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HOPE sells hand-painted bowls to raise money to combat domestic violence.
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RUNNING OVER RECORDS
Madden seeks presidency, Midwestern atmosphere By Stephanie MarkhamNews Editor | @stephm202
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles profiling each of the four finalists in the search for Eastern’s next president.
Having gone back and forth be-tween the Midwest and the East Coast for her entire academic and professional career, Margaret Mad-den said she is ready for another move back to the former.
“Without getting too stereotypical about people in different parts of the country, there is a kind of work eth-ic and character and appreciation -- things that I like about Midwestern-ers,” she said.
Madden, the provost and vice pres-ident for academic affairs at the Uni-versity of Potsdam in New York since 2002, is one of four finalists in the search for Eastern’s next president.
She is from Glen Ellyn, a west Chi-cago suburb, and got her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Uni-versity of Wisconsin Madison.
She said several of her older broth-ers and sisters went to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, so she is familiar with that area of the state.
“I think one of the reasons I decid-ed to go to Wisconsin was just to be different,” Madden said.
She also got a master’s and doc-torate degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She got her first job teaching psy-chology at Franklin Pierce University in southern New Hampshire, where
she worked for 11 years.“Part way through my time there
I started to do some administrative work, to be on some committees, co-
ordinate an accreditation self study, and so on, and I also discovered that I like that too,” Madden said.
After doing some part-time ad-
ministration work, Madden said she wanted to see what other possibilities were available, which was when she went back to the Midwest to be the
associate dean of faculty and teach at Lawrence University in Wisconsin for six years.
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMargaret Madden answers questions posed by faculty members during one of the open forum sessions in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union on Jan. 21.
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Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge
The retail store he worked at had a rule, anyone that looks suspicious and goes into the back of the store must be followed—it’s called “Watch him.”
Chris Johnson, a senior market-ing major, said LaCoste, the French clothing store, had an initiative that seemed more like an “unwritten law,” of racial profiling.
For example, if three different couples walked into the store: an Af-rican-American, Caucasian and La-tino, the African-American couple would be approached immediately.
They would be asked if they want-ed to buy anything. Johnson said this happened because some believed African-Americans go into stores without buying anything, and as a result where scared out of the store.
Johnson’s testimonial was one of many during the Alpha Phi Alpha “Life of a Black Man” event Mon-day evening, which discussed the average day of an African-Ameri-can male dealing with racial profil-ing and stereotypes, as well as cau-tious attitudes.
Students who participated also played an interactive Jeopardy with questions regarding African-Ameri-
can History. Johnson said the same racial pro-
filing would happen to the Latino
couple and the Caucasians, but not to the extent of the others, because of ethnic minorities stereotypes.
“It’s sad. I really didn’t want to go into work sometimes because of how messed up it (was),” Johnson said.
He said he has not worked at the retail store for two years now.
His story is only one of millions that African-American men face in regards to stereotypes.
Historically, African-American men have been portrayed as inher-ently aggressive, uneducated and hy-persexual.
Johnson said it’s not right to treat humans differently based on their ethnicities.
He said it’s ridiculous how some are watched more carefully than oth-ers because of something as small as a color difference.
Many students felt African-Amer-icans were no longer able to rely on police officers because of how they have either been treated in the past, or what has been said via word-of-mouth.
Some questioned what to do when the protector becomes the ag-gressor, and questioned who they can turn to if the police are no lon-ger trustworthy.
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Shamerea Richards, a senior communication studies major, suggests that students learn their basic rights when dealing with law enforcement Monday during “Life of a Black Man” in the auditorium of Coleman Hall.
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The Council on Academic Affairs met briefly last week. The members did not act upon any items, but they moved four course revisions to be discussed during the next meeting on Thursday.
The first course is GEG 3070, geogra-phy and culture of Mexico, Central Amer-ica and Caribbean. The course looks at the landscape of these places, how fast the re-gion is developing and at the descendants of the region’s ancient civilizations.
According to the report, the proposed revision will not have any impact upon the course except for trying to improve enroll-ment in the class.
The next course would be GEG 3080, which is geography and culture of South America. Similar to GEG 3070, the only difference is that this class focuses on the descendants of both Spanish and Portu-guese conquerors, as well as looks at people from African, European and Asian origins.
According to the report, the proposed revision is similar to the one for GEG 3070, saying that the added online course will be offered through the School of Con-tinuing Education and will be limited to off campus students.
The third course up for revision is KSS 3700, psychological foundations of coach-ing. Unlike the other three courses, KSS 3700 is proposing a revision in order to avoid confusion with KSS 4326, psychoso-cial aspects of physical activity.
In the proposal, the revision would be applied to mostly towards the course learn-ing objectives to avoid any confusion with other KSS courses.
The fourth course up for revision is KSS 3860, organization and administration in exercise science. This course revision, like many of the other revisions on the agenda, will keep the course the same.
