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NOW SEATINGEntertainment Editor Bob Galuski reviews the Charleston Community Theatre members’ perfor-mance of the comedy ‘Bus Stop.’
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Editor’s Note: This is the third in-stallment in a series of articles address-ing the state of sexual assault on cam-pus.
BySethSchroeder,TimDetersandChacourKoopAssociate News Editor, Managing Editor and Special Projects Reporter
Members of Eastern’s commu-nity met for a second rally at the Doudna steps at noon Friday to ex-press their disapproval of Eastern’s administration for erasing a chalk message calling for help from an unnamed survivor of sexual assault.
The erased message was writ-ten a week ago and originally con-sisted of capitalized letters written in multiple colors of chalk on the Doudna steps.
It read,“MY RAPIST STILL GOES HERE… WILL SOME-ONE PLEASE LISTEN TO ME?” and was scrubbed away under or-
ders from the Office of Student Af-fairs Thursday with a brush and soapy water.
Before the rain Sunday, Eastern community members had chalked new messages on the steps includ-ing: “WE EXPECT TO WORK ON A CAMPUS THAT SUP-PORTS VICTIMS. WE WILL LISTEN,” “YOU CAN ERASE T H I S , I T STILL HAPPENS!” “ S T O P S I L E N C I N G V I C -TIMS,” and “I WILL NOT BE SI-LENCED.”
Around these messages, more than 100 names were written in chalk on the Doudna steps by com-munity members to show support for survivors of sexual assault.
One signature was from Lorenza Branecki, a senior music major. By her name she wrote, “I hear you.”
Branecki said she was appalled the original message was erased and she no longer felt like part of the community.
“I don’t feel like I’m EIU,” she yelled. “I think we should be afraid to tell people to come here.”
Branecki said she thinks it is bothersome that Eastern seemed to
c o v e r u p the issue.
“ I s u r e hope that young woman
talked to someone,” she said. “It should have never been brushed under the rug.”
During the rally, one Eastern student climbed the concrete steps to address the crowd.
Taylor Davis, a senior commu-nication studies major, said though he did not organize the rally, he thought it would be a waste i f someone did not say something.
From the steps, Davis asked the crowd why they had gathered there.
Members of the crowd said they were there to support survivors of sexual assault, others said they were there to stop the silence.
In re sponse to Davi s’ ques -tion, English professor Christo-pher Hanlon said, “Because I don’t think sexual assault is a PR prob-lem.”
Hanlon said there is a sense of radical disconnect between stu-dents and administrators.
“Like most of my colleagues, I’m bothered that there are so many victims of sexual violence on this campus,” he said. “But I’m espe-cially bothered by what strikes me as extraordinarily bad judgment on someone’s part in having a message written by an EIU student, some-one who survived such an assault, erased.”
EASTERN|SEXUAL ASSAULT
Support, disapproval shown at second Doudna steps rally
Marjorie Worthington, an associate professor in the English department, signs her name on the Doudna steps as a crowd forms Friday.
PHOTOSBYDANNYDAMIANI|THEDAILYEASTERNNE WSTaylor Davis, a senior communication studies major, stands in front of the Doudna steps and begins a conversation with the crowd during a rally Friday. About 30 people attended the rally and signed their names on the steps to show their support for the messages written there over the past week.
Pieces of chalk lie on the Doudna steps be-fore a rally Friday.
Student Body President Kaci Abolt listens to Taylor Davis’ speech at the rally.
I don’t feel like I’m EIU.Lorenza Branecki, Eastern student
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CHARLESTON|VIOLENCE
StaffReport
Though temperatures plummeted to five degrees last week, this week is pre-dicted to see a drastic change in weather.
Cameron Craig, a geographer and cli-matologist at Eastern, said the early days of the week will bring a “rollercoaster” of temperatures and weather changes.
“The ice that some areas experienced (Sunday) is done and over with,” he said. “Now the big thing is that after these colder temperatures, we’re going to start seeing warm weather for the next couple of days.”
Craig said there is a chance of thun-derstorms on Tuesday, which may result in severe weather warnings throughout the region.
“After we get up near 60 degrees on Tuesday, the temperatures will drop for the remainder of the work week,” he said. “We’ll be right back where we were last week.”
Any time there is a risk of thunder-storms, there is also a risk of tornadoes, Craig said.
“We can’t really predict it now because it’s so far off, but there’s certainly a possi-bility of severe weather,” he said.
Craig said there is a chance of snow and ice on Wednesday, even though temperatures are expected to break 60 degrees on Tuesday.
