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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 70Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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LATE GAME HEROICSFOOD FOR THOUGHTEastern alum Jim Hires explores different issues facing food banks, as well as poverty concerns.
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The Eastern women’s basketball team defeated Loyola 81-80 in Lantz Arena Thursday.
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International students plan for ThanksgivingBy Katie CookStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
When everyone else is going home for Thanksgiving break, the Associ-ation of International Students has more interesting plans.
Hye-yeon Eom, a junior market-ing major, will be going to New York City with Ayeshah Hussain, a se-nior biology pre-medicine major, and Shahmir Haq, a junior communica-tion studies major.
Eom was born in South Korea and
said they celebrate Thanksgiving but they call it “Chu Suk.”
“It is during September. It is one of the biggest national events in Ko-rea, such as Lunar New Year,” Eom said. “Our family gathers togeth-er and we go to our grandparent’s house. We cook together, eat food and say our thanks to our ancestors. We play traditional games, see the full moon and wish for luck.”
Hussain is from Bangladesh but spent majority of her life in America.
Hussain will not be spending
Thanksgiving in Illinois, but instead she will be in New York.
“My mother does make a turkey and all the sides that people eat. The Thanksgiving feast usually has a Ben-gali twist to it all. It usually has rice instead of stuffing and everything is way spicier,” Hussain said.
The president of the Association of International Students, Haq said he is not going to be making a turkey or having family together.
“I am going to see the Macy’s Day Parade on Times Square. And then
do some Black Friday shopping,” Haq said, a senior communica-
tion studies major, is from Pakistan and is going to Seattle for Thanksgiv-ing break.
“Thanksgiving break is too short for me to spend time at home since it takes approximately 48 hours to trav-el back home.
Then it takes another day or so to come back because of the time dif-ference and length of flight,” Chaud-hary said.
By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor | @JJarmonReporter
The Penalty Box co-owner Sarina Hender-son will be appearing before the liquor com-mission at 2 p.m. Dec. 3 after allegedly com-mitting three offenses Nov. 1.
Owners of the Penalty Box are being charged with allowing people under the age of 21 to be in the establishment without pur-chasing food, and allowing them to sit at the bar. They are also being charged with violating the Class D liquor license allowing those un-der the age of 21 to stand and walk around the restaurant while consuming an alcoholic bev-erage.
Henderson represented the restaurant, act-ing under the corporation PSM Alliance Inc. in a hearing Tuesday and asked for a 30-day continuance to acquire an attorney. May-or Larry Rennels, the liquor commission-er, agreed to give her a 14-day continuance to find an attorney.
Rennels said the citation had been served a week before the hearing and agreed Henderson did have sufficient time to receive an attorney.
“I can understand that it might be difficult to get an attorney and have them schedule to be at a hearing within one week,” Rennels said.
Red flags were raised when the Charleston Police Department noticed advertisements for the Penalty Box stating they serve alcohol for 18 and older, Rennels said.
This is the restaurant’s second violation un-der Henderson’s ownership. Rennels said this would be taken into account when deciding the penalty if the owners are found guilty of the three counts.
The owners could be charged with a mini-mum fine of $500 and, or a seven-day liquor license suspension. The maximum penalty they could receive is a $1,000 fine and, or a 30-day suspension.
They could also have their liquor license re-voked, but Rennels said it was unlikely that would happen. The license is normally revoked for more serious matters.
With a Class D liquor license, the Penalty Box must run as a restaurant, not a bar, serv-ing at a 49 percent alcohol to 51 percent food ratio they are required to meet in Charleston.
Rennels said with the restaurant license they must be acting like a restaurant.
“They have to work as a restaurant, period,” Rennels said.
Henderson and William Nelson purchased the restaurant from Peter Christos on Sept. 6, 2012.
Rennels said Christos has had several vio-lations ending with his license being revoked. He added Henderson chose the same name for the building, and that might mislead people into thinking the frequent violations fell under the same owners.
Rennels said they are still allowed to serve alcohol throughout proceedings.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812
Penalty Box co-owner to reappear before liquor commision
By Bob GaluskiNews Editor | @BobGaluski
After pleading guilty Wednes-day to resisting a peace officer, one of the two “Barn Party” sus-pects was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge.
Kajuan D. Wright , 23, of DeKalbb appeared before Cir-cuit Judge James Glenn and en-tered the plea of resisting po-lice orders while they were at the “Barn Party.”
Beginning the night of Sept. 14 and ending the morning of Sept. 15, the “Barn Party,” host-ed by Phi Beta Sigma fraterni-ty, ended in gunshots, with two
non-fatal gunshot victims and a battery victim being transported to Sarah Bush Lincoln Memorial Health Center.
Upon arriving at the party at 634 W. State St., police estimat-ed anywhere from several hun-dred to one thousand attendees at the warehouse-style building.
Police have not publicly iden-tified any suspects in the actual shooting, and the police investi-gation is currently ongoing.
Wright’s conditional discharge
is similar to probation, however it is not as restrictive as proba-tion.
Along with the condit ion-al discharge, there is an evalua-tion to determine if counseling is needed and around $425 in fines and court costs.
