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Students gathered at the Java Beanery and Bakery to meet President Bill Perry and try free pastry and beverage samples during “Pastries with the Prez” on Tuesday.

Paul Durante, a junior English major, won a game of checkers against President Perry.

Perry said he spoke to Durante about where he is from, what he wants to study, and the power of words in the English field.

This is the first of four “Prowlin’ with the Prez” events hosted by Student Senate dur-ing Perry’s last semester at Eastern. Each event will have a theme continuing the idea from last semester.

“It’s been especially enjoyable this year because of the variety (of the event),” Perry

said. “Since I know it is my last year, I’m re-ally savoring everything.”

Students are able to meet President Per-ry and voice any concerns they may have, or simply chat with him.

“When people bring these issues or prob-lems to me, I always go back and talk to the vice presidents to see if there’s any opportu-nities,” Perry said.

Perry said students sometimes come up to him with concerns on campus.

“They’ll say they would like to come by and I pull out my calendar and set up a time,” he said.

Java supplied the free samples. There were a variety of pastries, including choc-olate croissants and danishes, peanut butter cookies, scones and other kinds of cookies.

Drinks included samples of Snickers mo-cha, cinnamon roll latte, blackberry caramel

latte and caramel macchiato, among others.People passing by stopped to try samples

and chat. Perry said he enjoys these events and Stu-

dent Senate executives put a lot of energy and thought into planning them.

“I think one of the great things about these kind of events, (is that) students will meet (other students) that they haven’t met here at Eastern, so there’s that mixing that goes on here too,” Perry said.

Denise Ortiz, a sophomore math and computer science major, said she decided she should come because it was at Java.

“(The people hosting the event) said you could try new things, and I figured I (might) as well take advantage and meet the president at least once before he leaves,” she said.

Students eat pastries with President Perry

Luis MartinezAdministration Editor|@DEN_News

The 10-day census, which determines how many students are enrolled for the Spring 2015 semester, will be announced by the end of the week.

The Daily Eastern News will report on the census when the director of the Department of University Marketing and Communica-tions signs off on the numbers.

Although the census was expected to have been released Monday, the observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day delayed the pro-

cess by at least one day.Since the census is determined by the tenth

day of classes Martin Luther King Jr. Day was not recognized as one of the ten days.

Abiding to federal regulations, the Office of Financial Aid recalculates federal, state and institutional student aid awards by the tenth

day of classes.The recalculated aid will be based on the

census-date enrollment status.

Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812

or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.

FacultySenate receives learning-goals update

Open forums to continue with fourth finalistBy Stephanie Markham News Editor | @stephm202

The open forums for the four presiden-tial finalists will finish Wednesday with the last candidate speaking to the Eastern community.

Guiyou Huang, the senior vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at

Norwich University in Vermont, will speak to faculty at 9:30 a.m., staff at 10:30 a.m., students at 1:30 p.m., faculty and staff at 3 p.m. and the campus and community at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union.

Huang received a doctorate degree in English from Texas A&M Univers i ty, a

bachelor’s degree in English from Qufu Normal University in China, and a gradu-ate studies completion diploma from Bei-jing University.

Those in attendance will be given feed-back forms to fill out which will be ana-lyzed by the search committee and factored into the decision ultimately made by the Board of Trustees.

The f i r s t three candidates , Margaret Madden, David Glassman and Sam Min-ner, all presented open forums last week.

The board is set to make its decision by its March 13 meeting.

Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812

or samarkham@eiu.edu.

Spring enrollment numbers to be determined

By Debby HernandezAssociate News Editor | @ DEN_News

Faculty Senate members reviewed updates on how Eastern’s learning goals will be incorporated into courses based on the proposal by the learn-ing goals committee.

Rebecca Throneburg, the co-chair of the committee, said this is the second year of the five-year plan for changing the learning goals.

The second year will consist of infusing the goals into general education courses, and the third year will include incorporating them with-in majors.

“The purpose of the learning goals is to bet-ter prepare students with skills employees want (and) to be better informed ethical citizens,” Throneburg said.

Eastern’s five learning goals include critical thinking, writing, speaking and listening, quan-titative reasoning and responsible citizenship.

Throneburg said each department would be required to incorporate three of the five goals into their courses under the committee’s propos-al.

The department would determine one learn-ing goal, while another goal will be assigned by the learning goals committee based on a particu-lar segment within the department.

All general education courses would be re-quired to incorporate critical thinking.

Senior seminars would be required to cover the five learning goals.

Rebecca said the committee will look into other schools and what makes them get recog-nized for goals.

Senate member Steven Scher asked about the possibility of not being able to incorporate one of the designated learning goals into a course, such as citizenship in a psychology course.

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Whether it is 65 degrees and sun-ny or there is a blizzard out, runners plan to be at the starting line for the Charleston Challenge, the Mid-Win-ter Classic on Feb. 7.

