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ByBobGaluskiEntertainment Editor
In a world that relies heavily on technology, a cultural anthropologist turns his attention to what society loses in the process — a diminishing era he calls “the age of wonder.”
Michael Wesch is coming to East-ern to present his case for why soci-ety as a whole should not depend so much on technology and social me-dia.
His presentation, “The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever,” will take place from 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m Thursday in the theater of the Doud-na Fine Arts Center.
Wesch said one of the best ways to describe society now comes from a story about Seymour Papert, a man who wanted to know how giraffes sleep.
Paper t , Wesch s a id , looked through his books to find the answer but became more interested in how
he found the answer. “(Papert) imagined a machine
that would allow even small chil-dren to use speech, touch or gestures to quickly navigate through a knowl-edge space much broader than the contents of any printed encyclope-dia,” he said.
Wesch said society has become a “knowledge machine."
“We now live in the age of the knowledge machine, but it enters our classrooms as a distraction device,” he
said. “The key is that the knowledge machine runs on wonder.”
Wesch said advancing social me-dia and technology have diluted the classroom and while they are useful tools, they need “wonder to run.”
“We have to retool our class-
rooms to inspire our students to wonder, to ask questions they have never asked before, to challenge their taken-for-granted assumptions, and to never stop asking,” Wesch said.
Age of wonder comes to end with visiting scholar"The key is that the knowledge machine runs on wonder." Michael Wesch, cultural anthropologist
C AMPUS|PRESENTATION
ByStephanieMarkhamAdministration Editor
The Faculty Senate passed a resolu-tion to support banning tobacco use on campus during its meeting Tues-day.
Members passed the resolution with seven supporting votes, one vote against and two abstentions.
Gary Bulla, a biology professor and Faculty Senate member of the Tobac-co Coalition, said the proposal would benefit the entire university.
“Our contention is that, for the benefit and the health of the universi-ty as a whole, we think that it’s to our advantage to make the university to-bacco-free,” he said.
Bulla said nicotine gums, nico-tine patches and artificial cigarettes can help curb current smokers’ ad-dictions, and coaches are available through the Health Education and Resource Center to assist students in reversing their habits.
“Our surveys confirm that 8 per-cent of students start smoking once they get here, and 16 percent increase their habits,” he said. “Anything we do to promote smoking by allowing it in various areas we think is a detri-ment to their long-term health.”
Bulla also said 830 universities in the United States have become smoke-free or tobacco-free as of De-cember.
Jeffrey Ashley, a political science professor and Faculty Senate mem-ber, said smoking on campus is an is-sue for building service workers who have to spend time picking up ciga-rette butts.
“I’m not one to tell somebody how to behave or what they can and can’t become addicted to, but when it comes to institutional cost in terms of maintenance to pick up after this, it becomes more of a problem,” Ashley said.
Ashley also asked if banning tobac-co would be comparable to banning trans-fats.
Bulla said that, unlike eating, to-bacco use is not necessary.
“Trans fats don’t even come into
the same ballpark as the negative ef-fects of smoking,” he said. “Trans fats have an effect to be sure, but the ef-fect is much milder than anything you would compare to smoking.”
Kiran Padmaraju, an education professor and Faculty Senate mem-ber, asked how the rule would be en-forced.
“We’re looking for a policy of a soft-nudge approach,” Bulla said. “We implement the policy, we pub-licize it very well, post some signage and let everyone know that this is a tobacco-free campus. Then, if we see people abusing it, we simply have people from the HERC hand out pamphlets to remind them.”
Bulla said other universities that use the “soft-nudge approach” have been widely successful in enforce-ment.
“If they abuse too much, then we cross that road when we come to it, but there’s no reason to anger people by trying to shove them off campus,” Bulla said.
He said members of the coalition has presented the proposal to the Civ-il Service Council, Student Senate and Staff Senate, but they are await-ing responses before bringing the pro-posal to the Council on University Planning and Budget.
The CUPB would then take the proposal to President Bill Perry for approval.
The Faculty Senate also debat-ed on how to respond to questions from Chicago State University’s Fac-ulty Senate.
Faculty Senate members of Chica-go State University sent an email ask-ing for input regarding the investiga-tion of President Wayne Watson’s re-cent hiring process.
According to an investigative re-port conducted by the shared gov-ernance committee of Chicago State University’s Faculty Senate, Watson neglected to follow the university’s procedure when he hired three new faculty members in the criminal jus-tice department.
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Residence hall decrease affects funding, services
ByChacourKoopSpecial Projects Reporter
The number of students l iv-ing in Eastern’s residence halls has decreased 23 percent over the past five years — forcing universi-ty housing and dining director to provide the same services with less funding.
Director Mark Hudson is now working for ways to lessen the ef-fects felt by students.
