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By Sara Hall City Editor

The City Council will vote to enter into a contractual agreement for technical assis-tance services with the Coles County Region-al Planning and Development Commission at today’s meeting at City Hall.

Scott Smith, city manager for Charleston, said this agreement is prepared annually and allows the city to utilize the services of the Regional Planning Office.

He said the money for the consulting ser-vices is taken from the city’s budget.

“The renewal is a lump sum amount,” Smith said.

He said they assist the city with grant ap-plications and provide technical assistance on different projects.

Smith said the agreement will create a con-tract for services for the city to use if neces-sary.

The City Council will also vote to en-ter into a contractual agreement for revolv-ing loan fund administration and coordina-tion services with the Coles County Regional Planning and Development Commission.

Smith said the Coles County Regional Planning and Development Commission will assist the city with its revolving loan program.

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By Elizabeth Edwards News Editor

The former chairman of the history de-partment for 16 years, died on Friday at the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Charleston.

Robert Edward Hennings, 86, served as the chairman of the history department from 1974-1990 and helped steer the department through challenging times and was responsi-ble for many excellent hires, said Anita Shel-ton, chair of the history dept.

Hennings came to Eastern when the histo-ry dept. had recently been created out of the old social science department.

He was also one of several faculty members to launch the very successful Historical Ad-ministration masters program in 1974, Shel-ton said.

“It is now in its 37th year and continues to be among a handful of top programs in the nation preparing museum and other applied history professionals,” she said in an email.

Hennings’s impressions he left on the de-partment were his dedication to scholarship and teaching, which was reflected in all of his decisions, Shelton said.

By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

The Tarble Arts Center will be having Alternate Universe Story-teller Eames Demetrios to talk with students, faculty and com-munity members on Wednesday.

Demetrios will speak about

Kcymaerxthaere, his alternate universe. Demetrios’s world is the same global layout, but con-tains different laws and people than in the real world.

Michael Watts, the director of Tarble Arts Center, said Deme-trios will be turning Eastern’s campus into one of his stories.

Watts said in addition to tell-ing a story, Demetrios will be showing the setting of where the story takes place.

There will be brass plaques with codes placed around the

campus and participants will use their phones, iPods or other dig-ital devices to enter codes to a website that will give them clues that refer to Kcymaerxthaere’s Museum of the Bench.

The first person to correctly find and identify the clues will win a hand-embroidered bag from Namibia, a country in Kcy-maerxthaere, and other Kcymae-rxthaere items. The nine run-ners-up will receive Kcymaerx-thaere T-shirts.

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should be able to answer ques-tions that tell a story.

Watts said what Demetrios does is similar to what other au-thors and artists do.

“Other people have created fictional worlds, but he has tied it to real places as a part of the whole experience,” Watt said.

“Instead of turning the page or scrolling a screen, you have to get up and use your phones to go on,” Watts said.

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KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Grandmother, Little Red and Pierre the huntsman, a.k.a. Courtney Marks, Anneliese Booth and Anna Broughton, wait as B.B. Wolf (played by Mario McCart) prepares to blow their house down Monday during the one-night only production of Tom McCabe's "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" in the Recital Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

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Students, faculty and Charles-ton community kids saw the c o m i c c o m b i n a t i o n o f t w o childhood stories performed on stage.

The Eastern theatre arts de-pa r tment p re s en ted “ Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” a mixture of “The Three Lit-tle Pigs” and “Little Red Riding Hood.”

“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad

Wolf?” was the tale of a wolf, B. B. (Big Bad) Wolf , that was very hungry and started his hunt for food.

While the wolf was trying to find food, Little Red Rid-ing Hood’s mother wanted Lit-tle Red to take some food to her grandma’s house.

W h i l e L i t t l e Re d R i d i n g Hood was skipping through the woods, the three little pigs, Por-ky, Bacon Bits and Oink, came across B. B. Wolf. Because of their encounter with B.B. Wolf,

the three l i t t le pigs t r ied to build a house out of straw.

Like in the classic tale, B. B. Wolf said, “Little pigs, little pigs let me in.”

When B.B. Wolf blew down the three little pigs’ house made out of straw, the pigs ran away.

While the wolf attacked the pigs and hunted for food, Pierre, the lumberjack, tried to hunt down the wolf.

After their f i rst house was blown down, the three little pigs worked on building their sec-

ond house out of wood. During this time B. B. Wolf steals Little Red’s hood and disguises himself as Little Red.

O n e o f t h e p i g s , Po r k y, thought Little Red wanted to help build their new house, but Porky soon discovered it was B. B. Wolf disguised as Little Red.

Loren Brunson, a freshman business major, said she liked how the actors interacted with the audience during the show.

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By Emily Pellegrine Staff Reporter

Students gathered to stir up healthy festive recipes for the second installment of the Healthy Holiday Cooking seminar on Monday.

The 16 students who participat-ed made turkey stuffing, sweet pota-to casserole and pecan pie.

Michael Kelly, the nutrition edu-cator for the Health Education Re-source Center, said many of the stu-dents, who also attended the semi-nar last week, were more willing to ask questions this time.

“There was definitely a bet-ter turnout this week, I think the weather was a factor and the recipes this week were more Thanksgiving oriented because we made stuffing and pecan pie,” Kelly said.

Pecan pie and stuffing are two dishes that people often associate with Thanksgiving, Kelly said.

