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www.easternprogress.com Thursday, May 7 2015
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From fall 2013 to fall 2014, the College of Education had a retention rate of 85 percent, but that isn’t solely because of the professors’ abilities.
The COE Peer Mentoring Program, in addition to cohorts and the education liv-ing learning community, have helped stu-dents in the college bond academically and socially, building the increasing reten-tion rates.
The College of Education has had the highest retention rates from fall to fall for the past five years, said Ryan Wilson, pro-gram director for Student Success for the college.
The mentoring program is made up of students in the college with a mini-mum GPA of 2.75 who are willing to ded-icate their time to help freshman students during the first year of their college expe-rience.
The program can be made up of more than just education majors because the College of Education also includes Ameri-can Sign Language majors and communi-cation disorders.
Wilson said he identifies the students
and sends them emails in the spring. Those who accept the invitation can then attend training where they learn more in-formation about the program.
About 40 students came to the first training this year, Wilson said. He was impressed with the turnout and humbled with the devotion the students had to help their peers.
For the 2015-2016 school year, Wilson said there are going to be around 50 men-tors and 150 mentees.
Wilson matches the mentors and men-tees up by hand based on a questionnaire they fill out asking for simple information such as hometown, major and their hob-bies. When they are matched, Wilson asks the mentors to meet with their men-tees once a week for the first half of the se-mester.
“I tell my peer educators to keep this program simple,” Wilson said.
He added the mentors don’t necessarily have to act like tutors, but he wants them to guide their freshman in the right direc-tion for anything they could need.
“It’s not a flawless program, but if it helps a few students…then we’ve done our
By BRIANNA [email protected]
Mentoring program helps raise student retention rates
In the 13 years Lt. Brandon Collins has been with EKU Police, he’s about wit-nessed it all when it comes to weapons on campus. Ninja stars, swords, firearms, stun guns and shanks are just a few items he can recall removing from the posses-sion of Eastern students.
“Several years back, at a dance par-ty in the Weaver Building late at night, a person took some sort of small knife or a shank, and it was very crowded, and they stabbed three people,” Collins said. “None of the people thankfully had seri-ous injuries.”
To help keep instances like this from happening, Eastern has a weapons policy set in place.
Eastern’s weapons policy may be con-fusing. You can’t have a Taser or an incen-diary device, but can you have a cigarette lighter? Even without a concealed and carry license, you can still have a weapon inside your car.
Eastern Police Chief Brian Mullins said he even thought the policy may need more explanation.
“I even think it is confusing,” Mullins said.
Bottom line: Eastern’s weapons policy set in 2012 prohibits anyone who comes onto campus from having deadly weap-ons or dangerous materials. And campus means not just the main campus, but any property owned by Eastern.
Possession means that you have actu-al physical possession of the object. How-
ever, what distinguishes a deadly weap-on or a dangerous material/instrument is not fully defined.
Sworn police officers employed by EKU Police or officers employed by other agencies are able to possess deadly weap-ons on campus.
University policy versus state lawKentucky state law allows people to
have weapons in their vehicles, which is why weapons may be stored inside ve-hicles on campus, Collins said. Howev-er, Eastern’s policy bars the possession of these weapons on your person or in any of the buildings owned by the university.
“There’s a difference in violating the law and violating a policy,” Collins said.
The policy becomes hazy when you take location and age factors into ac-count.
Eastern’s campus includes Model Lab School on its campus, as well as a day-care in the Burrier Building. The repri-mand for the policy violation could be more severe if minors are present.
“You have to take things into account like where exactly Eastern’s property starts and stops,” Makinen said. “Then you can get in trouble for possessing the weapon within a certain range of mi-nors.”
He also said sometimes the younger students visit various buildings on cam-pus and if you get caught with a weap-on anytime they are around, the punish-ment if more severe.
By KAYLA [email protected]
Why students can't have weapons on campus
ILLUSTRATION BY AMELIA WILSON
Students cope with stress of finalsPrepared or not, finals week is coming. And students
know what that means: time for stress.“There could be a myriad of things that can cause a
student to be stressed during finals,” said Jen Walker, the director of Eastern’s counseling center.
Test anxiety, personal issues making concentration difficult, not knowing how to study and making life de-cisions dealing with relationships and jobs can all be stress factors during finals week.
“Students tend to be perfectionists and want to do well on their finals and can put a lot of pressure on themselves to make the perfect grade.” Walker said. “Instead of thinking, ‘I have to make an ‘A,’ think, ‘I’m going to prepare and do my best.’”
Then there’s that little demon we all know as pro-crastination. To some, it is the last minute rush that fi-nally motivates them to study, to others, it brings on a sense of paralysis.
“I believe that oftentimes students procrastinate be-cause they don’t know where to start, because they hav-en’t yet mastered how to study,” Walker said.
Students have their own methods for coping during crunch week.
“I go to the library and I stay there,” said Emilie Mc-Nabb, 22, a senior social work major from Lawrence-burg.
Some make studying their job for the week. “During finals week we use white boards, we just do
question after question,” said Nicole Jones, 25, a senior
By TOSHA [email protected]
Taylor Hart (left), 23, a nursing major from Dayton, Ohio, studied for five hours for her medical surgery class. Alyssa Waitzman (right), 23, an occupational therapy major from Dayton, Ohio, studied for a few hours and said she hasn’t slept much this week.
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› SEE WEAPONS, PAGE 4
› SEE MENTORS, PAGE 4
Page 2 The Eastern Progress, Thursday, May 7, 2014
Week of Nov. 13 – Nov. 19THE COLONEL’S CALENDAR
BRIEFSCAMPUSBRIEFSCAMPUS
BEATPOLICEBEATPOLICE
Extended library hours for extra studying
It’s that time of the semester again to cram for those finals.
To accommodate the need for study space, parts of the John Grant Crabbe Library will remain open for 24 hours from Sunday night through Thurs-day night of finals week.
The Java City, the atrium and the atrium computer lab space will be open. A security guard will be stationed to en-sure overnight safety.
A life of crime on the streets of Bombay
The Asian Film Series will be presenting the film Salaam Bombay! at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 7, in O’Donnell Hall.
Directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), the film looks at the life on the streets of Bombay.
Krishna, the protagonist, left his family at a young age and lives on the streets with pimps, prostitutes, drug ad-dicts and other homeless chil-dren. He makes little money delivering tea but hopes he can return to his family one day. His plan is foiled when his clos-et friend steals his money and Krishna is forced to live a life of crime to earn the money back.
The event is free and open to the public. Proof of attendance
will be available.For more information, con-
tact Director of Asian Studies Minh Nguyen at (859) 622-8667 or [email protected].
