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By Luis MartinezAdministration Editor|@DEN_News

The Center for Academic Technology Support is conducting a survey to better un-derstand what works and what needs to be updated in terms of current campus techno-logical services.

Recently, a survey was sent out to all East-ern students for their inputs on the current status of campus technology.

Clinton Brown, a graduate assistant, is the project administrator and helps run the sur-vey.

“The nature of the survey isn’t just to ad-dress Wi-Fi,” Brown said. “It’s about how all students use technology, how many devices are connected.”

The survey is not just run by Eastern, but it is partnered with a separate sponsor called Educause, a non-profit organization.

“They are the one who do this,” Brown said. “It’s been done for 14 years, this is the second year (Eastern) has done it.”

Brown said over 115,000 undergraduate students participated in this survey nation-wide.

Survey sent to detect technology difficulties

A JA TAYLOR| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMembers of the Mixed Chorus and Concert Choir sing “Come to Me O’ My Love” during the “Songs Of Love” concert at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Sunday.

By Cassie BuchmanCity Editor|@DEN_News

Local band Carlos Danger’s Inbox is a band as unique as its’ name.

The name came because the band members wanted a name that was subversive, but only if people knew the story behind it.

The idea came from a member in the band, Bryan Murley, who wanted to have a band name that had to do with current events.

The name is based off the alias Anthony Weiner used during his sexting scandal.

“I thought it would be funny because any-thing that would pop out of Carlos Danger’s in-box would be wrong,” St. Michael said.

They do covers of bands such as the Talking Heads, Lonely Island, Jackson 5, the Guerillas,

and the band writes their own original songs as well.

Keyboardist Colin St. Michael said they are not picky when selecting the music they play.

“It is a lot more fun to randomly pick things and play them in our style,” he said. “There is nothing off the table.”

Murley became a member of the band after St. Michael saw him perform at a Jackson Ave-nue Coffee open mic night event.

After Murley, St. Michael found guitarist Shea Keating, bassist James Pritts and drummer Brian Wood.

Murley writes many of the songs; however, all of the band members have experience singing and songwriting.

“A lot of the songs have to do with growing up in a small town, finding a way to get out,” St.

Michael said. They also have written love songs, including

some about the weather, specifically about the Polar Vortex.

“The songs are all over the place,” St. Michael said.

Although Carlos Danger’s Inbox has been compared to the band “The Wallflowers” because they both share the same ‘90s folk rock vibe, the band members have been exploring more styles.

“We’ve been branching out, with toothier gui-tar riffs, funkier bass lines,” St. Michael said.

They have even been working on some hip-hop beats.

“We want to introduce a harder edge,” he said. “Make it less folk, more rock.”

Local band hopes to explore new venues

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By Katie Smith Editor-in-Chief |@DEN_News

Eastern’s admissions office has received more freshmen enrollment deposits so far compared to previous year’s numbers, according to a universi-ty press release.

The $150 deposit is paid by first-time fresh-men, and although the deadline for its pay-ment is not until May 1, cashiers will be available throughout the day Monday in accordance with the university’s Admitted Student Day.

Potential Eastern students will have their first glimpse at life as a Panther as the university in-troduces them to the campus through a series of tours and meetings with student and administra-tive representatives.

Chris Dearth, the director of the Office of Admissions, said in the press release that the in-creased numbers allude to promising upcoming enrollment.

“An increase in freshmen deposits increases the likelihood of students attending the university,” Dearth said. “It’s a much better indicator than stu-dent applications alone.”

The admissions office has been working to plan a schedule that will show students what sets East-ern apart from other universities, and where each potential student fits within that community.

Potential students to visit for Admitted Student Day

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By Margorie ClementeOpinions Editor | @DEN_News

Following a sonorous introduction that fi l led the dimly l it Dvorak Hall, conductor Timothy Renner explained that the following songs would serve as a separation between love, loss of love and even death.

The Univers i ty Mixed Chorus and Concert Choir played a Valentine’s Day themed concert titled “Songs of Love” Sunday evening.

Though the Dvorak was not a ful l house, the audience’s appreciation and receptiveness was evident once the ele-gantly dressed singers shuffled across the stage and arranged themselves.

Renner went on to mention that the crowd would be pleased to hear Irish, French, It a l i an and German sounds

within each piece. He said all songs would convey “light,

joyous and playful” emotions. In the program pamphlet, audience

members were allowed a translation to at least three of the pieces that were in French, Italian and German.

Ali Fisher, a soprano Concert Choir member, said choir members spent two weeks learning the precise pronuncia-tion and timing of German lyrics before they even began singing the piece.

Fisher said she was not usually the type to grow nervous, but rather excited.

She s a id some o f the o the r cho i r members were racked with nerves before stepping out from backstage.

Some of the i r more de l ica te p iec -es like “V. Dirait-on” and “A Red, Red Rose” left the audience mesmerized and watching with careful eyes as the con-

ductors gracefully prompted the singers to a conclusion with their sweeping arm movements.

In “A Red, Red Rose,” one could hear the gradual rise of voices in the middle of the piece and the sharp trill of the so-pranos ringing.

Accompanis t s on the piano would cease their background harmony; then came the sudden descend as the echo died, leaving nothing but a hushed, lin-gering final note.

Soon, a de layed but enthused ap-plause erupted from the audience.

Quicker paced songs like the andan-te “El Gri l lo” left audience members shifting in their seats, eagerly lending their ears to the sounds that resonated throughout Dvorak.