As Eastern’s enrollment has de-creased over the past few years, so
has the income for the Housing and Dining Services.
The income – student room and board bills – dropped from about $31.2 million in 2010 to about $29.7 million in 2012.
Hudson said fulfilling the needs and requests of students is ongoing challenge.
“They pay a lot of money to stay here, though it’s cheaper than most in-state universities,” Hudson said.
Based on results from student evaluations and surveys, Housing and Dining has been continuing to provide students with quality living arrangements.
Last year, 94 percent of students reported an “overall enjoyment” of on-campus living.
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Court, University Court and Uni-versity Apartments have remained steady over the past five years.
Housing and Dining has also completed multiple large-scale ren-ovations in Lincoln and Douglas halls along with Stevenson Tower from 2008 to 2010.
A $1.5 million renovation was completed in McKinney Hall this past summer.
There are two funds that allow Housing and Dining to keep fund-ing more expensive projects: the project directors account and a bond entity between Housing and Dining Services, the Student Rec-reation Center and the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.
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Besides taking care of her Eng-lish Bulldogs, a local kennel owner spends her time hosting fundraisers and donating money to babies, kids and new moms.
Kelly Rardin, owner of Kel-rc Kennels, started the “For the love Adlai J.” fund in 2009 after the death of her grandson Adlai J. Schrock in 2008.
She said she started the fund to donate money to organizations that focus on the health and welfare of families and their young children.
According to the Discovery Health website, the average term for normal pregnancy is 40 weeks.
Rardin said Schrock was born at 22 weeks, four and a half months too early for a normal pregnancy.
She said a lot of errors hap-pened during the labor that caused Schrock’s death.
She said she made a promise to devout her life to making sure mis-takes that took her grandson did not happen again.
The fund’s first donations were to “Now Lay Me Down to Sleep” and “Empty Arms” groups, which both concentrate on helping fami-lies who have lost a baby or child, Rardin said.
The fund also raised about $400 to give to St. Jude’s Children’s Re-search Hospital and $1,800 for the
March of Dimes.Rardin said she has raised almost
$3,000 through her efforts with the fund.
To raise money to donate, Rardin hosts bazaars, or church benefit sale.
Each bazaar is a three-day event that includes vendors and a raffle.
She said the money from a bazaar in November 2012, it has enabled the fund to do a lot more.
“Since then, we have done so much more than what we’ve done in the past,” Rardin said. “This time, we’ve given baby blankets to One Stop Shop.”
Rardin said the fund has also pro-vided gas money to a local mother whose premature baby remains in the hospital.
She said she plans on hosting two more bazaars for 2013 than she did for 2012 — a spring bazaar, a ba-zaar during Eastern’s Family Week-end and a Christmas-themed bazaar in November.
Rardin said during the spring ba-zaar, she hopes to have an Adlai’s Kid Corner as a place for kids to go and have fun.
The spring bazaar will take place March 15, 16 and 17 at the Coles County Fairgrounds in the mer-chant building.
She said 100 percent of the mon-ey raised for the raffle will be donat-ed to the fund, along with money the vendors pay for space.
Rardin said she struggles with the
guilt of her grandson’s death every day.
“I promised Adlai to not let his death be in vain,” Rardin said.
But overall, she said her main goal is to take the pain she felt af-
ter the death and turn it into some-thing positive in Adlai J. Schrock’s name.
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Resident creates fund to benefit children, babies
JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSCharleston resident Kelly Rardin stands with one of the only pic-tures of her deceased grandchild Adlai who passed away because of premature delivery complications. After his death, Rardin began "For the Love of Adlai J Fund" which is a fund that supports the health of pregnant women and their children.
By Amanda Wilkinson City Editor
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Police use social media to identify suspectsBy Amanda Wilkinson City Editor
A social networking website has helped aid local police in identifying crime suspects and has also helped citizens feel connected to their com-munity.
The Charleston Police Depart-ment created a Facebook page in 2009. They started using the page to post press releases to get tips on cas-
es last year. Lt. Brad Oyer of CPD said the po-
lice department wanted a way to get messages out to the public.
He said they had tried a system to send alerts to people via text message and email, but only a small number of people had signed up.
Oyer said the department already had a Facebook page, and once they started posting more, more people started following them.
He said he posts about 80 percent
of what is on their Facebook, while Deputy Chief David Chambers and the detectives post the other 20 per-cent.
Oyer said the social media web-site is a good venue to communicate what is going on in the community because more people rely on websites like Facebook to communicate.
“More and more people in this day in age use social media over some old-er, traditional means of media,” Oyer said.
The press releases posted are the same press releases given out to TV stations and newspapers when an event occurs.
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A new registered student organiza-tion seeks to give a student perspective on finding internships and to empha-size the importance of them in the cur-rent society.
