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DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSFirefighters from the Lincoln Fire Protection District spray water into the damaged garage at 12 Kickapoo Place, Charleston, Ill., after the fire was extinguished Sunday. Two residents and their four dogs were in the house when the fire started and all were able to exit safely.

Ryan Siegel, the campus energy and sustainability coordinator, has made saving the university money and re-

sources his job. In his first four years of promoting and

meticulously planning energy and money-saving projects he saved the University an average of $50,000 a year.

What is really impressive about his first four years of money saving at Eastern is that they came when he still an Eastern student.

Because of his continued commitment to energy conservation, his role in the nation-

ally-renowned Renewable Energy Center and the advancement of the environment that the staff of The Daily Eastern News named Siegel the Person of the Year.

Collegiate Contributions Siegel’s first contribution started as an

unsolicited project proposal he wrote when he was an 18-year-old freshman during the 2002-2003 academic year.

He wrote a plan to replace the lights in the exit signs around campus with LED lights. Siegel calculated the investment in

the lights would pay itself back in one year, a plan made all the more beneficial by the new bulbs’ one-year warranty and 20-year lifespan.

The proposal found its way into the hands of the then-director of utilities, last year’s The Daily Eastern News Person of the Year, Gary Reed, who told him to go out and see what else he could find in the way of energy saving.

Siegel’s impact on university utilities would quickly expand beyond exit sign lights. SIEGEL, page 5

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DOUG T. GR AHAM | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRyan Siegel, Eastern’s campus energy and sustainability coordinator, stands besides the Renewable Energy Center. Siegel was named the 2011-2012 Daily Eastern News Person of the Year because of his contributions to the energy center, campus energy and resource efficiency.

BY DOUG T. GRAHAM | ONLINE EDITOR

Siegel honored for work on Renewable Energy Center

By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

Carol Miller came to work at Eastern on Aug. 19, 1975. After 37 years of serving students, she will leave today.

“I will try to leave with a smile on my face and keep in mind the accomplishments that have been made,” said Miller, the deputy direc-tor of the Textbook Rental Service.

Each semester, thousands of students see Miller’s welcoming smile and hear the remnants of her Mississippi accent as she makes sure the textbook rental process runs smoothly.

Miller is originally from Westfield, Ill., and has also spent time in Mississippi, New York and West Virginia.

She recalled her first days at Eastern during fall textbook distribution when she had no prior experience or training.

“I can remember some of the first words of the director at that time—‘Just acknowledge that you heard me!’—I was a little intimidat-ed but, as many can tell you, I have gotten over that part,” Miller said.

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Not only are graduating seniors preparing for their last days on Eastern’s campus, but are prepar-ing to walk at the 2012 commencement on Sat-urday.

Michelle Payne, director the annual fund and commencement, said the commencement ceremo-nies are on Saturday, May 5 in Lantz Arena and are separated by colleges.

The College of Sciences ceremony is at 9 a.m., College of Arts & Humanities & School of Con-tinuing Education is at noon, College of Educa-tion & Professional Studies is at 3 p.m. and the Lumpkin College of Business & Business & Ap-plied Sciences is at 6 p.m.

All students are encouraged to arrive one hour prior to the ceremony in the Fieldhouse of Lantz Arena.

Payne said the colleges are separated in order to accommodate the volume of graduates and their guests.

“By expanding to four ceremonies we are able to offer our graduates more tickets for their fam-ilies and guests,” Payne said. “This is a day of cel-ebration and we want our graduates to be able to share it with as many people as possible.”

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Firefighters respond to house fire

Carol Miller of Textbook Rental will retire after 37 years

Graduationscheduledfor Saturday

By Samantha Bilharz Managing Editor

Firefighters were called to the scene of a house fire on Sunday afternoon.

The fire started around 3:24 p.m. in the garage of a house at 12 Kicka-poo Place in Charleston.

Kristen Elsila, a resident of 12 Kickapoo Place, was in the one sto-ry house with her husband at the time of the fire and said she heard a loud boom and exited the house shortly af-ter.

“We heard crackling and a loud boom. We saw orange flames and then we got out,” Elsila said.

Rob Ratliff, a fire chief for the Lin-coln Fire Protection Department, said a family of six and their four dogs live in the house. Only two residents and the four dogs were in the house at the time of the fire.

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By Robyn Dexter Campus Editor

Members of Weller Hall and the Eastern community sport-ed “We Love PeeWee” T-shirts to honor retiring building service worker Leland ‘PeeWee’ Bough at a surprise commemoration Satur-day afternoon.

After being a BSW for 15 years, Bough is retiring from Eastern.

Members of the Weller commu-nity surprised Bough with a stone plaque that will be permanently displayed in front of Weller Hall in the garden.

“I’m totally speechless,” Bough said. “I really don’t want to retire, but I have to.”

Bough said his relationships with the residents are what have made his job special.

“The relationships I’ve had over the years have just been fantas-tic,” he said. “If you are friendly with people and smile, it’s amaz-

ing what it will bring.”Mark Hudson, the director of

University Housing and Dining Services, was present at the pre-sentation and said he was thrilled at the chance to help honor Bough.

“It’s quite evident that these residents of Weller Hall love Pee-Wee,” Hudson said.

