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By Robert DownenAdministration Editor@DEN_NEWS
Standing in front of a packed Lump-kin Hall auditorium Tuesday night in National Rifle Association garb, Don-ald. J. Huskey emphatically voiced his disdain for gun control and firearm reg-ulation.
Huskey hosts his own radio show out of his hometown of Effingham, yet he articulated a portion of his argu-ments in German—a gesture to the two panelists with who he was critiquing.
As he continued, he was greeted with a mixture of applause and admoni-tion—a trend that would continue for the remainder of the evening.
The panel, which focused on gun control in Germany, Chicago and the United States, was hosted by Captain Franz Plueckthun of the Bavarian State Police as well as Michael Tentier, a con-sultant for the German BKA (FBI), among others.
Plueckthun said he was surprised by the emotion that had enveloped the room so early in the discussion, noting that in Germany, gun violence was vir-tually nonexistent.
After 33 years of service as a police officer and narcotics agent in Munich, he said he still is unconvinced that guns should be so freely carried, as they often are in America.
Germany, he said, still has some of the strictest gun laws in the world—a consequence of the complete ban on weapons in the years following World War II and the collapse of the Nazi re-gime.
His colleague, Tentier, said he agreed completely.
“In Germany, we need a good rea-son to keep guns,” Tentier said. “Hunt-ing and sport are OK, but you can’t just walk in, buy a gun because you think it is fun.”
Hafeez Muhammad, a long-time res-ident and community activist in Chica-go, spoke on the dangers of what he de-scribed as a “gun culture” in his home-town.
He said the problem of gun violence
in Chicago was a product of economic and social constraints that often encour-age Chicago youth to join gangs or the drug trade, where violence is merely an occupational hazard.
However, he also said simply regulat-ing guns would not end the problem.
More so, he said the city’s poor ed-ucation system and the romanticiza-tion of weapons were the first hurdles to curbing the city’s violence.
“I believe this is not something just unique to Chicago, however. It is an American culture, and we must do
something to change that,” he said to loud crowd applause.
Ultimately, however, the idea of “gun culture” remained a point of contention throughout the night, reaching its most divisive point as one Eastern student questioned a claim that Chicagoans
were often responsible for violence in Charleston, voiced by a local resident.
The crowd immediately broke into adamant dispute until Kevin Ander-son, a political science professor and the event’s moderator, eventually regained control of the room.
Despite the overall tension of the event, Anderson was eventually able to unite many in the crowd.
“We’re not always going to agree. No one’s a good guy, and no one’s a bad guy. But we must keep the con-versation going, and we need to keep it civilized,” he said. “This is small potatoes to what America has gone through before.”
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FLEECE PHILANTHROPYMembers of the Black Student Union made fleece blankets to donate to the community through One Stop Christmas.
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SECOND PLACE SUCCESSEastern’s football team is now ranked second in the nation for both FCS Coach’s Polls.
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By Rebecca AyersStaff Reporter@DEN_News
The Students for Peace and Justice organization will be examining non-violent revolutions through a Nobel Peace Prize recipient’s work, which has been used in uprisings since 1989.
The event will center on the film, “How to Start a Revolution” by Gene Sharp a Nobel Peace Prize re-cipient, and a panel discussion led by Eastern faculty.
Charles Delman, a mathemat-ics and computer sciences profes-sor, Craig Eckert, department chair
for the sociology department, Chris Hanlon, an English professor and Jinhee Lee, a history professor will lead the discussion.
“How to Start a Revolution” will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Phipps Lecture Hall of the Physical Science Building.
Ryan Freer, the chairman of Stu-dents for Peace and Justice, said the documentary highlights 198 nonvio-lent weapons
“It follows the story of Dr. Gene Sharp, his book on how to have a non-violent protest and immense in-fluence of it through the past several decades,” Freer said.
The panel discussion will focus on
promoting nonviolent methods to bring political change.
Freer said the group is about edu-cating people on events and circum-stances in the world.
“We try and teach human rights and what is going on in the world, we try and get students to think,” Freer said.
The Students for Peace and Justice group is based out of the Newman Catholic Center.
The group makes an effort to de-vote itself to specific causes annual-ly, Freer said.
Last year, the groups focused on guaranteeing the clothing sold at the University Bookstore in the Martin
Luther King Jr. University Union was made in establishments with suitable working conditions for its employees.
Students for Peace and Justice worked with Worker Rights Con-sortium, an independent labor rights monitoring organization that focuses on protecting the rights of workers who make apparel and other prod-ucts.
