VOL. 99 | NO. 79 Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” WWW. DAILYEASTERNNEWS .COM T HE D aily E astErn n Ews THE GOLD STANDARD The Panthers team won its ninth straight game Saturday, 65-62, over Morehead State. Miss Black and Gold beauty pageant invokes confidence and gives contestants a chance to shine. PAGE 3 By Luis Martinez Administration Editor|@DEN_News The Council on University Planning and Budgeting examined ideas from the education advisory board to earn revenue for Eastern during its meeting Friday. Council members looked at a list of more than 200 different revenue-generating ideas, provided by the board’s report. The report is a collection of ideas from different universities. The goal of the report is to help universities develop plans to ad- dress their individual problems. Paul McCann, the universi- ty treasurer, said he believes one of the problems when it comes to using revenue-generating ideas is that there are too many of them. “I think that a lot of the prob- lem is there are so many ideas in the report,” McCann said. “There’s so many of them, we don’t know what to look at.” Since there were so many dif- ferent ideas to look at, the coun- cil decided to create eight sub- committees to look equally at all of them. “I knew we weren’t going to get a whole lot,” Emmerich said. “We already knew that there were things on that report being done.” The council members discussed some of the ideas that Eastern had already implemented in the past, such as cost containment. David Emmerich, the chair of the council, said members have been reviewing these ideas for many years. “We decided it would be im- portant to bring it up as a topic today to make sure that one, was it truly business that was done or do we need to bring it and look at some more information,” Emm- erich said. Some of the ideas have already been put in place, including ca- reer fairs and student orientation, which have been done nationally by other universities. “We wanted to bring that up just to get the idea if it is some- thing we want to do a refresher, review, especially with budgets the way they are,” Emmerich said. Emmerich said the question now is what is being done to im- plement the ideas. “Each different subcommit- tee will go through now and say all right well there’s this list from this specific topic, so as a subcom- mittee, maybe there’s one or two things out of this that may work at Eastern,” he said. Emmerich also commented on a report from May 2013 comparing administrative-faculty rations in different universities. He said one of the hard- est things about understand- ing that report was that each university defines administra- tive positions differently, so they are comparing different data. He said he believes the CUPB and other governing bodies at Eastern should begin by defining what an administrative position is. Emmerich also brought up the cash-in cash-out scholarship ini- tiative. He said no movement has been done on this. The Athletic Department’s bud- get was also mentioned briefly. Emmerich said issues came up and was discussed at the Faculty Senate meeting earlier that week. Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]CUPB discusses ideas for revenue By Cassie Buchman City Editor|@DEN_News The Charleston City Council will review changes in bar regulations in- cluding time of closing and checking ID cards on Tuesday. Granting new development stan- dards on Medical Cannabis Culti- vation centers and dispensaries and a proposal for a future cancer center building at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center is also on the agenda. e medical cannabis ordinance ex- amines which zoning districts cannabis dispensaries will be allowed, and secu- rity measures needed to take. Everyone who sells and serves alco- hol might be required to have stricter methods for checking ID cards. is includes requiring special training for those who check IDs. Currently, one person on duty is re- quired to have Beverage Alcohol Sell- ers and Servers Education and Train- ing experience. The new regulations would require everyone to have train- ing. The new training will teach bar- tenders how to identify fraudulent IDs and people who have had too much to drink. Hours of operation in bars will also potentially change. Currently, bars are allowed to stay open until 1 a.m., but a new ordinance will allow them to stay open for an hour later for a trial run. The trial run means bars will stay open until 2 a.m. on ursday, Friday, and Saturday nights until August of this year. e trial run will essentially make the decision on whether or not the bars will be able to stay open later permanently. Mayor Rennels said the current time of closing leads to crowded park- ing lots. “At 1 a.m. when the bars close, ev- eryone leaves at the same time.” May- or Rennels said. He said the congestion in the park- ing lots makes it harder for people to leave in a safe manner. ose in favor of later bar hours say it will be an incentive for people to stay in Charleston, as opposed to go- ing to other places. Raffle licenses for various events will also be examined. e council will also recognize Feb- ruary as Black History month, and re- view changes in building regulations in Charleston. e City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall. Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]City Council to discuss bar policies KEVIN HALL | DAILY EASTERN NEWS Reginald Thedford and Phillip Love, memebers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity INC. lead the march for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and Candle Light Vigil Monday. The men of Alpha Phi Alpha lead the march from Thomas Hall to the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Vigil brings forth unity, community PANTHERS WIN ‘MORE’ Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor |@BertoHodge Nearly 70 individuals walked closely together clutching Styro- foam cups with candles lit on the inside. Small hushed voices sang hymns of “We Shall Overcome” and “Let it Shine” for the Martin Luther King Jr. Vigil and March Monday evening. Hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha fra- ternity, the event brought togeth- er men and women of all ages and races. Members from other Greek organizations were also present such as Phi Kappa Theta frater- nity, Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, Zeta Phi Beta sorority and many more. King was also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Members from the differ- ent organizations all agreed the commemoration showed unity amongst not only humans of dif- ferent cultural backgrounds, but also the Greek organizations. The event also incorporated a praise dance from eight of the Ap- ostolic Christians in Today’s Soci- ety Anointed Worshipers. All eight of the women danced and twirled around the stage with emotion. Marlon Williams, reverend and police officer, gave the keynote address speaking on stereotypes, including his thoughts on the Mi- chael Brown case. “I was torn as a black man, I was torn as an officer,” Williams said. Williams said he believes soci- ety is disconnected from God be- cause of racism. “Has Dr. King’s dream real- ly been fulfilled?” Williams ques- tioned. Toward the end of the night there were two awards given out to those who have made impacts as students and faculty members. Jalyssa Woodall, a graphic de- sign major, was awarded the An- nie C. Singleton award. Nichalas Sanders, an admissions counsel- or was awarded the Alpha “Image” award. Phillip Love, the Alpha Phi Al- pha president, said the event had a great turnout. VIGIL, page 5 PAGE 8
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THE GOLD STANDARDThe Panthers team won its ninth
straight game Saturday, 65-62, over Morehead State.
Miss Black and Gold beauty pageant invokes confidence and givescontestants a chance to shine.
PAGE 3
By Luis MartinezAdministration Editor|@DEN_News
The Counc i l on Unive r s i t y Planning and Budgeting examined ideas from the education advisory board to earn revenue for Eastern during its meeting Friday.
Counci l members looked a t a list of more than 200 different revenue-generating ideas, provided by the board’s report.
The report is a col lection of ideas from different universities. The goal of the report is to help universities develop plans to ad-dress their individual problems.
Paul McCann, the univer s i -ty treasurer, said he believes one of the problems when it comes to using revenue-generating ideas is that there are too many of them.
“I think that a lot of the prob-lem is there are so many ideas in the repor t ,” McCann sa id .
“There’s so many of them, we don’t know what to look at.”
Since there were so many dif-ferent ideas to look at, the coun-cil decided to create eight sub-committees to look equally at all of them.
“I knew we weren’t going to get a whole lot,” Emmerich said. “We already knew that there were things on that report being done.”
The council members discussed some of the ideas that Eastern had already implemented in the past, such as cost containment.
David Emmerich, the chair of the council, said members have been reviewing these ideas for many years.
“We decided it would be im-portant to bring it up as a topic today to make sure that one, was it truly business that was done or do we need to bring it and look at some more information,” Emm-
erich said.Some of the ideas have already
been put in place, including ca-reer fairs and student orientation, which have been done nationally by other universities.
“We wanted to bring that up just to get the idea if it is some-thing we want to do a refresher, review, especially with budgets the way they are,” Emmerich said.
Emmerich sa id the quest ion now is what is being done to im-plement the ideas.
“Each di f fe rent subcommit-tee will go through now and say all right well there’s this list from this specific topic, so as a subcom-mittee, maybe there’s one or two things out of this that may work at Eastern,” he said.
Emmerich also commented on a report from May 2013 comparing administrative-faculty rations in different universities.
H e s a i d o n e o f t h e h a r d -e s t th ing s about unde r s t and -ing tha t repor t was tha t each univers i ty def ines adminis t ra -tive positions differently, so they a re compar ing d i f f e rent da ta . He said he believes the CUPB and other governing bodies at Eastern should begin by defining what an administrative position is.
Emmerich also brought up the cash-in cash-out scholarship ini-tiative. He said no movement has been done on this.
The Athletic Department’s bud-get was also mentioned briefly.
Emmerich said issues came up and was discussed at the Faculty Senate meeting earlier that week.
The Charleston City Council will review changes in bar regulations in-cluding time of closing and checking ID cards on Tuesday.
Granting new development stan-dards on Medical Cannabis Culti-vation centers and dispensaries and a proposal for a future cancer center building at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center is also on the agenda.
The medical cannabis ordinance ex-amines which zoning districts cannabis dispensaries will be allowed, and secu-rity measures needed to take.
Everyone who sells and serves alco-hol might be required to have stricter methods for checking ID cards. This includes requiring special training for those who check IDs.
Currently, one person on duty is re-quired to have Beverage Alcohol Sell-ers and Servers Education and Train-ing experience. The new regulations would require everyone to have train-ing.
The new training will teach bar-tenders how to identify fraudulent IDs and people who have had too much to drink.
Hours of operation in bars will also potentially change.