Damaging winds may occur, along with hail and a possible isolated tornado or two could occur in the region, Craig said.
“This is definitely what we call a roll-ercoaster,” he said.
Possible tornado, thunderstorm could dampen campus Tuesday
StaffReport
The Charleston Police Depart-ment responded to a large fight that broke out at the Penalty Box at about 3 a.m. Saturday.
According to a press release sent out by the CPD early Saturday morning, there were shots fired dur-ing the fight, but no one was injured.
Officers arrested Eastern student Dionte McWillis for aggravated bat-tery, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct.
The fight came about from a large gathering of Eastern students “pa-tronizing” the Penalty Box, accord-ing to the press release.
The case is currently under inves-tigation by the CPD.
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By Bob GaluskiEntertainment Editor
Entering the Tarble Arts Cen-ter, it is easy to mistake it for a place right out of the 1950s with the old diner scenery set up for the produc-tion “Bus Stop” – a play packed with laughs, human connections and a solid cast.
Charleston Community Theatre members perform this small play about eight unlikely characters forced to spend a night in a bus stop din-er during a ferocious snowstorm in March of 1958.
The owner of the diner is Grace, played by Cindi Switzer, who fills the role nicely by giving the play touches of feisty retorts.
Grace keeps up a passing-through romance with Carl, the bus driver, and both characters have great chem-istry together.
Carl, played by Scott Brooks, is able to easily keep up with Swit-zer’s banter of an old married couple, while giving it a fresh, flirtatious feel.
Most of the unexpected come-dic moments come from Carl and Grace’s relationship.
Elma, played by Brigitte Dietz, also gives light to a sometimes-too-dark script by William Inge.
The high school waitress’s naivety helps the audience understand each of the characters, as she moves from table to table.
However, it is not until the ap-pearance of Dr. Lyman, played by Tim Mason, that the audience sees the true purpose of her innocence in the play.
Mason is the standout performer in a solid cast with his interpretation of Dr. Lyman, a roaming drunk with a dark secret.
Lyman takes a particular interest in Elma throughout the play, and the big reveal at the end is worth the wait.
However, the central conflict of the play takes place around the two characters of Cherie and Bo.
Cherie, played by Charity Ozier, is a nightclub singer who was force-fully put onto the bus by the reckless cowboy, Bo, played by Kyle Probst.
“I need a place to hide,” Cherie an-nounces to the patrons of the diner.
Ozier, who is performing with the Charleston Community Theatre for the first time, slips into the role of Cherie, a nightclub singer, easily.
Everything from the southern twang in her accent to the scene where she performs a song for the bus passengers gives credibility to the character.
Towering above Ozier is Probst as Bo, who uses his size and stature
to the full advantage during the pro-duction.
Temperamental and lovesick might not seem like a good combination, but Probst keeps an even balance of both sides throughout the play.
Earl Halbe plays Virgil, the older cowboy accompanying Bo on their trek.
For the first part of production, the character remains quiet, but when needed, Halbe is able to deliver advice with sage-like calmness.
The one thing most of the char-acters have in common during “Bus Stop” is the idea that each of them is lonely.
Even characters not related to the central conflict all revolve around the theme of loneliness – from Elma wanting the high school boys to no-tice her to Lyman recovering from his third divorce.
The one character though who does not seem too afflicted by lone-liness is the sheriff, Will, played by Matt Piescinski.
Piescinski gives a stern roughness to the character when dealing with Bo, but also shows off his tender mo-ments to add depth to his character.
It may seem difficult to balance out a play for eight characters, but first time director Victoria Bennett has a
firm grip on each of the characters.When dealing with human emo-
tions in the play, it may seem as if the script is getting a bit dark, but Ben-nett is able to reel in the seriousness with punctuated bits of comic relief.
“Bus Stop” may seem like a sim-ple play, but underneath is layers of themes and emotions, brought to life by a strong cast and a good director.
“Bus Stop” will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday at the Tarble Arts Center.
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DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSDr. Lyman, played by Tim Mason, reads a book while Grace, played by Cindi Switzer Bedell, and Carl, played by Scott Brooks, talk in the background Tuesday in the Tarble Arts Center during a rehearsal for the play. The next performance will be 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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By Bob GaluskiEntertainment Editor
As part of Eastern’s Lions in Winter 2013 Festival, author Jaimy Gordon read excerpts of her latest book, “Lord of Misrule” Saturday in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Gordon, who won the National Book Award for “Lord of Misrule,” described the novel as a racetrack novel, as everything in the story takes place on a low-end racetrack.
