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By Sara Hall City Editor

The City Council will present its annual au-dit review for the fiscal year of May 2010 to April 2011 at today’s meeting at City Hall.

Mayor John Inyart said Joyce Madigan of ac-counting firm Gilbert, Metzger and Madigan, of Charleston, will present highlights of the audit re-view and answer any related questions the council might have.

Inyart said the audit is a required yearly proce-dure and provides an up-to-date financial rating for the city, which he said is beneficial when they bor-row money from banks.

“Anyone that loans money or rates our bond-ing structure will want to see this audited financial statement,” he said.

Inyart said the audit accounts for any transac-tions that took place during the fiscal year.

“It’s a mechanical safeguard for the taxpayers,” he said.

The Council will also vote on a resolution to im-plement the provisions of the Illinois Pension Code act and to approve fire and police pension board re-port with regard to the annual tax levy.

By Emily Pellegrine Staff Reporter

Congress passed a revised agri-culture appropriations bill, which makes it easier to count pizza sauce as one serving of vegetables.

According to The Washington Post, tomato paste is the ingredient that gets all of the credit for count-ing pizza sauce as a serving of veg-etables.

Natalie Rodakowski, a family and consumer sciences professor, is a regis-

tered dietitian and said she compared an eighth cup of tomato paste to a half cup of peas and found out that the to-mato paste has fewer calories, more Vi-tamin A, Vitamin C, potassium and calcium.

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By Nike Ogunbodede Campus Editor

Lane Kirby does not think Chick-fil-A should have a platform to sell its “low quality, factory-farmed hate chicken” to unknowing Eastern students.

Kirby, a senior geography major, said because of Eastern’s progressive and in-clusive mindset, it could refrain from inadvertently endorsing a company that opposes what it claims to stand for.

Kirby sent emails to the University Housing and Dining Services, Office of Minority Affairs and The Daily Eastern News discussing his disapproval of East-ern having a franchise on Nov. 8.

“It is no secret that Chick-fil-A is a conservative, Christian company,” Kir-by said. “But it bothers me that the or-ganizations they donate to are not just limited to anti-gay marriage—they are extremely radical in their views.”

Mark Hudson, the director of Uni-versity Housing and Dining Servic-es, said he had similar concerns about having such a controversial franchise on campus.

Hudson said he also read similar arti-cles, felt concerned about the possibili-ty of a negative business on campus and immediately called the corporate offic-es.

“They said that in light of the con-cerns about some of the groups that they have made contributions to, they said they were ‘reviewing and looking through a new lens at groups to which

they financially support,’” Hudson said. “Their position is that ‘yes we have these values that we believe, but we don’t have an agenda against anybody.’”

Hudson said he was told the compa-ny is re-evaluating the way it is donat-ing its money.

Kirby said the company’s statement is not enough and does not put his mind at ease.

“I feel that if they are giving millions of dollars away, perhaps they should vet these processes a little better,” Kir-by said.

EIU Pride President Nico Canaday said he has encouraged members of his organization to boycott the franchise.

“I think Chick-fil-A could potential-ly reflect poorly on the university,” Can-aday said.

Canaday said he does believe that those running Chick-fil-A are against homosexual rights, but also respect their right to have said beliefs.

“You have to admit this is Ameri-ca: Everybody is free to (discuss) their opinion, whether or not we agree with them,” Canaday said. “People at Chick-fil-A are going to get a backlash for be-ing as anti-gay as they are—that’s their problem.”

Kirby said Chick-fil-A, through its donation foundation WinShape Foun-dation Inc., has been donating millions of dollars to different organizations like Focus on the Family and The Family Research Council.

SHEA LAZ ANSKY | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSChristina Bounds, a freshman criminal psychology major, enjoys a pizza from Thomas Dining Hall. Congress' re-cent decision regarding pizza and pizza sauce has not stopped students like Bounds from enjoying the chance to make their own pizza at Thomas.

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MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSParticipants in the School of Continuing Education’s Cookie Dough Swap Shop begin to make the dough for the “Best-Ever Cowboy Cook-ies,” one of eight different recipes feature in Monday night’s event. The cookie dough swap produced the equivalent of about 18,000 cook-ies in cookie dough, and required 125 lbs. of flour, 72 lbs. of butter, 50 lbs. of sugar, and 22 dozen eggs as well as other ingredients.

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Four Eastern professors presented literary and historical research to nationally share and gain knowledge at the Midwest Conference on British Studies in

Terre Haute, Ind.

Perspectives on the female detective

Dagni Bredesen presented her research on the presence of the first professional female detectives in literature and how they should not necessarily be considered anoma-lies.

Bredesen, the interim director of faculty development and a pro-fessor of English, presented her re-search titled “A Prototypical Female Detective?: Victorian Literary and Historical Envisionings” at the con-ference.

She presented along with two oth-er professors from Michigan State University and John Carroll Univer-sity during the discussion panel titled “Mid-Victorian Detective Perspec-tives: Wilkie Collins and Beyond.”

Collins was a famous writer known as the “father of sensation fic-tion” who was also an important fig-ure in detective fiction, she said.

Bredesen combined her research on two casebooks written in 1864 titled “The Female Detective” and “Revelations of a Lady Detective” with analysis on Collin’s “The Diary of Anne Rodway,” written in 1856, to demonstrate the role of female de-tectives.

“The characters were considered anomalies because there didn’t seem to be any real life predecessors or lit-erary descendants,” Bredesen said. “It always puzzled me because (Charles) Dickens wrote about a female de-tective in 1852, and he was making it sound like detection was actually an option for women, which didn’t make sense to me since everyone was saying that there were no female de-tectives.”

