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A one-man performance will nar-rate a teacher’s first year at a school, the issues he faced and the connec-tion he made with the students he taught.

Jack Freiberger, an actor turned teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District, will be performing a one-man show about how he com-bined his love of teaching and act-ing to inspire his students.

The performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Black Box Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Dan Crews, the director of pa-tron services at Doudna, said they

wanted to bring Freiberger’s show to campus because it would introduce students to his experiences.

“He was a young, eager person who wanted to get a job and was looking for a new place to apply his education,” Crews said.

Freiberger originally moved from Indianapolis to Los Angeles to be-come an actor before starting as a substitute teacher.

Freiberger said he loved being a substitute so he got his credentials and started full time, but he still acts from time to time.

“I don’t know how you can be a teacher without being an actor; you need to have that skill,” Freiberger said. “You don’t necessarily have to be a teacher to be an actor or an actor to

be a teacher, but it certainly helps in the classroom, that’s for sure.

Crews said Freiberger was thrown into a new situation where he had to make connections with children who have grown up in a dangerous area and with different backgrounds than him.

“He was able to make a connection, change people’s lives because of his way of teaching,” Crews said.

“This just chronicles his teaching experience and what he was able to do there,” he said.

Freiberger said he teaches fifth grade, and his show is based off of his career.

“My first year was very inspira-tional,” Freiberger said.

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By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

S i n c e 2 0 0 1 , So u p S t o p i n Charleston has been providing meals to anyone who needs or wants one.

Eastern sends volunteers to the First Presbyterian Church once a week to help hand out free meals to the community.

Rachel Fisher, the director of EIU Student Community Service, said many students have been tak-ing advantage of the opportunity to help the community.

“We’re excited because Soup Stop is a great program that provides a free meal Monday through Friday,” Fisher said.

The food is catered by What’s Cookin’ and anyone is eligible for a free meal and a to-go lunch when they leave, Fisher said.

“The goal is that every person who comes can get two meals,” she said.

Soup Stop runs on a volunteer basis, so Fisher said the organization is always needing more volunteers, especially around this time of year when the weather gets colder and Thanksgiving approaches.

“What’s really neat about Soup Stop to me is that it was born out of a group of people coming togeth-er and saying ‘We need to do some-thing in our community for the folks who don’t have the opportu-nity to have lunch every day,’” she said.

Soup Stop is tied in with East-ern’s Hunger Challenge, which seeks to provide hunger awareness in the Eastern and Charleston community throughout November.

“The No. 1 reason that motivates volunteers to participate for the first time is that they were asked,” she said. “This gives students a direct call to action.”

Fisher said out of this, she hopes students promote some advocacy.

“We’re actually booked full (for volunteers) through mid-November, so it’s been amazing to see the sup-port we’re getting for this program,” she said.

Soup Stop serves the community from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Charleston Monday through Friday.

Eastern’s community service pro-gram takes volunteers to Soup Stop on Thursdays during that time.

Since Soup Stop has spec i f -ic food items they put in the to-go bag lunches, Fisher said they always need food donations.

Barbara Cooper, one of the vol-unteer coordinators for Soup Stop, said she calls for volunteers for about half of the year.

“I very much enjoy helping peo-ple get connected with Soup Stop,” she said. “It’s such a wonderful or-ganization, and the Presbyterian Church has excellent facilities for it.”

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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KRISTEN LE WIS|DAILY EASTERN NE WSKa-Wai Yu performed at the Low Brass Day-Grand Finale Artist Recital Sunday in the Doudna Recital Hall. Yu is the instructor of cello at East-ern.

By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor

After a day of performances and master classes, the fourth annual Low Brass Day, hosted by the music depart-ment, finished out with a recital dedi-cated to former New York Brass Quin-tet trombonist John Swallow.

Swallow died Oct. 20 of an unspec-ified illness.

He was a career musician and played at Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s

funeral and the return of Dwight D. Eisenhower from World War II, as a member of the military band during the war.

Swallow went on to teach trombone at multiple schools and universities in-cluding the Yale University School of Music, the Julliard School, the Man-hattan School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music.

He also preformed with numer-ous groups including the New York City Ballet Orchestra and the Chica-

go Symphony.The daylong Low Brass Day offered

nine different workshops and class-es and featured multiple Eastern mu-sic professors and guest musicians like trombonists Chelsea French and Mark Fisher.

Although the recital program was not originally dedicated to Swallow, that changed after Fisher gave a speech about Swallow before beginning his second piece.

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The Warbler won first place for the yearbook fewer than 300 pages catego-ry Sunday in the Associated Collegiate Press’ Best of Show.

The winners were announced dur-ing the 2012 College Media Advisers Convention in Chicago.

This marks the second year in a row that the Warbler has taken first place in Best of Show.

Danny Damiani, a senior journal-ism major and the editor-in-chief of the Warbler, attributes this success to the staff ’s switch in yearbook design. Damiani served as the managing edi-tor of the Warbler last year.

The yearbook staff used successful books in higher categories as a model to strive for, and they transitioned to a cleaner, less cluttered design, he said.

“After the switch, we have photos speak for themselves and have content tell the story instead of distracting it with design,” Damiani said.

Kristin Jording, an Eastern grad-uate and the former Warbler editor-in-chief, said they worked to achieve a classier, sleeker look to set the year-book apart from others.

“It felt rewarding that the book got the recognition it deserved for all of the hard work we put in,” she said.

The Warbler was also a finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press’ Pace-maker, one of the most prestigious awards in student journalism.

Also during the convention, The Daily Eastern News won third place in Best of Show for the four-year daily tabloid category.

Elizabeth Edwards, a senior journal-ism major and the editor-in-chief of The News, said it is her staff’s philosophy to always strive for the best they can be.

“I think our dedication shows through in every story and photo we do,” she said. “We are a small staff compared to schools we go against, which means we work even harder to compete.”

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MARCUS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRobert Bates, chairman of health studies department, demonstrates how to drive when a car goes into a skid Friday in the Stadium Parking Lot. Bates was teaching HST 3300 Advance Driving Maneuvers.

At about 12:48 a.m. Friday, an armed robbery was reported to have occurred at the 900 block of Hayes Avenue.

The Charleston Police Department responded to a residence hall Friday to speak with the per-son who reported the armed robbery.

The person told police officers that while he was walking in the 900 Block of Hayes Avenue, near Ninth Street, two black males exited a new-er, silver model Chrysler 300 and confronted him, one of the suspects putting an object to his chest and robbing him of personal items.

One of the men was described as 5-foot-6-inches tall, slim build with dreadlocks and a goa-tee. He was reported wearing a black and grey coat.

The other was described as 6-foot-1-inch tall, medium build with short hair and no facial hair. He was reported wearing a white and blue coat.

A third suspect was said to have remained in the vehicle.

An EIU Alert was sent to students around 2 a.m. Friday.

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Douglas-Hart Nature Center workers and volunteers continued their efforts Saturday to protect na-tive plant species while also eliminat-ing invasive species.

Saturday was Douglas-Hart Na-ture Center’s monthly Volunteer Day, which welcomes students and community members to the nature center to work on various projects both indoors and outdoors.

While rain and cold temperatures prevented volunteers from taking on their original project of clearing bush honeysuckle from the nature center, students continued to take further steps to help the nature center.

Volunteers took steps to promote the diversity of plant life in the na-ture center to counteract the effects of honeysuckle.

Lauren VanHyning, a senior bi-ology major at Eastern, and Ka-tie Dunlap, a sophomore horticul-ture major at Lake Land College, huddled around a large bag in the

basement of the nature center’s vis-itors center. Here, they rummaged through a basket of dried plant stems and flower heads.

Taking the dried plants firmly in their hands, VanHyning and Dun-lop used scissors, pliers and their bare hands to break open seedpods and scrape out seeds to place in the large bag.

The seeds VanHyning and Dun-lop collected will be used to reseed the nature center early next year around February and March, Maris-sa Grant, the land stewardship direc-tor at the center, said.

VanHyning has volunteered at the nature center since she transferred to Eastern in Fall 2010. She said she enjoys being able to work outdoors while also helping to promote diver-sity and conservation.

“I love actually getting to do some of the stuff I learn about in class,” she said. “I get to be outside doing more conservation work and stuff like that instead of educational programs in-side.”

Dunlap volunteered at the nature

center while she was at Charleston High School and said she has con-tinued volunteering since, enjoying the ability to practice what she has learned.