Wright also has to serve 100 hours of public service.
Wright was also given three months of jail time, however it was stayed.
Wright will only have to serve
all or part of the jail sentence if he violates the terms of the sen-tence’s requirements.
Marquis Green, the other sus-pect in the “Barn Party” case, is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 18, following an arrest war-rant after he failed to appear at an earlier hearing.
Green, 24, of Park Forest is also charged with allegedly re-sisting police orders.
In the aftermath of the “Barn Party,” Eastern officials suspend-ed Phi Beta Sigma for five years, 300 hours of community service and fined them a restitution fee of $2,000 to the city of Charles-ton.
In response to the hearing, members of Phi Beta Sigma sent out an electronic petition to ap-peal the hearing decision, how-ever that was overturned.
‘Barn Party’ suspect pleads guilty
K a JUan D. WrIGhT MarqUIs Green
Second suspect scheduled to appear in court
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K aTIe sMITh | The DaILY easTern ne Ws Senior communication studies major, Shahmir Haq is currently the president of the Asian American Association. Haq said he usually spends his breaks in Chicago, but this year he will travel to New York. Although he does not recognize Thanksgiving in Pakistan, he said he has celebrated the holiday with friends each year during his time the U.S.
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AmAndA Wilkinson | The dAily eAsTern ne WsBug Wilburn, a senior sociology major, was one of many students to sign their name in honor of Nick Allen, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon who died in April, and for Epilepsy Awareness Month Thursday in the Bridge Lounge of Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Members of Student Government and Sigma Phi Epsilon also handed out hot chocolate and purple ribbons to those walking past. Melanie Kaderabek, a sophomore elementary education major and the internal affairs chair for Student Government, said Allen was a friend of hers and she put the booth together with Phillip Love, the diver-sity affairs chair, to raise money for Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy. Although they were not able to raise money Thursday, Kaderabek said they raised $110 Wednesday for the nonprofit organization.
Students show support for Epilepsy Awareness Month
By michael spencerCity Editor | @tmskeeper
The Illinois Housing and Develop-ment Authority approved Yost Man-agement Company’s purchase of the Highland Place apartment complex on Nov. 15, and renovations at the prop-erty will begin late next spring.
Yost Management Company pur-chased the complex from Village Apartment Limited Partnership, a company operated out of Indianapolis, Ind., and sale is set to close in January. The property owners had to seek the approval of the IHDA because they will receive income tax credits in order to help the business maintain High-land Place’s status as a low to moder-ate-income housing development.
“It allows them to rent the units at lower-than-market rate to people that are in a lower income bracket and
helps pay the difference in what the market value is and what they rent it for,” said Mayor Rennels, who traveled to Chicago with Yost Management’s Vice President Jeremy Yost in order to show the city’s support for the action.
Yost said those credits will go to cover most of the renovations.
The business owns several properties around the state but finds its roots in Charleston and the Yost families, who have lived in town since 1989, operate it. Rennels said he is glad Yost Man-agement will be taking on the reno-vations because he said local property owners are more likely to provide bet-ter services.
“I was pleased because in a complex like that it is usually better maintained if it’s a local person and a local com-pany that owns it and the Yosts have a good track record of well-maintained properties,” Rennels said.
Yost lived in Charleston for most of his youth and he said former May-or John Inyart, who asked the business to explore the idea of purchasing the property, approached him.
“We were approached by former Mayor John Inyart and he knew that we were developers of tax credit prop-erties and asked us if we had any in-terest in it and of course we said ‘sure’ because Charleston is our home town and we went and took a look at the property and it’s a beautiful develop-ment,” Yost said. “We started pursu-ing it and after a couple years we final-ly got a deal locked in and submitted an application to IDHA.”
When Yost Management closes the sale in January, it will be the company’s fourth property in Charleston and its third affordable housing development in the city.
The company says $2.9 million
worth of “comprehensive rehabilita-tion” will be applied to all facets of the apartment units.
“We’re going to do a comprehen-sive rehabilitation to the interiors and exteriors of the building, replace the siding, new roofing, fence around the playground,” Yost said. “We’re going to go in and repaint all the apartment units and replace carpet.”
The complex will also be equipped with new appliances that meet Energy Star-rated standards.
For Yost, it is about being able to take an active role in helping individ-uals in the community find affordable housing.
“That’s the most important thing, being able to do something like this in your home town,” Yost said.
Michael Spencer can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Local company to fix low-income housing
'Festival of Trees' to celebrate holiday spiritstaff report
Christmas-related activities and events will take place at the Sarah Bush Lincoln Festival of Trees Friday and Sat-urday.
At the 15th annual festival, the Sar-ah Bush Lincoln Health Foundation will auction off Christmas items such as pre-decorated four-foot trees, 18-inch
wreaths, centerpieces and other items. Other Christmas items will be sold
be the event also, such as two-foot table-top trees and wreaths. Sarah Bush Lin-coln employees and staff decorated these items. Other items from Merry Market-place and Packages with Pizzazz will also be sold.