The Student Internship Ambassa-dors is a group of about 20 students who work with the Career Services Of-fice to give workshops and panels about internships, externships and shadowing programs.
Katie Vigil, the internship/extern-ship coordinator, created the organiza-tion in October 2012 because she said she wanted students to help each other find programs.
“My vision for the group was that they can be a voice for the students,” Vigil said. “A lot of the time when the information comes from our office, it’s a different perspective.”
Loren Jacobs, a senior kinesiology and sports studies major, said the group seeks to connect with new students to increase the awareness.
“Our main goal is to help educate students on the professional benefits of internships and externships and help-ing them prepare themselves to find and land internships,” said Jacobs, the coaching and programming chairper-son of the organization.
Vigil said the information the group gives is the same information that Ca-reer Services give to students, but she thinks it is better received coming from other students.
Brandon Goodman, the group’s
president and a junior business manage-ment major, said the main objective of the group is to bring internship aware-ness to students at Eastern and want to connect them with local businesses.
Vigil said the group is still forming and is focusing on awareness while Vig-il helps form more of the connections with internships.
“Another reason why I created this group is that it provides students with a way to get experience with their ma-jor and prepares them before they go out and have a formal internship,” Vig-il said.
Internships are important for stu-dents to have before they get a job, she said.
“It’s almost required anymore for a student to have either an internship or some form of experiential learning,” Vigil said.
Yazmin Rodriguez, a freshman soci-ology major and member of the group, said having an internship helps students learn about the field they are going into and helps them see if they want to con-tinue within their field.
“They make sure that it is a job they want, and they know their strengths and weakness for the future,” Rodri-guez said.
Vigil said a majority of the ambassa-dors have not had a formal internship, and it is not a requirement to join the group.
Goodman said he did not join be-cause he had an internship but because he wanted to learn how to get one.
“I knew this was going to be heavily tied to (getting an internship), so it only
made sense,” Goodman said.Goodman said he wants to increase
student connections with business so students can network with them for more opportunities.
Jacobs said this semester the group
wants to do more workshops and in-ternships panels to increase networking for the students.
“It’s a great way to become involved and meet new people and is a résumé-builder, but more importantly you kind
of feel a sense of pride giving back to Eastern and the student body, trying to people,” Jacobs said.
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C AMPUS |STUDENT AMBASSADORS
New internship RSO educates students By Samantha McDaniel Student Governance Editor
MARCUS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKatie Vigil, adviser for the Student Internship Ambassadors registered student organization, explains the purpose of the group Tuesday in the Career Services Office of the Human Services Building.
C AMPUS | PROMOTING STUDENT HEALTH
Peer Educators train for daily conflictsBy Bob Galuski Entertainment Editor
On Eastern’s campus, students can help train other students to become instructors who can aid in everyday situations and conflicts.
Rob McKinney, the community or-ganizing and leadership coordinator, said the program helps students un-derstand which situations require nec-essary help.
“If you see two guys having an argu-ment, you can assess the situation and ask if the situation needs you to inter-vene,” McKinney said. “If the situation does require that, you’ll have the skills to do so.”
Amanda Woolard, the assistant di-rector for health education and pro-motion, said she would like more peo-ple to take part in the bystander train-
ing, which helps in controversial situ-ations.
“I want Eastern to be a bystander university,” she said.
The Peer-to-Peer program, which refers to students helping teach oth-er students, also does more than just training.
“We have events at Pantherpalooza, help run Relay for Life and take part in the EIU counter,” McKinney said.
The EIU counter is an event where Peer Educators set up a display at the Student Recreation Center in order to promote a healthier lifestyle, McKin-ney said.
The Peer-to-Peer program had a dis-play set up at Pantherpalooza in 2012 about the health advantages of a good night’s sleep.
McKinney said he was part of the graduate program with Health Ser-
vices when he joined in May and be-came involved with the organization through his program.
The Peer Educators meet twice a week in the spring.
McKinney said the subcommittees involved in the planning of activities like Relay for Life will be able to de-vote more attention to its execution.
“The committees should take the weeks we have off to meet with each other individually to continue plan-ning,” he said.
During the regular meetings, the or-ganization goes over upcoming events and training for the bystander pro-gram.
On Tuesday, the organization voted on the theme for the 2013 Health Fair.
The choices were between “The Health Game: Bring Your Buzzers” and “Highway to Good Health.”
“The Health Game: Bring Your Buzzers” would be a game show-in-spired fair, complete with noisemakers and questions, McKinney said.
“Highway to Good Health” would involve students working their way through a road of health decisions, he added.
Lacretia Brazzleton, a junior health studies major, said Tuesday was her first meeting.
“I heard about it from one of my friends who are in this, and they con-vinced me to come since it was part of my major,” she said.
