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PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH SINCE 1976
PEOPLE had their sentence overturned on appeal
Inmates CURRENTLY ON DEATH ROW
INMATES EXECUTED SINCE 1976 in KY
The only woman to ever be exonerat-ed from death row told her story, Wednes-day, April 8 in the O’Donnell Auditorium to make students more aware of their rights and knowledge about the death penalty. The speech was hosted by Young Americans for Liberty.
Telling her story wasn’t the only thing she was here at Eastern to do. Sabrina Butler, in-nocence speaker, says she wants to “spread her message to the world about how the Unit-ed States has a serious problem with the sys-tem.”
Butler strives to encourage and educate students and young adults about what really happens in prison and how individuals who have been wrongly convicted have in a way lost their lives.
In 1989, 17-year-old Sabrina Butler was put on trial for capital murder. Her 9-month-old son was found dead, and she tried to revive him by giving him CPR. She was unsure how to do it, so she went to neighbors, who re-fused to help her.
By the time she arrived at the hospital, doctors did everything they could to try and save her son, but didn’t succeed. She went home that night and returned to the hospital the next morning to find police officers fur-ther investigating the case. She was asked to go to the station where she was interrogated for four hours, eventually being accused of child abuse and neglect.
“The cops told me what I did, they didn’t let me tell my story,” Butler said. She spent the next year in jail awaiting tri-al. Butler was sentenced to prison March 8, 1990, and was told she would be put to death by lethal injection July 2, 1990.
“I think I cried for two weeks because I didn’t know what to expect. I thought they
were coming to kill me,” Butler said when the time for her execution was near.
In 1992, Butler’s sentence was overturned for misconduct in the autopsy from her son’s death. The autopsy gave results that her son had both heart and kidney problems and that was the cause of death.
Butler was found not guilty Dec. 17, 1995 and removed from death row. She remained in civil prison.
“I was unemployed until 2009, because no one wanted to hire someone with a criminal record,” Butler said.
In 2009, Mississippi passed a law to pay convicts who were wrongfully charged.
Her case was not expunged until April 2014, and it has been discovered by officials that the state of Mississippi did not have enough money for a more thorough autopsy during the first trial. That is the reason why Butler was put on death row.
At 17 years old, Butler did not know how to handle this situation. She admits that she wasn’t educated enough to know how to de-fend herself in court or about dealing with the law. She now travels around the country pass-ing along her story and efforts to try to edu-cate and help young adults when dealing with the law.
The Kentucky Innocence Project provides quality investigative and legal assistance to Kentucky prisoners with provable claims of actual innocence. Investigator Jimmer Dud-ley attended Butler’s presentation and told the audience how important it is to be aware of the death penalty and how the goal of the Kentucky Innocence Project is to release all people who have been wrongfully convicted in the state of Kentucky.
Shekinah Lavalle, an Outreach Coordina-tor of the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, introduced Butler and gave a
By HALEY [email protected]
Wrongfully accused and on death row
Less than two weeks after the departure of head coach Jeff Neu-bauer, Eastern athletics named Dan McHale the new head coach of the Colonels’ men’s basketball team.
President Michael Benson and new Athletic Director Steve Lochmueller introduced McHale during a press conference Thursday, April 9, in McBrayer Arena. McHale comes off a two-year stint as assis-tant coach at the University of Min-nesota under head coach Richard Pitino.
McHale replaces Neubauer, who accepted a head coaching position at Fordham University on March 30. After 10 seasons as the Colonels’ head coach, Neubauer posted a 188-134 record and left with the second most wins of any coach in program history. Under Neubauer’s guid-ance, Eastern won two OVC Tour-nament Championships and made two NCAA Tournament appear-ances in 2007 and 2014. Neubau-er walked away as the only coach in Eastern’s history to have five sea-sons with more than 20 wins.
Lochmueller offered praise for Neubauer and the state in which he left the Eastern men’s basketball
program. “I’d like to thank Coach Neubau-
er for his superb work over the last 10 years in running our men’s bas-ketball program,” Lochmueller said. “Coach Neubauer accomplished exactly what we want for our pro-gram. That is a winning class. Not only did he win games and cham-pionships, but he also developed the student-athlete. They excelled in the classroom. They were mod-el citizens and they exhibited great sportsmanship on the court.”
Out of many candidates, Lochmueller said McHale stood out among all the rest.
“This individual had vision, energy, passion and profession-alism,” Lochmueller said. “He is the ideal candidate for the head coaching job at Eastern Kentucky University.”
A native of Chatham, N.J., McHale graduated with honors from the University of Kentucky in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. From 1997 until 2001, McHale served as a stu-dent manager for Kentucky. After graduation, he worked as a staff as-sistant at Louisville under Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino from 2001 until 2003. McHale then served one year as director of operations at Manhattan College before return-ing to Louisville to assume the role of director of video operations for two years.
In 2007, McHale became an as-
sistant coach under Kevin Willard’s first staff at Iona College. After tak-ing over a program that had won just two games the year before the staff arrived, Iona was transformed into a team that won 21 games during year three. McHale followed Willard to Seton Hall in 2010 af-ter his third year at Iona. At Seton, his job duties as an assistant includ-ed defensive game planning, oppo-nent scouting and game preparation for the Pirates. McHale served as an assistant at Seton Hall for three seasons before taking the assistant coaching job at Minnesota.
McHale comes from a strong coaching pedigree and the first year head coach hopes to join the likes of Billy Donovan (Florida), Tubby Smith (Texas Tech), Mick Cronin (Cincinnati), Richard Pitino (Min-nesota) and former Eastern head coach Travis Ford (Oklahoma State) as the next successful coach to fall from the Rick Pitino coaching tree.
“There are a lot of people that have influenced my life from a coaching standpoint," McHale said. "I’ve been very fortunate to work with Rick Pitino, Richard Pitino and Kevin Willard and the whole coaching fraternity. Without them, I wouldn’t be standing here before you. They have definitely shaped my life both on and off the court. They have taught me how to become a great leader, a great basketball coach
By EVAN [email protected]
The economics of higher education was key discussion for this year’s legis-lative forum Monday afternoon in the EKU Center for the Arts.
About 15 faculty members attended the panel consisting of Will Hatcher, associate professor of political science; Richard Day, chair of Faculty Senate; State Rep. Rita Smart; State Sen. Jar-ed Carpenter; State Rep. Arnold Simp-son, chair of the budget subcommittee on postsecondary education; and Bob King, president of the Kentucky Coun-cil on Postsecondary Education. David McFaddin, executive director for gov-ernment relations, was the moderator.
“It has been very easy, too easy, to cut higher ed,” King said. “We will pay the price long-term in the state of Ken-
tucky.”From 2012 to 2016, the state’s gen-
eral fund revenue increased 9.2 per-cent, but spending on higher educa-tion went down 7.2 percent, King said. Since the 2007-2008 fiscal year, there has been an almost $900 million cut to education from the general fund.
“The cuts we’re expecting are hav-ing an impact on our campuses,” King said.
Student debt and low college com-pletion rates are the problems in Ken-tucky’s higher education and Simpson said the long-term solution is to cre-ate a workforce that has more bache-lor’s degrees and higher paying jobs to create more tax revenue for the state. Smart concurred.
“When you have these high-paying individuals, it gives you an increase in
payroll tax,” Smart said.The strategy
to increase the amount of col-lege graduates with a bachelor’s degree will take years.
“We must first address the stu-dents who enter, the students who pay and students who fail,” Simp-son said.
Simpson also delivered a hard truth about fund-ing higher educa-tion to the faculty members.
“It’s a collective effort. If we only
have 2 or 3 percent pushing for a giv-en course of action, in many instances it’s not going to take place,” Simpson said. “And that’s why higher education’s funding has decreased. It was the easiest area to do so. We did it with-out any visible conse-quence. Oh it’s a conse-quence because by doing that, we have effectively impaired our future, but once again that’s for the next guys who occupy these seats to deal with. Therefore we need pub-lic input in this process
as it relates to funding. Until then, it’s
Dan McHale, Eastern's new men's basketball coach, served as an assistant for Minnesota head coach Richard Pitino before taking the job vacancy left by departing coach Jeff Neubauer.
