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VOL. 99 | NO. 16Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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ON THE PROWLStudent Senate has renamed and revamped Pizza with the Prez, which is a monthly opportunity for students to talk to President Bill Perry.
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THIRD TIME NOT THE CHARMThe Eastern football team fell to Illinois State Saturday to start its season 0-3.
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CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Rush candidates walk through the Library Quad after recieving their bids for Fall Recruitment 2014 Sunday. Less women registered this semes-ter than in the past.
By Samantha MiddendorfEntertainment Editor | @Samantha_EE
Eastern’s dropping enrollment is expected to affect Greek enrollment for the year.
Greek life has experienced several issues be-cause of the decline in enrollment.
Dean Harwood, director of fraternity and sorority programs, said in the fall of 2013, there were 1,557 fraternity and sorority mem-bers on campus.
“As of right now, we are projecting that we will have about 1,450 to 1,500 students as fraternity and sorority members this fall,” Harwood said.
The amount of women registered for fall 2014 recruitment is less than what it has been in the past.
“There is a slight decrease in the number of women registered for sorority recruitment this year, although the numbers are very close to those of the past two years,” Harwood said.
Eastern’s campus is comprised of nine so-rorities and 11 fraternities.
Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Sigma Tau, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Zeta, Kappa Delta, Sigma Kap-pa and Sigma Sigma Sigma are the nine soror-ities on campus.
Greek Life numbers projected to decline
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By Debby HernandezAdministration Editor | @DEN_News
The Council on University Planning and Budget reviewed issues on the university’s purchasing process and elected members to serve in the council committees Friday.
Paul McCann, the interim vice president for business affairs, delivered information on problems with the university procure-ment process as a result of new regulations.
Illinois Senate Bill 51, which took effect in 2010, made changes to the procurement code for higher education, adding regula-tions and restricting the way universities contract with groups.
Illinois House Bill 5491 was passed in
August and will take effect in January 2015.One provision of HB 5491 limits what
third party providers are acceptable, accord-ing to bill synopsis.
McCann said the bill has further compli-cated Eastern’s purchasing process, in par-ticular with the local group called Midwest-ern Higher Education Compact.
“We have probably 20 years or so been a member of that, and have been able to pur-chase things such as property insurance, computers and student insurance through that group,” he said.
He said the group has allowed them to buy off contracts that are negotiable.
McCann said the problem continues with restrictions from the Chief Procurement
Officer.“The CPO is attempting to l imit our
abil ity to access that group along other multi-state purchasing organizations,” he said. “If restricted, our costs will go up.”
Efforts to resolve the problem will con-tinue to be made, he said.
The CUPB also elected members to serve on its committees, including David Emm-erich as the new council chair, replacing Al-len Lanham.
Under the executive committee, six oth-er members were chosen including Grant Sterling representing academic affairs, Pa-mela Naragon for student affairs, Jona-than McKenzie for university advancement, Jack Cruikshank as the student representa-
tive, Kathlene Shank as the dean represen-tative, and Christine Edwards representing the council at large.
The budget transfer committee now con-sists of five people with Gloria Leitschuh, Steven Daniels, Melissa Gordon, Timothy Zimmer and Lynette Drake as members.
Three members were also elected to serve in each of the five subcommittees, which are president’s area, business affairs, univer-sity advancement, academic affairs and stu-dent advancement.
Debby Hernandez can bereached at 581-2812
CUPB reviews purchasing process, committee positions
Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge
Student-run focus groups within the Making Excel lence Inclusive forum are searching for a company to transcribe data from studies about diversity and inclusion on campus.
Once the data is transcribed, faculty members from many of the departments within the College of Arts and Humanities will analyze it in order to combat some of the issues facing minorities.
Richard Jones Jr., assistant professor of communication studies, and Linda Scholz, associate professor of communication stud-ies, oversees the focus groups.
The groups help those in Making Excel-lence Inclusive, which is a forum created in order for faculty members to meet once a month and have an open-ended discussion about avoiding stereotyping and typecast-ing.
Ruben Quesada, assistant professor of English, said the focus group’s overall goal is to help the Making Excellence Inclusive forum with determining needs and oppor-tunities when it comes to matters of race, gender, sexual orientation and the overall culture of Eastern.
