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Homecoming Week kicks off todayBy Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

The visual array of themed sand-wich boards and the bombardment of blue decorations strewn across cam-pus means the Homecoming spirit is in the air.

The kickoff event for Homecoming Week is the “Royal Blue” Coronation today at 7 p.m. in the McAfee Gym.

Jacob Swanson, a junior philos-ophy major and the Homecom-ing coordinator for the Universi-ty Board, said he thinks the corona-tion is important because students can see who will be representing them as

Homecoming King, Queen, Prince and Princess.

“Coronation is the moment when Homecoming really begins and it sets the tone for the entire week,”

Swanson said.At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, students can

participate in the “Billy’s Clues” scav-enger hunt.

Tiffany Leschke, a second-year

graduate student in the College of Student Affairs and an advisor for the UB Homecoming Committee, said “Billy’s Clues” will be a photo scaven-ger hunt.

She said students can pick up the scavenger list of about 50 items in the Student Activities Center at 5 p.m. and students can participate in teams of two or three people.

“Teams will have two hours to go and take pictures, and they must re-turn to the SAC by 7 p.m.,” Leschke said.

At least two members of the teams must be present in each scavenger hunt photo, and the top three teams

will receive prizes, she said. The first place prize is a $75 gift card for each team member, then $50 gift cards for the second-place team, and $25 gift cards for the third-place team.

From noon unt i l 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Eastern is celebrating Faculty/Staff Appreciation Day with the Homecoming “Blue-B-Que” pic-nic in the Library Quad.

“We are trying to get more faculty and staff members involved in Home-coming and we thought this would be a great way to work toward that goal,” Swanson said.

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Oct. 17: 7 p.m. McAfee Gym “Royal Blue” coronation Oct. 18: 5 to 7 p.m. “Billy’s Clues” scavenger hunt Oct. 19: Noon to 2 p.m. Library Quad “Blue-B-Que” picnic 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Library Quad “Bleed Blue” spirit T-shirt swap Oct. 20: 7 to 9 p.m. South Quad “Big Blue Playground” family fun nightOct. 21: 7 to 9 p.m. McAfee Gym “Crank-up the Blue” pep rally Oct. 22: 9:30 a.m. Sixth Street and Grant Avenue Homecoming Parade10 a.m. to 1 p.m. O’Brien Stadium Parking Lot “Billy’s Backyard Football Tailgate” 1:30 p.m. O’Brien Stadium Homecoming Football Game

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Fire Dept. gives out free pizzaFirefighters also inspect smoke detectors for fire prevention weekBy Nike Ogunbodede Campus Editor

Sirens were silent and fire hoses perfectly undis-turbed as the candy-apple red 306 fire engine sped down the streets of Charleston—not to put out a fire—but to provide residents with free pizzas.

Driving engine 306, Jason Armstrong and Blake Graven—sans yellow uniforms—were one of many Charleston Fire Department firefighters to pair up with Domino’s Pizza for an hour shift of delivering pizzas to surprised Charleston resi-dents.

In an effort to raise awareness for fire preven-tion week, members of the Charleston Fire De-

partment checked working smoke detectors be-fore giving the residents with properly working detectors their pizza free of charge.

Sam Bixby, 25, said he was expecting to give a tip to the deliveryman, not open his house up for an informal inspection.

Bixby’s smoke detector was not attached to its dock upon the arrival, Graven said.

Bixby said he unhooked his smoke detector be-cause of its incessant beeping.

“It’s only been unplugged for a week, but I probably should have gotten it checked instead of removing it,” Bixby said.

Upon further inspection, it was discovered that Bixby did not have a carbon monoxide detector even though he had a gas-fueled appliances.

“He did have a gas water heater and gas is what causes carbon monoxide—it’s fumes of the burnt gas,” Armstrong said.

Eastern students need to educate themselves on

what their landlords need to equip their homes with before they sign a lease, Graven said.

In accordance with the Illinois state law, every “dwelling: place is required to have at least one ap-proved functioning carbon monoxide alarm with-in 15 feet of every room used for sleeping pur-poses.

“CO kills a lot of people every year,” Arm-strong said.

Bixby said he was glad the fire department was able to talk with him about such a serious and un-der-discussed issue.

Eric Schroeder, a senior physics major, said he was excited when the firefighters explained that he would be getting a free pizza if his smoke detector was in working order.

“I knew it was OK cause it always goes off when we are trying to cooking,” Schroeder said.

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NIKE OGUNBODEDE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Sam Bixby, 25, receives a free Domino’s Pizza after Charleston Fire Department firefighters Jason Armstrong and Blake Graven checked his smoke detector on Saturday. The CFD teamed up with Domino’s to raise awareness for Fire Prevention Week.

By Nike Ogunbodede Campus Editor

Winning a place on Eastern’s Homecoming Court is a numbers game—the online popular vote counts for 30 percent, 10 percent for can-didate applications and the judges’ vote, based on the candidate’s interview counts for 60 per-cent.

The “Royal Blue” coronation will take place today at 7 p.m. in the McAfee Gymnasium.

Eastern’s court is comprised of a king and queen, prince and princess, faculty king and queen and a little prince and princess.

KingCharles Jacques, a senior biology and French

major, was the 2010 “Bets on Blue” Homecom-ing King and the third consecutive member of SAE to win king.

“I think it really helped that I got really in-volved and I cared about the campus and I wanted to make an impact,” Jacques said.

Jacques said his favorite event was the Home-coming football game.

“I actually met one of my good friends that day because she was messing around with the band kids,” Jacques said. “We got to interact with so many different people.”

Jarrod Scherle, a graduate student, was the second member of SAE to win homecoming king in 2009.

Dan Rolando began the winning streak in 2008.

Scherle said his interview went exactly how he wanted it to.

“I was really on my game that day,” Scher-le said.

Scherle said the way he networked himself and the friends he had willing to support him is what he thinks set him apart.

Scherle also said his favorite event was the 2009 football game.

“The Homecoming Royalty got to met Tony Romo,” Scherle said. “I got a picture with him and got to shake his hand.”

Homecoming King is not just a one-day event and the obligations can interfere with oth-er things so the winners should have enough time to make multiple event commitments for that week, Jacques said.

