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D A I LY E A S T E R N N E W S . C O MT W I T T E R . C O M / D E N _ N E W S
FOUR MORE YEARSBower wins state’s attorney position
South Quad filled with celebration
OBAMA WINS SECOND TERM
Wednesday
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Stat recap of weekend’s sporting eventsPage 7
Full election coverage, photosPage 5
By Tim Deters Features Editor
As crowds of voters headed to the polls Tues-day, the Coles County Democrats and Republi-cans headquarters took their final actions and pre-pared for the final votes to be cast.
Opening their doors at 11 a.m., the Coles County Democrats headquarters, 605 Monroe Ave., imme-
diately began efforts to get local residents out to vote.“As of 11 a.m., we started calling all of our good
Democrats to get them out to vote,” said Paul Wieck, Coles County Democrats chairman, the din of telephone conversations humming behind him.
Sara Metzger, a volunteer at the Democrats headquarters, was calling registered Democrats to remind them to vote and answer any questions they might have about the voting process.
She said this year was the first year she has vol-unteered to help the voting process and that the day had been very busy but rewarding.
“Today is kind of hectic,” she said. “This is the first time I have really volunteered for something like this. It’s been a good experience.”
Among the volunteers shifting about the Demo-crats headquarters was EIU College Democrats presi-dent Ryan Plunkett, sifting through a list of registered
Democrats as he called out urging them to vote.Wieck said he was glad to see students involved
in politics and was thankful for their efforts both on campus and in the community.
The Democrats headquarters also organized transportation for voters who did not have a vehi-cle or who did not have access to handicapped-ac-cessible vehicles to get out and vote, Wieck said.
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By Elizabeth Edwards & Rachel Rodgers Editor-in-Chief & News Editor
Republican Brian Bower won state’s attorney for Coles County with 60.2 percent of the votes, while Democrat Todd Reardon received 39.8 percent of the votes.
The 44 precincts of Coles County reported that Bower received 12,400 votes with Reardon receiving 8,213 votes.
Bower said he is pleased by the results, but was surprised by the marginal difference be-tween him and Reardon.
Reardon said he was prepared to lose, but also thought the results would be closer, and he pre-dicted Bower would win with a 52-to-48 per-cent difference.
Reardon said he was relying on the student vote, but he did not know how many students actually came out and voted.
“I was running in a red county in a blue state,” Reardon said. “If a Democrat got 30 per-cent, a dead Republican would get 35 percent.”
Reardon said he could not have done any-thing differently and has no regrets about his campaign and deciding to run.
“Democracy only works when people run,” Reardon said.
Reardon said he plans to continue to work as a defense attorney at his practice.
As his first steps as state’s attorney, Bower said he plans to get to know the staff and to begin to work together with them.
“I am anxious to accept the challenges of the position and I am ready to give my brand of jus-tice,” Bower said.
Bower will start his position as state’s attor-ney on Dec. 1.
State’s Attorney was not the only contested race. In the race for 15th Congressional District,
Republican candidate John Shimkus won over Democratic candidate Angela Michael with a vote of 11,817-8,591.
Two referendums were also on the election ballot. The referendum for the municipal electrical
aggregation program passed in Charleston with a vote of 4,326-2,032.
The program will allow Charleston to nego-tiate its electric supply purchase to its residents and small businesses, having more control over electricity rates.
ROBERT DUYOS | MC TPresident Barack Obama speaks at Mcarthur High School Sunday in Hollywood, Fla.
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By Nike Ogunbodede & Robyn Dexter Associate News Editor & In-depth Editor
At the time The Daily Eastern News went to print, President Barack Obama was narrowly sur-passing Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the popular vote. The numbers in this article are those that were projected as of 11:54 p.m. Tuesday.
President Barack Obama was elected to con-tinue his position as the 44th president of the United States.
The night began with Republican candidate Mitt Romney leading in the Electoral College votes as well as the popular vote.
As the night went on, Obama was projected to get major battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Florida, Nevada and New Hampshire.
Obama, who received 365 electoral votes in 2008, saw a significant decrease in numbers this year — a decrease that led to a neck-to-neck battle between the Republican and Democrat-ic candidates.
Voting closed later than projected, which re-sulted in precinct reporting coming in as late as 11 p.m. CT.