“I learned it there in the class-room, and then I learned how to ac-tually implement it here,” she said.

Grant said honeysuckle is an in-vasive species that has threatened the nature center for years.

“Bush honeysuckle is our main culprit at the nature center,” she said. “It is native to Europe and Asia, and it was brought over here and planted at Douglas-Hart in the 1970s.”

Honeysuckle was promoted by the government as a plant that could prevent soil erosion while also pro-viding berries for wildlife, Grant said. However, as honeysuckle was in-troduced to areas across the United States, problems began to arise.

“We have since learned that it is invasive, and because it is from Eu-rope and Asia, it has no natural pred-ators,” Grant explained. “It will take over an area, and it can out-compete our native vegetation for light, or soil

resources and for moisture.”Honeysuckle has been a constant

problem since its introduction and continues to present challenges, she said.

“Instead of having a forest with a diversity of species, we have ar-eas where there are trees and then a shrub layer of nothing but honey-suckle,” Grant said.

As well, the berries honeysuckle produces are not nutritious for wild-life and only serve to spread the plant across an area, she said.

To prevent honeysuckle from spreading in the nature center, work-ers and volunteers scope out the bushes and dig out the plant, roots and all. It is important to dig up the roots because the honeysuckle can continue to grow from existing root systems, Grant said. Another method volunteers use to eliminate the hon-eysuckle is to cut the bush off as near to the root as possible and then apply an herbicide.

Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812

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By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor

The EIU Society for Free Thought has changed leadership and its pur-pose this year to include more di-verse groups of people talking about a wide array of issues.

Leon Mire, the vice president of the EIU Society for Free Thought, said they want to open the group to people of all faiths, not just those who are agnostic or atheist.

“I was a part of it for the last half of it, and it seemed to be more about nonbelievers getting together and discussing political or religious issues and not really trying to have a dia-logue with people who are believers,” Mire said.

He also said there was value in the way the group was run last year.

“There is some value in having a place for nonbelievers to just get to-gether and talk amongst themselves,” Mire said. “That is something that is often overlooked, that there really is not a community aspect for nonbe-lievers as there is for believers.”

Mire said believers go to church or other religious places, but there is not a place like that for nonbelievers, and this gave them one place.

Mire said they did encourage Christians to attend.

“It seems like if they did, it was the only time they went there, and I’ve heard from several people that it felt like they were Christian bash-ing,” Mire said.

Mire said one of his goals for this semester is to open the group up.

“We are trying to be more wel-coming to believers, but at the same time we’re not politically correct,” Mire said.

Mire said last year, they had differ-ent events like speakers and “Ask an Atheist Day.”

He said they are also planning on working with the biological sciences department during Darwin Week.

“We will talk more explicitly about the connection between sci-ence and religion,” Mire said. “That is not something that the biology de-partment usually touches because it is not strictly science, but it is some-thing important in people’s minds.”

Mire said they exchange beliefs of those in the groups about things like the afterlife.

While the Christian presence has increased since last year, he said he is still disappointed that there has not been more diversity in discussions.

“The Christians who have come have said it’s really different from last year, that it is a lot more tolerant and open-minded, but at the same time, it’s not been equal between believers and nonbelievers,” Mire said.

Mire said one big thing is to get rid of the stereotypes between the groups, and the discussions help to break through those stereotypes.

“There are stereotypes that I want to breakdown equally,” Mire said.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

Leader change brings diversity

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By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

As the world continues to become more digitized and students rely on technology for much of their school-work, the administration of Booth Li-brary aims to keep up.

Allen Lanham, the dean of Library Services at Booth, said Eastern is com-mitted to staying up-to-date with stu-dent needs, including library resources.

“Though it’s hard to stay out ahead of technology, we try to keep up with where it’s going,” he said. “However, as a library and a university, we have to make sure we’re not chasing every dream.”

Lanham said when assessing library resources, the administration has to fol-low the money.

“In terms of computer technology, we’re very well-placed with computer labs, reference area and free printing to take care of the fact that we don’t have some of those resources in print and can provide it better in electronic format,” he said.

Lanham said the library is technolog-ically wired almost to capacity.

“(Booth) is wired within an inch of its life in terms of having plug-ins every-

where and the Wi-Fi as well,” he said.Unfortunately, having technology in

place for a while can lead to students taking it for granted, Lanham said.

“We’re paying thousands of dollars for the technology to keep it all going, but students always seem to want some-thing different or something new,” he said.

Lanham said one of the latest trends nationwide includes students down-loading resources typically found in li-braries onto their tablet devices or cell phones.

“Those resources might not be valu-able for long periods of time unless peo-ple are organized about it,” he said.

Lanham said Booth Library embrac-es digital formats of books and period-icals and works to stay up to date with providing them.

“For a long time now, we have sys-tematically gone through all periodical subscriptions and provided those elec-tronically through our website at the ex-pense of the print collection,” he said.

The count of the print collection at this point is low because electronic ac-cess has skyrocketed, Lanham said.

“Students and faculty seem to like it better,” he said. “In terms of periodicals, the digital format is wonderful, and it

works so the print journal may soon not live here.”

If the library were to drop print pe-riodicals entirely, Lanham said it would save the school and library money.

“Though it might save us some mon-ey, the savings are usually eaten up by inflationary pricing,” he said.

Lanham said publishers are bun-dling their journals together and offer-ing them as a package deal.

“Sometimes the savings are suffi-cient, and we add many new titles to the collection of electronic journals sim-ply because they came along with the package,” he said.

Booth also provides research materi-als in the form of eBooks.

“Libraries often don’t like to pur-chase books like computer technolo-gy ones because they are out of date so fast,” Lanham said. “We buy those elec-tronically, and the publishers update what we have agreed to have access to.”

Lanham said turning all books in the library into digital resources is not in the works.

He described how Google attempt-ed to digitize all books into a huge on-line catalogue and though they made a good start, were met with lawsuits from publishers.

A group of publishers known as Ha-thi Trust took over a section of the proj-ect, and Eastern now has access to the resources provided under them.

“It includes resources from research libraries that got their start online through the Google incident, but it has carried on to where we now have access to those materials,” Lanham said.

Jeremy Brown, a LAN Support Spe-cialist at Booth Library, said all resourc-es that can be accessed electronically through Booth Library can be found on the library’s website.

“Students can find information about all our technology through the website, and it includes what we’re cur-rently using and what is provided to them,” he said.

Lanham said with a resource place as important as Booth, they cannot afford to turn their backs on technology.

“We want to make sure students have a great place to come and explore and use electronic resources, but we still want to maintain books, films, sound recordings and all the things that librar-ies are known to have,” he said.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812


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By Shirmeen Ahmad Staff Reporter

International students and differ-ent cultural representations of mu-sic filled the University Ballroom Fri-day as the Association of Internation-al Students hosted “Sounds of the World.”

As people entered the University

Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, music from all over the world was being played. Many in attendance also wore tradi-tional clothes from their countries.

Lucas Balaminut, a senior account-ing major, said the association spent about a month planning “Sounds of the World.”

He said last year, there were about 150 people in attendance and this year there was close to that amount.

“Normally, there is a good turn-out toward the end of the event, but this time was more at beginning, and that’s a good thing,” Balaminut said.

Balaminut is from Brazil and came to the United States when he was 16.

As the night continued, perfor-mances included singing, playing the flute and piano and a ballroom dance.

There was also a point where stu-dents were able to answer trivia ques-tions for prizes.

Some of the questions were about other countries such as “Which Euro-pean country is known for wine?” The answer was Italy.

Between performances, attendees had the opportunity to participate in games and dancing. Games includ-ed musical chairs and a dancing game

from Indonesia. Within the game, contestants were

partnered off and in between each pair were balloons.

The objective of the game was to dance without dropping or popping the balloons.

Many students found interest on the dance floor where attendees and international students got the chance to meet each other and learn different kinds of dances.

Shirmeen Ahmad can be reached at 581-2812


International music connects students

MARCUS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSGeorge Demos, a senior marketing major, bumps another student out of a chair, while playing musical chairs, Friday in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

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Ghost, ghouls and spirits seem to be every-where this season. This year I got to experience a paranormal investigation that gave me the creeps more than the scariest horror movie I’ve seen.

I pride myself on liking odd things and I am a believer in the supernatural, which is why I jumped on the chance to cover a paranormal in-vestigation last week with the Illinois Metaphysi-cal and Paranormal Society.

