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DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM TWITTER.COM/DENNEWS Golf used to raise money for research Page 3 Men’s soccer team heading to Windy City Page 8 THOMAS By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor President Bill Perry will “Escape from Old Main” today for three hours to make himself available to interact with students. “I was thinking about how so much of our communication now- adays is by email, texting, Facebook and things like that, and I know how much we value personal relationships here at Eastern,” Perry said. “What I thought was that I could take the op- portunity to be in one place for a pe- riod of time in places where students are likely to be, like residence hall lounges and the (Martin Luther King Jr. University) Union.” Students can approach Perry with anything they want to talk about such as an idea for implementing a pro- gram that Eastern should have or dif- ferent ways to recruit students, Perry said. “If you are a student and you have an idea about Eastern or a way to improve Eastern, you can sit down with me and tell me what is on your mind,” Perry said. “If you would like to let me know about something you think we are doing particularly well, then that’s good information for me too.” Perry said he likes being able to generate more personal interactions with students and he usually convers- es with them at fine arts events, athlet- ic events and at the University Food Court. “I also interact with students by just walking around or meeting with students involved in service, tailgating and groups like the Panther Marching Band and the student government,” Perry said. “I meet students in a lot of different ways and a lot of it is orga- nized and some of it is not.” He said he thought “Escape from Old Main” would open a door to meet more students who aren’t in- volved in those groups and who haven’t crossed paths with him yet. “If I am sitting in one place and they know that I am going to be there it gives them the opportunity to come by,” Perry said. Six dates for “Escape from Old Main” have been scheduled during this semester. “If the first two or three start well, then we will hope- fully start sched- uling another six or eight times for the spring because we schedule things fairly far in advance because some things have long timelines like conferences and things like that,” Perry said. Students who speak with Perry at the event will be given a sticker that says “I helped President Perry Escape from Old Main,” and it will have the program logo on it. The first “Escape from Old Main” event is from noon to 3 p.m. today in the Taylor Hall Lobby. “e No. 1 goal is to sit and talk with the students, and if I can fill up the whole three hours talking to students then I will be very happy,” Perry said. Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]. Perry ‘escapes Old Main’ KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Senior sociology major Kirstin Bowns takes the microphone Tuesday to "come out" with a secret as part of Pride's celebration of National Coming Out Day by the steps of Booth Library. Students were encouraged to share a secret about anything, with topics including sexuality, odd quirks and embarrassing experiences being revealed. PRESIDENT COMING OUT DAY By Kathryn Richter Staff Reporter Pemberton Hall will sponsor the first “Senate on the Road” meeting at 7 p.m. today. Student Senate Speaker Zach Sam- ples, a history major, said the pro- gram fulfills the student government’s commitment to students by bringing the meetings to them. “I think this is going to be a great way to reach out to students,” Sam- ples said. Samples said the program will allow students more access to the meetings in a more informal environment. Freshman history major John Bays said that Pemberton is excited to spon- sor the first “Senate on the Road” event. “It’s kind of nice for us to come to them for a change and have them see what we do,” Bays said. Bays also said that he was hop- ing for feedback from students and to learn how to better serve them. “I was hoping to get to meet people,” Bays said. Also at today’s meeting, a propos- al will be made on behalf of the Stu- dent Action Team. e Student Ac- tion Team, which is the lobbying team for student government, is planning on sending a group of non-senate and senate members to Springfield to lobby support of Eastern. By Emily Pellegrine Staff Reporter Shaken and visibly nervous Cory Law passed the microphone that he had previously been clutching in his hand to another Eastern student after just declaring his sexuality to the entire campus on Tuesday. Law reluctantly took a seat on the steps of Booth Library, he said his anx- iety was gone and relief took its place. Law, a senior health studies major, was one of many students to come out but said he was unsure if he was bisex- ual or gay. “Now that I came out I don’t al- ways have to have my guard up. I can be open with my friends and eventu- ally my family will accept who I am as well,” Law said. Law said he planned on coming out on Tuesday but he has accepted his feelings long before. His family was the first to know— long before he verbally said it, but be- cause of traditional religious beliefs and its disapproval he kept his secret, Law said. Law said his family was afraid of what their small, southern town would say if he were to come out while at home. ey were afraid of what people in town would say, Law said. “I’m the last person to carry out my last name, my parents don’t accept who I am they’re anti-LGBT commu- nity,” Law said. Law said he just started attending the EIU Pride, who put the National Coming Out Day event, meetings this year because he was not open about his sexuality until recently. “I’m a paragon of heterosexual vi- rility,” Law said. Amanda Pennell, a junior family consumer science major, came out and said expressing her sexuality as a lesbi- an had been a long-time coming. “I came out to the Pride group first, then my mom and brother,” Pennell said. Pennel said she thinks it is wrong that people made her committing a crime for being attracted to girls. Adam Westendorf, a junior psychol- ogy major, said he was asked to leave his church for accepting that homosex- uality is OK. It is events like these that allow peo- ple to be who they are and give them voices, Pennel said. “I think this event is a good oppor- tunity for people to come out and ex- press themselves, especially with the support of EIU Pride here,” Westen- dorf said. “It’s hard when society thinks one thing, and you feel another,” Pennell said. Pennell said she is glad it is getting easier for individuals in society to ex- press their sexuality. Students share coming out stories STUDENT GOVERNMENT ‘Senate on the Road’ is today SHARE, page 5 SENATE, page 5 By Nike Ogunbodede Campus Editor e pungent, stale stench of sweaty socks and overbearing smell of Old Spice body wash will soon mingle with the flowery- and-fruity scents of Bath & Body Works in omas Hall, one of only two all-male res- idence halls. Thomas Hall, founded in 1964, once boasted as Eastern’s residence hall that housed the most residents, will be the first residence hall changed to co-ed in almost 30 years. Mark Hudson, the director of University Housing and Dining Services, said he thinks switching omas Hall to both a female and male student residence hall is necessary to meet the next incoming classes. e change was not just sudden decision but had been discussed for some time, Hud- son said. “Over the last couple of years we have been seeing a trend where the larger single, gender male environment had less people re- questing it as a first choice,” Hudson said. “What we are trying to figure out is ‘what do we need to do to respond to that change’ in people’s interest.” Students may be responsive to all-male halls but the responses Eastern receives might is not filling the capacity it once did, Hudson said. “At the same time, we also noticed that our environments that are co-ed by floor like in Taylor—those requests have gone up,” Hudson said. Eastern currently has six co-ed, two all- male and four all-female residence halls, not including Greek Court, University Court or University Apartments. The conversion discussion was first brought to omas Hall Council then the Residence Hall Association because of the steadily increasing number of female stu- dents while the male population is decreas- ing. Hudson said the disproportionate way of Eastern divides its living quarters needed to be reevaluated because of its enrollment numbers changing. “Our design right not is about 60 percent female space and 40 percent male space but this incoming freshman class was 62 percent female and 38 percent male,” Hudson said. “It’s enough of a shift that you have to pay attention to the way in which your spacing is available.” Thomas Hall to be co-ed in Fall 2012 THOMAS, page 5
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THOMAS
By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor
President Bill Perry will “Escape from Old Main” today for three hours to make himself available to interact with students.
