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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 28Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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WINDY CITY BOUNDThe Eastern men’s soccer team will head to Chicago to take on Big East opponent DePaul. Page 8
TRAVELING MANJose Antonio Rosa is a visiting professor from Wyoming participating in the American Coun-cil of Education fellows program.
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LEGISLATURE | REPRESENTATION
By Rosie SaccoStaff Reporter@DEN_News
The Student Action Team is looking to re-ceive applicants to lobby with them on behalf of Eastern Illinois University in Springfield starting Oct. 23.
Mitch Gurick, the student executive vice president who set up the team, said the Stu-dent Action Team raises awareness to causes important to students.
The goal of the Student Action Team is to lobby for Eastern issues.
Members will be working with students and Illinois’ legislatures alike for three main rea-sons: an increased budget for higher education, work on the Monetary Award Program grants and the growth of the proposed science build-ing at Eastern.
Specifically, the plan for the science building calls for an up-to-date facility where students and staff can study and work. The Life Scienc-es and Physical Sciences buildings are almost 80-years-old and have racked up $16 million in deferred maintenance.
Gurick noted Eastern receives the lowest general revenue funding appropriation per full time equivalent student, despite having the highest freshman-to-sophomore retention rate and the second highest graduation rate among Illinois public master’s comprehensive univer-sities.
“The legislatures listen to students, they see that we are taking action,” Gurick said. “I want to get students with a passion for the univer-sity.”
Before the creation of the Student Action Team, students within the senate created their own sub-groups to head to Springfield, Ill.
From there, they would meet with Eastern alumni working in the state’s capitol.
They have continuously lobbied with their mission of representing the expressed social and political interests of Eastern students, and they present those interests to the elected of-ficials.
Fighting for these current issues is not an easy task, Gurick said.
“If the state does not provide more money for higher education, the cost will get passed to students,” he said.
He has printed fliers, sent emails, spoken with the Black Student Union and will be speaking to a public relations class on why the need for student action is now.
“I want to get the word out,” he said.As of today, there are currently 13 appli-
cants, short of Gurick’s goal of 20. To be a part of the team, students do not
need to be a part of the senate. The requirements are to be in good standing
with the school, have a 2.5 GPA and attend the bimonthly meetings.
Applications for the Student Action Team can found on the student government website.
Rosie Sacco can be reached at 581-2812
Student Action Team to lobby for Eastern
By Marcus CurtisEntertainment Editor@DEN_News
The pop, punk and metal band Cheap Trick will perform Satur-day for students and their fam-ilies at Lantz Arena for Family Weekend.
Cheap Trick is recognized for blending elements from differ-ent genres such as pop, metal and even punk to create songs such as “Surrender,” “I Want You To Want Me,” and “In the Street,” also known as the theme song for the FOX original sitcom “That ‘70s Show.”
Rick Neilsen, the lead guitar-ist for Cheap Trick, said he hopes that everyone in attendance has a good time.
“Enjoy yourself, have fun,” Nielsen said. “Don’t hate us.”
The other members of the
band include Robin Zander, vo-cals and rhythm guitar; Tom Pe-tersson, bass guitar; and Bun E. Carlos, drums.
Despite the fact that Cheap Trick is a band from the 1970s, Nielsen said that he and the band perform for everyone from differ-
ent ages and different music in-terests.
“We play to different peo-ple all the time, and we play a diverse range of things we do,” Nielsen said. “We have a lot of old fans that’s followed us forev-er, but then we have just as many new fans and kids that come to see us.”
According to Nielson, Cheap Trick recently performed at a concert with a complete orchestra where they covered the Beatles’ “Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
Nielsen said performing at colleges is a chance for him and Cheap Trick to make an impact on the students that travel from different areas of the country.
Cheap Trick will be perform-ing in Chicago before their per-formance at Eastern.
Cheap Trick to perform at EasternFAMILY WEEKEND | ENTERTAINMENT
SUBMIT TED PhoToCheap Trick will be performing at 8 p.m. Saturay in Lantz Arena. Cheap Trick is a rock band from Rockford and was formed in 1973.
ChEAP TRICK, page 5
By Bob GaluskiNews Editor@DEN_News
Students, faculty and com-munity members gathered into Phipps Auditorium in the Physical Science Building Tuesday to com-munally find solutions to violence issues on-and-off campus.