Spending a few hours at night in the old Charleston Memorial Hospital was the highlight of my weekend.

When everyone arrived they gave us a tour, pointing out the history of the building and tell-ing us where the common anomalies took place.

Later, we all went through it again with a para-normal consultant who did not know where any of spirits were usually found. Despite no prior knowledge, I watched the consultant point out many of the spots we saw during the first tour.

We were locked inside the dark building with only flashlights to see by. But the only time we re-ally used them was when we were traveling be-tween rooms. Once we started trying to commu-nicate, the flashlights went off, except as a signal for the next question to be asked.

We were split into two groups. There were eight of us in my group and we sat around a con-

ference room table and used a spirit box to com-municate with spirits.

The box received video waves that were used by the spirit to communitcate.

While all I heard was a lot of static with snip-pits of voices, I had goose bumps up and down my whole body from anticipation and the cold temperature of the room. As we sat there we went around in a circle on the cue and asked questions.

Most of the responses I heard were short one-word answers like ‘hi.’

As we were asking questions we recorded the session, and one of the members of the team re-corded the room with a camera.

This was drastically different than I thought it was going to be. Based on shows I had seen, I thought the answers would be much clearer.

The next part of our session, we went to an-

other room where we used an ovilus, a device that has a storage of recorded words that allow spirits to communicate with electromagnetic waves they produce. The ovilus remained silent.

I was slightly disappointed when I found out the other group had drastically different results. The other group, without using any of the devic-es, heard whistles and a voice and their consultant felt touched by nearby spirits.

I believe very deeply that spirits are real, which is why I was sad that nothing happened for our group.

Doing a paranormal investigation is not like it is on TV on shows like “Ghost Hunter” on Syfy and “Ghost Adventures” on the Travel Channel.

My group sat for nearly two hours with no real significant contact, where as in an hour show you see groups having contact left and right. I was not expecting that, but was hoping for more.

This is something that believers and nonbeliev-ers should try. Even if you don’t believe in spirits, it is still cool to have the experience.

I would do it again. Maybe if I do, I’ll have some more experience with the supernatural.

Samantha McDaniel is a junior journalism ma-jor. She can be reached at 581-2812 or

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Journalism convention gave insight, new skills

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

The DAILYEASTERN NEWS

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Editor in ChiefElizabeth Edwards

Managing Editor Ashley Holstrom

Online EditorSara Hall

News Editor Rachel Rodgers

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Opinions Editor Seth Schroeder Letters to the editor can be submitted at any time on any topic to the Opinions

Editor to be published in The Daily Eastern News. The DEN’s policy is to run all letters that are not libelous or potentially harmful.

They must be less than 250 words.

Letters to the editor can be brought in with identification to The DEN at 1811 Buzzard Hall.

Letters may also be submitted electronically from the author’s EIU e-mail address to [email protected].

Last week I drew a cartoon making fun of our Campus Alert system and its common description of criminals on the loose.

I recieved angry calls and Tweets focused on that cartoon. Apparently some people think I’m racist because of it.

Take a look at my column picture. See that? I’m black, about 6’1 in height, weighing in at 270 pounds. This description of myself is similar to the Campus Alerts sent to students’ phones when crimes take place. I drew the cartoon with the mission to make fun of the similarities.

Why would I run a “racist” cartoon in Friday’s issue of The Daily Eastern News to spread ignorant fear of people that look like myself?

It’s called sarcasm, people. I am not trying to spread fear of black males on

this campus. It makes no sense for a man to make a concentrated and creative effort to condemn himself on the wide platform of a campus news-paper read by thousands, many of which see me marching through campus each day.

I encourage people to use a journalistic sense in passing judgment, which involves seeing things for what they are. If you use your comprehension skills in this way, misunderstandings are minimized.

I’m writing this column to explain, not to apol-ogize. I don’t like how people jump to conclusions with such enthusiasm. This is the adult world. Your feelings are going to get hurt sometimes.

Racism will always be an issue, but what I drew wasn’t racist and only commented on the Campus Alert trends. If you think you’ve experienced ‘rac-ism’ at Eastern, I encourage you to take a trip down to my family’s home of Mississippi. You’ll find that any ‘racism’ you’ve experienced here is flowers and cupcakes compared to the Deep South.

I drew what I drew because I found it funny that I guessed the description of the suspect of one alert before even reading it. I was amused, and drew it in a way that people may find funny. Plen-ty of people did indeed find it quite funny.

Anyone angry with me might have had a better sense of humor if they weren’t so quick to judge. You know who else is quick to judge? Racists are. If you judge things to quickly, you can fall into the same category of the people you are so enthu-siastic to put down. Sharing qualities with an en-emy doesn’t look good when you start attacking them. Before becoming critical, take a quick look in the mirror.

So, ladies and gentlemen of Charleston, please note the drawing was not meant to be serious.

I’m sure that if the individual(s) responsible for the crimes in town continue, an arrest will follow.

I find the panicked responses to this alert fun-ny. Not because I find crime funny, but because I’m from the south side of Chicago, the most dan-gerous urban environment in the nation. The Charleston community is quite safe. So, take a deep breath, practice a little discretion and you’ll be just fine.

If anyone is still mad at me feel free to shoot me an e-mail. I’ll respond politely and thoroughly.

Joshua Bryant is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or

[email protected].

Joshua Bryant

Samantha McDaniel

Friday’s cartoon for parody, not racism

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As journalists, we at The Daily Eastern News are constantly looking for new and interesting ways to improve our coverage at Eastern and better serve our readers.

This past weekend many members of our staff and of The Warbler staff were fortunate enough to attend the College Media Associ-ation convention in Chicago where we had plenty of chances to do just that.

We went to numerous sessions and work-shops located that focused on different aspects of journalism. Our meetings with professional and student journalists from across the nation invigorated us. We were reminded of journalism’s importance to society and democracy, and gained insight and solutions to issues we face through our work. We have returned refreshed and ready serve the Eastern community with all we have learned.

Our staff plans to use our new skills to connect more with readers online with social media, redesign our layout both online and in print to make it more visually appealing, develop new graphics and illustrations to con-vey information, revise our editorial page pol-icy, and try new techniques to improve our news, photo, sports, and feature coverage.

We are incredibly excited about the upcoming few weeks as we experiment with implementing these new skills and finding which ones fit in best with our own unique brand of journalism.

Our chosen field is in a state of flux now more than ever. But it excites us to get a chance to participate in such a tran-sition phase. We firmly believe our society will always have a want and need for qual-ity journalism. While no one is sure what form it will take in the future, we intend to explore the possibilities.

While the sessions we attended at the con-vention certainly helped us find new ideas for the work we do everyday and gave us new energy to do it, they also helped you, our readers. As journalists we consider ourselves to be public servants. We aim to bring you information about the campus, its people and its issues. By attending conventions such as this, we learn better ways to do just that. We are constantly trying to become a better pub-lication and to keep you better informed.

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PresidentBarack Obama, Republican candidate Mitt Romney set to square off Nov. 6

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If re-elected, President Barack Obama intends to add to the 5.2 million private sector jobs by eliminating tax breaks for companies who build fac-tories overseas and provid-ing incentives to those who create jobs for Americans. Obama wants to end tax cuts for the wealthy while also giving tax cuts to those making under $250,000/year. Obama also intends to continue to regulate Wall Street.

The Obama adminis-tration passed the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which provides health care to millions of Americans who could not previously afford private insurance and improves Medicare by lowering prescription costs and offering free preven-tive care. This legislation also holds insurance companies accountable and speci-fies that people cannot be denied health insurance because of pre-existing diseases or post-diagnosis.

Women's Issues Romney has stated he believes life begins at con-ception and believes the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Roe v. Wade. He has promised to end federal funding for PlannedParenthood and continue to bar the use of federal funds for abortions. Romney op-

poses requiring churches and religious organizations to provide contraception. Romney favors stemcell research using adult stem cells rather than em-bryonic stem cells.

Same-sex marriage He does not support thelegalization of same-sex

marriage and has promised to appoint an attorney general who will defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court and back a Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution. Romney does support domestic partnerships and associated rights, such as hospital visitation.

Women's Issues The Affordable Care Act has enabled millions of women to receive birth control and other preven-tive health measures, like cancer screenings and breast exams. Women’s rights are once again an important civil rights issue for which Obama has shown support.

