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TTHE HE EEASTERN ASTERN PPROGRESSROGRESSIndependent student publication of Eastern Kentucky University since 1922www.easternprogress.com Thursday, April 17, 2014

WHAT’SINSIDE

Classes spring back from winter delays

Siahkoohi, Perrin win SGA election

Board approves housing, proposes tuition increase

The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents approved a 5 percent proposed tuition increase, a 5 percent residence hall rate increase and a 2.75 percent increase on meals plans at its quarterly meeting April 14.

The in-state tuition proposal calls for

a $192 increase in tuition per semester and out-of-state tuition would increase $402 per semester. The Council on Post-secondary Education will meet at Murray State University April 28 and 29 to final-ize the statewide tuition cap for public universities. The Council on Postsecond-ary Education set the tu ition cap at three percent in 2013.

With the University Housing rates ris-ing five percent, the cheapest residence hall room will cost $1,962 per semester.

The amount of the tuition increase was determined base on the 1.5 percent

budget cut for university operations at the state level, the in-creased price of insur-ance and utilities, an increase on bad debt and an increase on the amount of money the university has to pay, said Barry Poynter, vice president for finance and administration.

The Board opened the meeting by celebrat-ing the Colonels’ achievement for making

the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.“We can’t buy that

kind of national atten-tion,” Chairman Craig Turner said.

The Board also final-ized the plan for the to-bacco-free campus ini-tiative at the meeting.

“Come June 1, we are going to be tobacco free,” President Benson

By JACOB BLAIRjacob_blair50@mymail.eku.edu

A 5 PERCENT HOUSING INCREASE AND 5 PERCENT TUITION INCREASE PROPOSED FOR NEXT YEAR “We are treating this $66.3

million [to fund phase two of the New Science Building] as the first gift in our campaign.”

President Michael Benson

By a margin of 23 votes, Damir Siahkoohi and his running mate John Perrin won the presidential election for Student Government Association

A total of 1,085 students voted in the president and executive vice president race, with 554 of those votes going to Siahkoohi and Per-rin.

“It hasn’t sunk in yet how close it was,” Siahkoohi said.

Siahkoohi, whose sister Afsi also was SGA president during the 2009-2010 school year, said his sister’s experience set an ex-ample for him to follow.

“She was a great president, so hopefully I can follow in her foot-steps,” he said.

Siahkoohi said when they take offi ce at the end of the semester, he and Perrin are going to hit the ground running.

“It helps that we were in Sen-ate this year,” Siahkoohi said. “A lot of the big things we were cam-paigning on are starting no mat-ter what. So when next year comes around, we can do it at the begin-ning rather than waiting toward the end.”

One of the big things they said they intend to start immediately is their Student Speak initiative, which would create a mechanism

where students can get feedback regularly from Eastern adminis-trators about why certain deci-sions are made and what changes might be possible, given enough student interest.

As an example, Siahkoohi pointed to the vegetarian options off ered in Upstairs Powell, saying

that with the Student Speak ini-tiative, students could talk with Powell offi cials to fi nd what foods would be possible.

“A lot of [the vegetarian food] was going to waste,” Siahkoohi said. “Well then how can we work to get more vegetarian options with less waste?”

Siahkoohi said he and Perrin also want to host Student Senate in a larger room so that students outside of SGA could attend and off er their suggestions or opinions about what changes they’d like to see.

“[Th at way] students can come

By TOPHER PAYTONchirstopher_payto3@mymail.eku.edu

1,085 STUDENTS VOTE FOR PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT SLATE

Damir Siahkoohi, SGA president-elect, shakes the hand of fellow winner, Ryan Poynter, vice president-elect for Student Activities, on Tuesday night, April 15, after the election results were announced.

TOPHER PAYTON/PROGRESS

› SEE SGA, PAGE A4

VP search nearing completion

Th e Spring 2014 semester has had its chal-lenges where weather is concerned. Delays and cancellations caused some curriculum and scheduling restructuring for students and pro-fessors in order to stay on track for fi nals.

Th ere were a total of eight two-hour delays this semester, two cancellations and one day where classes were dismissed at 3 p.m., said Teri Begley, administrative coordinator for Human Resources.

Course changes and deadline changes were handled at a departmental level, where indi-vidual professors implemented many of the changes made, Janna Vice, Eastern’s Provost, said.

She said she had not heard of any com-plaints from students and that the feedback her offi ce has received has been very positive. Students said professors were understanding about the complications caused by the weath-er.

“Most faculty have a back-up plan,” said Vice. “Th ey know what to do with students to keep them caught up.”

Two hour delays are implemented to give

Eastern will fi nally learn the identity of one of its new top administrators in the next week or so.

Th e search committee responsible for fi nd-ing candidates for the university’s top market-ing and communications posi-tion made its recommendation to President Michael Benson on April 15, said Betina Gardner, dean of libraries and chair of the search committee.

Gardner said all three candi-dates were exceptionally quali-fi ed for the position, adding that the campus community provid-ed positive feedback for all can-didates and that selecting one person from the group would prove diffi cult.

“Th at’s a great problem to have—when you have candidates so qualifi ed you have to think about it,” Gardner said.

Gardner said all the candidates brought a lot to the table, and they talked about their ideas for helping the university distill its message and communicate it across campus and throughout the region.

“I think they’ll fi nally talk about EKU the way

it deserves to be talked about,” Gardner said. “Th is person will help get EKU to be the fi rst choice.”

One of the candidates, Melody Oldfi eld, as-sistant vice president of university relations at Oregon State University, visited campus April 1. She said Eastern’s network of more than 16,000 students, 3,200 faculty and 130,000 alumni can work to get everyone involved and be brand am-

bassadors for the university. In her presentation, she asked ev-eryone in attendance to shout out where they were from all at once. She then asked everyone to say Eastern Kentucky Univer-sity at the same time to illustrate her point.

“It’s so much more compel-ling when everyone is saying the same thing,” Oldfi eld said of Eastern. “Th at’s what’s going to move us forward in the future.”

Th e second candidate to visit was Michele Gaither Sparks, director of marketing commu-nications for the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. Sparks said she conducted an unoffi cial survey of her friends who have attended Eastern and the over-arching theme was how committed and car-

By ZEYNAB DAYzeynab_day@mymail.eku.edu

By WESLEY ROBINSONwesley_robinson28@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE DELAY, PAGE A5 › SEE UPDATE, PAGE A4

A lecture about the inadequacy of the on-going war on drugs, host-ed by Eastern’s chapter of Young Americans for Lib-erty (YAL) last Th ursday, featured unusual guest speakers: two well-estab-lished police offi cers.

YAL is a group dedicat-ed to bringing awareness to issues that aff ect per-sonal liberties and to arm students and young people with information to help them know their rights.

David Patterson, a policeman from Har-

rodsburg, was on the force for 18 years and said he plans on running for the U.S. Senate as a Libertarian candidate. Ending the war on drugs is part of Patterson’s campaign plat-form.

Howard Rahtz, a re-tired police captain from the Cincinnati area, worked in law enforce-ment for more than 25 years. He now works with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), an organization made up of criminal justice employ-ees who disagree with drug policies.

Patterson preceded Rahtz in the lecture

Police officers propose drug policy changes Benson hosts tuition forums for studentsBy KELLI STOKESprogress@eku.edu

By WESLEY ROBINSONwesley_robinson28@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE LECTURE, PAGE A3

David Patterson Howard Rahtz

› SEE REGENTS, PAGE A4

Students will get an opportunity to dis-cuss where all the money they pay to the university goes.

University offi cials, including President Michael Benson, will host a forum to exam-ine how tuition dollars will be spent for the upcoming 2014-2015 academic year. Th e forum will take place at 3:30 p.m., Th urs-day, April 17, at Walnut Hall in the Keene Johnson Building. Th e forum will give stu-dents an idea of the university’s fi nances af-ter appropriations and compare tuition and spending to other universities, Benson said.

“If I was a student, I would appreciate administration telling me where my mon-ey was going,” Benson said. “We’re trying to be transparent and explain how we use the

money.”Th e university’s Board of Regents has

approved a fi ve percent increase on tuition. Th e Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) makes the fi nal call on the increase, but Benson said he expects it to be in line with the university’s suggestion.

“We can’t go above that [the CPE’s cap], nor do we intend to go above that,” Benson said.

Benson said students should plan on small increases to tuition annually, unless the state increases funding to higher edu-cation. He said students should attend the forum to understand what they are buying.

“It’s like buying a car,” Benson said. “Be-fore you come here, you kick the tires and pick the model, but you need to know ex-actly what you’re going to get for the price you pay.”

“I think they’ll finally talk about EKU the way it deserves to be talked about.”

Betina Gardnerdean of libraries and chair of VP

search committee

April 6 � An EKU police offi cer

on patrol at 1:18 p.m. ob-served damage to a fi re hy-drant near Keene Hall on the Eastern Bypass. Th e offi cer noticed a missing hubcap that belonged to a 2005 white Toyota Camry parked in the Keene Lot. Th e offi cer spoke with the owner, Neal Mceachin, 18, from Versailles, about the accident. Mceachin told the offi cer he fell asleep at the wheel while driv-ing at 3 a.m. April 6. Judge Hardin for the Madison County District Court is-sued an arrest warrant April 7 for fi rst-degree criminal mischief, leav-ing the scene of an acci-dent with failure to rend aid and failure to report a traffi c accident. EKU Po-lice arrested Mceachin at 10:32 a.m. April 8 on three charges and he was trans-ported to the Madison

County Detention Center.

April 9 � A student reported her

black Mazda was miss-ing the driver-side mir-ror and the driver-side door also had a scratch at 3:40 p.m. in the Brock-ton Lot. Th e value of the damage was $200.

� A student report-ed his driver side mir-ror was broken off his car at 3:55 p.m. in the Brockton 100 Block Lot.

� A student reported her bike was missing from the bicycle rack near Alum-ni Coliseum at 5:12 p.m.

April 10 � A Model Lab School

student’s parent reported a rented fl ute and case were stolen from the school.

April 11 � An EKU Police offi cer

stopped a vehicle traveling

on University Drive after the driver ran a red light. Th e driver, Justin Smith, 20, from Manchester, smelled like alcohol, had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and was unsteady on his feet. Smith sub-mitted to and failed the fi eld sobriety tests. He was charged with disregarding a traffi c control device and operating a motor vehicle under the infl uence and was transported to the Madison County Deten-tion Center where his BAC was registered at .070.

� An offi cer traveling on Lancaster Avenue ob-served a silver Chrysler driving with one head-light operating. Th e offi -cer spoke with the driver, Kapri Andrews, 18, from Lexington, and noted a strong odor of marijua-na, according to the po-lice report. Th e offi cer saw a grinding tool in plain view. Th e offi cer checked Andrews’ license and dis-covered it was suspended for failure to attend traf-

fi c school. Andrews was charged with operating a vehicle with only one headlight, operating on a suspended or revoked li-cense, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

� EKU Police responded to the ninth fl oor of Keene Hall at 8:16 a.m. after a light fi xture was dislodged from the ceiling. Ceiling tiles were also damaged in the process. Th e value of the damage was $300.

� A student reported his parking permit was tak-en from his Jeep after he parked at the Perkins Lot.