“I was thinking about how so much of our communication now-adays is by email, texting, Facebook and things like that, and I know how much we value personal relationships here at Eastern,” Perry said. “What I thought was that I could take the op-portunity to be in one place for a pe-riod of time in places where students are likely to be, like residence hall lounges and the (Martin Luther King Jr. University) Union.”
Students can approach Perry with anything they want to talk about such as an idea for implementing a pro-gram that Eastern should have or dif-ferent ways to recruit students, Perry said.
“If you are a student and you have an idea about Eastern or a way to improve Eastern, you can sit down with me and tell me what is on your mind,” Perry said. “If you would like to let me know about something you think we are doing particularly well, then that’s good information for me too.”
Perry said he likes being able to generate more personal interactions with students and he usually convers-es with them at fine arts events, athlet-ic events and at the University Food Court.
“I also interact with students by just walking around or meeting with students involved in service, tailgating and groups like the Panther Marching Band and the student government,” Perry said. “I meet students in a lot of different ways and a lot of it is orga-nized and some of it is not.”
He said he thought “Escape from Old Main” would open a door to meet more students who aren’t in-volved in those groups and who haven’t crossed paths with him yet.
“If I am sitting in one place and they know that I am going to be there it gives them the opportunity to come by,” Perry said.
Six dates for “Escape from Old Main” have been scheduled during this semester.
“If the first two or three start well, then we will hope-fully start sched-uling another six or eight times for the spring because we schedule things fairly far
in advance because some things have long timelines like conferences and things like that,” Perry said.
Students who speak with Perry at the event will be given a sticker that says “I helped President Perry Escape from Old Main,” and it will have the program logo on it.
The first “Escape from Old Main” event is from noon to 3 p.m. today in the Taylor Hall Lobby.
“The No. 1 goal is to sit and talk with the students, and if I can fill up the whole three hours talking to students then I will be very happy,” Perry said.
KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Senior sociology major Kirstin Bowns takes the microphone Tuesday to "come out" with a secret as part of Pride's celebration of National Coming Out Day by the steps of Booth Library. Students were encouraged to share a secret about anything, with topics including sexuality, odd quirks and embarrassing experiences being revealed.
PRESIDENT
COMING OUT DAY
By Kathryn Richter Staff Reporter
Pemberton Hall will sponsor the first “Senate on the Road” meeting at 7 p.m. today.
Student Senate Speaker Zach Sam-ples, a history major, said the pro-gram fulfills the student government’s commitment to students by bringing the meetings to them.
“I think this is going to be a great way to reach out to students,” Sam-ples said.
Samples said the program will allow students more access to the meetings in a more informal environment.
Freshman history major John Bays said that Pemberton is excited to spon-sor the first “Senate on the Road” event.
“It’s kind of nice for us to come to them for a change and have them see what we do,” Bays said.
Bays also said that he was hop-ing for feedback from students and to learn how to better serve them. “I was hoping to get to meet people,” Bays said.
Also at today’s meeting, a propos-al will be made on behalf of the Stu-dent Action Team. The Student Ac-tion Team, which is the lobbying team for student government, is planning on sending a group of non-senate and senate members to Springfield to lobby support of Eastern.
By Emily Pellegrine Staff Reporter
Shaken and visibly nervous Cory Law passed the microphone that he had previously been clutching in his hand to another Eastern student after just declaring his sexuality to the entire campus on Tuesday.
Law reluctantly took a seat on the steps of Booth Library, he said his anx-iety was gone and relief took its place.
Law, a senior health studies major, was one of many students to come out but said he was unsure if he was bisex-ual or gay.
“Now that I came out I don’t al-ways have to have my guard up. I can be open with my friends and eventu-ally my family will accept who I am as well,” Law said.
Law said he planned on coming out on Tuesday but he has accepted his feelings long before.
His family was the first to know—long before he verbally said it, but be-cause of traditional religious beliefs and its disapproval he kept his secret, Law said.
Law said his family was afraid of what their small, southern town would say if he were to come out while at home.
They were afraid of what people in town would say, Law said.
“I’m the last person to carry out my last name, my parents don’t accept who I am they’re anti-LGBT commu-nity,” Law said.