Obama is a supporter of Roe v. Wade, and a women's right to choose . President Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, legislation that sought to provide women with legal recourse when they were discriminated against in the workplace.

Same-sex marriage Not once was the issue ad-dressed by either candidate during any of the three presidential debates. In January 2011, Obama repealed the" Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" policy and has continued to vocalize his opinion that same-sex couples should have the right to marry .

Mitt Romney wants to make a permanent 20-per-cent cut to all marginal individual tax rates,lower the corporate tax rate, repeal the individual and corporate alternative minimum tax, and roll-back business, banking and envi-ronmental regulations. He also wants to consoli-date federal job retraining programs. Romney has set a goalto lower federal spending to below 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product.

Romney has promised to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), reform Medicare to provide financial support for partici-pants to purchase aninsurance plan with lower income seniors being eli-gible for higher amounts of support. Romney would also roll back federal standards and requirements on health care insurance and Med-icaid coverage and block grant Medicaid payments.

ECONOMY ECONOMY

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JOSHUA ROBERTS | MC TU.S. President Barack Obama speaks about prepara-tions for Hurricane Sandy during a briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., on October 29.

HEC TOR GABINO|MC T Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a cam-paign event at the University of Miami on October 31, 2012, in Coral Gables, Florida.

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Eastern professors predict winner to 'close election'

VOTING

By Chacour Koop Staff Reporter

Four Eastern political science professors are predicting a close presidential election, and all four predict a second victory for President Barack Obama.

But they said this election could easily swing in Gov. Mitt Romney’s favor depending on nu-merous factors such as Hurricane Sandy re-lief efforts, the turnout numbers of young peo-ple and minorities, or the voting tendencies of-women.

A major incident did come in the form of Hurricane Sandy the night of Oct. 29—kill-ing many Americans and leaving millions with-out power; this is the kind of external event that could affect an election outcome, said political science professor Richard Wandling.

That is not to say that relative turnout does not still matter.

Wandling said much of Obama’s campaign focus has been on the ground game and encour-aging people to vote early—particularly young black and Latino voters.

He said the downside could be worse for the Obama campaign than Romney’s if the storm decreases early voting numbers.

The disaster is a chance for the nation to see Obama in action; so far he is receiving high praise from Republican Gov. Chris Chris-

tie who called the president’s actions after the storm “outstanding.”

Political science professor John Morris said the federal government’s reaction to the storm will be more important to voters than the words of Christie.

“If FEMA is not there, it will be bad for Obama,” Morris said. “It’s the average person out there who saw their home crushed that mat-ters.”

Morris describes himself as a “realist” and said the one poll he believes in is the election, but he is basing his predictions on calculations by the political news website RealClearPolitics.

The website predicts a 290 to 248 Obama vic-tory in the Electoral College.

“RealClearPolitics called it to the penny in 2008,” Morris said. “This tells me Obama will be the next president.”

If Obama is not re-elected, it could be because the Democratic Party is unable to turn out their base.

The Republican Party has a steadier elector-ate while the Democratic Party has more irregu-lar patterns of voting from groups such as young black Americans and Hispanics, said political sci-ence professor Andrew McNitt.

Overall, professor Kevin Anderson said young voters will show up in lower numbers than 2008 because excitement for the Obama campaign has decreased; he said it is no longer the “new, shiny

object” as it was four years ago. McNitt and Anderson said this election is rem-

iniscent of the 2000 presidential election—an election decided by a few hundred votes in Flor-ida.

“By and large we’re not really targeting is-sues that affect young people,” Anderson said. “If younger voters don’t turn out like they did four years ago, the impact of this will be most pro-nounced in the toss-up states.”

Though economic issues have overshadowed issues specifically concerning college students, Wandling said young people should be “passion-ate about it because we are at a pivotal moment in American society.”

Wandling said Romney prefers bank loans to less costly government loans. He said if students do not vote it leaves the decisions of the country up to voters from groups like the American Asso-ciation of Retired Persons.

“I don’t want the AARP setting national public policy,” Wandling said. “Younger voters are go-

ing to have different perspectives on funding of schools than someone who is 70 to 75 years old.”

The female vote will also play a pivotal role in toss-up states such as Ohio, Virginia and Penn-sylvania.

Anderson said comments about rape and abor-tion like those made by Richard Mourdock, a Re-publican senate candidate for Indiana, may in-crease the turnout of undecided women voters in state elections in favor of the Democratic candi-dates.

A higher turn out could change the result in toss-up states, which as Morris points out, will make the difference in an election this close.

“It’s not a national election. It’s 50 separate state elections,” Morris said. “As a strategist, I would be trying to steal one of these toss-up states.”

Chacour Koop can be reached at 581-2812


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Questions and AnswersQ: Which presidential candidate supports abortion in cases of rape or incest? A: Both Mitt Romney and Barack ObamaQ: Who is the Republican candi-date for state’s attorney for Coles County?A: Brian BowerQ: What state was Mitt Romney the governor of?A: MassachusettsQ: How much money does the president make annually?A: $400,000

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Tremayne Davis, a freshman pre-nursing major - Barack Obama -Brian Bower -Massachusetts -Illinois U.S. Senator - No idea

Amanda Zumwalt, a senior education - Mitt Romney -No idea -Massachusetts -Illinois U.S. Senator - No idea

Tim Layden, a junior music major - Barack Obama -Brian Bower -Massachusetts -Illinois U.S. Senator - No idea

Lorenza Branecki, a senior music major - Mitt Romney -Brian Bower -Massachusetts -Illinois U.S. Senator - $700,000

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The Daily Eastern News decided to send Online Editor Sara Hall loose on campus to quiz students to see how knowledgeable they were on election information.

Some students faired well, others not so much.

Students answer election questions

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Candidates vie for open state positionBy Elizabeth Edwards Editor-in-Chief

Candidates Brian Bower and Todd Reardon are vying for the state’s attorney office on Tuesday, both stressing efficiency and diver-sion programs.

Todd Reardon

As a defense attorney, Todd Rear-don has spent 15 years defending clients for homicide, sexual assault and arson charges throughout 79 counties in the state.

Reardon owns his own law office in Charleston and 95 percent of his practice focuses on criminal defense cases.

“I know how to win a case from a defense standpoint,” Reardon said. “I also know what it takes to win from a prosecutorial standpoint.”

His experience as a defense at-torney has helped him see holes in prosecutor cases, which he said could help him build a case as state’s attorney.

Since Reardon has practiced law throughout many counties, he said he has witnessed what state’s attor-ney offices are more efficient than others.

Reardon received his undergradu-ate degree from Eastern and his law degree from Southern Illinois Uni-versity at Carbondale.

Brian Bower

While Bower said he has been a general prosecuting attorney for 29 years at the Brainard Law Office, he has also been city attorney for 23 years.

“I have developed a balance that would be well-suited for state’s at-torney because the state’s attorney really performs the functions of the city attorney but at the county lev-el,” he said.

As a partner at Brainard Law of-fice, Bower said he has been in-volved in the training and men-toring young attorneys, which he said is an important aspect of being state’s attorney.

Before practicing law since 1983, Bower received his undergraduate education from Northwestern Uni-versity in Evanston and his law de-gree from Northern Illinois Univer-sity.

Platform of Candidates Both candidates have stressed the

importance of increasing the effi-ciency in the state’s attorney’s of-fice and implementation of diver-sion programs.

Bower said he wants to give time-tables for cases in order to decrease the backlog of cases experienced by the state’s attorney’s office.

In 2011, the state’s attorney’s of-fice had 571 felony cases, 1,700 misdemeanor cases and 6,300 traf-fic cases with only six judges, five

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court rooms and seven attorneys dealing with all the cases, Bow-er said.

Reardon said he also wants timetables for cases and wants to focus on prosecuting more vio-lent crimes.

As a victim of armed robbery, Reardon said he wants more em-phasize placed on violent crimes then alcohol violations.

“When you are putting in the babies in the bath water and fill-ing up the courtroom with kids walking home drunk, what do you expect the system to be filled of—kids walking home drunk,” he said.

Reardon said the students walking home drunk does not pose a threat to his family vers-es those offenders who can phys-ically harm others.

Bower wants to implement di-version programs similar to the alcohol and juvenile diversion

programs he created as city at-torney.

In order for diversion pro-grams to work, Bower said they must combine accountability and education.

