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With the gubernatorial general election just two weeks away, two of the candidates look to have a fi-nal face-off at EKU Center for the Arts this coming Sunday.

Democratic candidate Jack Conway and Repub-lican candidate Matt Bevin will use the debate as a last-ditch effort to swing the 10 percent of undecid-ed voters in Kentucky. According to a survey con-ducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, Con-way has just a two-point lead in the early polls with 43 percent of likely voters supporting him, while Bevin has 41 percent support. Six percent favor the Independent candidate Drew Curtis, but he will not be present at the debate.

The survey sampled 625 likely voters in Ken-tucky over the phone and has a 4 percent margin of error, which is deterring many political analysts from calling the race.

By TOPHER PAYTONchristopher_payto3@mymail.eku.edu

JACK CONWAY MATT BEVIN&

Candidates set to take the stage for gubernatorial debate

› SEE DEBATE, PAGE 6

DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES COMPETE FOR UNDECIDED VOTE BEFORE ELECTIONS

Fewer than half of student organizations receive SGA money

Thirteen out the 36 Registered Stu-dent Organizations (RSOs) left with a little more money in their pockets after Student Government Associations ap-propriations Tuesday.

This semester, SGA began appro-priations with $20,146.68 to award and had 36 organizations lined up to make presentations as to why their organi-zations should receive money. Only 13 out of the 36 groups were able to pres-ent and therefore receive funding.

Representatives from each RSO were asked to prepare a 30 second pitch to convince the need of their request. Each organization also had a student senator to fight on their behalf after the 30 second time limit ran out.

Fourteen groups had a chance to

present their reasons, however, only 13 received funding because there were no representatives for the Saudi Student Association.

The senator assigned to them also lacked information because the group had approached him the night prior and did not give him any information. Only a few groups received the full amount they asked for, others were not so lucky.

An organization called Student In-formation Technology Organization, SITO, asked for $3,030.00, but only re-ceived $750.00. The members present at the meeting said they did not agree with the decision.

Casey Spires, 22, a senior network security major from Richmond, who is a project manager of SITO, said he be-lieved the decision was both fair and unfair. The group asked for transpor-tation, boarding, and speaker fees for a specific speaker.

He said the amount given was fair,

By NOENA ZERNAprogress@eku.edu

WITH LIMITED FUNDING, SGA WAS TASKED WITH REWARDING FUNDS

EKOS.................................................$2965.98Students for Life.....................................$1569ASLA.....................................................$3000AFST..................................................$2530.41Alpha Phi Omega...............................$1951.58Alpha Phi Sigma................................$1219.00Student Information Tech Organization..........$750Epsilon Sigma Pi.....................................$1820MPI..........................................................$200Hapkido..............................................$543.05Student Athletic Training.........................$1900EKU Trap and Skeet.................................$1450Ranger Company..................................$247.06

Saudi Student OrganizationIce HockeyRecreation ClubChinese Students and ScholarsSAMBahrat Students AssociationEKU PaintballAESChi Beta TauMCCDazzling Maroon DollsAlpha Psi OmegaMIOAnimal Studies ClubPowerhouse ClubMarching BandPGA Golf ManagementEKU Climing TeamAlpha Kappa AlphaEta Sigma GammaEKU Green CrewFencing ClubKPHA

FUNDING NO FUNDING

$$$$ › SEE FUNDS, PAGE 6

Joseph Ellis, 22, and Austin Brewer, 19, represented the Alpha Phi Sigma Honor Society. They requested $3,022 for a conference, but were awarded $1,219.

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Best-selling author William Powers stressed the importance of relying less on technology and restoring an inner self to a full Brock Au-ditorium last Thursday during his Chautauqua lecture.

Powers highlighted key points from his nov-el, Hamlet's Blackberry, and began his speech by describing how there are brackets between life and technology. He used books as an ex-ample.

He said that life goes into the technolo-gy and life comes out of it, which is the way it should be.

“A book is a really amazing technology,” Powers said, “It does wonderful things for our world.”

Powers went on to explain the theory of life

going into technology and life coming out was slowly diminishing due in part to the use of modern devices.

He referred to this lifestyle as “digital max-imalism” and said it was taking over the world. He encouraged listeners to take a break from this way of life by participating in a digital de-tox.

According to Powers, a digital detox is when a person does not give up on technology but breaks away from it for a certain amount of time.

He said his family participated in this from 2007 to 2012, the only reason they stopped was because his son began high school and needed technology to do homework. They went on dig-ital detoxes on Saturdays and Sundays in those years and had absolutely no access to technolo-

By NOENA ZERNAprogress@eku.edu

Author tackles society's addiction to technology

› SEE TECH, PAGE 6Best-selling author William Powers stresses the importance of digital detoxing in an age where technology is overused.

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ILLUSTRATION BY AMELIA WILSON

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Oct. 5 � An Aramark employee re-

ported her purse was stolen from the Aramark Women’s Locker Room at 2:54 p.m., in the Powell Building.

Oct. 6 � A student reported a milky

white substance and several scratch marks on their car at 1:20 p.m., in the Alumni Coli-seum Lot.

Oct. 7 � A student reported their

vehicle was stolen at 5:05 p.m., from Grand Campus Build-ing 1. A suspect was found and charged with receiving stolen

property.

Oct. 9 � The fire alarm was activated

at 2:22 p.m., in Telford Hall.

Oct. 14 � An officer reported the

crosswalk sign was damaged at 8:49 a.m., in front of the Begley Building.

Oct. 16 � An 18-year-old from Lex-

ington was cited for alcohol in-toxication at 10:58 p.m., in the area of Powell Service Drive. They were transported to the Madison County Detention Center.

Oct. 17 � A 22-year-old from Cincin-

nati was cited for operating a vehicle under the influence, possession of marijuana, drug

paraphernalia, no tail lights, and improper parking in the fire lane, at 1:50 a.m., in the Grand Campus Lot. They were transported to the Madison County Detention Center.

Oct. 19 � A student reported their

wallet was stolen from their ve-hicle at 2:54 p.m., in the Busi-ness and Technology Lot. They stated they locked their car but left the windows partly down.

� A student reported her phone was missing at 4:33 p.m., in the Wallace Building, after she had left it in the hallway during their class.

� A 22-year-old from Paris was cited for alcohol intoxica-tion at 11:22 p.m., in the Grand Campus Building 2.

Scholar to present on thinking analytically

According to the scholar Saundra McGuire, the defi-nition of metacognition is to analyze what you are think-ing and doing.

McGuire is known for her expertise in metacogni-tion, she is coming to East-ern next month to share her wisdom and advice on the subject.

McGuire will host a workshop, entitled Meta-cognition: The Key To Acing Courses!, focusing on study techniques that will improve study and success skills from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29,

in Brock Auditorium.A workshop will also be

held for faculty from 8:30- 11:30 a.m. and 12:30- 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30, in O’Donnell Hall, Whitlock Building.

The event is free and will have surprises, raffles and snacks.

Both students and faculty must register for the event. Registration is available on-line at http://studio.eku.edu/metacognition and forms can be found in the tutoring center and the Noel Studio reception desk.

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Eastern’s most popular major this year is criminal justice, an ongoing trend the past few years based on statis-tics from the Office of Institutional Re-search.

The trend began in 2010, which was the first year in the last 10 that crim-inal justice had been the largest ma-jor program. It has also been the larg-est program for every year since except for 2014, when the nursing program was the most popular.

The criminal justice program saw a spike in enrollment in 2010, jumping from 793 students in the previous year to 936 students. The current enrollment is 845 students.

The Bachelor of Science in nursing saw a drop in enrollment from 2014 to this year. In 2014, the nursing program had 963 students while this year that number dropped to 619 students.

The most popular major has changed a few times during the past 10 years.

From 2005 to 2007, undeclared stu-dents outnumbered any other single major on campus. In 2008 and 2009, the most popular major was elementary ed-ucation.

The most popular this fall after crim-inal justice is psychology with 669 stu-dents, and nursing with 619 students. The number of undeclared students has dropped to 573, and it is now the fifth most popular major. Elementary educa-tion is now seventh.

Psychology is the most popular ma-jor in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The second and third most popular in Arts and Sciences are biology and social work.

Criminal justice is the most popu-lar in the College of Justice and Safe-ty, followed by occupational safety and the master’s program in safety/security/emergency management.

Nursing is the most popular ma-jor in the College of Health Sciences. The next most popular is the pre-RN pre-nursing program and the masters of nursing program. Nursing is also the most popular master’s program and the only master’s program in the top 10 most popular majors.

Elementary education is the most popular major in the College of Educa-tion. The second most popular is mid-dle grade education and special educa-tion teaching.

