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Eastern’s big win against Austin Peay wasn’t the only thing that got hype Saturday night. For the first time, Eastern opened the new Touchdown Terrace, which is the venue for beer sales for adults over 21 years old to en-joy an alcoholic beverage while watch-ing the game.

“The president from when I gradu-ated from Eastern in 1959 would have turned over in his grave if he knew,” said Eastern Alumni Frank Ray with a laugh while sitting in the stands watch-ing the game. “Oh well, [students] are going to get it somewhere anyway.”

Other alumni such as Mills Brock-man, 45, wouldn’t leave the terrace be-cause he was excited about the new change.

“It’s nice to watch the ball game, drink a beer and be an adult,” Brock-man said.

Fans must pass through security to go to the Touchdown Terrace. Kev-in Conforti’s job was to check IDs and hand out armbands. He said selling al-cohol during the game did not cause any issues.

“People are excited, but nothing out of the ordinary has happened tonight,”

Fans greeted by beer sales at football gameBy REBECCA WOOD

progress@eku.edu

Aramark workers provided Colonel fans with a choice of Budweiser, Bud Lite, or Michelob Ultra. Rhiann Miller, one of the bartenders, said the beer was a surprise to most of the fans, but once they learned about it, they all came rushing to the new Touchdown Terrace.

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Eastern students and athletes were in mourning this week after football player Joey Kraemer died in a single-ve-hicle wreck early Sunday morning.

“The news that we lost one of our own is devastating to me, our team and our coaches," Head Coach Dean Hood said in a statement. "We pray that God will give strength to Joey's family during their time of mourning. Joey will truly be missed by all of us he touched, not only because of what he accomplished on the football field,

but because of who he was as a person and the im-pact he made on our lives."

H o o d called an un-o r t h o d o x team meet-ing on Sun-day to noti-fy the players of Kraemer’s death, as many had heard something happened but weren’t sure what.

Hood said coaches and players fell in

love with Kraemer instantly. The coach struggled to hold back tears at a press conference on Monday.

“He was a team above self guy, and he was a tireless worker, and he loved the game of football,” Hood said.

President Michael Benson also made a statement concerning Kraemer’s death.

"Our Colonel family is hurting to-day," Benson said. "Together, we will share our EKU pride in Joey's memory and honor. Please join me in expressing our sympathies to the Kraemer family in this time of sorrow."

Colonel quarterback Bennie Coney said the tragedy has the team down.

“It’s kind of hard to focus on the

game when you just lost a life,” Coney said. “Football is important, but it's not important when it comes to some-body’s life.”

Coney said the team will try to stay focused on the upcoming game against UK Saturday, but Kraemer’s death makes that difficult.

“We’re going to try to come to work just like every day, but you’re still going to have that on the back of your mind,” Coney said. “We just lost a brother, man.”

As for Saturday, UK plans to honor Kraemer during the playing of My Old Kentucky Home before the game.

By DAN KLAPHEKEdaniel_klapheke@mymail.eku.edu

Team shares memories of football player killed in accident

Miranda Greer was known among her friends and family for her determination and genuine heart. The 22-year-old was full of life and fun, liv-ing each day as herself without looking for the ap-proval of others.

A Danville native, Greer was a senior occupa-tional therapy major who loved the outdoors and her canine best friend.

She was involved in a single-vehicle car crash Sunday, Sept. 20, after she veered to the right of the road and crashed into a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Boyle County Coroner Dan Hamner.

Hamner said drugs and alcohol were not factors in the accident.

Miranda was admired for her carefree attitude that was refreshing to many of her friends.

"She was the most herself of anyone I've ever met," said Katie Noelker, 20, a junior music perfor-mance major. "She didn't ever apologize for who she was."

Miranda's infectious laugh couldn't be duplicat-ed and is the most memorable thing about her, No-elker said. Miranda's way of being, just living in the moment and laughing out of joy, are aspects Noelk-er said she will apply to her lifestyle more.

"She had the courage and the strength to not look for approval in others and, I think that because of that she was loved by so many," Noelker added.

Noelker and Liz Marcineck, 19, a sophomore sports management major from Harrodsburg, at-tended Miranda's visitation and said there was a large turnout.

Marcineck said the visitation lasted longer than planned, but the different age groups that stood around the room represented the different people Miranda touched in her life, even if she only knew them for a short amount of time.

Noelker said two large canvases were filled with nicknames her friends and family used to refer to her such as Mern, Ran-Ran, Boo-Boo and Falcon.

"It was overwhelming to see the amount of peo-ple she touched," Noelker said. "Each nickname is

Danville native remembered for her independent spirit

By BRIANNA WHITEbrianna_white68@mymail.eku.edu

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Eastern's graduation and retention rates are look-ing up even though its U.S. News & World Report rating dropped this year.

U.S. News & World Reports' college rankings came out recently for the 2015 year and Eastern's ranking in the regional colleges list dropped 14 spots to No. 76 out of 93. Although this is disheartening, the rankings are actually based on statistics from a year ago, said Tanlee Wasson, assistant vice president for institutional effec-tiveness and research.

Wasson said the university submits information to the U.S. News & World Report every year, but the infor-mation is always a year behind and, therefore, not com-pletely accurate. Wasson said Eastern has actually im-proved in many ways, even from last year.

Eastern has a better faculty to student ratio than many nearby colleges at about 16 to one, Wasson said. Likewise, 52 percent of Eastern's classes have 20 or few-er students in them.

Eugene Palka, associate vice president of student suc-cess, said graduation and retention rates are projected

By KELLI STOKESprogress@eku.edu

Rankings drop, but graduation rates improve

› SEE RANKING, PAGE 4

BY CURTIS CONRAD & TANNER CHANEY

JOEY KRAEMER

› SEE GREER, PAGE 4

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Sept. 22 � A person reported their

personal property taken from the Crabbe Library.

Sept. 24 � A staff member report-

ed being hit in the head with a beer can that was thrown out of a window at 12:25 a.m., out-side of Dupree Hall.

� A person reported criminal damage to personal property and items missing from their vehicle in the Lancaster Lot.

Sept. 25 � A student reported their

laundry was stolen from a dry-er at 10:50 a.m., in Walters Hall.

� A 19-year-old from Rich-mond was cited for possession of an open alcoholic beverage container in a motor vehicle at 11:43 p.m., after he was pulled over for no headlights. There were two open beverages in the car but the driver seemed coherent and sober.

� A person reported theft of their personal belongings in the Powell Building.

Sept. 26 � A student reported $100

missing from their wallet at 12:39 a.m., after they had left it in the lobby of Clay Hall.

� A 26-year-old from Rich-mond was cited for operating a motor vehicle under the influ-ence, possession of marijuana, failure to produce an insurance card, having no operator’s li-cense, and having no tail lights at 1:36 a.m., at Wellington Court, South Second Street.

The person was transported to the Madison County Detention Center.

� A 19-year-old from Taylor Mill was cited for alcohol in-toxication at 5:31 p.m., in the Alumni Coliseum Lot, and was transported to the Madison County Detention Center.

Sept. 27 � A student reported their

bike was stolen at 8:01 p.m., outside of Keene Hall.

� A student reported their phone was stolen at 8:06 p.m., in the Fitness and Wellness Center.