The novel offers the reader the opportunity to jump around from the point of views of different characters, including the horse.
“ T h i s n e x t c h a p t e r m ov e s around with the point-of-views,” Gordon said during her reading. “Almost shamelessly.”
While the novel centers around different characters working on the racetrack, most of the excerpts Gordon read came from the point of view of the horse.
One such scene was the castra-tion of the horse, where Gordon described the sensations the horse felt as the medical procedure was done.
The horse, Gordon said, is sold on the cuff.
“That is where you don’t pay for the horse up front, but instead you pay money if the horse wins,” she said.
Gordon said most of the novel came from her experience working on a racetrack for three years.
Much of the vocabulary used in “Lord of Misrule” is from what she overheard and picked up during her years working, she said.
“Some things you can research, but with things like jargon, you can’t pick that up without physically being there,” Gordon said.
Although the novel takes place on a low-end racetrack, Gordon said she had received comments about how horse racing was similar on all ends.
“It’s just a little bit more pol-ished,” she said.
Another scene Gordon read in-volved the racing of the horse, and the audience was able to experience the emotions of the horse and the people involved as Gordon read.
Gordon said she enjoyed writing the characters that were least like her, but found her relating more to the older characters of the novel.
“I identify more with the race-trackers who are over 60, whose whole lives are on that track,” she said. “When the track’s gone, where are they going to go?”
Roxane Gay, an English profes-sor, introduced Gordon to the au-dience.
She said this was the first time the Lions in Winter Festival had been split into two days.
The second day consisted of workshops for English students to participate in, lead by professors and featured writers.
Gordon said she liked the literary community of Eastern.
“Eastern is a literary communi-ty that is just now becoming con-scious of itself,” she said.
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812
By Stephanie MarkhamAdministration Editor
A former graduate received rec-ognition for his efforts to bring stu-dents together.
Dennis Spice , who earned a bachelor’s degree in management from Eastern in 1978, was one of three recipients of the EIU Foun-dation Outstanding Member Award for 2012.
Spice said he created the Spice Entrepreneurship Fund in 2002 to
help unify the educational endeav-ors of students in the School of Business and the School of Technol-ogy.
“What’s happening today is an-nually there is an outside speak-er brought in where students from both schools are invited to learn more about entrepreneurship,” he said.
The fund also supports entrepre-neurial projects between the two schools.
Spice said students of the two schools could mutually benefit from studying each other’s discipline.
“One of the things I believe is that you can come out of the School of Technology with some great ideas on how to start a company, but you may not understand business well enough to do that,” he said. “I also
thought it was important for the business students to interface with the folks in the School of Technol-ogy where they might be able to see how ideas culminate.”
Spice gained experience in start-ing a business in 1995 when he be-gan the Institutional Advisors con-sulting firm.
He said students who are inter-ested in opening a company should look into it as soon as possible.
“You can create great technolo-gy companies if you start thinking about that early enough in your col-lege career,” he said. “I think they see that happening today in the U.S. I’m just hoping we can make some of those things happen at EIU.”
Christina Donsbach, the direc-tor of philanthropy, recommended
Spice to receive the award.She said she nominated Spice be-
cause he has dedicated a substan-tial amount of his time to Eastern by serving on numerous advisory boards.
“I’ve been here for two years and known him from the get-go and saw how dedicated and how much he gives back to Eastern, and I really wanted to do something honoring him,” she said.
Spice has served on the EIU Foundation board of directors, the Alumni Association board of direc-tors and the School of Business ad-visory board.
He also contributed to the devel-opment of the School of Technolo-gy advisory board and the School of Continuing Education general stud-ies degree alumni board.
Spice said the School of Continu-ing Education board meets twice per year and generates advice for the dean on how to promote their pro-grams both in and out of state.
Donsbach said it is important to give recognition to those who con-tribute to the success of the univer-sity.
“I think it’s wonderful that we have alums that are so gracious and so generous to not only give their service and time, but also finan-cial support for the institution,” she said. “So to be able to give some-thing back to them is just kind of icing on the cake and helps that re-lationship.”
Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812
LIONS IN WINTER FESTIVAL | NOVEL READING
Author reads excerpts of book
AMY WY WIALOWSKI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJaimy Gordon signs a book after reading excerpts from it as a part of the Lions in Winter Festival. Gordon is a recipient of the National Book Award. She said she liked the literary community of Eastern. “Eastern is a literary community that is just now becoming conscious of itself,” she said.
