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By Jack CruikshankStaff Reporter@DEN_News
The university will minimize its relationship with an outside con-sulting firm due to the fall’s disap-pointing enrollment trends, a uni-versity official said.
In November 2011, the Board of Trustees approved hiring the enrollment management-consult-ing firm Noel-Levitz to help re-verse the trend of declining en-rollment at Eastern. Now, after al-most two years, the population is still declining and the time with Noel-Levitz is coming to an end.
Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs, said the consulting contract with the firm was originally set to expire on June 30, 2013, but because of setbacks, the contract will official-ly end around November. Eastern, however, will still retain some ad-ditional services such as a propri-etary system that helps determine which admitted students have a high tendency to choose Eastern.
“(The proprietary system that Noel-Levitz will still handle) is a fairly elaborate model to develop in house,” Lord said. “We were going to try to develop it over this past year, but we are not ready to do without Noel-Levitz’s assis-tance at this time. Hopefully we will get there soon.”
The current total enrollment of 10,417 (8,347 of which are un-dergraduate students) is approx-imately 1,000 students less than what Lord said he would like it to be consistently.
“The ultimate goal is to stem the declines that we have faced in enrollment and ultimately to re-verse the trends of enrollment,” he said. “We want to stem that de-cline for a number of years so ul-timately the numbers will start go-ing back up again.”
Lord said that an optimum en-rollment for Eastern is between 11,500 to 11,800 students, in-cluding off-campus students. At its enrollment peak in the fall of 2006, Eastern instructed 12,349 students.
While the decline in enrollment has been a problem in the last few years Eastern experienced a six
percent decline in students this year, Lord was quick to point out that in other areas, such as reten-tion, Eastern is doing well.
“Eastern’s retention rate com-pared to state norms is very good,” Lord said. “We retain students at a much higher rate than other simi-lar universities.”
Mary Herrington-Perry, the as-
sistant vice-president for academ-ic affairs, is currently undertaking the application of Noel-Levitz’s ideas to Eastern’s recruitment sys-tem, including a strategic enroll-ment planning process that creat-ed a steering committee under her leadership.
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The two buses rented by the university to take students home over fall break have been completely filled.
Susie Ray, an administrative clerk in the Ticket Office in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, said both buses were filled and not enough students are on the waiting list to get another bus.
The university works with Monticello Bus Service, Inc. to provide transportation for stu-dents to Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.
Ray said they reserved two buses for the fall break based off of last year’s number of stu-dents who used the transportation, and will have three for Thanksgiving break.
Tickets go on sale roughly two weeks before the bus is scheduled to leave, she said.
“We try to accommodate everybody and let them know when tickets go on sale,” Ray said. “It is up to them if they really want to go home to try and get here in time to purchase a tick-et.”
Ray said if there are enough students on a waiting list to fill another bus, they can get one provided if the company has a bus available. If there are not enough students, however, the university will not usually get another bus.
For students who are unable to get a ticket for the buses through the university, Ray said the Ticket Office provides some other alterna-tives for getting home.
She said they tell students about the Amtrak and Greyhound bus service in Mattoon, and about the Dial-a-Ride program that will trans-port them to those stations.
Brittany Welsch, a sophomore psychology major, said she is planning on using the bus-es during break to get home, and said she does not like that there are so few buses available.
“There’s no way to get home if there isn’t another bus,” Welsch said. “I live three hours away, so I would have no way of getting home if I didn’t take the bus.”
She said if the bus was full she would con-sider taking the Greyhound or the Amtrak, but would rather not.
“I would probably just stick it out and go home on other breaks,” Welsch said.
She said the university should consider get-ting more buses.
“If everyone here decides to go home, three wouldn’t even be enough,” she said.
Golene Thrush, a freshman early childhood education major, said she would be upset if she tried to get a bus ticket and there were none available.
“It would be kind of stressful because I wouldn’t have a way home,” Thrush said. “My parents would have to find a way to come get me or I’d have to find a different way.”
Molly Kearns and Bridgette Hearn, both junior sociology majors, have ridden the bus from Eastern before.
Kearns said she does not like riding the bus because the drivers had to ask the riders direc-tions for different areas of the ride.
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Noel-Levitz to conclude consulting period
By Marcus CurtisEntertainment Editor@DEN_News
The short “Showtime at the Apollo” themed talent show host-ed by the University Board Main-stage committee resulted in a vic-tory by two strong-voiced stu-dents.
Shelaina Reid and Quavon-na Hayes, both junior family and consumer sciences majors, won the acceptance of the crowd, and $125, with their cover perfor-mance of Jazmine Sullivan’s song “Need U Bad.”
