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By Olivia TrillaStaff Reporter | @DEN_NEWS
Members of the university’s committee for reaccreditation will discuss the third criteri-on that falls under the five sections of NCA’s criteria for the university when they meet Fri-day morning.
According to Bob Augustine, co-chair of the accreditation steering committee and the dean of the graduate school, the two-year pro-cess essentially serves as a quality evaluation for the university.
In order to receive reaccreditation, Eastern must first conduct a self-study in accordance with the five criteria provided by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association for College.
The third criterion deals with teaching and learning while focusing on quality, resources and support. The sub-committee will be look-ing at the many sub criteria in that area and will present what they are studying, as well as current and future research.
Augustine said the individuals presenting the third criterion will also be engaging a group of people to collect more information as a means of ensuring all aspects of the criterion are examined.
“The primary focus of the meeting will be to present valid information about criterion three and receive feedback from the people at-tending,” Augustine said.
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The Vermi l l i on County Sheriff ’s De-partment for Coles County arrested a Danville resident on charges of a felony warrant for home re-pair fraud.
Acco rd ing t o a press release sent out by the Charleston Po-lice Department, Teddy Girton, 37 of Danville, was arrested Monday on a warrant after alleged-ly charging an exorbitant amount of money for driveway repairs to at least five victims through his business, Teddy’s Paving.
CPD, Mattoon Police Department and the Coles County State’s Attorney’s office have been conducting a joint investigation on what the press release refers to as “driveway scam.”
Girton is currently in custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections for a parole viola-tion, according to the release.
Lt. Brad Oyer of CPD said they cannot re-lease any other information about the investiga-tion.
He said they are asking anyone who has been a victim of the scam to contact their local police department.
“There could be three times the number of victims,” Oyer said. “We are hoping to find more out.”
PhOTOS By K aTie SmiTh | The Daily eaSTeRn ne wS Jasmine Mans, poet, recites her work inspired by the pain she felt when she heard the news of Whitney Houston’s death. Mans said she started to discover her love for poetry in middle school where her peers considered her a rapper, and later polished her performance skills as a mem-ber of the debate team.
DiMarcko Gray, a senior management information system major, recites a poem during the Jasmine Mans reading Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Man arrested on charges of fraud
Aigner Nash, a junior mathmatics major, performs an interpretive dance at the Jasmine Mans poetry reading Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
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By marcus CurtisEntertainment Editor | @DEN_News
Conflicts that African Americans have experienced in the inner city and the world was the main focus of Jasmine Mans’ poetry and spo-ken word performance Wednesday in Martin Luther King Jr. Univer-sity Union.
Mans’ presence alone grabs the attention of the audience that stares and socializes amongst each other, patiently waiting for her to utter a word. “Can I get silence please,” Mans said. After about 5 seconds the packed Grand Ballroom in the Union put a halt to the noise.
The majority of Mans’ poems expressed her struggles of being in love, getting her heart broken and living in the dangerous inner city.
One poem by Mans that proved
to be popular with the audience was “I know you didn’t mean to kill him.”
In Mans’ piece she speaks on current incidents like the Sean Bell case in 2006, where police officers murdered 22-year-old Bell in New York.
Mans also touched on the topic of the large amount of violence in areas like Chicago, where the mur-der-rate has risen.
Every word that came out of Mans’ mouth during the perfor-mance of the poem was filled with emotion. The feelings in her words derived from her personal experi-ence of losing friends and family to the dangerous inner city streets.
Before performing “I know you didn’t mean to kill him,” Mans de-scribed how her inspiration to write the poem came from losing one of
her friends who was murder at a block party he was hosting.
In addition, Mans described how her cousin was facing attempt-ed murder charges around the same time she lost her friend.
Mans said her connection to a young black male who died and who attempted to murder someone influenced her to write this poem.
“I care about the young, black males,” she said.
Orlando Thomas, a junior kine-siology and sports studies major, said he enjoyed the “I know you didn’t mean to kill him” poem the most.
Mans connected with the wom-en in the audience with her piece, “Dear First lady.” This poem was simply an ode to Michele Obama and how Mans felt she was setting a positive example for little Afri-
can American girls. Girls like Mans’ niece, who she mentions in partic-ular for this poem.
The crowd joined in an exten-sive applause as Mans ended her ode to the first lady with the words, “Thank you for being a brown girl’s dream come true, something tangi-ble to look up to.”
