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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 24 Thursday, Sept. 18, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” WWW. DAILYEASTERNNEWS .COM T HE D aily E astErn n Ews CAMPUS | ROC FEST MOVIE NIGHT TOP CAT Wide reciever Erik Lora sets records in his 2013 season. Page 8 By Bob Galuski News Editor @DEN_News An email was sent Tuesday to var- ious registered student organizations on campus informing them the oper- ation of late night dances at the Mar- tin Luther King Jr. University Union have been suspended. The email, sent by Dan Nadler, the vice president of student affairs, was a result of Saturday’s “Barn Par- ty” shooting. “In light of the recent ‘Barn Party’ incident last weekend, I have consult- ed with numerous individuals who have expressed to me concerns about hosting late night dances in which large audiences are anticipated,” the email stated. Nadler did not return multiple phone calls and an email to comment further on his decision or to confirm which RSOs had received the email. Nadler went on to state the rea- son for the suspension is because the “Barn Party” incident is an on-going criminal investigation and no arrest has been made of the responsible in- dividual or individuals. He also said in the email he will be asking a small working group of in- dividuals to propose to him, as soon as possible, a list of recommendations to enhance the safety and security of individuals attending parties at the Union. “Nothing is more important than the safety and security of our stu- dents,” Nadler continued in the email. “I fully realize that suspend- ing union parties may be difficult for some individuals and organizations to accept. I also understand and appreci- ate the importance of having safe so- cial events, especially for our students of color.” He concluded the email by stating he wants to move through this process as quickly as possible, and Eastern will work with students in an attempt to reschedule as many late night dances. “This is by no means an easy de- cision,” he stated at the end of the email. “Thank you for your under- standing and cooperation.” Janai Cooks, a sophomore fami- ly and consumer sciences major, said even though she does not attend par- ties at the Union, she still disagreed with the decision. “It feels like we’re being quaran- tined,” she said. Cooks said she had not heard of anybody else’s parties being stopped. “It’s mostly for black students,” Cooks said. She said she anticipated getting weird looks from the rest of the East- ern community throughout the next several weeks. “It’s discomforting,” she said. “e way people talk now, it’s like we’re be- ing generalized.” She said this situation was much like last year during the Penalty Box shooting. “It’s definitely going to be a rough patch,” Cooks said. Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]. STUDENT GOVERNANCE| MEETING Union parties suspended indefinitely CAMPUS| SOCIAL EVENTS "It’s discomforting. The way people talk now, it’s like we’re being generalized." Janai Cooks, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major, By Laura Hamlyn Staff Reporter @DEN_News A giant inflatable obstacle course took over the South Quad Wednesday as the ROCFest week events continued on campus. Patrick Morrow, the Residence Hall Association vice president, said that ROCFest events are a great way to bring students together. “The aim of ROCFest as a whole is to get everyone to get to know each other from the different halls,” he said. Four representatives from each resi- dence hall took on the obstacle course in an attempt to achieve the fastest time as a team. Participants had to duck and weave their way through the course before making their way down the giant slide and tagging the next student. The students representing Weller Hall were optimistic heading into the competition. Ryan Johnson, a sophomore bio- logical sciences major, said he felt con- fident Weller was headed for another victory. “We’re coming off the adrenaline rush from the win at the boat race, so we’re expecting another win here,” Johnson said. Anne Brown, a sophomore biolog- ical sciences major, stepped up to the obstacle course to represent Weller in her first ROCFest event. “It seemed like fun and I wanted to get involved,” she said. e team said their only tactic for the competition was to go fast. Weller beat Ford Hall by 20 seconds in the first competition. Nate Lemenager, a sophomore busi- ness management major, somersaulted his way from the top of the slide to cel- ebrate Weller’s win. Clayton Mieszala, a sophomore his- tory major, also representing Weller, said he felt good following his run. “It was easy,” he said. “The hard- est part was probably the first because I had to go over and down a triangle Weller Hall slides to victory DANIELLE TADLOCK | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Shahmir Haq, a senior communication major, overcomes the big hump from the obstacle course in the South Quad Wednesday. The obstacle course was a part of RHA’s ROCFest. OBSTACLE page 5 New UB Movie coordinator adjusts to job, plans for Family Weekend. Page 2 By Jarad Jarmon Student Governance Editor @DEN_NEWS At the Student Senate meeting on Wednesday, the National Pan-Hellenic Council members addressed their con- cerns to Student Senate revolving an email Daniel Nadler, the vice president for student affairs sent to some regis- tered student organization. In the email, Nadler said he is sus- pending the operation of late night dances because of the incident on S]ear- ly Sunday morning where three attend- ees were injured at a “Barn Party.” He said he did this to give the uni- versity time to conduct an assessment of security measures. He also said he un- derstands and appreciates the impor- tance of having safe social events, “espe- cially for students of color.” The NPHC executive board mem- bers including Tiara Pillow, the NPHC first vice president; Lindsey Lutrell, the NPHC second vice president; Eric Starks, the NPHC treasurer; Crys- tal Johnson, the NPHC secretary; and JaLisa Smith, the NPHC parliamentar- ian, attended the meeting in order to start a joint effort between NPHC and the senate to promote diversity in re- sponse to the email. “We feel like the community doesn’t want us here,” Smith said. “e institu- tion isn’t really doing much in making us feel safe.” Senate member Danielle Swindel, a history major, said the email was dis- cussed at city council. “It was not specified any organiza- tion that is predominantly students of color, it was union parties,” Swindel said. Ceci Brinker, the director of student programs, said it will allow the univer- sity to figure out how they might safe- guard against any danger at on-campus events. Darnell Tyms, the student vice pres- ident for student affairs, said it was un- fortunate that the community was viewing the “Barn Party” as a black problem instead of an organizational problem. “We feel that the university should be protecting us and not canceling the only social event we have in this com- munity,” Pillow said. “The university should be trying to keep the students safe and on-campus.” Lutrell said she was frustrated that the on-campus activities are being sus- pended over an off-campus event. NPHC members plan to walk around campus and the rest of the com- munity getting people aware of the im- portance of diversity. “We are going wear buttons saying ‘Education Has No Color,’” Pillow said. Brinker also said homecoming will not be canceled. Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581- 2812 or [email protected]. Student Senate hears feedback to Nadler email
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Page 1: Issue 24 vol 98