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By Uriah Berryhill Staff Reporter

The Newman Center sponsored their first Oktoberfest Sunday, a fundraiser that supports the Hedwig Haus of Hospitality through games, music, food and more.

The festival consisted of the community com-ing together and supporting the house, a place for women and children to live who are home-less.

Hot dogs, burgers, shakes and soft drinks were served, and tickets were sold for the games and different activities that they had on display. They also had a band excite the crowd. The com-munity and the church for the house.

Judy Vaughn, a member of the committee, said the house is modeled after Saint Hedwig, a 13th century queen of Poland and her example of walking with the poor.

Vaughn said the house where the women

and children live is not a shelter, but more of a home where they are considered guests and there is no time limit on how long they are able to stay.

The house was funded by donations and gifts given by the church and the communi-ty. Vaughn said the guests can be of any race or religion and they do not have to be Catho-lic. She said that the house is in need of volun-teers of the community and the volunteers are able to help supervise and do some chores in the house.

Vaughn said that the shifts are four hours long and they consist of helping the guests clean and cook and play games with the chil-dren.

She said that any income that the guests re-ceived belongs to them, and they do not have to pay anything towards the house because it is paid for already. They reside there until they are able to get on their feet, but there is no rush on the time they spend at the house.

Steve Joebgen, a resident and volunteer of the house, lives and supervises the women and chil-dren.

Joebgen said that the house is nothing differ-

ent from any other home, besides multiple fami-lies living there, but they act and enjoy each oth-er as one big family.

He said that he helps the volunteers who come to help out with the women and chil-dren, and he also helps them set goals for their future.

The president of the committee, Roy Lanham said that the fundraiser was a committee deci-sion.

Lanham said that the volunteers and the guests who live there all become as one and help each other in different ways.

Lanham said the guest makes a decision the first 30 days on trying to get on their feet with-in a three-month period, but if not they are not removed from the house. Instead they are able to stay until they have enough income to branch out, but the doors are always open, he said.

Lanham said this Oktoberfest is the first of many to come and is excited about the Haus of Hospitality and the guests that they are helping.

Uriah Berryhill can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]

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SHEA LAZ ANSKY | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSA volunteer from the Newman Catholic Center congregation grills hamburgers, hot dogs and bratwurst Sunday at Oktoberfest, a fundraiser put on in support of the Hedwig Haus of Hospitality, a Charleston shelter for homeless women and children.

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Spring is a season that brings a re-freshing smell into the air as the trees be-gin to bud and the winter chills become dormant. It is a time for new life to see the wonders of Charleston. With new life comes new ambitions. New ambitions mean new music, and for Charleston that means new events.

A fresh take on the Charleston festival scene is exactly what Scott Chaplinski has been planning for nearly a year with the event Square Fest.

“I started thinking in February that it was about time to get it going with every-thing going on with Celebration, Wood-chuck Music Festival, there’s finals, there’s Easter. I realized it was crunch time to get it going,” Chaplinski said.

Square Fest will begin at 2 p.m. Sat-urday through 1 a.m. Sunday. The event will take place on Charleston’s square at the bars Mother’s, Friends & Co., Mac’s Uptowner and Top of the Roc. The event will cost $12 and allow patrons 21 and over admittance into any of the bars and performances.

Chaplinski said getting the bars in-volved was the first part of organizing the event, and after he explained the potential benefits they jumped on board.

“I kind of just threw it out there,” Chaplinski said. “They’ve given me good ideas, and they appreciate the ideas that I have. They’ve been very helpful with ev-erything I’ve been doing.”

Chaplinski has been wanting to get the bars involved with a festival event for more than year and said he feels that now was the best time to bring it all together.

“We are hoping it brings a lot of busi-ness to the square,” Chaplinski said. “We hope it is going to be a nicer day. It’s a good window of a month and a half of good weather to show all these people,

‘Hey there are all these other great bars in town, and not just the ones near Lincoln (Avenue.).”

Many of the featured acts will be Charleston based groups such as Mug-wump Specific, Andy Van Slyke and Staff Blues Band while others such as DJ Illith, Poundcake and Ryan Arnold stem from locations throughout the state.

“I figure this was a great networking opportunity for a lot of bands,” Chaplins-ki said. “We are pulling in bands from the Kankakee area, and some musicians from Champaign area. It’s bands that I like, and I know that other people (like).”

Chaplinski said most of them are younger bands that have only been play-ing for a year or two and that many times a band that has been playing for four to five years need a guarantee that they are getting paid.

“Having never done anything like this before I didn’t want to make promises to a bunch of people that I can’t fulfill.” Chap-linski said.

In fact, much of the money for pro-ducing the event was saved up by Chap-linski himself. He hopes that the $12 cov-er is enough to give some of the traveling bands money to cover their gas costs and without being too high to deter college students and community members from coming out.

One local musician, Mitch Davis, a senior management information sys-tems major, saod he plans on showing the crowd some new tunes to commemorate the new event.

“I mainly like to get people dancing, but I also play some more chill stuff,” Davis said. “I don’t want people to get burnt out, so I’ll make new songs before the shows. New shows get me motivated to make new songs. (Square Fest) is go-ing to be so new. There’s going to be so many different people playing at so many different bars. I don’t really know what to

expect. That’s why I am expecting to play in front of a totally new crowd, so I really got to try to pump people up.”

With a wide variety of performances including blues, rock, jam band, electron-ic and rap everyone is beginning to de-velop expectations for the new event and Chaplinski is no different.

“I want to be able to be out on the square, outside the bars and see people

having a good time,” Chaplinski said. “I want to hear, sort of over-hear, what they did like and what they didn’t like. I just think there will be a lot of good vibes coming. Perfect conditions for me, is hearing that people had a great time.”

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

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Mitch Davis, a senior management information systems major, rehearses new songs and freshens up on older material Wednesday evening in his home as he prepares for today’s Square Fest event.

Square Fest provides stage for new music, new bands and new surroundings

By Brad YorkVerge Editor

Jackson Avenue Coffee (J.A.C.) is a location to go blow-off steam, study for hours on end and socialize as the creamy fragrance of lattes, cappuccinos and hot chocolates stream though the air.