The marketing program, though it does not make the top 10 most popu-lar majors, is the most popular major in the College of Business and Technology. The second most popular is accounting, and third most popular is the general business program.

The college with the most students is the College of Health Sciences which has 3,881 students. That is followed by the College of Arts and Sciences with 3,873 students, The College of Justice and Safety with 2,802 students, and the College of Business and Technology with 2,255 students. The college with the fewest students is the College of Ed-ucation with 2,007 students.

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Program rewards students for attending athletic events

This semester there’s another reason to attend Eastern sporting events. With a program called ColonelUp, when you swipe in at select games, you can collect points and cash them in for prizes.

Shelby Banks, the director of ColonelUp, said the con-cept is in its second year, but before then it was called E-ranks and included not only sporting events, but also Center for the Arts and Ravine events.

Changing E-ranks to the sports-centered ColonelUp was inspired by the programs set in place by other univer-sities, Banks said.

The University of Kentucky’s BBN (Big Blue Nation) Re-wards was one of the models for ColonelUp.

UK’s program is a phone app upon which students can check in at games, keep track of points and automatical-ly earn rewards. UK’s first prize is the chance to enter in a drawing for free textbooks.

Eastern’s program may not be as mobile-accessible as UK’s, but Banks said the changes this semester are head-ing in the same direction.

Banks said they changed the program to focus solely on sports because Center for the Arts events get enough ex-posure without the program.

People know about stuff with Center for the Arts, she said, but unless it’s a particularly important game, Eastern sports doesn’t often get the same attention.

“Our athletes work tremendously hard to be so good, and they don’t get the recognition they deserve,” Banks said. “We want to bring more light to events that aren’t focused upon. We’re working to get students involved in events that are important to athletes themselves that stu-dents don’t always know about.”

Right now, ColonelUp is limited to the most popular sporting events on campus: football, basketball, volley-ball and baseball. Banks said she hopes to include Eastern’s other sports – cross country, tennis, softball, etc. – as the program gains momentum.

“Eventually we want to expand out to all athletic events,” Banks said.

ColonelUp operates on a point-system. Home games are worth one point, while away games, volleyball games and soccer senior nights are worth two points apiece, ac-cording to ColonelUp’s Orgsync page. You reach different incentive levels based on how many points you collect, and the higher the incentive level, the better prizes you’re eli-gible for.

“We’ve already seen a huge improvement [in atten-dance],” Banks said. “We hope to see a huge increase even more than we already have.”

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Eastern's new business degree is al-ready making waves in the community by way of a Madison County survey.

Supply chain management, estab-lished last year, is a new bachelor's de-gree program that focuses on the man-agement of supply and demand within manufacturing companies. For instance, what do the consumers need and, based on that, what can the manufacturers supply?

James Kirby Easterling, execu-tive-in-residence in the College of Busi-ness and Technology, said the program focuses on four main pillars: planning, sourcing, making and delivering prod-ucts or services to consumers. Easterling said the program is versatile and offers students many skills they could use in different fields. Graduates from the pro-gram could go into raw materials man-agement, sales and operations planning, among others.

"Our program is very comprehensive and will enable students to have many different opportunities upon graduat-ing," Easterling said.

The program is receiving some rec-ognition because it is the first of its kind among the eight public universities in Kentucky.

The program currently has about 19 students enrolled, Easterling said, but it's getting some attention from students. Easterling only had nine students in his supply chain logistics management class last year, he said, but this year there are

about 27."We're certainly seeing heavy inter-

est," Easterling said.Two supply chain management stu-

dents have been working in conjunction with Easterling and Weiling Zhuang, as-sistant professor of marketing, to create a survey for manufacturing companies. Adam Cosentino, 27, a senior from Fair-fax, Va., and Robert Combs, 41, a senior from Woodland, Cali., are general busi-ness majors with a supply chain man-agement concentration who have been working on the survey since June. The survey will assess about 25 of the larg-er manufacturing companies in Madi-son County to hopefully attract similar manufacturing companies to the county in the future.

Easterling said the idea for the survey came from Tonita Goodwin, executive director of the Richmond Industrial De-velopment Corporation (RIDC). Good-win's job at the RIDC is to recruit good companies to Madison County and she had an idea to involve Eastern in the pro-cess.

The survey will only assess companies with 50 or more employees, Easterling said. These companies are most desirable for the survey because they are the kinds of larger companies Madison County would like to attract.

Combs said he and Cosentino have probably spent about 15 to 18 hours a week on the survey during the semester because, similarly to other students who have on-campus jobs, there is a limit-ed amount of hours they are allowed to work. Cosentino said the development of

the survey started in June and during the summer, they probably worked 20 to 30 hours a week on the survey.

Combs and Cosentino are now in the process of administering the survey. Easterling said the survey is quite long, at about 50 to 60 questions, which means it will be time-consuming to administer. Combs said they're having trouble mak-ing everyone's schedules work for the in-terviews.

"The coordination of schedules is more of a challenge than it was during the summer, so things slowed down a lit-tle bit behind the timeline we were hop-

ing for," Combs said.Cosentino said creating the survey

would not be possible without the help of Easterling, Zhuang and the department heads.

"The whole staff seems to really be supporting and doing everything they can to make this section of the program is as successful as possible," Cosentino said.

For more information about the sup-ply chain management program, contact Easterling at james.kirby.easterling@eku.edu.

Students work with professors to create business surveyBy KELLI STOKESprogress@eku.edu

Weiling Zhuang, students Adam Cosentino and Robert Combs, and Executive-in-Residence Kirby Easterling, work together to asses potential companies for Madison County.

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Eastern has a new oral historian in the Special Collections and Archives to work with the many voices of the past.

Neil Kasiak became a full time oral historian in August, but he is by no means new to Eastern. Kasiak has been working in Special Collections and Ar-chives since 2010 when he began as a vol-unteer.

“I walked into this door and I was hooked,” Kasiak said.

He said some of his main duties in-

clude expanding the collections of oral history projects, web development, cleaning up existing material and collab-orating with faculty and students.

He also works with the William H. Berge Oral History Center, an archive for oral history. The archive includes in-terviews from coal miners, Eastern’s first female student athletes, local civil rights activists and many others.

He said the online archive for the Center gives students the opportunity to look into controversial times in history.

“We have over 3,700 interviews,” Ka-siak said. “Only 715 or so are on the Wil-liam H. Berge Oral History Center web-

site.”Kasiak said when students figure out

the topic they need, they can go to ar-chives and speak with him to help find what they want. He said he enjoys get-ting to discover the history alongside students.

Kasiak said there is local history avail-able as well as a broader spectrum, such as an interview with Malcom Kilduff, the press secretary for President Kenne-dy. Kilduff was best known for making a public announcement of the president’s death.

Though there was a time when oral history research was considered contro-versial by many contemporary histori-ans, it has slowly gained acceptance.

“You can’t get much better than peo-ple’s actual voices for primary resources,” Kasiak said. “You’re literally dealing with people’s words directly.”

He said oral history is unrehearsed and unedited interviews and it’s the raw-est form of history you can find.

Kasiak said he wants to keep develop-ing the collection and collaborating with faculty and students.

He mentioned several projects, one being the Appalachian Equine Project, where students will conduct interviews with Rocky Mountain Horse owners and breeders. A Rocky Mountain Horse is bred for farms and work opposed to rac-ing

The research will be focusing on farming horses and why the breed is so prevalent among Kentucky farmers, Ka-siak said.

Stephanie McSpirit, from the Depart-ment of Anthropology, Sociology and So-cial Work, and Kasiak recently submitted a grant application to the Kentucky Oral History Commission.

Kasiak said he wants to get Eastern’s oral history collections realized for what they are, valuable pieces of history.

“I want to really try to put the Wil-liam H. Berge Oral History Center on the map,” Kasiak said.

Though being an oral historian is his job, Kasiak said he doesn’t feel like he works at all because he enjoys what he does.

“This is my dream job," said Kasiak.

Oral History Center gives voice to the pastBy TOSHA BAKERprogress@eku.edu

DEBATEFROM PAGE 1

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because they have a speaker lined up to present. Yet, it was unfair because Spires said he believes speakers will not come to campus unless the group has the money ready.

“Planning was difficult because peo-ple won’t come unless you have mon-ey,” Chris Johnson, 23, senior network security major from Nicholasville said. Johnson, who is an adviser in SITO, said this is the third appropriations

meeting he has attended and this is not the first time the group has been turned down.

“I’ve been part of the organization for five years. It has made leaps and bounds, but it is difficult if we have to go through hoops and ladders if they’re not defined.” Johnson said, referencing appropriation decisions.

Another organization that did not receive the full amount they asked for was the EKU Trap and Skeet. The group asked for $1,740, which was over the amount of SGA's remaining budget of $1,697.06.