In the report, the only thing that the re-vision is asking for is to enable online de-livery for the course. This will make it easi-er for the course to be available to students that are off-campus.
The council will meet at 3 p.m. Thurs-day in Room 4440 of Booth Library.
Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812
MACKENZIE FREUND | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKelly McCleary, a junior family and consumer sciences major, and Chloe Castillo, a sophomore marketing major, spend time studying for tests on Monday in the bubble room in the Andrews Hall lobby.
By Cassie BuchmanCity Editor|@DEN_News
The City Council will have a brief meeting to discuss the dis-closure of the minutes of previ-ous closed meetings, and el im-inat ing o ld recordings at 6 :30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Scott Smith, the city manag-er of Charleston, said the coun-cil reviews closed meeting min-utes every six months, and it is “just the time of year” when they approve these minutes.
The I l l inoi s Open Meet ings Act requires that both closed and open meetings must have written minutes.
The council will review a reso-lution to make sure it is no lon-ger necessary to protect the pub-lic interest or privacy of any in-dividuals, and to no longer have to keep it confidential.
I f p a s s e d , t h i s r e s o l u t i o n would be put into effect immedi-ately and be fully enforced.
City Council will also discuss
the destruction of video and au-dio recordings of closed session meetings.
This will mean the closed ses-sion footage will be destroyed if it is older than 18 months old.
The I l l inoi s Open Meet ings Act also states that governmen-tal bodies such as Charleston’s City Council are required to take audio or video records of their closed meetings.
The act a l lows these govern-mental bodies to destroy the re-cords of c losed meetings i f the footage is over 18 months old.
The meetings for which the re-cords will be determined wheth-er to be destroyed include Jan. 2, 2013, Feb. 5, 2013, March 5, 2013 and June 4, 2013.
A raffle license for a benefit at Lefty's Holler at 727 Seventh St. will also be addressed. The ben-efit is to raise funds for Marga-ret Carpenter’s last medical ex-penses.
In order to have th i s ra f f l e , the benef i t needs to acquire a
permit, give it to the city clerk, and get it approved by the coun-cil. Our Hope for Others will be hosting the benefit.
The date of the alleged raffle chance sale commencement will be Feb. 4. The winner of the raf-fle will be notified on Feb. 28.
Smith sa id the meet ing wi l l be a “one vote , consent agen-da meeting,” and that the coun-cil “knew the meeting would be l ight,” because of the way they scheduled it.
Part of the reason it is sched-uled this way is that the city is currently in the middle of their budgeting process.
Many of the items to be dis-cussed were also talked about at the last meeting.
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The Housing, Outreach, Prevention, and Education of East Central Illinois will be having their 11th annual Bowls of HOPE dinner. A dinner to help raise money for the organization, on Tues-day, Feb. 17.
The fundraiser will be 5 to 7 p.m. in St. Charles Borromeo Church at 921 Madison Ave. in Charleston.
The night will consist of a soup din-ner, live music, and the chance for at-tendees to bring home a bowl hand-made by a local artist.
Althea Pendergast, the executive di-rector of HOPE, said Bowls for HOPE is an annual event, created to raise
funds for various programs in the pre-vention of domestic violence.
These programs include a 24-hour hotline, legal advising, public education and more.
“Artists have donated bowls, (we will) have soup, dessert and an auction during the evening,” Pendergast said.
The auction will consist of more bowls donated by the artists.
Pendergast said in previous years, they have had up to about 200 people attend.
“It ends up being something the county looks forward to,” she said.
Pendergast said she anticipates the turnout being the same this year.
The idea for Bowls of HOPE came from a HOPE board member from
years ago, who created pottery pieces. “It was a great way for artists to sup-
port (us) here at HOPE,” Pendergast said. “It has continued to grow since then.”
Along with raising money for dif-ferent programs, Bowls of HOPE also spreads awareness about HOPE and what they do.
“I hope (people who come to BOWLS of HOPE will) learn a little bit more about what they’re attending,” said Pendergast. “(I also) hope they’ll enjoy an evening of good food and good entertainment.”
She said she would like for peo-ple who attend the fundraiser to think about stopping violence in the Charles-ton community.
Cost of entry and dinner will be $5. To receive a dinner and a handcrafted bowl, attendees will have to pay $15.
“If there are artists out there who’d like to donate bowls, we still need some,” she said. “(This is) an opportu-nity for students to help as well.”
Tickets will be available at the night of Bowls of HOPE at the door, or peo-ple can reserve them by calling the HOPE center.
More information can be found on HOPE’s website, www.hope-eci.org, or on their Facebook page.
Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812
HOPE to bring dinner, artistic bowls
FILE PHOTO| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS An attendee of Bowls of Hope scrapes the last remains of a bowl of soup with a slice of bread on Feb. 25, 2014 in the St. Charles Borromeo Church. An assortment of soups and hand-crafted bowls were made available to each participant. A dessert auction took place directly after dinner.
