By Courtney Kleinfieldt Staff Reporter

Students, faculty and oth-er Eastern supporters gathered in the Lantz Arena Thursday for the “Pack the House” fall pep rally.

Four-time College Entertainer of the year, Tom DeLuca pleased the crowd as he hypnotized 20 people, who were randomly select-ed from the audience.

DeLuca began by putting the participants to sleep and told them they were relaxing in a nice, sooth-ing environment.

Audience members who were skeptics about hypnotism de-creased once DeLuca started his show.

Once the selected audience members were already hypnotized, DeLuca would say certain trigger phrases.

“You’re driving a brand new $250,000 car,” DeLuca said. “Watch out! You almost hit a dog.”

While a couple participants could not stay under DeLuca’s spell, one participant made the audience roar in laughter as she screamed and slammed on the brakes of her imaginary car.

During the warm up portion for the “Blue Madness Dunk Con-test,” men’s basketball head coach Mike Miller spoke to the crowd saying, “It’s great to have such a great crowd. It’s so important we have a great atmosphere.”

“The Blue Madness Dunk Con-test” began with sophomore for-ward Alex Lubsey, sophomore for-ward Alfonzo McKinnie, senior guard Jeremy Granger, red-shirt senior guard LC Doss and junior guard Jonathan Miller.

The contestants in the dunk contest could perform any trick, trying their best to impress the guest judges.

Contestants received scores ranging from one to 10 from the judges and Doss, Granger and McKinnie advanced to the final round.

McKinnie won overall, deter-mined by the crowd’s applause.

After the women’s basketball team was introduced, head coach Brady Sallee spoke to the crowd saying, “We’re really excited about this group. Every night when we come out here, we’re going to play our tails off.”

By Samantha Bilharz Associate News Editor

Jessica Lynn Mode, 23, died on Wednesday at 12:27 p.m., in her res-idence in Sullivan.

Mode’s cause of death is still under investiga-tion, Moultrie County Coroner Lynn Reed said.

“The autopsy has been done and we are await-ing the results,” Reed said.

Reed said it will be a few days until he receives the autopsy results.

Even though the autopsy results are not in, Reed said Mode had some previous health prob-lems.

“(Mode) had a history of some heart issues,” Reed said.

Mode was born on Feb. 24, 1988 in Mattoon and was a graduate of Sullivan High School.

She was majoring in elementary education at Eastern and worked as a cashier and office man-ager at Jerry’s IGA in Sullivan.

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K AROLINA STR ACK | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Michael Janowski, communication studies graduate student, shouts “This is what democracy looks like” along with about 30 other marchers on Thursday night down Fourth Street during a vigil march for Marine veteran Scott Olsen. The vigil was organized by Occupy EIU in light of recent events in Oakland, Cal. where Olsen was critically wounded in an altercation between Occupy Oakland protestors and the Oakland police.

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While many students celebrated the begin-ning of their weekend, a small group joined together Thursday evening to show solidarity for a man who was simply trying to be heard.

Supporters of Occupy EIU movement gathered Thursday evening at the camp out-side of Doudna where it began. Candles were lit to show reverence for a member of Occu-py Oakland who remains hospitalized after an alleged police attack.

‘This is a peaceful protest’Scott Olsen, 24, was marching with Oak-

land demonstrators Tuesday when he suffered a cracked skull in the chaos between officers and protesters, CBS News reported. The ma-rine remained in critical condition, said a spokesman for Highland Hospital in Oak-land.

Police Chief Howard Jordan said at a news conference that the events leading up to Ol-sen’s injury would be investigated as vigorous-ly as a fatal police shooting.

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Vigil reaches out to victimsBy Sara Hall City Editor

Community members gathered to honor victims and survivors of domestic violence at the sixth annual HOPE Candlelight Vigil on Thursday at Morton Park.

Angie Hunt, housing program director for HOPE of East Central Illinois, said the organization hosts the event not only as a way to observe those who have been victimized, but also a way to raise awareness for an often unspoken cause.

“We need to put a face to it,” she said. “It’s important that we know domestic violence can happen to any one of us.”

Hunt said the event is designated as an outlet for victims and survivors to speak out against abuse.

She said the victims’ response is overwhelming, yet empowering.

“ It ’s power fu l ,” she s a id . “It’s heartbreaking, but it’s also victorious. You go through every emotion.”

Hunt, who survived domestic violence 20 years ago, said the statistics of abuse are unacceptably high, and that it is her mission to

provide those looking for shelter and a way out of their current situation.

“That’s what helps women,” she said. “We’ve got to get them to a safer place and life.”

Hunt said she is especially inspired to hear family members of survivors speak at the event.

“They appreciate the support,” she said. “It means a lot to them to publicly honor their loved ones.”

Domestic violence survivor Kelly Rardin described the event as “amazing,” saying it is a way for domestic violence survivors to have their voices heard.

“It brings up a lot of memories, but it also enables you to rise up. You know you’re not alone,” she said.

Rardin, who also shared her personal story of domestic violence at the vigil, said her ex-husband of 21 years physically and emotionally abused her.

However, through the support of HOPE, she was able to rise above his abuse.

“It’s a cycle,” Rardin said. “If you don’t stop it, it will never end. I will never let a man treat me like that again.”

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employee for the past six years, said she appreciated the support of the community attending the event to take a stand against abuse.

“I love being here for the women,” she said. “That’s why we do it. We have people with us every day. It’s never easy.”

Gordon said the abuse does not stop with adults. She said women coming to HOPE often bring their children into the shelter for safety as well.

“It’s heartbreaking,” she said. “A lot of times (going to HOPE) is the first time they’ve ever felt safe. It’s nice to see a weight lifted off their shoulders.”

Brenda Rowling, a HOPE employee for 18 years, said she enjoys the satisfaction of knowing the organization helps give hope to those affected by domestic violence.

“It’s rewarding to see someone get on with their life and have us help them to do that,” she said.

L o c a l b a n d M o t h e r l o d e performed at the vigil.

A l so a t the v ig i l was the Clothesline Project, a creative outlet in which women decorate shirts to express their thoughts on surviving abuse.

K a i t l y n C o b b , a s e n i o r psychology major and intern at HOPE, worked closely with the Clothesline Project.

“It lets them express how they’re feeling and stand up to domestic violence,” she said.

Erika Butler, a junior business management major, said she came to the event as a way to show her support for survivors.

“ I t ’s i m p o r t a n t t o b u i l d empowerment and build confidence in women,” she said.

Josh Nugent, a senior psychology major and member of Delta Chi, said he personally knows women who have been affected by domestic violence.

“It’s an important topic that needs to be addressed,” he said. “It’s an issue that happens all over.”

Sammy Sheely, a freshman biological science major, said she was glad to see such a large crowd in support of the event.

“It’s a shock,” she said. “It’s good to see a lot of people here because it helps bring more of an impact.”

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The play, centering around a senior research-er and his wife at a dinner party, presents each character with different consequences and choices, Tim said.

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By Amy Menghini Staff Reporter

Being on campus for Halloween does not mean students cannot have a good time.