Darius Holland, the vice pres-ident for Phi Rho Eta fraternity, led the “Is Race the Issue?” pan-el discussion. The fraternity mem-bers also were the ones who host-ed the discussion.
Although Holland said the pur-pose of the meeting was not to focus specifically on the recent “Barn Party” shooting, the is-sue and its after-effects took cen-ter stage throughout most of the panel.
Kendall Jackson, a junior family and consumer sciences major, said one solution to some of the vio-lence would be better planning of the parties off campus.
He said for a party the size of the “Barn Party,” more planning needed to be taken into account.
“It goes for any organization having an event like this,” he said. Jackson added that when mem-bers of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity realized how many people would be attending, they should have reached out to different areas for more security.
Jackson also spoke to the gath-ering about how things change ev-ery day for the university.
“People want to misconstrue the highlights with the negatives,” he said. Jackson explained every-thing from Eastern’s football team doing well to Eastern jumping up
in regional rankings was not all in-terconnected to the “Barn Party” incident.
Students also conveyed irrita-tion at the lack of metal detectors and security at everything but par-ties hosted at the Martin Luther
King Jr. University Union. Students who voiced their opin-
ions about security at other func-tions declined to give their names for identification purposes.
Spiraling off of the security at Union parties, a few of the people
at the panel expressed irritation at the Union parties being suspend-ed – a decision sent out by Dan Nadler, the vice president for stu-dent affairs, on Sept. 17.
Panel explores solutions to violence issues
PANEL, page 5
JASoN hoWELL | ThE DAILY EASTERN NEWSABOVE: Darius Holland, a graduate student in technology department and the vice president of the Phi Rho Eta Fraternity, takes questions during the “Is Race the Issue?” panel discus-sion Tuesday in the Phipps Lecture Hall in the Physical Science Building. RIGHT:Kendall Jackson, a junior family and consumer sciences major, asks questions and voices his opinion dur-ing the “Is Race the Issue” panel discus-sion Tuesday in the Phipps Lecture Hall in the Physical Sciences Building.
T h e Da i ly e a s T e r n n e w s | N E W S weDnesDay, sePT. 25, 2013
By Marissa Muskieviczstaff reporter@Den_news
Antique items will be on dis-play Saturday during the annu-al Antiques and Art Show at Osage Farms.
Diane Cole, the owner of Osage Antiques, will host the show from 8 a.m. to 3.p.m. Saturday.
It is free admission, and there will be items on sale that include antiques from 15 different antique dealers throughout the area, as well as handcrafted artworks.
There are fiber arts, jewelry, glass beads and pendants, textiles, and pottery available to purchase.
Cole said all of the antiques pre-sented are from no later than the 1960s.
The Antique and Art Show was started in the fall of 2006 as a way to showcase her antiques and a friends art, Cole said.
Karenlee Spencer, a friend of Cole’s, wanted to display her gourd art and Cole had been starting to collect antiques, so they decided to display the pieces together in a show.
Since then, the show has oc-curred the last Saturday of April and September.
One of Cole’s most interesting finds for this show is a mid-1800s five-gallon cobalt decorated stone-ware.
The jug is colored cobalt blue
with two gigantic Xs. She said after her research, she
found that this type of stoneware was made by slaves or made to con-tain poisonous material that should not be consumed.
“That was something new for us,” Cole said, adding that she is ea-ger to sell this item.
Another of Cole’s favorite an-tiques is a quilt that is completely homemade.
Cole said she picked up the quilt at an estate sale by a woman whose great grandmother created the quilt by hand.
She raised the sheep and then cleaned and wove the sheep’s wool into a blanket.
Cole said this handcrafted 1870s piece is on sale at the show for $150.
Hung outside of the 1850s log built Summer Kitchen, a cabin Cole purchased in Missouri and rebuilt next to the warehouse, are two 8 ft.-tall snowshoes.
Cole said she discovered that these snowshoes were made in Maine and used as an advertisement displayed on the outside of a fence at the end of a lane to show peo-ple that they could purchase snow-shoes there.
The pair of snowshoes is on sale for $700.
