Issue No. 138, Vol. 96

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Fate of BOT in Quinn’s handsBy Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

All five members of the East-ern Board of Trustees may be re-moved from their positions be-cause of a new amendment to the Illinois Governmental Eth-ics Act.

Public Act 097-0582, which took effect on Aug. 26, states that all appointments made by the governor whose terms have since expired will be vacated from their positions by Oct. 25.

The governor appoints each member of the Board of Trust-ees and they serve six-year terms.

President Bill Perry said Board of Trustees members can still serve on the board even though their term has expired, but this new public act requires action by Gov. Quinn.

“It is entirely up to the gover-nor and there is a potential for significant change,” Perry said. “We are just waiting on the gov-ernor’s action.”

The terms of each of the five Eastern Board of Trustees mem-bers have expired.

Board of Trustees members Robert Webb, Roger Kratochvil and Leo Welch were appointed in August 2004.

Trustee William O’Rourke was appointed in June 2005, and trustee Julie Nimmons was appointed in April 2001.

According to the amendment to the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, unless the governor makes appointments by Tues-day, Eastern could be without a functioning Board of Trustees.

Webb, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said at this point no one knows what could transpire

from this new law.“The situation is in the hands

of Governor Quinn,” Webb said. “We have not received con-tact by the governor about this, but I assume reappointments will be made before (Oct. 25). I suppose if he chooses to make appointments beyond that date he could, but no one knows be-cause this legislation has never been in effect before.”

According to Section 10-15 of Eastern Illinois University Law, “The Board shall consist of 7 voting members appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen-ate, and one voting member who is a student at Eastern Illi-nois University.”

Perry said there is certainly potential for new board mem-bership because there are two vacant positions on the Board of Trustees.

In June 2005, Roger Dettro, former mayor of Mattoon, re-signed from the Board of Trust-ees and his position has been open since then. The other va-cant position opened when Trustee Donald Yost resigned in April.

The next Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for Nov. 18.

“Assuming appointments and reappointments will be made before (Oct. 25), even though the (Illinois) Senate may not give confirmation by (Nov. 18), I would presume that whoever is appointed would meet on the 18th,” Webb said.

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812 or

[email protected].

HOMECOMING PAR ADE

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSThe Eastern Illinois University Marching Band takes formation on 7th Street before marching in the Homecoming Parade Sat-urday. The parade started on 7th Street and ended in the tailgate area outside of O’Brien Field.

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Unique stories emerge from paradeBy Sara Hall City Editor

Timothy Lazzara and Natalie Bronge have attended Eastern’s previous home-coming parades, but this year was different.

While Bronge thought they were com-ing back for the parade as a way to kick off the Homecoming festivities, she was caught off guard when Lazzara got down on one knee to propose to her outside of Old Main.

“I had no idea he was going to do it,” she said.

Lazzara said he had been planning on proposing to Bronge, an accounting grad-uate in 2009, for quite a while, but wanted to wait until being back at Eastern before popping the question.

“We met down here, so I knew I wanted

to do it here,” he said. “I thought the eas-iest way to get here without suspicion was to do it during homecoming.”

Lazzara, a hospitality management grad-uate in 2008, said he chose the spot be-cause it was in front of the couple’s favorite trees, a place they passed by every day on their way to classes.

Lazzra and Bronge, who currently live in Melrose Park and Gurnee, respectively, have been dating for five years.

Their Homecoming engagement even brought Lazzara’s family back to Eastern.

Lazzra’s parents, Carol and Ron, said they left at 4 a.m. on Saturday to make the trip down to see the engagement.

“We’re very happy for them,” Carol said. “We’re glad he finally did it.”

While Lazzara and Bronge’s story is an once-in-a-lifetime homecoming parade

moment, other alumni and Eastern sup-porters said they come back as part of a yearly tradition.

Eastern alums Jack and Ann Payan said they collectively have only missed three pa-rades since 1946.

Jack said he was the first in his family to attend college so coming back to watch the parade and attend Homecoming events at Eastern gives him a certain sense of pride.

“When I look at Old Main, I just get that warm fuzzy feeling,” he said.

Jack said that throughout the years, the couple has witnessed the parade being per-formed in all types of weather.

“We’ve seen the parade when there’s been snow, it’s been 95 degrees, and it’s been rain-ing,” he said. “We’ve seen it all.”

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By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

Clowns, princesses, farmers and other creatures performed for an audience that was dressed in Hal-loween costumes Sunday.

The Eastern Symphony Orchestra sponsored their annual “Fright Night” to entertain children, parents, and students with music and videos. Mem-bers of the audience and orchestra were dressed in Halloween costumes.

The orchestra played music that was originally performed during the play of Peer Gynt written by Henrik Ibsen, with music from Edvard Grieg.

The composition “Peer Gynt Suite I; Opus 46” is made up of four sections that tell the different parts of the main character of the play, Peer Gynt’s life.

Richard Rossi, director of Eastern Symphony Orchestra and choral activities, presented himself as Peer Gynt, and explained Gynt’s life and adventures presented by the music.

During the first section of the suite, “Morgen-stimmung (Morning Mood)” Rossi explained how he ran away from home, and how this composition and the video of flowers, moun-

tains and scenery, showed his adventures to the mountains.

For “Ases Tod (The Death of Ase)” Rossi, as Gynt, told of his return home and his selfishness towards his mother and his feelings after her death.

“Anitras Tanz (Anitra’s Dance)” was the story of a dance Gynt saw from a beautiful woman in North Africa.

“In der Halle des Bergkönig (In the Hall of the Mountain King)” was the story of Gynt’s escape from the king of Troll who wanted Gynt to mar-ry his daughter.

Rossi said he liked playing the part of Peer Gynt.

“It’s the favorite I’ve done so far,” Rossi said. “I just had to be myself and act like a big kid like I do all the time. It was just fun, getting to be myself.”