“MEI’s focus is on diversity, inclusion and equality,” Quesada said, “In order to fully understand how these areas need to be addressed at Eastern, we need to directly hear from students.”
Focus groups were held in the spring of 2014 about what students deal with in the classroom, on campus and in the overall Charleston community.
Even though Making Excellence Inclusive has the data, much of it needs to be tran-scribed, and they are in the process of find-ing organizations and companies to do that.
“The professors who set up the focus groups don’t have the resources to make the transcriptions and the university doesn’t
have the resources to pay someone to do it,” Quesada said. “So the information is simply sitting there.”
Quesada said the forum is working on in-forming the Eastern-Charleston community that they are inclusive and all forms of di-versity are important.
He said the group wants to promote an environment that has dignity and respect for everyone, which is why Quesada made a video of students and faculty from all back-grounds addressing issues related to inclu-siveness and diversity.
“There is nothing wrong with acknowl-edging that someone i s b lack, Lat ino, Asian, man or woman, gay or lesbian, of varying physically or mentally capacity,” Quesada said. “It starts by creating physi-cal space and resources to better understand the experiences of all these people.”
Students should also know that coming to college will challenge them in many dif-ferent ways and they should rise to such a
challenge and prove to themselves and the community that they are ready to succeed no matter what, Quesada said.
Quesada said these discussions are im-portant because they will allow faculty to begin thinking about how they treat their students and become more sensitive to how peers treat them as well.
He said the talks should make every-one aware of how they treat one another especially if they are from different back-grounds.
“I understand that historically this has been an institution with white, middle class students, but higher education is becoming less homogenous and we need to accom-modate for that change if we’re to survive,” Quesada said.
Roberto Hodge can bereached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Faculty studies minority data from focus groups
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C o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s w i l l be able to participate in several games with live music filling the air of the Newman Catholic Cen-ter grounds for their fourth annu-al St. Hedwig’s Oktoberfest Sept. 21 from noon to 5 p.m.
Roy Lanham, the president of St. Hedwig House of Hospitali-ty, said at this year’s Oktoberfest, there will be a historic burning of the mortgage for the house in cel-ebration of paying it off recently.
The fest began as a way to ben-efit and raise money for the house
and its expenses.The St. Hedwig House helps
women and children in need with free housing and food.
“Through the generosity of the many benefactors, we were able to pay off the mortgage of the Hed-wig house, and so that, to me, is very exciting,” Lanham said.
Lanham said he believed this year’s fest would be just as exciting as ones in the past.
He sa id i t was important to know it is predominantly for fun-draising.
There will be a $6 charge for the meal of either a brat or pork burger, which will also include a
German dessert known as apple küchen.
The festival will even have mu-sic, such as the Jay Fox Bavarian Band and the Kinderchoir, which Lanham said he was most excited for.
“It’s fun to see little kids sing-ing and dancing to a few German songs and general children songs,” Lanham said.
The Kinderchoir will sing tra-ditional German songs, but also songs made specifically for chil-dren.
There wi l l a l so be a croquet tournament, which will have a $5 fee to enter, for a prize.
The winner will be awarded a wooden shoe.
“(It’s) engaging for the public and a blast for such an unusual event,” said Lanham.
There w i l l a l so be a r a f f l e , which will give people a chance to win a BBQ grill, half a hog and a deep freezer.
Other games inc lude a bags tournament, bingo, Plinko, pop rings, and more.
Those that are 21 and older will be able to bring beer to a beer gar-den at Oktoberfest.
Oscar Correa can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Newman to host annual Oktoberfest
CHYNNA MILLER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRacers take off at the starting line during the Panther Push Saturday near the Doudna Steps. The 3.7 mile race followed a course around Charleston and was organized by two Eastern students.
By Danielle TadlockStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
Superbugs and the Ebola virus will be the main topic from Catherine Belling Tuesday in the Doudna Lec-ture Hall at 6 p.m.
Anyone can come to the free re-ception after the lecture to ask Bell-ing questions.
Phi Beta Kappa is hosting the event
as a part of their Fall Lecture series.Belling will be discussing the histo-
ry of superbugs and what the future holds for Ebola.
“It speaks eerily and presciently to our current moment in history,” Bell-ing said.
Belling is an associate professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Belling is an editor of the journal “Literature and Medicine,” part of the Johns Hopkins University press.
