any indication, this fi nale is what everyone will be talking about for a long time.
Its brilliant writing, mixed with spec-tacular cinematography and topped off with an amazing cast of actors who make the roles they play as three dimension-al as possible make Breaking Bad one of the greatest television shows of this or any other generation.
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writing. Open Mic Night is hosted by Bob John-
son and Julie Hensley, of Eastern’s Eng-lish Department. The events are held the first Thursday of each month at a spec-ified location. Babylon hosted the first event of the school year, which combined an artistic atmosphere and good food.
“It’s good because it’s not just the stu-dents,” Johnson said. “It’s people from the community.”
When you first walk into Babylon you get hit with a tantalizing aroma of meat on a grill that just overwhelms your sense.
Ten seconds in and you’re already hun-
gry. While you’re sitting there, you hear people talking and smiling.
The atmosphere at Babylon is really laid-back; people from both sexes and all races were in attendance. It’s really com-forting. Then people begin to stand up and talk into the microphone.
One man even started to read poetry he wrote using the lines you receive out of fortune cookies, another talked about a lover lost, one about society and how it’s not fair.
Other than a list of who’s going to read, the event is totally random. There are no censors to what can be said.
Once you’re standing up there, the stage is yours. You can say whatever you want, clear your mind, tell a joke that you wrote; It’s all up to you.
It’s not even about how good your writing is either. If you wrote it and are
willing to speak it aloud, people will lis-ten. Just be yourself. Tell a story, read or sing a song. Just show us what’s on your mind, or realize what was on your mind.
Maybe you’ve had a character’s life sto-ry dancing around in your head for a few weeks and you want to tell people how he’s been doing, or you might just want to express some emotions that you’re tired of keeping to yourself. Sign up and do it. But if you don’t feel like reading and just want to have a seat, that’s perfectly fine as well.
Your company is welcome.When I was there listening to all of the
readers I just found myself wondering, “Wow, how did that man come up with that perspective?”
Almost every reading blew me away with their creativity. One of my favor-ite stories was a piece on the perspective
of life using the eyes of a locust. I even wanted to stand up and read some poet-ry; sadly I didn’t have any with me.
Whenever someone was done with his or her reading they were always applaud-ed, so it gave the feeling that everyone was welcome there.
It wasn’t a huge crowd in numbers, but even a small crowd can have a large im-pact applauding. I would imagine that if I was reading there, the applause would have made me happy.
There’s really no reason not to go. You could head there for one thing and end up getting more than you paid for. You might have just paid for a sandwich but instead you get perspective and enter-tainment.
When the next Open Mic Night rolls around you should go. It really is quite a lot of fun.
Halfway across the world, an Eastern professor got the photo to finish his pho-tography book.
David Zurick, chair of the geography department, said he went to Tibet over the summer in hopes of finishing a proj-ect that may open people’s minds to dif-ferent perspectives of the world around them. More specifically Zurick went overseas to finish his 10-year work, The Land of Pure Vision.
Zurick needed one final photo of Mt. Kailash to finish his work. He has been working in the area for around 35 years. In most of his trips he had more of a ge-ography focus but in this trip was spent his time in photographing spiritual areas like Mount Kailash.
He pointed out that as Americans, we concern ourselves with things like social media, while poeple in Tibet believe ev-erything on Earth is connected on a spir-itual level. Zurick said he wants to bring this project to the public’s eye to shed light on a different sense of life. It was also a chance to preserve the area in an artistic manner before it changed.
During his most recent trip to Tibet, Zurick said he experienced many inter-esting events. The most memorable sto-ry was one of a pilgrimage where peo-ple were circling a mountain for spiritual meaning.
The pilgrimage took around 10 days to complete. Zurick said around 18,600 feet worth of prayer flags were hung around
the mountains base. The Land of Pure Vision isn’t a book
filled with geographical jargon like other proj-ects. It’s comprised of 87 pictures shot with a 4x5 large frame camera, held in place by a heavy tripod. Instead of us-ing a digitally formatted camera, he used sheet film to acquire all of his photos. Except for the last one he took over the summer of Mt. Kailash.