After receiving a projected 303 electoral votes, Obama refused to give his acceptance speech until Romney conceded.
Romney conceded via phone call at about 11:50 p.m. before speaking to a crowd.
Updates to this article will be posted on the dail-yeasternnews.com as information comes in through-out the day.
Chacour Koop contributed to this article. Nike Ogunbodede and Robyn Dexter can
be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Other key points of Election Day:
• Democrats remained in control of the U.S. Senate, and Republicans remained in control of the House of Representatives.• Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin be-came the first openly homosexual candidate elected to the U.S. Senate. • Colorado legalized marijuana for recre-ational use by people age 21 and over, while results for similar amendments in Oregon and Washington were not available at press time. • Massachusetts approved the legalization of medicinal marijuana.
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By Seth Schroeder Opinions Editor
Cheers of “four more years!” and general excited cries of “Obama!” erupted from the South Quad as students heard the results of the 2012 presiden-tial election.
Though various news organizations called the election at different times, much of the celebration on Eastern’s campus started around 10 p.m. when MSNBC announced President Barack Obama’s second term.
Numerous students had gathered in the An-drews Hall basement to watch the election results as they were announced. After students heard the results, most made their way outside cheering with enthusiasm. Some began dancing in celebration.
Shanae Connel, a junior English major, said she was ecstatic about the results. She said this was her first time voting in a presidential election and she did everything she could to help Obama. Not only did Connel vote, but she said she worked with the NAACP to help promote Obama.
Another first-time voter, Xavier Menzies Jr., a freshman English major, said he felt empowered and was proud to live in a country with such so-cial evolution.
“It feels like I finally have a choice,” Menzies said.
He said many people told him his vote was not going to make a difference, but he ignored them.
“I wanted to be in the number of people who helped make a difference,” Menzies said.
Both Connel and Menzies said education and student loan policies were deciding factors in their votes for this election.
Despite student excitement on campus, Rich-ard Wandling, a political science professor, said the youth of America has been less enthusiastic than the 2008 election.
Wandling said this could be attributed to Obama’s campaign focusing more on what might go wrong if Romney is elected.
While Obama still won the election, Wandling said many people likely voted for him, not out of enthusiasm, but to make sure Romney was not elected.
David Carwell, a political science professor, agreed with Wandling, and said many voters were less excited about Obama because he ran as an in-cumbent this election.
“You’re only new once,” Carwell said.
Seth Schroeder can be reached at 581-2812
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By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor
The Charleston City Council voted on an agreement to enter into a debt recovery program with the state of Illinois on Tuesday.
The program will allow the state to pay the debts of a person from any reimbursements they are going to receive.
Mayor John Inyart said the program became available last year and allows the city to collect money through the state after all the other collection means have been exhausted.
Inyart said the previous issue with this program was the com-puter system to regulate program.
He said when the law was en-acted there was a lot of work that
went into keeping program run-ning.
“There was not a software, there was not really a way to track this easily,” Inyart said.
Scott Smith, the Charleston city manager, said Lake Land College has been working on a program that could keep track of the collections.
They have been working on the software since last year.
“They have improved that and made it much more easy and ef-fective for us to use,” Smith said.
Inyart said he does not see any problems with the program.
“As long as we’ve got a mecha-nism in place that we can use, we plan to take full advantage of it,” Inyart said.
The council also granted a
zoning variance to PP & W Prop-erties for their building plan at 1919 9th Street.
Inyart said the company want-ed to build a building with eight two-bedroom units.
The zoning of that area would allow for a building with four four-bedroom apartments.
“The s i ze o f the bui ld ing would be the same, the number of bedrooms would be the same, but they would just have to be split up into four four-bedroom apartments,” Inyart said.
The building proposal was ap-proved by the Zoning Board, who recommended to the coun-cil to approve it.
Inyart said this is similar to other variances they have ap-proved previously.
They also approved the sale of three out-of-service police cars and seized motorcycle.
The items are a 2005, 2006, and 2009 Ford Crown Vic and a 2000 Suzuki GSX-R600.
The council also voted to ap-prove a no parking zone on the inside of the Tarus Loop.
The outer part of the loop will allow parking and there is enough parking off the street.
A no parking zone has also been added for the inside of the curve on Kenton Street.