J.A.C., located at 708 Jackson Ave., may sound like an unusual place for a concert setting, but Dan Reible believes it is the perfect location for live music that has not been offered to Charleston in some time.

“In the Charleston area there is no place to relax and listen to music except for a bar,” Reible said. “I’d like a place where people can come relax, have a cup of coffee, sandwich, bagel and take it easy and listen to some good acoustic music.”

Reible and his wife Vicki are currently shuffling through papers in order to become the rightful owners of J.A.C.

Reible moved to Mattoon in 1984 after serving in the Navy and soon became a truck driver, traveling the nation with his wife.

Reible has played for various bands in the past and mentioned to his friend, Ryan Dawson and the current owner of J.A.C., he was looking for a place to host weekly concerts on Saturday evenings.

Dawson then asked Reible if he ever pictured himself owning a café. Reible expressed an interest, and soon, Dawson offered to sell the business.

Dawson said the Reibles’ have been his customers since J.A.C. opened nearly eight years ago.

“I planned on going back to school this summer to complete a degree in teacher’s certification,” Dawson said. “We were ready to move on to new things. I figured it is best not to run anything into the ground, so I offered to sell the place.”

Dawson has high hopes for

the future of J.A.C. and feels as as though hosting live musicians every Saturday night is only the beginning of the growth J.A.C. will see.

The first Saturday night performer will be “Reverend” Robert Reynolds Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. at J.A.C.

None of the performances will come with a cover cost, but instead a hat will be passed around around for donations, which go entirely to the artist.

Robert Reynolds is a musician who plays blues music from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ’40s, and is glad Reible is opening his doors to local musicians.

Reynolds said he has known Reible for a while because they have been playing music together through the years.

“It is good to play one close to home. This is more intimate than the festivals and blues bars I’ve been playing at lately,” Reynolds said. “I play electric when I’m with my band, but this show will be all acoustic.”

The intimate setting offers a place for begging and practiced musicians alike.

Reible wants to show people in Charleston music they may not have heard before.

He plans to host various artists from various genres each weekend.

“I’ve got things booked all the way through the end of June,” Reible said. “It’s mostly people I have heard in the area and a lot of local musicians. We are open

to all different styles. It doesn’t matter if I personally like it or not. It’s whatever I think our customers will like.”

Reible said his customers are an eclectic group, and notices that he has a lot of high schoolers come there every evening. He said parents know it is a safe place.

Reible said he is open to any style of music and musicians who are interested in performing the Saturday night events should come out to J.A.C. Open Mic Night every Thursday.

These open mic sessions are used as auditions of sorts for the diverse music Reible hopes to incorporate with the Saturday night performances.

In addition to the open mic night artists, Reible searches the Web and various local music hot spots in order to find performers.

“I’m hoping to get a lot of music in here that people haven’t experienced before,” Reible said. “People may have heard blues, but it probably isn’t the old delta blues that (Reverend Robert) will be playing.”

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



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By Colleen KitkaAssistant Verge Editor

The 7th Street Underground will turn into a concert venue tonight at 5:30 as the Colleges Against Cancer group hosts its sec-ond Rock it for Relay concert.

The benefit concert will feature the three local bands Good Morning Midnight, Cured by Fire and Madison’s Avenue, and one solo musician, Jenna Jackley.

Tickets are $5 at the door and can be purchased starting at 5 p.m.

All proceeds go to the Colleges Against Cancer’s Relay for Life team, and will ul-timately be given to the American Cancer Society.

Kyle Swalls, guitarist and vocalist for Good Morning Midnight, has witnessed the devastation of cancer first hand. Swalls said his grandma is fighting against cancer.

“It’s a constant struggle dealing with it,” Swalls said. “A lot of time the chemo won’t be as effective, and they will try a new method and stuff. And so just know-ing the constant struggle makes me want to do something like this and raise money for an individual who is having the same, who is dealing with the same kind of suffering.”

This band along with Cured by Fire is playing at Friends & Co. later in the eve-ning. They were willing to book two gigs in one night to show their support.

“We feel that playing this gig will al-low people to see that rock and roll and the whole style of it isn’t just about being on your own and not really caring about any-one else,” Logan Richardson, Madison’s Av-

enue lead singer, said. “We really do care about the issue of

breast cancer and cancer in general,” Rich-ardson continued. “Because some people

close to us have had it and, luckily, they have recovered from it.”

Many of the bands playing are new to Eastern’s campus. Richardson said perform-ing at the concert would be an opportunity to expose students to a different kind of lo-cal music.

Good Morning Midnight is an indie and alternative rock band. Beginning near-ly a year ago and stationed in Marshall, the group is fresh to the Charleston music scene, but has played in the 7th Street Un-derground before for a canned food drive.

Cured by Fire is a Charleston metal band. Megan Givens, the concert coordi-nator said the group sounds similar to Me-tallica or Godsmack and does a good job of getting a crowd going. Their influenc-es come from those bands and others like Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue and Black Sabbath.

Jenna Jackley is a Mattoon High School student who plays the guitar and sings.

“She is just memorizing to watch,” Me-gan Givens said. “She is in high school, so she is still very young, but the caliber of voice she has is just amazing.”

Madison’s Avenue is another young al-ternative rock band from Charleston that has been putting out their own music for eight months. The group has played all over Charleston, in Havana and in Centralia, but tonight will be one of their first times playing on campus.

Givens, a junior elementary education major, said all the bands are hard working and were booked because they came recom-mended by other artists.

The Colleges Against Cancer has raised more than $5,000 through their fall breast cancer T-shirt sales and other fundrais-ers. They have pledged to raise $8,000, and across campus different groups have pledged to raise $70,000 for the American Cancer Society.

Last year, the concert drew a small crowd, but Givens is hoping for more pub-lic support.

“What ever little amount can put to-wards the American Cancer Society will help in some way,” Givens said.