Bredesen said she began doing re-search and found examples of wom-en working with police as detectives such as an instance in 1855 where newspaper reporters identified a woman, who was hired by the East-ern County Railway in London, a fe-

male detective.“The big question became why

have scholars of Victorian detection found it so hard to recognize wom-en working as detectives?” Bredesen said. “They are mentioned in the pa-pers fairly often, and there have been stories written about them and plays full of them so that is a mystery I am in the process of trying to solve.”

Imagining a 17th century Gothic past

A professor of history presented his research on Saxon freedoms and struggles titled “Imagining a Goth-ic Past in the late-17th Century Britannic Archipelago” at a panel discussion with two other Eastern professors.

Newton Key, a professor of his-tory, said the panel titled “Going Goth: Anglo-American Misuses of the Medieval Past” was interdisci-plinary with both English and his-tory representations of several cen-turies.

“During my time period, which covered the 16th and 17th centu-ry, the word gothic means coming from Saxons and often consisted of issues of Gothic freedoms being threatened by new arrivals,” Key said. “We basically had three talks on this topic of Gothic/Saxon free-doms and discussed the application of their political struggles.”

Key was accompanied at the conference by six of his graduate students who helped with confer-ence registration, he said.

“I thought it was a good expe-rience for the students, and they were able to go to the panels and meet professors without worry-ing about presenting a paper,” Key said.

Bredesen said she thought that Key bringing students to the con-ference was a great model of what professors try to accomplish at Eastern in terms of integrative learning and providing students with professional experiences.

He was also chosen to be a com-mentator on another panel titled “Gifts and Their Meanings in Early Modern England.”

The early American repub-lic in the 18th century

Angela Vietto, an English pro-fessor, said her presentation, “The Imagined English History of the Ear-ly American Republic,” had a focus on how Americans were using the English medieval past to explain the present.

“I was talking primarily about John Adams,” Vietto said. “He was using English history as a way to jus-tify American rights.”

She said Adams said people were getting smarter in the middle ages. Since most people now think of the middle ages as the dark ages and less intellectual, this is contradicto-ry to most modern ideas of the time period, she said.

Adams said people were getting smarter in the middle ages, she said.

“It's like evolution,” Vietto said. “It sounds almost like Darwin but this was much before Darwin.”

She said her research was similar to the work of Christopher Han-lon, an English professor, and Key in that it focused on how medieval history was being used for politics, but her work is set in the 18th cen-tury. Hanlon's research focuses on the 19th century and Key's focuses on the 17th century.

Vietto said this type of research was new for her since she usual-ly focuses on novels and not poli-tics. She said she would probably not have worked on the presenta-tion accept Key and Hanlon asked her to fill in the century they were missing.

She said most of the time, pro-fessors go to conferences without other faculty and this made it a dif-ferent experience for her.

The work also changed how she taught her American Litera-ture class, Vietto said. She said she thinks her students have done some excellent work after she changed the class.

“It's been fun trying the course a different way,” she said.

America's abolitionist his-tory in the 19th century

Hanlon said his presentation is part of a larger project he has been working on for several years. He said it focuses on how Americans

in the 19th century used ideas of England to deal with political ten-sions between the North and the South.

He said many of these ideas were American constructions and were completely true.

“Most of these notions of Eng-land were quite embroidered,” Hanlon said.

He said his recent papers fo-cused on Habeas Corpus, a hear-ing to determine if the right per-son is arrested for the crime that was charged, and how the Fugitive Slave Law violated this right.

Hanlon said abolitionists would often draw arguments from the Magna Carta and what they called the ancient Saxon liberty of Habe-as Corpus.

He said these same Ameri-cans would trace these arguments back to political struggles between the Normans and Saxons from the 14th and 15th century even though they were theorizing these lineages and imagining genealogies.

“So this is a broad project that sort of takes in various ways in which Americans seized upon vari-ous ideas of Englishness in order to think through their own political difficulties,” Hanlon said. “It’s just a case study of the way in which we engage history. I don’t believe in a history that consists of the facts in the way they happened. I think we always (embellish) history. With narratives that are for all intents and purposes literary.”

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By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

The Native American Intertrib-al Counsel at EIU is collecting items to donate to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Da-kota.

Students can donate items to help the people on the reservation who are living below the national poverty level.

Rebecca “Little Wolf ” Franz, the president of N.I.C.E., said the res-ervation has about 15,500 people who have nothing.

“They have nothing, they live like a third world country on this reservation,” Franz said. “People die at the age of 45 there.”

She said the people on this reser-vation need help because there are no jobs available to them.

“They can’t get jobs in the near-est town because the business won’t hire them,” Franz said.

Franz said the reservation is

about 3,500 square miles, but most of the land is inhabitable and the people on the reservation cannot build homes on it.

She said the many of the peo-ple at the reservation have noth-ing, which is why N.I.C.E. does not have a list of certain supplies needed for donations.

“We are trying to collect any-thing and everything,” Franz said. “Anything is better than nothing, it’s a sad state of affairs.”

Franz said N.I.C.E. is trying to help the Native Americans on this reservation first because it is the worst.

“There are other reservations that need help also, but we are focusing on this one first,” Franz said. “After we help this reservation, we’ll try to help the others.”

She said they are trying to chal-lenge other universities and regis-tered student organizations to help the reservations.

Franz said she wants to help pro-

vide them with a way to keep warm during the winter.

“It’s in South Dakota, it’s real-ly cold up there right now,” Franz said. “I’d like to get it (the supplies) so that people can survive the win-ter up there.”

Franz said most of the people on the reservation do not have food to eat and she wants to help to f ind a way for them to feed themselves.

“We want to establish a buffa-lo heard on the reservation so they can have something to eat,” Franz said.

She said students can really help by donating different items.

“Students are going to go home and have Christmas, but these peo-ple are locked on the reservation with nothing,” Franz said.

