VOL. 98 | ISSUE 50 Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” WWW. DAILYEASTERNNEWS .COM T HE D aily E astErn n Ews ‘Undead’ unleashed for zombie run ALONE AT THE TOP In a battle of the OVC’s top teams, the Panthers beat Tennessee State 34-16 Saturday in Nashville, Tenn. Page 8 Patrolling the streets Starting in November, the University Police De- partment will be sponsoring a dispatch service to help escort students, faculty members home on campus. Page 3 By Laura Hamlyn Staff Reporter|@DEN_News At 5-foot-9-inches, it is not difficult to spot Cameron Douglas among kindergar- ten students, but at Mark Twain Elementary School’s annual Fall Frolic celebrations Fri- day, Douglas could not have looked more at home. Douglas, a senior clinical laboratory science major and president of the Black Student Union, attended the frolic in his capacity as a mentor with BSU’s “Bridging the Gap” pro- gram along with five other Eastern students. “Bridging the Gap” was established in spring 2012 after Terry Diss, the Mark Twain Elementary principal, approached Douglas about creating a program to introduce greater diversity into the school. At the time Douglas was the BSU service affairs chairman. Diss said he felt diversity was some- thing not typical of east central Illinois, but Charleston was an exception because of the presence of Eastern. “We’re fortunate here because of the uni- versity,” Diss said. “I think exposing children to positive role models from different races, different cultures and different places only helps them develop that understanding now and as they grow up.” Diss said students look at people different- ly than adults do. “When students see someone walk in, they don’t see white, black, orange, purple; they see people and I think that’s very important that that’s just how we look at people here,” Diss added. Douglas described the aim of “Bridging the Gap” as trying to “defeat the stereotype of mi- norities in young children before it has time to grow and become an issue in ones life.” This aim is achieved through a student committing to visiting Mark Twain Elemen- tary for a minimum of one hour every two weeks to assist in areas such as reading, lunch, workshops and events. “We have watched the number of college students involved with the program grow ex- ponentially from the mere ten that started,” Douglas said. The program was expanded at the begin- ning of fall 2013 to include students from Al- pha Phi Alpha fraternity, with Douglas hop- ing to include several more organizations by next year. “Having thirty-plus college students help- ing out with this gives room for EIU students to go bi-weekly, yet we still fulfill our obliga- tions of having one of EIU’s very own in their building every day,” he said. Douglas said while students choose to be- come involved in “Bridging the Gap” for a va- riety of reasons, they gain feelings of happi- ness, importance and excitement about giving back to the community through doing so. “I’m a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fra- ternity incorporated and we stand for manly deeds, scholarship and love for all mankind, so this is definitely one of our manly deeds and love for all mankind,” he said. “We have a genuine ethic of wanting to do this.” BSU provides role models for children Above: Junior art major, Hannah Wilson, chases participants of the Zombie 5K as they run through the finish line Saturday at the Panther Trail. Those who did not get “infected” during the run received survivor pins. Top Left: Wilson hunts down two runners. Those who were “infected” during the run recieved buttons upon their completion. Top Middle: Participants of the Zombie Run take their first strides. Volunteers dressed as zombies were stationed throughout the trail and instructed to “infect” the runners by capturing a pink flag fastened to the runners’ waists. Top Right: Marty Yurcheshen, 56-year-old Palentine resident, listens as instructions are given to volunteers before hiding amongst the trees. PHOTOS BY KATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS By Jarad Jarmon Student Governance Editor | @ JJarmonReporter Students and community resi- dents ran for their lives as well as to support awareness for Multiple Sclerosis at the 5K Zombie Run Saturday on the Panther Trail. For the run, participants strived to keep their three flags through the onslaught of volunteer zom- bies strewn across the Panther Trail while running the three miles. e participants had to keep all three flags by the end of the finish line in order to ensure they would don the “I survived the Zombie 5K” pin. If they failed and lost all of their flags, they would be given the “I got zombified on the Zombie 5K” pin. ese zombies showed no weak- ness when hunting their victims, with many hiding in trees then jumping out when the victims pass like Charlie Davis, an 18-year-old Palatine resident. Davis said he let a couple people pass then rushed for a few children who were running behind. Dylan Doughty, a senior busi- ness management major, who ran the 5K, said there was one zom- bie who jumped out of a tree and sprinted a roughly 100 meters to try and get Doughty’s flag. ese zombies also used tactics such as baiting to ensnare their vic- tims. Daniel Hughes, a freshman eco- nomics major, and Austin Sproles, a kinesiology and sports studies major, made sure to focus the at- tention toward Hughes while Sp- roles hid behind a tree. ZOMBIES, page 5 By Robert Downen Administration Editor| @DEN_NEWS Staff from the student-run yearbook The Warbler Yearbook was presented multiple awards and honors at a college media workshop last week, including “Best in Show” for 240-page pub- lications. The awards, offered by the College Media Association, were presented to the Eastern students at the annual National Media Convention in New Orleans. The publication also received first-place praise for its 2012-13 cover, third place for its student life spread and honorable men- tion for designer pages. Brandyce Gordon, a journal- ism student and managing edi- tor at The Warbler last year, said while the staff was confident when they arrived in New Or- leans, they were surprised to win and place in such a variety of cat- egories. “We haven’t won awards in a pretty long time,” she said. “But I knew we had done a pretty good job when they were using our publication as examples in different workshops throughout the week. I started to realize we might really have a shot.” Gordon said The Warbler has also applied for a Pacemak- er award, the highest honor of- fered by the Associated Collegiate Press. ‘Warbler’ brings home multiple awards WARBLER, page 5 ROLE MODELS , page 5
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‘Undead’ unleashed for zombie run
ALONE AT THE TOPIn a battle of the OVC’s top teams, the Panthers beat Tennessee State 34-16 Saturday in Nashville, Tenn.Page 8
Patrolling the streets Starting in November, the University Police De-partment will be sponsoring a dispatch service to help escort students, faculty members home on campus.
