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A woman was arrested in connection with a stabbing reported Thursday morning in the 900th block of Edgar Drive that resulted in the victim being hospitalized.

Jennifer Day, 27, who has no known address, was found in a parking lot and transported to Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospital for minor wounds before being arrested.

The victim was located in a nearby apartment with stab wounds to his abdomen and neck/head; he was then a transported to Carle Foun-dation Hospital for treatment.

Day was placed in the Coles County Safety and Detention Center pending a court appearance.

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President Barack Obama announced ex-ecutive actions to be taken on the issue of immigration on Nov. 20, which include pri-oritizing deportation of felons not families, providing qualified illegal immigrants with a legal path to citizenship, strengthening the border and holding employers account-able for hiring illegal workers.

There are currently more than 11 million people living in the “shadows,” according to the White House website on issues.

Under Obama’s executive order, illegal immigrants will be required to pass a back-ground check, continue to pay taxes and learn English, as a legal path to earn citi-zenship.

Those who have been in this country for five years or more, have children that are American citizens or legal residents, could also qualify to remain in the country for three years without fear of deportation, Obama said in his immigration speech.

One of the actions also consists of fur-thering border security by increasing inves-tigative resources such as federal agents, and working with Canada and Mexico, accord-ing to the White House’s immigration blue-print document.

A procedure will be given to hire foreign workers when U.S workers are not available, to give them a reliable way to verify if their employees are here legally.

Executive order leads toimmigration debate

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K ATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Akeem Forbes, a sophomore English major, leads a group of protes-tors in prayer after a protest outside Old Main Monday. Forbes said the Michael Brown verdict affects the racial climate in Charleston.

K ATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Students gather Monday outside Old Main in protest of the Michael Brown case verdict. People nationwide were encouraged to walk out of work and class and join protests nearby at exactly 12:01 p.m. CST.

CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Brian Hannah, a senior communications studies major, talks about unification within the black community Monday during The Movement Beyond Ferguson: Being Black in America in Coleman Auditorium.

By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge

When Travon Moore, a senior account-ing major, f i rs t entered into Ferguson, Mo., Saturday evening he said he didn’t know what to expect.

“I saw military tucks hidden behind big businesses, then I started seeing the burn-ing buildings, it’s different from seeing it on the media and actually being there,” Moore said.

Moore was one of the audience members at the Black Student Union’s “The Move-ment” forum Monday evening.

The forum came in light of the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson po-lice officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing 18-year-old Michael Brown in August.

Those at “The Movement” discussed what it’s like to be a black face within in a white place and how the African-American community can uplift together.

More than 100 showed up for the fo-

rum, all representing different ethnicities, genders and age groups. Moore said while he was in Ferguson, he saw the memorial of where Brown’s body laid for four hours on Canfield Drive, which was surrounded by bikers, but at the memorial there was a speaker.

Aside from an-g e r, t h e atmo-sphere had peo-p l e o n edge, shocked and also hurt because of the decisions.

“When I walked up, it was like a funer-al; it was all just one feeling — sadness,” Moore said. “You see reporters everywhere, you see people with cameras, news, CNN and then after they left NAACP came.”

When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People arrived on the scene of the protest, some community members were outraged because they felt

the organization was there for the media’s attention and they could have did more for the Ferguson community, Moore said.

“You can’t think of it negatively, you have to think of it positively. NAACP is here to help; once again, (blacks) are di-vided from the unity,” Moore said.

Black people having a l a c k o f u n i -t y w a s an issue

many spoke on; there plenty of students within the audience said black people are sometimes their own worst enemy.

“We need to wake up and get it togeth-er,” one student said.

Bria Caldwell, the vice president for the Eastern chapter of the NAACP, said black people are often a more reactive than pro-active group of people.

Ferguson sparks student movement

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“When I walked up, it was like a funeral. It was all just one feeling — sadness.”

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CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Unique Henley, a sophomore biological sciences major, practices her introduction for The Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha on Jan. 17.

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Both of Chris Macias’ parents were born in Mexico. Growing up, his first language was Spanish, allowing him to become immersed within the Mex-ican culture. For this reason, Macias, the treasurer of Latin American Stu-dent Organization, sometimes in-terchanges the terms Hispanic or Latino(a) to represent himself. The differences of the two terms, as well as their similarities, will be the topic of discussion at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Taylor basement classroom.