Zurick actually took 10 photos with sheet fi lm but decided not to process
them. It was just a hassle lugging it around through security checkpoints.
“I’m moving out of the film world, and into the digital world,” Zurick said. “It’s just become al-most impossible to work with film anymore. I had to take the film through 15 security x-ray ma-chines.”
Classic ways are dying or are being
inhabited as see by Zurick being almost forced to change from his way of photog-raphy.
“With black and white film you’re al-ways chasing silver, I mean it’s the silver standard,” Zurick said. “The silver is ac-tually in the paper. There is no sliver in digital, its only gray tones.”
The Land of Pure Vision is expected to be released sometime in the summer of 2014. Unlike other geography books that are literally filled with statistical infor-mation, Zurick is aiming for piece of art to change expose viewers to a different frame of mind.
“It’s just become almost impossible to work with film anymore. I had to take the film through 15 security x-ray machines.”
David Zurickgeography department chair
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David Zurick visited Tibet over the summer, taking photographs with a 4x5 large frame camera for his book The Land of Pure Vision, which Zurick has been working on for the past 10 years. The book is scheduled to be published in the summer of 2014, Zurick said.
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Eastern’s volleyball team dropped three games at the Arizona Desert Classic Sept. 6 and 7. Th e losses dropped the Colonels’ record to 4-3.
Th e team suff ered its fi rst loss with a 3-1 defeat to Utah Valley Sept. 6. Th e fi rst loss came at the valley tournament with only four points between a loss and a win.
Senior Ashley Edmond led Eastern with 18 kills. Junior Alexis Plagens added 14 kills. Junior Dena Ott posted a match-best 23 digs.
Th e absence of senior Candice Blitz had a notable eff ect on Eastern. Blitz did not participate in the tournament be-cause of a head injury from earlier in the week.
“Candice is an important part to the team,” sophomore
Mallori Moff at said. “She’s one of our ‘defense specialists’ and her not being able to play was a disadvantage to us.”
Eastern trailed 24-21 late in the fourth set but battled back to tie the score. Th e Colonels went in front 28-27 on a kill by senior Marissa Tashenberg and led 31-30 after a kill by sophomore Rachel Vick. Th is still was not enough to give the team a second set to keep them in the match.
Eastern’s bid to force a fi fth set fell short after Utah Val-ley scored the next two points on an error by the Colonels and an ace by Utah to end the match.
Eastern concluded play Sept. 7 with a pair of 3-0 losses against Butler and host Arizona.
Th e Colonels out-blocked Butler 6.0 to 5.5, but posted a .102 attack percentage. Butler had 12 more kills and a .231 attack percentage. Butler won by scores of 25-12, 25-22 and 26-24.
Plagens had a team-best 11 kills for the Colonels. Ott fi nished with a match-high 16 digs. Vick totaled three blocks.
Belle Obert led the Bulldogs (6-1) with 14 kills and 11
digs.Th e Colonels didn’t fare any better against Arizona.
Eastern dropped the match 25-17, 25-15 and 25-14.Edmond led the Colonels with seven kills and Ott led
the defense with 12 digs.Despite the losses, freshman Tori Anderson said that
she feels like the team is getting better with each game.“I feel that every game we play we are coming to-
gether more and more as a team,” Anderson said. “Even though we didn’t win, I feel like we are starting to work through difficult situations as a team rather than indi-vidually.”
Moff at said she echoed Anderson’s optimism.“From this year to last year it is like night and day,” Mof-
fat said. “Th e team is so much more together, we work together much better and there is a diff erent feel on the court.”
Th e Colonels will participate in the Th under Invite hosted by Marshall next weekend. Eastern opens with Kent State at 7:30 on Sept. 13.
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The men’s team is currently ranked No.1 in the Southeast Region.
One of the biggest issues both teams will face this year is inju-ries.
Junior Ben To-roitich was injured near the end of the season in 2012, which he has not recovered from. He earned All-Southeast Region honors after fi nish-ing 15th at the NCAA Southeast Region Championships with a 10K time of 30:29.91, despite his injury. To-roitich missed the 2013 track and fi eld season complete-ly. Erdmann said he hopes Toroitich will be fi t to compete after a few more weeks of recovery time.