Heartbreak was also a topic that was magnified during the series of emotion-filled poems by Mans with an emotional delivery.
In her poem, “Dear ex-lover,” she describes how her heart was broken after her and her ex-girl-friend separated.
In the beginning of the piece there is a portion where she said, “I will marry a man and a lay my heart on his chest like red roses on Mahogany caskets.”
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•. At 10:30 a.m. Monday, a hit and run was reported near the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.
•At 7:55 a.m. Monday, a hit and run was reported the X Lot. This in-cident is under investigation.
• At 3:16 p.m. Monday, a theft was reported to have occurred on Friday at the Union. This incident is under investigation.
•At 6:42 p.m. a residential burglary was reported at Taylor Hall. This inci-dent is under investigation.
•At 8:07 p.m. Monday, a canna-bis complaint was reported at Thomas Hall. This incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards.
•At 9 p.m. Tuesday, an obstruc-tion was reported at University Court. This incident was referred to the Of-fice of Student Standards and the State’s Attorney.
•At 12:05 p.m. Wednesday, misuse of a debit card was reported at Taylor Hall. This incident is under investiga-tion.
In the article, “Festival Work-shops to showcase films,” in Mon-day’s edition of The Daily Eastern News, the sponsor of the Embarrass Valley Film Festival was misidenti-fied. The College of Arts and Hu-manities, the Tarble Arts Center, the Doudna Fine Arts Center and Booth Library are sponsoring the festival. Also, a workshop on stop motion will take place on Nov. 2 and the films will be shown at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 9. In addition “The An-thropocene Era” film by Camer-on Craig is not a sequel, but is the second part to his eight-part series, “Expedition Nature’s Realm.” The News regrets the error.
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Student Senate members planned to educate students on the cigarette littering law at their meeting Wednes-day. The law, which considers throw-ing cigarettes on the ground as litter-ing, will be enacted Jan. 1.
Those who are caught littering will be convicted with a class B mis-demeanor with a fine, which will not exceed $1,500. If convicted a second time, it will be considered a class A misdemeanor.
The third conviction and any other convictions following may result in a class 4 felony, with a fine of $25,000 and imprisonment of no less than one year and no more than three years.
The senate will be putting the smoking designated areas map on the
student government website. Bianca Tomlin, the University En-
hancement committee chairwom-an, said they will also be printing and handing out fliers explaining what is happening in January.
“I am not a smoker, but I would not like my fellow smoking students to get a $1,500 fine for littering their cig buds,” Tomlin said.
Executive Vice President Mitch Gurick announced four members from Student Senate, as well as him-self will be attending the Illinois Board of Higher Education- Student Advisory Committee from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Public Affairs Center Conference Room at the Uni-versity of Illinois.
Darnell Tyms, the student vice president for student affairs, said the
Student Organization Cabinet also had a bump in participation from reg-istered student organizations across campus.
Originally, only a couple of RSO’s went to SOC meetings but recently 19 organizations participated.
The senate also announced they will be hosting an EIU Feud Trivia Bowl from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Pem-berton Hall, co-sponsored by the stu-dent academic affairs committee, as well as the Association of Honors Stu-dents.
The trivia game will be formatted like Family Feud and teams can only have a maximum of 10 people.
The senate’s next meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Ar-cola-Tuscola Room in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.
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Pemberton Hall Council will be hosting the “Pit of Despair” haunt-ed house from 9 to 11 p.m. Thursday.
Groups of six willing participants or victims – depending on how one looks at it – will go down in the base-ment and break up going down two hallways, ending up in the Pemberton Hall parking lot.
Attendees can expect to see the sta-ples of horror at the hall, including zombies and clowns.
Michelle Bognanno, a Pember-ton resident assistant and sophomore communication disorders and psy-
chology major, said since Carman Hall is closed, Pemberton Hall resi-dents have decided to pick up as the place to have the campus’s haunted house.
Three residents put the suggestion at the hall council meeting at the begin-ning of September to have the haunted house in Pemberton.
Abby Baguisa, Dana Mayfield and Nicci Colucy, residents of Pemberton, got the ball rolling to bring the haunted house over to Pemberton Hall.
Colucy, a freshman sports man-agement major said the Mary E. Hawkins ghost story and the building history were factors, which made her want to have the haunted house.