Rachel Jannusch, a senior fam-ily and consumer sciences major, also attended the seminar last week and said she liked the sweet potato casserole the best and the taste sur-prised her.

“The fat-free cream cheese we used in the pretzel gelatin dessert

last week tasted great,” Jannusch said.

A provided nutrition sheet said the sweet potato casserole was mod-ified resulting in the calories being reduced by 53 percent, fat reduced by 44 percent, cholesterol reduced by 14 percent and sugar reduced by 44 percent.

Jannusch said she always uses low-fat ingredients at home, but during the seminar they used fat- free ingredients and the recipes turned out the same.

“Now that I know fat-free can be substituted for low-fat, I will defi-nitely use it instead,” Jannusch said.

Giana Pickett, a senior business management major, also attended the seminar last week and said she thought this one was more about the heart of cooking.

“We kind of learned as we cooked this time, and modified the cooking times, resulting in the same great tasting recipes,” Pickett said.

Jannusch said she enjoyed the class because she was able to help people and teach them that reci-pes can be modified along the way without affecting the final product.

“While making the sweet potato casserole, we only had to cook it for

15 minutes, when the recipe called for 40 minutes; all we did was in-crease the temperature; the recipe came out the same,” Jannusch said.

Having more experienced stu-dents teach each other can be ben-eficial to the learning process, Kel-ly said.

The culinary student taught ev-eryone the proper way to chop an onion, something that many peo-ple might not know how to do, Kel-ly said.

Pickett said she recommends stu-dents from other majors take advan-tage of seminars like Healthy Holi-day Cooking because of the univer-sal benefits.

“Seminars like this are a great way to explore new things on cam-pus and it’s a great opportunity to meet people from different majors,” Pickett said.

Samantha Palmer, a junior ele-mentary education major, said she decided to come this week because her friend was going, and it was a great way to learn new cooking skills.

“I like to cook, but this class was a great experience to learn healthy alternatives that I otherwise wouldn’t have known,” Palmer said.

Palmer said she will use the mod-ifications for other recipes at home because the alternatives nearly cut the calories in half.

The turkey stuffing was modified and the calories were reduced by 60 percent, fat reduced by 32 percent, cholesterol reduced by 38 percent and sodium reduced by 51 percent.

Jannusch said the only recipe that tasted different was the pecan pie because it was more cake-like than it should have been.

“I think it was because of the egg beaters, sometimes they are more fluffy than regular eggs so that might have affected the function of eggs in the pie,” Jannusch said.

The pecan pie was modified and the calories were reduced by 61 per-cent, the cholesterol was reduced by 16 percent and the sugar was re-duced by 16 percent.

Kelly said she will be doing an-other seminar next semester called Heart Healthy.

“The next seminar will focus on low cholesterol and low saturated and trans fat foods,” Kelly said.

Emily Pellegrine can be reached at 581-2812 or elpellegrine@eiu.edu.

By Jaime Lopez Staff reporter

Students from The Agency and members of Public Action to De-liver Shelter stood in front of Lumpkin Hall, despite the weath-er, collecting donations for the homeless.

On Monday each cardboard box placed in a pile, behind the volunteers, had a sign that read, “Where are you sleeping tonight?”

PADS is an organization that provides shelter for the homeless.

Director of PADS Glen For-neris said every box in the pile is sponsored by businesses or an RSO, they represent the lack of shelter within the community.

Students who donated mon-ey voted for their favorite box and the winners will then receive a plaque donated by Nancy’s Let-tering Shop.

“With the state of the economy people can only donate so much, every little bit counts and will make a difference,” Forneris said

Mandy Smith, a senior English major and volunteer, said it is re-freshing to see people who are rush-ing off to class and stop to donate.

Students donated money into buckets provided by Charleston’s KFC.

Rhys Holec, a freshman Eng-

lish major, was one of the many students who donated to the pro-gram.

“It’s great that students on campus care for those in need," Holec said. "Organizations like The Agency and PADS have the resources to do so much for the homeless."

Many people from Eastern’s community donated, like Mahyar Izadi, Dean of Lumpkin College of Business & Applied Sciences.

“It feels wonderful to see stu-

dents donate money to the people who need it the most,” Izadi said.

Beth Steele, the director of The Agency, said the organization wanted a campaign that got every-one in the Charleston communi-ty involved.

“RSOs, Unique Homes, Mid-gard Comics, and many oth-er businesses have brought some-thing to our campaign," Steele said.

Kristin Jording, associate direc-tor of The Agency, said the organi-

zation looked over at many groups they could help and assist.

“We looked for many groups that needed help and found PADS preparations for this campaign took a whole month,” Jording said.

The Agency’s efforts brought in $350 to PADS. All of the money will go toward providing a home for those who don’t have one.

Jaime Lopez can be reached at 581-4432 or jlopez@eiu.edu.

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Students from South Korea, Chi-na and Indonesia have the oppor-tunity to experience life at Eastern because of dual-degree agreements in place at four universities.

The dual-degree agreements al-low international students to re-ceive credit from Eastern after com-pleting two years at their original university, and once they have met Eastern’s graduation requirements, the credit is transferred back to their university.

Eastern has dual-degree agree-ments with Chungnam Nation-al University in Daejeon Province, Seoul, South Korea; Hankou Uni-versity in Wuhan, China; Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Yayasan Ad-ministrasi Indonesia (Y.A.I.) in Ja-karta, Indonesia; and Universitas Persada Indonesia Y.A.I. also in Ja-karta.

