By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @stephm202 The four finalists still vying to be Eastern’s next president will give open interviews with the campus this month, with the Board of Trustees set to make its decision by March 13. The presidential search advisory commit- tee selected Margaret Madden, David Glass- man, Sam Minner and Guiyou Huang as final- ists, which Eastern announced via a press release Jan. 12. One of these finalists will replace Bill Perry, who has served as Eastern’s president since 2007 and revealed last March that he would not re- new his contract after June 2015. e finalists will spend their individual inter- view days with multiple sessions, each includ- ing a faculty forum at 9:30 a.m., a staff forum at 10:30 a.m., a student forum at 1:30 p.m., a faculty and staff forum at 3 p.m., and an open campus and community forum at 4 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Joseph Dively, the chair of the search com- mittee and a member of the board, said the committee would collect feedback sheets at each interview session, which will play an important role in the final decision. “at’s very important data to get people’s re- actions on what they thought were strengths, maybe weaknesses, observations, and we will go through every one of those feedback forms and it will be used to help finalize the committee’s report to the Board of Trustees,” he said. Dively said this process is similar to the previ- ous presidential search, in which more than 500 feedback sheets were collected from the sessions. “Obviously in everybody’s estimation it was a very successful search in that it ended with Pres- ident Perry as our president,” he said. Madden, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at State University of New York at Potsdam, will be the first to visit Eastern on Jan. 21. Madden has a doctorate and master’s degree in psychology from the University of Massachu- setts, Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in psy- chology from the University of Wisconsin, Mad- ison. Glassman, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bradley University in Peoria, will be the second to visit Eastern on Jan. 22. Glassman has a doctorate and master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Tennes- see-Knoxville and a bachelor’s degree in anthro- pology from the University of Minnesota. Minner, the provost and vice president for ac- ademic affairs at Radford University in Virginia, will be next to visit Eastern on Jan. 23. Minner has a doctorate in cognitive and be- havioral disabilities from the University of Ari- zona, Tucson and a master’s degree in learning and behavior disorders as well as a bachelor’s de- gree in elementary and special education from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Guiyou Huang, senior vice president for ac- ademic affairs and dean of faculty at Norwich University in Vermont, will be the last to visit Eastern on Jan. 28. Huang has a doctorate in English from Tex- as A&M University-College Station, a bachelor’s degree from Qufu Normal University in China, and a graduate studies completion diploma in English from Beijing University. Dively said a board member would introduce the candidate at each session, make an opening statement and then open the floor for dialogue. “I envision them to be an opportunity for each candidate to provide an overview of their background, why they were interested in Eastern Illinois University, why they think it’s a right fit, and the majority of the session will be question and answer allowing them to interact with the various stakeholders that are there for the partic- ular session,” he said. He said after all interview sessions have taken place, the committee members would take some time to compile the feedback forms, then meet again to prepare a report for the board including their own perceptions. Finally, the board will de- liberate and make a final decision. e search committee met Dec. 19 to review reference calls the search consultant made on candidates who were targeted to be finalists, and the board met later that day for an update of the selected finalists, Dively said. Dively said the Korn Ferry consulting firm spent a great deal of time identifying position specifications unique to Eastern as well as find- ing applicants. “At this point the search consultant is there as an adviser, but really they won’t be here rep- resented on campus when the finalists are here,” he said. “eir work for the most part is done at this point.” All finalists are vice presidents for academic affairs at their respective institutions, which Di- vely said was common factor among the appli- cants. “We had some from other disciplines within a university, but the vast majority were provosts,” he said. “So I think that’s quite typical.” He said the committee was also looking for diversity in background; for example, each comes from a different state. “We looked for (gender and ethnicity) in the overall pool as part of the charge to our search committee, but ultimately these candidates are coming here because we believe they’re absolute- ly qualified to be our next leader,” he said. Dively said he thinks the search committee has worked well together, and he is excited for the finalists to come to campus. “I really believe we are bringing a diverse, very strong pool of finalists to campus and I am very, very pleased with the work to date by the com- mittee and with the help of our search consul- tant,” he said. Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]. VOL. 99 | NO. 74 Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” WWW. DAILYEASTERNNEWS .COM T HE D aily E astErn n Ews SEVENTH STREAK Men’s basketball finishes 84-73 against Belmont Saturday, retaining its seventh straight win of the season. SEMESTER PREP WORK A series of photos displays students readying themselves for the new semester. PAGE 5 PAGE 8 By Luis Martinez Administration Editor| @DEN_News With the start of the year, students are now able to start filing for FAFSA for the 2015- 2016 school year. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid became available on Jan. 1. Students are encouraged to fill out the FAFSA early in order to become eligible for maximum financial aid. Over winter break, the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships sent an email to students talking about the FAFSA, including deadlines and available scholarships that students may be eligible for. According to the email, students wanting aid for Fall 2015, Spring 2016 or Summer 2016 must complete the 2015-2016 FAFSA by their last date of attendance or June 30, 2016, whichever is sooner. It also states that the 2014-2015 FAFSA, which applies to the Fall 2014, Spring 2015 and Summer 2015 semesters, may still be com- pleted before June 30 of this year or the last date of the student’s attendance. However, in order for a student to receive the full benefits of filing the FAFSA, they should do so as early as possible. Carol Waldmann, interim director of finan- cial aid, said students who apply later could potentially miss out on some of the federal funding they could receive. “It is very important that all students file the FAFSA early,” Waldmann said. “With limited federal, state and institutional funding, if a stu- dent files their FAFSA too late, they’re likely to miss out on funding that doesn’t have to be re- paid.” is is especially true when it comes to first- year students and their parents who are unfa- miliar with the FAFSA process. “First-year students and their parents should file a FAFSA, as the FAFSA is the only way to determine if they are eligible for Pell Grants, other grants, need-based scholarships, Work Study, and student loans,” Waldmann said. “Filing the FAFSA is free so there is no reason not to file.” ese funds are known as grants, and if stu- dents are able to meet certain requirements, then it is possible to receive this type of aid. One such type of grant is known as the Mone- tary Award Program (MAP). e MAP Grant is available to Illinois stu- dent attending Illinois schools. Like other types of grants, the MAP Grant does not have to be repaid; however, students would need to demonstrate financial need. The deadline in order to receive the MAP Grant is usually in February. “All institutions, including EIU, award fi- nancial aid on a first-come, first-serve basis,” Waldmann said. “Our funding from the federal government and our institutional funding is very limited,” Waldmann said. “e sooner a student files the FAFSA, the better chance they have of receiv- ing a financial aid package that can help them afford a college education at EIU.” Students can log onto Eastern’s website to search for financial aid scholarships as well as other scholarships that Eastern has to offer. Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]. Students encouraged to apply for FAFSA By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @stephm202 Freezing temperatures caused pipes to burst in three residence halls over the weekend, in- cluding Stevenson Hall on Friday and omas and Taylor halls on Saturday. Charleston temperatures reached a high of 10 degrees on Friday and 23 degrees on Saturday. In Stevenson Hall, an open window on the sixth floor caused the heater in a resident’s room to freeze, resulting in a burst heat pipe, said Mark Hudson, director of Housing and Dining. Hudson said the incident occurred sometime during the day on Friday. He said he has not heard of any significant damages, and the pipe itself has been fixed. Pipes burst in 3 residence halls due to cold PIPE BURST, page 6 Eastern announces 4 finalists for president GRAPHIC BY KATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS
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By Stephanie MarkhamNews Editor | @stephm202
The four finalists still vying to be Eastern’s next president will give open interviews with the campus this month, with the Board of Trustees set to make its decision by March 13.
The presidential search advisory commit-tee selected Margaret Madden, David Glass-man, Sam Minner and Guiyou Huang as final-ists, which Eastern announced via a press release Jan. 12.
One of these finalists will replace Bill Perry, who has served as Eastern’s president since 2007 and revealed last March that he would not re-new his contract after June 2015.
The finalists will spend their individual inter-view days with multiple sessions, each includ-ing a faculty forum at 9:30 a.m., a staff forum at 10:30 a.m., a student forum at 1:30 p.m., a faculty and staff forum at 3 p.m., and an open campus and community forum at 4 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Joseph Dively, the chair of the search com-mittee and a member of the board, said the committee would collect feedback sheets at each interview session, which will play an important role in the final decision.
“That’s very important data to get people’s re-actions on what they thought were strengths, maybe weaknesses, observations, and we will go through every one of those feedback forms and it will be used to help finalize the committee’s report to the Board of Trustees,” he said.
Dively said this process is similar to the previ-ous presidential search, in which more than 500 feedback sheets were collected from the sessions.
“Obviously in everybody’s estimation it was a very successful search in that it ended with Pres-ident Perry as our president,” he said.
Madden, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at State University of New York at Potsdam, will be the first to visit Eastern on Jan. 21.
Madden has a doctorate and master’s degree in psychology from the University of Massachu-setts, Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in psy-chology from the University of Wisconsin, Mad-ison.
Glassman, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Bradley University in Peoria, will be the second to visit Eastern on Jan. 22.
Glassman has a doctorate and master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Tennes-see-Knoxville and a bachelor’s degree in anthro-pology from the University of Minnesota.
Minner, the provost and vice president for ac-ademic affairs at Radford University in Virginia, will be next to visit Eastern on Jan. 23.
Minner has a doctorate in cognitive and be-havioral disabilities from the University of Ari-zona, Tucson and a master’s degree in learning and behavior disorders as well as a bachelor’s de-gree in elementary and special education from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.
Guiyou Huang, senior vice president for ac-ademic affairs and dean of faculty at Norwich University in Vermont, will be the last to visit Eastern on Jan. 28.
Huang has a doctorate in English from Tex-as A&M University-College Station, a bachelor’s
degree from Qufu Normal University in China, and a graduate studies completion diploma in English from Beijing University.
Dively said a board member would introduce the candidate at each session, make an opening statement and then open the floor for dialogue.
“I envision them to be an opportunity for each candidate to provide an overview of their background, why they were interested in Eastern Illinois University, why they think it’s a right fit, and the majority of the session will be question and answer allowing them to interact with the various stakeholders that are there for the partic-ular session,” he said.
He said after all interview sessions have taken place, the committee members would take some time to compile the feedback forms, then meet again to prepare a report for the board including their own perceptions. Finally, the board will de-liberate and make a final decision.
The search committee met Dec. 19 to review reference calls the search consultant made on candidates who were targeted to be finalists, and the board met later that day for an update of the selected finalists, Dively said.
Dively said the Korn Ferry consulting firm spent a great deal of time identifying position specifications unique to Eastern as well as find-ing applicants.
“At this point the search consultant is there as an adviser, but really they won’t be here rep-
resented on campus when the finalists are here,” he said. “Their work for the most part is done at this point.”
