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By Sarah Jean Bresnahan Campus Editor

Elizabeth Mermann-Jozwiak met with faculty members early Mon-day afternoon to discuss her ideas if she became the dean for the Col-lege of Arts and Humanities.

Mermann-Jozwiak, who goes by Mermann, has been at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Tex-as, for the last 15 years. Currently, she is the associate dean of the Col-lege of Liberal Arts there.

While the conversation traveled

between subjects such as faculty de-velopment, leadership, fundrais-ing and shared governance, two big topics discussed were how interdis-ciplinary minors fit into the col-lege and the pros and cons of on-line classes.

Robin Murray, a professor in the English department and the advis-er for the film studies minor, com-mented that certain minors do not have much support.

“I was wondering how you felt the interdisciplinary minors, other than those that are represented by

our umbrella – the Interdisciplin-ary Center for Global Diversity, might fit into the college as well?” Murray said.

Murray and another faculty member discussed how these pro-grams have not been put into the interdisciplinary center and do not have any funding for simple things like brochures.

�e faculty also wants designat-ed courses that come out of these minors to pull students into the programs.

“I’m the coordinator right now

for the women and gender studies program at my institution,” Mer-mann said. “I think these inter-disciplinary minors are extremely important for students to connect to, to give them an alternate per-spective on the curriculum and to do that whole paradigm shift that women’s studies was all about when it was initiated. You have to make very sure what the mission is, how it’s going to contribute to the uni-versity’s mission and exactly what that funding would be for.”

ERIC HILTNER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSElizabeth Mermann-Jozwiak, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas, responds to a question about integrative learning during Tuesday’s faculty open session interview for the dean of the College of Arts and Humanities in the Charleston-Mattoon Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Mermann-Jozwiak is the third candidate brought to campus to inter-view for the position.

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By Stephen Di Benedetto City Editor

The Charleston city govern-ment’s constrained use of property tax revenue during the next sever-al years is not tied to typical effects from the economic recession.

While many municipalities have lost revenue from foreclosures and abandoned homes, City Comp-troller Heather Kuykendall said pension laws are handicapping the city’s use of property tax.

“It’s not that our property tax revenue is going down,” Kuyken-dall said. “It’s … how we have to spend it.”

She said pension laws require a minimum amount of funds for fire and police pensions, which the re-cession has hindered during the

past year. Because of this, the $3.25 million Charleston is estimated to receive from the property tax will almost all go toward pension costs.

Kuykendall estimates that 20 percent of the levy covered pension costs in 2003. In 2010, 60 percent of the levy is projected to cover pensions. �e increase in pensions will cut almost $1 million in prop-erty tax usage for the city during the next five years.

City Council opted for more time to review the 2010 property tax levy at its Dec. 1 meeting. �e council is expected to vote on the levy, which taxes 2009 values, at its Dec. 15 meeting.

Kuykendall said the Illinois Property Tax Extension Limitation Law also limits the city’s ability to increase property taxes. She said the

law reduces the amount of revenue a city receives, if that city chooses to tax properties more than 5 per-cent.

She said city officials decided to tax just under the 5 percent mark in hopes to use more revenue for pension costs.

“We are asking for less, but we expect to get more,” Kuykendall said.

The limitation law also sets a consumer price index that caps how much a taxing body can tax values in excess.

Kuykendall said this year’s index dropped dramatically from years past. �e 2009 index was 4.10. �e 2010 index is 0.1.

“(�e) CPI is lower than it’s ever, ever close to being, which is why

City faces future money problems

By Maggie Paoli Staff Reporter

Unfortunately for graduating seniors, the job market is not looking too good.

Linda Moore, head of Career Services, said the market is competitive and the jobs are responding much slower than the finan-cial markets are.

“It’s not that people are not getting jobs, but the fact is they are not getting as great of a job as they normally would, you just have to look hard for them,” Moore said.

Some graduating seniors will easily find job openings in certain fields, she said.

Job fields that are doing well include speech pathology, special education, nurs-ing, geology, chemistry and other difficult sciences.

For other graduates, however, many ca-reers are not making the cut. Prospective teachers will take the biggest hit.

“�ere are way too many elementary ed-ucation teachers in the entire Midwest, par-ticularly elementary teachers that do not have an endorsement in math or science,” Moore said.

Not only are jobs scarce for teachers, but also for other careers.

Moore said careers such as finance and manufacturing are really tight.

Construction is also down. Because the housing market is down, so is building. Moore said people looking to go into con-struction have to look for bridge and road construction.

Over the past couple years the job

Job market down for graduating seniors

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By Tyler Angelo Editor in Chief

A security breach on Eastern’s campus that has led to a contract with a credit monitoring company could potentially end up costing the university more than $193,500.

�e cost depends on how many of the 9,035 current, former and prospective students affect-ed actually sign up for Experian’s service.

A server, located in the Office of Admissions, was infected with viruses Nov. 11, and wasn’t caught until Nov. 16. It contained personal in-formation of the 9,035 students, which includes their name, Social Security number, birth date, address, e-mail and phone numbers, according to a copy of the letter the university sent to no-tify those individuals.

�e contract with Experian will cost Eastern $21.45 per person who signs up, said Paul Mc-Cann, treasurer and director of business servic-es. It was handled by the office of the vice pres-ident for business affairs and is being paid for out of an account funded by application fees. Insurance did not cover the incident.

“�e university went through its normal pur-chasing process, which allows vendors to bid for the work and indicate to the university what services will be provided at what price,” McCa-nn said. “Experian’s bid best fit Eastern’s needs at this time.”