The legend states a young stu-dent was murdered on a cold win-ter night.
She was raped and beaten by the janitor and she banged and scratched on the door of the RA on the fourth floor, who would not answer.
Currently, the fourth floor is shut-down because the flooring is mal-treated.
Mayfield, a freshman English ma-jor, said, “We just started talking about our ghost haunted house ex-periences and we were just like, we should do one.”
Baguisa, a freshman accounting major, said many people on campus have a conspiracy about the ghost and
Pemberton as a building.“So I think it kind of just adds to
the mood,” Baguisa said.While the Pemberton ghost story
makes Pemberton a good venue for the annual haunted house, Bognanno said they will not have anything relat-ed to the ghost.
“We decided to avoid that route, since it’s in the basement. There is noth-ing really related to the basement,” Bog-nanno said.
RAs and other residents like May-field, Baguisa and Colucy will be in the basement to strike fear into those who attend.
“I’m hoping that people will actual-ly be scared and not be like ‘that was
lame’,” Mayfield said. Admission to get in is at least one
canned good or a $2 cover charge and a liability form will be issued.
All the proceeds are being donated to the homeless shelter, Public Action to Deliver Shelter in Mattoon.
The shelter philanthropy service pro-vides food and shelter to those in the Mattoon area.
“We’re scaring you for a good cause,” Colucy said. “I’m really proud that our idea actually happened. Be-cause even though I’m a freshman it still happened and that’s pretty cool.”
Stacey Catterson can be reached at 581-2812
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Sa jjad aBedian | The daily eaSTern ne wSMaggie Doyle, a junior accounting major, suffers a knee injury while performing with the dance team during Blue Madness on Wedneasday in Lantz Arena. Blue Madness was an event to introduce members of the Eastern basketball teams.
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chucK clOSe eXhibiT: The Tarble Arts Center is hosting an exhibit from renowned artist and photographer Chuck Close. The exhibit will be on display until Dec. 20.
PianO Player: 12-year-old William Yang performed at Doudna Fine Arts Center in the Recital Hall Tuesday. Yang’s performance had intensity throughout his pieces.
ObaMacare: The Obamacare website is still having issues. The Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized Wednesday, saying Americans deserve better and she is responsible.
Imagine this scenario: one of the only sources of information you have has begun broadcasting an alien invasion overtaking Earth.
The newspapers, without really checking first, begin to publish the events as if they are actually happening. What happens next turns the country into sheer panic, sheer chaos.
Now, imagine the broadcast was just a radio show centered on a novel titled “The War of the Worlds” – and it was fictional.
The chaos, the panic, the confusion is all for nothing.
Tuesday marked the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ broadcast, “The War of the Worlds,” based of the novel by H.G. Wells.
Welles broadcasted the story – which was in the form of news bulletins – from a radio station with a small audience. Howev-er, it got the entire country into a mass pan-ic when newspapers began publishing the information Welles spoke about as if it were gospel truth.
This is not the first time, nor the last
time a media outlet has incorrectly given out information.
While fact checking is one of the most important facets of the media, sometimes it gets overlooked.
People react more negatively toward media outlets blaring out wrong information because it affects them on a wider scale.
However, the idea of jumping to conclu-sions also affects personal lives as well.
While there may be more outlets for information, from Facebook to Twitter to texting, and the idea of every source of media clawing to be the first one to give out the information, it is important to know the
importance of not jumping to conclusions. Information is spread on a global scale at
this point in our lives and it holds true that not all of that information will be accurate.
Skepticism is a great part of human nature and one that is admired. The abili-ty to look at information and want to know more, to dig deeper, is a quality most strive to have.
However do not lose your sense of skepti-cism based on what large amounts of people are saying. If you believe something is truly not right, go ahead and find out what.
The worst thing anybody can do is accepting “facts” at face value. When that happens, more people are affected by this wrong information.
Don’t let the hoards of people telling you you are wrong keep you down. Make sure it is something worth fighting for, and find out the truth.
Bob Galuski is a senior English and journal-ism major. He can be reached at 581-2812
If the Jack-O-Lanterns, skeleton decorations and spider web lawn décor are any indication – it’s Halloween again.
This year, the forecast is calling for rain showers throughout the evening, and that means students who are participating in any Hal-loween festivities should be careful.