Students displayed their love for Bough by wearing T-shirts reading “We Love PeeWee.”

The sale of the T-shirts helped fund the stone plaque.

“PeeWee does a great job as a BSW, but what he really does is takes care of the residents,” Hud-son said. “That’s what makes East-ern a special place is because of re-lationships, and there is no better example of that than PeeWee.”

After the surprise presentation to Bough, community members took part in a cookout and picnic, while interacting with PeeWee and other “Dwellers.”

Alex Schmelzer, a sophomore biology major and a resident of Weller Hall, said Bough deserved the recognition he got.

“I’m really glad we all got to-gether and could raise enough

money so we could do this for PeeWee,” Schmelzer said. “He’s a really great man around here.”

Elizabeth Dupuis, a junior fam-ily and consumer science major and Weller Hall resident, said she thought PeeWee was happy with the turnout for the presentation.

“I think PeeWee is pretty much the greatest person ever,” she said. “He deserved this and probably ten times more, but this is what we could do and I think he loved it.”

The fundraising, picnic and presentation to honor Bough was organized by Allen Spargur, a Weller Hall Resident Assistant.

“When I first came up with the idea that we needed to do some-thing for PeeWee, I brought it to the hall and everybody jumped on board right away,” he said. “Every-one came together and worked re-

ally hard, and it’s all come down to this great event.”

Janae Bonner, a Weller Hall res-ident assistant, said she had been excited for the celebration for Bough and was impressed with the turnout.

“PeeWee has done a remarkable job and he has gone over and be-yond for our residents,” she said. “He’s put so much into the hall.”

Bonner said Bough has done things like provide snacks for the residents around finals time and is always there for residents to talk to.

“He’s the most welcoming BSW I have ever met, and he plays the role of so much more,” Bonner said.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

or redexter@eiu.edu.

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MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSAllen Spargur, a junior career and technical education major, and Max Van Byssum, a senior biology major, present Leland “PeeWee” Bough with a stone plaque for his 15 years of service as a Weller Hall BSW.

Commemoration honors retiring BSW“If you are friendly with people and smile, it’s amazing what it will bring.” Leland 'PeeWee' Bough

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By Ashleigh Owens Staff Reporter

Cultures merged musically on the Dvorak stage with performance col-laborations by Eastern’s percussion and choral ensemble.

The Multicultural Concert took place on Friday in the Dvorak Con-cert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The concert gave performers the opportunity to showcase their mu-sical talents by using vocals and in-struments to enact that of music from different cultures.

Jamie Ryan, a music professor and the director of the EIU Per-cussion Ensemble, said the materi-al was based on Afro-Cuban music that students have been practicing all year while including snippets in other past performances.

Ryan said the music is dance-able and students enjoyed preparing themselves for the performance thus realizing how vigorous the piec-es were to learn compared to oth-ers they’ve worked on from the past.

“For me, it was a really fun con-cert to look forward to,” Ryan said.

During the concert, Ryan assisted Janet McCumber, a music profes-sor and conductor of the Universi-ty Mixed Chorus, who worked with choir ensembles that performed music by American, Brazilian, Ca-nadian and Czech composers.

“It's always fun to hear the per-cussion ensemble because I don't get to experience many instrumen-tal events during the year,” Mc-Cumber said. “They are so talented and do such a great job. It's really a treat to get to perform with them.”

She said it was not easy to do the Multicultural Concert so soon af-ter performing another, “Journey Through Time,” just recently be-cause of the amount of work put into them during the same time.

Isaly Ferguson, a sophomore psy-chology major, recalled her favorite part of the performance in which the percussion and choral ensem-bles collaborated on a Brazilian-composed piece “Très Cantos Na-tivos dos Indios Kraò” by Marcos Leite while making sounds resem-bling that of a rainstorm.

“It was exciting when the Uni-versity Mixed Choir and Con-cert Choir combined to perform the Brazilian song because it real-ly showed the cultural roots,” Fer-guson said.

This is McCumber’s last concert with Eastern for she will be attend-ing University of Illinois- Urbana/Champaign to finish receiving her doctorate.

McCumber said she plans to con-tinue her studies in conducting and choral literature but also exploring research and writing on early music.

“It’s so hard to say goodbye to ev-eryone and I will be eternally grate-ful to everyone I’ve encountered here for my experiences over the past five years,” McCumber said.

Ashleigh Owens can

be reached at 581-2812 or aeowens@eiu.edu.

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Cultures mix with musicians

By Kate Neeves Staff Reporter

A sculpture of rocks that are mov-ing around campus are not a part of some spiritual trick, but are a part of a campus wide competition called “Name that Sculpture.”

The boulders are artificial and painted bright pink with a base of neon green.

Jaclyn Mednicov, a graduate art student, said the sculpture was orig-inally designed to be displayed out-side on 7th Street with other art piec-es, but after about a week outside the sculpture was damaged.

The piece was brought inside and

repaired by Jeff Boshart, a professor of art, and Mike Schuetz, the assistant director of the Tarble Arts Center.

Mednicov said Boshart suggested the sculpture be moved to various lo-cations throughout campus.

After deciding to move the sculp-tures indoors, they decided to would be fun to create a contest of mov-ing the piece and reward a winner for finding and naming it, Mednicov said.