She has also been part of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
Belling wrote a book, “A Condi-tion of Doubt: On the Meaning of Hypochondria” in 2012, which won the Kendrick Book Prize in 2013 and was listed under the “10 Best Books
of 2012,” in The New York Daily News.
About her book Belling said, “It’s a specific way of reading the body and a slippery category within the medical profession.”
Danielle Tadlock can be reached at 581-2812
Ebola, superbugs go under the microscope
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Pizza with Prez renamed with new theme each monthBy Debby HernandezAdministration Editor | @DEN_News
The Student Senate will be hosting Prowlin’ with the Prez sessions once a month throughout the semester start-ing at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the lawn area outside Greek Court.
The theme of the first session will be Panther Party with the Prez.
Shirmeen Ahmad, vice president for academic affairs, said the block-par-ty like event will consist of pizza and games such as football and soccer for students to participate in.
The Panhellenic and the Interfrater-nity councils joined the Student Senate to co-sponsor the event.
President Bill Perry will be present to socialize with students and hear out their concerns about the campus.
“Being President Perry’s last year, we want him to be able to reach out to more students,” Ahmad said.
She said the monthly event will take place in different locations around cam-pus.
“This event will allow President Perry to move around and get to know other students,” she said. “We are hoping he gets involved and joins the games.”
Prowlin’ with the Prez will allow stu-dents to meet Perry before the end of his last term.
“We hope a lot of people come out and get to know President Perry before it’s too late,” she said.
Debby Hernandez can bereached at 581-2812
FILE PHOTO BY CHYNNA MILLER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSPresident Bill Perry talks with students during Pizza With the Prez Nov. 11 in Taylor Dining Hall. The event is being renamed Prowlin’ with the Prez starting this school year and each session will have a different theme. The first Prowlin’ with the Prez theme will be Panther Party with the Prez and be in the lawn outside Greek Court.
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Monday, 9.15.14OPINIONS
K ATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers re-fuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.
- Arundhati Roy
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Isla, Isa, Margaret, Viola, Alta, Lilly and Opal were the first seven elephants purchased by D.R. Miller, founder of the Carson and Barnes Circus.
Still traveling with the group this season is Isa, who has been with the circus through years of animal neglect and abuse.
Whether animals in the entertainment industry are captured from their native lands or bred in captivity, the big top of traveling circus-es covers something much more sinister than face paint and flashy acrobatics.
The Carson and Barnes Circus in particular, which performed in Charleston Thursday, has been publically criticized for its extensive ani-mal abuse, with a documented longevity of 32 years of animal neglect and violence.
In 1962 the USDA cited Carson and Barnes for failure to provide shelter from the elements; failure to provide minimum space to a pygmy hippopotamus, liger, and tiger, inadequate pest control for the pygmy hippopotamus, and fail-ure to record veterinary treatment for a wound-ed rhinoceros.
The pygmy hippopotamus, tiger and liger were housed together in a unit so small, they could not freely turn around during sever-al hours of transportation – a common trip for animals surrendered to circus life.
Although Carson and Barnes’ website claims their animals are cared for by a tentative and responsible staff as well as trained using only positive reinforcement, the circus was cited again in April 2014 for failure to have a han-dler or attendant present with three elephants,
which were within reach of a small boy. This citation is only one of eight issued to
Carson and Barnes in the past two years regard-ing animal abuse and neglect. Years ago, animal rights organization, PETA, even captured on camera Carson and Barnes’ use of blowtorches and bull hooks on their elephants to encourage the animals to perform.
These forms of abuse are common across the board in the circus business, however. Animals are starved and dehydrated to prevent defeca-tion during shows, and single animals are taken from their communities, depriving these intel-ligent creatures of the social and familial life-styles they are designed to naturally lead in the wild.
If an animal survives long enough to see its circus career to an end, it is not deemed suit-able to reintegrate into the wild. In some cases, elephants can retire to accredited sanctuaries, where they are offered room to play and rest comfortably with other animal contact.
Some circuses, however, have construct-ed their own sanctuaries, such as the Ringling
Bros.’ Center for Elephant Conservation, where further neglect and abuse have been reported.
Aside from the physical violence circus ani-mals endure, there is a clear level of humiliation and exploitation in having creatures that weigh thousands of pounds, plucked from their native continent, painted, ridden and made to per-form unnatural behaviors.