The Peer-to-Peer organization will meet again at 7 p.m. Jan. 22 in the Oakland Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
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C AMPUS | OPEN SEATS
Student Senate to seek 5 new membersBy Samantha McDaniel Student Governance Editor
The Student Senate will be accept-ing applications until Jan. 18 to fill five open seats for the semester.
Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gu-rick, a sophomore business major, said it is his goal to have the five seats filled by the second Student Senate meeting on Jan. 23.
The secretary position is also open on the Student Senate.
Students interested in filling out an application can fill one out at the student government website or in the Student Activity Center in the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. University Union.
The Student Senate will have a ta-ble set up in the Union on Friday,
Monday and Tuesday to recruit mem-bers and provide information to stu-dents.
Representatives will also have a ta-ble at Pantherpalooza on Jan. 16.
Gurick said he and three other members are starting an educational program where they plan to inform and educate the new Student Senate members.
“Instead of having one orientation before the first meeting, we are going to do different topics for about half an hour before each meeting,” Gur-ick said.
He said the topics they will cover will range from legislation to the re-quirements of the Student Senate.
“A lot of the existing people did a good job last time of helping transi-
tion the new people in so I see that being the same for this semester as well,” Gurick said.
Student Body President Kaci Abolt, a senior communication stud-ies major, said she wants to get some new people in the Student Senate to help brainstorm new ideas.
“I hope we get some people who are new to the university, new to lead-ership and new to student govern-ment because that is just where all those ideas come in,” Abolt said. “I think transition has been really pos-itive.”
Gurick said they will have 10 new senators for the beginning of this se-mester, after they fill the five open seats.
Gurick said applicants have to have
a minimum of a 2.5 GPA, complete a minimum of two office hours a week, be in good standing with the univer-sity, serve on a Student Senate com-mittee and attend all weekly Student Senate meetings.
Student Senate members also have to serve as a liaison to a registered stu-dent organization and relay informa-tion between the two groups.
Gurick said the Student Senate members have to be active on cam-pus.
“We expect them to be doing things and advocating for the stu-dents first and foremost,” Gurick said.
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Student Senate has right prioritiesAs representatives of the Eastern com-
munity, Student Senate should con-stantly be putting the student com-
munity first.In Tuesday’s issue of The Daily Eastern News,
Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gurick said one of his main goals will be developing stronger communication between the senate and the rest of the student body.
Gurick said he would do this through things such as the Student Outreach On the Road program. For the program, senate members collect feedback from students while sitting at tables around campus.
This is how it should be. Student senators, like other public officials, should be constantly seeking the thoughts and feedback of their constituents.
As Gurick said, Student Senate should be advocating for students, and this can only be done effectively with constant communication between senate and the rest of the student body.
While this is a good first step for Student Senate, it is only the begin-ning of what should be done. When collecting feedback, senators should always be thinking of how they can apply student concerns to their work and programs they put on. Not every student concern may require an entire program of course, but when looking for new event ideas, Student Senate should be looking at student wants first.
Another way to make student activities a priority are to include other
student organizations, one of the primary goals of Jenna Mitchell, the student vice president for stu-dent affairs.
This is an excellent idea as well, and will help infuse Student Senate with new ideas. It will also help keep the senate accountable and transparent as Mitchell said.
As a bridge between Eastern students and the administration, the senate should also make communication between the groups a priority. After collecting student concerns, the senate can present their findings to faculty senate or other administrators.
Similarly, Student Senate should make it a goal to explain faculty issues such as pensions and layoffs to students. These issues have a wide reach and will affect students in ways they may not realize. The senate could spread this information to students while seeking feedback from them during the Student Outreach On the Road program and could also publish it on their website.
The senate seems to have the right idea about its goals and what it should accomplish during the upcoming semester. Ideally, the group will live up to its potential and hopefully does not fall into infighting and frequent con-cerns about senate bylaws.
The senate should realize its time is best spent serving the students in more direct ways through programs and advocacy, just as is the case of oth-er public officials.
This may be the most conservative column I ever write, so stay with me, because it’s about gun control.
The United States is special. In almost no oth-er country in the world do citizens have a consti-tutional right to carry around artillery that could rival smaller national militaries. However, with great power comes great responsibility.
In my opinion, the conversation on this top-ic has been tragically limited. Once again poli-ticians have turned a complex social issue into a cage match, offering only two possible solutions to frightened voters: more guns, less guns. Nei-ther is correct, and both wholly miss the point.
The data will show that the more guns peo-ple own in an area, the more people die from gun violence. However, strengthen all the regulation your liberal heart desires and you still have the mass shootings in Newton, Colorado, Virginia Tech, and every other mass killing that made the news in the last few years. Gun control keeps guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, not crim-inals, gun control cuts down on inner-city vio-lence, but we haven’t been talking about inner-city
violence. That’s what frightens us about these kill-ings, the shooter looks like the guy who just deliv-ered my pizza.