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

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Good Morning Midnight band members Elgin Combs (guitarist), Michael “Woody” Woodring (drummer), Kyle Swalls (vocalist and guitarist) and Chad Barton (bass guitarist and vocalist) volunteered to play tonight at the Rock it for Relay event to help raise money for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

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Jenna Jackley is a Mattoon High School student and will be playing at the 7th Street Underground tonight at 5:30 p.m.

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Cathedral recap

An Eastern professor made his return debut in Doudna Fine Arts Center with some of his own compositions Sunday.

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Rock preview

Students and staff mem-bers will get the chance to learn the “roll” of rock in ancient Egypt today.

Beverly Cruse, a photographer for Booth Li-brary and an instructor of photography, will pre-senting “The ‘Roll’ of Rock Solid Imagery of Early Egypt.” speech.

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Family Fest funds equipment, travel By Doug T. Graham Staff Reporter

Children rode ponies, hauled tiny tractors, picked out pumpkins and thoroughly searched through hay dur-ing Family Fun Day Saturday at the Sun Elite Pumpkin Patch in the North-west Business Park in Charleston.

Family Fun Day and the pumpkin patch are both part of a fundraising ef-fort for the Sun Elite Athletic Club, a Charleston gymnastics facility for chil-dren from 16 months-old and adults.

The organizer of Family Fun Day, Carol Lawson, said it was the biggest departure the group has taken from tra-ditional fundraising events.

Lawson, who is the mother of the gym’s owner, Zac Lawson, and a sec-retary at Charleston High School, said they had pumpkins, gourds and a va-riety of harvest-themed ornaments shipped via a semi-truck from a compa-ny in New Mexico.

A wooden sign painted with the words “wee be littles” was staked in the ground next to crates overflowing with dozens of small, round pumpkins, each on sale for 75 cents.

A few feet away, larger pumpkins were arranged next to a sign that said “Spookies 1.50.” There were also “min-is” for 50 cents and larger pumpkins ranging up in price to $10.

Although the pumpkins will be on sale through October, some Family Fun Day activities were one-time things.

One such game was the kiddie trac-tor pull, which featured a green tricycle

shaped like a piece of farm equipment weighed down by more than 50 pounds of weights. Carol Lawson said they bor-rowed the kiddie tractor from the Coles County Farm Bureau Young Farmers Committee.

Children took turns trying to push the pedals and move the heavy trac-tor 100 feet to win a Sun Elite Athlet-ic Club sweatshirt. After two hours no one had won the challenge.

The activities were supervised by members of the Sun Elite Athletic Booster Club and none brought more to the fair than Heidi Updegraff, who hauled three ponies to the pumpkin patch for children to ride.

Updegraff said the ponies belong to her daughter Ashley, 9, who is a mem-ber of the intermediate tumbling team at the gym.

Not all of the money collected at the fundraiser outside of the gym is stay-ing in Charleston. A portion of it is go-

ing across the Atlantic Ocean with Zac Lawson and a member of the gym.

Trey Katz, an 18-year-old gymnast at Sun Elite who graduated Charleston High School in the spring and is cur-rently a student at Lakeland College, will be representing his country at an international gymnastics competition

in England. Katz will compete on the double

mini trampoline for the U.S. World Champions team in November at the 2011 FIG Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships in Birmingham, England. Zac Lawson said Katz has competed internationally before in

Russia and France.Zac Lawson, a Charleston native

who graduated from CHS in 2000, said he will be with his pupil because he was recently named to be one of the team’s assistant coaches.

Doug T. Graham can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

Paranormal investigators swap ghost storiesBy Nick Livers Staff Reporter

Attendees were given an inside view of the life of paranormal investigators at a meet and greet sponsored by the Illi-nois Metaphysical and Paranormal So-ciety at the Charleston Moose Lodge Saturday.

Michael Kleen, an Eastern alumnus who received his master’s degree in his-tory in 2006, discussed the legends be-hind several hauntings in Illinois.

Kleen said he has been interested in the paranormal his entire life, but it was not until he began attending East-ern that he discovered the rich and

largely unknown history of many ghost legends around Coles County.

“The research process starts with a story, usually somebody telling me that this bridge or this house is known to be haunted,” Kleen said. “So I’ll go back through archives of newspapers like The Daily Eastern News for articles around Halloween because papers always write about different ghost stories.”

Kleen said he also consults genealog-ical societies and researches county his-tory books.

He was recently featured on an ep-isode of the Travel Channel series “Ghost Adventures,” which examined ghost activity in Ashmore Estates, a for-

mer almshouse and care facility in Coles County.

“What I do, though, is different from other people who call themselves paranormal investigators,” Kleen said. “I simply write about the history and the legends associated with places. My only equipment is a pen.”

Jim Heater, the founder of the Champaign Illinois Paranormal Society, brings recording equipment to suppos-edly haunted cites to try to capture au-dio or video footage of actual ghost ac-tivity.

He said he tries to speak with ghosts and he usually gets responses, but not direct answers to the questions he asks.

Greg Orlando, a senior clinical labo-ratory studies major, attended the event and said he, too, believes in the exis-tence of ghosts.

“I think a ghost may live in my house because at night I sometimes hear the sounds of a woman screaming for help,” Orlando said. “I have tried to communicate with her, but she has nev-er given me any direct responses.”

Heater said to actually hear ghosts is a rarity and usually recording equip-ment is necessary because it captures ghost voices that usually occur on a wavelength inaudible to the human ear.

Heater said that some people on tele-vision shows go to haunted cities and

yell at the ghosts, trying to force them to reveal themselves.

“We don’t do that because I have re-spect for the dead,” Heater said. “Some-day I’m going to be dead, and I don’t want some punk jerk with his hair spiked up and goofy glasses trying to communicate with me that way.”

Kleen said he thinks some ghost hunters tend to exaggerate the scale of a haunting for television.

“They exaggerate and ‘see’ things that maybe weren’t all that spectacular,” Kleen said. “It gets the ratings up.”

Nick Livers can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

Family Fun Day may be over, but people can still go to the Sun Elite Pumpkin Patch and do the follow-ing:• Buy a variety of pumpkins, gourds and mums• Play in the corn box, which is like a sandbox with corn kernels• Run through the kiddie straw maze, which is a small maze made up of stacked hay bales The pumpkin patch is open from 11 a.m. To 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday through Oct. 31.