Currently, bars are allowed to stay open until 1 a.m., but a new ordinance will allow them to stay open for an hour later for a trial run.
The trial run means bars will stay open until 2 a.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights until August of this year. The trial run will essentially make the decision on whether or not the bars will be able to stay open later permanently.
Mayor Rennels said the current time of closing leads to crowded park-ing lots.
“At 1 a.m. when the bars close, ev-eryone leaves at the same time.” May-or Rennels said.
He said the congestion in the park-ing lots makes it harder for people to leave in a safe manner.
Those in favor of later bar hours say it will be an incentive for people to stay in Charleston, as opposed to go-ing to other places.
Raffle licenses for various events will also be examined.
The council will also recognize Feb-ruary as Black History month, and re-view changes in building regulations in Charleston.
The City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall.
KE VIN HALL | DAILY EASTERN NE WSReginald Thedford and Phillip Love, memebers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity INC. lead the march for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and Candle Light Vigil Monday. The men of Alpha Phi Alpha lead the march from Thomas Hall to the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Vigil brings forth unity, community
PANTHERS WIN ‘MORE’
Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge
Nearly 70 individuals walked closely together clutching Styro-foam cups with candles lit on the inside. Small hushed voices sang hymns of “We Shall Overcome” and “Let it Shine” for the Martin Luther King Jr. Vigil and March Monday evening.
Hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha fra-ternity, the event brought togeth-er men and women of all ages and races. Members from other Greek organizations were also present
such as Phi Kappa Theta frater-nity, Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, Zeta Phi Beta sorority and many more.
King was also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Me m b e r s f r o m t h e d i f f e r -ent organizations all agreed the commemorat ion showed unity amongst not only humans of dif-ferent cultural backgrounds, but also the Greek organizations.
The event also incorporated a praise dance from eight of the Ap-ostolic Christians in Today’s Soci-ety Anointed Worshipers. All eight
of the women danced and twirled around the stage with emotion.
Marlon Williams, reverend and police officer, gave the keynote address speaking on stereotypes, including his thoughts on the Mi-chael Brown case.
“I was torn as a black man, I was torn as an officer,” Williams said.
Williams said he believes soci-ety is disconnected from God be-cause of racism.
“Has Dr. King’s dream rea l -ly been fulfilled?” Williams ques-tioned.
Toward the end of the night there were two awards given out to those who have made impacts as students and faculty members.
Jalyssa Woodall, a graphic de-sign major, was awarded the An-nie C. Singleton award. Nichalas Sanders, an admissions counsel-or was awarded the Alpha “Image” award.
Phillip Love, the Alpha Phi Al-pha president, said the event had a great turnout.
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The University Ballroom was a dim-lit room accented with flashing colorful disco lights and classic 70s tunes to add to the top off the Uni-versity Board’s “rollbounce” theme, during Up All Nite on Friday.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Ballroom slowly filled up with students who waited in line to rent out skates provided by neon enter-tainment.
A few students lost their balance and hit the mat placed over the tile floor in the University Ballroom, but it did not discourage the participants from getting back up and trying it again.
The 70s style music playing in the background eventually changed to modern songs which more students were familiar with.
Songs from rappers and singers such as Chief Keef, Chris Brown, Usher, and Katy Perry sent skaters into frenzy.
Students lined up behind each oth-er and held onto each other’s shoul-ders as they skated and sang along to some of their favorite songs the DJ played.
Skating not only deemed as a chance for students to show off their skating skills, but also to learn how to skate.
Corinthian Bethel, a senior fami-ly consumer sciences major, showed off his skating skills rolling backwards around the University Ballroom in his personal pair of black roller skates.
Bethel said part of his reasoning for attending UB’s “rollbounce” themed Up All Nite, was to show off his skills and teach others how to skate.
He was one of many students who helped other students maintain their balance; he even managed to show them a couple of techniques.
“Skating is my talent, I do this ev-
ery weekend back at home in Chica-go,” Bethel said. “I thought this was a good opportunity to come out and help others skate.”
The fear of falling influenced a few students to watch the festivities or participate in the other activities UB had to offer including Bowling and Bingo.
Students who were not interest-ed in skating could migrate down the hall to the Grand Ballroom where Bingo took place.
The front half of the University
ballroom was filled with tables and chairs where participants seated to compete to win electronics in bingo.
On the other side of the University Ballroom there were activities where people could make a customize li-cense plate with pictures and letters of their choice.
In addition, there was a section where someone could get a custom airbrush towel and a personal carica-ture.
Ronnica Anderson, a family con-sumer sciences graduate student, said she enjoyed “Up All Nite” because it gives students a variety of things to participate in besides other social events such as parties.