The winter run features three races including a 5K, 10K, and a 15K race for runners of any distance.

Registration is available on the Charleston Challenge website.

Runners may also register on the day of the race from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. for $25. The packet pick-up will be from 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

The 15K race will start at 10 a.m., the 10K race will start at 10:15 a.m., and the 5K will start at 10:30 a.m.

Chili and other refreshments will be served at 10:45 a.m., and the

awards ceremony and raffle will begin at 11:30 a.m.

Diane Ratliff, the tourism and spe-cial events supervisor at the Charles-ton Parks and Recreation Depart-ment, said the weather is unpredict-able, so running conditions will not be the same every year.

“Our slogan for the race is ‘shorts, snow, you never know,’” Ratliff said.

Despite the unpredictability of the weather, Ratliff still sees about 100 runners come out every year for the three races that start at Carl Sand-burg Elementary School, 1924 Reyn-olds Dr.

So far, about 85 runners have pre-registered. Many runners will still reg-ister the day of the race.

Ratliff said she had the most peo-ple register the same day of the race in 2011.

“I was blown away by that,” she said.

That day, one inch of snow was predicted. By the end of the race, eight inches of snow had fallen, Ratliff said.

“Apparently a lot of people like to run in the snow. They came out that day and proved that point to me,” she said.

To reduce hazardous running con-ditions, the county and town wait-ed until the runners passed by before plowing the snow on those roads.

“I think we have a mix of peo-ple. Some of them like snow, some of them don’t necessarily like the snow. They definitely prefer snow to ice,” she said.

While participation may be higher for snow, distance is also a factor.

Ratliff said she sees more runners

in the 5K and 15K races more than in the 10K race.

“They tend to go high or low in the races,” she said.

The three races not only bring out runners of varying running distances but also from different areas.

“I know we have several from out-of-state as well as central Illinois and Indiana,” Ratliff said.

She credits much of the partici-pation from people training for the Champaign marathon in the spring.

Even though Ratliff is not sure what the weather will be like on the day of the race, she said she knows she will see runners ready to race in the snow, ice or rain.

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Members of Glamourize Ladies And Men Modeling will be pre-senting a fashion show at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. Univer-sity Union.

“The Untold Truth: We Are Kings and Queens,” which is the theme for the event, will al low students to express themselves through vivacious colors and fierce pivots.

Kendall Jackson, the president of GLAM, said the group is show-casing the fashion show to bring awareness to African American Heritage Month.

“When the opportunity present-ed itself for GLAM to be in Afri-

can-American month committee, it was a platform to bridge the di-rection that GLAM is going in,” he said.

Jackson also said all of the hard work pays tribute to his previous African-American studies professor, Yolanda Williams, who is a Gate-way adviser.

The models have been in prep-aration for the runway since No-vember 2014.

“GLAM is an outlet for individ-uals that are interested in fashion, whether it’s runway, print, or just in the fashion industry; we provide the outlet for them as a whole,” Jackson said.

The members of the show also want to provide background for the celebration of African Ameri-can Heritage Month.

“We want to take the audience to Africa to America and then back to Africa again,” said Jackson. “An upscale dress for this fashion show will be highly encouraged.”

Contributing members also of-fered positive words about GLAM as an organization.

Hillary Fuller, the vice president of GLAM, said the organization is an amazing group; not only does it put on shows but the audience gets to see the group come together as a unit as well.

Janai Cooks, a junior family and consumer sciences major, said GLAM is not too stressful despite the time commitment.

“The only stress you’ll have is in those six-inch heels,” Cooks said.

Participants encourage students to come based on the amount of

time and effort that has been taken out to put on this show.

Everyone attending can expect live artists, fashion collaborations with greek organizations and out-side models, and designers from Chicago and St. Louis attending.

Shakya Jarrett, a senior sociology major, said GLAM is a positive en-vironment and stress reliever.

Tickets are $6 until Jan. 31. Af-ter that date, they will be $10, and all tickets must be purchased on-line through untoldtruth.event-brite.com.

“We make sure to give you your money’s worth,” Jackson said. “Ex-pect the unexpected.”

T’Nerra Butler can bereached at 581-2812or tabutler@eiu.edu.

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Eastern i s compet ing in the STANLEY Security Together for Safer Schools Grant Program, a program that would help update Eastern’s current security soft-ware.

The purpose of the program is for the top two schools to re-ceive a $150,000 grant to be used in upgrading the school’s security.

Eastern nominated i t se l f for the grant money to help update current security measures.

Travis Gresens, a support spe-cialist from Facilities, Planning and Management, said the com-

petit ion is a social media cam-paign.

Students, faculty and staff can vote for Eastern in one of three ways.

They can either log on to the program’s web page and vote that way, text eiuedu to 334455, or use Twitter to tweet either #stan-leysecurity or #eiuedu.