April 14 � Two dresser drawers

were taken from Room 1114 in Keene Hall and thrown down the stair-well. An EKU Police of-fi cer located the drawers at 12:15 a.m. Th e draw-ers were smashed and the value was $100 in damage.

IS NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM THE REAL HERO?

Students have the chance to debate whether or not Nev-ille Longbottom is the real hero of the Harry Potter books at the next installment of the Discussing Pop Culture series sponsored by Eastern’s Librar-ies from 6 to 7 p.m., April 23, in the Noel Studio Discovery Classroom.

Th e event is free and open to the public. Students who are fans of the books and movies are encouraged to at-tend and share their opinion or support their arguments with their books and notes.

Th e Harry Potter event fol-lows the same ideas supplied by the ColonelSmart work-shop series, in which librari-ans and library staff give stu-dents pro tips on how to fi nd

resources for research. Staff from the Library helps facili-tate and moderate the discus-sions.

“Students can just bring a Harry Potter theory and bust it out,” as long as they have tex-tual support and in-text ci-tations to back it all up,” said Savannah Marlow, a library as-sociate.

Marlow said she believes discussing the diff erent theo-ries in the Harry Potter novels would help develop students’ critical thinking skills and aid them with developing a thesis and displaying argumentative abilities that can be applied to classes.

For more information, contact Savannah Marlow atsavannah.marlow@eku.edu, or go to the offi cial Librar-ies website at library.eku.edu/pop-culture. Th ere is also a Facebook page for students to continue their discussions at https://www.facebook.com/ekulibrariespopculture.

Kelly Ward

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11 a.m.Employee LuncheonKeen Johnson Ballroom

11 a.m.SGA’s Safety DayPowell Corner

9 p.m.Ball in House acapella groupPowell Underground

1 p.m.Softballvs. Murray StateRichmond

1 p.m.Undergraduate Presentation ShowcaseFirst floor of Library

1 p.m.Softballvs. Austin PeayRichmond

1 p.m.Baseballvs. Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleRichmond

11 a.m.Blood DriveKennamer RoomPowell Building

6:30 p.m.End of the year cookout forCommonwealth Hall residentsOutside of Commonwealth Hall

4 p.m.University Memorial ServiceMeditation Chapel

6 p.m.Baseballvs. MiamiOxford, Ohio

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Eastern didn’t take down Kansas in NCAA tournament play, but beats them when it comes to promoting the university on Twitter.

Eastern ranked sixth in a recent study conducted by Insightpool, a social me-dia statistics fi rm. Kansas fi nished 18th, the University of Kentucky fi nished 21st and the University of Louisville came in last. Insightpool used the 68 teams in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament as a sample pool to analyze Twitter engage-ment. Th ey measured follows, favorites, retweets and public lists. Eastern ranked

sixth in follows, 20th in favorites, 53rd in retweets and second on public lists.

Insightpool weighted the overall scores at 45 percent for following rank, 45 percent for favorites and 10 percent for retweets.

“In general, this study is intended to de-liver a deeper analysis on how Universities are leveraging Twitter and the wide array of touch-points the platform facilitates,” according to Insightpool’s NCAA Final Four Social Currency Index 2014 report.

Eastern’s @NewsEKU Twitter account has been active for more than fi ve years and currently follows 5,132 accounts, has 2,292 lifetime tweets, has 4,666 follow-ers and is on 29 public lists. Th e offi ce of Public Relations manages the @NewsEKU account. Th e account was created to post

content about news and developments at Eastern.

It’s a great way to tell the Eastern story, said Marc Whitt, university spokesman. He said he suspects the success of @News-EKU is because they don’t put up “shlop,” but relevant, well-done, worthy of interest content.

Whitt said this accolade is a challenge not to get too comfortable and to keep striving to communicate more eff ectively.

“We are only as successful as the infor-mation that is either fed to us or that we pick up in our conversations around cam-pus,” Whitt said. “So I think that this is a way to demonstrate to the campus that we truly want to provide the type of excel-lent service that this university communi-

ty needs and deserves to have. And we’re always, always willing to help tell the East-ern story in an even bigger, better, more ef-fective way.”

@NewsEKU follows Eastern students and alumni, Kentucky citizens, media out-lets and some businesses looking into pro-grams to hire successful students, Whitt said. It does not follow anything related to alcohol or tobacco per campus policy. Po-litical offi ces can be followed by the uni-versity’s account but not political cam-paigns.

@NewsEKU’s goal is to “try and pull more people into the life of the universi-ty,” Whitt said. It’s a movement and as long as people are engaged and excited it grows and thrives.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT RECOGNIZES STUDENT AWARD WINNERS

Th e Eastern Department of English and Th eatre hosted its fourth annual spring pic-nic Th ursday, April 10 at the McDowell Park. Th e picnic is used to recognize the talents and achievements of the students and faculty during the year.

Th e fi rst set of awards was the Madonna Marsden Awards. Th e Marsden Awards go to students who show a special talent in cer-tain categories. Th e categories and its recipi-ents were:

n Best Expository Writing at the Develop-mental Level, Karen Spivey for My Life is like a Big Wheel

n Best Expository Writing at the 100 Lev-el, Molly Whittaker for Revitalizing the Rain Forest

n Best Expository or Creative Writing at the 200+ Level, Matt Peel for By the Sweat of Her Brow

n Th e scholarships were: n Donn Johnson Endowed English Schol-

arship, Kendra Karr. n Philip H. Mankin Memorial Scholar-

ship, Sam Pence. n Bonnie Plummer Endowed Study

Abroad Scholarship, Robyn Gregory. Several awards were also given to stu-

dents by the department, where teachers nominated the winners for these awards. Zac Gibbins, 20, an award recipient from Wil-liamsburg, said, “I’m honestly surprised that I got this! I’m glad I did though because my middle school English teacher was here to see me get this today.”

Th ose awards included: n Outstanding Senior Award given to

Mackenzie Teague n Composition Award given to Christina

Stallard for Th e Write Model n Creative Writing Award given to Ashley

Mullins for Second Born n Technical Writing Award given to Tori

Johnson for ePortfolio & Analysis n Literature Award given to Brielle White

for Cartography in Storytelling: Con-nections in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

n Th eatre Award given to Zac Gibbins for Th e Disparity: A Contrast of Tragedy’s Aftermath

n Graduate Award given to Christopher Rowe for Sarah across America (Chap-ter One)

Th ere were also Aurora Awards given. Aurora is a student led literary journal for the English Department. Students submit piec-es of original writing and they can be pub-lished. Jessica Storey, a recipient of an Aurora Award, 23, from Somerset said, “Th is award means a lot to me. Not only was I published because of Aurora, I also got an award for my writings. It really means a lot to me.”

Th e Aurora Awards also come in diff erent categories:

n Nonfi ction Award given to Jessica Storey for Ghost

n Fiction Award given to Mark Rubin for Th at Burning Feeling

n Poetry Award given to Brittany Deen for Knock on the Door

Tom Butler, associate professor in the De-partment of English and Th eatre, also orga-nized this event and introduced the winners of each category.

“We were able to give several awards to students for their wonderful work this year,” Butler said.

After the awards were given out there was a Cornhole tournament and voting on which faculty member made the best dessert, the competition being so intense that the faculty had to settle for a six-way tie!

Corey Bowling

WALKING TOUR OFFERED DURING ALUMNI WEEKEND

Students, staff , faculty, alumni and East-ern enthusiasts can have a chance to walk

through Eastern’s history during Alum-ni Weekend, as Charles Hay, a retiree who served as university’s fi rst archivist, leads a walking tour through campus at 9 a.m., Sat-urday, April 26.

Hay regularly details the history of the school. Th e walk will take about an hour and will take place around the central part of cam-pus. It will involve Hay explaining the names and stories behind each building. It is an out-door walk and will begin at the Keen John-son Building. Th e walk will be over in time for participants to enjoy a continental break-fast at Keen Johnson. Everyone is encouraged to attend the walk as the tour moves slowly in order to enjoy the sights of the campus. “What I fi nd so fascinating about Dr. Hay is that he remembers all the little details about the campus, things other people would have forgotten a long time ago.” said Jackie Collier, university records offi cer and executive di-rector of Alumni Relations.

For more information, go to http://alum-ni.eku.edu/contact-us or call 859-622-1263.

Corey Powell

EASTERN HOSTS EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA

Th e Student Government Association’s Residence Life Council (RLC) will be hosting its annual Eastern Eggstravaganza starting at 5:30 p.m., April 17 at the Ravine. Th e event will consist of a free admission egg hunt open to the public, thanks to a partnership be-tween RLC and the Student Alumni Ambas-sadors.

“It’s a really fun event,” said Kaitlin Palm-er, 21, an occupational science junior who serves as a member of RLC. “It’s made to be convenient so students or anyone who wants to come can swing by whenever they can and win all kinds of prizes.”

All participants have the opportunity to hunt eggs fi lled with candy and diff erent pa-per prizes. Each participant will be provided with a plastic bag for his or her eggs.

For more information contact Kaitlin Palmer at mari_palmer@mymail.eku.edu.

Tana Collett

RELAY FOR LIFE RAISES $4KMore than $4,000 was raised for the

American Cancer Society at Eastern’s Re-lay For Life April 11. Nine teams that repre-sented various organizations around campus took part in the event. Th e top money rais-ing team was Karen’s Crusaders with close to $1,000 raised. An estimated 150 people at-tended the relay.

“I think everyone had an amazing time,” said Jessica Heron, chair of Eastern’s Relay for Life committee. “We had many fun things to off er and I truly do believe that the students who attended the relay enjoyed it. We have learned some things that we will defi nitely apply to next year’s relay.”

Activities at the Relay for Life included hide-and-seek, a scavenger hunt and a cake-eating contest. Food and drinks were also available. Many teams had booths set up with various services and games in order to raise more money. One of the services was face painting, done by the Alpha Omicron Pi so-rority.

“We had a great time at Relay For Life,” said Justin Asher, 19, a foreign aff airs soph-omore from Campbellsburg. “We decided to attend the event because there is usually not much to do on campus on a Friday. My favor-ite part was all of the diff erent games they had throughout the night.”

Asher said he attended the event with a group of friends, even though they were not members of a team.

“I had an amazing time planning and at-tending Relay For Life,” said Chad Tate, a computer science freshman from Elizabeth-town who helped organize the Relay for Life.

“It is for a cause that means a lot to me and it is great to see so many of my fellow stu-dents getting involved and raising money for the cause.”

Donations are still being accepted through online submission. Th e donation form can be found at http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=58290. For more informa-tion, contact Jessica Heron at jessica_heron@mymail.eku.edu.

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An Eastern student will spend a month in Taiwan at the Fo Guang Buddhist Monastic Retreat, thanks to her selection as one of 50 student winners worldwide. Th e monastery covers all aspects of the trip, aside from the fl ight.

Reagan Coburn, a philosophy and psy-chology junior from Paintsville, got this op-portunity through a scholarly list called H Buddhism. Abraham Velez, associate pro-fessor of philosophy and religion, said he re-ceives emails from the scholars who moni-tor the list about books and new programs. When he noticed the opportunity to live for a month at the Fo Guang Buddhist Monas-tery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan he forwarded the email to all his students.

Velez said Coburn was the only one to apply and he helped her out with a letter of recommendation.

When Coburn found out she was accept-ed, she said she cried.