Circuses generate roughly $125,000 a night for reasons much more gruesome than those that drive people to hate child pageants and other forms of human exploitation.
There are a number of circuses however, such as Cirque Du Soleil, that operate with-out the use of animals. These are the shows that communities should feel OK about brin-ing their children to see and handing over their money for admittance into.
We know in the backs of our minds that animal abuse occurs in the entertainment industry.
Whether or not those involved in the cycle of animal violence are cognizant of the abuse they are administering, its continuation is evi-dence of a mentality that must be stopped- a mentality that suggests animals deserve a lesser quality of life than a species that has historical-ly exploited them and deprived them of basic necessities.
Katie Smith is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-7912
or at [email protected]
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Animal abuse shouldn’t be entertaining
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Letter to the Editor:“It only takes a few people to make a change”
In response to the article on 9-9-14 “Green” initiatives beginning at the dining halls: I worked at Stevenson Tower dining for the summer of 2014 and recycled everything I used that could be recycled.
After filling the can several times a day the recycling was taken out to the dock.
Also, every cardboard box is recy-cled that comes into the dining cen-ters.
Years ago in 2009 at Carman Hall the same practices were used. We recy-cled all the metal cans, plastic bags, plastic jugs, and cardboard.
We even had a recycling dump-ster in the parking lot which filled up weekly from the dining centers of Car-man and Stevenson and some of the communities recycling as well.
I now work at Thomas dining in which we have had an even larger push to recycle and you would be amazed at the amount of recycling we have each day. I believe the article was a gen-eralization of all dining centers even though each dining center is not ran exactly the same.
It only takes a few people to make a change and if we all “pitch in” togeth-er, Eastern will be a greener campus for current and future students.
-Tony Willenborg
In the infant stages of the university’s search for a new president, there has been no shortage of opinion, both from students and faculty.
With the end of President Perry’s tenure on the horizon—June 2015, to be exact—having conversations about who his replacement be is incredibly critical, as the person handed that baton needs to hit the ground running, ready to tackle a myriad of difficult issues.
Budget cuts, overhauls of the state pension plan, dwindling enroll-ment rates—these will be their inheritance.
That isn’t to say we feel this administration’s handling of those issues has been poor—while there is room for improvement, it’s a position we’d never want thrust on ourselves, and one that is hard understood, weighed down by bureaucracy and complexity.
However, whoever replaces Perry in Old Main next year needs to be ready to not only carry that torch, but also have the capacity to improve their office.
As a publication, we feel that those improvements should start with the way the next administration communicates.
Far too often, the current heads of Eastern have failed to unite on a public stance, often lending themselves to vague and confusing announcements, rather than clear, direct and detailed analyses of the many issues afflicting the university.
Far too often, our reporters have returned to our newsroom from interviews with members of the administration, only to find complete-ly conflicting statements.
While we understand that these issues often aren’t so easily-defined—they are very complicated—not producing a consistent and clear stance only adds to the confusion, only raises questions of both
competency and motive. Take, for example, the email released by Old Main just last week, one
that was supposed to detail large budget cuts and possible personnel reduc-tions. Vague in its wording, unclear in its details, the email raised serious doubts among faculty and students about the longevity and future of East-ern as a university, and while, again, we understand these are delicate issues to confront, keeping campus in the dark is not a viable strategy.
However, we also understand that the last years of President Perry’s ten-ure were spent primarily trying to fix a myriad of systemic problems with the university, and applaud his work in that regard. His replacement, then, should be someone who understands the complexities of these issues; someone who understands just how much work his predecessor has put into fixing these problems; someone not inclined to overhaul years of work.
We keep coming back to one word: consistency. Not just in terms of having a unified and clear stance on issues, but with regard to decision-making.
By most standards, the current administration has done a good job han-dling these problems. For almost a year, we’ve sat in Council on University Planning and Budget (CUPB) meetings, detailing arguments over just how to trim almost $7 million from the university budget.
Thus, to bring in someone who would completely overhaul those deci-sions would fly in the face of continuity and progress. Whoever replaces President Perry next year needs to understand the work that such decisions have entailed, and be able to adapt and build upon Perry’s approach.
In search for new president, we need consistency
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JAR AD JARMON | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Christopher and Nancy Desmond, Eastern alumni, were honored Friday after providing a sizeable donation to the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Christopher said he wanted Shakespeare imprinted on the wall because he and his wife have loved Shakespeare for years.
