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WOMEN FALL TO RACERSEastern’s women’s basketball team was overcome by Murray State 68-58 Monday.
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SENIOR’S LAST SOLOAllison WIlber, as senior music major, performed her final solo recital Sunday as part of the Senior Recital series for music majors.
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BySamanthaMcDanielStudent Governance Editor
The Student Senate members have an open forum to discuss the topic of a tobacco-free campus with students and faculty before writing a resolution on their decision.
The open forum to discuss the pro-posal will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gu-rick, a sophomore business major, said the Student Senate members want to know what the campus communi-ty thinks about the tobacco-free cam-
pus proposal before they draft a reso-lution that will state their opinion on the matter.
Student Body President Kaci Abolt, a senior communication stud-ies major, said the first step the Stu-dent Senate members will take is the forum.
She said the senate members will also look at the results from the recent survey sent out to students about a to-bacco-free campus.
“Obviously we are not going to write anything until we get a wide va-riety of student opinions,” Abolt said. “I know there are a lot of opinions on this issue going both ways.”
The forum is open to anyone be-cause a proposal like the tobacco-free campus will affect everyone from stu-dents to faculty, Gurick said.
“It’s going to be a dialogue between all the different groups, and I believe the Tobacco Coalition will do a short presentation,” he said.
The Tobacco Coalition presented to the Faculty Senate studies that show how other state universities are going smoke- or tobacco-free.
Gurick said if the coalition does present, they will talk about what the proposal is and what they want to see come from it.
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Laughter, songs and high spir-its were in the air as Eastern and Charleston communi-
ty members marched across campus to commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Those participating in the vig-il march Monday were given candles to hold as they made their way from Thomas Hall to the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Vice president of Zeta Nu, David Sims, said the candles were donated by the Newman Catholic Center.
Along the way, the marchers joined in songs such as “We Shall Overcome,” giving the memorial a feel reminiscent to the Civil Rights activist’s own march in 1963.
Brandy Woods, a senior Africana studies major, said this was her first time attending the annual vigil and that she was there to honor King’s memory.
“He paved the way for so African-Americans, like myself, could partici-pate in events like this,” she said. “He may be gone, but his efforts are not for-gotten.”
Conversely, Anthony Boyd, a senior theatre arts major, said he comes to the vigil every year.
“I love celebrating and representing his dream and legacy,” Boyd said.
While marchers were waiting for the service to begin, they were encouraged to sign a “dream board” the fraternity members had put on display.
The board was split into two sec-tions, a dream and a nightmare section.
“The dream side is for your goals and aspirations, and the nightmare one is for any fears you might have,” Sims said. “The point is that your dreams are greater than your nightmares.”
Asia Watt, a freshman elementary
education major, said she was inspired to attend the march because it was rele-vant to her life.
“Think about it, I couldn’t attend a four-year university if not for people like Martin Luther King Jr.,” she said.
Tony Alozie, a senior biological sci-ences major, said he came to show re-spect for the work King contributed to American society.
“He was a profound leader who gave a lot of people a great opportunity,” he said.
The official name of the event was “Dreaming of a Nightmare: Wake Up.”
David Mitchell, a senior communi-cation studies major, was in charge of the theme of this year’s vigil and said he wanted to do something different for 2013.
“Last year’s theme was ‘Dirty Dream,’ so we wanted to go a different direction,” he said. “This is representa-tive of Martin Luther King’s dream to-day being altered.”
Putting together the entire vigil plus the ceremony required a lot of work, Sims said.
“I’m the vice president, so my big-gest duty was just overseeing, making sure everything got done,” he said. “We had to rent out Thomas for the meeting place and the Grand Ballroom for our activities. Other things too, like reach-ing out to brothers and making sure the programs were made, all of that went into this.”
Immediately following the walk, participants were asked to come to the Grand Ballroom of the Union to watch performances in honor of King.
Darius Francis, a senior communi-cation studies major, gave one of the opening acts, a re-enactment of King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
“It’s my way to give back and show my gratitude for him,” Francis said.
A memorial video was also shown, displaying the struggle for civil rights King faced during his time as an activ-ist.
Before the candlelit vigil across cam-pus, students were also honoring King’s memory through volunteer work around Eastern and Charleston.
Rachel Fisher, director of student community service, said there were ap-proximately 250 students signed up for the service day.
“This is the fourth year we’ve had it, and every year the numbers grow,” she said. “I’m very happy and thankful for the numbers we had today.”
She also added that there would be about 200 more service opportu-nities for students throughout the se-mester.
One of the reasons attributed to the higher turn out, Fisher said, was the fact that there were nine projects to choose from – higher than any other year.