Inyart said the zone will be about two house long and will improve visibility on the street.
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or
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In an age where social media plays such an influential role in society and privacy is scarce, students are faced with the issue of potentially detri-mental social media content on their personal accounts when they begin looking for jobs after they graduate.
An officer from the Charleston Po-lice Department will educate Eastern students about how social media af-fects their lives in a presentation called “Surviving Social Media” on Wednes-day.
Lt. Brad Oyer of the Charleston Police Department will talk about so-cial media as a part of the Health Ed-ucation Resource Center’s Six Pack Series.
Maggie Luneburg, the substance abuse education coordinator for the Health Education Resource Center, said Oyer has done several presentations for the HERC in the past and really enjoys doing them.
“(Oyer) wi l l ta lk about how social media can be detrimental to students in regards to passing along information and how stu-dents can protect themselves,” she said.
Amanda Woolard, the assistant director for the HERC, said Oyer did another presentation earlier this semester.
“We ask Lt. Oyer to come every year for the Six Pack Series because he’s wonderful,” she said. “He loves educating students and he’s really good at educating students, so we ask him to come every year.”
Oyer said the Internet and so-cial media are a huge part of cur-rent society and students need to realize how big of a role it plays.
“In this day and age, social me-dia websites have become a common place in our society,” he said.
Oyer said students need to assess what they put online so they can be successful in their careers.
“As college students, everybody’s coming to Eastern hopefully to move onto a career of their choosing and that will be something they can make a living off of and enjoy,” he said. “Misuse of social media has historical-ly caused problems in the workplace and it has caused people to lose their jobs.”
Oyer said social media can keep as-piring professionals from obtaining the job they are seeking if they abuse social media.
“What this presentation is going to do is teach students some of the stumbling blocks are in social media as well as how to use social media to promote a more professional self for future employees and the public,” he said.
The presentation will take place from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Coleman Hall Room 1255.
“Surviving Social Media” is the fifth of the six-part series.
The last presentation, “Alcohol Poi-soning, Know the Facts!” will take place on Nov. 14.
Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812
By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
There is a four-wheeled, bicycle-like vehicle with a blue frame, yellow flag, four cushioned seats and a gray canopy roof parked outside the east side of Old Main.
The vehicle’s owner, Harold Or-nes, the dean of the College of Sci-ences, said it is called a quadricycle, but it is officially called a Rhoades Car.
“Most of what comes up when you do a Google search says it is called a quadricycle, but I have also seen it called a four-wheeled bicycle,” Ornes said. “Legally it is classified as a bicycle.”
Ornes said he bought the vehicle about 15 years ago when he was liv-ing in Utah and working as the dean of the College of Science and Engi-neering at Southern Utah University.
“I’ve ridden bicycles and motorcy-cles most of my life, but as I got old-er I thought a soft seat with armrests would be nice, and we had to two kids so I thought it would be nice if it had four seats,” Ornes said. “I found it online and they shipped to from Tennessee to Utah in a big gi-ant box.”
Ornes said he received the vehi-cle pre-assembled, but he has had to make a few repairs to keep it moving over the years.
“This particular type takes parts that are usually available in most common bicycle shops,” he said.
The vehicle is made by Rhoades Car International and has multiple speeds that can be changed by a le-ver on the handlebars. It has two sets of pedals in the front and brakes that are also controlled by a lever on han-dle bars, which steer the vehicle.
“The people in the front pedal
and the people in the back get a free ride,” Ornes said.
The vehicle can reach speeds of about 25 mph. It can also been driven in the snow, although Ornes said he often does not drive it in the winter.
“It doesn’t need a driver’s license to be driven, but I mostly drive it in large bike lanes or streets that are not too busy because it takes up so much room,” Ornes said.
Ornes, a Charleston resident, said he uses the vehicle primarily for commuting to campus and around town and that driving it is good ex-ercise.
“It is about a mile to and from campus and takes about 10 minutes every day,” Ornes said. “It weighs about 150 pounds so even with mul-tiple speeds it is still a pretty good workout.”
Ornes said when people see him driving his vehicle around campus
they often smile, but every once in a while he will get a frown because he is taking up too much room on the street.
“I get a lot of big smiles and I think that is part of the appeal of the whole thing,” Ornes said.