Love is in the sound wavesChoirs deliver Valentine’s weekend finale

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8 T H E DA I LY E ASTE R N NEWSD A I LY E A S T E R N N E W S . C O M M O N DAY, F E B. 16, 2015

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By Bob ReynoldsSports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN

The University of Georgia swept the Eastern baseball team over the weekend in a three-game series.

The Panthers lost by scores of 18-3, 10-2 and 11-1.

In Sunday’s game, senior pitcher Garrison Stenger threw four innings and allowed six runs on eight hits.

Before the outburst of runs by the Bulldogs in the fifth inning, Stenger had allowed two runs, and set down seven in a row.

Already up 2-0, Georgia sent 11 batters to the plate, and seven of them reached safely in the bottom of the 5th, which forced Eastern coach Jim Schmitz to take Stenger out of the game.

Bulldog sophomore Skyler We-ber doubled to left field, which drove in junior Nick King.

Sophomore Mike Bell drove in Weber and sophomore Stephen Wrenn on a triple to center field.

The Bulldogs would tack on three more runs after junior Dan-iel Nichols drove in a run and stole home, and sophomore Trevor Kie-boom singled to right.

In the bottom of the 8th, the Bulldogs would tack on three more runs to push the lead to 11-0.

The Panthers’ lone run would come in the top of the 9th, when senior Brant Valach drove in red-

shirt junior Demetre Taylor on a single to left field.

Bulldog red-shirt junior pitcher David Sosebee pitched six innings, allowing three hits and no runs.

He also struck out five Panther batters and walked zero.

Eastern got off to a hot start in the second game.

Va lach s ing led home junior Mitch Gasbarro for the first run of the game. Junior Isaac Sampen drove in Taylor for the second run of the inning, but that is all the runs the Panthers would get in the game.

The Bulldogs would score 10 unanswered runs, with half of them coming in the first inning.

After senior Jared Walsh singled home two runs, junior Zack Bow-ers tripled to center field, scoring Walsh for the third run of the in-ning.

Freshman Keegan McGovern grounded out to shortstop, scoring Bowers. Also, freshman Mitchell Webb reached on an error by Gas-barro, which scored red-shirt se-nior Brandon Stephens.

Webb also homered to left field in the bottom of the third to give

the Bulldogs an 8-0 lead.He went 2-for-4 in the game

with two runs batted in. The Bulldog pitching would

not allow the Panthers to get a hit for the rest of the game after the first inning. Junior Ryan Lawlor pitched six innings and allowed four hits.

Junior Sean McLaughlin came on in rel ief and threw two in-nings allowing no hits and no runs. Sophomore Connor Jones came on in the ninth and allowed no hits.

Senior second baseman Dane Sauer said the Bulldogs pitched

well by attacking the zones and hit-ting spots.

“At the same time, we didn’t s eem to have g rea t approach-es offensively,” he said. “Yes they pitched well , but I thought we didn’t play to the best of our abili-ties offensively. It was tough for us to get the offense going at times.”

The Panthers dropped the first game of the series and junior pitch-er Jake Johansmeier pitched four innings and allowed 10 runs with eight of them being earned.

Freshman Ben Hughes came on in relief and allowed five runs through three innings of work.

Despi te the outcome of the games, Sauer pointed out a few posi t ives that came out of the weekend.

“We had some new pitchers step up and do some things,” he said. “Albeit, some only an inning or two, it still helps. Especially for the younger guys, that builds confi-dence going into future weekends. Experience is a big thing. We’ll be able to take that into next weekend and build off this.”

Sauer added they have work to do, but it is nothing out of the normal for it being this early in the season.

Bob Reynolds can bereached at 581-2812

or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.

Panthers taken by University of Georgia

By Sean HastingsStaff reporter | @Den Sports

The Eastern softball team went 1-4 over the weekend at the Au-burn Tiger Invitational in Auburn, Ala.

The lone win came in the first game against Winthrop Universi-ty, 4-3.

Fr e s h m a n Mi c h e l l e Ro g e r s pitched seven innings and allowed three runs, two of which were earned.

She struck out seven batters and allowed only one walk.

It was a scoreless game unti l sophomore Ashlynne Paul came in to pinch-hit and hit an RBI sin-gle driving in junior April Mar-kowski.

The Panthers would tack on three more with RBI’s coming from freshman Andrea Roberts, who drove in two, and senior Bai-ley O’Dell.

Winthrop scored three runs in the seventh inning and had a chance to take the lead, but Rog-ers got out of it to get the win for the Panthers.

Second year coach, Angie Nich-olson was pleased with how Rog-ers pitched this weekend.

“There were times where Mi-chel le Rogers pitched well and that was good to see,” Nicholson said.

She also liked how the outfield was doing a good job reading balls and making plays this weekend.

The Panthers would lose to Mercer University 6-4 in the sec-ond game on Friday.

Despite the loss, senior Hannah Cole homered twice giving her three runs batted in on the day.

Junior Jennette Isaac would add the final run in the seventh.

Freshman Jessica Wireman took the loss on the mound.

Wireman went six innings giv-ing up six runs on nine hits.

The Panthers lost, 7-6, in the th i rd game of the weekend to Georgia State on a walk-off single.

Eastern had a 6-0 lead going into the bottom of the fifth where Georgia State got six runs of their own.

Rogers got the start and gave up five, on four hits.

Wireman came in for relief and would take the loss.

O’Dell and Cole combined to

drive in four of the Panthers’ runs in the game.

Sophomores Hannah Rachor and Amber Toenyes also got an RBI each.

But Nicholson thinks the hit-ting could be better.

“I would like to see our hitting be more explosive and consistent,” she said.

