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NATIONAL GIRLS' NIGHT SCRIMMAGE SEASON Eastern students share how the recognized National Girls' Night on Tuesday.

The women's soccer team holds a scrimmage as fall practices continue.

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Quick News Accounting job fair to be hosted Wednesday By Helena Edwards Staff Reporter l@DEN_news

Career Services will be hosting a job fair to assist Eastern Illinois University's accounting majors in en­tering the workforce on Sept. 23 from 3 p.m to 6 p.m. This will be virtual and access to registration will be through Handshake under events, the virtual filter fur search, and dicking register on the specific job fair.

The description for this job fair includes, ''Ac­counting Majors-This fair is for YOU! View the list of registered employers and sign up fur a 30-minute group �on or a 1: 1 video session with an employer. Be sure you have completed your Handshake profile and uploaded a resume so employers can learn about you!"

There w_ill be 18 employers attending includ­ing Illinois Department of Corrections, Illino� De­partment of Human Services, IllinoiS Department of Revenue, BKD CPAs & Advisors, CapinCrouse, Clifton Larson Allen llP, Wmders & Co. llP, Uni­versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Buslne$, University of Illinois Springfidd, West & Company UC, Crowe llP Doehring, Kemper CPA Group LLP, Marathon Petroleum Company LP, Martin Hood, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, RSM US llP, SKDO P.C., and Larsson, Woodyard & Henson llP.

To see more infunnation on certain company re­quirements fur hiring and the job positions available (including intermhi.ps. pan-time, and full-rime jobs), check out the job fair posting.

Loc:arions fur these jobs include Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington.

For further infonnation contact Diane Smith, a marketing specialist and career advisor, at dksmith2@ ciu.edu.

Helena Edwards can be reached at 581-2812 or heedwards@eiu.edu.

Homecoming Committee meets online By Elizabeth Taylor

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With many Homecoming plans still yet to be fi­nalized, the Homecoming Committee hdd a virtual

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ASHANTI THOMAS I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Ally Turner, a junior environmental biology major, practices for the Panther Marching Band in the Library Quad Tuesday afternoon. Turner said she ls •writing guard solo for EIU Panther Marching:

Faculty Senate talks·.C.OVID on campus By Adam Tumino Editor-in-Chief I @adam_tumino

The Faculty Senate met via Zoom on Tuesday afternoon, with the second half of the meeting being a discussion of COV­ID-19 on campus.

Following committee reports and updates, guest speakers Eric Davidson, Interim Direc­tor of Health and Counseling Services, and Sheila Simons, a public health professor and graduate coordinator working with Eastern's contact tracing efforts, joined the meeting to give the senate an idea of how testing and contact tracing are progressing this semester.

Simons updated how many people have had to be quarantined dating back to the summer.

"I was just looking at my list earlier, and if we're looking at the current number of peo­ple I've put in quarantine since July 1, 4 72 people," Simons said.

She said that of these 472 people, some became cases and needed to be isolated. Quarantine lasts 14 days and is for people who have been in close contact with some­one who has tested positive. Positive cases are treated differently.

"When we have cases, cases are put in to isolation for a period of 10 days, and that is determined either from the date they were swabbed if they're asymptomatic, or the day that they developed symptoms if they're

SCREE NSHOT BY ADAM TUMINO Sheila Simons, public health professor and graduate coordinator working with Eastern's con­tact tracing efforts, speaks during the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday afternoon.

symptomatic," Simons said. Simons added that sometimes symptoms

last longer than 10 days, but Illinois Depart­ment of Public Health guidelines allow for isolation to end if the subject does not have a fever for 24 hours and the sympwms are

improving by the 10th day. According to Simons, there have also been

instances of people breaking quarantine, and she said she received four reports of people

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Statewide positivity rate remains level By Jerry Nowicki Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD - The seven­day average statewide COVID-19 test positivity rate stayed level at 3.5 percent Tuesday as the Illinois Department of Public Health re­ported another 1,531 confirmed cases of the virus.

That was among 41,8�9 test re­sults reported over the previous 24 hours, making for a one-day pos­itivity rate of 3. 7 percent. In the Metro East area along the Mis­souri border near St. Luois, the rate remained level from the pre-

vious day at 7.3 percent. That area, which is Region 4 of

the state's reopening plan, must decrease its positivity rate to 6.5 percent or below for three straight days before added mitigations in the region can be rolled back. Those mitigations include the clo­sure of bars and restaurants to in­door dining and drinking.