“ T h e m o n e y c a n b e u s e d for al l types of security for the school,” Gresens said. “It can be use for video cameras, electronic locks and basically anything that STANLEY provides.”

Gresens said Eastern’s partici-pation in the campaign has noth-ing to do with recent burglary at-

tempts on campus. Gresens said the added security

measures have been in the works for the past six years.

Gresens sa id i f Eastern wins the grant money, the first focus would be updating the security in the academic buildings on cam-pus.

Gresens said this is where the largest amount of student popu-lation is found to be at most of the time.

The program is open to every university with the nation; how-ever, it will not be every universi-ty against one another other.

The schools will be broken up into three tiers.

The first tier is for schools that have 8,000 or fewer students; tier two is for schools with 8,000 to 19,000 students, and tier three is for the larger schools with 20,000 or more students.

Eastern is currently in tier two.The voting process started on

Jan. 19 and will continue until Feb. 13.

The top two schools from each tier will be notified by March 3.

The winners will receive vari-ous amounts depending on their ranking as well as the size of the school.

The runner-ups for tiers 1, 2 and 3 will receive prize money of $25,000, $50,000 and $75,000,

respectively. The top school s for each of

the tiers will receive $100,000, $150,000 and $200,000, respec-tively.

In Eastern’s case , the school can either receive $50,000 as a runner-up or receive $150,000 should it become the top-ranking school in their tier.

Eastern i s current ly in 10th place in tier two, and every vote wil l count unti l the end of the voting process.

Luis Martinez can bereached at 581-2812

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By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor|@BertoHodge

African-American Heritage Month begins Sunday with a month full of events for the 28 days.

Yolanda Williams, a Gateway ad-viser, said the theme for the month is “Building a Movement: Diggin’ back… Diggin’ Black!”

She said each year a committee comes up with a theme, which gets its elements from whatever is being talked about among African-Ameri-can students on campus and nation-ally.

Williams said this year many stu-dents were talking about what was happening in Ferguson and compar-ing the protests to the riots of the ‘60s, which is where the theme comes from.

She said the theme is building upon a movement that has been go-ing on since that era and having a love and appreciation for the black culture.

“The protests are very familiar of the ‘60s and ‘70s,” Williams said.

Williams said one of the hardest aspects in particular about putting together the month this year was fun-draising because of budget cuts.

She said the month has taken a de-cent cut in funds, but so have many other departments.

Normally she said she asks if the departments want to assist in any way with the month, and if not, Williams might ask for a donation, which this year she could not get.

“There was no hard feelings; I to-tally understood,” Williams said.

Despite some cuts f inancial-ly, Williams said she is really hap-py with what is in store for students

during the month, such as a poetry performance by an African-Ameri-can transgender male, J Mase III, at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 at 7th Street Under-ground.

Williams said she had been trying to incorporate LGBT events for three years and was very glad when EIU

Pride and University Board Cultural Arts came through sponsoring him.

One event called “Black Taboo: Thinking Outside the ‘Black’ Box,” which deals with breaking the stereo-type of African-Americans, will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 in Lumpkin Auditorium.

She said African-Americans will challenge some of the perceived “norms” such as agnostic, moderate-ly political, or even those who claim to be geeks or nerds.

Williams said the month will even see a return of DJ Bandcamp, who was the DJ for the National Pan-Hel-

lenic Council step show last semester, and more.

“It’s going to be exciting; it’s going to be a good month,” Williams said.

Roberto Hodge can bereached at 581-2812or rlhodge@eiu.edu.

Events to celebrate Heritage Month

Among the several new ordinances regard-ing liquor licenses and bar hours approved last Tuesday, one of them is a trial run that has lengthened bar hours by an hour. Our news staff confirms we agree with and sup-port this new ordinance. We have examined both the benefits and setbacks that can and will accompany these extended hours.

The trial will allow bars to open until 2 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Bars will revert back to their regular operation hours on Aug. 1.

Mayor Larry Rennels and the Charleston City Council decided there were two main reasons for the extension. .

One reason is to reduce traffic in the parking lots after bars have started to close. Our news staff could only hope that dur-ing this trial period we can observe gradual changes occur.

However, we also considered that more students would feel compelled to show up to bars once they become aware that they will have an entire extra hour. While in the

past, students felt discouraged from show-ing up to bars later in the evening, perhaps the numbers will increase. This means more congestion of bodies and cars as well.

Another reason bar hours have extended is because the Mayor and City Council hope to encourage people to stay in Charleston rather than heading out into other towns. We are well aware that after long hours of drinking, the roads can become a dangerous place to be at—especially late at night or in the small hours of the morning.

With the extension of hours, the council expects students approach their new extend-ed hours privilege by taking advantage of it, and rather than traveling back and forth, students would feel more comfortable stay-ing in town.

Without the excess of cars swiveling from town to town on nights of heavy drinking, others on the road will be less threatened by accidents and drunk drivers.