The orchestra had special guest from the Sym-phonic Honors Initiative Program. This program is an outreach program to provide high school and middle school children with the experience of an orchestra performance.

The members of SHIP performed a variation of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” by Shinichi Su-uki, “Humoresque” by Antonin Dvorak and ar-

ranged by Elaine Fine, “Bourree” by George Fred-eric Handel and “Fandango” by Michael McLean.

The members performed by themselves, with-out the help of the symphony orchestra.

This performance was followed by 48 children participated in a costume contest and were judged for the scariest costume, best cartoon costume, the prettiest costume, the best historical costume and the most original costume.

The children were also invited on stage for the last section of the show “A Night at the Movies” where the orchestra played the theme song to “The Lost World” by John Williams and arranged by John Moss.

Lexi Lenart, 7, said she was sad when the dino-saur wrecked everything in the video that accom-panied the orchestra.

Rossi said he thinks it is fun for the children to be on stage with the music.

“We try to have a “Night at the Movies” so they can make a connection to something they may have seen,” Rossi said. “They can sit on the stage with the orchestra and feel the music under their feet.”

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Spring is a season that brings a re-freshing smell into the air as the trees be-gin to bud and the winter chills become dormant. It is a time for new life to see the wonders of Charleston. With new life comes new ambitions. New ambitions mean new music, and for Charleston that means new events.

A fresh take on the Charleston festival scene is exactly what Scott Chaplinski has been planning for nearly a year with the event Square Fest.

“I started thinking in February that it was about time to get it going with every-thing going on with Celebration, Wood-chuck Music Festival, there’s finals, there’s Easter. I realized it was crunch time to get it going,” Chaplinski said.

Square Fest will begin at 2 p.m. Sat-urday through 1 a.m. Sunday. The event will take place on Charleston’s square at the bars Mother’s, Friends & Co., Mac’s Uptowner and Top of the Roc. The event will cost $12 and allow patrons 21 and over admittance into any of the bars and performances.

Chaplinski said getting the bars in-volved was the first part of organizing the event, and after he explained the potential benefits they jumped on board.

“I kind of just threw it out there,” Chaplinski said. “They’ve given me good ideas, and they appreciate the ideas that I have. They’ve been very helpful with ev-erything I’ve been doing.”

Chaplinski has been wanting to get the bars involved with a festival event for more than year and said he feels that now was the best time to bring it all together.

“We are hoping it brings a lot of busi-ness to the square,” Chaplinski said. “We hope it is going to be a nicer day. It’s a good window of a month and a half of good weather to show all these people,

‘Hey there are all these other great bars in town, and not just the ones near Lincoln (Avenue.).”

Many of the featured acts will be Charleston based groups such as Mug-wump Specific, Andy Van Slyke and Staff Blues Band while others such as DJ Illith, Poundcake and Ryan Arnold stem from locations throughout the state.

“I figure this was a great networking opportunity for a lot of bands,” Chaplins-ki said. “We are pulling in bands from the Kankakee area, and some musicians from Champaign area. It’s bands that I like, and I know that other people (like).”

Chaplinski said most of them are younger bands that have only been play-ing for a year or two and that many times a band that has been playing for four to five years need a guarantee that they are getting paid.

“Having never done anything like this before I didn’t want to make promises to a bunch of people that I can’t fulfill.” Chap-linski said.

In fact, much of the money for pro-ducing the event was saved up by Chap-linski himself. He hopes that the $12 cov-er is enough to give some of the traveling bands money to cover their gas costs and without being too high to deter college students and community members from coming out.

One local musician, Mitch Davis, a senior management information sys-tems major, saod he plans on showing the crowd some new tunes to commemorate the new event.

“I mainly like to get people dancing, but I also play some more chill stuff,” Davis said. “I don’t want people to get burnt out, so I’ll make new songs before the shows. New shows get me motivated to make new songs. (Square Fest) is go-ing to be so new. There’s going to be so many different people playing at so many different bars. I don’t really know what to

expect. That’s why I am expecting to play in front of a totally new crowd, so I really got to try to pump people up.”

With a wide variety of performances including blues, rock, jam band, electron-ic and rap everyone is beginning to de-velop expectations for the new event and Chaplinski is no different.

“I want to be able to be out on the square, outside the bars and see people

having a good time,” Chaplinski said. “I want to hear, sort of over-hear, what they did like and what they didn’t like. I just think there will be a lot of good vibes coming. Perfect conditions for me, is hearing that people had a great time.”

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

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Mitch Davis, a senior management information systems major, rehearses new songs and freshens up on older material Wednesday evening in his home as he prepares for today’s Square Fest event.

Square Fest provides stage for new music, new bands and new surroundings

By Brad YorkVerge Editor

Jackson Avenue Coffee (J.A.C.) is a location to go blow-off steam, study for hours on end and socialize as the creamy fragrance of lattes, cappuccinos and hot chocolates stream though the air.

J.A.C., located at 708 Jackson Ave., may sound like an unusual place for a concert setting, but Dan Reible believes it is the perfect location for live music that has not been offered to Charleston in some time.

“In the Charleston area there is no place to relax and listen to music except for a bar,” Reible said. “I’d like a place where people can come relax, have a cup of coffee, sandwich, bagel and take it easy and listen to some good acoustic music.”

Reible and his wife Vicki are currently shuffling through papers in order to become the rightful owners of J.A.C.

Reible moved to Mattoon in 1984 after serving in the Navy and soon became a truck driver, traveling the nation with his wife.

Reible has played for various bands in the past and mentioned to his friend, Ryan Dawson and the current owner of J.A.C., he was looking for a place to host weekly concerts on Saturday evenings.

Dawson then asked Reible if he ever pictured himself owning a café. Reible expressed an interest, and soon, Dawson offered to sell the business.

Dawson said the Reibles’ have been his customers since J.A.C. opened nearly eight years ago.