Law said he just started attending the EIU Pride, who put the National Coming Out Day event, meetings this year because he was not open about
his sexuality until recently. “I’m a paragon of heterosexual vi-
rility,” Law said.Amanda Pennell, a junior family
consumer science major, came out and said expressing her sexuality as a lesbi-an had been a long-time coming.
“I came out to the Pride group first, then my mom and brother,” Pennell said.
Pennel said she thinks it is wrong
that people made her committing a crime for being attracted to girls.
Adam Westendorf, a junior psychol-ogy major, said he was asked to leave his church for accepting that homosex-uality is OK.
It is events like these that allow peo-ple to be who they are and give them voices, Pennel said.
“I think this event is a good oppor-tunity for people to come out and ex-
press themselves, especially with the support of EIU Pride here,” Westen-dorf said.
“It’s hard when society thinks one thing, and you feel another,” Pennell said.
Pennell said she is glad it is getting easier for individuals in society to ex-press their sexuality.
Students share coming out stories STUDENT GOVERNMENT
‘Senate on the Road’ is today
SHARE, page 5SENATE, page 5
By Nike Ogunbodede Campus Editor
The pungent, stale stench of sweaty socks and overbearing smell of Old Spice body wash will soon mingle with the flowery-and-fruity scents of Bath & Body Works in Thomas Hall, one of only two all-male res-idence halls.
Thomas Hall, founded in 1964, once boasted as Eastern’s residence hall that housed the most residents, will be the first residence hall changed to co-ed in almost 30 years.
Mark Hudson, the director of University Housing and Dining Services, said he thinks switching Thomas Hall to both a female and male student residence hall is necessary to meet the next incoming classes.
The change was not just sudden decision but had been discussed for some time, Hud-son said.
“Over the last couple of years we have been seeing a trend where the larger single, gender male environment had less people re-questing it as a first choice,” Hudson said. “What we are trying to figure out is ‘what do we need to do to respond to that change’ in people’s interest.”
Students may be responsive to all-male
halls but the responses Eastern receives might is not filling the capacity it once did, Hudson said.
“At the same time, we also noticed that our environments that are co-ed by floor like in Taylor—those requests have gone up,” Hudson said.
Eastern currently has six co-ed, two all-male and four all-female residence halls, not including Greek Court, University Court or University Apartments.
The conversion discussion was first brought to Thomas Hall Council then the Residence Hall Association because of the steadily increasing number of female stu-dents while the male population is decreas-ing.
Hudson said the disproportionate way of Eastern divides its living quarters needed to be reevaluated because of its enrollment numbers changing.
“Our design right not is about 60 percent female space and 40 percent male space but this incoming freshman class was 62 percent female and 38 percent male,” Hudson said. “It’s enough of a shift that you have to pay attention to the way in which your spacing is available.”
Thomas Hall to be co-ed in Fall 2012
THOMAS, page 5
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Under the warm stage lights of the Black Box Theater, David Hernandez and Street Sounds performed for the Eastern com-munity Tuesday.
Hernandez and Street Sounds were brought to Eastern’s campus in connection with Latino Heri-tage month.
Juanita Cross, organizer for the event, said this is the most recent event for Latino Heritage Month. The theme for Latino Heritage month is “history, heritage and tra-dition,” she said.
She said she felt Hernandez and his group would fit well into the heritage element of that theme.
“You don’t typically hear this kind of music in the area, so it’s a welcome change,” Cross said.
Before the show, the audience ate food served buffet style by the Don Sol restaurant, and talk-
ed amongst themselves.Erin Williams, a senior psy-
chology major, said that she en-joys cultural events like Hernan-dez’s group.
“I like the way that he blends the music and the poetry.” Williams said.
Hernandez also showed a tal-ent at blending comedy into his act, making jokes throughout the show.
“Thank you for being here to-night,” Hernandez introduced himself. “My name is David Hernandez and I am a famous poet.”
However Hernandez did not always perform using multiple ar-tistic expressions, he stated that when he first began writing poetry it was strictly “for the page.”
Although the group that per-formed with Hernandez on Tues-day has technically only been to-gether one year, the group has been performing together in some form or another for 40 years.
Hernandez said that he want-
ed his poetry to be for people, not just for what he called the “wine and cheese” crowd.
Much of Hernandez’s work is deeply rooted in his Puerto Rican heritage and his relationship with the city of Chicago.
Hernandez said that his true inspiration comes from creativi-ty, a need to express himself and mostly, people.
“ If it wasn’t for people…that’s why I write. It’s people,” he said.
Recalling the words of his mentor, a sculptor, Hernandez said that all forms of art are es-sentially the same.
“It’s all about giving form to formlessness,” he said.
Cross said that there have also been lectures, presentations and opportunities for students to learn Latin dance steps during the Lati-no Heritage month programs.
MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSDavid Hernandez performs his poem "1951 Puerto Rico" during "Pedestrian Poetry: David Hernandez and Street Sounds" in the Doudna Fine Arts Center's Black Box Theatre Tuesday.
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Eggs filled with confetti were decorated for good luck as part of Latino Heritage Month Tuesday.
A workshop on how to make cas-carones, eggshells filled with con-fetti, was given for students in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Kristin Routt, associate profes-sor of foreign language, said cas-carones can be crushed or thrown over the heads of children to bring good luck.
Today, cascarones are made with hallowed eggs, decorated on the outside with dye or markers and filled with confetti.
In Guatemala, instead of Easter, people celebrate Holy Week with food, family and prayer.
Guatemalans partake in a spir-itual process called “los via cru-cis,” or the Stations of the Cross, where participants make 14 stops throughout the community, in-cluding homes and churches, Routt said.
There are decorated alters at each stop, Routt said. The altars are cov-ered with candles, fruit, decorative paper and flowers.
Special celebrations that are ob-served are parades where people play instruments, sing or pray. At night, many people carry candles while they walk the streets praying.