The last reason mentioned for the bar hour extensions is to possibly see an impact

on reducing after-hour house parties. Ideally, this would be effective if college

students were a population to grow exhaust-ed by 2 a.m. Yet, realistically, 2 a.m. appears to be the peak of party hours during the weekend.

Although our staff would like to remain confident in witnessing changes, there is another important complication that may have been overlooked: there are house par-ties that do not begin until 2 a.m. and even later.

Therefore, it is crucial to consider wheth-er or not disturbances throughout the neigh-borhoods increase or decrease. Despite the arguments that remain in question, our staff fully supports the extended hours and hope to hear that the council’s proactive solutions were successful.

A Minnesota father was shocked when he found out his 11-year-old, adopted daughter was being bullied via SnapChat earlier this week.

Luckily, Brad Knudson recorded the videos a set of twins sent to his daughter; he also recorded the hateful messages the twins’ father left on his voicemail, calling Knudson a series of racially insensitive and anti-gay slurs.

Although Knudson’s daughter was only 11 years old, she had access to a cell phone, social media applications, and therefore a new and harder-to-prove ves-sel for hate speech.

SnapChat, an application that allows cell phone-users to communicate through photos and videos, displays each message for 10-20 seconds before vanishing.

The traceless nature of SnapChat makes it the perfect tool for impulsive, app-happy people to personally attack their targets.

In this case, the abusers sent consecu-tive videos to Knudson’s daughter, calling her a “slut” and a series of racial slurs.

Even more appalling, is the lack of ownership their father was willing to take regarding his children’s behavior,

claiming the terms used to bully Knud-son’s daughter are ones he often uses around the house and in conversation.

Hate speech is protected under the United State’s first amendment as free -- the theory being that the best combat-ant against disagreeable speech is more speech – meaning in this country, we have a constitutional right many do not, which is to become publically vocal about the things that affect us.

This man who allowed his children to harm someone else, and then contrib-uted to that harm himself, has a misun-derstanding of the world, but he is not alone.

Whether he was defending his chil-dren, or honestly didn’t think they had done anything wrong, his perspective

was skewed by an environment he was comfortable and familiar with, and he assumed the standards of that environ-ment applied universally.

Everyone does this. Nature or nurture – our opinions and

behaviors are uniquely shaped. This is why exercising our free speech is imper-ative.

If we should ever disagree with any-thing, we have the capability of reach-ing out directly to the source and telling them exactly why.

As children we are taught to talk nice-ly about our problems, express ourselves, don’t hit, etc.

Adults are still hitting, and children are being handed technology that allows them to bully in a way we have never had to respond to.

Technology is a vehicle for this hatred but it is not the enemy. The real violence comes from a place that is perhaps more biological or more trained, but it certain-ly does not need to remain unchanged.

Katie Smith is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@gmail.com.

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Turning up till 2 a.m.

The end of January means there are three months left until the end of the school year. For some that might mean the end of col-lege and the time for graduation and real life. For others it may mean the end of one year and a summer to prepare for anoth-er with less mistakes and more adventures. Either way it is all time that is slipping through our fingers.

We can choose to let the time pass us by as we forcefully make ourselves complete the requirements that are set in front of us. The paper that was assigned on the first day of class is still at the stage of being thought of maybe once or twice a week, if that. The homework assignments, the extra-curricu-lar to-dos are all getting slowly done right before they are due. This is the same cycle that we are all used to.

But what if we do something differ-ent today? What if we choose to do some-thing that has always been a dream to us instead? The work will still be there when we are done. But the exhilaration of cross-ing something off of our bucket list will be fleeting and we should all feel it at least once.

If you do not have a bucket list, now is the time to make one. Choose the things that have always seemed so fascinating to you. It may be going to eat something that you have always wanted to try or it may be something that relates to your academ-ics like getting a high grade in the crazy hard science class you are in. All of these are acceptable things to put on your buck-et list.

Then pick a couple that can be done within the next couple of months and get started on doing them. What better way to create more life long memories with your friends? Be like the four friends on MTV’s “The Buried Life” and help one another accomplish different things.

College is the time to discover what we want to do in life. We can think about it, or make it real. Do not feel you have to do things that are huge and require a lot of courage and are outside of Charleston. There are opportunities we can take advan-tage of right here on our campus and can easily make a part of our bucket list. All it takes is our determination and passion for them.

Now if you will excuse me, I am going to try to get myself to the top of the castle.

Shirmeen Ahmad is a junior journalism andpolitical science major. She can be reached

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Marnie Andrews , a re spec t-ed name in theater, will be pre-senting a lecture titled “Fools and Crazy People: Notes on an Ad-venturous Life” at 6 p.m. Thurs-day in the Lecture Hal l of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The lecture will be free for all who attend.

Andrews has been brought in as guest director for the theatre department’s production of “The Mousetrap.”