“I planned on going back to school this summer to complete a degree in teacher’s certification,” Dawson said. “We were ready to move on to new things. I figured it is best not to run anything into the ground, so I offered to sell the place.”

Dawson has high hopes for

the future of J.A.C. and feels as as though hosting live musicians every Saturday night is only the beginning of the growth J.A.C. will see.

The first Saturday night performer will be “Reverend” Robert Reynolds Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. at J.A.C.

None of the performances will come with a cover cost, but instead a hat will be passed around around for donations, which go entirely to the artist.

Robert Reynolds is a musician who plays blues music from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ’40s, and is glad Reible is opening his doors to local musicians.

Reynolds said he has known Reible for a while because they have been playing music together through the years.

“It is good to play one close to home. This is more intimate than the festivals and blues bars I’ve been playing at lately,” Reynolds said. “I play electric when I’m with my band, but this show will be all acoustic.”

The intimate setting offers a place for begging and practiced musicians alike.

Reible wants to show people in Charleston music they may not have heard before.

He plans to host various artists from various genres each weekend.

“I’ve got things booked all the way through the end of June,” Reible said. “It’s mostly people I have heard in the area and a lot of local musicians. We are open

to all different styles. It doesn’t matter if I personally like it or not. It’s whatever I think our customers will like.”

Reible said his customers are an eclectic group, and notices that he has a lot of high schoolers come there every evening. He said parents know it is a safe place.

Reible said he is open to any style of music and musicians who are interested in performing the Saturday night events should come out to J.A.C. Open Mic Night every Thursday.

These open mic sessions are used as auditions of sorts for the diverse music Reible hopes to incorporate with the Saturday night performances.

In addition to the open mic night artists, Reible searches the Web and various local music hot spots in order to find performers.

“I’m hoping to get a lot of music in here that people haven’t experienced before,” Reible said. “People may have heard blues, but it probably isn’t the old delta blues that (Reverend Robert) will be playing.”

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or at [email protected].



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The 7th Street Underground will turn into a concert venue tonight at 5:30 as the Colleges Against Cancer group hosts its sec-ond Rock it for Relay concert.

The benefit concert will feature the three local bands Good Morning Midnight, Cured by Fire and Madison’s Avenue, and one solo musician, Jenna Jackley.

Tickets are $5 at the door and can be purchased starting at 5 p.m.

All proceeds go to the Colleges Against Cancer’s Relay for Life team, and will ul-timately be given to the American Cancer Society.

Kyle Swalls, guitarist and vocalist for Good Morning Midnight, has witnessed the devastation of cancer first hand. Swalls said his grandma is fighting against cancer.

“It’s a constant struggle dealing with it,” Swalls said. “A lot of time the chemo won’t be as effective, and they will try a new method and stuff. And so just know-ing the constant struggle makes me want to do something like this and raise money for an individual who is having the same, who is dealing with the same kind of suffering.”

This band along with Cured by Fire is playing at Friends & Co. later in the eve-ning. They were willing to book two gigs in one night to show their support.

“We feel that playing this gig will al-low people to see that rock and roll and the whole style of it isn’t just about being on your own and not really caring about any-one else,” Logan Richardson, Madison’s Av-

enue lead singer, said. “We really do care about the issue of

breast cancer and cancer in general,” Rich-ardson continued. “Because some people

close to us have had it and, luckily, they have recovered from it.”

Many of the bands playing are new to Eastern’s campus. Richardson said perform-ing at the concert would be an opportunity to expose students to a different kind of lo-cal music.

Good Morning Midnight is an indie and alternative rock band. Beginning near-ly a year ago and stationed in Marshall, the group is fresh to the Charleston music scene, but has played in the 7th Street Un-derground before for a canned food drive.

Cured by Fire is a Charleston metal band. Megan Givens, the concert coordi-nator said the group sounds similar to Me-tallica or Godsmack and does a good job of getting a crowd going. Their influenc-es come from those bands and others like Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue and Black Sabbath.

Jenna Jackley is a Mattoon High School student who plays the guitar and sings.

“She is just memorizing to watch,” Me-gan Givens said. “She is in high school, so she is still very young, but the caliber of voice she has is just amazing.”

Madison’s Avenue is another young al-ternative rock band from Charleston that has been putting out their own music for eight months. The group has played all over Charleston, in Havana and in Centralia, but tonight will be one of their first times playing on campus.

Givens, a junior elementary education major, said all the bands are hard working and were booked because they came recom-mended by other artists.

The Colleges Against Cancer has raised more than $5,000 through their fall breast cancer T-shirt sales and other fundrais-ers. They have pledged to raise $8,000, and across campus different groups have pledged to raise $70,000 for the American Cancer Society.

Last year, the concert drew a small crowd, but Givens is hoping for more pub-lic support.

“What ever little amount can put to-wards the American Cancer Society will help in some way,” Givens said.

Colleen Kitka can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

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Good Morning Midnight band members Elgin Combs (guitarist), Michael “Woody” Woodring (drummer), Kyle Swalls (vocalist and guitarist) and Chad Barton (bass guitarist and vocalist) volunteered to play tonight at the Rock it for Relay event to help raise money for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

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Written to include comedy on topics that anyone can relate with, Operation Comedy pre-sented a show that could appeal to many differ-ent types of people Saturday.

Four comedians entertained the audience: Jon Stites, the founder of Operation Comedy; Jeff Oskay, a writer for the “Bob and Tom Show”; Troy Davis, a comedian who as often appeared on “Comcast”; and Nick Anthony, who per-formed on “Last Comic Standing for two sea-son.

Stites said they can present free shows because Cellular One funds their shows, so Operation Comedy can raise money to help homeless vet-erans, as well as give them a chance to laugh and feel normal.

Stites said he started Operation Comedy to help raise awareness and money about the strug-gles of homeless veterans in society.

“I felt like when we send veterans over to combat, there is always a bunch of pageantry and support from the community, but when

they come back, they’re not always whole,” Stites said. “Just because they are not missing a limb or something you can see, they are suf-fering and having a hard time integrating back into society.”