During these parades, the proces-sion walks on las alfombra, which are colored saw dust carpets made from stencils. These are started late Thursday and finished late Friday, just in time for the parade to start, Routt said.
Routt had pictures of detailed al-fombra designs and said it was a re-ligious sacrifice by those who de-signed it because it will be de-stroyed.
Cascarones date back to the Re-naissance when eggs were filled with scented water instead of con-fetti to bring good luck but also help personal hygiene, she said.
Juan Aponte, a senior manage-ment major, said he came to learn more about his culture and to fulfill class requirements. Aponte’s family is from Mexico and knows the cus-toms that go along with Holy Week and using cascarones.
“I’m going to let my mom know that we should do cascarones for Easter this year,” Aponte said.
Maryam Kamber, a freshman el-ementary education major, was new to the idea of the Central American celebration.
“It’s not hard to do and it’s fun! I liked decorating the egg with my style,” Kamber said.
This spring, Holy Week will be-gin the first week of April.
Students celebrate with confetti-decorated eggsduring Holy Week
LAUREN KRIEGER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS(From left to right) Senior management majors Joe DeMaine and Rob Devall, senior communication studies major Mark Rosenblum, and senior management major Lucas Hayes react after Rosenblum successfully hits a target during Putting for Parkinson's, a fundraiser put on by professor Larry White's project management class. Students could pay $1 for three chances to enter a raffle to win $50 or $100 depending on the target hit.
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By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor
The South Quad was turned into a golf course to raise money for Parkinson’s research Tuesday.
A project management 4850 class, the student community ser-vice office and a representative from the Michael J. Fox Founda-tion sponsored “Putting for Parkin-son’s.”
Six senior business majors, Tom-my Nierman, Lucas Hayes, Rob Devall, Jack Ritter, Andrew Seib-ert and Joe DeMaine, turned the South Quad into a golf course to raise money for the Michael J. Fox foundation for Parkinson’s research.
Parkinson’s disease is a disor-der of the brain that leads to shak-ing tremors and difficulty walking, movement and coordination.
Rachel Fisher, the director of Student Community Service, said all the money will go to help fund research.
“The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease through an ag-gressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson’s today,” Fisher said
Nierman, the project leader, said they raised about $650 for the foundation.
Nierman said there were a little more than 100 students that partic-
ipated in the fundraiser. Students bought three golf balls for $1 and could hit a target to be entered into one of two drawings for Wal-mart gift cards.
Local businesses could also pay $25 to place a target on the field.
Nierman said they raised $126 from students, $25 from Pizza Hut and $500 from an anonymous do-nator.
Nierman said they were told if they raised just $25 from students an anonymous donor would donate $500.
“I was delighted with the project as it provided a fun and unique way for people to participate in provid-ing financial support to Michael J. Fox Foundation in the fight against Parkinson's disease,” Fisher said.
Emily Ebert, the Michael J. Fox foundation representative on cam-pus, said 90 cents of every dollar donated to the foundation goes to fund research for a cure for Parkin-son’s
“It’s something that doesn’t have a cure yet and I think it’s important that we do what we can to try to help other people get better,” Eb-ert said.
Ebert said she is supportive of the foundation because she has been affected by Parkinson’s.
“My grandfather passed away last summer from it, so it’s had a big af-fect on my family,” Ebert said.
Ebert sa id she i s happy that
someone else is trying to help raise money for Parkinson’s research.
“I was so thrilled to know that someone else was so passionate about this as well,” Ebert said.
Nierman said he thought the fundraiser went well.
“(The participants) were excited, they liked the idea of the challenge, some were nervous,” Nierman said. “Everyone who did it seemed to be laughing and having fun with it.”
Cori Christenholz, a junior nurs-ing major, said it was fun.
“It was a unique way to give to charity,” Christenholz said.
Steve Shor, a senior family con-sumer sciences major, said he knew people who have Parkinson’s and thinks it is a good cause.
“It’s creative compared to some of the fundraising I’ve seen,” Shor said. “Plus, it appealed to my golf-ing nature.”
Nierman said he hopes students learned a little bit of knowledge about Parkinson’s while having fun.
Ebert said she hopes students know that everything helps.
“Its hard to think outside of this college, I think it’s important that people realize things are going on outside of campus and every little bit helps,” Ebert said.
Students learn about cascarones during Latio Heritage Month workshop
Latino Heritage Month
• Students learned about eggshells filled with confetti, cascarones, during the workshop in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
•Cascarones are hallowed eggs decorated with dye or markers and filled with confetti
•They can be crushed or thrown over children’s heads to bring good luck
•Cascarones date back to the Renaissance when eggs were filled with water to bring good luck and help with personal hygiene
•Guatemalans partake in a spiritual process called ‘los via crucis’ dur-ing Holy Week where they make stops throughout the community, including homes and churches
•Decorated alters are at each stop
•Guatemalans celebrate Holy Week with parades, instruments, singing and prayer
•Holy Week is the first week of April
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It’s been a busy week and it’s only Tues-day. I’ve seen or heard about two people get-ting hit on their bikes this week. One, my friend got hit on Ninth Street by a “skin-ny brunette in a green four-door sedan.” He’s OK, but his bike’s back wheel and his skinned knee aren’t. There’s no telling what kind of mental damage he’s experiencing right now.
Today, I saw a video of a biker get-ting blindsided by an antelope in Africa. You ought to go search it on YouTube be-cause within the first 10 seconds of the vid-eo I was screaming. Apparently the ante-lope thought he could jump over the bik-er because as it leaped it went head first at the biker, and you can imagine what hap-pened next.
Knowing what has happened to these two people, it got me thinking about things I hope never happen to me in my life. For ex-ample, I hope I’m never blindsided by an antelope or skinny brunette.