I’m not worried about the pizza guy. My house is full of guns. We even have those high-capacity magazines the Democrats are so wor-ried about. This doesn’t mean I’ll be at the next Tea Party rally with an AK-47 strapped to my back, but it also doesn’t mean I think distribu-tors should be able to skirt background checks at gun shows. There is middle ground to be held in the gun debate. So, perhaps the issue isn’t re-ally guns at all.
There are two things nearly all mass-shooters of the last 30 years have had in common: lots of
legally-obtained firepower, and complex mental health issues for which they were not receiving treatment. Interestingly, in these last 30 years, gun sales have gone up and federal funding for mental health care has gone down.
Chances are that the friendly pizza guy was unarmed, but he may very well have had a men-tal illness.
In a country where some still go without ba-sic health care, individuals suffering from men-tal disorders are often the first to slip through the cracks of our increasingly fragmented sys-tem. According to Scientific American, almost half of us will experience some kind of anxiety, depression, or other mental health disturbance at some point in our lifetime. Of those who do suffer from mental illness, 60 percent go un-treated. The clincher, good citizens: it is easier (and less expensive) to get a gun than it is to get treatment for a mental health disorder.
Mia Tapella is a senior English and political science major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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OUR POSITION • Situation: Student Senate presented its goals for the upcoming semester. • Stance: Reaching out to the student body is a great start for Student Senate.
TUESDAY’S QUESTION
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Not as much as I used to :/
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Yep! I personally think everyone here that I’ve met is friendly and the small campus makes me feel safe, if that makes sense.
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By Stephanie MarkhamAdministration Editor
President Bill Perry will be ad-dressing the state of the university during the EIU Annuitants Associa-tion meeting Thursday.
The association was organized in 1971 and includes people who have retired from the university.
Frank McCormick, the secretary of the association, said the group meets to keep retirees informed of events on campus and current legis-lation.
“Now that state legislature is con-templating changes in pensions, our members can learn up-to-date in-formation about the contemplat-ed changes to their pensions and to their health benefits,” he said.
McCormick said Perry’s speech normally covers the status of enroll-ment, finances, planned program changes or changes to the physical structure of the campus.
“He gives us an overall picture of the health of the university,” McCor-mick said. “It’s just a way for him to communicate news about the uni-versity to retired faculty and staff.”
Cindy White, the executive direc-tor of the Charleston Area Cham-ber of Commerce, will also be talk-ing about opportunities retirees and community members can participate in.
McCormick said this will be the first time a representative from the Chamber of Commerce speaks to the association.
“We try to get a variety of speak-ers; for example, we’ve had a repre-sentative of Coles County Habitat for Humanity speak before,” he said.
He said the executive board of the association tries to keep their pro-grams varied.
“One time, we had a retired speech faculty member give his in-terpretation of Abraham Lincoln,” McCormick said.
Steve Rich, the assistant vice pres-ident for university advancement, will be giving the group an overview of Alumni Services.
Alan Baharlou, the legislative chairman and newsletter editor of the association, said Alumni Ser-vices provides many duties, includ-ing organizing meetings and keeping members in contact.
“It’s going to be a collaborative, collective exchange of information,” he said. “It’s a very important func-tion to share and keep EIU retirees of all levels connected.”
Baharlou said the association also meets to discuss the scholarship awarded to a student every year, in addition to serving retirees.
“It’s really a dynamic system of in-teraction that provides a lot of re-courses,” he said.
Julie Sterling, the president of the association, said there would be nothing voted upon during the meeting.
“It’s a membership meeting, and essentially we have just a regular pro-gram,” she said.
Sterling said the association has four membership meetings per year.
The association will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Neal Welcome Cen-ter.
Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812
UNIVERSIT Y|ANNUITANTS
President to address annuitants Thursday
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Krishna Thomas, an assistant di-rector of faculty development, said Wesch would be the first of the fac-ulty development department’s se-ries of “Visiting Scholars.”
Wesch visits 30 campuses a year to give lectures and presentations on his latest anthropological re-search.
While his presentation will focus on education in the “Age of What-ever,” he will also discuss the dou-ble meaning of the “end of wonder.”
“In my talk, I will discuss the end of wonder in both senses of the word - as a historical end, where we can find evidence of a definite de-
cline in wonder among our kids, as well as the end or purpose of won-der in today's world,” he said.
Thomas also said the presenta-tion was important because in the “Age of Whatever,” whie students have access to information, that in-formation information has steadily been giving these students the feel-ing of being disconnected, tuned-out and alienated.
“Such problems are especial-ly prevalent in education, where the Internet — which must be the most remarkable creativity and col-laboration machine in the history of the world — often enters our class-
rooms as a distraction device,” she said.