Stites said he wants to let the communi-ty know about the struggles veterans face and wanted to put together a show that is pro-veter-an, not pro-military or parties.

“We welcome veterans from all over the spec-trum,” Stites said. “We don’t care when you serve, whether it’s Vietnam or Afghanistan, whether your 22 or 75; you can come out to one of our shows, you will find something and we will make you laugh.”

Stites said the mission of Operation Com-edy is to unite veterans and their commu-nities through education, recognition and laughter and he felt they achieved that at the show.

Stites said Michael Ruybal, the veterans co-ordinator for Eastern, showed that Eastern was very supportive of the troops.

“That made me glad and made this market at-tractive to me,” Stites said. “I wanted to know that we were working with a place that support-ed these men and women.”

While the show was free, people were asked to donate money to help homeless veterans.

Stites said they raised $1,100 for the Illiana VA’s Homeless Veteran Program.

Jennifer Gerrib, the G&PD Liaison/ Home-less Veteran Program Coordinator, said she has seen Operation Comedy many times and enjoys the program a lot and was happy with the turn-out.

“Communities opened arms and hearts to us, and it's amazing,” Gerrib said.

Gerrib said any veterans who need help or have questions can call the help hotline at 1-877-424- 3838.

Jen Antkowiak, a freshman biology major, said she was happy with the show and thought it was a great cause.

“I always see guys on the street and it breaks my heart,” Antkowiak said. “It’s a good way to lighten up the subject but still talk about it.”

Stites said he felt the show did its job by giv-ing veterans and the community a chance to connect.

Stites said his show does stuff for veter-ans with out strings attached. He also said that many times programs will do things for veter-ans, but ask something in return.

“The best way to honor veterans is to put on a dynamite show, invite them out for free with no strings attached,” Stites said. “Just let them come out, have a great time, laugh, and just feel normal for a night.”

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a series of budget articles.By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

The state has paid an $8 million installment for Fiscal Year 11, which brings the total appro-priations owed to Eastern from about $21 mil-lion to about $12 million.

Richard Wandling, a political science profes-sor, served as interim chairman of the CUPB, and he said he thought the FY11 state payment is a complex situation.

“On one hand, it is certainly disturbing that we have not been fully reimbursed for FY11,” Wandling said. “On the other hand, given how bad the state’s budget is, the fact that we are re-ceiving money for the previous fiscal year is a promising sign.”

William Weber, vice president for business affairs, said this is the first time Eastern has re-

ceived payments from the state for FY11 in about four months.

“We continue to be promised the rest of that installment by the end of December,” said We-ber during the Council on University Planning and Budget meeting Friday.

The state remains current on paying appro-priations for FY12, and they have paid about $8 million so far, Weber said.

He said they have trimmed the budget by about $1.6 million because of the enrollment decrease of about 450 students.

“When we built the budget for this fiscal year, we built the budget assuming that our enrollment was going to drop by about 3 per-cent,” he said. “When the fall numbers came in, it turned out that it was a bit higher than that and so we have trimmed our budget to ac-count for that decline in enrollment.”

Weber said because the budget situation is tighter than they expected, they are trying to

balance the impact across the vice presidential areas.

“It has been a challenge for us, but we ad-dress those challenges and keep moving for-ward,” Weber said. “The situation is manage-able short term, but it is not sustainable long term.”

Wandling said he thinks the state’s con-tinuing payments provides a glimmer of op-timism for Eastern and that, hopefully, the state will stay on track with paying the ap-propriations.

Right now, there is no real drive for the state to change its mind on either last fiscal year’s or this fiscal year’s funding, he said.

“It is always a fear, but there are no signs on the horizon that that is going to happen,” We-ber said.

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

State continues FY11 payments

Free show helps raise money for homeless veterans

Trash bash story

Students helped pick up trash around Charles-ton Sunday after all of the Homecoming weekend festivities.

They found many different kinds of trash, in-cluding liquor bottles, a tooth brush and a bag of vomit. Go to dailyeasternnews.com for more.

Author talk storySixteen Charleston writers brought together

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Two roommates battled it out to win first place during the Homecoming 2.5K race Saturday.

Roommates Sean Wiggan and Michael Mendez raced each other and 268 other runners or walkers to win first place.

Wiggan, a senior business man-agement major, said his roommate is usually a better long distance runner and he was happy to beat him this year.

At last year’s race, Wiggan fin-ished in second place while Men-dez, a graduate student studying clinical psychology, finished first and set the course record of 7 min-utes and 10 seconds.

“I feel good,” Wiggan said. “My roommate, we run against each other all the time. He beat me here last year, so it’s a major victory for me. We love battling it out.”

Wiggan said he has been run-ning since he was in the seventh grade. Wiggan is a member of the Eastern track team and said he has run in the 2.5K race every year

since attending Eastern except for one year.

Wiggan said he will be at the race next year, if he attends gradu-ate school at Eastern.

Mendez holds the record for the 2.5K race and said he was not even close to beating that record this year.

Mendez said he knew that it would be him or Wiggan who won first place. Mendez said he thinks he could have won, if he had more time to work out and train.

Mendez said he ran for four years in college and had more time to train while he was on the team.

Third place went to Eastern alumni Anton Jefferson. He said he felt good after the race.

“This has started a tradition,” Jefferson said. “I have run this for four years and I’m going to try and keep it up as long as I can.”

Jefferson said he started out with the plan to go as hard as he could and was happy that he won third place.

The first place for the wom-en was Erin O’Grady, an Eastern track and field alumna.

“It was fun coming back and running with some of my team-mates as an alumni,” O’Grady said.

O’Grady now coaches track at Schaumburg High School.

Nate Atkinson, a web developer for the Center for Academic Tech-nology Support, said he was happy with the turnout.

Atkinson said he has run the race for a couple of years before he helped organize it.