Another runner who is out because
of an injury is sopho-more Amos Kosgey. He was named the OVC Male Freshman of the Year in 2012. Kosgey injured his foot.
Two runners from the women’s team, Meri and Viivi Ran-tanen, left the team after Meri sat out the majority of the 2012-2013 cross-country and track and fi eld season because of in-juries.
Both teams start the year at the Univer-sity of Kentucky Invi-tational. Th e Colonels will be facing teams like Louisville, UK and Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State’s men’s team won the NCAA Nation-al Championship last year, so Eastern will be facing strong competi-tion.
Th e University of Kentucky Invitational will be on Sept. 14.
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their greedy thumbs. Yes, student athletes get
outstanding scholarships to come to particular schools. Yes, student athletes have ben-efi ts other students do not have. Because of this some would argue that the athletes should not gain any more than they already get.
However, some people for-get about all the other, non-athlete students who have mul-tiple scholarships as well as paying jobs located and ran at the school. Some people also forget that these student ath-letes are young adults, some barely over-age, trying to jug-gle school and a social life while also throwing in the ex-tra eff ort for training, practic-es, games and not to mention the extra mileage they travel for the numerous away games.
I completely understand when I hear the argument that not all schools bring in the same revenue and not all
sports even have a revenue period. But I think the least the NCAA could do for the student athletes is let them use their own name and like-nesses to gain some amount
of profi t, even if it is one single dollar.
Personally, I fi nd it cruel to say the student athletes in a college setting should not gain something extra for the time they put into the school. And it is for the school. Take away the supporting fans and the cheering crowd and all you’ve got is an empty arena with no one to play for. Likewise, take away sports form Eastern and all you’ve got is an uptight en-vironment lacking that extra hype sports provide.
The athletes do what they do to get their name out to the crowd, to get recognition for their efforts. Take away their opportunity to really experience that extra profit from signing their own name on a little piece of paper and you’ve stripped them from owning the right to their own name. Sounds pretty unfair to me.
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Eastern’s soccer team continued its season with another split weekend of competition. After taking on Xavier at home and traveling to Indiana Universi-ty, the Colonels’ record stands at 0-5-1.
Xavier University The Colonels delivered a tied, score-
less game against Xavier University (3-0-1) on Sept. 6 at EKU Soccer Field. Eastern used strong defensive tactics to hold the undefeated Musketeers to a zero score after 110 minutes of play, including two overtimes.
After losing the first four games of the season, senior Katie Collar said the team’s endurance against Xavier on Fri-day showed the team’s capability.
“Honestly, as a senior and someone who’s been here for 5 years, I am so proud of my teammates,” Collar said. “We really battled, and coming off of two losses that were serious losses, I think that the fact that we came back against a good team and battled was awesome.”
Eastern was able to put off 16 shots against Xavier’s 13 shots, while senior Nikki Donnelly led the team with four in-dividual shots. Collar, freshman Cassie Smith and senior Brittany Nomady put in multiple shots of their own.
Despite a game-ending injury for ju-nior Emily D’Italia in the second half and a few previous player injuries, the Colo-nels kept pushing forward against the Musketeers.
“I think, even though it’s really upset-
ting to see that we have the amount of people that we do injured, I do think that it was a big motivation for us,” freshman Mikayla Brillon said. “Seeing Emily go down really, real-ly made us want to fight harder, es-pecially with the other girls, Taylor Perkins being out, Ashely Ryan, Tess. We just wanted to fight for them and do it because they couldn’t.”
After multiple close goals for the Colonels in two overtimes, the team remained scoreless. Sophomore Er-ika Wolfer served as goalkeeper for all 110 minutes with four saves in the net.
“I’m a lot more pleased with the performance of the team today for sure,” Head Coach Melissa Barnes said. “That was the performance we expect from the group every single game so we were definitely proud of their efforts.”
Indiana University The Colonels battled Indiana Uni-
versity (5-0-1) Sept. 8 at Armstrong Stadium, ending with a 5-0 loss. Eastern failed to score any goals, be-ing outshot by Indiana 28-4.