Having thought about it, there are quite
a few things involving animals that I hope never happen to me. First, I never want to be punched by a badger. Second, I nev-er want to be ransacked by a group of mon-keys. Third, I never want a Tasmanian dev-il to rip me apart. Finally, I never want to be head-butted by a ram.
There are also more realistic things I hope never to happen to me. I never want to be broke. I never want to be homeless. I never want to be loveless.
Everyone has nightmares. These are some of mine. Some were only spurred by seeing the video of the antelope trampling the bik-
er. When I start to think about it, there’s a lot I’d like to never encounter with animals.
The closest I’ve ever been to a live ani-mal, one that could do some damage, was when my family and I was driving home from Canada and heading back to my un-cle’s house in Montana. At some point on the ride, we were stopped in traffic because everybody had stopped in the middle of the highway to take pictures of a black bear in the grass right next to the road.
Everyone smartly stayed in their cars and took out their cameras. If anybody would’ve gotten out and approached it, something bad could’ve happened. On that day, no-body was hurt.
Nightmares are often only experienced while we’re sleeping, but when you see and experience the things I have this week, you realize nightmares can come true too.
The Daily Eastern News’ Editor-in-chief wrote a column last week explaining our new website’s changes and the reason for those changes. Since then, we have gone through our first week of the new site and would like to respond to a few questions and comments from readers.
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Some readers have expressed other opin-ions. Our readers have directed most of their concerns toward the search portion of the website. To find an archived arti-cle requires a little more effort, as there are varying amounts of contributed articles to sift through in our new searches.
We believe this is merely an adjust-ment from a system our readers were com-fortable with. However, we are working to make our searches easier and readers can expect to be updated of these changes as well.
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We hear over and over that the wealthy are the “job creators,” that only their investments move our econo-my forward. This is self-serving nonsense. Anyone who spends money on a good or service, whether by investing to produce it or spending to purchase it, stimulates the economy. The problem is that the vast majority of peo-ple do not have the resources to do the things that would matter for improving their lives and the quality of life in our communities, such as maintaining their health, eating better, enjoying exercise and leisure, improving the ener-gy efficiency of their homes, or educating themselves and their children.
Meanwhile, the exalted wealthy are mostly doing a lousy job of deciding how to invest in our future: despoil-ing our environment, manufacturing short-lived dispos-able junk, using their influence to obtain special govern-ment deals and policies that allow them to act as parasites at tax-payer expense, and speculating in financial markets where their clout and superior information let them suck money from other people’s pockets into their own with-out producing a thing.
Meanwhile, our schools crumble and we stagger along on the most antiquated and inefficient transportation sys-tem in the developed world. There are public goods vital to our well-being that by their nature do not lend them-selves to provision for private profit. These include health care, environmental quality, transportation, and educa-tion. It is time to stop worshiping the false god of private wealth and start making democratic decisions about how to invest in our future.
Charles Delman
Professor of Mathematics
“According to the student government mission statement, ‘Student Government members shall maintain a progressive state of mind in order to respect the student body in regards to their positions. Student Government will protect the rights and interests of the students while also enhanc-ing the quality of EIU experience through the power that is vested in them by East-ern Illinois University.’”
The previous paragraph is the only hon-est statement that was made in The Dai-ly Eastern News’ Oct. 10 editorial titled, “Student Senate uses bad poll to justify position.” I’d first like to make it clear that the survey was not intended to reach ev-ery single student at Eastern. It was meant to be a sample, to give senators an idea of how some students felt about implement-ing the outdoor digital displays. It also should be known that the survey in ques-tion was made available to numerous reg-istered student organizations, not only dis-tributed through Facebook.
In addition, feedback regarding the dig-ital displays did not only rely on the elec-tronic survey. It failed to be reported in the Oct. 6 student government article that many senators expressed at our meet-ing that their feedback was received ver-bally and not only from their friends, but also from classmates and random students on campus.
It is upsetting to see that some students are unaware of what is happening on this campus. However, the digital displays and the Senate’s views on their implementa-tion have not been kept secret. There have been multiple presentations at our meet-ings as well as articles published in the DEN regarding the resolution.
To the student disappointed that an open forum was not held in regards to this specific resolution, I invite you to our Wednesday night meetings, for the door is always open. There are also senators readi-ly available on a daily basis to address con-cerns in the Student Activities Center lo-cated in the Union. It is important for ev-eryone to understand that our constituen-cy relationship strictly works both ways. We will come to you, but you also must take the time to meet us half way.
We were elected to represent the stu-dents as best we can and that means tak-ing into consideration the facts given to us through surveys. It was clear through the outcome that the majority of students who took the time to take our survey were in favor of this resolution, hence the rea-son why it was passed.
This is me telling the truth, and I am not afraid.
Jenna L. Mitchell
Student Senator, Student Outreach Chair
DEN’s ‘poll’ editorial inaccurateStop exalting the rich
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By Brad Kupiec Staff Reporter
A gym in Charleston is offering rev-olutionary type of fitness training devel-oped by a former Navy Seal.
TRX training uses resistance bands suspended from the ceiling and walls, and the user can adjust to the angle of elevation to make the workout more or less intense to fit their preferred level of workout.
James Dinaso, owner of The Body Club on Jackson Avenue, said his gym is the only one in Charleston that offers TRX training, and the next closest place it is offered is in Champaign.
“We've been running classes up here for the past two months,” DiNaso said. “We don't like fitness fads. We don't nec-essarily jump on the fitness fad bandwag-on, but we realized there was value in the training because we try to base our train-
ing programs here on exercise science, and there was value in doing this.”
Since TRX provides such a thorough workout, DiNaso said The Body Club has scaled back the sessions to 45 min-utes at a time to provide some cardiovas-cular as well as anaerobic workouts.