“I almost did want to run it, but it was nice managing it,” Atkinson said.

Atkinson said the race helped raise about $800 for different orga-nizations around campus and the community.

Mendez said he thought he was a good start to the day and is ready for the Homecoming events.

Wiggan agreed.“It’s Homecoming weekend

and I’m always excited about that,” Wiggan said. “The win will add to that.”

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DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSCheerleaders perform at the start of “Yell Like Hell” Friday in McAfee Gym. Greek organizations, registered student organizations and residence halls performed to see who would win in the “Yell Like Hell” and “Who Wants to be a Mascot” competi-tions. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Phi and Alpha Phi Alpha took first place in “Yell Like Hell” and Khelan Todd, a communication studies major from Alpha Phi Alpha, won “Who Wants to be a Mascot.”

Friends battle during 2.5K Homecoming race

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRacers cross Lincoln Avenue and begin the 12th annual 2.5K Race/Walk before the Homecoming Parade Saturday. The race started on 7th Street and ended at the intersection of 6th Street and Lincoln Avenue.

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Quinn must act; Eastern needs trustees

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Has your Monday Night Football team been bathed in Pepto-Bismol? Thank the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, the largest nonprofit organization in the world, and their endeavor to find a cure for breast cancer. There are pink ribbons slapped on everything these days, from yogurt cartons to game consoles, and it’s important to wonder where exactly that money is going within the multi-billion dollar organization. Just because the organiza-tion is non-profit doesn’t mean that every do-nated dollar is going to breast cancer research.

First, something awesome that you should know: Susan G. Komen gives substantial mon-ey to Planned Parenthood. This is not surpris-ing, as both organizations are dedicated to pro-tecting women’s health (breasts and vaginas—it makes sense). Also not surprising is that this has sparked massive controversy among pro-life Looney Toons across the country. Appar-ently, there exists a hilarious but seriously tak-en misconception within the Looney Toon community that abortions have been medically linked to breast cancer.

Of course, there exists no link between abor-tion and breast cancer, according to research conducted in 2003 by the National Cancer In-stitute involving hundreds of experts on both issues. Despite this fact, multitudes of church-es and pro-life organizations are boycotting Su-san G. Komen, lest even one of those donation dollars enable a woman to obtain a legal abor-tion. Not that a potential threat to women’s

health was ever really the issue—that always pales in importance when it comes to prevent-ing her right to choose.

That was the good part. If you prefer a real reason to avoid shelling out $5 for a pink-rib-bon car magnet ($1.25 of which will actual-ly go to the foundation), then leave that to Su-san G.’s crack legal team. “As the world’s larg-est grassroots network of breast cancer survi-vors and activists, we’re working together to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures,” says the Susan G. Komen official website.

What it doesn’t say is, if any other organi-zation dares to “find the cure,” they had bet-ter not say it, lest they be ferociously sued by the multi-billion dollar non-profit. Accord-ing to their financial records (also available on the official website) Susan G. Komen appropri-ates around a million dollars of donated funds a year for legal fees.

These fees are accumulated through su-ing hundreds of other nonprofit cancer chari-

ties for such nefarious infractions as using the phrase “for the cure” or any variation thereof.

The obvious problem with this is that many of these charities are not multi-billion dollar organizations, and these legal proceedings al-most always force these smaller charities to close their doors. Which is more important: funding cancer research, or protecting Susan G. Komen’s sexy pink cancer marketing cam-paign?

I take issue with this organization’s sexual-ization and exploitation of women under the claim of raising awareness about a very serious health issue.

More than 70 percent of breast cancer diag-noses are in women over the age of 50, but you will be lucky to find a woman over the age of 25 anywhere in their taut, perky marketing. “I heart Boobies”? How about, “I heart women, old women who have lost both breasts to mas-tectomies.”

Despite to what Susan G. Komen and her pervasive marketing would have you believe, breast cancer is not the most prevalent form of cancer among women, so before you grope yourself with Boob Lube ($14.95; actual dona-tion: less than $3), head over to the Lung Can-cer Association and get a T-shirt for your sexy pink lungs.

Mia Tapella is a senior English and

political science major. She can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

Mia Tapella

What you should know about breast cancer awareness

By Parker Happ Northern Star - Northern Illinois University

Sept. 1, the Obama Administration unveiled a new addition to whitehouse.gov titled “We the People.”

The site is aimed at “giving Americans a di-rect line to the White House on the issues and concerns that matter most to them,” President Obama said. When the site launched, Americans responded and started submitting petitions. The most signed petition to date reads “Legalize and Regulate Marijuana in a Manner Similar to Al-cohol.”

Increasingly, Americans are changing their opinion on pot. According to Gallup’s October crime poll, in 1970 only 12 percent of Ameri-cans believed marijuana should be legal, com-pared to an 84 percent majority who disagreed. Fast forward to 2009 and the same poll marks the pro-pot lobby at 42 percent and naysayers at 54 percent.

What could cause the majority of Americans to change their mind? Possibly, it is due to our overcrowded and increasingly costly prison sys-

tem and how it deals with non-violent offenders.Realize that America effectively puts more

people behind bars than any other country in the world. Every year, $60 billion is spent to im-prison 2.2 million people across America. The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statis-tics marked marijuana offenders as accounting for 12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 per-cent of federal inmates in 2004 contributing to an overall cost to taxpayers of $1 billion. That’s only the tip of the iceberg for hidden costs when it comes to pot. Aside from just purely jailing in-dividuals, Americans will spend another $8 bil-lion annually just to arrest marijuana offenders. What about other legal costs?

October is National Substance Abuse Pre-vention Month and, oddly coinciding with this theme, four federal prosecutors are attempting to prevent abuse in California’s marijuana market by trying to shut it down. Oct. 8, prosecutors ar-gued that the blooming marijuana market con-tributes to national distribution of pot by people with “criminal backgrounds” and that the 1996 referendum that permitted medicinal usage of marijuana has been abused.