Sept. 28 � The fire alarm in Dupree

Hall was set off at 9:06 p.m., after a small fire started in the lobby kitchenette. The fire was quickly extinguished and was caused by cookies that were baking in the oven.

Plaque ceremony recognizes late author

A plaque honoring the late author Charles Bracel-en Flood will be unveiled at 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 2, in the lower level of the Crabbe Li-brary.

The event is part of East-ern’s celebration of American Archives Month.

President Michael Benson will read from Flood’s final book First to Fly: The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Heroes Who Flew for France in World War I, published after his death.

First to Fly tells the story of a group of American vol-unteers who served as pilots on the Western Front be-fore the U.S. entered, accord-ing to the press release. The volunteers wore French uni-forms, flew French planes and showed the world an American brand of heroism.

Flood’s daughter will speak at the event in addition to former Dean of Libraries Lee Van Orsdel and Carrie Cooper with a special dedi-cation by the current Dean of Libraries Betina Gardner.

Books will be available for purchase at the event and parking for off-campus guests will be available in the Adam’s Lot (formerly the Alumni House Lot).

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“I’d like to send my condolences to Coach Hood and Eastern Kentucky,” UK Head Coach Mark Stoops said in a press conference Monday. “Hearing about that tragedy, it’s sad for all of us. Our hearts go out to him, his family and the entire program.”

Stoops said UK tight end Greg Hart was “very close” with Kraemer. The two played high school football togeth-er.

Kraemer went to Archbishop Al-ter High School in Kettering, Ohio,

and was named to the 2013 Associat-ed Press Southwest All-District second team and All-Area IV-V second team. He spent last year as a redshirt fresh-man at University of Texas El Paso be-fore transferring to Eastern, again red-shirting due to injury. He was majoring in sports management.

Coney said it's never easy losing a teammate, and it brings life into per-spective.

"Life is short. You got to cherish the moments," Coney said. "You nev-er know what could happen. That could’ve been me, that could’ve been one of my teammates. You just never know, man. It hurts."

attached to a story, a memory, a differ-ent side of her."

Along with her enthusiastic atti-tude, Miranda had a passion for fish-ing. She was close with Noelker's father and went with the family on fishing trips every few months.

Miranda was always ready to go bright and early wearing her Colom-bia monogrammed fishing shirt, excit-ed for what the day's trip would bring.

"She would show up at our door, four o'clock in the morning, with coffee for everyone and a smile," Noelker said.

Marcineck best remembers her last night with Miranda just before the ac-

cident occurred. She said her smile was genuine and her laugh was one she'll never forget. Even just talking about school that night, Marcineck said she knew she could always have fun with Miranda.

But what Miranda loved most of all was her roommate and fellow compan-ion, Petra, the German Shepherd. Mi-randa even had a picture painted of Pe-tra hung up in her apartment, Noelker said.

"That dog was like her child," Mar-cineck said.

Noelker said Miranda adored Petra and took care great of her, even leaving her friends to go home to Petra.

Attempts to reach other family and friends were unsuccessful by print deadline.

to be higher this year than in years past. These rates are not officially determined until Oct. 15 every year, but Palka said he is expecting good things.

The four year graduation rate is expect-ed to be about 29.1 percent for students who came in as freshmen in fall 2011. The goal for the graduation rate for this year is 23 percent. The five year graduation rate is expected to be about 40.8 percent for stu-

dents who came in as freshmen in fall 2010. The goal was 37 percent. Palka said if these rates are consistent with the projections on Oct. 15, they will be higher than ever.

The university has been working on ini-tiatives to improve graduation rates such as encouraging students to take 15 credit hours per semester so they can graduate on time. Another initiative is the addition of a four week progress report. Before, students may have only been able to check on their progress in each class by midterm. Palka said midterm could be too late to make im-provements on the grade so the week four progress report was added. These are only a few of the areas the university has been

working on."What we're doing is taking a multi-fact-

ed approach," Palka said.Wasson said there are improvements

that can still be made. For instance, one thing the U.S. News & World Report bas-es its rankings on is alumni involvement. Eastern's alumni contribute less to the uni-versity compared to other universities in the region. The giving rate is about 5.3 per-cent.

However, Wasson said the universi-ty does not make improvements based on these external rankings but based on its own research.

"As an institution, we always want to

improve," Wasson said.Wasson also said she is not aware of any

way this ranking affects Eastern adversely money-wise. Grants to Eastern are usual-ly funded federally and the federal govern-ment has their own scoring criteria for in-stitutions.

Palka said even though they are not par-ticularly focused on improving the U.S. News & World Report ranking in particu-lar, he knows it will be better next year.

"I am looking forward to next year's survey because it will reflect much of the progress we've made," said Palka.

said Conforti. “There was only one in-cident earlier when someone had too much to drink and was harassing peo-ple, but security was called and the person was escorted off the premises. Nothing the security patrols can’t han-dle.”

The Aramark bartenders will only sell one Budweiser, Budlight or Mich-elob Ultra per person at a time. Rhiann Miller, one of the five bartenders, said the beer sales were a surprise to most of the fans.

“At first, it was like people didn’t know we were serving alcohol,” Miller said. “And then when they realized it, they pretty much flocked to the bar.”

Many of the older students enjoyed the terrace and Hannah Driver, 23, a park and recreation major from Chris-tian County, noticed a big difference in how many people were actually watch-ing the game and not tailgating in the parking lot.

“Today there seemed to be a lot more people in here,” Driver said. “And there didn’t seem to be as many people out at the tailgate as there have been in past years. It’s a good thing.”

Touchdown Terrace, located on the north end zone, will hold beer sales, starting at 5 p.m. and until the end of the third quarter during homes games on Oct. 24 and Nov. 7. The terrace is only for adults over 21 years of age and fans are not able to leave the area with their purchases.

TERRACE FROM PAGE 1

KRAEMER FROM PAGE 1

GREERFROM PAGE 1

RANKINGFROM PAGE 1

Changes are coming to the Powell Building and the Student Government Association is seeking student input on how best to make those changes.

The next student government forum will be hosted from 5 to 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 5, in Powell Underground. President Michael Benson will address campus changes and respond to students’ com-ments, questions and concerns.

The changes will have both short and long term effects on students, said Gin-ny-Beth Joiner, director of Student Life.

In the short term, students can ex-pect limited meeting space as the rooms in Middle Powell start to close, such as the dedicated meeting rooms and Ken-namer.

When renovations begin a semes-ter or two from now, the department of Student Life will work with students to find places for their groups to meet. All departments in the Powell Building, in-cluding Student Life and SGA, will have to relocate but will remain accessible to students, Joiner said.

SGA President Katie Scott said the fi-nal product after the construction of the new Powell Student Union will no longer house the Fresh Food Company.

“This building was not meant to have a cafeteria on the top floor,” Scott said.

The university is currently looking for spaces to house the new dining facility. The space of McGregor Hall was consid-ered for a while, Billy Martin, executive director of student services and auxiliary

services, said. But it has since been tak-en off the table since they need the res-idence hall space for students, Martin said.

Eastern needs a place where 750 to 2,000 students can congregate in one place, for anything from club meetings, to relaxing, Joiner added.

“What we’re doing now is putting to-gether a list of wants and needs,” Joiner said. “The needs are the must haves and the wants are just things we would like to see here in Powell and that list will be part of the request for proposal.”