EKU PUBLIC RELATIONS
By JACOB [email protected]
Panel discusses impact of cuts to higher education funding
› SEE COACH, PAGE 3
› SEE DEATH ROW, PAGE 4
› SEE FORUM, PAGE 4
“The way you get things done is to talk to your elected off icials back home. Help us promote higher education.”
Rep. Arnold SimpsonChair, budget subcommittee on
postsecondary education
Colonels hire new basketball coach with Pitino tiesWORKED UNDER RICK PITINO AT LOUISVILLE AND RICHARD PITINO AT MINNESOTA
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BRIEFSCAMPUSBRIEFSCAMPUS
BEATPOLICEBEATPOLICE
April 6 � A 45-year-old
Richmond man was cited for operating a vehicle under the in-fluence, wanton en-dangerment, dis-regarding a traffic control device and failing to produce an insurance card af-ter he ran a red light and his vehicle col-lided with another vehicle at 7:25 p.m. He was transport-ed to Baptist Health and then to the Mad-ison County Deten-tion Center. He was shouting racial and sexual slurs to the of-ficer on the way to jail.
April 9 � A person report-
ed someone threw rocks through the windows of the third floor restroom in Todd Hall, causing damage at 6:54 a.m.
April 10 � An 18-year-old
Lexington wom-an was maced by a 21-year-old Lexing-ton man at 1:04 p.m., in the Cammack Building. An ambu-lance came and trans-ported the woman to the hospital. The woman said she and the male broke up the day before. When she saw the man in Cam-mack, they began to argue over $60 he owed her. The wom-an called EKU Police later that day and re-
ported the man en-tered her room and stole a Playstation 4, four pairs of shoes and $60. The woman said she does not lock her room door be-cause she lost her key.
� A 23-year-old Lex-ington man assaulted a 22-year-old Rich-mond man after a basketball game in the Weaver Gym at 5:51 p.m. The Rich-mond native was ad-vised he had the right to pursue charges and was referred to the Madison Coun-ty Attorney’s Office. The Richmond man was later stopped by EKU Po-lice at 10:54 p.m. after an officer noticed a vehicle was recklessly driving on Lancaster Avenue. He was cit-
ed for driving a vehi-cle under the influ-ence, possession of marijuana, disregard-ing a traffic control device and reckless driving. The officer found a bag with 1.9 grams of marijuana, two marijuana roach-es and a 40-ounce bottle of Natural Ice.
April 11 � An 18-year-old
Union man was cited for possession of mar-ijuana after an offi-cer noticed fogged up windows of a Chev-rolet and the strong odor of marijua-na coming from the vehicle in the Lan-caster Lot. The offi-cer found marijua-na in the seat where the man was sitting.
Asian Studies program hosts cultural event
Eastern’s Asian Studies pro-gram will host An Asian Occa-sion at Powell on Thursday, April 30.
This cultural experience kicks off with an Asian Read-In from 3 to 5 p.m. on Powell Corner. Par-ticipants can read excerpts from their favorite Asian literature in English, or share from a sample of provided material.
The Read-In is followed by into a Cultural Fair from 5 to 7 p.m. in Middle Powell, complete with free food, games and more.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Minh Nguyen at [email protected].
Carly Dench
Green Crew hosts Earth Day festivities
Spring fever is hitting hard and from 4 to 7 p.m. this Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, the Green Crew will be hosting Green The Ravine.
There will be free pizza, live performances, tye-dye activi-ties (bring your own T-shirts, socks or whatever else you want to dye), a scavenger hunt with more than $50 in prizes, flow-er pot painting and more. Local speakers will talk about a variety of eco-friendly topics-all in the name of celebrating earth.
Bring hammocks, Frisbees, guitars or other recreational items to kick-back and enjoy the evening with friends. To cele-brate the earth even more, bring your reusable water bottle for free beverages.
For more information, con-tact Green Crew President Meg Carter at [email protected].
Week of Nov. 13 – Nov. 19THE COLONEL’S CALENDAR
Week of April 16 – April 22
THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAYNoon No Free Lunch: Eat Free or Live Free Jaggers Room, Powell Building 7:30 p.m. Christian musician Matt Maher EKU Center for the Arts
6 p.m. Baseball vs. Austin Peay State Richmond
8:30 p.m. SAC Movie Night: Horrible Bosses 2 Powell Underground
2 p.m. Softball vs. UT Martin Martin, Tenn. 7 p.m. International Student Association Banquet Keen Johnson Ballroom
7 a.m. Academic Breakfast Keen Johnson Building Noon Slack Lining Powell Corner
2 p.m. Softball vs. Austin Peay State Clarksville, Tenn. 7:30 p.m. Double Reed Recital Brock Auditorium
6 p.m. Baseball vs. Ohio University Athens, Ohio 7 p.m. Young Americans for Liberty Informational Meeting Library 208
1 p.m. Baseball vs. Austin Peay State Richmond 7:30 p.m. String Orchestra Concert Walnut Hall, Keen Johnson Building
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Ever wonder why your liberal educa-tion will matter after you graduate?
The question above is the topic the president of Wesleyan University will address at the next Chautauqua lec-ture at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 30, in O’Donnell Hall in the Whitlock Build-ing.
Michael S. Roth became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007. He previously served as the president of California College of the Arts, and is known as a historian, cura-tor and author.
“Michael Roth is a transformative and critical thinker about higher edu-cation in America,” said Erik Liddell, Chautauqua lecture coordinator.
While Roth was president of the Cal-ifornia College of the Arts, he empha-sized interdisciplinary work and liberal learning.
“He’s someone who, I know from reading his books wants us to under-stand, that college isn’t just about get-ting trained for a job,” Liddell said. “It’s
about learning to be critical, creative and adaptable.”
Liddell emphasizes that Roth’s most recent book, Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, is all about how to become a well-rounded person after leaving a school setting.
“Free you mind and the rest will fol-low,” Liddell said.
Roth’s teachings encourage the phi-losophy that one is never done learn-ing. He says college prepares students for the real world but once students en-ter the real world they have to be more flexible with all the changes in infor-mation and data and the advancement in technology. Being critical is key to being able to continue learning after college, he said.
“He’s someone who thinks that there’s a big debate going on about what’s the value of an education,” Lid-dell said. “But the cost benefit analy-sis of college isn’t just about money. It’s about benefit of critical thinking.”
Students will find this lecture in-sightful, because it opens students to a bigger picture that learning is never completely done, said Liddell.
COURTESY OF WESLYAN.EDU
Weslyan President Michael Roth is set to deliver the next Chautauqua on why liberal educations still matters in today's world.
Chautauqua to address impact of liberal arts
After rummaging in his pocket behind the spotlight-ed lectern and pulling out a pair of spectacles, Ralph D. Sawyer said to the crowd, “Now that I’ve put my scholarly glasses on, I can pretend I know something.”
Then began his Chautauqua lecture on the historical and contemporary strategic significance of Sun Tzu’s fa-mous book The Art of War. It became clear rather quickly that Sawyer did, in fact, know something.
Sawyer is a scholar of Chinese military history and a consultant to international defense agencies. He has writ-ten historical analyses of China and translations of Chi-nese classics, including most prominently The Art of War. He came to Eastern, Thursday, April 9, to give a talk enti-tled Smashing Eggs with Boulders: Strategy and Tactics in Sun-Tzu’s The Art of War.
Even though The Art of War was written in ancient times, Sawyer presented it as a work of the present. The book began as a military handbook for Chinese leaders, but it continues to purvey the culture today, and not only
in China, Sawyer said.Some popular idioms straight from Sun Tzu’s book may
sound familiar. They include universal classics as “Warfare is the greatest affair of states,” “Attack when they are un-prepared” and “Attack what they love first.”
“Manipulation is at the very heart of the book,” Saw-yer said. “You confuse the enemy and manipulate by any means necessary.”
The Art of War was the first theoretical discussion of spy craft, which most government leaders today see as es-sential to intelligence operations, Sawyer said. The book includes instructions for the use of prisoners of war, dou-ble agents and expendable agents, conjuring up more ideas of James Bond and Jason Bourne than ancient China.