Cole and her husband Gary of-ten go on buying trips, traveling to many different states throughout the country.
“We especially like southern Indi-ana and Kentucky and upstate New York,” Cole said.
But they can obtain antiques any-where, she added.
“Sometimes people in the area call me,” Cole said.
People often call her to show an antique whether it is an item from a deceased grandparent or something they discovered in a basement.
The event Saturday will not only include antiques and art, but it will feature a live band, Big Blue Moun-tain.
There will also be food venders set up outside.
The entire art and antique show is set up in a warehouse under a roof in the event of bad weather.
The show is located at 6558 N. County Road 1320 E. in Charles-ton.
Marissa Muskievicz can be reached at 581-2812
c aMpus | residence hall association
RHA to announce ROCFest winner
Event showcases antiques
By Taylor McElroystaff reporter@Den_news
Residence Hall Association mem-bers plan on announcing the win-ner of ROCfest Thursday, along with starting elections for the vacant RHA treasurer position.
The meeting will take place this 5 p.m. Thursday in Ford Hall.
The treasurer position has been open since the start of the school year, and advisers on the board have been handling the duties of the position in the mean time.
Jordan Henderson, a sophomore mathematics and computer science major, and Kyle Anderson, a junior mathematics major, were nominated
for the position.Students interested in the position
who were not at the nominations will still be able to get nominated.
They will have be nominated at the meeting before they can potentially be elected.
Candidates must have had a 2.25 GPA and had a bid, which gives gen-eral information about the person, sent to the executive board members before the meeting.
While the election will be the main focus of the meeting, members of hall council will be attending for the an-nouncement winner of the weeklong event.
RHA Vice President Patrick Mor-row, a senior family and consum-er sciences major and co-planner of
ROCfest, explained that the event went well this year, but he already has some changes in mind for next year.
Beginning Sept. 16 and finishing on Sept. 20, ROCfest is a competi-tion amongst the residents of each of the residence halls.
Throughout the week, students had to keep their eyes peeled for "Panther Babies” hidden all around campus. Each Panther Baby has a code which grants that residence hall points.
On September 19, each team headed down to Campus Pond for a three-lap homemade boat race. Each boat was made out of strictly card-board and duct tape.
Weller Hall took first place at the races, with McKinney Hall and Law-son coming in second and third.
Morrow said the RHA is always improving the experience.
“This year, we added a community service aspect,” Morrow said. “Every team gets points for bringing in and donating items to a non-profit organi-zation, Camp New Hope.”
While Weller Hall has been the winner for the last four years, every-one has their fingers crossed for their residence hall to be called champions during the meeting. The winner gets the name of their hall signed on a gui-tar that is used as a trophy and brag-ging rights for the rest of the year.
Taylor McElroy can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
• Jonay Gaines, 20, of 29 Michael Road, Park Forest, Ill., was arrested at University Court at 11:19 p.m. Friday. She was charged with pos-session of cannabis of less than 2.5 grams and possession of drug para-phernalia. She was released at 11:31 p.m. after posting 10 percent of a $1,000 bond.
• A theft was reported at 4:56 p.m. Saturday at Douglas Hall. This incident is under investigation.
• A theft was reported at 1 p.m. Saturday at Booth Library. This inci-dent is under investigation.
• Derek Porter of 612 Greenbri-ar Court, Charleston, was arrested at James Drive. He was charged with a DUI-Alcohol and was released at 12:07 a.m. after posting 10 percent of a $1,000 bond.
• Brittany Martin, 23, 11941 S. Millard Ave., Apt. 205C, Alsip, Ill., Danny Thomas, 24, 3211 Char-lemagne, Hazel Crest, Ill., Darrion Barron, 8619 S. Yates Blvd., Chica-go, Ill., and Sade Martin, 20, 17537 Mulberry Ave., Country Club Hills, Ill., were arrested at Universi-ty Apartments at 12:01 a.m. Mon-day. They were all charged with pos-session of cannabis, 2.5 gm-10 gm, with intent to deliver on school grounds. They were released to the Coles County Sheriff ’s Office at 12:15 a.m., pending court appear-ances to determine bond.