Some ideas that have been thought of for that list of possible wants and needs are:

n Activity zones n Atrium n Commuter Lounge n Auditorium n Extension of library study space n Faculty and student interaction

lounge n Ballroom n Miniature golf course n Pub

Scott said a focus group overseeing the Powell renovations was able to nar-row this list down to three priorities they will focus on. More meeting space for student groups, open space for people to hang out, and a cafe or eatery within the union for students and faculty to meet outside of the classroom.

Scott said renovations will begin no sooner than next fall.

Making these changes will not be cheap, Joiner said. The project is estimat-ed to cost between $20 and $25 million.

Powell renovations, along with a new

recreation center, will be funded by the $150 special usage fee that was approved last year and is now being collected from all 16,959 students currently enrolled at Eastern.

“The fee will be used to fund Powell renovations and to construct a new rec-reation center,” said Laurie Carter, exec-utive vice president for student success and university council. “It will only be used for those purposes as those projects develop.”

The focus group consists of nine stu-dents from across campus has been formed by Joiner. The group will play a role in deciding future renovations of the Powell Building.

The group consists of a Powell room coordinator, a Greek Life student leader, three SGA members, a graduate student, a non-traditional student, a member of a registered student organization and a student representative from the recre-ation center.

“We want students to determine how the student union will look,” Scott said. “So, that’s why it’s specifically students that are in Powell.”

Joiner said her hope is for the focus group to become a long lasting commit-tee that will continue to meet through the planning and implementation pro-cess. She said they will host open forums leading up to an actual plan being put in place.

“This is step one of like, 90 steps,” Joiner said.

The recreation project will also be im-pacted by student voices.

Brent Parmer, director of Campus Recreation, said the second committee

for the recreation project has not been named yet because they are waiting for the state to issue the bonds.

The first committee for the recreation center was put in place last spring. Mem-bers of this committee included faculty and students. They formed a list of things they wanted in the new recreation space based on a needs assessment.

The list from the first committee played a role in how the request for pro-posal was written. Parmer said the re-quest was written to be specific to the needs of the recreation center, with one of those needs being to increase size to 150,000 square feet.

“We are significantly undersized,” Parmer said. “Compared to what the in-dustry said we’re supposed to be.”

Parmer said they will not be able to do much until the request for proposal is approved by legislators and that won’t be until they return for session in January.

“Things are going to start rolling on July first,” Parmer said.

Parmer said students who use the center will play a major role in deciding what equipment goes into the new space such as treadmills and bikes.

Scott said the Powell renovations and the new recreation center would allow more settings for students to interact and learn beyond the classroom.

“It’s really about just creating that space for interaction,” Scott said.

Students and faculty can keep up to date on the future of the Powell Building and all campus revitalization projects at ekubuilds.eku.edu or @EKUBuilds on Twitter.

By TOSHA BAKER & CRAIG HICKSprogress@eku.edu

Upcoming SGA forum to discuss campus improvements

KaLeigh Underwood, Editor The Eastern Progress | www.easternprogress.com Thursday, October 1, 2015

I love sports. I love playing sports, watching sports, and hating sports (I'm looking at you, NASCAR). Sports were, and still are, a means of escape for me. I played soccer because I loved it. When I was playing, I forgot about whatever drama my friends had and ignored the essays due the next day. I was in my own world.

Similarly, I watch sports today to escape from my su-per boring college life. I went to the Final Four with a 15-page rough draft I hadn't thought about starting due the next week. I didn't care. I was at the Final Four for God's sake.

Unless you are a professional athlete paid to dedicate your life to a sport, or a member of media dedicating your time to talking and writing about a sport (hopeful-ly my future job), sports are just your escape.

Sports have always seemed separate from our day-to-day lives. While at work or school, people are expect-ed to act mature, be polite, and dress appropriately. At sporting events, fans are expected to act immature, be

passionate, and dress head-to-toe in their team's gear.Fans want to keep their sports life separate from

their real life. They want to be "Joe" throughout the week and then "Kentucky Joe" when big Saturday games come around. With that separation, though, comes a blurred line between athlete and human.

Athletes are normal humans with extraordinary strengths and talents, yet fans like to view athletes as fanciful figures that appear on TV screens.

No one wants to hear that Kobe Bryant allegedly sex-ually assaulted and admittedly had a sexual encounter with, a 19-year-old while married with child. Ravens fans continuously ignore Ray Lewis' troubling life off of the field. Boxing fans disregarded Floyd Mayweather's domestic abuse charges and jail sentence while cheer-ing him on to history. But why?

Often times, fans argue they "hate the crime, but love the player," as if that is some sort of rational excuse for their support of athletes who have done more harm than foul. But it isn't. Athletes deserve the foul.

Whether sports fans like to admit it or not, these su-perstar athletes are more than just guys and girls we cheer for every weekend. They are figures that impres-sionable fans look up to. And what are these kids learn-ing from their idols? That it's a-OK to beat up women when you're rich and talented, because, well, no one re-ally cares.

But don't you dare do it if you're just a regular guy.

Then you might actually be hated. If your neighbor was convicted of two counts of misdemeanor battery against two women, would you still like him? No way! That guy deserves to go to prison! Take away his paren-tal rights!

So why is it okay to cheer for Mayweather, who was, by the way, convicted for exactly that? Is it because he's a superstar athlete who made a little mistake?

This man is constantly in the public eye. Kids look up to him for his perfect record and millions of dollars. Teenagers walk around with hats that say "TMT." Is this a person you want your little sister or brother looking up to? A man who beat his girlfriend in front of their children?

Nonetheless, fans cheered him on during his fight against Manny Pacquiao. They walked around scream-ing "Money Teaaam," but when asked if they approve of his lifestyle, they always put their heads down and say domestic violence is never right. If that isn't a double standard, I don't know what is.

Sports fans need to find what they believe to be both legally and morally good for both "regular people" and public figures. And stick to it. No more "but he won championships!" or "he's the best of the best though!" Athletes are people—not demigods—and should be treated as such.

Recently, the Senate voted to defund Planned Parent-hood. This would entail that no federal money would go to the non-profit organization, which was in response to the accusations that Planned Parenthood had mis-used fetal tissue in abortions performed in a St. Louis clinic.

The Missouri Attorney General found no evidence in this claim, however. The clinic followed procedure in accordance with Missouri law and there is no indica-tion the facility had mishandled or sold fetal tissue.

Even with this information on hand, Congress has not yet decided if the defunding will go into effect or not. If a decision is not made soon, this will cause a shutdown in which non-essential government employ-ee's will have to be furloughed.

President Obama has vowed to veto any statutes al-lowing Planned Parenthood to be defunded and con-

gressional leaders do not have enough votes to super-sede this. Republicans will not be able to continue with their current plan.

Many believe Planned Parenthood's federal funding is a pro-life or pro-choice issue, this is not the case.

The organization is the largest provider of repro-ductive health services for women in the United States. Their focus is on screenings for diseases such as cancers and HIV and they also offer contraception. The most controversial service they offer is for abortion.

Abortions performed by Planned Parenthood are not funded by the government. All federal funds that are given to Planned Parenthood are allotted to other ser-vices.

If government funding is taken away from the orga-nization, many women will be without access to vital healthcare. The question of whether women could sim-ply go somewhere else has been raised. For some low-in-come women, Planned Parenthood is the only way they can get screened for diseases or obtain birth control.