‘Oh, had I but followed the arts!’
By Samantha MiddendorfEntertainment Editor | @Samantha_EE
Booth Librar y has begun to create a new and improved web-site to help facilitate the Eastern community.
Booth’s l ibrar y web ser v ices committee has been running re-search over the course of the past two years in order to come up with the best design possible.
Allen Lanham, the dean of li-brary services, said the website will hopefully make finding what the library has to offer simpler.
“ We hope tha t pa t rons wi l l
f ind the new s i te user - f r i end-ly and easy to navigate, wheth-er they are conducting research, renewing a book, or accessing an electronic database,” said Lan-ham.
L a n h a m s a i d h e b e l i e v e s Booth’s website is an important resource for those going to the li-brary.
“It’s the starting point for all who are doing research; connect-ing them with library resources in the building and online,” he said. “But it also serves as an informa-tion source about library events and activities, other services of-
fered by the library, library hours and much more.”
Todd Bruns, the chairman of Booth’s web services committee, said the committee spent a lot of time talking to students, staff and faculty to discover what aspects of the old website they like and which aspects they did not like.
“We also showed them compo-nents of other library websites to see what they liked about them,” Bruns said. “We used all of that information to tailor the design of the new site.”
Booth encourages s tudent s , faculty and staff to complete a
site feedback survey so that the committee can make adjustments before the final site is launched in January.
“We’re exc i ted to hear f rom people who try out the new site, and we’ll use that input to make any final tweaks before switching to the new website design in the spring semester,” Bruns said.
Samantha Middendorf can be reached at 581-2812
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Delta Chi, Delta Tau Delta, Lamb-da Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Theta, Phi Rho Eta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Al-pha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Pi make up the 11 fraternities on campus.
Pan-Hellenic sorority formal re-cruitment will come to an end Mon-day when women receive their bids to their new houses.
Fraternities are in the middle of re-cruitment activities.
Intrafraternity council recruitment will finish at the end of the month.
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The 2014-15 season got off to a rough start during the weekend with the East-ern hockey club dropping its first two games of the season to No. 6 Missouri State.
The Panthers were shutout 22-0 on Friday and lost 13-2 on Saturday at the Mediacom Ice Park in Springfield, Mo.
Missouri State’s Jack Ryan, a first team All-MACHA se-lection last season, had five
goals and four assists in Fri-day’s 22-goal win. The Ice Bears sent a total of 63 shots at Eastern goalie Zach Peifer.
Missouri State goalie Jus-tin Davis, another first team All-MACHA player from last year, faced just 12 shots on Friday. It was his eighth career shutout.
The first seven goals of the game came on short-handed attempts. Missouri State set a team record with three short-handed goals on one Eastern power play when Kellen Pat-
rick, Brad Keenan and Bren-dan McClew scored in 54 seconds between 16:39 and 15:45 left in the second peri-od.
On Saturday, the Panthers lost again, but were able to manage two goals. Sopho-more Andy Isalaco scored in the first period of Saturday’s game to the game at 1-1.
After 12 more Ice Bear goals, Eastern got its second goal of the game from soph-omore Steven Kinnison on a breakaway. The Panthers al-
lowed just one more goal in the third period to bring the final score to 13-2.
Eastern (0-2) will take on the University of Illinois-Ur-bana Champaign (1-1) this weekend with two games at the David S. Palmer Ice Are-na in Danville. Friday’s game is set for 8 p.m., while Satur-day’s start time has yet to be announced.
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In the first half, red-shirt se-nior Andrew Manley received his first start as Eastern’s quarterback.
After Neblett caught his first touchdown, a 61-yard pass from Roberson to make it 14-3 Illinois State up with 8:44 left in the sec-ond quarter, Manley drove East-ern deep into Redbirds territory.
With 5:13 left before halftime, Illinois State called a timeout as the Panthers’ offense was on the field getting ready to go for it on fourth and one just nine yards away from the end zone.
Following the timeout flags littered the field, Eastern’s fourth and one became a fourth and six after a substitution penal-ty. Panthers’ coach Kim Damer-on pulled the offense off the field and settled for a field goal, but not before Eastern was forced to move back five more yards be-cause of a delay of game penalty.