Halloween themed events have been taking place throughout the week to celebrate the holiday.

Students may have their own events off campus on Monday, but there are also activities on campus.

On Monday, Taylor Dining Center is having its own Halloween party that includes a ghoulish meal and Halloween inspired activities. The meal is from 4 to 8 p.m. with a costume contest at 5:30 p.m. There will be mini pumpkins to paint and a prize wheel to spin to win prizes.

Lawson Hal l i s a l so host ing H a l l o w e e n a c t i v i t i e s . Pa p e r pumpkins can be created and cookies can be decorated. The

Lawson Hall activities will be from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday in the lobby of Lawson Hall. This event is open to everyone.

Other ac t iv i t i e s on campus include the “Terror on the 8th Floor” today at 7 to 10 p.m.

Students can also attend the “Haunted Hike” at the Douglas-Hart Nature Center in Mattoon on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. Admission is $3 for children 3 to 11 and $5 for those aged 12 and older.

Along with campus-sponsored and city events, students are also celebrating the holiday with their friends.

Laura Scul ley, a sophomore kinesiology and sports studies m a j o r, s a i d s h e s t a r t e d h e r Halloween festivities Wednesday night.

“I love Halloween,” Sculley said. “You get to see everyone outside of the classroom and all dressed up. You get to be something different than what you are.”

Since Hal loween fa l l s on a weekday, students like Ann Tinder will have to spend the day working.

Ti n d e r, a s e n i o r f a m i l y a n d consumer science major, works at Big Lots.

Even when she goes to work, Tinder said she will find a way to enjoy the holiday.

“It is interesting to see what creative costumes people come up with,” Tinder said.

Courtney Bragg, a junior business major, and Lauren Osborne, a junior management major, said they are planning to spend Halloween together.

They will be joining Bragg’s boyfriend at his house in Charleston to help pass out candy to trick-or-treaters.

Before Bragg passes out candy Monday night, she is going to attend her boyfriend’s cross country meet today and celebrate more with friends Saturday night.

“It is a fun holiday for the kids and a day were you will not be judged for what you wear,” Bragg said.

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By Andrew Crivilare Staff Reporter

Pemberton Hall was decked out in full Halloween regalia during Thurs-day’s RHA meeting, where represen-tatives from the residence halls an-nounced various new and successful programs.

Pemberton Hall’s RHA representa-tive Raquel Serrano, a junior nursing major, said Pemberton Hall was pre-paring for a food drive starting today, drawing on donations from both the hall residents and the community.

Between Oct. 28 and Oct. 30, Pem-berton residents will go door to door in costume throughout the Charleston area requesting canned food donations.

“We’re going to set up a box in the front (of Pemberton Hall) where resi-dents can drop off food,” she said.

Serrano said the food drive is being done in conjunction with the RHA Community Service Committee to bring attention to November as Hunger Awareness Month.

“The girls here in the hall are big on donating,” Serrano said.

Representatives from both Weller and Taylor Halls said they have turned to using root beer pong in their halls to attract residents to special events.

Taylor Hall representative Jacob De-ters, a junior music major, said the fa-miliarity of the popular party game will be a great way to integrate residents into their upcoming educational program on safe party habits.

“Root beer pong seems to be an event everyone can enjoy and have some soda,” Deters said. “We already have 40 people signed up.”

A Weller Hall representative said that the attendance at their weekly hall council was up recently when root beer pong preceded the meeting.

A Lawson Hall representative said their hall council recently decided to adjust the time of their weekly meeting with consideration of popular television programming and has since seen a rise in their attendance.

Vice President of Finance for RHA Jenna Kuehl said the charity car smash that took place on Oct. 22 to raise money for the Parent’s Club Scholar-ship was a success.

“We raised $58 for our car smash,” she said, “which is really good.”

Kuehl also invited RHA members to attend the Diva Drag Show, “Angels and Divas,” on Nov. 7.

“The Diva Drag Show is the second biggest event on campus next to grad-uation,” Kuehl said. “It’s an amazing show.”

RHA National and State Communi-cations Coordinator Dondre Keeler an-nounced that Residence Assistants ap-plications are now circulating through-out campus and encouraged residents to apply.

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By Shelley Holmgren Managing Editor

Thursday afternoon, history pro-fessor Bailey Young addressed his stu-dents wearing his usual tie with a car-toon character on it.

This sight would be completely nor-mal, with the exception of the Belgian film crew shooting the lecture.

For this past week, Young has played host to a crew from Belgian cultural television filming his work at the uni-versity. However, this is not Young’s first experience with the film crew.

This past summer, the film crew con-tacted Young to shoot a special on cas-tles in the French-speaking part of Bel-gium.

Since 1998, Young has run the sum-mer study abroad archaeological dig in Leuven, Belgium.

While there, Young and Eastern stu-dents had on-site learning through the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, which was founded in 1425, which is one of the oldest universities in the world.

“I understand why a crew would want to film Bailey,” said history de-partment chair Anita Shelton. “This guy is such a character.”

Young was approached by the crew to film when they got word of the work he and his students were doing excavat-ing castles in Belgium.

Young said he was a little uncertain when the crew approached him this past summer.

“I thought, well, this is going to be interesting and I was right,” he said. “I really didn’t know what was going to be involved. And it’s something that you can’t know what to expect until you work on it.”

After filming Young and students in Belgium, the crew was intrigued by an American wanting to explore their cul-ture and decided to film Young in his own element at Eastern.

Shelton also shared some doubts when Young shared the news with her.

“I was skeptical about it when I first heard about the crew coming here,” Shelton said. “But it’s been such an in-teresting experience seeing them in ac-tion.”

Young, who has been an archeologist for much of his life, has done fieldwork studying medieval churches and even barbarian graves.

From his work in Belgium, Young has been able to take on new fields of study and developed new courses.

“I get a lot of personal satisfaction from doing it and frankly it’s a lot of fun,” Young said. “I love it because I essentially get to play in the dirt ev-ery summer. For me, being in history doesn’t mean shutting myself from the outside world. I love to get out there and interact.”

While filming, Young said he has come to appreciate the crew’s intricate filming style.

For their final day at Eastern, the crew will film an informational meeting and reception for the Belgium summer archaeology program at 11:00 a.m. Fri-day on the ground floor of Blair Hall.

“Belgium is a wonderful country,” Young said. “It has some of the same wonderful qualities of France, for exam-ple, but many people don’t know that.”

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This weekend, many of my friends and classmates will be taking part in the year-ly ritual of celebrating Halloween. With it comes the costumes, the parties, and maybe even some trick-or-treating here and there. And where will I be? At home, watching my younger brother perform in his final high school marching band com-petition.

Now, do not put this newspaper down! I am not going to go off on a sermon about the awesomeness of marching band and how cool band geek-isms are. Instead I want to relate a personal story that is con-siderably a key thread of my life.

I grew up in a household where both of my parents were music teachers. Natural-ly, this positively affected my relationship with music to the point where I am still in-volved in musical pursuits in college.