Region 1 in northwest Illinois is the only other region with a pos­itivity rate exceeding 7 percent, and it also sits at 7.3 percent. It is not subject to added mitigations, because a region must have a pos­itivity rate above 8 p.ercent for

three days to trigger such mitiga­tions.

The other regions range from 2.6 percent in east-central Illinois' Region 6 to 6 percent in southern Illinois' Region 5.

IDPH also reported another 30 COVID-19-related deaths in per­sons whose ages ranged from be­ing in their 30s to being older than 100. That brings the total number of casualties in the state to 8,486 since the pandemic be­gan.

There are now 277 ,266 con­firmed cases among more than 5.1 million test results reported,

and the recovery rate is 96 percent for those 42 days removed from a positive diagnosis, according to IDPH.

At the end of Monday, there were 1,4 5 5 persons reported hos­pitalized with COVID-19 in Illi­nois, including 367 in intensive care units and 153 on ventilators. All of those numbers were slightly above pandemic lows, where they have plateaued in recent weeks.

That left roughly 39 percent of hospital beds, 44 percent of ICU beds and 79 percent of ventila­tors unoccupied as of 11 :59 p.m. Monday.

Denied marijuana dispensary applicants will have chance to amen·d applications By Raymon Troncoso Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD - Gov. JB Pritz­ker announced changes to the licens­ing process for marijuana dispensa­ries Monday after weeks of criticism from activists, lawmakers and appli­cants who were initially denied for the first round of 75 licenses.

Now, failed applicants will have an opportunity to amend their ap­plications and receive more infor­mation as to why they were denied points in the scoring process.

In a.news release Monday, Pritzk­er and the Illinois Department of Fi­nancial and Professional Regulation said they came to the decision af­ter a "careful examination" based on "feedback from community leaders and stakeholders."

The change allows denied appli­cants to resubmit their applications or have them rescored after receiving a "supplemental deficiency notice" that tells them which specific por­tions of their application lost points and prevented them from reaching the 252-point perfect score needed to enter the lottery to distribute li­censes.

Those receiving a perfect score af­ter this process takes place would be added to the lottery for the first 75 licenses.

An applicant may not, howev­er, change the owners or makeup of its ownership group on resubmitted applications. Officials said the pro­cess allowing for rescoring could be wrapped up "this fall."

The announcement of changes comes after just 21 of more than 900 applicants received perfect scores in the first round of grading by an out­side company. That meant no other applicants would be eligible for any of the 75 licenses granted in the first wave of the new program, which sparked an immediate backlash from lawmakers, applicants and activists.

The outside professional servic­es and auditing firm conducting the first round of grading was KPMG, and they will once again be grading the rescored applications, according to the governor's office. A spokesper­son from the governor's office noted, however, that "IDFPR will ensure strong oversight of the process with KPMG to ensure every step focuses on fairness."

KPMG received a $4.2 million no-bid contract from the state to score dispensary applicants, as well as a $2.5 million no-bid contract from .the Illinois Department of Ag-

PHOTO COURTESY OF BLUEROOMSTREAM.COM Toi Hutchinson, lead marijuana advisor to Gov. JB Pritzker and former state senator, speaks at a news conference Tuesday about changes to the licensing process for marijuana dispensaries.

riculture to grade applicants who wish to receive � license to grow, transport and infuse cannabis p�od­ucts.

The grow licenses have yet to be awarded, as the process has seen sig­nificant delays due to the coronavi­rus pandemic.

Fwther changes possible

Per the legalization law, IDFPR will also conduct a disparity study evaluating the ethnic, racial and so­cioeconomic makeup of the adult­use cannabis market. Pritzker on Tuesday noted lawmakers could make changes to the law and appli­cation process to ensure equity in the future as more than 300 licens­es are still to be distributed in future waves.

"I have already offered my sugges­tions for how the General Assembly can change the law so that we can ensure even greater representation in this industty, including capping the number of licenses or regions that any one owner can apply for, and al­lowing more applicants to advance to .the lottety round than just those with the vety highest scoo:s," Pritzk­er said at a news conference in Chi­cago.

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IDFPR, the changes to the process sparked backlash from some of the 21 finalists who feel changing the rules after qualifiers were announced is unfair.

So Baked Too LLC and Suite Greens 'ric - two firms whose ap­plications received perfect scores and qualified for the 75-license lottety -released a joint statement Tuesday saying Pritzker's decision to make changes "clearly violates the Canna­bis Regulation and Tax Act in mul­tiple ways, and is, therefore, unfair to the social equity teams that knew the rules."