All finalists are vice presidents for academic affairs at their respective institutions, which Di-vely said was common factor among the appli-cants.
“We had some from other disciplines within a university, but the vast majority were provosts,” he said. “So I think that’s quite typical.”
He said the committee was also looking for diversity in background; for example, each comes from a different state.
“We looked for (gender and ethnicity) in the overall pool as part of the charge to our search committee, but ultimately these candidates are coming here because we believe they’re absolute-ly qualified to be our next leader,” he said.
Dively said he thinks the search committee has worked well together, and he is excited for the finalists to come to campus.
“I really believe we are bringing a diverse, very strong pool of finalists to campus and I am very, very pleased with the work to date by the com-mittee and with the help of our search consul-tant,” he said.
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By Luis MartinezAdministration Editor| @DEN_News
With the start of the year, students are now able to start filing for FAFSA for the 2015-2016 school year.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid became available on Jan. 1. Students are encouraged to fill out the FAFSA early in order to become eligible for maximum financial aid.
Over winter break, the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships sent an email to students talking about the FAFSA, including deadlines and available scholarships that students may be eligible for.
According to the email, students wanting aid for Fall 2015, Spring 2016 or Summer 2016 must complete the 2015-2016 FAFSA by their last date of attendance or June 30, 2016, whichever is sooner.
It also states that the 2014-2015 FAFSA, which applies to the Fall 2014, Spring 2015 and Summer 2015 semesters, may still be com-pleted before June 30 of this year or the last date of the student’s attendance.
However, in order for a student to receive the full benefits of filing the FAFSA, they should do so as early as possible.
Carol Waldmann, interim director of finan-cial aid, said students who apply later could potentially miss out on some of the federal funding they could receive.
“It is very important that all students file the FAFSA early,” Waldmann said. “With limited federal, state and institutional funding, if a stu-dent files their FAFSA too late, they’re likely to miss out on funding that doesn’t have to be re-paid.”
This is especially true when it comes to first-year students and their parents who are unfa-miliar with the FAFSA process.
“First-year students and their parents should file a FAFSA, as the FAFSA is the only way to determine if they are eligible for Pell Grants, other grants, need-based scholarships, Work Study, and student loans,” Waldmann said. “Filing the FAFSA is free so there is no reason not to file.”
These funds are known as grants, and if stu-dents are able to meet certain requirements, then it is possible to receive this type of aid. One such type of grant is known as the Mone-tary Award Program (MAP).
The MAP Grant is available to Illinois stu-dent attending Illinois schools. Like other types of grants, the MAP Grant does not have to be repaid; however, students would need to demonstrate financial need.
The deadline in order to receive the MAP Grant is usually in February.
“All institutions, including EIU, award fi-nancial aid on a first-come, first-serve basis,” Waldmann said.
“Our funding from the federal government and our institutional funding is very limited,” Waldmann said. “The sooner a student files the FAFSA, the better chance they have of receiv-ing a financial aid package that can help them afford a college education at EIU.”
Students can log onto Eastern’s website to search for financial aid scholarships as well as other scholarships that Eastern has to offer.
Freezing temperatures caused pipes to burst in three residence halls over the weekend, in-cluding Stevenson Hall on Friday and Thomas
and Taylor halls on Saturday.Charleston temperatures reached a high of 10
degrees on Friday and 23 degrees on Saturday.In Stevenson Hall, an open window on the
sixth floor caused the heater in a resident’s room to freeze, resulting in a burst heat pipe, said
Mark Hudson, director of Housing and Dining.Hudson said the incident occurred sometime
during the day on Friday. He said he has not heard of any significant damages, and the pipe itself has been fixed.
Pipes burst in 3 residence halls due to cold
PIPE BURST, page 6
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The Charleston Police Depart-ment advises students to remem-ber certain precautions they can take to keep safe as school begins again for another semester.
Dave Chambers, deputy chief of CPD, said crime trends and statis-tics do not change too drastically around the beginning of the year.
However, when s tudents are gone for winter break, a “rush of burglaries” usually occurs, as was the case this winter.
For example, Charleston of -ficers arrested two men charged with multiple residential burglar-ies that occurred in the southeast portion of Charleston on Dec. 28 and issued arrest warrants for two others, according to a CPD press release.
Po l i c e a l s o a r r e s t e d a m a n charged with theft of money be-tween the amount of $10,000 and $100,000 on Jan. 5, according to a CPD press release.
The CPD was able to recover all the property that was stolen from the burglarized areas, Chambers said.
Chambers said Charleston is still a safe place to live in; how-ever, low crime rates do not mean crime does not happen.
L i k e o t h e r c o m m u n i t i e s , Charleston has its issues, such as an increased presence of heroin and methamphetamine.
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ies have been reported recently as well.
In order to be safe, students can take a number of precautions.
“We have control over what risks we place ourselves,” Cham-
bers said.To minimize these risks, stu-
dents first need to realize these risks, he said.
“ I e n c o u r a g e e v e r y o n e t o s ecure the i r proper ty and a sk
themse lves i f they are p lac ing themselves in areas that put them at risk,” Chambers said.
The University Police Depart-ment website lists several tips for students, such as avoiding travel-ing alone when it is dark.
In the dark, people are safer to walk in areas that are well lit and familiar to them as well as avoid shortcuts such as alleyways that potential victimizers may be in.