President Bill Perry said these agreements are very positive pro-grams for Eastern and provide a great educational experience for students and faculty interaction.

“The agreements allow for an exchange of ideas and people, and bring new perspectives and infor-mation to the table,” Perry said. “It also has advantages in terms of when students come here from an-other country, our students get more cultural interaction.”

Kevin Vicker, interim director of the international students and scholars office, said Eastern’s first dual-degree agreement was signed in July 2011 with Chungnam Na-tional University.

Vicker traveled to each universi-ty in October and said Chungnam National University was similar to Eastern in terms of not being locat-ed in a large city.

There are currently two inter-national students taking adavan-tage of the dual-degree agreement with Chungnam National Univer-sity and four more students are ex-pected to come to Eastern for the

spring semester, Vicker said.Heewon Shin, a senior commu-

nication studies major, and Jungah Lee, a junior business major, are the two students from Chungnam National University.

Shin said she thinks Eastern has a more interactive learning environ-ment.

“The classes are different because here we have smaller classes with maybe 28 people, and at our uni-versity we usually have more than 50 people in the class and some-times classes have more than 200 people in them,” Shin said.

Lee said she thinks the language difference is the most challenging aspect with transferring to Eastern.

“I wanted to increase my English and experience another culture,” Lee said. “EIU doesn’t have very many Korean students so we get to practice English a lot and meet dif-ferent people.”

Shin said she was initially wor-ried about making fr iends and didn’t know what to expect from Eastern after seeing many corn-fields on the way to Charleston.

“Once I got here I really liked (Eastern) with its beautiful campus, and I was actually really surprised with how kind people are here and how open they are to international students,” Shin said.

The process for implementing dual-degree agreements includes making initial contact with the university, measuring the feasibil-ity and benefit of the agreement, researching the different universi-ty students and facilities, and then signing a Memorandum of Under-standing.

Vicker said there are several ben-efits to having dual-degree agree-ments.

“One is to receive more inter-national students here on campus, and another one is to promote fac-ulty opportunities to teach overseas and really build shared knowledge through educational exchanges,” Vicker said. “I think that Eastern can really grow and become an ad-vanced international initiative and increase our ability to give our stu-dents cultural experience.”

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812

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By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

Students and community mem-bers will get to learn about green business and franchising this week.

This week is the Global Entre-preneurship Week and the Lump-kin School of Business and Applied Sciences is having different presen-tations for students, faculty and the surrounding communities.

"Which Green Jobs Look Prom-ising for Rural Illinois?" will be held at 5 p.m. today and “The Ins

and Outs of Franchising: What You Need to Know" panel discussion will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, both in the Lumpkin Hall Roberson Au-ditorium (Room 2030).

“Which Green Jobs Look Prom-ising for Rural Illinois?” will be pre-sented by John J. Gruidl, profes-sor of economics at Western Illinois University's Illinois Institute of Ru-ral Affairs.

Marko Grunhagen, Lumpkin Distinguished Professor of Entre-preneurship and associate profes-sor of marketing, said Gruidl will be talking about green jobs in Illinois.

Some of the industries that Gru-idl will be speaking about are wind energy, solar power and biodiesel industries.

Grunhagen said the local surviv-

al of local economy depends on the number of local jobs.

“If new green initiatives can pro-vide jobs in a local economy, it in-creases the prospects of prosperity in economy,” Grunhagen said.

Grunhagen said students can learn different jobs available in the green industry.

“Students may be looking for these jobs and this may help them prepare for a job they would like to start in,” Grunhagen said.

“The Ins and Outs of Franchis-ing: What You Need to Know" will be a panel discussion about the ef-fects of franchising and its relation-ship with entrepreneurship.

The panelist will include: Wil-liam Guzik, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Mi-

das International; Cassandra Kari-mi, assistant attorney general (Fran-chise Bureau) of the state of Illinois; Kevin Traub, franchisee of Dairy Queen International; Doris Carter, franchise attorney of Carter & Tani Attorneys at Law; and John Inyart, mayor of Charleston and Midas In-ternational franchisee.

The panel will be moderated by Steven Michael, a professor of man-agement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Grunhagen said franchising has many components that have an en-trepreneurship.

“Founders of many franchises across America are clearly entrepre-neurs, when they started those com-panies,” Grunhagen said.

Grunhagen said tthis discussion

will give students an insight into the business of franchising.

“If you ever want to be involved in franchising or want to start your own pizza stores, the panelist can provide you with the first ideas you need,” Grunhagen said.

Grunhagen said both events are meant to teach the students outside of the classroom and gives them a glimpse at the outside world.

“We see this as a service to our student body and the community around us,” Grunhagen said.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior communications major Heewon Shin (left) and junior business major Jungah Lee are participating in the dual degree agreement that Eastern has with Chungnam National University in Seoul, South Korea. Both Shin and Lee live in Lincoln Hall.

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Jakarta, IndonesiaUniversitas Persada

Indonesia Y.A.I.Jakarta, Indonesia

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Occupy EIU a good cause, will be missed

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College students are known for their ideal-ism. We have long held a reputation of using our voices when something is wrong in the world.

In America, we most associate college pro-tests with the Vietnam era. Masses of students marched on campuses across the country to send a message that the war the government had en-gaged us in was unjustified and done without our consent or support. Some experts believe it was, in part, the overwhelming protest against Vietnam that helped President Johnson decide not to run for office again in 1968, the most vo-cal year for college students.