An event called “Cookies with Claus” will take place on Friday from 3 to 8
p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children can eat cookies and have their photos taken with Santa during these times. There were also be Christ-mas story readings during the “Cookies with Claus” hours.
Themed packages will be raffled off on Friday and Saturday at “Rudolph’s Raffle.” Tickets are $1 each or $5 for 10.
The event will take place in the
Lumpkin Family Center for Health Ed-ucation at Sarah Bush Lincoln. The cen-ter holds training sessions, meetings, re-treats and other education programs. The decorated wreaths and trees will be on display in the center until they are auctioned off on Saturday.
Individuals who are 12 and older pay $3 entry fee while children can get in free of charge.
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Facilities Planning and Manage-ment workers will be placing more receptacles throughout the campus to prepare for upcoming law in Jan-uary, which will penalize those who litter cigarettes.
Those who are caught littering will be convicted with a class B mis-demeanor with a fine, which will not exceed $1,500. If convicted a second time, it will be considered a class A misdemeanor.
The third conviction and any other convictions following may re-sult in a class 4 felony, with a fine of $25,000 and imprisonment of no less than one year and no more than three years.
They will be adding more green tube-like receptacles, which cost
about $200. The administration be-lieves the stone receptacles were not particularly attractive.
Roughly a month ago, Bill We-ber, the vice president for business affairs, pointed out various spots where he wanted to see more recep-tacles like outside of the life scienc-es building and Coleman Hall.
They currently do have recep-tacles of the all of the designated smoking areas.
Tim Zimmer, the director of Fa-cilities Planning and Management, said overall, he thinks there are enough receptacles across campus. Zimmer said he has gotten requests to have receptacles outside certain exits of the Triad: McKinney Hall, Ford Hall and Weller Hall. He add-ed said it was not feasible to do so.
“Where they wanted to add them, was within the radius that is
a no smoking zone,” Zimmer said. “We are very careful to only put them in designated smoking areas and trying to follow the law and staying away from doorways.”
Zimmer said they are also deal-ing with some of the receptacles go-ing missing, presumably because of theft. There have also been prob-lems with people moving them to where they want them.
He added while they try to pro-vide enough receptacles, there is still a problem with littering.
“We could put one every 5 feet, and you would still see cigarette butts on the ground,” Zimmer said.
Zimmer said he hoped this new law would discourage students from littering their cigarettes in order to free up operations for workers from picking up littered cigarettes, which is time consuming.
“If I could have fewer people on trash patrol then I could have those people planting flowers, and fixing ruts and bald spots in the grass,” Zimmer said. “It is a resource drain. It costs you money because some of your tuition goes into the grounds upkeep.”
Officer David Closson of the Univers i ty Pol ice Depar tment said there would not be any major changes in operations in response to the law.
“Just as any other issue, if we see it occur or receive a complaint we will address the issue,” Closson said.
Zimmer said i t real ly comes down to peer pressure from stu-dents to say it is not right litter their cigarette butts. He added it makes recruitment more difficult as well. He also said it is hard to say Eastern is the best campus when
people do not treat it as such. Student Senate is also planning
to help make sure the student body is educated on the law. Bianca Tom-lin, the student university enhance-ment committee chairwoman, said they are planning to do outreach ta-bles in order to inform students as well as present the designated smok-ing areas map on the student gov-ernment webpage on the eastern website.
Tomlin said she also hopes to up-date the current map used to make it more clear and easy to read. She said it was illegible and hard to read for her and she could not imagine how other students would be able to.
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By Jack Cruikshankstaff Reporter | @DeN_News
Jim Hires remembers 50 years ago to the day, as a sophomore sit-ting in the Union when he heard the news of President Kennedy’s as-sassination.
Now, after earning a degree in ed-ucation and working in fields that included education and corporate media, Hires, an Eastern alum, said he finds joy as the Executive Di-rector of the Eastern Illinois Food-bank.
“Throughout my former careers, I knew that those weren’t me,” Hires said. “Where I am now, I know that this is me. From teaching to mar-keting to this, I wish I had found this sooner.”
Hires spoke Thursday in the Charleston-Mattoon room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union about a variety of issues that face his food bank: everything from a regular lack of funds to a current need for the passage of a favorable farm bill through the federal gov-ernment.
“I am not in the hunger busi-ness,” Hires said, “But rather, I am in the poverty business.”
Hires stressed a need for food is a very strong motivator for people, often consuming their whole life.
“When you have food on the ta-ble, you have many problems,” Hires said. “However, when you have no food, you only have one problem: finding the next meal.”
His food bank currently cov-ers more than 8,000 square miles
throughout eastern Illinois, divided by counties, many of which border the state line.
He s a id th rough h i s sma l l -er food banks throughout the re-gion, the entire network is able to serve around 50,000 people a month, where an average of one-fifth of them are considered “food insecure.” On average, Hires sees around eight percent seniors of the people the Eastern Illinois Food-bank serves. Hires said the number of seniors, as well as Latinos, is ris-ing rapidly.
“Of those who come to the food pantries, around one half of them do not qualify for the Supplemen-tal Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP],” Hires said. “And with the impending changes to the SNAP program, we will have a harder time doing our jobs.”