“It’s a combination of both – some of it is being on different pages and some of it is just men-tal mistakes,” LePak said of East-ern’s penalties.
Nick Bruno made the 36-yard field goal – the second time in the first half he connected from that distance. It also happened to be the second time he came on the field after a costly penalty.
Trailing 7-0 early in the sec-ond quarter, Whitlow threw a three-yard touchdown to Dun-can that was immediately negat-ed because junior wide receiv-er Keiondre Gober was called for pass interference.
Bruno made his first field goal after Eastern was pushed back to the 19-yard line and could not convert on third and goal.
The Panthers’ last possession of the first half also resulted in a Manley interception, which led to a Marshaun Coprich two-yard touchdown run with five seconds left before halftime that put Illi-nois State ahead 21-6.
“We killed ourselves with pen-alties and turnovers,” LePak said.
The 11 penalties called on Eastern cost the team 90 yards. In their home opener, Eastern was penalized 84 yards on 11 flags.
Illinois State gained 326 yards of offense and allowed 385 to Eastern, making the Redbirds the third consecutive team to gain fewer yards and still beat the Pan-thers.
The Panthers had two turn-overs in the fourth quarter, in-cluding a Duncan fumble at the one-yard line of Illinois State. That turnover marked the third time Eastern has committed a turnover inside the opposing team’s 10-yard line this season.
The Panthers lost the turnover battle 5-1, and now have a mi-nus seven turnover margin that is ranked No. 6 in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Under a new coaching staff, LePak said the offense has transi-tioned well enough but has to cut down on its mistakes.
“I think we’ve adjusted to the system fine,” he said. “We just have to execute and avoid penal-ties.”
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Cherry said he was satisfied with the way the Panthers played in the game.
“I am pleased with the girls because they worked,” he said. “It was good for the girls. We are go-ing to keep moving forward. It’s stepping stones, progress for the program and that is the most im-portant thing. I am proud of ev-ery single one of them, because they just kept working.”
Eastern, moving forward, will face Valparaiso at 3 p.m. Friday at Lakeside Field and will then travel to Chicago State to play at 1 p.m. Sunday in Chicago.
Cherry said the biggest thing he wants to work on heading into the next few games is exe-cution.
“We progressed forward, but we still have to learn how to win a game,” he said. “Granted I am happy that we tied, but we just have to keep working on execu-tion.”
Eastern is currently 0-6-1 through seven games this season.
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JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore forward Kathleen MacKinnon runs after the ball with freshman defender Nicole Dincau right beside her during a match on Aug. 31 at Lakeside Field. The Panthers lost to Louisiana Tech 3-1. After tieing with Wisconsin-Green Bay on Sunday, the Panthers are 0-6 -1 overall.
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By Blake NashStaff Reporter | @banash5
The Eastern vol leybal l team wrapped up a tough weekend at the South Dakota State Challenge, by finishing 1-2. This was the first time the Panthers did not win at least two games in their early-season tourna-ment matches and are now 5-4 over-all.
Saturday’s portion of the tournament saw the Panthers take their only win of the tournament, against the host South Dakota State. Eastern swept the Jack-rabbits, winning the three-set match 27-25, 25-15, and 25-12, as Abby Saa-lfrank paced all players with her sixth double-double of the season for the Panthers.
The junior recorded 17 kills and 12 digs, while Saalfrank also hit .303 in the match and securing 18 total points.
Freshman Allie Hueston had anoth-er solid performance with 11 kills of her own, while adding a team-high three aces for 14 total points. Stephanie Wal-lace finished with 13 digs, while senior Kelsey Roggemann secured three blocks for Eastern.
For the nightcap the Panthers faced North Dakota. Chelsea Lee, who chipped in with nine kills, while Hueston added seven, led the Eastern offense. Marah Bradbury just missed an assist-dig double-double, with 30 assists and nine digs.
Wallace paced the Eastern defense with 13 digs, along with three assists on
the offensive attack. This was the first match between both programs. Saal-frank and Bradbury were named to the all-tournament team following the end
of the tournament. On Friday the Panthers faced Big
Ten Conference member Iowa, led by first-year head coach Bond Shymansky,
who arrived after turning around the Marquette program.