More recently, the Occupy Movement has started moving from city streets to college cam-puses as city police start cracking down on pub-lic encampments. Worries over public safe-ty and health conditions have made many cities start to push protesters out of public streets. Stu-dents across the world have taken up the cause, and college campuses are a natural place to set up shop.

Last week, though, protests turned to riots. Not over any political message, but over the fir-ing of Pennsylvania State University head foot-ball coach Joe Paterno. Paterno was serving his 62nd season on Penn State’s coaching staff, and his 46th as head coach. He was rightly a legend in football circles, and the school held him in high regard.

His dismissal came in the wake of the arrest of his former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky is accused of 40 counts of child moles-tation over a 15-year period, some of which hap-

pened on Penn State’s campus. Former gradu-ate assistant Mike McQueary reportedly walked into the football facilities’ showers and observed Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy. McQueary told Paterno, who reported it to his boss and no one else.

The school did not feel it was necessary to contact the police, and presumably felt it was in the school’s best interest to put more children at danger than to have the school’s name tarnished. The three men on the coaching staff, including Paterno, who were aware of what was going on apparently agreed. No one contacted the author-ities, and Sandusky was not fired.

The riots were not about Penn State know-ingly employing an accused child rapist, and were not about protesting the fact that no one stopped this horrendous situation. The riots were protesting the firing of Paterno, who currently has no legal charges pending against him.

Students flipped over cars and a news van, tore down lampposts and threw rocks and fire-works at police. The police responded with pep-per spray. One student summed up the riot per-

fectly when he shouted at police.“Of course we’re going to riot,” Paul Howard,

24, said. “What do they expect when they tell at 10 o’clock that they fired our football coach?”

College students should protest what they be-lieve in. We can change public opinion and refo-cus the argument.

These riots were a slap in the face to a strong and proud tradition that doesn’t only happen in America. Beijing students started the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Though the protests were ultimately unsuccessful, it was the first time protestors in China were able to gain a foothold in the political process and receive internation-al attention.

Last December, a Tunisian unemployed grad-uate student walked into the middle of a square in his town and lit himself on fire in protest. He set off the Arab Spring. Yemen, Iran, Syria, Jor-dan, Morocco, Algeria and others have had pro-tests as a result, and the people of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia overthrew their respective dictatorial governments in the months after.

College students do have a say in national af-fairs and our voices matter. But not when we de-fend a person whose actions are so abomina-ble that they warrant international outrage. Ap-parently, Penn State’s students believe in football above morality. I expect they will get some per-spective on what I hope were rash actions.

Sarah Bigler is a senior political science major.

She can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com.

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Penn State students acted rashly, not morally

By Beth Clothier Western Courier Western Illinois University

The Internet is a wonderful thing. At the risk of sounding trite, I can’t remember what life was like before I was introduced to its wonders, or perhaps I choose not to. Who could refuse the allure of a wealth of information at one’s fingertips at any time of the day or night, as long as you have a comput-er and a willing connection. Not only that, but the entertainment value is now endless with the advent of streaming audio and video. The rate at which the Internet has evolved is astonishing, when you think about it.

However, for all of its advancement, the Inter-net also serves as an indicator for how much hu-manity refuses to evolve. Sure, we can create amaz-ing things. Google and YouTube are certainly proof of that. But regardless of incredible search capaci-ty and videos of people setting their houses on fire while trying to deep fry their holiday turkeys, what the Internet really shows us is that as people, we still have a long, long way to go.

While researching articles for potential opinion pieces Sunday afternoon, I came across a common denominator, a thread that held each story togeth-

er. This thread was the comments section, where any Tom, Dick or Harriet could spew the imme-diate contents of their brains in a box created by a piece of code and send them out into the world. Sure, now and then there were some intelligent comments, some poignant speeches and even some milquetoast complacency to round things out, but more often there was ignorance, hatred and idiocy.

Take for example some of the comments left on a story regarding the death of former Cardi-nals’ pitcher Bob Forsch, who died only days af-ter throwing out the opening pitch at Game Seven of the World Series. Some of them were respectful, sharing stories of how Forsch touched their lives, or sentimental in that they envisioned Forsch on a “Field of Dreams,” a great big diamond in the sky.

Then there were those like this one (in all caps) from a commenter identifying herself as Jen: “If he would listen to the doctors by lifting weights, eat healthy and stay away from smokers, he could en-joy his life much more but he is just to (sic) lazy just like those fat a** out there waiting for miracle.”

Call me crazy, but is that really the time or place to be spewing your grammatically incorrect hatred? A really special one discussed how whites should be exiled from the United States and offered a vid-eo and several blog links to back up its argument.

Others showed their team spirit, such as this one from “Texas Fan”: “Go Texas! Eat crap Cardinals fans!” Yet others were posted by “trolls,” who seem to exist for no other reason than to aggravate, an-noy and disrespect people behind the relative safety of online anonymity.

Therein lies the true problem. Because the Inter-net does offer a degree of anonymity as far as we al-low it to, people can easily hide behind it. When all you are represented by is an ironic moniker and a generic avatar, you have nothing to fear. You can say the most ridiculous, hateful things and there are ab-solutely no repercussions, because no one knows it’s you saying them. No one, that is, except yourself.