“While California law permits collective culti-

vation of marijuana in limited circumstances, it does not allow commercial distribution through the storefront model we see across California,” U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte said.

Yes, federal law trumps state law. Unfortu-nately, these days in a cash-strapped state like California the $1 billion marijuana market has greatly helped to curb the $25 billion deficit. The statistics speak; prosecuting, jailing, arrest-ing, and ticketing for marijuana is a costly ven-ture for Americans. President Obama ought to offer some sort of deal for the American marijua-na lobby because throwing the issue under the rug will no longer work.

We the people have an obligation to ourselves and citizens to stand up for injustices. We are talking about a drug, and drugs are not neces-sarily good for the people, but choice is what has always made America a great place to live. We have freedoms to make our own sensible or illog-ical decisions. A few feds trying to further their career hardly warrants destroying the progress gained on this issue. President Obama, where do you stand?

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AROUND THE STATE

Eastern may not have a Board of Trustees when we all wake up Tuesday morning. Why? An amendment passed Aug. 26 states gover-nor-appointed employes throughout the state whose terms have expired will have to vacate their positions by Tuesday.

The Board of Trustees, which discusses and votes on a lot of important, expensive Eastern decisions may not exist if Gov. Quinn doesn’t reappoint the current members or appoint new ones. This is the case all around the state.

While this huge change is looming, neither Eastern president Bill Perry nor Robert Webb, chair of the Board of Trustees, know any-thing about what’s going to happen. Neither said Quinn has contacted them, as reported in today’s article in The News.

We are baffled that this situation could have come down to this — one day away from either not having a Board, having the same Board, or having a Board filled with new members.

We are baffled that neither the president of this university or the chairman of the Board has heard anything — especially the chairman, whose position is at stake because of this new amendment.

The governor appoints each member of the Board of Trustees, and they serve six-year terms. All five of the Board’s members have expired terms, which means they should have already been reappointed or replaced.

Board of Trustees members Robert Webb, Roger Kratochvil and Leo Welch were appointed in August 2004. Trustee William O’Rourke was appointed in June 2005 and trustee Julie Nimmons in April 2001.

“It is entirely up to the governor and there is a potential for significant chance,” Perry said in the article. “We are just waiting on the gov-ernor’s action.”

How could this have possibly happened when it is such an important part of each uni-versity?

As Perry said, Eastern hasn’t been contacted, but it has a lot at stake, potentially losing all of its members.

Quinn appears to have dropped the ball at this point. If he only had reappointed the members, or appointed new ones, when this amendment was passed, we may not even be talking about this situation today.

If that had happened, we wouldn’t be wor-ried about whether we will have a Board of Trustees on Tuesday, and if they’ll have their next scheduled meeting Nov. 18.

It’s even shocking that our Board of Trust-ees members are still in their seats because if they’re only supposed to serve six-year terms, and haven’t been reappointed, then some of them should’ve been gone by now.

Nimmons was appointed about 10 years ago, for example. Her six-year term as a trustee has been long over, but she’s still on the Board.

We hope the governor wakes up at some point today realizing that he’s forgotten about this. We hope one way or another we will have a Board of Trustees Tuesday.

President Obama should address marijuana petition



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Competition fierce for $1,000 prize at showBy Kathryn Richter Staff Reporter

The “Stepping into Greatness” step show awarded $1,000 in prize money to both Zeta Phi Beta sorority and Alpha Phi Alpha frater-nity during the show on Saturday.

Alumni, parents and friends came together to support the various sororities and fraterni-ties competing for first place.

Margery Scott, a sophomore family and consumer science major and member of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, said the stepping team, which consisted of 13 women, started practic-ing early as 7 a.m., as well as working late into the night.

“It’s been eight years since we actually won a Homecoming step show,” Scott said. “We’re really humbled that we won the title and the

prize.”Scott said that coming together as a team

proved challenging to the Zeta Phi Betas be-cause of the different opinions and perspectives of the 20 sorority members.

Just a week before the “Stepping into Great-ness” show, the Zeta Phi Betas had to rework their entire theme of the show from “flight at-tendants” to “police officers” because the soror-ity heard rumors that another sorority was go-ing to use the same theme.

Scott said the $1,000 prize money is go-ing toward scholarships and funding for Zeta Week, a week that the sorority sponsors cam-pus-wide events.

Liz Mardis, a high school teacher from Chi-cago, came to the step show in order to sup-port her daughter, Tayla Mardis, a mem-ber of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Del-

ta Sigma Theta took home second place in the competition.

“I wasn’t surprised they were enjoying it so much,” said Mardis about the active audience participation.

Will Barrett, a senior communication stud-ies major and member of the Phi Theta Sigma fraternity, which came in second place, said the fraternity was practicing and coming up with ideas and concepts since the summer.

Barrett said while there were plenty of dis-agreements and arguments, there was just as much laughter and fun.

“At the end of the day we all came together like a family should,” he said.

Phi Theta Sigma, which won the step show last year, used elaborate clown costumes, strobe lighting and a big wooden jack-in-the-box into their step show.

Barrett said the costumes, lighting and props were the most enjoyable aspect of the show because of the opportunity to shock the campus.

“That’s the fun part because you get to ex-press your creative side,” Barrett said.

Amber King, an alum of Eastern who grad-uated in 2010 with a degree in psychology, came back for Homecoming weekend to hang out with friends, who brought her to the step show.

King had no ties to any of the sororities or fraternities, but by the end of the night she said she was rooting for the Sigma Gamma Rhos, who finished in third place.

“I thought it was amazing,” King said. “It was really high energy and I appreciated it.”

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMembers of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity take 1st place during “Steppin’ Into Greatness - NPHC Step Show” Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium. The step show showcased the talents of fraternities and sororities including Kappa Alpha Psi, Delta Sigma Theta, Phi Beta Sigma, Zeta Phi Beta, and Sigma Gamma Rho.