“We always had the idea that gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail, don’t trick each other,” Sawyer said. “This doesn’t exist in China.”
He added that despite claims to the contrary, the idea doesn’t really exist in western cultures either, citing the Trojan horse as proof.
Sawyer also went into how modern governments use Sun Tzu’s principles. For example, United States leaders
are in the middle of negotiations with Chinese leaders to deweaponize space, Sawyer said. It may not be an encour-aging sign that in The Art of War, negotiations are viewed as just another weapon.
The principles of manipulation and battle strategy don’t just apply to warring military powers, though. Today The Art of War is applied to marketing, competitive sports, ev-eryday social interaction, and even how to properly con-duct a marital affair, Sawyer said.
There are multiple variations on the original text that have allowed The Art of War to persevere cross-culturally, including novels, graphic novels, movie serials and busi-ness books based on Sun Tzu’s ideologies, Sawyer said.
Sawyer may be one of the leading scholars in the world on The Art of War, but he admitted such a complex book can never be fully grasped. “I still don’t understand it, and I’ve been reading it for 50 years,” Sawyer said.
The next Chautauqua lecture entitled Beyond the Uni-versity: Why Liberal Education Matters will take place at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23 in the Whitlock Building. All lectures are free and open to the public.
By HANNAH [email protected]
'The Art of War' still has modern implications
and a great representative of a great place like Eastern Kentucky.”
McHale said he has envisioned this opportunity for a long time and already has big plans for the future of Eastern basketball.
“We’re going to recruit the best pos-sible kids that are going to represent Eastern Kentucky in the best manner on and off the court,” McHale said. “We’re going to win some games and we’re going to have a lot of fun doing it. From a style of play standpoint, we are going to have a lot of fun and make Mc-Brayer Arena one of the toughest home venues in the country.”
McHale said he also has a goal of representing Eastern in the best way, starting with a family-driven atmo-sphere.
“From myself to my staff to my play-ers, we are going to be one big family. I can’t stress the word family enough,” McHale said. “My wife and I, this is what we live for. We’ll be fully in-grained in this community in Rich-
mond. We want to spread the vision that we have to not only take Eastern Kentucky basketball to new heights, but to spread the brand of Eastern Ken-tucky University throughout this great state of Kentucky.”
McHale, his wife Jackie, who is a Kentucky native, and their children Lilly and Daniel said they are excited to be coming back to a place that they already consider home. The couple is expecting their third child in the very near future.
“I truly am blessed to be here to-day and I wake up every single day and know that I have the opportunity to make this place as special as I know it can be,” McHale said “We’re going to take this place to new heights, have a lot of fun doing it and we’re going to dream. I want all of you in here to dream about how great it is going to be to make a deep run in March. I know we have the resources. I know we have the leadership. I know we have the fan support and I know we’re going to have great student-athletes that are going to represent your Colonels in the best way possible each and every single day.”
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brief presentation to the audience about the death pen-alty.
“Life in prison without possible parole is a fine pun-ishment and a good enough penalty and we won’t make any mistakes,” Lavalle said.
At Eastern, there is a Young Americans for Liber-ty group centered on encouraging students to take a stand and know their rights when it comes to the law. Sebastian Torres, a sophomore history and political science major from Florida and president of Young Americans for Liberty at Eastern, showed a video be-fore Butler gave her speech, about a young man, Whel-don Angelos, who was sentenced to 55 years in pris-on for selling marijuana. They showed this video and handed out brochures with the message asking, “Was justice served?”
“The system needs to be changed to where punish-ment fits the crime,” Butler said.
Butler ended her speech by telling the audience that there is nothing that she can do now to change what happened to her, but what she can do is help young Americans all over in educating them on how to deal with the death penalty and the law.
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A $450,000 donation was given to Eastern to fund a scholarship for students struggling with edu-cational finances.
Eastern received the gift from the estate of Charles Clay Thomas of Lexington, which will es-tablish the Charles and Lillian Ojanen Thomas Scholarship.
Preference for the scholarship will be given to students at Eastern pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree who are underprivileged, who have been orphaned and/or have grown up in one or more foster homes.
Thomas graduated from Winchester High School in 1943. He served in World War II as a corporal with the United States Marine Corps (the Sixth Ma-
rine Division) in Okinawa and China. After return-ing from active military service, he graduated from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in commerce in 1949. He received his master’s de-gree in education in 1963.
He worked as an internal auditor with JCPenney and the University of Kentucky, and was vice presi-dent and controller for WLEX-TV.
Thomas passed away in 2011 and his wife passed away in 2005.
They gave all of their estate to charity, specifi-cally public higher educational institutions in Ken-tucky.
The generous donation will allow struggling stu-dents at Eastern to pursue a bachelor’s degree and form a life-long career for themselves.
By BRITTANY [email protected]
Donation helps foster home students
Panelists at the Faculty Senate legislative forum listened to Council on Postsecondary Education President Bob King provide responses to questions from faculty members. Legislators were also available to discuss funding and answer questions.
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Four hundred and nine-ty seven cars on campus had their parking fee waived this semester thanks to purchas-ing the new official Eastern license plate produced last se-mester.
The custom Eastern plate is available at any Kentucky DMV office for $56 and waives the owner from pay-ing the $60 parking permit fee. They will then have to be renewed each year by Dec. 31 for $31.
According to Parking Di-rector, Mike Jozefowicz, after the initial sale of the universi-ty license plate, the university will get $10.00 every time the plate is renewed.
“Currently any faculty, staff or student who regis-ters a vehicle with an EKU license plate do not pay for their parking permit,” Jozefo-wicz said.
The parking passes were created as a marketing strat-egy to promote the university.
“Every EKU plate on the road is like a mini billboard that promotes Eastern,” Joze-fowicz said.
Jozefowicz said the li-cense plate not only promotes the university, but they help alumni identify each other.
“Over spring break I was in Nashville and a policeman on a motorcycle pulled up next to me at a stop light,” Jozefo-wicz said. “He signaled for me to roll my window down and when I did he said, “I am a Colonel too, class of ‘94.”
Jozefowicz said it took him a minute to realize that the officer had seen his new East-ern plate.
The university hopes to see more students and staff buy the plates to promote Eastern the way other state universi-ties do.
By BRITTANY [email protected]
New plates are popular on campus
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION
Nearly 500 cars on campus are sporting the new Eastern license plate after it was unveiled this past winter.
probably going to be the same thing occurring again and again.”
The state legislators were in agreement that the best way to help higher education was to lobby for the funding by talking to them.
“The way you get things done is to talk to your elected officials back home,” Simpson said. “Help us promote higher education.”
Smart said she couldn’t remember anybody lobby-ing her for higher education funding aside from Mc-Faddin, President Michael Benson and the Board of Regents.
“Legislators listen to their constituents because people vote,” Smart said “They (state representatives and senators) want to know what’s needed.”
President Benson delivered the forum’s closing re-marks.
“For us to say we can’t do it, is hogwash,” said Benson. “I hope today we leave here with a renewed determination that we will go out and give that full-throated defense to higher education. It is the future.”
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It's that time of the year- we have all returned from spring break and are working to maintain our bronze, beach goddess tans at our local tanning salons. It tru-ly pains me to write this because, like many of you la-dies (and some of you gentlemen), I too have a mem-bership that I frequently use. However, educating ourselves on our own health choices is necessary and could, in the long run, save our lives.
Last week, I came across an article in Cosmopoli-tan titled A Death By Suntan At Age 26. The contents were shocking and have certainly opened my eyes.
Glenna Kohl was diagnosed with melanoma at age
22, during her senior year of college. She was very much health conscious: a vegetarian, an avid exercis-er and quite the nature lover. She tanned roughly one or two times a week, on top of her sun exposure at her job as a lifeguard. During a workout one evening, she felt a large lump on her abdomen and immedi-ately went home to ask the opinion of her roommate. They both assumed it was a pulled muscle, so there was little concern for the time being.
Unfortunately, after a month, the lump was still present. She went through a list of doctors before finally getting it biopsied, and the results were her worst fears.