The group additionally worked with the Fair Labor association and monitoring groups to achieve this cause.
The organization’s largest project is Global Justice Week. This series of events takes place in the spring. Ev-
ery day during the week, the group focuses on a different topic.
These topics included human traf-ficking, fair trade, land mine condi-tions, international campaigns and immigration.
A more recognized event hosted by the Students for Peace and Justice group is the Fair Trade Sale, which will take place in November.
The Students for Peace and Jus-tice Group meets at 8:00 p.m. ev-ery Thursday in the Newman Cath-olic Center.
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JASon Howell | THe DAily eASTeRn ne wSDonald J. Huskey of Effingham poses a question to the panel during a gun forum on Monday in the Lumpkin Hall Auditorium. The event was moderated by professor Kevin Anderson and included representatives from Germany, a community activist from Chicago, and Lt. Brad Oyer of the Charleston Police Department.
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"We’re not always going to agree. No one’s a good guy, and no one’s a bad guy."
Kevin Anderson, political science professor
By Marcus CurtisEntertainment Editor@DEN_News
Members of GLAM Modeling will be supporting victims of Parkinson’s disease as well as showing off their style with the presentation of their 7 Deadly Sins Fash-ion Show. GLAM will be hosting their first fashion show of the school year at 6 p.m. Nov. 1 in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The theme of the fashion show will center on the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
Admission for everyone is $5 in ad-vance and $7 upon arrival to the fash-ion show. And a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Parkinson’s Action Network to support research to find the cure for Parkinson’s disease. Bri’an Fields, the chief executive officer of GLAM, said the presentation of this fashion show has a more in-depth meaning than putting on a show that has the theme of the seven deadly sins. Fields said the fashion show theme centers on every in-dividual and how to not judge a person for sinning because no one is innocent.
“The Seven Deadly Sins show is about sin living within us and how we all chastise someone for their wrongdo-ings when we're all guilty of something,” she said.
Fields said the idea for the theme of the fashion show derived from an inter-est in getting the attention from every-one on campus, and sparking an interest in attending the fashion show.
“The idea of the theme arose just by simply thinking about what GLAM's next show should be and that the name itself should get people wanting to line up at the door,” she said.
In the past GLAM has had a special
guest host their fashion shows. Among the hosts are Natalie Nunn from reali-ty TV show, “Bad Girls Club,” Qwanell “Q” Mosley from the band, Day 26.
Fields said this year Blake Martin, CEO and founder of Blake Martin Pro-ductions, will be the host. Overall, Fields said that people in attendance can look forward to a show that is different from
the other GLAM fashion shows in the area of performance and theatrics.
“Expect a bigger and better show than what GLAM has ever done. We are bringing you bigger theatrics and more creative fashion in the most dynamic show to date,” she said.
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FiLe PhoTo | The daiLy easTeRn ne Ws Amina Baker, sophomore English and theatre major, does her final walk during the tribal scene of the Black Student Union fashion show titled “A Night of Dreams” Oct. 21 in McAfee Gymnasium.
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aManda WiLkinson | The daiLy easTeRn ne Ws Megan Fonner, a freshman undecided major, and Huma Malik, a freshman psychology major, make veggie wraps as part of Healthy Grab-and-Go Snacks Healthy Cooking 101 class hosted by the Health Education Resource Cen-ter on Monday in Room 2309 of Klehm Hall. Malik said she came to the class because she loves cooking.
• A theft was reported at 4 a.m. Friday near Stevenson Hall. This in-cident is under investigation.
• Orlando Thomas, 22, of 1930 12th St., Charleston, Ill., was arrested at 12:10 p.m. Friday at University Po-lice Department. He was arrested on charges of an FTA warrant for driv-ing while license suspended. He post-ed 10 percent of a $2,000 bond and was released at 1:42 p.m.
• A sexual assault was reported at 3:45 p.m. Friday to have occurred on or around Aug. 30 at Taylor Hall. This incident is under investigation.
• Criminal damage to property was reported at 5:07 p.m. Saturday near McAfee Gymnasium. This incident is under investigation.
• A report of tampering with a smoke detector was received at 4:42 p.m. Saturday at University Court. This incident was referred to the State’s Attorney.
• A cannabis complaint was report-ed at 5:37 p.m. Saturday at University Court. This incident was referred to the Office of Student Standards.
• An assault was reported to UPD at 3 a.m. Saturday. This incident was reported to have occurred at 1021 Sixth St., and was referred to the Of-fice of Student Standards.