Wesch said the key to getting through the disconnection and alienation is the proper setting for students to learn.
“We need to create environments that give students a sense of pur-pose, empowers them to make con-nections to new knowledge and to each other, and most important-ly, gives them the freedom to fail,” Wesch said.
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812
SUBMIT TED PHOTOMichael Wesch will be presenting “The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever,” from 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursday in the theater of Doudna Fine Arts Center.
The project director’s account – a savings fund from each previous fiscal year – funded most of the renovations in Lincoln and Douglas halls along with Stevenson Tower Dining recon-struction.
Now, that fund is depleting because of Housing and Dining’s tightening budget. Between 2008 and 2011, that fund had anywhere from $4 to $5 mil-lion each year. This year the fund has $300,000.
That amount of money could not
have funded the McKinney Hall proj-ect; this is where the bond entity comes in.
Housing and Dining was able to fund the McKinney Hall project in large part because of the bond entity – a sharing of funds between the three or-ganizations – which offers flexibility in financing special projects. Housing and Dining usually pays in about $1.1 mil-lion a year.
Though these accounts give him some flexibility, Hudson admits he will
have to do things differently if enroll-ment does not reestablish itself.
Carman Hall, the largest residence hall that typically houses freshmen, de-creased by 400 students over the past five years.
Chacour Koop can be reached at 581-2812
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Andrew Methven, a biology pro-fessor and chairman of Eastern’s Faculty Senate, said he had con-cerns of responding without hear-ing from Watson or Chicago State’s Provost.
Amy Rosenstein, an education professor and senate member, said the language used in the drafted re-sponse might be too strong.
The Faculty Senate resolved to
continue to add to the response drafted by Grant Sterling, a phi-losophy professor and Faculty Sen-ate member, and to add a disclaim-er stating that their response applies only if the submitted statements are true.
Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812
» TOBACCO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
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By Alex McNameeStaff Reporter
The Eastern women’s basket-ball team went 3-3 over the holiday break, winning all three games in a row and losing all three in a row.
It was a holiday break full of streaks as the Panthers started at Wisconsin and lost to the Big Ten opponent by 29 points.
Then, the Panthers toured Illi-nois, losing to Western and North-ern Illinois in close games.
The game against Western Il-linois was a two-point loss for the Panthers despite an 18-point per-formance by senior forward Mari-ah King.
Both teams were held to low scores in the Northern Il l inois game, one that Eastern lost
48-38.The game was the fourth of the
season in which the Panthers scored 47 points or fewer.
The Northern Illinois score was the Panthers’ season low — and lowest ever — as they failed to score more than their previous low of 39 points earlier this season against
Indiana State in a 30-point loss.The low scoring in the four
games is unfamiliar territory for the Panthers, who never scored fewer than 50 points last season.
In fact, the Panthers only scored in between 50 and 60 points six times last season.
Payne emergingRed-shirt sophomore guard Kat-
lyn Payne has set a career-high in points in two of the past four games.
Her current career-high is 17 points, which she scored Saturday on the road against
Morehead State.Payne averages seven points per
game this season and has started ev-ery game.
Her playing time has increased in the absence of senior forward Syd-ney Mitchell, who spent most of the first half of the season trying to play through injuries.
Mitchell has been an integral part of the Panthers’ success in her ca-reer. She averaged 11 points per game last season.
Nixon chasing recordSenior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon is
257 points away from breaking for-
mer Panther Rachel Galligan’s all-time scoring record.
Nixon averages 12.9 points per game this season. Her average has increased every season in her career. Last year, she averaged 16.3 points per game.
OVC glanceAs the teams ready for full-time
conference play, the Ohio Valley Conference standings are tight.
Tennessee Tech leads the confer-ence with the best overall record (9-7) and conference record (3-0). The overall record is only one win better than Eastern.
Eastern’s upcoming opponent, Jacksonville State, is looking for its first win this season.
The Gamecocks are 0-16 this sea-son and 0-4 early in their confer-ence schedule.
The Panthers are in the middle of the pack in the west division of the OVC. Eastern is tied with South-east Missouri and Tennessee-Martin with 2-1 OVC records, though
Eastern has the better overall re-cord of the three (8-7).
The Panthers return home after a long holiday season of road trips. They will play Jacksonville State at 4 p.m. Saturday in Lantz Arena.
Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-2812
State
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FILE PHOTO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore forward Sabina Oroszova fights for control of the ball with Bradley’s senior gaurd Katie Yohn during the game on Nov. 12, 2012 at Lantz Arena during the game against Bradley University. The Panthers face Jackson-ville State Saturday at 4 p.m. in Lantz Arena.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | OVER VIEW
Eastern experiences lowest scoring outing ever
The Texas transfer from Kilgore College recorded a career-high 30 points in the Governors’ loss at Southeast Missouri to start off the week. Betran nailed 12-of-24 shots and 6-of-10 3-pointers in the game, while also bringing in five re-bounds, dishing out five assists and notching three steals in his 37 min-utes of play.