Again, this is not a matter of pro-life or pro-choice, but a matter of pro-woman. These are essential parts of some women's lives and should not be considered a lux-ury. Medicine should not be reserved for men and the upper-class.

The United States does not need an increase in pop-

ulation. It does not need another baby boom. What the country needs is to recognize the importance of wom-en's health and put an emphasis on health in education so the children of our country understand that bill con-trol has more use than just a contraceptive.

Nelson Mandela once stated "no country can real-ly develop unless its citizens are educated." We need to take note of this as a nationwhen it comes to women's health.

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Historically, October has been the biggest month in Hollywood horror. At least since the 1978 release of Halloween, this has been the case. However, the last few year's horror features have been largely barren of much quality. But why?

According to IMDB, six theatrical horror movies get released next month. They consist of two spoofs, a Paranormal Activity sequel, a Keanu Reeves vehicle, a spineless family film, and Guillermo Del Toro's Crim-son Peak. Barring the last, the chances of any of these becoming a classic are very low.

Early reviews are mixed across the board, but audi-ences will ultimately decide whether they're worth see-ing. In this horror fan's eyes, next month's terrors don't look very promising. In fact, they suggest something unsettling about modern Hollywood's relationship with

horror.What nearly all these films show is a reliance on for-

mula. They are spoofs, sequels, family flicks. Now, most horror fans, including myself, don't mind formulaic movies if they have some originality, but most of these films don't seem to be bringing anything new to the ta-ble. This is modern Hollywood's brand of horror.

Hollywood, firstly, loves spoofs, especially of horror films. There looks to be an abundance of mediocre co-medic talent in Tinseltown, but a lack of good horror artists. However, studio executives know scares sell. This is why we see so many bad zombie comedies. Make the easiest jokes about the easiest monsters and you make easy money--that's it. Sometimes they'll do it for a different sub-genre: slashers, vampires, etc. The song remains the same.

Even more, Hollywood adores sequels. As much as fans love Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street, they paved the way for many unworthy franchises. Saw was on top for a while, now it's Para-normal Activity and Insidious. Though Insidious orig-inally had interesting ideas, Paranormal Activity was tired from the beginning. Both are diluted with every sequel. And yet, because they liked the first one, main-

stream audiences will keep feeding the monster. Studio executives know this, and they'll continue the pattern until we stop paying.

Then, of course, there's family horror, and this cuts to the very core of the problem: horror today is wa-tered down. It's formulaic, it's cheap, it's friendly. That's why most mainstream horror films are rated PG-13. If I asked my audience to name one modern, mainstream horror film that wasn't politically correct and actually kept them up a few nights, they'd have very few choices from the past 10 or 15 years. If I asked the same ques-tion in the 1970s, I would get pages full.

Bottom line: horror isn't bad today because it's just a different era, or that no one can do horror anymore. Big Hollywood is just afraid of real horror. It Follows was fantastic; it was released this spring. No studio want-ed it, so it stayed on the shelf for a year. It was political-ly incorrect--it was scary--it created an original world.

It made money.But big Hollywood doesn't want that kind. It's too

much of a gamble. People might not like that kind of movie, it might offend them, it might scare them too much. And so Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimen-sion comes next month.

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Which 2016 presidential hopeful do you think is the best?

“I’m gonna go with Bush. I watched the first debate and I just like Bush. I think he get’s a bad rep because of his brother.”

Destry AldridgeHometown: ShelbyvilleMajor: NursingYear: Freshman

“I’ve been really interested in Bernie. I’ve seen some of his stuff on Youtube and it’s very interesting. If I had to vote right now, I’d vote Bernie.”

Alex HanavanHometown: Cincinnati Major: MBAYear: Graduate Student

“I think Rand Paul because he believes in limited government and not letting the government infringe on people’s rights. A lot of his beliefs and policies are in line with the country’s founders, and I think that’s important."

Hayden WilsonHometown: LondonMajor: BiologyYear: Freshman

“Not Donald Trump. Bernie Sand-ers. Bernie is the best. Bernie makes the world go ‘round.” Danayja SummerallHometown: LouisvilleMajor: English TeachingYear: Sophomore

"I feel like Carson because I align with his morals a lot.”

Ashley SteenbergenHometown: GlasgowMajor: PsychologyYear: Junior

“Based on what I know now, I think I like Marco Rubio. He’s younger and has newer ideas and sometimes it’s better to have a younger representa-tive in office.”

April Militch Hometown: Jackson, MIMajor: Forensic ChemistryYear: Freshman

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So-called comedian Nicole Arbour has been receiv-ing backlash over her video, Dear Fat People uploaded on Sept. 3. The video shook up the Internet and even started campaigns to bring down the YouTuber. These campaigns, led by the people she mocked in her video, are the kind I can get behind. There are tons of response videos now on YouTube, and news outlets across the na-tion have picked up the story. While I'm not the first person to call Arbour a flaming idiot, I'm definitely not the last.

Her six-minute video is a personal attack on those who struggle with weight and, more importantly, body image and self worth. When I watched the video all I saw was another skinny bitch trying to make fun of the fat kid.

In the video (which you should watch for yourself to really understand how much of an idiot she is) she com-pares these 'fat people' to Frankenstein, saying she can outrun them by walking at a reasonable pace. She says fat shaming is something overweight people made up; calls us out on our suicide mission to eat ourselves to death because we had to have a coke plus fries; and says ‘plus size’ stands for plus heart disease, plus knee prob-lems, plus diabetes. She even shares a personal experi-ence of an airport debacle where a 'TLC-special kind of fat family' got to move to the front of the line because they had knee problems and couldn't stand in line. Ar-bor reported they smelled like sausages (not because

they had eaten any, but because that’s just 'their aro-ma'), and how they were so fat they were sweating from just standing there. She said that Crisco was practically coming out of their pores like a Play-Doh Fun Factory.

I'll admit, in the midst of all the crap she's spouting, Arbour has some valid points. I agree we only have one body, and we should try to take care of it. I'll even go as far to agree with her that I personally take my body for granted. That being said, her “valid” points are buried so deep within so much idiocy that it makes them im-possible to hear.

I have always been someone who has conflicted with my size. Growing up I was the fat friend. It wasn't that my parents only fed me Happy Meals and let me sit in front of a television either. My mom cooked for us just like any other great mother and I played soccer multi-ple days a week in addition to the many hours of outside play time with my older brother. Whether it be a com-bination of genetics, or the fact that I just like food, I've always had a terrible relationship with my body. Watch-ing the video, all I can think about is how it would be easy to feel the way Arbour feels if you never experi-enced that struggle. I guarantee she has never felt inferi-or because she wasn't pretty or skinny enough.

In one part of the video, Arbour says if she or oth-er people who fat-shame offended us [overweight peo-ple], so much that we lose weight, she's okay with that. It's that same kind of mentality that landed me in a state of depression my sophomore year of high school. I went through a rough time and lost a lot of weight. It was be-cause of people in our society like Arbour, who put me there. But according to her, that's fine. She just gave me the “extra push” I needed.

You know, in the end, I am someone who can ac-knowledge that I'm overweight. I completely recognize I need to do more to work on myself so my body can, as Arbour says, “last me till the end.” I can also admit I

go through phases when I eat better and exercise more, and other times I don't go to the gym and indulge too often. Bottom line: I know I'm overweight, and I know I don't meet society's beauty standards. I don't need an-other reminder of that from people like Arbour and nei-ther do all the other people just like me.