Although Ornes’s quadricycle is often his primary way to get to cam-pus, it is not the only mode of trans-portation he enjoys.
Ornes has owned a Volkswagen Thing and currently owns and flies a small airplane. He has had pilot’s li-cense since 1979.
“I don’t know what the attraction is,” Ornes said. “You have to tinker with them a lot, but I don’t know what psychological ‘flaw’ that man-ifests itself in odd vehicles.”
Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812
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Dean of Sciences rides quadricycle
AMY WY WIALOWSKI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSHarold Ornes, dean of the College of Sciences, stands with his quadricycle. The vehicle, bought by Ornes about 15 years ago, can reach speeds of up to 25 mph.
ANCIENT GREECE
By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
After a month of lectures, a library exhibit and a theater performance, the Symposium on Ancient Greece will come to a close Wednesday with two lectures throughout Booth Library.
At 11 a.m., Corey Francis will pres-ent “Homer, Bach and Mozart: The In-fluence of Ancient Greek Culture on Music of the Baroque and Classical Eras.”
Steven Daniels will present “Eure-ka!” at noon.
Both presentations will take place in Room 4440 of the library.
Francis, the assistant director of bands and director of the Panther marching and basketball bands, said as a musician he has always respected An-
cient Greek culture, but decided to fo-cus on two specific musical eras and how the Ancient Greeks influenced them.
“They provided a great foundation for education and music,” Francis said. “I will be talking about the influences from Ancient Greek culture on the Ba-roque and Classical eras of music.”
The Baroque era spans from the years 1600-1750, while the Classical era spans from 1750 to roughly the 1820s.
Francis said by looking to the mu-sicians and composers of the Ancient Greek era, they can better understand the Baroque and Classical pieces, many of which are still played today.
“At the foundation of the Baroque and Classical eras were the pillars of Greek drama and architecture, respec-tively,” Francis said. “By understand-
ing this, I hope those in attendance will have a better appreciation of these musical eras.”
Through his research, Francis said he learned there is a major misconception in the field about resources concerning Ancient Greek music.
“I have learned that there is more written about Greek music than we think,” Francis said. “It is not a great deal as compared to other mu-sical genres, but there is more evi-dence and example now than there was even a 10 years ago.”
Following Francis’s lecture, Daniels will speak about the Greek scientist Ar-chimedes.
Daniels, chair of the physics depart-ment, said the name of his presenta-tion came from the story of Archime-des, who was posed a scientific problem
by his king.“One day, while taking a bath, he re-
alized the answer to his problem was all about displacement of water,” Dan-iels said. “In his excitement about solv-ing the problem, the story goes, he ran through the streets naked shouting ‘Eu-reka’.”
He said the word “eureka” translates to “I have found it” in Greek.
Daniels said he chose to focus on Ar-chimedes because he is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time.
“The science and philosophy of an-cient Greece is interesting to me,” Dan-iels said. “They are the foundations of much of Western thought.”
Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812
Final lectures to close Greek Symposium
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I spent my weekend knitting a hat. Yes, at 20 years old, I like to knit and have been doing so since I was about 15.
A friend’s mom had given me the pattern a few weeks ago and with the gloomy weather this past and current weekend I decided I was up to the challenge. Currently, it is still a work in progress but I’m excited to see what will be-come of it.
I am a self-described nerd but this is what I like to do. I like knowing that I created some-thing and did it all myself. It’s my creative out-let. I’m a stressed out college student and it’s one of the things that helps me relax.
Over the past five or so years I’ve made a va-riety of different things: slippers, cell phone cases and too may scarves to count.
Knitting is not just for the stereotypical el-derly woman anymore.
Have you ever heard of yarn-bombing? Nei-ther had I, until recently. Yarn-bombing is graf-fiti but with knitted cloth that is often bright-ly colored. These artists cover pretty much any-thing you can think of in yarn.
My first introduction to this phenomenon
was on a tampon commercial that featured a bicycle completely covered in a patchwork of yarn creations. That was just one example of it.
After seeing the commercial and a similar ad-vertisement in a magazine, I became curious. It looked kind of cool.
