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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 58Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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By Liz PurcellStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
Every Wednesday at 11 a.m., World War II veteran Jim Baize attends a Post Traumat-ic Stress Disorder meeting with other veterans and prisoners of war. To gain a sense of closure, Baize has told his encounters from the Bat-tle of Iwo Jima, the most costly battle in Ma-rine Corps history that left more than 27,000 American and Japanese soldiers dead.
Baize and veteran Leighton Willhite will be telling their war stories at the lecture “From the Sands of Iwo Jima: Two Veterans Recall Their Battle Experiences” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Lumpkin Hall Auditorium.
Both Willhite and Baize fought in the Pa-cific War in 1945 at Iwo Jima, a five-mile long island south of Japan. The U.S. cap-tured Iwo Jima to make use of its airfields, providing a nearby landing area for American planes completing bombing missions on Ja-pan’s mainland.
Willhite fought at Iwo Jima when he was 19. He witnessed the famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” being taken on top of Mount Suribachi.
The widely printed photograph has become a staple of war photography, and the Marine Corps War Memorial outside of the Arlington National Cemetery is modeled after this photograph.
When Baize was 15, he dropped out of school and convinced a friend of a friend to pose as his father so he could sign up for the navy, Baize said. By the time he was 17, Baize said he ar-rived at the shores of Iwo Jima, only to have his transport ship blown up by a mortar.
Everyone on the ship died, except Baize.Today, he said he opens up about his war ex-
periences to help himself and to teach others about history, even though he said he may nev-er fully gain closure over the experience.
However, he did said publicly speaking about the experience for the last 50 years has helped him.
Anita Shelton, the chair of the history de-partment, said the battle of Iwo Jima is more important in American history because Japan attacking the United States made the battle more personal.
She said Willhite and Baize were chosen to speak at Eastern for this lecture because they have both spoken widely about their experienc-es and they are accustomed to it.
Shelton said the lecture is part of the depart-ment’s James Jones lecture series sponsored by the English and history departments, the Col-lege of Arts and Humanities, and the James Jones Literary Society.
“It was decided among the history depart-ment and the James Jones Society that it would be a good thing if we could find a veteran or two of the war to come,” Shelton said. “It would be good to try to do that because they are rapidly disappearing.”
Baize said the biggest take away from the lecture is appreciation for the U.S. military.
“It’s really important that students under-stand why they have their freedom and what people had to go through for them to get their freedom - some had to go through it all,” Baize said. “There isn’t many of us left. If I can help giving some info and history, then I’ll be hap-py to do that.”
Liz Purcell can be reached at 581-2812
OLivia S. DiggS | The DaiLy eaSTern ne wSPeople rally for gay marriage in Illinois in front of the the capitol in Springfield on Oct. 22.
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Illinois marks the fifteenth state to legalize same sex marriage. Other states include California, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Washing-ton and Vermont.
According to a Crain’s/Ipsos poll, 51 percent of Illinois adults support same sex marriage, 29 percent oppose and 20 percent have no stance.
By robert DownenAdministration Editor | @DEN_NEWS
Pending a signature from Gov. Pat Quinn, Il-linois will become the 15th and largest Midwest-ern state to approve a measure legalizing same-sex marriage.
While Quinn has not yet specified a date to sign the law, he has repeatedly affirmed his com-mitment to same-sex marriage, commending the Illinois House for putting the state “on the right side of history.”
The bill, better known as the “Religious Free-dom and Marriage Fairness Act,” passed by a narrow 61 to 54 vote Tuesday after months of deliberation in Springfield to reach common ground. While the legislation does redefine the state’s definition of marriage as being between two people, it does so with provisions meant to ensure religious freedom by guaranteeing no re-
ligious organizations be forced to perform of sanction a wedding not compliant with its faith.
The vote marks another success for same-sex marriage advocates in a year that has already seen legislative victories in Delaware and Rhode Island, as well as the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense Against Marriage Act in June.
However, the bill’s passage was hardly certain, nor was the victory on Tuesday necessarily pro-nounced. Needing 60 votes to pass the Illinois House, same-sex marriage advocates found luck in the bill’s three Republican backers.
Rep. Ron Sandack, a Republican from Down-ers Grove willing to cross what were largely par-ty lines, said his decision to support same-sex marriage was multifaceted.
Sandack said in the months leading up to the vote, he was diligent about not only representing the majority of his constituencies, but his own morals as well.
“When you’re in the General Assembly, you
vote your conscience, you vote your district, or you try and do both,” Sandack said.
He said he constantly tried to gauge the stances of his neighbors and townsmen, going as far as conducting three different polls before re-alizing that opinion was quickly moving toward marriage equality.
However, Sandack said he was also influenced by his personal beliefs.
