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STILL ON TOPThe Eastern women’s basketball team is in first place going into the OVC after beating the Readhawks 64-46.
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CHORUSES COME TOGETHERRead about the “Songs of Love “ concert put together by local high school choruses.
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By Bob GaluskiEntertainment Editor
Stepping on stage in a sparkling dress, Grace Kelly was met with thunderous applause as she got ready to perform with the EIU Jazz Ensemble.
The applause was well-deserved for the 20-year-old saxophonist, who helped kick off the 54th An-nual Jazz Festival Friday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doud-na Fine Arts Center.
Constantly dancing to the music even as she played, Kelly performed with the EIU Jazz Ensemble before her own quintet came out.
Kelly played various songs dur-ing her per formance wi th the EIU Jazz Ensemble , inc luding the haunting ballad “My Foolish Heart,” written by Ned Washing-ton and Victor Young and arranged by Dave Rivello.
While none of the songs Kel-ly played with Eastern’s own en-semble were her original work, she quickly made up for it by perform-ing with her quintet “The Way You Look Tonight,” which she arranged herself.
She followed up “The Way You Look Tonight” with her own piece, “Filosophical Flying Fish.”
Kelly performed most of the concert with songs she had written and arranged.
“I know I’m playing a lot of my original stuff,” she said. “But if I don’t play it, nobody will.”
Kelly, however, was not limited to only playing saxophone.
She was also able to showcase her vocal skills during a few of her songs, including “Eggshells,” which she said she wrote while in Germa-ny.
“I was having lunch with one of my friends, and he said he felt like he was on eggshells, so I went home and boom – written and done,” she said. “I wish more songs were that efficient.”
Kelly gave her tribute to differ-ent genres of music and her love for them in her song “Please Don’t Box Me In.”
The piece instantly captured the feeling of wanting to explore more than just one specific area of per-formance, which was something Kelly said she enjoyed.
“I love playing both jazz and pop,” she said. “I’ve been playing jazz longer, but they’re each so dif-ferent — it’s great to play both.”
During the performance, it was easy to see why Kelly was named winner of Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women competition in 2011.
Kelly approached the audience with a very casual tone, even going out of her way to ask for the spot-light to be removed so she could better see the people attending.
Kelly even performed a song specifically for Eastern, where she made up lyrics telling the audience how much she enjoyed performing in Charleston.
Through this conversat ional tone, Kelly reached a new intima-
cy with the audience and turned the concert hall into more of a cof-fee shop performance rather than a jazz festival.
During the performance, Kel-ly made jokes to the audience about some of her songs, including “Nighttime Star.”
“I wrote this for my boyfriend, who is now my ex-boyfriend,” she said. “But I like this song, so I’m going to play it.”
Kelly was even able to break through the frosty season of win-ter with her piece “Autumn Song,” which brought to mind different colored leaves and crisp fall days.
Working with the EIU Jazz En-semble, Kelly also played “Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise,” written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Sig-mund Romberg and arranged by Dave Wolpe.
Kel ly mingled wel l with the members of the EIU Jazz Ensem-ble.
She was able to pick up on sub-tle cues and continue on her per-formance as if they all had been re-hearsing for weeks on end.
Kelly replaced replace the reed in her saxophone, and did so while dancing and moving to the music, allowing her to keep up with the rhythm.
Making her debut performance in Charleston, Kelly soared to new heights with her ability to easi-ly interweave pop and jazz music, and made a very memorable open-ing concert to the 54th Annual Jazz Festival.
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Young saxophonist jazzes up festival
Mir anda Ploss | The daily easTern ne wsGrace Kelly performs "The Way You Look Tonight," arranged by Kelly, during "Grace Kelly + Quintet" Friday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Dounda Fine Arts Center. Kelly's performance kicked off 2013 EIU Jazz Festival.
Artist performs own compositions with Jazz Ensemble, quintet
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By samantha Mcdaniel Student Governance Editor
The Student Senate election pro-cess will start Feb. 18 with the elec-tion packet distribution.
Student Body President Kaci Abolt, a senior communication studies major, said the packets con-tain information about each posi-tion available for the fall semester
with descriptions of the duties and roles of that position.
There are both executive posi-tions and senator positions avail-able.