They also opposed extending the amount of time it will take to award licenses, as the process has already been delayed from its scheduled May release date due to the ongoing coro­navirus pandemic.

The Cannabis Business Associa­tion of Illinois, an industty advocacy group for licensed marijuana busi­nesses, issued a statement Monday supporting the governor's changes.

Concerns over veteran ownership

Dr. Lawrence Hatchett, the lead investor for a group organized under the name Cannabliss Supply Co., had all 10 applications for dispensa­ty licenses rejected in the first wave.

In an interview last Wednesday, Hatchett called the process a false hope for Black Illinoisans who want­ed to get a foot in the marijuana in­

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ment, Hatchett said the state was moving things in a better direction.

Avis Bulbulyan, CEO of marijua­na consultant group SNA Enterpris­es, worked with a Black-owned busi­ness that received a social equity des­ignation when applying for a license.

He and Hatchett said they are still concerned that firms that are not at least 51-percent owned by mili­tary veterans will still be unable to achieve a perfect score and move onto the lottety.

At the news conference Tuesday, Pritzker and his lead marijuana ad­visor, former state Sen. Toi Hutchin­son, said such concerns could be ad­dressed by the General Assembly amending the legalization law to provide a cut-off range for applicants to qualify for a license rather than only accepting the highest scores.

According to Hutchinson, that would allow worthy applicants who don't achieve a perfect score for rea­sons such as not having a majority veteran stakeholder to still advance to the lottety stage. But those chang­es would require action from the General Assembly and be more like­ly to happen in future rounds, rather than for the first wave of 75 licenses.

"This process is designed for us to see all the things that worked and figure out how to tighten this as we move forward," Hutchinson said, noting that 75 licenses in the initial distribution is an intentionally small number.

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National Girls' Night celebrated Tuesday By Elizabeth Taylor Associate News Editor I @DEN_news

National Girls' Night occurs ev­ery year on Sept. 22 to encourage women to relax and spend time with their friends.

Between classes, studying, work, and other activities, it can be dif­ficult for college students to find a time to have a calm evening when their friends are available too, but spending that time together can be therapeutic.

A "girls' night" does _not have to be gender-specific; while it tradi­tionally is a time for a group of fe­male friends to hang out, some peo­ple use the term to refer to the activ­ity, rather than the participants.

In that sense, a girls' night would be considered a chance to either go out and party or stay in, watch mov­ies and practice self-care.

Sam Hennegan, junior English major, said that her friend group en­joys those typical activities.

"I like to do facemasks, nails, and watch funny movies," Hennegan said. "Also, lots of food, especially chocolate."

However, the COVID-19 pan­demic has made those plans difficult to organize.

" I ' ve had a few zoom girls ' nights," Hennegan said. "It was def­initely interesting and honestly not as fun."

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"It'll usually involve movies, video games and just catching up with them:'

Elizabeth Houck, junior graph­ic design major, said that her friend group usually has a more artistic ver­sion of the event.

"We like to paint and watch mov­ies, mostly," Houck said. "We do a lot of dyeing each other's hair, too."

Especially this year, staying in is much easier- and safer- than getting dressed up and going out.

Grace Osborn, senior biology ma­jor, said that her friend group likes to change it up sometimes, but nor­mally stays in.

"It'll usually involve movies, vid­eo games, and just catching up with them," Osborn said.

Movie viewing is one of the more common girls' night activities, likely because of how accessible and easy it is to stream something.

Comedies are a popular choice, as

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well as rom corns. Hennegan said her favorite is

White Chicks, while Houck said she tends to go with nostalgic Dis­ney movies.

Scheduling issues can force girls' night to transform into various events.

"Our 'girls' nights' have turned into lunches with as many of us can make it at that time," Houck said. "It's upsetting, because I miss hav­ing the gang together, but eventually it'll work out."

Social distancing and the lack of frat parties have made girls' nights more difficult, but Zoom and Net­flix Party can help to bring friends together despite the pandemic.

Elizabeth Taylor can be reached at 581-2812 or egtaylor@eiu.edu.

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meeting Tuesday night to share possi­ble event ideas.

Homecoming week will almost defi­nitely include vinual competitions with prizes, as well as bowling, which was a popular event last year.

Bowling will require advanced sign-ups to make sure the event follows social dis­tancing protocols.

This year, Civic Engagement has ex­changed the usual Socktober Drive event out for a toy drive which RSOs can par­ticipate in.

A Homecoming court will still be crowned this year, though the process will have to be adjusted.