VOL. 98 | ISSUE 24Thursday, Sept. 18, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”

WWW.DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM

THEDailyEastErnnEws

C Ampus | ROC FEST

MOVIE NIGHT TOP CATWide reciever Erik Lora sets records in his 2013 season.

page 8

By Bob GaluskiNews Editor@DEN_News

An email was sent Tuesday to var-ious registered student organizations on campus informing them the oper-ation of late night dances at the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. University Union have been suspended.

The email, sent by Dan Nadler, the vice president of student affairs, was a result of Saturday’s “Barn Par-ty” shooting.

“In light of the recent ‘Barn Party’ incident last weekend, I have consult-ed with numerous individuals who have expressed to me concerns about hosting late night dances in which large audiences are anticipated,” the email stated.

Nadler did not return multiple phone calls and an email to comment further on his decision or to confirm which RSOs had received the email.

Nadler went on to state the rea-son for the suspension is because the “Barn Party” incident is an on-going criminal investigation and no arrest has been made of the responsible in-dividual or individuals.

He also said in the email he will be asking a small working group of in-dividuals to propose to him, as soon as possible, a list of recommendations to enhance the safety and security of individuals attending parties at the Union.

“Nothing is more important than the safety and security of our stu-dents,” Nadler continued in the email. “I fully realize that suspend-

ing union parties may be difficult for some individuals and organizations to accept. I also understand and appreci-ate the importance of having safe so-cial events, especially for our students of color.”

He concluded the email by stating he wants to move through this process as quickly as possible, and Eastern will work with students in an attempt to reschedule as many late night dances.

“This is by no means an easy de-cision,” he stated at the end of the email. “Thank you for your under-

standing and cooperation.”Janai Cooks, a sophomore fami-

ly and consumer sciences major, said even though she does not attend par-ties at the Union, she still disagreed with the decision.

“It feels like we’re being quaran-tined,” she said.

Cooks said she had not heard of anybody else’s parties being stopped.

“It’s mostly for black students,” Cooks said.

She said she anticipated getting weird looks from the rest of the East-ern community throughout the next several weeks.

“It’s discomforting,” she said. “The way people talk now, it’s like we’re be-ing generalized.”

She said this situation was much like last year during the Penalty Box shooting.

“It’s definitely going to be a rough patch,” Cooks said.

Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or

[email protected].

student GovernAnCe| mEE TIng

Union partiessuspended indefinitely

C Ampus| SOCIaL EVEnTS

"It’s discomforting. The way people talk now, it’s like we’re being generalized."

Janai Cooks, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major,

By Laura HamlynStaff Reporter@DEN_News

A giant inflatable obstacle course took over the South Quad Wednesday as the ROCFest week events continued on campus.

Patrick Morrow, the Residence Hall Association vice president, said that ROCFest events are a great way to bring students together.

“The aim of ROCFest as a whole is to get everyone to get to know each other from the different halls,” he said.

Four representatives from each resi-dence hall took on the obstacle course in an attempt to achieve the fastest

time as a team.Participants had to duck and weave

their way through the course before making their way down the giant slide and tagging the next student.

The students representing Weller Hall were optimistic heading into the competition.

Ryan Johnson, a sophomore bio-logical sciences major, said he felt con-fident Weller was headed for another victory.

“We’re coming off the adrenaline rush from the win at the boat race, so we’re expecting another win here,” Johnson said.

Anne Brown, a sophomore biolog-ical sciences major, stepped up to the

obstacle course to represent Weller in her first ROCFest event.

“It seemed like fun and I wanted to get involved,” she said.

The team said their only tactic for the competition was to go fast.

Weller beat Ford Hall by 20 seconds in the first competition.

Nate Lemenager, a sophomore busi-ness management major, somersaulted his way from the top of the slide to cel-ebrate Weller’s win.