In high school I participated in all of the fine art activities that were offered, and thoroughly enjoyed myself for all four years. Was I the best singer, percussion-ist, or actor that my school had to offer? No, but I had fun doing all of it, and every bit of applause following each performance made all of the work worth it.

So, unsurprisingly, I have made sure to support my brother’s efforts as he has gone through high school. After this, having no more siblings, I am not sure what exactly I

will do in relation to supporting my high school’s efforts in the fine arts. Sure, I will attend a performance when I am able, but as I prepare to graduate college and most likely move a good distance away from my hometown, I am left to wonder how I will be able to express support for the home-town and high school that offered so much to me.

This is something I do not believe many college students take the time to consider as they prepare themselves to “go out into the big wide world.”

For those of us who grew up in a small town like I did, many seem to feel that there is not much for us to go back to be-yond the family home, especially since there is supposedly never anything to do in a small town. For those who grew up in a larger city, they may not feel a particular connection to their home town, let alone to their large-population high schools.

But if we choose to forget about the ex-periences that shaped us and support the continued efforts to offer the same experi-ences to others, then was it all worth it?

Remembering what helped us devel-op the qualities and earn the traits we have refined in college and will take into the world is not only worthwhile, but I believe necessary to ensuring repeated future suc-cess.

Not everything about my hometown and high school experience has been worthy of nostalgic honor, but as I enjoy my brother’s final performance, I will likely think back to what I felt in that same moment.

How would I use the leadership skills I gained from band in college? Where did I need to better myself? What could I do to ensure that others just like me have similar positive experiences?

It will probably take some time to find the answer to that last question, but in the meantime, I will do what I can to express my support, at home and here at EIU, to the things that have helped me the most in life. Hopefully others, especially fellow im-pending graduates, will ponder the same question as well.

Greg Sainer is a senior communications studies

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As you march into the future, remember your roots

By Renee Changnon Daily Vidette Illinois State University

Almost two years ago, I decided to get my very own credit card. Unlike the shiny black Visa that was for “emergencies only,” this card was in-tended for me to learn the ropes of dealing with my own finances while building up good credit in college. While I’m not currently drowning in debt, as I look back at the records of how much I’ve spent, I get a bit queasy.

The saying, “I’m a broke college student” has been uttered from my mouth on more than one occasion. Somehow, I always felt reassured that when my checking account was low, I could get what I needed and pay it off at a later date thanks to my trusty Discover card.

Were the things I thought I “needed” real-ly necessary? Probably not. The transactions range from legitimate bills I had to pay to small amounts that added up after numerous restau-rant visits with my friends or trips to my beloved Target and Walmart.

Why is it so difficult to not use a credit card for some people? For most, it’s the rush of pur-chasing something new that can keep them com-ing back for more, yet for others it may be sim-ply trying to “keep up with the Joneses.”

According to an article in U.S. News, a recent credit card debt study found that “Americans ac-cumulated $18.4 billion in credit card debt in the second quarter of 2011 alone.”

Although the debt racked up may be for a va-riety of reasons, the fact of the matter is, we are a society that embraces the credit card until it be-comes the rising mountain of money we cannot afford to pay off.

The article details that some of the habits that can fuel this addiction to debt are making im-pulsive purchases that you know you can’t afford off the cuff.

According to Psychologist Anywhere Any-time, many people facing massive credit card bills may actually have an addiction to spending and shopping for things that they want to boost their moods.

Those who have the impulse to shop and find relief from swiping their card for new purchas-es are likely using the shopping trips as a way to numb negative feelings.

Although I don’t think I would call myself a “shopaholic,” I would say I sometimes can feel that rush when I buy a brand new outfit or pair of boots, but I always find a way to limit myself and never let myself go too crazy.

In addition to all the other money we owe during our time in college, it seems like such a

sick cycle to spend what we don’t have on the “wants.”

Skipping out on a weekend downtown with friends is hard to pass up, but perhaps if we lim-ited ourselves sometimes, then those statements at the end of the month wouldn’t be so shocking.

While I have half-heartedly attempted to change my shopping habits, looking at the amount of money I have spent paying off my credit card for the past 24 months is a bit of a wake up call.

For those who have a handle on saying no to eating out with friends or skipping the errand runs, I’m envious of your strong will and ability to say no to needless spending.

I am going to try to turn a new leaf on my re-lationship with my plastic friend.

If that means leaving it in my apartment or freezing it in a block of ice, I want to take the money I’ve been wasting paying my credit card bill and really set a solid foundation in my sav-ings account so that when I leave ISU come spring, I will at least have something to show for working part-time for two years.

In all honesty, when my time runs out, the things I purchased won’t be going with me any-ways.

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It can be of great comfort during the long hours of studying to remember that some day you will graduate, diploma in hand, ready to take on the world. It’s less fun to think about the many checks you’ll fill out as you repay your student loans.

But you can still find comfort in two things: One, you went to a very inexpensive school (if you lived in-state) and you’ll always be able to wave your comparatively small monthly pay-ment in front of all the chumps who went to private universities.

The other good news came from President Obama on Wednesday, when he announced his new “Pay as You Earn Plan” that the White House estimates will help 1.6 million Ameri-cans manage the cost of their education.

The plan will be enacted by executive order, which means it doesn’t have to go through congress. In other words, it’s going to happen.

Here’s what you should know:The plan doesn’t apply to private loans, but

helps with all forms of federal loans.One change is that any number of separate

student loans can be consolidated into a sin-gle loan. Those who consolidate will receive a small reduction on their interest rates.

The best news for most folks regards repay-ment. Currently, low-income borrowers have their student loan repayments capped at 15 percent of their discretionary income. That number is now being reduced to 10 percent. Right now, the government forgives remaining debt after 25 years of repayment, but will now do so after 20.

Both of these changes were already sched-uled to happen in 2014; Obama proposed them in his 2010 State of the Union and con-gress quickly enacted the bill. Obama said in his speech announcing the plan that graduates shouldn’t have to wait until 2014 to see these benefits, and will be able to take advantage of them starting in 2012.

Another part of the plan that will benefit current students is a fact sheet they will receive that will help them understand their debt sit-uation and what options they have for repay-ment. The president calls it “Know Before You Owe.”

As students, we welcome any and all help we can get with our student loans, and as Americans, we are glad Obama is actively addressing the heavy burdens of college debt.

We also know that it doesn’t begin to fix the problem. At more than $1 trillion, student debt exceeds credit card debt. This is a burden on the economy because discretionary income (the income left after you pay to maintain your standard of living) would better stimulate the economy by being spent on goods and ser-vices. It’s also an extra burden on youth, who already face double-digit unemployment.

The problem is tuition, which increased by 8 percent at public universities last year. Con-gress needs to get its act together and fix a problem that’s been out of hand for longer than most students have been alive.

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The Council for Academic Affairs reviewed the final two Undergraduate Learning Goals of Writing and Criti-cal Thinking and discussed forming a committee to take action on university-wide learning goals.

Assistant English professor Tim Tay-lor and Psychology professor John Best presented the Undergraduate Learning Goals of Writing and Critical Thinking of CASL and Taylor represents Writing Across the Curriculum.