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Wyoming professor shadows Eastern administratorsBy olivia DiggsStaff reporter@DEN_NEWS
A fellowship program that prepares emerg-ing collegiate leaders for administrative roles has placed a University of Wyoming profes-sor on Eastern’s campus.
Jose Antonio Rosa, a professor of market-ing and sustainable business practices at the University of Wyoming, is one of 50 Ameri-can Council of Education fellows across the nation this year.
The ACE is a leadership development pro-gram that has produced more than 1,800 vice presidents, deans, department chairs, faculty and other emerging leaders since its start in 1965.
“The idea is to place us with either the president or a vice president to shadow them through a nine month period,” Rosa said.
Rosa was placed in the Vice President of Academic Affairs office and shadows both President Bill Perry and Blair Lord, provost and vice president for student affairs.
Through introspection, Rosa decided ad-ministration was the next step in his profes-sional career.
He completed his undergraduate degree at the General Motors Institute and his MBA at Dartmouth College and worked in the auto industry before getting a Ph.D. in mar-keting from the University of Michigan.
He had a wife and a couple of kids while going through the program and lived in pov-erty for five years. He started teaching at the University of Illinois in 1992, where he raised two sons before taking a job as a pro-fessor at University of Wyoming.
“As I was gett ing older, I was s low-ing down and didn’t want to become dead wood,” Rosa said.
Rosa compared his role at U of W to be-ing a basketball player; he said he wanted to retire from professorial work while still “on top.”
“You don’t want to be the guy still playing ball and messing it up,” Rosa said.
Rosa heard about the ACE fellow program 10 years ago from a Ph.D student who went through the program previously but didn’t think about taking the opportunity until last year.
Rosa explained that getting selected is a pretty extensive process complete with a day’s worth of interviews to get into the pro-gram and then a process to identify which schools each fellow is interested in being placed at.
Each day, he has at least two meetings al-ready scheduled, in addition to formulating new project ideas, which he proposes to the provost and president.
Rosa has also been featured in a TED talk called “Hope and Innovation,” a speech detailing his research of poverty and sustainable consumption.
“I would go into the slums and find out how people are making decisions,” he said. “The poor are very sustainabili-ty-oriented and try to repurpose items.”
He said many of the people he studied were often more concerned about short-term questions than anything, questions like: “Am I going to have enough mon-ey tonight to run my business tomorrow? Am I going to have enough money to feed my children tonight and tomor-row?”
Rosa wanted to be located at a pub-lic institution like the University of Wyoming and said his goal is to be-come vice president of Research and Economic Development at a university.
He said as a faculty member, he did not realize all of the issues administra-tors have to deal with, but also said he believes he will deliver value to during his time here.
“I have learned so much already and have only been here four weeks. I go to so many meetings that the president and the provost have,” he said. “Issues including the faculty union, the bal-ance between the economic require-ments, reality of the budget and deal-ing with the state requirements.”
Rosa said he believes both President Perry and Provost Lord are good thinkers who love the university.
“They agonize in the hardships and re-joice in the victories,” he said.
Olivia Diggs can be reached at 581-2812
or at [email protected].
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olivia Diggs | The Daily easTern ne wsJose Antonio rosa, a professor of marketing and sustainable business practices at the University of Wyoming, is at Eastern as one of 50 American Council on Educa-tion Fellows. rosa will be at Eastern this school year to build leadership in higher education.
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Our POSiTiOn • Situation: “Teen Mom” star Maci Book-out gave a lecture Monday in the Grand Ball-room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union to an audience of more than 500 stu-dents. • Stance: The event was successful and Bookout delivered a positive message, but students should be willing to attend evvens that are not headlined by a reality TV star.
Letter to the Editor
Downen’s article shows balance
Numbers on a page, just sitting there, not really adding up to much but just that: figures unrelated to actual people, actual feelings.
Scrolling through the endless amounts of data, it is easy to see disconnect between numbers and feelings in any statistical records.
A disconnect present until it hits home, and when it does, it brings with it a terribly thun-derous force and a horribly wretched aftermath.
Coming home late Friday evening after working, I found myself in the middle of no longer viewing statistics with cold, disinterested passing, but instead in a world where statistics and facts no longer mattered.
I had been in touch with several officials throughout the week who had assured me to the safety of the city and campus.