Clayton Mieszala, a sophomore his-tory major, also representing Weller, said he felt good following his run.

“It was easy,” he said. “The hard-est part was probably the first because I had to go over and down a triangle

Weller Hall slides to victory

dAnieLLe tAdLoCk | tHe dAiLy eAstern ne ws Shahmir Haq, a senior communication major, overcomes the big hump from the obstacle course in the South Quad Wednesday. The obstacle course was a part of RHa’s ROCFest.

oBstACLe page 5

new UB movie coordinator adjusts to job, plans for Family Weekend.

page 2

By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor @DEN_NEWS

At the Student Senate meeting on Wednesday, the National Pan-Hellenic Council members addressed their con-cerns to Student Senate revolving an email Daniel Nadler, the vice president for student affairs sent to some regis-tered student organization.

In the email, Nadler said he is sus-pending the operation of late night dances because of the incident on S]ear-ly Sunday morning where three attend-

ees were injured at a “Barn Party.”He said he did this to give the uni-

versity time to conduct an assessment of security measures. He also said he un-derstands and appreciates the impor-tance of having safe social events, “espe-cially for students of color.”

The NPHC executive board mem-bers including Tiara Pillow, the NPHC first vice president; Lindsey Lutrell, the NPHC second vice president; Eric Starks, the NPHC treasurer; Crys-tal Johnson, the NPHC secretary; and JaLisa Smith, the NPHC parliamentar-ian, attended the meeting in order to

start a joint effort between NPHC and the senate to promote diversity in re-sponse to the email.

“We feel like the community doesn’t want us here,” Smith said. “The institu-tion isn’t really doing much in making us feel safe.”

Senate member Danielle Swindel, a history major, said the email was dis-cussed at city council.

“It was not specified any organiza-tion that is predominantly students of color, it was union parties,” Swindel said.

Ceci Brinker, the director of student

programs, said it will allow the univer-sity to figure out how they might safe-guard against any danger at on-campus events.

Darnell Tyms, the student vice pres-ident for student affairs, said it was un-fortunate that the community was viewing the “Barn Party” as a black problem instead of an organizational problem.

“We feel that the university should be protecting us and not canceling the only social event we have in this com-munity,” Pillow said. “The university should be trying to keep the students

safe and on-campus.” Lutrell said she was frustrated that

the on-campus activities are being sus-pended over an off-campus event.

NPHC members plan to walk around campus and the rest of the com-munity getting people aware of the im-portance of diversity.

“We are going wear buttons saying ‘Education Has No Color,’” Pillow said.

Brinker also said homecoming will not be canceled.

Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

Student Senate hears feedback to Nadler email

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T h e Da i ly e a s T e r n n e w s | N E W S ThUrsDay, sePT.19, 2013

C ampus | Universit y Board

marcus Curtisstaff reporter@Den_news

The new University Board movie coordinator is prepared to take on the leadership role in UB and make a fun and safe impact on Eastern’s campus.

Thedford, the UB movie coordina-tor, said that his reason for applying for the movie coordinator position was to have a leadership role in UB.

Thedford’s interests in movies is what influenced him apply for the UB movie coordinator position.

“I enjoy movies, so being able to choose which movies UB presents to the students is just the icing on the

cake,” he said.Thedford also mentioned the long

process that came along with becom-ing the movie coordinator.

“There were two interviews that I went though,” Thedford said. “The phone interview and then there was an interview in front of the whole execu-tive board of UB,” he added.

Proceeding after Kara Butorac, the UB chairwoman, as the movie coor-dinator, Thedford said that there is no pressure.

“I wouldn’t say that there is pres-sure, but I do want to do a good job because Kara Butorac is now the pres-ident of UB,” Thedford said. “She did a great job as the movie coordinator.”

Thedford said that the students and their families are going to have a lot to look forward this Family Weekend as well.

“There will be a movie shown out-side on the quad this year on Fami-ly Weekend, which was not done last year,” he said.

So far, the attendance at the UB movies has been successful, Thedford said.

“We have had over 200 people come out to both movies we have shown this year so attendance has been really good so far,” Thedford said.

The success of UB movies does not come easy for the coordinator though.

According to Thedford there is a

limit to the things that can be done, which can conflict with creativity.

“The most complicated part of this position is trying to be creative when you are limited to what I can do,” he said.

In addition, the prices for the mov-ies can also be a barrier. The movies cost close to $1,000.

“It depends on the movie, but they usually are around $980,” Thedford said.

Thedford said that he plans on ap-plying for the movie coordinator posi-tion for next year as well.

Marcus Curtis can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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By Jack Cruikshank staff reporter@Den_news

The Council on Academic Affairs will finalize plans for a new journal-ism classes at their meeting Thurs-day.

CAA approved combining two journalism courses, JOU 3903: Women and the Media and JOU 3951: Minorities and the Media, into one new course, JOU 3970: Race, Gender and the Media. At its upcoming meeting, CAA will vote on updating the course catalog in-formation to reflect those changes.

The first offering for the new JOU 3970 class will be in the spring of 2014, and it will cover different aspects of each of the two deleted classes.