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M O N DAY, O C TO B E R 17, 2011N O. 1 3 3 , V O L U M E 9 6OpiniOns

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The Oct. 11 Washington Post-Bloomberg News presidential debate at Dartmouth College produced a clear winner, Mitt Romney, and many of the candidates appeared little more than stage props, determinedly enjoying their final moments in the spotlight.

Michele Bachmann dodged a “should we blame Wall Street” question, called Her-man Cain’s tax plan the devil, and then bab-bled about how everything is the government’s fault. Newt Gingrich especially seemed excited about being paid attention to again (it has been awhile since the ‘90s) and joyously attacked the Obama administration and its policies in the comfortable shade of never actually having to support the accusations.

As always, Rick Santorum was easily the most pathetic, at one point even refusing to politely concede the floor despite repeated re-quests from Charlie Rose (who did a fabulous job mediating the talks). Santorum hasn’t had a chance at the Republican nomination since the moment he showed interest, and his continued participation in this race is entirely baffling.

Santorum blamed the economic problems of the country on the erosion of traditional fam-ily values, saying, “We need to have a poli-cy that supports families, that encourages mar-riage.” Meaning, of course, marriage of a het-erosexual man to a heterosexual woman with-in the context of orthodox Christianity. I realize Santorum’s comment isn’t directly an attack on the gay community, but in today’s conversation it isn’t really possible to separate a conversation

about marriage from the gay rights movement, and his ardent homophobia is no secret.

All of Santorum’s homophobic crap is espe-cially ridiculous when combined with this: Pop-ular sex columnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage reportedly signed a seven-figure non-disclosure agreement regarding what he may or may not have done in his dorm room with col-lege roommate Rick Santorum. Look it up.

Santorum’s utter failure was clear, but what was surprising about what I read after the broadcast was that Herman Cain was widely declared a “winner” of the debate, something I neither expected nor agree with. Cain is simply not a serious presidential candidate; President Obama’s lack of executive experience prior to his presidency is too critical a talking point for Republicans to nominate someone with no po-litical experience whatsoever.

Cain practically refused to talk about any-thing besides his tax plan, the “9-9-9 plan,” which to its credit was referenced 15 times throughout the talks, likely the main reason so many have considered him one of the debate’s

winners. The plan, though politically catchy and powerfully simplistic, won’t, in my opin-ion, gather much support—and this debate il-lustrated that. As Santorum pointed out, no one in the audience seemed excited about the proposition of a new 9 percent sales tax, and the other potential candidates were all vehe-mently opposed to giving “Nancy Pelosi” (Con-gress) another means of revenue with which to increase government spending.

Santorum and Romney were conspicuous-ly guilty of several extremely politically care-less comments about China, which were, in my opinion, very bad judgment considering the extent to which the American economy is en-twined with China. Aside from barely avoid-ing to declare a trade war, these potential can-didates neglected to realize that in order to re-pair any problems they may have with Chi-na and Chinese business policy, it is politically necessary to avoid hostile relations with them, and calling them “cheaters” on television is like-ly not constructive in that regard.

In the final round the potential candidates questioned each other. Romney answered more questions than any other candidate, and more than one of these seemed slow-pitched to the former governor of Massachusetts. Will they just announce him already and end this charade of excruciating debates?

Mia Tapella is a senior English and political

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

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Back in September, an Alabama town, Bay Minette, introduced a law that would allow those who have been found guilty of a non-vi-olent crime the option of jail, paying a fine, or attending church for a year.

The idea is that those who are not yet hard-ened criminals have the chance to get back on the right path, according to Police Chief Mike Rowland. He explained to WKRG that the best part of the program is the longevity it provides.

For myself, the choice would be pretty ob-vious. I can’t afford to pay a fine and I would most likely last two minutes in jail, so church it is. Who wouldn’t want to go sing hymns, sit in a pew with some nice people and pray the church has snacks after?

While the choice might be obvious, is it one that this town should be offering?

First, I am actually surprised this is being talked about in October. I thought the law would have been pretty much done away with by now. Not because I don’t think church can provide some benefits, but moreso because it’s

blatantly unconstitutional.If I could direct the town of Bay Minette’s

attention to the U.S. Constitution, there is a large part dedicated to the fact that the gov-ernment cannot force participation into any religious activity. Rowland explained this was not a violation because offenders could choose to go to church over jail, but is that even a real choice?

The offenders who are choosing to get on “the right path” have the option of picking any of the Bay Minette churches to attend.

In reality it’s not much of a choice consid-ering the town doesn’t have a single synagogue or mosque in it.

This law would separate those of a certain religion from another and, in essence, force those that do not follow the generally accept-ed religion to change their beliefs or go to jail, while the popularly practiced religion allows the remaining criminals an easier sentence.

This also implies that while you are not re-quired to go to church, religious people don’t commit crimes. What if a criminal already at-tends church? We’re sentencing them to con-tinue on with their daily schedule, except when they repent and really mean it this time.

Also, we should think of how this law can

affect the future. What can stop it from mov-ing past misdemeanors to any crime?

If all sins are seen the same in Christian faith then why shouldn’t other offenders be able to go to church for a year as well? The fact is there is nothing stopping that from happening.

Instead of offering church as a reform for guilt, the town could offer better communi-ty service options. Maybe for the first proj-ect they can build a religious center for Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim followers.

Even though I feel strongly about this law, I do understand what the idea stems from. Jail often results in more crime and criminal ac-tivity. Paying a fine is usually not an option for people who have to steal to make a living and 30-day drug classes probably aren’t long enough to help an addict.

By implementing a community service op-tion instead, not only is the town of Bay Mi-nette not breaking the Constitution, but im-proving their community as well. Violators can still be in a positive environment with strong role models while repaying their debts to society.

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AROUND THE STATE

Over the past month, streets and parks in city after city have been occupied by protest-ers. What began as a relatively small protest in New York City against Wall Street spread first to other American cities and college campuses, then last week to cities around the globe.

Watching this movement inspire such widespread civic engagement made us won-der: Why hasn’t their been an Occupy East-ern?