The election packets will be available online through the stu-dent government webpage and in the Student Activity Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Universi-ty Union.
Abolt said she is starting the pro-cess sooner so the candidates can have more of a transition period and learn from the current execu-tives.
“We have about a month be-fore we official take office, so we
do have some transition time to get moved into the office, talk to out-going officers about what to ex-pect,” Abolt said.
Abolt said she did not have a long transition period before the end of the semester, but was lucky to have predecessors who were will-ing to meet with her during the summer to help her transitions.
“That grace period is kind of nice to get adjusted,” she said. “You want to have enough time before summer for the new board to meet with my board and be able to talk about ideas.”
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By Bob Galuskientertainment editor
Crisp black tuxedos, f low-ing red dresses and gallant blue robes filled the stage of the Dvor-ak Concert Hall Sunday as differ-ent choirs came together to per-form love songs.
“Songs of Love” concert fea-tured the University Mixed Cho-rus, the Concert Choir and sing-ers from the Honor Choir Festi-val.
The Honor Choir Festival was composed of students from high schools all over the area, includ-ing Charleston High School, Marshall High School, East Rich-land High School, Casey-West-field High School and Maroa-For-syth High School.
Richard Rossi, a music profes-sor, conducted both the Concert Choir and the Honor Choir in their songs.
Each of the songs performed dealt with the beauty of love and the effects love can have, such as “Winter” from The Life of Love, performed by the Concert Choir.
Like a soft snowfall, the piece began slowly and then gradually built itself into a fast-moving, fe-rocious ballad, with each note hit-ting like the fury of a blizzard.
The choir also performed “in time of daffodils,” based around an e.e. cummings poem.
“There’s always an ‘a-ha’ mo-ment after every phrase,” Rossi said.
He also said he had wanted to perform this song for years, but always had too many pieces that took up space.
“I would always put this song in their books for about the last three or four years,” Rossi said. “And we never got around to do-ing it; so finally this year they were like, ‘Are we going to do this?’”
Accompanying each of the choirs on piano were Patrick Ward, a junior music education major, and Austin Stout, a junior music education major.
Sehong Oh, a graduate con-ductor, stepped in for Rossi dur-ing the Concert Choir’s piece “The Road Home.”
Dressed in blue robes, high school students stepped up to the stage to perform a few of their own love ballads following the Concert Choir.
Among the songs they per-formed were “If Music be the Food of Love” and the uplifting “O Mistress Mine.”
As a grand finale, each of the choirs came together to sing the tragically melancholy song “Not a Day Goes By...,” written by Ste-phen Sondheim and arranged by Robert Pagetv.
The song quickly turned from
a sad melody to an encouraging ballad, with the combined voices of the choirs booming at the end.
As a collective force, the choirs’ resounding sound belted across the concert hall, and the song had a molding of both men and wom-en’s voices.
The only fault was in the open-ing song by the University Mixed Chorus, titled “The Water is Wide.”
Unable to rise higher than the powerful sound of the piano, col-lectively the voices faded past the first few rows.
However, with the next song “Come To Me, O My Love,” a hopeful-sounding melody, the chorus members found their voice and were able to raise the sound level to produce a coherent, mes-merizing sound.
As a precursor to Valentine’s Day, each of the songs arranged were able to capture the ideals of love and the magnificence it rep-resents.
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Love ballads overpower concert hall
PhoTos By JacoB salmich | The daily easTern ne wsConductor Richard Robert Rossi stands in front of all of the combined choirs that performed at the Choral Ensemble “Songs of Love” on Sunday in Dvorak Concert Hall at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Three choral groups performed during the event, including the University Mixed Cho-rus, the Concert Choir and the Honor Choir Festival Singers, which included members from surrounding high schools.
Rossi conducts the Concert Choir as they perform “in time of daffo-dils” by David Dickau during the “Songs of Love” Choral Ensemble on Sunday in Dvorak Concert Hall. The concert consisted of three choral groups performing a total of 11 songs.
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By Amanda WilkinsonCity Editor
A new program offered by the Charleston Parks and Recreation was created to give Charleston resi-dents a new experience outside the city.
Kim Wargo, the recreation su-pervisor at the department, said she wanted to provide a program spe-cifically for seniors.