By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge
EIUnity will be hosting its seventh an-nual Diversity Conference at 8:30 a.m. Friday on the third floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
James B. Griffin, the diversity confer-ence coordinator, said this year’s theme for the conference is “Hear No Stereo-types. See No Oppression. Speak No Dis-respect.” He said the conference will give students an opportunity to learn about groups that are different from their own through more than 15 workshops and topics.
Three Safezone trainings by the LG-BTQA Advisory Committee and a free luncheon for Eastern students faculty/staff and administration would be just a few of the sessions at the conference.
Griffin said the conference planning begins as early as October, which is com-prised of a group of student leaders from across campus who have the passion and commitment to diversity and can help with the planning and implementation of the conference.
He said the goal of the conference is to have those participating leave with an understanding on a subject they had no prior knowledge about before attending, which is why he wants everyone to come with an open mind.
“We are a diverse campus and students interact with individuals of many differ-ent races, cultures, ethnicities, orientations and this conference gives them the oppor-tunity to learn about these differences and dispel any stereotypes or prejudices they may have,” Griffin said.
Griffin said the conference is free to at-tend with three or four workshops hap-pening every hour. Participants must reg-ister online prior to coming to the event on the Minority Affairs Office website.
Roberto Hodge can breached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Diversity forumto look at opression
African-American Heritage Month, like other ideas and concepts of the past such as slavery, are outdated and should not be used or celebrated in a first world society like the United States.
These months supposedly celebrating a culture or race hinder the spread and under-standing of that culture. Having an entire culture or races history relegated to a month is backwards thought process.
So many sti l l think of these types of months as a beneficial way in which to sup-port or celebrate a race or culture, but it does not make sense. Why is a person’s heritage given only one month?
The original inception of Negro History Week that would later be expanded to Black History Month (African-American Histo-ry Month) created in order to promote the teachings and accomplishments of African-Americans is our society and history.
This has continued to be one of the many reasons people have supported these types of months. This argument has little weight though. Instead of having just one month to cram information about a person’s history, we should just be incorporating those celebrated
in these months into the regular curriculum. From the mere inception of this month,
one could assume African-American history is different from U.S. history, which everyone is taught well into high school.
African-American history is U.S. histo-ry. There is no reason their history should be separated from U.S. history. African-Ameri-cans along with the several other races and ethnicities that have built this country should appear and be an integral part in what is taught in regular history classes instead of sti-fling them separately to a month.
This can also be said for such months as Women’s History Month, Hispanic-American Heritage Month, and Asian-American Heri-tage Month. These months are hindering the education of successful people of a certain race, gender or ethnicity.
Given a month, there is less pressure to teach children about the accomplishments made by certain social groups in the U.S. Each one, in a sense, is given table scraps. Even if these months solely exist to celebrate each individual ethnicity, gender or race, it still would not make sense.
The existence of these months has a glar-
ing issue. Not every social group is repre-sented in a month. The most notable groups would include White or European-Ameri-cans, and men.
Of course, history on both of these groups is discussed at length in history textbooks, but if there are to be months for each specific group, why is there not one for these groups?
Also, does this mean groups like these get the rest of the year? Is there such a thing as Caucasian-American History Months.
Why do certain races get more months or do not get more months? These questions alone tear apart any sense for the existence of these months.
Instead of giving them a month, those Af-rican-Americans who achieved so much in the U.S., along with those apart of every oth-er race, ethnicity or gender should be repre-sented in our textbooks and society on the day-to-day.
Summing up one person’s past into a month is insulting and backwards.
If you keep up with the annual tour-ing concert festival of The Vans Warped Tour and their weekly announcement of bands, then you are aware of the recent announcement.
If you do not keep up, then you missed rap artist Riff Raff being announced to be a main stage act on the entire tour that runs from June 19 to August 8.
Warped Tour is usually known to fea-ture artists from many genres, but the recent announcement of Riff Raff seemed to upset people on the internet.
A petition was created to remove him from the tour this year on change.org, and has reached 980 signatures as of Sun-day night. The petition reads, “He doesn’t belong, him being in this years line up is nothing more than a joke. If he remains on the line up, a lot of people will not attend.”
But who is to say that one artist does
not belong on a tour whose sole purpose is to introduce different artists to new audiences?
A simple solution to those who do not want to see Riff Raff would be to just see a different band perform, but there are people who truly believe that an artist of a different genre should be removed just because they do not like their music.
Warped tour is meant to be diverse and people should learn to be open to differ-ent genres of music.
This is not the first time the tour has brought in artists that do not fit the typi-cal genres of pop punk or hardcore music that recent crowds are used to seeing. Warped Tour has featured artists such as D12, G-Eazy, Katy Perry, MGK, and the list goes on from there.
The tour is not new to this, but some people still believe that only the music they like should be at the festival which features more than 100 different bands and artists yearly.
With that many bands, there is a
chance that there will be one artist or band you will not like, and the best thing to do in that situation is focus on the art-ists you want to see.