“I was very excited and grateful about the whole thing,” Coburn said. “I was a lit-tle shocked and couldn’t believe it was hap-pening.”

Although Coburn herself is not a Bud-dhist, she said she has read many books about the religion and has an interest in meditation.

“I am no meditation expert or Zen mas-ter, but I do meditate when it is convenient or necessary to do so,” Coburn said. “It’s something that is hard to force yourself to do. In fact, forcing yourself to do it is kind of counteractive to the purpose of doing it. I meditate anywhere from none at all to a few times a week, and for about 45 minutes each time. Th e experience of meditating leaves me with the most fulfi lling sense of empti-ness, you could say...a sort of paradox. I feel clear and peaceful.”

Coburn said the trip does not count for any particular course credit.

“I’m doing this for myself,” Coburn said. “I once read that the best way to help others is to continue work on yourself, and I hope for this experience to be an opportunity for bettering my mind, body, and spirit.”

Coburn said she believed the trip would

go a long way toward furthering her career goals to serve as a “philosophical counselor,” which combines traditional psychotherapy with discussions of life’s deeper meanings, based on the beliefs of the client.

“It’s going to be a crucial learning experi-ence in my life,” Coburn said.

To prepare for the trip, Coburn said she does not have to do much, aside from get-ting her plane tickets, packing and receiving the necessary vaccinations.

“Other than that I’ll probably spend a lot of time reading travel tips online,” Coburn said.

Coburn has, however, begun prepara-tions for the dietary adjustments she may have to make abroad; ones that some people could fi nd problematic.

“At the monastery everyone is lacto-ovo vegetarian (meaning the only animal prod-ucts they eat are dairy and eggs) and I will eat accordingly,” Coburn said. “I read that if one even brings meat into the monas-tery they will be asked to leave. Th is doesn’t bother me much. I have been eating vegetar-ian a few days a week. I love vegetables. Th ey have been my favorite food group for years... Th at and dairy.”

While on her 28-day trip, from June 26 to July 24, Coburn will experience the culture in a variety of ways.

She said the trip is split into four sections. When they arrive, there will be two weeks to get accustomed to their surroundings, par-ticipate in Buddhist study classes and expe-rience the religion and culture fi rst-hand. Th en there is a seven-day retreat, which Co-burn said she is particularly excited about, where they will spend time in zen medita-tion, or silent and mindfulness meditation. Th ey will then spend four days at an inter-national conference, the International Youth Seminar on Life and Chán, where all the students will have a chance to meet. To wrap up the trip, they will spend three days tour-ing the “treasure island” of Taiwan Formosa, along the way staying at various monaster-ies.

Although excited about the trip, Coburn said she does have one concern.

“I’m nervous about the fl ight, but I know that when I get there it will be great,” Co-burn said.

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Eastern outranks 62 other big name schools in its Twitter presence

with a speech detailing many of the sub-is-sues involved in the war on drugs.

“Substance abuse has been an issue for a long time,” Patterson said. He listed diff erent kinds of substances people become addicted to, such as alcohol, nicotine and caff eine. Pat-terson made the point that these substances are all addictive but not outlawed.

Patterson mainly talked about the good that would come from legalizing marijuana and the consequences of the war on drugs he has witnessed as a police offi cer.

Although he was advocating for the legal-ization of marijuana, Patterson said he did not advocate the use of any drugs. He said le-galizing marijuana would be safer for every-one because drug dealers often use weapons to protect their territory and product.

“Welcome to the world of stolen fi rearms,” Patterson said.

Drug dealers would steal fi rearms because buying them means the weapons are too eas-ily traceable, Patterson said. He said by le-galizing marijuana, the government would be off ering people an alternative to buying it from dangerous parties.

Patterson presented a hypothetical situ-ation in which police offi cers mistakenly as-sume people carrying drugs are carrying fi re-arms. In cases like these, he said, offi cers may take an innocent life to protect them from an

assumed danger.“We cannot eradicate human error,” he

said. Patterson fi nished his speech and Rahtz

was introduced to the crowd. Rahtz took a slightly more hands-on approach, accepting requests for topics the attendees were inter-ested in hearing about.

“Th e war on drugs is pretty much a total failure,” Rahtz said.

He said his main goal was to eliminate the danger of buying and selling drugs. Accord-ing to Rahtz, the Mexican border is not the only dangerous environment for drug traf-fi cking. Th e danger is everywhere, and it’s lo-cal, he said.

Th e war on drugs has done little to curb the problem, but legalizing marijuana for rec-reational use could help, Rahtz said.

According to Rahtz, 60 percent of a drug cartel’s earnings come from marijuana sales.

Legalizing drugs could also lead to reg-ulating the quality of the drugs, decreasing deaths owed to poorly manufactured drugs, Rahtz said.

“How good are these pushers on quality control?” Rahtz asked.

Rahtz showed great interest in providing more treatment and rehabilitation options for substance abusers in place of the war on drugs.

Th e two guest speakers agreed on most drug issues and the big picture.

“We need to stop wasting money, fi ghting an unwinnable war and start thinking out-side the box,” Patterson said.

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said. “I know there’s some people who don’t like it, but it’s the right thing to do. It’s the smart thing.”

Eastern will be one of more than 1,100 colleges and universities that have tobacco-free policies, university officials said.

Following a closed executive ses-sion, the Board approved a motion for the finance cabinet to continue negotia-tions with the property owners of Grand Campus at Yorick Place for future stu-dent housing.

Regent Alan Long’s motion had four aspects to address during the negotia-tion. Any agreement would have to be approved by the state. The leases to stu-dents would be tax-exempt leases with lower termination fees and also propos-ing that the university could eventually have the option to purchase the entire property.

“We’d like to have it done in the next couple weeks,” Poynter said.

Poynter also said while the universi-ty is going after as much space as pos-sible, the University taking over some of the space would not affect current stu-dents who have signed leases for next se-mester.

“Anybody that’s there now, we want them to stay there,” Poynter said.

The Board of Regents also discussed the 83 employee housing properties that the university current owns.

Poynter said the university has be-

come accidental landlords over many years.

He said the original purpose of buy-ing the property was to give the univer-sity a buffer between the campus and the city, but chose to lease out the prop-erty to faculty and staff residents that was bought.

“You want to be a good neighbor so you rent them out,” Poynter said.

He also said the discussion was based in the cost of maintaining the properties and was a conversation starter to get the Board thinking about the future of prop-erty Eastern owns.

The meeting was also a time for the Board to celebrate the capital funding projects granted by the state legislature’s budget session.

“It was a perfect storm,” Benson said when addressing the Board.

The two capital projects funded by the state legislature are phase 2 of the New Science Building and a hanger for Eastern’s fleet of aircraft along with flight preparation space and training fa-cilities.

“We are treating this $66.3 million [to fund phase two of the New Science Building] as the first gift in our cam-paign,” Benson said.

Benson credited some of the success for earning the capital projects to David McFaddin, university director of gov-ernment relations, by spending the last 36 hours of the legislative session inside the Capitol.

The tentative date set for the initial groundbreaking on phase two of the New Science Building is August 26.

and in open discussion raise questions or bring up topics and projects they want SGA to work on,” Perrin said.

Perrin said he and Siahkoohi hope to bring in the other presidential candidatesKyle Nicholas and Rachael Landerpossi-bly putting them in cabinet posts or other leadership positions so they can work to-gether on SGA business.

Before the results of the election were

announced on Tuesday, April 15, the elec-tions committee reported two complaints that had to be addressed prior to the an-nouncement of the election results.

Th e complaints were fi led against Vice President for Resident Life Council Katie Scott and against Siahkoohi.

Th e complaints alleged that the two candidates had violated SGA’s election by-laws, specifi cally that they had campaigned in Powell while the polls, which are in the building, were open to voters. Th e com-plaints said there were banners from both candidates left hanging off the Upstairs Powell balcony while the electronic polls

were open.In both cases the Elections Commit-

tee determined that the banners were not

considered to be inside the Powell Student Center, concluding that neither candidate had knowingly breached the bylaws.

The Noel Studio for Academic Cre-ativity along with the EKU Libraries has helped usher in the first celebration of Scholarship Week from April 14 to April 18.

Events have been scheduled through-out the week in the Noel Studio, all de-voted to promoting scholastic pride at the undergraduate, graduate and facul-ty levels.

Included in these events are faculty-led lectures, a public speaking compe-tition, honors thesis presentations, the Undergraduate Presentation showcase and the Phi Kappa Phi induction cere-mony.

In the past, scholarship week has been more loosely organized, consisting of a handful of events spread through-out the month of April. Rusty Carpen-ter, director of the Noel Studio for ac-ademic Creativity, however, decided to bring the events together to form the weeklong celebration.

“Our hope is to highlight and in-crease the visibility of scholarly initia-tive on campus,” Carpenter said.

Carpenter said these scholarship-oriented events had previously been out of site from the campus communi-ty, held in conference rooms in Middle Powell, but will now take place in the Noel Studio.

“We are very glad to have it in Noel Studio because it gets a lot of foot traf-fic,” said Betina Gardner, dean of Li-braries. “It’s the business of the library to celebrate student success, so it only makes sense to hold these events there.”

Gardner said this week, if all goes as planned, will set a precedent for future celebrations of scholarship. She said she hopes it will encourage professional de-

velopment in the faculty community and give students a chance to show off.

Carpenter said she hopes Scholarship Week will help inform more students about scholarship opportunities.

“We’re hoping to start a conversa-tion that values scholarship and devel-ops student thinking,” Carpenter said. “It’s really exciting and it’s a time of year when we’re all ready for celebration.”

Concert highlights video game music Noel Studio hosts Scholarship Week

Guitars, drums, horns and a slew of other instruments fi lled the air with music from many popular video games during the second annual Video Game Ensemble concert hosted by Eastern students at the Brock Auditorium on Sunday.

Th e Video Game Ensemble is a concert organized and composed by student musi-cian volunteers and students in the video game ensemble class.

Th e opening song was the Super Mario Brothers theme song, It’s-A-Me Mario!

Matthew Pettigrew, 26, a music perfor-mance major from Atlanta, composed and conducted three of the concerts songs in-cluding, It’s-A-Me Mario!

Pettigrew said he wanted to start the show off with something familiar to most people.

Eight other songs were played during the concert, including two guitar heavy songs and one song featuring only piano and solo vocals.

Pettigrew said he wanted to do video game music because he loves video games and wanted to spread the music to others.

“Th ere’s music composed for movies and plays that people know,” Pettigrew said. “Video games can be the same way.”

Th e grand fi nale of the concert was the song, Dragonborn from Skyrim.

Dragonborn required the stage to be full with almost all 34 members of the band to play an instrument, sing or chant.

Th e drums and trumpet were the driving force of the song.

Th e audience gave a standing ovation after Dragonborn was played and for the end of the concert.

Bryan Henry, 26, a music composition and theory major, from Wheelersburg re-turned again this year and arranged the music for fi ve of the nine songs including Dragonborn.

“We always want to leave the audience with a big fi nisher,” Henry said. “Drag-onborn put my composition skills to the test.”

Henry said he was looking forward to do the concert again next year, but with “more composers and more pieces.”

It was great to do this again. It was a lot of fun and I’m excited about next year,” Henry Said.