Page 3
By Laura HamlynStaff Reporter|@DEN_News
At 5-foot-9-inches, it is not difficult to spot Cameron Douglas among kindergar-ten students, but at Mark Twain Elementary School’s annual Fall Frolic celebrations Fri-day, Douglas could not have looked more at home.
Douglas, a senior clinical laboratory science major and president of the Black Student Union, attended the frolic in his capacity as a mentor with BSU’s “Bridging the Gap” pro-gram along with five other Eastern students.
“Bridging the Gap” was established in spring 2012 after Terry Diss, the Mark Twain Elementary principal, approached Douglas about creating a program to introduce greater diversity into the school.
At the time Douglas was the BSU service affairs chairman.
Diss said he felt diversity was some-thing not typical of east central Illinois, but Charleston was an exception because of the presence of Eastern.
“We’re fortunate here because of the uni-versity,” Diss said. “I think exposing children to positive role models from different races, different cultures and different places only helps them develop that understanding now and as they grow up.”
Diss said students look at people different-ly than adults do.
“When students see someone walk in, they don’t see white, black, orange, purple; they see people and I think that’s very important that that’s just how we look at people here,” Diss added.
Douglas described the aim of “Bridging the Gap” as trying to “defeat the stereotype of mi-norities in young children before it has time to grow and become an issue in ones life.”
This aim is achieved through a student committing to visiting Mark Twain Elemen-tary for a minimum of one hour every two weeks to assist in areas such as reading, lunch, workshops and events.
“We have watched the number of college students involved with the program grow ex-ponentially from the mere ten that started,” Douglas said.
The program was expanded at the begin-ning of fall 2013 to include students from Al-pha Phi Alpha fraternity, with Douglas hop-ing to include several more organizations by next year.
“Having thirty-plus college students help-ing out with this gives room for EIU students to go bi-weekly, yet we still fulfill our obliga-tions of having one of EIU’s very own in their building every day,” he said.
Douglas said while students choose to be-come involved in “Bridging the Gap” for a va-riety of reasons, they gain feelings of happi-ness, importance and excitement about giving back to the community through doing so.
“I’m a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fra-ternity incorporated and we stand for manly deeds, scholarship and love for all mankind, so this is definitely one of our manly deeds and love for all mankind,” he said. “We have a genuine ethic of wanting to do this.”
BSU provides role models for children
Above: Junior art major, Hannah Wilson, chases participants of the Zombie 5K as they run through the finish line Saturday at the Panther Trail. Those who did not get “infected” during the run received survivor pins. Top Left: Wilson hunts down two runners. Those who were “infected” during the run recieved buttons upon their completion. Top Middle: Participants of the Zombie Run take their first strides. Volunteers dressed as zombies were stationed throughout the trail and instructed to “infect” the runners by capturing a pink flag fastened to the runners’ waists. Top Right: Marty Yurcheshen, 56-year-old Palentine resident, listens as instructions are given to volunteers before hiding amongst the trees.
PHotos By K atie smitH | tHe DaiLy eastern ne ws
By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor | @JJarmonReporter
Students and community resi-dents ran for their lives as well as to support awareness for Multiple Sclerosis at the 5K Zombie Run Saturday on the Panther Trail.
For the run, participants strived to keep their three flags through the onslaught of volunteer zom-
bies strewn across the Panther Trail while running the three miles.
The participants had to keep all three flags by the end of the finish line in order to ensure they would don the “I survived the Zombie 5K” pin.
If they failed and lost all of their flags, they would be given the “I got zombified on the Zombie 5K” pin.
These zombies showed no weak-
ness when hunting their victims, with many hiding in trees then jumping out when the victims pass like Charlie Davis, an 18-year-old Palatine resident.
Davis said he let a couple people pass then rushed for a few children who were running behind.
Dylan Doughty, a senior busi-ness management major, who ran the 5K, said there was one zom-bie who jumped out of a tree and
sprinted a roughly 100 meters to try and get Doughty’s flag.
These zombies also used tactics such as baiting to ensnare their vic-tims.
Daniel Hughes, a freshman eco-nomics major, and Austin Sproles, a kinesiology and sports studies major, made sure to focus the at-tention toward Hughes while Sp-roles hid behind a tree.
ZomBies, page 5
By robert Downen Administration Editor| @DEN_NEWS
Staff from the student-run yearbook The Warbler Yearbook was presented multiple awards and honors at a college media workshop last week, including “Best in Show” for 240-page pub-lications.
The awards, offered by the College Media Association, were presented to the Eastern students at the annual National Media Convention in New Orleans.