The coun will also be limited to king. queen, prince and princess, eliminating the faculty and little prince and little prin­cess positions.

Applications will be av.Wable online on Wednesday, and will be due on Monday

the 28th. A Zoom meeting for the candidates

will be held on Tuesday the 29th, and then the candidates will be allowed 24 hours to campaign.

The campaign period will also be the voting period.

Rather than a typical interview process, candidates will be required to write an es­say as part of their applications.

Thiny percent of the overall score for each candidate will come from the stu­dent body's vote, 10 percent will come from the application itself, and 60 per­cent will come from the score on the es­say, which will be judged blindly.

The homecoming coun will likely be revealed in a video on social media.

Bizabeth Taylor can be reached at 581-2812 oregtaylor@eiu.edu.

CDC advises against Halloween activities Staff Report

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are cautioning indi­viduals from partaking in many tra­ditionally celebrated activities during Halloween this year, such as trick-or­treating.

There are several high-risk activi­ties that should be totally avoided this year to prevent the spread of COV­ID-19, according to the CDC. These activities include: Trick-or-treats and trunk-or-treats, going to large or

crowded parties held indoors, visit­ing indoor haunted houses, going on hayrides, traveling to rural fall festi­vals outside of your community and using alcohol or drugs, which can im­pair users' judgement or lead to "risky behavior�," according to the CDC.

The CDC lists attending outdoor costume parties where people wear masks and social distance themselves as a moderately risky activity.

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Continue avoiding off-campus gatherings

Some of the things we thought about how CO­VID-19 would p� on campus seem to be true.

Sheila Simons, a public health professor and graduate coordinator who is working with Eastern's contract tracing efforts, and Eric Davidson, Interim Director of Health and Counseling Services, joined the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday afternoon and talked about contact tracing, testing efforts and trends they have noticed regarding COVID-19.

Simons noted that the virus seems to be spread­ing as a result of off-campus gatherings rather than through interactions in residence halls and class­rooms.

The university can't do much about these gather­�. but those in attendance should be conscious of social distancing and wearing masks. That is our re­sponsibility as students in the midst of a pandemic.

It comes down to students following the rules recommended by the university even when they are not on campus. Even though the university can't en­force its rules off campus, the consequences from these actions still affect on-campus life.

Also, it's important that students continue to pre­vent the spread of COVID-19 in residence halls and classrooms by continuing the behavior that has got­ten us this far.

Integrity is doing the right thing when there aren't any RAs or professors watching. We at the Daily Eastern News believe holding yourself and others accountable is the most important thing we can do to slow the spread of COVID-19 on cam­pus.

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Bethesda sale surprising, alarming Here's another tally mark to add to the

shocking number of reasons why 2020 is probably one of the strangest, most unpre­dictable years in history: Microsoft is buying Bethesda.

This means the game franchises we love dearly, such as The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and DOOM among many more, will soo,n be owned by Microsoft.

That is very troubling. Microsoft announced Tuesday that it's slat­

ed to purchase ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, for a whop­ping $7.5 billion - $3.45 billion more than Disney paid for Lucasfilm, the company that owned the Star Wars franchise.

Bethesda ranks third in a list of Microsoft's largest acquisitions, according to GeekWire: Microsoft purchased Skype for $8.5 billion in 2012 and Linkedin for $26.2 billion in 2017.

After the announced purchase, Microsoft owns ·23 game studios, according to The New.' York Times. Sony, one of its biggest competi­tors, owns 15.

Bethesda, a beautiful, unique feather, is now in Microsoft's enormous cap.

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ery year. Monopolies are rarely in the con­sumers' best interest, but Microsoft still has lots of competition (at least for now}, as PC Gamer reports.

In one way or another, I believe this is go­ing to really hurt Sony.

Like other console gamers, I totally expect­ed to purchase "The Elder ScroJls 6" and oth­er Bethesda titles on the next PlayStation con­sole. From now. on, classic Bethesda game franchises to release in the future will likely be Xbox exclusives.

Additionally, Sony's PSS, :which will be re­leased on Nov. 12, is going to cost $499.

Y ikes. At that price, consumers might as well purchase gaming PCs and (almost} never

have to worry about buying a console again. And now that Microsoft is buying Bethes­

da, what I'd argue was the one triple-A inde­pendent game studio that really set itself apart from everything else in the industry, what in­centives are there to purchase the PS5? Be­sides the PS5 exclusives?

The high cost of the PS5, the economic re­cession and Microsoft's purchase of Bethesda are likely going to decline Sony sales big time.