“The more I thought about this bill, it real-ly is pro-family,” he said. “Same-sex couples are raising children now, and they’re doing it as well or as bad as opposite sex couples. Families today may look different … We’re not in the ‘Leave it to Beaver’ or ‘Brady Bunch’ era anymore—we’re in the ‘Modern Family’ era.”
While Sandack said he received “gruff” from some Republican colleagues in Springfield, he was positive he made the right decision.
Gov. Quinn: Illinois on ‘right side of history’
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By marcus curtisEntertainment Editor | @DEN_News
University Board’s Mainstage event “So You Think You Can Rap” started off with only two performers showing up, but the combination of lyrics flow and energy from the performers made up for the lack of participation.
The two performers that won first and second place were the stars of this competition based on the crowd in 7th Street underground where “So You Think You Can Rap” took place Wednesday.
From the first round to the last round, Tier-ra “Mello” Webb, a sophomore athletic train-ing major and the only female performer, main-tained the attention of the audience with her flow over the music and her lyrical punch lines.
Webb performed her own original piece in
the first round titled “Rollin,’” which was a se-ries of metaphors and rhymes that emphasized the quality of her rapping style and presence.
Webb said she felt her performance of “Roll-in’’’ was the best performance of the night.
“The beat was custom made, and it came from me and it took a lot of thought,” Webb said.
Webb said all of her opponents were unique and brought what she called their “A-game.”
“I feel all of them did a pretty good job,” she said. “Everybody was creative.”
Webb took home the second place prize of a $75 Visa gift card after three rounds of perform-ing individually in the first round, head-to-head with another rapper in the second round and in a cipher with two other artists.
Webb said she is going to use her $75 gift
card to help celebrate her one-year anniversary with her boyfriend, Travon Moore, a sophomore pre-business accounting major and the host of “So You Think You Can Rap.”
The rapper that stole the show was Will “Mouse” Davis, a junior pre-business major, with his original lyrics, flow and authentic per-formance.
Davis performed his own version of classic hip-hop artist, Craig Mack’s, “Flava In Ya Ear.”
Webb even showed her respects for Davis’s funny punch lines in his performance. “Mouse did his thing, he was more comical with it,” she said.
Davis took home the grand prize of a $150 Visa gift card based off of the decision from three judges.
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By Kristen GisondiStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
Mallie Hanner used to shy away from facing her problems.
That was before she joined “Girls on the Run.”
Last year, she won the “Wonder-girl Award” for writing the best es-say about her experience with the pro-gram and how it has improved her life.
“I wrote about everything from be-ing more comfortable with my body, importance of having good friends and how it has helped me face prob-lems,” said Hanner, a 10-year-old Jef-ferson Elementary School student.
“Girls on the Run” is a non-prof-it organization that teaches 8 to 13 year old girls how to identify bully-ing, accept their bodies, make quali-ty friends, have a healthy diet, and ex-ercise.
The group meets after school Mon-day and Wednesday over a three-month period and concludes the sea-
son with a 5K run. The next race is set for 9 a.m. Sat-
urday at the Mattoon YMCA. A m b e r E d m o n d s - H a n n e r ,
Hanner’s mother, said when her daughter brought home a “Girls On the Run” flier, she researched the pro-gram and immediately allowed her to join.
“I do not even know how to put into words what this program has done for my daughter,” Edmonds-Hanner said. “‘Girls on the Run’ teaches these girls to be themselves, no matter what the outside world is saying.”
The program operates with the help of volunteers who do anything from cheering on runners during non-competitive races to helping coach throughout the season, like Brittany Doose, a senior health studies major.
“I started volunteer coaching last season,” Doose said.
Doose, who heard about “Girls on the Run” through faculty in her ma-jor, decided the experience would
help her future career. “It’s really important for me to
work with kids and teach about nutri-tion and health,” Doose said.
There are specific programs already put together by the “Girls on the Run” organization.
The volunteer coaches take turns teaching lessons during the week about topics such as bullying, friend-ship, health and trust.
After a lesson, the coach asks the girls how they feel about the day’s lesson and then play a game with a workout at the end.
“‘Girls on the Run’ teaches me to be positive,” said Megan Garrett, an-other 10-year-old at Jefferson Elemen-tary School.
Garrett has participated in “Girls on the Run” for four seasons, but will not be running in Saturday’s race be-cause of a knee injury.
The injury has not stopped Garrett from learning about bullying preven-tion and health though.
Hanner plans on eating lots of car-
bohydrates and drinking water Fri-day night in preparation for Satur-day’s race.
“I like ‘Girls on the Run’ because it’s a fun activity where you get to ex-ercise and stuff, but be with friends at the same time,” Hanner said.
Not only do the participants en-joy the program, but parents like Ed-monds-Hanner have noticed a pos-itive difference in their children throughout the season.