The publication also received first-place praise for its 2012-13 cover, third place for its student life spread and honorable men-tion for designer pages.
Brandyce Gordon, a journal-
ism student and managing edi-tor at The Warbler last year, said while the staff was confident when they arrived in New Or-leans, they were surprised to win and place in such a variety of cat-egories.
“We haven’t won awards in a pretty long time,” she said. “But I knew we had done a pretty good job when they were using
our publication as examples in different workshops throughout the week. I started to realize we might really have a shot.”
Gordon sa id The Warb l e r has also applied for a Pacemak-er award, the highest honor of-fered by the Associated Collegiate Press.
‘Warbler’ brings home multiple awards
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The University Board Mainstage Committee has teamed up with poet, Jasmine Mans, to present an-other poetry slam session.
The poetry slam will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union.
In 2012, she was named one of Glamor Magazine’s Top 10 college women for her powerful messages through her poetry performances.
David Groves, a senior business management major, and the main stage coordinator for the UB, said he discovered Mans on YouTube and has been a fan of her since high school.
“It’s a real honor to have her come to Eastern,” Groves said.
Mans attacks issues in today’s world and she does not hold back, he added.
Groves said people who listen to Mans’ poems will gain a different view on issues in today’s world, and it will have an effect on them, indi-vidually.
“She reaches out to people in a different way,” He said.
Mans has several poems that have gotten a lot of attention in the me-dia and from the Internet.
These poems include “Dear Ex-Lover,” where Mans reminisces about moments from her past rela-tionship, as well as a message to her future daughter.
In “Dear First Lady,” she cele-brates the leap of having an Afri-can-American couple in the White
House. In this poem, she discusses her four-year-old cousin looking up to First Lady Michelle Obama.
Her other poems include, “You Gone Get This Work” and “I Know You Didn’t Mean to Kill Him.”
S h e h a s b e e n f e a t u r e d o n HBO’s “Brave New Voices,” BET, and billboard.com.
Mans is popularly known for her poem, “The Mis-education of a Barbie Doll.” Mans poem received more than 400,000 views on You-Tube.
“The Mis-education of a Barbie Doll” targets and criticizes muscian Nicki Minaj’s, “Barbie doll" image and the objectification of woman-hood.
Groves said audience members would experience something they would not at any other poetry slam performance.
“You can take away something unlike any other,” he said.
Groves said his main goal is for the students to view poetry in a dif-ferent light.
Mans can be found on YouTube under the username, “The Strivers Row.”
Members from Delta Sigma The-ta sorority, NAACP, Eastern’s “Brave New Voices” winner Tiarra “Mello” Webb and others will also be per-forming and the poetry perfor-mance Wednesday.
By Jarad Jarmon student Governance editor | @JJarmonreporter
The University Police Depart-ment plans to have the Panther Pa-trol up and running in November.
The Panther Patrol will be com-prised of student employees whose job will be to check the buildings and parking lots on campus. They will also be available to walk stu-dents who do not feel safe to their car or residence hall.
To have a patrolman walk you home, a student will need call a dispatcher, which will be created for the Panther Patrol, who would then direct the patrolman to their location.
They will only be allowed to es-cort those walking on campus.
University Chief of Police Adam Due said they would not go to places outside of the campus.
“If someone said, ‘I am coming from uptown,’ we are not going up there to meet them,” he said. “But we would meet them at the edge of campus and then escort them to their destination.
Starting out, Due expects to have four to eight people out on patrol per night working from 10 p.m. until 2 p.m. Due said when the Panther Patrol program is ini-tiated, it will be more of a test run.
“We are not sure how it is go-ing to work out. We want to start a bit smaller and slower to start out,” Due said.
He said he expects to see campus employees to use this service when walking to their cars.
UPD is working with Jody Stone and Abby Ford to get this off the ground.
Due said the plan is to make
Panther Patrol just another part of the night assistant program. The panther patrol will be the mobile unit of this program.
“While they will be assigned to the residence hall lobby, these stu-dents (Panther Patrollers) will be checking the exterior of the build-ing and the parking lots.”
While the night assistant super-visors already check the exterior of the residence halls, the Panther Pa-trol will be expanding to all of the buildings on campus including the academic buildings.
Due said the patrollers would likely be equipped with flashlights and rain gear.
They are only expected to ob-serve and report if there is a prob-lem. They will have the same rights and privileges of any other citizens.
“They will be extra eyes for the police,” Due said.
He also said previous volun-teer groups started by fraternities and the ROTC did not work out because of some of the volunteers would not show up to the locations or volunteers would just stop do-ing it.
With this new program, Due said it would ensure those who need assistance would not feel un-comfortable with the patrollers.
Due added he hopes with the UPD and Housing and Dining running the program, it will be more organized and more profes-sional.
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• A hit and run near McAfee was re-ported at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. This incident is under investigation.
• A criminal damage to property was reported to have occured on Oct. 5 near McAfee. This incident is under investigation.
• A cannabis complaint was report-ed at W-Lot at 11 p.m. Wednesday. This incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards.
• A theft was reported from near Lawson Hall at 11:50 a.m. Thurs-day. This incident is under inves-tigation.
• Rebecca Cundiff, 20, of 250 S. East Street, Dalton City, Ill., was arrest-ed at E-Lot. She was charged with DUI-Alcohol, with a blood alcohol content of more than .08. She was released at 2:27 a.m. after posting 10 percent of $3,000 bond.