Senior portfolio sharing
at local restaurantMembers of the spring
2015 Creative Writing Cap-stone class will host their Se-nior Showcase Thursday, May 7, from 7 to 9 p.m., at Madison Garden on 152 Madison Ave.
Eleven seniors will be shar-ing works chosen from their Creative Writing Capstone portfolio, featuring a wide range of genres.
Seating may be limited. All people wishing to attend are asked to come early to order food and drinks.
Jerry Lay
Week of May 7 – May 13
THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY7 p.m. Creative Writing Senior Showcase Madison Garden 152 Madison Ave. 7:30 p.m. Guitar Studio Recital Gifford Theatre
7 p.m. Baseball vs. Murray State Murray 7:30 p.m. Orchestra Concerto Concert EKU Center for the Arts
2 p.m. Senior Piano Recital Gifford Theatre 4 p.m. Graduate Piano Recital Gifford Theatre 6 p.m. Graduate Piano Recital Gifford Theatre
THE COLONEL’S CALENDAR
April 27 � A student reported dam-
age to her car doors at 5:35 p.m., in the Grand Campus Lot.
May 1 � A bathroom window in
the second floor of Dupree Hall was reported broken.
� A resident student re-ported her bicycle seat sto-len at 6:41 p.m., at Keene Hall.
May 2 � A 20-year-old Berea stu-
dent was cited for alcohol intoxi-cation at 1:27 a.m., in the Ravine. He was transported to the Mad-ison County Detention Center.
May 3 � A police officer found
a Park Drive crosswalk sign damaged at 2:32 p.m.
� A resident student reported damage to his motorcycle at 4:58 p.m., in the Grand Campus Lot.
� A resident student report-ed his iPhone was stolen from the Intramural Fields at 11:54 p.m.
May 4 � A staff member reported
a rug was stolen at 7:32 a.m., in the Combs Building.
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A new student organization was formed by students at Eastern to promote positive inward and outward change with a focus largely on body image.
The organization is called “Every body, Everybody” and was created by Eastern students Abbie Young and Halle Graham.
Young, a 21-year-old junior dietetics major from Springboro, Ohio, is president of the group.
Young said she is always looking for ways to help people, and the group will help her do just that.
“I don’t know what I want to do with my life or ca-reer yet, I just know I want to change people’s lives positively,” Young said. “I’m passionate about how you treat yourself and how you treat others because I be-lieve if you have more mindful people, you will have a better planet.”
Halle Graham, a 20-year-old sophomore family and consumer science education and Spanish double major from Versailles, is vice president of the group.
Graham and Young have worked together as resi-dent assistants in Burnam Hall.
“We want anyone and everyone to participate and
be in this group,” Graham said. “We’ve asked our friends if they are interested and we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback through word of mouth and Face-book.”
Graham is a yoga instructor and plans to use her knowledge to conduct classes for the group.
“We want to do seminars of how to have positive body-image and that will include yoga classes and meditation,” Graham said. “We also want to get in-volved with the H.E.A.T team at the recreation center to present programs to the group.”
The group is also going to participate in various ser-vice projects.
“We plan on doing random acts of kindness days that will include passing out sticky notes that have compliments on them on Powell Corner,” Graham said. “We also thought about doing a “love your body” 5K run to celebrate what our bodies can do for us.”
Young, president of the group, also wants to do a ‘Yay Scale,” an activity that will require people to step on a scale.
“Instead of the scale reading a number, it will read a positive message referring to your body,” Young said.
Although the group is largely focused on body im-
age, they want to stress inward and outward change the most.
“We want to focus on how we can have a positive influence on someone else,” Graham said. “We believe if you are confident in yourself, then you can help oth-ers better themselves.”
“We want this group to come together to make pos-itive change,” Graham said. “We want to be a positive voice on campus and send good vibes.”
An informational meeting was conducted this past Tuesday in the library for interested individuals to re-ceive information regarding entry into the group. The group plans to meet in the fall on Tuesday nights.
“We will hand out fliers, sent out emails and have another opening meeting next semester,” Young said. “We want everyone to know the group isn’t just limit-ed to students, but is open to teachers and alumni as well.”
Graham and Young said the goal for the group is to be an RSO by the end of the semester.
“Everything starts with our decisions,” said Young. “If we change our decisions positively, we can change the world."
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The Peace Corps often seems like a distant adventure involving malaria shots and digging wells in desert villag-es. Beyond hearsay and wild ideas from movies, most people know very little about the program. But Miles Owen did his best to set the record straight.
Owen, a 2012 graduate of Eastern and the only Truman Scholar from the institution, worked on the island nation of Fiji for the Peace Corps from 2012 to 2014, talked about his experience before a packed Discovery Classroom in the Noel Studio.
Owen’s time in Fiji, a small country about 3,000 miles off the coast of Aus-tralia, was not at all congruent with the images most people conjure of sleeping on dirt and warding off snakes, Owen said.
“Most Peace Corps volunteers are not roughing it in the bush in the mid-dle of Africa,” he said. “I didn’t want for any modern amenities. Fiji is a beautiful country. It’s gorgeous.”
Owen called the two years he spent in the small town of Navua a transfor-mational experience. He said the Peace
Corps lived up to its slogan as “The toughest job you’ll ever love.”
“The love part you get with time,” Owen said. “But the tough part you get from day one.”
As a volunteer, he said, you have to be careful about how you present yourself to be sure you’re not offending anyone.
“You are a 24/7 ambassador of the United States,” he said. “You are the only American many of these people will see in their entire lives.”
While in Fiji, Owen put his EMT training to work reforming health care practices and preventing non-commu-nicable diseases. The culture there is very centered on food, Owen said, and it is considered polite to eat a lot. But with the introduction of sugary western foods, the national quality of health has plummeted.
Owen showed a picture of a hospital at which he worked—the primary care facility for a population of about 30,000 people— that was just a one-story build-ing prone to frequent flooding.
Owen’s main focus was working with Fiji’s national ambulance officer to de-sign the nation’s EMS training program.
“I would’ve extended with a third
year, but the program fell through,” Owen said. He said these types of scheduling problems and vague goals are quite common with the Peace Corps though, and listed a few justifiable criti-cisms of the program.
One criticism he cited is that when 85 percent of volunteers are college gradu-ates, there is a lack of life experience and institutional knowledge. There’s also a high dropout rate. Of a group of 25 to 30 volunteers, Owen said, typically 50 per-cent will leave before their term is up.