According to the Journalism De-partment’s course proposal form, the course is especially needed as

the United States becomes more di-verse.

“While each of the JOU 3903 and JOU 3951 courses is valuable on its own, the student enrollment trend indicates that students who take one of these courses do not necessarily take the other course, re-sulting in students becoming well versed in one topic (e.g., women in the media) but not necessarily in another (e.g., minorities in the me-dia),” the proposal form says. “By combining the two courses, we in-tend to expose students to as many diversity topics as possible.”

Eunseong Kim, a journalism pro-fessor and likely professor of the new class, said the JOU 3970 will help students truly understand di-versity.

“Without a clear understanding of the status of diversity in the U.S., students won’t be able to function well in the current media environ-

ment,” Kim said. “The course will help students understand the lev-el of diversity in the U.S., the his-tory of media’s coverage of each ra-cial and ethnic group, and minori-ty journalists’ influence on Ameri-can journalism.”

For journalism majors, the new three-credit-hour class will meet the media and society component of the major.

For students in the Africana Studies Program, the JOU 3970 class will act as an elective for the concentration in history and culture segment of the major.

As a part of the university’s ongo-ing two-year self-study accreditation process, CAA will also hear a pre-sentation about the steps in the ac-creditation process and how it will fit in with CAA’s ongoing review of Eastern’s Learning Goals.

The presentation will be con-ducted by Rebecca Throneburg,

chairwoman of the Committee for the Assessment of Student Learning.

She said she will discuss certain aspects of learning tied in with the university’s North Central Associa-tion Self-Study accreditation pro-cess.

Throneburg said she and her col-leagues in the CASL have been pre-senting this information to all com-mittees on campus that are associat-ed with academics.

“ There a re f i ve c r i t e r i a in -volved with the self-study process,” Throneburg said. “Aspects three and four revolve around critical think-ing and learning. CAA, as the main academic body of learning on cam-pus, will be informed about what they could expect to act upon in the near future.”

Jack Cruikshank can be reached at 581-2812

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aC aDemiCs | CLasses

CAA approves cirriculum changes

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• At 12:17 p.m. Monday, a disor-derly conduct was reported to have occurred at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. This incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards.

• At 12:38 p.m. Tuesday, a crimi-nal damage to property was reported at O’Brien Stadium. This incident is under investigation.

• At 5:43 p.m. Tuesday, a criminal damage to property was reported at Andrews Hall. This incident was re-ferred to the Office of Student Stan-dards and the State’s Attorney.

BLOT TER

Multiple damages reported TuesdayBy Chris Wasson

Staff Reporter@Den_news

A rush of students looking to update the newest Apple software system caused Eastern’s bandwidth to max out on Wednesday.

Brian Murphy, director of Infor-mation Technology Services, said at certain points, there were anywhere from dozens to hundreds trying to download the update at once.

However, Murphy also men-tioned that the problem was not Eastern’s Wi-Fi , but a flood of outside web sources trying to ac-cess campus Internet.

Murphy said although the band-width was maxed out, it would not

affect Eastern’s servers or their as-sociated websites.

“Things like the Zumbra Pan-thermail service or the EIU website should still be accessible even un-der heavy bandwidth because its on campus traffic,” Murphy said.

Many students, however, began experiencing problems with East-ern’s Wi-Fi.

Jasmine Wooley, a sophomore psychology major, said for certain time periods she could not even ac-cess the Wi-Fi, and that when she could, it was very slow.

Despite what Murphy said about Eastern’s servers being secure, Jac-cari Brown, a sophomore commu-nication studies major, explained that he could not access the Desire-

2Learn website, one of the more prominent websites for Eastern students.

The connection was so poor at certain moments that Eastern stu-dents began trying other ways to regain their Internet connection.

Shawn Ball, a sophomore ap-plied engineering and technologies major, had such bad issues with the Wi-Fi that at times he had to reconnect and restart his devices multiple times.

However, there were also stu-dents who reported having no p r o b l e m s c o n n e c t i n g t o t h e school’s network.

When Murphy was asked about Eastern’s plan to combat s imi-lar problems in the future, he said

Eastern is in the process of dou-bling their bandwidth on the ad-ministration’s Wi-Fi, but that the update will not affect residence halls because those networks are on different bandwidths.

However, there are plans in mo-tion to start gaining more band-width for the residential halls in the future.

Because of the high demand in technology-based learning mate-rials, Murphy said Eastern’s resi-dence halls will be increasing their bandwidth in the future.

Chris Wasson can be reached at 581-2812 or at [email protected]

Internet access disrupted by downloads

JuWaan WRighT | ThE DaiLy EasTERn nE WsStudents participate in the bingo tournament as part of ROCFest in the basement of Lawson Hall Tuesday. The Residence Hall Association hosted the tournament. The winners of ROC Fest will be announced Friday.

C ampus | wI-FI

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THURSDAY | 9.19.13OPINIONS NO. 19, Volume 98

DRAWN FROM THE EASEL

Sabrina ann Dunc an | The Daily eaSTern ne wS

STAFF EDITORIAL

Katie Smith

Our POSiTiOn • Situation: The sexual assault link is too small on Eastern’s website. • Stance: The link should be bigger so it is more visible to students.