Cuisine Cruisin’ is a monthly program that allows anyone ages 55 and up to take a three-and-a-half-hour trip to a unique restaurant.
Wargo said so far the program is just offered to seniors because they may not have the resources to trav-el.
“I wanted to offer something to seniors so they can socialize and get out of town because they can’t on their own,” she said. “I just wanted to give them a new opportunity to get out of town, try new restaurants and see some sights.”
The roundtrip is $5 per person but does not include the cost for the meal.
Wa r g o s a i d t h e c o s t p e r roundtrip covers the cost of travel expenses.
She said part of the draw to the program is the low cost.
The lowest price for a roundtrip train ride from Mattoon to Cham-paign on the Amtrak is $12.
That price is from station to sta-tion, but with the program, the van takes people to and from the res-taurant, Wargo said.
Wargo said she chooses the res-taurants based on online reviews, price and distance.
“I do a lot of web searches,” she said. “The restaurant has to have a reasonable driving distance and rea-sonable price.”
Wargo also said she tries to pick restaurants that will offer a differ-ent experience.
The first trip to Biaggi’s Ris-torant Italiano in Champaign on
Feb. 6 went smoothly, she said.“They all seemed to enjoy travel-
ing and enjoy each other’s compa-ny,” Wargo said. “The food was re-ally delicious.”
As of now, there is a 15-person limit on who can join the program, but more requests could result in better traveling facilities, Wargo said.
“If we had 30 or 40 people, we would rent a bus,” she said.
Even though the program is only offered to people ages 55 and up, Wargo said the department would offer a program for younger people if there was interest.
Liz Moll, a junior communica-tion studies major, said the pro-gram would be great for freshmen because they cannot have cars on campus.
“I know a lot of them take the bus,” she said.
Cynthia Libby, a senior family and consumer sciences major, said it can be costly for people without cars to travel as far as Mattoon.
“For people who don’t have cars, it’s nice to pay $5 to go there and back; when you take a cab, it’s $12,” she said. “I took a cab one day from my house to Panther Paw one day and it was $12. So from here to Mattoon, it’s probably more than that.”
She said if she had the option, she would join the program to eat healthier options.
“The fast food places offer kind of the same things, so it’s not much of a variety,” Libby said.
Bart Zamora, senior family and consumer sciences major, said if he asked his friends if they wanted to travel to Champaign for $5, they would be up for it.
Wargo said as for right now, this program is only offered to seniors because a younger crowd may deter them from joining.
“I just wanted to make it more of a club atmosphere,” Wargo said. “When there’s a lot of younger crowd participating, it makes the seniors feel like they don’t fit in and they won’t participate.”
Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812
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By Anna richardsonstaff Reporter
The local frozen yogurt shop has closed its doors for the winter months because of low revenue and construc-tion.
Vick Patel, the owner of Fruit Chill at 303 Lincoln Ave., said he an-nounced new additions and surpris-es for frozen yogurt shop customers in the upcoming year.
Starting next winter, Fruit Chill’s menu will expand and will offer a va-riety of hot sandwiches, smoothies and new frozen yogurt flavors.
The shop will be under construc-tion to add a patio so customers can have the option of outdoor seating, Pa-tel said.
Opening in the summer of 2012, the local frozen yogurt shop has be-come extremely popular among the Eastern students, he said.
Patel said he saw a decrease in sales as the weather began to get colder in October and November.
The frozen yogurt shop closed for
the winter on Dec. 15. In the winters to come, Patel said
that his store will only be closed for the few weeks students go home for win-ter break.
This time will be used for regular cleaning and maintenance, he said.
Nicole Brooks, a manager at the Dairy Queen Grill and Chill, said the staff typically sees the biggest decline in business around December and Jan-uary.
However, the restaurant also serves other food products as well as ice cream treats.
Sales in food do decline slightly in the colder months, but not nearly as much as ice cream sales do, Brooks said.
Dairy Queen does offer season-al treats with flavors such as pumpkin and candy cane.
Although, these items do not make up for the decline in the wintertime, Brooks said.
She said many staff adjustments are made during this time due to lack of business.
Sales typically begin to pick back up in the middle of March, Brooks said.
Cindy White, the executive director of the Charleston Chamber of Com-merce, said many of the businesses in Charleston struggle more in the sum-mer months because of the smaller stu-dent population.