Kevin Doolen, the chair of the theatre department, first met An-drews when he directed her in a production of “The Glass Menag-erie” where she played the charac-ter Amanda.

S i n c e t h e n , h e h a s w o rk e d with her on other occasions and chose her to be next in the line of many guest artists he is looking to bring to Eastern.

Andrews does most of her work in the compet i t ive a r t hub of

New York City. She has worked as an actor, director and writer of poetry and academia.

Doolen said she brings a cer-tain level of scholarship to her work, which he is seeking to inte-grate further into the theater arts program at Eastern.

He sa id Andrews’ act ing ca-reer is typical of what many ac-tors from Eastern will be facing when they graduate.

Doolen said he chose Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” for s imilar reasons and thinks An-drews will be a good match for the production.

Doolen sa id he be l i eves her talk and her work within the de-par tment wi l l be benef ic ia l to both students and faculty alike.

“It’s good for faculty because it challenges them,” he said. “They have to work outside of the rou-tine with someone outside of the department which is always for faculty to do.”

Doolen sa id wi th her many credits to her name in live the-

ater, film and television, Andrews aims to use her experiences to re-assure students that perseverance and determination can make a dream job reality.

Dan Crews, the director of pa-tron services , sa id the conver-sation will most l ikely take the form of a heart-to-heart between Andrews and students.

“When people listen to her sto-ries, they’re going to have ques-tions,” Crews said.

He said there is a good chance she w i l l open up the t a lk fo r questions from students.

Doolen said she will touch on “how life informs career and ca-reer often informs life.” Andrews will be discussing both the cre-ative and business side of her ca-reer, which according to Doolen is equally as important to any ca-reer.

Kaycie Brauer can be reached at 581-2812

or kabrauer@eiu.edu.

Guest director to discuss successes in acting, poetry

Throneburg said the course would have to incorporate a variation or as-pect of the learning goal. She said di-versity for example could be incorpo-rated in the psychology course to fulfill the citizenship learning goal require-ment.

Grant Sterling, the chair of the Fac-ulty Senate, said departments might not always inform faculty about changes made to courses, and faculty might not follow the regulations relat-ed to the learning goals.

He asked if the Council on Aca-demic Affairs should be in charge of enforcing those regulations by reading syllabi of courses and making sure they are following them.

“If we really are doing serious pe-riodic review of the syllabi in specif-ic courses and what actually goes on, then you are going to have to have somebody evaluating it with the power to say, ‘here are the consequences be-cause you didn’t do what you said you were going to do,’” Sterling said.

Senate member Jeff Stowell said he believes the goal is to set up a rigor-ous curriculum and essentially leave it to the departments to follow it.

Throneburg said the proposal ex-plains the process and that course syl-labi will be evaluated over time.

She said Eastern is a voluntarily par-ticipant of the Illinois Articulation Ini-tiative, which is a transfer agreement

that has institutions accept certain general education courses in exchange for comparable lower-division general education requirements.

The agreement also helps transfer students who are undecided on what institution they will transfer to.

She said institutions such as Illi-nois State University, Northern Illinois University and Southern Illinois Uni-versity in Edwardsville have a general education committee, while Western Illinois University only has a council.

Throneburg said learning goals committee members hope to establish a long-term standing general educa-tion committee for Eastern.

She said the committee hopes to bring a lot of communication on the subject to faculty members, beginning with a newsletter in late February.

Forums will take place on March 5 and on April 7 to inform all faculty members about the learning goals pro-posal, receive their input, and to an-swer questions they might have on the subject.

She said the committee hopes to fi-nalize the proposal by the end of the spring semester.

Debby Hernandez can be reached at 581-2812

or dhernandez5@eiu.edu.

SUBMIT TED PHOTO Marnie Andrews, an actor, director and writer, will present a lecture Jan. 29 at the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Mike Rosenbaum, a senior social sci-ence teaching major, said he tried many of the samples.

“Its cool that they were just walking around handing (the drinks and pastries) out,” he said. “I hadn’t even heard of half of them.”

Brianna Johnson, a sophomore fami-ly and consumer sciences major, said she likes the events because they get students involved and shows how much Student Senate members care.

Johnson said this is demonstrated through the free events they host, such as “Pastries with the Prez,” so they can meet President Perry, and see what he has to say.

Perry said he talked to students about their majors, their future plans and class-es. He also said he talked to an interna-tional student who transferred to East-ern this semester about his transition to Charleston, as well as scholarship oppor-tunities for international students.

Emily Christian, special education major, said she helps plan the events.

“I absolutely love talking to presi-dent Perry, it’s what brings me out every time,” Christian said. “Meeting all the students and seeing how everyone inter-acts with President Perry and having his face on campus (is what brings me to the events).”

Kendra Cwikla can be reached at 581-2812 or kecwikla@eiu.edu.

KRISTEN LE WIS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSPresident Perry stares at pastries made by the Java Beanery and Bakery for the “Pastries with the Prez” event Tuesday.