I am not a fan of the hardcore genre, which is a main feature of the tour, but I am not starting a petition to remove every band in the genre because that would do nothing.
Music festivals, such as this one, are meant to bring audiences together to just enjoy live music, instead of creating hate. I have never seen Riff Raff before, and I do not even listen to rap music often, but you can guarantee that I will attempt to be front row for him at Warped Tour this year.
Chris Picazo can be reached at 581-2812
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Still walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland
Most people who wear make up are incredibly selfish.
It’s not that wanting to look pretty makes you a bad person. By all means, look pretty.
However, there is absolutely no rea-son why innocent animals have to suffer through cosmetics testing just so anoth-er species can adhere to some artificial stan-dard of beauty.
But again, nothing is wrong with wear-ing make up if a person wants to. Everyone has the right to try to express on the out-side the way they feel on the inside, and make up can help some people do that.
Applying make up can be a form of art for some and even a career for others.
The real problem lies in the ethical dilemma of supporting companies that test on animals.
And by these standards, those of you who use soap, shampoo, deodorant and laundry detergent are incredibly selfish too, because the majority of those companies also conduct chemical tests on animals.
According to the Humane Society of the United States, thousands of mice, guinea pigs, rats and rabbits suffer and die in these tests each year in the U.S.; pain relief is rarely provided and the animals are always killed at the end of each test.
For example, eye irritation/corrosion tests subject rabbits to chemicals being applied to their eyes, which may result in redness, bleeding, ulcers, blindness or fur-ther damage.
Acute oral toxicity tests subject rats to substances forced down their throats, and may result in diarrhea, convulsions, bleed-ing from the mouth, seizures, paralysis and/or death.
Someone in support of animal testing might say, “Yeah, that sucks,” but it’s better it happens to them than to a human.
I’m not going to philosophically argue anyone on that, mostly because I don’t have the attention span to do so.
But there is a way to have these beauty products and bypass the cruelty using the power of everybody’s favorite thing—mon-ey.
If you think animal testing is garbage, use your power as a consumer to speak your mind. Spend 10 minutes on the Internet to research companies that do not test on ani-mals before going to the store, and look for cruelty-free labels on products, instead of allowing them to profit on those practices.
Most people I know disagree with me on the issue of raising animals for meat con-sumption.
I know, I know. You want your bacon. I’ve heard it a thousand times.
But if you’ve got any empathy at all, I think you’d agree that harming, kill-ing and oppressing animals for something as frivolous as mascara or cologne is not only unethical, but it’s a waste—a waste of resources (if you want to call animals that) and a waste of life.
Stephanie Markham is a junior journalism major can be reachedat 581-2812
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By Lynette JacksonStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
Since 1935, the Count Basie Or-chestra has been performing at ma-jor jazz festivals, and for its 80th anniversary the group will be play-ing at Eastern’s 56th annual jazz festival.
The festival will include both a performance from the Count Basie Orchestra and the EIU Jazz En-semble at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doud-na Fine Arts Center.
The EIU Jazz Ensemble will also perform Saturday afternoon under the direction of Sam Fagaly, the director of jazz studies at Eastern, and the performance will include solos from members of the Count Basie Orchestra.
Pianist William James “Count” Basie started the orchestra in Kan-sas City, Missouri, and within a year the group was played on pop-ular radio throughout the county, according to a press release.
Musicians such as Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Frank Foster, Thad Jones, Snooky Young and Joe Wil-liams became international stars af-ter working with the orchestra, ac-cording to the release.
The concert will feature the EIU Jazz Ensemble’s take on modern and old musical favorites.
This tradition has been in place for more than 50 years to bring music and clinics to students.
Dan Crews, the director of pa-tron services for Doudna, said about 20 to 30 groups of high school and junior high school stu-dents are expected to watch the
performance on Saturday.“They bring students here for a
intensive day on Saturday, just like friendly competition among the students and schools,” Crews said. “Each of the schools are critiqued and each of the players get to spend time with some profession-als jazz educators and players and who are come in from all around
the Midwest.”Members from the Count Basie
Orchestra, jazz professionals and Eastern faculty will give the stu-dents lessons and tools to improve their musical skills, he said.
Willie Morris, a freshman music major and saxophone player, said some of the pieces that will be fea-tured are Dizzy Gillespie’s “Birks’
Works” and Bob Mintzer’s “Mosa-ic.”
David Perez, a senior music ma-jor and saxophonist, said the festi-val is a good time for jazz faculty to talk to perspective students.
Lulia Lonescu, a sophomore sax-ophone player and music major, said she has never seen the Count Basie Orchestra, but she said she
thinks the group is fantastic and she aspires to play like them.
Tickets for the event are $20 for the general audience and $10 for students and can be purchased on-line or at Doudna’s box office.
Lynette Jackson can be reached at 581-2812
or at [email protected].