Franz said they are asking for different items from clothes, blan-kets, food, to school books and shoes.

“Right now we have half of a

10 foot by 30 foot storage unit f u l l o f supp l i e s ,” Fr anz s a id . “There is sti l l a lot more that’s needed , but we a re happy for what we got.”

Franz said that students who join in the effort could get the chance to help take the supplies to the Pine Ridge Indian reserva-tion.

“There is nothing like seeing a piece of living history first hand,” Franz said. “Many of them still live in the old ways.”

Franz sa id this i s something that is not going to happen over n i gh t , bu t sh e th ink s p eop l e could really help those on the res-ervation.

“We are going to be working on this one for a long time,” Franz said. “But we could really improve their lives.”

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

Students can prepare for finals by getting a massage and aromatherapy on Thursday.

The University Board will offer a stress buster rush hour event to give stu-dents a break before the week of finals.

Graham Sauser, the special events co-ordinator for the UB, said this time for year is stressful for students who are fin-ishing projects and studying for finals. He said it is important for students to take a break from these tasks to relax.

“It’s important to take a break for a lot of different reason,” Sauser said. “Stress affects students mental health, their physical health. It takes a toll on you, mentally, emotionally and physi-cally.”

Sauser said during finals week, some students eat more, some stop going to the gym to study for finals, and the constant stress is not good for the stu-dents.

“It’s important, especially during fi-nals week, to take a moment, step back, relax and go ‘It’s OK, it’s not the end of the world,’” Sauser said. “They’ll be able to get the time they need to relax.”

Sauser said two massage therapists will be giving massages during the stress buster. Each student will be able to re-ceive a three-to-five minute massage.

Sauser said if students are having a problem with their body, they can let the massage therapist know, and they will work on the area.

“If you are having a pain in your lower back or a kink in your neck, they’ll work on that,” Sauser said. “If they do have a request, they will help with it.”

Those who attend the stress bust-er will also be able to do aromatherapy while they get their massage.

“You’ll get to pick your scent before you start your massage and you’ll get to smell that while you get you back mas-saged,” Sauser said. “It’s another relax-ation thing.”

Sauser said the massage and aroma-therapy is something most students do not get to experience.

“It’s something different that students don’t have the opportunity to go and get done,” Sauser said. “We do have massage chairs, but the difference between those and a real massage are night and day. It’s a really relaxing thing, especially paired with the aromatherapy.”

Students will also get the chance to make stress balls to take home to use while they study for their finals.

Sauser said using a stress ball helps re-lieve stress and is another good way to help with finals.

“They (stress balls) are something to play with while studying,” Sauser said. “For some people, being active helps them to relieve stress.”

He said pamphlets will also be avail-able to help students learn how to relieve and manage stress during events such as finals.

The stress buster will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Sauser said the event is a great way to take a break before finals week.

“We hope to see as many students as we can,” Sauser said. “We want them to be less stressed for finals.”

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

The annual report on awarded academic degrees for Fiscal Year 11 showed a slight decrease from previ-ous years.

The total awarded degrees for FY 11 was 2,907, which is 83 less than the 2,990 total degrees awarded in FY 10.

In FY 09, a total of 3,018 degrees were awarded.

The annual earned degrees report is announced to the Board of Trust-ees. The FY 11 information was presented at the Nov. 18 Board of Trustees meeting.

Blair Lord, provost and vice pres-ident for academic affairs, said the reports are provided to the Board of Trustees to give them general statis-tics about university operations.

“(The annual reports) also allow us an opportunity to discuss some of the trends, which actually flow from the annual changes in overall enrollments,” Lord said. “They are good dashboard-like indicators of university activity.”

Lord said the decline in total de-grees within the last three years was because of the decreased enrollment of entering classes.

“It is not just new freshman which affect this, of course, because

we have also been admitting some-what larger classes of transfer stu-dents,” Lord said. “Retention has not been much of a factor in de-gree production because it has been steady for a number of years.”

The largest number of bachelor’s degrees during the last three years was awarded to elementary educa-tion majors.

In FY 11, 244 bachelor’s degrees were awarded to education majors compared to 243 in FY 10 and 275 in FY 09.

The majority of master’s degrees awarded were in Educational Ad-ministration during the last three years.

“The significance of education degree production is simply a re-flection of our legacy in education and our continuing regard in teach-er preparation,” Lord said.

During FY 11 and FY 10, 11 percent of the total degrees were awarded to minority students com-pared to the 8 percent awarded in FY 09.

Eastern’s six-year graduation rate has increased in the last three years from 56 percent in FY 09, 58 per-cent in FY 10 and 62 percent in FY 11.

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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Students donate items to Indian reservation

UB helps students bust stress

Degrees announced for FY 11

Degrees awarded during Fiscal Year 2011

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Elementary Education

General Studies

Communication Studies

Kinesiology & Sports Studies

145 Family & Consumer Sciences

Other majors in the “top ten” for undergraduate degrees were Psychology/BA, Special Education/BSEd, Management/BSB, Marketing/BSB and Sociology/BA.


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The holidays are glorious. Why, you ask? Because you get showered with goodies and funds from relatives who take pity on the pile of debt you cherish next to your dis-carded pizza boxes. Gift money is good, right? Wrong – that is if you decide to take this monetary pledge and use it to perma-nently brand your body with lyrics from a Foster the People song. I’m talking regretta-ble tattoos, folks.

According to The Pew Research Cen-ter, 36 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds had at least one tattoo in 2007. Please don’t misun-derstand. I adore tattoos. Because of living the lavish lifestyle of a college student, what funds I do have are put toward sensible things like bills and car repairs – and un-fortunately, not toward my dream of having a Mike Tyson tattoo on my face. Although that previous statement is mostly not true, you understand my point.