With an early start to the game, Indi-ana scored its first two goals within the first seven minutes of play, with their next three goals coming in the second half. Despite the early score junior Whit-ney Wallace said the Colonels stayed op-timistic, even with the loss of multiple injured players, which had much to do with the outcome of the game.
“We were all just excited to play. It was a great opportunity. Just like we’re going to play West Virginia this Friday, it’s an-
other opportunity for us,” Wallace said. “So, I mean, we were all looking forward to it and excited to play. Even though the score may have been 5-0, it was still a great chance for us to get better.”
Wallace started her career for the Col-onels, taking a shot on goal along with Nomady. Collar and senior Lauren Fant, junior Paige Larkin and freshman Mikay-la Brillon picked up the pace on the back-line while sophomore Katie Bright played
the full 90 minutes in midfield for East-ern.
Wolfer marked a season high with eight saves as goalkeeper.
“Playing these big teams is just prepar-ing us for conference,” Wallace said. “So we’re just staying optimistic and prepar-ing ourselves for OVC.”
Eastern will travel to Morgantown, W.Va. to play against no. 9 West Virginia at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 13.
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Katie Collar (4), a senior from Calgary, Alberta, contribute three shots on goal against Xavier Sept. 6.
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Redshirt freshman Devon Borders earned his first career score after a 15-yard pass from junior Jared McClain against Louisville Sept. 7.
ly considered to be one of the best defensive players in all of the FCS.
Th e Colonels had some penalties that hurt an early run at the Car-dinals. McClain had a long run that was taken back and a delay of game ruined a promising fi rst drive.
A continued bright spot for the Colonels is the special teams play. Punter Jordan Berry had another successful game, pinning Louisville deep in its own territory, and kick returner Stanley Absanon had a success-ful game returning kicks.
McClain felt pressure all game from the Lou-isville defensive line, but managed the one touch-down throw to Borders and 27 yards rushing.
“You watched when he broke out how athletic he was,” Louisville Head
Coach Charlie Strong said on a teleconference. “He was able to stretch the fi eld and make us miss, when we play a quarterback like him we have to contain him.”
McClain is the lead-er in the OVC in com-pletion percentage (70.6) and passer rating (153.1). He is also only 162 yards from 1,000 in his career.
Eastern will play at home this Saturday against Big South foe Coastal Carolina. Th e Chanticleers will be making the eight-hour drive to Richmond from Myrtle Beach. Th is weekend will be Fam-ily Weekend on campus with plenty of activities centered on the football game.
Th e Colonels won the fi rst meeting between the two schools last sea-son 35-17. Coastal Caro-lina is currently 2-0 with wins over South Carolina State and Furman.
Th e game will start at 6 p.m. and will be avail-able on the OVC digital network.
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about doubled in the nine years I’ve been here.” For Eastern, the football program is the highest rev-
enue generator, Sandy said. But Men’s basketball is right up there.
The men’s basketball team generates anywhere from
$70,000-90,000 a game for guarantee games, which adds up to around $300,000.
Upcoming out of conference games with Wisconsin, VCU and North Carolina State will be big paydays for the men’s program.
In the 2014 football season, the team will travel to Miami (OH) and the University of Florida. Both games will be huge paydays for the Eastern athletic depart-ment. Both of those combined will be a great help to the 1.5-2 million dollar revenue goal.
Miami (OH) is paying $300,000 and Florida is pay-
ing a Sandy-era record of $575,000 for a one game trip. Where does the money go? “We have a goal to generate anywhere from 1.5-2
million dollars,” Sandy said. “But that money is used to build our budget. None of it goes directly back to foot-ball.”
The $300,000 that Miami (OH) is paying will be used to pay off the new video boards that were installed this year Sandy said.
“That money will be directly used to pay those off,” Sandy said.