While running around in light-clothed costumes may seem like a good idea at the time, hypothermia is not worth looking good in a beer-bottle themed costume.
For those who are just now thinking, “Man, I should probably get a costume,” remember when picking out the costume to make sure it is something durable, something that can withstand any kind of weather conditions.
With finals right around the corner, this is normally crunch time for students.
This is the point where students should be looking ahead at how much work they have left to do in the semester, and it is problematic to do so if bad weather spoils both your Halloween and your health.
Try not to get into too much trouble over the weekend, either. No matter how much fun it might look, vandalism is vandalism, even if you are just toilet papering somebody’s house.
Halloween is a great time to have fun, but should also be a time to give it a lot of thought.
That’s the difference between a fun Halloween and one you will
regret. And if getting rowdy on Halloween is not really your scene, don’t
forget Eastern has plenty of Halloween-themed activities – including a haunted house at Pemberton Hall – planned for you.
Halloween does not have to be about just going absolutely crazy. It can be fun just to walk around in costumes.
Be smart this Halloween. Maybe it’s not the best idea to indulge yourself at the bar all night
long, on a Thursday night – especially if rain is involved. And maybe it’s not the best idea to only be wearing half of a cos-
tume; despite how good you might think it looks. Halloween is a time for fun, for letting loose your inner child, but
don’t make it one you will regret. Halloween is only one night a year, so remember to be safe and
smart. Don’t do anything you will regret Friday. Don’t forget to also make sure any make-up or face paint used for
your costume washes off by Friday’s first class. Whatever you choose to do Thursday is your decision. But know
what consequences there are and remember to celebrate Halloween with a little bit of tact.
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Covering all points of the NCA cri-teria is essential to indicate the univer-sity’s success of meeting the standards, he said.
“Eastern Illinois University’s ac-creditation is our evidence to the pub-
lic that we meet appropriate standards as an institution of higher education,” Augustine said. “In October we had a seminar that talked about the integrity of the university and in September we had our first criterion discussion that was about the mission of the universi-ty,” Augustine said.
Augustine said that at the end of the summer a comprehensive self-study will be completed and sent to the high learning commission of the NCA. The survey includes questions asking if the university was meeting
the five different criteria. A representative of the higher learn-
ing commission of the NCA will be on campus in October 2014 to inter-view faculty and students on campus as evidence that the self-studies were
accurate. “Eventually the whole campus will
see this data,” Augustine said. The results of the survey will be
shared with the university in a report that will become public later this year.
The meeting will take place at 7:30 a.m. in the Rathskiller Loft by 7th Street Underground of the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union and is open to any interested individuals.
Olivia Trilla can be reached at 581-2812 or at [email protected].
Mans said the heartbreak was a hard time for her emotionally.
“I cut-off all my hair,” she said. “I was going through it.”
Despite the severity of the separa-tion between Mans and her ex-girl-friend, she said she found humor in the situation as she laughed and rem-inisced about the first time she per-formed the poem.
She said she was expecting her ex-girlfriend to attend the performance and hear the pain that she put her through, but she did not show up, which Mans said disappointed her.
Numerous amounts of Eastern stu-dents performed their own pieces pri-or to Mans’ main performance.
Xavier Menzies, a sophomore Eng-lish major, and Jalisa Israel, a senior communication studies major, per-formed a joint poem that touched on a relationship between a man and a woman.
UB Mainstage’s Brave New Voic-
es winner Tiarra “Melo” Webb also performed several poems to prepare the crowd for the performance from Mans.
The night of spoken word was not limited to poetry.
Aigner Nash, a junior mathemat-ics major, and Karen Boggs, a ju-nior communication studies major, dressed up in all black and covered their face in white face paint and per-formed an interpretive dance that re-sulted in a very attentive crowd with their throng of dance movements and hand gestures.
Aaron Haskins, a biological scienc-es major, said he enjoyed the entire performance and the substance of the poems performed by Mans.
“I enjoyed the deepness of the po-etry,” Haskins said.
David Groves, a senior manage-ment major and the UB Mainstage coordinator, said he was satisfied with the performance from Mans and all
of the Eastern students. However, Groves said he wished more audience members would have stayed and ex-perienced the substance of Mans’ po-ems.
“The outcome was incredible,” Groves said. “I wished everyone could’ve stayed to experience the im-pact of her art.”
In addition Groves said he was ex-cited to finally get Mans to come to Eastern and perform.