“I have witnessed such a change in my daughter over the past two years,” Edmonds-Hanner said. “The program helped (Mallie) deal with issues that I did not even know she was faced.
She said the knowledge Mallie had gained through the lessons, running and coaches have made her a more confident, happy and kind young woman.
“I could not be more proud,” Ed-monds-Hanner said.
Kristen Gisondi can be reached at 581-2812
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5K to conclude Girls on the Run
K aTiE SMiTh | ThE daiLy EaSTErN NE wS Colby Gerth, a sophomore biological sciences major member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity holds out a door decoration he made with other mem-bers of SAE. The fraternity is sponsoring the Arcola Elementary Girls on the Run team, and made the decorations to hand out to each runner to show their support.
By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor | @JJarmonReporter
Mark Hudson, the director of Housing and Dining, presented the 2014-2015 budget room and board rates, which were decided by the Bond Revenue Committee, at the Student Senate meeting Wednesday.
With expected increased costs for food, staff salaries and energy costs as well as other factors, the room and board rates are expected to increase
1.65 percent next school year to ac-count for the $400,673 increase in expenses. This will be an increase of $48 per student for physical single, double and triple rooms.
Hudson said even though this is not a major increase, the Bond Rev-enue Committee is recommending a zero percent increase next year in or-der to attract more high school stu-dents to Eastern.
“We have a reserve account and bottom line of about a million dol-lars,” Hudson said. “We are recom-mending the zero percent increase for not only room and board but de-partment operations. We think it is going to cost $450,000 to cover that expense and we are going to take it out of the reserves.”
The budget proposal still has to be approved by the Board of Trustees, President Bill Perry and Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs.
The Bond Revenue Committee worked faster this year in order to have the rates ready to be present-ed at the board meeting on Nov. 15. They normally prepared the budget for the January board meeting.
The senate tabled a resolution to approve the expenses for the final exam study snacks they will be giving out from 4 to 6 p.m. Dec. 8 in the Booth Library, the day before finals.
They will be giving out things like coffee and Nutra-Grain bars to make it so the students do not have to leave the library for a quick snack. All of the refreshments will be free.
Kathryn English, the vice presi-dent of academic affairs, said after starting the program last year, she learned ways in which to cut down costs.
“I adjusted the bil l from the spring and kind of saw what worked well last year, what didn’t,” English said. “Last year, I thought I would get decaf but everyone was like, ‘No, we don’t want that.’”
They will be voting on the resolu-tion at their next senate meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Arcola-Tusc-ola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812
Room, board rates expected to increase slightlyHousing,Dining Services to supplement cost with reserves
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RHA to nominate for positionsBy Jarad JarmonStudent Governance editor | @JJarmonReporter
The Residence Hall Associa-tion members will open nomina-tions to become the RHA secretary for Spring 2014 at their meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Pemberton Hall.
Dawn Howe, the current RHA secretary, is retiring from the posi-tion because she will be graduating in December and will not be able to finish her term.
RHA vice president Patrick Mor-row said they did not want to deal with nominations at the beginning of the next semester.
The position, which is open to all students who live on campus, requires a 2.25 GPA to be main-tained.
Those interested must be nomi-nated and seconded by another per-son.
They must have a bid, which con-tains basic information about them and why they would be a good fit for
the position, by 3 p.m. Monday. The RHA secretary is in charge of
recording the minutes of each RHA meeting, as well as planning the RHA fall retreat.
Morrow said because the RHA had already had its retreat, the sec-retary who will be elected would not be rushed into planning.
The secretary also advises certain committees throughout RHA.
Howe will still be working as sec-retary until the end of the fall semes-ter
Elections will take place at 5 p.m. Nov. 14 in Taylor Hall during the following RHA meeting.
Aside from nominating perspec-tive candidates for the position, the RHA will also be breaking up into their committees for the committee leaders to reiterate the importance of attending their respective commit-tees.
Morrow said committee leaders are having difficulties getting every-one assigned to the committee to at-
tend meetings.He said this was an issue that has
come up throughout all of the com-mittees.
“We just want to make sure the advisers are holding each of the members accountable,” Morrow said. “For the dining committee, only one person showed up; for community service, only one showed up.”
Morrow said it is not a major con-cern now, but it will be if this con-tinues into next semester because of the events some committees are in charge of planning.
Mark Hudson, the director of Housing and Dining, will also be an-nouncing the room and board rates, which were decided by the bond rev-enue committee.
The committee was made up of three RHA members and three Stu-dent Senate members.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812
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Jason Howell | THe Daily easTern ne wsMatt Mullen, a junior kinesiology and sports studies major, attempts to block a shot by Tyler Rusk, a sophomore communication studies major during a friendly pickup game on Wednesday in the Student Recreation Center.