“It takes away from the parties that most students would rather go to, it’s like a family thing and you can bring your kids or your friends,” Anderson said.
Darius Francis, a senior commu-nication studies major and UB chair, said there was an estimate of 200-300 people in attendance.
Francis said he expected students to come out and have a good time and to walk away with something fun and positive to start off the semester. As long as students experienced that, “Up All Nite” was successful to him.
Eastern student volunteers com-pleted over 140,000 hours of com-munity service during the last ac-ademic year.
“National research states that an hour of volunteering in the state of Il l inois is equivalent to $22 back to that local community,” Fisher said. “If students complet-ed 140,000 hours of service, then we are talking about a multi mil-lion dollar program (where) stu-dents are key players in providing and executing.”
Rachel Fisher, the director of student community service, said students completed over 150 com-munity service projects last semes-ter.
“There are over 50 different lo-cal non-profits (and) causes here
in the Charleston (and) Mattoon area(s) alone, and many EIU stu-dents work with each of these,” Fisher said.
Eastern students have a main interest in participating in the PLAY program and in local con-servative efforts.
Volunteering in the PLAY pro-gram is offered Monday through Fr iday, where s tudents get in-volved with and help local youth.
With PLAY, students are able to commit every week to the same program and youth.
The PLAY programs has various volunteer options including read-ing rocks, young athletes, salva-tion army, Ashmore after school, Oakland after school, and STEP Up dancers.
Fisher said taking part in the PLAY program is a good expe-rience for the youth and Eastern student volunteers.
“We are here to enhance (and) not just maintain our communi-ties,” Fisher said.
Last fall, students worked on a
program called “One Stop Com-munity Christmas,” where student volunteers create fleece blankets to be distributed to local youth from seven counties in December.
The goal of distributing 1,000 blankets was reached.
“So many great individuals and groups come together to make these blankets,” Fisher said. “That is just one example of the amazing enthusiasm we saw this fall. Par-ticipation was great.”
Another event is the MLK Ser-vice Day held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Fisher said it is a national day of service recognized by Congress 25 years ago.
Student Community Service has been participating in the MLK Service Day since it first began five years ago.
All sites and locations that were participating were filled with vol-unteers, with about 250 volun-teers for the day.
Fisher said faculty involvement has helped student community
service. “It was great to see how many
faculty are working with our office to create service learning, where volunteering and service becomes part of the classroom learning,” Fisher said.
Spring holds many other volun-teer opportunities for students, in-cluding a new after school site in Oakland.
Student Community Service members are looking to increase and expand their local conserva-tion efforts.
PLAY is currently looking for vo l u n t e e r s . T h e s e vo l u n t e e r s should be willing to make a se-mester-long commitment to the program.
The annual Panther Service Day will be on April 25.
STEPHANIE WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSCorinthian Bethel, a senior family and consumer sciences major, roller skates for the “Rollbouce” event during Up All Nite Friday in the University Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
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By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge
Fighting back the tears as she
spoke, Shadaje Johnson said she al-most did not enter the 2015 Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant because she was afraid of what peo-ple might say.
Johnson, a family and consumer sciences major, soon overcame that fear, shedding her insecurities along with a black robe to reveal a rhine-stone dress as she began pounding on her drums to Rae Sremmurd’s “No Type.”
Members of the crowd jumped out of their seats and waved their hands as they sang along.
With her brave conviction and style, Johnson won the 2015 crown of Miss Black and Gold and earned a $500 scholarship.
Hosted by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the 21st Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant consisted of three mini fashion segments, a tal-ent competition and an evening wear section with an impromptu ques-tion.
The pageant aims to promote women’s poise, confidence, commu-nication and more.
“Thank God for believing in me; I’m so grateful and humbled,” John-son said after being crowned.
Johnson said she plans to use her win to inspire others to fulfill their dreams.
Earlier, Johnson wore a cream-col-ored dress that stopped at her thighs with matching tan heels for the “Af-ter 5” segment of the night; she also wore a one-piece swim suit with a shawl-like robe for the swimsuit por-tion.
Many of the women danced light-ly while modeling their designated outfits for each section.
Two other contestants won the ti-tles of Miss Black and Miss Gold lat-er that evening.
Miss Gold winner Ma’Chana Am-brose, a senior kinesiology major, performed a basketball skit during her talent portion and spoke about how she was seen as a tomboy as a child.
Her expression soon changed when she admitted she was molest-ed at age 5 and did not realize what happened until she turned 12.
Ambrose said she turned to bas-ketball to hide her pain and even felt suicidal for a time.
“For 10 years, the only thing that understood what I was going through was me and my basketball,” Ambrose said.
For the business-wear portion of the night, Ambrose wore tan pants with a white blouse sporting a green purse.