And yet, arriving home and finding the locks to my Jeep jimmied, the contents inside strewn about, it didn’t matter what the statis-tics said: I had a cloud of uneasiness hovering over my head.
What had been stolen were a few electron-ic items, including my GPS – thank God they didn’t take the Steely Dan CD in my glove box – and nothing else. But it was enough for me to no longer see crime statistics as just num-bers.
I was no longer a casual reader of numbers. I was in the jungle, baby, as I’ve heard. Sexual assault survivors, robbery victims,
cancer patients and everything else in between can all be viewed as just a number per year, per quarter, per whatever. But when it happens to you, the last thing you want to feel like is a just
a number or a percentage. Looking at the world as more than just black
and white figures on a document will propel you into a deeper understanding of people.
Yeah, people – not numbers, or facts or rows and columns of useless data. I’m talking about real people, with real emotions, with real lives.
Maybe we should spend less time staring at documents telling us what percentage of what person had something happen to them, and a little more time figuring out how to solve these situations.
It does us no good to just know about the facts and figures – this goes for any kind of negative occurrence, not just crime – but that time might just be better spent remembering those little numbers are fellow humans, and maybe helping them out isn’t the worst thing in the world.
Bob Galuski is a senior English and journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812
This and stat: Looking at the bigger picture
Congratulations on Robert Downen’s important and balanced story, “State rep. to promote Illinois Amendment,” in the Sept. 10, 2013 issue of the DEN on the fight over Illinois tax policy.
As one who attended the excellent presen-tations by Naomi Jackobsson and Ralph Mar-tire here last Thursday, I would like to draw atten-tion to one crucial aspect of the crisis that Marti-tre emphasized.
The driver of the problem is excessive debt, itself the result of state governments (Republi-cans and Democrats both) borrowing reckless-ly against our pension funds instead of paying (as we, the ordinary public servants and taxpay-ers were doing) what they were legally obliged to pay. As anyone who has ever used a credit card recklessly well knows, this soon creates a Debt Monster, voraciously gobbling up more and more of your resources.
Ralph Martire showed clearly in his PowerPoint (now available to those who want to see it) how since 2000 spending on basic public services (edu-cation, health care, public safety and human ser-vices) in Illinois has gone down 23% when you adjust for inflation. It has already been cut to the bone, some areas much more than others. Higher education has been cut 40%, which helps explain why your families are having to spend more. What has gone steadily up is spending to service the debt. The General Fund Budget for this year (FY2014) is about $35 billion; almost a third of that ($11 billion) is paying interest on the debt.
Even scarier are Martire’s projections. Unless tax policy is changed to bring in a reliable rev-enue stream, whose burden is fairly distribut-ed, and the state can begin to fill in the debt hole and tame the Monster, things will continue to get worse, and sooner rather than later. The good news is that the problem can be fixed.
Illinois has the fifth largest economy in the country; if we were an independent nation it would be the 19th largest in the world. Repre-sentative Jakobsson’s plan offers one model to fix it, based on a progressive income tax, that looks to me both fair and effective. Ralph Mar-tire agrees that it could help, although he argues that a tax on services (as in states on our borders) would be the most realistic adjustment to overall changes in the economy since the 1970s, when the present tax policies were set.
Entrepreneurship and job creation are doing very well now in places like New York and Califor-nia, which have progressive income taxes and tax policies like those recommended by Martire’s orga-nization. Let’s do in the Debt Monster and support Representative Jakobsson’s courageous initiative.
Bailey K. Young, History Professor
College is about more than reality TVWith more than 500 people attending the University Board-sponsored
event centering around “Teen Mom” star Maci Bookout, it was a success; however, the celebrity status seemed to be the main draw rather than the message.
Bookout lectured Monday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union.
She gave a genuine account of her person-al hardships, and delivered a message focused on individuals following their dreams, being their own person and never giving up on life.
This is a positive message and one many college students could find uplifting.
Melanie Kaderabek, the UB lectures coor-dinator, said in Monday’s edition of The Dai-ly Eastern News she chose Bookout because she thought everything the reality star had accomplished was inspiring and could inspire Eastern students.
“Bad things happen to college students, but they shouldn’t let it drag them down,” Kaderabek said. “Instead, they should be motivated to do bet-ter by whatever bad things may happen.”