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PAWS UP/PAWS DOWN

rOcFeST: Residence halls are participating in ROCFest and the support has been great.

eaSTern wiFi: Becasue of the IOS7 update, Eastern’s wifi wasn’t working properly Wednesday.

FaMily weeKenD: Family weekend is next weekend. Plan you weekend now to have a great time.

cheaP TricK: Cheap Trick will be performing in the Lantz Arena for Family Weekend.

Attempted murder is what the Charles-ton Police Department’s latest press release is calling the events that took place at Satur-day’s “Barn Party.”

What is somehow more upsetting is the nonchalant attitude with which I have heard some students react to the use of a weapon. This weapon, which has been smuggled into movie theaters, tucked into backpacks and abused by strangers, has resulted in some of this country’s most tragic events in recent years.

Hearing, “It wasn’t that bad,” is a star-tling remark in regard to an event where a shooting took place at, because it is a com-plete understatement.

Three young people were taken to the hospital and treated for gunshot wounds and assault and still people say they had a good time.

No music or combination of alcohol, or whatever it is that makes a party of more than 400 people so appealing, could per-suade anyone to shrug off the fact there was

a shooting- the fact that three people who are each someone’s daughter or son, best friend or sibling, could have been killed.

If this incident had occurred at a party in a residence hall or a bar nearby campus I’m hesitant to believe that an attempted mur-der would ever be taken so lightly.

No matter how common violence becomes, it is never something to develop numbness to. Hurting someone when we are mad at him or her is unacceptable and that concept seems to be getting lost. This contributes to the false sense of entitlement people feel when they decide to take some-

one’s life on a street corner, during pass-ing periods at high schools, or at parties in empty warehouses over the weekends.

The phrase “guns don’t kill people, peo-ple kill people,” is stupidly obvious. Guns don’t kill people.

But people do kill people; with guns and with their own bare hands.

Even though Charleston has a history of being small and safe, that doesn’t mean bad things don’t happen; and when they do hap-pen, they should be taken seriously.

No less than three people were sent to the hospital because someone had a bad temper.

There is no silver lining to a party that results in hospital expenses. When you turn the music down and pour out your drinks, you were all just witnesses at crime scene someone decided was “still a good time.”

Katie Smith is a junior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected].

“Barn Party” is no joking matter

You like them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter and subscribe to their YouTube channel, but now for the first time Eastern says to their students: Sexual assault? We have an app for that- only it isn’t an app at all.

Located at the bottom left-hand corner of Eastern’s homepage is an assortment of social media links and among them, disguised as an application, is a link to a new informational page containing a list of resources and facts about sexual assault and Eastern’s protocol on the topic. The icon though, seems too little too late.

When considered in comparison to what seemed to be a lack of guidance through the Eastern’s reporting process in the past, this new informational page is a much-appreciated resource and will serve people for the better in the future.

The problem however, lies in both the visibility of the link and the communication between the resources listed on the page.

A web address directing students through the reporting of a sexu-al assault does not belong at the end of a list of social media contact information, which people are accustomed to viewing and likely to overlook. Since the link is at the bottom of the page with no assigned placement in a dropdown menu of other resources at the top of the page, it feels strikingly similar to Vice President of Student Affairs, Dan Nadler’s comment last year about writing on the Doudna Steps being “trashy.”

Something commonly misunderstood about sexual assault is that rape is not a dirty word, it is a criminal offense, so assisting people by leading them to resources to help them cope with and seek jus-

tice after a sexual assault is something admirable and nothing to be ashamed of.

Approaching the placement of the link from a public relations standpoint, having a blown up advertisement with the words “sexu-al assault” on the front page, may send a message about the university that administrators would not want to project.

However, sexual assault has been a widely discussed issue at East-ern within the past year. A message about sexual assault on campus

was already being sent, whether or not admin-istrators initiated it. What the university should have done was develop this page and display it more publically while the topic was a major heated debate.

The timing seems wrong, since the discussion of sexual assault last year encouraged students to speak up about their own experiences at var-

ious protests, town hall meetings and other gatherings directly relat-ed to the topic. With more people coming clean about such a serious subject matter, these resources should have been publically available much sooner.

Although the sexual assault informational page is not doing any harm by existing, it is not serving its full potential by being placed discretely amongst a slew of contact information.

If students and faculty were brave enough to come forward and speak boldly and openly about sexual assault, administration should be expected to do the same.

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Subsequent rounds saw Thomas beating Lawson, then Stevenson over Lincoln.

Weller was victorious overall with a time of 1 minute 32 seconds, fol-lowed by Ford in second place with 1 minute 52 seconds and Thomas close behind in third with 1 minute 55 sec-onds.

Participants from Weller were ex-cited about securing another victory for their residence hall.

“It’s another 25 points towards Weller,” Lemenager said. “Now we’re just increasing our lead.”

Johnson said they are hoping for a win for the fifth year in a row.

While those in attendance were enthusiastic, it was the lowest turnout at a ROCFest event this week.