By Jack CruikshankStaff Reporter | @DeN_News
The Council on Academic Affairs will vote on multiple requests from academic departments to alter their respective curriculums at its meet-ing, specifically, a request from the Applied Engineering and Technology program in regards to the addition of a new course.
The proposed elective, AET 4773, Safety for Engineering and Technolo-gy Professionals, would cover various aspects of professional and workplace safety, including Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines
and how one can effectively develop emergency action plans.
If approved, the course would be inherently different from HST 3350, Industrial Safety, which teaches ac-cident prevention in industrial pro-grams.
The CAA will also vote on a pro-posal to change two elective cours-es to requirements for the Family and Consumer Sciences: Family Services Option, as well as amend one course from a prerequisite to an elective.
The current proposed requirements are FCS 3800, Family Life and Sex Education and FCS 4846, Aging and the Family.
According to the Course Revision Proposal, by revising the Family Ser-vices Option curriculum to include FCS 3800 as a requirement, all fam-ily services students would be afford-ed the opportunity to better under-stand the multiple dimensions of hu-man sexuality and specialized areas of human sexuality.
For the latter, FCS 4846, the de-partment stated the course is needed because “specialized knowledge and skills sets related to aging and fami-lies will allow our students to more ef-fectively serve older adults in general, their family members and caregivers, and community programming and
services.”By changing PSY 3780, Abnor-
mal Psychology, to an elective, the department members said they be-lieve the change still affords students a continued option for enrollment in PSY 3780, while allowing them to be competitive with the knowledge base and skill sets attained in the alternate-ly proposed required courses of FCS 3800 and FCS 4846.
Outside of the course changes, the CAA plans to add to its future agenda a proposal that would change the Af-ricana Studies degree from a Bachelor of Science to a Bachelor of Arts.
“The change from B.S. to B.A. is
essential because Africana Studies dis-cipline is a humanities and not a sci-ence; however, when the program was started at EIU it was under the de-partment of sociology, which is under the College of Sciences and hence the B.S,” said James Ochwa-Echel, coor-dinator of the Africana Studies Pro-gram.
The CAA will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Oakland Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Universi-ty Union.
Jack Cruikshank can be reached at 581-2812
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Taylor Davis
Our POSiTiOn • Situation: A new law will enact consequences for
littering cigarette butts and Student Senate is informing students about this law. • Stance: The senate is doing an good job by inform-ing students about this law.
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“barn ParTy”: Charleston City Council approved a settlement between the city and L.D. & B Investments, Inc., the company that rented the warehouse used for the Barn Party.
weaTher: The weather in Charleston lately has been cold and wet. This doesn’t make students want to go to class.
Gay MarriaGe: The gay marriage bill passed Tuesday by lawmakers in Springfield. The bill passed 61-54 in the Illinois General Assembly.
Starting on Jan. 1, cigarettes will be considered litter and those caught throwing their butts on the ground can face hefty fees and eventually time in jail.
Those caught littering will be convicted for a class B misdemean-or with a fine, which will not exceed $1,500. As the number of times you litter increases so will the penalty. For a second offense, litters will receive a class A misdemeanor.
The third conviction and any oth-er convictions following may result in a class 4 felony, with a fine of $25,000 and imprisonment of no less than one year and no more than three years.
The Student Senate is working to inform campus about this new law and these penalties. Campus has a lot of smokers and the senate will be distrib-uting information about the new law and where it is ok to smoke on campus, as well as the location of the cigarette depositories. They will also be adding a map to their website.
Last year, the senate hosted a forum to gage the thoughts of stu-dents about tobacco on campus and also did a study of the location and number of the designated smoking areas on campus.
They also brought up the visibility of these areas and making sure that they are marked as designated smoking areas.
Along with the flyers they are going to be distributing and the map
of the smoking areas show the responsibility that Student Senate is taking to help ensure students are informed about this new law and to help keep them out of trouble.
This is one of the purposes of the Student Senate, to keep students informed.
The senate was made as a bridge between the students and the administration and has been active in trying to influence legislation
that will benefit the students.While this law does not necessarily ben-
efit the students, it will help provide for a cleaner campus for everyone.
They have stepped up to help the stu-dents with this transition by keeping them informed.
Their activeness in distributing this infor-mation shows their dedication to the stu-dents and we commend them on that.
They filled one of their responsibilities to the student body, which they represent and work for.
It is important for students to know this information and it will be beneficial to have the senate working to keep the student informed about other issues and changes in the future.
The name of the game is procrastination. We all know about it. We all know it doesn’t help us at all, but a good amount of people claim to be procrastinators. Why do we do this?
Some have posed that last minute panic is the only incentive that can successfully push them into getting things completed. This can-not be a healthy way of doing things.