Hires talked about how, as a food pantry, he can acquire food in bulk for much cheaper than one can at a grocery store.
“We can acquire an average of 10 dollars of food for only one dollar,” Hires said.
He is able to charge the individu-al food pantries as much as 23 cents per pound of food, but he prefers to charge around eight to 10 cents per pound.
“We try to keep costs down so our facilities can get as much food as possible,” Hires said.
With the recent storm dam-age, Hires has been in contact with FEMA and Red Cross, as his ware-house, located in Urbana, acts as a central food dispersion portal for
the emergency food that the torna-do victims are currently requiring.
Through running the food bank, Hires said he has learned to priori-tize the funds and resources he has been given.
“We can make decisions with our hearts all day long,” Hires said. “But we have to make sure resources
get where they can help the most.” Hires hopes he can continual-ly reduce the dependence on food banks, but he said he also enjoys celebrating successes, such as when last year the Eastern Illinois Food-bank distributed the most amount of food in any year.
“Throughout this food bank, we
will continue to celebrate successes and distribute food, but we will al-ways strive to shorten our lines,” he said. “Hopefully, one day, we will not be needed at all.”
Jack Cruikshank can be reached at 581-2812
Alum explores issues affecting food bank
AmAndA Wilkinson | The dAily eAsTern ne WsJim Hires, the director of the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, speaks with students and faculty to end Eastern’s Hunger Challenge Month Thursday in the Charleston-Mattoon Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Hires said 40 to 60 percent of people will skip a meal because they have to pay a bill. “Hunger is a product of poverty,” he said.
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Since Thanksgiving is so late in the season, it appears Eastern has fallen under the idea of a false break.
After Thanksgiving break we only have one week left before finals, and that week will undoubtedly be full of due dates for projects, research papers and group work.
Do not go home this Thanksgiving under the impression that there will be more time to get work done.
Again, this is a false break. Instead of traditionally having two to three
weeks of prep time before finals, we are now at the brink of the end of the semester. All that stands in the way of students and nearly a month break for winter break is three weeks. And yes, one of those weeks is Thanksgiving.
Use that week to recuperate and re-engage your senses for the last leg of the semester. Take this time to re-evaluate where you are aca-demically and what needs to be done to either change it or keep it where you want it.
Folks, we have one week of actual school left after this break and you do not want to be caught in a whirlwind of due dates. Work on some of the bigger projects during the break. Budget your time accordingly. This is the point where the grade is made or broken; do not let it become your pitfall.
This false sense of ending will only undo the amount of work you’ve put in this past semes-ter, so take it with a grain of salt.
Even an hour every day devoted to just fig-uring out your schoolwork will make you more successful and less stressed right before finals.
The week before finals should be about turn-ing in everything and making sure you are pre-pared for the final exams. Do not let it become worrying about actually getting that paper done and forgoing the studying for finals.
We are on the cusp of the end of the semes-ter and with this awkward-break it could trick up many students. Don’t let it happen to you. Get out ahead of this false break and make sure everything you’ve worked for is not undone because you forgot every due date is coming up.
Thanksgiving is a time for family and re-energizing yourself for the final two weeks of classes, but do not for one second mistake it for a time to forget about classes all together.
It will not be to your advantage. Instead, remember to have all of your work done ahead of time to make sure you end this semester on the best note possible.
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It was my first time, and to tell you the truth, I was pretty nervous. Never before had I been in this situation. Never before had I had the oppor-tunity to experience something so many miles out of my comfort zone.
But, as with everything new I try, I find myself extremely glad I did.
With the smooth dancing, awesome outfits and amazing music, I had no idea how much fun the Diva Drag Show would be.
The drag show on Monday was part of an annual event hosted by EIU Pride to raise aware-ness for LGBTQA issues.
A performance not just about flashy clothing and pop music, but was instead one about accep-tance and awareness.
Ceduxion Carrington, the mistress of cer-emonies, said it best when she described the LGBTQA community as one of the strongest communities in existence.
When Carrington said insurmountable mem-bers were ready to rally and support for any kind of awareness raiser or event, the truth could be seen in the nearly packed University Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
It was a night about acceptance. About toler-ance. About acceptance. It was a night to behold as to how great a community can be when they come together.
As the “Religious Freedom and Marriage Act” passed just a few short weeks ago, maybe now people will begin to understand what the words “tolerance” and “acceptance” truly mean.
Those words mean, in case you didn’t already know or just choose not to know, that you are able to live with the ideals and values of others, as long as they do not infringe on your rights.
It means being a decent person. It means, maybe – maybe – this world would
not be as full of violence and sorrow if we consid-
ered not hating each other for just a moment. That’s what the drag show was about. It was
about expressing who you are, no matter what the outside world says.
It was about hope. It was about acceptance. This may sound like the ramblings of a flow-
er child, but have no doubt. I am not the son of hippies, or have any desire to be a hippy. Instead this is from the heart.
The night was, honestly, about just realizing you are not the only person on this planet, and as long as others are not harming you, what’s the harm in letting others be happy?
It was my first time, and yes, I was pretty ner-vous. Not because of the topic, but just because I had never been able to fully see a community come together so closely just to have fun, just to support each other.