According to the letter, once signed up, the

Cost of contract depends on sign up

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Old Main offers holiday gathering

Communi ty re s iden t s a re inv i t ed to join Eastern’s students and staff this week for “Deck the Halls,” a holiday gathering that takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednes-d a y a n d 1 0 t o 1 1 : 3 0 a . m . T h u r s d a y.

Relay for Life begins Thursday in Union

�e Relay For Life of Eastern kick-off rally be-gins at 5 p.m. �ursday in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union bowling alley.

Participants can learn more about Relay For Life, register as a survivor, sign a team up online, get to know fellow Relayers and, bowl a game ($1.75 per game, including shoe rental).

Free food and prizes will also be available.

Kick habit of smoking

The Tobacco Coalition will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Martinsville Room of the union. �is event advocates for a smoke-free future.

For more information, contact Ryan Messinger at 581-7786 or at rcmessinger@eiu.edu.

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A photo of Jeff Hoover in Monday’s edition of �e Daily Eastern News had an incorrect date of when the photo was taken. �e photo was from 2007. �e DEN regrets the error.

A harassment report was filed Friday regarding a dispute be-tween two students, according to the University Police Department.

Jake Juracka, 23, of Orland Park, was charged with driving un-der the influence of alcohol dur-ing a 1:19 a.m. Sunday arrest near �omas Hall, police said.

By Jenna Mitchell Staff Reporter

For some families this holiday season, Christmas toys may not be in the budget.

To fill that void, the Student Community Service and Catholic Charities have a seasonal toy drive to support local families during the holidays.

All the donations collected from Eastern will directly benefit Christ-mas for Kids, a program run by Mat-toon’s Catholic Charities.

Rachel Fisher, director of Student Community Service, is excited about this year’s toy drive and anticipates an outcome even greater than last year.

“During last year’s toy drive, we raised just about 150 donations,” she said.

�is year, Student Community Ser-vice wants to raise roughly 200 plus items to donate. Acceptable dona-tions include toys, clothing and non-perishable food items.

“One (donated) item is enough,” Fisher said. “Any way that anyone wants to help is fantastic.”

Once the toy drive is finished, all donations will be forwarded to Cath-

olic Charities to be put together in bags for 200 children who reside lo-cally and in neighboring towns.

Sandy Clark, director at Catholic Charities, encourages students and faculty to dig a little deeper this year with their donations.

“(Everyone) should remember back to when they were children and to what they used to like to receive for Christmas,” Clark said.

Christmas for Kids has been go-ing on for at least nine years with Catholic Charities and will contin-ue in years to come.

“It is just amazing how this all comes together, and in the end, it is so rewarding seeing the parents look in their child’s bag, with tear-filled eyes, and say, ‘�is is just what they wanted!’” Clark said.

Even though times are hard right now economically, ways can be found to contribute to the charity this holi-day season.

Megan Camiliere, a freshman early childhood education major, has great plans to donate this December.

“Some girls on my floor and I plan to pool together to buy something a child would appreciate this Christmas season,” Camiliere said. “We don’t have much extra money lying around, but put together we can get some-thing great.”

Student Community Services, in partnership with Chi Sigma Iota, will end their toy drive at 3 p.m. Friday.

Sometimes the best part of giving

to those less fortunate is knowing that small contributions could im-prove their holiday.

“Think small, and in the end (ev-erything that was donated) will add

up to a big difference,” Fisher said.To make a donation, contact Ra-

chel Fisher at 581-6048, or stop by the Student Li fe Off ice on the third floor of the Martin Lu-

ther King Jr. University Union.

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Donations help improve holidaysStudent Community Service, Catholic Charities help benefit 200 children

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSStudent Community Services and Chi Sigma Iota are sponsoring a toy drive to support families in need all over Coles County. Those wishing to donate can drop toys off in boxes like this one in the Martin Luther King Jr. Univer-sity Union’s Bookstore and other locations around campus or at Student Community Services on the third floor of the Union.

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By Kayleigh Zyskowski Activities Editor

For the first time, Eastern’s mu-sic department will combine two of its musical groups for a joint holi-day performance.

The Eastern Mixed Chorus and the Eastern Concert Band will per-form at 7:30 p.m. today in the Dvorak Concert Hall in Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Milton Allen, director of bands in the music department, and Adam Stich, conductor of the mixed cho-rus, will take turns at the podi-um while directing their respective groups along with the help of a few graduate students.

“This is a real unique concert be-cause both of these are our non-au-dition groups, and it’s the first time they have ever shared a concert,” Al-len said.

“Songs of the Season” is the title of the performance and will include seven pieces all together.

The Mixed Chorus will perform a musical piece in Latin titled “Ave Maria” and classical holiday piec-es including “Carol of the Bells,” “Ding Dong Merri ly on High” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

“The focus with the Concert Band is more traditional this year,” Allen said.

They will perform “Greensleeves,” “Overture on a Southern Hymn,” and will finish with “Sleigh Ride.”

“But then we are going to have a grand finale and a mass group,” Al-len said. “We are going to combine the Mixed Chorus with the Con-

cert Band and invite the audience to sing with one of the most famous closers of all time.”

The finale piece will be “A Christ-mas Festival” by Leroy Anderson.

“The band will play, the chorus will sing and we want the audience to get involved too,” Milton said. “We want to send out the audience in a cheery, festive mood no matter what the weather is outside.”

The Mixed Chorus has been re-hearsing for at least half the fall se-mester, Allen said.

However, the Concer t Band put on a performance before the Thanksgiving break and has had a short time to rehearse for the con-cert.