She ends the video by saying that truthfully, she will love you no matter what, but she really hopes her video is a bomb of truth, exploding in your face and will act as shrapnel that seeps into your soul. Making you want to be healthier, so she can enjoy you as a human longer. Here's some shrapnel to seep into your soul, Arbour: you might just be the most hated woman in America right now. At least within the population of fat people you “love” so much.

Seriously, just go watch the video. You'll understand my rage. She's the exact type of person who makes girls think they have to be thin and in turn, they end up with an eating disorder. I believe in body positivity, and we should love ourselves regardless of societal norms. Now, if only we could make Nicole Arbour believe the same.

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It must feel good to be Drake. After a peaceful 2014, Drizzy quietly released his album, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, on iTunes. Then he released his album, destroyed rival and past collaborator Meek Mill in back to back diss tracks and allegedly earned $19 million to guest DJ on iTunes Radio.

Similarly, American rapper Future is at the height of his ca-reer. Future, a Dirty South rap-per and friend of Drake, was thrust under the spotlight after surprising fans and critics with his first album, Dirty Sprite 2 in July.

While neither rappers share similar flow or lyrics, there is no denying the two are the hot-test in the game right now. And just like music moguls Jay-Z and Kanye West, Drake and Fu-ture set out to profit on their already concrete success with the release of the now number one album on the Billboard 200 Chart, What a Time to Be Alive.

The joint mix-tape, sneak-ily introduced on the rappers’ social media and released only through iTunes and Apple Mu-sic, is a quick and sometimes choppy product of a six-day stu-

dio session between the two camps.

Though it may be released as a collaboration between the two artists, the sound, along with al-bum artwork, screams Future. Tracks such as Digital Dash and Live from the Gutter Feature Fu-ture’s, pardon my pun, futuris-tic sound and signature lyrics reflecting his troubling lifestyle.

Meanwhile, Drake lends some of his best “drake-isms”

to the album. Lyrics, considered feminine and powerless by oth-er rappers flood tracks such as Plastic Bag, a song honoring a stripper’s hard work.

For the die-hard Universi-ty of Kentucky fans, Drake con-tinues his loving relationship with the school and Coach Cali-pari, rapping, “I rock Kentucky blue on these hoes,” in the track Scholarships.

While tracks such as Jump-

man, an ode to Michael Jordan, feel rushed and last-minute but cleverly worded lyrics such as “Jumpman, Jumpman, Jump-man, these boys up to some-thing,” keep listeners’ attention.

Diamonds Dancing, consid-erably the most cohesive song on the mix-tape, does a good job of mixing the lyrical and musi-cal stylings of both Drake and Future to create a double helix of humility and swagger.

The tracks sound raw and unfinished, but that is exact-ly what makes the mix-tape so pure and contemporary. Lis-teners can feel the cohesive-ness of the pair, yet distinguish between the two very different, yet popular, lyrical and musi-cal styles. A mixture that would only work at this very moment in rap music.

The collaboration may not seem as fitting as others be-tween known collaborators such as Jay-Z and Kanye West, but it works. This collaboration highlights the many strengths of both rappers while appearing effortless and natural.

Although, it is obvious What a Time is not as outstanding as either rapper’s original work. The album still proves to be ex-actly what the fans and rap-pers wanted; unrefined, current, tracks that offer as a bonus to their preceding number one al-bums.

No complaints have been made by the #FutureHive and #Aubsessed.

Everest, which opened Friday, Sept. 18, is a biopic which tells the story of Rob Hall and his company, Ad-venture Consultants. Hall’s tragic assent to Mount Ev-erest’s summit on May 10, 1996, with co-workers and clients was a harrowing experience. The adventurers made it to the summit but a storm hit as they descended back to the fourth forward camp, trapping many climb-ers on the mountain.

The cast of Everest is an ensemble of talent and one of the movie’s saving graces. Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington are the more well known actors in the movie and they all do very good jobs adding life to wooden characters. The true standout though, is Jason Clarke portraying Hall.

Hall is a passionate man determined to ensure each of his clients fulfill their dreams of reaching Everest’s summit. It feels like Hall isn’t just concerned with mak-ing money off his clients. He genuinely cares about them as people and wants to see them succeed. This compas-sion is his strength for most of the movie but near the fi-nale it becomes a weakness that leads to tragedy. Mount Everest does not forgive weakness.

Mount Everest is almost a character itself in the mov-ie. The director and writers took great care in showing not only Everest’s beauty, but also its cruel indifference to the climbers challenging it. The visuals are stunning; deep bottomless crags and towering snow capped cliffs are well created and the visual effects fit seamlessly with actual footage filmed in Italy. The beauty contrasts the danger perfectly.

Early on in the movie Hall explains to his clients that Mount Everest is one of the most dangerous places on the planet. The human body is not built to survive at those elevations. Lack of preparation, illness, and injury

can kill anyone not strong enough to face the challenge.Throughout the movie, members of Adventure Con-

sultants see the bodies of dead climbers along the path. As well as sick and injured climbers being carried down the mountain away from danger. These touches, though small, personify Mount Everest.

If only the writing had been better. Everest was un-done by horrible characterization. The only fully fleshed out character was Hall; he had a complete character arc. Everyone else was just checked off the cliché character checklist; browbeating jerk rich guy (check), concerned pregnant wife waiting at home for husband to return (check), dopey Zen hippie (check), and so on.

Everest has a two hour running time, but it would have been a much better movie with an additional 30 minutes used to flesh out these characters. This amaz-ing cast was wasted on such weak characters. This might seem like a minor complaint, but great charac-ters are the most important element to telling a great story.

As a whole, Everest is worth seeing. Probably not worth a full price viewing but it’s worth an early bird or matinée.

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From the small clubs of Austin, Texas, all the way to playing at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, Gary Clark Jr. has established himself as one of the best guitar players of his generation. With his new album The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, Clark redefines his sound while staying true to his roots.

The album digs much deeper lyrically into life than his first record with Warner Brothers, Blak and Blu. Clark echoes the pains of trying to make it in music in a blue collar family while battling for money and love.

The album opens with The Healing, which begins as a southern-esque blues acapella tune, which then rips into a blues, rock ‘n’ roll riff that quickly sets the tone for the opening half of the album. The song is the first single off his album and reveals what could become one of his most popular lyrics ever:

“When this world upsets me, this music sets me free.”

Yes, the tone is set, but every song on the album takes a unique life of its own as Clark continues to draw from different influences. Grinder is another blues, rock tune that ends with him ripping a solo with no instruments accompanying it, though it’s quickly contrasted by the

trippy blues, funk song Star.Fans are then given a treat as Clark slows it down

for the relaxing soul tune Our Love, featuring beautiful backing vocals that add perfect texture to Clark’s riffs and vocals. The song is followed by an acoustic number titled Church, a reflective piece that looks back on life

with some regret, though he looks for spiritual strength as he tries to get to the next chapter of his life. The song gives way to Hold On, where he talks about hitting struggles in life but assuring himself and those around him, “We’re gonna make it.”