Best discussed the “concern of over-all level of performance” in Critical Thinking in the CASL assessment.

He said that students' abilities aren't meeting with CASL's expectations in the learning goals.

Best said that students have what he calls “domain-specific knowledge,” in which students can use critical think-ing well in their area of study, but are lacking in other areas outside their do-main.

Students should focus on deductive reasoning, strong arguments and sup-porting a hypothesis, Best said.

Taylor talked to the CAA about the Writing Undergraduate Learning Goal. He presented data from the Electron-ic Writing Portfolio from fall 2010 to summer 2011 and discussed what can be improved in the future.

EWP readers made suggestions to help improve future student writing at Eastern.

“The papers are adequate, but they're not inspired or passionate,” Taylor said.

He said students need to be more exposed to good models of writing and work more with the revision process.

“There's still a lot of regurgitation of information,” he said.

Taylor said that seniors should be more knowledgeable about topics and not just reproduce the information they learned without being able to analyze it.

The other big topic discussed at the meeting was a proposal from History Professor Debra Reid, about CAA ac-tion on university-wide learning goals.

Reid sent out a proposal to the oth-er CAA members about improving stu-dent learning and outcomes of the four Undergraduate Learning Goals: Writ-ing, Critical Thinking, Global Citizen-ship and Speaking.

The CAA then discussed further action on the proposal and moved to form a committee to come up with a formalization of the proposal and out-line what the next steps for the CAA would be. This committee includes Reid, Rebecca Throneburg, professor of communication disorders, and Aser-et Gonzalez, a senior sociology major.

The CAA concluded that having members from CASL in the commit-tee would be beneficial for information and expertise.

“We all have a role to play,” Reid said.

The three-person committee plans to have this formalization in writing at the next meeting.

Other topics discussed by the CAA include items added to the agenda. Among these are revisions of the Lat-in American Studies Minor, revisions to the English major and a new course, English Major Forum.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or redexter@eiu.edu.

CAA in process of reviewing learning goals

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STUDENT, from page 1“She was a wonderful student and a

wonderfully friendly woman with tre-mendous potential,” Rebecca Lawson, Mode’s high school English teacher said.

Patricia King, Mode’s high school Spanish teacher, described Mode as a very happy and positive person.

“She always made the best out of a bad situation,” King said. “She was al-ways positive and encouraging to other students. I really enjoyed having her in my class.”

King said the last time she saw Mode was about two weeks ago at the local grocery store Mode worked at in Sulli-van.

“I don’t have enough words to de-scribe her,” King said. “She was amaz-ing. She was always smiling and always

making someone feel good. She was one of those people that radiated happiness and you just want to be around them.”

Mode is survived by her parents, Mike and Carol Mode.

Visitation is set for Sunday at 5 to 8 p.m. at the Reed Funeral Home in Sul-livan.

The funeral service is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 31 at 10:30 a.m. at the Reed Funeral Home in Sullivan.

The burial will take place in the Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan.

“We have lost a very special person,” Lawson said.

Samantha Bilharz can be reached at 581-2812

or slbilharz@eiu.edu.

‘This is what democracy looks like’As the walk continued and voices

joined in chants of solidarity, the num-bers of supporters grew. By vigil’s end, over 30 students, professors and com-munity members marched together.

Daniel Douglas, a communications studies major, said the march was ar-ranged Thursday afternoon to show sol-idarity, “not just for Olsen, but for the overall movement.”

Occupy EIU’s vigil follows the ex-ample of hundreds of members of Oc-cupy Wall Street who marched up to the gates surrounding New York’s City Hall Wednesday evening.

Graduate student Brendan Hughes, one of the founders of the Occupy

movement, said there is a growing con-cern for the members of the Occupy movement, especially for those in Oak-land and San Francisco.

“It’s still unsure how these move-ments will continue, especially as we enter the winter months,” Hughes said. “We’re still looking at what our options are.”

Mathematics professor Charles Del-man said as a long-time member of Eastern’s faculty union, he joined the vigil to show solidarity with the move-ment.

“I believe the way the police have acted in this manner is atrocious and I stand by the Occupy movement,” he said.

Some students, like senior philoso-phy major Jason Banahan, joined the vigil last minute.

“I support a lot of the ideas of the Occupy movement and I saw people gathering for the vigil and I thought it would be a good idea,” Banahan said.

Graduate student Michael Janowski said he felt the vigil accomplished what the group set out to do.

“I think we got the attention of the university and we definitely exposed some people to our message,” he said.

Shelley Holmgren can be reached at 581-2812

or meholmgren@eiu.edu.

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The three-point shoot out began with red-shirt freshman guard Jackie Herman, junior forward Sydney Mitch-ell, red-shirt freshman guard Katlyn Payne and junior guard Kelsey Wyss.

Players were given a minute to score as many points as they could, shooting from four different spots on the three-point line.

Mitchell and Wyss advanced to

round two and were given 45 sec-onds to rack up as many points as they could.

After the dunk contest, students par-ticipated in the costume contest.

Participants in the contest ranged from every type of costume from super heroes to Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Determined by the crowd’s applause, two contestants advanced to round two

of the contest.Ben Pertl, a sophomore history ma-

jor, won the contest dressed as Iron Man and received a $300 gift card to Wal-Mart.

Courtney Kleinfieldt can be reached at 581-2812

or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.

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By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

The 21st annual Phi Beta Kappa fall lecture took place Thursday, where Walter Scott’s novel’s effects on the South were discussed.

Mike Goode, an associate profes-sor and the chair of the English de-partment at Syracuse University, said Scott, a British writer during the late 18th-century influenced the American South during the period before and af-ter the Civil War.

Scott was the writer of the Waver-ley Novels, a two dozen set of books published between 1814 and 1832 about historical events in the 17th- and 18th- centuries.

Goode said Mark Twain said the ideas of Scott was one of the causes of the Civil War.

He said Twain termed it the “Sir Walter’s Disease.”

The South took many ideas about history from Scott’s works.

Goode said the way the South saw their narrative, or the story of the na-tion, and their way of reenacting after

the war was changed by Scott’s works.The reason for this connection is

that the south believed in their Scot-tish heritage.

He said historians estimate that many of the survivors of Culloden, the 1746 battle that ended a rebellion in England, were sent to Georgia and South Carolina.

Goode said many of these members had joined the Confederate Army by the start of the Civil War.

He said Scott changed the story of the nation for the South.

Goode said one of the ways of re-membering history is by looking at the facts and stories.

“When you think of a nation, you think of a story,” Goode said.

He said people tell the stories of events that happen, but also try to re-enact certain events that have taken place.

Goode said people try to revive his-tory by trying to live the experience.

What Goode meant is taking on roles such as a Confederate soldier and playing out the scene to feel close to the history.

Goode said the problem with this is that the actor knows what happens, but does not feel the same as the ones who were originally there.

“While Scott may celebrate feel-ing as a means of experimenting the past’s difference from the present, he does not, however, offer any promis-es… that feeling can help readers ac-cess whatever critical stances and feel-ings that people in the past had to-wards their own lived experiences,” Goode said.