He followed that with 22 points, a season-high six assists, two re-bounds and two steals in Austin Peay’s overtime loss at Tennessee-Martin on Saturday. In that game, he sank all 10 of his free throw at-tempts.
Betran is currently second in 3-point percentage (47.5%), fifth in points per game (17.1), eighth in minutes per game (33.3) and ninth in free throw percentage (79.6) in the OVC.
Lanerryl Johnson earned OVC Freshman of the Week for the sec-ond time this season. The red-shirt freshman guard averaged 13 points, 1.5 assists, one rebound and one steal per game last week.
He began the week with his sec-ond 20-point performance on the year, hitting 42.9 percent of his shots and 6-of-8 free throws on his way to 21 points off the bench in just 22 minutes.
The following game, Johnson earned the first start of his career two days later against Belmont. Johnson scored five points, record-ed two rebounds, dished out two assists and had two steals against the Bruins.
Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Ohio Valley Conference Women’s Basketball StandingsTeam
East:Tennesse TechBelmontEastern KentuckyMorehead StateTennessee StateJacksonville State
West:Southeast MissouriTennesse-MartinEastern IllinoisMurray StateSIUEAustin Peay
OVC
3-03-12-11-11-20-4
2-12-12-11-21-20-2
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9-78-88-65-115-90-16
7-87-108-78-67-85-9
MCT(Morehead, Ky.) - Five Southern Illinois University Edwards-ville players scored in double figures Monday but a hot-shooting Morehead State team picked up the victory 75-72 in women's Ohio Valley Conference basketball action at the Johnson Center.
SIUE's Valerie Finnin matched her season high with 16 points. Tierny Aus-tin also poured in 16 points and added nine rebounds.
"We had the effort necessary late in the game," said SIUE coach Paula Buscher.
SIUE, which nearly erased a 17-point second half deficit, dropped to 7-8 overall and 1-2 in the OVC.
Michaela Herrod recorded her first double-double of the season with 14 points and 10 rebounds. It was the eighth career double-double for the se-
nior from Alton.Senior Raven Berry, a Collinsville
graduate, finished with 12 points, nine rebounds, and a career-high seven as-sists. Jazmin Hill, an Althoff graduate, was the only player off the bench in double figures. She scored 11 behind a team-leading three three-pointers.
Three-pointers came much easier for Morehead State. The Eagles collect-ed 11 in the game with nine in the first half.
Buscher said the Cougars need to be hungrier at the beginning of the game. And that responsibility, she noted, lies with her.
"I need to do a better job of getting us ready from the opening tip," said Buscher. "I have to have them more fo-cused at the opening tip."
Morehead State, 5-11 overall and
1-1 in OVC play, built up a 39-24 lead at halftime behind 56 percent shooting from the field and 9-of-14 shooting (64 percent) from three-point range. The Eagles shot 52 percent for the game and hit 18 of 20 from the free throw line.
Eagle guards Almesha Jones and Terrice Robinson combined for 52 of Morehead State's 75 points. Jones was one point shy of her career high with 30 points. Robinson hit the 20-plus scoring mark for the fourth time this season.
"You have to give credit to More-head. They stepped up and made shots," said Buscher.
SIUE, which shot 39 percent from the field, picked up a hot shooter in Finnin who finished 6 of 11 from the field.
Morehead State withstands SIUE
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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: #EIU men’s basketball sign a Wisconsin recruit in Jake Verhagen for the 2013 class.
Panthers show promise in OVC; players heating up
Long layoff leads to more practice time
FILE PHOTO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSTaylor Jones, a red-shirt senior guard, prepares to pass the ball during the game against Trinity International on Nov. 5, 2012. The Panthers will take on Tennessee Tech on Thursday.
DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior Dan Enge swims the butterfly during the meet against Ball State at Padovan Pool on Friday Nov. 9. The Panthers won their last meet against Evansville and go to Macomb on Jan. 18 for their next meet.
By Anthony CatezoneSports Editor
There is not much promise in a 0-3 conference start, but the Pan-thers may have found one in se-nior guard Taylor Jones. In his three years as a Panther, Jones is produc-ing more than he ever has. Head coach Jay Spoonhour said the in-creased playing Jones has received has simply been because of his play at the guard position.
“Taylor Jones has been playing very well,” Spoonhour said. “He has gotten more playing time because he has earned them, especially since we have gotten into our league. The OVC has faster point guards than many other conferences. It’s rough, but Taylor Jones has really been do-ing a good job.”