The Charleston program is where individuals will pay an ap-plication fees and take 3.5 hour education class that teaches indi-viduals the effects of alcohol.

While Reardon wants to imple-ment a diversion program simi-lar to Macomb and Champaign County where individuals will sign a contract and be placed on pro-bation.

His diversion program would focus on all non-violent crimes.

The election for state’s attorney will take place on Tuesday.

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SPECIMEN BALLOTCOLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS

GENERAL ELECTIONNOVEMBER 6, 2012

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS SPECIMEN BALLOT IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF THE OFFICES AND CANDIDATES TO BE VOTED IN THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN COLES COUNTY ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012.

SUE RENNELS, COUNTY CLERKCOLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS

STATE"NOTICE

THE FAILURE TO VOTE THIS BALLOT MAY BE THE EQUIVALENT OF A NEGATIVE VOTE, BECAUSE A CONVENTION SHALL BE CALLED OR THE AMENDMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IF APPROVED BY EITHER THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE VOTING ON THE QUESTION OR A MAJORITY OF THOSE VOTING IN THE ELECTION. (THIS IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A DIRECTION THAT YOUR VOTE IS REQUIRED TO BE CAST EITHER IN FAVOR OF OR IN OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSITION HEREIN CONTAINED.)

WHETHER YOU VOTE THIS BALLOT OR NOT YOU MUST RETURN IT TO THE ELECTION JUDGE WHEN YOU LEAVE THE VOTING BOOTH".

CONSTITUTION BALLOT

PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE 1970 ILLINOIS CONSTITUTION

Explanation of Amendment

Upon approval by the voters, the proposed amendment, which takes effect on January 9, 2013, adds a new section to the General Provisions Article of the Illinois Constitution. The new section would require a three-fifths majority vote of each chamber of the General Assembly, or the governing body of a unit of local government, school district, or pension or retirement system, in order to increase a benefit under any public pension or retirement system. At the general election to be held on November 6, 2012, you will be called upon to decide whether the proposed amendment should become part of the Illinois Constitution.

If you believe the Illinois Constitution should be amended to require a three-fifths majority vote in order to increase a benefit under any public pension or retirement system, you should vote “YES” on the question. If you believe the Illinois Constitution should not be amended to require a three-fifths majority vote in order to increase a benefit under any public pension or retirement system, you should vote “NO” on the question. Three-fifths of those voting on the question or a majority of those voting in the election must vote “YES” in order for the amendment to become effective on January 9, 2013.

For the proposed addition of Section 5.1 to Article XIII of the Illinois Constitution.

YES

NO

FEDERALFOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

OF THE UNITED STATES(Vote for one)

BARACK OBAMA DEMOCRATIC

JOE BIDEN

MITT ROMNEY REPUBLICAN

PAUL RYAN

GARY JOHNSON LIBERTARIAN

JAMES P. GRAY

JILL STEIN GREEN

HOWIE HAWKINSWrite-In

CONGRESSIONALFOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS

FIFTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT(Vote for one)

ANGELA MICHAEL DEMOCRATIC

JOHN M. SHIMKUS REPUBLICAN

LEGISLATIVEFOR STATE SENATOR

FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT(Vote for one)

No Candidate DEMOCRATIC

DALE A. RIGHTER REPUBLICAN

REPRESENTATIVEFOR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT(Vote for one)


BRAD HALBROOK REPUBLICAN

COUNTYFOR CIRCUIT CLERK

(Vote for one)No Candidate DEMOCRATIC

MELISSA HURST REPUBLICAN

FOR STATE'S ATTORNEY(Vote for one)

TODD M. REARDON DEMOCRATIC

BRIAN BOWER REPUBLICAN

FOR CORONER(Vote for one)


J. EDWARD "ED" SCHNIERS REPUBLICAN

COUNTY BOARDFOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD

DISTRICT ONE(Vote for one)


MICHAEL ZUHONE REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT TWO(Vote for one)

JOHN F. PROTZ DEMOCRATIC

RON OSBORNE REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT THREE

(Vote for one)RICHARD (DICK) GOODRICK DEMOCRATIC

No Candidate REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT FOUR

(Vote for one)ALAN M. HAWKINS DEMOCRATIC

CORY SANDERS REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT FIVE(Vote for one)

JIM HILGENBERG DEMOCRATIC

MARK DEGLER REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT SIX(Vote for one)

BRANDON A. SAUNDERS DEMOCRATIC

PAUL DAILY REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT SEVEN


NANCY PURDY REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT EIGHT

(Vote for one)DANIEL E. LAWRENCE DEMOCRATIC

No Candidate REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT NINE(Vote for one)


JANICE KAY EADS REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT TEN(Vote for one)


STAN METZGER REPUBLICAN

COUNTY BOARDFOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD

DISTRICT ELEVEN(Vote for one)


JOHN C. BELL REPUBLICAN

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARDDISTRICT TWELVE


BRIAN MARVIN REPUBLICAN

JUDICIALFOR JUDGE OF THE APPELLATE COURT

FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT(To fill the vacancy of the Hon. Sue E. Myerscough)


CAROL POPE REPUBLICAN

FOR JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURTFIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT - COLES COUNTY

(To fill the vacancy of the Hon. Gary W. Jacobs)(Vote for one)


BRIEN J. O'BRIEN REPUBLICAN

JUDICIAL RETENTIONBALLOT FOR JUDICIAL CANDIDATES SEEKING

RETENTION IN OFFICE

"Vote on the Proposition with respect to all or any of the Judges listed on this ballot. No Judge listed is running against any other Judge. The sole question is whether each Judge shall be retained in his present office."

SUPREME COURT JUDGESHALL

RITA B. GARMANbe retained in office as

JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURTFOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT?

YES

NO

APPELLATE COURT JUDGESHALL

JOHN TURNERbe retained in office as

JUDGE OF THE APPELLATE COURTFOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT?

YES

NO

CIRCUIT COURT JUDGESHALL

CRAIG H. DeARMONDbe retained in office as

JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURTFIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT?

YES

NO

SHALLNANCY S. FAHEY

be retained in office asJUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT

FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT?YES

NO

PROPOSITIONSULLIVAN COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 300

REFERENDUM REGARDING BOARD MEMBERSHIP AT LARGE

Shall members of the Board of Education of Sullivan Community Unit School District No. 300, Moultrie, Shelby and Coles Counties, Illinois, be elected in 2013 and thereafter, at large and without restriction by area of residence within the district instead of the current restriction that not more than three (3) members of the board of education may be selected from one (1) congressional township in the school district?

YES

NO

PROPOSITIONPROPOSITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE CITY OF

CHARLESTON SHALL ADOPT AN OPT-OUT AGGREGATION PROGRAM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL COMMERCIAL

RETAIL ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, COLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Shall the City of Charleston have the authority to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such program?

YES

NO

PROPOSITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE CITY OF MATTOON SHALL ADOPT AN OPT-OUT AGGREGATION

PROGRAM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL COMMERCIAL RETAIL ELECTRIC CUSTOMERS IN THE CITY OF

MATTOON, COLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Shall the City of Mattoon have the authority to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such program?

YES

NO

PROPOSITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE CITY OF OAKLAND SHALL ADOPT AN OPT-OUT AGGREGATION

PROGRAM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL COMMERCIAL RETAIL ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS IN THE CITY OF

OAKLAND, COLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Shall the CITY of OAKLAND have the authority to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such program?

YES

NO

PROPOSITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE VILLAGE OF ASHMORE SHALL ADOPT AN OPT-OUT AGGREGATION

PROGRAM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL COMMERCIAL RETAIL ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS IN THE VILLAGE OF

ASHMORE, COLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Shall the Village of Ashmore have the authority to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such program?

YES

NO

PROPOSITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE VILLAGE OF HUMBOLDT SHALL ADOPT AN OPT-OUT AGGREGATION PROGRAM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL COMMERCIAL RETAIL ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS IN THE VILLAGE OF

HUMBOLDT, COLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Shall the VILLAGE of HUMBOLDT have the authority to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such program?

YES

NO

PROPOSITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE VILLAGE OF LERNA SHALL ADOPT AN OPT-OUT AGGREGATION

PROGRAM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL COMMERCIAL RETAIL ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS IN THE VILLAGE OF

LERNA, COLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Shall the VILLAGE of LERNA have the authority to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such program?