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mained the toughest defense in the OVC this season giv-ing up the fewest points of all 12 teams.

“ I f e e l l i k e w e a r e n’t guarding as well as we were

previously,” Anderson said. “ We a ren’t l o cked in a s much.”

He said the team has put a lot of pressure on them-selves to succeed and have raised their expectations af-

ter going on a nine-game win streak.

“I feel like we have to put pressure on ourselves so we can go out and do it,” An-derson said.

Al l in a l l , Anderson i s

just enjoying the ride.“I’m just having fun and

playing basketball,” he said.

Jehad Abbed can be reached at 581-2812 or

Jaabbed@eiu.edu.

JEHAD ABBED | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior forward Trae Anderson leads the Eastern men’s basketball team in scoring with 12.1 points per game. This is Anderson’s first season with the Panthers since transferring from Southwestern Illinois College.

By: Sean HastingsStaff reporter | @Den_ Sports

Jacqueline Michalski is finishing up her first year as head coach of Eastern’s men’s and women’s swim teams.

Athletic director Tom Michael brought in Michalski to coach the Panthers in August 2014, which she said was a great career oppor-tunity for her.

She said she was excited to be-come the head coach of Eastern’s swim program.

“It’s always been my goal and dream to have my own program and try to create a new culture,” Michalski said.

Making the transition from ath-lete to coach was not easy for Mi-chalski.

“It’s been a challenge but you only grow with challenges,” Mi-chalski said.

She added the encouragement she received from Michael and the support she has received from Graduate Assistant coach Rachel McGrath has made the process eas-ier.

She uses what she learned as an athlete to help coach today.

Michalski’s first coaching expe-rience came when she was only in junior high, where she went back and helped out the young kids in the same club team that she partic-ipated in when she was young.

She slowly moved up to coach-ing slightly older children.

In high school, she coached the 10, 11 and 12-year-old groups.

Before she coached at Eastern, Michalski was coaching at Saint Francis University in Pennsylva-nia from 2012-2014. It was a Di-vision I women’s only team.

Michalski said they were a great academic school and also a power-house in the sport of swimming.

While she was at St. Francis, she was able to coach them to three straight conference titles.

Be fo re Micha l sk i b ecame a coach , she swam f rom a ve r y young age all throughout college.

“I started competitively swim-ming when I was four years old,” Michalski said. “I was moved out of the learn to swim group into the e ight and under group, so double my age, and keeping up with them.”

Once she was moved into the eight and under group, and the coach told her she was a good enough swimmer to keep moving

on. Michalski is from upstate New

York, but her parents were from Long Island, New York so they wanted her to make sure she knew how to swim.

“They just knew the importance of being able to swim, and I just fell in love with it,” Michalski said.

When Michalski was in high school, she was able to compete in almost any race.

She swam wherever the team needed her to swim in a meet, and it would be the same way in col-lege.

Michalski always knew she want-ed to swim at the collegiate level but did try to play other sports in high school.

“I tried a lot of other sports but I never really took off at them,” she said. “It didn’t come natural and swimming was just very natu-ral and relaxing to me, and I just wanted to stay with what I was best at. My freshman year in college, I actually swam every event compet-itively.”

After her freshman year, Michal-ski injured her shoulder, which she said was her best year of swim-ming.

Michalski never really fully re-covered from the injury.

She had some nerve damage in her shoulder, which caused her to lose feeling in half of her hand. Despite the need for surgery, she did need to participate in a lot of physical therapy.

“I never wanted to actually ever sit out,” Michalski said. “We al-tered how I trained. I didn’t do weights as much because that’s when it really hurt, and I lost coor-dination. If I just swam, I was kind of okay.”

Her freshman year stuck with her the most, though.

Michalski was top seed in the 400-yard individual medley in the conference.

“Going in on top was good,” Michalski said.

That was the year her team won the conference title.

Of the many challenges Michal-

ski faced when she got really sick her junior was one of the most dif-ficult during her athletic career.

Michalski was hospitalized and lost a lot of weight during that time and did not have the energy to swim.

Michalski attended State Univer-sity of New York at Oswego where she received her undergraduate de-gree in wellness management and masters in healthcare administra-tion.

In her junior year, she learned at a seminar, she could coach at the collegiate level and make a ca-reer out of it but still knew the importance of getting an educa-tion.

“I made sure to get an educa-tion outside of coaching just in case coaching didn’t work out, or I didn’t fall in love with it like I did the sport,” Michalski said. “

Now as a coach, she makes sure the athletes are performing well in the water but also in their classes.

Freshman Amy Smith really ap-preciates how much Michalski

cares about how they do academ-ically.

“It’s rea l ly n ice because she doesn’t just focus on our swimming but how we are doing and adjust-ing to school (especially the fresh-men) and how classes are going,” Smith said.

Smith added she loves the en-couragement Michalski gives in practices.