“I enjoyed just hearing her speak,” Groves said. “It’s been my dream since I’ve gotten to Eastern to get her to get here.”
Groves said the UB Mainstage committee has more surprise events in store for Eastern students.
“One thing about Mainstage, we like to surprise everybody—stay tuned,” Groves said.
Marcus Curtis can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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At 5-foot-2, Black was always the smallest person on the court and said she got under people’s skin.
“I figured I am the smallest one on the court, so I am going to have to be a pest,” she said. “It is really a compliment, because I play hard.”
Black said she has lived a ‘fai-rytale life’.
“I been a little kid for pretty much my whole life,” she said. “I got to do something I loved. I was healthy. I got to coach for eight years and now I’m a head coach, so really it’s been a dream. I don’t think I could have written it better.”
After retiring, Black said it was difficult to transition from player to coach, because she missed what she loved.
“I wasn’t sure how I was going to transition to sit on the sideline as a teacher,” she said. “After the first
three, I started to realize the bene-fits of teaching young female ath-letes. It was pretty neat to see them mature and grow up.”
Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812
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By Dominic RenzettiManaging editor|@domrenzetti
The Eastern women’s soccer team has already secured a spot in the post-season Ohio Valley Conference tour-nament, but it has not yet been de-cided just what seed the Panthers will have going into the Nov. 7 tourna-ment.
The Panthers take on in-state ri-val Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at 2 p.m. Sunday at Lakeside Field in what will be the final regular season match.
Eastern has 18 points in the OVC standings, tied for third with More-head State. If Eastern and Morehead State both get wins this weekend, giv-ing each team 21 points, the Panthers will be the No. 3 seed in the tour-nament because of the head-to-head win over the Eagles on Oct. 4.
Morehead State plays Eastern Ken-tucky Friday at 5 p.m. in Morehead, Ky.
The first and second place teams, Tennessee-Martin and Southeast Missouri, are fighting to see who will host the tournament, and more im-portantly, earn the No. 1 seed. Ten-nessee-Martin has 21 points, while Southeast Missouri has 20. The two will face off Friday at 7 p.m. in
Martin, Tenn. If Tennessee-Martin wins or ties, it
will have the No. 1 seed. Even if East-ern finds itself tied with either team for second place the Panthers would not get the No. 2 seed because they
lost to both teams in head-to-head match-ups.
To have any chance of getting a No. 2 seed, Eastern will first need to win on Sunday. The Panthers have lost each of their last two matches,
scoring no goals in either and giv-ing up six in the two combined. Ed-wardsville, on the other hand, is com-ing off a 1-0 win over Tennessee-Mar-tin.
Freshman Kayla Delgado leads Ed-
wardsville with eight goals this sea-son. Sophomore goalkeeper Jennifer Pelley has started every match in goal for the Cougars, giving up 12 goals and making 67 saves this season.
With 16 points in the conference standings, Edwardsville is looking to be one of the last teams in the tourna-ment. The Cougars are currently tied with Austin Peay, which they beat earlier in the season.
Austin Peay takes on Murray State, which just snapped a four-match los-ing streak, on the road on Sunday. If both Edwardsville and Austin Peay win, it would likely seal the tourna-ment teams.
Belmont and Eastern Kentucky are both fighting for a spot in the tourna-ment as well with 13 points, under-neath Edwardsville and Austin Peay in the standings. Both teams would need to win and have a number of other teams lose in order to have a shot at making the tournament.
The OVC tournament will be host-ed by the No. 1 seed team. The win-ner will automatically qualify for the NCAA tournament. Tennessee-Mar-tin has won the OVC tournament the last two years.
Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Panthers prepare for season finale
“You have to have specific tools, specific tricks of the trade to get open against man-coverage and that’s what we’ve been trained for,” he said. On his first touchdown against the Tigers, LePak was able to get open against their cover-zero, where man-coverage was put on all Eastern receivers and a blitz was un-leashed upon Panthers’ quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.
Sterlin Gilbert, Eastern’s offen-sive coordinator and quarterback’s coach, and Garoppolo recognized the Tennessee State defense and called a play on fourth down and four yards to go that ended up with the Panthers’ third touchdown of the half.
“It was just a rub play between me and Erik (Lora),” LePak said. “I took two steps up, vertical, and then went to rub Erik’s man and both Erik’s man and my man came off on Erik and left me wide open.”