“We had looked at the pieces ear-lier in the semester, but we have re-ally only been focusing on them this week,” Allen said. “We are real-ly looking at this like a professional gig with only a short time to make it sound right.”

With more than 70 members in the Concert Band and about 60 members in the Mixed Chorus, one of the reasons for putting the groups together for a concert is to allow them to have more experience.

“Usually our non-audition groups perform once a semester and we wanted to create a way for them to have little more exposure and per-formance time,” Allen said. “It gives us the opportunity for something we don’t usually get to do and that is to combine a band and choir.”

Kayleigh Zyskowski can be reached at 581-7943

or at kzyskowski@eiu.edu.

Holiday concert combines two musical groups

R ACHEL MORRIS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMariah Layman, a freshman elementary education major, sings soprano in the song Conditor Alme Siderum in the EIU Mixed Choir rehearsal for its upcoming Christmas concert. The concert will feature the Eastern Concert Band and Mixed Choir and starts at 7:30 p.m. today in the Dvorak Concert Hall in Doudna Fine Arts Center.

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Loving Christmas, hating all the lights

Every year, right around the beginning of De-cember, I find myself feeling a little conflicted.

You see, having grown up in an American household in the early- and mid-90s, I was taught that nothing beats Christmas.

Your birthday might be close to generat-ing anything near the same type of excitement, and what red-blooded American doesn’t love the Fourth of July if for nothing more than watch-ing explosions? After all, Americans love explo-sions. It’s a fact. Don’t bother looking it up.

But nothing comes close to Christmas Eve, having more trouble falling asleep than a crack addict, finally opening your eyes to see the light gleaming in through the blinds, and the stam-pede to the living room that follows.

And yet, I feel conflicted. Why, you ask? Because, as much as I love Christmas, I hate Christmas decorations. And I mean the kind of hate that drove the Grinch to steal the last can of Who-Hash right in front of Cindy Lou Who.

I don’t know why, but I cannot stand Christ-mas decorations.

Allow me to elaborate, though. I’m not a monster; I do enjoy a good tree — a nice, green Christmas tree with some garland and a few lights and the family ornaments. But, then there’s the fire hazard, the dog or cat constantly climbing on/chewing on the tree itself and the clean up the day after Christmas.

And I don’t want to hear a thing about an ar-tificial tree helping with clean up as there are no needles left to vacuum. �is is the 21st Century, not the Dark Ages and I am no drooling barbar-ian. If there is going to be a tree involved, it had better be real or else I’m taking all the presents back to the store and purchasing 50 lbs. of coal just to teach someone a lesson!

My real problem is with Christmas lights. When I was growing up, only a few houses on my block had lights. It was nice and festive but didn’t blind everyone in the neighborhood. Now, it seems everyone with a residence needs to light his home up like a runway at O’Hare. I don’t care what you say; there is nothing festive about the threat of an epileptic seizure. Nothing.

�en we have the Nativity Scene. Two-thou-sand years after the birth of Jesus Christ and we are still surprised to find that the teenagers down the road took the Savior out of your front yard along with Joseph’s head, two sheep and a Wise Man? �ese scenes are crime sprees waiting to happen.

And then you’ve got the “Santa’s sleigh with reindeer” decorations on someone’s roof. I hate this most of all. I live in a nice enough house, but there is no way my roof can support eight fully-grown reindeer along with a sled filled with toys.

Seeing such decorations just reminds me that there is no way Santa is stopping by my place — he’d fall through the roof and then I’ve got a lawsuit on my hands. And who’s going to defend someone who’s going up against Old St. Nick?

So, I look forward to the holidays to spend with my family and give gifts to my nieces and enjoy everything the holiday has to offer.

I simply ask that we all tone it down just a hair. After all, Santa has Rudolph’s red nose to guide him, he doesn’t need your chimney-turned-lighthouse to find the way.

David Thill is a senior journalism major and can be reached at 581-7942

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Deficit could mean tough times ahead for Charleston community

DAILY EDITORIALThe daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.

Experts say the worst of the recession may be be-hind us. Markets may be slowly recovering and the banks are slowly regaining the trust of the people, but Charleston may have its most diffi-

cult days ahead.As reported in an article in Friday’s edition of �e Daily

Eastern News, Charleston appears to be staring down the barrel of its own recession as estimates show the city fac-ing a shortfall that may not let up any time soon.

According to the article, “expenses in 2011 are project-ed to hover around $11.5 million, while revenues are pro-jected to be around $11 million. By 2015, expenses are projected to be around $12.5 million, while revenues are estimated to be around $11.3 million.”

�e reason for decreased revenue comes from a drop-off in sales and income tax from a year ago.

Also, “health insurance costs have increased, while the federal and state governments continue to extend unem-ployment benefits, which the city has to cover,” the arti-cle stated.

City Comptroller Heather Kuykendall said in the arti-cle that the largest loss is in property tax usage.

According to the article, “…20 percent of the levy cov-ered pension costs in 2003. In 2010, 60 percent of the levy is projected to cover pensions. �e increase in pen-sions will cut almost $1 million in property tax usage for the city during the next five years, according to Kuykend-all’s estimate.”

�e bottom line is that Charleston will have to tighten the collective belt in several areas over the next few years. But it is important for residents, both local and Eastern students, to show patience and faith in the ability of elect-ed officials.

But city officials are already planning for ways to recov-er from the lack of funds.

“The bottom line is that Charleston will have to tighten the collective belt in several areas over the next few years. ”

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In the article, Curt Buescher, director of public works, said the city would have to take on smaller projects and rely more heavily on the Motor Fuel Tax in order to fund projects.