“It’s a way to gain attention for the Summer Sculpture Residency Pro-gram and the art itself,” Mednicov said.

The Summer Sculpture program is a program at Eastern that offers sculp-

ture students the opportunity to de-sign, construct and display a large-scale sculpture.

Mednicov said the pink rocks and green base are more than just an eye-catching piece to look at there is a meaning behind the sculpture.

Mednicov said this has caused a lot of attention when the piece is moved.

Although, Mednicov said sad-ly there had been little interest in the contest.

The artist behind the sculpture is Kathryn J. Armstrong who currently lives in Indianapolis.

The hint for naming the sculpture is: “I am big and strong, and rhyme with ‘older’ although I am quite

young.”No other plans to continue to run

the scavenger hunt with other sculp-tures this year have been decided on, Mednicov said.

Mednicov said it would be fun to keep this type of event going in the future.

Students are encouraged to find the sculpture, take a picture of it and dis-cover its name then submit that in-formation in an email to Jaclyn Med-nicov at jmednicov@eiu.edu.

The winner will receive a $20 Pan-ther gift card.

Kate Neeves can be reached 581-2812

or kmneeves@eiu.edu.

Moving rocks no trick; finding them is

By Jaida Moore Staff Reporter

The Booth Library awarded five students for their excellence and creativity in research.

The winners were both graduate and undergraduate students, and the reception for the honorees was April 11 in Booth Library.

Allen Lanham, the dean of Li-brary Services, said the program has been going on for three years.

The graduate students were Phil-ip Mohr, Ashley McHugh and Aya-ka Hisanaga.

The undergraduate students were Elizabeth Surbeck, a senior Eng-lish major; Emily Schumacher, a health studies major; Terri Strong, a library services major; and Han-na McHugh, a health studies major.

“It was wonderful to be able to share a brief glimpse into my pa-per and to hear about the fascinat-ing work of my fellow students from other disciplines,” Mohr said.

Surbeck said they were able to give others insight into their re-search at the banquet.

“It was a small group, but it was fun and I was very intrigued by each other’s projects,” Surbeck said. “It was cool being able to learn from each other.”

Mohr received the award for his essay titled “Housing E.I.’s G.I.s and Married Students: The Story of Trailers, Barracks and Apartments at Eastern Illinois University.”

Mohr said he began researching his topic in February and the library helped him locate a lot of records.

Mohr’s paper was an expansion on a research he turned in for a pre-vious class.

“Nothing pleases a committed student more than recognition of a long project,” Mohr said.

McHugh’s project was t i t led "King's Theatre Queens: Three Suc-cessful Women in the Early Classi-cal Era."

Hisanaga’s essay was titled "The Relationship Between Dialectical Self and Hedonic, Eudaemonic and Social Well-Being." While Surbeck’s essay was titled "Comics for Chil-dren?"

Schumacher received the award for her paper t i t led "Drinking Games Among College Students,” and Strong wrote "A Dark Place of the Earth: London and the Roots of Urban Gothic."

Hanna McHugh, who received an honorable mention, wrote, "Clean Water in Haiti."

“I was honored and felt very priv-ileged that my work had been select-ed,” Schumacher said.

Each of the students used re-sources within Booth Library for their projects.

The award is open to students of all majors, and the entry can come in a variety of forms. The entries could be written, artistic, musical, digital and other works.

Jaida Moore can be reached at 581-2812

or jamoore2@eiu.edu.

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K ATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Jamie Ryan, the director of Eastern's Percussion Ensemble, plays the drums with students during the Multicultural Concert on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Concert celebrates ethnic sounds with voices, instruments

By Kathryn Richter City Editor

The Charleston City Council will appropriate approximately $6,000 for materials during Tuesday’s meeting in order to complete tasks for the Mo-tor Fuel Tax Funds Street Maintenance project.

Mayor John Inyart said the extra money will go toward work around the Charleston Square, local parks and streets in the square area.

The project has been ongoing, with a budget of almost $581,000.

Inyart said the $6,000 increase is necessary because of minor projects that

were not originally in the contract, but proved to be necessary once the project went underway.

These projects include additional pieces of sidewalk that will be replaced, as well as additional driveways, among other items, Inyart said

Inyart said the city council also plans on appropriating $150,000 for the an-nual resurfacing of selected roads in town, as well as annual concrete patch-ing of roads in town.

During the Tuesday meeting, the city council also plans on executing an agreement with the city of Taylorville for the utilization of ambulance billing software and procedures.

Inyart said the city of Charleston used to hire a company to provide bill-ing and collecting services for ambu-lance use, however Inyart said the city has since taken over this responsibility. The city’s way of billing and collecting those who have used the city’s ambu-lances is more effective, Inyart said

An ordinance will also come before city council on Tuesday, that will abol-ish the term limits for those serving on the Historical Preservation Coalition. The former term limit was two terms of three years a piece.

A resolution will also be presented before city council that will allow street closures from the first Wednesday in

June through the last Saturday of Oc-tober.

The street closure will be for the An-nual Farmer’s Market that will take place in the Charleston Square.

The Farmer’s Market will cause street closures at on Sixth Street between Monroe Avenue and Jackson Avenue, as well as Monroe Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street.