The website also advises stu-dents to know about emergen-cy services such as phones, blue lights and other ways of contact-ing help if it is needed.
Along with being aware of these emergency services, another sug-gestion is that students should be aware of their surroundings by noting suspicious activity and re-porting all suspicious persons, ve-hicles and activities to the UPD or the CPD.
It also lists that students need to be responsible when it comes to their peers and keep an eye out for their neighbors and fellow students.
This can mean using the “bud-dy system” in order to ensure that people do not have to walk alone.
If students witness someone else being victimized or put in dan-ger, it is also their responsibility to let the police know, the website states.
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By Stephanie WhiteEntertainment Editor | @DEN_News
Many students start off the se-
mester with a schedule to get their work done, but after the first few weeks those can easily become dis-organized causing procrastination and other problems.
That is why Ninth Street Hall has assistance and informational brochures on how to help fix that and other related difficulties dur-ing the semester.
El i zabeth Watt s , a graduate counseling major said the best way to make sure students keep track of their schoolwork is to write it down on a calendar.
“The Student Success Center has a blank calendar of the semester that is available for all students,” Watts said. “Using that should help students keep track of what is go-ing on in the semester.”
She said doing that helps stu-dents to remember projects in the future so they can have a head start on them avoid procrastination.
Watts said papers are on the wall of Ninth Street Hall along with in-formational sheets and brochures, which have advice on how to study better so they can have a smooth-er semester.
Watts a l so teaches a c lass at Ninth Street Hall, EIU 2919.
In her class, Watts has her stu-
dents take a quiz that tests what kinds of study habits are best for them.
“Each student has a different way of studying, so it is good that a student should find out what their best way of studying should be,” Watts said.
She said it helps improve, not only student’s classes, but also their overall school schedule.
A better study plan helps stu-dents decide what to study and for how long, so it makes it easier to plan the semester out.
Watts said a big thing to remem-ber about having a better semester is to make a schedule and to stick to it.
“The best way to do better this semester for students is to not change up your schedule all the time,” Watts said.
She said if people keep chang-ing up their schedule, it will make them confused on what they have due and when, which will make their semester messier and harder to control.
Watts added following these tips should help better a student’s se-mester and a good schedule will benefit all students in both person-al and academic lives.
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The Charleston Carnegie Public Library will be providing a variety of events for many dif-ferent kinds of audiences this month.
Beth Lugar, the youth services manager for the library, said the library has hosted many events before, such as a “teddy bear picnic,” and attendance varies due to factors such as community interest and how the program is structured.
Audiences can range in size, with some be-ing smaller and some accommodating audienc-es of over 100.
For those interested in astronomy, the li-brary will be having an Astronomy Night at 6 p.m. Tuesday in either the Rotary Room A or in the library parking lot, depending on the weather.
Telescopes will be available and set up for participants to use, and participants will be guided in how to use the telescopes in an “in-formal question and answer format.”
The Astronomy Night is free and the general public is welcome.
The next event being hosted by the library will be the “Make and Take Crafts” from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, or until supplies run out.
Those interested can see samples of the types of crafts that will be made all week at the li-brary or can go see photos on the Charleston Carnegie Public Library Facebook page.
Crafts will have a snow theme, such as snowmen and snowflakes. The supplies will be set up in the KidSpace Atrium in the library. The program is a drop-in event and is “open to children of all ages.”
An event that will resume in the library will be the “Books and Babies” event beginning at
10:30 a.m. Thursday and will continue every week until May 14.
The event is designed with infants 36 months and older in mind.
The event will include bouncing rhymes, songs, finger plays, stories and other activities
geared to encourage early literacy in children. The event is free and open to the public.
None of the events require a library card to attend.
Further information on these and other up-coming events can be found on the Charles-
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Forum to transition to official organizationBy Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor | @BertoHodge
The Making Excellence Inclusive forum, which focuses on diversity, inclusion and equality, has begun to move forward with its transition from forum to an official or-ganization.
Glenn Hild, the interim dean of the Col-lege of Arts and Humanities, said complet-ing the transition from forum to an official organization would allow for Making Ex-cellence Inclusive to have greater visibility, voice and possibly more access to resourc-es to promote the principles of diversity, in-clusion and equality.
Hild said the organization has a few goals for the forum going into the 2015 year. A website, which will be a resource to both faculty and students detailing information about Making Excellence Inclusive, is “cur-rently in the construction phase.”
Hild said the site would have Making Ex-cellence Inclusive’s mission statement and values, as well as valuable information to campus resources, events, offices on cam-pus, academic programs and other Regis-tered Student Organizations.
“(The) hope is both students and faculty will find these resources useful in improv-ing campus environment for teaching and learning,” Hild said.
Making Excellence Inclusive has also continued to gather information about mi-nority students from focus groups, which have taken place in previous semesters.
Additional focus groups and transcribing data have been planned for the spring se-mester as well. Hild said the goal is to in-volve students who will benefit from de-veloping the skills needed for transcribing data.
Hild said the forum also plans on com-piling a list of all groups related to diversity and inclusion on campus, as well as offering and promoting campus-related programs dealing with Making Excellence Inclusive.
“What I expect MEI wil l be doing is
helping promote, inform the campus com-munity of programming about diversity, eq-uity and inclusion that will be available to both faculty and students,” Hild said.
Those running the forum have found a lot of work still has to be done at Eastern in order to promote inclusivity.
The overall mission of the forum has not changed, but the membership has contin-ued to grow with representatives from more areas of campus, Hild said.