Macias said the forum will be lead by Linda Scholz, a communication studies professor, who will explain the differences and historical aspects of the two terms and why they are inter-changed so much.

“Those two terms are used so in-terchangeably, it sometimes gets hard to distinguish the differences between the two,” Macias said.

Macias said from what he under-stood, the term Latino(a) is used to represent those from Latin America, Central America and South Ameri-ca, while Hispanic would be for those coming from Spanish-speaking coun-tries.

Macias said this event is important because people need to be political-ly correct when addressing someone, and it is easy to be incorrect when do-ing so. He said there is a way to ad-dress others without labeling them all into the same category even though they may be different. The goal is to help students learn to understand what the differences are between the two terms as well as the historical context.

Knowing how to address someone correction can help build closer back-grounds, he said.

“Oh, you’re Mexican, right?” Ma-cias said, “Not everyone is just Mex-ican, not everyone is Colombian. That’s where people can start to get offended.”

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Tender Touch Grooming and Doggie Daycare will be hosting an event for the Coles County Animal Shelter Saturday begin-ning at 11 a.m. Saturday.

A lot of the dogs Tender Touch works with are rescue dogs that come from shelters, which is why they l ike working with shelters such as the Coles County Animal Shelter.

“We love that there’s an organi-zation we can work with,” event coordinator Gina Helland said. “We do this because we love dogs, that’s why we teamed up with the animal shelter to do this feel good event.”

The event will give dog-own-ers from all around Coles Coun-ty the opportunity to get a pic-ture of their pet with Santa Claus at Tender Touch, and donate var-ious items to the animal shelter.

Items needed can be found on fliers for the event, and include blankets, Purina cat chow, tow-

els, leashes, harnesses and other pet supplies. One item not need-ed is dog food, as the shelter gets dog food donations from a manu-facturer on a regular basis.

“Monetary donations might be the best so the Coles County An-imal Shelter can use it however they want to,” Helland said.

Along with free pictures with Santa , the re w i l l a l so be f re e Christmas bandannas and Christ-mas card packages available for sale.

Helland said she loved the idea of having the dogs pose for pic-tures with Santa.

“We have been looking to help the Animal Shelter for years,” she said.

This is the first year the event will be in Charleston, although Helland had participated in simi-lar events while living in Nevada.

The Christmas theme is expect-ed to help the event’s turnout.

“It’s better to have it during holiday because we’re in a giving mood,” Helland said. “We’re giv-ing something back to our own

animal shelter, although we’d like anyone to donate anytime.”

The Santa Paws turnout is ex-pected to be large.

“We didn’t realize it was going to be such a big event,” Helland said.

She said someone who had a similar event had more than 100 people show up to participate.

“We were afraid it was going to be too much to handle, but we’ll go to the end of the day if we have to,” Helland said. “We hope to get plenty of donations for the shelter and we hope to be successful.”

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“Whatever it takes to support the animal shelter, we’ll do.” Hel-land said.

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The amount of funding the colleges re-ceived this fall from extra tuition revenue was about half of what it was last fall.

Collectively, the four colleges received $503,455 this semester, while last fall they received $987,457.

The money is distributed based on the Tuition Recovery Model, which takes profit made from non-major courses designed to attract enrollment and gives them to each college.

The amounts range from $5,571 this se-mester for the College of Arts and Humani-ties to $289,878 for the College of Sciences.

Faculty Senate will address this decrease in funding, as well as the elimination of the

John Wiley periodical package of more than 2,000 journals from Booth Library, during its meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Booth Library Conference Room.

Grant Sterling, the chair of Faculty Sen-ate, said members would likely have ques-tions about why such a drastic change was implemented, and why it was implemented without warning the departments.

He sa id the Tui t ion Recover y Mod-el funds are critical parts to some academ-ic programs, and coupled with the exist-ing university-wide budget cuts, the depart-ments are struggling.

The Tuition Recovery Model Policies and Procedures was revised and signed by Paul McCann, the interim vice president for business affairs, on Nov. 21.

Sterling said discussion on the elimina-

tion of the John Wiley periodicals would likely consist of similar questions on why such a decision was made and without con-sultation with faculty or the Faculty Senate.

“People will probably have concerns over whether that was really the best way to save money for the university and concerns about the way the decision was made,” Ster-ling said.

Kraig Wheeler, a chemistry professor, sent an email to the Faculty Senate expressing his apprehensions about the collection’s removal.