EIU FOUNDATION | RECOGNITION
Alumni earns Outstanding Member Award1978 graduate who created entrepreneurship fund recognized
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STAFF EDITORIAL
University needs to address sexual assault concernsWith the explosion of campus concern
regarding how sexual assault is handled at East-ern, the university should do everything in its power to be transparent and supportive.
About a week ago, one or more Eastern stu-dents chalked in block, capital letters “MY RAP-IST STILL GOES HERE…WILL SOME-ONE PLEASE LISTEN TO ME?” on the Doudna steps.
In response to the message, an Eastern staff member organized a rally at the steps Thursday and Friday. The message was scrubbed away by a university worker with soap and water early Thursday morning.
About half a dozen Eastern employees chalked a new message on Thursday, stating “WE EXPECT TO WORK ON A CAMPUS THAT SUPPORTS VICTIMS. WE WILL LISTEN.” Within the two days, about 100 members of the Eastern community signed their name to support the message.
It can be difficult for the university to address concerns if they are not appar-ent, but this outcry served as a clear message that was directed to get the univer-sity’s attention.
During the rallies, several participants shared disdain for the chalk being erased and saw it as an attempt to silence the controversial nature of the mes-sage. However, Daniel Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, said Facili-ties Planning and Management workers were asked to remove chalking around campus to avoid “trashy” eyesores, according to the article “University removes chalking” in Friday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News.
We understand removing chalk is a routine request, but the message on the
steps was thoroughly scrubbed out whereas the pink chalk words “BLOOD DRIVE” were still plainly vis-ible just a few steps away. Also, we do not think a cry to the community for help is “trashy.” We implore for this shared concern about sexual assault to be fully investigated and to lead to policy reform if necessary.
To build a sense of transparency to make up for the erased chalk, university officials should also send
out a campus-wide statement on the issue. The statement should have been sent out last week to keep the campus community informed and provide assurance that an investigation would occur.
According to an email sent to The News by Nadler, he met with the Sexu-al Assault Task Force on Friday and said the university needs to launch a cam-paign spreading awareness of available resources that sexual-assault survivors can take advantage of. Sandy Cox, the director of the Counseling Center, was asked to head the initiative.
The educational initiative sounds like a productive step, but the university needs to review the resources sexual-assault survivors can turn to and make sure they are effective in handling the needs of victims.
In our editorial cartoon, we as a staff signed to show our support of sexual-assault survivors. This means we believe all who have experienced sexual assault deserve the help they reach out for.
In a series of articles this semester, we aim to cover the issue brought about by the chalk message, and we hope that the university will do the same.
Remember your safety tips when walking home
Robyn Dexter
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Editor in ChiefRachel Rodgers
News Editor Robyn Dexter
Online EditorSara Hall
Managing Editor Tim Deters
Associate News EditorSeth Schroeder
Opinions Editor Dominic Renzetti
The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
OUR POSITION • Situation: The message on the Doudna steps was removed. • Stance: Eastern was wrong to remove the mes-sage, and should revisit policies on sexual assault.
FRIDAY’S QUESTION
What was your reaction to
“My rapist still goes here... Will someone please listen to me?”
written on the Doudna steps?
HERE’S WHAT YOU SAID
It seems EIU is more worried about their rape statistics than their rape victims.
Rape culture is a sick thing, and clearly EIU isn’t trying very hard to combat it.
Sherry Lantrip Walker
I’m one of probably many students who doesn’t feel completely safe in Charleston at night.
We’re told all the safety basics time and time again: Don’t walk by yourself at night, be aware of your sur-roundings, etc. But when it comes to real-life applica-tion, how often are we really paying attention to ev-erything going on around us?
I live off campus, It’s not too far of a walk, but just enough of one to be an inconvenience at night.
Journalism brings late hours in the newsroom with little or no time to go get my car after 5 p.m., so many times I end up walking home in the dark.
It has never really bothered me until about two weeks ago when one of streetlights was out. It gets ri-diculously dark down at that end of campus.
Having written more than a few safety stories in my time at the newspaper, I do try to apply them to my walks home. However, I feel like having a func-
tioning streetlight on an already poorly lit street is something I should be able to count on.
The simple outage of one streetlight sparked a train of thought in my mind: Do I feel safe at my school?
As weird as it may sound, we take a lot of our basic safety features for granted at Eastern,
We know the blue emergency poles are scattered throughout campus and the university police depart-
ment is on patrol, but does that provide students with a real feeling of security? For some, maybe.