Now that I have made it clear that I know procrastinating is a foolish way of going about things I would like to out myself as a huge procrastinator. I often find myself awake at crazy late hours of the night just before a paper is due. Does this mean that I do not take pride in the work I do or that my work is sloppy? No, not exactly. I find that putting myself in this position forces me to consid-er all possible sources of creating an excellent piece of work.
Could I do a better job at something if I had started a few days sooner? Perhaps, but I’ve found that getting something done once usually means that it stays done. I understand the thinking that once something is complet-ed early the possibility to check and review it
is available. I have no scientific proof to back this and have found no research on the matter but when I complete something in a timely efficient manner I feel it is not my best work. It lacks something I can’t explain, where as a piece of work that I force out in one night feels complete.
All of this is of course in regards to com-pleted work. I have found myself guilty of falling into not completing work on time, and that should be avoided at all costs. Yes, I feel that my work is better when I rush but that never means that I should be rushing to do it a day late. At that point I feel that I have already failed my educators and myself.
There is also the matter of real life events unfolding. These things can take a serious toll on your grade if you play the procrastination game. For example, once a few years back I put off a simple five pager until the last night it was due. I was then called by my family to be told my mother’s car had broken down and that I was to drive three hours to get her and then three hours back. This one event caused such a stir in my plans for the night that the paper went uncompleted. I received a much lower grade in the class than I would have if I completed the paper.
The moral of my story is do your work the way you feel you do it best, but try your hardest to never put yourself in a position where one outside event can throw off you entire grade.
Or… do your homework in a timely man-ner, review it, get solid grades, and graduate on time. Your choice.
Taylor Davis is a senior communications major. He can be reached 581-2812
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Brittany Jones, a senior public re-lations major, said she thought it was cool to see everybody performing, and added she enjoyed Davis’s per-formance the most.
“It was original and real creative,” she said.
Dawn Harris, a sophomore sociol-ogy major, said the event was differ-ent and exciting.
“It was unique and entertaining to see different talents people had,” Harris said.
“The whole event was different, everybody have fun without drama,’ she added.
Harris also said she favored Da-vis’s performance the most.
“His low was the best and the
smoothest,” she said.Davis said Webb’s punch lines
stood out the most to him during the competition, especially in the freestyle battle where he went head-to-head with her.
There was one rhyme where Webb told Davis, “Even if you had Al-zheimer’s you would remember me.”
Davis said that particular punch line caught him off guard.
“I felt Mello was cold,” he said. “That Alzheimer’s punch line she said was crazy.”
Davis said he is going to use the $150 gift card to pay for more studio time to record his songs.
David Groves, a senior business major and UB Mainstage coordina-
tor, said he expected more perform-ers to show up to the competition.
“I wish more people would have come out and participated,” he said. “I know more people on this campus have talent.”
Groves said the lack of performers could be improved by better plan-ning. A week before Wednesday night’s “So You Think You Can Rap” competition, UB Mainstage host-ed the Jasmine Mans poetry perfor-mance.
“It’s hard to plan for an event after one successful event,” Groves said.
Marcus Curtis can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
“I’m certain it was the right vote. I’m confident it was the right vote, and that some day down the line, it will be recognized as the right vote,” he said. “My conscience is clear.”
Sandack , who re c en t l y an -nounced a campaign for re-election in the House, said he is not wor-ried about how the vote will affect his seat in Spring-field, and if re-cent trends in Il-linois are any in-dication, he need not be.
In recent years, the state has seen a surge of sup-port for gay mar-riage, with many Illinoisans voic-ing adamant sup-port for the bill. According to a Crain/Ipsos poll conducted l a s t February, roughly 50 percent of Illi-nois adults were in favor of gay marriage, whereas 29 percent were opposed.
Surprisingly, the poll also found the most intense feelings came from the bill’s advocates. Of the 50 per-cent favoring the bill, 37 percent said they “strongly” agreed with statewide legalization. Among the bill’s opponents, only 19 percent voiced similar intensity.
Unfortunately for the 19 per-cent who “strongly opposed” the
bill, there are virtually no channels through which it can be overturned.
Richard Wandling, the chairman of Eastern’s political science depart-ment, said the only real avenue for opponents would be to lobby Gov. Quinn to veto the bill. However, because of Quinn’s repeated support of the legislation, doing so would
be likely be ineffec-tive, he said.
Additionally, Wandling said there is no chance of a cit-izen-driven move-men t f o r r epe a l , s imilar to that of California’s Propo-sition 8, as Illinois residents can only submit revisions to the state constitu-tion for procedural and structural mat-ters. He also noted it is highly unlikely the General Assem-bly would propose a change to the Illi-
nois constitution through the refer-endum process.
“I fully expect Illinois to formal-ly join the ranks of states that ex-tend this important legal protection to same-sex couples,” he said. “This is a good day for civil rights prog-ress in our state and nation.”