“Some businesses seem to hurt more than others,” she said. “Places like Mc-Donald’s probably see steady business year-round.”
Restaurants that are not seasonal typically do not see a decrease in sales as the winter months approach com-pared to May through August when students are not present, White said.
Fruit Chill customers will be hap-py to know the shops doors will be re-opening on March 15, Patel said.
When the shop reopens, the hours will still be from noon to 9 p.m., but the closing time will be extended until 10 p.m. in the summertime.
Anna Richardson can be reached at 581-2812
Frozen yogurt business closes for winter season
CHArleston | CommErCE
A pleasant surprise
mir AnDA Ploss | tHe DAily eAstern ne Wsmama, portayed by laia Hill, a sophomore psychology major; Tracy, portayed by Valerie mitchell, a freshman pre-med major; and ruth, portrayed by sireon Williams, a senior elementary education major, look in awe at the check for $10,000 mama has just received during a performance of “A raisin in the sun” saturday in the grand ballroom of the martin luther King Jr. University Union. The performance was presented by Ub Cultural Arts and directed by Darius lee Francis, a sophomore communication studies major.
Program offers senior citizens new foods, travel
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Cuisine Cruisin’ might expand to include students
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Black History Month: a time to educate and learn
With the start of February comes Black History Month.
Black History Month, along with other months and weeks and days such as Women’s History Month or Latino Heritage Month, are in place to educate the public on the history and accom-plishment of minorities.
Right here at Eastern, there’s something to do and something to learn almost every day about famous black Americans. Presen-tations are given by both those inside and outside of the universi-ty, bringing a wide variety of topics to discuss.
Speaking of discussion, now, in Black History Month, more than ever, is a great time to keep up the discussion of the way our society thinks of and views minorities.
We saw a few weeks ago with the town hall meeting hosted by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and the NAACP that racism and dis-crimination are still issues here in both our campus and Charles-ton communities.
In the same meeting, President Bill Perry said it best.“Education needs to occur in the community, but on campus
too,” Perry said in the article “Communi-ty speaks on discrimination, assault issues,” which appeared in the Jan. 31 edition of The Daily Eastern News.
Black History Month is about education.The discussion of racism and discrimi-
nation has already been happening on this campus for sometime, but it all isn’t going
to be solved in a few hours in a meeting, and it isn’t going to be solved in just this month.
It needs to be an ongoing topic that continues until progress is made.
However, the discussion starts with education.So, this month, no matter what color your skin is or what
your heritage may be, take the opportunity to learn about histo-ry and culture. Take advantage of all that is being offered on this campus. Whether it is an event, a meeting or an exhibit, there’s always something more to learn.
College should be about making your own luck
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I’ve heard it said that people should make their own luck.
I never believed it was true at all until I got to college.
When I transferred to Eastern in January 2011, all I knew was I wanted to write, and I wanted college to help me gain the skills to do so professionally.
I learned quickly that luck doesn’t just hap-pen to you.
Nothing was being fed to me with a silver spoon.
This wasn’t grade school or high school, and the skills I needed to make it in the “real world” weren’t going to be dished to me sole-ly in classes.
I began writing for The Daily Eastern News, and though it was (and still is) hard work, it’s preparing me for life outside of Eastern and ev-erything I’ve grown to love here.
Professors have stressed to me the impor-tance of an internship, and though I couldn’t find an actual one, I found a way to be produc-tive over the summer.
I called up every local newspaper I knew of and simply volunteered my time.
When I heard back from the weekly Repub-
lic-Times, they said they’d love to have me write feature stories once a week.
I ended up volunteering every week over the summer for a wonderful, grassroots-feeling newspaper, and I loved every minute of it.
On a more recent note, I’ve recently begun reaching out to a few music websites via Twit-ter that I have an interest in contributing to in some fashion.
I wasn’t expecting much out of it, but sent out a few emails about what I could contribute and waited to hear back.
Interestingly enough, many up-and-coming sites are looking for creative, passionate writers.
Because I reached out and took that extra step, a review I wrote is being published on a Chicago-based electronic dance music website, and I can’t wait.
It all may sound rather cheesy, but taking the extra step and putting yourself out there is one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in college.
It’s not really something that can be taught in a classroom.