However, given the slew of recent violent crimes both on campus and off, I am often hesitant to walk home after dark.
Sure, I carry my pepper spray, but what is that re-ally going to do for me in a compromising situation?
In light of recent events, I am simply encouraging my fellow peers to be careful at night. Seek out well-lit ways home, check behind you and around you when you’re walking, and try to walk with a friend whenev-er possible. I know I’m going to try to start taking my own advice more often.
The world (even if it’s just Charleston) can be a scary place.
Robyn Dexter is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
LETTERS TO THE EDITORSNadler’s effectiveness questioned
The recent message chalked on Doudna’s steps, the message “scrubbing,” and the subsequent comments by EIU’s Vice President for Student Affairs Dan Nadler, clearly suggests that EIU’s administration is “out of touch” with reality.
The very idea that a message regarding an individual’s call for help is “trashy” is not only tasteless, but is harmful and demeaning to all sexual assault victims.
Nadler’s thoughtless response to the chalking of messages demonstrates the utter lack of concern for the well-being of students, and it highlights serious concerns about EIU’s administration continually “sweeping prob-lems under the rug.”
I now speak directly to Vice President Nadler. A message that cries out for help should never be used in the same sentence as the word “trashy.”
I would hope that as Vice President for Student Affairs, you would be more thoughtful in how your articulate yourself, especial-ly regarding rape.
Your comment suggests that you are out of touch with the student body, and I question your effectiveness in your current role.
Clearly, you should, at the very least, make public apology regarding your outlandish and thoughtless comments.
It is my belief that we should take a proactive role here at EIU to pre-vent such assaults, make the reporting of assaults more accessible, and pro-vide support for victims of any crime.
No student should be forced to sit in a classroom next to a person who assaulted them.
We need to make our EIU campus a safe environment for all students.
Clinton Brown
“LET’S GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK
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I feel for her. That would be hor-rible. Rapists should be locked away forever.
Deb White
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By Chacour KoopSpecial Projects Reporter
Last week, Tim Shonk, an English professor, left his office in Coleman Hall to smoke outside the building before discarding his cigarette and re-turning to work.
This could be forbidden at Eastern if a proposal banning tobacco use on campus is brought before the Coun-cil on University Planning and Budget and signed by President Bill Perry.
The Faculty Senate passed the reso-lution on Jan. 8, but faculty and staff have opposing views to the resolution.
Shonk said he opposed the resolu-tion because smoking is a choice for people to make.
“People forget that this is a home for students,” Shonk said. “I think it’s an aesthetic issue more than health. People don’t like the smell of smoke.”
Maggie Luneburg, the substance abuse education coordinator at the Health Education Resource Center, does see the resolution as a health is-sue. She said the campus would be healthier without the issues associated with second-hand smoke.
According to the American Can-cer Society, second-hand smoke causes thousands of heart disease and lung cancer deaths each year.
Sace Elder, a history professor, said
she has mixed feelings on the tobac-co ban. She is a former smoker who thinks faculty and staff would be bet-ter off not smoking, but she is aware that a ban would change the lives of her friends and colleagues on campus.
“I think the tobacco industry ex-ploits people’s addiction. Tobacco is one of the No. 1 health concerns in our country,” Elder said.
When asked if she supported the resolution, Elder said, “Sure, why not?”
Richard Wandling, a political sci-ence professor, does not smoke but still opposes a ban on tobacco use.
He said he is satisfied with the sta-tus quo: No smoking in buildings and only away from buildings.
“I think it’s going too far with ef-forts to legislate morality,” Wandling said. “I have difficulty imagining how the university would enforce it.”
Shonk said he would continue to smoke even if the resolution is passed.
“What are they going to do?” Shonk said.
That is something the university would have to figure out if the resolu-tion is passed, Crime Prevention Offi-cer Dave Closson said.
Closson said there have not been any complaints called in to the Uni-versity Police Department about peo-ple smoking too close to buildings.
“Usually, we will just ask people to move away from the building, and they have been cooperative,” Closson said.
There is one thing that Shonk, Wandling and Elder could all agree on: There are bigger issues facing Eastern than the proposed ban on tobacco.
“I don’t think it’s a productive use of anyone’s time to try and prevent that,” Wandling said.
Student Senate will hold a forum on the tobacco-ban resolution Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in the University Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. Univer-sity Union.
Chacour Koop can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Faculty discuss tobacco banGOVERNING BODIES | POSSIBLE POLICY CHANGES
ILLUSTR ATION BY NIKE OGUNBODEDE
Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, said Facilities Planning and Management workers, who were asked to wash away chalk throughout the campus, erased the message.