This is an excellent criterion to pick a speaker for lectures at Eastern, and it is apparent that the prospect of Bookout speaking resonated with a signifi-cant amount of students.
That being said, Bookout’s main appeal does not seem to be her message or her speaking ability, but rather her status as a reality star.
While there is nothing wrong with this, students and other members of the Eastern community are missing out if they only attend events featuring
people they have seen on TV.There are hundreds of other events on Eastern’s campus each semester
that deliver inspirational and educational messages, as well as offer stories of overcoming hardships.
Reporters from The News who have attended these events often find they learned something new or related to the message in some way. However, many of these events and lectures have suffered from poor attendance in the past.
This is disappointing. Past lectures and events have had a wealth of knowledge and experience waiting for students to take an interest.
It is understandable that many fans of “Teen Mom” would be interested in meeting a recent participant. It is also understandable that many community members likely attended the lecture simply because they recog-nized the “Teen Mom” name.
This type of thing is likely to catch people’s interest, but students should also be willing to give something
more unknown a chance.Nearly every academic department has had speakers more qualified than
Bookout to speak about life in general and about a specific field of academ-ic study.
As students of an institute of higher learning, this is the time to be trying new things and challenging one’s mind. This is why students should be here in the first place.
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According to Nielsen, the hotels here in Charleston were booked, which forced the band to have to stay in a ho-tel in Indiana the night before the concert.
“The hotels are all booked, so we have to stay in Indiana or some place the night before,” Nielsen said. “That’s disappoint-ing.”
Nielsen also said after the show is over, he would be driv-ing back home.
“After the show, I’m driving back to Rockford,” Nielsen said.
Cheap Trick will perform Sat-urday at 8 p.m. at Lantz Arena after the Italian Dinner in the Grand Ballroom inside the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Ticket Office across from the Food Court in the Union. All seats are reserved.
Marcus Curtis can be reached at 581-2812
A ‘wicket’ game of croquet
JAson HowEll | THE DAIly EAsTERn nE wsAdam Gann, a sophomore physics major, attempts to get his ball through the wicket during a game of croquet on the Library Quad on Tuesday. The study abroad office hosted the game, which originated in England.
The email stated Union par-ties would be suspended in-definitely; however, President Bill Perry later clarified that statement. Perry said parties, which were not specified only to Union parties, would resume after a task force reviewed and revised safety policies.
Perry had also said he ex-pected the revised policies Wednesday, with enactment of those policies Thursday.
Cordy Love, the assistant director of New Student Pro-grams, explained to those at-tending that it was in fact a campus-wide pause on late-night activities.
“It doesn’t hurt to take a step back and re-evaluate,” he said.
Holland said he would like to see more issues become lon-ger focused. He opened the floor for discussion about how to keep issues important to the
community more pertinent. Holland said he felt like peo-
ple, when issues first arose, were initially angry, but soon after the anger went away, so did the issue.
“You want to be angry, but you can’t find a solution angry,” Holland said.
Students also spoke about the media coverage of the “Barn Party” shooting and how it had been covered for more than a week. However, the stu-dents who spoke declined to give their names for identifica-tion purposes.
Holland said he had invited Perry to attend the panel; how-ever, because of previous ob-ligations, Perry could not be there.
Holland had said he antici-pated more than 100 people to attend the panel discussion, in-cluding members of Phi Rho
Eta and Student Publications, but there were only approxi-mately 20 attendants.
Despite the lower-than-ex-pected turnout, Holland said he still felt as if progress had been made.
Holland added that although the “Barn Party” was a big por-tion of the panel, it was help-ful.
“We’re trying to find a so-lution so another incident like that won’t happen again,” he said.
He said the panel was all about just trying to come to some sort of conclusion for what solutions should be.
“A lot of people point fingers instead of finding solutions,” Holland said.
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812
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STAT ATTACK
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Stat Attack is a weekly feature that highlights the key statistics of sporting events. This week, we feature football, rugby and women’s soccer.
9The Eastern football team has missed nine combined extra point attempts and field goals through four games this season. The Panthers have missed six extra points and three field goals, on either botched snaps, fumbles or missed kicks. Kicker Cameron Berra is 17-of-23 for extra points and 3-of-6 for field goals this season. Berra won the Ohio Valley Conference Special Teams of the Year in 2012.