“We had projects to benefit orphan-ages, the Big Brother and Big Sister or-ganization, and local senior citizens,” Fisher said.
The project with the most students participating, she said, came at the Sar-ah Bush Lincoln Health System, where volunteers were able to make teddy bears for the pediatric section.
“This was a great way to start a new year, a great way to just kick off the se-mester,” Fisher said.
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PHOTOSBYJACOBSALMICH|THEDAILYEASTERNNE WSJunior biology major Carolyn Boyd has a friend light her candle at the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. candle light vigil on Monday at Thomas Hall. This was Boyd’s first time attending the event. The event has taken place for the last 26 years at Eastern.
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Members of the Zeta Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity lead a can-dle lit march on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. from Thomas Hall to the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The annual event was attended by students as well as members of the community.
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By Amanda WilkinsonCity Editor
The Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting an annual dinner to honor and celebrate local businesses and their successes of this past year.
On Jan. 26, the Chamber will present three awards — the Small Business of the Year award, the Out-standing Citizen of the Year award and the Diplomat of the Year award. The business award will be given to Lifetime Eye Care, the citizen award will be given to Michael J. Metzger, a certified public accountant and partner at Gilbert Metzger & Ma-digan, LLP. The diplomat award will be announced at the dinner.
The Chamber’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony is a formal event used to present these awards, celebrate the past year and bring the local businesses together.
The theme for this year’s dinner is “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” continu-ing the Chamber’s focus on interna-tional travel.
Cindy White, the executive di-
rector of the Chamber, said the theme reflects what they are trying to do with the Chamber this year.
“For the first time in 2013 we’re offering a travel program to China in October, so we’re kind of going with this whole travel, international theme for the annual dinner,” she said.
White said along with the pro-gram they are offering, they will be drawing a raffle for a seven-day resort vacation for two people to more than 3,000 resorts around the world, including in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Carib-bean, Atlantic Islands and Central and South America.
She said participants in the raf-fle do not have to be present at the dinner, but they will be drawing the winner at the end of the night.
She said the recipient of the citi-zen award has to stand out in more than just their job.
“The recipients for this award not only excels at their profession but donates time, resources, expertise to other not-for-profits or charitable organizations,” White said.
Metzger said at the accounting
firm, they believe in the value of rela-tionships and helping their clients by providing individual consideration.
He said the firm believes in giv-ing back to the community.
Metzger is currently involved with several organizations, including Charleston Area Charitable Foun-dation, Clear Water Corporation and Catholic Charities of Coles, Douglas and Edgar Counties Advi-sory Board.
He has also coached youth league baseball and soccer.
Lifetime Eye Care is also being awarded because of their good busi-ness practices, employee benefits and community involvement.
The employees are all active with-in the community and are involved in various groups such as United Way, Charleston Rotary and the Fox Ridge State Park Foundation.
The event will also feature a si-lent auction, a photo booth, a social hour, a buffet dinner and the “State of the City” address by Mayor John Inyart.
Inyart said the speech he gives is usually about 10 minutes long.
“Ten minutes really isn’t that long when you’re trying to tell people what happened in a year,” he said.
White said the Chamber is re-quired to have an annual meeting, but they turn the dinner into some-thing more entertaining.
“Basically it’s a great networking opportunity,” she said. “It’s a chance to bring our chamber members to-gether. Then to add an extra com-ponent to the evening, we do the awards.”
White said the beginning of the event is to discuss what has hap-pened in the Chamber and the for-mer and new presidents talk about past happenings and future goals.
“So it’s good food, it’s an op-portunity for us to talk a bit about what’s going on at the Chamber,” she said.
The dinner will be at 5 p.m. on Jan. 26. in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union's Grand Ball-room.
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A local theater is under renova-tions to keep history alive on the Charleston Square.
The Will Rogers Theatre, 705 Monroe Ave., closed in 2010 after its 71-year time in Charleston.
It was built and opened in 1938.The theater was put on the Na-
tional Register of Historic Plac-es in 1984 and was listed as one of the “Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” in Illinois by the Landmarks Illinois preservation group.
Katie and Jim Troccoli of Ottawa bought the theater in 2011.
The Troccolis also operate the Majestic Theatre in Streator, Ill., and have been involved in its resto-ration since 1995.
Along with friend and partner Tim Burke, who owned the Ma-jestic, they have been restoring the theater for 10 years.
Katie Troccolli said they are un-sure of when the Will Rogers Theatre will open because of a few setbacks.
She said when she first looked at the Will Rogers Theatre, she knew they had found the right theatre to re-store.