The theme of the UB Main-stage talent show was very similar to popular amateur talent show in Harlem, N.Y. “Showtime at The Apollo”.
Performers that stepped on stage got a chance to present their entire talent, however performers who did not get the approval of the audience would be escorted off stage by a loud siren and a man in a costume with a broom or a cane.
The format of the Mainstage talent show was very similar to the
original amateur night known in Harlem.
There were various amounts of students who did not meet the ex-pectations of the crowd. Audience members yelled “Boo” and waved their hands to show their dissatis-
faction with the performance. The process would proceed
with the sounding of an alarm and the appearance of the person known as “The Sandman.” “The Sandman” jumped on stage wear-ing a rainbow colored clown wig and yielding a broom.
He swept at the performers
feet, signaling the contestants to remove themselves off the stage while the crowd continued to yell “Boo.”
At the end of the talent show, David Groves, coordinator for UB Mainstage and senior manage-
ment major, stepped on the stage behind all the contestants that survived the critical crowd.
Groves held his hand above each contestant’s head while the crowd responded with screams and hand clapping to acknowl-edge their favorite act.
The crowd’s reaction to Hayes and Reid’s singing performance resulted in them taking home the $125 prize.
Reid said she did not expect to win the talent show, but said she is very happy that she did.
“The win was unexpected,” she said. “I’m happy, excited. Every-body did good.”
Hayes agreed with her singing mate.
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The Residence Hall Association members will be designated to special committees and also plan to get ready for Homecoming at the next RHA meeting.
The meeting will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday at Stevenson Hall.
RHA Vice President Patrick Mor-row said it would be a short meeting because each of the committees will be meeting after the meeting is over to set up times to meet and plans for
the future.The RHA programming committee
members will be handling the banner and the spirit board for Homecoming.
Christina Lauff, the RHA nation-al/Illinois communication coordina-tor and adviser of the committee, said they have not met yet, but they plan to after the meeting to set up a time for the committee to meet to work on the spirit board.
Lauff said Morrow has already de-signed the banner for the RHA.
RHA members will also be talking
about the parade for Homecoming and what each member can and will do for the parade.
Lauff will also be reminding RHA members of the Great Lakes Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls conference, which will go from Nov. 21 until Nov. 24.
The conference will have seminars and programs, which are expected to teach the RHA members leadership tips.
The RHA executive board will be sending nine people to the conference.
Lauff said there is currently one more open spot for the conference.
“Any number of people can apply, but there will be an interview process if we get more than that,” Lauff said.
Registration for the conference will be closed Friday.
Morrow said the executive board will also announce new information regarding their retreat from Oct. 25 until Oct. 27.
This year, RHA members will be helping out with Camp New Hope, a non-profit organization.
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By Jarad Jarmonstudent Governance editor@JJarmonreporter
Student Senate members finished approving every member of the Stu-dent Action Team and announced an academic program to improve Reg-istered Student Organization mem-bers’ GPA at their meeting Wednes-day.
The senate approved 19 more Stu-dent Action Team members.
Executive Vice President Mitch Gurick, the chairman of the Student Action Team, formed the team in or-der to lobby in Springfield for East-ern issues.
Gurick said the team is comprised of 23 members, but not all of them will be going to lobby.
Only 16 members will be able to go to Springfield on Oct. 23 to lobby.
Gurick said the Student Action Team executive board will be decid-ing the best candidates for the trip if to many want to go.
Lauren Price, the vice-chairwom-an of the team and a junior biologi-cal science major, said they are look-ing for a person with communication skills.
“I don’t need someone who is go-ing to be nervous,” Price said.
Gurick said he wanted as many people to join as possible to insure they would have a full team going to Springfield.
“I still want their input on issues affecting Eastern,” Gurick said. “I am assuming people won’t be able to go because of their class schedules.”
The Student Senate academic af-fairs committee revealed that they are starting Midterm-Mania next week for the senate. Midterm-Mania is a program to improve academic success for students who are members of an organization.
Shirmeen Ahmad, the committee chairwoman and a journalism and political science major, said the com-mittee is starting the program using the senate members as a trial run to work out any problems that might arise.
“We want to have something big that we can implement all around campus, but before we already do that we want to have a test,” Ahmad said. “Student government is our test.”
Ahmad said they will be pretend-ing each committee is a RSO.
Midterm-Mania is more of a com-petition between the committees in order to increase student’s grades.
The committee who has a higher percentage of participants with a 3.25 GPA or more will win prizes.
Ahmad said the committee will look at the highest GPAs and not just the percentages.