I typed “yarn covered bike” into a search en-gine and got about 497,000 hits. There were pictures of yarn-covered bikes, yarn-covered statues, a yarn-covered city bus and, my favor-ite, a military tank covered in a pink patchwork piece. Sometimes it’s something as simple as a bike rack.
Google it and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It is not just a one-time phenomenon,
either. In 2011, The New York Times did an ar-ticle on trends and talked who they said many believe to be the “mother of yarn bombing,” Magda Sayeg.
Sayeg has since been hired to “professional-ly yarn-bomb” for commercials much like the one I saw.
Notice I said “professionally yarn-bomb”; this means she had permission to do it. Most of the time yarn-bombing is considered graffiti and can result in an arrest. I am in no way ad-vocating breaking the law.
However, I won’t lie. I think it’s cool and in-spiring that something that was once regarded as a hobby for elderly women now has some-thing as radical as this associated with it. No, I am not a yarn-bomber and probably never will be. But I’m glad that it’s out there.
Nothing is ever quite what it seems, and just because I knit does not mean I am “an old lady.”
Amy Wywialowski is a junior history major. She can be reached at 581-2812
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Soup Stop: great way to volunteer, get involved
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In my children’s literature class, I recently had the chance to watch the video titled “The Danger of a Single Story,” where Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author, lamented the idea of using only one topic to label people and places, such as Africa.
During the discussion that followed, it be-came apparent that there is a lack of multicul-turalism in the classroom, especially for educa-tion majors.
I am not an education major, nor am I work-ing for teacher’s certification. So when the time came for this discussion, I was surprised that more classes do not incorporate a wider variety of texts to include those who may not be white with blue eyes.
This is not to say the classes presented at Eastern are not well-taught, but it would ben-efit students to become immersed in a world outside of their own. Especially when it comes to teaching.
Teachers are molders for the future, and if they are taught through a curriculum that con-sists of text only from America or Britain, then they miss out on the rest of the world, which is just as fantastic.
The world is getting smaller by the day. Where it used to take weeks, or months even, to send a letter across the globe, the same feat can now be accomplished by clicking a few keys and a mouse.
With education majors, the thought that ev-ery single person in their class will be like the characters in the standard literature books is laughable.
America used to be called the melting pot of the world, but now it is the whole world that is the melting pot.
If the teachers of tomorrow are not taught today about the values of multiculturalism, then the students they teach will also be in the dark. Or even worse, some students may feel
isolated and stereotyped by the issues that are being presented.
Adichie, in her video, discussed how some people still view Africa as a country, and not a continent. How people from Africa are stereo-typed as being unable to read or write, or even speak English — despite the fact that English is the standard language in Nigeria.
If future teachers are instructed to incorpo-rate different cultures within their lessons, stu-dents will begin to shed some of the stereotypes that seem to have stuck through the ages.
We are more connected now than we ever have been, and in any given class there could be a multitude of cultures represented. To ignore the cultures of some in favor of the traditional route is wrong.
This was at the root of what Adichie was say-ing. If we only listen to one story, one idea of what a person or culture may be, we are in danger of ignoring what beautiful truths they might hold.
Bob Galuski is junior English major. He can be reached at 581-2812
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Amy Wywialowski
Multiculturism should be embraced
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Volunteering is a huge part of the Eastern community. As the winter months and holi-day season approaches, serving the communi-ty through giving time and service should be a priority on everyone’s list.
In an article last week in The Daily Eastern News, an article was published about Charles-ton’s Soup Stop, an organization that provides two free meals to members of the Charleston community Monday through Friday.
In the article, Rachel Fisher, the director of EIU Student Community Service, discusses why students volunteered.
“The number one reason that motivates vol-unteers to participate for the first time is that they were asked,” she said. “This gives students a direct call to action.”
We at The News would like you to consider this as your call to action.
Eastern’s Student Community Service pro-gram has countless opportunities to lend a hand, with Soup Stop being one of many.
Our community is in need more than many students even realize, and lending a hand can make a huge difference.
Student Community Service takes students to Soup Stop at the First Presbyterian Church every Thursday and gives them the chance to make a difference in the community.
No one should have to worry about where their next meal is coming from, and Soup Stop can help eliminate a portion of that problem every weekday.
Student Community Service and Fisher will work with any student who wishes to volun-teer, enabling them to get the exact volunteer experience they desire to have.