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By Debby HernandezStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
The biological sciences department presented the first candidate for a new biology professor, who hosted a seminar on his research and goals Monday.
Thomas Canam, a biology profes-sor, said the department is looking for someone with experience teaching ge-netics and plant physiology.
Osman Radwan is currently a visit-ing professor from the University of Illi-nois Urbana-Champaign with 10 years of experience in biological sciences.
He also performed postdoctoral re-search assistance at the university from 2007 to 2012.
Radwan began his career in Egypt, where he was a professor at Zagazig
University.He came to the U.S. in 2005 from
Egypt because of the broader oppor-tunities and support in biological re-search.
“I grew up in a small village in Egypt, and this is why I was very inter-ested (to learn) about plant disease and how a plant response to disease, and how a plant controls (it),” Radwan said.
He said his passion for biology de-veloped around his high school years when he decided to attend an agricul-tural school and do plant research.
Radwan received his doctorate in molecular plant pathology in Blaise Pas-cal University in France.
He obtained his master’s and bache-lor’s degrees in Egypt.
He has performed lectures in molec-ular biology of microbe-plant interac-tions and plant genomics.
One of his goals for Eastern is to teach genetics and plant molecular bi-ology.
Radwan said Eastern’s small student to faculty ratio allows for a “good inter-action.”
“The classroom is more important to interact with students,” he said. “I like the opportunity.”
Another goal is to establish a good research program for undergraduate and graduate students and do research with them, he said.
Radwan has been an adviser for 14 undergraduate and three graduate stu-dents.
He would also like to continue his
research toward “discovering genes and genetic mechanisms underlying biolog-ically and economically important traits to crop producers,” according to his re-sume.
Radwan has obtained various trav-el awards such as the soybean precision genomics workshop in Columbia, Mis-souri in 2013, and was an invited vis-iting scholar in Canadian Government Laboratories in 2004.
Requirements for the position of a new biology faculty member include having evidence of academic accom-plishment and experience and necessary background to develop new courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Other requirements include having research with the potential to attract both undergraduate and graduate stu-
dents and demonstrate possible effec-tive mentoring of students involved in research.
Canam said two more candidates are expected to visit.
He said the final decision will be made by the end of February while the candidate will be contacted in mid-March.
The new faculty member would be-gin their position possibly around Au-gust at the beginning of the fall semes-ter.
The next candidate will present their seminar at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the Buzzard Auditorium.
Debby Hernandez can be reached at 581-2812
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Then, she said she ended up back on the East Coast at Long Is-land University for three years un-til she landed her current job at Potsdam.
Madden said she started study-ing psychology thinking she would be a counselor or clinical psychologist, but soon discovered more opportunities for research in social psychology.
“I was like a lot of psychology students,” she said. “People told me I was good with people.”
She said the women’s studies program was just beginning as she
started her master’s, and she fell in love with that area, eventually writing on gender issues in high-er education.
Madden said her research into the subject has become somewhat like peeling an onion as she digs into multiple layers.
“Gender has an influence on everybody, and it interacts with other types of variables like race or ethnicity or sexual orientation,” she said. “So when you think about the way that there may be different expectations for wom-en and men, you have to go a lit-
tle bit deeper and also think about whether there are different expec-tations for women of color versus white women and so on.”
Madden said her studies have influenced her style as a leader be-cause she likes to focus on collab-oration and is interested in solving complex problems.
She said she was impressed with Eastern’s campus when she visited for her interviews.
“It’s very attractive,” she said. “You’ve got buildings that come from a number of different eras, but they all sort of fit together.”
She said if she were selected to be president of Eastern, she would focus on looking for opportuni-ties to raise funds for student pro-grams, internships and other sup-plements to regular education, seeing as she was very involved in research as an undergraduate stu-dent and worked to increase such opportunities at Potsdam.
“I want to be with Eastern as it moves to the next level of excel-lence,” she said.
Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or sa-
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Such was the case for Tionna Alderson, a senior communica-tions major.
Alderson believes the fear Afri-can-Americans may have for the police have now been replaced with distrust.
Reginald Thedford, a se-nior political science major, said “Black men don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore.”
Thedford said when he and Philip Love, a junior political sci-ence major, were in Chicago they were stopped and searched by two officers.
“It could easily go from 1-10, you’re dead or arrested,” said Thedford.
Johnson said being an African-American male has its ups and downs.
He said an uplifting edge comes from successful minorities
and by breaking barriers or ste-reotypes; but it is sometimes hard to approach others.
“We’re automatically looked at as being negative,” Thedford said.
There is also the burden of representation that many Afri-can-Americans feel, he said.
Tavia Fuqua, a senior sociolo-gy major, said she sees the strug-gles African-American men have to go through on a daily basis.
“When they step outside, they play a role associated to them by society,” Fuqua said.
Fuqua said it hurts her feel-ings when she hears or sees how African-Americans are seen in a bad light. She questioned how other cultures would feel if they saw their people being killed ev-eryday.