Maya Pitts, a senior psychology major who won the Miss Black title, wore a rhinestone gold leotard for her talent skit and spoke about over-coming doubt from others.
Earlier in the pageant, Pitts wore a black and white business suit with a black pencil skit, blazer and a white blouse. She also donned a white dress with long sleeves and rhine-stone cuffs with gold heels.
Pitts often volunteers in the com-munity at food pantries and shelters. She is also the president of the Na-tional Association of Colored Wom-en’s Club.
Many of the girls seemed to have put their entire being in the talent portion of the pageant, with one do-ing a praise dance while a slideshow of her family played behind.
Other contestants included Vonna Hayes, Aaliyah Gibbs, Kathryn Mc-Intosh, Najah Lane, Javiera Green, Kim Vincent and Unique Henley.
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Shadaje Johnson, a senior family and consumer sciences major, cries while performing her talent portion entitled “Pretty Young Thing” during the Miss Black and Gold Pageant Saturday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr., University Union.
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKathryn McIntosh, a senior kinesiology and sports studies major, performs a praise dance to “Take Me to the King” by Tamela Mann during the Talent Competition portion for the Miss Black and Gold Pageant in the Grand Ball-room of the Martin Luther King Jr., University Union. The dance was dedicated to McIntosh’s recently deceased mother.
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Letter to the editor
The Daily Eastern News was found-ed as the Normal School News in 1915. Therefore, the 100th anniversary of the paper will be observed later this year.
I am a former staff member and was summer editor in chief of the News in 1962 and later taught a few journalism classes at EIU and at Lake Land College in the 1970s.
I want to take this opportunity to mention several quite significant epi-sodes in the history of the News that are often ignored or overlooked.
Different controversies surrounding the News made statewide headlines in 1959 and in 1964 and in 1967.
Editors in chief were fired, in both 1959 and in 1964.
Tension between the News and the EIU administration led to the paper’s editor being fired in 1959 and publica-tion of the paper was suspended for sev-eral months.
Springing up to fill the void was an underground or alternative paper called the “Cacti”.
In 1964 the editor was fired after he attempted to print an article alleging irregularities in building construction at EIU. The governor of Illinois later appointed a three-person panel to inves-tigate the allegations.
They later concluded that there had been numerous problems in the build-ing program, but they could find no evi-dence of fraud or other criminal activity.
In 1963 the paper made statewide news when it conducted a survey show-ing that a sizable percentage of off-cam-pus landlords stated openly that they would not rent rooms to African-Amer-icans.
This led to the EIU administration announcing that it would crack down on such bias in off-campus housing.
I could go on, but let us just say that there are a number of other episodes that could be mentioned in the lively, colorful and controversial history of the News.
I might make reference to one oth-er matter. Before the late 1960s and the 1970s, editors in chief usually had pretty much total control over the paper’s edi-torial policy and content.
After the late 60s authority tended to be more decentralized, including an edi-torial board to make decisions on the content of editorials.
Allan H. Keith can be reached at the following address:
Mondays, Mondays, Mondays. I mean, even when you have a holiday it com-
pletely goes over your head. You feel as though you have enough time to lounge about watching Net-flix and putting off every seemingly insignificant assignment, but before you know it, that Tuesday comes around rearing its ugly head just around the corner.
Nevertheless, I enjoy Tuesdays better. The spell-ing of the word alone looks friendly and inviting. Don’t ask me why.
Perhaps it’s a subconscious tendency—when I think about a Tuesday, I believe it is a second shot for us all to compensate for the lack of productiv-ity or screw-ups that happened the first day of the week.
The first real school day of the week is your first shot when all else crumbles to bitty to piec-es. Tuesday is another wondrous opportunity to redeem your sleep-deprived, aching self.
Honestly, what is it about Mondays (or that dreaded second day of the week after a holiday) that transforms us into these mindless marching monsters, swarming about campus?
It is as though every single thing that could possibly go wrong actually does end up turning into an irreversible fiasco.
You get the disgruntled body shifting, the not-so-subtle eye rolling and unexpected stacks of assignments. Professors are at their worst (or may-be at their best in their twisted sense of awareness).
We are graciously greeted with the no-non-sense, let’s-get-down-to-business professors.
If you just so happen to not have that textbook sitting in your backpack with you or that assigned reading completed, do yourself a favor and quiet-ly excuse yourself from class. You will be lost and
deliberately left behind. Do not retreat to the dark spaces of your home
to sleep the evening away and marinade in your shame—wisely use your time to catch up, and do not waste your time or the professor’s or your classmates’. Be fair.
Another terrifying aspect to face on Mondays: a case of The Grumps.