She said they have not figured out the prizes for the team
The GPAs will be tabulated after fi-nals week.
Student Senate will be meeting again at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Ar-cola-Tuscola room in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Diagnosed with Asperger Syn-drome in 2008, David Finch has au-thored a book detailing his life – a book that will be part of his presen-tation as he helps kick off the 2013 EIU Autism Conference.
Finch will be presenting at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $10 and a portion of the proceeds will go toward the advance-ment of the EIU Autism Center on campus.
Throughout his presentation, Finch will be incorporating parts of his book, “The Journal of Best Prac-tices,” as part of the keynote speech.His book, which is a memoir of his life with Asperger Syndrome, details aspects of how he has dealt with the syndrome – often with entertaining results, Gail Richard, the chair of the communication and disorder sciences department, said.
Richard said Finch began having some idiosyncrasies in his life that be-came disruptive, and he made a con-certed effort to figure out why. The idiosyncrasies ended up being a part of his Asperger Syndrome. After fig-uring out what exactly his syndrome was, he kept a journal, which helped, and began writing for publications
like The New York Times. Richard also said his novel, and ap-
proach, was more tongue-in-cheek than people would be used to.
“It’s great to bring in somebody who’s pretty new, or novel,” Rich-ard said. “That was one of the moti-vators.”
Along with Finch, the 2013 EIU Autism Conference will also feature Tim Kowalski, who will host an all-day training session on social prag-matic skills and personal interactions. Kowalski’s training will be Friday at 9 a.m. in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. Universi-ty Union.
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By Marcus Curtisentertainment editor@Den_news
Students and faculty will get a chance to experience the sounds of Ritmos Unidos at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
The events of Latin American Heritage Month continue with the free performance from Ritmos Uni-dos, the multi-genre Latin band.
Ritmos Unidos, which translates to “united rhythms” in English, is a band that focuses in the genres of Latin jazz, afro-Cuban jazz and vari-ous other genre mixtures of Latin de-scent.
Jamie Ryan, an assistant professor of percussion, said students and oth-er attendees would experience quali-ty music from a quality band.
“[Students] will hear some of the best musicians in this genre,” Ryan said. “They’re all world class musi-cians.”
Ryan said he anticipates students gaining an interest in a different style
of music. “I hope they get some new sounds
in their ear,” he said.More specifically, Ryan said that
his percussion students will gain some knowledge from the band, both at the concert and in the mas-ter class.
He said Ritmos Unidos’ teachings and performance will give his stu-dents an idea of what they one day should become as a percussionist.
“[My students] will see and hear what they’re working towards,” Ryan said.
The Latin genre band is currently on tour and will be stopping at East-ern to perform. In addition to their performance, Ritmos Unidos will in-struct a Latin music master class for music students who are interested from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Ryan said he thought of the idea to invite Ritmos Unidos to Eastern after his knowledge of them touring Illinois.
Ryan said he is acquainted with Michael Spiro, who is the percus-sionist for the band, which is how he
was able to invite the band to per-form at Eastern.
Ryan said he got in contact with Dwight Vaught, he assistant dean of the Doudna Fine Arts Center, and they were able to book Ritmos Uni-dos to perform next Thursday.
Other band members from Ritmos Unidos are Mike Mixtacki on drums and background vocals; Joe Galvin on violin and background vocals; Jamaal Baptiste on piano and keyboards; Pat Harbinson on trumpet and flugel-horn; Nate Johnson on tenor and so-prano saxophone and background vocals; Joel Tucker on electric and acoustic guitar; and Jeremy Allen on bass guitar and string bass.
Ryan said overall students will be entertained and will want to dance when hearing the sounds from Rit-mos Unidos.
“I think it will be an explosive performance,” he said. “It will be su-per-swinging. It’s great dance music.”
Marcus Curtis can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Pizza with the Prez connects Perry, students
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K atie sMith | the Daily eastern ne ws president Bill perry jokes with the the assistant Director of Bands, J. corey francis, after pizza with the prez mon-day behind the Tarble arts center. perry said he is excited for eastern’s homecoming game, where he will direct the band as they play the university’s fight song.
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By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance editor @Den_news
President Bill Perry clarified what the government shutdown will mean for students and Eastern as a whole at “Pizza with the Prez” Wednesday in Taylor Hall.
Students were able to have some free Little Caesars pizza while talking to Perry about their lives, as well as issues affecting students such as the government shutdown Monday.
Perry discussed how the U.S. gov-ernment shutdown will affect the campus and the importance of fed-eral funding.