Budgeting is also an issue.“The Peace Corps budget is $370 mil-
lion, which is less than the budget for the U.S. Army marching band,” Owen said. The lack of funding, he said, limits what the Peace Corps can do.
Despite his criticisms, Owen said the Peace Corps keeps going because it ac-tually does work. Since the program’s involvement in Fiji, people have become better educated, and women have at-tained more say in government, Owen said.
What sets the Peace Corps apart from other service organiza-
By HANNAH [email protected]
Former Eastern student reflects on Peace Corps mission
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When a bathroom scrawl threatened a terrorist attack February 11, administra-tors worried that students would try to bring their own weapons as self-defense if anything were to happen.
In situations like that, Makinen said students should trust the accredited po-lice force and should not become part of the problem.
“Giving them the best situation they can is not 15 people with their guns out trying to help the situation,” said Makin-en. “Let the sworn trained ones take care of it.”
Collins said even off-duty officers who respond to a situation and decide to car-ry their weapon, know to set their weap-ons down when a uniformed officer ar-rives.
“You should always tell an officer you possess a weapon,” Collins said.
Policy violations Eastern’s Office of Student Rights and
Responsibilities reviews university poli-cy violations, including the weapons pol-icy. Bohannon said the policy attempts to keep things like threats or violence with weapons from occurring.
“We are a reactive office,” Bohan-non said. “We don’t go out and look for things. We handle cases when a weapon or dangerous material is found and then handle each case differently.”
Mark Maier, the assistant director of Student Rights and Responsibilities, said the first thing the office does after a vio-lation is invite the student to discuss the situation when they are reported for hav-ing a weapon.
If the student accepts responsibility for possessing a weapon outside his or her car, a sanction is crafted by the office.
“The sanction depends on the facts,” Maier said. “There might be other policy violations involved that we have to con-sider. They can be as small as a written reprimand to removal from housing and expulsion.”
If the student does not accept respon-sibility, then the student has a right to a
hearing where he or she can call on peo-ple to testify on their behalf or question the person who filed the report. Bohan-nan said the entire procedure is due pro-cess.
“We try to be educational in our sanc-tions,” Maier said. “We don’t want to see students get dismissed from the univer-sity. So, we try to craft a sanction to help the student understand why the violation they committed wasn’t a good move.”
Maier said their office could only go as far as to remove the student from hous-ing. If the violation warrants a sanction higher than that, such as expulsion, then the Student Disciplinary Council makes the decision. If the weapon was used or was found on the student, the situation bypasses the Student Rights and Respon-sibilities office and goes straight to the Student Disciplinary Council and the university police.
“Student safety is No. 1 priority,” Mai-er said. “The learning opportunity is pri-ority right behind that.”
Student opinions Tim Reed, 29, a physics sophomore
from Louisville, owns a firearm and be-lieves he should be able to keep it on his person as a form of protection.
“Law abiding citizens follow the laws,” Reed said. “These citizens who carry their weapons have been known to stop crime and violence. These citizens serve as deterrents.”
Brandon Smith, 21, an accounting major from Winchester, also agreed that weapons should be kept for protec-tion. He said, figuratively, a school with students with no weapons to fight back, could be an easy target for mass shoot-ings.
“I think the ability to defend ourselves is very important,” Smith said. “It’s not right to deny us that right just because we are on a college campus.”
Educating people on how to respec-tively use weapons, such as firearms, should be allowed, Smith said.
“We have our own EKU 911 service center,” Mullins said. “Just call us. If you think you should [call], just go ahead and do it.”
Be proactive instead of reactive, Mak-inen said.
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tions is that volunteers are put at the lowest level of service, Owen said. “Peace Corps volunteers are the ones who go out in the field. They get their hands dirty and embrace the local cul-ture," he said.
Owen said the work he did helped him overcome disappointment and keep moving. He said it was common for ed-ucation and health care projects to fall through for reasons as small as rainy weather or as large as a government shutdown.
“I learned how to fail,” he said. “Even when you’ve done a perfect job, you can crash and burn miserably.”
One of the difficult parts of immer-sion in another culture was having to
explain concepts you think you already understand, Owen said. “I couldn’t talk about taking insulin. Insulin requires refrigeration. There are no refrigera-tors in Fiji. It forces you to forget some things and relearn other things.”
His advice for prospective Peace Corps volunteers?
“Be really aware of why you’re going before you go," he said. "Be ready to have your entire world view changed. Don’t come in with any expectations. Be pre-pared to go with it.”
An audience member, Halle Gra-ham, said she had been interested in the Peace Corps since high school.
“It was really good to see both pos-itive and negative sides,” said Graham, sophomore family and consumer sci-ence major. “It was neat to see someone who’s actually been through it. This guy is like my number one inspiration.”
job,” Wilson said. Freshman Nikki Sexton, 19, a mentee in the fall, said her mentor pointed her in the
right direction when she was interested in study abroad.Sexton’s mentor had previously studied abroad and knew who to contact and
where to find the information for it. Sexton will be a mentor in the fall and said she wants to be as good a mentor as
she had.Sophomore Elizabeth Lawrence, 20, a mentor in the fall to four students, said she
enjoys the time she spent with her mentees.“Getting to help others is the greatest part of it,” Lawrence said. “Being a fresh-
man, it’s good to have someone to talk to and I love being there for my students when they need me.”
The peer-mentoring program is only one of three approaches the college takes to student success, Wilson said.
The college implements cohorts, three to four hidden courses for incoming fresh-man to ensure they have class with other teaching majors, and a living learning com-munity in McGregor Hall.
From student surveys, Wilson said the cohorts have the biggest impact on GPA and retention because students work to help each other in class.
“They don’t want to feel like they’re letting someone down,” Wilson said.Wilson continues to work on improving the programs the College of Education of-
fers for its student success.“The mentoring program isn’t a one size fits all program,” Wilson said. He explained other majors may not have the time or mentality to participate, and
because education majors are already in the mindset of helping and teaching some-one else, it could come easier to them.
The College of Justice and Safety has a small peer-mentoring program, but it is tai-lored to the needs of its students, Wilson said.
Wilson said he expects the retention rates for the College of Education to exceed 85 percent when the results for fall 2014 to fall 2015 are received in October.
nursing major from California. “I study about 10 to 12 hours a day for finals.”
As Jones sat in one of the massage chairs in Crabbe Library she found some relaxation in knowing the semester is al-most over.
“It’s nice, it’s the best thing about all semester,” Jones said about the chair.
Some students refrain from sleeping as much as possible during finals.
“The worst for me is papers because I’m really bad about procrastination,” said Brent Love, 22, a senior business major from Florence. “I bring the stress upon myself. I cram-study and pull all-nighters.”