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or at [email protected].
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In the Wednesday issue of The Daily Eastern News, in the article, “‘Pizza with the Prez’ to conclude for fall semester on Thursday,” the
time for the ‘Pizza with the Prez’ was incorrect. The informal meet-ing with the president is at 5 p.m.
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“i fully expect illinois to formally join the ranks of states that extend this important legal protection to same-sex couples. This is a good day for civil rights prog-ress in our state and nation.”
-Richard Wandlingpolitical science professor
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The Eastern volleyball team will host Jacksonville State and Tennessee Tech in its home finale this weekend in Lantz Arena.
Eastern leads the west division of the Ohio Valley Conference with a 9-3 record and 15-10 overall, as the second best team in the OVC.
However, Jacksonville State and Tennessee Tech are the worst two teams in the east division of the OVC at 4-7 and 1-11, respectively.
Eastern is 6-0 at home this season, as the only OVC team to still have a perfect home record. Eastern also enters the weekend with a six-match win streak. The Panthers last defeat came almost one month ago on Oct. 12 in a three-set sweep at the hands of Eastern Kentucky.
During their six-game win streak, the Panthers have won in three or four sets five times. The first win of the streak was a five-set win over Austin Peay.
Both Jacksonville State and Ten-
nessee Tech are coming into the weekend on season-long losing streaks.
Jacksonville State has lost its last six games, during its six-game los-ing streak, where the Gameocks have only won two sets overall. The Gameocks are also just 2-7 on the road this season.
Tennessee Tech is on an eight-match skid. Its last win, and lone conference win, was on Oct. 4 in five sets against Tennessee-Martin.
The Golden Eagles have been swept in seven of the eight games on their current losing streak. They are 1-8 on the road this season.
In conference play, Eastern’s out-side hitter Reynae Hutchinson is sec-ond in the OVC in kills per set with 3.84. She just lost the No. 1 after the Panthers’ weekend sweep of Tennes-see-Martin and Southeast Missouri.
Middle blocker Stephanie Arnold is also second in the OVC in hit per-centage and blocks per set with .337 and 1.17, respectively.
Sophomore Marah Bradbury con-tinues to be the class of the OVC
among setters. Bradbury, coming off her fifth OVC Setter of the Week honor this season, leads the confer-ence with 12.47 assists per set. That is 1.18 more than any other player.
Jacksonville State outside hit-ter Emily Rutherford is fifth in the OVC with 3.38 kills per set.
Outside hitter Natalie Penrod leads the Golden Eagles with 3.35 kills per set, which ranks sixth in the OVC in conference play.
Not a single player for Tennessee Tech or Jacksonville State ranks in the top-10 in hit percentage.
Digs per set is the only statistic that Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State have over Eastern. Tennessee Tech’s libero Courtney Smith is fifth in the OVC with 4.62 digs per set. Jacksonville State’s libero Kelly Cole ranks 10th with 4.26 digs per set.
Eastern will host Jacksonville State at 7 p.m. Friday and Tennes-see Tech at 2 p.m. Saturday in Lantz Arena.
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By Dan HildebrandtStaff Reporter | @DeN_Sports
After graduating Central High School in Champaign, Ill . four years ago, senior swimmer Colin McGill is looking to be a leader for the team this season.
McGill was introduced to the pool at a very young age and he in-herited the family’s swimming trait. His grandmother never taught his mother how to swim, but that did not stop her from getting her chil-dren comfortable in the water.
“I just happened to have a knack for it, along with all my siblings, and I was in my first meet when I was three and a half years old,” Mc-Gill said. “I guess it was a sink or swim situation and I just happened to be able to swim.”
One of McGill’s most memorable moments in his career was the con-ference meet last year.
“After a year off due to inju-ry and a lot of hard work with the athletic training staff, I was able to have a lot of success,” he said.
McGill said the relays were espe-cially memorable because the team was an underdog throughout the meet, but it embraced that role to end up with pretty good results.
“We were seeded last or second-to-last in all of them, but we were able to place top three in the 200 free relay, 200 medley relay, and 400 free relay from the outside lanes, which is really rare swim-ming,” he said. “We gladly took the underdog role and called ourselves ‘the relay bandits’ because no one saw us coming.”
For McGill and the Panthers, ex-pectations are high this season. The team may be young, but that does not mean it isn’t going to put in the hard work it takes to compete.
“My expectations are high,” Mc-Gill said. “Not only for myself, but also for our team as a whole. We
might have a young team, with only four seniors and the rest sopho-mores and freshman, but what we lack in experience, we make up for in a lot of hard work.”
He wants to see constant im-provement throughout the season and eventually compete well at the conference meet in February.
“My main expectation is that we improve throughout the season and come together to put out the best
possible performance at the Sum-mit League Conference Meet,” Mc-Gill said.