DiNaso said The Body Club of-fers classes for adults in the communi-ty as well as Eastern students, who get a discount on sessions with an ID. Adult classes are $10 per session, DiNaso said, but college students with an ID are only charged half that.
“We’ve tried to make it economical for the college students,” DiNaso said. “We offer free trails; all they have to do is give us a call. We realize that a lot of (students) are not working yet, so we try to give them a little bit of a break.” Di-Naso said what really sets TRX apart from other fitness programs are the full body workouts and the lack of intimidat-
ing weights and barbells. “A lot of (the participants in TRX ses-
sions) say just by looking at it you would never know the exercises would work you in the unique way that they do, especially in the core,” he said. “People who might be intimidated by weights or barbells (aren't intimidated by TRX).”
DiNaso added that most participants find the workouts to be enjoyable, not threatening.
“It's not intimidating, and the group sessions make it fun, especially for the women, so there's a social aspect to the training," he said.
The Body Club is located at 618 Jackson Ave. on the Charleston Square. They offer group TRX sessions from 5 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and from 9 to 9:45 p.m. Saturdays.
TRX training offers new workoutBy Kathryn Richter Staff Reporter
Pemberton Hall sponsored ap-proximately 68 people and 20 large pizzas for the “Pizza with the Pres,” event on Tuesday where students got to eat with President Perry.
The student government’s academ-ic affairs committee sponsored the event.
Aseret Gonzalez, the chairwom-an of the academic affairs committee and a senior sociology major, said she considered the event a success.
This year’s “Pizza with the Pres,” had almost double the amount of people of last year’s event with ap-proximately 60 attendees.
“I got to see a lot of faces I haven’t seen before,” Gonzalez said, “I was really excited to see everybody.”
Andre Allen, a senior communi-
cation studies major and president of Black Student Union, said he was excited to interact with the president and students from different back-grounds.
Allen also said he hopes students who attended the event will become more comfortable with approaching Perry in the future because he said a lot of people are not aware of exactly how approachable he actually is.
“President Perry is someone you can really approach,” Gonzales said, “He’s here for the students.”
lish major, recently came out to her mom as being pansexual.
“Pansexual means I don’t care about what gender people are, I care more about their personality,” DiPierl said.
DiPierl said her life has changed drastically since coming out and she is still trying to get used to how it feels.
“I tried to come out to my mom before, but she never believed me, she is still trying to get used to it,” DiPierl said.
Mario McCart, a junior theater major, is gay and said that his fam-ily and friends were very accepting when he came out, he is the only gay one in his family.
“Whether you’re in the closet or out, the first step is to accept your-self for who you are, then everyone else will finally see it,” McCart said.
Olivia Diggs, a sophomore fam-i ly consumer science major, i s the publicity chair for EIU Pride, which meets at 8 p.m. on Mondays in the Charleston-Mattoon Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union.
Diggs said people should feel free to come out and realize that there are people who will be there supporting them every step of the way.
Tommy Zei, who took the mi-crophone from Law, said he was glad to have come out to his fam-ily years prior after his short time
“in the closet.”“I was in the closet for a couple
months, and when I came out to my family they were loving and ac-cepting,” Zei said.
It is better for a person’s physical and emotional health to come out or else it can be a long and stressful road, Zei said.
Zei, a senior political science major, said he came out when he was 16 years old, months after real-izing he was gay.
“You don’t always know how people are going to react, it can be a very scary experience,” Zei said.
“Student Action Team is one of the most important groups in student gov-ernment,” Samples said.
In the past, Student Action Team has lobbied in Springfield for the continua-tion of Monetary Aid Program Grants and performance-based funding for state universities.
Samples said that in the past Eastern was receiving the lowest amount of state funding per student while Eastern had the second highest graduate rates and the highest retention rate out of all the Illinois state schools.
The Student Action Team went to Springfield to lobby on behalf of perfor-mance-based funding which would al-low Eastern to be rewarded for the high performance.
“It was really great to see something
that we had been working for,” Boyd said.
Samples said the past Student Action Team was able to see the bill for perfor-mance-based funding pass on the senate floor. Student Action Team also meets and talks with state senators to further promote Eastern.
Samples also said the Student Action Team was a driving force behind the new renewable energy center.
Boyd said the Student Action Team plans on lobbying for funds for a new science building as well as the millions owed to Eastern from the state during their next trip, which is scheduled for Oct. 26.
Grant Watts, a junior history major, said as the president of Thomas Hall, he is 100 percent opposed to Eastern removing one of the only remaining all-male residence halls left on cam-pus.
Watts said originally Thomas Hall was not his first choice.
“When I first came here Taylor was my first choice and then I was put in Thomas and this is my third year here,” Watts said.
Eastern’s overall enrollment num-bers is the problem and even if the ra-tio of female to male students is high-er it is not taking care of the underlin-ing issue, Watts said.
“If enrollment did go back up Thomas would be back to full capac-ity so switching it to co-ed isn’t real-ly going to fix it,” Watts said. “(Men) wouldn’t be well represented.”
Jasmine Surratt, a junior pre-nurs-ing major, said housing should be try-ing to compete with off-campus living instead of changing Thomas.
Surrat currently lives off-campus.“Living off-campus is less expensive
and there aren’t that many rules that can be broken when you live by your-self,” she said.
The prices for housing on-campus keep rising while off-campus tends to stay consistent, Surrant said.
“And you get cash back,” Surrant said.
Hudson, who attended Eastern in 1976-1983 for both undergradu-ate and graduate, said he understands students’ reluctance to making Thom-as co-ed.
“When I was a student here Weller used to be an all-male building then they made it co-ed by tower while I
was still a student here,” Hudson said.It will take time but change always
takes getting used to, Hudson said.This year’s Thomas Hall Coun-
cil has been trying to start traditions that will be around for 40 years lat-er, Watts said.