Love says he relaxes after finals by binge watching TV series.
While some students pull all-nighters others value their sleep.
“Finals aren’t as stressful to me, be-cause there are other things in my life that are equal in priority,” said Andrew Stofleth, 29, a senior public relations ma-jor from Richmond. “If you stay on top of everything through the semester then fi-nals aren’t so terrible.”
Stofleth said he crams but he does not pull all-nighters because sleep is valu-able.
Some students feel very little pressure
at all. Every teacher is different, not all fi-nals are given the same way.
“All I’ve had is group projects and pa-pers,” said Nikea Banther, 18, a pre-occu-pational science freshman from Berea. “I only ended up with one final, which I’m glad about because it makes my life eas-ier.”
Preparation works for others. "I think if you’ve kept up with the work
all semester then there’s no cramming at the end. No cramming, no stress,” said Shawnee Profitt, 25, a senior education major from Winchester. “But some of my best work comes to me about an hour be-fore the assignment is due.”
Eastern takes care of its stressed stu-dents, by providing a multitude of ways for them to find their inner calm during the hustle and bustle of finals week. One is the Eastern Counseling Center located in Whitlock building.
“We have a place where people can just walk in if they are stressed, we can help them on the spot,” Walker said.
If you plan to live in the library this finals week, Crabbe Library has 24-hour space available Sunday through the end of finals week. This includes Java City Li-brary, atrium, and the atrium computer lab.
Whether you’re stressed out or calm, prepared or waiting till the last minute, just remember during this finals week to stay calm and study.
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Editor-in-Chief bids farewell to Eastern
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"Well, I think there will always be a market for print, newspapers and books. It's just that the market is smaller, even if it leans toward Internet sources."
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Campus Sound Off
Graduation Day. It’s that moment col-lege students spend thousands of dollars on and take four, five, six or more years to obtain that diploma. Mine is only a week away.
When I came to Eastern, I had no idea what I wanted to declare a major in. I didn’t even know the people I would be living with. Writing for the Progress was probably the last thing I thought about. My residence hall used to get the USA Today and I always grabbed that throughout the week instead of picking up the campus newspaper on Thursdays.
I wanted to be a broadcast weather-man ever since I was little, but I chose Eastern and they don’t offer a meteorol-ogy degree. So I spent most of my first semester thinking about what I should declare as a major. Honestly, if I had de-clared a major for every time I thought I wanted to major in a subject, I would
have changed my major about 10 times before December. I’m so thankful for coming to college undeclared because I got to work on most of my general educa-tion while I was going through the diffi-cult honors program classes such as hon-ors rhetoric.
After I completed honors rhetoric, the last thing I thought about was writ-ing outside of class. Then I met Ginny Whitehouse and Liz Hansen at a col-lege major fair in Middle Powell in Feb. 2012. After talking with them and Deb-orah Givens, the next month I declared my major in journalism and I began writ-ing for the Progress in Oct. of 2012.
In the time since I have met Liz, Ginny, Deborah and our adviser Reg-gie Beehner, I’ve enjoyed the long hours spent with them talking about life, how we can cover some news story better, graduate school, newsroom careers and everything else under the sun. Their wis-dom and years of experience both in the newsroom and in academia is something I will never take for granted.
During my time at the Progress, I have had the chance to do it all. My first sto-ry was about campus anti-virus soft-ware available for students from ResNet, which is now Student Computing Ser-vices. I’ve done feature stories and sports
coverage, as well as some newspaper and project design work. I got to photograph Josh Turner in concert and record video of President Benson getting a bucket of ice water dumped on his head. I have also covered administrative issues that affect students through in-depth reporting and editorials.
Outside of the newsroom, I have com-pleted a 45-page honors thesis, presented research at five different regional and na-tional honors program conferences and received great advice from professionals in the field at different journalism con-ferences.
I explored Washington D.C. with some political science classmates. I final-ly traveled west of the Mississippi River and stood exactly one mile above sea lev-el on the steps of the Colorado State Cap-itol Building. I also toured the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, where Al Capone stayed for almost a year from 1929-1930.
I traveled to Savannah and realized the park bench from Forrest Gump is not at Chippewa Square. I traversed through the crowd of revelry on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. I sat outside on a Chica-go rooftop one night with some wonder-ful friends and watched the stars move across the downtown skyline.
All in all, it has been one amazing ride. A bachelor’s in journalism along with a political science minor, my honors thesis, my internship at The News-Dem-ocrat and a lot of published work in The Eastern Progress has put me in a good position for getting a job in journalism after I graduate.
I just want to say thank you, readers, because without you there’s almost no point in waking up early in the morning to proofread pages or going out and tak-ing photographs at 2 a.m. when students are displaced from a residence hall. I am confident that next year’s staff has the experience they need to continue provid-ing stories that you want to read and in-creasing our presence in the digital-age of journalism.
Thank you to my close friends, for making the ride worth it. I wanted to also say thank you to my family, for en-couraging me even when I didn’t think I would make it past move-in day and dealing with being away from home.
My graduation day will be bittersweet. It will be sad leaving this town I have called home and leaving behind the peo-ple I’ve called neighbors, but the great journey begins now.
The way you get your news is chang-ing. Rather, the way you get your news has already changed and everyone is just starting to adjust to it.
Besides using it to wipe up dog urine or to cover your floor when painting, how many of you actually pick up news-papers to read them? How many of you even picked up a Progress this past week and aren’t just reading online?
Print isn’t dead, but it sure is hurting. Take a look nationwide and you’ll see that more newspapers are closing every
year and blogs and online news sources keep popping up. Media knows where the public is, and it’s nose-deep in a phone.
However, just as some newspapers are destined to die, others are protected to keep printing.
It’s all about a delicate balance be-tween size and circulation. The big wigs like the New York Times, USA Today and the LA Times—they’re safe. Their names are too big and people across Ameri-ca and the world pick them up in news-stands every day. Surprisingly, the small weeklies aren’t going anywhere either. They have such small and catered-to de-mographics that there will always be lo-cals who want to see little Timmy’s name in print for scoring a goal in recreation-al soccer.
Who’s doomed, sadly, are the mid-sized dailies and weeklies with awkward-ly small jurisdictions that are just large enough to be somewhat well known. The
Herald-Leader and The Courier-Jour-nal are examples of that. They do well in their cities’ centers and in the surround-ing counties, but beyond that they’re null and void. I predict a slow and pain-ful move to multi-weekly, to bi-weekly, to weekly; and then to online-only.