“I realize we are in economic turmoil, but the removal of this fundamental re-source will have far reaching impact on our scholarship/teaching community,” Wheeler said in the email.

Wheeler also indicated in the email that the decision should have involved conversa-

tions with faculty.“The Library has made and implement-

ed a decision without providing discussion from those this decision impacts,” he said.

According to statistics Wheeler sent to the Faculty Senate, 5,264 of the Wiley jour-nals were used in 2013, and the collection is set to be eliminated Jan. 1.

The Faculty Senate will also review data regarding changes in enrollment, degrees and credit hours from 2009 to 2014.

On the agenda as well is planning the Faculty Senate schedule for the spring se-mester and considering changes to its con-stitution and bylaws.



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CHYNNA MILLER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Delorean Cameron, a senior family and consumer sciences major, Ananysha Montague, a senior sociology major, and Jordan Parker, a senior elementary education major, play games during the Baby Shower Party, an event for the Blue Empire: Operation Domination Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. Week. The shower was to raise awareness about the March of Dimes, which helps prema-ture babies.

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So far I’ve learned to properly mix a cheap cup of coffee until it tastes like an OK cup of coffee. I can make one box of noodles last two months, stay awake for three days, sleep for an average of four hours and get ready for my day in about five minutes.

At 22, I’ll leave the safe, albeit stress-ful, lifestyle of a college student.

Although I sleep on a futon and work three jobs between classes, I can rest my head on that futon every night knowing exactly where I will be in the next few months, and I can be sure that there will be a roof over my head and some sort of income on my way there.

With the semester ending, and my final few months at Eastern ahead of me, my life as a non-student has become all too visible.

The most terrifying thing about reaching the end of your college edu-cation is the creeping fear that all the work you’ve done and each of the emo-tionally and mentally exhausting situa-tions you’ve put yourself in — under the assumption it was self-bettering — will have been for nothing.

What if we walk into the job inter-view with wide eyes and a big smile, and our eagerness only emphasizes our lack of experience?

We have no choice but to believe what our professors and classmates have been telling us about all the work we do and how it will pay off very, very soon, and that this last semester is the hardest to get through but the most important, and so on and so forth.

Still, the hardest thing I do every morning is make myself get out bed, and I mean that. Taking a shower is a close

runner-up, but getting going is a major life decision every morning.

Because once you start, there is no slowing down.

The momentum keeps going and going and soon enough it’s 9 p.m. and the only thing I’ve eaten is a Pop-Tart from the vending machine down the hall, but I’m writing on a deadline and there’s a pile of novels to be read and papers to be written waiting at my apart-ment when I get off work.

I understand that everyone might be irritated by the same inconvenienc-es every day in adult life. But the idea that it is this difficult now and will only continue as I am expected to inevitably become more jaded and bitter toward the world gives me great anxiety and it holds my legs down every morning when I wake up.

As a whole, we are starting our lives in a terrible job market, where many of us will have an education that makes us “too qualified” for minimum wage jobs or part-time work, yet “too inexpe-rienced” for the careers we studied for until we reached crippling amounts of debt that will be impossible to pay off in the near future if this cycle of nothing-

ness persists.But everything people keep telling us

is true. This is the hardest year of our educa-

tion and it is also the most important. For most of us it is the first time we are being faced with “real life” problems and responsibilities while being told shortly and frequently to suck it up.

It is important that we get out of bed anyway and show up for class. We need to write our stories and our papers, cry in the bathroom and pretend it didn’t happen and then we need to go back to work.

Sometimes we need to take showers.It’s important to remember how much

we’ve progressed since we started, and that we will continue to improve.

We make formulas and try to apply them universally: go to college for four years. Find a job. Work there for two years and find a better job. Get married, have 2.5 kids, pretend to eat organically, and die leaving some sort of legacy.

But that formula is changing. Five and a half years in college is the new four, and if life’s too scary there’s always graduate school.

Although it’s depressing, keep in mind that life will only remain full of aggra-vating inconveniences. If we are going to choose not to become jaded and bit-ter toward the world we need to enjoy it while we are still young enough and hopeful enough to make it work in our favor.

Katie Smith is a senior journalism majorand can be reached at 581-2812


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STAFF EDITORIAL:Illinois lawmakers should vote ‘no’ on FOIA restrictions

In a state as historically corrupt as Illi-nois, one might assume those in the pub-lic view would take critical steps to, well, remain in the public view.