What I'm most concerned about is the fate of "The Elder Scrolls 6." I was already uncer­tain after Bethesda's latest travesty, "Fallout 76," but now I don't know what to expect.

In my Feb. 5 column, I mentioned how desperate I was for "The Elder Scrolls 6" to be great. While information about the game has still been sparse since its 2018 teaser, I don't feel very reassured that Bethesda will make up for the "Fallout 76" fiasco with "The Elder Scrolls 6."

It scares me that Bethesda is getting bought while the game is in development.

In any case, Microsoft's purchase of Bethes­da is a huge change for the gaming industry. I hope it's a good one.

Logan Raschke is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812

Fleet Foxes' new album perfect for fall If there was ever a band for the fall season,

it's Fleet Foxes. Prior to the Tuesday release of their new album, "Shore," I was only familiar with some songs off of their 2008 self-titled al­bum. Their music is a bit of a departure from what I'm used to, as their indie folk label tend­ed to turn me away.

Turns out there's more electric guitar than I thought, and some of frontman Robin Pec­knold's melodies are among the best I've heard from the past decade's artists. I know Fleet Foices have been at the forefront of the 201 Os indie scene, but I just never considered listen­ing to anything other than one of their most popular songs, "White Winter Hymnal."

The band is a part of what seems to be an extended indie rock family, including bands like the National, the Walkmen, and newcom­ers Muzz. Muzz, specifically, features drum­mer Matt Barrick, who has drummed for Fleet Foxes on tour and was the drummer for the Walkmen. Hamilton Leithauser of the Walk-

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men also contributed to "Shore." Given my appreciation for these other bands, it doesn't make sense that I never gave Fleet Foxes a real chance.

Maybe "Shore" was the opportuniry I was looking for. The album was released at the ex­act time of the autumnal equinox, which may be what's telling me that Fleet Foxes are a band to listen to as the leaves turn and temperatures

steadily drop. It's been less than 24 hours since it was released, but I've spent my entire day en­joying what songs I have listened to. "Can I Believe You" is one of the best songs this year's paeked field has to offer. Its most prominent feature is a simple chord progression from a clean guitar, and the pace that it sets is what makes the song my favorite on the album so far. As I become more familiar with the Fleet Foxes' discography, I imagin_e "Can I Believe You" will remain at the top of my list, along with "Blue Ridge Mountains" and "Mykonos," more songs from the eponymous record.

It's always fun to hear a record the day it comes out, especially when you're listening to a band with an unfamiliar and open ear. I have no idea if "Shore" is any better or worse than its predecessors, and that may be why I'm en­joying it.

Ryan Meyer is a sophomore journalism major •

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doing so on Tuesday alone. Davidson said there are several

entry points for people on campus regarding testing and contact trac­ing. Some people, often students who commute from other coun­ties, self-report positive tests that they received from a health de­partment in their home county.

He also said that people who get tested at the clinic on campus allows for the results to be han­dled by Eastern health officials rjght away instead of waiting for the results to go through an out­side health department first.

Additionally, Davidson said that some students are getting tested off campus to Carle Foundation Hospital or Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, and that can create a delay between the test results be­ing received and the student being isolated by Eastern.

"If a student has a positive test result, physicians at those two en­tities are calling the student to let them know that they're positive," Davidson said. "Well, there's a lag time. The student may know h o u r s, if not even longer, be­fore Sheila knows or I know that they've been positive."

He said that once Eastern finds out about the positive result, they send out an academic notice. But the lag time can make that diffi­cult.

"If you have a student that starts feeling ill on Monday, and they wait until Wednesday to go

get tested, and it takes a day or two to get the test results and they come in late Friday afternoon, you're probably not going to have a notice sent out until Monday morning," Davidson said. "By that point in time, almost a week has gone by that they've been positive.

As far as where students are contracting COVID-19, Simons said that she has not seen any cas­es that seem to have originated in classrooms or in most places on campus.

"What I'm finding on campus is that people are not getting sick or contracting COVID in the class­rooms, in the buildings. It's not happening," Simons said. "When I look at these cases, where are they from? They're from off-cam­pus gatherings and from one cam­pus group of individuals."

Davidson added that he was worrying about clusters centered around residence halls, but so far that has not been the case.

"The students living on campus are doing a phenomenal job," Da­vidson said. "By this point in time in the game, I was really fearful that we would start seeing clus­ters based upon residence, so you would start seeing it on a particu­lar floor or a particular residence hall, and we have not really seen that."