Kyle Humble, 23, a music composition and theory major from Cincinnati, per-formed the song Tristram from Diablo.

“Th is is defi nitely better than last year,” Humble said. “More people turned up. It’s great.”

Humble said not all of the songs they wanted to include could make it into this year’s concert, but hopes they can be in next year’s concert.

Tetris, Zelda, Halo and Gears of War were among some of the games that music was dropped from for this year’s concert.

Humble, Henry and Pettigrew all said they would like to be back to help in some way next year and to have more compos-ers involved.

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Spring Break is springing forward

Students and faculty won’t get spring break next spring until March 29 through April 4, but the trade-off is a winter break that’s an extra week and classes not resuming until af-ter Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Provost Janna Vice said the trade-off came about when the Coun-cil on Academic Aff airs and the Academic Qual-ity Councils began look-ing at the idea of launch-ing a winter term during the last half of Decem-ber and the fi rst half of January.

Next year’s spring semester calendar starts with advising for students January 13. Students will start classes Tuesday, Jan-uary 20. Midterm grades will be due from professors and posted to EKU Direct by March 15. Commencement will take place Saturday, May 16.

When Benson arrived at Eastern as president in August, Vice said he entered into discussions with Elmer Th omas, the superintendent for the Madison County School District, to have spring break at the same time.

“Th e families and students never really get a spring break together because of the timing,” Vice said.

Even though the calendar will change, Vice said students will still get a full-length summer to stay at home, take summer ses-

sion courses or complete a required intern-ship.

“[Th e calendar] still leaves a full 12-week summer,” Vice said.

Vice said she is looking forward to the winter term and the op-

portunities students will have for diff erent cours-es.

Some students, how-ever, are not looking for-ward to the change.

“If [spring break] is in April, I’ll be burnt out by then,” said William Chaudoin, 22, parale-gal science, political sci-ence and economics major from Summers-ville. “Halfway through the semester, you have a

break before you start the second half. It needs to be even.”

Th e winter term will off er fi ve or six three-credit hour courses and will off er students the opportunity to go home for the week of Christmas through New Year’s Day, Vice said. Th e classes will start Dec. 15. Vice said she believes it could also help students who are close on the necessary hours for graduation.

“I could easily envision a three hour winter term being able to save students a semester,” Vice said.

Th e winter term may eventually pro-vide opportunities for students to complete the Applied Critical and Creative Th inking university requirement through a student’s department, Vice said. Th e call for faculty course proposals will go out soon and ev-erything will be ironed out before registra-tion for the winter term begins.

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students a chance to keep in touch with faculty and gives commuters ex-tra time to get to campus, Vice said.

“Two-hour delays help us meet the academic calendar,” Vice said. “Class time is precious and I know [profes-sors] feel the crunch.”

Shayna Blackburn, 21, a market-ing junior form Paintsville, said she had some challenges with the cancel-lation, such as shortening of her night classes, particularly her Monday night class that has been cancelled twice this semester.

“For me, it’s been diffi cult because I have two night classes and one of them is on Monday,” Blackburn said. “Th e delays are even worse though because they push back study and lecture time.”

Blackburn said the professor of her Monday night class had to squeeze in the curriculum missed during the cancellations, and that night classes

already have a tight schedule.Daniel Mundfrom, chair of the

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, said the development classes in the mathematics depart-ment probably felt the most impact. Th e developmental classes are set on a four-week developmental schedule with specifi c curriculum to be cov-ered prior to the end of each four-week cycle and could be aff ected by delays or missed days, Mundfrom said.

Despite the scheduling hiccups due to the weather, Mundfrom said he felt the classes were back on track. He said much of this could be attrib-uted to the dedication of the students and professors.

“[Students] might have to do a lit-tle more reading or examples on their own when classes were shortened,” Mundfrom said. “You just have to go with the fl ow and do the best you can.”

Some students said although there were some minor schedule changes, they had little eff ect on their overall semester.

“I had three professors that had to adjust the syllabus,” said Margret Broughton, 20, an anthropology ju-nior from Paint Lick.

Broughton said she felt her pro-fessors adapted well and her class-es were going smoothly. She said the impact was minimal.

“It pushed the assignments back that did help at the time but short-ened the time between them,” Broughton said.

Tamara Kinley, 19, a pediatric on-cology freshman from Danville, said she thought the delays and cancel-lations were necessary, but felt the schedule changes did add confusion for students.

“I just think it’s a little stressful with all the changes,” Kinley said, “But after all the confusion is over, it’s a normal semester.”

Kinley said most of her professors have been understating about missed classes and answering questions to curriculum they may be covering more quickly.

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Professor’s novel reveals stories from Kentucky’s back roads

Kentucky has a rich and odd heritage that sometimes gets overlooked in tradi-tional history books. However, with Mar-shall Myers’, a professor of English at Eastern, new book Only in Old Kentucky: Historic True Tales of Cultural Ingenuity, published by Th e History Press March 18, covers a wide range of cultural amenities that Kentucky has to off er.

Myers’ previous two books, Th e Great Civil War Stories of Kentucky and Neither Blue nor Grey, are about the Civil War in Kentucky, but for his new book he decid-ed to take a diff erent route. He said a quote by Kentucky reporter and novelist John Fox Jr., truly inspired him to write it.

“I don’t want to write about anything else than Kentucky... I want to be steeped in its history, have its people, their charac-ters, their personalities, their modes of life, and thoughts in my brain. Th is is my plan,” Fox said.

Myers said there are so many rich parts of Kentucky people don’t know about–which he said was his ultimate motivation in writing the book.

Although Myers is not a trained histo-rian, he said he is simply a writer who loves history.

Only in Old Kentucky contains several short tales about unusual aspects in Ken-tucky’s history that are very important, but not well known. One example: Hemp production. Hemp played a central role in Kentucky’s history, as it served as a cash crop and was extremely important to the state’s agriculture industry. Its uses were extensive--namely rope and bag making--however after the Civil War, Kentucky’s hemp production died down.

Another oddity in Kentucky’s history was the numerous accounts of dueling. Al-though more prominent in the Deep South, dueling was still quite popular among rich Southern gentlemen trying to protect their honor in Kentucky, Myers said. Even though the practice was outlawed in Ken-tucky, since its’ statehood, duels continued to occur because politicians, who fell in the majority of people who dueled, such as Henry Clay and Judge John Rowan, could ignore the law without major consequenc-es, Myers said.

Other topics discussed in the book in-clude iron smelting, salt making, gunpow-

der making, unique place names, fescue introduction and Henry Clay and the thor-oughbred industry, among many others.

“I discovered more than anything else just how resourceful the people of early Kentucky were,” Myers said, “overcoming shortages of materials, giving odd but often colorful names to places, often looking at themselves with self-eff acing humor, and withstanding hardships we can only imag-ine dimly with courage and grace.”

Th e book, it turned out, was a lot of fun to write, Myers said. But it wasn’t without a lot of hard work, he added. Myers said he spent long hours tracking down diff erent sources and traveling all over Kentucky to gather research, making trips, for instance, to places such as Cave City to study Mam-moth Cave’s saltpeters.

“I met a variety of people, all helpful and willing to share information and experi-ences,” Myers said.

In total the book took him about four to fi ve years, on and off , to write, he said.

“I am very grateful that Eastern has been very supportive in my research on this par-ticular topic. I use the libraries resources extensively,” Myers said.

In the end, Myers said he has a very spe-

cifi c message he wants his audience to take away from the book.

“Th e idea that Kentuckians are very creative people,” Myers said. “Who adapt readily to their circumstances and who have produced, as a result of that, a very unique culture that is unlike that of in any other state.”

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ing the campus community is. She added this characteristic should be included in the larger branding message.

“You can hire a VP of mar-keting and branding, but if the community doesn’t buy in, it’s going to fail miserably,” Sparks said. “Your brand is your prom-ise. If you don’t hold true to that promise, your reputation and integrity will collapse.”

Th e fi nal candidate to vis-it campus was Scott Cason is the assistant vice president for communication and market-ing at Augustana College. Ca-son said he learned to lead by example as a pilot in the Navy, something he carried on as a school teacher and as a market-ing professional in higher edu-cation. Cason said one aspect universities must emphasize

within branding is the trans-formative aspect they allow students to have, especially a school like Eastern, which gives students “fresh starts.”

“Communication and mar-keting is a force for good,” Ca-son said. “It adds value, manag-es crisis, helps people celebrate and frame advancement for the community.”

Benson said he hopes to make an off er to one of the can-didates this week and have a response by the weekend. He said the goal is to have some-one hired by July 1 at the earli-est and August 1 at the latest in hopes that the new hire will be-gin working with the commu-nication staff to get Eastern’s message out on multiple fronts.

“It’s an important position in that they will craft the uni-versity message,” Benson said. “We’ve got a lot of good things going on right now. It’s about crafting a cogent, coherent message that proves our case.”

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PPERSPECTIVESERSPECTIVESThere is a science to campus events —apparently. High attendance at on-campus events seem to be

hit and miss, but more toward the miss side lately. The events seem to generate no excitement, no buzz and be-cause of that, no people.

So what makes an event work? Why can’t Eastern’s programs get any people to their events?

When this is brought up in conversation, most people point to the fact most events take place during the week when student’s schedules aren’t open enough to find time to go to an event. When students are faced with the choice to attend a concert of a person they’ve never heard of or hang out in their place for a couple hours, the latter usually wins.

Okay then. Let’s put the events on the weekends. Nope, that won’t work either. Eastern is a suitcase

college, remember? Why would any program schedule an event on the weekend with the ever-present aura of a suitcase college hanging over their budgets?

See, now reasoning and logic have come full circle. But that can’t be the only reason. Most of the events

for the last six or seven months have been during cold weather, which has to be a factor. When the weath-er was warm in August and September, attendances at events were respectable. But who wants to bundle up on a weeknight and travel across campus to a concert of someone they’ve never heard of?

It has to be tough to generate attendance for someone that most people have never heard of, but even if it is a big name, will it sell?

When Kacey Musgraves, nominated for 23 awards in the last two years and won two Grammy’s in 2014 for best country song and album of the year, came to cam-pus hardly anyone went to the concert at the Center for the Arts. A young star with a great personality couldn’t move the needle at Eastern.

Then you have Phillip Phillips. Most of his nomina-tions have come from the Teen Choice Awards, and he will probably never win a Grammy. There was a line out the door before his concert at the Center for the Art. Somehow it worked.

Maybe it’s not a science. Maybe it’s a hit and miss and sometimes high attendance is a stroke of luck. When the weather is warm, school is just starting again and there isn’t a Grammy Award winner, that’s when the events should be highly attended, right?

Usually when free stuff is given out, there is a long line or a big crowd. Th at’s an idea; give away stuff to college stu-dents when they hike across campus to come to your event.

Any type of bingo is a hit. It’s fun, fast, and the chance of winning cool stuff just for being lucky. Usual-ly you are out in around an hour and can socialize while you’re at it.

Speakers usually don’t get a big student turnout be-cause of the excitement factor. When students mention

going to a speaker, it is usually accompanied by eye roll-ing, a deep sigh or a chuckle. (Here’s a tip: Try not to call it a lecture or give so much extra credit no one can re-fuse.)

Last week’s Colonel Crawl was a good example of at least trying to get some kind of programming students can actually enjoy.