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Soccer still looking for win after split weekend By ASHLEY [email protected]
B6 Thursday, September 12, 2013 The Eastern Progress www.easternprogress.com Matthew Crump, editor
SPORTS
Jared McClain
Top 20 NCAA cross-country teams
1. Oklahoma State2. Northern Arizona3. Colorado4. BYU5. Arkansas6. Tulsa
7. Wisconsin8. Portland9. Syracuse10. Princeton11. EKU12. Oregon13. UCLA
14. Iona15. Texas16. Stanford17. Virginia18. Columbia19. New Mexico20. Indiana
SOURCE: USTFCCA
It was a hot day in Louis-ville, with temperatures on the fi eld exceeding bearable conditions. Th e Louisville off ense caught fi re early, and didn’t cool down until the clocks hit zero, unfortunately for the Colonels.
Th e Colonels, (1-1), fought hard but ended up los-ing 44-7 to the na-tionally ranked Cardinals.
Eastern’s defense couldn’t slow down Heisman trophy candidate Teddy Bridgewater and his team of receivers, who amassed 397 yards and four touchdowns through the air.
Eastern did outrush the Cardinals though, limiting
Louisville to just 78 yards on 28 carries, an average of just 2.8 yards. Th e Colonel de-fense is eighth in the FCS in rushing yards allowed per game with just a little over 66 yards per game.
Th e sold-out crowd of al-most 54,000 people saw red-shirt freshman Devin Bor-ders’ fi rst career touchdown
catch a little into the fourth quarter. Bor-ders jumped high into the air to grab quar-terback Jared Mc-Clain’s pass.
Two key starters were missing from ac-tion as the game be-gan. Starting wide receiver Ike Ariguzo was out with an an-kle injury and senior
All-OVC linebacker Anthony Brown was suspended from the game because of a viola-tion of team core values.
Ariguzo caught a touch-down pass in the Robert Mor-ris game and Brown is wide-
Colonels stride for the top
Th e start of the 2013 cross-country season brings prom-ise and new challenges to Eastern’s men’s and women’s cross-country teams.
Th e men’s team has a lot more pressure on it after its
stellar year in 2012. Th e Colonels won the OVC tournament, placed
second at the NCAA Southeast Re-gionals and competed in the NCAA National Championship.
Th e year starts with high expecta-tions for the men’s team. A preseason poll by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) ranked Eastern at no. 11
nationally, in front of schools like Indi-ana (20), UCLA (13) and Oregon (12).
“Th ese polls cause a certain amount of tension,” Head Coach Rick Erdmann said. “Th ey do put a sort of target on our backs. It’s interesting.”
Th e strength for the men’s team is the return-ing athletes.
Senior Soufi ane Bouchikhi, three-time OVC Male Runner of the Year from Antwerp, Bel-gium, is the team’s strongest runner. Bouchikhi led the team to the NCAA national tournament after winning the NCAA Southeast Regional in 2012. He was named the NCAA Southeast Re-gion Male Runner of the Year in the spring.
Th e team’s second strongest runner is junior Wade Meddles. Meddles transferred to Eastern at the beginning of last season. He was shaking off an injury most of the 2012 season and hit his stride during the NCAA Championship, where he fi nished fi rst on the team, 38th overall and earned All-American honors.
Even with the strong performances from last year, Erdmann said the team still has work to do. While the no. 1 and 2 runners for Eastern would perform strongly, the runners behind them would lag and the fi nal places would be stretched out. Eastern could get three or four runners in the top 20, but the fi fth runner would lag behind. Th is would cause the team as a whole to get a worse score.
“Th is is a team sport,” Erdmann said. “We can’t have one guy worrying about the number one guy, the number two guy. You want to be the best you can be and get them as close together as possible.”
Erdmann said some smaller races would help the team get a strategy to solve this problem.
“Sometimes in these big races, there’s so many people they can’t see each other and they can’t fi gure out where they are,” he said. “Th is will help in terms of formulating the ability to stay close together. Our level of success will de-pend on our ability to overcome that.”
Erdmann said his focus is on the NCAA Re-gional Championship at the end of the year. Th e men’s team placed 24 out of 31 last year, with Meddles and Bouchikhi fi nishing in the top 20.