YES

NO

PROPOSITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE COUNTY OF COLES SHALL ADOPT AN OPT-OUT AGGREGATION

PROGRAM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL COMMERCIAL RETAIL ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS IN THE COUNTY OF

COLES, COLES COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Shall the COUNTY OF COLES have the authority to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such program?

YES

NO

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Students, faculty reflect on first time voting

By Bob Galuski Staff Reporter

As Election Day draws closer, Eastern stu-dents are about to cast their ballots for the first time, while professors recall the first time they voted.

Students excited to cast first vote Ashley Copple, a se-

nior marketing major, said this would be her first time voting, as she missed the last election by a month.

“I turned the right age a month after the election, I was really disappointed about that,” she said.

Copple said she was still intending to vote, even though she said she felt conflicted about the candidates.

“I think (Barack) Obama has better person-al skills, but during the debates—especially the last one—he just seemed to be repeating what he said back in 2008,” she said.

Lindsey Luttrell, a junior communication studies major, said she was involved with the Debate Watch on campus.

“Being in Debate Watch helped me get more information about the candidates,” she said.

Trey Tonward , a freshman undecided major, said he was not going to be voting in the upcoming election, despite being eligible.

“ I d i d n ’ t h a v e enough time to be reg-istered,” he said.

Tonward also said he wanted to be more educated about the is-sues before making a decision.

“I haven’t had time to actually watch (the candidates), so I don’t want to take other peo-ple’s opinions about it, or make it into a race issue,” he said.

Seth Kurber, a junior management infor-mation systems major, said he was excited to be voting for the first time.

He also said he wished the candidates would focus more on the issues rather than avoiding the questions.

“It seemed like (the candidates) were talk-ing around the questions rather than focusing on the issues,” he said.

Tashon Lawrence, a freshman family and consumer sciences major, said one of the big-gest reasons she was voting was because of fi-nancial aid.

“This is the issue that really affects me, be-cause everyone in college needs financial aid, so that’s what I’m most concerned about,” Lawrence said.

Several students on campus said while they were going to be voting, they had not been following the campaign trail too closely.

Rachel Bushnell, a freshman elementa-ry education major, said she did not have enough access to information about the elec-tion.

“I haven’t decided who I’m going to vote for yet,” she said. “And I’m not a huge politi-cal person, so it’s not a big issue.”

Calvin Edwards, a freshman undecided ma-jor, said he had not watched the debates, despite still intending to vote.

“I don’t think there’s been anything too excit-ing going on with this election,” Edwards said.

Jon Grace, a senior communication stud-ies major, also said this was not the first elec-tion he will be voting in.

“I voted in the Il-linois primary in the spring, but this will be the first major election I’m voting in,” Grace said.

While Grace said he was excited to be vot-ing in a presidential election, he was disap-pointed because his favorite candidate wasn’t not in the running.

“I’m pretty excited to be a part of deciding, but the one guy I wanted to win isn’t even on the ballot,” he said.

Grace said he was a fan of Ron Paul, an early Republican candidate.

Despite not having a clear favored candi-date, Grace said he believed this was one of the biggest presidential elections.

“You have the economy to worry about, the fact that we had bailouts, and a very low em-ployment rate,” he said. “The employment rate especially – that’s pretty important to col-lege students.”

Faculty reflect on their first time voting

Eastern professors also remembered the first time they voted in an election, as well as the atmosphere around each election.

Charles Foy, a history professor, said he was one of the first people to vote at the age of 18, right after the voting law changed from 21 to 18.

“I felt, since I was one of the first, it was my obligation to vote,” Foy said.

He also said one of the biggest issues at the time was the Vietnam War.

“It was a very mobilizing issue at the time,” he said.

Traci Worby, a kinesiology and sports stud-ies professor, said she first became interested in voting after doing mock election in high school.

“I voted for the first time when I was 21

and it was during the George W. Bush-John Kerry election,” she said. “We did mock elec-tions in school, and I became interested in politics.”

Richard Wandling, a po-l i t i c a l s c i e n c e professor, said the first election he voted in was the 1976 Democratic Primary in West Virginia.

“I didn’t vote in 1974,” he said. “I wasn’t fully en-gaged in politics yet.”

Wandling said he did not become engaged in politics until his next door neighbor helped him register.

“After that I felt obligated to vote,” he said. “I’ve been voting in every election ever since.”

Shelley French, a foreign language profes-sor, said the first election she voted in was in 1980.

She said when she first voted it was because she “felt a need to vote.”

Andrew White, a mathematics professor, said he voted for Dwight Eisenhower in his first election.

“I actually met Eisenhower when he visited East St. Louis,” White said.

White said he is hoping the economy will improve after this next election.

“I don’t want my grandchildren mired in a

building debt,” he said. “There needs to be a drastic change or we’re finished as a first-rate nation.”

Debbie Fay, a kinesiology and sports stud-ies professor, said her first time voting was for Richard Nixon.

“I was voting more out of a sense of matu-rity than awareness,” Fay said.

One of the biggest issues at the time, Fay said, was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Jonathan Blitz, a chemistry professor, said his first vote was cast in 1980.

Robert Martinez, an English professor, said his first election was in 1996.

“I had a very cynical view on politics, I didn’t believe that my vote would really mat-ter,” he said.

However, he said he had a conversation with one of his friends who convinced him to start becoming involved in politics.

“From that short conversation, I realized he was right,” he said. “If I don’t vote, then I have no right to complain about the condi-tion of our country.”

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Out of 20 people polled, these were the issues that concerned them the most

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By Nike Ogunbodede Associate News Editor

On Election Day, Sue Rennels said she is hoping to surpass the high voter turnout she experienced during the 2008 presidential elec-tion despite a nearly seven-thousand decrease in registered voters.

Rennels, the Coles County clerk, said the county has registered 32,867 voters, among that number is 1,015 Eastern students — less than the 1,161 student voters that cast their ballots on the previous Election Day on Nov. 4, 2008.

About 300 Eastern students voted before Tuesday.

“The 2008 presidential had 70.85 percent

voter turnout; you always hope to top that,” Rennels said in an email.

As the student executive vice president, Jar-rod Scherle was in charge of the student gov-ernment’s voter registration drive that took place in one week at the beginning of the se-mester.

“In our week-long drive, we registered 1,055 voters,” Scherle said. “I’m very happy with the way things turned out.”

Scherle said it is important that the cur-rent generation becomes a part of the polit-ical process now.

Scherle said his first time voting was in the 2008 elections.

“A big criticism of our generation is apa-

thy and not caring, (so) we didn’t just regis-ter people to vote, but we also promoted the two week period where you can vote ahead of time,” he said.

All 17 polling locations in Charleston will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Rennels said a form of identification would help the identification process.

“Voter ID cards would be helpful,” Ren-nels said. “If a voter cannot locate that, an ID would be helpful to assist judges locating them in the system.”

Though Rennels said she does expect some glitches to occur, she is confident in her of-fice’s ability to properly assess complications.

“We prepare to the best of our abilities to

make everything go (smoothly), but come Election Day you just take it as it comes,” Rennels said.

Rennels said the office is fully staffed for Tuesday’s voting rush during the before-work, lunch and after-work hours.

“I never know how long this process will take, (and) it depends on when the judges bring me their results,” she said.

Rennels said a Republican and Democrat judge from each precinct will provide their re-sults to the clerk’s office.

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By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor

While the Tarble Arts Center is cur-rently hosting the artwork of artist Car-mon Colangelo, the center will also host the artist Monday when he gives a lecture about his work and career.

The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Tarble Atrium.

Colangelo, a Canadian artist, is cur-rently the dean of the Fox School of Design and Visual Arts in St. Louis and said his work is primarily based in painting and printmaking.

“I started in printmaking because I am fascinated by the technology that surrounds it and how you have to work with different mediums to produce it,” Colangelo said. “It is a learning process in layering the different elements and a transformation to possibly only pro-duce one print.”

He said during the presentation, he will speak not only about his work but the concept of his work and why he chose to become an artist.

“I started drawing at a very young age and eventually started printmak-ing,” Colangelo said. “It is the only thing I can ever really remember want-ing to do.”

The current exhibit of Colangelo’s work at the Tarble is called “iM here” and is a collection from two of his re-cent projects, “Eyedeas” and “OLan-dO”.

“In ‘iM here,’ I focus on digital tech-nology and talk about globalization and

how the world has changed through computer technology,” Colangelo said.