Fisher often discusses the flexibility of the program whenever she speaks to student groups, and always stresses how, if some kind of service opportunity is not offered, she will find a way to make it work.
We are very fortunate with the exceptional learning environment Charleston and Eastern provide for us, so giving back should already be ingrained into our Eastern experience.
It’s November, and when so many people in the community will not get the opportuni-ty to have a real Thanksgiving meal, we should consider donating food or donating our time handing out food to those who need it.
Volunteering is already a huge part of our community, but it can always be bigger.
When it comes to volunteering, there is no such thing as too much of a good thing.
Eastern was recognized for making the Pres-ident’s Higher Education Community Ser-vice Honor Roll last June for completing more than 110,000 hours of community service.
Keeping up with and exceeding a success-ful year like this should be on every student’s priority list, and beginning with just a little service (and maybe a little soup) can be the first step.
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StudentsmustattendameetingtoformallyapplyforUniversityAdmissiontoTeacherEducationandtoinitiatetheselectionprocess.Studentswhohavenotpreviousappliedmustattendameeting.
ThefollowingmeetingsareavailablefortheFall2012semestertoinitiatetheselectionprocess:
Wednesday, November 14, 20125:00 - 5:50pm
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Monday, December 3, 20124:00 - 4:50pm
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CALLING ALL CAMPUS GROUPS!Get your group together and get your picture taken.
Thursday, Nov. 8Paris Room, 3rd floor, MLK Union
Questions? Email [email protected]
Charleston was not the only city to pass the referendum. The referen-dum also passed in Mattoon, Oak-land, Ashmore, Humboldt and Ler-na.
The program can also apply to counties, and Coles County approved
the referendum 3,383-2,134. Amendment 49 did not pass in
Coles County. The vote was 10,007 against and 9,028 for.
The amendment to the Illinois Constitution, if it had passed, would have required a three-fifths approval
of the General Assembly, city councils and school districts when increasing employees’ pension benefits.
Elizabeth Edwards and Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-
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JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSigns stood on both sides of the Bridge Lounge in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union that read “Campaign Free Zone” on Tuesday.
JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSStudents stand in line as they check in to vote on Tuesday in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSEvan Kanz, a freshman political science major, votes in the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Tuesday.
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“We have a shuttle bus to pick up folks wherever they want if they need a ride,” he said. “We also have handi-capped-accessible vans to make sure they have that opportunity to vote.”
Democrat volunteers were also active throughout the day answering phone calls and welcoming people to the headquarters who had any questions about how and where they could vote.
“It’s been hoppin’,” Wieck said. “It’s certainly exciting, and it’s certainly good to see democracy in action.”
As the day wore on, Wieck said he was glad to see everyone out voting, whether they were Democrat or Re-publican.
“It’s great to have everybody under-standing that we are all Americans, and democracy doesn’t work unless we all participate, regardless of who you are going to vote for,” he said.
As the day began to darken and a cold, light drizzle began to fall, the Coles County Republican headquar-ters, 612 Jackson Ave., flipped on their lights at 6:30 p.m. and prepared to see the results of their efforts as the polls closed.
Tyler Weaver, Coles County Repub-licans chairman, explained that most of
the Republicans headquarters’ efforts took place before Election Day.
He said most of the Republican headquarters’ efforts were concentrated on early and absentee voters and that he was confident in the Republican turn-out this year.
“There’s a lot of momentum in this country right now,” he said “And so, with that kind of enthusiasm should come a high turnout.”
Weaver said volunteers did not call registered Republicans on Election Day because there was a feeling previous ef-forts by the headquarters would bring Republicans to the polls.
As well, Weaver said he did not want to call residents on Election Day be-cause most people had already decid-ed whether they were going vote or not and that calls would only serve as an annoyance.
“What we don’t want to do is over-reach and start pestering people,” he said. “If some people don’t want to vote, that’s their choice.”
However, Weaver and other Re-publican organizers and volunteers did make efforts to provide transportation to voters. He and other volunteers pro-vided their phone numbers to the pub-
lic to drive residents to the polls if they needed.
“I had calls today from people say-ing ‘I don’t have a car and I’m not in good health, but I want to go vote,’” he said. “We’ve been able to line that up to make sure everybody that wants to go vote can be a part of the process.”