It’s sad, really, that a people who can create things like the Mona Lisa, “Titanic” and bacon-fla-vored soda can still sink to such a level. That we can still hate and hurt just because we can, because no one will ever know we were the ones behind those comments. But maybe that’s just me being naïve. After all, some measure of humankind was also re-sponsible for the atomic bomb and the “Hamster Dance.” Perhaps it’s in our very nature to always walk that fine line between being a jerk and being sincere.

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AROUND THE STATE

They camped. They froze. They vigil-ed. They occupied.

Although it did not make the one-month milestone, the Occupy EIU movement camped out for 23 days on the side of the Doudna Fine Arts Building. For 23 days they endured some arctic-tundra-like tempera-tures, curious stares and the absence of elec-trical outlets

On Nov. 11, the group decided to pack it up when strong winds blew through Camp Occupy – the aftermath resembling a “Jumanji”-like stampede (sans Robin Wil-liams).

Daniel Douglas, a graduate student in the communication studies department and a member of Occupy EIU, told The Daily East-ern News on Nov. 9 the group does not have the resources of other Occupy movements to continue on in the harsh weather.

We are sad to see them go. We think it was good for the community and good for the protesters. They weren’t abrasive about their tactics and Occupy EIU was never a conten-tious thing. Chances are, if you had any inter-action with Occupy EIU, it was cordial and intelligent. Whether you agreed, disagreed or couldn’t care less – they started conversation.

The only time the group decided to get a little wild was during its Oct. 27 vigil for Scott Olsen. In a very “Fight Club” fash-ion, the group chanted, “His name is Scott Olsen,” throughout their march of Eastern’s campus.

It’s a shame the group didn’t get bigger.It seems other Occupy movements at uni-

versities in larger cities have gotten the most traction. On Oct. 15, approximately 400 res-idents of all ages from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign marched in an Occu-py demonstration.The Occupy Blooming-ton-Normal group has also been marching on. The group protested outside a campaign fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock on the east side of Bloomington on Friday night.

We also commend the administration for not interfering with Occupy EIU’s efforts. Eastern officials could have surely found some rule somewhere to challenge the protest-ers right to camp out in front of Doudna for more than three weeks. Campus police could have hastled protesters and created a problem where there was none.

Instead, they understood Occupy EIU as a peaceful protest, and respected the maturi-ty of the protesters by giving them space to demonstrate.

Although it’s been peaceful for Occupy Eastern, some schools have had to face “Apoc-alypse Now!”-like circumstances (sans Char-lie Sheen). On Oct. 19, officers at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale cut tarps and called off the Occupy protests there.

Although the group will continue to host discussion panels and maintain their pres-ence on Facebook, we mourn the day Occu-py EIU had to pack up their things and leave an absence in our hearts. A vigil is definite-ly in order.

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He said although the council is not required to enter into an agreement, they normally enter a contract with the Regional Planning and Develop-ment Commission every year.

The City Council will also vote on

an ordinance to grant Blake Coffey an approval for a minor subdivision in the 1100 block of West Polk.

Smith said Coffey is asking to di-vide the existing property of .8 acres into two separate lots of .4 acre size

lots.Smith said Coffey will have to meet

all the zoning requirements.

Sara Hall can be reached at 581-2812 or smhall3@eiu.edu.

COUNCIL, from page 1

“When I came here, it was from a rather dysfunctional program, where nothing was done right and no one was happy, and everyone seemed to think it as unavoidable,” she said. “Bob Hennings showed me that things can only be done well when they are done in accor-dance with people’s needs and in-terests.”

She said her most favorite mem-ory of Hennings was his laugh, which she described as loud and free. She said she remembers when she first encountered his laugh during her interview when she asked him about what her teaching load would be.

“He threw back his head and laughed out loud; he never did an-swer the question,” she said.

As a professor, Hennings was a rigorous and excellent teacher who demanded from himself as much as he demanded from his students, she said.

History professor Charles Titus experienced his teaching personal-ly when he took Henning’s colonial history class when he was an East-ern student.

“His coursework was rigorous and he had high expectations,” he said.

Titus said his passion for histo-ry and learning was evident in the

classroom.Hennings maintained his love

for history and learning after his career at Eastern, he said.

“He was one of those people who never stopped learning,” he said.

Hennings would come visit the department and attend lectures and discussions after he retired.

His pass ion for h i s tor y and learning was still evident up until his death, Titus said.

“I am sorry he is gone and he will be missed,” Titus said.

During his time at Eastern Hen-nings served as the elected presi-dent for the local chapter of Asso-

ciation American University Pro-fessors and chairman of the Coun-cil of Faculties, Board of Gover-nors of State Colleges and Univer-sities.

He also served on the Fine Arts Council and the Council of Aca-demic Affairs.

Hennings wrote the chapter on President Doudna’s administration in “The Emerging University.”

In the community, Hennings served as president of the Charles-ton Community Theatre and the Coles County Historical Society. He was also active with the Coles County Historic Preservation Ad-visory Committee and the Illinois

State Historical Society. He was preceded in death by his

wife of 61 years, Nancy Wensely Hennings, who died Dec. 4, 2010.

They are survived by their three children, Deirdre and Robert J. of Los Angeles and Joe of Charleston.

Memorial gifts will go to the Robert E. Hennings Historical Ad-ministration Scholarship. Send do-nations to Shelton at 2744 Cole-man Hall, Charleston.

Elizabeth Edwards can be reached at 581-2812

or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.