But evolving from print to online isn’t necessarily a death; it’s more of an op-portunity. News is just as accessible on-line as in print, and even somewhat more so. Rather than picking up the paper from your porch in the morning or going to town to pick up a copy, you wake up, grab your iPad and head to your favorite news site. It’s more comfortable, conve-nient and immediate.
The quality and quantity of news changes as well with online. Instead of reading a short article on a robbery a day to a week after the fact, you’re get-ting a story minutes after it breaks, a bright color video or image to pull you
further in depth and other related stories that are a click away. Print is two-dimen-sional while online is layered and packed with every angle.
Fact is, the Progress is amongst news-papers across the nation considering go-ing online-only. It’s sad, and as a senti-mental person it’s hard for me to accept. But what keeps reassuring me and keeps me excited for the future is that with go-ing online, the Progress becomes a better quality news outlet that produces better stories that our audience, Eastern stu-dents and faculty, wants.
Newspapers are always going to be around and your favorite news sources aren’t going to stop giving you what you want. The difference is that you might be picking up a tablet rather than a paper.
News is changing but not dyingDaniel
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Eastern students, faculty and the Richmond com-munity gathered to introduce the new Asian Studies program Thursday, April 30 in Middle Powell.
The Asian Studies program hosted An Asian Oc-casion, a cultural fair to highlight parts of the new program.
An Asian Occasion kicked off with the Asian Read-In that was scheduled to take place on Powell Cor-ner, but was moved to Powell Lobby due to weather. The reading took place from 3 to 5 p.m. where anyone could come up and read Asian literature, books writ-ten by Asian authors or Asian religions.
The culture fair were from 5 to 7 p.m. inside of Middle Powell where there were free Asian food and games. Masala, Khin’s and Thai Smile all catered for the event. Café Meeples also brought Asian games such as Takenoko, Click Clack Lumberjack, Sushi Go and Tokaido.
Booths were set up around Powell Lobby for stu-dents to experience. Some of the tables set up were there to highlight the content in the Asian Studies program, such as Asian religions, traditions and lan-guages.
Other tables included learning how to use chop-sticks, how to make origami and cupcake decorating. Student groups such as the Vietnamese students and a table raising money for Nepal also set up booths. Students could also go to get more information about study aboard opportunities in Asia.
“I want to hopefully learn about the lesser known Asian cultures,” said Kristen Nichols, 20, a sopho-more business student.
All kinds of different people came to this event whether it was for the free food, to actually learn something about the culture or to just see what this new program is all about.
“Of course I was attracted to the free food, but also to learn more about the Asian culture,” said Meghan Mckinney, 20, an English and literature sophomore.
An event planning class helped Minh Nguyen, di-rector of Asian Studies, organize the event.
“Dr. Minh really seemed like he needed help with this event and it seemed beneficial to the university,” said Lindsey Gibson, 21, a communication studies se-nior who helped plan the event for her class.
Jenny Evans, professor of the event planning class, worked with Nguyen and the class to plan the event.
“More than 175 attendees and volunteers made the inaugural An Asian Occasion a huge success,” Evans said. “…I am so proud of my students for planning and executing such a great event to raise awareness of the new EKU Asian Studies minor and certificate that will be offered this fall.”
The Asian Studies minor is 18 hours and the cer-tificate is 12 hours. Anyone who is interested can also take any of the classes for electives.
“We aim to make our program as educational, fun and engaging as possible,” Nguyen said.
Nguyen also said he hopes to continue the Asian read-in and the cultural fair and make them an an-nual event.
Students of the apparel design and merchandising department hosted their annual fashion show 6 p.m., Wednesday at Keen Johnson.
The theme was Flashback Fashions with segments inspired from each de-cade from the 1920s to the 1990s. The fashions were heavily influ-enced by their respective decades, but with a modern twist. Fashions were borrowed from retailers in-cluding Kohl’s, Forever21, Entwine, J.C. Penney, Olive You, Adorabelles and Rue 21.
The show also featured a philanthropy event selling raf-fle tickets for Relay for Life. The door prizes included gift cards and small prizes from Dunkin Donuts, Michael’s, Orange Leaf, and Penn Station.
The show started with the Roaring ‘20s. The styles were nothing short of bold, dar-ing and flashy. One fan fa-
vorite was worn by a female model who strutted down the runway in a black bra showcasing how the bra
was invented in the 1920s.Janie Hurst, alum-
ni from 2005 and the designer of the fash-ion show logo said the
1920s were her favorite decade featured. “That’s when the bra came
out,” Hurst said.The energy of the event
was fun, upbeat and defi-nitely interactive. With
ev- ery strut, and every turn, there were sunglasses being tossed to audience mem-bers, sweaters being tossed
over the shoulder and fun dance moves.
As the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s rolled around, there was anything from pen-cil skirts and polka dots,
leather jackets and converse, to fedoras and bowties; styles that are making a comeback in today’s fashion.
For the 1930s, the styles showcased the movement of women heading to the workforce with the appearance of work wear. Pantsuits and bright floral dress-es were popular for women, while men were more relaxed with athletic wear.
Lauren Holloway, 20, an apparel design and merchandising major from Carrolton, was a stylist for the 1980s and 1990s segments. She said that her job as a stylist was fun but also very challenging. She really enjoyed hunting down the pieces to assemble outfits.
“What would I have worn 30 years ago shopping in Rue21?” Holloway said.
The 1980s and 1990s were fo-cused on the punk and hip-hop mu-sic scene. In the ‘80s, leg warmers, bright colors, shoulder pads and leg-gings were common, said Halloway. The ‘90s transitioned to grunge with baggy, ripped jeans and flannel shirts. Models expressed this character as they strut-ted down the runway to Beat It by Michael Jackson and Push It by Salt N’ Peppa.
Christian Pope, 19, a sopho-more sports management ma-jor from Hodgenville, mod-eled many different decades.
“This is the most fun I’ve had in a while”, Pope said about his experience with Flashback Fashions.
Katie Noelker, 20, mu-sic performance major from Danville, was one of over 150 audience members.
“The styles and time periods were both informative and enter-taining,” Noelker said.
The shows Co-Director Angela Lauer, 19, from California, Ky., said she thought the show went really well and collaboration with local stores re-ally helped.
“You have stores giving trends from past decades, so it makes it easier,” Lauer said. “We were all really nervous, but it went real-ly well.”
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Avengers: Age of Ultron continues Marvel’s legacy
An Asian Occasion:Cultural experience event launchesnew Asian Studies programBy KAYLA SHAVER & CARLY [email protected]
The Kendo Club had a live demonstration at the Asian Occasion event Thursday, April 30, in Middle Powell.