It’s not that Eastern is too small or isolat-ed a campus, nor is it a matter of Illinois stu-dents feeling disconnected from the Occu-py Wall Street movement. Chicago has been occupied. So have Indianapolis and St. Lou-is. Occupy protests have sprouted up on the campuses of University of Illinois and Illinois State University.

The list of grievances protesters want redressed is quite long and the movement lacks a focused platform, but the general theme seems to be anger at the financial sector for their role in the economic collapse and the government for rewarding, rather than pun-ishing, those who took part in harmful prac-tices.

Regardless of one’s feelings about the pro-tests, this level of grassroots civic engagement is a good thing. People are upset and have damn good reason to be. Irresponsible prac-tices on Wall Street helped create a recession that left thousands of people unemployed or underemployed through no fault of their own. Congress is decidedly unwilling to fix the problem and do its job.

Protests are a good thing. It is healthy for people to come together peacefully and join their voices to demand a better society.

But student activism is especially impor-tant. The two most important protest move-ments of the twentieth century, the civil rights movement and the protests against the Viet-nam War, often took place on college campus-es. We think it is fair to say both movements were successful and that students played a major role in their success.

Playing an active role in our democra-cy should be a lifelong commitment for every American, and there is a reason college is the ideal time to get involved. For one thing, col-lege is when we are asked to challenge our beliefs, develop a world view, and defend our positions and assertions. We are forced to acquire a broader understanding of the world we live in and our place in it. Activism is a way to demonstrate our commitment to improving that world.

Also, the college environment is unique-ly suited to activism. At no other time are we surrounded by peers who have as much energy and time as it takes to organize and protest.

Surely there are enough students who feel strongly about the factors that contributed to the unemployment rate they will face upon graduating.

So why is there no Occupy Eastern protest? Because you haven’t started it yet.

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CAA reviews assessments By Robyn Dexter Staff Report

An assessment of undergraduate and graduate programs by the Committee for the Assessment of Student Learning was presented at the Council for Academic Affairs meeting on Thursday.

Karla Sanders, of the Center for Academic Sup-port and Achievement and a representative of CASL, presented the assessment.

Sanders presented the executive summaries and 2009-2011 college trends. The summaries cov-ered each of the college’s undergraduate and gradu-ate programs, and included charts and statistics of how Eastern students have measured up to depart-ment expectations along with Eastern averages as a whole.

Sanders said it was important that the CAA see all the statistics and information because it directly relates to academic affairs.

The assessments from CASL covered how each college is adopting the Undergraduate Learning Goals. The four goals are critical thinking, writing, speaking and global citizenship. Each college has a chart showing its adoption of one or more of the goals.

These charts and statistics are available on the CASL website.

Rebecca Throneberg, CASL chairwoman and CAA member, said each college is being encour-aged to adopt as many of the four goals as they can.

“We’re seeing a nice upward trend,” Throneberg said. “Almost everyone has adopted the assessment goals.”

At the meeting, the CAA welcomed two new members to the CAA. The two new members are Melissa Caldwell, an assistant English professor, and Corrigan Clouston, a senior sociology major.

Clouston filled the last student representative spot for the CAA. The other two student represen-tatives are Aseret Gonzalez, the student vice presi-dent for academic affairs, and Kaylia Eskew, a soph-omore journalism major.

The CAA covered two weeks’ worth of agenda items, because the Oct. 6 meeting was canceled.

They reviewed waiver reports from the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences, the Col-lege of Arts and Humanities, the College of Edu-cation and Professional Studies, and the College of Sciences.

Several of the courses on the agenda were revised to add technology-delivered sections to the curricu-lum, and the CAA approved these revisions.

The courses that added technology-delivered sections to their curriculum include Introducto-ry Sociology, Sociology of Work and Occupations, World Regional Geography and Human Impacts on the Environment.

The geology major and the course “Environmen-tal Geology” were also reformatted.

Next week, the CAA is scheduled to revise a Management Information Systems course, as well as the minor and major it applies to.

Robyn Dexter can be reached

at 581-2812 or [email protected].

PIZZA, from page 1

Ryan Berkheimer, a 30-year-old firefighter, said he was glad the CFD chose to end its pre-vention week with a collaborative effort with Domino’s.

Making sure a smoke detector is working tends to be an afterthought, but it was nice to have an unorthodox reminder, Schroeder said.

“It’s nice that they are getting involved,” Schroeder said.

Berkheimer said this program has more of a reward-oriented approach than the other pro-grams the fire department puts on.

“We do the “Good Neighbor” program once a year with Eastern, where we walk the neighbor-hood and talk to (people) and check their smoke detectors,” Berkheimer said. “This is a more of a surprise—a more positive way for us to edu-cate people.”

Nike Ogunbodede can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Wednesday, students can trade in T-shirts from other colleges for Eastern T-shirts at the “Bleed Blue” spirit T-shirt swap in the Library Quad.

“Last year we traded for Eastern Homecom-ing spirit shirts, but now there will be more of a variety,” Swanson said.

The “Big Blue Playground” Homecoming Family Fun Night is from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thurs-day in the South Quad.

Alison Adams, a second year graduate stu-dent in the College of Student Affairs and an advisor for the UB Homecoming Committee, said the family fun night is geared more toward children and parents this year.

“This event is more for the community and it provides a really good environment to bond and have fun,” Adams said. “They can also have the chance to mingle with students since the RSOs and Greek organizations will have differ-ent booths set up.”

Swanson said many of the activities at last year’s family fun night had more of a focus on students such as the poker tables, and this year Registered Student Organizations and Greek or-ganizations have put more effort in making the event more family oriented.

Food, face painting, bottle-toss games, in-flatable playhouses and family bingo are some of the scheduled activities for “Big Blue Play-ground,” Adams said.

From 7 until 9 p.m. on Friday, students, fac-ulty and staff can attend the “Crank-up the Blue” pep rally in the McAfee Gym.

“Crank-up the Blue” includes the annual “Yell Like Hell & Who Wants to be a Mascot” event where different student organizations pres-ent their cheers and choreographed routines.

“Student organizations and residence halls put a lot of effort into ‘Yell Like Hell and Who Wants to be a Mascot,’ and I think it is great to see the outcome of all of their hard work,” Le-schke said.