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Sa JJad aBEdiaN | ThE daiLy EaSTERN NE wS Donald Moore, sophomore kinesiology and sports studies major and member of the Eastern men's basketball team, performs a between-the-leg dunk during the dunk contest Friday in McAfee Gymnasium. "Ballin' for Boobies" was a charity game hosted by the NAACP. All the funds will be donated to the Sarah Bush Breast Cancer Center.
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By Joryn-Alyssa Zeek-Leestaff reporter|@DeN_News
Celebrating Halloween by turn-ing the 7th Street Underground into a family-themed haunting, members of University Board will be offering trivia, games and prizes of up to $250.
Haunted 7th Street will be at 7 p.m. Thursday in the basement of the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Nate Bolden, the student activity special events coordinator, said it is not a haunted house.
“It’s just a fun Halloween event for everyone,” he said.
All ages from children to adults are welcome, and the event is free, Bold-en added.
Bolden said costumes are welcome and there will be a Halloween costume contest where contestants will compete for prizes.
Guests can enjoy refreshments and candy provided by UB members.
Bolden said the idea was to help bring back the Halloween spirit for students.
“As we get older Halloween be-comes a type of taboo and we’re just trying to bring the Halloween excite-ment back,” Bolden said.
He added it was not going to be anything too rowdy.
“It’s just good wholesome Hallow-een fun,” said Bolden, “Just bring a good time.”
Andrew Manley, a senior psycholo-gy major, agreed and said he thought it was a good alternative to going out on Halloween night.
“I think it’s a good way to get stu-dents together on Halloween instead of going out and getting into trouble,” he said.
Haunted 7th Street is sponsored by the University Board and organized by the special events committee.
The special events committee is re-sponsible for coordinating a number of university events, including Wel-come Back Weekend, Family Weekend and various minor events throughout the year.
Bolden said he is currently looking for new members to join his special events team.
“Students will be able to voice their concerns about university events and be included in the planning of events,” said Bolden.
Students who are interested in join-ing may stop by the Student Activity Center in the Union.
By Samantha McDaniel Associate News editor | @samMcDaniel20
A symposium with a number of re-maining sessions will explore technolo-gy, its history and its use in modern so-ciety.
The Revolutions in Science and Technology Paradigms has a series of upcoming session, running until Nov. 7, that will showcase effects of technol-ogy, people who had a major influence on technological development and cur-rent implementations of new technolo-gy.
Wafeek Wahby, a professor in the School of Technology and one of the
symposium coordinators, said technol-ogy has such an impact on peoples’ lives and it is important to understand the extent of its impact.
“Classes are different. The part of having teachers stand in front of stu-dent is changed by the Internet,” Wah-by said. “You name it, any communica-tion is different.”
Wahby said one of the goals of the symposium is to bring the campus and Charleston community together to dis-cuss the effects of technology.
The events will take place over the next two week and the schedule of events is available on the Eastern web-site.
Booklets about the symposium are also available.
The next session is at 10 a.m. Mon-day in Room 4440 of Booth Library. The session, titled “A Concrete Advan-tage: Production of Portland Cement” will discuss how new cement changed landscaping.
The following session at 11 a.m. Monday in Room 2153 of the Physi-cal Sciences Building will feature infor-mation about Sir Isaac Newton, an in-fluence on science.
Other studies will talk about female inventors, technology and health and the Internet.
The closing session will take place
at 10 a.m. Nov. 13 in the Charleston-Mattoon Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
The session “An Inspiring Look at New Fundamental of Technologies and How to Use Them in Your Future Career,” will focus on how the world uses technology and how it will con-tinue to change to fit the needs of the global community.
The idea behind this symposium came from the idea that communica-tion has changed because of technol-ogy.
This year’s symposium was sup-posed to be on ancient Rome, fol-lowing the ancient Egypt and ancient
Greece symposiums the last two years, but a technology-themed symposium was decided on instead.
Wahby said student should come to the symposium because they will be the ones affecting future technology.
“Look at these guys who did Face-book, Myspace and other social sites, mostly they were young,” Wahby said. “It is interesting to see how young peo-ple spark ideas that really influence the world.”
JASon HoweLL | THe DAiLy eASTern ne wSThe Panther Marching Band takes the field at the conclusion of the small division competition during the 37th annual Panther Marching Band Festival on Saturday at O'Brien Field.
Marchin’ to the beat
Cancer is a word that makes everyone’s stomach ache and heart drop. This is especially so if it has affected you.
Every month has at least one type of cancer that is “made aware” during the month’s duration, but there is one type of cancer that overshadows all others and that is not right.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is October. Walking around campus you will see shirts that say “Save the Tata’s” and “I Love Boobies” bracelets, as well as other forms of the same saying. Even though breast cancer affects both males and females, the awareness generally is geared toward wom-en.
Most people probably don’t know that October is not just Breast Cancer Aware-ness Month, it is also Liver Cancer Aware-ness Month. It is sad to see that although liver cancer is diagnosed in people and kills people, it is not made as aware as breast cancer.
People should be aware of other months as well. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This general saying covers many types of cancer that children are diagnosed with and some die from on a daily basis.