Funk makes a comeback with the track Cold Blood-ed. Shifting course, Wings carries a heavy hip hop in-spired drum beat with haunting backing vocals and simple notes that ring out in the background. Funk then continues with the upbeat, feel good song BYOB.

Clark takes it to a different level with the amazing tune Can’t Sleep. The song features a funky guitar riff, which you may forget about if you get lost in the funk-adelic bass line. It’s real funk, not to be confused with Bruno Mars’ attempted Uptown Funk.

Stay and Shake are two of the best songs you’ll find on the album, which set you up for the album’s final song, Down To Ride, a slow 80s and hip hop inspired number. The song’s outro eventually fades out and leaves listen-ers longing for more, but 13 tracks is all you get.

There isn’t an album in recent memory that com-bines elements of blues, funk, mo-town, hip hop, coun-try, and rock and executes it perfectly. Actually, there may not be an artist that’s ever attempted this, but leave it to Gary Clark Jr. to set the bar high. No review of the album can do justice as to just how pure, funky, and laid back it is. The album is currently available in stores, on iTunes, and online at www.garyclarkjr.com.

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Tuesday, one of my favorite cheese-fests celebrated 20 years of being spit on by fans and critics alike, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, or Halloween 6 for short.

The plot of The Curse of Michael My-ers is pretty convoluted but I’ll do my best. The story finds the previous two films’ protagonist Jamie Lloyd abducted by a cult of Druids who worship the sign under which Michael Myers was born. For five years she has been kept prison-er and raped repeatedly by her uncle Mi-chael. Fi-nally, she has a baby on whom the Dru-ids want to put the curse of T h o r n . The same curse that i n f e c t e d M i c h a e l as a young boy. Jamie must es-cape the Thorn cult just as her cousin Kara and her son become entan-gled in the plot against their family.

Feeling a little confused? I should also add that a childhood victim of Michael, Tommy Doyle, also gets involved and uses spells of his own to counteract the killer. Still confused? Me too. It’s a rather confusing plot, but what can one expect when writer Dan Farrands was given the task of tying all the loose ends of Hallow-een 5? What it lacks in a cohesive story line, Halloween 6 makes up in many oth-er areas.

The acting is very good for a film close to going direct-to-video. Maryanne Ha-gan plays Kara Strode perfectly and is probably one of the Halloween fran-chise’s better actors, comparable to Ja-

mie Lee Curtis from the original. Paul Rudd delivers hammy dialogue as

Tommy Doyle as best as could be expect-ed. He also has an air of mystery very ad-vantageous to his character.

Donald Pleasance gives a stellar fi-nal performance as beaten-down Doctor Sam Loomis. His contributions to this classic horror series will never be forgot-ten.

Though some fans bash director Joe Chapelle’s “MTV style” directing and ed-iting, it actually works quite well. Cou-pled with the post-grunge, guitar-based score and the soundtrack by rock band Brother Cane, this style makes the film absolutely evocative of the 1990s. One al-most expects Michael to be wearing flan-nel beneath his jump suit or drinking a Surge soda to cool down.

The film’s main issues stem from inter-ference by Mi-ramax/Dimen-sion co-owner Bob Weinstein. There is a cut of the movie titled the Producers’ Cut, in which much of the scenes Wein-stein cut are edited back in, many of them involving Pleas-ance. This cut also includes the original score

by Alan Howarth, which beats the

theatrical score by a long shot. However, there are still many evidences of rewrites on Farrands’s original script, which is far better than either of the finished prod-ucts.

Despite the many flaws of the film, it’s worth a movie fan’s time. It boasts a stellar soundtrack and fantastically gory effects by makeup artist John Carl Beuchler. I recommend the Halloween Complete Collection Blu-ray set from Scream! Factory and Anchor Bay. It in-cludes a great transfer of the long-lost Producers’ Cut along with many special features.

Definitely give Halloween 6 a shot. It’s a curse that will haunt you until your fi-nal days.

If you speak to anyone that is a fan of the Kingdom Hearts series, they will tell you they’re excited for one thing and one thing only: The release of Kingdom Hearts III for Playstation 4 in 2016. How-ever, with the recent Disney and Square Enix announcement from the Tokyo Game Show 2015 of Kingdom Hearts 2.8: Final Chapter Prologue, fan’s excite-ment may be put on hold until late 2017. The game includes a remastered HD edi-

tion of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, a movie explaining the events of the mobile game titled Kingdom Hearts X (Chi) Back Cover, and the long awaited Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Volume 0.2 A Fragmentary Passage.

The creator of the series, Tetsuya Nomura, has promised fans the next entry in the series would be Kingdom Hearts III. Now it looks like he may have tricked his fans although some are used to it by now.

Originally, the game was supposed to be revealed at this year’s E3 and D23 Expo as Kingdom Hearts 2.9 but was se-cretly removed before their showcases. A week before the Tokyo Game Show, a Japanese developer who had been work-

ing on the series revealed he was also working on a side project from Kingdom Hearts III. In the end, it turned out to be Kingdom Hearts 2.8. Most were not sur-prised that a new installment had been announced although the creator denied the information. In fact, fans are used to not receiving spin-offs and remakes on portable systems. The third official se-quel has now become the 13th install-ment of the series.

Birth by Sleep Volume 0.2 will give players a taste of what Kingdom Hearts III is like as it was originally supposed to be included in the third game. This vol-ume includes updated graphics along with new battle features in the game. Should players be excited for this install-

ment? Of course! With this new install-ment, there will be a whole new experi-ence with the franchise to enjoy.

The developers of the company are doing things differently so players will get a feel of the new Kingdom Hearts. The game will be running on the new Unre-al Engine 4.

Although fans may disagree with the existence of Kingdom Hearts 2.8, most will agree the Kingdom Hearts series is growing to be an unreal experience and will continue to meet fan’s expectations. But until then, the fans must wait at the edge of their seats for more news and the release of the game.

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The Eastern men’s tennis team won 10 of 13 doubles matches in its second tour-nament of the individual season at the Purdue Fall Invitational in West Lafay-ette, Ind. Sept. 25-27.

“I think we can improve in singles, but I am very happy with how the doubles turned out,” said Head Coach Rob Oer-tel.

The Colonels finished under .500 in overall singles play with an 11-16 re-cord. Sebastian Mueller, Alberto Tintoré and Colin Hart led the team in singles matches, finishing 2-1.

Oertel said the Purdue Fall Invita-tional proved to be one of the team’s best doubles performances ever.

The team went 10-3 in three compet-itive doubles flights as Diogo Soares and newcomer Indra Patwardhan led the Colonels with a perfect 4-0 record, win-ning flight C of the doubles division 8-6.

The pairs Alex Álvaro and Ramon van Flymen and Florian Graskamp and Tin-toré finished with 2-1 records, falling short in the semifinals to Lewis Universi-ty (9-7) and Southern Illinois University (8-5), respectively.

“I am pleasantly surprised by Pat-wardhan’s performance in doubles,” Oertel said. “It’s hard to tell how a new player will fit in, but he did extremely well.”

Oertel said despite the doubles re-cords improving since past tournaments, the fall is an individual season for tennis and no team lineups or pairings are writ-ten in stone at the moment.

In preparation for both the region-al championships in mid-October and team season in February, the team will continue to mix different players and personalities together for doubles play.

The Colonels will resume invitational play alongside the Eastern women’s ten-nis team on Saturday, Oct. 2 in Chatta-nooga, Tenn. at the Chattanooga Fall In-vitationals.