Sure, professors can stress the importance of internships and doing outside work to pre-pare for the professional world.
But the moment when the student actual-ly takes matters into his or her own hands, takes a risk or reaches out to an opportunity is when the message has really gotten across.
College is about learning and fun, but ul-timately it should be preparing us to go out into the professional world and take on the next slew of tasks appointed to our genera-tion.
We may hear it time and time again, but the importance is real.
So don’t just sit around and wait for life to happen to you.
Make your own luck.
Robyn Dexter is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812
By Stephanie MarkhamAdministration Editor
Taking an interest in the lives of snakes can be attributed to biological sciences professor Stephen Mullin’s fail-ure to grow up.
Mullin said conducting field research on the behavior, community and ecol-ogy of snakes has allowed him to keep his childhood hobby as a profession.
He said he finds snakes fascinating because of how they survive without the adaptations humans find essential, like communicating through facial ex-pressions and breaking apart food.
“Imagine eating a 200-pound cheese-burger in one gulp with no limbs,” he said. “It staggers the mind they are able to do that regularly, and it’s even wild-er they can shut their (gastro-intestinal) system down when not eating.”
Mullin used his knowledge of snakes as an associate editor for Herpetologica, a scientific journal published by the Her-petologist League, and he was recently selected to be the editor-in-chief.
Mullin said the league publishes four issues of Herpetologica per year, which include eight-to-10-page manuscripts of research and studies about reptiles and amphibians.
He said the league also publishes an-other annual journal including the rear-ranging of entire groups of species and other multi-decade studies.
“There’s a lot of weird history about the origins of the society itself,” Mul-lin said. “The journal actually dates to 1936, but the society wasn’t founded for almost 10 years after that, and yet it is still the oldest society dedicated spe-cifically to reptile and amphibian re-search in North America.”
As the new editor-in-chief, Mullin said he would assign the papers to asso-ciate editors, who would assign them to experts in the field for review, and then he would decide whether the manu-
scripts should be accepted, modified or rejected.
“It’s peer-reviewed science, so it’s a lot of work gone into the individual pa-pers,” he said.
Mullin said he anticipates making more decisions as editor-in-chief.
“I feel a lot more pressure because I need to help these folks convey their story as accurately as possible so there is no misinterpretation,” he said.
He said mistakes in the publication are especially daunting because cor-rections can only be made every few months when another issue comes out.
“If someone is going to design an
experiment based on that information and they’re reading something that’s er-roneous, we’re setting them up for fail-ure because that mistake is live for three months,” he said.
He said he is also preparing to main-tain the timeliness of the publication by watching deadlines.
“If we don’t maintain a journal that publishes on schedule, fewer and fewer people will be interested in submitting papers to it or reading it, and that in-fluences the impact the journal has on the scientific community as a whole,” he said.
Iwo Gross, a biology graduate stu-
dent, has worked with Mullin doing field research and is now a teaching as-sistant for his herpetology classes.
Gross said Mullin expects a lot from his students, and some have criticized him for making his classes and tests too difficult.
“He expects these people, when they sign up for his class, to have the same sort of passion for these animals or groups that the class is looking at as he does,” Gross said.
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Every candidate is required to col-lect signatures and E-numbers from student in order to be qualified to run for a position, Abolt said.
Students running for the Stu-dent Senate have to get 50 signatures and E-numbers of different students, Abolt said.
Those who are running for an ex-ecutive position have to get 100 sig-natures.
The students collecting signatures should also take the time to get ideas about what students want, she said.
Abolt said all the names and E-numbers will be checked after the packets are turned in.
“The issue we probably run into most with people is not getting enough signatures on their packet, or someone accidently write down their phone number instead of their E-number so we can’t count it,” Abolt said.
Packets are due to the Student Ac-tivity Center by 4 p.m. on March 20.
Abolt said it is extremely important to make deadlines.
“I wouldn’t want anyone to miss out on a deadline because it is pretty strict so if you don’t have your stuff in, you can’t be on the ballot,” she said.
After the numbers are checked, the candidates are also checked for other qualifications.
“Once all of that checks out, they have to check grades, judicial standing and we do go through and check ev-ery number to make sure they didn’t make up a bunch of E-numbers,” Abolt said.