Most of you would not believe how many times in just one miserable Monday I have had to reluctantly bite my tongue to refrain from telling someone to tone down his or her irritability level.
Listen, on about a scale from 1-10 you are at a 10, and I am going to need the ‘tude to be reduced to about a 4.
I refuse to get into any serious trouble, so I stu-diously keep quiet and endure the annoyed glanc-es.
Hopefully, everyone else can erase their jarred memories from their maddening Monday and start anew on a fresh Tuesday.
Marge Clemente is a senior English major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]
It has been proposed for about a decade that a merited plaza dedicated to interna-tional alumni be implemented on Eastern’s campus.
To further broaden our academic sphere, the international population resid-ing at our university should be fully recog-nized through a sophisticated and lasting approach.
It has been said that the proposed plaza would strengthen the unity between all stu-dents and the university’s commitment to international students.
In representing a diverse section of demographics through the proposed pla-za, we would not only strengthen the uni-ty between our domestic and international students, but we would also would defy the oppression of certain groups of individuals.
Bringing awareness to the certain groups who have been victims of neglect by the news and public would also introduce domestic students to unrecognized and vast job opportunities.
Students must feel encouraged to keep
an open mind to the variety of jobs that could unexpectedly present themselves.
Robert Augustine, the dean of the grad-uate school of Eastern, said that the domes-tic students could also very well benefit from others from different nationalities and countries.
It is important for domestic students to interact with those who have been exposed to distinct values. The ways in which we conduct business could be significantly altered by other belief systems.
Our population has such easy access to international insight and through open communication, we can share each other’s organizational and management methods.
Available on Google books, you can take a more in-depth look at an informative chart provided by Cheryl Hamilton in the Communicating for Results: A Guide for Business and the Professions book.
Through quantitative and qualitative research, Hamilton clearly demonstrates a variety of beliefs here by listing them in a very likely order.
In the three columns, she lists the alter-nating cultural values of Americans, Japa-nese and Arabs from 1-10. For example, the very first cultural value listed, across the board looks as follows:
Americans essentially value freedom; the Japanese value belonging and Arabs value family security.
Here at Eastern, our domestic popula-tion has such easy access to interrelate with the international community without hav-ing to travel abroad.
Eastern has been granted the wonderful privilege to create more globally connect-ed businesses and friendships through the expansion of our campus.
Eastern intends to apply a highly struc-tured and much-needed symbol of recogni-tion for the international population.
We strongly believe in the constructive nature that the global plaza hopes to bring forth onto campus.
Marge Clemente
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By Darronté Matthews Staff Reporter | @DEN_News
Directors of this semester’s upcoming plays said they are looking for students who bring charisma and excitement.
Two of this year’s spring productions have been announced as Agatha Chris-tie’s 1952 murder mystery “The Mouse-trap” and Bertolt Brecht’s 1943 drama “The Good Person of Setzuan.”
Theater professor Zackary Ross will be directing “The Good Person of Set-zuan,” and visiting TV and theater ac-tress Marnie Andrews will be directing “The Mousetrap.”
Both directors said they have certain
expectations of the students who audi-tion.
“I want to work with people who are there to have fun and enjoy themselves and who are hopefully versatile enough to take on the challenges that the play demands,” Ross said.
Andrews said she agreed with Ross’ feelings on preferring charisma over credits.
“I love the circle of creativity,” she said. “We actually might pick people with no acting experience.”
Both said it does not matter wheth-er or not students have been involved in many pro- ductions or if this is their first one.
Ross and Andrews said they are not giving preference to students who have many acting credits to their names be-cause “this is not Broadway.”
“I would much rather work with someone who is excited to be there and excited to be a part of the process than with someone who has their craft down pat and is just there to get the job done,” Ross said.
J. Kevin Doolen, the chair of the the-atre department, along with a committee of faculty members and students, choses the plays for this semester, Andrews said.
She said Doolen contacted her a year in advanced to direct “The Mousetrap.”
Ross said even though they are not
part of the selection committee, they like the plays selected because they show di-versity within the community.
“‘The Good Person of Setzuan’ is something different that doesn’t get pro-duced a lot,” Ross said. “It does have that moral and universal message that speaks to everyone.”
Andrews said she could not wait to direct something so exciting as some-thing by Agatha Christie. She said she appreciates that Doolen and the com-mittee chose to select a play that echoes for different communities.
“There have not been a lot of play-wrights who are writing about issues that are important to people who are not
white,” Andrews said.She said she likes that each year the
committee is planning to select plays they believe will make the audience laugh, think or “make them feel like they are a part of this world.”
Auditions for “The Mousetrap” and “The Good Person of Setzuan” will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in The Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Second auditions will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in the same location with callbacks following from 7 to 10 p.m.