As Republican volunteers and com-munity members began to gather in the headquarters, they began flipping open their laptops, clutching their tele-phones and gathering around a televi-sion screen to view the incoming poll results.
Doug Towle, a volunteer for the Re-publicans headquarters, helped with the early push to support early and absentee voting and said he was looking forward to the end of the election.
“I’m kind of relieved that the elec-tion is coming to an end,” he said. “We’re going to see how our hard work and volunteering efforts are going to pay off.”
And regardless of the results of the election, Towle said volunteering taught him a lot about the election process.
Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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SABRINA DUNC AN | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKenneth Ballom, a sophomore chemistry major, submits his vote Tuesday at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. “I feel as if it is my duty to vote, if we want to make a change,” Ballom said.
Casting the ballot
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STAT ATTACK
0.88 MEN’S SOCCERSenior goalkeeper Evan Turner posted 0.88 goals-against average over the weekend en route to being named the Summit League Defen-sive Player of the Week. Turner made seven saves in Eastern’s overtime loss to Belmont, and followed that by recording his first shutout of the season in its draw against Oakland. Turner became the first Panther player to earn defensive player of the week honors.
163VOLLEYBALLFreshman setter Marah Bradbury dished out a total of 163 assists in three matches last week. Bradbury dished out 50-plus assists in each of the three games and re-corded a career-best 58 helpers against IUPUI. Her 163 assists had her taking home Ohio Valley Conference Setter of the Week honors for the sec-ond time in her young career.
FOOTBALLEastern’s football team limited Tennessee Tech to a season-low 153 passing yards in its 31-24 win on Sat-urday. The Panthers held backup quarterback Darian Stone to just 153 yards on 22 of 43 pass attempts. Prior to holding the Golden Eagles to 153 passing yards, the Panthers’ best performance against the pass was giving up 205 yards against Austin Peay.
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RUGBYEastern’s rugby team eclipsed the 50-point mark for the third consecutive game in the rugby fifteens format. The Panthers totaled 57 points in their win over Middle Tennessee State. Senior Lauren Doyle and sophomore Madison Kissner combined to total six trys, scoring three times each. The 57-point outburst is the third most the Panthers have scored in a game this season.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMolly Hawkins, a freshman forward, heads the ball during the game against Belmont on Friday, Oct. 26. The Pan-thers won the game 2-1.
By Dominic Renzetti Assistant Online Editor
The Eastern women’s soccer team found itself in a very unfamiliar place in November: on the outside look-ing in. The Panthers missed the Ohio Valley Conference post-season tour-nament for the first time in 14 years, and for the first time in head coach Summer Perala’s career as Eastern head coach.
The Panthers opened their season with two losses to Big Ten conference teams, falling 5-0 to Iowa on the road, then coming up short against Purdue, where they lost 2-1 in overtime.
The match against Purdue was the first of three straight overtime match-es the Panthers would see, as they next lost to Northern Iowa in their home opener by a score of 2-1, before final-
ly notching the first win of the season against Cleveland State, led by a hat trick by senior Kristin Germann.
Following a loss to Indiana State, the Panthers took down non-con-ference foe Evansville, but their luck ran thin, as the team lost its next five matches.
The team got back on track in its second OVC match of the season, beating Tennessee Tech in overtime. For the remaineder of the season, the Panthers traded wins and loss-es, pushing past Southeast Missouri, Murray State and Belmont, but los-ing to Tennessee-Martin, Austin Peay and Eastern Kentucky. The only draw of the season came against Morehead State, where the two teams played to a 1-1 tie.
The Panthers finished the season with an overall record of 6-12-1, fin-
ishing in seventh place in the OVC with a conference record of 4-5-1.
Germann led the team in goals (8), points (17), shots (46), shots on goal (24), game-winning goals (2) and penalty kicks (2). Senior Ashley Streid and sophomore Allie Lakie each had three assists.
Red-shirt junior Jessica Taldone saw the most minutes of any Eastern goalie, totaling 1,288:13. She made 85 saves, while allowing 27 goals.
Germann, Streid and freshman Hannah Miller all earned All-OVC honors. Germann and Streid were named to the second team, while Miller was named to the newcomers team.