After all the packets are checked, the candidates will be informed about the candidate meeting, where they will talk about rules and campaigning.
Executive candidates are required to participate in a debate, which will take place at 7 p.m. March 25 in the Charleston-Mattoon Room of the Union.
“The number of people running for executive position will influence how I structure the debate,” Abolt said.
Abolt will work with the Center for Academic Technology Support to send the link to students on April 1 and 2 for elections, and unofficial re-sults will be available by April 3.
“You have to have a week for peo-ple to fill grievances with the elections commission if they think something was done unfairly, if the count isn’t right,” Abolt said.
After the grievances period, the of-ficial results will be announced dur-ing the Student Senate meeting on April 10.
“It’s just a really long process, so making sure you have the deadline and timeline in your schedule is the way to make it go the smoothest,” Abolt said.
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Stephanie MarkhaM | the Daily eaStern ne wSStephen Mullin, a biological sciences professor, was named editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Herpetologica. Mulin has had an interest in snakes since he was young.
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By Stephanie MarkhamAdministration Editor
During his State of the State address last Wednesday, Gov. Pat Quinn an-nounced his support of Senate Bill 1, a bill that would allow state employees to opt out of healthcare benefits instead of accepting reductions in their pension increases.
Jonathan Lackland, the deputy di-rector for advancement, external and government relations for the Illinois Board of Higher Education, said he thinks Senate Bill 1 will get the most traction of all the introduced pension bills.
“Healthcare has been the sticking point because a lot of employees, when they would leave state service, their healthcare was paid for,” he said. “The
state had a great retirement plan; now it is at the point they cant handle the payments.”
Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Sen. John Cullerton, contains two parts.
The first part of the bill reduces au-tomatic annual increases, limits the amount of salary contributing to a pen-sion, and increases the percentage em-ployees have to contribute.
The second part of the bill requires recipients to choose to either accept re-ductions in pension increases or decline certain healthcare benefits.
Derek Markley, Eastern’s chief of staff, said Senate Bill 1 was designed in a way that would defend it in the de-bate on the constitutionality of reduc-ing pensions.
“(Senate) President Cullerton thinks constitutionality reform means people
have a choice, and that is choosing be-tween better pension and having state sponsored healthcare,” Markley said.
Blair Lord, the provost and the vice president for academic affairs, said there has been some confusion regarding whether the state constitution would al-low for a reduction in benefits of those who have been contributing for years.
“People that say the constitution-al protection is strong argument that not only can they not reduce a pension from somebody who has already re-tired and collecting, but they can’t re-duce it on somebody whose paid into the system for 25 years and still work-ing,” Lord said.
Markley said people are especially concerned about the decreases in ben-efits because of the windfall provisions, in which state employees receive pen-
sions instead of social security.“One point a lot of people made is
that people who are contributing have been contributing; they didn’t skip out on payments,” he said.
Markley said although the governor supports Senate Bill 1, it would take a while before anything is passed because the House can still make revisions to the bill and send it back to the Senate.
Lackland said the pension plan would likely not be voted on until the end of the congressional session in May.
“Illinois is in a different situation; we can’t say we’ve hit bottom yet, which is scary,” Lackland said. “We can’t move up if we don’t hit bottom.”
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FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 11, 2013
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Men” (1992)actor/director
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By Anthony CatezoneSports Editor
Saturday night’s game in Cape Gi-rardeau, Mo., between the Eastern men’s basketball team and Southeast Missouri was far from the overtime nail-biter two weeks ago in Lantz Arena.
The Redhawks were clearly the supe-rior team in their 77-64 the Panthers.
The Redhawks made 10 of their first 11 shots while cruising to an Ohio Val-ley Conference win.
The Panthers fall to 7-18 overall and 4-8 in the OVC with the defeat, while Southeast Missouri improves to 13-13 overall and 5-7 in the conference.
The loss came just one game after Eastern scored over 90 points against a conference opponent for the first time in a decade.
Eastern was the hot-shooting team Feb. 7 against Tennessee-Martin, but Saturday night, the hot-shooting team was Southeast Missouri.
It made 15-of-26 from 3-point range.Four Redhawks scored in double-
digits with guard Marland Smith’s 29 points leading the way. Smith made nine of Southeast Missouri’s 15 3-pointers. Smith was 9-of-15 from 3-point range.