• Criminal damage to government property was reported at 1:43 a.m. Sunday at Taylor Hall. This incident is under investigation.
• A private property accident oc-curred at 1:40 a.m. Sunday in the Lincoln-Stevenson-Douglas parking lot. No citations were issued.
• At 2:40 p.m. on Dec. 14, 2010, a private property accident involving a silver Jeep and a black Subaru oc-curred in E Lot. No citations were is-sued.
• Shelby Warren, 47, 11 W. Wash-ington, Charleston, Ill., was arrest-ed at 9:59 a.m. Sunday at 2110 18th St. She was charged with DUI-Alco-hol and DUI-Drugs and was released at 11:18 p.m. after posting 10 percent of $1,000 bond.
• A cannabis complaint was re-ported at 3:09 a.m. Monday at Tay-lor Hall. This incident is under inves-tigation.
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• President Bill Perry will speak on issues concernig Eastern in the up-coming year at the Faculty Reception on Tuesday in the University Ball-room in Martin Luther King, Jr. Uni-versity Union.
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By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor @JJarmonReporter
Black Student Union members cut and tied fabric into the multi-colored fleece blankets to be given to the com-munity at the One Stop Christmas Pro-gram.
The program provides toys as well as blankets and other supplies to children in the area.
The roughly 60 members who at-tended the BSU meeting on Mon-day participated in putting together 20 fleece blankets, which will be compiled with other blankets made by other cam-pus organizations.
Student Community Services coor-dinates the fleece blanket project every year.
Some BSU members such as Alexan-dria Neff, a political science and Eng-lish major, participated in this project last year and wanted to try it again on a bigger scale.
“This year, I wanted to advance more and get our whole organization in-volved,” Neff said.
Neff said the campus is aiming for 1,000 blankets to be made and given to the Salvation Army in Mattoon, Ill., for the Christmas season.
The One Stop Christmas Program will be taking supplies for families in need across six counties including
Coles, Clark, Cumberland, Edgar, Shel-by and Douglas counties.
BSU members were expected to make 50 blankets at the meeting but the Student Community Services did not have the right amount of material needed.
Neff said she hopes this sheds a more positive light on the black community and the negative views on their com-munity can be changed.
Ashley Martin, a sophomore com-munication disorders and sciences ma-jor, said the community is always put-ting the organization in a negative light even though they have been participat-ing in the community.
Some of the members like Brittaney Parks, a freshman biological sciences major, and Denisha Olasupo, a fresh-man business major, have made blan-kets for this type of project before last year.
Olasupo said she felt it was especially important to help out.
“In my community, where I come from, people gave to me and helped, so it is always nice to help others,” Olasu-po said.
To make the fleeces, one member at one of the 5 stations available would cut into the fabric
These two even learned tricks, which helped in making the blankets smooth and even.
“Definitely make sure the sides are
even so when you’re tying them, the sides will be even,” Parks said.
Thomas Wilson, a communication studies major, said it was important to tie the sides with love.
“You have to make sure they are
warm by putting love into the blanket, putting yourself into it,” Wilson said.
Neff, who coordinated the BSU’s in-volvement in this campus-wide proj-ect, said she wants BSU to be more in-volved with the community services.
“We don’t do enough service,” Neff said. “Service is not the everyday thing that it should be.”
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JaSON HOwEll | THE Daily EaSTERN NE wS Janae McSmith, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major, along with Ashley Martin, a sophomore commu-nication disorders and sciences major, cut and tie fabric to make fleece blankets for the children in the community.
By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor@JJarmonReporter
The Big Brothers Big Sisters orga-nization and the Student Senate di-versity committee will be educating children in Coles County from the ages of 9 to 14 on the importance of grooming and grooming tips.
They will be teaching the under-privileged elementary school stu-dents, who are associated with orga-nization, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Arcola-Tuscola room in the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union.
Phillip Love, the student diversi-ty affairs committee, said they will be explaining the importance of confidence and how staying well-groomed would boost their confi-dence.
“They do come from underpriv-ileged homes so confidence is key,” Phillip Love said.
Eight volunteers from both Big Brother Big Sisters and the student diversity committee will be going to help and teach the eight biracial, black and Hispanic students the tips on cleaning themselves and cutting their hair.
He said 29 children planned to
come but it conflicted with their ability to leave their school and get to Eastern.
Cordy Love, the new student pro-grams assistant director, said while they do know basic hygiene it is es-sential to reinforce it.
He said the children are playing around a lot but some are not clean-ing themselves afterward.