The Eastern rugby team has lost its first four games of the season. That is the most losses the Panthers have had in a single season since 2001when they finished 5-4 overall. That was Frank Graziano’s third season as the Panthers’ head coach, and one season before Eastern entered Division I for rugby. Graziano has recorded four or more losses four times in his 14-year career. He went 5-4 in 2000 and 8-4 in his first season in 1999.
29770The Eastern women’s soccer team
had a scoreless drought of 770 minutes. The Panthers scored their first goal of the season in the 21st minute of the season-opener. The they went seven games without a goal until forward Hannah Miller scored in the ninth game this season in Eastern’s 2-1 loss to Valparaiso Sunday. Eastern is ranked last among the Ohio Valley Conference with .022 goals per game.
Eastern wide receiver Adam Drake has caught 29 passes in four games this season. He is second in the Ohio Valley Conference only to teammate Erik Lora. Drake already has eclipsed his total receptions from the last two seasons (24). His 430 yards and six touchdowns have also surpassed his previous career totals of 353 and one.
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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: #EIU men’s soccer takes on DePaul Wednesday in Chicago.
mEn’s soccEr | preview
AmAnDA wILkInson | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE wsJake Brillhart, a junior midfielder, battles for the ball against Brian Heimerdinger, a western Michigan midfielder, at Lakeside Field on Sept. 15. The pan-thers lost against the Broncos 3-1.
goLf | recap
Eastern to take on DePaul
By michael spencerStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports
The Eastern men’s soccer team will travel to Chicago to take on DePaul Wednesday.
The midweek matchup comes off the back of a weekend that saw East-ern go 0-1-1 in the Evansville Classic, remaining winless as its record moved to 0-5-1.
DePaul has an extra day of rest, having last played Saturday while Eastern was on the field Sunday against Evansville.
Eastern coach Adam Howarth gave his team the day off from formal
practice Monday and said his team has gotten what it needs out of prac-tice on Tuesday.
“I think we’re as prepared as we can be for a mid-week game,” How-arth said. “We’ve done everything we needed to do in terms of preparation. At this point, we’re really worrying about ourselves.”
One thing Eastern will not have to worry about is injuries as the team have returned all its players from in-jury, including red-shirt sophomore Garet Christianson, who returned from an ankle injury this weekend to score three goals in two matches.
The position battle for goalkeeper was on this week with red-shirt fresh-man Ben Feltes collecting two starts over the weekend.
Howarth said he is evaluating the goalkeepers on a daily basis and fo-cusing mainly on which goalkeeper is in the better form. He did not say who would start against DePaul.
Howarth said he will start his strongest group in Chicago but looks to rotate players in so they are fresh for the first match of Summit League play against IUPUI.
DePaul (2-4-1) defeated Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Saturday 2-0 for its second win of the season.
The Blue Demons are led by se-nior goalkeeper Eric Sorby who has let up less than a goal per game this season and was selected as Big East Goalkeeper of the Week for his per-formance against Edwardsville and Drake. He kept shutouts in both matches.
The goal scoring against Edwards-ville was done by freshman forward Erik Rodriguez who opened his colle-giate account against the Salukis.
DePaul lost in its first match of the regular season against the Universi-ty of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the team that Eastern tied 4-4 in Evansville.
However, Eastern’s only matchup
with a team from the Big East con-ference this season ended in a 4-0 de-feat at the hands of Butler in India-napolis.
“They’re going to be aggressive from a defensive standpoint and an attacking standpoint,” Howarth said of the Blue Demons. “We need to make sure we are smart on defen-sive set-pieces and make sure that we clear the ball.”
Eastern and DePaul will both meet in the final match before the teams are scheduled to begin conference play.
The Panthers will play four of their six Summit League matches over the next month.
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Winless Panthers to battle against Big East foe
By Bob reynoldsStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports
The Eastern rugby team has lost four games in a row for the first time since Frank Graziano has been the Panthers’ coach.
Senior Shelby Pi lch said she knows how frustrating the losing streak is to her and her team but said her team is going to remain positive.