The solution needs to have more love for one another, faith
in God, education and positiv-ity as a possible solution. With-out God people cannot move forward, without education, one cannot distinguish right from wrong, and without love, one
cannot form an appreciation for others, Fuqua said.
Roberto Hodge can be reached at 581-2812
CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Kevin Greaves, a freshman physics major, answer a question during “Life of a Black Man” in the Coleman auditorium.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2015 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | SPORTS 7
By Bob ReynoldsSports Editor|@BobReynoldsDEN
The Eastern women’s tennis team got its first win of the season on Saturday as it defeated Dayton 4-3 in Terre Haute, Ind.
Junior Ali Foster and Sophomore Han-nah Kimbrough picked up wins in singles matches to seal the victory for the Pan-thers and coach John Blackburn was most impressed with that.
“Ali Foster and Hannah Kimbrough’s three set wins in singles that clinched the team win for us were great efforts ,” he said. “They both showed a lot of physi-cal and mental toughness in long match-es, which is a positive sign early in the sea-son.”
In the No. 4 singles match Foster de-feated Jackie Kawamoto in three sets, 7-6, 4-6,
6 -4 and Kimbrough de f ea t ed Ka t i e Shepherd in three sets as well, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2.
In the final winning singles match for the Panthers , Kel ly Iden defeated Alex Townsend in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1 in the No 2. match.
Grace Summers, Sephora Boulbahaiem and Kamile Stadalninkaite were all defeat-ed in singles matches.
In the No. 1 match, Marlys Bridgham defeated Summers, 6-3,6-4.
In the No. 3 match Carly Peck defat-ed Boulbahaiem, 6-1,6-3. In the No. 5 match, Mandy Marchant defeated Standal-ninkaite, 7-6,7-5.
In the three double’s matches the Pan-thers won the first two and the last match was not completed.
The duo of Boulbahaiem and Summers defeated Bridgham and Marchant, 6-4. In the No. 2 doubles match Foster and Kim-brough defeated Peck and Shepherd.
The match of Iden and Stadalninkaite against Kawamoto and Townsend did not finish.
In last week’s match the Panthers lost 6-1 against Indiana and the Panthers were defeated in every match but one.
Grace Summers won her singles match and that was it for the Panthers.
With the different results in the past two weeks, Blackburn thinks his team has improved.
“I think we’ve taken a lot of posit ive steps since the first match,” he said. “Our play in the big point has improved, and I think all three doubles teams took some steps forward too.”
On Saturday, the Panthers will be head-ing to Illinois State to take on the Red-birds at the Evergreen Racquet Club in Normal, Ill.
Heading into that match, Blackburn said the win over Dayton should be a big help moving forward.
“I think anytime we can pull through for a win in a close match it’s a big confi-dence booster that we can play well in big moments, which should pay off down the road,” he said.”
Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812
Panthers impress with win over Dayton
By Blake Nash,Staff Reporter| @Banash5
Men’s and women’s intramural basket-ball action began Jan. 26 at the Student Recreation Center with 22 games through-out the week.
In “A” league action for men’s fraterni-ties, Phi Kappa Theta defeated Swoosh-er Sweets 38-13 on Monday night, while Chops Ayyy defeated Delts Black 42-15.
Sigma Epsilon Red and the Pike Bomb Squad rounded out the night with victo-ries. SigEp defeated Zip NA Double 54-13 and the Bomb Squad defeated the D Team 41-26.
Tuesday SAE Gold was victorious in their matchup with Sigma Chi Ballers 46-34. Sigma Pi Jones and Sigma Epsi lon Black finished the night for the “A” league as Jones came away with a 34-29 victory.
Delts Gold defeated Sigma Chi Gold 52-39 in Wednesday’s action followed by
Sigma Pi Black winning a tight two-point game against Pike Gold 54-52. Pippen Ain’t Easy was victorious over ROTC Gold 58-45.
Braylon N’ Boys eked out a win over Sigma Chi Blue 46-41.
Men’s “B” league action began Wednes-day with Sigma NuA successfully defeat-ing the Sigma Epsilon Scrappy Dogs 45-9. The Sigma Pi Jabronis won over Delta Chi 48-29.
Swedish meatballs defeated the McDon-ald’s All-Americans 61-50 while Rain N Drain beat the Sasquatch Squashers 55-25. Chops defeated Yellow Disgustin in a nail-biter 29-28, and Zip n Double Drib-ble narrowly defeated Strokin 3’s Burning Trees 51-48.
Women’s sorority action saw Tri Sig-ma defeat Kappa Delta 48-31, and Aver-age Joes defeat Alpha Gamma Delta 42-11.
The men’s hall “A” league began with a win for the Has-Beens over the Cobras 60-35. Straight 8 defeated SAE Purple 38-2.
On Wednesday the Dream Team defeat-ed E-I-Who 46-44, and the Ham Squad was victorious over B.O.S.S 53-35.