The Hawkeyes wound up sweeping the Panthers in three sets, by scores of
25-23, 25-23 and 25-15. Hueston led the Panthers offensive attack with eight kills and 11 points. She also tied fellow freshman Maria Brown in blocks with a pair.
The reigning Ohio Valley Confer-ence offensive player of the week, Saa-lfrank, followed with seven kills of her own, along with five digs. Bradbury served up 28 assists and tallied five kills off zero errors for a .556 attack clip. Wallace posted another solid defensive performance with 12 digs to lead the Panthers.
Eastern jumped out to an early lead in the first set, but the Hawkeyes re-bounded to win the set late, and the Hawkeyes continued that momentum for the rest of the match. The Hawk-eyes middle blocker, Jess Janota, led her team with 13 kills, which was five more than teammate Lauren Brobst, who had eight.
Next, the Panthers will compete in their last tournament of the regular sea-son. The Penn State Alumni Classic will begin at 8 a.m. Friday at University Park, Pa., against East Carolina. Eastern will also play against No. 3 Penn State on at 3 p.m. Friday. The Panthers’ two Saturday matches will start at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. against DePaul and the University of Illinois-Chicago, respec-tively.
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By Mark ShanahanStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
The Eastern men’s soccer team dropped a close one at Western Michigan Sunday to fal l to 2-3 on the season. The Panthers lost 2-1 to the Broncos.
Western Michigan began the scoring in the 22nd minute when Jason Grant scored his first goal of the season. Brandon Bye and Sean Conerty assisted him.
H e a d c o a c h M a r k H a n s e n called this a possession game be-tween two very different styles of play.
“First half went smoothly for us and we were unfortunate to be trailing going into half,” he said. “We could’ve easily been up 1-0.”
In the 58th minute capta in Jake Bri l lhart scored his team-high third goal for Eastern to tie the game.
Will Butler assisted him on the goal. After Eastern tied it, the Panthers immediately hit the post and crossbar in their next posses-sions but could not score.
Four minutes later in the 62nd minute, Western Michigan’s Car-los Suarez scored what turned out to be the game-winning goal. This was his first goal of the sea-son . Sean Hazen and Es teban Russell assisted him.
Eastern was only outshot 10-7 in the game. Goalkeeper Chase Rau for Western Michigan gave up one goal while making three saves. Mike No-votny gave up two goals while also making three saves.
Hansen decided to go with the true freshman goalie for the second straight game.
“Mike has done tremendous,” he
said. “He’s making the saves he needs too.”
Hansen is pleased with his team’s performance in the close loss.
“They battled until the very end,” he said. “We’re not going to put our heads down, we’re going to keep go-
ing forward.”Eastern had two good chances
from Jake Brillhart and Justin Oliver near the end of the game. Brillhart’s chance was blocked in front of the net and Chase Rau made the save on Ol-iver’s shot.
Western Michigan is now 3-2-1 on the season and is currently on a three game winning streak after defeating Butler and Eastern at home last week-end.
This was the first of four straight road games for Eastern. The Panthers
travel to Bowling Green this Friday. Bowling Green is currently 4-1 on the season.
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JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior forward Jake Brillhart sprints after the ball during a match against Culver-Stockton on Sept. 8 at Lakeside Field. The Panthers beat the Wildcats 5-1. Brillhart had two goals during the game. After losing to Western Michigan 2-1 on Sunday, the Panthers are 2-3 overall.
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FILE PHOTO BY JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRedshirt senior middle hitter Stephanie Arnold hits the ball in the direction of middle blocker Kristen Torre in a game on Oct. 1 in Lantz Arena. The Panthers beat the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Cougars 3-1.
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Red-shirt sophomore goalie Kylie Mor-gan saved a season-high 10-of-11 shots in the Eastern women’s soccer team’s 1-1 draw against Wisconsin-Green Bay at Lakeside Field Sunday.
Morgan, who only star ted two other matches this season for the Panthers, said her teammates deserved the credit for the success she had in net.
“I’m happy with my play,” Morgan said. “Obviously my defenders have a lot to do with it. I had a couple mistakes, but those are things I can clean up. My back line be-ing there is a big help when I carry the ball or drop one or something. They are always there to clean it up.”