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Watts said this helps people look at events and ideas differently.

“You hook into what he created and it makes you take a new look at the world around us,” Watts said.

People can travel the world to participate at the 45 different sites that are placed in more than eight countries. The different sites are placed in our world and the world of Kcymaerxthaere.

One of the places that Demetri-os has used as a connection to his story is located in Paris, Ill. Embas-sy Row: Heart of the Parisian Dias-pora museum.

The event is a complement to Demetrios’ exhibit “Détourne-ment: Subversive Visual Commu-

nication” that is on display until Feb. 26.

The competition will start at 5 p.m. Wednesday and will end with a presentation at 7 p.m. in the Atrium of the Tarble Arts Center.

It is sponsored by the Excellence in Fine Arts Visiting Artist pro-gram of the EIU College of Arts & Humanities.

Watts said the exhibit and event is interactive and an interesting way to tell a story.

“It’s like a video game, except in real life,” Watts said.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

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By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

Juniors and seniors from Charleston, Mattoon and Oakland high schools will have the opportunity to learn how to start a business by attending the Coles County Entrepreneurship Class.

A total of $162,500 was committed by 60 businesses to fund the class dur-ing a three-year period.

The funds committed to this proj-ect pay for operational expenses and for teachers’ salary and benefits.

Jeanne Dau, the director of the East-ern Business Solutions Center, said the class will give students the chance to learn how to start a business or ven-ture at a young age in life when there are low risks and they do not have to worry about paying a mortgage or stu-dent loans.

“They will also learn about network-ing with the community and skills that they will be able to use for the rest of

their lives,” Dau said. “With these skills they will be able to put resources to-gether and create something of value to present to the world.”

Dau said one of the main goals of the class is to encourage the creation of more locally based businesses to provide more jobs and revenue for Coles Coun-ty.

Some of the skills taught to the stu-dents include problem solving, profes-sional business etiquette and creativity skills.

Students will also be taught how to promote their product through writing and to handle profits and losses through financial skills, she said.

“One of the greatest benefits of the class is that it is a very well-round-ed program that teaches many differ-ent skills and offers a direct connec-tion with the local business communi-ty,” Dau said.

The Coles County Entrepreneurship Class begins in Fall 2012, and appli-

cation information will be available in December.

Dau said they worked on the cur-riculum and vision of the project for about five years, and was implemented in Effingham three years ago.

“It was easy to get the project started here because we had a better framework on which to build upon,” Dau said. “Many business partners have provid-ed not only financial support for the class, but also their time and talent to mentor students in the classroom.”

Dau said the project requires the effort and support of a lot of people including the 60 business owners and the 12 members of the Coles County Entrepreneurship Community Board.

She said the class size is expected to be between 20 and 25 students and each student will be assigned a men-tor.

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812 or rjrodgers@eiu.edu.

“That part was very unique and un-usual to me,” Chatman said.

“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” was written by Tom McCabe and di-rected by Mary Yarbrough, an instruc-tor of theatre arts.

The cast included Mario McCart

as B. B. Wolf, Anneliese Booth as Lit-tle Red, Courtney Marks as the mother and grandmother, Marcus May as Por-ky, Josh Anderson as Bacon Bits and Anna Broughton as Pierre and Oink.

May said he enjoyed playing the part of Porky.

“It’s fun and you can’t be embar-rassed to play a part,” May said. “As long as the kids enjoyed it, I enjoyed it.”

Brittany Martin can be reached at 581-2812 or bgmartin@eiu.edu.

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Indiana State had a significant ad-vantage in terms of free throws made and attempted in Friday’s win over Eastern’s men’s basketball team.

The Panthers shot great when they got to the charity stripe, shooting 12-12 for the game. The problem, howev-er, was getting there.

The Sycamores got to the free-throw line three times as much as Eastern did. They shot a solid 80.6 percent, making 29 of their 36 attempts.

Eastern only lost by seven points, 72-79, so just doubling its output could have made a big difference in the game.

Last season the Panthers’ opponents shot more than 100 more free-throws than they did 587-486. Without some adjustments, the team could be in for similar results this season.

Granger wins OVC player of the week

Senior guard Jeremy Granger won the first Ohio Valley Conference play-er of the week award for the 2011-2012 season for his play against Indiana State.

Granger, the Panthers’ lone pick for the preseason All-OVC team, scored 26 points on 10-16 shooting. He was per-fect from the free-throw line, shooting 5-5 for the game. He also added three rebounds, one assist and one steal.

Granger ranked eighth in the nation last season, shooting 90.4 percent from the free-throw line.

Granger is the first Panther to win an OVC player of the week award since 2007-2008.

Freshman guard Austin Akers was nominated for OVC newcomer of the week, but the award was given to Mike DiNunno from Eastern Kentucky and Tyler Stone from Southeast Missouri.

The Panthers will have their home opener Wednesday night against Loyola-Chicago. Game time is set for 7 p.m.

Around the OVCTennessee-Martin lost to Ohio 74-

64. The Skyhawks trailed by 29 points with 14:30 remaining and went on a 15-0 run to get within 14 points with a little more than eight minutes to play.

Tennessee-Martin would continue to

cut the lead to single digits with 1:20, but the comeback could not be com-pleted.

Freshman Myles Taylor notched his first career double-double as he led the Skyhawks with 11 points and 10 re-bounds. The loss drops Tennessee-Mar-tin’s record to 0-2 this season.