“It is part of the process; it is who we are, and we are going to have to accept that,” she said. “We know things will turn around for us, we are just unsure when. There is no room for negativity on the team.”
With the Panthers having five
games left, there is still a chance for them to have a winning record.
Coach Graziano said he knows that the next game is the most im-portant.
“We have got two weeks before the Davenport game, and if you get your win, you still have a shot at winning out,” he said. “If you lose, you have a losing season staring you in the face.”
Graziano added that he is going to emphasize to the team that this is a critical part of the season and for the next two weeks the Pan-thers have to turn it around now.
He told the team that they are going to go all-out in practice the next couple weeks to get things back on track.
With the fourth loss in a row,
Graziano said he is not going to give up on the girls.
“I respect them too much for trying to do all this,” he said. “I always owe them my best every day in practice. If this makes me a better coach and I can continue to remain positive and continue to teach, it has a lot of value to me. It certainly has value to the girls.”
Pilch said the veterans on her team have to keep a positive atti-tude all the time and let the new-comers know it is OK to get frus-trated, and it is ok to make mis-takes.
“Failure creates success,” she said. “The key is to keep constant-ly working on the things hold-ing us back. It is our job as veter-ans to lead them in the right direc-
tions through our actions and our words.”
The Panthers have four tries all season and have an average losing margin of 35 points per game.
Pilch said the team has to focus on winning like they know how.
“It’s never an easy thing to go through a losing streak, especial-ly when you know you have the abi l i ty and the ta lent to win,” Pilch said. “We all know that soon enough we will not have to deal with what we are dealing with right now. We have to show up at prac-tice, and we have to show up on Saturday’s. It is that simple.”
Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812
rugBY | recap
Team remains positive despite losses
Panthers finish low at meetsBy Dan HildebrandtStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports
Both of Eastern’s golf teams wrapped up their tournaments on Tuesday with the women taking eighth place out of 10 teams at the SIUE Fall Invitational and the men taking fourth place out of five teams at the Chicago State Fall In-vitational.
For the women’s team, Tiffany Wolf finished with the best score on the team and tied for 39th with the rest of the field shooting a score of 173 over two days.
Second on the team and 43rd in the field was freshman Erica Von Itter trail-ing Wolf by one stroke.
Seniors Emily Fitzgerald and Elyse Banovic tied for third best score on the team and 44th with the rest of the field shooting two-day scores of 175.
Freshman Lexi Hammerton took fifth place on the team and 49th in the field with a score of 179.
Elyse Banovic was unhappy with the team’s overall performance.
“We didn’t do very well,” she said. “We can do a lot better, and we know it. Everyone made some bad decisions or made silly mistakes. We need to eliminate this as a team.”
She hopes that this tournament will show the team how important it is to stay focused.
“This shows that we need to keep our focus, no matter what,” Banovic said.
With Eastern finishing eighth shoot-ing +119, Valparaiso, Lipscomb and SIU Edwardsville took first, second and third, respectively.
The women’s team hits the course again Oct. 6-8 for the Butler Fall Invi-tational at Highland Country Club in Indianapolis.
For the men’s team, leading the team with a score of 150 was Austin Sproles. Sproles finished tied for ninth in the field.
Behind Sproles and finishing 12th in the field was Brady Welsh shooting a 151.
Five strokes behind Welsh and 17th in the field was freshman Ryan Hughes with a score of 156.
Oscar Borda was fourth on the team and tied for 27th with the field shoot-ing a 162.
Taking fifth place on the team was freshman Daniel Hughes, shooting 166 leaving him at 32nd with the field.
Sproles thinks the team can play bet-ter and will need to work on some ar-eas in order to compete in future tour-naments. Avoiding big scores seems to be a major area the team needs to work on.
“As a team, we didn’t play that great,” he said. “I think we can defi-nitely improve. We can definitely take some things from this tournament and work on our weaknesses to improve. We need to keep the big numbers off the card.”
With Eastern taking fourth shooting a 619, Green Bay took home first place honors shooting a team score of 592.
The men will get back on the course Sept. 27-29 when they travel up to Lemont, Ill. for the DePaul Fall Invita-tional at Ruffled Feathers Golf Course.
Dan Hildebrandt can be reached at 581-2812