“It is really unfortunate,” Per-ry said. “It has been almost 20 years since the last one.”
He said that it is crucial it does not last too long because the federal government supplies grants to some faculty.
“The longer it lasts, the more im-pact it will have,” Perry said.
Perry said students should not have to worry about Eastern’s aca-demic programs.
“The instructional programs are
funded by, for the most part, state appropriations and tuition,” Perry said.
He said other programs might de-grade if the problem is not solved soon.
Students offered their apprecia-tion for Perry and the administration as a whole.
“Right now, it looks like a real log jam and I don’t know what it will take to break it up,” Perry said.
Miranda Mauk, a senior art and psychology major, said she was proud of how progressive Perry and the campus are towards sexuality.
Mauk said she knew a student last year who had gender reassignment surgery that semester and halfway through the semester her instructors were emailed of the pronoun change for the student.
“That was the first time I realized that I was very proud to be a part of this institution,” Mauk said. “That was a very progressive mindset.”
C aMpus | DiScuSSion
This year’s Student Senate has been running for five weeks now and their jobs and goals have been indistinguishable.
While they have hosted multiple events to promote school spirit, they really have not done anything meaningful for the student body.
They are planning to do a lot of activities to lobby for Eastern and grab more support from alumni but they are just that, plans.
Last year, the senate active-ly researched student’s opinions about the smoking policies through a forum.
They found students were not ready for a smoke-free campus and struck down a resolution proposing a smoke-free campus.
In this case, a problem was proposed to them and they acted accordingly.
The same cannot be said for this year. Diversity issues around campus and the Charleston community
have been a hot button issue for many students but they have not act-ed in response to this with any sort of discussion with students.
National PanHellenic Council even brought the issue up at a stu-dent senate meeting two weeks ago.
NPHC members said they hoped to co-host an event of some kind to ease the tension as well as show that the “Barn Party” was an isolat-ed incident and had nothing to do with the black community.
The senate still has not provided any sort of forum or activity for
the students to seek a solution to the problem with diversity around the community.
This is no small task for the administration, let alone the senate, but they have not even shown significant effort in trying to provide a service for students so they might feel more comfortable in Eastern.
The phrase, “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it,” cannot be used as an excuse for the lack of response from the senate.
James Ochwa-Echel, an Africana studies professor, organized Coffee Hour; a meeting to allow students to review the problems people are having.
Another forum like this would be beneficial for students and the senate.
Some senate members did attend the Coffee Hour but they have not given any sign as to what they will
be doing about the issues. The senate will be hosting a mixer in the upcoming future, but it
seems to be a lackluster attempt to look like they are trying. Student Senate members are leaders on campus and they must be
held higher standard. They were elected to an important position with a massive responsibility, being the voice of the student body.
It is nearly half way through the semester. They need to show more effort at this point. They are in the position to have a significant effect on the student body.
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Our POSiTiOn • Situation: Student Senate has not done much other then plan. • Stance: Student Seante should show more of an effort to issues affecting students now.
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hOMecOMinG: Eastern’s homecoming is in two weeks. Get ready for all the festivites.
GOVernMenT: Congress and the White House met Wednesday and are no closer to resolving the government shutdown.
DeaThS: Eight people died Wednesday when a church bus crashed in Tennessee.
Fall breaK: Fall Break is next weekend, just in time for a well deserved break.
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What’s in a name?An identity. A history confined within a
combination of letters. Names have an inherent power over us, a
power not necessarily apparent on the sur-face; it is a notion, a shadow present in the corner of your eye.
Every one has a natural curiosity with one’s own name. The curiosity grows when you encounter someone carrying the same name.
We Google ourselves just to see what pops up and then examine the lives of strangers that we have one singular facet in common with.
I found a lawyer, a hockey player and a musician wearing the name Rachel Rodgers, scattered throughout the country living their lives. Discovering these strangers serves as a bit of fun, a giggly lens to peer through as if it were an alternate dimension.
That’s all it was, until my name followed me here. Observing shells of these people present-ed no problem from a distance, but I discov-ered a strange feeling during my second year at Eastern when someone with the same name came to campus.
The sense of curiosity remained the same, but this feeling of eeriness, of the uncanny, sprouted.
Sigmund Freud examined the idea of the uncanny, and part of his writing identified a doubling theory. The theory spoke to how twins can seem creepy, that one must be good and the other evil.
Obviously, having the same name as someone else does not compare to having a twin or a doppelganger, and, of course, I don’t think this person is evil, but it gave me an interesting perspective on the uncan-ny feeling.
I thought the arrival of this person was an intriguing coincidence but didn’t dwell on it much.