Simons said that, in addition to masking, washing hands and so­cially distancing, people should wear eye protection if they need

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thing," Simons said. "It is some­thing that will actually prevent the virus from surviving on your hands.".

Adam Tumino can be reached at 581-2812 or ajtumino@eiu.edu.

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Emanuel gives update on track teams By Adam Tumino Editor-in-Chief I @adam_tumino

Like every other team on cam­pus, the Eastern men's and wom­en's track teams have had to ad­just to the changes that COV­ID-19 has brought to campus.

After having their outdoor sea­son canceled in the spring, both teams enter the fall looking ahead to the start of the indoor season starting in the winter.

Brenton Emanuel, Eastern Di­rector of Track and Field, said that he has been pleased with what he has seen so far this semester.

'It's a much different fall that in the past," ,he said. "The teams are very motivated. A lot _of them worked out hard over summer and spring break during quarantine, so from a fitness standpoint I'm very happy with where we're at right now, it being week two of train­ing."

A major adjustment for the teams has been getting used to running while wearing a mask, but Emanuel said he thinks they are handling it well.

"I think everyone's kind of ad­justed to wearing the mask while running," he said. "Workouts are already tough enough and then you put a mask on, its been pretty rough for them, but they've been doing a great job."

FILE PHOTO I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Marcus Skinner (left) and Dustin Hatfield (right) lead a pack of runners together during a distance event at the EIU John craft Invite Jan. 18 in the Lantz Field House.

Another thing Emanuel said the team is doing this semester is re­maining positive, and they do so by sharing something that they appreciate.

"Every day we start practice off with what's one thing that you're

grateful for, and we go around the group and talk abou that, be­cause last year was kind of a heart­breaker for us, losing our season in the middle of it," he said. "I'm very excited for that and I'm very grateful for them for having posi­tive energy throughout this whole situation."

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break up groups to just make sure we' re staying staying socially dis­tant and not coming in too much contact with each other," he said. "It's a lot on me, but at the same time I'll do it for them. We're a very talented team and I think having that one-on-one time helps us anyway. But it is a little bit dif-

ficult during the day. I feel like I'm norin the office very much, so my office work and my emails are kind of piled up on me right now. But we're getting through it and I think it's going well so far."

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Panthers hold scrimmage as practices continue By Adam Tumino Editor-in-Chief I @adam_tumino

The Eastern women's soccer team is continuing with its slate of prac­tices this semester as they look to­ward the start of the season in the spring.

Head coach Jake Plant, now in his third year as head coach, said that he was happy to have the team on the practice field and they were able to hold a intrasquad scrimmage recently, which he was pleased with.

"Just happy to have them back, number one, and playing, especially putting them in their uniforms and getting them on the game field was nice, " Plant said. "Number one, its great to have them back. Number two, they were surprisingly ready to play to be h onest. Technique was good, tactic was good, fitness was good. Just an excellent day all around to be honest. "

Plant has a large team this season with 28 players listed on the roster. There were 21 players on the team last season and 22 the season before that.

There is a high number of both returners and newcomers on the team, and Plant said that he thinks the team will benefit from having players with different levels of expe­rience.

"It's a lot of general stuff, teach­ing concepts as a group together so everyone can learn from each other, so it's not been segregated in all in terms of returners versus newcom-

ers, " he said. "But they're all learn­ing from each other, like the return­ers are learning from newcomers too, so its been a good start so far."

Although the season h as been pushed ahead to the spring, Plant said that the goal for the team has not changed, and he wants them to remember that no matter when the season begins, winning a champion­ship is their aim.

"We don't care if its 10 days or wheth er . its eight months time, we h ave to keep that champion­ship mindset, every week remind­ing them that's what we're trying to do, " he said. "So far its working. We haven't had to do it before, so we'll see if it keeps going straight­forward."

Throughout this semester, Plant said it is also important to find scorers that can step up. The top two scorers from last season's team, Sarah De Wolf and Lexi Ketterhagen have since graduated.

The Panthers' top returning scor­er is Haylee Renick, who scored three goals last season.

"The big thing is making sure that these girls can figure out how to score goals and us teaching them how to do it, " he said. "That's the key thing for us is making sure that, within the tactic that we're teaching them, that we're finding people that are brave enough to shoot on goal and score.

Adam Tumino can be reached at 581-2812 or ajtuminO@eiu.edu.

FILE PHOTO I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Eastern midfielder Kenzie Balcerak fights for possession with an opponent in a match against Chicago State on Sept. 1 5, 2019.

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