An event like this that attempts to incorporate music, local venues and an interesting travelling theme that is open to all students shows there are good experiments going on to create great programming.

Student Life, the Student Activities Council (SAC), the Student Government Association (SGA) and many

other groups, departments and people invest a lot of time and energy into what programming hits this cam-pus. It is a tough job figuring out how to entertain fickle students who will come out in droves for a guy with two first names, but won’t see a talented Grammy-winning artist show off her skills.

There is no right answer, but an answer has to be reached fairly soon. Who knows? It’s will be tough to figure this situation out, but all of the on-campus pro-grammers will have to figure out sometime in the near future.

For the sake of all students, let’s hope this near future is soon, like next semester.

Improving on-campus programming not easy

The history of late night talk shows has had its greats, with the likes of John-ny Carson, David Letterman and Jay Leno entertaining television viewers of the late p.m. to early a.m. hours. Today, or rath-er tonight, the line up of late night hosts is stronger than ever. Saturday Night Live alums Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers have recently taken hold of the Tonight Show and Late Night respectively, and Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien are maintaining solid ratings with their self-titled shows.

The newest addition to the club, how-ever, could either be a major boost or a

disappointing setback to the quality of late show hosts.

Stephen Colbert, known for his politi-cally satirical show The Colbert Report, will be taking over for David Letterman as the Late Show host. Letterman, who has hosted Late Show since its debut in 1993, announced his retirement April 10. CBS’s decision to sign Colbert was sur-prising to many, as Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson was set to succeed Let-terman. (Ferguson will be awarded a multi-million dollar compensation due to a provision in his contract stating he would have a shot at succeeding Letter-man.)

Colbert’s current Emmy-winning show has been extremely popular over its nearly decade-long run, but the antics that have made him famous will not be seen in his handling of Late Show.

A gig such as Late Show is not some-thing to simply use as a tool for sat-ire. Letterman built the show from the ground up and it demands respect ac-

cordingly. An often used ploy of Col-bert’s is making political figures look ri-diculous and sometimes unintelligent, through either well-edited clips or inter-views. Politicians can be rather easy tar-gets for comedy, as some Americans al-ready see them as frauds and jokes. When it comes to entertainment, however, you cannot simply invite Morgan Freeman as a guest just to humiliate him. Jokes and light humor can be made throughout an interview, but genuine conversation must take place.

Colbert’s character on the Report is a well-intentioned conservative who is of-ten misguided on political issues. Now that he will be taking on a much broader range of topics on a more serious stage, Colbert must figure out how to keep an audience entertained, without severely offending his guests. This seems like an easy task, to simply not offend anyone, but it will be difficult to change his entire approach to comedy that got him where he is going in the first place.

I for one am extremely optimistic for Colbert’s move. It is a great step in his already accomplished career and a sol-id addition to late night’s already stellar lineup. As for those who are concerned about Colbert’s transitioning from politi-cal satire to culture and entertainment, don’t be fooled by his character’s dimwit-tedness. He is an extremely sharp indi-vidual who will certainly study up on the best approach to his new position.

The current line up of late night hosts are accustomed to the style of which their genre is suited, but Colbert has the potential to add a new spin to the mix. He could use his fresh and innova-tive approach to entertainment to sepa-rate himself from the competition, or completely miss the mark with whatev-er character he develops and be replaced within months of starting. Regardless, 2015 will be an extremely exciting year for late night talk shows.

Daniel Klapheke is a journalism fresh-man. Email progress@eku.edu.

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“A parking structure, yeah the parking is terrible here. Residents don’t have enough parking spaces. I think there needs to be a centrally located parking structure.”

Caleb WadeHometown: Lexington Major: Accoun� ng Year: Junior

What is the one improvement you want to see on campus in the future?

“A new rec center. Ours is nice and big but when so many people decide to go at the beginning at the year. Its too crowd-ed. It’d be nice if there was another, even if it was smaller.”

Tamara Baker Hometown: Somerset Major: Nursing Year: Freshman

“The school campus defi nitely needs more accessibility for handicap students. The disability access it’s ludicrous on this campus. People with disabili� es can hardly get in half the buildings.”

Jessica BeverlyHometown: San DiegoMajor: Liberal artsYear: Senior

When I packed everything I had into a few boxes and duff el bags to move into my new campus home, it was unclear to me what my fi rst year of college would hold. Looking back now with the year quickly coming to an end, it’s easy for me to say it has given me more than I could have ever imagined.

Th e fi rst day, I had huge fears for the year while dragging my things up four fl ights of stairs to my room, and wishing I didn’t

bring as much as I did to a dorm lacking an elevator. I was worried I would hate my roommate and she would hate me, worried I wouldn’t have any friends, worried I would hate my classes. After hearing so many hor-ror stories about college, I didn’t know what to think of the whole experience.

Saying goodbye to our parents that fi rst day was defi nitely a weird feeling for me and my new roommate. Th ough, being in a room with a complete stranger you were now forced to live with was a little weird-er. We’d only ever spoken through email or Facebook, but we both knew we had to spend the next 10 months together, whether we liked each other or not.

With one pressure of making friends and being liked by a stranger, another stressor was added when classes started a few days later. It was diffi cult at fi rst to fi nd a routine

to be able to fi nish my work and have a few minutes to myself. Th en I began to wonder if I would even be able to handle the respon-sibilities getting involved around campus would bring.

Now, I can look back and say I can handle anything after getting through the fall se-mester and adding 16 more hours of classes and stress with this semester.

Not all my days this year have been easy. I’ve had days where my stress levels skyrock-eted or days where I thought I did great on a test, only to fi nd a nice red 60 on the front of it after it was graded. Whatever kind of day it was, I always tried to make the best of it and end it with a laugh, thanks to my roommate.

My roommate and I have grown ex-tremely close this year, despite my early fears, and we’ve even decided to be room-

mates again next semester. Being a jour-nalist and an accountant, I wasn’t sure how things would work out between us, but we have always supported each other in what-ever we do and have a friendship that could last a lifetime.

Soon, I’ll start to pack the boxes and duf-fel bags again to begin my descent down the stairs and back home for the summer. I can say I’ve made the best of this year and I’m glad with its results. I managed to keep my grades up, make lifelong friends, become in-volved in amazing opportunities and learn lifelong lessons along the way.

In August, I was unsure how my new be-ginning at Eastern would be for me, but now I can tell it is only the beginning of some-thing great.

Brianna White is a journalism freshman. Email progress@eku.edu.

As an aspiring novelist, I’m always look-ing for new ideas and concepts for stories. Sometimes they came from weird places and sometimes they came from watching TV shows or movies.

One of the novels I’m working on is an Adam and Eve based story. I got the idea when I was watching an anime called Black Cat. Once the idea was in my head, I imme-diately got to work on it while it was fresh in my mind. If I remember correctly, I came up with the idea while visiting my dad and sis-ters in Florida during the summer of 2013.

Th e story is about a girl named Claire,

who is the reincarnation of Eve. She is guarded by soldiers of Oden, who are rais-ing her in Miami, FL.

Th ey are keeping her safe from the re-incarnation of Adam. Adam knew his des-tiny the moment he was born and is using the power he has to fi nd Eve. While Adam knows who he is, Eve (Claire) does not. She lives as a normal, 15-year-old girl with her adoptive mother and father named Martha and Luke and their 20-year-old son, Alex. Alex is a guardian in training who takes the part as older brother very seriously.

Despite Claire not knowing who she is, she experiences unusual headaches and fl ashes of the Garden whenever she pass-es out. She also hears a voice whispering in her ear, which is Adam trying to manipu-late her mind to remember her origins.

Claire brushes off the headaches and voices, blaming them on the stress of be-coming a high school junior. She is usually a laid-back girl who loves hanging out with

her friend Eliza. Claire is very close to her brother Alex, even to the point of spending time with him when he’s playing his video games, which Claire does not understand.

In school, she is average, having never joined any extra-curricular activities and just wants to fi nd a cute guy to go out with. Claire does her best to avoid unnecessary confrontation, including harassment by two girls she and Eliza despise, Alyson and Tammy. Claire’s weakest subject is history. She lets life take her where it wants to take her.

In the story, I have Adam playing as the main antagonist because he is corrupted by his anger for being banished from the Garden of Eden. His plan is to reunite with Eve, combine his powers with hers and res-urrect the Garden on Earth, making the world the same as it was when it was new. As an added bonus, Adam is growing the Forbidden Fruit for Eve to eat, so her pow-ers will unlock from within her and allow

the two of them to become one with the Garden.

Th ere are multiple perspectives in the story. I’m going to switch between charac-ters so the readers can feel the emotions of each and understand their way of thinking. I am still trying to work out plot confl icts, but I have ideas for twists and change of char-acter personalities that I feel will make my story stand out to publishers and readers. I am planning to turn it into a short series. I am almost at the half-way point of the story. I do not have a title for my story yet, but I will work on that once the fi rst part is done.

I don’t plan to have a lot of Bible refer-ences or religious ideas. To me, it’s just a fun, fi ctional story that is meant to be en-tertaining. Along with writing this story, I am coming up with book cover ideas, and drawing character concepts. I hope this just the beginning of my journey.....

Maya Johnson is a journalism senior. Email progress@eku.edu.

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Find out what interesting things fellow students tote around in their backpacks

Audra Cronen, 20, criminal justice junior from Shelbyville:

Cronen is the president of Lamba Alpha Epsilon and a member of fi ve student organizations, so she relies on a big bag to have every-thing she needs on a daily basis. Th ree things she always keeps in her bag are a journal to write down thoughts and things she needs to re-member, yarn and a knitting loom to knit or crochet, and mail for the president of her sorority Kappa Alpha Th eta.

what’s in your backpack?

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Students spend day lobbying against worldwide slavery

Students stood for 27 hours straight on Powell Corner from 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 9, to 1 p.m., Th ursday, April 10, to stand for the 27 million people across the world still entrapped in slavery.

Stand for Freedom was hosted by East-ern’s student organization, Stop Human Injustice, Enslavement and Exploitation (SHINE), which is Eastern’s fi rst abolition-ist organization.

Its goal is to raise awareness and educate people about human traffi cking and mod-ern-day slavery. It has been an offi cial RSO on campus since September and has about 10 members.

Lyndsey Marsh, 22, a general studies se-nior from Cynthiana and the president and founder of SHINE, said the group encour-ages her because she couldn’t have done the event without them.

Th e goal for SHINE was to catch peo-ple’s attention as they walk by and educate students about slavery that still exists to-day. Th ey passed the time by throwing Fris-bee and taking pictures of people holding signs. Some of the signs said, “Shine a Light on Slavery, I’m in it to End it and Stand for Th ose Who Can’t Stand for Th emselves.”

Multiple local organizations and busi-nesses contributed to the event, O’Charley’s and Orange Leaf brought food to the stu-dents standing throughout the day.

Dustin Summer, 20, an apparel design and merchandising freshman from Tampa, Fla., had been standing every chance that he got throughout the day and planned to stand throughout the entire night until he had class in the morning.

“Ever since I was in high school learn-ing about history I knew that people aren’t meant to be an object or belong to other people,” Summer said. “High schools should incorporate something like this since young people are targets and this is a real thing happening right now.”