Jacksonville State was beat 58-44 by Marshal in its second game of the season.

The Gamecocks were led by junior Tarvin Gaines, who led all players in the game with 12 points. Gaines shot 4-7 from the field and added four rebounds.

The loss drops Jacksonville’s record

to 1-1 this season. Morehead State was blown out by

North Carolina State 91-61 in its sea-son opener.

The Atlantic Coast Conference team showed it was too much for More-head to handle as North Carolina shot 61 percent from the field and out-re-bounded the Eagles 34-23.

Senior Terrance Hill led Morehead with 14 points on 4-5 shooting from the three-point line.

Rob Mortell can be reached at 581-7944 or at rdmortell@eiu.edu.

“It’s been a very open process and a process that’s been good for me,” Burke said. “I’ve had a lot of peo-ple comment on the program, both positively and negatively.”

Three of the four candidates Eastern is bringing in have a con-nection to the university. McCray is the only coach who does not have ties to Eastern.

Hutson spent four seasons at Eastern, from 2002-2006, taking over the head coaching duties in 2006 when former head coach Bob Spoo was on a medical leave.

Choate was with Eastern for one season, serving as the special teams coach in 2005. Babers was the run-ning backs coach at Eastern in 1987.

Burke said the coaches’ ties to Eastern were not a major factor in each of them getting so far in the process, nor will they be in her fi-

nal decision.“Having those ties to Eastern is

a plus, but wasn’t an overriding fac-tor,” Burke said.

McCray will arrive on campus Friday and stay until Saturday. During the visit, Burke said Mc-Cray will meet the screening com-mittee; Eastern President Bill Per-ry; Dan Nadler, vice president for student affairs; people in the pub-lic and media relations depart-ment; and the head strength coach. McCray will also be getting a tour and spending the majority of the day with Burke.

The public is invited to an open forum at 5:30 p.m. Friday in Lantz Club Room, where they will be able to talk with the coaching can-didate.

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Wittke’s offense only averaged 23 points per game and 325 yards. The offense was ranked worst in the OVC, averaging 12 yards fewer than any other team.

Burke said the athletic depart-ment has expectations for its pro-grams, and the football team was not living up to them.

“We need to make that commit-ment to make our football program at the top half of the league,” Burke said.

Bellantoni said Sunday he did not think it would be fair to judge him solely on the past two seasons’ performance. However, Burke said the right decision was made.

“No matter what decis ion is made, people are going to be disap-pointed,” Burke said. “That’s where we are today. The right person will come out at the end.”

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Indiana Sycamores dominate from foul line

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K AROLINA STR ACK | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Senior guard Jeremy Granger pulls back to shoot the ball Nov. 6 during a men’s basketball game against Olivet Nazarene in Lantz Arena.

With the recent coaching changes at Eastern, both McNair and Gard-ner said they are unsure if they will play for Eastern next season.

“Now, I’m not really sure what’s going on or what my future is with Eastern Illinois,” McNair said.

While McNair said he’s still com-mitted to the team, he said it will depend on where the new head coach wants to use him in the de-fense.

“I’m still committed, I guess,” he said. “I guess it all depends on what the new guy wants to do with me. It’s very possible that a new guy

could come in and not want me and have some other guys in mind.

Gardner said without Bellanto-ni, he’ll have to keep his future op-tions open.

“After the visit, I was kind of looking forward to committing there, but now that he was let go, I don’t know anything about the new coach that’s coming in,” he said. “Now I’ll just have to explore my options a little bit more.”

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942

or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

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COACH SEARCH

By Alex McNamee Editor-in-chief

Four candidates were announced Monday as finalists for the East-ern football head coaching position. The university will begin the pro-cess of bringing the candidates to campus for visits beginning Thurs-day.

Randall McCray, assistant coach for linebackers and special teams coordinator at Pittsburgh, will be the first of four candidates to vis-it.

Dino Babers, assistant coach and special teams coordinator at Baylor; Jeff Choate, assistant coach and spe-cial teams coordinator; and Mark Hutson, interim head coach at Tu-lane, are the other three finalists for the job.

The job opening received more than 90 applications, which were boiled down to the top 15 candi-dates based on decisions made by the head coach screening commit-tee.

With 15 top choices, the screen-

ing committee invited Eastern ath-letic director Barbara Burke into the conversation, at which point the list was shortened to about 10 candidates, then about six, and fi-nally ending up with the final four names.

Dur ing the commi t t e e and Burke’s conversations, the “Three Rs” were taken into account — re-fresh, renew, rebuild.

Taking this into account, Burke and the committee decided not to keep former Eastern coordinators Roc Bellantoni and Roy Wittke in the job pool.

“To change a program, to change a culture, I think you need to change individuals,” Burke said. “Right now, today, it’s a difficult time for some people. I appreciate that and I respect that.”

Burke said the two coordina-tors, who both applied for the head coaching job, were eliminated after making it into the top 15.

All of this season’s football staff has been removed from their po-sitions; however, each will be giv-

en the opportunity to meet with the new head coach and be retained by the new coach’s decision, Burke said.

“I anticipate some of our staff will be retained,” Burke said.

Burke said she does not antici-pate the coordinators, Bellantoni and Wittke, will be retained because of the important positions they would hold on the staff.

“(New head coaches) typical-ly l ike to have their coordina-tors brought in with them because there’s that bond there,” Burke said.