It was my first time going, but it won’t be my last.
Bob Galuski is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812
Fifty years ago today, in Dallas, Texas, Lee Harvey Oswald looked down the sights of a gun and pulled the trigger.
He fired twice more, and ensured his tar-gets death with a final shot to the head. Six peo-ple saw this violent crime take place and watched as Oswald fled the scene. Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit lay dead on the ground. Oswald was apprehended in a movie theater shortly thereaf-ter still brandishing the pistol he had used to kill Officer Tippit. Less than forty-eight hours after Oswald died, the victim of a single revolver shot fired by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
The most shocking event of November 22, 1963 however, was brutal and public assassina-tion of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy, who was in Dallas to build support amongst the southern states for his upcoming re-election cam-paign in 1964, was shot twice while his motor-cade made its way through Dealey Plaza.
To many Americans Kennedy represented something never before seen in politics: youth, energy, vitality, and a willingness to confront social problems and fix them. This was all shat-tered in a span of about 8.4 seconds, the time it took Oswald to fire three shots. The tragic events in Dallas that day went far beyond the loss of the nations leader and the loss of a city’s police offi-cer, the nations sense of hopefulness seemed to dwindle and fade. The image of the post-war,
“Leave It To Beaver” America that was permeat-ed through American culture changed that day to one of hopelessness and one of violence and sor-row.
In retrospect, we can view history through a lens of the American citizen post-Kennedy’s assas-sination. Shortly after shots were fired in Dallas, American shots began to fire in Vietnam. Mar-tin Luther King was murdered while preparing a march to bring awareness to the issues of Ameri-can poverty just two months before John’s young-er brother Robert Kennedy was gunned down in California.
A long line of unattractive and senior-like President’s followed Kennedy, very few of which came anywhere near to encapsulating the energy, which Kennedy had embodied. The nation went mad chasing conspiracies, searching for a deep-er meaning to the death of the countries charis-matic leader. Many could just not accept that a lone man, upset at his life and his country, could
deal such devastating consequences out upon our nation, our culture, and our lives.
After the events of that day 50 years ago, many were left with questions. Americans want-ed to know what was going to happen to the country. Many wondered who would be able to fill the shoes left vacant by Kennedy. The future that America missed out on, but can and should still strive to achieve is laid out in the speech that Kennedy had intended to give the evening of November 22, 1963.
“Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to the nation, and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preser-vation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom.
So let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our nation’s future is at stake.
Let us stand together with renewed con-fidence in our cause – united in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future – and determined that this land we love shall lead all mankind into new frontiers of peace and abun-dance.”
Taylor Davis is a senior communications major.He can be reachedat 581-2812
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For the Nutrition Therapy course, students in the family and consum-er sciences major, are showcasing their knowledge in Booth Library to address common nutritional issues that impact college students.
Several glass cases are on display fea-turing nutritional topics such as, “Eat This, Not That” where misconceptions of the daily diet are listed and are re-placed with healthier choices.
Carla Honselman, a family and consumer sciences professor, said stu-dents can gain great information on healthy eating from viewing the dis-plays.
The exhibit, all together featuring eight glass-display cases, contains in-formation on Mediterranean cuisine, the DASH diet and the 2012 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
The DASH diet revolves around fish, poultry, nuts and whole grains.
There are also other parts of the dis-play that highlight information on foods and nutrition that can be ap-plied to overcome deficiencies, or over-consumption in the American diet. This includes, but not limited to, sodi-um, calcium and fiber.
Honselman said she gave her stu-dents 100 minutes to search the litera-ture and plan the display during every class period, but most of the groups met outside of class to gather items for the display and make the props neces-sary to construct it.
“I’m not aware of how much time was spent outside of class,” Honsel-man said. “I know that they are effi-cient and make good use of time and seemed to enjoy the process.”
Students were able to choose any nutritional topic of their choice. They presented their ideas in class prior to beginning their showcase to ensure va-riety of nutritional information.
They were responsible for search-ing the literature for evidence-based science on the topic they selected to effectively prepare for their displays. From that, they wrote a justification of the topic as well as goals and objectives and identified the main points that should be presented.
Honselman said students often comment in regard to their own food habits, “Someday I’ll need to do bet-ter.” She also said research findings show chronic disease develops over time and is often associated with di-etary practices.
“With just a little effort it’s pos-sible to give yourself the best shot at good health by consuming lean pro-tein, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, healthy fats and calcium sources dai-ly and to plan ahead for meals and snacks,” Honselman said.
The nutrition exhibit is on display until Dec. 6 and is located in the Mar-vin Foyer at Booth Library.
Jenny Niewiarowski can be reached at 581-2812
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JasoN Howell | THe Daily easTerN Ne wsSigma Alpha Epsilon hosts Coin Wars as part of their Holidaze Thursday between Lumpkin Hall and Coleman Hall. All money raised is donated to the Children’s Miracle Network. Zach Oscar, a senior management major and member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said they have raised about $10 per day this week and were also collecting toys for donation.
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The City Council also approved a $3,000 settlement between L.D. & B. Investments, Inc., the com-pany that rented the warehouse to Phi Beta Sigma, and the city.