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The other day as I unashamedly eaves-dropped on a friend’s hushed bickering over the phone, it suddenly dawned on me that maybe the entire argument she was having could have been avoided if she would have just picked up her phone in the first place.
Haven’t you ever been texting someone and out of the blue they send you a text that for whatever reason happens to rub you the wrong way?
While your friend on one end casually sends you a flippant, “Whatever, it’s up to you” message—which in no way confirms if you’re hanging out or not that very night—you become wildly infuriated by that little dialogue bubble on your screen.
You read aloud to yourself with a smug-ness dripping in your voice, “What does THAT mean?” Impatiently, you turn to the nearest person, echoing the message, “What is ‘whatever, it’s up to you’ supposed to mean?”
You let out a half shriek and whirl your-self in a frenzy, wondering ‘what’s their problem?’ Don’t they want to hang with you anymore?
I’ll bet you spend at least 30 seconds try-ing to figure out the tone they tried to con-vey, so the line incessantly bounces around in the back of your mind like a rubber ball.
Well, if they’re going to act like such a jerk about it then you’d might as well take about an hour and a half to reply as a retal-
iation tactic. Maybe your silence and lack of communication will sink in and allow the other person to think about their totally insensitive response.
It’s instances like these that should deeply alarm us chronic texting sufferers. You can word something as carefully as possible and depending on your recipient’s mood, you’ll never be sure how they’ll take it. Tone and language in a text could easily be misinter-preted for a curt reply, rendering you a stoic jerk or a series of grinning emoticons could instantly turn you into an over zealous, too earnest freak.
Much like Key and Peele’s hilarious and extremely hyperbolized misinterpreted texts skit portrayed by the two comedians (avail-able on YouTube). They both brilliantly share the misinterpretations of two radically different characters: the extremely laid back
buddy and the neurotic, needy friendSinger and songwriter, Imogen Heap,
wistfully croons on Deadmau5’s album in a song called “Telemiscommunications”, tak-ing on a more serious approach about the imbalance of miscommunication, or lack thereof.
We’re so quick, almost eager to hide behind a string of long paragraphs and texts to avoid face-to-face contact. Surely you’ll have more time to think of a wittily written reply in the midst of a heated argument via text, and you don’t always end up spitting out the hurtful things that bubble up and out of your mouth.
We think our lives are so much easier while texting because you can so swiftly hit a backspace button. There is no delete or backspace button you can hit when you’ve got that other person standing right before you. But isn’t that what makes us human?
Are we losing touch with one another? The more connected we think we are with the world the less connected we become to people.
Where’s the intimacy and spontaneity of expression?
These are the very experiences that essen-tially make us human.
Marge Clemente is a senior English major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Marge Clemente
Misinterpreted text messages can cause a fuss
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The university’s final four presidential candidates have made themselves available for five interviews each over the span of one week, at which time students, staff, faculty and community members are in-vited to meet and question each candi-date and offer feedback to the presidential search advisory committee.
Although the Board of Trustees will ul-timately make the final decision on Pres-ident Bil l Perry’s successor, these inter-views nonetheless allot time for the uni-ve r s i ty and Char l e s ton communi ty to have a say in who will take on that role.
The presidential search forums offered throughout last semester served as a plat-form for people to express the qualit ies they feel are necessary in the university’s next leader. Having taken that input into consideration, the committee has chosen the four candidates they feel will best rep-resent and lead the university communi-ty. In order to move forward, however, the committee has asked for further feed-back before making its final report to the board. This is an extraordinary opportu-nity for anyone who may be affected by the election of a new president, and those individuals have the opportunity as well as a responsibility to attend as many in-terview times as possible.
The election of a new president marks a turning point for the university. In a time of low enrollment and budget cuts, a shift in leadership offers the potential for change. Whether or not that change will be beneficial to the university is not something that can be predicted. Howev-er, these opportunities to meet with each candidate allow for the community to de-cide who will lead with the most strength, confidence and good intention.
For the past seven years Perry has rep-resented Eastern, meaning that seniors graduating in May 2015 have only known Eastern through the Perry’s v i s ion and leadership.
Wha t th i s a l s o imp l i e s i s tha t s tu -dents, staff and faculty members continu-ing their careers at Eastern will be here to witness this transition, and experience its effects.
The quality of the careers and educa-tion granted by the university will lie in the hands of a new name and face, but we as a community are being offered an op-portunity to make suggestions.
This decision affects those who are fin-ishing their time at Eastern as well. The changing status of the university and the a s soc ia t ion o f i t s d ip loma wi l l fo l low graduates and faculty long after their time here comes to a close.
The completion of a college education and employment at a university are ac-complishments to be proud of. As much as Eastern is an educational institution it is also a brand with an image and status to be improved upon and maintained.
The responsibility of the safety, com-fort and qual i ty of our t ime at Eastern will be granted to someone new shortly. We are lucky to be at Eastern at such a pivotal time, and we should use any lever-age we are given to our advantage.
Currently, Internet users have the ability to roam and create the vast array of websites available through their computers and phones.
Unfortunately, recent pushes from Inter-net providers have led to a shaky future for net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle stat-ing Internet providers do not and should not have any stake in the information being passed through their wires.
In other words, the speed and access at which users can access a certain website should not be faster or slower than access to anoth-er website.
These providers wish to charge website owners fees in order to access their “fast lanes,” which in actuality would probably be a normal Internet speed, and they would just slow access to other websites.