In “B” league action, the Beers defeated Fresh Prince Boi 54-53 on Monday, while Run n’ Gun was victorious over the Sand-baggers 54-49. Tri Busch defeated the
Buckets 57-21 and Balls Don’t Lie defeat-ed Multiple Scores 71-62.
Dunder Mifflin defeated Campus House 57-32. Shake N Bake defeated the Taylor Hall Titans 51-37 to round out intramural play for week one.
In other intramural action, Lambda Chi Alpha took f irst place in the men’s hot spots challenge with 215 points. Sigma Chi One and Sigma Pi One followed with 156 and 151 points. Alpha Phi won the women’s competition with 94 points, fol-lowed by Alpha Gamma Delta with 57.
Lambda Chi Alpha also won the free throw competition with 205 points. Del-ta Tau Delta followed with 192 and Sigma Chi One finished third with 186.
Sigma Pi One won the men’s we i rd bowl ing compet i t ion wi th 389 point s while Sigma Chi took second with 331 points.
A lpha Gamma Del ta won the wom-en’s weird bowling competition with 355 points. Tri Delta finished second with 338 and Delta Zeta rounded out the top three with 336 points.
Blake Nash can be reached at 581-2812
Intramural basketball continue at rec.
By Cody DelmendoSports writer| @DEN_Sports
The Eastern men’s tennis team hopes end i t s th ree -game lo s ing s t reak a s i t heads to Indianapolis at noon on Tuesday.
The Indianapolis Greyhounds are going into their first tennis match of the season coming off a 16-4 season in 2014 going as far as the second round of the Division 2 NCAA Tournament.
In the annual Great Lakes Valley Con-ference men’s tennis preseason poll, the Indianapolis men’s squad has been chosen to win the GLVC East Division.
“They are very tough,” coach Eric Stark said. “They are a preseason conference fa-vorites and ranked No. 27 in the nation for Division 2. This will be an excellent test for us.”
The Greyhounds a r e l ed by j un io r Fausto Cordova , who went 15-9 over -all last season. Junior Luke Hubert went 26-4 overall last season and 19-0 in dual meets.
The duo of junior Luke Huber t and
graduate Fernando Taricano, went 15-2 last season. Earlier this season Hubert was paired with former teammate Frankel in the fall season and lost their only match.
The Panthers are coming off a shutout from Big Ten opponent Nebraska 7-0.
Stark remains to stay posit ive and is more worried about their conference sea-son compared to the non-conference sea-son.
“We play three very tough teams this week and I’m excited to see how we han-dle it,” Stark said. “Our conference sched-ule we play back-to-back days so this will be great experience for everyone.”
Eastern takes on Indianapolis Tuesday, then travel back to Charleston for prac-tice till Saturday when they take on Val-paraiso and Michigan State.
Michigan State wi l l be the third Big Ten opponent they will have played in the non-conference season.
The Panther s have one double s win out of nine doubles matches in the three games they have played so far. The team has three singles wins in three games as well.
Stark said he hasn’t made any l ineup decisions yet for Tuesday’s matchup but look for junior Robert Skolik and fresh-man Preston Touliatos to take on one of the three doubles spots.
After the loss to Nebraska, Stark said Skol ik and Toul iatos fought extremely hard at the number one spot in doubles.
“We are just trying to be better today than we were yesterday,” Stark said.
Stark remains focused and positive with the squad because of the tough non-con-ference schedule they have played so far and will continue to be difficult.
Cody Delmendo can be reached at 581-2812
Men’s tennis trains for Greyhounds
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSGrant Reiman, a freshman men’s tennis player, prepares to serve the ball during tennis practice on Sept. 30. at Eastern’s Darling Courts.
“We are just trying to be better today than we were yesterday”
-Eric Stark, men’s tennis coach
Men’s and women’s intramural teams set precedents in a total 22 games
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By Mark ShanahanTrack and Field|@DEN_Sports
Junior Kristen Paris placed first this past weekend in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:11.65 seconds at the Indiana Relays.
With that time, Paris is now the third fastest in Eastern history to run the 800.
Paris competes in the 800, the mile and the 4x400 relay. She faced some challenges at the beginning of the year when it came to her times.
“Preseason was good and then we got into turkey trials for starting our indoor sea-son and that was kind of rough, because I re-ally wasn’t where I wanted to be, I felt like I was still running the same times I did last year.”
Paris broke her previous school record of 2:13.24 seconds, which she set last indoor season at the Grand Valley Big Meet.
In the outdoor season last year, she ran the 800 and 1500. Her season best in the 800 was 2:09.35 seconds in the OVC Out-door Championships, putting her at sixth all-time on the Eastern career list.
With Paris being healthy this season, she said she has been working on new improve-ments for this season.
“I’ve been trying to get better at devel-oping better strategies in a race and so far so good, been improving because normally I kind of zone out,” she said. “I had some shin problems and that’s just fatigue and stuff.”