The abdominal lump was a tumor of the melano-ma. In fact, it was a cancer-stricken lymph node, in-dicating that she was already in stage III. Glenna took on this battle with positivity, receiving a roller coast-er ride of treatments and test results. The melanoma kept returning and Glenna passed away at 26.
Twenty minutes in a tanning bed is the equivalent of three hours on the beach without sun protection. Yes, your body needs sun exposure to produce Vita-
min D, but the maximum amount of exposure you need is three times a week for around fifteen min-utes, at most. One tanning bed visit could be the equivalent of up to five weeks worth of healthy sun exposure, which is not healthy at all.
I am sure you have heard this lecture from your parents or grandparents before: "Tanning causes skin cancer." But it's true. We think that because we are young, we are less susceptible to these health con-cerns. In this case, however, it is the exact opposite. The younger you start tanning, the greater the risk becomes of developing skin cancer. If you start tan-ning before the age of 22, the risk of melanoma in-creases by 75 percent. That is why "Glenna's Law,” a bill currently before the Massachusetts State Sen-ate, seeks to ban indoor tanning for those under 16 years old. Be aware, fellow tanners, and don't spend so much time lying in the tanning bed that it leads to you laying under an MRI.
The state’s Council on Post-secondary Education will vote Friday on a proposed $150 per semester fee to fund a student union renovation and a new rec-reation and wellness center.
The Council on Postsecond-ary Education staff “determined that the request meets Council policy requirements” and they recommend for the Council to approve the fee.
“EKU students were afford-ed ample opportunity to be in-formed and voice opinions re-garding the Student Union and Recreation and Wellness Center projects and proposed fee, prior to a Student Government Asso-ciation vote,” the special fee re-quest stated. “Fee details were publicized using social media and the EKU Builds Website, and were discussed in an open forum on Feb. 24.”
For a special fee outside of a tuition increase, this is what campus administrators have to demonstrate to the Council:
“All enrolled students have been afforded ample opportu-nity to be informed, voice their opinions, and participate in the decision to endorse a proposed fee. Specifically, it must be shown that fee details have been widely disseminated, broadly discussed, voted on while school is in session, and requested by students,” according to fee eligi-bility criteria approved in 2011.
We have issues with how the process was conducted at the university level and we believe the Council should deny the fee based on the issues provided.
We believe that if the CPE approves this fee, this is evidence that either the Council or the state legislature should change the process of voting on special use fee exemptions and that referendums voted on by the stu-dent body should be the only way to pass a fee to ensure students are provided correct information and are accurately represented. This new process would force the two parties to be more accountable, in the students seeking information and the university in releasing information.
Here’s a f lawed logic: if there were to be a ban of Christian church-es placed on the city of Richmond, it would be perfectly fine because you can still worship Islam. Religion’s re-ligion, right?
Take a moment to ponder that ab-surd fantasy before I share with you a bit of cold hard nonfiction. Because if you thought that was ludicrous, you may need to sit down.
In a brief filed March 27 of this year, Steve Beshear and his lawyers ar-gued the following:
"The fact that, under Kentucky law, only men can marry women and vice
versa demonstrates that the Common-wealth's marriage laws are sex neutral and not discriminatory."
If you’re waiting for the punch line, there isn’t one. But in case you’re as perplexed as me when I first read that, here’s a rewording:
“Since neither straight or gay peo-ple can marry members of the same sex, anti-gay marriage laws are not discriminatory towards gay people.”
This is the humble opinion of our commonwealth’s governor, but the thing about his opinion is that it’s in opposition to the plain fact that some men like men and some women like women, and if they love each oth-er then they should have the right to marry each other.
Maybe one day I can cut the ‘should’ out of that statement.
And since I have the right to say whatever I want about Beshear’s opin-ion, I say it’s an ignorant, steaming pile of jackass dung. To say that Kentucky’s ban on gay marriage is nondiscrimina-
tory would put you in the same field of thought as pre-civil rights move-ment segregation. Just as black peo-ple couldn’t help being black, gay peo-ple can’t help being gay. That doesn’t mean being gay is bad, but Beshear certainly thinks it is.
Kentucky’s ban on gay marriage is blatantly discriminatory, and before you try to argue otherwise, ask your-self this: who the hell else does an-ti-gay marriage laws affect besides gay people?
I can’t believe that even has to be said. But that’s not the only argument against gay marriage included in the brief. It also says:
“Marriage between same-sex cou-ples fails to further Kentucky’s inter-ests in procreation and promotion of a stable birth rate.”
Well, there you have it, folks. Since two women can’t have a biological child together, they can’t get married. But with that logic, shouldn’t infertile people be banned from getting mar-
ried? It only makes sense, since they don’t aid in Kentucky’s interests in procreation. Like I always say, “If ya ain’t makin’ babies, ya don’t have the right to marry who you want or have your marriage recognized by the com-monwealth.”
Please detect my satire and please recognize the encompassing stupid-ity in all this. My deepest and most far-fetched hope is that this is some massive troll by Beshear in that he’s crafted a statement so arbitrary, so uneducated, that the ban on gay mar-riage is a surefire bet to be shut down in court. But that’s as irrational as his opinion.
America is moving forward and it’s moving fast, but backwards-shout-ing politicians like Beshear are doing their best to ensure that Kentucky is the last kid on the bus. Our old Ken-tucky home will remain old so long as its leaders have no common sense.
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Council vote reignites student fee concerns
n There was very little promotion for campus-wide forum February 24 to discuss the fee. SGA President Kyle Nicholas said the lack of promotion was because of a snowstorm the week before that canceled class-es.
n The forum was poorly attended by students be-cause of the lack of notification. A notice of the meet-ing was included in a campus-wide email that was dis-tributed the same day of the forum. If students don’t have advanced notice of a meeting, it can be tough to attend because of classes and other obligations. Only an estimated 30 students attended, participated and asked questions for a fee that will be paid by nearly 14,000 students.
n Part of the discussion at the forum by the exec-utive vice president for student success focused on residence halls and other projects the campus would complete with other funding sources and not from the fee. This may have left students confused, including an error in a survey distributed by a student senator that lumped residence halls into this fee, which the construction of new halls will be completed with fund-ing from Public-Private Partnerships.
n Even though video of the forum was provided on-line, the EKU Builds website mentioned in the univer-sity request did not provide additional information about the project and the student fee until March 12 and 16, almost two weeks after the $150 per semes-ter student fee was approved by the Student Senate. The additional information said students attending full-time during a summer session would also have to pay the fee, something that was not known when stu-dents voted on the fee.
n The day before the vote, Student Senator Sebas-tian Torres, addressed the Student Activities Council about the fee and talked about parking lots, issues with academic buildings and other concerns by stu-dents. However the only two things the fee can fund are renovations to the student union and a new well-ness center.
n During discussion about the fee at the Student Senate meeting, some senators publicly stated they were having conversations with students and that ev-eryone they talked to supported this fee, however, SGA could have done more, such as setting up a table on Powell Corner and interviewing students as they walked by the student union slated to receive the ren-ovation as several students we talked to did not know about the fee.
n Students didn’t know who to contact to voice their concerns about issues such as this fee. A list of sena-tors was not available when a Progress editor visited the SGA office and had to contact one of the Senate chairs for a list of senators and email addresses.
n The legislation passed by Student Senate and the Board of Regents doesn’t mention the narrowly-tai-lored description of renovations to the student union and the wellness center, but describe the fee as fund-ing “student centric facilities.”
n In the Faculty Senate minutes for Sept. 8, 2014, President Benson said the university would propose a $75-per-semester fee for necessary campus improve-ments that would be voted on by students during the SGA elections in the spring of 2015. This initial pro-posal is very different than the one that was present-ed to the Student Senate and approved.
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While the second annual Colonel Crawl drew in few-er students this time around, those who went experienced different forms of art and entertainment in downtown Richmond.
The event took place April 9, and was sponsored by the Student Activities Council (SAC).
The Colonel Crawl that took place last spring attracted more than 350 people. This year, SAC only sold 132 tickets.