“We will be able to continue to make improvements to our city and infrastructure in-house,” Buescher said in the article.

And City Manager Scott Smith said he plans on imple-menting a temporary hiring freeze.

Just as we cannot avoid the aftershocks of a national crisis, we as a community can do our part to help with the solutions.

With the 2010 census around the corner, Charleston will be more dependant on the revenue generated from the census.

In the article, City Planner Steve Pamperin said the census does have an effect on shared revenues, adding each resident represents $300 in revenue for the city.

He also said the city would have to engage off-campus students in order to ensure forms are filled out properly.

�is is where we, as a university, come into play.Regardless of how some students may view the Charles-

ton community, we do rely on the town just as much, if not more than, it relies on us.

By doing something as simple as properly filling out the census form, students can help the town in a time when it needs to generate revenue.

Eastern students represent half the Charleston popula-tion. �at means that, by any and every statistical manner, Eastern students are part of this town they call home nine months out of the year.

�e city’s deficit may just be beginning but students can do their part in filling out the census. We must all be patient and trust in those who have been elected to deal with just this sort of problem.

Anita Shelton, the chair of the history department, is con-cerned about how online classes are affecting on-campus enroll-ment. She asked Mermann for ideas on how to keep students who live on or near campus in classes.

“Continuing education and distance learning have both been growing, and there are damag-es to engaging with it,” Shelton said. “How does one go about trying to achieve the balance be-tween on campus the main iden-tity of the university and engag-ing in this?”

Mermann answered that the easiest solution is to put a full program online, but believes it is up to the department to make that decision.

“It depends on who you want to reach,” Mermann said.

Mermann also commented on the difficulties faculty have with teaching online courses.

“Often times, faculty are thrown into teaching online classes, and they don’t have much preparation,” she said. “�ere has not been much train-ing, not much mentoring, not much interaction with others who teach online, so they are re-ally struggling by themselves.”

Mermann is on campus again today. A faculty/open session is at 9 a.m. in Coleman 3732, a campus tour at 11 a.m., lunch

with the search committee at noon and a community tour at 3 p.m.

Information about all the candidates can be found at www.eiu.edu/~ahcollege/deansearch.php. �e next candidate to have the on-campus interview is Bon-nie Irwin, dean of the Honors College at Eastern. She is sched-uled for Dec. 10 and 11.

Sarah Jean Bresnahan can be reached at 581-7942

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we are having so much of a struggle,” she said.

Kuykendall said the limitation laws makes new construction even more valuable because it provides another source of revenue that did not exist in prior years.

She said Charleston did not experience as much new construction as it did the past two years.

The development of the Melrose on Fourth apartments, located at Fourth Street and Polk Avenue, is the biggest new source of revenue from the property tax, Kuykendall said.

She said the constraint in property tax, which amounts to 17 percent in revenue for the city, means the city has to rely on other sources of revenue to help stabilize a murky fi-nancial future for the city.

The city is anticipating subtle deficits for the next five years, which is alarming for a city that typically ends each year with a balanced budget.

Kuykendall said the city could not fret about boosting income tax, which covers 16 percent of the city’s revenue, because that is a state issue.

She said sales tax, which covers 25 percent of the city’s revenue, is vitally important to the future state of the city’s finances.

Kuykendall said a good Christmas season could bolster sales tax revenue and provide good momentum as the city prepares a budget for the new fiscal year, which begins May 1.

“It wouldn’t be a savior … but it certainly would help us because we already are so tight,” Kuykendall said.

Stephen Di Benedetto can be reached at 581-7942

or at sdibenedetto@eiu.edu.

service will begin to monitor stu-dents’ credit reports from Experian, Equifax and TransUnion on a dai-ly basis, notifying users of changes. �is tool “will help you identify po-tentially fraudulent use of your in-formation, and provide you with im-mediate assistance…” the letter said.

�e university has also established a call center to help those students with any remaining questions.

This breach isn’t the first time Eastern has seen a security problem.

A computer in the Student Life Office, which contained similar per-sonal information of 1,400 Greek students, was stolen in 2007. Let-ters were then sent to the students whose information might have been compromised. �is incident only in-volved some students who were en-rolled during that time.

McCann said no incidents of iden-tity theft were reported at that time.

To ensure the university could track down each student accurate-ly to send the letters, it conducted a search for addresses using the Na-tional Customer Support Center, which is part of the U.S. Postal Ser-vice.

The total cost of this incident to Eastern is not to mention some of the other costs involved, such as mailing, personnel time and tele-phone costs.

�e letter offered students an acti-vation code, Web site and 90 days to activate their membership with Ex-perian. The service will last for 12 months following activation.

Tyler Angelo can be reached at 581-7936 or DENeic@gmail.com.

According to the letter, the one-year Experian Triple Alert membership includes:

• Daily monitoring and alerts of changes to credit reports — so people know of any activity they should be aware of, such as noti�cation of new inquiries, newly opened accounts, delinquencies, public records or address changes• Toll-free access to a team of fraud resolution representatives who will help investigate incidents; contact credit grantors to distribute charges, close accounts if necessary and compile documents; and contact all rel-evant government agencies• $25,000 in identity theft insurance coverage ($10,000 for N.Y. residents) with zero deductible provided for certain identity theft expenses*

* Insurance coverage is not available in U.S. overseas commonwealth or territories

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The Student Supreme Court vot-ed in a hearing Monday that the re-visions to the Student Government constitution were valid. Members of the court voted 4 to 3, in favor of the Student Senate.

�e constitution is up for a vote in the Student Government elections. �e polls are open today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Coleman Hall.