“When we looked at the proper-
ty, we felt it had good solid bones to work with,” she said. “Basically it is intact and structurally sound.”
Katie Troccolli said they finally have the architect’s drawing plans for the site.
“We knew this was a big proj-ect and that it would take time and effort to complete,” she said. “We wish it were done yesterday; that however, is unrealistic.”
Katie Troccolli said the biggest obstacle they have come across is getting everything up to today’s codes and standards.
“One of the big hurdles is hav-ing enough bathrooms for today’s codes,” she said. “We had to figure out their placement, and they need to be handicap-accessible.”
Lisa Auten, a Charleston resi-dent, said she hopes the Will Rogers Theatre will not be too modern and will keep its history.
She said she hopes they keep the ceiling intact and make use of the ticket booth out front.
Katie Troccolli said from the out-side it does not look like they are making progress, but the work is happening on the inside.
“There is some progress that you can’t see,” she said. “We do have a new window in and we started to
take down a wall.”She said so far, she and her fami-
ly are the only ones working on the theater.
Together they have taken down an interior wall, removed the snack bar and carpet, patched the roof and fixed up the upstairs bathrooms, she said.
Katie Troccolli said they are also trying to get power to the store-fronts so the spaces can be rented.
She said the Will Rogers The-atre is an important piece of the Charleston community.
“We think that the Will Rog-ers Theatre, as well as other like-theaters in the world, are an eco-nomic anchor for communities like Charleston,” she said. “They are what brought people to the town/commu-nity. Other business feed on the the-ater, thus creating jobs and a positive quality of life in the community.”
Mary Lou Sexton, a Charleston resident, said she does not go to the movie theater very often, but if the Will Rogers was to re-open, she would go more regularly.
However, Katie Troccolli said there is still a lot to do with the ren-ovations and restorations.
She said fixing up the theater is a big project and will take a lot of time and money.
“What you need to understand is that we will complete the project,” she said. “It will happen.”
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A dumpster sits in front of the boarded-up Will Rogers Theatre in Charleston, while the sign reads “We are under restoration.” The theater was listed on Land-marks Illinois’ 2011 “Ten Most Endangered Historic Places” list.
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Draining her last dregs of tea, Al-lison Wilber prepares for her last re-hearsal of her last solo recital of her college career.
Wilber, a senior music major, said the tea helps soothe her throat and is a key part of her preparation before she sings.
“I try not to get too stressed be-fore I perform,” she said. “I take deep breaths and drink lots of wa-ter and tea.”
The soprano singer gave her last recital on Sunday as part of the Se-nior Recital series for music majors.
“A lot of music classes require students to go to recitals or classes, so this is a good way to knock out 25 minutes, through the Senior Re-cital,” she said.
With her last semester at East-ern coming to a close, Wilber has reached a milestone with her final solo recital.
“I’ll still be in the choir, but as for it just being me, this is it,” she said.
Wilber said she first became in-terested in music when she joined choir.
“I was a little late to the game, as far as singing, but I had experience playing piano,” she said.
Since she had been playing the
piano for a while before joining choir, Wilber said she was com-fortable with reading music, which helped her out in her career.
“It all sort of fell into place,” she said.
While the piano playing helped her learn how to read music, when it comes to singing and playing, her views on what music to perform are different.
“When I’m singing I prefer music from the Baroque era of music,” she said. “I’m on a huge Baroque kick right now.”
However, Wilber said she enjoys playing music from the romantic period.
“The Baroque era seems very pure to me,” she said. “It’s one of the greatest periods.”
For her recital, Wilber performed pieces of music in foreign languag-es, such as French and German.
In preparation for her perfor-mance, Wilber said she had to learn French.
“I’m hoping I don’t forget French in the middle of my set,” she said, laughing.
One of the reasons she said she enjoys performing is because when she’s on stage, it feels like time is moving slower than it actually is.
“Not in a bad way. It’s not like I want it to end, but in a good way, like I wish it could last forever,”
Wilber said. After she graduates, Wilber said
she will leave Eastern with a degree in music education and psychology.
With the degrees, she hopes to go into music therapy, helping out people afflicted with autism.
“Music therapy is using music as a tool to improve someone’s life-style,” Wilber said.
She said she was inspired to fol-low this career line by her young-
er cousin, who was diagnosed with autism.
“You can have two separate out-lets for people with autism: Instru-ments and singing,” she said. “Both of them can be used for any of the sensory development issues they might have.”
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Senior performs last recital
By Samantha McDaniel Student Governance
The housing department is con-sidering making Lawson Hall a coed residence hall. After the hall council agreed, the decision has been moved to the Residence Hall Association.