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Players earn All-OVC honors
Eastern’s football team is in posi-tion to win an Ohio Valley Confer-ence championship under first-year head coach Dino Babers. The up-tempo style of play and winning at-titude that Babers brought to Eastern has transformed a team that won four games in two seasons to a team that is on the verge of celebrating a confer-ence championship on Saturday.
The changes that Babers has in-stilled among his team echoes from player-to-player, as they have repeat-edly credited their new-look attitude for their success in 2012. Babers and his staff has the team believing they can beat anyone in the nation on any given Saturday, something that was completely absent since I came to Eastern in the fall of 2010.
The two years of football futili-ty was disheartening to the Panther faithfuls, to say the least. The stands at O’Brien Field were lacking a student presence, and the Panthers looked like a group of individuals instead of a team.
Babers changed that, seemingly overnight.
The student fan base is now rele-vant at O’Brien Field, and the cam-pus is buzzing about Eastern foot-ball, something that I seriously doubt-ed would ever happen in my time at Eastern.
Outside of the newly developed winning attitude, the Panthers have developed into a cohesive unit that has had several players calling the 2012 version of the Panthers a “fam-ily.”
Star quarterback Jimmy Garoppo-
lo said everything is “different.” Al-though he was unable to describe ex-actly what has changed, he said, “It’s just something that is going on in the locker room and in the weight room. Everyone just has this winning mind-set that we are going to go out there and we are going to win.”
That “winning attitude” has trans-formed a team that was picked to fin-ish second to last in the OVC to a team that could be crowned champi-ons in just a matter of days.
An up-tempo offense has certain-ly helped transform the Panthers from cellar-dwellers to championship con-tenders, but it takes more than a no-huddle offense and a new coaching staff roaming the sidelines to go from worst to first.
What’s going on with the Eastern football team is something special. It’s something unfamiliar to the majority of students on campus, and it’s some-thing that should be recognized.
Come Saturday, Eastern could be celebrating an OVC championship.
I think they will be.
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VOLLEYBALL
By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor
The Eastern volleyball team will host Ohio Valley Conference foe and in-state rival Southern Illinois-Ed-wardsville in its second to last match of the season at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Lantz Arena.
The Panthers have hit stride at the right time in the season.
“We have a lot of confidence going into the last two matches because of how well we’ve played of recent,” ju-nior outside hitter Reynae Hutchin-son said. “I can only hope that we go in with the mindset that we can take care of any team and fight for the spot in the tournament we have worked so hard to earn.”
The Panthers have won seven of their last nine OVC contests, propel-ling them into tournament conten-tion for the first time since 2005.They come in as the sixth place team over-all out of the top eight overall quali-fying for the OVC Tournament. The record will depend solely on confer-ence win percentage and head-to-head wins.
The Panthers are coming off two conference wins over Jacksonville State (25-20, 25-18, 23-25, 25-18) and Ten-nessee Tech (25-23, 19-25, 25-19, 25-20) last weekend.
They currently sit at 10-19 over-all and an even 7-7 in conference play since starting winless through their first five.
“It really shows how hard we have worked to get where we are,” Hutchinson said.
“We’ve come together in some re-ally close matches and its great to see us do that, especially now when we needed to the most. We’ve been able to get back to the basics and have fun playing.”
Despite their recent success, the Panthers fell to the Cougars earlier this season on Sept. 25 in straight sets (21-25, 16-25, 19-25).
However, Southern Illinois-Ed-wardsville now sits three spots be-low Eastern in the conference stand-ings, as the Cougars rank ninth, the first team on the outside of the tour-nament looking in.
The Cougars are 2-7 in their last nine matches. They are coming off a four-set win over the Gamecocks of Jacksonville State (23-25, 25-19, 25-23, 25-22).
Yet, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville fell to Tennessee Tech, who is 3-23 overall and 1-13 in the OVC, one day before in four sets (23-25, 26-24, 27-29, 13-25).
Following the in-state match, East-ern will remain at home and host OVC newcomer Belmont at 5:30 p.m. Friday Nov. 9 to close out the regular-season schedule.
The Panthers and Bruins will play each other for the first time this sea-son, being in separate divisions.
Before the match begins, Eastern seniors Alison Berens, Emily Franklin and Kat Gosewich will be honored for their volleyball careers for senior day.
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