The appeal was submitted to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the process to revise the constitution violated the methods established in the constitution.

The Student Supreme Court has seven days from the hearing to release an official statement on the hearing.

For further information, see the original article at dennnews.com//media/storage/paper309/news/2009/12/03/News/New-Con-stitution.Stalled-3844090.shtml.

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market has taken a nosedive, she said. It has gone down to double digits and is still competitive.

Having an edge over the competition

Even with the job market down, Moore said that doesn’t mean fresh-men should choose a career based on where they can get a job.

“I think they should choose a (ma-jor) that matches their interests and abilities and how well they can pre-pare themselves,” Moore said. “Be-cause, for example, even though jour-nalism is dying in a number of sec-tors, there are positions available. ”

Because the job market has be-come so competitive, so have school-ing and grades. Employers are now looking for higher GPAs than be-fore.

“What that has done to college students is it has raised minimum GPAs that employers are looking for,” Moore said. “It used to be a 3.0 and you are good. Well, it’s not like that anymore. Now a 3.0 is a 3.2, the 3.2s are now 3.4’.”

Freshmen should also remember

to choose a minor, Moore said. Mi-nors are not only an edge, but by do-ing something else students are mak-ing themselves more competitive and knowledgeable.

Mary Anne Hanner, the dean of the College of Sciences, said stu-dents should not limit themselves, but rather broaden their horizons.

“For people who are graduating in the near term, I think it’s impor-tant for them to consider that their region of the job market needs to be as broad as possible,” Hanner said.

Students cannot only look to work in their hometown; there are plen-ty of other areas in the United States that will have job openings, she said.

Students should also get involved in the community and take some leadership roles. They should also take advantage of programs such as study abroad.

“Making those experiences as in-novative as possible, taking advan-tage of maybe study abroad experi-ences, or maybe go to China where things seem to be popping,’” Han-ner said.

Creating jobs for oneself Moore said students need to take

responsibility and create jobs for themselves.

Students who are graduating and looking for a job need to be persis-tent and prepared.

“�e most important thing is that they should not give up,” Moore said. “If you are not going to be fully pre-pared for applying for a particular job then you might as well not.”

Hanner said students also need to be aware that they need to apply for an internship, whether it is paid or unpaid, employers are looking for work experience.

“Every employer, whether it is in a university or in a business or a school is looking for an employee, who is a self starter, who is motivated by the work and the responsibilities that they have,” Hanner said. “They’re committed to doing the best job ev-eryday, and that takes initiative and responsibility to do that.”

Maggie Paoli can be reached at 581-7942

or DENnewsdesk@gmail.com.

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The Associated Press

WINDERMERE, Fla.— A po-lice officer who responded to Tiger Woods’ car accident found $235 in the vehicle and two iron golf clubs on the ground next to a golf cart.

The Windermere officer said in a report released Monday that Woods was at first unresponsive. The offi-cer, whose name wasn’t released, said the world’s No. 1 golfer then tried to stand up before the officer told him to lie down. Woods was bleeding from cut lips but was breathing normal-ly. His wife, Elin, was standing over him.

�e report released in response to state public records requests showed the cash was in the center console of Woods’ Cadillac Escalade.

The Florida Highway Patrol last week closed its inquiry into the Nov. 27 crash. Woods was charged with careless driving. Several women have since claimed affairs with him.

Woods had $235 in SUV at time of accident

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers Ameri-cans’ health.

The announcement by the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency was clearly timed to build momentum toward an agreement at the interna-tional conference on climate change that opened Monday in Copenha-gen, Denmark.

It signaled the administration was prepared to push ahead for sig-nificant controls in the U.S. if Con-gress doesn’t act first on its own.

The price could be steep for both industry and consumers. The EPA finding clears the way for rules that eventually could force the sale of more fuel-efficient vehicles and re-quire plants to install costly new equipment — at a cost of billions or even many tens of billions of dol-lars — or shift to other forms of en-ergy.

No analysis has been conducted by the EPA on costs of such broad regulations, although the agen-cy put the price tag of its proposed climate-related car rules at $60 bil-lion, with an estimated benefit of $250 billion.

Energy prices for many Amer-icans probably would rise, too — though Monday’s finding will have no immediate impact since regula-tions have yet to be written. Sup-porters of separate legislation in Congress argue they could craft measures that would mitigate some of those costs.

Environmentalists hailed the EPA announcement as a clear indication the United States will take steps to attack climate change even if Con-gress fails to act. And they wel-comed the timing of the declara-tion, saying it will help the Obama

administration convince delegates at the international climate talks that the U.S. is serious about addressing the problem. Obama will address the conference next week.

But business groups said regulat-ing carbon emissions through the EPA under existing clean air law would put new economic burdens on manufacturers, cost jobs and drive up energy prices.

“It will choke off growth by add-ing new mandates to virtually ev-ery major construction and reno-vation project,” declared Thom-as Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which in recent months has been particularly critical of the EPA’s attempt to ad-dress climate change.

The EPA signaled last April that it was inclined to view heat-trap-ping pollution as a threat to pub-lic health and welfare and began to take public comments for formal rulemaking.

That marked a reversal from the Bush administration, which had re-fused to issue the finding, despite a conclusion by EPA scientists that it was warranted.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Monday, “There are no more excuses for delaying,” adding that the so-called endangerment analysis from global warming had been un-der consideration at the agency for three years.

After the official finding, she said the agency is now “obligated to make reasonable efforts to reduce

greenhouse pollutants under the Clean Air Act.”