However, legislators in Illinois—the state as renown for corruption as it is Abraham Lincoln—apparently have yet to receive that memo. Days ago, Chica-go Democratic state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie sponsored legislation to chip away at the state’s current Freedom of Informa-tion Act.

Earmarked as an amendment on an unrelated health care bill in the Illinois Senate, the bill would drastically cut the public’s access to government records by charging fees as high as $100 for so-called “voluminous requests” of public records, as well as allowing fees for electronically transmitted data.

The bill would also curtail the transpar-ency of public officials across the state—from the Capitol building to city coun-cils—by allowing the Illinois govern-ment rights to withhold records under the “deliberative process” exemption. Such a measure would grant to public officials discretion over what information to release publicly—essentially, the ability to pick and choose what becomes available to the public.

And while the text of the bill states explicitly such restrictions would not apply to the press or academia, the legisla-tion is still as confounding as it is fright-ening.

Considering the state’s storied corrup-tion and behind-doors dealings, the idea of intentionally shutting out the public seems puzzling at best.

But considering upcoming legislation votes on state funding, as well as the inev-itable fight over pension reform, that idea is downright nefarious.

Whether a journalist, professor or sim-ply an ordinary citizen seeking informa-tion on the goings-on of government, the Freedom of Information Act is a crucial and vital tool.

Any attempt to restrict those freedoms, then, should be seen as an attack on indi-vidual rights—should be viewed as a legit-imate indication that, despite claims to the contrary, corruption might very-well prevail still behind closed doors in the capital.

We often hear of the importance of transparency and visibility touted by can-did politicians on campaign trails, and for good reason: maintaining an open and accessible government is as integral a key to the democratic process as any.

It’s why Illinois legislators should vote “no” on this bill, and it’s why we, as those most directly affected by any inaction, should hold them accountable to doing so.

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Faythe Missick, a graduate stu-dent in the political science depart-ment, who agreed with what was said about black people being their worst enemy said, they don’t support one another anymore.

Aside f rom the lack of uni -ty, many students understood why those within the Ferguson commu-nity looted, rioted and protested, which lead to at least two police cars being set ablaze along with 12 build-

ings.However, most students felt there

could have been a different approach to getting their message across.

“They’re pissed off because of what continues to happen,” said Tionna Alderson, a senior communication disorder sciences major. “(But) what is violence going to get you?”

The lack of a male role mod-el within African-American house-holds because of incarceration rates,

a shifting in black culture and insti-tutionalized racism were also topics of the night.

One student, Dionte McWillis, a junior history major, said he dis-agreed with the violence sending a wrong message, he said the force is at times necessary.

“If you want to get stuff done you have to show force,” McWillis said.

Amidst clapping and cheering from his first comment about how

America see’s black men as a threat and problem, Corinthian Bethel, the president of the Eastern chapter of NAACP, said, “stop accommodating white folks; we’re civil, we know how to act.”

Nearly all of the students at the forum all came to a consensus about the issue in Ferguson being race re-lated.

Multiple times, students said if the tables were turned with Wilson

being black and Brown being white: there would have been a trial, Wil-son would have been sent to prison — no questions asked.

“It’s too many times a black male is killed by a white officer,” Missick said.

Roberto Hodge can be reached at 581-2812


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Issues such as lack of unity, lack of male role models and problems facing the black community helped bring the forum to a close

CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Corinthian Bethel, a junior family and consumer sciences major, discusses the importance of maintaining black culture during The Movement Beyond Ferguson: Being Black in America Mon-day in Coleman Auditorium.

Richard Wandling, the chair of Eastern’s political science depart-ment, said being part of an ever changing country makes passing a policy on immigration necessary to reflect the changing society, and a good progressive act.

Wandling said while critics might say Obama is engaged in a sort of “grab for power” with his executive action, other presidents have used it as well.

He said students should care about the issue of immigration.

“One reason they should care about is that some of their class-mates, their families might be affect-ed by it,” Wandling said. “It has im-plications for our economy health, (and) it’s important to aspire to live up to our democratic values.”

Chris Macias, the treasurer of the Latin American Student Organiza-tion, said the executive action brings relief to some of his family’s friends who are current illegal immigrants.