Laura Imbirowicz, the Lawson Hall resident director, said the members of the Lawson Hall Council developed a list of pros and cons of making Law-son coed.
Imbirowicz said one issue the res-idents had was the tradition of the Lawson Ladies.
“Some of the pros brought up was opening up additional single occupan-cy rooms for males, since there is only currently one on campus,” Imbirow-icz said.
Another pro the residents found was that if they have a visitor of the oppo-site sex, they no longer have to take them to another building to shower, she said.
Mark Hudson, the director of Uni-versity Housing and Dining Servic-es, said they worked with the Thomas Hall Council last year to make Thom-as Hall coed by floor because students who were applying for campus hous-
ing showed interest in it. After Thomas Hall and the RHA
passed the proposal, Thomas Hall opened up floors for females.
“Basically what happened is that put us in a shortage for how many male beds that we need,” Hudson said.
The University Housing and Dining Office did a study in the fall semester based on open beds, and there were 26 open beds for men and 400 for wom-en on campus.
“When we converted Thomas Hall we took off four floors of men, so that is 240 beds, and we added that to the women’s side,” Hudson said.
Lawson Hall was proposed to be-come coed because it has 24-hour visi-tation and is used to having more male traffic than Andrews Hall.
If the proposal is passed by the RHA, there will be four floors taken from Lawson Hall for males.
“That will return pretty close to 200 beds back to men and bring that more in balance,” Hudson said.
The reason the imbalance is an is-sue is because there is no room for males to move if they have a problem, he said.
Women, however, have a lot of op-tions to move around, and Hudson
said they wanted to create the same opportunities for the males on cam-pus.
Hudson said they are also trying to create more coed halls because stu-dents applied for that.
“We watch the trends and how peo-ple are applying for the different resi-dences, and what we were seeing was that Taylor, which is the only building for underclassmen coming in directly, was filling up quickly,” Hudson said.
People were being turned away from Taylor Hall, so they looked at Thomas to create more coed space.
“As we looked at other state univer-sities, many do not have any single-gendered buildings, they are all coed,” Hudson said. “We have more than anyone by far.”
Hudson said they had to look at what they were offering versus what the students wanted, and so they start-ed the transition to offer more coed space.
Changing the floors from female to male will not affect the construc-tion of the floors, so they will be able to change back if necessary, Imbirow-icz said.
“Depending on if we fluctuate or not with male or female numbers in
housing, we can adapt accordingly at Lawson,” she said.
Current Lawson Hall residents will be given the opportunity to move buildings if they wish to stay in a sin-gle gendered building, Imbirowicz said.
Also, residents who have already filled out their room and board agree-ments will be given a choice of where they would like to move if their floor is switched to a male floor.
The RHA will vote on the propos-al at its meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday in Andrews Hall before it is sent to the University Housing and Dining Ser-vices Office for a final decision.
Imbirowicz said she thinks the change will be good for the atmo-sphere at Lawson Hall and allow them to create a new tradition.
If the proposal is passed, the hall council will start to rebrand the tradi-tion of the “Lawson Ladies.”
“The only name anyone came up with, kind of in a joking manner, has been saying we are the Lawson La-dies and Lads on campus,” Imbirow-icz said.
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• At 1:33 a.m. Friday, Britta-ny Wooley, 22, was arrest-ed at 7th & Roosevelt. She was charged with DUI-Alco-hol, BAC > .08 and released at 3:45 a.m. after posting 10 per-cent of a $1000 bond. James Steuernagel, 21, was also ar-rested at 1:42 a.m. at the same location. He was served with an In-State Warrant from Fay-ette County and charged with Obstruction of Justice. He was taken to the Coles Coun-ty Sheriff Department at 2:09 a.m. pending court appearance to determine bond.
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New safety measures make for money well spent
The Board of Trustees approved $310,786 on Friday for the purchase of a safety film over
the frosted glass of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
This is money well spent.As nice as the Doudna looks, it can
be fragile, with some of the glass panels shattering some 18 months ago.
This investment not only keeps the Doudna safe, but also keeps those students, faculty and staff who enjoy the building safe.
In the Sept. 17, 2012, edition of The Daily Eastern News, Rex Hilligoss, the university architect, said there’s a small particle in the glass that expands and causes the glass to spontaneously break. In the same article, Dave Crockett, the associate director of maintenance and operations, said the defect was apart of the manufacturing process and that it is not in all the glass, but it is something that does occasionally occur.
It was in this same report that Crockett said they were con-sidering the safety film, and we’re glad that this problem was addressed.