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama “still believes the best way to move forward is through the legislative process” — something Obama has expressed on a number of occasions as he has pressed Congress to shift

the nation’s energy priorities away from fossil fuels and to reduce cli-mate-changing pollution.

The EPA said scientific evidence clearly shows that greenhouse gas-es “threaten the public health and welfare of the American people” and that the pollutants — mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil

fuels — should be reduced, if not by Congress then by the agency re-sponsible for enforcing air pollu-tion.

“�ese long-overdue findings cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution,” said Jackson.

Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans

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“The vast body of evidence not only remains unassailable, it has grown even stronger.” Lisa Jackson EPA Administrator

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Those two both made second team All-OVC and joined offen-sive linemen Millard, senior Chris Campbell and sophomore Willie Henderson on the All-OVC team.

The defensive players who re-ceived honors were senior defensive tackle Trevor Frericks, sophomore defensive end Perry Burge, James and fellow junior cornerback Ra-shad Haynes.

Senior kicker Austin Signor was also named to the team.

Of course, with an experienced unit comes the need to replace play-ers at season’s end, and that’s what the Eastern coaching staff will focus on as it hits the recruiting trail in the coming months.

With Christensen gone, they will have to determine if red-shirt freshman Doug Reynolds or sopho-more Brandon Large are ready to be handed the reins at quarterback or

if another option is possible.Likewise, three offensive line-

men, including Millard, who has anchored the line for the past four years, will need to be replaced.

On the defensive side of the ball, senior safeties Adrian Arrington and Seymour Loftman will need to be replaced.

Arrington missed the last month of the season with an injury and ju-nior Bobson Mercier filled in.

Mercier will likely be the most likely candidate to fill that role next year, while sophomore Carlos Rey-na is the most likely candidate to replace Loftman.

The Panthers look to return all their starters at cornerback and line-backer, but up front they will lose Frericks and senior Andre Lima.

Junior Spyros Bazigos was part of the rotation up front throughout the season and should be expected

to take over in a more permanent role next season.

Finally there is the kicker. The Panthers have had the luxu-

ry of having Signor’s big leg for the past two years, but with him gone the kicking game becomes a ques-tion.

Freshman Jason Baker has yet to be seen in action so the Panthers will have to determine whether he can take over permanently for the big-legged Signor.

There is also the future of Spoo to consider.

The 22-year head coach is still under contract but many speculate when he will hang ‘em up for good. Spoo has yet to comment on what the future holds for him.

Collin Whitchurch can be reached at 581-7944

or cfwhitchurch@eiu.edu.

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Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.�e Ohio Valley Conference Tour-

nament will be hosted by Jacksonville State in Jacksonville, Ala., May 25-29.

For the conference schedule the Panthers will host Austin Peay (April 2-3), Morehead State (April 10-11), UT Martin (May 1-2) and Southeast Missouri State (May 21-22) for OVC weekend series. Eastern will travel to Eastern Kentucky (March 27-28), Tennessee Tech (April 17-18), Mur-ray State (April 24-25) and Jackson-ville State (May 8-9).

Softball signs fourEastern softball head coach Kim

Shuette announced her 2010-11 re-cruiting class Dec. 1.

Morgan Biel is an outfielder who comes from Orland Park’s Carl Sand-burg High School. She was named All-Conference, All-Area and has been

given MVP honors. She was named to the Sun Times ‘Top 100 Squad and a Southwest Suburban Athletic Excel-lence honoree.

Angelica “Jelly” Brannick (Browns-burg, Ind. / Cardinal Ritter HS) is a leadoff hitter who school records in stolen bases and batted .538 last spring.

Stephanie Maday (Elk Grove Vil-lage, Ill. / Elk Grove HS) is a pitch-er who helped lead her team to con-ference and regional championships. She was named three-time All Con-ference and All-Area honoree and was twice named to the Sun Times ‘Top 100 Squad’.

Ashleigh Westover (Reno, Nev. / Damonte Ranch HS) is projected to play in the middle infield for the Pan-thers.

—Compiled by Assistant Sports Editor Dan Cusack

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK

By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

Senior forward Maggie Kloak said the performance of the Eastern women’s basketball team was com-pletely different when comparing the first two Ohio Valley Confer-ence games.

“Against Tennessee State, we were executing and running our motion offense pretty well,” Kloak said. “(Against Austin Peay) we weren’t passing the ball well and we weren’t doing things that we usually do well.”

In their first game, against Ten-nessee State on Thursday, the Pan-thers defeated the Tigers 70-57 as they shot 46 percent from the field, 30 percent from beyond the arc and 75 percent from the free throw line.

In Saturday’s game against Aus-tin Peay, Eastern (4-4, 1-1 OVC) lost 65-55 while shooting just 33.9 percent from the field, 16.7 percent from beyond the arc and 65 percent from the free throw line.

After the Austin Peay game, East-ern head coach Brady Sallee said the Panthers were completely outplayed in every aspect of the game, and when that happened they weren’t not going to win.

Against the Lady Govs, the Pan-thers gave up a season-high in re-bounds to one player.

Austin Peay senior forward Nicole Jamen snatched 17 rebounds against Eastern, and added 12 points to her stat line in the Lady Govs’ victory Saturday.

Kloak lone Panther to reach double digits

Kloak was the only Panther who was able to reach double-digits in scoring in Saturday’s loss to Austin Peay, as she scored 10 points.

While scoring 10 points, Kloak said she could’ve done a lot better, but she was having trouble finding

the basket, as she was only 2-of-9 from the field. Kloak’s other six points came from the free throw line.

Only three of the nine Panthers who saw action shot better than 40 percent from the field after having taken a minimum of five shots.