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There are a great deal of serious film critics—of which I am not one—who like to say that the super hero genre has played itself out; they think perhaps Hollywood should quit while it’s ahead. I don’t agree. I went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron this weekend, and audiences are definitely in for a treat.
In order to reveal as few spoilers as possible, I’ll give only a minimal synopsis. We open on the Avengers fighting against Hydra, where we’re even-tually introduced to two Hydra-employed mutants whose identities will remain anonymous.
These two mutants throw our heroes for a loop for a while before the Avengers eventually find what they’re looking for and back out. From there we learn that Tony Stark is ready to end the Aveng-ers in favor of a global peace network: Ultron. However, Ultron proves far too powerful in his ar-tificial intelligence for even the Avengers to recon with, and our heroes must set themselves against their most formidable foe yet in a fight of epic pro-portions.
At first, Age of Ultron feels like stepping into a cold pool of water, as the opening battle sequence is both abrupt and sloppy—though there are a few very good jokes thrown in to keep interest. How-ever, once the scene is over and the characters are established, we’re greeted with very nice perfor-mances. Robert Downey, Jr., as always, is fantastic as Tony Stark/Iron Man. Chris Evans is also very good as Steve Rogers/Captain America, turning in probably his best performance to date, comparable to his role in last year’s The Winter Soldier.
We are treated with some much more substan-tive scenes with Scarlett Johansson’s Agent Roma-nov and Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner, handing in more character development than we’re used to—and that becomes a theme in this entry. Hawkeye
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Eastern’s Student Alumni Ambas-sadors (SAA) hosted its fourth annu-al Amazing Race for Autism fundraiser, Wednesday, April 29. There were four teams, totaling 20 contestants who par-ticipated.
The event is to help gain awareness of autism in the Richmond communi-ty in honor of former President Douglas Whitlock’s late grandson, Bobby. Each year, in remembrance of their grand-son, a student with intentions of work-ing with autistic children is awarded the Robert Douglas Whitlock Jr. Scholarship fund.
Whitlock, his wife and granddaugh-ter came to show support of the contes-tants, students and visitors who attend-ed the event.
“I look forward to attending this event each year,” Whitlock said. “My family and I appreciate the effort, support, and love shown on behalf of my Bobby. My family and I cannot express our appreci-ation enough,”
Much like the TV version of The Amazing Race, teams are given clues
and must race to different locations and complete tasks. SAA’s Amazing Race for Autism had 10 stations dispersed across campus providing a variety of minute-to-win-it obstacles.
Each station was timed with a minute to finish the activity and once complet-ed, the team would be given a next clue about their next location. Each team was given a different route and the team to finish first wins.
Some stations included games such as how many Cheetos a participant could stick to a balloon covered in shaving cream and trying to tie a ribbon around the trunk of a tree while blindfolded. One of the favorite clever phrases used as a clue was, “he’s a man with no clothes with the world in one hand and a rock-et in the other,” which led teams to the Centennial Man statue outside the Pow-ell Building.
“I never knew the naked man on cam-pus had a rocket in his hand,” Kayla Car-roll said. “I only knew him as the naked man. Not only did the event entertain me for the moment, but I will be more observant of campus objects now to pre-pare myself for a win next year.”
This year the winner of the event was
a team of six members of Kappa Delta Tau service sorority. Each team mem-ber won an Autism Awareness T-shirt, Autism Awareness ribbons and a $10 Walmart gift card.
Kelcie Fish, 21, a physical education senior from Pikeville, was one of the winning members of the race from Kap-pa Delta Tau.
“I wanted to do the Amazing Race for Autism because I love working with spe-cial needs population,” Fish said. “I also
love a little competition every once in a while and decided this fundraiser was perfect for me. It felt nice to win, but it felt better knowing our money went to a great cause.”
Alyson Croley, 19, a history junior from London, is an SAA member and the coordinator of the event. She said she was happy with the way the event went and enjoys helping raise money for the scholarship fund.
Leaving home and traveling thou-sands of miles to study in a new coun-try can be a stressful experience. Inter-national students can experience the impact of culture shock with struggles and challenges.
Bong Han Lee, 22, a physics senior from Korea, said his culture is very dif-ferent and he would talk to his peers formally.
“It would be difficult for me to form friendships,” Lee said. “I would have a tough time understanding jokes. It would have to be explained to me.”
It is quite common for internation-
al students to have a language barrier. Therefore, communicating on certain levels can be a frustrating problemat-ic task.
Risa Sakanishi, 20, a nutrition soph-omore from Japan, said she compre-hended and could speak English but when she came to the United States the interchange of the language was totally different than what she expected.
“It was strenuous for me to grasp English dialogue because the people around me spoke too fast,” Sakani-shi said. “It’s challenging for me to un-derstand other international students when they are speaking English be-cause of their accent.”
Since she is nutrition major, Sakan-ishi struggled at first with American food portion sizes.
“American food is higher calories than Japans and more greasy,” Sakani-shi said. “The quantity of the food serv-ings are bigger and I struggled to finish my food in one setting but I eventually got used to it.”
There are certain international stu-dents who find the prices in Ameri-can to be outrageous and a struggle to adapt to.
Wenzhu Wang, 22, an English and Japanese senior from China, said the
money currency and value of products is dissimilar from Hebei, China.
“Textbooks are expensive, I hate it,” Wang said. “In China textbooks and notebooks are low price. Vegetables are also inexpensive in China. I don’t pre-fer to eat American fast food and junk food so I desire to eat vegetables with every meal.”
International students can also ex-perience stereotyping from people who are may not know a lot about their cul-ture.
Audrei Onome Egbuding, 20, risk management and insurance junior from Nigeria, said responding to peo-ple who would ask rude questions or make inappropriate statements can be a challenge because it would offend her.
“People have asked me [if] Africans live in trees or with wild exotic ani-mals,” Egbuding said. “I would feel an-noyed when they asked me [if] we have televisions and other electronics as if we are not exposed to popular devices.”
No matter the challenges or strug-gles foreign exchange students may go through, several of them truly appreci-ate the opportunity to receive educa-tion in America.
“Overall, I do enjoy living in Ameri-ca for school,” Wang said.” It’s different
and I like to try a new cul-ture and meet new peo-ple.”
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gets it too, and Chris Hemsworth as Thor is stripped down to basics, the perfect move for his character. If nothing else, this film adds far more to the story than we’ve ever had be-fore, which is a huge compliment not only to the actors but especially the writer.