With campus safety of all kinds being such a hot-button issue not just at Eastern, but at campuses all across the country, it is
great to see the univeristy taking steps to ensure not only the safety of its own build-ings, but also of its students.
With the unfortunate events that hap-pened in 2011 when the chemistry labs were vandalized, causing damages that exceeded $100,000, it is great that Eastern
is doing whatever it takes to keep its buildings together.The Doudna is one of the nicest looking buildings on campus.
It is not only a great piece of architecture and a great addition to campus, but it is art, too.
Installing these safety films in the Doudna may seem like a small step, but in the grand scheme of things, it could turn out to be a great investment that keeps the building standing for years to come and keeps those who use it safe.
Also, now with the safety films on the glass underway, there might be less scaffolding around Doudna, which would be great, because scaffolding is an eyesore that does not need to be there.
Again, it may seem like a small measure, but you can never be too safe, especially when it comes to glass.
In a revelation that did not surprise anyone, Lance Armstrong lost his battle to prove that he won his record seven Tour de France titles cleanly. Now, he has lost everything he fought for after winning his battle with cancer. He lost his titles, his endorsements, and even his foun-dation severed some of the ties to him.
Armstrong is and was a ruthless competi-tor. Most coverage of him has reached this as a unanimous conclusion in an effort to paint him as a man willing to go to any length possible to win. It is for that very reason that I grew to ad-mire Armstrong, and still do.
Only a ruthless competitor is willing to wake up in the morning, ride a bike for hours upon hours to the point of complete exhaustion and have the tenacity to wake up the next day to do it all over again.
In 2005, Congress held hearings where base-ball players were asked about performance-en-hancing drugs. Sure, I could have pointed out that many of these men had used PEDs. But even worse, many of the congressmen in that room have committed very unscrupulous acts.
The difference is that their actions and deci-sions actually affect other people’s lives. The only way Armstrong affected my life is for the good, by exemplifying perseverance, dedication and commitment to promoting the welfare of others. Think of the millions of people who took up cy-cling because of him. I was one of them.
Armstrong has inspired and helped millions of people in his life, and the benefits from his work are everywhere. Lying about doping alle-gations is part of this topic that I wish were not the case, but the participation trophy world we live in cannot handle my true position of not caring about what competitors do to their bod-ies provided that it does not harm another. If it’s
harmful to them, they can weigh the risk and potentially suffer the consequences.
PEDs are technology. Usually we are very ap-preciative of technology and the benefit it brings to society. Bikes are now made of space-age ma-terial and are vastly superior to those that were employed in the early days in competitive rac-ing. The current times of the purest cycler will beat the record of a guy on a bike that weighed two times more 50 years ago. Is that fair? We ac-cept these changes as fair in many sports, but we do not accept it when the technology to what we can do with bodies as fair even though the sup-plements, the training tools, etc. that are legal are far better than those of old.
The fair playing field utopia does not exist and is only in the minds of those who are truly delusional. Why? Life is not a fair playing field, and it’s too bad that your participation trophy never told you that.
Jesse Green is a senior finance major. He can be reached at 581-2812
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OUR POSITION • Situation: The Board of Trustees approved $310,786 for safety film over Doudna glass. • Stance: The purchase is a good one that ben-efits both the building and those who use it.
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The Board of Trustees approved $868,775 worth of improvements to the University Court parking lot at its meeting Friday.
The construction for the project will consist of improving the east half of the University Court parking lot.
William Weber, the vice president for business affairs, told the board the park-ing lot improvements are part of a two-phase plan that has taken place over the past few years.
“This project addresses some drain-age issues we’ve been having and pro-vides other general improvements,” he said. “The funding source is local funds, in particular, funds from parking fees.”
The project consists of furnishing la-bor, materials and equipment to im-prove the parking lot, along with re-paving costs and installation of the new drainage system.
Funding was also approved for the
purchase of a safety film over the frosted glass of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
The labor, materials and equipment will cost $310,786.
Weber said the frosted glass in Doud-na needs to be fortified, because of some of the panels shattering about 18 months ago.
“In that time, we’ve done some ma-jor research into the area and figured out what the best way to make sure there is no more breakage,” he said.
The film will cover the frosted glass, ensuring if it does break again, it will be encased and not fall onto the floor of Doudna.
Funding source for this project is also local funds from the capital reserve, We-ber said.
Robert Webb, chair of the finance/audit committee for the board, said the committee had discussed the purchase of the film at length and although the situation was unfortunate, safety should be the first priority.
“We all agree that the safety of the
students and the public is of utmost concern, so we think it’s a necessary pur-chase,” Webb said.