The fate of the Internet and net neutrality is left up to the hands of the Federal Commu-nications Commission who will be voting on a proposal to reinstate rules that would protect
net neutrality Feb. 26 after the proposal is dis-tributed Feb. 5.
There is a lot of hope for this proposal to pass especially with the public and official sup-port for it.
The FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is in sup-port of the proposal in hopes that it will create a middle ground for President Barack Obama’s
wishes to return to net neutrality and the com-missions desire to regulate Internet distribu-tion restrictions.
There is overwhelming support for net neu-trality, and hopefully this proposal will pass smoothly.
Otherwise, I expect the Internet will become a very unfriendly and corporatized ecosystem with only major websites like You-Tube and Facebook finding a way to pay for the “fast lanes.”
Joe Shmoe’s blog on what cereal he is eating this morning will be slowed and surely see dips in traffic to the site because he would not be able to pay for the premium services.
While these kinds of sites have questionable content, they should still be given the same opportunities bigger websites have.
Jarad Jarmon is a senior journalism major. He canbe reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Net neutrality will drastically change the Internet
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MONDAY, JAN. 12, 2015 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | CAMPUS 5Students prepare for Spring 2015 semester
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Brooke Gatto, a freshman sociology major, puts money on her Panthercard on Sunday in Andrews Hall.
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS A line of blue carts sit in the lobby of Andrews Hall waiting for students to move in for the semester.
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Jenny Sweeney, a senior English major, shares stories about her break during the Andrews Hall Hall Council Executive Board meeting Sunday.
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Maeve Burk, a freshman communication disorders and sciences major, rests her luggage on the elevator floor while moving in Sunday in Andrews Hall.
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Emily Wiedeman, a freshman communications studies major, moves back into her room Sunday in Andrews Hall. After unpacking her luggage, Wiedeman unloaded a full bag of books from Textbook Rental in preparation for Monday’s classes.
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Maeve Burk, a freshman communication disorders and sciences major, keys onto her floor while moving in Sunday in Andrews Hall.
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» PIPE BURST CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1Building Ser vice Workers clean up flooding damage from frozen pipes that burst
“They were in there pretty quick to clean it up,” he said.
In Thomas Hall, a pipe in the sprinkler system froze and burst at the bottom of the South Tower stairwell some-time between 2:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday.
In addition to flooding the lobby with about an inch of water, the broken pipe caused the fire alarm to go off. The building was then evacuated and the fire department re-sponded.
Hudson said the build-ing was cleared for about two hours, which delayed move-ins; however, Saturday was a slow day with not a lot of ac-tivity going on.
“There’s not a lot of peo-ple back yet, so it didn’t af-fect a lot of people,” he said. “There were about 20 people in the lobby of Andrews wait-ing to be let back in.”
He said after the fire de-partment isolated the area with the broken pipe, they reactivated the sprinkler sys-tem in the rest of the build-ing and allowed students to return to their rooms while Building Service Workers cleaned up the water in the lobby.
“It hasn’t been too big of an interruption,” Hudson said.
Sometime between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, an open window caused anoth-er sprinkler pipe to freeze and burst in a mechanical room in Taylor Hall, Hudson said.
He said because the fire de-partment was already in Thom-as Hall at the time, they were able to move over to the oth-
er hall quickly and address the broken fixture before it could cause damage or release a sig-nificant amount of water.
The area in Thomas Hall was cleaned up by 6 p.m., and Hudson said the pipe would be
fixed on Monday.Hudson said pipes freezing
and bursting does not happen often.
“It occasionally happens, es-pecially when you have subzero weather you have those kinds
of things that happen, but it’s not a common occurrence,” he said.
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSA burst pipe in the lobby of Thomas Hall caused the evacuation of the building for about two hours, which delayed move in on Saturday.
Only three men’s basketball teams remain un-defeated in the early stages of Ohio Valley Con-ference play.
Eastern leads the conference with its 4-0 OVC record this year after defeating Belmont Universi-ty on Saturday, 84-73.
Junior forward Chris Olivier leads Eastern in scoring and is tied for second in the OVC with 18 points per game.
Along with the Panthers, Eastern Kentucky and Murray State have yet to lose an OVC match-up.
Both teams are 2-0 against conference teams.Murray State has the best overall record
amongst OVC teams at 12-4.
Cameron Payne, a sophomore guard, averag-ing 18.2 points per game, leads The Racers.
Payne has managed to rack up 36 steals over 16 games.
Eastern Kentucky boasts the lowest average number of points allowed in the conference.
The Colonels are holding OVC teams to un-der 57 points per game.
Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said even with a strong undefeated start in the first four games, the Panthers still have a realistic goal of ending the season with a record above .500.
“It’s important that our team keeps ground-ed on what it is that we need to do,” Spoonhour said. “There’s nobody going to Morehead or East-ern Kentucky and coming home with easy wins.”
Morehead State has a 1-2 OVC record with losses to Murray State and Tennessee-Martin.
Morehead leads the OVC in steals with just under 10 per game.
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville has earned a place in a list of teams to beat among OVC op-ponents with an early 3-1 conference record.
The Cougars are led by senior forward Rozell Nunn who averages 14.8 points per game against conference teams.
The top scoring offense in Belmont is sitting at 2-1 in the OVC with its first loss coming by way of Eastern on Saturday.
The Bruins made just 7-of-43 3-point at-tempts against the Panthers.