Suzie Parks, the president of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of East Central Illinois, said she thought the presentation was great.

“He’s forging new connections be-tween American history and 19th cen-tury imaginings of Britain’s own histo-ry,” Parks said.

Goode said that Scott influenced how the South remembered its histo-ry, but also showed people’s hold on history.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812

or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

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Team looks for senior day winBy Rob Mortell Staff Reporter

Eastern’s men’s soccer team plays an important match against Summit League rival Oakland, the result of which could make or break its post-season tournament hopes.

Currently, the Panthers are tied for fifth in the Summit League standings with Indiana University-Purdue Uni-versity at Indianapolis. Both teams have earned four points with 1-2-1 re-cords in conference play.

The Oakland Golden Grizzlies are led offensively by Jeff Cheslik and Jake Przybycien. Both players led the team with eight points. Cheslik leads the team with four goals. Jon Evans leads the team with five assists.

Oakland averages just over one goal a match and has fired 221 shots in 16 games.

Defensively, Oakland is led by goal-keeper Mitch Hildebrandt, who has played in 10 games and has 1.34 goals against average. Hildebrandt has made

47 saves and has posted a 2-7 record with one shutout.

As a team on defense the Golden Grizzlies allow 1.62 goals per game and have given up 219 shots.

Freshman midfielder Will Butler, who leads the team with 11 points, also leads the offense. Freshman mid-fielder Jake Brillhart trails Butler by one point and leads the team with four goals.

Eastern is 2-0-1 all-time against Oakland and both wins were at home.

The match will serve as senior day for the Panthers senior players, as it marks the final home match of their careers.

The seniors being honored are for-ward Ryan Child, forward Jonathan Hinds, defender Darby Kehoe, de-fender Graham Lynch, defender Mike Picinich and defender Zach Piekarksi.

Game time is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Lakeside Field.

Rob Mortell can be reached at 581-7944 or at rdmortell@eiu.edu.

Final OVC game SundayBy Brad Kupiec Staff Reporter

Eastern’s women’s soccer team will wrap up its regular-season Ohio Valley Conference schedule this Sunday, as they play host to Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville with a postseason berth on the line.

The Panthers come into the final weekend of the season with a 4-4 conference record after dropping a pair of matches last weekend to Murray State and Austin Peay, 3-0 and 1-0, respectively.

The Panthers are currently locked in a four-way tie for third place, and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville is one game behind them at 3-5 in the conference.

Put simply, if the Panthers win, they’re in the OVC tournament,

and if they lose they’ll have to rely on Tennessee-Martin to lose to Jacksonville State.

A Panther loss would have them tied with the Cougars and give Southern Illinois-Edwardsville the head-to-head tiebreaker between the two teams. It would also leave the Panthers behind or tired with Murray State and Austin Peay, who also hold head-to-head tiebreakers with the Panthers courtesy of their respective wins over Eastern last weekend.

With conference leaders Southeast Missouri State and Eastern Kentucky ahead of them, as well as, in the event of a loss Austin Peay, Murray State and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, the Panthers would be the sixth and final seed if they and Tennessee-Martin both lose.

If Eastern wins, however, they

guarantee a spot in the tournament and the only question become how the teams will be seeded.

The conference tournament would take place Nov. 3 to 5 at the home field of the top seed, which this year will be Southeast Missouri.

The Panthers will go into this weekend’s contest with red-shirt sophomore goalkeeper Jessica Taldone coming off a weekend in which she was pulled at halftime against Murray State after allowing three goals before playing 103 scoreless minutes against Austin Peay before allowing that match’s only goal in double overtime.

Sunday’s match is currently set for a 1 p.m. kickoff at Lakeside Field.

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Christophel said Curtis is an ath-letic quarterback who understands the game, and can put a nice touch on the ball with his passing ability.

He stressed the importance of keep-ing Curtis healthy, as the Governors’ third string quarterback, Jacob Sexton, is also a freshman.

“We’ve got to keep (Curtis) healthy because we don’t have too many more (quarterbacks) after that,” Christoph-el said.

The Panthers are still winless in the OVC, following last week’s loss to Ten-nessee-Martin, and are on a seven game

losing streak.“We’re struggling at this point, but

we’re trying to get back on track the best we can,” Spoo said.

Spoo said one of the key deficiencies of the Panthers was their ability to force turnovers, as well as prevent them in their own offense.

“We’re pretty much to the bottom of our conference in turnover margin and that’s never good,” he said.

Eastern has the second to worst turn-over margin in the OVC, in front of only Austin Peay.

On defense, the Panthers have only

two interceptions this season, both coming by the hands of red-shirt senior safety Nick Martinez.

Spoo also said the Panthers have had problems both on offense and defense.

“We’ve allowed a lot of teams to run on us extraordinarily well, and we’ve been very poor running the football ourselves,” Spoo said.

Eastern stands as the worst in the conference in rushing offense and rush-ing defense.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7941

or at dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

The biggest competition for both the men’s and women’s teams will again be Eastern Kentucky, who won the championship on both levels last season.

After the OVC championship, the Panthers will compete at the NCAA Midwest Regional, held at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

The OVC championship will take

place at 8:30 a.m. with the men.The women will follow at 9:30.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942

or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

FOOTBALL, from page 8

CROSS COUNTRY, from page 8

MEN’S SOCCER

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSBrandon Loncar, redshirt freshman midfielder, prepares to head the ball during a game against Oral Roberts University on Oct. 7 at Lakeside Field. Eastern will take on Oakland at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lakeside Field.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Panthers hope to extinguish FlamesBy Nick Blankenship Staff Reporter

The Eastern men’s and women’s swimming teams are set to face the University of Illinois-Chicago Flames at 1 p.m. today at Padovan Pool.

Both of the Eastern swimming teams are winless this season with the men 0-2 while the women are 0-3.

“It’s kind of sad and makes me kind of angry, said sophomore Mary Lacine. “It makes me want to do better.”

Lacine said she had been working on her endurance and strokes earlier in the season, now she is working on back-halves and strokes.

“I’ve been feeling pretty good lately, and excited since this meet will be the first time that I will race in the 400-yard Individual Medley.”

McGill said the team had a long, hard week of practice.

“They’re going to be hurting a whole lot,” McGill said.

Ciliak agreed, saying, “I’m pretty broken down, and we added a couple new workouts to morning practice for endurance and strength.”

The meet against the Flames will be the Panthers’ last before their next one against the teams competing i n t h e Ho u s e o f C h a m p i o n s invitational from Nov. 11 to 12 in Indianapolis.

“I think they should do good, it’s usually pretty close,” Lacine said.

Ciliak feels different on the other end.

“I don’t see us winning, since we’ve lost a lot of guys since last year,” Ciliak said.

Nick Blankenship can be reached at 581-7942

or nrblankenship@eiu.edu.

SWIMMING

By Jordan Pottorff Staff Reporter

The premier team in NCAA Division-I women’s rugby will take to the road for the final time this season.

The Panthers will be traveling to Ames, Iowa, to take on the Iowa State Cyclones.