This season, when two or fewer Panthers reach double figures, the team is 1-3. When three or more reach double digits, Eastern is 3-1.

The highest total of players in double figures was six in the Nov. 29 contest against Brescia (Ky.), which the Panthers won.

Around the OVCThe early OVC standings are out

now that every team in the confer-ence has played at least one OVC

opponent.Eastern is currently in fifth in the

conference with a 1-1 OVC record; however, the Panthers are tied for the third best overall record.

Staying true to the preseason

OVC polls, Austin Peay and More-head State are right at the top of the conference, as they are both 2-0 in the OVC.

Morehead State is 6-3 overall and have won three straight games.

Eastern Kentucky is also at the top at 2-0 in the conference and 4-3 overall, having won all of its games since starting the season 0-3.

The Panther s’ next game i s Wednesday against Western Michi-gan at 5:30 p.m. in Lantz Arena.

They host Indiana State Saturday and play three other non-conference games over break, with two of them coming against in-state foes.

The Panthers take a break from Ohio Valley Conference games un-til Jan. 2 when they play host to Jacksonville State at 4 p.m. in Lantz Arena.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-7944

or admcnamee@eiu.edu.

AUDREY SAWYER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore guard Pilar Walker pays close attention to her opponent as she takes the ball up court during the game against Brescia (Ky.) on Nov. 29 in Lantz Arena. The Panthers host Western Michigan at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Lantz Arena.

Team experiences ups, downs in weekend of conference games

Performance drops after opening win

“Against Tennessee State, we were executing and running our motion offense pretty well. (Against Austin Peay) we weren’t passing the ball well and we weren’t doing things that we usually do well.” Maggie Kloak, senior forward

By Collin Whitchurch Sports Editor

Tyler Laser remembers being down 14 points in his high school district championship game when his team came back and won.

Until �ursday, that was the most exciting game he had ever been a part of.

“The Tennessee State game beats it,” said Laser of �ursday’s 83-81, tri-ple-overtime victory. “�at was really special just because our team was able to come together.”

�e defining moment of the game was in double overtime when the Pan-thers trailed by nine with fewer than two minutes to play.

A couple of steals and some missed free throws by the Tigers allowed the Panthers to send the game to a third overtime, where they sealed the vic-tory.

“We just huddled up and said ‘Let’s do this,’” Laser said. “We just real-ly fought. It was an ugly game. We played an ugly game but still found a way to win. It’s going to stick with me a long time.”

Newcomers provide spark off bench

�e Eastern bench has not played a huge factor in the Eastern men’s bas-ketball team’s outcomes early in the season.

In �ursday’s victory against Ten-nessee State, the bench produced just 11 points, but it came back strong in Saturday’s 73-60 loss to Austin Peay, finishing with 26 total points.

Against Tennessee State, the 11 points came between just two play-ers, junior guard Curry McKinney and freshman forward Shaun Pratl — the only two newcomers on this year’s squad.

McKinney also had a pair of key steals in the win, and Eastern head coach Mike Miller said he has been pleased with what he has seen out of him early on.

“He’s been a real energy,” Miller said. “He’s proven he can be a good defender out there in a spot that’s crit-ical in this league because the lead-ing scorer, a lot of times, is going to be the guy he’s going to be guarding. He’s adapted well.”

Pratl — the highly touted recruit out of Chicago Richards — is aver-aging 16.1 minutes per game off the bench and is the team’s leading re-bounder at 4.4 per game. He is also fourth on the team with a 7.9 point-

per-game average.Miller said the number of min-

utes he has received early in the sea-son has increased the confidence the team has in him and he’s played well for a freshman.

“�e biggest thing is he’s been pro-ductive,” Miller said. “For a freshman, he’s close to playing half the game and that’s a lot. He’s handled it well and brought something to the team. I think the players have confidence in him and that’s a big thing.”

Around the OVC�ree teams made it out of the first

weekend of Ohio Valley Conference play unscathed, including two teams finishing 2-0.

Both Murray State and Austin Peay started the season 2-0 with the Racers defeating Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky, and the Governors defeat-ing Eastern and Southeast Missouri.

Jacksonville State also left the week-end without a loss as the Gamecocks played only one game, an 83-72 vic-

tory over Tennessee Tech.Two teams finished the weekend

winless, Tennessee Martin and Ten-nessee State.

The Skyhawks dropped games to Morehead State and Eastern Ken-tucky, while the Tigers lost the triple-overtime thriller to the Panthers be-fore losing to Southeast Missouri.

Collin Whitchurch can be reached at 581-7944

or cfwhitchurch@eiu.edu.

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Thursday’s win unlike any other

AUDREY SAWYER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSEastern junior guard Curry McKinney takes the ball up the court during the game against Indiana-Purdue-Indianapolis on Nov. 18 in Lantz Arena. McKin-ney had two steals late in the second overtime of the team’s 83-81 triple overtime victory over Tennessee State Thursday in Nashville, Tenn.

Players look back at ‘most exciting’ game of careers

Women’s basketballWednesday vs. Western Michigan 5:30 p.m. – Lantz Arena

Men’s basketballWednesday vs. Western Michigan 7:30 p.m. – Lantz Arena

M&W indoor trackEIU Early Bird Meet 4 p.m. - Lantz Fieldhouse

Women’s basketballSaturday at Indiana State 4 p.m. – Terre Haute, Ind.

Men’s basketballSaturday at Western Illinois 7 p.m. – Macomb

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SPORTSSports EditorCollin Whitchurch217 • 581 • 7944DENSportsdesk@gmail.com

@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Indoor track gets in full swing Friday in the Lantz Fieldhouse.