Student Senate debated for quite

some time if the organization should receive the remaining amount. Many senators disagreed with giving the group the money.

A senator mentioned EKU Trap and Skeet returns yearly to appropriations asking for more funding. Another sen-ator asked if the organization would teach valuable lessons in gun safety. After the roughly 15 minute discus-sion, the group was awarded $1,450.

Dylan Hacker, 22, senior crimi-nal justice and police studies major from Hayden said that although EKU Trap and Skeet did not receive the full amount asked, he was still excited to

receive the money.“What we got here tonight, we’re

grateful,” Hacker said. He added the group will use the funds granted for registration fees for a conference in San Antonio, Texas.

The League of Women Voters in Kentucky is host-ing the debate between the two front-runners, with co-sponsors Eastern and CBS affiliates from Louis-ville and Lexington, WLKY and WKYT respectively, according to a press release from Eastern.

The League of Women Voters of Kentucky is “pleased to co-sponsor a debate between candi-dates for the office of Governor,” said Terry Naydan, co-president of the state League. “We trust this de-bate will help inform our electorate about the im-portant issues of the day in an interesting format. We hope many citizens will tune in to inform themselves about the candidates and where they stand on many topics.”

The debate will be moderated by WKYT political editor and anchor Bill Bryant and WLKY anchor Vic-ki Dortch. Both said they are excited to partner with Eastern and the League to host the debate, according to the press release.

Tickets for the debate are free, but must be re-served. To reserve a ticket, go to EKUCenter.com, or call the box office, at 859-622-7469 between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. There are 1,700 seats available.

gy for the two days.“It was difficult to transition at first and people

thought we were crazy,” Powers said.Powers said there are other digital detox move-

ments happening today all over the United States. The goal of the digital detox is to bring a happier balance between life and technology. He urges lis-teners to restore balance with the inner self.

Despite asking people to take a break from their screens, Powers emphasizes that technology is not entirely bad.

“Social media succeeds to the extent that they improve human life as a whole,” Powers said.

He talked about how technology from the begin-ning of time was meant to make life easier. He men-tioned many historical figures, from Socrates to Thoreau, who at first were skeptical about techno-logical advances in their eras but knew it was nec-essary for a better world.

Powers discussed how these historical figures are what he used in his research for his novel to de-scribe how technology can have negative and posi-tive effects.

Powers and his team, located in the MIT Media Lab, research social media effects on the world as well as other technologies.

Powers concluded his speech by saying he felt optimistic about technology use in modern society. He emphasized that the beauty of social media is it gives every person a voice. Powers said he hopes for a better digital revolution.

Many listeners, students especially, were encour-aged by William Powers’ speech and agreed with him on many topics.

Jessica Baker, 19, an undeclared freshman from Louisville, admitted she has not read Powers’ nov-el. However, after listening to his speech, Baker said she thinks it would be interesting to read.

Although her opinion on social media use did not change, Powers’ speech reassured her that it would help everyone if they cut out technology.

Thomas Bird, 18, a psychology freshman from Williamsburg, agreed with Powers that technology can be a good thing.

“It’s good and bad depending on how a person uses it,” Bird said.

He said he was so inspired after reading Ham-let’s Blackberry that he deactivated his Facebook account.

“It was a lot of useless info," Bird said. "I felt bet-ter after detaching from social media."

Eastern aviation students can look for-ward to more flight time when a new air-plane hangar is installed this winter at the Madison County Airport.

The new $350,000 hangar will provide 10-15 aircraft additional shelter from po-tential rough weather, said Director of Avi-ation and Chief Flight Instructor Ralph Gibbs.

The hangar is estimated to be finished and installed at the airport in November, Gibbs said.

“The hangar will keep the airplanes safe from damages caused by thunderstorms and hail," Gibbs said.

Eastern has been in partnership with the airport for four years, said Madison County Airport Manager Jason Bonham.

Boham used to be a pro flight instruc-tor at the airport before he became man-ager. He interacts with students on a daily basis, discussing safety issues and airplane filling tasks.

Bonham’s main goal is getting the new hangar up.

“Basically, it can’t come soon enough. We have a waiting list for hangar space

right now,” Bonham said. “Most EKU air-planes are out on the ramp because we only have hangar spots for six of them.”

In the summer, Bonham said he would worry about storm damage to the air-planes.

“It is also a big issue when winter-time approaches because frost gets on the wings making them unable to fly and causing the university to miss half a day of flying,” Bonham said.

The Madison County Airport is man-aged by Eastern’s aviation department in conjunction with Berea, Richmond and Madison County. All student flight train-ing is conducted at the airport.

The airport currently houses 10 sin-gle-engine airplanes and four multi-engine airplanes for students to fly, said sopho-more pro-flight major Cole Farrar.

Community college program expands

The aviation program is expanding the program in more ways than just physical. Eastern signed an agreement with Owens-boro Regional Airport in an effort to ex-pand an already existing conjoined com-munity college program, Gibbs said.

Beginning January 2016, students will be able to begin the flight division of their degree at the Owensboro airport. The avi-ation courses will be taught by local in-structors hired by Eastern. Upper division courses will be offered online.

Between seven and 10 students are ex-

pected to utilize the Owensboro program, and the program will grow each year there-after, Gibbs said.

Eastern offers eight pro-flight degree programs in Ashland, Middlesboro and Hazard, along with out of state community colleges. An additional airplane mechanic program is offered at Somerset and Jeffer-son Community colleges, Gibbs said.

“Basically if you go to a certain com-munity college for two years, your credits can be transferred to EKU for another two years,” Gibbs said.

The need to expand the conjoined pro-grams could stem from the demand of pi-lots needed, Gibbs said.

“We are the only university that has a flight program in Kentucky, and we real-ized not everyone can get to Richmond,” Gibbs said. “It’s important because there is currently a forecast demand of 500,000 pi-lots.”

The demand for pilots was a big factor that motivated Farrar to choose aviation as his field of study.

“Along with the demand for pilots worldwide, I’ll get to travel the world, make good money and I also enjoy it,” Farrar said. “The community college programs will expand EKU and aviation in general, and it could also create more job opportu-nities for us after college.”

New facilityEastern also plans to install a new avi-

ation facility at the Madison County Air-

port.“One of the biggest things we need is

a new terminal (fixed-based operating) building,” Bonham said. “The current building is old.”

Bonham said the current building also doesn’t provide enough space for those who use it, and the new facility would be a big improvement.

“Student pilots, corporate pilots and military pilots all have to share the build-ing and they are running out of space,” Bonham said. “Students need private spac-es as well.”

The airport board is currently in the preliminary stages of designing the new building, Bonham said.

Future of aviationGibbs would like to see the aviation

program grow to 400 students and 40 air-planes. If that ever happened, then the pro-gram would need three hangers, he said.

“We would need one for EKU, another for international training and another for helicopter training," Gibbs added.

The demand is dramatic and the chang-es have to be made through funding, Gibbs said.

Gibbs wants to expand Eastern’s Avia-tion footprint across the commonwealth to help the airline industry gain more pilots.

“If we start planting the EKU flag on every airport in the state, we can make a more significant dent," said Gibbs.

By BRITTANY ELLISprogress@eku.edu

UPGRADES ALLOW PLANES TO BE IN THE AIR LONGER, BENEFITS STUDENTS

New hangar protects planes from damages

Three Eastern students had the op-portunity to dine with a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

The University of Kentucky College of Law hosted a breakfast and Q&A for Justice Samuel Alito Sept. 24 and EKU Mock Trial members Allie Maples, Mat-thew Boggs and Mackenzie Despain at-tended with their adviser, Tom Parker.

Maples, 20, a junior political sci-ence and broadcast and electronic me-dia student from Mt. Sterling, said there was a meet and greet first, then 30 min-utes of casual conversation followed by a 30-minute Q&A by Justice Alito.

Maples said students from UK, Tran-sylvania University, and the University of Louisville, as well as numerous law pro-fessors from around the state attended the breakfast. The professors tended to ask most of the questions, Maples said.

Boggs, 22, a senior political science and history major from Whitesburg, said it was interesting to see a Supreme Court justice's personal side.

"You don't really get to see that side of the Supreme Court justices," Boggs said.

Maples said Justice Alito was what she imagined he would be like and that he was very serious.

One thing Justice Alito wanted to in-still in pre-law students who attended, Boggs said, was that they knew for a cer-tain they wanted to enter the law field. Boggs said as a student who was not orig-inally pre-law, Justice Alito's advice made him feel more confident in his decision to switch.

Maples, on the other hand, said she always knew she wanted to go to law school and the opportunities she has had in Mock Trial have made her more knowledgeable.

"It's really helped shape my legal edu-cation and it's helped me prepare for law school," Maples said.