Laura Imbirowicz, the resident di-rector of Lawson Hall, said she was

positive despite this.“I wish we would have had more

teams from each of the halls, but the participation we did have was really good,” she said.

ROCFest events will continue for the remainder of the week, with a 12-hour scavenger hunt beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday and the closing picnic Friday.

Laura Hamlyn can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

By Demetre TaylorStaff Reporter@DEn_news

Employers as far as Virginia and as close as Mattoon are coming to Eastern for the Job Fair. Linda Moore, the director of Career Servic-es, said the hours of the job fair have changed, but they are still seeing a rise in participants.

“We are seeing a slight increase in employers and more interest by the social service agencies, which reflects the more stable funding environ-ment,” Moore said.

Employers such as Allendale Asso-ciation, St. Mary’s Hospital and Im-pact Networking are on the list for the Job Fair.

Job fairs on college campuses are a major source of hiring for employers, Moore said.

“If it was not a major source of hir-ing college students then they would not come,” she said employers prefer to see candidates face-to-face if they can. College students say that also, she said.

“I often hear, ‘If I could just get a chance to talk to an employer, they would see what a good hire I would be,’” Moore said.

Job fairs give students the chance to make their case and not go to the expense of traveling to an interview and missing classes or work.

“In past years we have held job fairs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. but we are finding that students are taking classes

during those hours and then going to work,” Moore said. “We switched to noon to 4 p.m. so students would be able to meet employers. We also think that the noon to 4 p.m. time might make travel to Charleston less costly for employers because they would not have to stay overnight.”

Moore said Chase and State Farm will be giving information sessions af-ter the job fair and some of the com-panies will be holding interviews at the Career Services office on the next day.

Students who are interested in those interviews can sign up on Pan-ther Recruiting Plus on Eastern’s Website.

“This is a most cost effective way to find internships and jobs for our

students, no envelopes, stamps, gaso-line or trolls,” Moore said. “Just be on campus.’’

Students can expect to see employ-ers at their tables and waiting to see who seems eager for work, passionate about what that employer does and ready with a good hand shake, eye contact and a good resume, Moore said.

This job fair is for all majors but it does not cater to teaching positions for K-12 schools. Students who are well prepared can use this contact to get their resumes to the right people in a variety of fields where the jobs are not advertised.

Education job fairs are separate be-cause educators have such a different method to their recruiting. The edu-

cation job fairs are in November and the end of February.

A list of participating companies can be found at http://www.eiu.edu/careers/ and the company names are linked to their website.

“I expect our students to be very successful, particularly those who have done a little work to prepare themselves,” Moore said. “EIU has fantastic job candidates who are will-ing to work and learn. Most have been involved in clubs, been lead-ers, been volunteers and have worked at some point. They have great skills but sometimes don’t realize how to explain their value to employers.”

Demetre Taylor can be reached at 581-2812or [email protected].

By Samantha MiddendorfStaff Reporter@DEn_news

The fall season is a typical time for hunting and hundreds of people par-take in the sport.

Before people can get their hunt-ing license, they have to show proof they have completed a hunter safety course.

By law in the state of Illinois, any hunter born on or after Jan. 1, 1980 is required to complete and pass a hunter education course provided by the Illinois DNR if they wish to hunt this season.

Hunters may also show a hunting license from a previous year or their resident state.

The Charleston Parks and Rec-reation Department will be hosting education courses from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and Satur-day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Brian Jones, the director of Charleston Parks and Recreation, said the courses will be instructed by Ron Boeser, a volunteer who has been teaching all of the courses for a num-ber of years.

Jones said there are specific rules for the program participants.

“All participants must attend

all three classes to pass this course,” Jones said. “They must not bring any personal guns with them to the class.”

Jones said participants are also re-minded to bring a lunch for Satur-day’s class because it is an all-day event.

The courses will provide a broad amount of information for new hunt-ers on how to hunt properly and safe-ly, he said.

The course topics are Field Safe-ty and Hunter Responsibility; Wild-life Conservation; Management and Identification; Basic Archery and Muzzleloading; Firearms and Am-munition; All State Regulations and Rules and First Aid, Jones said.

The courses are all free and are open to all people 10 years of age and older. Parents looking to attend with their child do not need to register un-less they plan on getting a certificate themselves.

To register for the class, participants can visit the Parks and Recreation De-partment located in City Hall, by call-ing the Park and Recreation depart-ment or by going to the event on the Parks and Recreation website.

Samantha Middendorf can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected]

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 2013 THE DAilY EASTERn nEwS | SPORTS 7football | non-conference schedule

Eastern earns $575,000 from FBS school

by aldo Soto Assistant Sports Editor@AldoSoto21@DEn_Sports

The Eastern football team will play its second FBS opponent of the season as the Panthers head to DeKalb to play Northern Illinois on Saturday.

Northern, like every FBS school that schedules a game against an FCS team, will pay Eastern to play in DeKalb.

The Panthers’ payday from the Huskies is $250,000.

“It is a pretty good payday for us because it’s a bus trip, it’s three and a half hours for us, and po-tentially, we could have some de-cent fan base come to that game,”

Eastern Athletic Director Barba-ra Burke said. “From a net stand-point, (Northern) is a good oppo-nent for us.”