The streets will be closed every Wednesday and Saturday for the Annu-al Farmer’s Market.

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812

or kjrichter@eiu.edu.

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Secretary: Mr. Jefferson, the Lord will see you now.

Thomas Jefferson: Splendid, I suppose. So just—

Sec: Second door on the left.God: Tom! Good to...can I call you Tom?TJ: Sure. I mean, it’s your party, right?G: Yes, yes. Indeed it is...TJ: I’m a little surprised you have an office.G: I can’t seem to get any work done out there.

Everywhere I go, people gather and worship. I can’t hear myself think, what with all the praising. “Thanks,” I tell them, “but you’ve already made it to Heaven. You can relax now.”

TJ: I see. May I ask, if you don’t mind terribly, why I’m here?

G: In Heaven, or in my office?TJ: Both, I guess.G: Not long after our Grand Opening, it be-

came quite clear to me that my guest list was, how shall I say, lacking in character? There are quite a few sadists and masochists, but that’s to be expected. The real drag are your everyday pi-ous folk. You probably noticed an abundance of sweater vests adorned by my flock.

TJ: I wasn’t going to mention it, but yes, I did.G: Hideous things. I tell them they can wear

anything they want. They ask if I’ve got any sweater vests in pastels. Oh, and they ask for brid-al gowns, which is super awkward, because I’m supposed to be the husband. I mentioned some-thing about them being the bride of Christ once, as you well know. Weird, the things they latched onto. It’s pretty clear to me, as I re-read it, that “wife” is clearly among the least desirable roles in the Bible.

TJ: Certainly so. But...G: Right, sorry, I rarely get to vent. Anyway,

I desired more entertaining company, folks who might challenge me—at least play Devil’s ad-vocate. I called Satan, who said he can advocate for himself, thank you—he can be touchy—but would send non-believers my way every once in a while. Whence comes Tom.

TJ: Well, I’m honored.G: As well you should be. Now, I called you

to my office because I got a chance to read your

book...or, rather, your edits to my book. “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.”

TJ: Ah, good. G: Let me make sure I’ve got this right: You

took the New Testament, literally cut out, with scissors, anything and everything supernatural or contradictory, then pasted the remaining parts to-gether, sans my miracles?

TJ: Yup. What did you think?G: My first thought was that you’d be exiled

from modern America, not elected to lead it.TJ: Ha, I know, right?G: My second was, “Damn. That’s a much

better book than mine.” It’s downright moral and good. It’s the book I’d write today, if I could. I wrote mine when I was young and impulsive, you understand.

TJ: I know how it feels to write things you’re not entirely proud of. Want to see contradiction? Read the Declaration of Independence and any-thing I wrote about slavery.

G: Remember who you’re talking to, Tom. Nothing did more for the cause of slavery than my books. So, listen. I called you in here because I want to reintroduce myself to the world. I’m losing credibility and influence. I want to write moral screeds, get rid of the stonings and whole-sale slaughter. Lose the flood, the creation myth, the plagues, the whole lot, including Lot.

TJ: Jeez, God. I truly am honored that you read and liked my edits. But...I just...I’m not the man for the job.

G: Why not? You’ve used the term “Creator” in your most influential writing. You recognized the value of my work in your Jefferson Bible.

TJ: I was a Deist, ‘tis true, in that I believed in the laws of nature. Before Darwin, or modern

physics, that was about as close to “atheist” as one could get. But I was never an advocate of yours, and I can’t see being one now. Surely, as I sit in your presence, I find it rather difficult to deny your existence. But your existence concerns me much less than your influence.

G: How so? And could you answer my ques-tions using things you wrote while you were alive?

TJ: Sure. My opinion is that there would nev-er have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there. (To Mrs. Samu-el Smith, 8/6/1816.) History, I believe, furnish-es no example of a priest-ridden people maintain-ing a free civil government. This marks the low-est grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. (To Alexander von Humbolt, 12/6/1813.) In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. (To Horatio Spafford, 3/17/1814.)

G: OK, I get that you don’t dig priests. We can downplay the clergy. But You’ll help me advance the faith, right?

TJ: Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. (To James Smith, 1882.) The general spread of the light of science has al-ready laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few boot-ed and spurred, ready to ride them legitimate-ly, by the grace of God. (To Roger Weightman, 6/24/1826. The last letter Jefferson wrote before his death on July 4 of that year.)

G: Can I at least get a blurb?TJ: I’d really rather not.

Dave Balson is a senior journalism major.

He can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com.

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DEN exclusive: God asks Thomas Jefferson for a favor

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The largest Renewable Energy Center in the country fired up for the first time last May. It wasn’t in an economic center like New York City, or in a haven for invention like California’s Silicon Valley. It was in Charleston.

The $80 million Eastern invested in the cen-ter will pay itself back over in 20 years. It would not have been possible without creative, open-minded people who were willing and brave enough to look past the conventional answer for campus energy.

This isn’t only a major accomplishment of East-ern’s (as it would be for any university in the coun-try), it is also a testament to the outstanding people who dedicate themselves to pushing Eastern ahead of the pack.

These are the type of people we like to choose for Person of the Year each Spring. We strive to choose someone who’s accomplished things that the rest of the campus community can learn from and be proud of.