He said the content of the mes-sage was not a factor in the deci-sion.
“The nice thing about Eastern is you can chalk wherever you want, but the not-so-nice thing about Eastern is that things begin to look like an eyesore and looks kind of trashy,” Nadler said.
Dave Crockett, the associate di-rector of Facilities, Planning and Management , sa id there i s no schedule for when chalk should be cleaned up around campus.
He said it is usually done after the chalk builds up.
Crockett said chalk is cleaned up less often in cold weather be-cause the water can freeze and form a safety hazard.
Davis said he was confused when he saw the original message was erased.
“It feels like everything goes stale on these steps,” he said. “Everything stays up there for too long, even important messages. To see some-thing that powerful come down that quickly, I knew that wouldn’t be the last of that sentiment, that issue.”
Angie Hunt, a Charleston resi-dent and survivor of sexual assault, said she was unable to see the origi-nal message before it was erased.
Having survived sexual assault, she said she was upset by the uni-versity’s response and Nadler’s ex-planations for the erasure.
“What I would say is that sex of-fenders are trashy, and sweeping it under the carpet is trashy,” she said.
Hunt said she was frustrated with Eastern’s administration.
“Being a survivor, it was outra-geous because, once again, when someone had the courage to speak
up, someone wanted to shut that down,” Hunt said. “That’s not OK.”
Hunt said she was encouraged by the authors of the original message.
“I am incredibly proud and grate-ful to the group of people who wrote the original message, and I want them to know what heroes they are,” she said.
Hunt said she is tired of fighting the same battle over and over again against the stigma of being a survi-vor of sexual assault, and the lack of support and belief for survivors.
During the rally, Hanlon said to the crowd that this situation will only grow bigger.
“If the only way to get (Eastern’s administration’s) attention is with a public relations problem, then perhaps the thing to do is create a huge public relations problem,” he said.
Hunt agreed with Hanlon.“ K e e p t h e m o m e n t u m g o -
ing, that’s the big thing,” she said. “Don’t forget this. Don’t let them sweep this under the carpet.”
At 3:13 p.m. on Friday, Nadler sent an email to the staff of The Daily Eastern News detailing East-ern’s response to the chalk messag-es. The response was later posted on Eastern’s Facebook page.
In the response, Nadler said the chalked messages made it clear that Eastern needs an extensive cam-paign to make students aware of the resources available to prevent sexual assault and to help survivors of sexual assault.
He said Sandy Cox, director of the Counseling Center, will lead the campaign.
Nadler said the faculty and staff at Eastern consider reports of sexu-al assault to be of utmost concern and seriousness.
Seth Schroeder, Tim Deters and Chacour Koop can
be reached at 581-2812.
Crowned
MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSBrittany Staten, a senior sociology major, tears up after being crowned "Miss Black & Gold 2013" Sunday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant was hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Zeta Nu Chapter, and featured seven contestants.
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FOR RELEASE JANUARY 28, 2013
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MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | SPORTS 7
By Alex McNameeStaff Reporter
The Eastern women’s basketball team was in a battle with Southeast Missouri for about 30 minutes on Saturday, before a 14-2 East-ern run opened a gap that the Redhawks couldn’t close.
The Panthers finished off the Redhawks with a 20-point win Saturday, 82-62, even though the win didn’t always look so immi-nent.
Although Southeast Missouri trailed by five points at halftime, the Redhawks had hung around with the Panthers.
The Redhawks made the jumpers they took. Eastern couldn’t get to the free throw line.
The Redhawks took the challenge East-ern offered — to make the Redhawks “shoot over” the Panthers’ defense — and shoved it right back in their faces.
Eastern senior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon said the gameplan was to make the Redhawks take and make jump shots, rather than giv-ing them anything in the paint.
The Redhawks had four points in the paint with 7:22 to go in the first half, but only trailed in the game by one point, 21-20.
“We felt l ike we were up by a lot the whole game, but we looked up (at the score-board) and we were only up five and didn’t know why,” Eastern senior guard Kelsey Wyss said.
The Panthers led by five points, 39-34, at halftime. The lead disappeared quickly.
The Redhawks came out of the half and scored the first five points to bring the game to a tie, which was a part of a 9-0 to start the half.
The Panthers’ lead was gone before they could even blink.
“The immediate reaction was, ‘Aw, man,’” said Nixon, who scored 23 points in the game. “You get discouraged a little bit.”