The board also discussed the housing rates for Fall 2013, which will increase by 2 percent.
Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, said the increase is the smallest percentage increase that has been requested in the past 37 years.
“We’re very pleased and very proud of that fact,” he said. “Eastern will con-tinue to offer some of the lowest hous-ing rates and greatest values among the public universities in the state of Illi-nois.”
He said the proposed rate, which was approved, represents a unanimous rec-ommendation by the Housing Bond Revenue Committee, which includes six student representatives.
“The rates are driven by increases in areas such as food, technology, utilities, supplies, personnel and maintenance,” Nadler said.
Part of the overall increase will be
dedicated to capital projects such as res-idence hall room upgrades, semi-private bathrooms, wireless Internet and lobby upgrades, he said.
The board also voted to permit Presi-dent Bill Perry to offer a contract exten-sion to athletic leaders Barbara Burke, the athletic director, and Dino Babers, the head football coach.
“Burke has led the department of in-tercollegiate athletics in a superb fashion in her time here,” Perry said.
Burke’s one-year contract extension will be from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015.
He also praised Babers for his work with the Eastern football team.
“He has developed very strong com-munity relations, and the team has per-formed very well,” Perry said. “Winning the Ohio Valley Conference was part of his three-year plan, but this is an early welcome arrival.”
Babers’ contract extension will be from Jan. 1, 2015, to Dec. 31, 2015.
The board also reviewed the success
of the Honors College and the progress of its new facility that is underway in Pemberton Hall.
Blair Lord, the provost and vice pres-ident for academic affairs, gave a report detailing some of the numbers behind the success of the Honors College.
“The number (of students) who are a part of the Honors College are stable and at a level we’re very pleased with,” he said.
The number of students in the Hon-ors College has increased from 526 in 2011 to 533 in 2012, Lord said in his presentation.
“This is a program that deserves new digs, if you will, in which to continue the successful operation of developing our students,” Lord said.
Weber said construction on the new facilities for the Honors College is ex-pected to be completed in time for the Fall 2013 semester.
Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
BOARD OF TRUSTEES | CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
BOT approves funding for University Court parking lots
“It will allow the different audience members to voice their concerns for a limited time,” Gurick said.
The Tobacco Coalition told the Fac-ulty Senate that there are 830 campus-es nationwide that are smoke- or tobac-co-free.
“I think we’ll be able to decide if students are really interested in this or not,” Gurick said.
The forum will also allow for ques-tions and clarifications, Gurick said.
Student will be able to approach a podium, state their name, major, what they are feeling about the proposal and if they feel there is another solution, Gurick said.
“Back in 2006, the Student Senate voted that campus should not be tobac-co-free, but have designated areas that will allow smokers to go and smoke,” he said.
Gurick said he wants to know if stu-dents support the new proposal or if they think the designated areas should be enforced more.
“It was pretty violently debated,” Gurick said. “Hopefully it’ll be a good dialogue between the different parties and we will be able to gage the differ-ent interests.”
Gurick said he is expecting a lot of debate over the issue.
“If a lot of people show up, they’ll be passionate about it,” he said.
The Student Senate members like to know how the students feel before they make a decision that will affect the en-tire campus, Gurick said.
“It’s a good way for student govern-ment to get involved on an issue that affects the students directly,” he said.
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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FOR RELEASE JANUARY 22, 2013
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The absence of a diving squad on the Eastern swim team played a role in its overall 2-2 and 1-3 record for the women’s and men’s teams, respec-tively, at the three-team dual meet at Western Illinois over the weekend.
The women’s and men’s teams both raced to a 1-1 record against host school Western and visiting South Dakota on Friday night. The women dominated the Leathernecks defeating them by a final score of 72-28 while the men recorded their win against the Coyotes, 59-52.
The Panthers had to overcome a 16-point deficit because of their void at diving members on the team that led to a pair of 61-50 losses against Western and South Dakota.
The Eastern squads combined to win 11 out of the 21 races with the women’s team tallying eight of those 11 first-place finishes.
Senior Hailey Foss and freshman
Kaylee Morris led the women’s team. Both swimmers finished with two first-place finishes.
The other victories came from red-shirt sophomore Olga Livshits in the 200-freestyle as the Israeli native best-ed her previous top time finishing the race at 2:03.11. Junior Kate Paige and sophomore Mackenzie Anderson also came away with victories in the 100-butterfly and 100-backstroke, re-spectively.
The Eastern men won three events as seniors Michael Bower and Mike Lacine each won races in the 400-In-dividual Medley and 100-backstroke. Bower finished the race at 4:19.42 while Lacine touched the wall first at 54.20.