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, February is Nation-
al Cancer Prevention Month and June has a National Cancer Survi-vors Day. The list goes on and on. September and November have the longest list of different cancers that are “made aware” in the months.
The majority of people who already know of the other types of awareness months are those who have been affected by them,or know someone who are or were affected by them.
Branch out and do some research, yes breast cancer is something that is important to be made known and yes it does do hor-rible things, but it is not the only one. It is one of many and they all need to be treat-ed the same.
People aren’t just affected by just one type of cancer; they’re affected by multiple.
The point is that people shouldn’t con-centrate on one type of cancer just because
it gets more news.Get out there. Do research. Start awareness on another type of
cancer. Don’t let just one type outshine the rest.
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Seth Schroeder
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LAST WEEK’S QUESTION
If you didn’t go to Eastern’s Homecoming football game,
why?
I was planning on coming in for Homecoming (I’m an alum) but then my daugther had some last minute plans that forced me to stay home. I was super bummed! Going to try to drive over for another home game. I think there are two left. GO BIG BLUE!!!!
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Too bad it is a 14 hour drive, Kathy and I really wanted to come to show respect for Faculty King “Big Ank!”
John currey
Our POSiTiOn • Situation: There are many types of cancer af-fecting the world, but some overshadow the oth-ers. • Stance: Educate yourself on the types of can-cers, and don’t just support one. Support many.
The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
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Don’t support one, support many
We just returned from a whirlwind of workshops, critiques, roundtables, brain-storms and keynote speakers in New Orleans, and our staff could not be happi-er to be back.
As fun as our southbound, multi-day road trip was, we departed on our quest to fur-ther educate and reinvigorate ourselves to better serve you. Now that the 10 of us who went to the National College Media Con-vention are back, we can get back to doing that.
But this won’t simply be the same work we’ve been doing. Though we are proud of the newspaper we’ve been creating five days a week this semester, we have new ideas and plans on how we can be better.
We’ve spent time learning from other publications on the cutting edge of college media. Though not everything they’ve done will be right for our paper or the Eastern community, we are willing to try these new ideas until we find what works best for us.
In the near future we plan on taking a look at our website, multimedia content and sports coverage with a new perspective.
We have new plans for in-depth and inves-tigative stories, the design of our print and online publication, and our editorial con-tent.
We want to refocus on covering issues that truly matter to Eastern students, and we are looking into ways for those same stu-dents to create content of their own to par-ticipate in discussions on our site.
This is an exciting time for us, and, by extension, you.
You are our audience. There is no news without readers, and we do what we do because we are dedicated to bringing you information you need and want as part of
your life at Eastern.While we go through this time of transi-
tion, we’d like your feedback now more than ever. If there are issues you think are impor-tant that are going uncovered, or if there is something you would like to see more of, let us know.
You can email us, send letters to the edi-tor or stop by 1811 Buzzard Hall to talk to us in person. We love feedback, and if you want to help us transition through contri-butions of your own, we’d love to have you. Anyone can work for us, and we always have positions open for writers, photographers, artists, designers, programmers and videog-raphers.
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Latarius Ferguson, a senior market-ing major, became involved with the “Bridging the Gap” this year through his associations with BSU and Alpha Phi Alpha.
“With my schedule being so tough on campus, it’s hard for me to get time to get away from a lot of the business aspect there one campus,” Ferguson said. “When I do get time in my schedule it’s great to come here for an hour or so just to be able to in-teract with the children and just to get to know them.”
Ferguson was inspired to partici-pate in the mentorship program after having been involved in a similar pro-gram during his childhood.
“It was probably one of the best things to ever happen to me,” he said. “I got to meet a lot of people that I still know to this day.”
Parents, such as Lisa Bennett of Charleston, said volunteering at Fall Frolic were positive about the idea of having students from Eastern in the
classroom with their children.“I think it’s good for (the college
students) because the small people look up to them,” she said. “It’s al-ways good to have a good base with kids.”
Elliot Bennett, 5, and Charlotte Wiggins, 5, said they liked having the “big kids” visit school.
Melinda Wiggins of Charleston and Charlotte Wiggins’ mother, said having Eastern students at the ele-mentary school provides the children with positive role models.
“I think it’s good for them to see kids going to college, first of all, be-cause it gives them something to as-pire to and also having different adults to interact with rather than just their teachers that way they’re learn-ing good social skills,” Melinda Wig-gins said.
Diss said having volunteers in the classroom, both students and par-ents, was beneficial to the relation-ship between students and those
around them.“I just think it helps bridge the gap
between school and the community, school and Eastern,” he said.
Sitting in the gymnasium helping a little girl decorate paper pumpkins, Ferguson’s rapport with her was ob-vious, but he was humble about the fact he was giving up his own time to build such relationships.
“To see them happy is more than enough for me,” he said.
Douglas too was modest about his efforts in helping to establish “Bridg-ing the Gap.”
“The most rewarding part of dong this is honestly seeing the effect you have first hand,” he said. “When you’re out somewhere and a kid comes up to speak to you and you can meet the parent, that’s worth a thou-sand words right there.”
While it was fairly successful, Sp-roles and Hughes did not expect two participants to come prepared with silly string.
As Sproles was about to attack, one of the participants brought out silly string catching them off guard.
“I thought it was pepper spray at first,” Sproles said.