As always, Joss Whedon’s direc-tion is spot-on. The cinematogra-phy is beautiful and the action se-quences are appropriately jarring and emotional. These are some of the best battle scenes in the entire Marvel Universe series, showing off the special effects and hero powers better than ever. They’re not as out-
landish as the first Avengers flick, but preserve a healthy dose of sci-fi and fantasy to their whimsical de-struction.
However, not everything is great here. This does have the feeling of a transition movie rather than a con-tinuation, like the middle part of a trilogy. It suffers from the same dis-ease as many of its counterparts: it’s all setting up for the next chapter.
Overall, it’s worth the price of admission and more. Age of Ultron is satisfying and fun, even if it’s just setting up for the next big thing. I’d put it right up there with the origi-nal, in fact. One could call it Mar-vel-ous.
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Eastern’s track and field split up May 2 and 3 for another day of relays, bring-ing home five first place titles from the Kentucky Relays and personal bests from Payton Jordan Invitational. Senior Una Britton also went solo to the App State Outdoor Open in Boone, NC and ran 35:55.97 in the women’s 10,000 meters.
Kentucky RelaysIn Lexington, some events, includ-
ing the women’s and men’s 5,000 meters, placed Colonels in both first and second place.
Senior Anna Reddin and sopho-more Charlotte Imer were two Colonels to take first and second in the women’s 5,000 meters. Reddin ran a personal-best 17:16.85 for first while Imer finished just after Reddin with a time of 17:24.32.
The Colonels finished in meet-re-cord time in the 5,000 meters race with a first place finish from senior Wade Med-dles and a second place finish from fel-low senior Sean Vandermosten. Meddles won the title with a time of 14:25.37 and Vandermosten followed in second with 14:35.72.
Meanwhile, freshmen stood out in the women’s and men’s 3,000 meters stee-plechase. Freshman Ciara Scott won
the women’s steeplechase with a time of 11:22.57 and fellow freshman Jamaine Coleman won the men’s steeplechase ti-tle with a time of 9:11.29.
Juniors Alana Galertova and Julie Mathisen and freshmen Carina Schrempf and Liz Marcineck also brought back second place finishes. Galertova threw an Eastern second-best javelin throw with a 138-4 toss while Mathisen ran a personal-best 2:07.68 in the women’s 800 meters.
Schrempf pulled through with East-ern’s third fastest women’s 400 meters time at 54.01 and Marcineck had a per-sonal-best long jump leap of 18-6 for sec-ond place.
Payton Jordan Invitational While part of the team competed in
Kentucky, the rest of the team traveled to California on May 3 for another invita-tional where freshmen and senior Colo-nels stood out as well.
Senior Ole Hesselbjerg came in sev-enth against tough competition in the first heat of the men’s 3,000 meter stee-plechase, improving on his previous 8:33.78 time to 8:33.22. Hesselbjerg en-tered the race ranked No. 2 in the NCAA.
Freshman Jakob Dybdal Abrahamsen won the third heat of the steeplechase with a time of 8:40.44, a five second im-provement from his previous 8:45.13
time. Abrahamsen entered the race ranked No. 12 in the NCAA but his im-proved time could put him in the top-10.
Junior Amos Kosegy also competed for the Colonels and ran a 14:30.89 time
in the men’s 5,000 meters. Eastern will split up again May 15 and
16, between the Virginia Grand Prix and the Cardinal Twilight.
Eastern’s softball team will enter the OVC Tournament as a No. 5 seed after dropping a three-game series against Jacksonville State University on May 2 and 3.
The Colonels went 0-3 in the series after the Jacksonville State Gamecocks (30-27, 11-11 OVC) capitalized on major hitting to sweep the weekend.
Game One: Eastern 1 vs. Jacksonville 2
Though Eastern put the first run on the board and led for over five innings, the Gamecocks made a last-inning rally to win 2-1.
Freshman Sarah Jackson sparked the game in the first inning with a lead-off home run over left center for the Col-onels. The run kept the Colonels in the lead for the majority of the game until the Gamecocks made a comeback in the bottom of the final inning.
Jacksonville batters hit back-to-back singles in the seventh inning, as well as a run to tie the game. The Gamecocks then ended the game on a sacrifice fly to cen-ter field to score one last run.
Game Two: Eastern 2 vs. Jacksonville 10
The Colonels were forced into a walk-off, mercy rule loss in the second game
of the series as the Gamecocks went on to win 10-2.
Once again, Eastern started with the first run when freshman Paige Murphy hit an RBI single to take a 1-0 lead. Jack-sonville retaliated, however, with four runs in the next inning. The Gamecocks had an RBI single plus a two-run home run to take the lead by three.
Jacksonville then jumped ahead by four in the fourth inning with a bas-es-loaded walk. Another Gamecock two-run homer in the fifth inning put the Colonels behind by six.
Junior Sarah Fobbs put another run on the board for Eastern after hitting her eighth home run of the season in the sixth inning, but Jacksonville added three more runs after a home run and two RBI singles to move past the Colo-nels for good.
Jacksonville’s Whitney Gillespie held the Colonels to just two runs, struck out four Eastern batters and recorded zero walks.
Game Three: Eastern 0 vs. Jacksonville 9
The final game of the series lasted only five innings as the Colonels put up zero runs against Jacksonville’s nine runs.
In the first inning alone, the Game-cocks moved five runs across the plate. Jacksonville’s Melanie Steer started the runs off with a grand slam. Jacksonville then added three more runs in the sec-
ond inning with a solo homer and two-run double to move ahead by eight.
An Eastern error scored another Jack-sonville run and put the game complete-ly out of Eastern’s reach.
The Colonels finished the regular season with a 23-26, 13-10 OVC record.
Eastern entered the OVC Tournament in the No. 5 seed and played No. 4 seed Tennessee Tech University in the first round of the tournament, which began May 6 at Southern Illinois University Ed-wardsville’s field. Game coverage of the Colonels will be at easternprogress.com.
Colonels take five wins in Kentucky Relays
Slow bats doom Colonels in regular season finale
Baseball team drops OVC series despite early leadsEastern’s baseball team lost its three-game series
against Jacksonville State University May 1 through May 3 at Turkey Hughes Field. The Colonels dropped all three games in the series, losing each game to the Gamecocks (26-21) by at least two runs.
Game One: Eastern 5 vs. Jacksonville 7Junior Kyle Nowlin gave Eastern the lead in the
first inning, but it would not be enough as the Game-cocks came back to win the first game 7-5.
The Colonels were ahead by three runs in the third inning, two of which were credited to Nowlin. The other was on an RBI single by sophomore Shea Sullivan that scored junior TJ Alas. Jacksonville tied the game at 3-all in the fourth on scores by Gavin Golsan, Clayton Daniel and Paschal Petrongolo. The Gamecocks then took the lead in the fifth on a dou-ble by Daniel, bringing home Peyton Williams, mak-ing the score 4-3.