Smith only attempted one shot inside the 3-point line.
Southeast Missouri began the game on an 18-2 run in the first five minutes of the game, as it never trailed the entire game.
That lead eventually turned into a 27-8 for Southeast Missouri with 11:19 in the first half.
A.J. Jones scored 11 points during the early run, as he caped it off with a
3-pointer.The Redhawks took a 48-23 lead over
the Panthers into halftime — they shot 62.1 percent from the field to the Pan-thers’ 27.6 percent in the first half.
The Redhawks also out-shot the Pan-thers 64.3 percent to 25 percent from 3-point range in the first half.
The Panthers, however, did their best to make a comeback as they out-scored
the Redhawks 41-29 in the second half, but it was not enough.
Freshman guard Alex Austin led the Panthers scoring 16 points for the sec-ond consecutive game.
Junior forward Sherman Blanford added 11 points and a team-high six re-bounds.
The Panthers are currently eighth in the OVC standings — the top eight
teams make the OVC Tournament.
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Despite the hardships in the sec-ond half of the season, a highlight of the year for senior team captain Michael Sorrentino was beating ri-val Illinois on the road in Cham-paign.
“We had a lot of positive things happen this season, beating U of I in Champaign was defiantly one thing,” he said.
Sorrentino also said he’s confi-dent in the group of players return-ing next season.
“Also, we know we have a good core of returning guys coming back next year,” he said. “Although we will be losing some key seniors the future remains bright.”
Junior Andrew Maronich said the team would continue to recruit in the off-season in order to make the team better.
“We will be holding a few recruit skates in the off season, so that way we get an early look at the incoming freshman class that will be playing for us next year,” he said. “Most of us have some kind of summer team or summer skates that we will be attending in order to get ready for next season.”
The Panthers end the season with an overall record of 9-15-3.
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The bus ride home from Cape Girardeau, Mo. came with a little extra satisfaction for
Eastern women’s basketball coach Lee Buchanan.
Not only did his team come home with a 64-46 win over Southeast Mis-souri to remain in first place in the Ohio Valley Conference, but he could breathe a little easier knowing five of the remaining six regular season games are at home, in Lantz Arena.
The Panthers have only had four home games since Dec. 7, so they would become accustomed to long bus rides and different restaurants ev-ery weekend.
Now, those days are behind them.“It’s going to be wonderful,” Bu-
chanan said. “We have put in the miles this year.”
The Panthers are looking at four consecutive home games coming up, but were focused on leaving the South-east Missouri game with a win.
They led by seven points going into halftime, although they struggled shooting the ball.
They were 10-of-29 from the field, including 1-of-9 from 3-point range; however, the Panthers’ defense kept them in the game.
Amid offensive struggles, Eastern held Southeast Missouri to 9-of-31 from the field and 21 points in the first half.
“All week we focused on offense and we came out and played really well de-fensively,” Buchanan said. “You can’t ever figure this game out.”
But Buchan-an wasn’t surprised h i s de -fense had a good game — after all, Southeast Missouri had a glaring weakness offen-sively.
“They’re very set oriented,” Buchan-an said.
Southeast Missouri makes its living on running plays, so when the Pan-thers’ defense challenged them to im-provise from the set plan, they strug-gled — some players more than others.
The Redhawks’ Bailie Roberts, who is one of the team’s top scorers game in and game out, was held to four points on 2-of-16 shooting.
She had more turnovers, than points.
Patricia Mack, who did not play in the two teams’ first matchup this sea-son, was held to 1-of-5 shooting.
Buchanan said the defense kept her out of her comfort zone.
“The Mack kid was settling for jump shots, which is not her game,” Buchan-an said.
Mack took two three pointers in the game, missing them both.
Only one Redhawk scored in double figures, as the Panthers held Southeast Missouri to 46 total points.
Jor-dan Hunt-er scored 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting.
With a small lead at halftime, though, the Panthers weren’t comfort-able.
They wanted to avoid a Southeast Missouri run, like the Redhawks put up on Eastern in the previous match-up.
“SEMO likes to come out in the second half and try to come at you hard and fast,” Buchanan said. “We did a good job of taking that back to them.”