The volunteer zombies were not the only threat though. Partici-pants who preregistered were able to choose to be a running zombie, which are zombies who get a de-layed start behind the uninfected zombies behind them.
One runner zombie, Hannah Wilson, a junior art major, caused many scares along the trail as she sprinted through. Wilson said she cheated and skipped portions of the path.
“I didn’t follow the rules. I am dead and I don’t need to,” Wilson said.
Doughty said he stayed next one of the quarantine zone water sta-tions because she was following his group of friends.
“I stood in the safe zone for five minutes just because she was with our group,” Doughty said. “I let the rest of my group go ahead. I let her chase after them.”
Doughty said it was a lot more challenging than he thought it would be to run through the trail.
“It was really tiring. You have to change from sprinting to jogging so much,” Doughty said.
He said while he participated in the run because it was an interest-ing idea, another reason he partici-pated was in support of his mother, who has MS.
Elyse Banovic, the head coor-dinator of the run, said they were hoping to raise $1,000 and ended up raising $2,000 toward the Na-tional Multiple Sclerosis Society Greater Illinois Chapter.
This money will be used to fund more research for the cure for MS.
Banovic, a senior management major, said she hopes the Society of Human Resource Management, who sponsored the run, will contin-ue to do this next year.
Though results will not be released until next year, she said praise for The Warbler at last week’s convention made her much more confident in the publication’s chances to win the cov-eted award.
Alex McNamee, a 2013 Eastern graduate, was also credited for his work in The Warbler. McNamee’s fea-ture on Eastern wide receiver Erik Lora took first place distinctions for its design
He was quick to credit two other Warbler staff—Danny Damiani and Zachary White, both who are 2013 Eastern graduates—with the pho-to idea, and said he was extremely pleased the publication received na-tional recognition.
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In the second quarter, Little ran in for a 21-yard touchdown, put-ting Eastern ahead 14-3, making that his fourth touchdown run in the last two games, after scoring three against Southeast Missouri.
Little carried the ball 22 times for 138 yards, 12 more than five Tigers combined.
Although Tennessee State quarter-back completed 24 passes, the same as Garoppolo, Butler’s longest com-pletion was 27 yards. Butler threw the
ball 45 times, averaging 4.7 yards per attempt.
Tennessee State entered the game against Eastern as one of the best de-fense’s in the country, but on Satur-day the Panther defense outshined the Tigers, and leaped over them for first place in the OVC.
The Redhawks added their second goal just three minutes later when Stephanie Palmer, assisted by Jenni-fer Antonacci, put one in on a cor-ner kick.
Kasey Crowden scored two goals near the end of the first half to seal the win for the Redhawks, scoring an unassisted goal in the 38th minute, then adding another in the 400th, as-sisted by Amy Ward.
Jerzy was again in goal for the Pan-thers, making seven saves in the loss.
Southeast Missouri’s Ashton Aubu-chon made two saves in the win. The Panthers had just four shots in the match.
With the two losses, Eastern re-mains with 18 points in the OVC standings with one match remaining on the schedule. The Panthers take on Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Edwardsville beat Tennessee-Mar-tin 1-0 on Sunday, but the Skyhawks remain in first place in the OVC with
21 points. Southeast Missouri has 20 points, putting the Redhawks in sec-ond place. Eastern and Morehead State are tied with 18 points each fol-lowing Morehead State’s 1-0 loss to Belmont on Sunday. The Panthers beat Morehead State 1-0 on a late Meagan Radloff goal on Oct. 4.
The Eastern men’s and women’s swimming teams ended their week-end without a win as the men fell to IUPUI on Friday 72-36, while the women lost 80-30.
On Saturday the Panthers swam in a double-dual meet with the Uni-versity of Illinois-Chicago and IU-PUI. The men dropped both meets, losing 138-65 to the Flames and 151-53 to IUPUI.
The Panther women also came up empty-handed losing 139-65 to the
Flames and 144-60 to the Jaguars.The meet on Friday consisted of
14 events with the Panthers win-ning one. Eastern senior Colin Mc-Gill won the 50-yard backstroke for the Panthers.
On Saturday, Eastern had a tough time coming up with a win in any events. After 22 events, neither the men nor the women had any first-place finishes.
Eastern coach Elliot McGill said he expected a fast meet. He was very pleased with the teams’ heart and ef-fort throughout the meets.
“This was the fastest meet ever
at Ray Padovan Pool,” McGill said. “The fight us and UIC and IUPUI showed in every event was awesome. Even though we came up short on the points, we showed a heck of a lot of heart.”
McGill said he does not want to look at the outcomes of these meets as losses. He said the teams put to-gether some good performances and the teams this year would be beating the Eastern teams of the past.
“I don’t look at it as we are build-ing off of losses,” he said. “We are building off of some really solid per-formances for us right now. Both
teams right now would just deci-mate our teams from last year. We are going to challenge the kids to build off of that, not off of a loss.”
The teams will be preparing hard during the next two weeks for the meet against Evansville, McGill said.
“Our skills are sharp, our stroke lengths are solid, and the effort is there,” McGill said. “From here we’ve got two weeks of some hard and fast training and two weeks of prep work going into our mid-sea-son invite. Nothing gets you faster in swimming other than swimming fast in practice. That’s what the next
two weeks will be about.”Currently on the season, the men
stand at 0-4 with losses against Saint Louis, Illinois-Chicago and two against IUPUI. The women stand at 1-4, losing to the same teams as the men and winning one against But-ler.