Watt said he voted against the idea both times.
The RHA voted 28 to 5 in favor of the conversion.
Brant Valach, freshman kinesiology and sports studies major, said the girls should be more concerned with living with males than visa versa.
“I think it would be more annoy-ing for the girls—the stereotype of males is dirtier than females,” Valach said.
Latasha Moore, a sophomore pre-nursing major, said she would feel bad for the males on campus.
“I feel like it leaves males with less options and not much privacy be-cause they would be sharing with girls,” Moore said.
Valach said his busy schedule is keeping him from caring if female students enter Thomas Hall
“I’m not on my floor enough any-way,” Valach said.
David Henry, a freshman special education major, said he does not care if Thomas Hall is changed to co-ed because he plans to live off-campus next year.
Henry is a currently a resident of Thomas Hall.
Carl Clayton, a freshman account-ing major, said he would not mind fe-males living in Thomas Hall as long as they leave the north side of the fourth floor alone.
“I want the deluxe doubles,” Clay-
ton said. Hudson said Eastern wanted to
give those students currently living in Thomas enough time to assess their situation and decided if they want to stay in the residence hall or move.
Michael Eckert, a sophomore busi-ness major, has lived in Thomas for four semesters and said he would not mind Eastern doing a trial run.
“In my opinion, it’s worth a try and if it happens and no one ends up liking it put it back,” Eckert said.
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Senior team captain Narissa Ramirez played a crucial part in the road win against UW-Milwaukee.
Ramirez has been a major contrib-utor to the Panthers for the past four years, but her impact this season has been felt on another level.
Ramirez is the unquestioned leader of the team and is the lone captain for Head Coach Frank Gra-ziano’s squad.
Ramirez has been the glue for the Panthers this season, and she has found ways to get her teammates involved in the action on a weekly basis.
Ramirez is eyeing the all time assist record and if she continues at this rate she will be remembered as the greatest playmaker in program history.
“After my first year, I realized it was attainable and it’s really something I’ve been striving to do,” she said. “I’d rather get an assist than score, and that’s something I’m looking forward to doing.”
Ramirez is also on pace to become one of the most successful Panthers in program history, as she will rank near the top in career wins when her career comes to an end.
Ramirez played a crucial role for the Panthers in their win over the weekend as she was able to rally her teammates and record the road win.
The Panthers had been struggling
to complete plays throughout the first 50 minutes of the game and that left Graziano questioning his teams pas-sion and commitment.
“I led by example, I was out there working my butt off the entire game and later in the second half my for-wards started to rally and bring us back,” she said. “They noticed I need-ed some help and they found the right spots at the right time.”
Ramirez’s effort in the second half inspired her teammates and they rallied together to rattle off 36 unanswered points in the 43-15 win.
Graziano raved about his captain’s performance and how instrumental she was in the win.
“If I have to give credit to anyone it was Narissa Ramirez; there is a reason she is the only captain for this squad,” Graziano said. “She is the heart and sole of this team and she proved it to-day, I tip my hat off to her.”
Ramirez is viewed as the most im-portant player in Graziano’s scheme, and her teammates rely on her per-formance on a game-to-game basis to set the tone for what the Panthers will look to do.
Ramirez and the Panthers have enjoyed the 5-0 start, and they will look to make it 6-0 this weekend when they travel to Hamden Conn., to take on the Quinnipiac Bobcats.
DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Narissa Ramirez, senior scrum-half and team captain for the women's rugby team, is considered one of the most crucial players on the team by teammates and coach Frank Graziano.
By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor
The Eastern softball team is not only winning on the field, but also in the classroom. The team was ranked No. 16 out of all NCAA Division-I softball teams for a team GPA of 3.40. The National Fastpitch Coach-es Association also named ten players All-America Scholar-Athletes.
The 10 players to be named All-America Scholar-Athletes were soph-omore outfielder Morgan Biel, senior outfielder Amanda Bilina, sophomore pitcher Stephanie Maday, senior out-fielder Maria Sorrentino, senior in-fielder/catcher Kiley Holtz, junior catcher/outfielder Abby Wood, senior pitcher Amber May, senior catcher Hailee Hanna, senior outfielder Hay-ley Pieper and junior infielder/out-fielder Ally Seplak.
Eastern head coach Kim Schuette said the team is a great group of individuals.
“As one can see, this was a special group of people -- great students and great athletes,” she said, in a press release.
Schuette said she appreciates the team’s hard work and dedication over the course of the season and the school year.
“This wasn’t two hours of hard work to win a game,” she said. “It was nine months of hard work all of the time from 22 individuals to earn a team award.”
Eastern is 5-0 for the third time in the last four years and a perfect season is beginning to fall in line. The Panthers are coming off of another win, but the matter they recorded the win leaves me with some questions as they enter the second half of their schedule.
The Panthers put together a lack-luster first half performance that re-sembled their performance against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. The Panthers flat first half had them in an unfamiliar position, and left Head Coach Frank Graziano questioning his team’s heart and commitment. Luckily, the Panthers responded with 36 unanswered points after giving up the lead early in the second half. Al-though the Panthers did put togeth-er an impressive second half, the in-consistent play and cold starts has me wondering if this team really has what
it takes to go undefeated.The Panthers are also a very young
and inexperienced team. The Pan-thers remain undefeated and have been tested on the road, but the gen-eral rugby play continues to be a problem. The Panthers gave credit to last weekend’s game as being an eye opening performance. They feel as if the younger players are beginning to grasp the full concept of rugby, and their chemistry and confidence is soaring to new heights.