Many students are willing to stand dur-ing the day, but it’s diffi cult to get them to sacrifi ce their sleep so SHINE off ered in-centives for the pre-dawn hours of the

morning. At 2 a.m. diff erent campus minis-tries had time for prayer and worship. Th ere was a corn hole tournament at 4 a.m. and students gathered to watch the sunrise and were brought donuts at 7:11 a.m.

Marsh said she attended Passion, an an-nual nation-wide Christian conference for college students, and the founder of SHINE spoke about the millions of sex and child slaves around the world, including Amer-ica. Marsh said Passion’s introduction to SHINE prompted her to start the organiza-tion at Eastern.

“My passion for this is totally based on my faith in Christ. Th ere is so much free-dom to be found through the Gospel,”

Marsh said. “Th ough SHINE is not a min-istry, all of it is about redemption and hope and there’s so much ministry that happens within it.”

Andrew Heilman, 19, an elementary ed-ucation freshman from Campbellsburg, planned on staying the entire night at the event.

“I’m going to stand until I drop!” Heil-man said. He said he stood because a friend from his hometown has a passion for the ending modern-day slavery.

“Th is girl spent a year in Th ailand and went to Red Street where there is all kinds of prostitution and women being traffi cked against their will,” Heilman said. “Th eir life

seems hopeless and she felt called to share the freedom of the Gospel so her heart af-fected me and made me want to help out anyway that I can.”

Marsh said investing in today’s youth and supporting fair-trade companies are initiatives students could take to help fi ght against modern day-slavery.

Eastern’s SHINE organization will be hosting another Stand for Freedom next year and may incorporate some victim spe-cifi c fundraisers. To stay updated with East-ern’s group and view pictures from this event, visit www.facebook.com/forfree-dom6. To see what SHINE is doing on a na-tional level, visit www.enditmovement.com.

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Lyndsey Marsh, 22, president of Eastern’s SHINE chapter, talks to an Eastern student about modern-day slavery during the Stand for Freedom. MARY FARSON/PROGRESS

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Th e EKU Dance Th eatre showcased its choreography and talent in the spring concert featuring a guest piece by noted choreographer Nashwa Cahill.

Th e spring concert featured 12 numbers all choreographed by stu-dents with the exception of Sanctuary, which was directed by Cahill. Th e musical choices ranged from popular songs such as Say Something by A Great Big World, to dubstep creations.

Th e highlight of the show was Ab-Stract-ion 6 choreographed by Corey Barnes, an elementary education senior. He has danced for fi ve years and this was his fi fth piece choreographed for Eastern.

Th e stage blacked out to feature faceless dancers highlighted by black lights set up along the edge of the stage. While their faces remained covered, the harsh movements and intense musical beats kept the audi-ence members on the edge of their seats.

At one point the dancers were in white tracksuits against black back-grounds wearing black masks. Th e dancers were preparing for the grand reveal when they all removed their masks. Although the masks were re-moved, dancers only showed a side view of their faces.

Ab-Stract-ion 6 was intended to showcase abstract expressions and allow audience members to focus on the dance instead of on any par-ticular dancer.

Th e concert started out with an introduction by Marianne McAdam. McAdam has been teaching at Eastern and directing the EKU Dance Th eatre since 1989. She said she thrives on teaching students to express themselves and by sharing the joys of dance with those otherwise un-able to experience it.

Th e fi rst performance was directed by Ally Kegley, an elementary

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Replacing the annual spring concert, the inaugural Colonel Crawl took place beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10. The crawl took place at more than seven venues, the crawl started out in Purdy’s coffee shop with musician Skip Benton. The next stop was Madison Garden where Brent and Co performed. Jerzees was the third stop featuring DJ Light It Up (pictured). The Well Reds performed at College Station and Sapphires showcased Brett Young. The Crawl wrapped up at The Copper Still with Matt Santry. More than 250 tickets were sold for the fist time event.

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education sophomore. Kegley has performed in the EKU Dance Th eatre for two semesters and choreographed her fi rst piece titled Th ere Comes A Time When Every Flow-er Must Bloom. Th e piece was very light as dancers wore bright yellow. Th e dancers moved around each other with graceful movements and light footwork.

Th ey Sleep Inside Your Head, choreographed by Daron Andrus, a junior dietetics major, came after Kegley’s piece and was the complete opposite. Th e music was a dubstep production with ominous lighting highlighting the stage. Harsh red lights showcased a little girl with braided pig-tails and a brightly colored sundress playing with a ted-dy bear. While seemingly innocent the mood was any-thing but. Th e child played on without a care in the world as a tall, thin, fi gure dressed in all black danced around her. Th roughout the piece, dancers in all black were de-termined to take the child’s innocence, her bear, in order to refl ect the harshness of reality that is imposed on chil-dren.

Th e spring concert ended with a group number featur-ing every dancer in Dance Th eatre. A musical medley of the songs from Grease completed the show with high en-ergy. Th e dancers danced off stage through the audience and out the door.

Anyone interested in participating in EKU Dance Th e-atre next year should contact McAdam at marianne.mc-adam@eku.edu and register for the dance technique class, PHE 250.

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Lock your doors, arm yourselves and prepare to survive. Zombies are on the prowl at Eastern.

A group of students taking an event-planning course have come up with a class project to host a campus-wide zombie hunt. Publicity manager, Shelby Slone, a double major in public relations and broadcasting, said the event is an Interactive Zombie Apocalypse that will feature triv-ia games, including an event called Watch What You Eat.

“Th e participants will be split into teams,” Slone said. “Th e team with the most points will be given prizes at the awards ceremony.”

Not only is the Student Government Association (SGA) sponsoring this apocalyptic event, SGA members will be playing the roles of zombies. Th eir objectives will be to capture the fl ags of the humans during challenges. Th e players will be timed for how long it takes to complete a

challenge. Events will be in the Ravine, Todd Hall, Dupree Hall and Martin Hall basement.

Student Body President Sarah Carpenter said the zom-bie hunt is part of E-Ranks, which are special events re-warding students for being a part of campus activities. It is a way to get students more involved with campus, she said.

“Th is is the fi rst time we have partnered with the event planning class,” Carpenter said. “Th ey are the ones plan-ning the entire thing.”

Carpenter is all for the idea of having SGA members dress up as zombies. Th ey don’t always get super involved in events, she said, so this was a cool idea for everyone to be part of. She said she might either hand out prizes, dress as a zombie herself, or both.

“Th e Watch What You Eat challenge will be in Mar-tin basement because it is really creepy down there,” Slone said. “Also because of its huge windows, we’re going to have zombies standing in front of them and staring at the people.”

At the end of the event, there will be an after party and awards ceremony at the Ravine with free pizza and mu-sic. Th e event planning class is trying to get a projector to

Campus scavenger hunt disguised as Interactive Zombie Apocalypse By MAYA JOHNSONprogress@eku.edu

Anyone who attended the InterFASHIONal fashion show, Tuesday April 15, in the Keene Johnson Ballroom took a trip to the leading fashion capitals of the world. Th e fashion show pre-sented by Apparel Design and Merchandising (ADM) students was broken up into six scenes representing six cities: New York, Tokyo, Paris, Milan, London, and Richmond.

In between each scene there was a number of prizes given away to a few lucky audience members. Prizes were donated from local businesses such as DSP the Studio, Angel Nails, KA Salon, and shirts printed by the ADM department. While ad-mission was free, audience members were encouraged to donate money to the Humane Society.

Th e show’s fi rst city was New York, featuring tailored piec-es with sleek lines and some going-out styles. Models walked in black and white ensembles, business attire, and hippie-esque dresses.

Th e Tokyo portion of the show had models walking to Daft Punk’s One More Time wearing neon geometric prints and teased ponytails to embody Japanese style. Scene two, Paris fea-tured chic outfi ts including rompers, high-low dresses and ac-cessories such as berets and fl oppy sun hats. Milan looks ranged from leather pants to pencil skirts and even some metallic out-fi ts. London showcased iconic England styles such as plaid pants, polka dot dresses, and fedoras.

To bring it all home, the last scene was Richmond where the looks were all merchandising and design student designs made in previous semesters. Milena Poff o, 21, merchandising and de-sign senior from Brazil had four of her pieces showcased in the scene. She said the pieces were made last semester in a design class, while this semester was dedicated to organizing the fash-

ion show. Audience members had their own favorite piece and scene

from the show. “I liked the yellow polka dot dress, it was springy and bright,”

Takisha Mack, 20, a special education sophomore from Lou-isville. Said. “My favorite scene was the EKU scene, because we actually got to see the designers work and they expressed themselves as individuals.”

Some of the models were walking the runway for the fi rst time.

“I was [nervous] at fi rst, but once I got out on stage it was really fun,” Hannah Fisher, 18, merchandising and design freshman from Henry county said.

Merchandising and design students said this experi-ence taught them a lot about the process of planning a fashion show.

“I was surprised at how much planning went into a fashion show,” Susan Iocono, merchandising and design senior from Lexington said. “All the intricate details: how the tables have to be set up in the back room, how the models line up to walk, how we had to have the clothes bagged, tagged…and tied together. Each model had to have their own rack.”

Overall the students were happy with how the show turned out, noting the teamwork it took to pull off the event.

“Everyone had to work together,” Iocono said. “I think the show was amazing, I am so proud of each and every one of them; the models, the stylists, and the shoppers they were just amazing. It all came together in the end.”

If you missed this fashion show, there’s another one hosted by the Minority Collegiate Connections organi-zation. Dress For Success, RIP Th e Workplace Fashion Show will take place April 23 at 6:30 p.m. in the Hern-don Lounge in Powell. Admission is $3.

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Th e Firebugs, an Eastern theater production, can be de-scribed as an energetic, explosive and exciting play. It is a morality play without a lesson and is about a businessman named Biederman who invites “fi rebugs” into his house, who are arsonists and blow up houses for apparent no rea-son.

“It is all about how we are all too inconsistently in our own lives to speak out,” said Alana Ghent, the director of

the production and associate professor for EKU Th eatre.Th is visually impacted play will have explosions, fi re

and a great visual set. 13 Eastern students have devoted lots of time and eff ort,

starting rehearsal right after spring break and are looking forward to a great show, Ghent said.

“We have been rehearsing, blocking, working on our movements and even done some clown exercising for this production,” Ghent said. “Th ere are a lot of freshmen and new faces in this production who are eager to show their fi rst EKU Th eatre debut.”

Th e production will run from April 23 to 27. Show times are 8 p.m. April 23 to26 and 2 p.m. April 27. On April 24

there will be a free artist hour at 7p.m., where the design-ers and director will talk about their research and the pro-cess of creating the show. An American Sign Language in-terpreter will be present April 24.

Tickets can be purchased from 12 to 4 p.m. on week-days in the box offi ce of Campbell Lobby. Tickets are $5 for students and senior citizens and $6 for adults. Tickets can also be purchased and reserved online at theatre.eku.edu/ticket-reservation-request-fi rebugs. Th ere is limited on stage seating. If tickets are still available they will be sold at the door.

For more information, please contact Program director Alana Ghent at Alana.Ghent@eku.edu

EKU theater lights up stage with spring production Firebugs

Captain America: The Winter Sol-dier is set in the Avengers franchise and a sequel to 2011’s Captain Ameri-ca: The First Avenger. Directed by An-thony and Joe Russo, the film contin-ues the story of Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) as he adapts to present day and tries to keep up with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s se-cretive shenanigans, while continu-ing his plight against the forces of evil that plague the country.