However, it’s a small world, and Eastern is much smaller. Every now and again, friends and colleagues would mention interacting with this person. I would build a connection with her without even meeting her through
the stories of others. I am a journalism major, and she is an
English major so I know we must both share a passion for writing.
I also discovered that because my name is often in print, it causes a lot of confusion on her end. A friend who had a class with her once told me that she would get annoyed with explaining to people that she did not work at the newspaper.
She has also come up in conversation dur-ing my work. We had a photo of her during a campus event last year, and I even inad-vertently interviewed her best friend just a month or so ago.
When these strange occurrences turn up, I always wonder what it would be like to run into her and what we would wind up talk-ing about.
It is strange to have an ongoing connection with a person I’ve never met.
Sometimes, I even think it might be bet-ter to never meet her and keep my curiosity wandering.
Rachel Rodgers is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812
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“The committee has identified six strategic objectives and individual ac-tion plans to each accomplish each of those six goals,” Lord said. “That process is not yet concluded, but Dr. Herrington-Perry is working to con-clude it.”
Lord said Herrington-Perry’s work will, in turn, help decide what strate-gic directions to implement and how most efficiently to utilize the resourc-es available for the recruitment of tra-ditional-age undergraduate students.
“That will give us a plan to move forward in addition to the operational adjustments that Noel-Levitz recom-mended,” Lord said.
After finishing the process of streamlining recruitment and enroll-ment for traditional students, Lord said that the committee will shift its focus to recruiting non-traditional students.
Lord also pointed out that the en-rollment standards for admission have not actually waned. Meanwhile, aver-age ACT scores, GPA and overall aca-demic profiles have actually increased among incoming freshmen.
The average entrance ACT among
freshman students this year rose ap-proximately one point, from 21 to 22, while the average entering high school GPA rose from 3.07 to around 3.31.
During the Sept. 27 Board of Trustees meeting, President Bill Perry said that while the campus academic profile is improving, the enrollment numbers still disappoint him.
For this semester, the school ad-mitted 2.5 percent more freshman, but the ultimate goal was to raise the freshman level by 10 percent. The number of transfer students also went down from last year.
“We want to bring in the most well-qualified cohort of students that we can attract,” Lord said. “At some level, we would always like to have a slightly improving profile of students, but we are not going to get only peo-ple only qualified to Harvard. The improvements this year were grand, but I would like to see more improve-ments in the next few years.”
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“I feel excited. I can’t wait to do it again,” she said.
During Hayes and Reid’s perfor-mance, audience members sang along and encouraged them with words when they hit high notes. Some audi-ence members even yelled, “You bet-ter sing, girl.”
Despite the positive feedback from the crowd, Reid and Hayes said they were anxious.
“I felt a little nervous, but excited,” Reid said.
“I was also a little nervous, but I was eager to get it done,” Hayes add-ed.
The two talent show winners said they are going to pay their bills and put gas in their car with the $125.
The runner-up contestant was Richard Rollings, a psychology major, who won second place by strumming the strings of a guitar to compliment his vocals.
Asha Hoover, a recreation admin-istration major, came in third place by popular demand with the perfor-mance of her poem about the color of love, which received praise in last week’s “Brave Voices” poetry slam.
Groves said the talent show was cut short because of a lack of students signing up to perform, There were only eight performers.
Groves said despite the small amount of participation and atten-dance at the talent show, he was sat-isfied because the crowd was enter-tained.
“We wish the event could’ve been longer, hopefully more students sign up next time,” he said. “As long as we have a crowd to entertain, we’re do-ing our job.”
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She said she would ask a friend who lives in the area for a ride or have her dad pick her up.
“Or I could just stay here, which would stink because it’s fall break and everyone goes home,” Kearns said.
She said there are a lot of fresh-man who do not bring down their cars and depend on the buses to get home.
Hearn said there are students who do not have parents who can come and get them to bring them home and a lot of students would be out of a way home without the buses.
“They need more than two bus-es. This is a college campus and there are kids from all over that need to get home,” Hearn said.
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Sophomore goalkeeper Garrett Creasor started eight matches last sea-son and posted two shutouts in two of Eastern’s three wins.
But for four matches this season, Creasor found himself on the bench for the Panthers and Panther coach Adam Howarth said the starting goal-keeper position is up for grabs.
Red-shirt freshman Ben Feltes has started for Howarth in every game for more than two straight weeks.
However, in Eastern’s most recent match with IUPUI, Creasor got the start and conceded a goal as he was beaten at the near post by a shot from short range. It was the first time all season that the Panthers allowed only one goal.