It remains to be seen if everything has come together, but if it does, the
perfect season is definitely in reach. The Panthers remaining oppo-
nents: Quinnipiac, Northern Iowa, Iowa State and Purdue have had lim-ited success against the Panthers over the years. These four teams have been dominated and have never come out with a victory over Eastern.
The Panthers have bullied these teams and seemingly will continue to do so this season. The only team the Panthers did not face in previous sea-sons was Quinnipiac. The Bobcats are newcomers to NCAA Division-I wom-en’s rugby and are enduring the grow-ing pains of being a new program. The Panthers got the best of the Bobcats in their first of three meetings back on Sept. 18. The Panthers have outscored their remaining opponents 188-5 in their previous meetings.
Sophomore quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, sophomore defensive back Tavares Crawford and junior defensive lineman Artavious Dowdell all went down with injuries in the game against Eastern Kentucky, but all eventually re-turned to action. All are expected to play in this weekend’s game on the road against Murray State.
Red-shirt senior wide receiver Lor-ence Ricks remains the only Panther questionable by Head Coach Bob Spoo and his staff. Spoo said Ricks
will miss considerable time and a timetable for his return is unclear.
Panthers hope to spoil Racer homecoming
This weekend’s road game against Murray State will be the Racer’s homecoming match-up. The Racers are 1-4 on homecoming games since the 2007 season. The Panthers will have their homecoming on October 22 when they host Tennessee-Martin.Around the OVC
The OVC Offensive Player of the Week was junior quarterback Der-
ek Carr of Tennessee-Martin. Martin threw for 387, completing 24 of 36 passes. He threw for a school record six touchdowns, which was also one shy of being an OVC single game re-cord. Carr led the Skyhawks to a 61-23 win over Austin Peay.
The OVC Defensive Player of the Week is also from Tennessee-Martin, with sopho-more linebacker Ben Johnson. Johnson had nine tackles, a sack and an interception.
Defensively, Eastern has allowed 18 goals this season, while scoring 14. Sophomore goalkeeper Tyler Kelley should get the start as he is coming off his first his second win of the sea-
son against Oral Roberts. Kelley has allowed seven goals in six games and has made 15 saves.
Howarth said these non-confer-ence matches allow the Panthers to
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Eastern’s men’s soccer team will travel to Chicago to take on Loyola in a non-conference match at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The Panthers are 4-5-1 against Loyola, while head coach Adam How-arth is 2-1-1 against the Ramblers.
Eastern is coming off a 2-1 Summit League win over Oral Roberts and en-ters the game with an even .500 re-
cord at 5-5-1. “Although it was not our best
game,” Howarth said regarding the performance against Oral Roberts. “We (got) a win and kept (ourselves) in contention in the league stand-ings.”
Loyola on the other hand, enters the match with a 2-8-1 record. The Ramblers are also coming off a 4-0 loss to Cleveland State.
Howarth said the team enters night matches like it would any other
match; the only difference is there is more down time before the game ac-tually starts. There are no added chal-lenges.
This year Eastern is 1-2-0 in matches that start after 5 p.m. Last season the Panthers had a record of 0-6 in matches that started after 5 p.m.
Offensively, Loyola is led by Bri-an Bement. Bement has three goals in 11 matches, and he leads the team in goals, points and shots. Eric Nock has
scored one goal and dished out one assist this season. Nock is second in points and shots early this season.
Defensively, the Ramblers have giv-en up 23 goals and scored just nine. Goalkeeper Peter McKeown has al-lowed 15 goals in eight matches and has made 36 saves.
Howarth said non-conference matches are great at this time of the season.
“(Non-conference matches) keep us focused and give players a chance
to stay sharp,” Howarth said. The last time these two teams met
was in 2007. The match ended in a 2-2 tie in Chicago.
The Panthers are led offensively by freshman midfielder Jake Brillhart, who has three goals and two assists this season.
Freshman midfielder Will Butler follows Brillhart in points by one as he has two goals and three assist in his freshman campaign.
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Red-shirt senior midfielder/forward Darby Kehoe kicks the ball Friday during a game against Summit League rival Oral Roberts on Lakeside Field. The Panthers will travel to face Loyola Univer-sity- Chicago today at 7 p.m.
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The Eastern football team dropped to a record of 1-5 overall and are still seeking their first Ohio Valley Confer-ence win.
Losing streak continuesThe loss marks the Panthers fifth
straight of the season, having not won since their week one win over rival Il-linois State. Last season, the team’s longest losing streak was eight straight losses.
Last season the Panthers finished with a record of 2-9, with their only two wins coming against OVC oppo-nents. This year, they have yet to beat an OVC team.
Only a trio of tackles for loss
The Panther defense had only three tackles for a loss in the game against Eastern Kentucky.
Senior linebacker Gordy Kick-els, red-shirt freshman defensive back John Wurm and red-shirt sophomore Alex McNulty were the only three players to register a tackle for a loss. The Panther defense surrendered a to-tal of 507 yards to the Colonel offense on Saturday.
Most points come against worst team
The Colonels defeated the Panthers by 32 points, the most Eastern has been defeated by all season.
The Colonels entered the game
with a record of 1-3 overall and 0-1 in the OVC. Prior the game with the Panthers, the Colonels had lost to Austin Peay, who before beating East-ern Kentucky, was in the midst of a 10 game losing streak dating back to last season.
scored on eight of their nine offensive possessions.
Fullback H.B. Banjoman had two touchdowns, while running back Matt Denham had one. Running back Jeremiah Williams had one touchdown and kicker Luke Pray made two field goals.
With another loss, Eastern’s wounds open even more
KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Red-shirt senior linebacker Cory Leman, right, chases Eastern Kentucky’s freshman fullback Jeremy James Saturday during Eastern Illinois’ 48-16 Family Weekend loss on Lakeside Field.