When a routine mission goes awry, due to Nick Fury’s (Samuel L. Jackson) secret agenda, the Captain grows tired of Fury’s shadowy disposition and finds himself in the middle of a cor-rupt organization with no one to trust. All while trying to identify a myste-rious mercenary, The Winter Soldier, claiming to have been alive for as long as the Captain himself.

Films such as Winter Soldier seem

like a well-tried pattern; the post-Avengers Marvel movies all seem to have an obligation for follow up films. One thing to realize is they’re not Avenger’s sequels; they’re their own film and must be treated as such.

Writers, directors and actors in-volved with production all know they’re making a stepping stone to the next Avengers spectacle.

They’re allowing the film to stand on its own merits, without relying on or even mentioning the other charac-ters. One of the biggest criticisms to come from this emerging formula is that the audiences will be asking the same question: “Why don’t the other Avengers help?”

This dilemma blends with the writ-ing, as the plot has to be set up where other Avengers won’t have time to come to the rescue.

Of course, you have to remember this is a comic book film, big crossover issues are fun and interesting and will

sell like hot cakes, but it has to be built up and the only way to do that is by developing individual characters.

That’s one thing Winter Soldier gets right, the Russo brothers sprinkle in great character moments that let the audience breath between gigantic action sequences.

Bombastic set pieces are another huge highlight of the movie. The Rus-so’s “less is more” approach keeps the special effects and CGI to a minimum. Everything from the various fistfights to the fantastical super fights has an air realism that gets the blood pump-ing with every punch and kick.

Marvel Studios and the subsequent managers of Marvel’s Phase Two have hit another film out of the park, while keeping the Avenger’s pedigree strong for the upcoming sequel.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier mixes believable special effects with great characters

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show a “teaser video” made by broadcasting major Matt Hall.

Slone said Hall made a commercial for his class that involved zombies taking over JCPenny. He agreed to let EKUndead use his video since it was perfect for the theme of the event.

Stone said they were going to include a zombie 5K, but decided not to, considering some people could be tired af-ter the scavenger hunt. She also said that this event is an SGA fi nale event for the end of the semester.

All participants will check in at Powell Corner April 24 and the event will go from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Th e fi rst 100 people who register will receive a free T-shirt.

To register, go to EKUndead’s Facebook page. Th ere will be a link to the registration page. Also look out for more E-Rank events on the SGA website.

Register fast. Th e zombie apocalypse is upon us.

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Instead of letting stress get the best of you during dead week, Student Alumni Association (SAA) is giving students an opportunity to unwind.

Rock the Ravine is scheduled for Wednesday, April 30 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.. Th is event is open not only to students and faculty but to the Richmond commu-nity as well.

SAA contracted the musical talent of Corey Ken-ton, the opener for Sundy Best, to kick off the event but there will also be an open mic session to allow attend-ees to play for the crowd.

“We wanted to have a good philanthropy aspect, but we wanted to have a fundraising aspect as well,” said Jo-seph Badgett, 24, aviation junior from Springfi eld, who

serves as SAA executive offi cer for fundraising. Th ere will be T-shirts, food and drinks for sale. Th ere

were also be corn hole and other games available to play. SAA is not charging admission to the event.

“We wanted to give back to the community, give back to campus and take everyone’s minds off dead week,” Badgett said. “ I think it will be a good couple hours to listen to live music and eat some grilled food and relax.”

Badgett said they are expecting about 500 people in attendance.

“Since this is the fi rst year, we are just dipping our feet in the water,” Badgett said. “If it takes off huge, the next year we would be more than overly prepared for it.”

If anyone is interested in participating in the open mic portion of the event, contact Joseph Badgett at jo-seph_badgett3@mymail.eku.edu

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President Benson’s wife may not run a university, but she had a big responsibilty as a mom.

Debi Benson, 39, is a stay-at-home mother. Th ough she doesn’t get paid for her job, the love from her three children is reward enough.

While Debi loves to sit and relax with a book in hand, her life as a mom is very de-manding. Debi’s daily routine consists of getting 7-year-old Truman to school and soccer games, making sure 5-year-old Ta-tum has everything she needs for dance practice and playing racing games with 3-year-old Talmage.

Debi’s life doesn’t stop there. She has to fi nd time to spend with her husband, Michael, who has a busy and demanding schedule of his own. To anyone else this life would be hectic. However, to Debi, her children are her life and this busy lifestyle is all she’s known. She said she wouldn’t trade being a mom or the wife to Eastern’s president, Michael Benson, for anything.

Debi, the second oldest of four chil-dren, grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, just a few hours away from Cedar City where the Benson family lived before moving to Kentucky.

Debi attended Brigham Young Univer-sity in Rexburg, Idaho, and graduated in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in fashion merchandising.

“At the time I was going to school, I was working for a department store company called Nordstrom,” Debi said. “I wanted to be a big buyer in retail and fashion shows; buy all of the clothes for the store.”

Debi Benson left Nordstrom to work for a mortgage company, when the owner retired, she got a job at an Internet com-pany called Utah Interactive, a web devel-oping company.

“Once I got out of retail hours, you could not pay me enough to go back,” Debi said. “I was working 10 to 12 hours a

day in retail. Once I left I realized I liked working normal Monday-Friday work days better.”

Debi was working as a senior project manager at Utah Interactive, when a fam-ily friend set her up on a blind date. Th e family friend was on the board of trustees at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah who knew Michael Benson.

“I was at a point where I was just done with the blind dates,” Debi said. “I had one too many really rough ones. So when Mike called I was on my lunch break so he just left a message. He lived in a real-ly small farm town where they farm tur-keys in the middle of nowhere. I was just like ‘ugh, I’m not going out with a turkey farmer.’ ”

After receiving Michael Benson’s mes-sage, Debi said she called her brother who had no idea how the family friend had re-cieved her number, but was willing to help her look online to fi nd out more about the man who had left her the message. Debi thought maybe this man was a teacher at Snow College. She said she heard a long pause on the other side of the phone un-til her brother told her the only Michael Benson he could fi nd was not a teacher, but the president of Snow College.

“We went to dinner and played pool on our fi rst date,” Debi said. “I beat him. He’s so competitive that I knew for sure he would ask me out again just so he could beat me.”

While her husband is out being univer-sity president, Debi said she stays pretty busy as well, being with her kids.

“I’m a full-time mom which is plenty for me right now,” Debi said. “It’s the busi-est job I’ve ever had in my life. And then keeping up with Mike’s schedule is crazy enough in itself.”

Knowing her husband is always on the go, Debi tries to spend as much time as she can with him.

“Trying to juggle a young family with the demands of the university life is prob-ably our biggest challenge,” Debi said. “But we’ve done it and it’s all I’ve ever known

because he’s always been a president.”Debi plays games with her youngest

child, Talmage, while Truman and Tatum are attend Model Laboratory School dur-ing the day. Truman is in fi rst grade and enjoys playing basketball, baseball and soccer. Tatum is in kindergarten and loves dance, gymnastics and soccer.

“In the car one day Truman asked Mike, ‘Dad, why do you have to be the president?’” Debi said. “Mike said, ‘Well it’s my job and I need to support my family and I love what I do.’ Tatum goes, ‘I know why you’re the president. It’s so we never have to wait in line anywhere we go.’”

While the Bensons agree on subjects such as which furniture to pick for their home and they fi nish each other’s sen-tences, the couple is also quite diff erent.

Debi said she likes television shows like

Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Par-enthood and Michael tends to only watch sports or news. Debi’s favorite band is U2 and admits she has seen them fi ve times in concert, while her husband enjoys bands such as Earth, Wind and Fire. She said she is quieter, shy and relaxed, while her husband is more outgoing and is always doing something.

“She is very understanding of the de-mands of our family and on me,” Mi-chael said. “I always have to be ‘on’ you know what I mean? But Debi doesn’t quite have to be ‘on’ all the time. Her fi rst re-sponsibility and her fi rst love are raising the kids. She is an incredible support and tries to attend as many things as she can. I think in a short time, she’s come to love EKU as much as I have.”

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Perkins said he worked on his screwball with coaches the week before the game. His progress allowed him to add a diff erent pitch to his arsenal, which helped throw off UT Martin’s off ense.

Eastern’s off ense started the game by taking pitches. UT Mar-tin walked the fi rst three Colonels in the fi rst inning. A single from senior Bryan Soloman drove two runs in for Eastern. Errors by UT Martin in the second inning al-lowed Eastern to score two more runs.

An RBI-single in the fi fth in-ning from freshman Taylor Blair bumped Eastern’s lead to 5-0. Sophomore Kyle Nowlin drove in a run in the sixth inning and a home run from senior Sean Ha-gen scored two more runs.

UT Martin tried to rally in the eighth inning, but only managed to score one run while leaving three runners on base.

Freshman Ben Fisher’s RBI tri-ple in the ninth inning gave East-

ern a 9-1 victory. Hagen was the highlight of

Eastern’s off ense. He went 2-for-3 with two RBIs.

Game TwoEastern’s off ense pulled the

win and took the series after ev-ery starter had at least one hit against UT Martin. Th e Colonels won the high-scoring game 18-13.

Eastern started the game with 12 runs in the fi rst three innings. Doubles from Soloman and Ha-gen scored two runs in the fi rst inning. A home run from Solo-man and a single from Nowlin brought in four runs in the sec-ond inning. Th e Colonels scored six runs on fi ve hits in the third inning, giving Eastern the lead 12-0.

Soloman hit his second home run of the game in the fourth in-ning, adding another run to East-ern’s tally.

Sophomore Doug Teegarden’s sacrifi ce fl y scored a run in the fi fth inning.

UT Martin rallied in the sec-ond half of the game. Th e Sky-hawks got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fi fth inning af-

ter scoring two runs. UT Martin scored six runs in the seventh in-ning, three runs in the eighth in-ning and two runs in the ninth.

Soloman said Eastern’s defense and bullpen did not perform as well as they could have, which al-lowed UT Martin to gain off en-sive momentum for the rest of the series.

“Even though we scored a lot of runs and hit very well, we gave them a lot of confi dence on Satur-day,” Soloman said. “We let them come up for air. Coach always says that if you’re beating some-one, keep putting the pressure on them. Th ey put the pressure on us.”

Even with the rally, the Sky-hawks could not get in front of Eastern. Th e Colonels scored two runs in the seventh and eighth innings, ending the game and clinching the series.

Soloman was a powerhouse for Eastern’s lineup. He went 3-for-4 with two home runs, fi ve RBIs and three runs scored.

“I was looking for some pitch-es in certain locations and I got them,” Soloman said.

Soloman said Eastern’s real

strength was how the team man-aged to get a lot of back-to-back hits.

Game ThreeEastern could not complete

the sweep after UT Martin’s late-game rally sped the Skyhawks past the Colonels. Eastern lost game three 9-4.

Eastern started with a four-run third inning. Fisher and sopho-more TJ Alas both hit two-run home runs, pushing Eastern to 4-0. Th e third inning was East-ern’s only off ensive showing.

Th e Skyhawks scored two runs in the bottom of the third inning. UT Martin scored in every subse-quent inning excluding the fi fth inning.