Phi Beta Sigma also arranged for transportations from buses to get the attendees from the Ruler Foods parking lot in the West Park Plaza shopping center.
The “Barn Party” also sparked a
change in late-night activities on campus, with much of the ticket sales happening in advance, rather than at the door.
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812
Chaudhary will be visiting her sister in Seattle, Wash.
“I usually visit her when we have holidays from university. We don’t re-ally celebrate Thanksgiving, but we do go shopping on Black Friday if that counts,” Chaudhary said.
Metadel Dessalegne, a graduate stu-dent in the school of technology, is from Ethiopia and will be staying here in town for Thanksgiving break.
“I’m planning to assist the house of hospitality here in Charleston. I’m vol-untarily involved doing a shift once a week, but for the coming week my plan is to stay over for a few more days,” Dessalegne said. “Not just volunteering but I want to become more a part of the community. In fact this is my first Thanksgiving and I’m so looking for-ward to it.”
Katie Cook can be reached at 581-2812
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Jason Howell | THe Daily easTern ne wsSophomore guard Alex Austin attempts to find an open man against Olivet Nazarene’s Reid Farchmin on Nov. 13 in Lantz Arena. The Panthers beat the Tigers 67-60.
Eastern to host NAIA opponent Saturday
By anthony Catezonesports editor | @AnthonyCatz
The Eastern men’s basketball team will host Roosevelt University Saturday, a drastic change in oppo-nents just three days after losing to Purdue 83-55 on the road.
There is a difference between the two opponents.
One is in the top half of the Big Ten Conference early this season, while the other is an NAIA pro-gram that has played just one Divi-sion I team this season.
However, Roosevelt is undefeat-ed in the NAIA with a 6-0 record.
Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said he is not as worried about the opponent on the other end of the floor, rather what his Panthers will be able to do themselves, after shooting a disappointing 32 per-cent against Purdue Wednesday.
“We can’t come down and take bad shots,” Spoonhour said in his postgame interview. “We acted like a couple of those shots were going to be worth 12 points. That’s not how it works. You have to work your way back into it.”
Spoonhour said the Panthers cannot overlook Roosevelt Univer-sity simply because they are from a lower division.
The one Division I team Roos-evelt played was Illinois-Chicago. A team Eastern (2-2) beat last week-end 86-66 on the road.
Roosevelt lost to Illinois-Chica-go 87-65, but despite the 22-point
loss, Spoonhour said Roosevelt played Illinois-Chicago really well.
The Lakers trailed by just nine points at halftime, as freshman guard Korey Ryan scored a team-high 23 points off 8-of-9 from the field and 6-of-7 from 3-point range.
Eastern’s opponents are shooting 34.2 percent from 3-point range this season, seventh in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Five Lakers are averaging dou-ble-digit points per game this sea-son, led by guard Joe Harks with 19 points per game.
Jeremiah Jackson, a 6-foot-6 for-ward follows with 16.2 points per game and a team-high 11.3 re-bounds per game.
Jackson is also shooting 70.6 percent from the field, as Roosevelt is shooting 47.5 percent as a team.
Tipoff between Eastern and Roo-sevelt is at 7 p.m. Saturday in Lantz Arena.
Eastern will have one other game over the Thanksgiving break. The Panthers will take on IPFW at 7 p.m. in Lantz Arena.
IPFW, of the Summit League, is coming off a 106-72 win over Pur-due-Calument.
IPFW is 4-2 so far this season. It will take on Kennesaw State on the road before meeting Eastern.
Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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The Eastern men’s and wom-en’s swim teams have not competed since Nov. 9 where the each team lost to Evansville, but the Panthers will be back in the pool this weekend for the House of Champions meet in India-napolis.
As expected, the team will be look-ing to swim its fastest times of the year. Coach Elliot McGill said he expects some good times and lots of effort at the meet this weekend. Most of all, he wants to see the whole team swim fast.
“I expect us to swim as fast as we can,” he said.
The Panthers have gotten a little more rest lately and hopefully it will translate into a successful meet, Mc-Gill said. Rather than tiring the team, Coach McGill wanted to focus more on skills and technique.
“We’ve given the kids a little rest over the last week,” he said. “It is not even close to the amount of rest we will give them going into conference, but it’s enough for us to expect some sol-id swims. Backing off a little bit has al-lowed us to spend a little bit more time on skills and technique.”
McGill said this year’s Panther squad has been well-prepared because of the hard work the team put forth in the earlier portion of the season.
The team has had more time recent-ly to focus on smaller details to hopeful-ly help improve the team in the future.
“Our team is better this year because of the work we put in during Septem-ber and October,” McGill said. “The last week or two isn’t enough to nec-essarily improve, but it is enough time to focus on some details. Add in a little rest, and you should be able to see the work we put in at the beginning of the year come through.”
The House of Champions meet will begin on Friday and will continue through Sunday.
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By Dominic renzettiManaging editor | @domrenzetti
After a weekend off, the Eastern hockey club will be back in action this Friday and Saturday against Loyola. The games will start at 9:45 Friday and 9:00 Saturday at the Centennial Ice Rink in Wilmette.