The Panthers took on No. 17 Auburn Univers i ty in the next game, who came in at an unde-feated 10-0.

Nicholson knew coming in they were going to face real ly good pitching, and they did.

Eastern was defeated, 9-1, in five innings.

Auburn run-ru led i t s oppo-nents in eight out of the nine first games, which included a 20-8 vic-tory over Georgia State.

Mercer was the only team who hung around but still lost, 7-3.

The Panthers managed to bring one run across the plate in the fifth inning on an Isaac double.

Junior Kat i e Watson scored from second on the play after get-ting a double of her own.

Junior Haylee Beck did not let the tough pitching faze her as she went 2-2 on the day.

The Panthers lost 4-3 to Ball State in the f ina l game of the weekend.

Eastern led 3-1 in the bottom of the fifth, but Ball State tacked on three runs in the inning to take a 4-3 lead.

Eastern wins 1 of 5 games at invite

FILE PHOTO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Junior pitcher Jake Johansmeier throws out a pitch during the Panthers’ 3-14 loss against IPFW on March 22 at Coaches Stadium. Johansmeier allowed eight hits and six runs during the game.

JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSFreshman pitcher Michelle Rogers throws out a pitch during a game against Iliinois Central College Sept. 27 at Williams Field. The Panthers swept the doubleheader 6-1 and 3-2 against the Cougars.

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MONDAY, FEB. 16, 2015 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | SPORTS 7

By Cody DelmendoStaff Reporter | @Den_Sports

The Eastern men’s tennis team lost their seventh-straight game Sunday af-ternoon at Illinois State losing 6-1 at Ev-ergreen Racquet Club in Bloomington-Normal, Ill.

The Panthers now sit at 0-7 on the season with four games left in their non-conference schedule.

Before the match, coach Eric Stark stressed about starting the match great in the doubles area.

“Illinois State is a good solid team, we just have to come out with a combined team effort with a good start in doubles and the rest will take care of itself,” Stark said.

Eastern took the No. 2 doubles match but fell in the No. 1 and No. 3 matches to drop the doubles point.

Juniors Ryan Henderson and Rui Sil-va got their first doubles win of the sea-son over Muddappa Appanervanda and Rodrigo Oliveira, 7-6, in the No. 2 match.

Jakub Eisner and Rolando Torrellas defeated junior Robert Skolik and fresh-man Preston Touliatos, 7-5, and Dylan Steffens and Christoffer Greve took down freshmen Grant Reiman and Trent Reiman, 6-3, in the third doubles match.

Preston Touliatos continued to show

improvement this season with the lone victory in singles.

Touliatos defeated Jacob Wilson 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in a tiebreaker in the No. 3 match.

Skolik also went to a tiebreaker but fell to Eisner 7-5, 7-6, 10-3 in the No. 1 singles match.

Illinois State moved to 4-3 on the sea-son, which includes a three-game win-ning streak with Louisville next up on their schedule.

Despite the seven-game losing streak, Stark continues to stay positive and is still focused on the task at hand.

“We aren’t going to fear playing any-one the rest of the year. The record may not show it, but we have been playing some really good tennis at levels higher than last year’s team,” he said.

In the No. 5 singles match, Rolando Torrellas defeated senior David Constan-tinescu, 6-2, 6-2.

Illinois State junior Rodrigo Olivei-ra and freshman Andreas Boers followed with straight-set wins of their own, with Oliveira defeating Silva, 7-6, 6-1, and Boers defeating Grant Reiman, 6-4, 6-2.

The Panthers will be in action next weekend at Southern Illinois at Sports Blast in Carbondale, Ill.

Cody Delmendo can bereached at 581-2812

or cddelmendo@eiu.edu.

By Mark ShanahanSports Editor | @Den_Sports

Multiple personal bests and Eastern Top Ten marks were set at the Grand Val-ley State Big Meet Friday.

For the women, junior Kristen Paris won her heat in the mile with a new per-sonal best time of 4 minutes, 57.06 sec-onds.

This time moved her up to fifth best on the Eastern Top Ten list.

Sophomore Julie James competed in the same race and finished with a time of 5:01.70 putting her at ninth on the list.

Junior Dhiaa Dean won the women’s 400-meter run with a personal best time of 55.28 seconds.

She now owns the second best time in school history.

Junior Amina Jackson had a new per-sonal best time of 1:34.88 seconds in the 600 putting her at third in school history.

Graduate Jordan Wallace broke the

school record in the 3000 with a time of 9:43.13, which is more than eight seconds faster than her previous time.

She now ranks second best in the league this season.

Sophomore Emily Brelsfoard compet-ed in the same race finishing with a time of 10:08.60.

Freshman Maria Baldwin set a per-sonal best in the 5000 with her time of 17:33.87 putting her at fourth on East-ern’s list.

Junior Angelica Anyaogu placed sec-ond in the 60-meter dash for the women with a time of 7.62 seconds.

For the men, red-shirt junior Norvel Mohammed set a new personal indoor time in the 200-meter run with a time of 21.23 seconds, which moves him up to fifth in the Eastern record book.

He leads the Ohio Valley Conference and is tied for 34th in the nation.

Mohammed placed second in the 400 with a time of 47.23 seconds.

Teammate Calvin Edwards finished fifth in the same race with a time of 47.89 seconds.

Senior Ephraim Dorsey, who was the Ohio Valley Conference Male Track Ath-lete of the Week last week, placed second in the 800 with a personal best time of 1:49.00.

He is now tied for 22nd in the nation and third all time in school history.

Sophomore Riley McInerney was run-ner up in the mile run with a new person-al best time of 4:05.93 seconds.