Soloman said the Skyhawks used off ensive momentum from game two to score in game three.

“Th ey had a lot of motivation and momentum coming into this game,” Soloman said. “Th e fact we didn’t hold them to the two or three runs we should have on Sat-urday gave them a lot of momen-tum into this game.”

Freshman Caleb Johnson start-ed for the Colonels. He pitched

for fi ve and two-thirds innings and allowed four runs on seven hits, while striking out four. Ju-nior Logan Hershenow took the loss for Eastern after allowing the winning run. Hershenow pitched for one inning and allowed one run on one hit.

Soloman was named the adi-das OVC Player of the Week for his performance against UT Mar-tin.

“It’s good feeling,” Soloman said. “You like getting these kinds of awards here and there.”

Soloman said he enjoys these awards, but ultimately he would rather win games.

“A lot of the young guys were excited,” Soloman said. “But I was telling them, once you’re a senior it’s good to get things like that but you just want to get as many wins as possible for the team. As long as the Colonels are in the win side of the win/loss column at the end of the day, that’s all I care about.”

The Colonels return home at 6 p.m. April 17, 3 p.m. April 18 and 1 p.m. April 19 to face Southern Illinois University Ed-wardsville.

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Eastern’s track and fi eld team split up April 12 to compete at the Tennessee Re-lays and the University of Cumberlands In-vitational. Several Colonels ran OVC-best times.

Th ree members of the women’s team ran OVC-best times at the Tennessee Re-lays.

Junior Ann Eason placed fi fth in the women’s 1,500-meters with a time of 4:22.49. Th is time was a personal and cur-rent OVC best, and is the third-fastest 1,500-meters time in Eastern Athletics his-tory.

Sophomore Julie Mathisen fi nished fi fth in the women’s 800-meters with a time of 2:09.23. Th is was a personal and OVC-best time.

“It was a lot better than I expected,” Mathisen said. “I went well for about 550 meters and then they pulled away some. But I was like, ‘I have to get back in there.’”

Mathisen said her start was average, but she managed to speed up in the second lap.

Mathisen’s time was also the fourth fastest in Eastern athletics history, some-thing she said she didn’t fi nd out until the day after.

Mathisen, who normally runs longer distance races (1,500-meters, 5,000-me-

ters), said she achieved a goal while run-ning the 800-meters.

“I kinda hoped during my four years here I would break 2:10.00,” Mathisen said. “Now I did it as a sophomore, so that’s pret-ty cool.”

Sophomore Cecile Chevillard fi nished in second place in her collegiate debut of the women’s 3,000-meters steeplechase. Her time of 10:38.26 is an OVC-best.

Another strong performance for East-ern was from senior Una Britton, placing fourth in the women’s 5,000-meters. She fi nished with a time of 17:17.89.

Th e Colonels had notable performances from the men’s team as well.

Senior Soufi ane Bouchikhi placed sec-ond in the men’s 1,500-meters with a time of 3:47.61. His time is the second-fastest time in the OVC in the men’s 1,500-meters.

Junior Ben Toroitich won the men’s 5,000-meters with a time of 14:30.99.

Part of the team travelled to Williams-burg at the University of the Cumberlands Invitational.

Sophomore Ashley Woolum had a 5-3.75 leap in the women’s high jump. Th is is the fi fth-best jump in the OVC this year. Junior Erica Reaser fi nished fi fth in the women’s 800-meters with a time of 2:26.87.

Senior Daniel Brown had a couple of good fi nishes. He placed fourth in the men’s 200-meter dash with a time of 22.48.

He also fi nished fi fth in the men’s 100-me-ter dash with a time of 10.98.

Th e Colonels will split up again for the upcoming meets April 17 to 19. A few run-ners will travel to Walnut, Calif. for the Mt.

SAC Relays, where they will be facing top runners from around the country. Th e rest of the team will head to Lexington to com-pete in the Kentucky Bluegrass Invitation-al.

nine-win streak in singles. Junior Melissa Gerritsen fought a

tough battle in the No. 3 singles, where she lost 6-4, 6-7, 7-6 (7). Each of her last two sets were decided in a tiebreaker.

Th e win was clinched for Marshall in No. 5 doubles when senior Milena Poff o lost 7-6, 6-4.

With regular season at a close, Eastern now looks to bring home its third con-secutive OVC championship title as it en-ters this year’s OVC Tournament at No. 2 seed.

“We’re the two-time defending cham-pions,” head coach Rob Oertel said. “And we have a lot of experience in the tour-nament. So I feel very good. I think we’re ready to go.”

Eastern is one of six teams to make the 2013-2014 OVC tournament. Other competing teams include Murray State, Morehead State, Eastern Illinois, UT Martin and Southern Indiana Universi-ty Edwardsville . Since Eastern sits in the No. 2 seed, it gets an automatic bye to the semifi nals.

“I’ve been saying all year that the women’s conference has been the best it’s been in my 13 years in the OVC,” Oertel said. “It’s going to be the tough-est test ever.”

Oertel added the pressure will be even greater at this year’s tournament.

Tournament play begins at 2 p.m. for the Colonels Friday, April 18 in the semi-fi nals. Th e team will play the winner of Morehead State and Eastern Illinois in the fi rst round. Th is year’s tournament takes place at the Larry J. Hefl in Tennis Center in Paducah, Ky.

game and kept the Colonels in the lead.

Game 2Eastern passed by the Bruins again in

game two of the day with a 4-1 win. Eastern president Michael Benson

threw the honorary fi rst pitch of the sec-ond game.

Lights were added to Eastern’s home fi eld in the last few weeks, allowing the Colonels to play in its fi rst night game.

Th e game marked Pittsenbarger’s 16th complete game on the mound. She struck out nine batters and allowed a solo home run in the seventh inning.

Th e Colonels pushed the fi rst run across the plate after an RBI double from Joyce in the third inning.

Joyce went 3-for-3 in game two with a pair of doubles, an RBI and a run scored.

Ciolek came up with a two-run sin-gle to move the lead 3-1. Fobbs stepped up with a lead-off double in the fourth in-ning and gave Eastern a comfortable lead

for the win.

Game 3Belmont had the upper hand during

Sunday’s game and defeated the Colonels 3-1.

Eastern picked up the fi rst score after a standout performance from Fobbs. She sin-gled, stole second base then passed third to score on a wild pitch and throwing error by the Bruins’ catcher.

Belmont responded to the Colonels’’ lone run with a two-out RBI in the third in-ning and then two more runs in the fourth inning. Belmont’s two runs in the fourth inning came from a dropped line drive and dropped pop up to the pitcher on Eastern’s side.

Sallberg took the loss and gave up three runs.

Th e Colonels were scheduled to play April 15 against the No. 4 University of Tennessee in Knoxville, but the game was cancelled because of poor weather condi-tions.

Eastern (22-15, 10-5 OVC) will return to play at 1 p.m. April 18 and 19 against Mur-ray State University and Austin Peay State University at Gertrude Hood Field.

Track and field athletes run multiple OVC-best times at Tennessee Relays

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SOFTBALLCONTINUED FROM B6

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Junior Lauren Mitchell hit a foul ball before being walked against Belmont University April 12.

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Junior Amandine Faouzi won 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 2 singles match in the win against Marshall University April 10. Faouzi ended her season on a nine-game win streak in singles play.

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Sophomore Julie Mathisen ran an OVC-best time in the women’s 800-meters at the Tennessee Relays April 12. The time was also a personal best and the fourth fastest in EKU Athletics history.

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SPORTS

WOMEN’S TENNIS OVC STANDINGS

TEAM OVERALL RECORD

OVC RECORD

MURRAY STATE 14-5 9-1

EKU 12-9 9-1

MOREHEAD STATE 11-10 8-2

SIUE 12-8 7-3

EASTERN ILLINOIS 11-5 5-5

UT MARTIN 8-10 5-5

JACKSONVILLE STATE 9-14 5-5

SEMO 9-13 3-7

AUSTIN PEAY 6-13 3-7

BELMONT 3-12 1-9

TENNESSEE STATE 0-16 0-10

Colonels win road series against UT Martin

Eastern’s baseball team went 2-for-3 in a three-game series against the University of Tennessee at Mar-tin Skyhawks April 11 to 13.

Game OneEastern took game one against

UT Martin thanks to senior Tanner Perkins’ pitching.

Perkins pitched seven straight innings, facing 25 batters. He al-lowed seven hits, but kept UT Mar-tin scoreless. He also threw a game-high fi ve strikeouts.

Eastern’s softball team had a series of OVC play against Belmont Univer-sity April 12 and 13 at Gertrude Hood Field. Th e Colonels snatched game one and two, but fell to the Belmont Bruins in game three.

Game 1Eastern gained an early lead

against Belmont (12-25, 6-10 OVC) to

snatch a 4-3 victory in the fi rst game of Saturday’s doubleheader.

All four of the Colonels’ runs came in the fi rst inning.

Sophomore Kayla Joyce and fresh-man Krislyn Campos blasted back-to-back hits to get the game started. Se-nior Christina Ciolek and sophomore Sarah Fobbs followed with RBI hits of their own to give Eastern the large-margined lead.

Belmont attempted a comeback but was unable to catch up despite a

run in the second, fourth and sixth innings for a total of only three runs.

Sophomore Hayley Flynn pitched for the Colonels and gave up one run and two hits. Freshman Alex Sallberg stepped in during the fi fth inning, but got in a bind in the sixth, where senior Leanna Pittsenbarger came in as re-lief.

Th e Bruins had bases loaded when Pittsenbarger stepped in, but she stopped the team from tying up the

Eastern’s women’s tennis team fell to Marshall University with a 5-2 loss April 10. Th e Colonels ended the regular season with a

12-9 overall record and a 9-1 OVC record.

Marshall (13-7) picked up the early doubles point, taking the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles spots.

Eastern’s lone points came in singles play from juniors Kristi-

na Labeja (No. 1) and Amandine Faouzi (No. 2) in straight sets. Labeja defeated her opponent 6-0, 6-2 and Faouzi won 6-2, 6-2.

Faouzi ends the season with a

By MATTHEW CRUMPmatthew_crump3@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE BASEBALL, PAGE B4

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Senior Tanner Perkins did not allow any runs while pitching for seven innings in the first game against University of Tennessee at Martin April 11.

Junior Logan Hershenow pitched in game two and three against University of Tennessee at Martin and struck out one in game two.

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Doug Teegarden, sophomore third baseman, scored three times in game two against the University of Tennessee at Martin. The Colonels are 11-13 in road games after the series.

MARY FARSON/PROGRESS

Senior Milena Poffo fell 7-6, 6-4 in the final match against Marshall University April 10. Eastern is the No. 2 seed going into the OVC Tournament April 18, facing the winner of No. 3 Morehead State University and No. 6 Eastern Illinois.

Women’s tennis finishes regular season with loss to Marshall

By ASHLEY OWENSashley_owens46@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE TENNIS, PAGE B5

BASEBALL TEAM WINS FIRST TWO GAMES OF THREE GAME SERIES AGAINST UT MARTIN

Softball goes 2-for-3 against Belmont University

MARY FARSON/PROGRESS

Junior Shaylon Robb pitched for two innings in the final game against Belmont. She did not allow any runs and struck out two.

By ASHLEY OWENSashley_owens46@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE SOFTBALL, PAGE B5