McGill said he acknowledges that experience in the pool plays a big role in competition. He knows he can’t transfer his experience to the younger swimmers, but he will try to help in any way possible.
“Experience is a hard thing to pass down from one person to the next,” he said. “As a senior on the
team, I can only help my teammates grow from their own experiences, whether that experience is positive or negative.”
Two events that McGill has cir-cled on his schedule are Short Course Nationals and the confer-ence championships.
He knows that meets preceding nationals and conference will be key to improving and eventually help out in the bigger events.
“My two main meets this year are Short Course Nationals at the end of November, and Conference at the end of February,” McGill said. “I think every meet is an important step to prepare myself for the meets that I’m really rested for.”
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AmAnDA Wilkinson | THe DAily eAsTern ne WsSenior Colin McGill has started his last season as a swimmer for the Eastern Swim Team. McGill owns the school record of 49.91 seconds in the back-stroke.
“I thought it was a good game, good energy from both sides, but they kind of took us out of our game a lit-tle bit, so we need to try to possess a little bit more and counter them a lit-tle bit,” he said. “I think if we do that and try and challenge them physically in the game, we’ll be fine.”
The Panthers will again have to see freshman Kayla Delgado, who had one goal and one assist on Sunday, adding to her team-high 19 points this season. Delgado’s nine goals this season is the third most in the OVC.
Radloff’s goal against Edwardsville was her first since the Jacksonville State match on Oct. 18. The Pan-thers had not scored a goal in either of their last two matches against Ten-nessee-Martin or Southeast Missouri. Eastern is 5-1 this season when Rad-
loff scores a goal. She leads the team with seven goals.
Eastern forward Chris Reed will again get to play against her sister Mary Kate, a senior defender for Ed-wardsville. Cherry said the two talk often throughout the season.
“Those two talk every week, so hopefully Chris didn’t give her any insight, but they talk,” he said. “It’s a good matchup. They actually went at it last game. Hopefully Chris gets the better of her sister this game.”
Eastern and Edwardsville will be the first match of the 2013 OVC tournament, with the winner advanc-ing to take on No. 1 seed Tennessee-Martin.
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As far as Lora, he finished the game with 12 receptions, 119 yards, three receiving touchdowns and his first punt return touchdown, where Babers said he did everything he was taught to do, making Lora a great role model because of his work ethic.
“Here’s Erik Lora, all this, all that, and all he does is exactly the way it was taught,” Babers said. “He does
exactly what we tell him to do and BOOM, touchdown. And the young kids notice that stuff. They just think it’s all God-given ability, but Erik Lora takes every technique, every fun-damental, digests it and he puts it out on the football field every game.”
Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Lora leaps to new records in blowout winBy Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor | @AldoSoto21
Shepard Little had already scored on a punt return with 35 seconds remaining in the first quarter, giving Eastern a 21-0 over Tennes-see Tech on Saturday, but even at 75 yards, it would not be the longest return of the after-noon.
Now, it was Erik Lora’s turn. The red-shirt senior from Miami, received a punt from Ten-nessee Tech punter Chad Zinchini at the Pan-thers’ 16-yard line in the second quarter. Lora looked at his blockers and saw an opening and attacked it. He ended up in the end zone with what would have been the longest punt return for a touchdown in Eastern history, but there was a flag sitting on the Panthers’ 38-yard line.
“You can’t get mad at your team, your team was just doing what it thought was right at the moment to help us,” Lora said. “You can’t blame someone who was working so hard that they hold. You can’t.”
Linebacker LeQuince McCall was called for holding on the return, negating Lora’s touch-down and moving the ball back to the Eastern 22-yard line.
But Lora was not worried because he was more concerned about the next play, the next offensive series and the next opportunity he had to return a punt.
“There’s no time to be mad or sad or pissed off at your teammates,” Lora said. “It’s real-ly the next play. I gave LeQuince a pat on the butt and told him, ‘hey, next time let’s go.’”
Lora’s next time would come with less than seven minutes left in the third quarter, follow-ing three Zinchini punts that all landed out of bounds.
On his 10th punt of the game, Zinchini would end up seeing his second Eastern punt returner run past him for a touchdown.
Zinchini is the Ohio Valley Conference leader in punting average, (46.1) but that end-ed up hurting him against the Panthers at O’Brien Field, Eastern coach Dino Babers said.
“(Zinchini) has the tendency to kick it 54, 56 and 57 yards and when you start getting kicks that deep you get a giant separation be-tween the punt return and the guys coming down to stop him,” Babers said.
When Lora secured the punt in his arms at the 20-yard line the closest Golden Eagle was at the 36-yard line, following Zinchini’s 52-yard punt.