Within the general exhibit, Colange-lo said each project has a slightly differ-ent focus.

He said “Eyedeas” focuses on ev-eryday small ideas and is playful.

“‘OLandO’ is about the city of Orlando, a city known for Disney World, but it is a play on words so it really could be anywhere,” he said.

Michael Watts, the director of the Tarble, said he invited Colan-gelo to speak after an art professor, Chris Kahler, nominated Colangelo as part of the annual joint program-ming presented by the Tarble and the art department.

“In addition to the quality of Colangelo's work and his stature as an artist, he was selected because he incorporates printmaking in his art,” Watts said. “We hadn't had a printmaker as a visiting artist for a while.”

Watts said there is a lot to be learned from Colangelo beyond what is in his work.

“Like all art, there is the capacity to learn about ourselves—as individ-uals, as a society, and as a species—with the artist acting as an agent to focus on various aspects of our so-ciety and/or environments,” Watts said.

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MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMembers of the dance group House Arrest 2 Chapter 2 perform during the Rhythm & X-tacy’s Dance Down Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium. Cre8tivty, a newly formed dance group created by Eastern students, also performed at the Dance Down.

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mance today to my former teacher, John Swallow,” Fisher said. “He had a great orchestral career at both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York Brass Quintet.”

Fisher said at the time Swallow was a member of the New York Brass Quintet, the group was “the brass quintet” and had multiple compos-ers asking to work with them and perform the composers’ works.

After speaking about Swallow’s life, Fisher kissed his hand, pointed up and addressed Swallow.

“This is for you, Mr. Swallow,” Fisher said. “Wherever you are, I hope you enjoy it.”

After Fisher’s next piece, Jemmie Robertson, a music professor, talked about his experiences with Swallow.

Robertson, who organized the daylong program, said Swallow was known not only for his talent but memorable quotes and advice.

“I worked with him back in 2001 when I was graduate student at Yale,” Robertson said. “In master class, he would always say something memo-rable; I had to write them down so I wouldn’t forget them.”

Robertson said some of his fa-vorite quotes of Swallow’s includ-ed “How you are feeling at any giv-en moment can be seen in exact-ly how you are playing at any given

moment,” and “Become a virtuoso; there is not a single virtuoso musi-cian out of work.”

Virtuoso is an Italian term for ex-cellence.

Wyatt Gard, a senior music major, attended a master class with Fish-er and said he learned just as much from watching Fisher critique other musicians as he learned from being critiqued.

“Watching him critique others, I not only learned other techniques but how to better teach music or a lesson,” Gard said.

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“There is so much drama that goes on behind the classroom door—it’s a natural arena for drama to occur—and these kids, students and teachers have amazing stories, some very posi-tive and some very negative or both.”

Freiberger said he was going to originally call the show “Behind the Classroom Door” because it shares these stories.

“It explains really getting out there and entering yourself into the teach-er milieu and trying to make a dif-ference and seeing how challenging it can sometimes be,” Freiberger said.

Freiberger will be giving a work-shop on performing a solo perfor-mance.

“It will focus on autobiographi-cal solo performance, creating art out of the fabric of our lives,” Freiberg-er said.

He will also give a workshop about teaching.

“It’ll be a combination of class-room stories, pragmatic and a practi-cal presentation, and it will deal with some of my teaching philosophies and explore some of those stories and what I’ve learned through the years,” Freiberger said.

He said he wants to get a conversa-tion started about the different areas within teaching.

“I’m not there to tell anyone to do anything; I just want them to get ideas that I have, present to them, and learn from my experience and in-terpret it into their own way of see-ing things,” Freiberger said.

Tickets are $7 for students, $12 for Eastern employees and those 62 or older and $15 for the general pub-lic.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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The Eastern men’s soccer team came up with its first tie of the season in its final game, finishing the season with a 3-13-1 record.

The Panthers tied Oakland, 0-0, in the last game of the season Friday. The Panthers finish in last place in the Sum-mit League and will not participate in the Summit League tournament be-cause only the top four teams play.

Oakland dominated game play Sat-urday by taking 18 more shots than Eastern and nine more corner kicks.

Eastern sophomore forward Tay-

ron Martin lead the Panthers with four shots in the game, including two shots on goal.

Eastern junior defender Jake Plant and freshman forward Anthony DiNuzzo each had two shots in the game.

Eastern senior goalkeeper Evan Turner made six saves in the game – the same number of saves as the Oakland goalkeeper.

Oakland’s Miche’Le Lipari and Kyle Bethel led the Golden Grizzlies with seven shots apiece, while Joey Tinnion had six shots.

Oakland is the No. 1 seed in the Summit League tournament, which be-

gins this weekend in Macomb, Ill.The Golden Grizzlies will play

fourth-seeded Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne, while No. 2 Missouri-Kan-sas City will play No. 3 Western Illi-nois. The winner will be decided in the championship game on Sunday.

Western Illinois and Fort Wayne each helped their cases to get into the tournament this weekend with victo-ries.

Western, the reigning Summit League champions, beat Kansas City Saturday, 2-1, to pick up a crucial three points in the league.

Western also played the last regu-lar season game of the year Sunday

in a non-conference match against Belmont. The two teams played to a scoreless draw.

Fort Wayne beat Indiana-Purdue-Indianapolis this week, 1-0, to help its cause. IUPUI was previously a team in the running for one of the four spots in the tournament.

Eastern’s goals against average ends as one of the worst in the na-tion, but the third worst in the Sum-mit League at 2.05 per game.

Only Oral Roberts and Fort Wayne gave up more goals this sea-son.

Likewise, the Panthers scored the third fewest goals this season.

In conference play only, the Pan-thers were the worst team in the league in goals against and gave up the most total goals.

The Panthers also scored the few-est goals in Summit League play, but took the second most shots.

Eastern sophomore forward Jake Brillhart was fifth in the league in shots taken, while senior goalkeeper Evan Turner was among the top five goalkeepers in goals against average and goals given up.

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Jake Plant, a junior defender/mid-fielder, runs after the ball on Saturday Oct. 27 at Lakeside Field in the match against Fort Wayne.

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The Eastern women’s basketball team nearly doubled the point total of its opponent, Illinois-Springfield, Sun-day in its exhibition game, 83-42, win.

The Panthers outscored Illinois-Springfield, 45-21, in the second half in route to the victory, which will not count toward its overall season record – with this game only being used as a warm up to start the season.

The Panthers had two new addi-tions to its starting lineup in the game

in sophomores Sabina Oroszova and Katlyn Payne.

Perennial starting forward Sydney Mitchell did not play. Eastern head coach Lee Buchanan said last week Mitchell was battling back problems for most of the summer.

Payne had a career night, though. She scored a game-high 20 points on 7-of-14 shooting, including four three pointers.

She led the Panthers in scoring. Se-nior guard Kelsey Wyss and senior for-ward Mariah King weren’t far behind

Payne, scoring 18 and 17 points, re-spectively.

Eastern trailed Illinois-Springfield late in the first half, but started a 22-2 run to end the half and it didn’t lose the lead again.

Freshman guard Alece Shumpert had a big first game, scoring 10 points.

Senior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon scored 9 in the game.

The regular season begins at 6:05 p.m. Friday as the Panthers will start the season on the road against Indiana State in Terre Haute, Ind.

Panthers score big in exhibition

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Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior forward Elizabeth Kelly is blocked by Mariah King, a senior forward, during the game Sunday in Lantz Arena. The Panthers beat the Prairie Stars 83-42.

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Sophomore running back Taylor Duncan added the eventual game-winning touchdown, running it in from 10 yards out to give the Pan-thers a 31-17 lead.

In the closing minutes of the game, Tennessee Tech running back Doug Page recorded his second touchdown of the day to make the score 31-24 with 2:27 remaining in the game.

Following the touchdown run, the Golden Eagles elected to at-tempt an on-side kick, but red-shirt junior wide receiver Erik Lora re-covered the kick, eliminating all hopes of a Tennessee Tech win in the process.

For the game, Garoppolo threw for 376 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. The Arling-ton Heights native completed 27 of his 41 pass attempts, and opened up the game completing 15 of his first 18 pass attempts.

“It’s funny that we have come to expect great things from Jim-my (Garoppolo), and watching the game unfold on the field it ap-peared he didn’t have the numbers he put up,” head coach Dino Babers said. “He did a great job moving our offense and making adjust-ments to get us the win.”