“When you take a shower you feel good about yourself,” Cordy Love said. “It is the same thing for a kid.”
Cordy Love said people would be surprised how little these children are taught in their households.
“Talking with Big Brother Big Sis-
ters, they say, ‘You know what, our students have a lack of self-esteem,’” Cordy Love said.
He added multi-racial people do not have a barbershop or a hair salon suited for them and their hair is very different from other types of hair.
“Those students lack the resourc-es in this community,” Cordy Love said. “It is a different beast.”
Other than learning how to man-age their hair and stay properly clean, the four female students will be taught basic tips on how to ap-ply make-up.
“Ladies will be talking to young ladies just what it means to be a
young lady,” Cordy Love said. Panther Dining will be serving
salads and other healthy foods like fruits for the children.
Phillip Love said the students are just getting out of school, and they will probably be real hungry.
They will be giving the children grooming tools such as deodorant.
Most of the food and hygiene equipment was donated from Big Brothers Big Sisters but the senate provided $90 worth of supplies and food as well.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]
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hOMECOMinG: The band BreakAway performed on Saturday in tent city for homecoming weekend.
FOOTBall: Eastern’s football team beat SEMO 55-33 Saturday at O’Brian Stadium.
If you know me, you know I am horribly lazy when it comes to communicating.
I rarely answer my cell phone, text mes-sages take hours to return, and unless it’s super urgent, emails usually take a few days to be returned. This particular laziness merely applies to my life on campus. When it comes to those from home, both friends and family, I am even worse.
Unfortunately, I have friends from high school who I consider to be like family who I have not talked to in six months or more. A girl I consider to be my best friend, I have not talked to in three weeks. It is not that I do not want to talk to people, it is honestly that I don’t have time.
Classes, homework, work and attempting to see my friends, but the end of the day, I real-ly just want to sleep. I honestly do feel bad, but know I am one of many of us on this cam-pus who falls in to this disconnect with peo-ple who are no longer a part of our “here and now”. This does not make these people any less important to use but we tend to fall into this
“out of sight out of mind” thought process. Yes, people move on and people grow apart,
but that doesn’t mean we need to forget each other. How many of us had a group of friends in high school or our freshman year who were like family? My best friend from home and I have been friends since we were in the 6th grade, and I was 11 years old, and she was 12. We are now 21 and 22 and talk about once every two weeks. She is basically my sister even though we are not biologically related.
This is one of my successes. We tend to forget that you don’t have to be blood to be family. I currently live 220 miles from home.
I talk to my parents a few times a week, but right now the people I consider family are those around me- my friends, my building mates, my professors. Yes, I said professors. These people look out for me, and I know if I ever needed anything, they’d be there in a heartbeat.
This being said, with currently technology I really ought to communicate with my oth-er family, the people I have been friends with for so long but haven’t talked to in so long. I currently live 430 miles, 220 miles and 395 miles from my three closest friends from high school. Of these three people I have spoken to two of these people in over a month.
Why? Honestly because I too have fallen into the “I’m too busy” mentality. Really all it takes is picking up the phone or sending a facebook message. After all, if these people are family, shouldn’t we let them know we care?
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In 2010, Jimmy Garoppolo was a freshman, and on Oct. 2, he started his second game as quarterback against Southeast Missouri.
Garoppolo threw a touchdown pass, but he also threw four intercep-tions in Eastern’s 28-13 loss against the Redhawks. It was the Panthers’ fifth straight loss to start their season, a losing streak that would extend to eight games.
Bob Spoo was a year away from retirement and the Eastern football team seemed to be stuck in mediocrity, finishing with 2-9 records in 2010 and 2011.
But then Dino Babers was hired, signing a three-year contract worth $510,000 ($170,000 per year). Picked to finish eighth out of nine teams in the 2012 Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll, Eastern surprised the rest of the OVC, finishing with a 6-1-conference record and capturing its sixth conference title.
But Babers has shown that he is no one-hit wonder. Following a year when he took a last place team and coached it to No. 1 in the OVC stand-ings, Babers has coached Eastern to the No. 2 ranked team in the entire Football Championship Subdivision, following its 55-33 win Saturday against Southeast Missouri.
Babers is only in year two of his three-year deal, and no one should feel bad about his $170,000 salary, but if Eastern wants to keep him here, it will have to open up its checkbook because it will cost them.
North Dakota State, which is ranked No. 1 in the FCS and has won the last two national championships, extend its coach’s contract prior to the Bison’s second national title appearance.