Eastern and Jacksonville traded runs the rest of the way, but the Colonels got no closer than two af-ter the fifth.
Game Two: Eastern 2 vs. Jacksonville 5The second game again saw the Colonels take an
early lead in the first inning, but again the Game-cocks came from behind to win 5-2.
Nowlin scored the first run for Eastern on a fly ball by Alas, giving them a 1-0 lead in the first. Jack-sonville tied the game in the fourth on an RBI single by Elliot McCummings, bringing home Ryan Sebra.
The game stayed tied until the seventh inning when Paschal Petrongolo singled to center field and scored two runners, Clayton Daniel and Hayden White, giving the Gamecocks a 3-1 lead. Eastern drew within one when junior Luke Wurzelbacher scored on a fly ball by Nowlin. Two runs in the ninth inning by Jacksonville, however, put the game out of Eastern’s reach.
Game Three: Eastern 13 vs. Jacksonville 16The final game of the series was a much higher
scoring game than the previous two, but the end re-sult was the same for the Colonels, a three-run loss to the Gamecocks, 16-13.
Nowlin scored Eastern’s third consecutive opening score on a solo home run in the first. Wurzelbach-er hit a home run of his own in the second, giving the Colonels a 2-1 lead. Jacksonville scored four con-secutive runs in the third inning to take a 5-2 lead, but Nowlin again hit a home run, this time a two-run shot to draw the Colonels within one.
A five-run fourth inning gave Eastern a 9-5 lead, but the Gamecocks answered with an eight-run fifth inning to take the lead 13-9. Eastern attempted an-other comeback in the eighth, scoring four more runs, but the runs stopped at 13, three runs short of the tie.
The Colonels (17-27) hit the road May 8 for a three-game series against Murray State University. Game one is set for 7 p.m.
By ASHLEY [email protected]
Senior Ole Hesselbjerg (12) finished seventh, May 3, in the Payton Jordan Invitational in the men’s 3,000 meter steeplechase. Hesselbjerg entered the race ranked No. 2 in the NCAA.
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By ASHLEY [email protected]
Junior Sarah Fobbs (13) recorded her eighth home run of the season, May 2, against Jacksonville State University. The run came in the sixth inning of game two in a three-game series.
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By TYLER [email protected]
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Junior Kyle Nowlin tied Eastern’s school record with three home runs in a single game, May 3, against Jacksonville State University. This makes the third time Nowlin has evened the record. Nowlin finished the game 3-for-6 with seven RBIs.
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Freshman plays in national hockey showcaseIt was the final game of the 2014 season
and freshman Corey Jenks was having his highlight game. Eastern’s club hockey team was playing Marshall University and Jenks not only had an assist, but also scored six goals himself. Lucky for the Tennessee na-tive, coaches sat throughout the crowd of this monumental game in search of show-case players.
One of those coaches included Flori-da Gulf Coast’s coach, who was impressed enough with Jenks that he asked Jenks to apply for the ACHA All Star Showcase. Jenks’ first reaction when the coach ap-proached him: This isn’t real.
“I was excited, but I didn’t believe it at first,” Jenks said.
Jenks moved past the initial shock, ap-plied and found himself on a flight to Phil-adelphia for a weekend showcase with play-ers from all over the world.
Players from Sweden, Finland, the Unit-ed States and anywhere in between showed up to play at the showcase. Jenks was one of a few select players to have this experience. Around 82 teams were put into the Divi-sion II Independent category and, of those teams, Jenks said about 23 people were chosen for the East Independent Division II team, Jenks being one of those people.
“It was a huge experience,” Jenks said. “I was practically the only kid from the south, besides these three kids from Florida Gulf Coast.”
Jenks’ team went 5-0 in the showcase, but Jenks is on a personal seven-game win-ning streak after Eastern’s hockey team won its last two games of the 2014 season.
Not only did players flock from all over the globe to play in the ACHA All Star Showcase, but people of all ages played as well.
“There were people from 18 to 24 or 25-years-old,” Jenks said.
The showcase of the environment was much like a typical hockey game, energet-ic and rowdy.
There’s no question of whether Jenks had a successful season and showcase. But, his success started long before he came to Eastern.
At just 4-years-old Jenks was learning
to play hockey. The game was in his blood, since his dad is from Michigan and started him in the sport. From there, Jenks moved on to high school where his team went on to play in the Tennessee state champion-ship.
Though they lost in the championship, Jenks said the experience only pushed him to work harder at the game.
“That just motivated me to become a better player,” Jenks said.
After high school, Eastern’s club hock-ey coach came across Jenks through an un-likely route, Eastern’s admissions office. Once head coach Joel Cormier heard about Jenks, he followed up on Jenks coming to Eastern. After a smooth recruiting process, Cormier recruited Jenks to Eastern’s team.
“It was one of the easiest recruiting pro-cesses I’ve had,” said Cormier, an associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
Jenks’ dedication goes beyond the ice. Cormier said the environmental science major works just as hard in school as he does on the team.
“He’s really dedicated to his studies,” Cormier said. “He’s the first one on the ice and the last one off. But, he’s also doing ev-erything he can to stay eligible for school. He’s been giving this opportunity to pur-sue a university and, as they say, he’s suck-ing the morrow right out of life. It’s unbe-lievable what he’s doing.”
The dedication Jenks puts into his work on the ice is one aspect Cormier said got him to the showcase.
“In this particular case, he’s just worked hard and has been recognized for it,” Cormier said. “That’s what’s so good about it. He’s talented, but he’s also a hard work-er.”
Cormier said the team expects around 10 players for the 2015 season and will be-gin playing Friday, September 18. As the team heads into the upcoming season, Cormier said he hopes Jenks’ showcase ex-perience sets off a reaction for the rest of the team.
“When trying to get a program started, you look for a spark,” said Cormier. “Hope-fully this will be just a little one, that peo-ple will see one of the players went on the national stage and fit in fine.”
By ASHLEY [email protected]
ABOVE: Freshman Corey Jenks (5) scored six goals in Eastern’s final club hockey game of the 2014 season and had one assist in the game against Marshall University.
RIGHT: Freshman Corey Jenks (5) and teammate Alex Melin (4) celebrate Jenks’ fifth goal out of six scored in Eastern’s final club hockey game against Marshall University.
PHOTO SUBMITTED BY COREY JENKS
PHOTO SUBMITTED BY COREY JENKS