Michalski learned, as a swimmer, to make sure the swimmers do have fun.

She said having fun means not taking it serious or joking around but truly loving the sport.

“When you love something, you can do it much better,” Michals-ki said. “You have to do it because you love it, not because it’s what you’ve always done.”

Michalski will be coaching the rest of the Panthers at 5 p.m. this Friday at the Radovan Pool when they take on St. Louis University.

Sean Hastings can be reached at 581-2812

By Bob ReynoldsSports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN

The Ohio Valley Conference an-nounced its three awards Tuesday, and Eastern Kentucky players earned two of them.

Junior guard Michaela Hunter won OVC Player of the Week this week and averaged 29 points a game in the Eastern Kentucky two road wins last week. She recorded a career-high 40 points in the Colonels’ double over-time win at Tennessee Tech, which is the most points scored by an OVC player this season.

That was also the third most points ever scored by an Eastern Kentucky player in a single game.

Hunter was 15-of-29 from the floor and 5-of-7 from the free-throw line in the game against the Golden Eagles.

At Murray State, she scored 18 points and corralled eight rebounds.

Also from Eastern Kentucky, ju-nior guard Shameekia Murray won Newcomer of the Week, nearly av-eraging a double-double in Colonel wins this past week.

She scored her first career double-double at Murray State with a team-best 19 points and a career-high 11 rebounds.

In the win over Tennessee Tech, she added 16 points and seven re-bounds.

Freshman center Sally McCabe from Belmont won Freshman of the Week and scored 15 points in each of Belmont’s two wins last week.

Against Jacksonville State, she played a career-high 29 minutes and scored 12 points.

At Tennessee State, she led all play-ers with 18 points on 77 percent shooting from the floor.

Tennessee-Martin leads in most of the statistical categories for the OVC.

The Skyhawks lead in scoring of-

fense at 83.3 points per game and are allowing the least amount of points in the conference with 59 per game.

The Skyhawks are shooting over 50

percent from the floor and 43 percent from the 3-point line, which both lead the conference.

Also, UT-Martin is averaging 8.3

made 3-point shots per game. Ashia Jones leads the conference in

scoring and field goal percentage with 28.4 points per game. Jones is shoot-ing 58.2 percent from the floor.

Eastern Illinois is tied for sixth place in the conference with a record of 4-4. The Panthers are leading the OVC in defensive rebounds with the help of senior forward Sabina Oro-szova.

She is leading the conference in re-bounds averaging 9.4 per game in the first eight conference games. Sopho-more forward Erica Brown is averag-ing 7.1 rebounds per game.

Brown also leads the conference in blocked shots with two per game.

Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812

or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.

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OVC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS

1. TENNESSEE-MARTIN 2. SIU-EDWARDSVILLE 3. TENNESSEE STATE 4. MOREHEAD STATE5. AUSTIN PEAY T6. BELMONT T6. JACKSONVILLE STATE T6. EASTERN ILLINOIS 9. EASTERN KENTUCKY 10. TENNESSEE TECH 11. SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 12. MURR AY STATE

UPCOMING EASTERN MATCHESWEDNESDAY | 6 P.M. | VS. MURRAY STATE | LANTZ ARENASATURDAY | 1 P.M. | VS. S IU-EDWARDSVILLE | LANTZ ARENA

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MACKENZIE FREUND | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJacqueline Michalski, the head swim coach, tells the team which drill to do during their practice on Tuesday in the Ray Padovan pool in Lantz.

Coach fulfills dream to head swim team

Colonels’ junior guard wins Player of the Week

By Jehad Abbed Assistant Sports Editor | @Jehada

Junior forward Trae Anderson came to Eastern knowing he could provide offense since the beginning of the sea-son, and he has since become the Pan-thers’ leading scorer.

Anderson is averaging 12.1 points per game this season. He sits in the top 15 Ohio Valley Conference players in both scoring and field goal percentage.

He has connected on nearly 50 per-cent of all his shots this season.

“I knew what I was capable of doing on offense,” Anderson said. “I’m just trying to use those skills and bring it into the game.”

Anderson is a junior transfer from Southwestern Illinois College. This is his first year playing for Eastern and under the command of head coach Jay Spoonhour.

He went from being one of the newest members on the team to be-ing an offensive focal point for the Panthers. Anderson said his successful progression came through a process of hard work and maintaining focus.

“I’m just trying to focus on what I need to do and listen to what coaches are saying,” Anderson said.

Anderson has seen his scoring aver-age steadily rise over the course of the season. Over the last four games, he has averaged nearly 15 points per game including a season high 22-point per-formance. This scoring outburst came in the absence of junior forward and fellow offensive threat Chris Olivier.

Prior to the last five games, Ander-son had missed three straight games with an ankle sprain. He said the inju-ry has been one of his biggest obstacles this season that have forced any sort of adjustment to his game.