I have only three tattoos, but I would de-fend any of them until I was blue in the face. However, it worries me that when I am of geriatric age trolling the nursing homes, my eyes will be bombarded with the un-sightly views of wrinkling “Tapout” tattoos. So I ask this – please think before you ink.

A few rules of thumb for potential (or current) tattooed parties – 1) Do not get a tribal tattoo unless you are a tribesman in a village. 2) Tramp stamps are never OK. 3) On the contrary, tattoos for family mem-bers are always OK, no matter how ridicu-lous they appear.

And most importantly, 4) Do not jump on the occasion to get a bargain basement tattoo.

The results will end up in shame and probably a mystery strain of diseases. Going to some leaky basement to get a tattoo from an “artist” who will only charge you $30 to ink a butterfly on your hip bone may seem quite titillating, but I assure you, it is not as glamorous as it sounds. With your awesome bargain tattoo, your artist may give you a

free gift with purchase – a disease. Accord-ing to the Mayo Clinic, dirty needles can transfer hepatitis, HIV and AIDS. Yes, peo-ple generally know this. Does this stop them from getting tattooed in places that resem-ble The Chokey in Matilda? Unfortunate-ly, no.

Tattoos can be removed, but results de-pend on the inks used and the depth of the tattoo, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. Remember – the $30 tat-too you paid for today can be the $500 and more mistake in the future. Moral of the story? You get what you pay for.

Unfortunately, these seedy bargain-base-ment tattoo deals will be even more appeal-ing during the holidays. Before you plan on having your skin penetrated multiple times by a needle, ask yourself this – will my chil-dren be embarrassed to be seen with me when my tramp stamp surfaces above my mom jeans in 20 years? The answer is yes. Always yes. So once again, please. Think be-fore you make it permanent.

Shelley Holmgren is a senior journalism major.

She can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

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By Beth Clothier Western Courier Western Illinois University

The next time you feel a burp coming on while you’re in class, you may want to re-think letting it go.

At least that’s the lesson a New Mexi-co eighth grader learned earlier this year af-ter he was handcuffed and taken to juve-nile detention for burping aloud in his P.E. class. According to the Associated Press, in May of this year, the boy was taken to the center without his parents being notified af-ter his teacher called a school resource offi-cer to complain that the boy was disrupting her class.

The school is apparently not without its troubles, as not only have the burping boy’s parents filed a lawsuit against the school, but so have the parents of a seven-year-old autis-tic child who was handcuffed to his chair af-ter he became agitated in class. Apparently part of the issue in that particular suit is that it’s illegal to restrain children below the age of 11 in that particular school district, mean-ing that restraint/handcuffing is perfectly ac-

ceptable for the tween set. The school also re-cently settled a class action lawsuit filed by the family of a girl who was arrested because she “didn’t want to sit by the stinky boy in class.”

According to civil rights attorney Shan-non Kennedy, research shows that in Ber-nalillo County, where the school in ques-tion is located, more than 200 schoolchildren have been handcuffed and arrested over the last three years on non-violent misdemean-or charges.

“There are good schools and bad schools,” Kennedy said. “The principals who are han-dling their schools properly don’t need to have children arrested. It’s ridiculous.”

Maybe it’s been a long time since I was in grade school, or maybe my vision is rose-col-ored because I grew up and went to school in a small town, but I don’t recall handcuffs be-ing standard issue classroom equipment. Cer-tainly there were kids who disrupted class, some on a regular basis, and there were cer-tainly kids who burped audibly during our lessons, but as far as I remember they were usually made to stand in the corner or go to the principal’s office. There was this one time

at a specially-convened assembly where a par-ticularly troublesome kid was paddled in front of the entire student body, but that’s a story for another time.

My point is that it seems that some schools’ zero-tolerance policies are getting a little out of hand. Maybe this burp was just another event in a long line of disrup-tion that day, but is something like that re-ally the last straw? He didn’t punch anyone, he didn’t scream obscenities at the teacher, he didn’t threaten anyone’s life - he performed a perfectly natural bodily function, and the fact that this incident is what got him hand-cuffed and sent to juvie is more than a little over the top.

I can appreciate the difficulty of trying to keep thirty or more kids in line - I’m ready to tear my hair out when I’m trying to keep two from wreaking absolute havoc - but there has got to be a better protocol for dealing with these minor offenses than arrest. It may seem difficult to believe, but there is such a thing as being too hardline.

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If you checked your Panthermail account this weekend, you may have noticed a bit of a crime wave at the end of last week, at least by Charleston standards.

Four armed robberies were reported in three days. Two delivery drivers were robbed at knife-point, one man was robbed at gun-point by two men on Seventh Street and another was robbed on Polk Avenue. A sus-pect has been arrested in the latter case, but not for the two former.

These kinds of incidents are more common in other college towns, but it can really shake people up when they happen in a small, safe community like Charleston.

Most students were informed on their first tour of the campus that Eastern is one of the safest campuses in Illinois. It’s important to point out that that’s still true. All four inci-dents occurred off-campus, north of Lincoln Avenue.

The recent incidents should not scare stu-dents into locking themselves in their dorm rooms or apartments, but they are a reminder that we do not live in a perfect world.

Students can still go out and enjoy their night, but they should still take the necessary precautions to have a safe night on the town.

So, here are a few tips on how to avoid having your first armed robbery be a part of your college experience:

• If you’re going to be walking, find a group to journey with. When it comes to safety, there is power in numbers.

• Walk in lighted areas and along streets with more traffic.

• Carry a cell phone, and perhaps a whis-tle.

• Don’t walk around with lots of cash on you and don’t show off what cash you carry.