Directors seeking ‘charismatic’ actors for future plays
MACKENZIE FREUND | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Antonique Burnett, a freshman music major, uses a practice room to rehearse some violin music for the upcoming semester on Sunday in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
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WednesdayWhat: Pantherpalooza
Where: The MLK Union, Grand BallroomWhen: 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
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To Love, this day meant free-dom and equality because King stood for many things. Therefore, having a day to honor King holds a special meaning for him.
Allen Potter, the president of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity, said this was the first time he and his organization came to the event.
Potter said King was an im-portant individual to everyone, since he was a key individual in human rights activism.
Potter said his organization also participated in a Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Day of Service earli-er, which nearly their entire chap-ter was present for.
Potter expressed interest in coming out to support mem-bers of the National Pan-Hellen-ic Council for their future events, as well as participating in the next Martin Luther King Jr. Vigil.
He said he would like to at-tend events because it showed Greek Unity and it is a great way
for students to get involved with the campus and community.
“It’s definitely something I want to continue,” Potter said.
KE VIN HALL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKe’Ana Lampkins(Left), Tania Stanford(Middle), and Elizabeth Bailey(Right) perform a praise dance during the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and Candle Light Vigil Monday at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union in the Grand Ballroom.
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8 T H E DA I LY E ASTE R N NEWSD A I LY E A S T E R N N E W S . C O M T U E S DAY, J A N. 20, 2015
@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: While riding a nine game win streak, @eiubasketball is now ranked 23rd in the Mid-Major Top 25 poll
By Blake Nash Staff Reporter | @DEN_sports
The Eastern men’s basketball team won its ninth straight game Saturday, 65-62, over Morehead State in Morehead, Ky.
The Panthers, who were led by freshman guard Cornell Johnston’s 22 points, improved to 12-6 overall and a perfect 6-0 in the Ohio Val-ley Conference. Eastern also set the school’s Division 1 record for con-secutive wins.
“My team’s always telling me to stay confident and keep attacking,” Johnston said. “That’s what I did, because we needed it.”
Johnston’s 22 points are a season-high for the freshman, who was also a perfect 4-for-4 from three-point range.
Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said Johnston’s ability to win over-shadows his size.
“Size has never been a big deal for me,” Spoonhour said. “Cornell just flat out wins, and he’s been do-ing that for a long time. He also helps make everyone better people around him.”
Johnston also had three assists for the Panthers trailing only fellow guard in senior Dylan Chatman. Chatman finished with four assists to go along with nine points, all of which came on threes.
Johnston said he isn’t one to pay attention to stats.
“I just go out there and play and do whatever I can to help our team get the ‘W’,” Johnston said.
After being down 25-19 at half-time, the Eagles started the second half on a 19-5 run and led for the majority of the second half until the five minute mark.
A free throw from junior forward Trae Anderson and a defensive stop on the other end, and a dunk from junior guard LeTrell Viser gave the Panthers their first lead of the half.
The Eagles would tie the game shortly after, but would never regain the lead, as the Panthers kept their perfect OVC record intact.
As a team, the Panthers forced 12
Eagles’ turnovers and were able to convert that into seven points.
“We take a lot of pride in our de-fense,” Anderson said. “We try to stay focused and locked in on what we do on defense and try to outper-form the other team,”
Senior Guard Reggie Smith was the only other player to reach dou-ble digit points for the Panthers, finishing with 11 points and six re-bounds. Seven of those points came in the second half, in which he
grabbed three rebounds.The Eagles were led by cen-
ter Billy Reader and guard Brent Arrington, who finished with 16 points each. Karam Mashour and Corban Collins followed with 12 points each.
Mashour also led Morehead State with eight rebounds.
As a team the Panthers shot 52.4 percent from the floor, despite shooting 39.1 percent in the first half.
They were able to improve in the second half, hitting 68.4 percent of their shots.
The win sets up a conference clash with West divisional foe Mur-ray State, who is also a perfect 5-0 in OVC play and the game will be nationally televised on CBS Sports Network at 8 p.m. Thursday in Lantz Arena.
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior Chris Olivier faces off against Northern Illinois’ Jordan Threloff during the Panthers’ 59-55 win against the Huskies on Dec. 13 at Lantz Arena. Olivier scored six points during the Panthers 65-62 win over Morehead State on Saturday in Morehead, Ky.
By Sean HastingsStaff Reporter | @DEN_sports
The men and women’s swim teams finished a pair of double-dual s a t Western I l l inoi s wi th South Dakota this past weekend.
The women went 2-2 over the weekend and the men dropped both of its meets.
The women took down the Leathernecks in both meets but would drop both to South Dakota
On Saturday, the women beat Western I l l inoi s by a score o f 130-123 and fell 196-76 to South Dakota.