In the receiving game, both Wat-kins and Wright eclipsed the 100-yard mark, and Lora added 75 yards on seven catches. It was the second consecutive game where Lora was held under 100 yards after start-ing the season with seven straight games with 100 receiving yards or more.

On the ground, red-shirt senior running back Jake Walker and Dun-can combined to total 116 yards and one touchdown. Walker totaled a team-leading 61 yards on 14 car-ries, while Duncan added 56 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries.

Defensively, the Panthers allowed 222 rushing yards as duel-threat quarterback Darian Stone totaled a team-best 100 rushing yards. For-mer Fighting Illini running back Bud Golden added 50 yards on 10 carries, and Doug Page contribut-ed 30 yards and two touchdowns on 11 attempts.

In the passing game, the Panthers limited the Golden Eagles to a sea-son-best 153 yards. Tennessee Tech was without starting quarterback Tre Lamb as Stone threw for just 153 yards, a touchdown and an in-terception in the losing effort.

The Panther defense was led by sophomore defensive back Jour-dan Wickliffe as he totaled a team-best 13 tackles and an intercep-tion. Sophomore linebacker Robert Haynes contributed 12 tackles.

Eastern will be back in action at 11 a.m. Saturday at O’Brien Field when it hosts Southeast Missouri for a chance to earn a share of first place in the OVC.

“The team is feeling good right now,” Garoppolo said. “We just need to remain focused and hungry in order to reach our goal on Sat-urday.”

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-2812




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FOOTBALL

By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

The Eastern volleyball team clinched a berth in the Ohio Valley Conference Tour-nament, with two four-set wins over Jackson-ville State (25-20, 25-18, 23-25, 25-18) and Tennessee Tech (25-23, 19-25, 25-19, 25-20).

Eastern moved from the eighth spot in the OVC Tournament standings to sixth, where only eight teams qualify for postseason play.

“I think this is the first time in a while that we’ve reached the tournament, and this group of girls, as well as the ones I’ve played with in the past, have allowed us to do that,” junior outside hitter Reynae Hutchinson said.

The Panthers improve to 10-19 overall and 7-7 in the OVC.

Since going winless in their first five con-ference matches, the Panthers are 7-2 in OVC play.

“It really shows how hard we have worked to get where we are,” Hutchinson said.

“We’ve come together in some really close matches and its great to see us do that, es-pecially now when we needed to the most. We’ve been able to get back to the basics and

have fun playing,” she said. Both matches saw the Panthers have four

different players in double-digit kills, mark-ing the fourth-straight game that feat was ac-complished.

Hutchinson nabbed her 24th and 25th ca-reer double-double as she recorded a 20 kill, 10 dig performance against Tennessee Tech after recording a 14 kill, 19 dig double-dou-ble against Jacksonville State.

The team captain also reached that feat for the fourth straight game.

Also in the win over Tennessee Tech, class-mate Stephanie Arnold added 12 kills and tied Hutchinson and senior middle hitter Ali-son Berens with four blocks apiece.

Freshman outside hitter Abby Saalfrank contributed 10 kills in the winning effort.

Fellow freshman setter Marah Bradbury continued her impact on offense with 51 as-sists, drilling in six kills off a .545 hit per-centage.

Defensively, freshman libero Stephanie Wallace nabbed 17 digs, while sophomore Dakota Springer had a career-high 15 digs.

Things continue to unravel for the Gold-en Eagles as they fall to 3-23 overall and 1-13 in conference.

Team-wise, the Panthers led the Gold-en Eagles in kills (64 to 45), attacks (147 to 132), attack (.252 to .205), assists (58 to 42), digs (63 to 49), and points (77 to 64).

However, Tennessee Tech did win the serve and blocking battles with respective advantag-

es of five to four and 14 to nine.In the previous match, Berens led all play-

ers in kills as she tied her career-high with 16. Berens also paced Eastern with a team-high

five blocks and two aces.Arnold added 14 kills from the middle at-

tack, while Saalfrank chipped in 12 kills of her own. Saalfrank also tied Bradbury with three blocks.

Bradbury ran the offense behind 54 assists. The freshman added seven kills on a .583 at-tack.

On defense, Wallace notched 22 digs as sophomores Kelsey Brooke and Springer re-corded 21 an 11 digs of their own, respective-ly.

Jacksonville State fell to 12-15 overall and 6-7 in the OVC.

As a team, the Panthers dominated the Gamecocks in nearly every stat category, in-cluding more than doubling them in overall attack (.277 to .121) and aces (five to two).

Eastern also led Jacksonville State in kills (67 to 41), assists (63 to 33), digs (75 to 61), and points (80 to 52).

Eastern returns home to take on Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at 7 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 11, in Lantz Arena.

The Cougars beat the Panthers earlier this season in straight sets on Sept. 25.

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJimmy Garoppolo, a junior quarterback, talks with Head Coach Dino Babers during the Home-coming Game on Oct. 13.

Panthers escape with win, move up in ranks

By Jordan Pottorff Sports Editor

Eastern’s football team remained on top of the Ohio Valley Conference with a 31-24 win over Tennessee Tech on Saturday.

The Panthers moved to 5-1 in the OVC, and are tied for first place with Tennessee-Martin.

Against Tennessee Tech, the Panthers found themselves in an early 10-0 hole at the end of the first quarter, but outscored the Golden Eagles, 31-14, in the final three quar-ters to escape Cookeville, Tenn., with their second road win of the season.

“We just came out in the second half and played the way we knew we could,” junior quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo said.

Following two fourth down stands by the Golden Eagle defense, the Panthers found the end zone for the first time on a 61-yard touchdown pass from Garoppolo to red-shirt senior wide receiver Chavar Watkins.

Watkins had seven catches for a career-best 140 yards in the win.

The Panthers would take their first lead of the game on the opening drive of the second half.

Garoppolo connected with freshman wide receiver Keiondre Gober for the two-yard touchdown to give Eastern a 14-10 lead.

Following a 19-yard field goal by junior kicker Cameron Berra, the Golden Eagles re-sponded with a 14-yard touchdown pass from back-up quarterback Darian Stone to former Tennessee Volunteer wide receiver Da’Rick Rogers to tie the game at 17.

The highly touted wide receiver finished the game with five catches for a team-best 49 yards and a touchdown.

The Panthers quickly answered as Garop-polo tossed his third touchdown of the game, finding senior wide receiver Chris Wright downfield for the 73-yard touchdown strike.

Wright finished the game with 102 yard and a touchdown on four receptions.

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Nicholas Ruffolo Staff Reporter

The Eastern women’s rugby team traveled to Murfreesboro, Tenn., and defeated the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders Saturday after-noon to extend their win streak to five.

The 57-31 win, not in rugby sevens format, improved the Panthers to 5-2 on the season.

After leading 28-14 at halftime, Eastern added 29 more points in the second half after MTSU continued to prove resilient on the of-fensive end.

The Blue Raiders scored 17 points in the second half, which is more than the Panthers have given up in one game alone.

Also in the match, senior center Lauren Doyle returned to action after her trip to China with the National Team.

In her comeback, she recorded three trys, bringing her total to 11 in just two games played.

Scoring three trys as well was breakout sophomore center Madison Kissner.

Her 15 points, five assists and four runs over 20-yards paced Eastern in the victory.

She continues to lead the team in trys (23), points (115), and runs over 20-yards (28).

Handling the majority of the kicking du-ties once again for the Panthers was sopho-more scrum-half Carissa Burge.

Her six-for-seven effort on two-point con-versions led to 12 points on the day, while also adding two runs over 20-yards as well.

Freshmen Jasmine Gardner and Kelsey Jackson scored a try as well, and sophomore prop Ellen Wilson rounded up the effort with one of her own.

Sophomore lock Kim Youhas tied Burge’s mark, also recording six solo stops on the day.

Eastern will finish up the season next Sun-day against Georgia Tech at 11 a.m. and will look to end the season with six straight wins.

Nicholas Ruffolo can be reached at 581-2812


Panthers take down MTSU

RUGBY

MARCUS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKelsey Brooke, a red-shirt sophomore outside hitter, serves the ball in a Oct. 19 in Lantz Arena. The Panthers won with a 3-0 series against Murray State.

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Eastern victories catapult them into OVC TourneyPanthers move from eighth spot to sixth in OVC Tourney

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