“We weren’t able to put it all together at na-tionals,” Meddles said. “We feel like last year was kind of like our learning curve and now this year we can fi x what we did wrong.”
Despite winning the OVC tournament last year, the women’s team has an uphill battle this fall. Th e Colonels lost three runners from last season.
Junior Ann Eason is the highlight for the women’s team. She was named the OVC Female Runner of the Year last year. Erdmann said the team is young and he isn’t sure how they will perform until the team gets a few races under its belt.
Eason echoed Erdmann’s thoughts on strate-gies the team needs to win.
“We have a lot of depth,” she said. “I think it’s going to be competitive. I think we’re going to have a lot of girls running together, which is something we struggled with in the past.”
By MATTHEW [email protected]
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Eastern’s men’s team placed 24 out of 31 in the NCAA national championship last season.
The University of Louisville’s 44-7 drubbing of Eastern may have been bad on the scoreboard, but the athletics department’s wallet is a lot heavier.
For the game against Eastern, Louisville paid $425,000 – the highest payout for a guarantee game during Athletic Director Mark Sandy’s nine-year ten-ure at Eastern.
As for how this number gets settled upon, Sandy said the larger school determines it.
“There is a little negotiation, but they sort of throw the number out,” Sandy said.
Even though there were many FCS schools that beat FBS schools on the first weekend of the season, these games are called ‘guarantee games’, in which the school in the higher revenue generating conference, pays lower opponents a significant amount of money to play an away game.
Over the past decade in collegiate athletics, salaries and revenues have grown tremendously. This change has also gone hand in hand with the money big uni-versities are willing to throw out for guarantee games.
“When I got here, everyone was around the $200,000-300,000 range,” Sandy said. “It has just
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Despite being outscored 44-7, the Colonels actually gained more yards rushing than Louisville, 107 yards compared with 78 for the Cardinals.
Football loses big, collects hefty check
Johnny Manziel may sound familiar to someone aware the of sports scandals currently swarming the world of athletics.
Manziel, Texas A&M quarterback, has bro-ken numerous SEC and NCAA Division I FBS records while also ranking as the fi rst fresh-man to win the Heisman Trophy, Manning Award and Davey O’Brien National Quarter-back Award at the end of his freshman season.
Manziel is also in question of ineligibility because of a questionable autograph he may or may not have been paid for.
Let me give a brief explanation for why Man-ziel is in this predicament. Th e NCAA, Nation-al Collegiate Athletic Association, will not al-low college athletes to make any type of revenue from their autographs or any other type of pro-paganda they muster up.
Now look at Eastern’s current quarterback, Jared McClain. According to scouting reports, McClain is Eastern’s top quarterback heading into his junior year. His 2012 stats show him being used in every game at quarterback posi-tion as well as leading Eastern to an opening drive touchdown during one of last September’s games. McClain, as a freshman, shows him throwing for 119 yards versus Kansas State Uni-versity and scoring the only touchdown against Kansas on a one-yard run. I’d say these could easily be fi led under note-worthy achievements.
Both of these players have gained numer-ous accomplishments in their college careers, breaking records and leading a team to pro-found victories. However, the second a fan comes to McClain ready to pay for an auto-graph, he has to decline. He does the work, he puts his name out there, but he better not take that money off ered by a loyal fan base.
To say that student athletes are not allowed to make profi t for themselves in college irritates me. Family, friends and fans come to sporting events to support their favorite Colonel. Th eir attendance brings in revenue for that sport. In essence, the school is gaining profi t from the athlete, but is unwilling to share any of that profi t with the athlete actually putting in the time and work.
Don’t get me wrong; I know the athletic de-partments are following the rules that are set for them. Th at’s not where my irritation lies. My irritation lies with the fact that the NCAA holds everything dealing with college sports under
It’s silly that college athletes can’t profit from their name
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A PAID $425,000 IN GUARANTEE GAME AGAINST LOUISVILLE, HIGHEST PAYMENT IN PROGRAM HISTORY
EASTERN DROPS GAME 44-7 AGAINST FBSRANKED LOUISVILLE
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MEN’S AND WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY TEAMS SHOW PROMISE FOR 2013
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