“It allows families that do quali-

fy for it to have security from fear they will be separated from their children,” he said. “They are guar-anteed to not be deported for three years.”

Macias said while the execu-tive action pushes congress to act, it gives no long-term guarantee for illegal immigrants until Congress acts.

“After three years, what is going to happen? We don’t know yet because Congress has not passed a law,” Ma-cias said. “What is going to happen with those people who gave their in-formation?”

Kevin Anderson, a political sci-ence professor, said the executive ac-tion was a necessary political act.

“(It was) a good public policy move, because it sort of takes away the tension around whether or not you’re going to fix the law,” he said.

Wandling said we should make it easier for the next generation in terms of opportunities to contribute to this country.

“In earlier times, it was a lot easier for immigrants with specialized skills and talents to be able to come into the US economy and make a contri-bution,” Wandling said. “I think we overreacted after 9/11 and we overre-acted to our disadvantage.”

Anderson said Obama’s executive action created a delay to give the op-portunity to write a better law, and forces Congress to act.

“I think he was trying to preserve the ability to work with Congress,” he said.

Anderson said immigration has been a long-term issue.

“We have been arguing this for a long time; the only thing that chang-es is what ethnic group we are talk-ing about,” he said.

Anderson said the issue should be taken into careful consideration.

“Because of these complicated lives, you don’t want to try to solve this with a very simple answer,” he said. “We have to take it seriously in all the implications.”

Anderson said people tend to have an image that illegal immigra-tion is all about the people who cross the border, but it also involves peo-ple from the US who inform them about the opportunities.

“People don’t come here unless they believe there is some sort of op-portunity,” he said. “By putting pres-sure on employers and security the border addresses both sides of the coin.”

Wandling said Congress might or might not act as a result of Obama’s action.

“Congress has given some defi-nite signs that the way they’re going to act is to be retaliatory towards the Obama administration,” he said.

Wandling said he sees the issue of immigration to continue to be an issue since Congress might not be open to collaborate with Obama.

“Part of it is that there is some pathological dislike some congress members have towards the presi-dent,” he said.

Anderson said neither political party seems to be completely unified in the issue.

“Democrats are closer to consen-sus than Republicans, (but) some Democrats are loyal to labor unions, and some (unions) are OK with (im-migration), some of them see it as a threat,” he said.

He said the Republican political party is further split on the issue.

“There are some people who are like, ‘Close the border, get everybody out,’ and that is a minority of Re-publicans,” he said. “You have other Republicans who are trying to nego-tiate a solution.”

Wandling said the “nature of our political system” leads him to predict that nothing will be done until the next presidential election.

“It seems like we sort of live elec-tion to election,” he said.

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The Central Illinois Fem-inist Film Festival is seeking submissions for this year’s screening under the theme of “Coming of Age Sexuality.”

The Fest ival wi l l be in March in conjunction with Women’s History and Aware-ness Month.

Robin Murray, the CIFFF committee chair, said the Fes-tival began in 2008 as a sub-committee of the women’s studies program.

The Festival has since ac-cepted entries from various states and countries, though it still emphasizes and en-courages local filmmakers.

“I thought it was exciting not only to show profession-als, but students and emerg-ing directors as well,” Mur-ray said.

Guidelines for submissions indicate that entries must meet at least two of the four

qualifying criteria.Criteria include emphasiz-

ing gender or social justice is-sues, linking local and glob-al issues, being directed by someone underrepresented in the media field, and being di-rected by someone from cen-tral Illinois.

The films also should be no more than 30 minutes long.

Murray said the Festival’s theme goes along with the gender and sexuality theme that the WHAM commit-tee chose for the upcoming awareness month.

“It will open up good dis-cussion,” Murray said. “The focus on coming of age will especially be useful.”

She said the term “coming of age” applies to films that deal with adolescents becom-ing adults; however, college students can still relate.

“Obv iou s l y i t ’s s ome-thing they have already gone through, but it’s close enough

in the past that it’s still rele-vant,” Murray said.

She said those studying to be teachers should find the exploration of adolescent de-velopment to be especially in-teresting.

The Festival will begin on March 23 with a screening of the British film “Fishtank,” which focuses on a 15-year-old girl going through life change s when he r mom brings home a new boyfriend.

On March 24, six of the bes t f i lm entr i e s wi l l be screened, including first and second places and honorable mentions for the fictional and documentary categories.