Boggs said he also benefited from speaking to some of the professors who attended the breakfast by humanizing them so they're less intimidating.

"They're not monsters," Boggs said. "They're actual people."

Boggs said he realized the law pro-fessors and advisers he met really care about the success of their students.

Maples said she learned from the breakfast with Justice Alito that what she's doing at Mock Trial is just one step in the right direction.

"I need to gain as much real-world ex-perience as I can," Maples said.

Boggs and Maples, who are co-cap-tains of EKU's Mock Trial, said they would not have these kinds of opportuni-

ties if not for Parker and Mock Trial. Ma-ples said this was not her first experience meeting a Supreme Court justice. In her high school Mock Trial team, she got to meet Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Mock Trial is also a great way to fa-miliarize oneself with evidentiary issues, Boggs said.

"You do get that first-hand experi-ence," Boggs said.

Mock Trial practices twice a week and has numerous tournaments throughout the year that it competes in. To get in-volved in EKU Mock Trial, contact Tom Parker, the Mock Trial adviser, at thom-as.parker@eku.edu.

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Left to right: Allie Maples, Mathew Boggs, Justice Alito, Tom Parker and Mackenzie Despain got to know one another during an event hosted at UK College of Law.

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Donald John Trump. His name is as bland as his face. What this man lacks in looks and name, he makes up for in sand-colored wigs and ridiculously offensive statements. This wealthy entrepreneur has made headlines for years by his lack of social aware-ness or tact.

His most recent public scheme has been running for the President of the United States. Trump an-nounced he would become a part of the election June 16, 2015. This is also known as the day millions of Americans lost any hope for the future.

The worst part of Trump's campaign is that people

actually support this man becoming the face of our country. People support the man that once tweeted, "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."

How anyone can support a man who doesn't be-lieve in almost irrefutable science is beyond me.

His lack of faith in our nation's most brilliant minds is only the tip of the iceberg for Trump's ever increasing list of why he should be banned from com-municating with the masses. The man is also a forth-right racist.

On many occasions, Trump has attempted to bash President Obama. On one occasion Trump tweet-ed, "Sadly, because president Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won't see another black president for generations!" As I quoted this, I had to take a moment because, in case you forgot, the man who tweeted this to an audience of over four million people is running for president.

Trump is racist against more than just the black

population. He also has quite the prejudice against any Mexican immigrants. In reference to the immi-grants Trump said, "They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. ... And some, I as-sume, are good people." If this does not strike you as blatantly racist, you may need to take a step back and ask yourself if you, too, are racist.

Trump is able to run for president because he is wealthy. It is not due to his political background. That's basically non-existent. It's not even because he is a good business owner. He just got lucky a few times. It is common knowledge that his companies have had to declare bankruptcy on four separate oc-casions.

This brings to question a few things. One, do rich people have credit scores? Two, what is Donald Trump's credit score? Three, if someone can just buy into the most important election of our country, what does that say about the political status of our nation.

Bernie Sanders is a lot like Larry David. He's been around longer than some of our grandparents, shouts when he wants to get his point across, and wears thin rimmed black glasses before the Brooklyn hipsters thought they were cool.

In his prime, David used Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm to encourage being one's true self, de-spite how awkward and sometimes offensive you may be. Today, Sanders, a front runner for the Democratic candidacy, uses his socially awkward and politically incorrect personality to connect with voters in a way others cannot.

While Hillary Clinton, that one guy, the other one, and the guy that killed someone in Vietnam all sound like ambiguous, focus-group-created politicians. Sanders presents himself as he is: an elderly Jewish

man from New York with untamed hair who has rev-olutionary ideas for our country.

Will his ideas work? In a time where the govern-ment is constantly shutting down due to bipartisan disagreements, the probability seems slim. But Sand-ers, unlike the rest of the candidates, appears willing to try. Sanders stands true to his democratic socialist stance and appears firm in his beliefs.

He is authentic when others are wishy-washy. Though I do not agree with his stances on gun con-trol, Sanders has never changed because the public opinion has changed. He supported LGBT and wom-en's rights before nearly every other candidate, re-publican or democratic. Sanders is Sanders, no mat-ter who's watching.

For many adults, especially those who do not un-derstand the definition of democratic socialism, Sanders' personal political ideology, is too far left. His ideas are too radical and his dreams are too far-fetched.

For college kids and twenty-somethings plagued with loan debt, Sanders is exactly what is needed. Today's generation is pissed—pissed that education costs more than a new house, pissed that people are working for completely inadequate wages, and pissed

that no one in Washington appears to be listening.Sanders is finally listening. His proposal to tax

Wall Street in order to have free public college ed-ucation is advanced. His views on veteran affairs is respected by military experts. His stance on climate change, only years after Sarah Palin considered glob-al warming "junk science," is progressive and force-ful.

He holds the same kind of passionate, occasionally naïve, ambition today's youth has. In a weird and un-usual way, Sanders, a 74-year-old senator from Ver-mont, is the voice of this generation.

Whether he wins the candidacy, and subsequent-ly the presidency, seems unclear. Clinton has much more known political success while Republican can-didate Ben Carson appears to be capturing the heart of nearly every conservative voter. Sanders, while popular, may not have the team behind him to get the job done.

Nonetheless, Sanders is doing something for this country that I have never witnessed. He is encour-aging today's generation. Students actually care now. Debates that only happened in college republican and young democrats meeting can now be heard through-out DSP. And for that, I thank Bernie Sanders.

If I told you the star of one of best fall shows on TV right now was Lady Gaga, would you believe me?

Like everyone else, I had very low expectations for the fifth installment of the anthology-style horror show American Horror Story: Hotel.

It has been a pleasant surprise. I would even say she has been the best part of the show so far and that is saying a lot due to the quality of the first two epi-sodes.

This is by far their most gory, sexual and disturb-

ing season yet. In fact, it has been so disturbing many groups such as the Parents Television Council (PTC) have been advocating for sponsors to drop the show because it sits in a prime-time spot of 8 p.m.

While I may not agree that sponsors should pull out, this group does have a point. Typically on ba-sic cable, shows that toe the line ( or leap over it in this case) get a late night slot like 10 p.m., so that most younger audiences will be in bed. In theory this makes sense, but FX ( the channel that has carried this show since season one) has a deal with Netflix and at the end of every season, every episode goes on the streaming service. This makes it very hard to keep kids from watching.

Anyway, all this aside, it has been a great season. Gaga plays a sex addicted vampire with numerous male friends if you know what I mean. The typical re-curring cast of Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates are back and may be playing their best roles.

Second year cast member Finn Wittrock is back as a drug addicted model and his performance is just as good as last year. The story is just starting to heat up, as the first two episodes put the main players in place and set the stage for our main story.

I have learned after four years of this show though, that if you are watching it, then you love it, and If you have tried to watch it or have not yet, you probably won't enjoy it. This is a show for fans of the horror genre. It isn't necessarily scary, maybe a little creepy, but it plays with traditional horror themes like haunt-ed house, witch covens and insane asylums; it just adds some gore and a story to it.

To sum it all up, I love this show and if your a fan of horror I highly recommend it. Watch it on FX at 8 p.m., Wednesday nights.

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Eastern was visited by a radical preacher on Tuesday. How do you

feel about his message?

"I highly disagree with the things he has to say, but he has the right to say them. I feel like he's just harrasing people though. He doesn't have a right to harass people."

Elijah WolfeHometown: ManchesterMajor: GeologyYear: Senior

"Honestly, it's super illegal. He's preaching hate and dropping n-bombs and telling the gays they're going to Hell. It's hate speech."

Shawn PhilpotHometown: JuniorMajor: Globalization and Interna-tional AffairsYear: Manchester

"I feel like he's a false prophet and he's trying to find a way to obtain a good order about campus. I feel that, that, as a Christian, this is a true test on my faith. If you don't know God and scripture, this will take you away from the light."

Zephaniah MasonHometown: GeorgetownMajor: BusinessYear: Sophomore

"It's disrespectful. We don't all look at things the same way, but this is not the way to go about it."

Ebony BurrusHometown: HarrodsburgMajor: UndeclaredYear: Freshman

"I don't really care. It's his opinion, he can do whatever he wants. I think he's just trying to piss people off, but he can do whatever he wants."

Nic VagedesHometown: UnionMajor: Business Managment Year: Junior

"I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but this is a little hardcore."

Anita ColeHometown: BeattyvilleMajor: Undeclared Year: Freshman

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Christians and the Horror Genre: A Never-Ending Question

Being a devout Christian and a horror fan gets you a lot of sideways glances from fellow Christians. But ev-ery once in a while, you'll meet someone like you and form an instant friendship. Still, many Christians ask how one reconciles horror with faith. Actually, it's pret-ty simple: horror is what you make of it.