“Tennessee Tech had a great punt, but he out-kicked his coverage,” Lora said. “When you give any skilled player time to read where
the holes are and attack the defense or the punt team it makes it a lot easier.”
Lora had a couple of seconds to survey the field and then he attacked the hole after he crossed the 25-yard line as he had six team-mates all blocking a Tennessee Tech player. Once Lora sped past the 45-yard line, nearing midfield, he had only Zinchini to beat to the end zone.
Lora said he had no other option but to score once it was a one-on-one battle between him and the punter.
“As a return specialist it’s embarrassing to get tackled by the punter or kicker,” Lora said. “You think that if you can get through corners, linebackers, all sorts of skilled players that you should be able to get past the one person on the team that doesn’t tackle and doesn’t run very much.”
At the Tennessee Tech 30-yard line Lora and Zinchini met, but the punter soon realized he
was no match for punt returner.“I just squared him up and made him stop
his feet and then I saw I could outrun him to the sideline,” Lora said.
Zinchini was able to get his fingertips on Lora’s left shoulder, but Lora shrugged them off and scored his first punt return touchdown in his collegiate career.
Lora’s punt return touchdown made it a 49-7 advantage for Eastern with 6:25 remain-ing in the third quarter. It was also Lora’s fourth touchdown of the game, following three touchdown receptions.
After Lora caught his first touchdown with 9:03 left in the first quarter, he had an inci-dent with a Tennessee Tech defender a cou-ple of drives later. Lora said it was a build up to that moment that set him off, after both he and a Golden Eagle were partaking in some trash talking.
“He was trying to do something to hurt
me,” Lora said. “He kind of picked me up, tried to slam me. Luckily he didn’t get to, but it put that extra emotion in me and wanting to play harder and faster.”
The wide receiver said mental games are used during games and that he sometimes does try to do everything he can to get into his op-ponents’ heads.
“When I’m on the field I’m kind of a differ-ent person, I’m in football mode and you’re my enemy and you’re the other team and you’re the opponent trying to do everything you can to gain an advantage against us and I do the same thing,” Lora said.
It can be argued which team won the mental game Saturday, but looking at the scoreboard at the end of the game that read Eastern 56, Tennessee Tech 21, one side can make a stron-ger argument than the other.
By Dominic renzettiManaging Editor | @domrenzetti
The Eastern women’s soccer team will be playing in its first Ohio Valley Conference tournament match since 2011, taking on No. 4 seed Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at 4 p.m. Thursday in Martin, Tenn.
The Cougars are certainly a team Eastern is familiar with, having played them Sunday at Lakeside Field.
Edwardsville beat the Panthers 2-1 to give Eastern its third straight loss and drop it to the No. 5 seed in the tournament.
After Sunday’s match, senior Brenna Vogel called it one of the more physical teams the Panthers have played this season and that she expects the next game to be the same. Eastern coach Jason Cherry agreed.
“Yeah, they’re one of the most physical teams we’ve played,” he said. “They’re good size, big bodied and they go into tackles and they make you feel it.”
Sunday’s match saw 23 fouls, but no cards were issued to either team. Cherry said the of-ficials were letting the teams play.
“We’ve had a couple battles this year that were like that, but the referee let us play (in Sunday’s match),” he said. “He was consistent with it, so I don’t mind it. I think we’re capa-
ble of playing that way, but we also don’t want to get away with what’s helped us be success-ful.”
Edwardsville goalkeeper Jennifer Pelley, a sophomore from St. Charles, Mo., made one save in Sunday’s win and gave up just one goal to Eastern’s Meagan Radloff.
Pelley, who has started all 19 matches for the Cougars this season, has led the team to an OVC-best 13 goals allowed.
Eastern’s Cortney Jerzy gave up two second-half goals against the Cougars, giving her loss number seven on the season.
Eastern has made 130 total saves this season, split three ways between Jerzy, red-shirt fresh-man Kylie Morgan and sophomore Emily Hin-ton, tied for the best in the OVC with Tennes-see-Martin.
Cherry said what he learned after Sunday’s match was that Eastern needs to find a way to match Edwardsville’s physicality.
“I think you can learn a lot from a game: strategies, tactics, how they look to play, the physicality of it,” he said. “They’re a big, physi-cal team and we have to match that.”
Despite the loss, Cherry still saw some posi-tives from the match, which can help the Pan-thers on Thursday.
Eastern, Edwardsville set for rematch
K ATIE smITH | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE ws Red-shirt senior wide receiver, Erik Lora, has 16 touchdown receptions and 1,152 receiving yards. On Saturday, Lora scored three touchdowns and returned his first punt-return touchdown.
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JAsOn HOwELL | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE wsSophomore midfielder, Bianca Navejas, moves the ball up the field with midfield forward, Tory Pitts, close behind in a game on Sunday at Lakeside Field. rEmATCH, page 7