Eastern is the best team in the OVC when it comes to defending the 3-point shot.
They are hold ing conference oppo-nents to just above 21 percent from beyond the arc.
Senior forward Jarekious Bradley leads South-east Missouri with 15.8 points per game.
The Redhawks are 1-3 in the OVC and 7-10 overall.
Tennessee-Martin, Tennessee Tech and Jack-sonville State have all won just one game in their early OVC match-ups.
Austin Peay and Tennessee State are the only teams in the conference who has yet to beat an-other OVC team this season.
Eastern will travel to Richmond, Ky. on Thursday to face Eastern Kentucky at 6:30 p.m.
Plenty of parity in OVC as Panthers stay undefeated
By Bob ReynoldsSports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN
Eastern women’s basketball forward Sabina Oroszova scored 24 points, all in the second half, on 8-of-14 shooting in the Panthers’ 77-72 win over Belmont in Lantz Arena on Saturday.
In the first half, Oroszova was held to no shot attempts and only played seven minutes because of foul trouble and said she did not really do much at halftime to come out firing in the second half.
“Thankfully I have my teammates to do work for me,” she said. “They held the team where they were supposed to be in the second half. I had to make up for the first half where I didn’t show up.”
With Oroszova out for most of the first half, freshman point guard Grace Lennox said the other post players that came in stepped up.
“It was nothing else we did differently,” she said. “It was just they were able to step up and take Sa-bi’s position and do what they needed to do with-out getting too many fouls or turning the ball over.”
Trailing by seven points with about nine minutes left to play in the second half, the Panthers would go on a 10-3 run to tie the game with five minutes to go.
Oroszova led that run for the Panthers, scoring six out of the 10 points and would continue to pace the Panthers throughout the final minutes of the game.
She would knock down a three with 4:48 left in the second half to give the Panthers a one-point ad-vantage and added five more points to push the lead up to six with under two minutes to go.
Lennox would add four more points off free throws to push the Panther lead up to 10 with 33 seconds left in the second half to ice the game.
Oroszova was not the only one to post dou-ble figures in the game on Saturday. Four oth-er players hit double figures as well includ-ing, Bh’rea Griffin with 11 points, Erica Brown with 11, Arnisha Thomas with 10 and Lennox with 11.
That was the second time Eastern had five players score in double figures since Debbie Black has been head coach of the Panthers.
She said her team has been putting in the ex-tra work over winter break in order to better their shooting, and it paid off in Saturday’s win.
“Sometimes you have to remind the kids to put the work in,” she said. “If we can establish that we are not a one-dimensional team, it is go-ing to be hard to play us. I thought the people that came off the bench did a great job too. We are building to get better in March.”
The Panthers shot 27-of-56 from the floor and 9-of-16 from the 3-point line, which is the most threes they have made in the entire season.
Oroszova said this win is huge, defeating one of the teams expected to finish in the top two in the Ohio Valley Conference.
“Especially after a loss two days ago, we need-ed this,” she said. “There is not an obvious lead-er in this conference, so it can be anyone. If we keep playing like we did (Saturday) we can be in first. It is pretty much open.”
Belmont shot 48 percent in the loss and was held to just 15-of-33 shooting in the second half, but did have five players score in double figures.
Sierra Jones went 5-of-12 from the floor and scored a team-high 15 points on the day. Jor-dyne Luffman shot 4-of-7 from the floor and scored 11 points.
KE VIN HALL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Sabina Oroszova, a senior forward, wins the tip-off against Blair Bryce in the game against Belmont Saturday in Lantz Arena. Oroszova ended the game with 24 points.
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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Final: #EIU defeats Belmont 84-73 for its 7th win in a row. The Panthers are now 4-0 and atop the OVC.
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By Bob ReynoldsSports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN
Ryan Pace was sitting in a classroom at Eastern Illinois University about 14 years ago working on getting his degree in marketing.
Pace was introduced as the sixth general manager in Chicago Bears’ history on Friday.
He played defensive end at Eastern from 1995-1999 and was team captain in his final season.
Pace also had three fumble recoveries and nine tackles for a loss in the 1998 season.
Currently at 37 years old, Pace is the young-est GM in the National Football League, and at his press conference on Friday he reflected on where he came from.
“I remember leaving Eastern Illinois in some beat up car driving down to New Orleans for the job interview, and the other night we’re fly-ing back here to become the general manag-er of the Chicago Bears,” Pace said. “I’m real-ly proud of that. I’m really proud of the path that I took.”
To former Eastern quarterback and now coach of the New Orleans Saints, Sean Pay-
ton, it was not a surprise that he would even-tually be a GM in the NFL, as he told former Eastern defensive coordinator and now associ-ate Athletic Director John Smith about three years ago.
“I was visiting with Ryan and Sean, and when Ryan left, Sean Payton said, ‘Ryan Pace is going to be a general manager. It is not a matter of if, it is just a matter of when’ and those were the exact words that he said to me,” Smith said.
Fo r m e r E a s t e r n a s s i s t a n t d e f e n -sive line and linebackers coach and now the coach of the Univers i ty of Chica-go footbal l team Chris Wilkerson said Pace was the most driven and hardwork-ing player he ever coached during his time at Eastern.
He remembered a time during the 1998 sea-son when Eastern was playing the University of Central Florida and Pace was determined to sack their QB, who was Daunte Culpepper standing at 6’ 4’’ and 260 pounds.