Eastern began its 2013 season, defeating San Diego State 40-19. The Aztecs are an FBS team as a part of the Mountain West Con-ference.

Not only did Eastern walk away with the win, but the Panthers also received $325,000 from San Diego State.

Burke said the process of sched-uling with an FBS program must be done years in advance.

“It was either in 2008 or 2009, when we able to schedule the San Diego State and Northern Illinois games,” Burke said. “Right now we’re already talking to schools to schedule games in 2016 and 2017.”

Burke said she begins the pro-cess of scheduling FBS programs by going to websites that share information on what schools are looking for opponents.

She also said that once a team is chosen she does additional re-search on what the average amount of money schools are paying to be played.

“It takes several phone calls, and then you have to work out the dates and make sure your dates are available and their dates are avail-

able and that the resources are rea-sonable,” Burke said.

This season is not the first for Eastern where it was paid to play an FBS opponent, nor will it be the last.

In 2009, Eastern traveled east to play Penn State University. Eastern was paid $450,000 by the Nittany Lions for the nearly 700-mile trip.

Next season, Eastern will play Minnesota, which i s a par t of the Big 10 Conference like Penn State. Minnesota will pay East-ern $400,000 to play in TCF Bank Stadium.

This is the same amount that Iowa, which is also a Big 10 pro-gram, paid the Panthers in 2010.

Another Big 10 team in North-western paid Eastern $350,000 in 2011.

“You can see the similarities (in the amount paid) and that goes back to being able to do the re-search and know who is paying what to whom and using that as a little bit of bargaining during the process,” Burke said.

Aside from playing Minneso-ta in 2014, Eastern will also play Ohio, another FBS team.

Like Northern, Ohio is part of the Mid-American Confer-ence. The Panthers will receive $325,000 from Ohio.

Western Michigan, which also plays in the MAC, played Eastern last year and also paid the Panthers $325,000.

Since 2007, the Panthers have played two FBS teams in one sea-son once, coming in 2008, when Eastern played Central Michigan and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Burke said she took the oppor-tunity to schedule two FBS oppo-nents in consecutive years to gen-erate revenue.

“The calendar was such that FCS schools by NCAA rules could schedule an additional non-con-ference game,” Burke said. ‘So, we could have scheduled anoth-er FCS opponent or an FBS oppo-nent, and we took the opportuni-ty to schedule a second FBS oppo-nent to help us with our budget.”

From 2009 through 2014, East-ern will receive a total of $2.825 million from eight FBS schools.

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or [email protected].

Penn State

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Panthers to play Northern on Saturday

“From a net standpoint, (northern) is a pretty good opponent for us.”

-Barbara Burke, athletic director

“This last game really showed how we have progressed,” Lora said. “It really set us apart from be-ing OK receivers to good receiv-ers.”

Lora said Babers has built a fam-ily-like atmosphere inside the East-ern locker room, which is why, al-though he is honored to have bro-ken the OVC career receptions re-cord, it did not mean as much as the success the team has been hav-ing.

“Coach Babers has really made it a point that your name may go into the history book, but to your family it doesn’t really mean any-

thing unless you’re doing better for the family,” Lora said. “I think that’s what we’ve really focused ourselves on.”

A f t e r the f ina l wh i s t l e wa s blown, Eastern marched off the field over to the sideline and sang the school’s fight song with the fans.

Lora met with his mother Elia, who gave him a hug, congratu-lating him on his record and the team’s win.Lora, who caught 73 passes in his first two years as a Panther and who missed the 2011 season due to an injury, still has at least nine games to add to his

OVC career receptions record. As of now, Lora holds the FCS single-season records for catches (136) and the OVC record for receiving yards (1,664).

And before the season ends, Lora may own another career OVC record.

Lora currently has 2,871 career receiving yards- 1,033 yards away from setting a new record.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected].

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Red-shirt senior Eric Lora runs with the ball during Eastern’s game against Illinois State Saturday at O’Brian field. Lora has 240 recep-tions which leads the OVC career record.

Top Catwith Erik Lora, Eastern’swide receiver

Wide receiver cements legacy

The Eastern football team has no egos.

After a 3-0 start to the 2013 season

that has seen the Panthers de-feat San Diego State, an FBS school, a win in Carbondale for the first time since 2001 and a 33-point win against Illinois State.

Eastern quarterback Jim-my Garoppolo is nearing Ohio Valley Conference records, but his teammate and fellow senior Erik Lora already stands atop the conference in all-time re-ceptions.

Lora broke the conference record, previously established by Austin Peay’s Harold Rob-erts in 1970, during the Pan-thers’ 57-24 win against Illinois State on Saturday.

His record-set t ing catch came in the second quarter as the Panthers were building on their 17-point lead over the Redbirds.

“I did see on either some pregame notes or in the news-paper a couple days earlier that I was three catches away from breaking the record,” Lora said. “I knew ahead of the game, but honestly, I wasn’t really focused on it . I was worried about ISU.”