No one person at Eastern can be credited for the creation of the Renewable Energy Center. The proj-ect was the result of many factors, including a stu-dent letter-writing campaign and the open-mind-edness of many university employees and adminis-trators. They were willing to try something no oth-er American university had done before: provide power solely through renewable energy.

Ryan Siegel, our Person of the Year, has done more to save the university money by implement-ing energy-saving initiatives. Most of our read-ers probably haven’t even heard of Siegel. He is an innovator who asks for little recognition from the people he serves and keeps Eastern at a humble forefront in the world at large. But he more than deserves whatever recognition we grant in these pages.

This is not the first energy-saving project Siegel has been responsible for. As we mention on Page One of today’s issue, he started saving the universi-ty money back as an 18-year-old student when he wrote a proposal to replace the bulbs in university exit signs with a greener alternative.

When it came time to replace Eastern’s now defunct energy source, the coal plant by Blair Hall, Siegel and others looked past the obvious solutions. Instead of devising plans for a new coal plant they took a longer, less conventional route. They built a facility that instead derives power from clean, organic fuel such as woodchips. The fuel gener-ates heat through chemical reactions, which creates steam for Eastern’s heating and cooling needs.

Finding clean ways to support ourselves, such as the one described above, should be a priority for our generation. This is a problem we are going to have to deal with. We cannot afford to keep poi-soning our environment and burning up dwindling resources. We have to find alternatives in order to continue our existence. This is more our problem than anyone else’s and we cannot ignore it.

Normally it would be unreasonable to assume anyone was going to solve this for us. The fact that our university, our home, is lending us a helping hand and taking the first steps on a route we so des-perately need to be on, deserves our highest praise. Eastern’s blue has become a shade greener and we owe Siegel a debt of gratitude for that.

Atheist speaker portrays Christianity inaccuratelyI finished reading the article in The Dai-

ly Eastern News on Friday, April 20, 2012, titled “A Night of Reason: Society presents guest speakers,” and I felt like there was another side of the story that was not pre-sented.

I did not go to the showing, so every-thing here is from the article.

1) There are more than 2 billion “Chris-tians” in the world, but that does not mean that they follow Christ; they just as-sociate themselves with it.

2) Christianity is not gullible. It is actu-

ally very tough to accept and truly follow. Jesus said in Matthew 10:39, “Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”

3.) The Bible has not been “proven wrong on damn near everything.” For Ex-ample, look at the fall of Jerusalem and the excavations of Jericho; these have all been proven true. Also, there is no way that science can prove that the Bible is correct, or even wrong, because there are things so abnormal to humans, things like miracles, virgin birth, and the resurrec-

tion; therefore, no one can say that the Bi-ble is wrong because it really comes down to opinion and faith.

4.) Finally, I agree with Aron Ra when he talks about encouraging others to read the Bible. There is “horror and evil” in the Bible, but there is another side of the story stated in the Bible.

Joe Calio is a freshman

mathematics and computer sciences major

The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.

The DAILYEASTERN NEWS

EDITORIAL BOARD

“Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.”

Editor in ChiefShelley Holmgren

Managing Editor Samantha Bilharz

Online EditorDoug T. Graham

News Editor Elizabeth Edwards

Associate News EditorNike Ogunbodede

Opinions Editor Dave Balson

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SUBMIT TED PHOTOCarol Miller, left, deputy director of Textbook Rental Service, stands with Eastern President Bill Perry Oct. 7, 2011, at the grand opening of the Louis M. Grado textbook rental building. Miller is retiring after 37 years at Eastern.

DIRECTOR, from page 1

One of the most fulfilling aspects of her time at Eastern is being thanked by former students whom she has written hundreds of letters of recommendation and references for, she said.

“Just to see these ‘kids’ graduate, ap-ply for employment or higher educa-tion, be hired or accepted, and go on to succeed fills me with great pride,” Miller said. “I like to think that I have had just a little to do with it.”

In 1995, Miller was nominated for Boss of the Year, and she said she values the family atmosphere she has with her colleagues in the department.

“I have been fortunate to work with an internal staff that is second to none,” she said.

President Bill Perry said he first met Miller during the summer of 2007 when he first came to Eastern.

At that time, the Textbook Rental Service was located at Pemberton Hall.

He recalled standing in line with stu-dents under the shade of the awning on move-in day and spoke to them about what they thought of the process.

“I saw her answering some of a stu-dent’s questions, and she was very caring,

helpful and considerate, and those are the personal qualities that immediately come to my mind,” he said.

Miller also played an integral part in the transition to a new textbook rental facility, Perry said.

She said she has always kept the Text-book Rental Service’s focus on the stu-dents with what improvements can be made.

“We went from a manual, paper and pencil, extremely laborious process, rid-dled with uncontrollable flaws, student lines, affected by weather conditions, etc. to a home grown, specialized, state-of-the-art, radio frequency identification system that addresses literally all of the problematic issues we worked to over-come in our previous location and with our antiquated system,” Miller said.

“When people like Carol are with the university that long, they really become a part of the social fabric of the universi-ty,” Perry said. “It is impossible to replace that experience. You can find a successor but can never replace them.”

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812 or rjrodgers@eiu.edu.

GRADUATION, from page 1

SIEGEL, from page 1

Tickets for commencement can be picked up from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in the Arcola/Tuscola Room in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.