Eastern took the lead in the 23rd minute, when red-shirt junior Chris Reed received a cross pass from fellow freshman Kathleen Mackinnon at the side of the box and bur-ied it behind Green Bay goalie Nastacia Beh-
le for a 1-0 lead. Morgan kept the lead in tact for the Pan-
thers, until the 66th minute, when Green Bay’s Heidi Hartmann kicked a low shot past Morgan to tie the match.
Eastern coach Jason Cherry said Morgan did everything she had to in order to keep the Panthers in the match.
“She made some game-changing saves to keep us in the game,” he said. “I am very pleased with her. She has taken her moment and ran with it.”
With about five minutes left in regulation, Panthers’ forward Bianca Navejas’s shot went off the crossbar and bounced right in front of the goal line and was called a no goal.
Both teams remained even throughout the rest of regulation and overtime and the Pan-thers six-match losing streak came to an end.
Behle saved 4-of-5 shots for Green Bay and Hartmann led the Phoenix in shots with five.
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The Eastern football team played a different op-ponent in a different stadium, but the Panthers had to deal with the same problems — turnovers and penalties.
For the third straight game the Panthers’ offense outgained their opponent, but with five turnovers and 11 penalties Eastern lost to Illinois State 34-15 Saturday at Hancock Stadium in Normal.
Junior quarterback Jalen Whitlow began the third quarter on the field with the Panthers’ of-fense, leading them on an 80-yard drive. Red-shirt senior running back Taylor Duncan began the se-ries with a 15-yard run and then Whitlow con-nected with red-shirt freshman Anthony Taylor for a 40-yard pass.
After Duncan rushed for 11 yards, Whitlow
took the next snap and kept it, running up the middle and scoring his first touchdown as a Pan-ther from the 14-yard line.
The lightning quick four-play drive brought Eastern within eight points of Illinois State with 13:26 in the third quarter, but it was the first and only time the Panthers’ offense celebrated in the end zone.
After the Eastern defense forced a three and out, the Panthers’ started their next drive at midfield down 21-13.
A first-down catch by tight end Jeff LeP-ak, pushed the Panthers inside the Redbirds’ 40-yard line. Following a false start penalty on second down, the Panthers were left with a third down and five at the Illinois State 32-yard line.
Whitlow stepped back and threw a pass intend-ed for LePak, but Illinois State linebacker Alex Donnelly had underneath coverage and intercept-
ed the pass after a defensive lineman deflected it. Donnelly returned the interception to the Eastern 15-yard line, leading to a Nick Aussieker 25-yard field goal.
Leading 24-13 with 7:30 left in the third quar-ter, the Redbirds’ defense came up with another turnover less than two minutes later.
The Panthers were at their own 41-yard line fac-ing another third down, when Whitlow once again looked for LePak for the first down. This time Whitlow’s pass was not tipped.
“It was a middle screen and their defensive end read it and made a nice play,” LePak said.
The Redbirds brought a blitz on the play, while Teddy Corwin was one of two Illinois State defen-sive linemen that dropped back in coverage. He happened to be in the right spot, where LePak was about to cross the middle of the field at the 40-yard line.
Again, the turnover led to more points, as In-diana transfer quarterback Tre Roberson threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to Lechein Neblett two plays later, giving Illinois State a 31-13 lead, scoring 10 points within four minutes in the third quarter.
In the first half, red-shirt senior Andrew Man-ley received his first start as Eastern’s quarter-back.
After Neblett caught his first touchdown, a 61-yard pass from Roberson to make it 14-3 Il-linois State up with 8:44 left in the second quar-ter, Manley drove Eastern deep into Redbirds territory.
With 5:13 left before halftime, Illinois State called a timeout as the Panthers’ offense was on the field getting ready to go for it on fourth and one just nine yards away from the end zone.
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Panthers snap 6-game losing streak with draw
The Eastern offensive line squares off against the Illinois State defense on Saturday at Hancock Stadium in Normal, Ill. The Panthers lost to the Red-birds 34-15.
Junior quarterback Jalen Whitlow prepares to handoff the ball to red-shirt senior running back Taylor Duncan. Whitlow and Duncan com-bined for four of the Panthers’ five turnovers against the Redbirds.
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Red-shirt senior quarterback Andrew Manley surveys the field, as se-nior left tackle Adolphus Barnes tries to block an Illinois State defen-sive end. Manley made his first start of the year Saturday and finished 9-of-15 for 55 yards, while throwing an interception in the first half.
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