However, SAC Vice President Ryan Poynter, 21, senior public relations major, said the low attendance was not a sign that the event wasn’t a success.
“Response is lesser than last year but it’s only the sec-ond year and we will develop the program fully so we can realize its potential,” Poynter said.
This year, the Colonel Crawl had students going to Purdy’s Coffee, the Madison County Public Library, Café Meeples, Madison Garden and The Copper Still.
Poynter was involved in SAC during the creation of the first Colonel Crawl last year.
“Last year we had to do a lot of outreach via the Down-town Richmond Association and the Chamber of Com-merce, as well as some cold calls and door-to-door meet-ings,” Poynter said. “After the first year, we established that relationship. Most had really great experiences last year and were more then happy to participate.”
Poynter said in many ways this year’s event was better than last year, because he got to be part of the process in
picking the talent after seeing them perform.“This year I really enjoyed the talent,” Poynter said.
“Last year we brought in several different artists but they were all in all very similar. This year we had a spoken-word poet, an independent folk singer band, a beat boxer, a cou-ple country artists and an acoustic songwriter. I’ve seen all of them personally, as they were showcased at the Nation-al Association for Campus Activities conference. We knew how talented they were and felt confident about our selec-tions.”
Spoken-word poet Katie Wirsing performed at the Madison County Public Library. She attracted more than 13 people to her conversations and poems on spirituality, skydiving and her difficult high school years as the only gay teenager at her Denver, Colo. high school.
“Poetry is so awkward –or that might be me, but I blame it on poetry,” said Wirsing, followed by a room of laughter.
She effortlessly slipped in and out of poems to show the room why she is a high ranked member of the National Poetry Slam Championship Team.
Marissa Clark, 20, senior communications studies ma-jor, watched Wirsing on YouTube and thought she was re-ally funny. The next day she bought a $5 ticket to go see her.
“She was inspiring,” Clark said, “and its comforting to know so many people who went through what she went through can still be successful. Her story is humorous, but in a heart-touching way.”
Josh Dunn, 21, senior network electronics and security
major from Richmond, said he attended the Colonel Crawl because he wanted to see one artist live at Café Meeples, acoustic songwriter Rebecca Moreland.
“Rebecca is the main one I came to see,” Dunn said.Dunn said that night was the first time he ever stepped
foot in Café Meeples.“The Colonel Crawl is a chance for you to get out on the
town and I’ve never been in [Café Meeples] before tonight,” Dunn said. “I like it so I know I will come back here.”
Rebecca Moreland set up in the corner of the café with a microphone and her guitar. She only played for about 10 people, but they were all entertained by her personality and soulful singing voice. When she was told she sounded like Sara Bareilles, she laughed.
“I’ve heard that before,” Moreland said. “I also heard I sound like P. Diddy.”
She sang several cover songs such as Mirrors originally sung by Justin Timberlake and Halo by Beyoncé. She also shared a couple singles from her album, which will be re-leased to the public in the fall. She said she likes perform-ing for small crowds.
“I actually like playing for small groups because I like to talk to them in between songs,” Moreland said. “I feel they walk away knowing me and my music better.”
Dunn went on to say that some more advance adver-tising would go a long way for SAC to get more students to go. He also said SAC should let people know attendees don’t have to go to every location and they can come and go as they please.
Sigma Chi kicks off their third annual fight night Fri-day, April 17, at Madison In-door. It’s going down this year after the fights with a special performance by rapper, Yung Joc. All proceeds are donat-ed to its national charity, The Huntsmen Cancer Institute.
Doors open at 6 p.m., and the first fight starts at 7 p.m. Presale tickets are being sold on Sigma Chi’s website for $15 and will increase to $20 the day of the event. Sigma Chi is also giving away tickets ev-ery day leading up to the event through its twitter account, @fightnight_eku.
Last year, the fraternity do-nated $15,000 to the institute.
“This year our goal is to raise $40,000,” said Sig-ma Chi’s Fight Night Chair, Chase McWhorter, 22, a fi-nance major from London.
Jon Huntsmen Sr., the founder of the institute, has pledged to match an addition-al 25 percent of the donation. If someone is unable to attend the event but wants to donate there is link on the website.
A total of 24 contestants will be participating in Fight Night this weekend. The range of participants varies each year.
“This isn’t just a Greek event,” McWhorter said. “We encourage the whole commu-nity to come show their sup-port.”
This year, Eastern will see
several student organizations in the ring, including Greek, ROTC and construction man-agement. Any college student is encouraged to participate in a match, but the student must be in good health and pass a physical examination by a certified M.D. All volunteers are given two free months of training prior to the event from Analytical Fighting Sys-tem Academy (AFSA).
The night will be filled with various forms of enter-tainment.
“We are extremely for-tunate Yung Joc can come,” McWhorter said. “But it’s im-portant not to lose sight of the main goal: to raise money for the Huntsmen Institute and cancer research.”
On Saturday night, the Pilobolus dance group thrilled audience members at the EKU Center for the Arts with its gravity defying choreography, zesty humor and raw ath-leticism.
The group is made up of dancers, mimes and theater artists. The troupe creates human sculptures that defy both gravity and logic. Pilobolus has been known for its performances on The Oscars, Oprah and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
The performance itself was made up of several dance numbers. In the beginning, dancers would fall out on stage in different ways that previewed what the show was go-ing to be about. One person came out in a walking hand-stand, the other through a series of spiraling falls. This first scene highlighted the dancers best qualities, physical strength and immense trust in each other. All of the acts that followed were inspiring in showing what the human body was capable of doing.
There were different scenes that featured four or five different dance members that had prepared a skit and showed their tricks. It ranged from magic tricks to gym-nastic acrobatics that involved dance members climbing on top of each other.
Rachel Vick, 20, a senior art major from Bay Village, Ohio, attends most of the events put on by the EKU Center and loves shows of all kinds.
“This event particularly was just so entertaining and I never wanted to take my eyes off of the stage,” Vick said. “Those dancers were so talented and from being an art major, I really appreciated how they created a message with every one of their numbers.”
Every act the dancers created had intricate detail and props to help make it that more creative and out of the or-dinary. The lyrical style of dance told a different story ev-ery scene ranging from a group of kids playing, overcom-ing slavery or a love story gone wrong.
With every dance number, a story was told and no words were used during the performance. The big ques-tion being asked, “Are they going to fall?” seemed very popular amongst crowd members but they were never dis-appointed in finding out because these performers never did.
In one scene, a dancer was being passed between the hands of two other dancers. The dancer dismounted him-self into the air, flipping and landing straight up on his feet.
A large white silhouette was placed at the back of the stage for another scene. Dancers were hidden behind it using silk cloths to dance and make shapes behind the
drape. Johnna Fouch, 26, a first year graduate student from
San Diego, said she chose to come to this event because she has been trying new things and Pilobolus was recom-mended by her roommate.
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” Fouch said. “I feel like I’m in New York City, watching a Broadway show. Getting the opportunity to witness this performance was an opportunity of a lifetime.”
Celina Sanks, 18, freshman apparel design and mer-chandising major from Pittsburgh, Pa., was there by her-self getting inspiration for a school assignment.
“I wanted to see if their outfits inspired me in any way for an assignment I’m doing for class,” Sanks said. “I have been taught to sort of analyze how the fashion and things performers wear can have an affect on the performance it-self and I definitely think that for this event particularly, the outfits were just as much apart of the performance as were the dancers.”
The choreography that was portrayed throughout all of the acts Pilobolus created had an underlying story. Pilo-bolus defied gravity and the rules of what normal dance theatre should look and act like. The dance group contin-ues to launch into greater heights of entertainment, push boundaries and create new styles of dance.
Dance group defies gravity with acrobatics
By REBECCA [email protected]
Students travel to Downtown Richmond for arts, entertainment festival
Sigma Chi Fight Night charity founder pledges to match portion of donations
Austin Moody performed Thursday, April 9 at The Copper Still for students who attended the Colonel Crawl hosted by the Student Activities Council. DAN KLAPHEKE/PROGRESS
2nd ANNUAL COLONELCRAWL
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By CHRISTOPHER [email protected]
Students can sign up to participate in the Sigma Chi Fight Night to help raise money for The Huntsmen Cancer Institute. The event is not limited to Greek members.