The Colonels traveled to Springfield, Ohio, Friday, Sept. 25, to play the Witten-berg University Tigers (0-3). The Colonels (2-1) came out strong and snatched a 6-0 win.

Corey Jenks, Tim Muhsman, Bryce Cotton, Ryan Gustafson and Eric Jones all put points on the board for the Colonels. Muhsman, Cotton and Gustafson were each able to score their first career college goals. Starting in the net for Eastern was Kris Renfrow. Renfrow split time at goalie with Sammy Jones, and both helped secure the team’s first shutout of the season.

Assistant Captain Brain O’Loughlin was pleased with what the team had done.

“We were able to get the huge lead early and then have the younger guys get plenty

of playing time,” O’Loughlin said.O’Loughlin said the team needs to work

on keeping their heads on straight if it wants to continue the winning streak.

“We can’t get cocky when we get a huge lead like we did,” O’Loughlin said. “Yeah, we let up some on Wittenberg because we have been blown out plenty of times, but we just have to stay focused for a whole 60 minutes.”

He said there is plenty of time to fix those issues as the season goes on. Anoth-er key factor the team is still working on is staying out of the penalty box.

The Colonels are scheduled to play In-diana University-Purdue University Indi-anapolis (IUPUI) at midnight on Friday, Oct. 2 and at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3. is a first-year program that will be looking to prove itself in front of the Colonels home crowd.

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The Colonels continued to struggle as Eastern dropped a match at home last Thursday night to the Murray State Golden Eagles (5-3, 1-0 OVC) 2-1.

The Colonels (0-9, 0-1 OVC) struck early, scoring in the third minute on a goal from senior mid-fielder Am-ani Thomas. The Colonels held the lead the rest of the first half, keeping the ball on Murray State’s side of the field for a majority of the half.

Ten minutes out of the half, sophomore forward Har-riet Withers scored for the Eagles on a rebound from her own goal to tie the game. The teams battled through most of the second half, maintaining the tie, until fresh-man forward Caroline Ashton took the ball down the field and scored for Murray to put the Eagles up with 2-1 with just nine minutes to go. Murray held that lead for the rest of the game.

Thomas was asked after the game what happened in the second half.

“They changed their formation, but we held our own,” Thomas said. “It could have gone either way, but nothing changed with our team other than their forma-tion. We stayed aggressive the whole game.”

Eastern Head coach Andrew Fleming was asked the same question.

“They went to three forwards, which we talked about at half and we were not surprised about it,” Fleming said. “The biggest thing was we saw a couple match-ups that we liked and we did not exploit them as well or as often as we could have. Part of it was a couple mis-takes from an execution standpoint and part of it was through them [Murray State] doing a decent job, but we just did not exploit our match-ups well enough.”

However, the Colonels faced Austin Peay (4-5, 0-1 OVC) Sunday and rebounded with a 1-0 victory, its first of the season.

The game was tight throughout and Austin Peay put pressure on the Colonels the whole first half. The Colo-nels’ (1-9, 1-1 OVC) stout defense had to defend against eight shots during the first half. Eastern only had three shots during the half.

The second half was a different story, as the Colo-nels put seven shots on the Governors’ defense. At the 57 minute mark, Colonel red-shirt freshman mid-field-er Haley Kemper put in a goal from 20 yards out to take a 1-0 lead.

The defense continued to play well with some big saves from Colonel sophomore goalie Anna Hall and Eastern was able to hold the lead the rest of the game.

Fleming was asked about his team’s first win and gave credit to the players.

“The biggest thing I’ll look at from this game is things don’t always go our way,” Fleming said. “We defended a whole lot in this game, but we have talked a lot this year about solving problems and taking what the game gives you and the girls have done a great job with that.”

Fleming was also asked about the play in the first half compared to the second, and if he made any adjust-ments during the half.

“We certainly made an adjustment,” Fleming said. “Their outside backs got really high so we kinda changed our personnel and talked about how to switch and they did a great job of handling it. You always have to have a big save in there like we had at the end to beat a team like this.”

The Colonels return to action at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2 as Eastern travels to Cookeville, Tennessee to take on the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles (4-4-3, 2-0 OVC).

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to avoid the sweep. Tennessee Sate won the fourth set 25-22 and tied the match at 2-2. Eastern outlasted the Tigers and took the fifth and final set 15-8, winning the match 3-2. The victory goes down as Eastern’s second of the season, as well as its first win in conference play.

Hicks led the way for Eastern with 17 kills, while Celina Sanks and Rachel Vick added on 11 and 10 kills respectively. The team took a big hit when Ciera Koons went down during the first set with what is be-lieved to be an ankle sprain.

Coach Lori Duncan said she was im-pressed her team was able to put Koons’ injury behind them. She said Saturday’s game was a step in the right direction for the team and hopes it can build off the per-formance now that they have more time for preparation.

“Today, we came out, did some good things,” Duncan said. “We had some up moments and we had some down mo-ments, but the big thing is we got to sets three and four and we started bringing back the intensity, especially in game four, and we became relevant again.”

Eastern will prepare to host Morehead State (4-12, 1-1 OVC) at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30, and Murray State (12-1, 2-0) at 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3.

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Freshman midfielder Monica Rios dribbles during win over Austin Peay.

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Behind the arm of its junior quarter-back Bennie Coney, Eastern cruised to a 51-13 victory over Austin Peay (0-4, 0-1 OVC) to open its conference schedule.

The Colonels (2-1, 1-0 OVC) were with-out two of its key starters on offense in running back Dy’Shawn Mobley and wide receiver Jeff Glover, but Coney rose to the occasion and led the Eastern offense in its first Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) test of the season. Coney was efficient all night, converting 28 of 35 passes for a game-high 261 passing yards and one touchdown.

“I thought Bennie was outstanding,” said Head Coach Dean Hood. “I thought his accuracy was good. I thought he had zip on the ball. I thought his decision mak-ing was really, really good. He managed the game, took care of the football as far as protecting it. I thought he looked really, re-ally good. He was humming.”

After seeing limited action during the first two games due to an off-season knee surgery, junior receiver Devin Borders played a significant role in the Eastern of-fense, pulling in nine catches for 91 yards

to lead all receivers in both categories.The 6-foot-6 receiver also continued to

amaze on special teams as Borders blocked a punt on Eastern’s first defensive series of the game. The deflection set the Colonels up with great field position on the Austin Peay 44-yard-line. Borders holds OVC re-cords with seven blocked field goals and now, 12 blocked kicks overall. The redshirt junior entered the game tied for fifth in FCS career blocked kicks.

“Great job up front with everybody get-ting their blocks and I just came free off the edge and got another one,” Borders said. “I think I’m like five away now [from the na-tional record].”

Following Borders’ block, Coney led Eastern on a 6-play, 44-yard drive that was capped when the quarterback found se-nior wideout Joel Brown in the corner of the end-zone for a 6-yard touchdown pass. The score gave the Colonels an early 10-0 lead just midway through the first quarter. Brown had seven receptions for 68 yards and the one touchdown, all of which came during the first half.

Eastern’s defense came away with two timely takeaways just before halftime that helped cushion the Colonels’ lead.