Even a s LePak was running down the field open, he said he saw Garoppolo look at Lora first.
“I was just praying (Garoppolo) got the ball to me in time before someone got to him,” LePak said.
Garoppolo did and LePak ran in, untouched for a 34-yard touch-
down.LePak’s second touchdown of the
game involved a little bit of acting on the field. A fake-switch screen was run near the sideline to Keion-dre Gober. Once the Tigers’ bit on the fake LePak ran down the field, where Garoppolo once again con-nected with the tall wide receiver for a 25-yard touchdown.
“Coach Babers always talks about how we have to sell it, how we have to be the best selling group in the country to get open sometimes,” LePak said. “So, we sold the switch screen and Jimmy (Garoppolo) found me in the seam.”
LePak and the rest of the Pan-thers remain focused on the remain-der of their OVC schedule and are hopeful for a deep run in the FCS playoffs.
If Babers, who has coached five NFL wide receivers from Baylor, is busy and cannot answer a question from LePak, then he can knock on the door of his roommate, who just happens to be the OVC’s all-time leader in receptions for some ad-vice, that being Erik Lora.
Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
By Bob ReynoldsStaff Reporter|@Den_Sports
The Eastern rugby team’s game against Grand Valley State, which was scheduled to be played on Saturday, has been postponed because there is no transportation available to take the Pan-thers to the game, but they are hopeful for a Sunday matchup.
On a typical Saturday road game, the Panthers would travel on a Friday, but Eastern coach Frank Graziano said all the buses were booked, leaving the rugby team without a ride.
Graziano said the Panthers are trying to get a bus available to take them to Grand Valley, where Eastern hope to re-schedule its game to Sunday.
He said there would be more busses available on a Saturday or Sunday com-pared to a Friday.
The game against the Lakers was added to the Eastern schedule earlier in the week, because the Panthers last two scheduled games against Lindenwood and Michigan State were cancelled.
“Here we are two days before we
are supposed to travel and we have no transportation,” he said. “Now it is al-most like starting all over again.”
If the game is moved, the team will have to change the dates they are going to stay in the hotel and Graziano said everyone’s schedule will change.
The coach said he still has logistics to work out and the team still has options to where they will not have to cancel the game.
Graziano said there are challenges to scheduling a game.
“It just takes time to do all of that,” he said. “In the mean time you are try-ing to get the players focused on play-ing. You keep them in the loop of what is going on and they don’t have to wor-ry about the hotel and all of that.”
This would be the second time the Panthers are traveling to play Grand Valley State. The first game ended in a 25-11 defeat for Eastern on Sept. 22.
Graziano said the team is really ex-cited about another opportunity to play against Grand Valley State.
“The girls have worked very hard,” he said. “We have watched the Grand
Valley game on film again. We are re-alizing where we went wrong. We are going to use this game as a nice test to see where we have improved over the course of the season. Practices have been very good over the last couple of days.”
Graziano said he hopes the Panthers do not get distracted over all of this and hopes they have put the cancellation of the Lindenwood game behind them.
It has been seven weeks since the Panthers have played the Lakers and Graziano said he expects the Lakers to be improved.
“When we are watching the film, we can see where Grand Valley is vul-nerable, and now you have to expect they have fixed that vulnerability,” he said. “We have to be prepared for all of that. They are not going to be the same team. This could be a very good rugby game for us and a very good test to see where we are at the end of the season.”
Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812
Rugby game pending due to transportation issues
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Debbie Black
DOminiC BAimA | The DAiLy eAsTeRn ne ws Meagan Radloff, a junior forward midfielder, winds up for a pass against Eastern Kentucky Oct. 6 at Lakeside Field. Eastern will play its final match of the season at 2 p.m. Sunday against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at Lakeside Field.
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“The second half was really a non-event especially because we came out and conceded both goals so early,” Howarth said.
The Panthers’ attention now turns to a final conference battle with Omaha Sunday at Lakeside Field.
“It is a must win game for us on Sunday, so we need to make sure we take care of business,” Howarth said.
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Jeff LePak transferred to Eastern in 2012 from Baylor, where he built a rela-tionship with a familiar face in Charles-ton.
LePak walked on to the campus in Waco, Texas, and then walked on the Baylor football team where Dino Ba-bers served as the special teams coordi-nator and coached the wide receivers.