With no meet next week, the Pan-thers will get back to action on Nov. 9 with a home meet against Evans-ville.
DOmiNic BAimA | THE DAiLy EASTERN NE wSFreshman Jon Delzell does the butterfly stroke against Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Friday at Padovan Pool. The Panthers lost to both Illinois-Chicago and IUPUI.
Panthers come up empty-handed after weekend
By michael Spencerstaff reporter | @tmskeeper
Eastern red-shirt sophomore striker Garet Christianson was shown a red card in the 53rd minute of the Pan-ther’s Summit League matchup with Denver.
Three minutes later, the Pioneer’s red-shirt junior midfielder Reid Hu-kari slotted a shot into the bottom corner to score Denver’s first goal in the team’s 2-0 defeat of the Eastern men’s soccer team.
Denver (9-3-3) remained undefeat-ed through all four of its conference
games while Eastern (1-11-2) slips to 1-3-1 in the Summit League with only one league match remaining be-fore the postseason tournament.
Despi te remaining score les s throughout the first 45 minutes, Denver controlled the match in East-ern’s defensive third. The Pioneers outshot the Panthers 20-2, the East-ern’s most lop-sided performance of the season.
Eastern head coach Adam How-arth stuck with a quicker lineup for Saturday’s game. It was a similar start-ing eleven that Eastern used to cap-ture its only victory so far this sea-
son against Oral Roberts in week 4 of conference play.
However, the extra speed up the wings could not make up for the strength of Denver’s midfield led by senior Zach Bolden, the team’s top-scorer, who provided Hukari with ser-vice on his goal. The assist was Bold-en’s his sixth of the season.
Denver was quick out of the blocks in the first half, peppering the goal with a flurry of shots through the first 15 minutes of the match before East-ern managed a single attempt towards goal.
The trend would stay the same un-
til the end of the half.Eastern was outshot 10-1 in the
first period and little more than five minutes into the second half the match began to become stretched and disjointed.
After a series of fouls from Eastern, Christianson was sent off for a foul in the 53rd minute and a foul in retali-ation just a couple minutes later saw two Denver players receive cautionary yellow cards from the center official.
Just three minutes later, Hukari scored to put Denver ahead by a goal in the 56th minute.
Denver proceeded to knock shots
towards goal for the next 20 minutes before the Pioneers managed to break down the Eastern back line on anoth-er goal from close range.
Freshman forward Eric Kronen-berg finished off the Panthers in the 76th minute to cap the match at 2-0.
Eastern will be back in action as they travel to Wisconsin for a mid-week nonconference match up with the No. 38 ranked Badgers.
@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Jimmy Garoppolo and Jeff LePak win #OVC Offensive Player and Newcomer of the Week honors after #EIU beat #TSU 34-16.
PHoTo CourTEsY of GEorGE wALkEr IV | THE TEnnEssEAn Shepard Little, a red-shirt sophomore running back, speeds past TSU linebacker Greg Barksdale and safety Daniel Fitzpatrick for a touchdown during the second quarter Saturday at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn.
Panthers move to first in OVC after winBy Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor | @AldoSoto21
Freshman quarterback Ronald Butler took the snap from his cen-ter, surveyed the Eastern (7-1, 4-0) secondary and completed a pass to junior receiver Weldon Garlington in the flat for Tennessee State (7-2, 4-1).
Garlington then ran to his right, up the field and lunged toward the orange pylon for an 11-yard touch-down. The extra-point attempt was good, but the Tigers were still down 28-10 with 12:04 left in the fourth quarter.
The Eastern defense allowed only a 43-yard field goal by Jamin God-frey in the first quarter until Butler’s touchdown pass to Garlington.
On Tuesday, Eastern coach Dino Babers said the game would come down to what the Panthers’ defense
would do against the Tigers’ offense and not what Tennessee State’s de-fense would do against the Eastern offense.
On Saturday afternoon in Nash-ville, Tenn., the Panthers allowed 16 points, while Jimmy Garoppolo led the Eastern offense to 34.
The Tigers entered LP Field with the second best scoring defense, al-lowing 13.5 points per game through their first eight games and allowed 264 total yards per game, which was also second in the FCS.
But it was the Eastern defense that was able to stop the Tigers’ offense, which threw 212 yards on 45 at-tempts and ran the ball 32 times, av-eraging less than four yards per car-ry (3.9).
Tennessee State was allowing 154.1 passing yards in its first eight games, No. 1 in the Ohio Valley Conference and No. 8 in the FCS.
After completing a 54-yard Hail Mary to Jeff LePak, who was tackled a yard short of the goal line, Garop-polo had eclipsed the 200-yard pass-ing mark in the first half for the eighth straight game.
Garoppolo finished the first half with 272 passing yards, a week after Tennessee State allowed 242 passing yards in the whole game against Ten-nessee-Martin.
Garoppolo would eventually ac-cumulate 410 passing yards, throw-ing more than 100 yards to Keion-dre Gober, Jeff LePak and Erik Lora each.
The senior quarterback threw four touchdowns, two apiece to Gober and LePak, and became the OVC’s single season passing touchdown all-time leader with 35, passing Tony Romo’s record of 34.