He is second on the team with 10 points per game in Ohio Valley Conference play. Jones is shooting 53 percent from 3-point range in his first three conference games (8-of-15), as opposed to his 35 percent from 3-point range in non-confer-ence games.
Jones is not the only Panther who is on a hot streak from be-hind the arc. Sophomore forward Josh Piper has knocked down at least one 3-pointer in 14 consecu-tive games.
He hit three in the loss at More-
head State, which marks five games this season that Piper has drained at least three 3-pointers. His season high is five against Toledo.
Piper ranks sixth in the OVC in 3-point shooting percentage with 44.8 percent.
Wisconsin recruitHead coach Jay Spoonhour has
signed a post player from Wiscon-sin in Jake Verhagen. He is the first recruit of the 2013 class. Verhagen is a 6-foot, 6-inch forward at Apple-ton Wes High School.
He averaged 16 points and seven rebounds per game his junior sea-son – earning All-Fox Valley League honors. In his senior season, Verha-gen is averaging 13 points per game. He is ranked as the 26th best player in the state of Wisconsin.
Players of the WeekM.J. Rhett, a sophomore forward
from Tennessee State, received his first Ohio Valley Conference Play-er of the Week honor as he stepped up in the absence of senior forward Robert Covington, out four to six weeks with a meniscus tear.
Rhett and the Tigers won two conference road games last week over Tennessee Tech and Jackson-ville State, while on his way to av-eraging a double-double. He aver-aged 12.5 points, 14 rebounds and
2.5 blocks per game, while register-ing a 72.7 shooting percentage.
Rhe t t s co red a c a re e r -h i gh 15 points, sinking 4-of-4 shots and 7-of-11 free throws in a six-point win over Tennessee Tech last Thursday. The 6-foot, 9-inch, 225-pounder also hauled in 12 re-bounds and blocked four shots.
Two days later, he established an-
other career-high, this time in re-bounds, pulling down 16 boards against Jacksonville State to go along with 10 points, one block, one assist and one steal. Rhett now ranks ninth in the OVC with 6.5 rebounds per game.
Austin Peay’s junior guard Trav-is Betran nabbed his fourth OVC Newcomer of the Week honor
in his 2013 campaign. He aver-aged 26 points, 5.5 assists, 3.5 re-bounds and 2.5 steals per game, while shooting 43.6 percent from the field and 44.4 percent from 3-point range. Not to mention, he also was a perfect 10-of-10 at the free throw line.
SWIMMING | PREPERATIONS
By Aldo SotoAssistant Sports Editor
While most students headed back home to enjoy their winter break with friends and family, the Eastern swim team stayed on campus to un-dergo a mid-season training camp.
Head coach Elliott McGill capital-ized on the extended break and con-tinued practices for both the women and men’s swim squads.
“Similar to football and their training camp before the season, we used winter break as a training camp period to get ready for the second-half of the season,” McGill said.
He said the swimmers did enjoy a six-day break, but still far less than
the three-week long duration of win-ter break.
Senior Hailey Foss said the extra practice time was no big deal.
“ Ou r r o u t i n e h a s n’t r e a l l y changed,” Foss said. “Over break we came in and trained very hard, focusing on swimming fast at every practice.”
Every member of the swim team came in daily and practiced two times a day.
“We had one practice in the morning and another at night,” McGill said. “The morning prac-tice would last two hours and the night practice would also be two hours and sometimes two-and-a-half hours.”
The Panthers are in the middle of a month-long gap between compe-titions. Since the men’s team picked up its first win of the season at Evansville on Dec. 15, the Panthers will have waited 34 days until their next opponent in Western Illinois on Jan. 18.
The prev ious t ime the Pan-thers faced an extended time be-tween meets came at their road meet against Evansville.
The 15-day long break between competitions proved to be an advan-tage for the men’s team, as they cap-tured their first win of the season.
The women who have seen some success early in the season bounced back from their fifth-place finish at
the House of Champions meet in Indianapolis in the end of Novem-ber to swim a close meet against the Evansville women’s swim team, only losing by 12 points.
McGill said the major difference between Thanksgiving break and winter break was the rest period the swimmers experienced in November.
“Thanksgiving break served as a natural rest for the swimmers,” Mc-Gill said. During winter break the practices were definitely more in-tense.”
The Panthers have a two-day meet starting on Jan. 18 at Western Mich-igan where they will also compete against South Dakota.
Foss said the winter workouts
took a physical toll on their bodies.“We did a lot of hard sets over the
break and our bodies were very bro-ken down,” Foss said.
Earl ier in the season McGill put the swimmers through gruel-ing workouts that also left the swim teams tired as he expected.
Despite the tired bodies at the time, the coach said he liked the times the swimmers put up during the early stretch of the season.
The month-long layoff stands as the longest time between meets the Panthers will face this season.
Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812
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