The race to be Eastern’s num-ber one is close and the stats on each player are difficult to interpret.
Feltes has conceded 16 goals, 9 more than Creasor, but faced 43 shots on goal during his four games for Eastern. Creasor has seen 23 shots during his three matches as the start-er this season.
Feltes has made 27 saves while Creasor has made seven, but Crea-sor’s goal against average is 1.5 goals better.
For the Eastern coaching staff it goes beyond the numbers because picking a permanent starter is not an exact science, Howarth said.
“I think it’s really form,” How-arth said. “Each week we evaluate it so everything is different in terms of each week. We look to see who is in the best form and who is in the best shape, and barring injuries, we will go with the best guy for that week.”
Assistant coach Mark Hansen knows a thing or two about goalkeeping.
His name can still be found etched in the men’s soccer record book at Eastern. Hansen is the all-time lead-er in goals against average, letting up 1.17 goals per game during his four years in goal for the Panthers. He ranks sixth on the leader board for ca-reer saves with 183.
As a coach, Hansen works primari-ly with the goalkeepers.
“The biggest thing with collegiate goalkeeping is you have to be confi-dent in yourself and the team has to feel confident in you and going for-ward we just want someone back there who is going to make all the plays they need to make, be confident and have a strong presence,” Hansen
said.He said that it is not just a two-
horse race for the starting position. Freshman goalkeeper Austin Mill-
er has made a start for the Panthers and saw a lot of playing time in the preseason.
“I think all three (goalkeepers) have a lot of confidence,” Hansen said. “I think all three know they do things very well and they con-tinue to work on the areas of the game that they know they need to improve on.”
Hansen said that all three players will push each other to perform at a higher level.
“During the season it is always
going to be an open battle,” Han-sen said. “You want whoever is in the corps to be pushing to try to play. You don’t want somebody that’s there that doesn’t want to be the starter. I think that only makes whoever is starting better going for-ward.”
Despite the competition the goal-keepers are keeping things in perspec-tive.
“The intensity that Creasor, Miller and I all bring to the table is just mak-ing each of us better each day,” Feltes said. “So, we are coming out and work-ing on what we each need to work on and when it comes down to it we’re just going to do our best, all three of us, to
help our team win games.”Creasor said he acknowledged the
quality display put on by Feltes dur-ing his time as the starter and said that he and his teammates are battling ev-ery day.
The competition is very real, but Creasor and Feltes have made it clear that it is not a coercive force in the team.
“We’re all working together to see whoever has the best product to put on the field and that’s the guy who is going to get called,” Creasor said.
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THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 2013 THE DAilY EASTERN NEwS | SPORTS 7Men’S Soccer| feature
North Dakota State or bust.It is early to say, but with the
Eastern football team’s early play, that should be the expectations for the Panthers.
For those who are not familiar with the Bison, they are the two-time defending national champions.
They are 4-0 this season with a 24-21 road win over Kansas State of the Big 12 Conference, where Wal-ter Payton Award Watch List quar-terback Brock Jensen scored on a one-yard touchdown run with 28 seconds remaining in the game.
The Bison also have a 20-0 win against No. 7 ranked South Dakota State — a team that walloped East-ern 58-10 in 2012, ousting the Pan-thers in the first round of the play-offs.
North Dakota State is the class of the FCS, but there is no reason Eastern, and its fans, should not have the No.1 ranked team in its sights.
The Panthers are ranked No. 5 in both polls — and still climbing.
They have two Walter Payton Award candidates in Jimmy Garop-polo and Erik Lora, and a candidate for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year in Dino Babers.
Eastern after all beat an FBS op-ponent of its own in San Diego State 40-19 in the season opener. Eastern also lost to Northern Illi-nois, another FBS opponent, by just four points two weeks ago.
Eastern’s 43-39 loss to what was arguably the best game that week-end in college football on the same
day that North Dakota State was the host for ESPN’s College Game-day, where the Bison beat Delaware 51-0.
There is no question Eastern is capable of holding its own against the prominent figures in the FCS, and it has proved that in just five games this season.
What fans believed was the fast-est thing they have ever seen, in
Eastern’s offense last season, has been left in the dust by this season’s Panther offense.
Eastern has had 13 touchdown drives in less than two minutes this season.
If the Panthers were to reach the Bison in the FCS playoffs, it would be one of the premiere games this season.
The definition of an unstoppa-ble force meeting an immovable ob-ject would be Eastern’s nation-best 598 yards of total offense per game against North Dakota State’s na-tion-best 244 yards of total defense per game.