The Panthers were supposed to play a make-up game against Illi-nois-Urbana Champaign last week-end in Bloomington, but the Illi-ni canceled, senior Chris Gallagh-er said.
“U of I canceled on us,” senior Chris Gallagher said. “We have nothing to do with that, and is not our responsibility to reschedule, but we will eventually play them this season.”
Until that happens, Eastern is now focusing on Loyola, who is coming off a sweep of Wheaton College, beating the Thunder by scores of 7-1 and 11-2.
Eastern is coming off wins as well.
The Panthers got their f i r s t sweep of the season against Eastern Kentucky two weeks ago, beating
the Colonels 7-1 and 9-1 in Dan-ville.
“These two wins felt awesome and were very needed for our confi-dence going into some tough com-petition the rest of the year,” Gal-lagher said. “I think we all forgot how much fun it is to be on the other side of a lopsided game. We still have some things to work on, but it was a great weekend for us and hopefully we have a lot more to come just like that.”
Eastern and Loyola have shared one common opponent this sea-son. Loyola played Illinois on Sept. 27 and 28, thrashing the Illini in the first game, 8-1, but losing the second by a score of 6-3. In the two teams only meeting this sea-son, Eastern lost to Illinois 11-5 on Sept. 20 in Danville.
Following the series with Loyola, Eastern will have another break be-fore returning to action on Dec. 13 and 14 against Lewis University in Romeoville.
Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812
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To go along with the 11 intercep-tions, Tennessee-Martin has 17 lost fumbles. Its -11 turnover margin is the worst in the OVC. While Eastern has already made its way into the playoffs, Tennessee-Martin is hoping to obtain an at-large bid. The Skyhawks have two wins over top-25 ranked opponents this season, the first coming against Chatta-nooga to start the season and then two weeks later against Central Arkansas.
Simpson said after not getting in last year he has not looked at any scenari-os this season to figure out if his team could make it into the playoffs. He said the team only has Saturday on its mind.
“We’re approaching it as, you win you’re in and we’ll keep thinking that way until someone tells us different-ly and that’s the only thing our players know to do,” Simpson said.
For Babers, a win on the road would elevate Eastern’s status to greater heights.
“It gives us an opportunity to right a wrong from last year, it gives an oppor-tunity to go undefeated in the confer-
ence and it gives us a chance to be con-sidered with the other great teams that have gone on to be undefeated in con-ference,” he said. “It kind of separates us from being a really, really good team to maybe this was a special team.”
The regular-season finale kicks off at 1 p.m. Saturday in Martin, Tenn., at Graham Stadium.
The game will also be available on ESPN3.com.
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Eas te rn quar t e rback Jimmy Garoppolo and coach Dino Babers have paired up to lead the Panthers to two consecutive Ohio Valley Con-ference titles.
Having already wrapped up their playoff berth to the FCS postseason, the Panthers head to Martin, Tenn., with the opportunity to go undefeat-ed in the OVC and win 11 games in a season for the first time in program history.
And if Eastern does beat Tennes-see-Martin, it would be a first for both Garoppolo and Babers.
Garoppolo did not start against the Skyhawks in his freshman year, but he saw on the sidelines as East-ern lost 20-10. The following two years Garoppolo was the starting quarterback. In 2011, he threw three touchdowns against Tennessee-Mar-tin, but lost 24-23 in a back and forth game.
Last year, Babers went 6-1 in
the OVC, with his only loss being against the Skyhawks. Heading into Saturday’s game, Tennessee-Martin is the only OVC team Babers and Garoppolo have not beaten.
After Eastern clinched its outright conference title Saturday with a win over Jacksonville State, Babers said the Panthers still had some unfin-ished business.
The Skyhawks beat Eastern 51-37 last season, but Babers sad this year’s Panthers are not the same as last year’s.
“I don’t think last year’s team re-flects this year’s team, but they’re playing with a lot of the same guys and the same coaches and we’re play-ing with a lot of the same guys and same coaches,” Babers said.
Some of the same players East-
ern’s No. 1 ranked offense will face at Graham Stadium are a duo of line-backers that are near the top of the OVC in sacks and tackles, respec-tively.
Junior Tony Bell has record-ed eight sacks in seven conference games and has 10 in Tennessee-Mar-tin’s 11 games this season. His team-mate, senior Ben Jones, is second in the OVC in tackles with 57.
Out of all the familiar faces the eEastern defense will see Saturday, whoever lines up behind center will not be one of them.
In the Skyhawks’ two-touchdown win last season, senior quarterback Derek Carr threw four touchdowns. Carr will be at the game Saturday, but this time around he will serving as a graduate assistant, looking at the
field, which will feature two quarter-backs for Tennessee-Martin.
Sophomore Jared Neal has played in all 11 games for the Skyhawks this season, starting seven of them. Ju-nior Dylan Favre, nephew of retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, has played in eight games and has been the starting quarterback for Tennes-see-Martin.
Skyhawks’ coach Jason Simpson said both will see time on the field against Eastern.