PARADE, from page 1

Even those who did not attend Eastern come out to experience the Homecoming parade every year.

Wilbur and Tana Say lor, o f Springfield, said while they did not attend Eastern, they had two daugh-ters that graduated, so they still feel a strong sense of pride for the school.

The Saylors said they now come to support their grandson, who march-es in the Panther Marching Band.

“We think the band is exception-al,” he said. “They look pretty sharp.”

The Saylor said they also enjoy watching the crowds enjoy the pa-rade, especially those of a young age.

“We also love watching the kids pick up candy,” he said. “They’re just having a great time.”

President Bill Perry, a Texas A&M University alum, said he always looks

forward to the Homecoming parade.He said he thinks the parade helps

garner enthusiasm and kicks off the Homecoming events.

“There are things to do (for Homecoming) the days before, but I think the parade is what really gets your blood pumping,” he said. “It means Homecoming is finally here.”

Perry said he enjoys seeing all the enthusiasm and school spirit from those that attend the parade.

“It’s a great thing for alums to come back, for all the kids, families and students, and floats,” he said. “It’s a great day to celebrate.”

Sara Hall can be reached at 581-2812


ORCHESTRA, from page 1

Rossi said he thought the perfor-mance went well and that if the chil-dren had fun then it went great.

“The excitement of the children, the light bulbs light up on their face, them being so happy to experience music that way,” Rossi said. “I think

they will always remember it. It’s about the kids, not about us.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Winning streak ends at 4 after lossBy Lenny Arquilla Staff Reporter

The Eastern women’s volleyball team’s winning streak ended this week-end when it split the weekend’s games.

The Panthers are now 8-16 overall and 5-8 in the Ohio Valley Conference.

In the sweep against Tennessee State (25-17, 25-23, 25-19), the Panthers dy-namic duo of junior Emily Franklin re-corded 13 kills and sophomore Reynae Hutchinson recorded 11.

The duo also made up half of the teams digs with Hutchinson scoring 11 and Franklin scoring nine.

Hutchinson also registered her fourth consecutive kill-dig double-dou-ble, upping her season mark to nine, and 12 all-time.

The winning streak ended against Austin Peay in the next match.

In three straight sets, the Panthers fell Saturday night in conference play, spoiling the Panthers’ 30th NCAA Di-vision-I Celebration, the Homecom-ing weekend festivities, and ending the streak at four matches.

The Panthers could not overcome a strong performance by Austin Peay’s Ilyanna Hernandez, who recorded 11 kills and 10 digs in the win.

The Panthers still had strong perfor-mances from Hutchinson, Franklin,

and junior Alison Berens.Hutchinson had eight kills and 15

digs, coming close to another kill-dig double-double, while Franklin had 11 kills and five digs.

Berens finished the weekend split with 15 kills and two digs, with seven kills in the loss to Austin Peay.

Senior Brittany Wallace was recog-nized as the inaugural recipient of the newly announced Volleyball Alum-ni Scholarship by former coach Betty Ralston for upperclassman with a 3.50 or higher GPA who also possess excel-lent leadership and work ethic both in school and athletics.

Panthers return to action this com-ing Tuesday evening, traveling to Southern Illinois University-Edwards-ville for a 6 p.m. OVC match.

Lenny Arquilla can be reached at 581-7944

or [email protected]

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Losses in 2 OVC gamesStaff Report

The Eastern women’s soccer team hit the road for its final full weekend of Ohio Valley Conference play, and it came out with a pair of losses.

The Panthers started Friday at Mur-ray State, where they lost 3-0 to the Racers.

The match saw starting goalkeeper Jessica Taldone, a red-shirt sophomore, pulled at halftime in favor of sopho-more Brittany O’Dell after Taldone allowed three goals on eight first-half shots on goal.

The Panthers were only able to mus-ter two shots on goal in the loss, get-ting one each from sophomore defend-er Brenna Vogel and freshman mid-fielder/forward Megan Radloff.

On Sunday afternoon, the Panthers went south to Clarksville, Tenn., to take on Austin Peay, falling 1-0 in dou-ble overtime to the Governors.

Taldone was back in net for Sun-day’s match-up, and played shutout ball between the pipes until the 103rd minute when Austin Peay’s Tatiana Ari-za nailed her first goal of the season for the win. Before scoring the winning goal, Ariza was shown the yellow card in the 59th minute for the game’s only caution.

Sunday’s match-up saw the Panthers put seven shots on net. Red-shirt junior forward Ashley Streid ledd the attack.

The Panthers will now look to their final regular-season OVC contest next Sunday at Lakeside Field against Southern Illinois University-Edwards-ville, with that contest set for 1 p.m.

SOCCER, from page 8Within eight minutes freshman mid-

fielder Jake Brillhart connected on his team-leading fourth goal of the season. Brillhart was assisted by Martin and freshman midfielder Will Butler as he beat the goalkeeper, striking the ball into

the left side of the net. Up 2-0, Eastern connected on an-

other goal by Butler in the 57th minute. The goal was Butler’s third of the season and he was assisted by Martin and Pi-cinich.

The Panthers could not keep the shut-out going, as Pat Schiffer scored in the 78th minute, bringing the score to 3-1.

Sophomore goalkeeper earned the win, allowing the one goal and making eight saves.

The loss drops Western Michigan’s re-cord to 5-10-1 this season.

The Panthers return to action Satur-day at home for an important Summit League match-up against Oakland. The match is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior libero Brittany Wallace prepares to serve the ball during Eastern’s game against Austin Peay Saturday in Lantz Arena. Austin Peay swept Eastern moving the Panther’s overall record to 8-16.



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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Both the men’s and women’s swim team fall against Evansville on Sunday.

RUGBY

FOOTBALL

SOCCER, page 7

Staff Report

Eastern’s men’s soccer team got a 3-1 non-conference win on the road against Western Michigan Saturday. The win puts their season at 7-6-1.