It would be the FCS version of Oregon versus Alabama — a match-up every college football fan has craved for years — and arguably
comparable in excitement.A better script could not be writ-
ten for Babers’ offense, scoring 43.6 points per game, trying to move North Dakota State head coach Craig Bohl’s defense, giving up just 7.8 points per game.
A matchup against North Dakota State will expedite Eastern’s journey back to the forefront of the FCS, something Barbers has sparked since the day he was hired.
Therefore it is not only the match-up that Eastern should want to hap-pen; it is the match up that Eastern needs to happen. And maybe next season Eastern can be host to Col-lege Gameday.
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Goalkeepers battle for starting job
JaSon Howell | THe Daily eaSTern ne wSfreshman goalkeeper austin Miller is one of three goalkeepers competing to become the starter. the other two are red-shirt freshman Ben feltes and sophomore Garrett Creasor.
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Junior Meagan Radloff hit the field Sunday against Tennessee Tech after celebrating the team’s first victory of the season over Ohio Valley Conference oppo-nent Belmont.
Sophomore Molly Hawkins was able to score the team’s game winning goal to give the Pan-thers, who had lost seven straight before the conference opener, a 1-0 win on the road in Nashville, Tenn.
But when Radloff took the field against the Golden Eagles on Sunday, she was celebrating something else too.
Her 21st birthday.Radloff, who also wears No. 21
on her jersey, scored two goals in the Panthers’ 4-2 win over Ten-nessee Tech on her 21st birthday.
Radlof f has s tar ted a l l 11 matches for the Panthers this sea-son, but was yet to score a goal. She said it felt good to finally find the back of the net, especial-ly on her birthday.
“It felt great,” Radloff said af-ter Sunday’s match. “It’s taken awhile for the season, but it felt good to get it on my birthday.”
The West Chicago native was named OVC Player of the Week by College Sports Madness for her performance. The Panthers are now 2-0 and in first place af-ter the first week of OVC play.
“Everything just finally came together in the past few games,” she said. “We’re finally starting to finish what we’ve been working on this season, so it feels good.”
Radloff ’s first goal came in the 38th minute with the Panthers down 1-0. She fired a shot from
20 yards out to tie the match. The goal was unassisted.
Radloff ’s goal jumpstarted the Panthers’ scoring, as the Panthers would score two more goals in the ensuing minutes, putting the team up 3-1 at half. Junior Allie Lakie scored in the 39th minute, and sophomore Hannah Miller would score in the 40th minute, topping the team’s season goal to-tal in a span of a few minutes.
Tennessee Tech struck back in the second half, scoring in the 48th minute to bring the score to 3-2. The teams battled back and forth, with the Panthers try-ing to hold off the Golden Eagles for their second win of the sea-son. Radloff sealed the win in the 85th minute from 18 yards out
for her second of the day.Entering the weekend, the
Panthers were 0-9, off to their worst start in program history. The team had managed just two goals in those first nine matches; one in the season opener against Oakland on Aug. 23, and anoth-er eight matches later against Val-paraiso. Radloff said the team was tired of it.
“Really, I think we just finally got sick of being 0-whatever, and starting conference always gets us pumped up,” she said.
Inter im head coach Jason Cherry said he was happy to see Radloff ’s hard work pay off.
“I was so happy for her,” he said. “To get two goals, that’s phenomenal.”
Radloff, one of the team’s cap-tains, has five points this so far season.
“She’s one of our captains and one of the hardest working play-ers on this team and it was great to see her hard work be reward-ed,” Cherry said.
Radloff only scored one goal last season, but has already sur-passed her shots on goal total from last season, as well as points.
The Panthers wi l l take on Morehead State and Eastern Ken-tucky on Friday and Sunday at Lakeside Field.
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By Blake NashStaff Reporter@DEN_News
After having three weeks off, the men’s and women’s cross country teams will compete in the Universi-ty of Notre Dame’s Blue/Gold Invi-tational.
The women’s meet consist of 27 teams including, Ohio Valley Con-ference foe Belmont. There will also be 10 regionally ranked teams com-peting. The men’s race will also fea-ture 10 regionally ranked teams.
The last three weeks have helped rather than hurt the team, Coach Erin Howarth said.
“When you get a solid block of training time after a few early sea-son races to see where you are at, it is a blessing,” Howarth said. “We’ve
found our weaknesses after our first race, done our homework for three weeks, and now it’s time for our next test.”
The idea of an overnight trip also has the team in high spirits.
“There is always excitement when-ever we travel, even though we only travel five times a year, and have only had three overnight trips,” Howarth said. “Many freshmen will also be traveling, so this is an exciting trip for them.”