If you were to ask many Christians what they make of horror, they'll probably bring up two things: the dark themes and the genre's innate creation of fear.

In relation to dark themes, a Christian horror fan must do two things: look for the deeper meaning and draw a line as to what one watches.

Tales of horror go back to early man. In fact, the Bi-ble includes a few terrifying tales. One may remember

the Revelations metaphor featuring a dragon crouch-ing between a pregnant woman's legs, waiting to devour a newborn. If that doesn't chill you, you're very strong. However, that metaphor has a purpose, like most horror stories. The werewolf is a symbol of man's bestial side. Vampires are symbolic of sexual perverts. Zombies are reflections of angry political groups.

Almost every horror story is meant to caution the reader about a moral dilemma. People try to forget how scary morality can be, which is why horror deals in "what if" situations. What if death isn't the end? What if behavior has a price? What if we're not all perfect? This is where horror is most useful.

Of course, there is a line that shouldn't be crossed. Once one gets deep into the genre, many viewing and reading options appear. You can consume classics, main-stream pieces, hidden gems--but eventually, you'll find something too dark to watch with a clear con-science. For a Christian, it wouldn't be wise to watch anything that proudly blasphemes. Do what you want, but to fellow Christians I give a word of caution.

The other half of the argument, being that scares are bad, is actually valid. The Bible tells us repeatedly not to

be afraid, to have faith, to fear absolutely nothing. So, if we're not supposed to fear anything, why put ourselves in frightening situations? Simple: to train ourselves.

The first step in conquering fear, at least for a Chris-tian, is to realize that God is on your side. After that one must face their fears, and that is the purpose of horror: to help us face down demons. The late Wes Craven once said that horror is a "boot camp for the psyche," a place where we can safely test ourselves, prepare our minds and souls for the horrors of living.

If one is afraid of adulthood and going out on their own, they have two options: shake and shiver and stress about the impending future or watch The Babadook, a movie about a young mother's struggle and eventual overcoming of grief and responsibility. It works for any existential fear, or even certain phobias.

Now, don't misinterpret my intent: I'm not saying that Christians should watch horror films, just that they shouldn't condemn them. Some people just can't do horror; they don't like it and it doesn't give them any pleasure. For those of us who love it, though, it's a way to cope with the very real dark side of life.

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Located in the heart of Rich-mond’s historic district sits the Bennett House Bed and Break-fast. Originally built in 1889 by James and Sarah Clay-Bennett for James’s mother, the home was designed by a popular archi-tect from Cincinnati, Samuel E. des Jardins.

The Bennett’s were a well-to-do family in the area, while Sarah was the daughter of Cas-sius Clay, a Kentucky politi-cian. James’s father was one of the surveyors who accompanied Daniel Boone in his exploration of the land here.

The Bennett family stayed in the home for many years. Even-tually ownership was given to Helen Bennett, one of James and Sarah’s daughters, in the 1860s. She stayed in the house until her death in the 1950s.

Rita and Richard Smart cur-rently operate the Bennett House Bed and Breakfast. The Smart’s previously worked at an-other bed and breakfast in town for roughly 25 years before it closed.

“I was looking for a job, to tell you the truth,” Richard Smart said about purchasing the house.

Before the Smart’s owned the house, it was owned by two teachers who had converted it into a bed and breakfast. Howev-er, they could not keep with the bed and breakfast while teach-ing. So after a few years, they sold it.

Taking note of the age of the home, it is not unreasonable to assume spirits could still be lingering around the grounds. However, Smart is not a believer, despite the Bennett House hav-ing once hosted ghost hunters.

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s not haunted. Of course, I don’t believe in ghosts anyway,” Smart said.

The ghost hunters did not pick up on any malevolent entities; only positive vibes. Rita Smart accredits this to the amount of churches nearby.

Despite the lack of ghost-ly presence, the Bennett House walls could hold some secrets.

While most of the deaths in the home have been due to old age, there is some speculation that Sue Bennett, an inhabitant of the house, may have commit-ted suicide within its walls. This, however, is merely a rumor the owners heard.

Rita Smart is a state repre-sentative, so the city of Rich-ard mostly runs the inn. When asked what his favorite part of running the inn was, Smart said it’s meeting the people. From Austria to South America, the Bennett house has accommodat-ed a variety of travelers.

The Bennett House is a com-fortable bed and breakfast with a positive and warm feel. The inn brings together modern and old-fashioned decor. The origi-nal stained glass windows will impress and the many fireplaces will keep weary travelers warm and comfy.

For more information, includ-ing a virtual tour and pricing, visit their website, www.bennet-thousebb.com.

President Benson was met with cheers from students and faculty members at the end of the Green Crew’s Energy Walk Tuesday when he agreed to sign a document committing East-ern to developing a plan for en-ergy sustainability.

The Energy Walk was a guid-ed tour designed to point out ar-eas around campus that are en-ergy efficient and the areas that undermine that efficiency. The tour began with a large group gathered around the Ramsey Heat Plant, one of the spots causing the most waste.

The coal boilers in Ramsey burned 6,000 tons of coal last year, said Will Cripps, co-pres-ident of the Green Crew. That is equal to the yearly energy use of 1,766 homes and the same as driving a car for 46,083,333 miles, according to the EPA.

Cripps said to offset the year-ly coal boiler waste, 35,000 seedlings would have to be planted and raised for 10 years.

Angel Hill, an environmen-tal coalition delegate at East-ern, said many students at East-ern have asthma problems from the coal boilers, which remind-ed her of her family members in Appalachia who have developed cancer and autoimmune diseas-es from coal mining.

“We cannot fight for the people in our service regions if we’re wasting the biggest prod-

uct they produce, which is coal,” Hill said. “This is a huge, huge, huge slap in the face to students that come here from service re-gions.

Hill said the 106-year-old coal boiler is the reason pedes-trians are always dodging huge clouds of steam from vents along the sidewalk.

“Even with renovations, something this old is not run-ning at 100 percent,” she said. “We’re boiling water, and steam is evaporating through the vents, which is a huge waste of money.”

As the tour continued to the Powell and Wallace buildings, the megaphone – plastered with stickers reading “Clean Up Poli-

tics” and “Friends of Sol” – was passed to participants. Made-line Scarbrough, a sophomore biology major from Louisville, was one of those who spoke up.

“It seems like we definitely have some catching up to do,” Scarbrough said. “This is the fu-ture, and if the school’s going to endure, we need to change our habits.”

The tour didn’t just point out negative attractions, howev-er. The group stopped in front of the New Science Building to hear about the modern advanc-es that are making the campus more sustainable.

Hill said the building’s solar panels, energy-efficient lighting, water-collection system and

temperature regulation system make the New Science Building more efficient than older cam-pus buildings.

“New Science is sort of a look at a sustainable future,” Cripps said.

Benson arrived in the final leg of the walk when everyone was gathered in the New Sci-ence Building. The organizers turned their plea directly to him when they introduced the pro-posed solution to the energy is-sues on campus: the American College and University Presi-dents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).

Universities that sign this pledge have three years to work with community groups to de-

velop a plan for “carbon neu-trality,” or removing as much carbon dioxide from the atmo-sphere as the campus puts into it. The plan would also include taking a greenhouse gas inven-tory to see how much green-house gases the school emits and making climate education a larger part of curriculum.

Kentucky universities that have already signed include Berea College, Centre College, Northern Kentucky University and the University of Louisville. Hill said the clubs at University of Kentucky were not having as much success as Eastern’s Green Crew in getting administrative attention.

“Their administration is kind of ignoring them,” Hill said. “I think this event is really power-ful because president Benson is right here.”

Benson took no convincing. He climbed the reclaimed wood staircase in the New Science Building lobby to sign the docu-ment with a recycled pen.

“It’s important to sign a doc-ument, but our actions speak louder than words,” Benson said. He cited the approaching campus updates – tearing down old buildings for more ener-gy-efficient ones, planting more trees and creating more open spaces – as ways Eastern is al-ready moving in the right direc-tion.

Even if the effects of ACUP-CC aren’t seen for another three years, Cripps said the important thing now is the message the president’s support sends to stu-dents.

“Right now what this means is that all the work Green Crew has done is supported by the ad-ministration,” Cripps said. “This is a victory for all of us.”

By HANNAH COSTELLEprogress@eku.edu

By CASSANDREA GREYprogress@eku.edu

GREEN CREW POINTS OUT BEST AND WORST SPOTS ON CAMPUS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY

DESPITE THE LACK OF GHOSTLY PRESENCE, THE BENNETT HOUSE WALLS COULD HOLD SOME SECRETS

Benson signs commitment to energy efficiency at energy walk

The history of Richmond’s Bennett House, Bed & Breakfast

Students gather in the New Science Building to witness President Benson signing the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC)

Main living room (top left); exterior view of The Bennett House from Main Street (top right); front room (center right); Richard Smart, current owner (bottom right.)