March 25 will be the final day of the Festival and will in-clude a screening of the Mexi-can-American film “Mosquita y Mari” about two high school girls finding a bond.

“The Fes t iva l inc ludes those two screenings,” Mur-ray said. “If you want to just come and watch movies you

can too. You don’t have to be a filmmaker to enjoy these films.”

She said the committee has received more than 70 entries so far; last year’s Embarras Valley Film Festival received more than 1,400.

“So far we have a ton of entries,” she said. “We are do-ing it through the Film Free-way (submission site), which makes it really easy.”

Murray said depending on the year, the committee sometimes receives quite a few entries from Eastern stu-dents, as well as some from high school students.

Entries are due by March 1, and may be submitted via uploading to Film Freeway, Vimeo, Dropbox or Youtube, emailing Murray with a link to the film, or mailing a copy to the women’s studies office.



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By Blake NashStaff Reporter | @Banash5

Time may have run out on the Eastern volleyball team, but the time for reflection of the previous season and hard work and preparation for the future is already underway.

The Panthers finished the season 15-16 overall and 9-9 in Ohio Val-ley Conference play, finishing sixth in the OVC, despite being picked to finish second in the conference by OVC head coaches and sports infor-mation directors. However, the Pan-thers were successful in getting three players all-conference honors, in-cluding a freshman.

Juniors Marah Bradbury and Abby Saalfrank were named to the all-OVC team, while freshman Al-lie Hueston became a member of the all-freshman team. Bradbury’s 10.8 assists-per-set this season ranked sec-ond in the OVC and fifth in the na-tion. Her total career assists of 1,284 also rank fifth on Eastern’s all-time list.

“I have to give a lot of credit to my teammates,” Bradbury said. “I’m involved in a lot of plays with them, and I couldn’t do anything that I do without them. It involves our whole team, what we have, to follow our strategy on the court.”

Saalfrank has not been an un-familiar name for many teams in the OVC. The junior outside hit-ter finished the season with 14 dou-ble-doubles, the highest of her col-legiate career, and added her name to Eastern’s 1,000 Point Club. She only needs 72 more kills to become a member of the Eastern’s 1,000-kill club as well.

If her senior season will be any-thing like her junior season, Saal-frank will be able to become a part of that list of Eastern’s all-time best, especially because she led the Pan-thers with 422 kills this season.

“I think this season I put more

of a focus on volleyball,” Saalfrank said. “A lot of the summer was spent working on getting better and help-ing the team.”

As for Hueston, she was not the only freshman to receive significant playing time this year. Fellow fresh-man Maria Brown and red-shirt freshman Josie Winner made sever-al appearances in the starting lineup, but it was Hueston who became the only freshman to start every game

this year, and also make her way to the Eastern record book.

Her 104 blocks this year led the Panthers and shattered the previous freshman mark that had stood for 10 years.

One of the blights of this season’s end, as it is for every sport, is the loss of senior players and teammates to graduation. The Panthers will lose four athletes this year including, de-fensive players Kelsey Brooke and

Dakota Springer, as well as outside hitter Katie Kirby and middle block-er Kelsey Roggemann.

Brooke and Springer were key to the Panthers back row this year, combining for 586 digs and like their fellow seniors, became a part of a new game day tradition.

“Right before games this year, we listened to the ‘Original Don Remix”’by Flossatradamus, but it be-came fun that we did a ‘dance’ rou-

tine to a song which nobody under-stood the words to,” Brooke said.

“We like to stand in our lockers, flash the lights, and then when the bass drops we jump out of our lock-ers, and drop the bass,” Brooke said with a laugh. “These last few years have been a blessing.”

Blake Nash can bereached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior middle blocker Kayla Nesbitt spikes the ball during the Eastern volleyball team’s game vs Morehead State on Nov 8. in Lantz Arena.

Youth gain experience after season

By Sean HastingsStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports

The men and women’s swim teams finished up the first half of their respective seasons. The men currently have a record of 1-2, while the women have a record of 1-3.

Most recently, the teams com-peted at the House of Champions at Indiana University-Purdue Uni-versity Indianapolis Nov. 21-23.

First year head coach Jacqueline Michalski said that she was hap-py with how the weekend went be-cause of the way they approached it.

Michalski said that what has im-pressed her the most this year so far is the team’s drives to want to get better. She also said the team’s attitude and handling the pressure of not being suited up real well has really impressed her.