“The injury was probably the big-gest thing for me,” he said. “It’s a little harder to move around.”

Anderson was playing against Cleveland State University on De-cember 23 when he went in for a lay-

up and came down on a defenders foot causing the sprain. He scored 12 points that game despite playing just 18 total minutes.

Anderson picked up right where he left off in his first game back from in-jury in Eastern’s matchup with Bel-mont University on January 10. He scored 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting against the Bruins.

At one time Spoonhour said Ander-son had a tendency to try and dribble through traffic and make more diffi-cult plays. He said Anderson has done a good job of just letting the game come to him since coming off the in-jury.

“When I hurt my ankle and got back out there, I was a little more pa-tient on offense,” Anderson said.

Anderson said he began to realize patience is the key to offense. He said trying to dribble through two or three defenders does not typically work out.

The Panthers usually run offense through a lot of extra passes look-ing for Olivier posting up under the hoop. Eastern has recently faced more stubborn defenses that have forced a change in the game plan.

Anderson found himself running isolation plays where he was given the ball at the perimeter and expected to take his defender one-on-one straight to the hoop.

This strategy was not something the Panthers had previously done un-til they faced a relentless post-defense in the likes of Murray State University.

“It wasn’t something we planned,” Anderson said. “It just came in the flow of the game.”

Anderson is listed as a forward but plays with the skills and mentality of a guard.

Spoonhour has seen Anderson’s ability to handle the ball since before he was a member of Eastern’s basket-ball team. Anderson played in an open gym practice last spring at Eastern be-fore he was enrolled.

“That open gym was designed to see if I could play here or not,” Anderson said. “They weren’t really recruiting me like they were other players.”

Anderson’s teammates said he came to that open gym and “schooled” the Panthers’ then leading scorer Sherman Blanford. They said this is where An-derson ultimately earned his scholar-ship.

“I was just playing basketball,” An-derson said. “I’m not going to say I schooled him.”

Although his scoring average con-tinues to rise, Anderson is not con-cerned with his offensive totals. He is more interested in improving himself

as an overall player and not just a scor-er.

“I kind of lessened my focus on scoring,” he said. “I am just trying to

be more of an all-around player.”Anderson’s biggest concern right

now is honing his defensive skills. He said defense is what the Panthers have

mostly been working on in practice.

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By Bob ReynoldsSports Editor| @BobReynoldsDEN

The Eastern women’s basketball team is not going to take Murray State lightly despite its 0-7 record in conference.

Panther coach Debbie Black said the Racers are desperate for a win.

“That is the truth,” she said. “This league, top to bottom, is probably one of the most competitive leagues in the country. We need to bring our game and play with intensity. If we don’t, we are in jeopardy not to win the game. Even though they are 0-7, it doesn’t mean no one can come in here and win a game.”

Eastern is coming into the game

on a three-game losing streak after dropping a game to Austin Peay at home in Lantz Arena Saturday.

The Panthers split the two games against Murray State last season with each team winning a home game.

With eight games left in the sea-son, Black said every game is impor-tant especially the four games left at home.

“I said it all year; we have to win our home games,” she said. “Unfor-tunately, we missed one last week. Now it is crunch time. You almost have to do everything right. I think we are capable of winning howev-er many games it takes to get in the tournament.”

The Panthers enter the game in a three-way tie for sixth place at 4-4 in the conference.

While watching the film this week, Black was impressed with Racer freshman guard Ke’shaunan James.

She has started 19 of the first 20 games for the Racers and is averag-ing 14 points per game on 40 per-cent shooting. Also, she averages 6.1 rebounds per game.

“I like that they have a freshman guard who is very versatile,” she said. “It is a tough matchup for us. Probably Arnisha (Thomas) would be on her to get a bigger guard on her.”

Murray State is continuing its

conference road stretch after losing to Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Saturday, 78-52. In that game, the Racers allowed Edwardsville to score 42 points in the first half.

The Racers come into this game averaging 73 points per game, and Black said if their shots start falling, her team could be in trouble.

“They are going to run,” she said. “They are going to take quick shots. I am not sure if they take great shots, but they take quick shots. If they start making them we have to defend that early.”

Before the last game, the Panthers were averaging over 70 percent from the free-throw line. In the last game, the Panthers shot just 6-of-13, and

it ultimately cost them the game against Austin Peay.

In this week’s practice, Black said her team worked on free throws all week.

“We are getting to the line,” she said. “We did an exercise (Monday) where we took a lot of free throws. That is all we can do. It is a mental thing. One good thing is we are get-ting to the free-throw line, but we have to convert them.”

The Panthers and Racers will tip-off at 1 p.m. at Lantz Arena Satur-day.

Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812

or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.

Anderson evaluates mid-season performance

JEHAD ABBED | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior forward Trae Anderson is averaging 14.5 points over his last four games. His scoring has jumped since returning from an ankle sprain.

Panthers to take on Murray State Saturday