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Eastern is home to one hopeful screen-writer who, despite no background or ma-jor in film or broadcast, placed third in a screenwriting contest and is currently on his way to being a professional screenwrit-er.
Scriptwriting started out like most pas-sions as a hobby, said Mitch Smith, 23, se-nior psychology major.
“Sometimes in high school I would just read a script for fun,” Smith said. “I was looking for a passion and something I re-ally wanted to do. I just loved to write and I loved movies, and so screenwriting seemed like a natural thing to me.”
After graduating from Model Labora-tory, Smith went to Centre College where he took two film classes, a creative writing course and read a lot of books on script-writing. When he started writing his own scripts, he found it challenging.
“It was a rough transition. I found out its totally different from writing a novel or a short story,” Smith said. “Typically a script can’t be over 120 pages, which real-ly isn’t that much to work with. Also, vid-eo is a visual medium so you have to write action as it’s happening as well as the dia-logue. My first script draft was actually not good, because I never wrote one before and it was too long and it had too much dia-logue. You have to keep it quick so you can keep people’s interest.”
At Eastern, Smith said he became high-ly involved at Noel Studio for Academic Creativity in the university library. He said the people he met there would encourage him to find inspiration in everyday life.
“Just an idea will spark and I’ll jot it down or type it into my phone and then go home and try to expand on it,” Smith said.
Being a psychology major actually helps
him with the character development in his scripts, Smith said.
“I took this motivational personality class and we had to listen to this motiva-tional speaker off a CD for like an hour,” Smith said. “He was so into it and I kept thinking about how this guy could not pos-sibly be this happy all the time. It gave me the idea that he might be a psychopath or there is something really wrong with him, but that probably says more about me then him.”
Smith was having fun with his new hobby, but he didn’t know where to go from there or even if he was any good at scriptwriting. Then he found Stage 32. Ac-cording to the website, it’s the world’s larg-est social network and educational hub for film television and theater creatives.
“I found the Stage 32 Great Movie Idea Contest like all good things –through a Google search,” Smith said. “So I threw to-gether what my idea was and submitted it. I thought if they think it’s a good idea then I’ll write the script and if they hate it then I’ll know now.”
Evidently, the contest judges loved it because out of hundreds of contestants, Smith placed third and the judges offered to buy the script idea.
“You can just sell the idea to a compa-ny and they will hire professionals to write it and that would have been great because I would have got my name on a film some-where,” Smith said. “But I wouldn’t have got to write it and I wouldn’t have much say in what they would change.”
Smith turned down their offer to buy the script idea, and several professionals at Stage 32 worked with him on writing and pitching the script to agencies.
After Smith won the contest, his mom who works part-time in the College of Ed-ucation talked to Broadcasting and Film Associate Professor John Fitch on her son’s
behalf.“When I first saw his
work I was really im-pressed,” Fitch said. “He
needed more complexity in his plot, which would only come with experience, but he was writing on a level far above undergrad-uate and didn’t really need my screenwrit-ing class.”
Smith asked for an independent study and Fitch offered him a teaching assistant position in his Introduction to Screenwrit-ing class. Smith said Fitch has been an in-credible mentor and he wanted screen-writing to be a bigger part of his college experience.
“Having Mitch as a TA has been great because we approach writing from slight-ly different perspectives so I think its good for the students to see the different points of view even when we disagree slightly,” Fitch said.
Smith relied on Stage 32 and Fitch to help him shape his writing skills and prac-tice pitching his screenplay ideas. His advi-sors from Stage 32 set up Smith’s pitching sessions on the weekends via Skype.
“You have an executive staring at you and you have about eight minutes to say ‘here is my idea, do you like it,” Smith said. “And they can say, ‘yeah I like it’ or ‘no I hate you’ and shut off the computer. And they can stop you and say ‘hey so what else do you got?’ And then you have to be pre-pared to pitch something else.”
Smith said he currently has one script in circulation and several agencies have re-quested his script after hearing his pitch. The agencies are Creative Artists Agency, Circle of Confusion (produced The Walk-ing Dead), DMG Entertainment (produced Looper and Iron Man 3), Dimension Films (produced Scream and Sin City) and Bend-erspink (produced We’re the Millers). He said he should hear back from them either way anytime now.
“As with a lot of professions, success de-pends on a lot of hard work, some talent and luck,” Fitch said. “Mitch definitely has the talent and his work ethic is stellar. He is a beast when it comes to work. Now he just needs some luck. He needs that first screenplay to drop whether optioned, pur-chased or produced --even if by a small or independent company. Once he gets that I see his career taking off. I’m hoping that the cards play out for him in that way.”
Smith said his best advice for aspiring screenwriters out there is initiative.
“No one is going to watch out for your career like you will,” Smith said. “I had to go out there and make these appointments, make these pitches and talk to professors. You got to get out there and you got to re-ally want it.”
Traveling around the world today can be very costly and hard to visit all the places you want to see. The International Student Association (ISA) is bringing the world to Eastern with its 29th Annual In-ternational Banquet.
The banquet is Saturday, April 18 in the Keen Johnson Ballroom. Tickets are $15, which includes a buffet with various international dishes and performanc-es from Eastern’s own international stu-dents.
“The International banquet is a cele-bration of diversity through a showcase of a variety of cultural performances and dishes,” said Selin Kar, 27, business ad-ministration graduate student from Tur-key and President of ISA.
At the banquet, there will be a silent auction, interactive games and a photo booth to enjoy. After the banquet, there will be an after party with a live DJ.
Every year there are about 400 guests that attend this event to learn about dif-
ferent cultures around the world, Kar said. Everyone of all ages is welcomed to attend.
“With us, all (International students) are family so we are inviting the whole community for a family dinner,” Kar said.
ISA could not have continued this tra-dition without the support from Eastern, volunteers, local businesses and the com-munity. This dinner brings everyone to-gether.
“It connects Americans with Interna-tional communities through EKU,” said Gajana Porosjan, 25, business adminis-tration graduate student from Armenia and vice president of ISA.
International students are participat-ing more in the community, such as, hav-ing events at an elementary school, the University and the Homecoming parade.
Tickets are available at the Center for International Education office in Whit-lock 455. For more information, contact Selin Kar at (252) 529-0104.
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An hour before his 3 p.m. basketball practice was scheduled to start, Corey Walden transitioned from one interview to the next, answering questions about his game-winning layup just days before against High Point University in the second round of play in the CIT post-season tournament. With a smile constant-ly stamped across his face, Walden has a persona that could energize even the dullest of crowds.
Some know him simply as the Colonel star bas-ketball player, but those in the 6-foot-2 guard’s in-ner circle refer to him as “Waldo.” Either way, Walden is a student-athlete, a teammate, a family man and a friend that will walk away from Eastern after this se-mester as one of the best to ever play in the program’s history.
From 2015 First Team All-OVC, to two-time OVC Defensive Player of the Year, to 2014 OVC Tournament MVP, to Eastern single-season steals leader, to East-ern all-time steals leader, the list of accomplishments can go on and on. The accomplishment that Walden, a 22-year-old sports management major, is most proud of however, is one that his team can share together.
“I would have to say that the accomplishment that I’m most proud during my time on the court would be making it to the NCAA tournament with my team last year. Then it would have to be the steals record,” Walden said. “I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was happy about that one.”
When the Colonels won the 2014 OVC Tournament championship and Walden was named OVC Tourna-ment MVP, he shot 66 percent from the field and av-eraged 23.3 points, 3.7 steals, 3.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists after three tournament games in just three nights. His play during the conference tournament led Eastern to its first conference championship and first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2007.
In his last game against High Point, Walden moved into second place in OVC history for most steals in a single season with 97 steals. During that same game, he also moved into fifth place in OVC history for most career steals with 234 takeaways.
When Walden was just beginning high school, he said he starting realizing his basketball potential.
“Around my freshman year, I was out on the AAU circuit and I was able to put a couple of good games to-gether and I started to realize that I might have what it takes to play at the next level,” Walden said.