Overall coach Jacqueline Mi-cha l sk i was p l ea sed wi th how things went.
“There was a lot of things we had to overcome, and they did
definitely on Saturday,” Michals-ki said.
She noticed both teams energy and pep in their strokes was much better and said it shows her teams are able to fight through the two-plus day meets.
Michalski was most impressed with how the teams were able to turn things around and have a much better Saturday meet.
“The first day it was rough ad-justing to the new pool and it was a hard week of training,” Michal-ski said. “On Saturday we really came back, we had the most en-ergy on deck, better strokes, bet-ter turns, and just a much better team than Friday.”
Micha l sk i sa id the Panthers could have done a little bit bet-te r wi th over coming some of the hurdles on Friday, and may-be have a little more support for each other.
She would add as a whole, her team did well.
A swimmer that stood out for the Panthers was junior Jake Rob-erts who won the men’s 1,000-
ya rd f r e e s t y l e w i th a t ime o f 10:12.54 defeat ing the second place Leatherneck finisher by six seconds.
“He rea l ly s tepped i t up, he won the 1 ,000 ( f rees ty le ) and put up some real ly good f ights and races in his events,” Michal-ski said.
She would say it was one of the best races turned in from the Pan-thers over the weekend.
Michalski said another one of the best races came from sopho-more Fallyn Schwake’s 1,650-yard freestyle.
Schwake took third in the race, but Michalski was very pleased with how she improved from the House of Champions meet in No-vember.
Another swimmer that stood out was f reshman Amy Smith, who was the only Panther to be the f irst to touch the wall in a race on Friday.
She won the women’s 100-yard backstroke with a time of 59.77 out-swimming the second place swimmer of South Dakota by four
seconds. Micha l sk i was impres sed by
sophomore Brogan O’Doher ty who had a close second-place fin-ish in the men’s 100-yard back-stroke with a time of 54.50, just one second behind the first place Western Illinois finisher.
Michalski was pleased with how things went overall for the week-end, but knows that the teams need to improve before the con-ference meets that will take place February 18th through the 21st.
The one thing she thinks the team can improve on is the on deck presence.
“We cant get anywhere if we don’t come together,” Michals-ki said she tells the team all the time.
The next time the Panthers will be in the pool will be Saturday where they will take on Valparaiso in Valparaiso, Ind. at 1 p.m.
Swimming concludes meets at Western Swim coach takes pride in team’s improved endurance
By Mark ShanahanStaff Reporter | @DEN_sports
The Eastern men and women’s track and field teams each took third place this past weekend at the Illini Classic.
The men totaled 78 team points, which topped Loyola, Bradley, Saint Louis, Western Illinois and Butler. Illinois won the team title with 266 points and Southeast Missouri was runner up with 124 points.
The women’s team scored 85 points, which trailed Illinois -- who won the meet -- and Northern Illinois who was runner up. Illinois had 145 points. Eastern outscored Southeast Missouri, Ball State, Loyola, West-ern Illinois, Bradley, Butler and Saint Louis.
Eastern Coach Tom Akers said there were some good individual per-formances but they were not really deep in those areas. He also said they had a solid performance but not spec-tacular.
Junior runner Calvin Edwards had a first place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.32 seconds. He led all Eastern runners and is now ranked in the top 15 of the country.
Several team members established new personal records this past week-end. The list includes Zane Chapman in the weight throw, Kendall Williams in the long jump, Jordan Wallace and Maria Baldwin in the 3000-meter run, Bryn Buckwalter in shot put and Jackie Jones in the high jump.
Seniors Jordan Wallace and Avi-ance King each had runner up fin-ishes. Wallace came in second in the 3000-meter run with a time of 10:07.08 seconds, which puts her at the seventh fastest mark in school his-tory. King finished second in the high jump with his jump of two meters.
Akers was impressed with many athletes from last weekend includ-ing Danny Trevor. Trevor has been banged up for the last two months with hamstring and foot injuries. Ak-ers said that he was not feeling any ill affects from those injured areas after he ran on Saturday.
Freshman Nyjah Lane finished fourth in both the 60-meter and 200-meter dashes. Sophomore Kris-ten Paris finished third in the 800-me-ter run. Juniors Dhiaa Dean and Amy Yeoman followed in fourth and fifth place.
Akers said Angelica Anyaogu, who ran the 60-meter dash, had a very good meet.
He also pointed out she had a good week and had a good series of jumps in the long jump.
The women had fourth place fin-ishes in the 4x400-meter relay while the men finished third. Junior Eric Gordon finished in fourth place with his pole vault of 4.70 meters.
Both teams are back in action this Saturday for the EIU John Craft In-vite at 9 a.m. in the Lantz Fieldhouse.