The Panthers are coming off of a huge momentum-boosting win against a physical and talented Northern Iowa team.

The Panthers will look to continue that energy in the next game.

“ I h o p e w e c a n k e e p t h e momentum going,” Eastern head coach Frank Graziano said. “We were on such an emotional high when we played against Northern Iowa. It will be a challenge to see if we can bring enough intensity.”

Eastern shut out Iowa State in last year’s match-up by a score of 55-0, and they have beaten the Cyclones in each of the previous three contests.

“We have proven to ourselves that we can beat this team, but like all the other games, we won’t underestimate them,” senior flyhalf Tina Crema said. “We had a good game last week, so we are feeling really confident this week.”

For the Panthers to come away with the road victory, it will be key that they grab control of the game from the opening minutes, and force the Cyclones to play catch-up for the remainder of the game.

A lot of credit has been given to the offensive performances the Panthers have displayed this season, but the defensive performances have been just as impressive as of late.

T h e Pa n t h e r d e f e n s e h a s established itself as a serious presence .The Panthers have not allowed more than 15 points in a single game this season, and managed to shut out the Quinnipiac Bobcats in the first ever NCAA Division I women’s rugby game on Sept. 18.

“I feel like our defense will be awesome this weekend,” Crema said. “We have a lot of momentum going into this game, and I feel like we have seen what we really can do when we use our strength and passion out on the field.”

The Panthers will take on the Cyclones at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-7942

or jbpottorff@eiu.edu.

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FOOTBALL, page 7

Teams to miss key playersBy Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

Both the Eastern and Austin Peay football teams will be without key players in this weekend’s Ohio Valley Conference match-up.

The Panthers will be without their team leader in receptions, junior wide receiver Kenny Whittaker, who was dismissed from the team

Wednesday for a violation of team rules.

Also dismissed from the team by Eastern head coach Bob Spoo was senior defensive lineman Michael Letton, who has recorded nine tackles so far this season.

With the absence of Whittaker, the Panthers will most likely have junior wide receivers Jeremy Rykard or Chavar Watkins lined up in place

of Whittaker.For the Governors, they will be

without their starting quarterback, Jake Ryan, who has been ruled out for Saturday’s game with a sprained MCL. Ryan suffered the injury in Austin Peay’s loss last weekend to Southeast Missouri.

Freshman quarterback Landon Curtis is expected to make the start for the Governors. Curtis had not

seen the field prior to filling in as relief for Ryan.

Austin Peay head coach Rick Chr i s tophe l s a id he ha s fu l l confidence in his inexperienced back up quarterback.

“Landon, is he ready to play?” he said. “Probably not as a freshman, but is he capable? Yes, he’s very capable.”

KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Chris Wright, junior wide receiver, runs after making a catch during the game against Tennessee-Martin on Saturday at O’Brien Field.

VOLLEYBALL

Panthers hope to get back on track

CROSS COUNTRY

Panthers are ready for victory By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

The Eastern men’s and women’s cross country teams will begin to wrap up their seasons at this weekend’s Ohio Valley Conference championships.

The Panthers are hoping to top the success they had at last year’s OVC championship, where the women’s team finished in second place and the men’s team finished in third.

The women’s team will return all three of their top 10 finishers from last year in junior Olivia Klaus, junior Gabriela Duenas and senior Brittany Arthur. The three players finished in fourth, seventh and ninth at last year’s championship meet.

They were three of five Eastern women to earn first team All-OVC honors, with senior Megan Gingerich and junior Erika Ramos.

Ramos, who broke Eastern’s all-time 6K record at her last event, the Bradley Classic, said the team is much improved from last year.

“I feel like our team is just 100 percent stronger than it was last year and we have a great chance to win, she said.

Ramos said the team has more depth this season, with more team members stepping up each week.

“We have some girls who were out of the season last year, who were held back and other girls who are stepping it up a little bit more,” Ramos said.

She also said despite the team’s strength last season, she feels that the team is even stronger this season.

“I think that this year we have a better chance to win it because our team is a little bit stronger this year,” she said.

Seniors Brad LaRocque and Matt Feldhake will lead the men’s team.

LaRocque has been the Panthers’ top finisher this season, winning the EIU Walt Crawford Open, an event that Feldhake also won the previous year.

Finishing in seventh place at the OVC championship last year, LaRocque was a first team All-OVC selection in last year’s season.

He, along with Feldhake and newcom-er and freshman Bryce Basting will try to lead the men’s team again.

CROSS COUNTRY, page 7

RUGBY

Team hits road for final time, hopes to build off win

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Madison Kissner, freshman center, and Alissa Patient, junior prop, tackle a Northern Iowa University player during the game on Saturday at Lakeside Field. Eastern will take on Iowa State on Saturday at Lakeside Field.

By Lenny Arquilla Staff Reporter

The Panthers will take on two teams they lost to earlier in the season this weekend while trying to end their two-game losing streak.

The Panthers lost their opening matches this season to Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky at home, while Morehead State has won the last nine match-ups and Eastern Kentucky has won the last eight times against East-

ern.The Panthers enter the weekend at

8-17 overall and 5-9 in the Ohio Val-ley Conference and they are facing tough competition this weekend, ac-cording to Eastern head coach Kate Price.

She said the team has the funda-mentals to win and snap their losing streak.

The Morehead State Eagles are 18-5 overall and a perfect 13-0 in league play, while the Eastern Kentucky Col-

onels look to improve on their 11-13 overall and 6-7 conference record.

Morehead State is on pace to win their second consecutive league cham-pionship, so the Panthers will be in for a fight on Friday night.

In the two teams’ last meeting, three Panthers nailed nine kills apiece, but they were swept in three matches to give Morehead another OVC victory.

The Panthers’ dynamic duo, soph-omore Reynae Hutchinson and junior Emily Franklin, scored a combined 35

kills against Eastern Kentucky in the last match.

The Panthers look to snap a recent two-match losing streak when the Pan-thers travel to the Bluegrass State to battle league-leader Morehead State and rival Eastern Kentucky on Friday and Saturday, with first serves set for 6 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.

Lenny Arquilla can be reached at 581-7944

or lrarquilla@eiu.edu

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Even if you’ve never lis-tened to Blue Oyster Cult, it’s very likely that you’ve seen, or at least heard of, the popu-lar “Saturday Night Live” skit “More Cowbell”, which features the band’s hit single “Don’t Fear the Reaper.”

For those who are unfamil-iar, the hilarious skit features Will Farrell as Blue Oyster Cult’s eccentric cowbell player, Gene, and Christopher Walken as a producer with a fever that can only be cured by “more cowbell.”

Originally called Soft White Underbelly, the band got its start in the late 60s in Long Is-land, New York.

According to the band’s site, the group adopted the name Blue Oyster Cult in 1971 and released their first self-titled full length album in January of 1972.

One of the band’s first sin-gles was “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll.” This Black Sabbath inspired track quickly became a staple in the band’s live performances, according to their site.

The song uses a variety of minor chords and dirty guitar riffs to give it a sort of under-ground type of sound.