His road to stardom was not as easy as one might assume. Walden signed with Stetson University and started 24 games as a freshman before a break in his left foot derailed his first collegiate season. After a couple of academic issues during his freshman year of college, Walden transferred to Brevard Communi-ty College, but never played a game after breaking the same foot once again. It was at that time he met the Colonels’ former head coach Jeff Neubauer.
“We knew that Corey was going to be going to ju-nior college and we watched him at a junior college event in St. Louis and a junior college event in Florida.
It was good to be able to put eyes on him before junior college, especially with the fact that he didn’t end up playing in any games during junior college,” Neubau-er said.
Walden made his way to Eastern with three years of eligibility left, but his battles with injury were not quite behind him just yet.
“He really was hampered by several severe inju-ries [before Eastern],” Neubauer said. “But, what those turned into were minor injuries here at EKU. He missed a lot of practice, especially his first year here. He just plays so hard, and I think that’s the major rea-son he’s been banged up throughout his career.”
Walden has been able to overcome those injuries to recreate and define his own basketball legacy at East-ern. His relationship with Neubauer could be one of the key aspects to why that happened.
“It’s something special,” Walden said. “He’s differ-ent than any coach I’ve ever had. He’s very detailed and just a brilliant, smart guy. I learn something new about him everyday and it’s just been a great experi-ence.”
Neubauer had similarly kind words for his stand-out guard.
“He’s probably been the best basketball player here at EKU, in at least the last 30 years. He has done a lot of winning and helped our program win, but he’s also a really special young man.”
Injuries weren’t the only struggles Walden had to overcome. He also had to adjust to the differences be-tween Richmond and his hometown.
As a native of Ormond Beach, Florida, Walden said it took a while to become accustomed to the vastly different winter season while living further up north. Raised close to the sun and the sand, this year’s torren-tial snowfall in Richmond came as a shock to Walden.
“It’s been getting to me a little bit,” Walden joked. “I’m definitely not use to it, but it’s a new experience and I’m enjoying it.”
More so than missing the beach while he’s at school, Walden said he misses his family back in Fla.
“I wish they were able to come up a little bit more, but whenever they can come it’s really special.”
When Walden is not on the court working on his game, he enjoys hanging out with his teammates, es-pecially roommate and best friend Robbie Stenzel.
“We’re extremely close,” Stenzel said. “We kind of clicked when he came on his visit. He watched one of my workouts and then we talked afterwards and we could tell that we were going to be really good friends if he committed, and he did.”
As for Walden on the basketball court, Stenzel de-scribed him as simply “fast.”
“He’s a very good energy guy and a great leader. He’s just a lot of fun to play basketball with,” Stenzel said. “He’s one of the best players that I’ve ever played with.”
Walden said he enjoys doing most things that any other college student enjoys when he’s not play-ing basketball, such as bowling, video games and vis-iting the beach any chance he goes home. Walden is a self-proclaimed XBOX man and his favorite video game to play is Call of Duty.
As for something that people might not know about Walden, he has a bit of a musical talent.
“I’ve played both the trumpet and the drums,” Walden said. “When I was in elementary school I went to a private school and playing an instrument was part of it. I enjoyed it.”
After his time at Eastern is up, Walden looks for-ward to continuing his basketball career profession-ally.
“Hopefully I’ll be making some money playing bas-ketball,” Walden said. “If not, then I would like to pos-sibly get into a coaching role.”
Walden was invited to the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, an NBA camp April 8 through 11.
“In my 10 years here at EKU, we have not had a player who has been invited to Portsmouth,” Neubau-er said. “What that means is that he will get to go play in front of every NBA team in April. I don’t know what the future brings exactly, but Corey will certainly have opportunities to play for money.”
There is no doubt that Walden has a bright future ahead of himself no matter what. His impact both on and off the court will resonate with anyone and every-one who has had the chance to meet him.
“When I leave Eastern, the things that I will miss the most are my teammates, the fans and getting to play in this arena every game,” Walden said. “This whole experience has been awesome and it is definite-ly something that I will always remember and take with me.”
By EVAN [email protected]
Eastern All-Star looks back on journey as Colonel
Eastern’s baseball team dropped two games of a three-game series April 10 through 12 with Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Southern Illinois out-scored the Colonels 14-6 in the two series losses.
Game One: Eastern 3 vs. Southern Illinois 4
The Southern Illinois Cougars (12-16) scored a late run in the bottom of the ninth which proved to be the final margin over the Colonels, who went on to lose 3-4 in the series opener.
Junior Kyle Nowlin hit his 10th home run of the sea-son to move the Colonels ahead 1-0 in the first inning, with both teams trading runs throughout the game. The Cougars had a 2-1 lead until an RBI double by ju-nior Doug Teegarden in the fourth inning tied it at 2-2. Eastern regained the lead in the sixth on sophomore Ben Fisher’s solo home run. Southern Illinois tied the game three-all in the sixth, however, off an RBI single by freshman Dustin Woodcock.
The game was set to move to extra innings, but in the bottom of the ninth, Southern Illinois’ Nick Lombardo scored the winning run from third base after a pitching error by the Colonels.
Eastern senior Logan Hershenow had a strong per-formance, pitching a season-high eight innings and al-lowing only three runs. He also struck out three South-ern Illinois players and walked one.
Game Two: Eastern 6 vs. Southern Illinois 5
A Teegarden home run and a walk by senior Taylor Blair with the bases loaded in the seventh inning helped the Colonels earn a 6-5 win over Southern Illinois.
Down 4-3 in the top of the seventh, Teegarden tied the game with his second home run of the season. Lat-er in the inning, Blair’s walk with the bases loaded put them in the lead 5-4. Blair also added an RBI single in the ninth inning to put the Colonels ahead by two.
Senior Chase Green earned a run back for the Cou-gars with an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth, but Teegarden wrapped up the win for the Colonels on a
ground ball by sophomore Keaton Wright.
Game Three: Eastern 3 vs. Southern Illinois 10
The Colonels fell to the Cougars 10-3 in the final game of the series, dropping the overall series 2-1.
Teegarden helped put Eastern on the board in the second inning with a bases loaded walk that scored ju-nior Luke Wurzelbacher, tying the game one-all. Then, trailing 3-1 in the fourth, an RBI single by Teegarden scored sophomore Blake Sides, bringing the Colonels within one.
Southern Illinois put the game away in the bottom of the fourth, scoring five runs to extend its lead to 8-2. Two more runs in the seventh pushed the lead to 10-3.
Nowlin tallied his third home run of the series in the seventh inning. It was also his 12th overall this season. Nowlin finished the game 1-for-2 with three walks. Tee-garden finished 2-for-4 and had two RBIs.
Eastern (11-20) will host Morehead State University at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, at Turkey Hughes Field.
Eastern’s softball team racked in the home runs April 11 and 12 in a home se-ries against the Tennessee State Universi-ty Tigers. The Colonels went 3-for-3 in the weekend series after a double header Sat-urday and a single game Sunday.
Game One: Tenn. State 3 vs. Eastern 11
The Colonels started the home run madness in game one of Saturday’s dou-ble header where senior Katie Tackett and sophomore Krislyn Campos each knocked out home runs for Eastern.
The first run of the game came in the first inning thanks to Tackett’s two-run homer while freshman Johnkyria Alston
scored senior Shannon McQueen with an RBI double in the second inning. In that same inning Campos added another two-run homer to put the Colonels ahead 5-1.
Eastern kept up its hard hitting and put two more runs on the board in the third and fifth inning. The Tigers (9-28, 2-14 OVC) came within three in the fifth in-ning, but Tackett recorded a three-run homer in the sixth inning to put the game out of Tennessee State’s reach in the 11-3 victory.
Game Two: Tenn. State 3 vs. Eastern 8
The Tigers led 3-2 in the fifth inning of the double header’s second game, but that fifth inning was the high light inning for the Colonels.
Eastern jumped ahead with six runs
in the inning, following two runs in the third inning. Freshman Paige Murphy and junior Sarah Fobbs each had a home run in the inning while Campos pitched in with a two-RBI triple. Four more Col-onels made a hit in the inning to take the 8-3 win.