Bison coach Craig Bohl signed an eight-year extension, paying him a base salary of $206,503 per year through 2021.
This wasn’t the first time North Dakota State had extended Bohl’s con-tract as the university increased his pay in 2011, when Bohl’s base salary was raised to $196,668.
Babers hasn’t recorded a playoff win yet let alone two national champi-onships, but he has shown the ability to get the most out of his players.
Garoppolo, who threw four interceptions in his second career start as a freshman, entered the Panthers’ Homecoming game with four interceptions in his first six games this season. Garoppolo may have thrown two inter-ceptions against the Redhawks Saturday, but he also walked off the field as Eastern’s all-time leader in career passing yards. That record was stacked on top of the program’s career passing touchdown mark, which Garoppolo had already broken earlier in the season.
Fans may remember what was honestly a boring style of offense during Spoo’s final years as coach, but now Eastern flies down the field and after the whistle it hustles back to the line and does it again.
Babers isn’t the sole reason that Garoppolo has succeeded, but after Babers’ arrival, Garoppolo has been elevated to possibly being drafted early in the 2014 NFL Draft.
Eastern’s Athletic Director Barbara Burke has already initiated the pro-cess of negotiating with Babers on a possible five-year extension. She is still waiting approval from the Board of Trustees and then she can engage in serious contract talks with Babers.
It would be imperative for Eastern to move quickly on extending Babers’ deal as early as possible to save money because the longer it waits the more suitors Babers will have.
And then Eastern will no longer have to worry about losing Babers to another FCS school, because Babers has already shown that he can com-pete against Football Bowl Subdivision teams. After starting this year with a 40-19 win at San Diego State, the Panthers only lost by four points to Northern Illinois, which is ranked No. 23 in the Associated Press poll in the FBS and No. 18 in the BCS standings.
Babers will be shown the money by someone, but for Eastern fans, they should hope it comes from this university, or Garoppolo will not be the only successful person to not return to the Panthers.
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By Blake NashStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports
Eastern’s cross country team made its push for the National Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., where the men finished eighth and the women 23rd at the Pre-National Invitational in the White Division race.
The men’s team was led by Seniors Pablo Ramirez and Mike Hesslau, who were separated by three spots in the 8K race. Ramirez finished 36th with a time of 25:50.41, while Hesslau fin-ished 39th with a time of 25:53.48.
Riley McInerney (47th, 25:58.16), Danny Delaney (68th, 26:15.41), and Paxson Menard (69th, 26:15.92) rounded out the scoring for the Panthers.
“We ran a safe race at Notre Dame and didn’t get out very well,” Coach Erin Howarth said. “But we overcompensated on Saturday and got out a bit too hard.”
The Panthers had beaten many of the teams in front of them Saturday during their last meet at Notre Dame. However, they were not able to re-peat that feat on Saturday.
Howarth hopes that her team will be ready for the Ohio Valley Conference Championships in two weeks.
“Hopefully at conference, we will get it just right by not going out too safely or hard,” How-arth said.
On the women’s side, sophomore Victoria Quarton placed 54th with a time of 22:06.9. She also posted the seventh-best 6K time in school
history.“Victoria once again ran a fantastic race, one
that put her seventh on the all-time EIU 6k list,” Howarth said. “It was only her 2nd 6k, and she ran way faster than she did in her first one.”
Following Quarton was freshman Emily Brels-foard (112th, 22:52.90), red-Shirt sophomore Kelsey Hardimon (115th, 22:54.43), freshman Julie James (129th, 23:03.63), and freshman Ivy Handley (170th, 23:31.10).
Hardimon’s time also got her 19th on the school’s all-time list. Her teammates Brelsfoard and James also place 17th and 23rd on the all-time list respectively after their first 6k.
“Although our execution was great, the race was not perfect,” Howarth said. “It was their first 6k for five out of seven in the women’s race, but all seven race a pack-race.”
Ohio University won the men’s meet with 99 points, followed by the North Carolina-Greens-
boro with 119 points, and Clemson with 139 points.
The women’s meet was won by Cal-Berkley with 105 points, followed by Virginia Tech with 107 points, and Xavier (OH) with 184 points.
The next meet will be on Nov. 2 at the OVC Championships in Morehead, Ky.
Blake Nash can be reached 581-2812
By Bob ReynoldsStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports
Last November, while a freshman Sara Fisher was still in high school, she received a packet in the mail from Eastern.
She had no idea what the packet was for. She was hoping it was for the track team, but it was for rugby.