Three seasons later, one season after Babers’ first year as Eastern’s coach, the two men reunited in Central Illinois.
“He was excited to contact me and I was happy to have him because I knew the kind of work ethic he has and I knew he would be a positive role model not only on the football team but in the community as well,” Babers said.
While at Baylor, LePak appeared in one game as a red-shirt freshman. De-spite not having much game experience in Baylor, LePak said it was Babers who gave him the hope to grow into a pol-ished receiver.
He attended several football camps during the summer between his final year of high school and first year of col-lege, which included a Baylor camp.
“Coach Babers came up to me after the camp and told me if I walked on there I would have an opportunity to learn and grow and get better and get on the field sometime in the four years that I could play.”
That opportunity presented itself in 2013, with his new team: Eastern.
But nothing was handed to red-shirt junior, who at 6-foot-6, stands above all of the Panthers’ wide receiv-
ers this season. Even after Eastern lost five of its six
leading receivers from 2012, Babers said LePak had to earn his spot on the roster.
“It meant a lot that he came here af-ter spending three years at Baylor, but I couldn’t promise him anything,” Ba-bers said. “He came here as a walk-on and I wouldn’t give him any aid. I told him, ‘no promises, you have to come here and prove that you can play.’ He did that.”
To LePak, coming to Eastern meant more playing time and to be once again under the tutelage of Babers.
Babers runs an offense most simi-lar to the one Baylor has and although it may not be at the same level as the Bears, it does have the same principles. LePak’s transition under Babers did not come as easy, though.
“I started the spring as a No. 2 and coach Babers told me that he wanted to see some improvement in my game, some things that I lost from the time he left from Baylor,” LePak said. “I had lost of the fundamentals and techniques that he had taught me.”
But LePak refined his skill set, the “tool belt” that the receivers learn, equipped with various techniques not privy to the public.
Babers said LePak’s development since he arrived in Charleston deals more with what the receiver has learned in games than in watching film or prac-ticing.
Heading into Saturday’s road game against Tennessee State, LePak started seven straight games as a part of East-ern’s starting four wide receivers. Those sevens games were the first starts of LeP-
ak’s collegiate career.“You have to remember at Bay-
lor he didn’t have a lot of opportu-nities to play in football games,” Ba-bers said. “So, now he’s a starter, he’s playing in games and his responsibili-ties to the team have grown immense-ly and he has to meet those responsi-bilities.”
In an offense that leads the FCS in yards per game (592) and pass-ing yards per game (408.9) LePak is
fourth on the team in catches (24) receiving yards (361) and receiving touchdowns, (three) but he said he is willing to do whatever it takes to help Eastern win games.
“A lot of my job is getting other people open and sometimes I put my hands on the dirt and block for the running backs,” LePak said.
In Nashville, Tenn., against the No. 2 defense in the FCS, LePak was the one getting open. Wide open.
Before Eastern’s game against Ten-nessee State, LePak had one touchdown on the season, coming against Eastern Kentucky in the Panthers’ OVC opener on Sept. 28. Against the Tigers, who al-lowed 154.1 passing yards in their first eight games, LePak had a career-high 112 yards and two touchdowns.
This is where the “tool belt” came in handy for LePak.
By Michael SpencerStaff Reporter|@tmskeeper
The Eastern men’s soccer team managed to fend off No. 19 ranked Wisconsin for 28 minutes before the Badgers finally broke through for the first goal en route to a 5-1 win over the Panthers.
Eastern allowed three first-half goals, leading to its third straight loss of the season.
“We seem to concede goals in batches and that is something that we need to address and we need to keep addressing over the course of the game,” Eastern coach Adam Howarth said.
Junior midfielder Jacob Brindle scored a hat trick to lead the Bad-gers over Eastern in Wednesday’s nonconference matchup. Brindle became the squad’s top scorer with the three-goal effort that gave him eight for the season.
Howarth went with sophomore Garrett Creasor in goal for the sec-ond consecutive match as East-ern fell to 1-12-1 on the season with two matches remaining before the Summit League tournament is scheduled to begin.
With a victory in the Panther’s final conference match and some help from other teams in the league, Eastern can still make the postsea-son tournament.
The match started slowly with neither team creating much on ei-ther end of the field at the McCli-mon Complex in Madison, Wis.