This will be one the longer trips for the Panthers this season, as the trip from Charleston to South Bend, Ind., is an estimated four hours.
Howarth said one of the most im-portant expectations for this meet is for the whole team, rather than indi-viduals to rise to success.
“I just want to see our 1-5 gap on both sides tighter than it has been all season,” Howarth said. “We have yet to have a race where everyone com-petes extremely well.”
Howarth said if the Panthers com-pete that way, she believes she will leave with a smile on her face.
The weather for this Friday ap-
pears to have a 40 percent chance of rain, with high winds. No matter what nature will have in store for the meet, Howarth said her team is fo-cused.
“We’re ready to race fast and step it up from where we started,” How-arth said. “I have no doubt that whether it is 90 degrees, 50 degrees, wind, rain or snow, we’ll be ready.”
Race time has not been deter-mined as of Tuesday, but it should be
revealed by the end of the week.Following the race, the Panthers
will have more than two weeks off until their next race.
Following the Blue/Gold Invita-tional, Eastern will compete in the Pre-National Invitational at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Ind.
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Top Cat with Meagan Radloff, Eastern’s Women’s soccer midfield forward
JAsON HOwELL | THE DAILY EAsTERN NE wsJunior midfield forward Meagan Radloff scored two goals on her 21st birthday against Tennesse Tech. Her goals would give the Panthers a 4-2 victory
Radloff celebrates birthday with win
JAsON HOwELL | THE DAILY EAsTERN NE wsEastern cross country runners and those from competing universities, including Nothern Illinois University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, stride during a meet Sept. 6 at the Panther Trail.
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By Dominic RenzettiManaging Editor@domrenzetti
Interim head coach Jason Cherry said after Sunday’s win over Tennessee Tech that he and the team sat down and discussed the impor-tance of conference matches before the opener against Belmont.
Apparently it worked, because the Panthers are off to a 2-0 start in the Ohio Valley Confer-ence after previously losing nine straight.
The Eastern women’s soccer team will try and prove that its not a one-week wonder af-ter its two Ohio Valley Conference wins last weekend.
The Panthers will take on Morehead State (2-7-1, 1-0) at 3 p.m. Friday and Eastern Ken-tucky (2-7-1, 1-0) at 1 p.m. Sunday. Both matches are at Lakeside Field.
The Panthers are coming off a four-goal per-formance against Tennessee Tech, the first time the team had scored four goals since 2004, with junior Meagan Radloff leading the way with two goals.
Radloff was named OVC Player of the Week by College Sports Madness. The Panthers scored more goals this weekend than any other team in the conference.
Morehead State’s Jade Flory is coming off a big week of her own, scoring both goals in the Eagles’ 2-1 overtime win over Jacksonville State.
Flory, who playing in her first OVC match after transferring to Morehead State from Youngstown State, was named OVC Offensive Player of the Week. She has six goals and three assists, leading the team.
Morehead State’s only non-conference win came over Appalachian State on Sept. 22. The Eagles lost its season opener to nationally ranked Ohio State on Aug. 23 after the Buck-eyes scored in the final seconds to go ahead 3-2.
The Eagles, like the Panthers, have started a number of different players in goal this season.
Red-shirt sophomore Hannah Seeman has started the most matches (four), for the Eagles, while red-shirt sophomore Elizabeth Floyd started the conference opener against Jackson-ville State.
Red-shirt freshman goalkeeper Kylie Mor-gan has been nursing a hand injury, making sophomore Cortney Jerzy see extending time in goal. Jerzy was named OVC Goalkeeper of the Week after she recorded her first career shutout against Belmont.
Eastern has never lost to Morehead State in its nine meetings at Lakeside Field. The teams have tied twice.
Eastern Kentucky, which also beat Jackson-ville State, has also won its last two match-es. The Colonels scored three goals in its last match against Alabama A&M, a season high.
The Colonels had difficulty finding the back of the net throughout the season, scoring just three goals in its previous nine matches before the win over Alabama A&M.
The Colonels gave up a season-high seven goals against the University of Kentucky on Aug. 30 in a 7-0 loss.
Senior midfielder Kristan Paynter has scored two of the team’s three goals this season.
So p h o m o re E r i k a Wo l f e r h a s g i v -en up 24 goals this season, while making 40 saves. She has two shutouts this season.
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Panthers refuse to be one-week wonder
" I have no doubt that whether it is 90 de-grees, 50 degrees, wind, rain or snow, we’ll be ready.”
-Erin Howarth, Distance Coach