The next day, Fisher emailed Eastern’s rug-by coach Frank Graziano and asked if he had the right person.
“He said he had been watching me last couple years,” Fisher said. “He thought I would be a good fit for (rugby).”
At first, Fisher said she thought rugby was la-crosse, and after she did research, she realized what it was.
What she did not realize is how much of a con-tact sport it was.
About 20 minutes into Fisher’s first rugby game this season, she was going for a tackle and went head first into an opponent’s arm and suf-fered a concussion that put her out of action for two weeks.
“I was a little scared the first week I got hurt,” Fisher said. “I was pretty concussed and I was freaking out.”
Fisher earned nine state track medals during her high school career and was a team captain at Wethersfield High School right outside Kewanne, Ill.
There was a reason that Graziano wanted Fish-er on his squad.
“You don’t get to state if you don’t have a very good work ethic,” Graziano said. “She is a tremen-
dous competitor. She is not the biggest girl on the roster. She is tough. She is scrappy and she is very eager to learn.”
Recruiting Fisher was no problem for Grazia-no since the Illinois High School Association state track meet is right outside his office at O’ Brien Field.
During her junior year of high school, Fisher earned conference, regional and sectional champi-onships in track & field.
At the age of four, Fisher’s parents put her in gymnastics and she stuck with that for about 12 years.
“I stopped after my sophomore year in high school, because I was at the point where the next school would have to be a full twisting double, and I am not very good at twisting,” Fisher said. “That was kind of a stopping point for me. I want-ed to focus more on high school and track.”
While excelling at tumbling and trampoline, Fisher placed first in Level 9 trampoline at a meet in San Jose, Calif.
Fisher was selected to the Olympic Develop-ment team in 2010.
That team competed at the Loulé Cup in Loulé, Portugal in 2011, when Fisher placed fourth.
She was a part of a group that was composed of a group of 12 Level 10 gymnasts from the ages of 9-14.
Before Fisher stopped gymnastics, she com-peted all around the country and said gymnastics shaped her as a person.
“I was one of the better ones in the gym, so I was pretty much a leader and a role model to the younger kids, so I couldn’t really mess up,” she said.
While being a freshman at Eastern, Fisher said balancing her time with school work and rugby is
different from high school.“Through high school, I always had a sport
and school work, from that I had less time to do homework,” Fisher said. “I like being busy. If I wasn’t, I would have no idea how I would survive. I would be homesick all the time.”
Fisher is majoring in science with a teaching certification.
Fisher graduated in the top-25 percentile of her class last year and was one of 135 students that were selected to the 2013 Golden Apple Scholars class in Illinois.
Four games into her rugby career, Graziano has already changed Fisher’s position from wing to scrum-half, which is one of the hardest positions to play in rugby, Graziano said.
Graziano said Fisher would be a good fit for that position.
“She has the right athletic ability, the right skill sets, the right eye-hand coordination and certain-ly the brain power to go with all of that,” he said. “It will take some time for her to get a feel for all of that.”
Fisher said she liked the idea of taking on a new challenge.
“It’s pretty much like the quarterback, so you have a lot of responsibility,” Fisher said. “I am very leadership-orientated. I think it will be a good spot for me.”
Fisher said she has learned a lot from rugby and has liked the overall experience so far.
“I love this team,” Fisher said. “We are so close, and that makes the experience even better.”
Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812
TUESDAY, OCT.22, 2013 ThE DAilY EASTERN NEwS | SPORTS 7Cross Country attend national championships
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2013’s top OVC teams to meet this weekendBy Dominic RenzettiManaging Editor@domrenzetti
With only a few weeks left of the Ohio Val-ley Conference action, things are beginning to heat up in the race for the OVC tournament.
The Eastern women’s soccer team and Ten-nessee-Martin are tied for first with 18 points in the conference standings. The Panthers played just one match this weekend, picking up a 2-1 win on Friday at home over Jackson-ville State.
The Skyhawks recorded a 2-1 win over Ten-nessee Tech Friday in Cookeville, Tenn., fol-lowed by a win at home Sunday over Belmont.
The Panthers and the Skyhawks, who will meet this Friday in Martin, Tenn., are both 6-1, with both having losses against Austin Peay on the road. Tennessee-Martin goalkeep-er Mariah Klenke has the OVC’s best save per-centage at .833.
Morehead State has 15 points in the con-ference standings after adding two wins over the weekend. The Eagles picked up a huge 3-2 road win over Austin Peay on Friday, and then shutout Murray State on Sunday 1-0. More-head State came back from two goals down at half to add three goals in the final 45 minutes of play.