In the ninth minute, the Badgers started to fashion chances for them-selves while the Eastern backline managed to hold Wisconsin at bay.
Wisconsin was in control offen-
sively for most of the first 30 min-utes, when freshman forward Bri-an Hail broke through in the 28th minute to score his first goal of the season. He received a layoff from the top of the box and then curled the ball into the upper corner.
The match was suddenly fluid af-ter Wisconsin opened the scoring.
Brindle scored just a minute after Hail with a shot that beat Creasor to the bottom corner of the goal.
Red-shirt freshman outside wing Eric McCausland was introduced for junior forward Tayron Martin in the 32nd minute and then found the back of the net with one of his first touches just two minute later for Eastern.
However, the momentum was short-lived as Wisconsin quick-ly answered with a goal of its own to move the score to 3-1 and it re-
mained there for the rest of the pe-riod.
Ea s t e rn made a goa lk e epe r change at halftime as freshman Aus-tin Miller got his first opportunity in goal since the opening-day of the season against Lipscomb.
It was just 24 seconds into the half before Brindle beat the fresh-man at the back post for his second goal of the day.
In the 49th minute, Brindle smashed home another goal from the top of the box to collect a hat trick and his seventh goal of the campaign.
Wisconsin used the remainder of the match to work bench players into the lineup as the Badgers start-ed to be less intent upon finding scoring chances, Howarth said.
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Top Cat with Jeff LePak, wide receiver
Baylor transfer flourishes in Panther passing attack
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BLACK, page 7
K ATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTErn nE wS Red-shirt junior, Jeff LePak transferred from Baylor, following his third year there. LePak caught four passes for 112 yards and scored two touchdowns against Tennessee State Saturday in the Panther’s 34-16 win in Nashville, Tenn.
By Bob reynoldsStaff Reporter|@DEN_Sports
Debbie Black was hired as the new women’s basketball coach at Eastern, on May 16, 2013.
Eastern Athletic Director Barbara Burke said Black’s experience has had her successful at all levels in the game of basketball.
“During her interview she dis-played an energy, passion and drive for coaching the game that will keep Eastern Illinois as one of the top pro-grams, not only in the Ohio Valley Conference, but in the region,” Burke said in a press release.
As a former assistant at Ohio State University for eight years, Black has worked and played for some of the most successful coaches in women’s basketball.
For eight years, Black had a suc-cessful run for the Buckeyes program under Jim Foster, who is now the coach of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which saw the team win six Big Ten Championships in eight seasons.
The program made several NCAA tournament appearances including two trips to the sweet 16 in 2009 and 2011.
Black always wanted to be a head coach and during the first five years at Ohio State, she realized that that would be the next step.
With coaching and playing un-der Foster, Black said she was able to learn a lot from the former Buckeye head coach.
“Sometimes head coaches who
haven’t had that experience don’t know what the assistant coaches go through,” she said. “I think I have a good feel for what my assistant coach-es go through, and if I didn’t have that experience, I wouldn’t know that.”
While at Ohio State, Black worked at a recruiter and a specialist in devel-oping guards.
In college at St. Joseph Universi-ty, Black was a multi-sport athlete and earned 12 varsity letters in basketball, field hockey and softball.
Black played professional basket-ball for eighteen years, including stints in the Women’s National Bas-ketball League in Australia, where she played for the Tasmanian Islanders for eight years and won two national ti-tles in 1991 and 1995.
Black also played in the American Basketball League and the Women’s National Basketball Association.
Black was drafted the third player selected in the second round at 15th overall by the Utah Starzz in the 1999 WNBA Draft.
While only playing for the Starzz for one season, Black then played the Miami Sol in 2000 and earned the WNBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2001 as a guard. She averaged 2.6 steals per game and 3.9 rebounds.
In 2003, Black was acquired by the Connecticut Sun during the dispersal draft and retired in 2005 at the age of 39.
Black is the only professional play-er ever to record a quadruple-double with 10 points, 14 rebounds, 12 as-sists and 10 steals.
Pro career leads to Eastern’s head coach
AMAnDA wILKInSOn | THE DAILY EASTErn nE wS Jake Plant, a senior defender/midfielder, attempts to gain possession of the ball during a match against Oral Roberts Sunday on Lakeside Field. The Panthers won 2-1.
Men’s soccer drops third straight
MEn’S SOCCEr, page 7