His time put him at fifth in school his-tory and beat the old time of his father, John McInerney.

Both teams are back in action at home this Friday for their annual Friday Night Special at the Lantz Fieldhouse.

Mark Shanahan can bereached at 581-2812

or mmshanahan@eiu.edu.

By Blake NashStaff Reporter | @Banash5

The Eastern men’s basketball team fell to hot-shooting South-ern Illinois-Edwardsville Saturday night, 80-63, in Edwardsville, Ill.

The Cougars were 19-for-30 from the field, for a shooting av-erage of 63.33 percent in the first half and led 45-27.

Edwardsvil le f inished hitting 56 percent from the floor, going 32-for-57 for the game.

Eastern, on the other hand, s t ruggled shoot ing the ba l l in the first half, missing on three of their first four possessions, lead-ing to a 33.3 percent average at halftime.

However, the Panthers’ shoot-ing improved in the second half as they shot 62 percent from the floor and began the second half on a 9-0 run.

Rozell Nunn ended the early Panther run with eight-straight points, pushing the Cougars’ lead to 50-36.

The Panthers would cut the l ead down to t en po int s a f t e r back-to-back layups by LeTrel l Vi s e r and Chr i s Ol i v i e r, who made his return fol lowing two weeks of illness.

That would be the last time the Panthers got within 10 points on Saturday night.

Senior Dylan Chatman was the Panthers’ leading scorer finishing with 15 points.

Al l o f h i s points came f rom three pointers.

He also had two assists as well as four rebounds.

Fellow senior Reggie Smith fol-lowed with 11 points, as did for-ward Trae Anderson.

Olivier had nine points, which included going 4-of-6 from the field.

He also recorded two blocks in his return.

Four out of the star t ing f ive Cougar players reached double-figure points.

Michael Messer led the way for the Cougars hitting 8-of-12 shots

from the floor to finish with 23 points.

He was also 3-of-4 from three-point range.

Nunn followed with 18 points, four rebounds and two steals.

Forwards Kris Davis and Ke-aton Jackson fol lowed with 11 and 10 points, respectively.

Davis and Jackson also came d o w n w i t h s e v e n r e b o u n d s , apiece.

Messer and Nunn were able to reach double-figure scoring in the first half with 15 and 10, respec-tively.

The Cougars made their pres-ence felt in the paint recording 40 points and outerbounding the Panthers, 35-22, on the boards.

The Cougars started the game on a 14-2 run and following la-yups by Viser and Olivier, went on a 14-3 run.

Edwardsville led from start to f inish and posted a game-high 22-point lead with 4:31 left in the half after a dunk by Jackson made it, 75-53.

Both teams made eight three pointers, with Chatman hitting five for Eastern.

He was the only Panther to hit more than one, while Nunn and Messer each hi t three of the i r own.

The loss dropped the Panthers to 8-4 in OVC play and 15-11 overall.

A victory by Tennessee-Martin over Austin Peay also on Satur-day dropped the Panthers to third place in the OVC West Division standings.

Eastern wil l face three mem-bers of the West Division in the next two weeks.

T h e y ’ l l b e g i n t h a t s t r e t c h aga inst Tennessee-Mar t in a t 7 p.m. Thursday at Lantz Arena in Charleston.

The game will be broadcasted on the American Sports Network.

Blake Nash can bereached at 581-2812or banash@eiu.edu.

Southern Illinois sinks Panthers, 80-63

Track personal bests set at Grand Valley State Big Meet

KE VIN HALL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Dylan Chatman, a senior guard, looks to get around a defender in the men’s basketball game against Baker Uni-versity Tuesday Feb. 3 in Lantz Arena. Chatman only managed 3 points in the game.

Men’s tennis team falls to 0-7 after loss

» INVITE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8Cole added two more RBI’s to

her total for the weekend.Roger s got the s ta r t on the

mound and gave up four, but only one was earned.

O’Dell said the team’s defense

could have been better this week-end.

The Panthers are coming out of this weekend with a 3-7 re-c o rd a n d w i l l h e a d t o K e n -tucky for the Western Kentucky

Hilltopper Spring Fling on Friday.

Sean Hastings can bereached at 581-2812

or smhastings@eiu.edu.

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Car los Danger’s Inbox has performed at many plac-es in Charleston. They have done shows at Jackson Ave-nue Coffee and the Top of the Roc.

St. Michael said one of their favorite places to per-form is the Top of the Roc.

“The sound is great, the lights are great, the crowds are fantastic,” he said. “The stairs are murder, especially with the equipment, but it’s worth it.”

St . Michae l o r i g ina l l y wanted someone else to play the keyboard.

When he started to want to p lay songs , he had to learn or find someone who could.

Ev e r y t i m e h e f o u n d someone , howeve r, they would not work out because of jobs or other time con-straints.

Eventually he learned to play the keyboard.

“ I n 2 0 0 7 I l e a r n e d , and by 2008 I was in two

bands.” St. Michael said.A l l o f th e o the r band

members are a l so in two bands as well.

These bands include “Ke-atings Etc.” and “Victim to Victor.”

“It’s a nice way to branch out,” St. Michael said. “It

gives us another band’s per-spective.”

Be ing a loca l ly known band in a town like Charles-ton has its perks.

“It’s easier to get people to come to shows in a ven-ue they know,” St. Michael said. “If you go out of town,

there’s a lack of a personal connection, and it’s harder to get people to come out.”

On the other hand, being in a small town can lessen the variety of venues.

St. Michael said the audi-ence fluctuates in a college town.