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You are dating somebody or talking to someone you want to date and everything seems to be going great. You are in constant communication until one day, you don’t hear from them.

They will not answer your text messages. You call them but they don’t pick up. You nev-er see them around anymore. It’s as if they have fallen off the face of the planet. You assume this means you’ve broken up. If this has ever happened to you; you have been ghosted.

Ghosting seems to be the trend for non-confrontational breakups. Simply by removing themselves from a person’s life completely, one can exist a rela-tionship by essentially dissipat-ing into an ethereal mist. This leaves the ghosted with unan-swered questions, insecurities and confusion. Several Eastern

students have experience with ghosting.

“It was my first love, and I kept on trying to get ahold of him and didn’t get the hint. I eventually got it,” said Susan Boggs, a sophomore pre-nursing major from Rockcastle County.

While some people are left to figure the situation out on their own, others eventually receive a straight answer about the state of their relationship.

“So, we dated for three months and last month he stopped talking to me for four days, but we got back together for a while,” said Cassidy Jewell, a freshman social work major from Mount Sterling. “He broke up with me yesterday over text. I asked him if we were still dating and he basically just said no.”

Ghosting typically ends the relationship for good, however, some people do manage to re-connect with their ghosts.

“We hadn’t been together but a couple months and he just stopped talking to me. But we got back together and we’re okay now,” said Kristen Kinney, a ju-nior forensic science major from Carter County.

Eastern students aren’t alone when it comes to getting the boot by ghosting. According to The New York Times, in October 2014, a YouGov/Huffington Post poll of 1,000 adults showed that 11 percent of Americans had ghosted someone. A more infor-mal survey from Elle magazine that polled 185 people found that about 16.7 percent of men and 24.2 percent of women had been ghosts at some point in their lives.

The results of ghosting can be pretty disastrous.

“I heard through a friend of a friend that this guy did not even talk to his girlfriend for the first month he was at college. He’s a freshman and she’s a junior. She was really freaking out, which is understandable,” said Austin Travis, a freshman computer science major from Olive Hill. “Apparently that’s how he tried to break up with her. When she finally got in touch with him, he basically told her to leave him alone. She did not take it well.”

While many people on cam-pus have been ghosted, Eastern still has its fair share of ghosts. Ghosts are people who have at

one point ghosted someone else.“So, this kid down in Ten-

nessee came up and visited me for a weekend. He turned out to be very clingy,” said Anna Mat-tox, a senior occupational thera-py major from Carlisle. “He tex-ted me books about how much he liked me, and sent me the entire happy birthday song on my birthday. So I pretty much fell off the face of the earth. He eventually got the message.”

Some students feel guilty about their ghosting, but they feel as though it was the best way they could have ended that particular relationship.

“I’ve done it. I did it because sometimes they get too attached and you just don’t feel the love anymore,” said Derek Suther-land, a sophomore physical edu-cation major from Grant Coun-ty. “You don’t want to say it to her face. Some people just can’t handle that face-to-face break-up.”

Some students admit to us-ing ghosting as a tactic for pre-paring for a break-up.

“I start to do that when I’m about to break up with some-one,” said Breanna Carsone, a

freshman history teaching ma-jor from La Grange.

While many people are able to justify ghosting people, some were shocked to learn that this method is being used more and more.

“I think that is the most cow-ardly way to get out of a rela-tionship,” said Brandi Gibson, an undeclared freshman from Corbin. “It leaves the other per-son wondering if something’s wrong with them when in real-ity it’s just you being a jerk.”

Some students condemned the act of ghosting and those who have ghosted others.

“I think my favorite is when they drop off and then they re-appear because they get lonely,” said Ryann Wiggins, a freshman engineering major from Sebree.

Abby Vonlintel, a undeclared freshman from Burlington, has just one request for those con-sidering ghosting.

“Why can’t they step up and put their feelings out on the line? Just say you don’t like me,” said Vonlintel.

By DARBY CAMPBELLprogress@eku.edu

Ghosting: Answer to relationship woes?

Study abroad: It’s about the experience

STUDENTS RECALL TIMES THEY HAVE GHOSTED AND BEEN GHOSTED

Take a stroll through the Tower of London, visit the Book of Kells in Trinity University or stand where kings once stood in the Louvre Museum and take in the collec-tions of fine art. England, Ireland, Spain, France these are all places many people spend years dreaming about and saving up their nickels and dimes to visit.

These are also just a few of the places Eastern stu-dents can learn and live through study abroad programs. While it may seem that a semester or year abroad is too expensive, students may be surprised to learn how easily their dream could become reality.

In fact, it’s so easy that Nicole Wells, an English teach-ing graduate, was able to study abroad three times as an undergrad. Wells participated in one full semester abroad in Milan, Italy and two break experiences teach-ing in London and Spain. Study abroad programs are of-fered either for a full semester, an academic year, or short term over the summer and winter breaks. Internships are also available for students whose program requires it.

“People think study abroad is expensive, and it is, but Eastern offers a lot of great opportunities to get scholar-ships,” Wells said.

Students pay the same amount that they do for a se-mester at Eastern and can check with the financial aid office to see what aid may be available to them. After a student is accepted to a study abroad program they can apply for additional departmental scholarships. Schol-arship’s students already receive can be applied to their study abroad trip as well.

The application process is easier than it seems. East-ern offers nine program affiliates from which students can choose. These programs have applications that are accessible via Eastern’s education abroad website.

“You do have to apply, but they accept most people, mainly if you have the GPA requirements,” Wells said. “If you demonstrate that you are serious about it, then they will accept you.”

Even though studying abroad is like an extended va-cation, students won’t be set back academically. The vari-ous study abroad programs and locations provide a list of courses offered and all students need to do is match these courses with courses listed on their degree works. The average number of courses taken abroad is five, just like it is at Eastern, which keeps students on track to graduate. Courses can fulfill general education and major related course requirements.

Studying abroad is easier than it seems and provides students with educational opportunities that aren’t of-fered in Kentucky, or the United States.

“You have to be in these places to get involved in these

opportunities,” Wells said. During her semester in Milan, Wells participated in

Italian fashion week and had a professor that was the photographer for world renowned fashion designer Ar-mani.

“Travel allows you to open your mind and changes you as a person,” Wells said. “It’s not just taking classes, it’s the experience of it and all the benefits that come from that.”

Students interested in studying abroad can visit the Educational Abroad Office in the Keith Building, Room 129, or email ekuabroad@eku.edu for more information.

In less than a month the world of video games will be rocked by the release of Bethesda Entertainment’s Fallout 4, the newest game in the 18-year-old fran-chise of post nuclear apocalyptic role playing games.

So to celebrate this momentous occasion The Prog-ress is going to look at each main game in the Fran-chise, culminating with a review of the game the week it hits shelves. So without further ado, this is Fallout.

Fallout was released for Microsoft DOS and Mi-crosoft Windows on Sept. 30, 1997 by Interplay En-tertainment. At the time the studio was known for a number of hit games including Earthworm Jim, Neu-romancer (an adventure game based off the Hugo award winning novel of the same name by William Gibson), and the critically acclaimed Wasteland.

In many ways, Fallout is seen as the spiritual suc-cessor to Wasteland, both games took place in the southwestern United States after a global nuclear war wipes out civilization. However, where Wasteland de-picted a war between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

ending the world in 1998, Fallout had the conflict happen with the Chinese instead.

In Oct., 2077, nuclear war sent human civilization back to the Stone Age. The game takes place 84 years after the war. Players take on the role of the Vault Dweller and are tasked with scavenging the waste-land for a working water purification chip to replace the broken one in his or her home, the massive under-ground fallout shelter known as Vault 13.

Over the course of Vault Dweller’s adventure, play-ers travel across the blasted ruins of southern Cali-fornia. Their quest takes them to new settlements, abandoned vaults, cities made of scrap. They encoun-ter farmers trying to make an honest living, outlaws who seek to abuse the innocent and even survivors of the war who have mutated into zombie looking mon-strosities known as ghouls.

Eventually the player discovers a cult-army of hulking brutes called super-mutants, who like to be referred to as The Master. When The Master abducts the denizens of Vault 13, it is up to the player to trav-el to the ruins of Los Angeles and save their people.

Fallout was instantly heralded as one of the best RPGs ever made by the gaming press. Its quaint ru-ined 1950s atmosphere combined with its witty popu-lar culture nods made it a hit amongst gamers. Many

of whom still remembered the Cold War, and the very real threat of nuclear armageddon that loomed with it. With its success, a sequel was guaranteed, but that is a subject for next week.