Southeast Missouri has 14 points in confer-ence after picking up a pair of wins at home
over the weekend. The Redhawks beat Bel-mont 2-1 Friday and Tennessee Tech 1-0 on Sunday. Southeast Missouri is 4-2-1 overall.
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and Austin Peay each have 13 points in the conference. The Cougars have won three straight while the Governors have lost three straight. Edwards-ville added another win this weekend over Jacksonville State, beating the Gamecocks 5-1.
Austin Peay lost both matches by 3-2 scores, losing to Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky. The Governors have not lost three straight matches since the 2011 season.
The OVC tournament begins Nov. 7 and is hosted by the No. 1 seeded team. The top six teams make it to the tournament.
Eastern Kentucky and Belmont still have shots at making the tournament, with 10 and seven conference points, respectively. Eastern Kentucky and Belmont play each other on Friday in Richmond, Ky.
Eastern Kentucky has Tennessee Tech and Morehead State remaining on its schedule. Belmont has the same remaining schedule but will play Morehead State before Tennes-see Tech.
Tennessee Tech has four points and Murray State has three points while Jacksonville State has one point.
Dominic Renzetti can be reachedat 581-2812 or [email protected].
DomiNic Baima | The Daily easTeRN Ne wsFreshman Sara Fisher is a scrum-half/fullback for Eastern’s rugby team. She has been a gymnast for 12 years, although this season marks her first year as a rugby player. Fisher suffered a concussion her first game.
JasoN howell | The Daily easTeRN Ne wsMembers of the women’s cross country compete in the Walt Crawford Open on Sept. 6 on the Panther Trail. The women finished second in the competition.
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Panthers ranked No. 2 in nationby Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor@AldoSoto21
Red-shirt sophomore Shepard Little earned Ohio Valley Conference New-comer of the Week honors after tying a season-high with 129 rushing yards and three touchdowns against South-east Missouri Saturday at O’Brien Field.
Little led the Panthers in rushing, which propelled Eastern past the Red-hawks in a 55-33 win. All of Little’s touchdowns came in the first half when he rushed for 97 yards.
Little has now earned two OVC weekly honors after he was awarded with the conference’s specialist of the week honor after he returned a punt for a touchdown against San Diego State on Aug. 31.
Little’s teammate and the country’s leading passer, Jimmy Garoppolo, also won an OVC award after he broke Sean Payton’s career passing yards record against Southeast Missouri.
Garoppolo threw for 376 yards and three touchdowns, completing 73 per-cent of his passes (22-of-30) and won OVC Offensive Player of the Week.
Garoppolo had 310 passing yards in the first half Saturday and has thrown for at least 200 in the first two quarters in all seven of Eastern’s games this sea-son.
The senior quarterback also became the OVC’s career leader in total offen-sive passing as Garoppolo now sits at 10,741 yards, which broke Murray State’s Casey Brockman’s mark.
FCS rankingsEastern is now ranked No. 2 in the
FCS Caches poll and in the Sports Net-work top-25. The Panthers moved up one spot after Sam Houston State lost its second game of the season against McNeese State.
The last time Eastern was ranked this high in FCS polls was in 2002 when Tony Romo was the starting quarter-back for the Panthers.
Eastern will travel to Nashville, Tenn., to play against Tennessee State, which is 4-0 in the OVC and is ranked No. 21 in both FCS polls, sporting a 7-1 overall record.
North Dakota State remained un-defeated this season, improving to 7-0 overall after beating Southern Illinois-Carbondale 31-10 on the road Sat-
urday. The two-time defending FCS champions continue to be ranked No. 1 in both polls after picking up their fourth Missouri Valley Conference vic-tory this season.
Sam Houston State suffered its sec-ond loss of the season, losing to Mc-Neese State 31-23 in Lake Charles, La.
After building a 21-9 lead after three quarters, McNeese State was able to fend off the Bearcats, who scored two touchdowns in the final quarter. Sam Houston State entered the game ranked No. 2 in the nation, which was one spot ahead of Eastern, but dropped to No. 7 in both polls, following the loss.
Special teams scuffle in winDespite a 22-point victory that
brought Eastern’s record to 6-1 and 3-0 in the OVC, the Panthers allowed two special-teams touchdowns and had an extra-point attempt blocked.
The one glaring miscue in East-ern’s 27-point outburst followed Tay-lor Duncan’s 10-yard touchdown run when Marlon Hampton blocked Cam-eron Berra’s extra point.