The Panthers strung together a 9-0 run between the 16:57 mark and
15:17 mark to burst out to a 16-point lead the Redhawks couldn’t come back from.
As soon as the Redhawks cut the lead to nine points with a little over 10 minutes left, the Panthers’ senior guard Kelsey Wyss hit back-to-back three pointers to re-extend it to a 15-point lead.
The Panthers are coming home to play a lower division team, Oakland City, on Tuesday.
The game is set to tipoff at 7 p.m. in Lantz Arena.
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"We have put in the miles this year."Lee Buchanan, head coach
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Senior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon is 132 points away from breaking Eastern’s all-time scoring record.
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JAcOB sALMIcH | THE DAILY EAsTErN NE wsSophomore forward Sabina Oroszova fights for the ball against Tennessee-martin on monday Jan. 18 in Lantz arena. The women’s basketball team is cur-rently 14-8.
Eastern remains in first place in OVC
Tr Ack AND FIELD
By Jaime LopezVerge Editor
Erika Ramos returned from the Grand Valley Big Meet with a new school record. After having her record in the 1,600-meter at Notre Dame’s Meyo meet by her teammate Brit-ney Whitehead, senior middle dis-tance runner Erika Ramos reclaimed the school mark by posting a time of 4:47. 16.
Though Ramos only took second place in the event, Ramos managed to break the record by running six sec-onds faster than Whitehead.
Sophomore distance runner Bryce Basting cracked the top 10 in his event. Basting ran 4:06.53, which ranks fifth on the EIU career list.
Red-shirt-senior middle distance runner Sean Wiggan also had a strong outing at the Grand Valley Big Meet.
Despite placing third in the 600-meter dash, Wiggan ran a time of 1:19.70 and matched his school re-cord.
Freshman sprinter Calvin Edwards won the 200-meter sprint.
Both runners later teamed up with senior hurdler Dominique Hall and redshirt- sophomore Daniel Trevor to run the first and third legs in their squad for the 4x400- meter relay race.
The squad took ninth in the event with a time of 3:15.54.
Junior thrower Condia Smith ranked in the top 10 in two events. Smith competed in the shot put and the weight throw.
Smith had a better outing in the weight throw, landing a throw of 55-feet, 1.5inches and earned an eighth-place finish in the weight throw.
She took 10th in the shot put with a throw of 40-feet, 10.5-inches.
Red-shirt-junior pole vaulter Mick Viken won the men’s pole vault with a height of 17-feet, 4.5-inches, while his teammates, pole-vaulters Eric Gor-don and Dan Chalus, finished in the top 10.
Gordon cleared a height of 16-feet, 8.75-inches and placed third, while Chalus was seventh after clearing 15-feet, 9-inches.
In the women’s pole vault, red-shirt junior Jade Riebold took second in her event after reaching a height of 13-feet, 4.25-inches.
The winner of the event, junior pole vaulter Katie Nageotte of Ashland Uni-versity, bested Riebold’s jump by four inches.
Freshman pole vaulter Annemarie Reid placed fifth in the competition in, clearing a height of 12-feet, .5-inches.
In the women’s long jump compe-tition, senior jumper Jaimee Roy and freshman jumper Angelica Anyaogu cracked the top ten.
Roy took ninth place after jump-ing a distance of 17-feet, 2.25-inch-es. Anyaaogu jumped a distance of 17-feet, 1.5-inches and found herself in 10th place.
Red-shirt-junior distance runner Pablo Ramirez took third in the men’s 3K race.
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Hockey club loses to Robert Morris in finaleBy Dominic renzettiOpinions Editor
The Eastern hockey club lost its final series of the season this week-end, falling twice to Robert Morris on Friday and Saturday.
The Panthers fell in the first
game by a score of 4-2 and then again in the second game by a score of 5-3.
In each of the two games, late empty net goals added to the Rob-ert Morris lead, being able to pull away from the Panthers in the final minutes.
“Both of the games were very close,” senior defenseman Brad Bar-tosz said. “We lost by two in both of them, and RMU scored an emp-ty net goal in both games. Ulti-mately, we had a few defensive zone breakdowns that cost us a couple of the goals that led them to the win.”
Despite the losses, Bartosz said he was still happy with the team’s efforts.
“I was happy with every ones ef-fort and we definitely went down swinging,” he said.
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