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With a field featuring 17 nationally-ranked teams, six within the top-10, the Eastern men finished 14th at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational with a total of 418 points, putting the Colonels ahead of No. 4 Stanford (21st), No. 11 Wisconsin (17th), No.16 Indiana (16th) and No.19 Ole Miss (24th).

“It was good to beat some of the ranked teams that we did, but we still have a lot to do to get better for the upcoming meets,” Rick Erdmann, Head Coach of the Eastern Cross Country team said.

Freshman Erick Rotich led the way for the Colonels, finishing the 8K with a time of 23:55.8. Rotich came in 24th out of 244 runners. Rotich has received this week’s OVC Male Runner of the Week, an honor Rotich has been given four times this fall.

“I think Erick can be as good as he wants to be,” Erd-mann said. “He could be outstanding.”

To cap off the top-five runners for the Colonels, ju-nior Jamie Escriche finished 34th with a time of 24:04.0, junior Luis Luna finished 105th with a time of 24:48.5, Ambrose Maritim finished 115th with a time of 24:31.4 and Jamaine Coleman finished 140th with a time of 24:41.4.

Sophomore Ronald Korir (150th/ 24:44.6) and junior Luka Ndungu (156th/ 24:46.9) also competed.

After its performance last weekend, the Eastern men have earned the No. 22 ranking in the NCCA Division 1 National Cross Country Coaches’ Poll, jumping ahead of Stanford (No.23) and Wisconsin (No. 27).

The Eastern women traveled to Louisville to com-pete in the NCAA Pre-Nationals. The Eastern women finished 20th out of 45 competitors with 571 points, fin-ishing ahead of Texas (No. 27) and Cornell (No. 29).

Freshman Charlotte Imer led the Eastern women in the 6K with a time of 20:45.3, finishing 48th out of 311 competitors. Imer’s strong performance earned the freshman the OVC Female Runner of the Week award for the second time this fall.

Senior Anna Reddin finished 72nd with a time of 20:58.1, senior Julie Mathison finished 131st with a time of 21:19.9, junior Ann Tum finished in 164th with a time of 21:31.9 and senior Ashley Svec finished 176th with a time of 21:37.3 to complete the top-five runners for the Eastern women.

Sophomore Ciara Scott (227th/ 21:55.8) and junior Madison Zietz (284/ 22:29.3) also competed in Pre-Na-tionals.

The Eastern women are now ranked fourth in this week’s Southeast Region rankings.

Both Eastern Cross Country teams will take this weekend off before traveling to Murray to compete for the OVC Championships on October 31.

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The Colonels won its second game in a row, beating Eastern Illinois Panthers (3-11-2, 1-5-1 OVC) 3-0 in convincing fash-ion.

The Eastern (3-13, 3-5 OVC) defense has been stout as of late, surrendering just one goal in the last 272 minutes of play. Such play has helped the team con-trol its own destiny to make post-season play.

Senior mid-fielder Katie Bright got the Colonels going with a penalty kick in the 40th minute to take a 1-0 lead.

The Colonels did not let up, scoring in the 54th minute thanks to junior for-ward Cassie Smith, and again in the 78th

minute from freshman mid-fielder Bailey Bounds to seal the game.

The Colonels dominated in every as-pect, out-shooting the Panthers 16-5 and taking nine corner kicks to the Panthers one. Twenty-three Colonels saw action Friday during the win.

With the victory, the Colonels have placed itself sixth in the conference, with just three games left. The top-6 teams make the OVC Tournament.

Head Coach Andrew Fleming touted the teams surge as of late.

“We were fortunate today and caught a break or two,” Fleming said. “At the same time, these girls all worked very hard and were focused in both the at-tacking third and defensive third of the field. That type of effort will be absolutely essential 48 hours from now.”

Eastern could not continue the mo-mentum however, losing at Southern Il-linois University Edwardsville (5-8-3, 2-4-1 OVC) Sunday 1-0 on SIUE’s senior night.

The game was close throughout till SIUE sophomore forward Caroline Hoe-fert broke away for a score in the 77th minute to stun Eastern. The defense had been stellar up until that point, with sophomore goalkeeper Anna Hall mak-ing six saves.

The Cougars outshot the Colonels 13-10. Both teams attempted three corner kicks.

“We certainly played hard enough to win and created enough chances to win, but they were just better today,” Fleming said after the game.

SIUE is the defending Ohio Valley

Conference champions, but had only won just one conference game until its victory on Senior Night.

The loss was a tough one for the Col-onels, dropping Eastern to seventh in the conference. The Colonels are now on the outside looking in for the confer-ence tournament with only two games remaining.

At 3-5 in the conference, Eastern will need Southeast Missouri or UT Martin to lose a game before playing one anoth-er during the last game of the season. The Colonels will have to win its last two games, unless one of those two teams lose all three of its final games.

The Colonels will do what it can at 4 p.m. on Friday when Eastern hosts Bel-mont.

The men’s and women’s tennis teams finished their fall season at the 2015 Intercollegiate Tennis Associa-tion Regional Championships at the University of Ten-nessee.

In the singles draw, the men finished the weekend 6-9, while the women finished 0-6 against the region’s top competitors.

“We had a tough draw,” Head Coach Rob Oertel said, “but I believe our record is respectable--especial-ly for a tournament where so many teams are national-ly ranked.”

Assistant Coach Carles Pons said Florian Graskamp and Ramon van Flymen challenged top opponents in both main and consolation draws, leading the Colonels with 2-1 records.

“I can’t remember a time where the men’s team has played this well during regionals,” Pons said.

Graskamp defeated Sean Donohue of the University

of Louisville (6-4, 2-6) and Sunay Bhat of the University of Tennessee (7-6, 6-2) to compete in the semifinals of the Consolation B draw.

In what Oertel said is his best tournament perfor-mance of the year, van Flymen dominated top-seeded opponent Lucas Andersen of Ball State University (6-1, 6-3), in addition to defeating Michael Quang of the University of Louisville (7-5, 1-6, 6-3) during the singles main draw.

“Ramon obviously plays his best when the caliber is at its best,” Oertel said. “He rises to the occasion in stronger tournaments, which proves to me that he’s good under pressure.”

Senior Alex Álvaro defeated conference rival Bel-mont University to finish 1-1 in singles play, while ju-nior Diogo Soares completed the tournament with a 1-2 record.

Both the men’s and women’s teams lost all doubles matches with 0-3 records, losing to top-ranked compet-itors from the University of Dayton and University of Tennessee.

Eastern’s women also finished the tournament with

an 0-6 record in singles play, though Oertel said no loss was a bad loss.

“The level of competition is extremely high at region-als,” Oertel said. “UT Martin was the only other school from our conference even competing in the tourna-ment.”

Oertel said that although the women’s team is still rebuilding after losing many valuable players to gradu-ation, he is optimistic that after this year’s recruitment the women’s team will compete in its fifth consecutive conference finals during the team season.

Because regionals is the last tournament of Eastern’s individual season, the next two months will be spent with extremely limited practice time until the team sea-son begins.

After the extended break, the men’s team will begin what Oertel said is “the best schedule in the history of EKU men’s tennis” on January 15 against the University of Kentucky, quickly followed by a visit to the reigning national champions, University of Virginia.

“Our program continues to improve,” Oertel said. “This spring will be a very exciting time for the Eastern

athletes won’t trust you,” Ryan said.Jazmin Holbrook, a student trainer working un-

der Ryan this semester, said Ryan has taught her a lot about keeping the dynamics of the training room pro-fessional.

“I love Jake,” Holbrook said. “I would work with Jake for the next three years if I could.”

Assistant Athletic Trainer Tara Bailey, who was hired at the beginning of the 2015 academic year, said working under Ryan has been a huge learning experi-

ence.“It’s kind of a blessing to have Jake as my first boss.

He has been a real help guiding and mentoring me in my first position,” Bailey said.

Although he says his workload is heavier than be-fore, Ryan can still be found at every men’s basketball practice—including those at 6 a.m..

“I have only missed two practices in my entire ca-reer,” Ryan said. “One when I was sick and one when I was snowed in and couldn’t get there.”

Ryan said that when the permanent role of sports medicine director is posted, he plans on applying.

“I love my job,” Ryan said. “I don’t think I can sit be-hind a desk or work in a cubicle every day, I love travel-ing and getting to know people.”

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more valuable than testing yourself against an actual team.When you watch Eastern play, you get the feeling this

team has the potential to be playing well past November 21st. There’s something special about seeing the way the team plays; it’s a Colonels team we haven’t seen in a while

It’s easy to look into the future, but of course the main objective for the Colonels is to look at the next team on the calendar. Eastern will worry about the tough upcom-ing conference play when it gets to it. For now, Eastern’s sights are set on staying unbeaten at home this season and that dream is still possible with a win on Saturday against Tennessee State.