In the second quarter, Eastern sent punter Scott Weatherford to field af-ter scoring five straight touchdowns. Weatherford’s punt was blocked by Da-vid Martin and was eventually recov-ered by Justin Elias at the Panther 22-yard line. Elias scooped the ball up and ran into the end zone untouched for a touchdown.
As the game approached the final 1:30, Southeast Missouri took advan-tage of Eastern’s kickoff personnel.
Spencer Davis, who scored the Red-hawks’ first touchdown of the game on a 15-yard catch in the first quarter, re-turned a kickoff 93 yards for a touch-down. On the ensuing Southeast Mis-souri kickoff, Eastern’s Trey Pendergrass
fumbled at the 19-yard line. The Redhawks recovered the ball af-
ter Zack Cox forced the fumble. After Ron Davis jumped on the fumble at the Eastern 12-yard line, Scott Lathrop threw his second touchdown pass of the game for Southeast Missouri.
Sharing the wealth Red-shirt senior Erik Lora caught
a game-high eight passes and had 131 receiving yards against the Red-hawks. Lora caught a touchdown pass that started Eastern’s scor-ing with 12:41 remaining in the first quarter. He caught a pass from Garoppolo and then worked his way past several Redhawks until he even-tually found free running room on his way to the end zone.
The 60-yard play was Lora’s 13th touchdown of the season, which is one more than he had all of last sea-
son.Charleston native Adam Drake
led the Panthers in receiving yards Saturday, finishing with 138 yards on three catches. His 82-yard touch-down catch with 9:19 left in the first quarter was the longest play of the game.
Sophomore Keiondre Gober also scored a touchdown when he caught six passes for 70 yards.
The Panthers had someone new celebrating a touchdown Saturday as running back Jimmy Lera convert-ed on fourth down with 1:38 left to play. With his three-yard touchdown run, Lera became the eighth Eastern player to score a touchdown this sea-son.
Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812
JOE nALEFskI | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE ws Jimmy Lera, a red-shirt junior running back, surpasses players from Southeast Missouri just before scoring the final touchdown during the homecoming game Saturday at O’Brien Field.
Eastern travels to DeKalb to take on Northernby Michael spencerStaff Reporter@tmskeeper
After winning its first match of the season Sunday, the Eastern men’s soc-cer team will take to the road Tues-day for a non-conference battle with Northern Illinois.
The Huskies have struggled recently having lost five of their last six games. Northern has not scored a goal in 412 minutes, spanning four games for the Huskies.
The Huskies are 0-2 in Mid-Ameri-can Conference play and 2-2-1 against opponents on Eastern’s schedule.
Butler and Evansville have each de-feated Eastern and Northern in non-conference matches this season.
Eastern (1-9-2) managed to score more goals (four) in its game with Evansville than did Northern (two).
Senior midfielder Gael Rivera, who has scored four goals and provided one assist for his team, leads Northern
(3-9-0). The team’s two forwards, se-nior James Stevenson and junior Isaac
Kannah, follow Rivera closely. Rivera, Stevenson and Kannah are
the only Huskies that have scored more than one goal in 2013.
Red-shirt sophomore goalkeep-er Andrew Glaeser is in his first sea-son with the Huskies after transfer-ring from Oregon State this summer. Glaeser has already won the starting job and has recorded 45 saves on the season to lead the team’s goalkeepers.
Despite Glaeser’s performance in goal, Northern has struggled to avoid giving up late goals. In the last six games, Northern has given up eight second-half goals.
After Eastern’s victory against Oral Roberts Sunday, Eastern coach Adam Howarth said that the team would have a quick turnaround this week.
Because Eastern began Summit League play at the end of Septem-ber, Howarth has used midweek non-conference matchups as a way to rest
starters and reduce wear on players that might have picked up small in-juries.
Eastern will have momentum as it comes off the back of its first win, but Howarth said his team has gone right back to work.
“We’ll enjoy the win,” Howarth said. “I think it gives the guys some-thing to build on.”
History is on the Panthers’ side go-ing into Tuesday’s game. Eastern has not played Northern since 2008, but the team is 15-7-3 all-time against the Huskies.
After the match with Northern, the Panthers will make the trip to Colora-do to take on conference-leading Den-ver in the penultimate league match for Eastern.
Michael Spencer can bereached at 581-2812
AMAnDA wILkInsOn | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE ws Jake Plant, a senior defensive midfielder, passes the ball during a game against Oral Roberts Sunday at Lakeside Field. The Panthers won 2-1.
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