She earned second team all-OVC in the 800 and was first team all-OVC in the dis-tance medley relay team that was victorious with a time of 12:03.22 seconds last season.
Paris competed in only the 800 at the EIU Early Bird her freshman year and red-shirted the outdoor season, and said she has noticed her improvement from last season to this season.
“I think the thing for me was last year be-cause my indoor season was not good for finishing up, OVC did not end how I want-ed it to,” she said. “Then I got to outdoor
and I made it to finals in the eight (800) and placed second in the OVC. So I think that was just a big step up from where I was from indoor.”
In high school, Paris set school records in both the 800 and the 1600 at the state championships. Her time for the 800 was 2:14.32 seconds and 5:16.87 seconds for the
1600. Despite being one of the faster runners
on the Panther track team, this would of never happened if she didn’t decide to do track. Paris was contemplating doing track back in her elementary school days.
“They had it in sixth grade and I said no I’m not running material and then I decid-
ed in seventh grade that I was going to start doing it so then I guess that’s where it start-ed,” she said.
While being a track runner at Eastern, Paris said she would not be here with the support of many people around her.
“Support from my team, Coach Akers because he has helped my training improve
a lot and has never lost confidence in me and definitely my family,” she said. “They’ve been helping me a lot, they have been there at every meet supporting me and most of all God.”
Mark Shanahan can be reached at 581-2812
Paris runs her way into the record book
KE VIN HALL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Kristen Paris, a redshirt freshman, practices in Lantz Arena Monday in the Indoor Fieldhouse. Paris competed in both indoor and outdoor track during the 2014 season.
By Jehad AbbedAssistant Sports Editor | @Jehada
The Eastern men’s basketball team hosts NAIA school Baker University at 7 p.m., Tuesday in the Panthers’ last home game for the next two weeks.
The game against Baker (7-14) will be Eastern’s (13-9) first matchup with a non-conference opponent since Dec. 23 when they beat Cleveland State.
This is the first time the Panthers and the Wildcats have faced each other.
The Wildcats are sitting in last place of the Heart of America Athletic Con-ference. Baker has a 1-10 record against HAAC teams and is currently on a nine-game losing streak.
Eastern comes into Tuesday’s game fol-lowing its first win in four games. Junior forward Trae Anderson led the Panthers to a 57-54 win over Southern Illinois-Ed-wardsville on Saturday.
grabbed seven rebounds to push East-ern past the Cougars and snap a three-game losing streak.
He is now leading the Panthers with 12.6 points per game after putting up double-digit scoring efforts in eight of the last 10 games he has played.
Anderson has steadily increased his ef-ficiency shooting from behind the three-point line. He has made five of his last nine attempts. Anderson went 5-of-15 for the entire season before that.
The Panthers are the third best three-point shooting team in the Ohio Valley Conference. They are shooting 36 percent from outside the arc.
Baker is led by senior guard EJ Cart-er. He scores a team-high 12.1 points per
game on 46 percent shooting. Carter also leads the team in rebounds with 5.8 per game.
The Wildcats are putting up 64.7 points per game this season. Eastern leads the OVC averaging the least amount of points allowed at 60.1 per game.
While the Panthers also boast a confer-ence best three-point percentage defense, Baker is shooting under 30 percent on the season. Eastern allows teams to shoot just above the Wildcats’ average from beyond the arc.
Freshman guard Cornell Johnston is coming off a 12 point and four assist per-formance against Edwardsville. Johnston averages the sixth most assists in the OVC at 4.2 per game.
Eastern’s game against the Wildcats is the last game of a brief home stand in Charleston before enduring a string of games on the road. The Panthers will trav-el to face Southeast Missouri followed by Austin Peay and then onto Edwardsville.
Eastern does not return to Lantz arena after Tuesday’s game until Feb. 19 when they host the University of Tennessee-Martin in their second matchup of the season.
The six remaining games on the sched-ule after the Panthers face Baker are all conference games. Three of the six games are against teams that account for East-ern’s only OVC losses on the season.
Eastern will try to improve to its 7-3 record at Lantz Arena on Tuesday night against Baker before getting back to OVC play.
Jehad Abbed can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Panthers to host Baker University
KE VIN HALL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Trae Anderson, a junior forward, looks around a defender to pass the ball in the game Saturday against SIU Edwardsville in Lantz Arena. Anderson ended the game with 20 points.
Men’s Basketball TUESDAY AT EIU| 7p.m. Lantz Arena
Men’s Tennis TUESDAY AT INDIANAPOLIS| Noon Indianapolis, Ind.
Softball FRIDAY AT LSU| 6:30p.m. BatonRouge, La.
Men’s and Women’s Track FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT NOTRE DAME| 3p.m. and 9a.m. South Bend, Ind.
Women’s Tennis SATURDAY AT ILLINOIS STATE| 3p.m. Normal, I l l.
Women’s Basketball SATURDAY AT SOUTHEAST MISSOURI| 3:30p.m. Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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