The third men’s victory came in the 400-medley relay as fellow senior Dan Enge joined Lacine, and juniors Josh Miller and Colin McGill to win the relay with a final time of 3:35.45.
On Saturday, the women once again defeated the Leathernecks, this time by a score of 90-44; however,
they lost to the Coyotes 96-49.Eastern’s performance against
Western was led again by Foss and Morris, each winning two races.
Junior Mary Lacine and Livshits also came away with victories in their respective 200-Individual Medley and 200-backstroke races.
The men’s team lost to both schools 84-61 and 78-67 to Western and South Dakota, respectively.
The men’s team fell to 2-6 overall this season while the women moved to 3-6, but McGill said he is looking forward to better results in upcoming meets.
The Panthers will next compete at home at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 1 in the Pado-van Pool, hosting the Saint Louis Bil-likens.
Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
By Jaime LopezVerge Editor
Eastern’s men’s and women’s track team moved forward with the indoor season on
Saturday at the John Craft Invite and took first place in 18 events.
Junior pole vaulter Mick Viken surpassed his previous school record when he jumped 17-feet, 8.50-inch-es – 3.5-inches higher than the previ-ous record.
Viken took first place in the pole vault, and said the competition went the way he wanted it to go.
“ I t t o o k me my off-s e a son and a s u m m e r last season to get to where I am this season,” Vik-en said.
Most of his competition cleared the bar at about 15-feet.
Viken said he still has more to work on before he gets back into his best shape.
He said he feels pretty good about where his training is right now.
After coming off of a win during Eastern’s Early Bird Meet on Dec. 7, 2012, red-shirt junior pole vaulter Jade Riebold failed to clear a height of 11-feet, 7.75-inches in the women’s pole vault.
Riebold blew through her big jumps and did not place.
Most of her competition managed to clear 11-feet.
Riebold said her training has re-mained steady, and that the only thing she could do was continue to train steadily.
She also added that she could have used a longer pole earlier on in the competition.
In the men’s 3000-meter race, freshman distance runner Derrick Johnson dashed his way to first place with a sizeable lead.
Sopho-more Jeff Les-ter and fresh-m a n D a n Wooldridge followed Johnson, as three Eastern
runners took the first three places at the start of the race and led with no opposition for the first three laps.
Then, an unattached runner broke into the pack, but they still managed to pull ahead.
Johnson then surged and inched further away from the rest of the competition, winning the event with a time of 9:11.45.
Sophomore Maura Cummins took second in the high jump and cleared 5-feet, 7-inches, which landed her eighth on the Eastern career list.
Eastern runner senior Elizabeth
Dole took first place in the women’s 3000-meter run.
She and two other Eastern runners stayed together for most of the race, and she won the race with a time of 10:39.36.
Sophomore Janessa Clay and ju-nior Jaida Moore both won in their respective events, with Clay taking first place in the 400-meter dash and
Moore winning the 200-meter dash.Junior sprinter Cody Boarman
won in three different events.He won the 200-meter dash as well
as the 400-meter dash, and later he ran the opening leg in the 4x400-me-ter relay.
Joining Boarman in the relay were senior Dominique Hall, red-shirt freshman Christian Kolb and red-
shirt sophomore Danny Trevor; to-gether they ran a time of 3:24.66.
Hall took first place in the in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.10.
The next indoor track meet will be the Illinois Winter Invite on Saturday in Champaign.
Jaime Lopez can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior distance runner Elizabeth Dole runs in the 3000-meter run on Saturday at the John Craft Invite in the Lantz Field House with her freshman teammates Amanda Sanchez and Katelyn Duckett. Dole won the 3000-meter with a time of 10:39.36.
“It took me my offseason and a summer last season to get to where I am this season.”
-Mick Viken, junior pole vaulter
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The Eastern women’s basketball team couldn’t keep up with Murray State on Monday after a 9-1 run put the Racers ahead by six points halfway through the second half.
A few minutes later, Murray State put together another run — 9-2 — to increase the lead to double figures and the Racers held the lead the rest of the way, winning 68-58.
Eastern head coach Lee Buchan-an said the game looked just like the last one the Panthers lost on paper, against Eastern Kentucky 15 days ago.
The similarities: Eastern shot the ball poorly from the field and from beyond the arc. The Panthers shot 31 percent from the field and 16 percent from beyond the arc against Mur-ray State. They shot 32 percent from the field and 22 percent from 3-point land against Eastern Kentucky.
“We couldn’t put a run in there be-cause we couldn’t put shots together,” Buchanan said.