While caps and gowns can be picked up in the Charleston/Mattoon Room at the same times and dates of ticket distri-bution.

“The number of tickets given is based on the number of students who have applied to graduate at that ceremony,” Payne said. “The number of tickets giv-en per ceremony is based on the capac-ity of Lantz Arena. We take the capac-ity and divide it by the number of stu-

dents who have applied to graduate at each ceremony to determine ticket dis-tribution amounts.”

For the College of Sciences ceremony and the College of Arts & Humanities & School of Continuing Education cer-emony will have up to eight tickets given per graduate. While the College of Ed-ucation & Professional Studies and the Lumpkin College of Business & Applied Sciences ceremony will have up to seven tickets given per graduate.

After the commencement, students should return their cap and gown in bins provided in the Student Recreation Cen-ter following the ceremony, Payne said.

As a student worker for Facilities, Planning and Management, Siegel wrote a grant proposal, which gave the university a $46,000 check from the Il-linois Clean Energy Community Grant Foundation.

Siegel said it was very satisfying to have the lengthy proposal process result in a success.

“We actually got a picture of Gary (Reed) and myself holding the check,” Siegel said.

Perhaps his largest project as a stu-dent was when his plan to replace the lights in the University Ballroom with compact fluorescent lights was executed.

In addition to saving the Universi-ty around $2,000 a year in utility costs, the new lights had an aesthetic benefit as well.

“The Union came back and even said ‘Wow, it’s even brighter in here than it had been,’” he said.

The Renewable Energy CenterSoon after graduating, Siegel was

offered to continue his energy-saving work as a full-time employee.

Since his hiring, Siegel has been be-hind many projects that have resulted in a 30 percent cut in energy consumption and a more than 50 percent cut in water consumption.

Siegel said the $100 million in util-ity conservation measures Eastern has funded will have a payback of 20 years or less.

“I give credit to the University’s Ad-ministration for recognizing that ener-gy conservation is not only important, it saves money and we can even create jobs from it,” Siegel said. “If we don’t have to spend this money on (the utility) bill, we can actually use it here.”

The largest investment made by the University towards energy saving and re-source reduction is the Renewable Ener-gy Center, the largest facility in the na-tion.

Siegel said the initiative to build the Renewable Energy Center began in the 1990s when the university began talk-ing about how they were going to re-place the aging coal plant.

“The first thought was ‘OK, we’ll build a new coal plant,’” Siegel said.

“(Coal was) what we were familiar with because we’d used it for over a century.”

Because of the prohibitive cost of building another coal plant, Siegel said the university sought out other options. He said 2007 was a critical year in the conception of the energy center.

“That was when it went from ‘Hey, did you know?’ to ‘We can do this,’” Siegel said.

Since the energy center first began powering Eastern in June 2011, Siegel has been involved in it in several ways, such as leading over 60 public tours of the facility.

The energy center has earned Eastern many accolades from around the coun-try.

Siegel said there are two in particu-lar that he is most proud of: Eastern be-ing named to the Princeton Review’s list of the nation’s Green Colleges and when Eastern was declared to have the lowest utility cost per square foot of all Illinois public universities.

Doug T. Graham can be reached at 581-2812

or dtgraham@eiu.edu.

Ratliff said no one was injured.He said the fire destroyed the garage,

however the living room and kitchen has water damage and the bedrooms have smoke damage.

Ratliff said the house is still pretty much intact.

He said the cause of the fire will not be determined until this afternoon when someone can take the roof off of the house’s garage.

“We are going to have to get some-

one to come in and take the roof off,” Ratliff said.

The Lincoln and Charleston Fire De-partments were at the scene and received mutual aid from Ashmore and Hutton.

The owners of the house, Charles and Dori Elsila and their family were sent to temporary housing by the local chapter of the American Red Cross.

Samantha Bilharz can be reached at 581-2812

or slbilharz@eiu.edu.

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In game two, the Panthers once again edged the Golden Eagles in comeback fashion as junior Nick Priessman paced the Panthers offen-sive attack. Priessman was 4-for-5 with four RBI, a run scored and a sto-len base in the winning effort.

“We had another great come-back win,” Schmitz said in a press re-lease. “It’s a good sign for us that we have won three OVC games in a row. We hung in there all game and I am proud of the guys.”

Facing a two-run deficit in the sixth inning, the Panthers scored five runs on four hits to take a commanding four-run advantage. Priessman did the majority of his damage in the sixth as he belted a three-run home run to put the Panthers ahead. Sophomore Jacob Reese also provided a big hit for East-ern as he roped a two-run double to round out the win.

In the series finale the Panthers put together a dominating performance en route to leaving Cookeville, Tenn., with a 9-3 win and their first sweep of the season.

On the mound, the Panthers were given a quality start from junior right-

hander Troy Barton. Barton gave up three runs on seven hits in 6.1 innings of work. He also recorded three strike-outs en route to picking up his team-best sixth win of the season.

Offensively, the Panthers were paced by Priessman and redshirt se-nior Ben Thoma. Priessman was 3-for-5 with an RBI and Thoma was 3-for-5 with two RBI and a home run. Reese, McManus and junior Ryan Dineen each added home runs in the win.