• If you are robbed, just give up your mon-ey and call the police when you’re in a safe spot.

• If you’re on campus and feel unsafe, find a blue emergency call box and talk to the police.

• If you’re driving, keep your doors locked. • No matter where you are or what you’re

doing, be aware of your surroundings.Charleston is a great place to live. One of

the things that makes it great, and keeps it safe, is the thoughtful, tight-knit community that lives here.

You are part of that community and, just as you enjoy its benefits, you have a duty to help keep the community safe. That means looking out for your own safety as well as the safety of others.

If you see something suspicious, let some-one know. Keep an eye and an ear out for the people around you. If you see someone in danger, don’t ignore it. Call the police or draw the attention of others. Make noise. Shine lights. If you live on a darker side street, keep a porch light on.

There is no justification for armed robbery. And there is no justification for protecting individuals who violate the trust of an entire community. If you know something, call Charleston police and tell them.

Classroom burp leads to civil rights lawsuit


T U E S DAY, D E C E M B E R 6, 2011N o. 1 6 4 , V O L U M E 9 6

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By Clarissa Wilson & Samantha McDanielStaff Reporter & Activities Editor

The changing of the seasons will be illustrated through music Wednesday.

The Faculty Brass Quintet will be performing a concert with the theme of seasons.

The quintet consists of: Andrew Cheetham, an assistant professor of trumpet; Jeremy McBain, an instruc-tor of music; Katherine McBain, an instructor of horn; Jemmie Robertson, an instructor of trombone and eupho-nium; and Todd French, instructor of tuba.

The professors will display their in-strumental abilities as a unit synchro-nizing harmonies and sound.

Two trumpets, one horn, one tuba and one trombone are all the instru-ments used during the hour-long per-formance.

The members of the quintet will play “Seasons for Brass Quintet” by John Stevens, “Gaelic Variations” by John Cheetham, and “Ding Dong Merrily on High.”

Robertson said these compositions help add to the spirit of Christmas and the idea of changing seasons.

In “Seasons for Brass Quintet,” there are four sections, each that rep-resent a specific season.

“It starts with spring, the summer, the fall, and end with winter,” Robert-son said. “So it sets up a wintery feel for the piece.”

Robertson said they will also be playing a piece that was written by the father of Andrew Cheetham.

Robertson said this song has a Christmas nature to it.

“It takes on the feel and nature of a Christmas song,” Robertson said. “We selected that piece because it feels like

a Christmas song.”Robertson said they will end with a

Christmas song, “Ding Dong Merrily on High,” because it is close to Christ-mas.

The recital will not be a holiday composed music set, but will end with a holiday filled spirit toward the last piece, Jeremy McBain said.

Andrew Cheetham said he looks forward to playing with his colleagues and playing music that he enjoys.

“Eastern students can look forward to seeing their professors perform and do what they teach in class. And ulti-mately hear literature that they don’t often hear,” Cheetham said.

Jeremy McBain said this event gives students a chance to hear their profes-sors play.

“It would be a great idea to show-case a fall faculty concert for Eastern students and the community in itself,” Jeremy McBain said.

Jeremy McBain said it is a pleasure to be able to work with other like-minded people that share the same in-terest of music, passion and ultimately putting on a great performance.

The recital will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Recital Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Each semester the faculty plans on constructing a piece to encourages those who are fans of music, want to hear something new or maybe some-thing their familiar with and to come out and support the series.

“By attending the concert, the stu-dents will be given a good model of style that they could use for their own performance and practice,” said McBain.

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Quintet to perform holiday music

Chick-fil-A, from page 1

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Inyart said this resolution is in re-gards to the year-end pension fund re-port that has been verified by audi-tors.

“We have to formally accept this before we can continue with the bud-get process next spring,” he said.

Inyart said these reports will out-line how much money is available and how it compares to how it should be funded based on formulas for pension funds.

“It’s a report saying ‘Here’s where we are,’” he said.

Inyart added that the report has to

be placed on file for review to be ap-proved.

The council will also vote on an or-dinance to approve the annual tax levy ordinance for the fiscal year of May 1, 2012, to April 30, 2013.

Inyart said the ordinance will deter-mine tax levy for next year.

“This is how much money we will need to run the city on,” he said.

Inyart said comptroller Heather Kuykendall, who worked with City Manager Scott Smith, arrived at the determined amount.

Inyart said a large majority of the

tax levy is made up by the pension fund.

The council will also vote on a res-olution to acquire a piece of real estate adjacent to the water treatment plant at 2801 McKinley Dr. for $150,000.

Inyart said the city would be able to purchase the property through a grant from the Charleston Area Charitable Foundation.

He said the grant will pay for half of the property.

Sara Hall can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

“The only thing it was considerably low in was folate compared to the peas,” Rodakowski said.

She said another beneficial ingredient that is in tomato paste is lycopene, and there is some research showing that lyco-pene may reduce the risk of certain cancers.

Under school lunch regulations, an eighth of a cup of tomato paste is cred-ited with as much nutritional value as half a cup of vegetables, according to The Washington Post.

The proposal was denied and tomato paste will continue to receive more nu-tritional credit than it should.

“My concern is not whether we call tomato paste a vegetable,” Rodakowski said. “I am more concerned that chil-dren are getting the essential nutrients and I do believe that tomato paste will give them the nutrients they need.”

Mark Hudson, the director of Uni-versity Housing and Dining Services, said he thought it was weird that Con-gress was even discussing the matter.

“I think Congress has more important things to worry about than whether to-mato (paste) counts as a vegetable,” Hud-son said. “Figure out the national debt.”

Jessica Hawks, a sophomore com-munication studies major, said she thinks counting tomato sauce as a serv-ing of vegetables is not acceptable, es-pecially because people lack nutritional education in the first place.