Game Three: Tenn. State 1 vs. Eastern 2
Sunday’s final game of the series dished out a slow start for both teams, as the first run wasn’t scored until the fifth inning.
Tackett got the ball rolling in the in-ning with a two-out RBI single to put the first run on the board. The Tigers tied the game with a solo homer in the seventh in-ning for a one-all ball game. Tension was high in the eighth inning with a tied game and two outs when it came time for the
Colonels to bat. McQueen made her way to first base after being hit by a pitch then stole second soon after, putting her in scoring position.
Tackett earned the OVC Softball Play-er of the Week for her efforts in the series.
Alston stepped up to the plate then and easily scored McQueen with a two-out RBI single for the 2-1 victory.
Senior Leanna Pittsenbarger and ju-nior Hayley Flynn held up the defensive end as Pittsenbarger struck out nine Ti-gers in the first six innings and Flynn closed the final 1.2 innings to earn the win.
The Colonels (18-22, 7-6 OVC) hit the road April 18 and 19 with a set of dou-ble headers against the University of Ten-nessee at Martin and Southeast Missouri State University.
By TYLER [email protected]
By ASHLEY [email protected]
Baseball drops series after late Southern Illinois run
Home runs give softball advantage in series sweep
PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE FOHL PHOTO COURTESY OF JAREN WILKEY
LEFT: Senior Corey Walden (2) finished as a Colonel in fifth place for most career steals in the OVC with 234 steals.
RIGHT: Senior Corey Walden (2) is also the second in OVC history for most steals in a single season with 97 steals.
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After taking its last two matches of the regular sea-son, Eastern’s men’s tennis team earned the OVC regu-lar season title with just one loss in the conference. The Colonels traveled to Illinois April 10 and took on the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougars be-fore moving April 11 to the Eastern Illinois University Panthers.
Eastern 4 Southern Illinois 3
The match against the Cougars (8-12, 3-6 OVC) was a close one with a 4-3 score, but Eastern started the match by winning the opening doubles point.
Freshman Ramon van Flymen, senior Daridge Saidi and sophomore Sebastian Mueller each earned a point for the Colonels in singles play. Flymen competed in No. 2 singles for a 7-5, 6-4 win while Saidi (No. 3) also won his match in straight sets. Mueller pulled through at No. 4 singles with a 7-6 (6), 6-4 win.
No. 5 singles was played with a super tiebreaker and No. 6 singles played as an eight-game pro set after the team outcome was already certain.
Eastern 6 Eastern Illinois 1
The Colonels lone loss against the Panthers (4-15, 3-6 OVC) was at No. 3 singles. Four Colonels won sin-gles play in straight sets.
Junior Alex Álvaro won his No. 1 feat 3-6, 6-3, (11-9) while Flymen brought in a 7-6 (0), 7-6 (4) win at No. 2. Muller (No. 4), sophomore Diogo Soares (No. 5) and se-nior Juanjo de la Llera (No. 6) also won in straight sets. Mueller earned the OVC Tennis Player of the Week for his efforts.
The Colonels ended its regular season with a record of 16-7 and 8-1 in the conference and are the No. 1 seed for the OVC Tournament. Eastern will play in the semi-finals April 18 against either No. 4 Jacksonville State University or No. 5 Belmont University in Nashville.
Eastern’s women’s tennis team brought home a final regular season victory April 11 after taking on the East-ern Illinois University Panthers. With the win, the Col-onels also earned a share of the OVC regular season ti-tle.
Eastern was also in Illinois on April 10 for a victo-ry against the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougars to end the regular season with a 14-7 record and 9-1 record in OVC play.
Eastern 4 Southern Illinois 3
The Colonels close 4-3 victory started out seem-ingly shaky as Eastern fell behind the Cougars (11-10, 7-3 OVC) by three. Senior Amandine Faouzi sparked a comeback, however, with her No. 1 singles victory.
Faouzi was behind in the third set but fought back in a tiebreaker to win Eastern’s first point. Fellow seniors Marcela Jimenez (No. 4) and Melissa Gerritsen (No. 5) won back-to-back in straight sets to tie the overall match three-all.
Freshman Raquel Montalvo pulled through in No. 6 singles in straight sets as well to give the Colonels the fi-nal and winning point.
Eastern 5 Eastern Illinois 2
The Colonels won four of the six singles matches in straight sets in the 5-2 win against the Panthers (12-6, 7-3 OVC).
Eastern started the match off on a positive note with the doubles point before also dominating in singles play. Faouzi won her sixth consecutive singles match at No. 1 singles and was named OVC Tennis Player of the Week. Fellow senior Kristina Labeja only dropped one game in No. 2 singles for a 6-0, 6-1 victory.
Gerritsen (No. 4) and Montalvo (No. 5) each won their matches in straight sets as well. Montalvo’s win put her at a five-match winning streak.
After the final regular season win, the Colonels now enter the OVC Tournament in the No. 2 seed. Eastern will play in the semifinals April 18 against either No. 3 Morehead State University or No. 6 University of Ten-nessee at Martin in Nashville.
By ASHLEY [email protected]
Men’s tennis snatches No. 1 seed in OVC
Women’s tennis team finishes regular season at No. 2 seed
Senior Amandine Faouzi leads Eastern’s women’s tennis team with 25 overall singles wins during the regular season.
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By ASHLEY [email protected]
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Sophomore Sebastian Mueller earned the OVC Tennis Player of the Week after wins April 10 against Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and April 11 against Eastern Illinois University. The German native has won seven singles matches in OVC play.
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Trash Fashion may seem like an oxymoron, but this fashion show is a staple for Recycle Mania at Eastern. Lights flashed Thursday, April 9, in the Keen Johnson Ballroom as participants of the Trash-Fash15 fashion show made their way down the runway.
Organized by the Of-fice of Sustainability at Eastern, this event was a joint effort between stu-dents and faculty. Both groups used upcycled or recycled materials such as plastic bags and old clothing in creating new, unique clothing or acces-sory items. Models strut-ted down the runway in outfits made from a vari-ety of recycled materials including chicken wire, Capri Sun pouches, plas-tic tablecloths and even an old trashcan.
Designers ranged from apparel design and mer-chandising students, members of the Green Crew and art and design students. Some design-
ers chose classic methods such as sewing while oth-ers decided to break the mold (literally) by using paper-mache from recy-cled newspapers.
The designs were judged in several differ-ent categories: I’d To-tally Wear That, Most Outrageous, Best Use of Recycled/Upcycled Mate-rials, Judges Choice-Most Regal and Best in Show. Moderators also awarded a Crowd Favorite by allow-ing representatives from the Office of Student Life to measure applause lev-els. A dress that was com-pletely made from recy-cled ties and buttons won the award.
“I tried to take some-thing that wasn’t useful anymore and turn it into something both useful and beautiful,” said An-gela Lauer, 19, an apparel design and merchandising sophomore who was a de-signer in the fashion show.
Her dress made from black plastic tablecloths, a lace-and-clear plastic ta-blecloth and a zipper won the award I’d Totally Wear That.
Judges for the event included Michael Rich-ardson a representative from Habitat ReStore, SGA President-elect Ka-
tie Scott, past participants from the event and Russell Carpenter, director of the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity.
Nearly every chair was filled in the Keen Johnson Ballroom for this event.
“It makes you want to be innovative,” said Sa-mantha Styer, 19, an ath-letic training sophomore from Alexandria, Ken-tucky.
Despite its great sup-port, some students felt that the message to “Re-duce, Reuse, and Recycle” was not clearly put across.
“It was really interest-ing to see all of the outfits and what they were made of, but I don’t think they talked about why they did it enough,” said Alys-sa Davis, 20, junior ath-letic training major from Union.
TrashFash continues to garner attention from a growing audience and continues to gain support from several groups on campus.
“I hope to see you all at the four-annual Trash-Fash,” said Melissa Van-denberg, organizer of the event and assistant profes-sor of art and design. “Join us on or off the runway.”
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An art and design student showcased a beaded crop top made from a sports bra at TrashFash.
One student used pages from a book to make a skirt, while another student used a plastic orange netting as a fasion accessory.