“I remember Ryan’s determination and ef-fort allowing him to sack Culpepper that eve-ning,” Wilkerson said. “He always played with
great effort and technique. His motor was al-ways running.”
As for becoming a general manager, Wilker-son said he knew Pace wanted to get his foot in an NFL door right after graduation.
“He was so determined,” Wilkerson said. “He went down to New Orleans and waited hours for a chance to interview for an intern position. Obviously, his diligence and hard work paid off. He has risen through the ranks using the same drive, attention to detail, ener-gy and passion he played with. He has learned a ton from a lot of great people in the New Orleans Saints organization. I am so happy for Ryan and his family earning this opportunity. I am sure he will do well and make EIU very proud.”
Pace is the first former player to become GM of a team, but certainly not the first play-er to have success in the NFL.
Former Eastern QB Jimmy Garoppolo was drafted in the second round by the New Eng-land Patriots and is the backup QB.
Tony Romo is currently the starting QB for the Dallas Cowboys and Payton played QB at Eastern and graduated in 1987.
Former NFL coach Mike Shanahan was also a member of the Eastern football team, and he graduated in 1975.
Pace was hired into the Bears organization af-ter the team fired former GM Phil Emery after three seasons.
Pace joined the Saints in 2002 as a scouting assistant and most recently worked his way up to director of pro personnel from 2007-2012.
In his 13 years in New Orleans, the Saints had a 115-93 record, and reached the playoffs five times.
They also won three division titles and a Su-per Bowl championship.
On Friday, Bears president Ted Phillips said that Pace was given total control over the Chi-cago Bears roster.
Smith expects Pace to exceed as the Bears’ GM.
“He is all about winning,” he said. “He has tremendous work ethic. There is no doubt in my mind he will have tremendous success.”
Saturday’s matchup between the Eastern Illinois men’s basketball team and Belmont began as a contest between the two Ohio Valley Conference’s first place teams, but at the end of the day, it was the Panthers who led from start to finish for an 84-73 victory.
The Panthers had five players reach dou-ble digits in points including LeTrell Viser, Reggie Smith, Chris Olivier, Trae Anderson and Luke Norman.
Norman recorded 10 points, while An-derson, making his return from an ankle in-jury, and Viser finished with 13.
Olivier and Smith finished with 16 and 15 points, respectively.
Those five played a big role in getting the Panthers to its seventh consecutive victory and first 4-0 start in OVC play.
D e s p i t e t h e o f f e n s i v e p r o d u c t i o n , Eas t e rn coach Jay Spoonhour s a id he wa s more p roud o f h i s t e am’s de f en-sive effort, especially guarding Belmont’s Craig Bradshaw.
“What I’m proud of our guys for is that we made Craig Bradshaw take hard shots. He didn’t get a whole lot of three’s off until late,” Spoonhour said. “Dylan Chatman did a great job chasing him around all game be-cause we know how good the guy is. He’s a great player.”
Bradshaw finished with nine points, go-ing 4-of-13 from the field.
Chatman was a force on the defensive end for the Panthers, finishing with five re-bounds and one steal.
He recorded no points, but fellow guard Luke Norman, who usually plays in a lim-ited role for the Panthers, found his shoot-ing form and finished with a season-high 10 points, including going a perfect 4-of-4 from the field and adding three assists.
Norman said it was great to finally shoot the ball, even though he’s not one to favor stats.
“I’m not real big on stats or anything, but when I’m open I’ve got to shoot them and knock them down because that’s what I’m out here for,” Norman said.
Spoonhour said Norman is a great shoot-er, but seems to question his shots, which he needs to let go of.
“I think he’s conflicted with the coaches,
because he thinks every shot is probably not a good shot or is this what coach wants,” Spoonhour said. “He needs to knock that off, because he can really shoot.”
Anderson’s return to action resulted in him getting 13 points and three rebounds on the offensive glass.
He said the decision was made for his re-turn based on how he did in practice.
“It was basically about how I performed in practice,” Anderson said. “I thought the ball-handling in regards to getting lay ups was pretty easy, especially with our seniors and leaders getting me in the right spots to make those shots.”
Spoonhour said Anderson was great at handling the ball and finishing at the rim.
“Obviously there were some things that were hard for him to do,” Spoonhour said. “I thought what he did the best job of was handling the ball and finishing at the rim.We don’t have many of those guys.”
In the second half, the Bruins resorted to pressing the Panthers’ attack and were able to shrink the Panthers lead to 76-66 with 1:55 remaining.
They would extend that to a 10-2 run to get them within seven, 78-71, with 1:16 remaining.
Spoonhour said that being up big the en-tire game, including an 18-point lead with 8:07 minutes left in the second half, was different for the Panthers and why they stumbled later.
“We weren’t sure how we were going to hang on to the lead because we’ve been be-hind for several games in a row,” Spoonhour said. “Hanging onto the lead, especially when they were trapping us was not easy.”
In spite of the 4-0 start, Spoonhour said Eastern’s goal remains the same: they want to finish above .500.
However, there is still a long way to go to get there.
“This is going to be really hard coming up,” Spoonhour said. “There’s nobody that’s going to go into Morehead State or Eastern Kentucky and come out with easy wins. I want them to think we’re going to win, but I know it’s going to be tough.”
JEHAD ABBED | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior forward Trae Anderson completes a lay-in during the first half Saturday in the men’s matchup with Belmont at Lantz Arena. Anderson helped the Panthers defeat the Bruins in his first return to action since being injured.