With the win, the Panthers im-prove to 19-23 overall and 9-8 in OVC play. The Panthers will round out their season with a three-game se-ries against OVC foes Murray State, Tennessee-Martin and Jacksonville State. The Panthers will also have mid-week games against Saint Louis and in-state foe Bradley to round out the 2012 season. The Panthers will return to action on May 4 with a three-game series against Murray State. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Friday.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-7942 or at jbpottorff@eiu.edu

Eastern shot an 887 (+23) com-bined, finishing two strokes ahead of Morehead State at seventh, as well as out-pacing Tennessee Tech and host Tennessee State who placed eighth and ninth, respectively.

The sixth place finish is the Panthers best finish since 2007, where they also placed sixth overall.

Jacksonville State took home their second straight title and also cap-tured an automatic berth to play in the NCAA Tournament. Finishing one

stroke behind was Austin Peay, plac-ing second. While Murray State, East-ern Kentucky and Tennessee-Martin rounded out the Top Five.

Juniors Tommy Ponce and Trav-is Smyczynski will be accompanied by freshmen James Jansen and Michael Koester as the only golfers returning for the Panthers next season.

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-7942 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.

SETH SCHROEDER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore pitcher Stephanie Maday winds up to throw the ball during a game against Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis April 25 at Williams Field. Maday was handed a 3-2 loss by Tennesee-Martin during the first game of a double-header over the weekend despite throwing for nine strikeouts in the 10-inning game.

In the final game of the series Eastern attempted to prolong Tennessee-Martin’s regular season conference title celebration, but were unable to do so and ended up losing a closely contested game by a final score of 5-4.

The Skyhawks got things going in the third inning when Stephanie Maday walked Lauren Smith with the bases load-ed, giving Tennessee-Martin a 1-0 lead. Things would continue to spiral down-ward for the Panthers in the fourth inning when the Skyhawks added two more runs to the scoreboard on a fielder’s choice and a double, extending their lead to 3-0.

The Panthers would respond in the top of the fifth inning when Abby Wood blasted a solo homerun (2) to center field, cutting Tennessee-Martin’s lead to 3-1.

The Skyhawks were not done, though, as they scored two more runs in the fifth inning to push the lead to 5-1 on a Kenzi Blake single with the bases loaded.

Eastern responded with a strong sixth inning, scoring two runs on an Ashe-ligh Westover fielders choice RBI and an Abby Wood infield single that also re-sulted in an RBI, putting the Panthers be-hind two runs before heading to the sev-enth inning.

The Panthers were able to score one more run in the seventh inning on a Melise Brown RBI single, but were closed out after that and ended up losing the game by a final score of 5-4

Stephanie Maday picked up the loss for Eastern, giving up five runs (four earned) in six innings of work. Maday’s record is now 15-13 for the season.

Eastern’s overall record is now 25-23 for the season with a 15-10 mark in the OVC. They will finish off their regular season this weekend when they play con-ference foe Austin Peay at Williams Field.

Erik Jensen can be reached at 581-7942

or eajensen@eiu.edu.

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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Monday will be the last issue of @dennews for the spring semester. Make sure you pick us up again in the summer!

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FOOTBALL

GOLF, page 7

By Jordan Pottorff Assistant Sports Editor

Eastern’s baseball team recorded a crucial three-game sweep against Ohio Valley Conference rival Tennessee Tech over the weekend to move above the .500 mark in conference play.

In game one, the Panthers recorded an extra-inning win that was paced by a game-winning home run by redshirt senior T.J. McManus in the top of the 10th inning to give the Panthers a 7-6 win. It was McManus’ team-leading eighth home run of the season.

“He’s doing everything right,” East-ern head coach Jim Schmitz said in a press release. “His approach is great and he knows when to get a hit for us. He is having a remarkable year and he came through in the clutch tonight with the game-winning home run.”

With the Panthers leading 4-2 in the seventh inning, the Golden Ea-gles rallied to take a 6-4 lead heading into the ninth inning. The Panthers then put together a rally of their own as redshirt junior George Kalousek re-corded an RBI on a ground out and freshman Caleb Howell knocked in the game-tying run with a RBI single to right field.

On the mound, senior reliever Adam Clark posted his first win of his career, striking out five and allowing just one hit in two innings of work.

“Adam Clark is coming into games and giving us the closer role we real-ly need,” Schmitz said in a press re-lease. “Our ability to comeback late in a game is a big step for our team.”

Red-shirt senior Mike Hoekstra started for Eastern, going 5.1 innings and giving up two runs on nine hits.

By Erik Jensen Staff Reporter

The Eastern softball team lost a hard fought series to Tennes-see-Martin, which allowed the Skyhawks to clinch the regular season Ohio Valley Conference title. Eastern lost the first game of the series by a final score of 5-1, but regrouped in the second game with an easy 9-4 win. In the series finale on Sunday the Panthers were defeated by a final score of 5-4, which resulted in Tennessee-Martin claiming the OVC regular season title.

In Saturday’s action the Pan-ther softball team split a pair of games with conference leading Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks, los-ing the first game 5-1, but com-ing back and winning the second game of the doubleheader by a final score of 9-4.

Eastern took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning in the first game of the day when ju-nior outfielder Melise Brown struck a hard single to center-field, driving in Kaylie Pruett.