EASTERN SPORTS SCHEDULE

NATIONAL SPORTS

For more please seeeiupanthers.com

College basketballMaryland-BC at Penn State 5:30 p.m. on Big Ten Network

College basketball Butler vs. Georgetown 6 p.m. on ESPN

NBA New Jersey at Chicago 7 p.m. on CSN

College basketball Vanderbilt at Illinois 7:30 p.m. on Big Ten Network

College basketball Indiana at Pittsburgh 8 p.m. on ESPN

FOOTBALL SEASON REC AP

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Dan Cusack

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ERIC HILTNER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSEastern senior quarterback Bodie Reeder turns to hand the ball off during the game against Southern Illinois on Nov. 28 in Carbondale.

Right moves mean success

PANTHER BRIEFS

�e Eastern rugby team hosted its annual awards banquet Sunday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union University Ballroom after its second straight undefeated 10-0 season.

Freshman center Lauren Doyle won three awards including the Freshman Award, Strength and Conditioning Award, and co-Out-standing Offensive Award.

Senior Flanker Chase Cain won the co-Outstanding Defen-sive Award and the Panther Kudos Award.

Senior flanker Crystal Jones won the co-Outstanding Offensive Play-er Award, while senior No. 8 Steph-anie Militello won co-Defensive Player Award.

Junior lock Emily Harrison and senior center Ashley Jenkins both

won the Most Improved Player Award.

Sophomore scrum half Naris-sa Ramirez was given the top hon-or with the Most Valuable Player of the Season award.

Baseball schedule releasedThe Eastern baseball team an-

nounced its 2010 schedule this week. �e Panthers will begin the

season on the road with stops at tournaments in Louisiana, Tennes-see, Alabama, Indiana and Florida before beginning the home season March 23 against Chicago State at Coaches Stadium.

�e Panthers will play 18 home games this season including non-conference games at home against Illinois College, Indiana State and

Awards galore at postseason banquet

�is will be my last sports column for the fore-seeable future. For the last two-and-a-half years, I have spent way too much time in Buzzard Hall. So for the first time since I have been at Eastern, I will not be holding a position at the newspaper.

Having said that, the reader (whether or not they care) will be deprived from my thoughts on Eastern sports for the duration of the year. So without further ado, here are my predictions:

Men’s and women’s basketballI do not know if either team will win the OVC

tournament this season, but I expect both teams to win at least a game.

For the men’s team, this is the deepest I have seen since I have been at Eastern. �e combina-tion of experienced players and how they are play-ing now leads me to believe only good things will come.

Although they are currently playing without All-OVC senior guard Romain Martin, when he returns to the lineup the Panthers will be deep enough to win one or two games in the OVC Tournament. Even if they do not win the confer-ence this season, the combination of young talent could turn the program around.

The women’s basketball team has already ex-ceeded my expectations coming into the season. I thought with all of the players they lost to grad-uation, there was no way they could duplicate the success they have had the last two seasons. I was wrong.

Head coach Brady Sallee proved he was not a one-hit wonder, bringing in another solid recruit-ing class. �is team may not reach the conference finals as they did a year ago, but the women’s bas-ketball team will be on the rise as long as Sallee is here.

Indoor track and fieldBoth the men’s and women’s indoor track teams

took home the conference titles last season and I expect that trend to continue.

�e men’s team has only not won the confer-ence once since the 2000 season and with a loaded roster, this season should be no exception.

�e women’s team has won the title two of the last three seasons, and like the men return enough pieces to win the conference again.

SwimmingUnlike the other two sports, this may be anoth-

er rebuilding year for the swimming teams. �e men’s team finished third last season and the wom-en finished fifth, which should be the same.

It is only year two into Matt Bos’s tenure as coach, and with a young team for both squads, the future is brighter for the Panthers in the pool.

Dan Cusack can be reached, at least for the next week,

at 581-7944 or dscusack@eiu.edu.

Sayonara, for the time being

By Collin Whitchurch Sports Editor

Coming off his worst season as head coach of the Eastern football team since 2003, Bob Spoo knew things needed to change.

But while the two most notice-able changes the team made came at quarterback and running back, the Panthers were successful in 2009 thanks in large part to im-

provements on the defensive side of the ball, a unit that saw little to no personnel change.

While the unit lost Ke’Andre Sams, Donovan Johnson and Pierre Walters from the 2008 sea-son, all their replacements were in-house.

This gave the Panthers’ defense a full unit of experience that helped lead them to an outright Ohio Valley Conference Champi-onship.

Statistically speaking, the Pan-thers improved only minimally from 2008.

The offense bumped from 22.7 points per game to 23.5, while

the defense went from allowing 23.4 points per game to 21.2. But a lot of the individual per-formances factored into the im-provement from the 2008 season to 2009.

The Panthers’ defense doubled its sack total from a year ago, go-ing from 12 to 24, and while the interception number decreased by one, junior cornerback C.J. James became a ball hawk in the sec-ondary.

James finished with a team high four, two of which were re-turned for touchdowns.

The improvements from an in-dividual aspect are proven by the

honors bestowed upon them by the OVC.

The Panthers returned only one all-conference performer in senior center Chaz Millard, but after winning the conference ti-tle, the OVC honored eight to-tal Panthers as All-OVC perform-ers, as well as Spoo as conference coach of the year.

Among the honorees were two of the most well-known newcom-ers, quarterback Jake Christens-en, a graduate student who trans-ferred from Iowa, and junior run-ning back Mon Williams, a trans-fer from Florida.

Experience, newcomers key in success

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