The Homecoming Parade is scheduled to be-gin at 9 a.m. on Saturday at the corner of Sixth Street and Grant Avenue.

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, mem-bers of the Eastern community can participate in “Billy’s Backyard Football Tailgate” at the O’Brien Stadium Parking Lot and the Home-coming game against University of Tennessee Martin is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.

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

HOMECOMING, from page 1

“The big part of being Homecoming king, queen, prince or princess is that you really have to be a great representative of the school,” Jacques said. “You are EIU.”

The Homecoming Court becomes the face of Eastern and its school spirit, Scherle said.

Scherle said the 2011 court should make sure that they do not let the title go to their heads.

“Make sure you live up to the standards of it, but don’t get crushed by the pressure of it because it’s a lot of fun, too,” Jacques said.

QueenJaleesha Maury, the 2010 Homecoming Queen,

said she will never forget winning during her se-nior year.

“I felt like it was me leaving a trail for a lot of the girls in my sorority,” Maury said. “It was the most exciting week I had.”

Maury also said the diversity of the people at the bowling night and the vast amount of stu-dents she was able to interact with made it her favorite event.

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S P O R TS

MEN’S SOCCER

Kangaroos hop out early in matchStaff Report

The Eastern men’s soccer team lost to the University of Missouri at Kan-sas City 3-1 Saturday. The team fell behind in the 29th minute and was never able to dig themselves out of the hole.

Mo Ramahi beat an Eastern de-fender on the left side and kicked a shot past sophomore goalkeeper Tyler Kelley for his first goal of the season and the first goal of the game.

The rest of the first half would go scoreless, although both teams would combine for 14 shots. The Panthers were unable to connect on any of their six attempts.

The second half remained score-less until Konner Knoll controlled a corner kick and connected on his first goal of the year.

The Panther would get back into the game when red-shirt freshman midfielder Chris Boswell connected

on a header off a pass from freshman forward Jake Irwin. The goal was Bo-swell’s second of his career and it was also Irwin’s team-leading fifth assist this season.

The University of Missouri at Kan-sas City took little time to open up a two-goal lead again as Jordan Rideout scored off a free kick from 40 yards out. The kick was just out of reach of Kelley and it sailed into the back of the net. The Panthers were never able to get back in the match.

Eastern held the advantage in shots, but it was unable to beat goal-keeper Kevin Corby more than once. Corby made six saves on the day.

The loss drops the Panthers to 6-6-1 overall and 1-2-1 in the Sum-mit League. The Kangaroos improve to 5-6-1 overall and 2-1-0 in confer-ence play.

The Panthers return to action Sat-urday on the road against Western Michigan.

FOOTBALL, from page 8Wright was the Panthers’ kick re-

turner, with Crawford inactive.With the loss, the Panthers drop to

1-6 on the year, with an OVC record of 0-5.

The Panthers stand in last place in the OVC and are the only conference team without a win. Murray State im-proves to 2-2 in the OVC with the win and 4-3 overall.

Despite not being able to spoil the Racers’ homecoming, the team will hope to win this weekend in its own homecoming against Tennessee-Martin.

The game is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at O’Brien Field.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942

or [email protected].

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Split weekend in OVCBy Brad Kupiec Staff Reporter

Eastern’s women’s soccer team played their last full home weekend, losing to Eastern Kentucky 1-0 Fri-day before beating Morehead State 2-0 Sunday.

The Panther offense only man-aged two shots on goal throughout the game against Eastern Kentucky.

In the 18th minute, a clearing at-tempt by senior defender Erika Prazma went awry and ended up past red-shirt sophomore keeper Jessica Taldone for the only tally of the game. Taldone notched six saves.

Taldone notched a total of 10 saves for the weekend for a .909 save per-centage on the weekend.

Head Coach Summer Perala said Taldone has played well on goal for the Panthers all season.

“She’s been solid,” Perala said of Taldone. “She’s done a good job and made some good stops to keep us in games.”

Following Friday’s loss to the Colo-nels, the Panthers turned their atten-tion to Morehead State, winning with a pair of second half goals after a score-less, back-and-forth first half.

Sunday’s first Panther strike came in the 55th minute as a long cross off a corner kick from freshman midfielder Meagan Radloff was headed in by se-nior midfielder Jessica Blake.

Perala said it was a play the Panthers had been working on in practice and it worked to perfection against Morehead State.

“It was fantastic,” said Perala of Blake’s goal. “(Assistant coach) Grant (Williams) worked out that set with them earlier this week, it’s kind of a sneak attack and they executed it per-fectly. Jess was in the right spot, Mea-gan had a great left-footed service, all the pieces (came together).”

The rest of Sunday’s second half was controlled primarily by Eastern until the 86th minute when junior forward Kristin Germann took the ball down

the left side of the field before blasting it home from 8 yards out.

The weekend puts the Panthers at 4-2-0 in Ohio Valley Conference play, good for second place in the OVC, be-hind only Southeast Missouri (6-1-0).

The Panthers will now go on the road to play Murray State this Friday and Austin Peay Sunday.

Brad Kupiec can be reached at 581-7944 or [email protected]

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRed-shirt junior forward Ashley Streid takes the ball down the field during Eastern’s game against Morehead State Sunday at Lakeside Field.



SportSSports EditorDominic Renzetti217 • 581 • [email protected]

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FOOTBALL, page 7

RUGBY

By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

With only minutes to play in Saturday’s game against Murray State, it looked as if this would be the game where the Eastern foot-ball team would finally snap its six game losing streak and spoil the homecoming game for the Racers.

The Panthers held the Rac-ers and their Ohio Valley Confer-ence leading quarterback, Casey Brockman, in check for most of the game.

They held Brockman to only one touchdown through the air and three yards on the ground.

With 3:06 to play in the game, the Racers scored on a pass from Brockman to Hannibal Beauford from 16 yards out to take a 30-27 lead, following a missed extra point.

Eastern would then miss a key opportunity to strike back, fum-bling the ball on the first play of the next drive.

Sophomore quarterback Jimmy

Garoppolo was sacked by Kevin Robinson of the Racers, who then recovered the fumble.