Unfortunately for the Panthers, that was the only run they would score in the game.

Tennessee-Mar t in put the game out of reach in the fifth in-ning when it scored five runs. Jenny Bain began the hitting barrage for the Skyhawks, blast-ing a bases loaded single that drove in two runs. Becca Wil-liams followed this up later in the inning with a bases load-ed walk while Kenzi Tate put the game out of reach for good when she doubled to deep cen-ter, driving in the Skyhawks last two runs of the game.

Sophomore ace Stephanie Ma-day started for the Panthers and picked up the loss. Maday now has a 14-12 record for the sea-son. She went 4.1 innings in the game, giving up five runs (two earned) on four hits and five walks. Hanna Mennenga pitched the final 1.2 innings of the game and only allowed two hits.

Tennessee-Martin’s Chelsea Jones continued her dominant season on the mound, picking up win number 23 on the sea-

son. Jones has a blistering 23-7 this season. She pitched a com-plete game, giving up one run (no earned) on five hits and no walks.

In the second game of the day, the Panthers proved that they could compete with anyone in the conference, defeating the conference leading Skyhawks 9-4 in an old-fashioned barnburner.

The Panthers got great pro-duction from their lineup and a little help from the Skyhawks, who allowed Eastern to score four unearned runs on four er-rors in the game.

Hanna Mennenga made the start for Eastern and only went one inning, allowing one run on two hits and a walk. Mennenga was replaced by Stephanie Ma-day in the second inning. Maday pitched the final six innnings, allowing three runs on five hits while improving her record to 15-12 on the season.

The Panthers really swung the bat well in this game, and outhit the Skyhawks by a total of 8-7. Morgan Biel led the team at the

plate, going two-for-three with two runs scored an RBI. Carly Willert was also spectacular, go-ing two-for-four with two runs scored and an RBI. The Panther lineup demonstrated its depth by having seven different play-ers on the team who had at least one RBI.

By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

The Eastern football team’s annual spring game was cut short because of inclement weather on Saturday.

The Panthers were only able to get a total of nine plays in, with the final score favoring the Defense, 9-0. The scoring allowed the defense to score points for defensive stops. The Eastern de-fense forced one punt, stopped the offense on a fourth down attempt and brought the offense to a three and out.

Head coach Dino Babers said he felt bad that the weather did not cooperate for the fans in at-tendance.

“I feel bad for the players, their families and the EIU fan base that the weather did not cooperate with us tonight,” Babers said. “We had an intense practice on Thursday night and wanted the spring game to be fun. I think for the brief time we were on the field our fans saw players who were com-peting and a taste of the new up-tempo offense. This is an exciting time for EIU football.”

The Panthers will open regular season play on Thursday Aug. 30 against Southern Illinois-Car-bondale. Kick off will be at 6:30 p.m. at O'Brien Field.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942

or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

By Anthony Catezone Staff Reporter

A second place individual honor by senior Da-vid Lawrence, lead the Panthers to a sixth place finish overall, out of nine competing schools, at the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament.

The three-day tournament took place April 26-28 at the par 72, 6,959-yard GreyStone Golf Course in Nashville.

Lawrence, who will compete in the PGA Tour Qualifying School in September, shot a three-un-der-par 213, firing off a low 69 in the final round, as well as a 71 and 73 on the first two days. This notched the soon to be pro his fourth Top Two finish in his final tournament as Panther.

Thanks to his performance on the back nine, Lawrence was able to put himself back into con-tention.

“I made a good charge and put myself in con-tention on the back nine,” Lawrence said. “There is no better feeling than having a chance to win down the stretch. Unfortunately, I had dug my-self too deep of a hole to recover from and came up a little short.”

Tying for second place earned the senior All-Tournament honors, and marked the best indi-vidual performance by a Panther ever in the con-ference tournament. Prior to the season-ending event, Lawrence was named to the First Team All-OVC, also.

Senior Gino Parrodi earned himself a Second Team All-OVC honor. Parrodi shot a 219 (+3), ty-ing himself for 17th individually, ending his final season at Eastern with his ninth consecutive Top 25 finish.

Fellow seniors Sean Dozier and Corbin Sebens followed tying for 24th place and 37th place, re-spectively, while junior Tommy Ponce placed 41st individually.

As far as his teammates go, Lawrence couldn’t ask for a better group.

“It is hard to believe we have played our last tournament together,” Lawrence said. “This is a great group of guys and I couldn’t ask for bet-ter teammates to have over the course of my four years.”

Lawrence leads Panthers to 6th place finish

Tennessee-Martin wins OVC title with series victory over Eastern

Panthers sweep Golden EaglesSpring game halted, caused by poor weather

GOLF

SOFTBALL

KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior pitcher Darin Worman turns to attempt a pick-off to first base April 25 during the Panthers' 7-6 win against Benedictine University at home at Coaches Stadium.

Panthers gaining

momentum heading

into stretch run

SOFTBALL, page 7

Upcoming home game

WHAT: Double header

WHO: Versus Austin Peay

WHERE: Williams Field

WHEN: Saturday, May 5

TIME: 1 p.m.

The third game of the series will be played at 12 p.m. on Sunday May 6.

BASEBALL