As the Panthers continued to score in the first half, building a 21-3 half-
time lead, their defense was making Tennessee State punter Leon Hold-erhead a frequent contributor for the Tigers.
After Godfrey made his 43-yard field goal with 8:09 left in the first quarter, Tennessee State’s offense walked off the field to the sideline, being forced to punt seven times in the next 10 possessions.
The only times Holderhead did not punt was when Godfrey missed a 41-yard field goal in the second quarter and when the Tigers fumbled the ball over to Eastern.
The Panthers took advantage of the underwhelming Tiger offense in the second half, turning to running back Shepard Little to take as much time off the clock as possible.
For the second consecutive week, Little rushed for more than 100 yards.
Losses drop Eastern in conference ranks
JAson HowELL | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE wsJunior forward Madison Carter fights with midfield defender Abbey Clau-sen in a game on Oct. 18 at Lakeside Field. The Panthers beat the Game-cocks 2-1.
By Dominic renzettiManaging Editor | @domrenzetti
For the first time since Septem-ber, the Eastern women’s soccer team dropped both of its weekend matches, putting the team at 6-12 overall and 6-3 in the Ohio Valley Conference.
The Panthers lost 2-0 Friday to Tennessee-Martin and 4-0 Sunday to Southeast Missouri. Both match-es were on the road.
Eastern and Tennessee-Mar-tin entered Friday’s match with 18 points apiece, tied for first place in the OVC.
Tennessee-Martin’s Alyssa Curtis opened the scoring early with a goal in the seventh minute to make the score 1-0.
The goal was Curtis’ fourth goal of the season. Eastern had just two shots in the first 45 minutes of play.
The Skyhawks scored their sec-ond goal early in the first half, when
Dominika Conc, who had played in a Women’s World Cup qualifying match earlier this season for Slove-nia, put one past Eastern goalkeeper Cortney Jerzy in the 46th minute.
The Skyhawks held on to the 2-0 lead for the rest of the match, mak-ing it their seventh straight win of the season.
Jerzy had 10 saves in the match, taking the loss.
Tennessee-Martin’s Mariah Klen-ke made four saves.
The Panthers had four shots on goal in the match.
On Sunday, the Redhawks’ of-fense exploded for four goals in the first half, making it the most goals given up by Eastern since the team’s opening season loss against Oakland when it gave up five.
The first goal came in the 22nd minute by Southeast Missouri’s Bre-ana Beine. Natasha Minor was cred-ited with the assist
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Panthers sit atop OVC westBy Anthony CatzoneSports Editor | @AnthonyCatz
The Eastern volleyball team moved into first place in the west division of the Ohio Valley Conference, sweeping its weekend matches against Murray State and Austin Peay.
Eastern took the top spot in the west from Austin Peay with a four-set win (25-20, 25-27, 25-22, 25-19) Saturday night.
Eastern improved to 13-10 overall and 7-3 in conference. Austin Peay feel to 9-17 overall and 6-4 in the OVC.
Outside hitter Reynae Hutchinson, coming off an OVC Offensive Player of the Week, had a match-high 19 kills for the Panthers. Her 15 digs were also her 37th career double-double perfor-mance.
Hutchinson was one of three Pan-thers to have double-digit kills in the win. Middle hitters Stephanie Arnold and Amy Martin added 11 kills each with .233 and .360 attack, respectively.
“I think our defense and passing has allowed our middles to be a big part of our offense,” Eastern coach Kate Price said in a press release. “Stephanie and Amy have been very offensive. They are doing a great job of finding ways to score and throwing themselves into the offense.”
Arnold and Martin added eight and six kills, respectively.
Sophomore setter Marah Bradbury had her fifth consecutive double-double performance, her match-high of 54 as-sists along with her 12 digs is her 17th double-double of her Panther career.
“Marah had a really nice game today and did a great job of seeing the block,” Price said.
The Panthers topped the Lady Govs in kills (61-to-49), attack (.197-to-.117), assists (60-to-44), blocks (13.5-to-11.0), and points (78.5-to-64.0).
Eastern began the weekend with a win over Murray State in straight sets (25-21, 25-22, 25-15) on Friday.
It was the first of two consecutive matches that three Panthers registered double-digit kills.
Arnold recorded a game-high 17 kills in the win behind a career-high .810 at-tack on 21 attempts with zero errors.
That is the third best hit percentage in Eastern history. Arnold was also one kill shy of tying her career high.
Martin nabbed 12 kills with a .360 attack. Outside hitter Chelsea Lee fin-ished with 11 kills and a .391 hit per-centage, as the Panthers out-hit the Lady Govs .346-to-.171.
Sophomore outside hitter Kayla Nes-bitt finished one kill away from double figures in the first start of her career.
Eastern won the battle in kills 58-to-34. Bradbury, who assisted on 47 of those kills, also added a game-high 20 digs. The Panthers had 54 assists to the Racers’ 30.
“It’s always great to be in the position we are in, but the season isn’t over yet and we need to finish out the season,” Price said. “We have done a great job of getting better each match and I hope we continue to grow as a team to main-tain that success.”
The Panthers, who have six confer-ence games remaining, are looking to finish with a conference record above .500 for the first time since 2005. East-ern is 7-3 in the OVC this season.