Through the proposal schools would be crediting tomato paste on the actu-al volume, not just the serving size, ac-cording to The Washington Post.

“There are a lot of people that don’t know what is healthy and what is not, so saying that pizza sauce counts as a vegetable

is going to throw them off,” Hawks said.Kevin King, a sophomore manage-

ment information systems major, said he thinks pizza sauce should be counted as a serving because people need to get their servings of fruits and vegetables in some form.

“It shouldn’t matter how people get their servings of fruits and vegetables, just as long as they are getting them,” King said.

Counting tomato sauce as a vegeta-ble is an excuse for people to eat piz-za, which will not be beneficial at all, Hawks said.

“If you tell people tomato sauce on pizza counts as a vegetable, they’re go-ing to eat more of it; that is contradict-ing the purpose of eating vegetables in the first place,” Hawks said.

Rodakowski said it is not the tomato paste that is making the pizza bad for you, but the cheese, toppings and the crust.

“It is giving children and parents the perception that pizza is healthy for you,” Rodakowski said.

Jenny Niewiarowski, a sophomore communication studies major, said she does not see why tomato sauce should not be counted as a vegetable.

“It’s tomatoes in a different form, I think any form of a vegetable should count as a serving,” Niewiarowski said.

Hawks said if tomato sauce on a pizza is going to count as a serving of vegetables then they should evaluate other foods too.

“If we make exceptions for foods that are actually not a vegetable, where will we draw the line?” Roda-kowski said.

Emily Pellegrine can be reached at [email protected].

The WinShape Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization, was started by the Cathy Family in 1984 to help “shape winners” from a young age.

According to an IRS 990 form, in 2009, the organization donated $1,733,699 to seven organizations, in-cluding Focus on the Family.

James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, is an evangelical Chris-tian, who has been known to have con-servative views.

In 2004, Dobson also made some anti-homosexual marriage comments in The Daily Oklahoman.

Dobson said: “Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.”

According to a May 6, 2011, media statement from Chick-fil-A President Dan T. Cathy, Cathy said the company is continuing its focus on treating every cus-tomer with “honor, dignity and respect.”

Cathy went on further to say that the Cathy family believes in the Biblical defi-nition of marriage, but respects those who have different concepts of the union.

Cathy is the son of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy.

In a similar media statement Dan Cathy sent on Jan. 29, Cathy said the corporation’s purpose is “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us, and to have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A.”

This statement was released days af-ter Indiana University-South Bend kicked its campus franchise off grounds.

When reached for comment, Jerry Johnston, of Chick-fil-A corporate pub-lic relations, referred to the Jan. 29 and May 6 press releases.

The dismissal occurred after a South Bend professor and student organiza-tion, Campus Ally Network, discovered that Chick-fil-A donated food to Penn-sylvania Family Institute and sponsored Family Life’s The Art of Marriage: Get-ting to the Heart of God’s Design sem-inar, according to a Jan. 24 edition of The Preface.

According to their websites, the Pennsylvania Family Institute and Fam-ily Life organizations are both against the homosexual lifestyle.

“The Bible makes it clear that marriage is a legally binding public declaration of commitment and a private consumma-tion between one man and one woman, never between the same sex,” according to Family Life’s The Family Manifesto.

The intolerance will end up only hurting the company’s name and reve-nue, Canaday said.

“If they don’t want to hire gay peo-ple or extend benefits to gay employees to do work for them, then gay people aren’t going to work for them and gay people aren’t going to want to go there,” Canaday said. “They are going to be the ones missing out.”

The beliefs of the Cathy family do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of those hired.

Anna Collins, a junior elementary education major, is a worker at Chick-fil-A despite the fact that it goes against her beliefs.

Collins is a vegetarian. “The only thing I do eat here are the

French fries, but from what I can see is that the food isn’t processed and the meat is good quality,” Collins said.

Collins said she had never eaten at a Chick-fil-A until she came to Eastern.

Collins also said she likes the fresh quality of service she is able to provide compared to other fast food restaurants.

James Alvarado, a junior kinesiology and sports studies major, said he would not want Chick-fil-A to be removed from campus.

Alvarado said Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches are good and that he does not know about the background of the organization.

“To me it doesn’t really matter; to be honest, I am not really that concerned about that type of area when it comes to food,” Alvarado said.

However, Alvarado said it would trouble him more if Chick-fil-A were donating to racially prejudice organi-zations.

“I think racial discrimination would definitely be worse than sexual (orien-tation) discrimination,” Alvarado said.

Hudson said the belief system of the Cathy family should not deter students from purchasing food from the chick-en giant.

“I feel like they are a company that works really hard delivering a really good product and treat people really well,” Hudson said.

Eastern has been awarded the “Most Outstanding Restaurant Award” among all Chick-fil-A college franchises two years in a row.

Kirby said he thinks Eastern should en-dorse groups that are universally inclusive.

“The values of Chick-fil-A are di-ametrically opposed to the values of Eastern, which are inclusiveness, reason and logic,” Kirby said. “I don’t think Chick-fil-A represents us at all.”

Omar Caban, a junior elementary education major, said he likes to eat at Chick-fil-A because of its good quality food and not for the beliefs of the peo-ple in charge.

Caban is a transfer student and ate Chick-fil-A for the second time on Thursday.

“It’s really good and the chicken is good protein,” Caban said. “I like that it doesn’t take too long and it doesn’t taste like it came out of the microwave.”

Kirby said he thinks Eastern should sever ties with the company.

“Get rid of it. It’s not really doing anyone a favor,” Kirby said. “We could provide a similar food and cut out the middle man instead of providing them a captive audience.”

Canaday said he thinks Eastern should reconsider its values.