Blue Oyster Cult’s biggest hit and arguably their most popular song to date, “Don’t Fear the Reaper”, was released on their 1976 album “Agents of

Fortune.” The opening guitar riff and

melodic vocals are recogniz-able almost immediately.

The song’s long lasting pop-ularity has led it to sell almost 100,000 digital copies in the United States as of 2010.

Another one of BOC’s better known tracks is “Burnin’ For You” from their 1981 album, “Fire of Unknown Origin.”

When the track was re-leased, it reached number one on the Billboard Top Tracks chart and spent three weeks at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Sung by guitarist Buck Dharma, “Burnin’ For You” is an upbeat rock ballad that is sure to have just about anyone up and moving.

Due to their unique and di-verse sound, Blue Oyster Cult has been an influence on a va-riety of modern bands span-ning many different genres in-cluding heavy metal, psyche-delic, and the modern “jam band.”

Since their beginning, BOC has been consistent with their music.

Although there have been a few line up changes since the band first started playing, Blue Oyster Cult has not let that stand in the way of their mu-sic.

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By Seth Schroeder Verge Editor

The hard-rock band Blue Öyster Cult heads to Effingham for their concert 8 p.m. Friday at the Effingham Performance Center.

Eric Bloom, lead singer and stunt guitarist for the band, said while they have never been to Effingham before the band is excited to go there and has a strong following in the Mid-west. He said the performance will be new because they try and change things for every concert.

“We love playing that area of the country,” Bloom said.

Tickets for the concert range from $36-$50 depending on how close they are to stage.

Blue Öyster Cult is known for songs such as “(Don't Fear) The Reaper” and “Godzilla.”

Janie Oldfield, executive di-rector for the center, said they planned this concert six months in advance.

“It seemed somewhat the-matic to have them play during Halloween,” Oldfield said. “Their hits seemed to go with the mood. We wanted to do it on a weekend people would be looking to party anyway.”

Bloom said while the band does not strive for a Halloween atmosphere, he could see where the raw material of their music might fit with that theme.

He said the band has always had fantasy and science fiction influences.

“People usually write what they know,” Bloom said. “We've

always been movie guys, science fiction guys, comic book guys.”

Bloom said the bands name came from a similar influence. He said their manager at the time,, came up with the name and that it was originally a name for a fictitious race of sub-aquat-ic aliens that manipulate earth's history.

“He came up with the name because we couldn't agree,” Bloom said. “It was a phrase used in a series of poems he wrote.”

The band is not current-ly touring but Bloom said they usually tour May through Octo-ber during the warmer months.

He said they mostly play week-ends and do about 80-90 shows a year.

“That leaves us with a lot of free time,” Bloom said. “Every-body is always writing. Every-body is always busy doing other projects that aren't BOC.”

While the concert begins at 8 p.m. Oldfield said the opening act, Ashley Matte, a Nashville based artist, will perform for a half hour so Blue Öyster Cult will not start untill 8:45 p.m.

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Corey Ascolani Verge Reporter

Horror fans can expect nu-merous surprises, Halloween creatures and a “hands on” ex-perience at the “Haunted Half Mile” this weekend.

The “Haunted Half-Mile” is a strip of road with various haunt-ed scenes and characters distrib-uted throughout.

It is open through the week-end from dusk till about 10 p.m. The half-mile is within a half-hour from Eastern. There are signs lead-ing to the half-mile starting at the corner of Illinois Route 121 South and 1075N.

Don Manion, started the Haunted Half Mile with help from his son five years ago.

Manion said the “Haunted Half-Mile” gets help from other families. He said people come from

nearby cities and as far as Chica-go and Arkansas to see what the Haunted Half Mile has to offer.

He said they have actors dressed up as werewolves, the bone col-lector, the Red Barron and danc-ing ghosts. Manion also said he and his sons made several animat-ed structures for the Half-Mile in-cluding a pirate ship with can-nons.

“Last year, in nine days we saw over 1,750 cars come through,” Manion said. “But this is our last year.”

Vincent Seals, a Mattoon resi-dent, said he went to the half-mile with his girlfriend and her kids.

“People would come up and reach in the car,” Seal said. “A lot of things you didn’t expect. These people really put a lot into it.”

Carol Smith, a resident who lives near the half-mile, said her grandsons, ages 15 and nine, have

enjoyed participating in the scare. “You can hear the kids scream

a few blocks away,” Smith said. “Everyone from all ages, young and old, come around includ-ing youth groups, church groups, teenagers and sometimes we see hayrides.”

She said the Manions manage the “Haunted Half-Mile” just for fun.

Manion said they usually start setting up in September and it usually takes them about a month to set up the half-mile.

Manion said to drive through the “Haunted Half-Mile” is free and donations are always accepted. 

“In the past our donations have gone to, Shop with a Cop, Feed the Children, Unicef and Camp New Hope,” Manion said. 

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Performance swaps character roles Festival to raise money for HOPEBy Seth Schroeder

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For the theater department's performance of the play “Vol-pone” the gender of nearly ev-ery character will be switched.

The play is by Ben Johnson and is a Renaissance era come-dy focusing on satire of the rich and upper class.

Director Chris Mitchell, pro-fessor of theatre arts, said this type of play is called a comedy of manners. He said while the play may not be as well known to students, it was well received during its time and is very fun-ny.

“It's easy,” Mitchell said. “(The rich) are an easy target.”

The play opened Wednes-day evening and will show at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday as well as at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Mainstage Theater of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Tick-ets will cost $5 for students and $12 for non-students.

Mitchell said the plot re-volves around titular charac-ter Volpone who is very wealthy but is also so very greedy. Vol-pone pretends to be dying in or-der to scam three other greedy

characters Voltore, Corbaccia and Corvina out of their own fortunes. Each of the three are in turn trying to get their hands on Volpone's wealth as well.

In the middle of all this scheming is Mosca, Volpone's crafty assistant. Mitchell said Mosca is a very street smart character who plays the other characters off of each other.

Originally most of the char-acters, including Volpone, were male but Eastern's performance will feature a female lead.

Anna Broughton, a sopho-more theater arts major, plays Volpone and said the gender switch has had some unique challenges.

“Pronouns, they're more important than you think,” Broughton said.

While the cast tried to change the pronouns in every script, they missed a few which made some lines initially con-fusing.

Rebecca Berkowicz, a senior history major, plays Notario the court stenographer. She said the gender switch made the play funnier because of the reversal of gender roles. She said there is a scene that originally would

have been sad because it had a man beating his wife, but that same scene is now funny be-cause it is a women beating here husband.

“It's interesting to see how gender changes things,” Berko-wicz said.

In addition to the gender change, Mitchell said the play has also gone through a setting change. The play is original-ly set in Renaissance era Ven-ice, Italy but is now set in Ven-ice Beach, Fla. In 2009.

Mitchell said he chose 2009 because it was the same time as the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme and that Venice Beach is very close to where Madoff 's wife settled after the scandal. He said both the original and new location have Mediterra-nean architecture and pre-show music will feature 2009 pop music.