Burke said she has no clue as to who the leading candidate right now would be, or who she could foresee being the new head coach because she’s never met the candi-dates in person.

Even so, Burke said she is anx-ious to meet the candidates and see how the rest of the process plays out. Burke said she plans on hav-ing the coach picked by early De-cember.

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Finalists announced for top job

By Alex McNamee Editor-in-chief

A major reason why Roc Bel-lantoni and Roy Wittke were eliminated from the pool of ap-plicants for Eastern’s head foot-ball coaching job was because of performance, Eastern athletic di-rector Barbara Burke said Mon-day.

The two coordinators saw their past success go down the drain the past two seasons, as the foot-ball team combined for a 4-18 re-cord.

Burke said the results the team produced on the field were unfor-tunate, especially because Bellan-toni was “potentially in line for the (head coaching) job.”

“If this had happened a couple years ago, and the program con-tinued to progress and improve, things might be different today,”

Burke said.Both coaches applied for the

head coaching position, but were eliminated after they were consid-ered in the top 15 of the candidate pool, Burke said.

“If you’re trying to go in a new direction, sometimes you need new leadership f rom the top down,” Burke said. “You can’t fear change. You have to respect change.”

Burke said the team results had to play a part in her decision be-cause football is a performance-based industry.

Bellantoni’s defense gave up an average of 240 rushing yards t h i s s e a s o n a n d g a ve u p 3 1 points per game. The defense also gave up a total of 404 yards per game. It was ranked sixth in total defense in the Ohio Valley Conference.

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By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

Known for his connections to the Sunshine State, the now for-mer Eastern defensive coordinator Roc Bellantoni was a major recruit-ing edge for the Eastern football team. Bellantoni played a large role in bringing in Florida natives CJ James, Rashad Haynes, Ke’Andre Sams, Nick Ricks and Seymour Loftman.

However, Bellantoni also spent a little bit of time in the Bluegrass State, as he was a key figure in the recruiting of high school seniors Jake McNair and Darnell Gardner of Kentucky’s duPont Manual High School.

McNair, a linebacker, and Gard-ner, a wide receiver, were both re-cruited by Bellantoni to play for the Eastern team next season, but now with Bellantoni out of the pic-ture, the two may be having second thoughts.

“(Bellantoni) was honestly the main reason I even considered East-ern Illinois at first,” McNair said. “He made a really good impression on me and my dad, and he was the main reason I kept coming back, and it was a very sad thing to hear yesterday.”

McNair said Bellantoni personal-ly called him to tell him he would no longer be the Eastern defensive coordinator.

“I talked to him on the phone a couple of times and he was re-ally cool,” Gardner said. “He was the one who got me interested in the school and all and then when I heard the news, I was kind of let down.”

Both McNair and Gardner said they were both under the impres-sion that Bellantoni would be the next head coach.

“He had always told me that he was the main guy for the job and he was almost certain that he was going to get it,” McNair said. “He told me that’s why he stuck around for so long, was because that he was in line to get the head coaching job, so when I commit-ted I was under the impression that I was going to be playing for him.”

Gardner said he had heard from players on the team that Bellanto-ni would be next in line to lead the team.

“I was told from some of the play-ers on the team that he would prob-ably get the head coaching job,” Gardner said. “I was really excited for him to get it. I was kind of ex-pecting him to get the job too.”

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Searching for Spoo’s replacementCoordinators out based on poor results

By Alex McNamee Editor-in-chief

The Eastern women’s basketball team will play Bradley at 7 p.m. today in Peoria for its first road game of the young season.

The Panthers won their season opener against Oakland City 93-32 in a blowout. Today’s game will be dif-ferent because it is on the road against a Missouri Valley Conference oppo-nent, senior forward Chantelle Press-ley said.

Pressley said the road game will test the Panthers to keep up their intensity as they did at home Friday.

This game is the beginning of head coach Brady Sallee’s tough schedule, which he said he organizes to chal-lenge his team against good teams.

Bradley went 15-16 last season, but beat Eastern in Lantz Arena 77-72, Nov. 22, 2010. Junior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon did not play in that game be-cause of an injury.

However, Kelsey Wyss, Mariah King, Sydney Mitchell and Chantelle Pressley all played and scored in dou-ble figures. King was the Panthers’ leading scorer with 16 points.

Raisa Taylor led Bradley in the game with 22 points, to lead all scor-ers. Taylor is no longer playing for Bradley.

Bradley took command in the first half by shooting 53 percent from the field, to Eastern’s 36 percent.

Eight of the nine Panthers who played in last season’s game are still on the team, including Jordyne Crunk, Jessica Parker, Jackie Herman, and Taryn Olson, who all came off the bench as freshmen last year.

Crunk tied for the team lead with 15 points in Friday’s game against Oakland City. Wyss also had 15 points. Both players came off the bench.

Following today’s game, Eastern

will get busy over the Thanksgiving holiday, playing Illinois State Nov. 21 before heading to California to play San Jose State and Sacramento State

on Nov. 23 and Nov. 26, respectively.

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K AROLINA STR ACK | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Senior forward Chantelle Pressley has the ball knocked from her hands by an Oakland City player Nov. 11 during the Panthers’ 93-32 victory in Lantz Arena.

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Coaching change affects recruits

“(Bellantoni) was honestly the main reason I even considered Eastern Illinois at first. He made a really good impression.” Jake McNair, a recruit