“I’m not saying get rid of Chick-fil-A,” Canaday said. “But at the same time, Eastern has to re-evaluate what kind of message it wants to send not only to its current students, but also to its prospective students and alumni.”

Nike Ogunbodede can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected].

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S P O R TS

By Rob Mortell Staff Reporter

Senior guard Jeremy Granger continued his hot start to the sea-son, winning his second Ohio Val-ley Player of the Week award this season.

In two games against the Uni-versity of Maine and Stony Brook, Granger averaged 19.5 points, seven assists, six rebounds and 1.5 steals per game.

Granger put on an impre s -sive scoring display against Stony Brook, as he scored a game-high 25 points.

However, his most impressive per formance of the week came in the overt ime period against Maine.

After the Panthers had surren-dered a 10-point lead with 49 sec-onds remaining, Granger took the game into his own hands as the

opposition forced the extra peri-od.

Granger scored all nine of the team’s points in overtime as the Panthers won 85-80.

He and the rest of the Panthers are off to a good start.

The team is currently 5-2 and 4-0 in Lantz Arena.

“We are off to a good start right now,” Granger said. “We got some big wins at home. We just have to keep this momentum.”

Around the OVCMurray State improved to 9-0

with a 75-58 win over Dayton. Isiah Canaan led the Racers with

21 points. Canaan made 7-of-13 shots from

the field, including five from be-hind the three-point line.

As a team, Murray State shot an impressive 60 percent beyond the arc, making a total of nine shots from deep.

The Racers were in control most of the game as they took a 29-23 lead into halftime.

Just nine minutes into the sec-

ond half, Murray State would ex-tend its lead to 17 points, a defi-cit the Flyers would not be able to overcome.

Th i s i s the f i r s t t ime Mur-ray State has opened 9-0 s ince 1998.

Morehead State pounded Mid-Continent, 83-57, improving its re-cord to 4-5 and 2-0 at home.

Marsell Holden led the Eagles with a career-high 20 points.

Holden showed off some impres-sive range, knocking down 6-of-10 shots from beyond the three-point line.

The Mid-Continent Cougars are an NAIA team and appeared over-matched the entire game.

Morehead State shot 41 percent from the field, out-rebounded the Cougars 44-30, was plus nine in turnovers and outscored its opposi-tion’s bench 47-21.

Maurice Bynum lead Mid-Conti-nent with 15 points, as the Cougars drop to 1-10 overall.

Rob Mortell can be reached at 581-7944 or at [email protected].

Granger wins 2nd OVC Player of the Week award

MEN’S BASKETBALL

K AROLINA STR ACK | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Sophomore forward Alfonzo McKinnie pulls down a rebound in last Satur-day’s 72-69 win over Stony Brook. The Panther’s are perfect 4-0 at home.

Panthers start season on right foot

Taylor sa id he was a l so im-pressed that Choate does not want to come into the program and turn it on its side by changing it all.

“I don’t want to use the world ‘rebuild,’ I want to use the word ‘win,’” Choate said.

Choate said Eastern would be-come an attacking team if he were the head coach, especially on spe-cial teams.

“ We’re gonna run any th ing you can think of in the kicking game,” Choate sa id. “At Boise State, we pride ourselves on be-ing creative.”

Choate, specializing in defense and special teams, said he will plan to field an aggressive, ferocious de-fense that pressures and confuses opposing quarterbacks.

“We’ll have swag on that side of

the ball, I’ll guarantee you that,” Choate said.

Potentially coming to a strug-gling football program, Choate said he does not expect to go undefeated right off the bat.

He said he and the players will have to learn from tough times. Af-ter all, that is how Choate said he became a better coach.

Learning from the struggles is a part of the student-athlete process, Choate said, and it is his goal to help his players have the best stu-dent-athlete experience they could have anywhere.

“The class of our organization shows the most when you’re in those (tough) situations,” Cho-ate said. “We don’t need five-star players. We need five-star peo-ple.”

Taylor said he felt confident

Choate’s philosophies and ide-als would put Eastern back on the map. Overall, he said he was more impressed with him than with any other candidate.

“We want to be the 2012 team that turned things around, won games, went to the playoffs and won a national championship,” Taylor said. “His philosophies and plans to do that are very promis-ing.”

The final candidate for the East-ern football head coaching job, Dino Babers, will be in a public in-terview at 4 p.m. today in the Lantz Club Room.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-7942

or [email protected]. Dominic Renzetti contributed

to this article.

CHOATE, from page 8

OLIVIA ANGELOFF | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJeff Choate is in the running for the new head football coaching position. He is the current special teams coordinator at Boise State and previously served as an assistant coach at Eastern in 2005.



SportSSports EditorDominic Renzetti217 • 581 • [email protected]

@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: The final head coaching candidate to appear on campus will be Dino Babers, currently a coach at Baylor.

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CHOATE, page 7

By Alex McNamee Editor-in-chief

His resume may not be as long as the oth-er Eastern football head coach candidates, but Jeff Choate could bring a lot of wins and “swag” to a downtrodden Eastern football program.

Choate has been an assistant coach at Boi-se State since 2006, where he has helped the program reach six consecutive bowl games and accumulate a 73-6 record.

“Everyone asks how Boise State does it,” Choate said Monday night at a public inter-view in the Lantz Club Room. “It’s nothing in particular. It’s everything in general. We have set a standard and we don’t change it. We make it a goal to out work our opponents in the offseason.”

In Choate’s first season at Boise State, the Broncos made an unprecedented appearance in the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma. There, they beat the higher-rated Sooners in over-time. At the surface of the story was a cou-ple offensive trick plays the Broncos success-fully ran to catch the Sooners off guard at the end of the game.

That is not the reason the Broncos pulled the upset, Choate said.