On the men’s side, Michalski said that the 200-indivdual-medley is their strongest race. In some of the home meets they were able to 1-2-3 the race.

On the women’s side, Michalksi likes that so many of the swimmers are versatile enough where they can be moved around a lot and swim in many different races and have suc-cess.

Even though Michalski is happy with how the teams are swimming, she knows that there is still room for improvement.

She said the biggest improve-ments for the Panthers are just the small, technical things during rac-es.

Also, they needed an improve-ment in their endurance, which she saw at the House of Champions. Now she wants to see the teams add speed on top of their endur-ance.

She said sometimes when she puts something on them to test endurance, they f inish and are very impressed because they didn’t know if they would be able to do it.

On the both teams, Michals-ki said that everyone stands out in their own way.

“Brogan [O’Doherty] has really stepped up, he has been stepping up in some of our sprint events,” Michalski said. “Jake [Roberts] re-ally stepped up last weekend in his distance events and sprinting to help us out.”

The women also have swimmers standing out so far this season.

“Fallyn [Schwake] has showed lots of improvements,” Michalksi said. “Amy Smith just keeps every time she races, she keeps improv-ing.”

For all the success to happen, there needs to be leadership, she

said.“I think the freshmen show a lot

of leadership within them, even though their only freshman, Mi-chalski said. “They will a lot of times step up and do more than what was done in the past.”

She is also very happy with just how they have swam through-out the first half of their first col-lege season. She described them as “work horses.”

“Harris [Thompson] is a good example, he always works really hard in the pool, and that shows his leadership there,” Michalski said.

“On the girls side, Katie [Van-Hootegem] and Nikki Peck are two senior girls, so a lot of leadership comes from them,” she said.

This season is Michalski’s first year as the Panthers’ head coach.

“I’m pleased, there have been some bumps and struggles, but

you’re going to get your first year no matter where you are,” she said.

Through the first half of the sea-son, Michalski said that teams have lived up to her expectations.

She likes how they have all come together to fight tough battles and get through them even though its so hard.

For the last half of the season, Michalski expects them to not let the cards stack against them and let that define them. But if they don’t let that happen, she knows that they can do a lot of damage at the end of the season.

The next time the Panthers com-pete will be at the Western Illinois Double-Dual on Jan. 16 and 17, where they will swim against West-ern Illinois and South Dakota.

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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: #EIU men’s basketball takes on Ball State at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Lantz Arena.

By Jehad AbbedStaff Reporter | @Jehada

After losing five of seven games, the Eastern men’s basketball team will need to redeem itself quickly in order to get out of the last place spot in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Eastern recorded convincing wins against NAIA Eureka College on Nov. 17 and most recently South-ern University on Saturday. An 81-51 victory over Eureka was the only one of two games at home so far and the only time the Panthers managed to score more than 61 points.

The Panthers are averaging 55.9 points per game after a difficult non-conference schedule that has led to an unpleasant start to the season. Last year they averaged 67.7 points after a going 11-19 for the season. Eastern ranks last out of 12 teams in the OVC in points scored.

Junior forward Trae Anderson leads the team averaging 10.6 points per game and 4.1 rebounds. Through the rough stretch of games, Ander-son has a team-high 26 free throw attempts and making 18. Eastern is shooting just above 60 percent from the free throw line as a team.

Despite freshman guard Cornell Johnston and his team-leading 3.9 assists per game, the Panthers are averaging 11.3, which is only good enough for 11th place in the OVC. Eastern is also one of the worst teams in the conference at holding on to the ball right now, averaging 12.1 turnovers.

Though the Panthers are strug-gling, it seems to be mainly on the offensive end of the floor. While scoring less than 60 points per game, Eastern is holding its opponents un-der that mark as well. The Panthers are also a top-three team in the OVC for opponent’s field goal percentage, holding teams to just 41 percent.

The Panthers are averaging a lit-tle less than four blocks on the sea-son. Junior center Luke Piatrowski is averaging the seventh most blocks in the conference with 1.3.

While Eastern ranks last in the OVC, it is only based on record. The Panthers will face five more non-conference opponents until January. The Panthers begin conference play by hosting Tennessee Tech on New

Years Day in Lantz Arena.Eastern spent its last four games

on the road during Thanksgiving break playing in the Emerald Coast Classic. Eastern saw three of what will likely be their toughest oppo-nents of the season in the tourna-

ment. The Panthers held their own against a solid University of Cin-cinnati team, but lost by just five points.