“A bunch of people will graduate, new people will come in not having an idea of what bands or shows are going on,” St. Michael said.

Car los Danger’s Inbox hopes to do shows in Cham-paign, Springfield, and even Chicago to increase audi-ence and venue variety.

St. Michael said they are recording a demo to release soon.

Car los’ Dangers Inbox has a per formance at the end of the Spring 2015 se-mester a t the Top of the Roc.

Cassie Buchman can be reached at 581-2812

or cjbuchman@eiu.edu.

SUBMIT TED PHOTO Carlos Danger’s Inbox now consists of guitarist Shea Keating, bassist James Pritts, keyboardist Colin St. Michael, drummer Brian Wood, and founding guitarist Bryan Murley. Every mem-ber of the band is a singer-songwriter.

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AMANDA WILKINSON | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJarod Pugh (left), a senior kinesiology and sports studies major, and (right) Zachary Steidl, a sophomore kinesiology and sports studies major, look for enemy soldier positions during a reconnaissance lab for Eastern’s Army ROTC Thursday at the intramural fields.

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“We can compare how our un-dergraduates experience technol-ogy at Eastern compared to other institutions,” Brown said. “Since we’re a master s -grant ing pub-lic institution, that’s one of our groups that we’re going to com-pare ourselves with and we’re also going to compare ourselves na-tionwide.”

The survey asks s tudents to talk about their experiences with technology on campus, and where are some of the better and worst locations are.

Brian Anzures, a freshman psy-chology and pre-medicine major, said he finds most of the current campus technology to be quite helpful.

“The computer labs are real-ly good, l ike the computer lab at the library is really good, the

Greg Technology Center as well,” Anzures sa id. “The only thing that is a little bit bad is the Wi-Fi.”

Anzures said unless you have an Ethernet cord, the Wi-Fi i s hard to rely on.

He a l s o s a id in p l a c e s l i k e Booth library or academic build-ings, the Wi-Fi connection is bet-ter since these are areas Wi-Fi is mostly used.

Brown said the survey is not about the number of people who take it; it is about making sure that the results represent the un-dergraduate student body. “Conducting it from this year to last year, you want to see that we’re improving,” Brown sa id. “Whether its people’s experience with D2L, with our email sys-tems, with our technical support,

we really want to see that people’s experiences are getting better.”

Last year, students were hav-ing some issues with having to go from Desire2Learn to go to the Library’s website.

Students would have to log out of D2L in order to access the li-brary database.

“We resolved that issue, we put a link within D2L to the library,” Brown said. “The new email plat-form, we wanted to make sure tha t i n t eg r a t ed in to D2 l , we wanted to make all these things integrate because that was one of the concerns that students had.”

Brown said the survey results are taken and then look at the is-sues shown, and then decisions are made how to address these is-sues based on funding.

These results are not just based

on student results , but faculty members as well.

Anzures said the Wi-Fi connec-tivity needs to be improved in the dorms on campus.

“I know that Eastern has cam-pus-wide Internet, but there are certain areas when you walk out-side, the Internet just goes.” An-zures said. “ I definitely think for the Wi-Fi, if they can out in new routers in the dorms that would g r e a t l y h e l p w i t h e v e r y t h i n g that’s going on in the dorms and the complaints that people have about Eastern’s Wi-Fi.”

The survey is currently on-go-ing and will be available until the week before spring break.

Luis Martinez can bereached at 581-2812

or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.

“The days are a celebration of stu-dents’ accomplishments and what lies ahead of them,” said Dearth said. “The students have already been admitted to a selective academic university. Now, it’s their decision to see if EIU is the right fit.”

Students from Illinois, Indiana, Mis-souri, Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin are expected to participate in the day’s events, which include informational ses-sions from Housing and Dining, finan-cial aid, academic success, the Honors College, student panels and more.

Throughout the day, potential stu-dents will be eligible to win tickets for upcoming football games and the Fam-ily Weekend concert, as well as Eastern-branded clothing and accessories from the university bookstore.

Dearth said the day has been purpose-fully scheduled to coincide with Presi-dents Day, to guarantee potential stu-dents a free day to visit campus.

“Our #FuturePanther Admitted Stu-dent Days are for our admitted students to take another look at campus with their families,” he said.

Eastern observed the holiday Friday so visiting students could see campus on a typical scheduled day.

The next Admitted Student Day is scheduled for Saturday, March 7.

Katie Smith can be reached at deneic@gmail.com or 581-2812.

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» SURVEY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1The choir members also rendered whim-

sical variations of childhood nursery rhymes.Conductor Richard Robert Rossi joked lightly with the audience and suggested that parents wake their little ones for the follow-ing segment, seeing as it was dedicated to them.

The comical renditions of “Humpty Dumpty” and “Little Jack Horner” had the audience joined in a chorus of laughter.

He said David Dickau, composer of “Music in the Night,” was one of his favor-ites.

Rossi also read aloud from several texts that described the true meaning of music and its intended effect for a collective audi-ence.

The finale allowed all singers to gather and perform the old Celtic folk song “Derry Air,” also known as “Danny Boy” or “Lon-donderry Air.”

Margorie Clemente can be reached at 581-2812 or mclemente@eiu.edu.

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After a long wait on what the decision of the North Central Association would be, Eastern fi-nally received the report and the re-affirmation of getting re-accredited for another ten years.

The report looked at different criteria, making sure that Eastern met them all. Although there were some concerns, there were also a lot of pos-itives highlighted throughout the report in East-ern’s stance when it comes to its mission state-ment, faculty and student relationships and the different programs it presents.