“We beat Oklahoma in the six months leading up to that game,” Choate said re-ferring to the team’s hard work in the off-season.

Now Choate hopes to bring his successful past to Eastern, where he said there is no rea-son a national title cannot be brought home to Charleston.

“If they can win a national championship in Cheney, Washington, there’s no reason why we can’t win one in Charleston,” Cho-ate said.

Eastern Washington’s football program, in Cheney, Wash., won a national title in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, the same division Eastern Illinois is in. Cheney’s population is nearly 9,000 people.

To get the Panthers’ program to that lev-el, Choate said the current players will be the ones to turn the tide.

Red-shirt sophomore linebacker Antonio Taylor said he was excited to hear that.

“Speaking for juniors and seniors next year, that’s probably one of the main things we are attracted to,” Taylor said.

Taylor was also impressed by Choate’s fu-ture plans in terms of staying in one place. The two previous coaching candidates were questioned during their public interviews on whether they would stay at Eastern for a long time, as retired head coach Bob Spoo did.

Choate answered the doubters before they had an opportunity to question him.

Choate has an 11-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter, and has been married to his wife, Janet, for 16 years.

His family is “a big reason” he desires the Eastern head coaching job, he said.

“The time demands of being a coach at a big program like Boise State don’t allow you much time to see your family,” Cho-ate said.

Compared to the previous two candidates’ responses to this question, Taylor said he was excited to hear Choate say that.

“He wants to be closer to his family and I think that shows that he’s here for the long haul,” Taylor said. “Unlike previous candi-dates, I feel like he’s gonna be here no matter what if he gets the job.”

Staff Report

The Eastern men’s golf team has added three new members for next season, all of which are from Illinois.

Wi l l i am Drerup comes to Eastern from Rockford Luther-an High School, where he was

a three-time state qualifier. In four seasons at Rockford Luther-an, Drerup has earned all-con-ference honors, while finishing in the top 15 in his three state championship qualifications.

Joining Drerup will be Aus-tin Sproles of Bloomington’s Tri Valley High School. Sproles was

an individual champion at this year’s Illinois High School As-sociation state championship event. Sproles is also a three-time qualifier for the Illinois State Am.

Transfering from Rend Lake Junior College will be Zachary Holland. Holland was a qualifi-

er for the NJCAA national meet and was an all-conference golfer during his time at Rend Lake.

The Panthers concluded their fall season last October with a fourth place finish at the South-ern Illinois-Edwardsville Invita-tional at the Sunset Hills Coun-try Club in Edwardsville.

Golf team adds 3 playersGOLF

COACH SEARCH

Choate could bring wins, ‘swag’Candidate is 73-6 with Boise State

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon tries to steal the ball from a Western Illinois player during Eastern’s 88-55 vic-tory in Lantz Arena Monday extending their record to 5-1.

By Alex McNamee Editor-in-chief

Junior guard Kel sey Wyss breathed easiest during the game Monday after having worried all day about her youngest brother, Nick, who was having heart sur-gery.

Before the start of the game, Wyss received a phone call and was told her brother was out of surgery and doing just fine. The junior guard could then loosen up and focus on rival Western Il-linois.

“Knowing that obviously gives me a sense of, ‘He’s OK. I don’t have to worry,’” Wyss said.

With her younger brother do-ing fine, Wyss took the court and led the Eastern women’s basket-ball team to an 88-55 win over their cross-state rivals.

“They played real ly hard,” Wyss said. “Starting out with their defense in our space not al-lowing us to do what we wanted to do.”

On the Panthers’ first posses-sion, Wyss received a pass from junior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon, and as she surveyed the court for a teammate, Western Illinois guard Valencia Kelly stuck her hands in her face and around the ball to try to distract her.

“It starts off being frustrating,” Wyss said. “But it’s a 40-minute game.”

Eastern took the 40 minutes to do all it could to beat Western Il-linois, and it worked as the Pan-thers’ defense was too much for the opposition.

“The win was nice, but to take what we were doing on defense and turning it into good offense, we had to have that,” Eastern head coach Brady Sallee said.

T h e Pa n t h e r s t u r n e d 2 1 Western Illinois turnovers, in-cluding 10 steals, into 26 points off turnovers . Nixon led the team with four steals on the game; in fact, she had all four within the first nine minutes of the game.

Sen ior fo r ward Chante l l e Pressley said the Panthers’ size played a big role in the game, es-pecially on the turnovers and re-bounds.

The Panthers beat Western Il-linois in rebounds, 45-35, which is one of the keys to winning, Sal-lee said.

“Clearly we knew going into it there was going to be a size dif-

ferential,” Sallee said. “We had to use it to our advantage, there’s no question.”

Still, Pressley said the Panthers needed to do a better job box-ing out. The Panthers gave up 14 offensive rebounds, which only amounted to five points on the board for Western Illinois.

On the other hand, Eastern took advantage of second-chanc-es by scoring 22 points off 18 of-fensive rebounds.

Western Illinois came out in the second half trailing by 19, but quickly scored the first four

points of the half to put some pressure back on Eastern.

Sallee called a timeout. After the timeout, the Panthers scored 12 of the next 19 points in the game.

“I think for us it was bigger than a win or loss,” Sallee said. “My team was committed to do-ing something on the defensive end to come into this and fig-ure some things out after giving up 89.”

The Panther s gave up 89 points in their previous game against Sacramento State, which

Sallee said bothered the whole team.

“We came out and won this game like we win a lot of games,” Sallee said.

The Panthers took care of business on the defensive end, giving up 34 fewer points in this game.

Eastern’s next game is Wednes-day against Missouri in Colum-bia, Mo. Tip off will be at 7 p.m.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-7942

or [email protected].

Panthers trounce cross-state rivalWyss plays well despite family emergency

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