The Panthers regained a lead by two points, 53-51, with 14:23 remaining in the game, but the Redhawks were still outplay-ing them.
The Redhawks made 7-of-10 shots to start the second half — three of them were three pointers. Brittany Harriel helped lead the charge with nine points in the first 5:37 of the second half.
Eastern head coach Lee Buchanan said he
didn’t like the Panthers’ body language start-ing the second half, so he called a timeout to help them refocus.
The timeout worked in two ways: the Panthers came out of it ready to play and the Redhawks hot shooting cooled off.
The Redhawks missed their next five shots after starting 7-of-10 and Eastern ran out to an eight-point lead.
Quickly, the Redhawks were relying too much on shots beyond the arc to get them back in the game and for the first time all
night, nothing was going in. “They cooled off,” Buchanan said. “And
we got a chance to play our match-up zone.”The openings the Redhawks’ shooters had
coming off screens for the first 30 minutes of the game went away when the Panthers switched from man-to-man to a match-up zone defense.
In the zone, the Panthers had a defender ready to contest the Redhawks’ shot on the other end of the screen; whereas, in man-to-man, the defender had been stopped by the
screen, without any help.“We had them rushing their shots a little
bit more and they didn’t have that extra sec-ond,” Nixon said.
The Redhawks’ were 5-of-22 from the field in the last 14:23 of the game — three of those baskets came in the final 2:51, when the Panthers were already ahead by 22 points.
The Panthers improved to 12-8 overall and 6-2 in the Ohio Valley Conference.
They will play Tennessee-Martin at 7 p.m. Monday in Lantz Arena.
Eastern and Tennessee-Martin are the top two teams in the OVC’s West Division.
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Panthers’ game plan provides scare, winWOMEN’S BASKETBALL | GAME RECAP
JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Senior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon protects the ball from freshmen guard Kara Wright of Southeast Missouri State University on Saturday at Lantz Arena. Nixon had 23 points on the night, leading the Panthers to an 82-62 victory.
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“We felt like we were up by a lot the whole game, but we looked up (at the scoreboard) and we were only up five and didn’t know why.”
-Kelsey Wyss, senior guard
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Sherman Blanford stood at the free throw line with Eastern trailing 61-59 and just 6.1 seconds remaining in regu-lation Saturday in Lantz Arena.
Clutch free throws were what lifted the Eastern men’s basketball team to a 78-72 overtime victory over Southeast Missouri – extending to a season-long three-game win streak.
Eastern improved to 6-16 overall and 3-6 in the Ohio Valley Conference with the victory. Southeast Missouri fell to 11-12 overall and 3-6 in conference play.
As Blanford stood at the line, the Panther faithful was silent.
But, Blanford remained composed.The junior forward said he was not
thinking about the pressure at all; rath-er he was just going to let his shot come naturally.
As he stood at the line, waiting to take the shot, Blanford said the only thing that crossed his mind was his brother.
“He taught me how to shoot,” Blan-ford said. “You have to use your left hand to guide the ball and use your shooting hand to get under the ball and follow through.”
So that is what he did. As the ball left Blanford’s fingertips he did his best to keep himself calm, as he thrives for mo-ments such as these.
“I said, ‘Man, don’t even worry about it,’” he said. “This is what I do. This is the life I chose. I love this moment, so I wasn’t even going to think about it. I just shot it.”
Blanford made both free throws to tie the game at 61. He finished the game with career highs in points and re-bounds with 21 and 16, respectively.
“He is a clutch player,” senior guard Taylor Jones said of Blanford’s play. “I knew he was going to knock them down. He steps up in big situations and I’m really proud of him.”
Jones described Blanford as a “re-bounding machine” Saturday night.
Nine of Blanford’s 16 rebounds came on the offensive end – matching how
many offensive rebounds Southeast Missouri’s entire team had.
Blanford led the Panthers to a 50-34 rebounding advantage.
This came after head coach Jay Spoonhour said he was mad at Blanford the entire game for not posting up, not hustling back on defense and not chas-ing after rebounds.
And Spoonhour makes it known that he is upset with Blanford, as he took him out twice late in the game.
Blanford’s performance, though, was the gateway for the two to joke about the frustration Spoonhour was feeling earlier in the game.
“I looked down and saw he had 21 (points) and 16 (rebounds), and I
thought, ‘Sherman (Blandford) is go-ing to think I’m nuts,’” Spoonhour said.
But, Southeast Missouri still had 6.1 seconds to keep Eastern from winning a season-long three straight games and ending the game in regulation.