Career reception No. 233, was not fancy. Lora was able to break free from his defend-er, who was pressing the re-ceiver at the line of scrimmage,

and then Lora hauled in a 16-yard pass from Garoppolo near the sideline, making a defender miss before being taken to the ground.

The public address announc-er’s voice piped through the O’Brien Field speakers, mak-ing the 10,741 people in at-tendance aware of the record-breaking moment.

Lora had no time to cele-brate as the Panthers’ offense as a custom now, hustled back to the line and ran the next couple of plays, leading to the team’s fourth touchdown.

“I got a nice little cheer and that felt good, but I was fo-cused on beating ISU more than anything,” Lora said.

His focus led to 10 catches against Illinois State, bringing his career total to 240.

L o r a s t a n d s a t 5 - f e e t -11-inches, the shortest receiv-er on the Eastern roster, but Panthers’ coach Dino Babers said Lora is one of the hardest workers on the team.

“Erik Lora is throwback, old fashioned football play-er,” Babers said. “He’s a guy who comes to practice everyday with a smile on his face and just works his tail off. He only knows one speed: full speed.”

Lora was not the only Pan-ther to make history Satur-day. His last catch also helped Garoppolo enter the record books.

With 13:55 remaining in the fourth quarter, Lora once again faced press coverage and then was assigned a fade route by Garoppolo. Lora was able to keep his feet inside the end zone for Garoppolo’s school best seventh touchdown of the game.

Two records fell Saturday night, but Lora said during the game the Panthers’ focus re-mained on Illinois State.

“A couple guys said congrat-ulations, but just the way my mindset was on beating ISU so was the whole team’s,” he said. “We could worry about records after the game, but at that mo-ment we focused on winning, scoring, getting on the field and scoring again. That’s all that really mattered.”

Lora said without his team-mates, none of his accomplish-ments would have been obtain-able.

Looking back at the game, Lora said he was most proud of how far along his fellow start-ing receivers have evolved since the off-season.

Sophomore receiver Keion-dre Gober caught an 86-yard touchdown, the longest pass play in the FCS this season and red-shir t junior Adam Drake caught 11 passes for 176 yards and two touch-downs.

Long live Loraby Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor@DEN_SPorts

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Women’s soccer team closes non-conference scheduleby Dominic renzettiManaging Editor@domrenzetti

The Eastern women’s soccer team (0-7-0) will play its final two non-conference match-es starting Friday against Drake and Valparaiso.

The Panthers are winless through their non-conference schedule so far and have only man-aged one goal in its first seven matches.

Eastern will host Drake at 3:30 p.m. Fri-day at Lakeside Field. It will be the third home match for the Panthers this season.

Since winning its first two exhibition match-es against Grandview and Nebraska-Oma-ha, the Bulldogs, like the Panthers, are win-less. Drake lost its season opener to Iowa and then fell to Ohio Valley Conference opponent Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.

The Bulldogs played in the Pacific Soccer Classic, drawing with host Pacific and losing to UC-Davis. Drake also lost to Wyoming and tied with Green Bay, which beat Eastern this season.

Drake has lost its last two matches, falling to South Dakota State and another OVC team, Southeast Missouri.

The Bulldogs have scored eight goals this season and have allowed 18. Senior forward Paige Dusek, a native of St. Charles, has a team-high five goals for the Bulldogs. Dusek had no goals last season, appearing in 20 matches.

Junior Andrea Swanson has started all eight matches for Butler in goal. The Iowa State transfer has made 37 saves this season.

For the Panthers, red-shirt freshman Kylie Morgan and sophomore Cortney Jerzy have seen the most time in goal, both totaling 225 minutes.

Morgan, a transfer from Kentucky, and Jer-zy, a transfer from St. Xavier, split time in goal in the Panthers’ 3-0 loss to Loyola Sunday. Morgan has given up 12 goals and made 15 saves, while Jerzy has given up seven goals and made 13 saves.

Junior forward Madison Carter remains as the only goal scorer for the Panthers, scoring in the 21st minute of the season opener against Oakland.Junior defender Allie Lakie had the assist.

The Panthers as a whole have taken 46 shots this season, with junior Meagan Radloff lead-ing the way with 10. Carter has the most shots on goal of any player on the team with five.

Following the match against Drake, Eastern will travel to Indiana to take on Valparaiso.

Valparaiso enters at 4-3-1, with all four of its wins coming at home. The Crusaders are coming off a 2-1 loss against Evansville. Two of Valparaiso’s four wins have come against Big East opponent DePaul and Big Ten opponent Northwestern.

Different players have scored all five of Val-paraiso’s goals. Senior midfielder Hailey Chme-la and sophomore forward Jordyn Fyfiak each

have three points.Senior goalkeeper Kristen Manski has start-

ed all eight matches for the Crusaders. She has allowed four goals and made 38 saves.

Eastern’s game against the Crusaders is

scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday at Brown Field in Valparaiso, Ind.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

JAson HowELL | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE wsSophomore forward Hannah Miller runs the ball up the pitch with Loyola defender Abby Bur-ridge beside her in a game on Sept. 15 at Lakeside Field.

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