The first came with two minutes re-

maining in the half when Eastern lineback-er Thomas Owens intercepted an Austin Peay pass on third and short. Owens re-turned the pick 17 yards for a pick-6 to give the Colonels a 23-7 lead.

“The coaches gave us the right tools to get ready for the game,” Owens said. “As we practice hard and come together, it came easy once you know your assignments.”

On the very next drive, Colonel defen-sive back Kobie Grace forced a fumble that was recovered by his teammate, senior linebacker Chris Kelly on the Governors’ 36-yard-line. Eastern used the momen-tum generated by its defense to capitalize on the turnover and score one more touch-down before the break. After a 5-play, 36-yard drive, running back Ethan Thomas rumbled into the end zone for a nine-year touchdown to put the colonels up 30-7. Thomas rushed for 59 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries.

Coming out of the locker room, East-ern’s defense forced a three-and-out punt, which defensive back Stanley Absa-non returned 23 yards to the Austin Peay 39-yard-line. Coney found Borders on a 33-yard pass to place the Colonels inside the 10-yard line and transfer running back Adam Lane punched in a six-yard score to

set the tone for the second half. Lane had 59 rushing yards and a touchdown on 13 carries.

Hood was pleased with Thomas’ and Lane’s performance in the rushing attack.

“It’s encouraging that you can have your Player of the Year [Mobley] down at run-ning back and still, on the sideline I wasn’t panicking. I was like ‘Hey, we’re gonna be alright here running the ball with these guys.’”

Eastern outproduced Austin Peay 421 yards to 250 of total offense during the game. The Colonel defensive unit only al-lowed 99 passing yards. Eastern also had 26 first downs to the Governors’ 14.

Junior defensive end Noah Spence led Eastern with eight total tackles, one sack and two tackles-for-loss.

Sophomore kicker Lucas Williams was perfect, making all three field goal at-tempts from 28-, 42- and 37- yards out.

Eastern will be back in action at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3, when the Colo-nels make the short trip to Lexington to take on the University of Kentucky (3-1, 2-1 SEC).

After beginning the 2015 season with sev-eral tournaments spanning across the na-tion, the Colonels volleyball team looked to make a statement at home in the open-ing weekend of OVC play.

Eastern 0 Belmont 3

Eastern (1-15, 0-1 OVC) took on the Belmont Bruins (4-8, 1-0 OVC) Friday night. Both teams traded points early on during the first set. The Colonels won sev-en straight points to open up a 9-4 lead, but saw its advantage quickly fade away in the later stages of the first set. The Bruins took control and eventually grabbed the lead

from the Colonels, denying a late come-back to take the first set 26-24.

The Bruins took control from the start of the second set, defeating the Colonels 25-16. Eastern didn’t lose its confidence and opened the third set strong. A main-ly back and forth match saw the Colo-nels open up a 16-11 lead, but the Bruins mounted a comeback and tied up the set 19-19. An attack error by Ally Peters al-lowed Belmont to take the lead, and the Bruins won the match 3-0.

Eastern was led by Celina Sanks with 10 kills and Johanna Boyer with 15 assists. Chloe Rojas added 21 digs.

Colonel Coach Lori Duncan was not impressed with her team’s performance, placing much of the blame on errors, as well as the inability to pass and block - es-pecially in the second set.

“We did not pass well,” Duncan said. “We might have fought back, but when you’re passing three out of six balls and they’re not in the setting zone, you’re run-ning out of system too often and that’s kind of what we did.”

Eastern 3 Tennessee State 2

The Colonels volleyball team looked to turn around its luck on Saturday when Eastern (2-15, 1-1 OVC) took on the Ten-nessee State Tigers (5-9, 0-2 OVC), who were coming off of a 3-2 loss to Morehead State.

Junior outside hitter Johanna Boyer took advantage of back-to-back Tennessee State errors late in the first set and helped the Colonels win the set 25-23.

The Tigers kicked off the second set with five unanswered points, but Ten-nessee State committed two straight ser-vice errors late in the set, which Boyer and Danielle Hicks took advantage of to get the Colonels in the lead with three kills in a row. Eastern won the second set 25-21.

“It sets the tone for all the teams were going to play to know we’re coming for them and it gives us more confidence as we go on,” Hicks said. “Coach told us in the locker room before the game that we need to play our level and not theirs, and I think in the third and fourth set we were play-ing at their level which gave them the edge over us.”

In the third set, Tennessee State took control from the first serve and won 25-13

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Coney leads Colonels to 51-13 rout of Austin Peay

Eastern needed to open up OVC play with a big win against Austin Peay and it did just that.

The 51-13 win will get the Colonels headed in the right direction for the competition it’ll be facing over the next several weeks. An all around great team performance car-ried Eastern through the game. The Colonels never looked back after the first time the offense found the end-zone.

Even with running back Dy’Shawn Mobley injured, Eastern Head Coach Dean Hood kept his cool on the side-lines because other players were willing to step in and contribute in big ways. Junior quarterback Bennie Coney and some key defensive players kept Austin Peay’s passing game silent.

It’s a great victory to numb the pain of the N.C. State loss, but the celebration won’t last long. One of the biggest

games of the season awaits the Colonels next week when Eastern faces the Kentucky Wildcats in Lexington.

“We’ve got some confidence now,” Coney said. “This game was a confidence booster, the guys came out and put in a good two weeks of work and they showed it tonight.”

Following the big win, Coney admitted there are still improvements to be made.

“I’ve just gotta be mentally sharp at all times,” Coney said. “I had a couple of times where I dropped the ball in the backfield; that can’t happen. I just need to stay sharp, take advantage of everything they give us and just keep rolling.”

Receiver Devin Borders is ready for the UK game af-ter making a large offensive impact against Austin Peay, his first since returning from an off-season knee injury. Despite that, Borders wants to downplay everything sur-rounding the game and stay focused on the task.

“We’re taking it one week at a time and focusing on the team at hand,” Borders said. “We’re focused on that team up there now. I don’t want to get into details or anything, but we’re just treating it as another game. There’s obviously some discrepancies.”

There’s no way anyone can count Eastern out when playing the Wildcats. While Kentucky’s defense is strong, another big performance by Coney could mean trouble for

UK, who allowed Missouri 227 passing yards last week.One of the biggest problems for Kentucky this sea-

son has been its inability to protect its quarterback, Pat-rick Towles. The offensive line is young and allows Tow-les very little time to throw in the pocket. Eastern has key defensive players in D’Vonta Derricott and Noah Spence who are playing well and are ready to expose the Wildcat’s weakness.

All thoughts and feelings aside, Eastern is in as good a position as it can be heading into this weekend’s match-up. Plenty of players are contributing to make this team strong, and there’s no doubt the same guys will be stepping up next week.

This is a game Kentucky doesn’t want to overlook be-cause the Colonels aren’t going down without a fight. For Eastern, it’s important to approach this weekend’s game just as any other. The Colonels need confidence to win, but it’s important to understand that no matter who the oppo-nent is, Eastern can’t do anything but practice and make sure it’s ready to hit the road.

It’s a short trip to Lexington, but for the Colonels, the 20 minute drive could be the highlight of a still-young sea-son.

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JOHNNA SPEAKS/PROGRESSEastern quarterback Bennie Coney (4) looks downfield for a receiver while Trey Shelton (68) locks up an Austin Peay pass rusher in the Colonels 51 -13 win over the Governors.