The Panthers were not letting game-winning shots kill them again like they did to Central Arkansas and Tennessee Tech.
Eastern’s press defense forced Red-hawk Marland Smith to miss a 3-point attempt and send the game into over-time.
The Redhawks began overtime, shooting just 1-of-5 from the free throw line, while Eastern capitalized making 12-of-13 attempts.
After two more clutch-free throws and an inside jumper by Blanford late in the overtime period, Eastern held a 70-67 lead.
But, on the other end, Southeast Missouri had the ball with 37 seconds left to play with a huge mismatch in its favor.
Eastern’s guard Morris Woods was guarding Southeast Missouri’s forward Tyler Stone, who had 13 points and 12 rebounds.
“That is about a 7-inch difference be-tween the two,” Spoonhour said. “We remembered what we talked about in a timeout: don’t let them hit a 3, force them to make an inside shot.”
Woods’ defense forced Stone to bare-
ly miss his attempt despite the height mismatch between them.
Spoonhour said that the Panthers did what they were supposed to do on de-fense and blocked out the Redhawks to gain control of the rebound.
The Panthers would then close out the game making 8-of-8 free throws on the way to its 78-72 win.
“Southeast Missouri is a great team,” Jones said. “That was a huge win for us. It was the biggest win of the season by far, because it really gets in OVC Tour-nament talk.”
Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSHead Coach Jay Spoonhour celebrates during the game on Saturday against Southeast Missouri State in Lantz Arena. The Panthers won the game in overtime 78-72.
Panthers capture third straight win in OT MEN’S BASKETBALL | GAME RECAP
By Jaime LopezVerge Editor
History was made this weekend when senior distance runner Britney Whitehead broke the school record in the women’s 3,000-meter dash.
Whitehead won the women’s 3,000-meter dash, hitting a time of 9:51.74 and breaking Robin Smith’s re-cord in the event.
Smith’s 1978 record was 9:58.1. After not clearing any height at last
weekend’s John Craft Invitational host-ed at Eastern, red-shirt junior pole vault-er Jade Riebold had a successful meet and took first place in the pole vault competition.
Riebold said last weekend’s meet wasn’t so much about winning but about seeing results.
The pole vaulter had recently moved her run back so that she would have a longer stretch to run before jumping and clearing a height.
She said the changes to her technique helped enhance her performance.
Riebold said she wants to break her indoor record at the next indoor meet at Notre Dame.
Riebold cleared the bar with a height of 13-feet, 9.25 inches.
Red-shirt pole vaulter Mick Viken cleared 17-feet, 8.5-inches.
Viken managed to match his school record, which he set last weekend.
He took second place based on his number of attempts.
Viken said he was happy with his performance and plans to clear 18 feet for the upcoming meets by altering his training.
“We’ll be working on speed to make sure everybody is feeling fresh,” Viken said.
Junior sprinter Cody Boarman sprinted his way to victory and won the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.98.
Boarman lent his talents to the squad running in the 4x400-meter relay.
However, Eastern’s squad did not fin-ish.
Red-shirt freshman hurdler Chris-tian Kolb took second place in the event during its morning session, running a time of 52.50.
In the men’s long jump senior hurdler Danny Harris was second after jumping 22-feet, 7-inches.
Senior jumper Jaimee Roy ended up
placing seventh in the women’s long jump after jumping a distance of 17-feet, 7-inches.
Freshman jumper Angelica Anyaogu placed fourth in the women’s long jump, jumping a distance 17-feet, 6.75 inches.
Senior distance runner Erika Ramos ran her way to third in the women’s 800-meter dash. The seasoned runner ran a time of 2:11.31.
Sophomore distance runner Bryce Basting was second in the 1,600-meter dash.
Basting later ran in the 4x800-me-ter relay as the second leg with red-shirt sophomore Ryan Ballard, red-shirt freshman Brock Ramos and red-shirt senior Sean Wiggan.
The squad ran a time of 7:56.77 and placed sixth in the event.
Junior thrower Jared Diaz place fifth in the shot put with a throw of 50-feet, 5.5-inches in the men’s shot put.
Calvin Edwards cracked the top 10 in the men’s 200-meter dash. Edwards ran a time of 21. 83.
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TR ACK | RECAP
DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSZane Chapman, a sophomore thrower, throws shot put during the John Craft Invite took place Jan. 19 in Lantz Field House. The Panthers had three wins this weekend at the Indiana Relay.
Eastern track record broken in 3,000-meter dash at Indiana