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During the first quarter of play, Eastern fell behind 7-0 to Southeast Missouri (2-5, 1-2 OVC) in Cape Girardeau, Mo., but then outscored the Redhawks 27-3 the rest of the game to take a 27-10 victory.

The Colonels (4-2, 3-0 OVC) more than doubled South-east Missouri in offensive production, earning 404 total offensive yards to just 191 for the Redhawks. Senior tight end Ben Madon led all receivers with six receptions for 117 yards. Eastern freshman running back Ethan Thomas led all rushers with four carries for 57 yards. Adam Lane add-ed a 6-yard touchdown run at the beginning of the second quarter.

The No. 14 ranked Colonels entered the locker room at halftime locked in a 10-10 tie, but just three minutes and 38 seconds into the third quarter, Eastern quarterback Bennie Coney found redshirt junior running back Bryan Green on a 29-yard touchdown pass to take a 17-10 lead.

“I think our kids did a great job,” Eastern Head Football Coach Dean Hood said. “It takes energy either way. It takes energy to have faith when things aren’t looking real good

and it takes energy to have negative thoughts wen things aren’t going real good.”

Green hauled in four catches for 82 yards and one touchdown during the win. The University of Akron transfer has made his impact felt so far as a Colonel, scor-ing in two consecutive weeks. Both touchdowns have come through the air.

Eastern’s defensive unit held its ground almost all af-ternoon, allowing just 31 rushing yards and 160 passing yards to Southeast Missouri. The Colonels only gave up 52 yards of offense during the second half. Eastern’s defense came up with three Redhawk sacks, and junior defensive end Noah Spence accounted for 1.5 of those sacks, along with seven tackles.

Spence’s play earned OVC Defensive Player of the Week and the Ohio State transfer has recorded at least one sack in every game this season. Spence is ranked fourth nation-ally in tackles-for-loss, averaging 2.0 a game. Spence also ranks fourth nationally with an average of 1.17 sacks per game. Last week the D-end was added to the Player of the Year watch list.

Coney effectively put the game out of reach at the be-ginning of the fourth quarter by connecting with his se-

nior wideout Joel Brown on a 7-yard touchdown pass and catch. The touchdown gave Eastern a 24-10 lead over the Redhawks.

Coney continued his stellar play, completing 20 of 29 passes for 275 yards and two touchdowns. Coney gained 34 rushing yards on nine carries. In Coney’s last four games, the junior has accumulated 1,070 passing yards and 10 touchdown throws. During the 4-game span, Co-ney is averaging 267.5 passing yards and 2.5 touchdown tosses a game.

Colonel sophomore kicker Lucas Williams went 2 for 3 on field goal attempts, converting from 27 and 32 yards. Williams’ lone miss came on a 41-yard attempt during the fourth quarter. Williams has made 7 of 8 field goal attempts this season and is a perfect 5 for 5 inside of 40 yards.

During Eastern’s four victories this season, the Colo-nels have outscored its opponents by a staggering 178-50 margin.

Eastern will be back in action for Homecoming, as the Colonels face Tennessee State (3-3, 0-3 OVC) at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, in Roy Kidd Stadium.

A yell echoes through the practice gym of Alum-ni Coliseum. Interim Director of Sports Medicine Jake Ryan immediately shoots his head up, stopping his ongoing conversation with strength and condition-ing coach Jon-Michael Davis to mend redshirt junior JaVonte Hawkins’s muscle cramp.

Despite the triviality of muscle cramps, Ryan treats every injury like one would be a broken bone; ask-ing how the player feels and exercising the wounded area. Ryan is expected to care for every student-athlete whether it be torn ACL or dislocated shoulder.

“I enjoy interacting with athletes and watching them succeed, but above all my job is to keep them healthy for life,” Ryan said.

Ryan said he works closely with coaches, team doc-tors, and students-athletes to ensure that each player gets as much help as possible.

“Communication is key,” Ryan said. “I try to email a report to the coaches every morning and speak with them before or after practice about specific players.”

Athletic training, Ryan said, has as much to do with psychology as anatomy. Though anatomy is used to lo-cate the injury, trainers must have the ability to know the person injured and what works best for them.

“I have to treat the athlete as much as the injury,” Ryan said. “An injury may hurt more to some athletes

than others and I have to make sure I keep that in mind while treating them.”

An Eastern grad, Ryan learned the importance of mentality while earning his master’s degree in sports psychology at Murray State University.

After earning his master’s, Ryan worked for two years as a trainer for the Bluefield Orioles, a minor league team who were, at the time, affiliated with the Baltimore Orioles. Ryan said that although he loved his time with the Orioles, working in professional baseball any longer would have caused him to stop enjoying the sport.

He then spent his following years at Concord Uni-versity and Georgetown College before arriving at Eastern in 2011.

Though Ryan is in his fourth year at Eastern, he has only held the position of Interim Director of Sports Medicine since late July. In addition to being the men’s basketball trainer, Ryan now overlooks all sports, schedules meetings with doctors and athletic perfor-mance teams and handles athletes’ health insurance, bills, and claims.

He also works closely with two student trainers studying in the athletic training program every se-mester, helping them get hands on experience working with student-athletes.

“I always tell them if you can’t tape an ankle, the

After dropping three matches in a row, the Colonels made a state-ment by grabbing two wins on the road last weekend.

Taking on Jacksonville State (11-15, 2-6 OVC) on Friday, Eastern (5-18, 3-4 OVC) took control early af-ter grabbing an impressive 25-15 win in the first set. The Gamecocks tied the second set late at 20 points apiece, but senior middle blocker Rachel Vick broke the tie with a kill and propelled the Colonels to a 25-22 victory.

Eastern went on to win the third set 25-14, giving the Colonels its third 3-0 win of the season. The Colonels had a season-best .303

hitting percentage, led by Vick and Johanna Boyer with 10 kills each.

The match went down as East-ern’s first road victory this season.

The Colonels then headed north to Cookeville, Tennessee to bat-tle inter-conference foe Tennessee Tech (5-16, 3-5 OVC).

Tied at eight points, Eastern scored six unanswered and pulled away from the Golden Eagles with a 14-8 lead. The Colonels went on to take the set 25-18, though Tech battled back with a 25-16 win in the second set.

Coming out of the intermission, neither team could grab a solid ad-vantage in the third set. The Col-onels led 20-17 late, though TTU tried to mount a comeback and tied the set at 20 apiece. Eastern wasn’t

fazed and eventually took the set 25-21, carrying the momentum with them into the deciding fourth set. The Colonels controlled the set and cruised to a 25-17 victory, ulti-mately winning the match 3-1.

Vick once again led the way for Eastern with 14 kills and three aces, with Boyer and Celina Sanks con-tributing 12 and 10 kills respective-ly.

The Colonels make its way back to Alumni Coliseum this week-end with two big OVC games on the line. Eastern will once again face Tennessee Tech on Friday and Jacksonville State on Saturday with both games beginning at 7 p.m.

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Colonel defensive back Jordan Whitfiled (36) goes airborne to bring down a SEMO ball carrier during EKU’s 27- 10 win over the Redhawks.

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Not many teams can say they’ve been battled test-ed like the Colonels have been to this point this sea-son.

Blowout wins, a heartbreaking loss, and an OVC test on the road against SEMO that ended with a 27-10 victory; this team has seen it all.

While a 6-0 record would be nice, 4-2 has never felt better. Two losses have given the Colonels much di-rection as to where the team needed to improve and its done nothing but get better with each game.

While there are key players like Noah Spence and Bennie Coney gaining national recognition for their performance, Eastern’s success goes much deeper than that.

There’s a sense of unity on the field and in the lock-er room. No one is allowing their ego to get in the way of their performance and it’s allowing the team to function as a cohesive unit. The offense and defense are putting out great numbers each week and have proven that if anyone in the OVC is going to challenge Jacksonville State for the number one spot, it’s them.

The team isn’t unstoppable, however. Just like any-one else, they still make unnecessary mistakes that can feed right into its opponent’s hands. But since Eastern is playing as strong as it is, the Colonels have grown to the point that it now understands how to re-bound off its own mistakes and stay in the game.

The competition level has been picking up and the Colonels numbers continue to rise and impress. A lot of this can be attributed to great coaching and players that are willing to take the coaching and listen.

Every game is a must win, when playing at the sto-ried Hanger Field, but homecoming this weekend is its most important home game so far this season. Tennessee State (3-3, 0-3 OVC) will by no means be Eastern’s toughest opponent this season, but there’s no doubt the Colonels will be playing like they are.

Tennessee State will be Eastern’s last test before it plays the No. 1 team in the nation, Jacksonville State. Yes, the team will be preparing through practice all week before heading off to Alabama, but nothing is

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