“They’ll both play again this week and we’ll just take it series by series,” Simpson said.
Neal and Favre have combined to throw 15 touchdowns this season, but have also thrown 11 intercep-tions.
“Like I’ve said all year, they both have a different skill set and we have been living through some growing pains,” Simpson said. “Our turnover margin is ridiculous. To win seven games and still be -11 in turnovers shouldn’t happen.”
By Anthony CatezoneSports Editor | @AnthonyCatz
The No. 3 seed Eastern volleyball team was upset in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference tour-nament by the No. 6 seed Eastern Kentucky Thursday.
The Panthers fell in five sets to the Colonels (25-18, 23-25, 25-22- 24-26, 15-8) at Wetherby Gym in Morehead, Ky.
Eastern finished the season 18-12 overall after claiming the OVC west division crown with a 12-4 confer-ence mark in the regular season.
After trail ing the match 2-1, Eastern won a fourth set that fea-tured 9 ties and four lead changes.
The Panthers began the set with a 13-9 lead over the Colonels, but the Eastern Kentucky fought back into the set, retaking a 22-21 lead. But Eastern scored back-to-back points to take a 24-22 lead.
After two kills by Eastern Ken-tucky, the set was once again tied, now at 24-24.
The Panthers then answered with back-to-back points of their own with a kill by Arnold and an error by the Colonels for the 26-24 win, as Eastern hit .340 for the set.
A 5-1 run by Eastern Kentucky opened the final set, eventually ex-tending its lead to 13-5 with a 5-0 run, consisting of consecutive errors by the Panthers and a Colonel ser-vice ace.
Consecutive points by the Pan-thers led to a 13-7 frame, but forced the Colonels to call a timeout, but the Panthers would get no closer, falling in the upset, 15-8, to end their season.
Senior outside hitter Reynae Hutchinson led all players with21 kills, behind a .259 attack, along with 12 digs. It was her 42nd career double-double performance, fifth most in program history.
The Mattoon native ended her career with 1,258 kills, the fourth best total in Eastern history, as she was a three-time All-OVC selection.
Classmate Amy Martin followed with 15 kills, as she finished her fi-nal game with .312 attack and four blocks.
All-OVC team member middle blocker Stephanie Arnold had eight kills and three blocks, as she fin-ished her career in Eastern’s top 10 in both blocks and attack.
The Panthers return sophomore setter Marah Bradbury, an All-OVC selection, and sophomore outside hitter Abby Saalfrank, a preseason All-OVC selection.
Bradbury had 64 assists and 11 digs in the loss, marking her 22nd all-time double-double.
Saalfrank led the Panthers with a .360 hit percentage along with 10 kills.
Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812
Panthers upset by ColonelsTeam loses in five sets to EKU, ends season
Eastern, UT-Martin set for sesaon finale
Crunk’s late free throws sink Loyola
JAson HowELL | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE wsSenior guard Jordyne Crunk goes up for a basket against Loyola on thursday in Lantz arena. the panthers beat the ramblers 81-80.
By Bob reynoldsStaff Reporter | @BobReynoldsDEN
With 3.6 seconds left in the game Thursday, Jordyne Crunk received a pass on the left elbow from Mor-gan Palombizio, took a couple steps, went up for the lay-up and was fouled by Loyola forward Ayrealle Beavers.
Crunk, after missing 1-of-2 free throws earlier in the game, was sent to the line again for a chance to win the game with .9 seconds left, down 80-79.
While it was dead silent in Lantz Arena, Crunk sat at the line and hit the first free throw, tying the game. Crunk then walked up to the line and hit the second free throw, giv-ing the Panthers an 81-80 win, for their first win of the season and Debbie Black’s first win as the East-ern’s coach.
Crunk said the play was not for her at first, but that changed after Loyola called a timeout after Black called a timeout with 3.6 seconds left to play.
“It was set up for Morgan, and at the last second, Coach Black changed it, because the ball was re-ally far out,” Crunk said. “Her exact words were ‘just turn around and try to get to the basket and shoot,’ and that is exactly what I tried to do.”
Crunk finished with 20 points on the day on 5-of-10 shooting and 9-of-11 from the free-throw line.
Black said she had no doubt Crunk was going to make those fi-nal free throws.
“Jordyne is our leader and our best free throw shooter,” Black said. “I think that missing that one free throw, helped her make the next two. She focused and concentrated.”
After Sabina Oroszova hit a layup to give the Panthers their biggest lead of the night at 75-70, the Ram-blers would go on a 10-4 run late in the game to give Loyola a one point lead, capped off by a layup by Troy Hambric.
Oroszova had her third-straight double-double, with 26 points on 9-of-17 shooting, including 2-of-2 from the 3-point line and also had 12 rebounds.
Loyola coach Sheryl Swoopes said
Eastern did a nice job of finding Oroszova every opportunity they got.
“She can put it on the floor, she can post up, and she can step back and hit the three,” Swoopes said.
“We were trapping ball screens, and they put her in ball screens. They did a nice job of reading what we were doing. When our post player would come up to trap, she would slip to the basket and we didn’t have
a rotation.”Eastern is now 1-3 on the season.
Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812
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