With a continuing enrollment problem, The Daily Eastern News believes that it will be bene-ficial for the university to emphasize those posi-tive points to prospective students and to market Eastern in general.

These specific points are all things that show how much students are able to get when receiv-ing an education here.

One thing the report highlights is how the faculty and staff of Eastern all provide support, resources inside and outside of the classroom and dedication to the university by following the in-

stitutional policies.Students are able to go to their faculty, not

only before and after class, but also during their office hours.

This is extremely advantageous to the stu-dents who want extra help or just to consult with them. It provides a more open relationship be-tween both sides.

Prospective students and parents will find that this is a resource that should be taken advantage of. It allows another way for students to succeed and become more knowledgeable in their disci-pline.

Another thing the NCA report points out is that students know the requirements they have to fulfill at the university and the overall institu-tional processes.

One of the main reasons for this is because of the Debut orientations that students go through in the summer and the Prowl transition week-end.

These two programs make sure that students get to really know the campus so when the first

day of classes finally approaches, they know where to go and what to do.

The programs also encourage students to make friends—some of which they will proba-bly stay connected with for the rest of their lives.

This shows that the students, faculty, staff and the university as a whole want each and every student to grow comfortable while living on or around campus, regardless of race, gender or be-liefs.

Eastern shares a goal and that goal is to help all students succeed right from the beginning. All of the students currently attending Eastern are privileged in one way or another and should value the programs we provide here.

Students should feel proud to obtain these re-sources. If the university took all the things the NCA praised us for, then we may have a better chance at gaining more interest.

I wish people picked their battles based on severity of the issue rather than their personal levels of irritation.

All too often, I hear people protest and attack certain aspects of our collective cul-ture even when they have little to no merit for their objections.

Recently, a friend of mine brought up her objections to the baseball metaphor for sex, and how it is competitive, sexist and even homophobic.

This was brought up in relation to a TED talk filmed a few years ago mention-ing the metaphor and its problems as well as offering a more ridiculous metaphor in its place.

My friend was very passionate about her protest toward this metaphor, taking it extremely literally. She argued in base-ball, someone is always on the offense and defense with a winner and a loser, which makes the sport too competitive to com-pare to something like sex, which should be a cooperative effort between the two, or maybe even more, partners.

This is one of those examples where

problems are created into something bigger than needed, when there are larger problems at hand. In a society with so many social issues– how women are seen in the media, for example– battles should not be picked against small things like the baseball met-aphor used to describe sex, and if they are they should be used in tangent with other, larger efforts, to bring about real change.

Using this baseball metaphor as an exam-ple, I feel arguing over trivial-sounding things slows down the solutions to problems that need to be solved now. Should we refer to sex as pizza or as baseball?

Whether I’m telling my friends I had “pepperoni” last night or got to second base,

it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

This metaphor is being used to avoid a more “crude” way of describing what one person might have done with a partner.

Why are people picking fights with things like this metaphor that in the end have no effect on a person’s views such as sex, when we should be giving them a clear, direct message that views on sex still need changing.

If this metaphor was to be used less or not at all, I would assume a person’s view of sex would not change.

These types of objections slow or at least confuse the progression legitimate argu-ments and issues, like inappropriate views of what sex is.

Identify the real source of the prob-lem instead of fabricating them and loosely relating them to the grand point.

Jarad Jarmon is senior journalism major. He can be reached at DENopinions@gmail.com.

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Whenever I see people on their phones walking around campus, shut-ting themselves off from the outside world, I always shake my head and men-tally chide them for being so enslaved to technology.

However, I know that I am a hypo-crite because every time I find myself walking on campus I always have an iPod blasting music in my ears.

I decided to try going a few weeks without using an iPod when I am on campus, and though I did catch myself using it a couple of times, I managed to go a considerable length of time without the device that I realized was keeping me from fully immersing myself in the cam-pus environment.

The first couple of times I tried going sans music I felt weird. I chose to rec-ognize this weirdness and consider how alarming it is.

It should be disturbing how uncom-fortable I felt going a mere few min-utes without irrelevant noise standing between the world and I.

To combat this feeling I found I have a tendency to keep my head down to dis-tance myself from the awkwardness.

It defeats the purpose of my experi-ment to do so, however, as there is very little to appreciate in dirty concrete sidewalks. Instead, I made myself look forward and embrace my own existence in my surroundings.

An interesting side effect of this sort of determination is how much more eye contact I made with strangers.

It felt counterintuitive to make people feel less confused, but instead of avert-ing my eyes, I just gave a simple friend-ly smile. It has been my experience that everyone smiles back when they are gen-uinely smiled at.

Finally, once I moved past the awk-ward phase I began to find the magic of this experiment.

I started noticing things on campus I never had before, I found some of my best ideas came to me while walking, and I started restoring my faith in peo-ple as I took note of little acts of kind-ness students on our campus do every day that go unappreciated.

Little things like actually hearing peo-ple laughing with their friends or watch-ing strangers hold the door open for each other made my day.

I found out more about what was going on around campus and heard about events, activities and opportuni-ties that I didn’t know our campus has to offer.

Not listening to music for a fraction of my time spent on campus has had a huge impact on me.

It’s a little, seemingly insignificant change that is well worth the effort. I encourage every student to try it at least once before they graduate.

K a y c i e B r a u e r i s a j u n i o r p o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e and journalism major. She can be reached

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Camille Williams and Tashi Nelson dis-covered the path to religious devotion when the parties they attended began to feel too long and the behavior, corrupt.