The Panthers strung together free throws, but scoring one point on a possession wasn’t enough to match Murray State’s scoring pace.
The Panthers made five straight free throws from the eight-minute mark to the 3:33 mark in the second half; mean-while, Murray State scored 11 points.
Just like the Eastern Kentucky game, Eastern couldn’t score enough from the field to lift its offense, though the Panthers lost to Eastern Kentucky by only one point.
“I wish I knew how to wave a wand and not let that happen,” Buchanan said.
“That’s been our Achilles heel all year.”If one thing was good, Buchanan
said, it was the Panthers’ defense. The Panthers had a chance to win the game until late because their defense held Murray State scoreless on numerous possessions.
But the Panthers couldn’t make shots, which was the bottom line. Bu-
chanan said the Panthers were un-lucky because shots weren’t falling.
“We had some good looks just roll in and roll out,” Buchanan said.
The game was the fourth in five in which senior guard Ta’Kenya Nix-on scored 18 points or more. Nixon scored 20 points Monday with seven re-bounds, five assists and four steals.
The loss ends the Pan-thers’ three-game win-ning streak with the last win coming on Saturday against Austin Peay.
Overall, the Panthers have won six of their last eight games since the start of January.
The Panthers are heading back
home this weekend, when they’ll play at 4 p.m. on Saturday against Southeast Mis-souri.
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A career-day for junior forward Sherman Blanford propelled the Eastern men’s basketball team to a 77-67 win over Austin Peay, snap-ping its 12-game losing streak.
Blanford had four career-highs with 19 points, 10 rebounds (sev-en on offense), six assists and four steals in the winning effort.
“(Blanford) played unbeliev-ably good tonight,” head coach Jay Spoonhour said. “The offensive re-bounds speak for themselves, and he is as good of a passer as we have on this team. He is just capable of do-ing so many things.”
Eastern moves to 4-16 overall and 1-6 in the Ohio Valley Confer-ence. Austin Peay falls to 5-15 over-all and 1-5 in conference play.
“It feels good because it’s hard to compete day in and day out and not see results,” Spoonhour said. “These guys come to practice with the right mindset, and tonight they did just that. They came out and concen-trated, made good plays.”
Spoonhour said the players were able to coach themselves through-out the game, especially when the Panthers’ , once commanding a 21-point lead, dwindled to as lit-tle as eight points late in the second half.
“Something that you need is for players to look at each other and
communicate,” he said. “(Austin Peay) started to press us in the sec-ond half and we were forced to play faster, but the players handled it and capitalized.”
A large part of East-ern’s production came from the rebounding battle that it won 33-21; sixteen of those rebounds were on the offen-sive end.
Blanford led the Panthers with 10 total rebounds and seven offensive rebounds.
Spoonhour said the Panthers were missing several open shots at times, which can demoralize a team; but the fact that they were able to battle for the offensive rebound ag-gravated the Governors.
“Every (offensive rebound) is a new possession,” he said. “That ag-gravates opponents because they have to guard for an entirely new shot clock on defense.”
The 16 offensive rebounds trans-lated into 16 second chance points for the Panthers compared to the Governors’ nine second chance points.
Eastern scored a season-high 77 points behind three players reaching double-digits.
Along with Blanford’s 19, soph-omore forward Josh Piper led the Panthers with 20 points, and se-nior guard Taylor Jones registered 14 points.
“We did a good job in the first half playing our game, slowing the
pace down to only 31 possessions,” Spoon-hour said.
The coach said the offense did as good of a job as he has seen it when cutting to the
basket and making early 3-point-ers.
Even though the offense had its season-high in points, Spoon-hour said he was especially pleased with the defensive performance the Panthers showed in the first half, holding Austin Peay to just 25 points.
The Governors’ standout trans-fer guard Travis Betran led the OVC in scoring in conference-only con-tests with 24.8 points per game be-fore facing the Panthers.
But the Panthers’ defense man-aged to hold him to four points in the first half, and 14 for the game.
Betran was Austin Peay’s leading scorer as no player made more than one field goal in the first half.
Eastern will look to have only its second win streak of the season as it hosts Tennessee-Martin at 7 p.m. Thursday in Lantz Arenza.
Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSherman Blanford, a junior forward, goes for a layup during the game against the Jacksonville State Gamecocks on Jan. 12 in Lantz Arena. The Panthers take on Tennessee-Martin at 7 p.m. Thursday in Lantz Arena.
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JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior guard Jordyne Crunk drives toward the basket against the Jacksonville State Gamecocks on Jan. 12. The Women’s basketball team is 11-8.
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