Freshman forward Tayron Martin contributed assists on all three goals. Prior to this match, Martin had re-corded just one assist in 13 games.

Senior defenseman Mike Picinich put the Panthers on the board when he scored in the 35th minute.

Picinich received a pass from Mar-tin and struck a shot into the low right side of the net. The goal was Pi-cinich’s third of the season.

The remainder of the first half was scoreless, despite both teams taking eight shots each.

It did not take the Panthers long to open up their lead in the second half.

By Jordan Pottorff Staff Report

The premier team in NCAA Division I women’s rugby wrapped up Homecoming week with a win over the Northern Iowa Panthers.

Both teams entered Sunday’s conte s t w i th pe r f e c t re co rds , but Eastern remains undefeated following the 24-5 win.

Eas te rn and Nor thern Iowa have two very different styles of play. Northern Iowa prefers the big, physical grind-it-out type of players, while Eastern prefers the quicker, faster and more athletic style of play.

“Northern Iowa runs a very specific style of play, and they use their forwards a lot,” Eastern head coach Frank Graziano said. “We don’t play that style and we don’t run across many teams that are as good as they are.”

Eastern’s athletes had no trouble running over the Northern Iowa defense.

They recorded 12 points in the first half. Eastern was able to use their speed to capitalize on scoring

opportunities and Northern Iowa found themselves in unfamiliar territory this season: trailing at half time.

“We had a great f i r s t ha l f ,” Graziano said. “We really controlled the tempo of play and we showed a lot of toughness.”

Graziano had mentioned that he thought his team would have trouble matching up with Northern Iowa on the defensive end, but his fast paced offense proved too much to handle for Northern Iowa in the first half.

Eastern led Northern Iowa by a score of 12-0 at the end of the first half.

Eastern continued where they left off in the first half as they recorded a five point try in the opening minutes of the second half.

Eastern’s defense responded to the challenge of playing a very physical team as they kept Northern Iowa’s offense attack in check.

Northern Iowa was very stagnant and struggled to get anything going on the offensive end. They totaled just 5 points Sunday.

“We showed a lot of courage and

a lot of toughness today,” Graziano said. “The defense was fantastic and really just got in there and matched up with girls that were 30, 40 or 50 pounds bigger than we were.”

With the win, Eastern moves to 7-0 and, with only three games left to play, has the goal of a perfect season in sight.

The Pan the r s w i l l t a k e on the Iowa Sta t e Cyc lone s , the

Quinnipiac Bobcats and the Purdue Boilermakers to round out the 2011 season.

The Panthers will be back in action this Saturday at 1 p.m. when they will travel to Ames, Iowa to take on the Iowa State Cyclones in their final road game of the season.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached

at 581-7942 or [email protected].

Eastern wins over Western

Team remains undefeated on yearMEN’S SOCCER

Homecoming heartbreak:By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

With just over five minutes to play in the game, the Eastern defense, ranked No. 6 in the Ohio Valley Con-ference, stopped the Tennessee-Mar-tin offense, the best in the OVC, on a critical third-down play to force a punt.

The Panthers would take over at their own 18-yard line, trailing the Skyhawks 24-23.

A third-down conversion pass from sophomore quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to red-shirt junior tight end Von Wise kept the hopes of a fourth quarter comeback alive.

Garoppolo sent a pass in the direc-tion of red-shirt junior wide receiver Chavar Watkins, which resulted in the first of two key plays on the drive.

Watkins had just one catch, an ac-

robatic grab for a 29-yard gain. The second pass thrown his way was

broken up, but the crowd at O’Brien Field wanted a pass interference call.

The Panthers were then faced with a fourth and two with time winding down in the game.

With the Eastern rushing attack un-successful, posting -5 rushing yards for the game, the Panthers took to the air.

Garoppolo fired a 49-yard pass

down field to junior wide receiver Chris Wright, who caught the ball, and finally was forced out of bounds at the Skyhawks’ 10-yard line.

However, a holding penalty on Eastern would discount the play and move the Panthers back even further.

On the ensuing fourth down with 12 yards to go, Garoppolo was sacked by Jarvis McCann, forcing him to fumble.

The Skyhawks would recover and go on to win the game.

After the game, head coach Bob Spoo said that though he was disap-pointed by the team’s seventh straight loss, he was uplifted by the team’s progress.

“I just addressed the team and told them how sad I was, but also how proud I was of the effort,” Spoo said.

Regarding the two key plays at the end of the game, Spoo said he thought he saw pass interference against Wat-kins, but did not see the holding call.

Garoppolo also expressed his frus-tration and disappointment with the officials.

“The last two weeks, it seems like the refs haven’t been on our side,” Garoppolo said.

Spoo expressed confusion as well.“I don’t know how much harder we

could have played,” Spoo said.

The Panthers held the Skyhawks to 278 yards of total offense, a team that stands at the top of nearly every cate-gory in the OVC.

The Skyhawks’ running backs to-taled 154 yards on the ground.

Junior defensive lineman Artavi-ous Dowdell said the team focused all week in practice on stopping the run.

“Every loss is hard, but this one is especially hard because we stopped a pretty good offense,” Dowdell said.

The loss drops the Panthers to an overall record of 1-7, and 0-6 in the OVC.

The team will take to the road next week against Austin Peay. The game is set to start at 4 p.m. in Clarksville, Tenn.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942


Penalties spoil Panthers’ comeback attempt in final moments

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior flanker Stefanie Mahan prepares to tackle a member of the Northern Iowa rugby team Sunday at Lakeside Field. Eastern beat Northern Iowa 24-5.

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo defends himself before being sacked during Eastern’s homecoming game against UT Martin Saturday at O’Brien Field. Eastern lost to UT Martin 23-24.

Game Stats

Eastern Tennessee-MartinFirst Downs 18 13 Yards Rushing -5 154

Yards Passing 294 124

Offense Yards 289 278

Time of Possession 36.42 21.35

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