Williams, a senior family and consumer sciences major, and Nelson, a sophomore bi-ology major, made a decision to begin their spiritual metamorphoses and turn them-selves over to an organization whose hand sign is the national symbol for love.

Elogeme Adolphi Christian Sorority, the only Christian sorority in Charleston, is an organization dedicated to those who wish to strengthen their faith, as well as form a strong bond of sisterhood.

Despite the self-proclaimed title of a so-rority, the organization is not actually an of-ficial greek sorority; however, those who join Elogeme may not join any other social or greek sorority.

Williams said everything the women do in the organization is Christian-centered and focused on community service, spirit and education. The women often wear butter-flies on their shirts to represent what they call their metamorphosis, or a spiritual evolution into a more devoted Christian woman.

Williams said her transformation began with quitting old habits.

“I stopped going to party after party and started becoming more active in my church,” she said.

Elogeme is open strictly to Christian women, but any denomination of Christi-

anity may join, Williams said. They are also the first Christian sorority

on Eastern’s campus along with their brother organization Megisté Areté fraternity, which is currently inactive due to low enrollment.

The women of Elogeme have various symbols that are biblical and some that are more loving representing a connection.

A Shepard’s rod is another one of their symbols standing for leading the lost souls back to Christ as well as many other symbols related to the Bible.

Tashi Nelson, a sophomore biology ma-jor and member, said the Elogeme’s work is similar to a ministry.

“You want people to see how God is us-ing you,” Nelson said.

Williams said the sorority has two parts to the name. Elogeme stands for “Blessed of the Lord,” and Adolphi translates into “sis-terhood.”

Their beginnings are based from Mattie P. Dawson, a woman who saw a vision from God in 1975 about a Christian sisterhood on college campuses.

This eventually became Elogeme Adol-phi in 1987.

Elogeme has a different initiation than their greek counterparts.

Initiation is given the term “flight.”Williams said the term is used because

each woman who joins can take one anoth-er to higher spiritual heights in God’s name.

They have had four “flights” since their creation on campus in 2012, with three joining the previous initiation and seven members currently, Williams said.

Williams said joining the organization is a five-week process, involving 6 a.m. prayer every day, readings on the Bible, scripture memorization and other teachings of their faith.

Both girls at one point used to party a lot and they felt they needed a lifestyle change.

Nelson said she joined the organization

because she wanted to form a closer bond to God and because she was new to Eastern, she did not think she could trust the church she was currently going to. Nelson said she also wanted to make friends with a group of girls she could count on and trust.

The hardest aspect for Nelson when she was joining was learning to depend on those

on her flight process. She said because God wants everyone to work together, the wom-en had to learn how to be a team and trust one another because if one of the girls messes up, they all would feel the repercussions of it.

Williams had similar reasons for joining, wanting to be a part of a sisterhood with a more disciplined faith.

Williams said because was baptized a few years ago, she felt the next step in her reli-gious journey was to join the organization.

Williams said the hardest part for her flight was when she joined with her twin sis-ter, Candace. Her “personal” – an organiza-tional guide to lead new members on their journey – felt Williams and her sister were struggling to internalize their scriptures. By week three of five of the induction process, the sisters were asked to restart the process from the beginning.

Despite this setback, both sisters were in-ducted on time and continue to serve as ac-tive members within the organization.

Williams said she still remembers every-thing she had to say when greeting current members of the organization. She said they had to greet each member whenever seeing them on campus with the full title of the or-ganization in the name of God, as well as telling them what the phrase and the scrip-ture of the day was.

“I can feel comfortable and be honest, that’s what it’s all about,” Nelson said.

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By Stephanie WhiteEntertainment Editor

Eastern students will be playing a vari-ety of jazz combos and music led by three faculty members who have experience per-forming across the U.S.

The jazz studies program will be show-casing three jazz combos at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Black Box Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The concert will be available to the pub-lic and free of charge.

Dan Crews, director of Patron Servic-es in Doudna, said students will be play-

ing three different classic jazz combos and standards.

“The students will also be playing new arrangements they created,” he said.

Nick Tucker, Jamie Ryan and Paul Johnston, who are all faculty in the music department, will coach the combos of the jazz performance.

“The music faculty will be work-ing with the students during the perfor-mance, coaching them during each com-bo,” Crews said.

Nick Tucker is a bassist and has been at Eastern for three years. He has performed with many jazz groups in different cities,

such as Indianapolis, Bloomington and throughout the Midwest.

Tucker has also performed in Latin and rock groups in these cities as well.

Jamie Ryan is the assistant professor of percussion at Eastern. He performs regu-larly with the Wisconsin Chamber Orches-tra and is a member of the Galaxy Percus-sion Group.

Paul Johnston is an associate professor of jazz studies and jazz piano and has been with the music department since 2004.

He is the coordinator of the combo pro-gram and teaches jazz piano, improvisation and arrangement classes.

Johnston has performed with many art-ists, including Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Nancy Wilson, Monica Mancini and Ber-nadette Peters.

Other chamber groups and jazz en-sembles from across the country have per-formed his compositions and arrange-ments.

Alfred Music, a music publishing com-pany, has published several of Johnston’s collections of his solo jazz piano arrange-ments.

Some student musicians who will be featured during this program will be playing the music of famous musicians,

Crews said.“They will be performing music from

artists such as Herbie Hancock, Billy Stray-horn, Oliver Nelson and Wayne Shorter,” he said.

Crews said Eastern’s jazz performing en-sembles have received recognition for excel-lent performances across the region,

“They have been recognized at the El-mhurst, Notre Dame and North Texas jazz festivals,” he said.

Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812 or at sewhite2@eiu.edu.

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ROBERTO HODGE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Camille Williams and Tashi Nelson both hold up the symbol representing their sorority. Elogeme Adolphi Christian Sorority, Inc is the only Christian sorority on Eastern’s campus.

By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge

Viktoria Rekasius participated in the Nearly Naked Mile wearing a pink paja-ma onesie with leggings and a shirt along-side her best friend.

Rekasius, a former Eastern student, said she enjoyed the Nearly Naked Mile and would do it again because it supports a good cause.

Student Government is hosting the second annual Nearly Naked 5k run, an event in which students can take off their clothes as they jog for charity, at 9 a.m. Saturday on the Panther Trail.

The race will begin at Wesley Unit-ed Methodist Church located on 2206 Fourth Street.

Rekasius said every fourth of a mile at the checkpoint, she had to take off an arti-cle of clothing to be donated.

“Oh my gosh, I had to do this with my best friend, it was so cold,” she said.

When Rekasius finally finished the run three minutes apart from her friend, she was wearing nothing but a tank top and shorts.

“I just tell myself I’m going to be warm soon—it’s a mindset thing,” she said.

However, for Rekasius, the cold does not bother her because she is used to do-ing athletic sports in winter weather; she is also going to participate in a Polar Plunge at Illinois State University.

Rekasius, who participates in many charity events, said she would definitely do the event again and would like to dress up in a funny costume; she said at the end of the run she remembers seeing a boy wearing a tutu when he finished.

“I tried to run as fast as I could (be-cause) I remember my parents screaming my name at the end,” she said.

Student Body PresidentReggie Thed-ford said the event used to be a mile jog, but it switched to a 5k for this year’s event. He said since the it is in February, stu-dents will be able to wear as many lay-ers as they want and take off their clothes while running.

Thedford said this is the first time he will be participating in the run, so he will wear some extra clothes to take off and donate while jogging.

Donations will be going to Standing Stone, a non-profit ministry with food,

clothing and furniture items, as well as the Wesley Methodist Church. Shoes will be donated to USAgain. USAgain is a for-profit company collecting unwanted tex-tiles and resells them in the United States and Abroad.

Thedford said the interesting aspect about the run is how students can take off their clothes by running if they want, but they do not have to take off their clothes while jogging; they could instead donate before or after the jog.

“It’s a fun way to get involved with a

service project—it’s unique,” Thedford said.

The goal is to provide clothing items to those who are underprivileged and to help others who may not have a chance of pur-chasing winter gear.

Those who wish to participate in the run can register online or at the event.

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FILE PHOTO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Viktoria Rekasius, a freshman management major, puts her shoe on after removing her pants during The Nearly Naked Mile outside Carman Hall. “I thought it would be a lot colder but when you were actually running it was fine," she said.

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By Jarad JarmonManaging Editor | @JJarmonReporter

The Council on Academic Affairs ap-proved many revisions to existing cours-es that will have an online format option for students, along with a traditional class-room format option.

In total, 28 revisions to courses, majors and minors were approved Thursday.

Eight family and consumer sciences courses required for family and consumer sciences majors will have an online option as well as a face-to-face format.

These courses include: FCS 1800: Lifespan Human Development; FCS 2800: Family Relationships; FCS 2831: Women in Contemporary Society; FCS 2850 Child Development; FCS 3840: Family Theories; FCS 4820: Death and Dying; FCS 4840: The Disadvantaged Family; and FCS 4846: Aging and the Family.

FCS 3840: Family Theories is a new course that will only be available to family and consumer sciences students.

Kathleen O’Rourke, the family and consumer sciences undergraduate pro-gram coordinator, said the course would be geared toward special age concentra-tions.

The kinesiology and sports studies de-partment also added an online option to their KSS 3860: Organization and Ad-ministration in Exercise Science.

Jill Owens, the kinesiology and sports studies department chairwoman, said they will be offering the course online or in hybrid format.

The department revised KSS 3700: Psychological Foundation of Coaching to focus more on coaching, which it pre-viously had not.

The political science department also revised five courses to add an online op-tion.

These included: PLS 3603: State and Local Government; PLS 3903: Wom-en and Politics; PLS 4793: Civic and Nonprofit Leadership; PLS 4873: Hu-man Resource Management in Public and Nonprofit Organizations; and PLS

4893: Budgeting in Government and Nonprofit Organizations.

PLS 3093: Women and Politics, af-ter being dormant for two years, will be available.

Richard Wandling, the political sci-ence department chairman, said it will hopefully bring in a broader audience, especially with the new title.

Since the course differs from its pre-vious curriculum, the women stud-ies department and the pre-law depart-ment will have to decide whether this course will still work with their curric-ulums.

PLS 3603: State and Local Govern-ment was also changed to a 3000 lev-el course to differentiate from commu-nity colleges that offer the same course.

The political science major has also been revised, reducing the required hours by three credit hours. Wandling said this would hopefully make it more appealing for students to double major in the program and to also stay aligned with peer institutions.

The political science honors program was also revised. Wandling said they wanted to make it an easier transition for transfer students.

The geography department revised its curriculum to follow some trends of other programs.

Chris Laingen, an assistant geogra-phy professor, said they have noticed their students seem to be the “jacks of all trades but masters of none.”

They are changing the curriculum so the three concentrations are more focused. These changes affect environment-physi-cal geography and human geography op-tion, as well as the geography and geogra-phy information sciences minor.

Two journalism courses, including JOU 2101: Writing for News Media and JOU 3000: Advanced Reporting have been revised. Learning goals have been added to both courses.

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