Eastern saw a whole new level of competition in its match-ups with No. 23 nationally ranked Creighton

University and North Carolina Cen-tral. They lost to Creighton by 22 and to Central by 25.

Two of the next three games for the Panthers are at home. They host Ball State on Wednesday then head west to face UC Davis in California

on Dec. 9 before coming back home to face Northern Illinois University on Dec. 13.

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Eastern offense off to slow start

By Aldo SotoSports Editor | @AldoSoto21

Adam Drake finished his final season with the Eastern football team ranked in the top-10 of every wide receiver stat category in the entire FCS, but for the Panthers, one playmaker was not enough.

Following a season-ending defeat at home against Tennessee-Martin, East-ern coach Kim Dameron levied criti-cism toward the Panthers’ wide receiv-ers not named Drake.

Drake had a game-high 11 catches, 146 yards and a touchdown, while five other wide receivers combined for 11 catches for 127 yards.

“Andrew (Manley) or Jalen (Whit-low), whoever the quarterback is, trusts (Drake) the most,” Dameron said. “He’s gonna be where he’s supposed to be and he’s gonna play hard and he’s gonna fight for the ball.”

Drake ended the year with 93 recep-tions, 1,321 yards and 12 touchdowns, dwarfing the numbers of Eastern’s other wide receivers.

“You never go into a game knowing what is going to happen,” Drake said af-ter the season finale. “If it gets thrown to you, you just have to be ready for it.”

Dameron praised Drake, who was voted to the All Ohio Valley Confer-ence first team. He noted the receiv-er’s physical traits, but said that was not why the Charleston native has been so successful.

“Yeah, he can run, he’s tall, he’s strong, but that’s not what sets Adam Drake apart,” Dameron said. “It’s his work ethic, it’s where he is, where he’s supposed to be and doing the little things the right way. That’s why quar-terbacks trust him.”

Drake’s 93 receptions nearly tri-pled the second highest total from the Panthers’ receivers, as Stephen Bravo-Brown caught 38 passes in his first year with Eastern. Dameron wants the same intangibles from all the Eastern receiv-ers that Drake displayed all season long.

“Now, if we can get the rest of the guys in that room to play like that we’re going to have a good receiving corps,” Dameron said.

Although Eastern had a run-first of-fense this season, Drake was still able to lead the OVC in catches, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.

The Panthers had seven other re-ceivers, which includes two tight ends; make at least three receptions this sea-son. Combined, those seven players had 129 catches. This also discounts re-ceptions made by running backs. Oth-er than Drake, only Anthony Taylor, Jeff LePak and Joe Powell had a receiv-ing touchdown, with Taylor having the most from the trio with three.

Following a disappointing end to an up and down year, Dameron said he has to review everything from the sea-son. He did not go into detail what moves need to be made to improve the team next year, but as for now he is ana-lyzing every facet of the team.

“It’s too early for that, but I just know this, we have to go recruit, we have to get bigger, faster, stronger and then we have to look back at the season and figure out and make sure that we’re doing what we need to be doing, offen-sively, defensively, kicking game, you

name it. We’ll look at everything from the season, from A-Z.”

Eastern went 5-7 overall in Damer-on’s first season as head coach. Despite a 5-3 OVC record, Dameron said East-ern has to get back to the point where it beats the best teams in the conference.

“We won five games against five con-ference opponents that we should win,” he said. “What we have to do is be able to beat Jacksonville State, Eastern Ken-tucky and Martin. The three top teams – that’s who we have to be able to beat and we didn’t beat any of them this year.”

The Panthers finished in fourth place in the OVC, following two straight conference championships. Dameron heads into his first full offseason after being hired in early January of this year.

“We have to look at what we’re do-ing, who we’re doing it with and we have to go out on the road and recruit because we need to get some players in here,” Dameron said.

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Murray State linebacker Jonathan Jackson tackles Eastern red-shirt freshman wide receiver Anthony Taylor at O’Brien Field on Nov. 8. Taylor had the second most receiv-ing touchdowns for the Panthers.

JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior forward Trae Anderson elevates and shoots over a Saint Francis (Ill.) player at Lantz Arena on Nov. 10 during the Panthers’ only exhibition game of the season. Anderson leads Eastern in scoring, averaging 10.6 points per game.

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