“Grifters go across time,” Mitchell said. “The play is re-markably modern. We kind of see how the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

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By Sara Jacobson Verge Reporter

Woodchuck Festival of Music and Art will hold a two day mu-sic festival Halloween weekend in order to raise money for HOPE against Domestic Abuse of East Central Illinois.

The Spookchuck Music Fes-tival is a new event that will take place today and tomorrow at the intersection of 700 N and 2500 E in Strasburg, roughly 20 minutes southwest of Charleston.

Presale tickets for the event can be purchased at 4th Street Records for $20. Otherwise, they are $35 at the door for a weekend pass. Daily passes are $20 and parking is $10.

“I've been looking forward to Spookchuck ever since it was an-nounced this summer,” said Junior recreation administration major, Zach Moritz. “I can't wait to hear the mix of great local artists and bigger regional acts that these fes-tivals have become known for.”

Coles County Shuttle Servic-es will be providing buses to and from the event. Buses will pick up at the corner of 10th and Lincoln, Top of the Square, and the Union

and cost five dollars for a round trip.

In addition to the live music, there will be a costume contest and a jack-o-lantern contest.

“We've been doing these events for a while now. They've become sort of an EIU staple,” said Wood-chuck founder Jimmy Frey.

“We have two stages and over 30 bands performing this weekend. The most we've had at an event is around 700. We're hoping to have at least 500 show up for Spook-chuck,” Frey said.

Those planning to attend Spookchuck must be 18 or older, or have a legal guardian present. Other rules for the weekend in-clude: no illegal drug use, no under age drinking, no fighting or bad at-titudes, no glass and no personal fires.

“Its way more fun than a night at the bar or a keg party in a col-lege basement or any kind of stan-dard concert experience," Willis said. "There's just more to do and its looser."

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In college, your room-mate can add the  best fun

memories to your college life but for Taylor and Ralph their roommate experience   became a nightmare that they will nev-er forget.

Taylor Zilleox, a junior spe-cial education major, said she had a horrible college room-mate experience while living in a University Court apartment. Zilleox said she could not wait till the year was over to have a new roommate.

“When we first moved in she didn’t even vacum or clean any stuff that was in her room,” Zil-leox said. “She just put all her

stuff away with out cleaning.” Zilleox said she was disgust-

ed on how it took so long for her roommate to clean the dish-es.

“She would cook something and leave the extra food in the pot or on the plate for two weeks,” Zilleox said.

Zilleox said her roommate was even dirty in the bathroom.

“She would do her make up in the bathroom and have all of her make up from her face in the sink, along with her hair and never cleaned it,” Zilleox said. “She never cleaned in gen-eral, she just sat in the apart-ment unless she had class.”  

Zilleox said her roommate was very jealous of her as well.

“She got very upset and jeal-ous of me because I had other friends beside her,” Zilleox said. “She started making up things about me and even brought our landlord in the situation.”

Zilleox is now living with an-other roommate and said she is very relieved that she is not rooming with her ex roommate anymore.

Ralph Jacob, a sophomore major business major, said he is very disappointed with his roommate’s behavior in their room in Thomas Hall.

Jacob said his current room-mate would often argue with him or act immature.

“I was in my room after our confrontation and I asked ‘hey are you going out later’ and I just got this awkward silent stare down as if he was about to kill me. I’m scared to go to sleep.”

Jacob said his roommate has no respect for his belongings.

“If my shoes are by his dresser instead of moving my shoes nice-ly or moving them on my area he would step on top of them and grind his feet into them.”

Jacob said he believes some of the negativity comes from envy.

“I believe my roommate is jealous of me because I dress nice everyday and he wears like warm up pants and rain boots.”

Jacob said he cannot wait till next year and he is planning on living in an apartment because he is tired of the one bedroom residence hall life.

Editor’s Note: For safety reasons, the identity of the source of this sto-ry is partially withheld.

During his freshman year, Anthony, a ju-

nior theatre arts major, lived with a roommate in Taylor Hall who haunted him long after he moved out.

Anthony said his roommate at that time would hardly ever leave their room. When nature called, Anthony said his room-mate would use bottles of water to urinate in so he would not have to leave the room.

On one occasion, Anthony woke to find four cups of urine

spread throughout his room.“I woke up and couldn’t

breathe,” Anthony said. “The smell was nasty.”

Anthony also said the room-mate bathed once a month, stole clothes and school sup-plies, and had tantrums.

“He was really out of control,” Anthony said.

After two trips to the Office of Student Standards, Antho-ny moved to a new dorm room with a different roommate.

“I left because he was crazy,” he said. “I don’t want to stay in a room with bottles of urine.”

But it did not end there.“From time to time (he) still

stalks me,” Anthony said.Anthony said the day he

moved out the roommate called him and threatened him for leaving.

After that school year, Antho-ny’s former roommate failed all his classes and left Eastern. An-thony said the man would often miss classes if not reminded.

“It was almost like I was his parent,” Anthony said. “Now, no one supports him.”

Though he was gone for a year, Anthony said his former roommate has returned to the university. Anthony said he still worries about having to deal with him.

True tales of roommate terrors

A roommate can be a new experience for many, and

while most seem to get along fine, some students can find themselves in their own roommate horror sto-ry.

The housing department can help with this though. Joshua Lawrie, area director of residential life, said the department encour-ages students to try and talk with their roommates about issues one-on-one if possible.

“We always like to resolve on the lower level with roommates talking,” Lawrie said. “The rea-son we do roommates is to de-velop skills and how to approach someone you have a disagreement with.”

Mark Hudson, director of Uni-versity Housing and Dining Ser-vices, agreed with Lawrie and said communication is key for room-mate success.

“What we find is if it’s escalat-ed up the person gets embarrassed and it can interfere with the pro-cess,” Hudson said.

Hudson said not all roommate

problems come from random roommates but can come from even those who were best friends before living together.

“My wife tells me all the time, ‘Hanging out with you is a lot dif-ferent than living with you,’” Hud-son said.

Hudson said if issues are still not resolved after talking one-on-one, to get the Resident Assistant involved and write up a roommate contract.

“(The roommate contract) is not really a legal contract, but a way to get people to talk about things,” Hudson said.

Hudson said the most com-mon roommate problems are cov-ered in the contract. He said it in-cludes use of the roommate’s pos-sessions, bedtimes, music volume and other things as well.

“It’s basic sharing space with another person,” Hudson said. “We want students thinking about how their actions impact other people.”

Lawrie said if all of that still does not resolve the issue then the

student should get the Resident Hall Director involved and after that, to move.

“There’s always the opportunity to move,” Lawrie said. “Sometimes people just aren’t compatible.”

Lawrie said while this is the most common way to deal with roommate problems, it is not a clear, step-by-step process.

“It all depends on the severity of it and who the student goes to first,” Lawrie said.

Lawrie also said if any student feels his or her safety is in jeopar-dy, then it negates a lot of the pro-cess.

“If anyone feels stalked or threatened, they should report it right away,” Lawrie said.

He said that type of behavior often goes unreported, but if it is, the department can get the Office of Student Standards or the Cam-pus Police Department involved. He said they can also move the student right away.

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