On the ensuing Racer drive, running back Mike Harris rushed in 24 yards out for another score, only adding to the Murray State lead.

The game’s final score would stand at 36-27. The Panthers have yet to beat an OVC team this sea-son.

Defensive coordinator Roc Bel-lantoni said his defense played well, but just came up short in the end.

The Eastern run defense vast-ly improved their numbers from recent games, only giving up 148 yards on the ground.

“I thought we played very well for three and a half quarters,” Bel-lantoni said.

Bellantoni said the team that simply wasn’t good enough to beat the Murray State team.

The Panthers slightly out-pro-duced the Racers in nearly every aspect of the game except the final

score. The Panthers had 247 passing

yards compared to the Racers’ 238, and 392 total offensive yards com-pared to the Racers’ 386.

With red-shirt senior wide re-ceiver Lorence Ricks still inactive, Garoppolo was forced to spread the ball around in the passing game.

The Panthers had a total of eight different players notch receptions in the game. Leading the way was junior wide receiver Chris Wright. He had five receptions for 130 yards with two touchdowns.

Red-shirt junior running back Jake Walker led the Panthers in rushing with 88 total yards and two touchdowns.

Absent from the game was soph-omore defensive back Tavares Crawford.

Crawford did not travel with the team and was held out of the game by the coaching staff.

Crawford had taken on kick return duties in wake of Ricks’ absence.

FOOTBALL

Eastern departsNew England with two victoriesBy Jordan Pottorff Staff Reporter

The Eastern rugby team beat the Quinnipiac Bobcats in Hamden, Conn. to improve their record to 6-0.

Eastern flew out to the East Coast and experienced no sense of jet lag or culture shock as they beat up on the Bobcats.

Eastern and Quinnipiac played a very aggressive first half that led to both teams having multiple scoring opportunities in the first 40 minutes of play.

Each team was moving the bal l well, but each team was struggling to capitalize in scoring situations.

“We started out very well and we had great scoring opportunities, but we just couldn’t quite finish the play,” Eastern Head Coach Frank Graziano said. “We got a score in the 28th minute on a nice 70-yard play and had a nice 12 point lead at the half.”

The remainder of the first half was a back and forth offensive affair, but Eastern was able to keep the Bobcats out of the end zone in the first half.

Although the Panthers came out with energy and put together a good first half, they only put up 12 points in the first 40 minutes of play.

“I was trying to keep their confidence up but they were a bit disappointed to not have converted on their scoring opportunities,” Graziano said.

The second half was a different story, and the Panthers began to capitalize on their scoring opportunities.

Junior center Lauren Doyle and senior captain Narissa Ramirez paced the offensive attack in the second half as the Panthers began to pull away from the Bobcats.

The Panthers recorded 21 second-half points en route to the 33-5 win.

Graziano was impressed with how his team handled the weekend road trip.

The young Panther squad was able to fly across the country and walk away with a very impressive win.

The game made the Panthers record 2-0 against the Bobcats this season, and they will look to make it a perfect 3-0 when they meet at Lakeside Field on Nov. 6.

In the meantime, the Panthers will be back in action this weekend when they host the Northern Iowa Panthers at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at

581-7942 or [email protected].

VOLLEYBALL

Losing streak snappedStaff Report

The Panthers avenged their five straight losses and won two games to move to 6-15 overall ,and 4-7 in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Juniors Emily Franklin and Alison Berens each recorded 19 kills and 15 kills. Red-shirt sophomore Stephanie Arnold scored 11 kills and sophomore Reynae Hutchinson recorded 13. Hutchison also added 16 digs for her ninth career double-double.

Last season, Eastern lost both matches against Jacksonville State by a score of 3-1. This season, the Panthers prevailed with a 3-2 victory in which four players recorded double-digit kills.

At one point, Jacksonville State was up 2-1 for the series advantage, but the

Panthers’ offense took the next two matches to bring home one of two wins this weekend.

The Panthers took the momentum to Tennessee Tech, where last season the Panthers split the season series winning at home and losing at Tennessee Tech.

Using their win Friday as a driving force, the Panthers swept Tennessee Tech, by scores of 25-22, 25-20, 25-20.

Hutchinson and Berens nailed 11 kills and 10 kills each.

Also, Hutchinson added 14 digs making this her 10th career double-double, earning back to back double-doubles for the weekend.

The Panthers return to the court today, hosting instate rival Illinois-Chicago in a non-conference contest, with first serve set for 6 p.m.

Panthers blow their fourth quarter lead

KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRed-shirt sophomore defensive back Alex McNulty tackles Eastern Kentucky’s junior runningback/wide receiver Jeremiah Williams Oct. 8 during Eastern Illinois’ 48-16 loss on Lakeside Field. The Panthers fell to Murray State in a 33-26 thriller in Kentucky Saturday.

CROSS COUNTRY

Ramos sets school recordStaff Report

The Eastern cross country team competed in its last meet before the Ohio Valley Conference Championship Friday at Bradley University in Peoria. The women placed 10th while the men took sixth in team standings.

The Panther women scored 226 points while Missouri won the women’s meet overall with 65 points.

Junior Erika Ramos was the top finisher for the Panther women, placing 11th with a time of 21:47.28. Ramos set a school record in the women’s 6K race.

The winner overall for the women was Illinois State’s Krista Deceault with a time of 20:56.15.

Other top finishing Panther women were red-shirt junior Olivia Klaus who

placed 47th with a time of 22:32.62 followed by fifth year Caitlin Napoleoni in 48th with a time of 22:33.29.

The Panther men scored 166 points while Drake won the men’s meet overall with 76 points.

The top finisher for the Panther men was red-shirt senior Brad LaRocque who placed 12th with a time of 25:14.7 on the 8K course. The winner overall for the men was Butler’s Ross Clarke with a time of 24:29.9.

Other top finishing Panther men were freshman Bryce Basting who placed 22nd with a time of 25:30.8 and Senior Matt Feldhake in 40th with a time of 25:56.1.

The Panthers will return to action in two weeks at the OVC Championship on Oct. 29 in Richmond, Ky.

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