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Proposed overhaul centers around students

By 2019, the center of the university could look completely different.

A new $150 student fee proposed by Student Body President Kyle Nicholas and other members of the President’s Council will bring several updates and new build-ings to what they are calling the Center for Student Life.

Proposed updates under this fee include renovations to the Powell Building, Weaver Gym, and a new Fitness and Wellness Cen-ter to replace Martin Hall.

Other improvements will also be com-ing to the center of campus in the form of public/private partnerships or university funded projects, meaning students would not have to pay any of the cost for these projects. These projects include:

• A new dining-only facility to replace McGregor Hall.

• Three new residence halls, one to re-place Case Hall and the other two in loca-tions yet to be decided.

• A multi-level parking garage to be constructed in the cage lot behind Com-monwealth and Palmer halls.

• A new bookstore and welcome center.• The pedestrian mall between the

Crabbe Library and Weaver Building.• The Carloftis Gardens to replace the

Martin Tennis Courts.• And the Lancaster Avenue Pedestri-

an Gateway to take the place of the former Combs Hall.

All of the projects are currently in the beginning phases and subject to change over time with student and professional in-put.

The FeeThe proposed $150 student fee will be

mandatory for all full-time students across all Eastern campuses and would take effect this coming fall if approved.

The fee is expected to generate $5 mil-lion a year to go toward paying off the debt from the bonds used to renovate and add new buildings. The debt could be paid off by 2035. Once the debt is paid, the fee will not be required.

Student Senator Damir Siahkoohi – who was opposed to a similar campus en-hancement fee proposed last spring – is in favor of this fee for its clear guidelines and limited term, something the other fee lacked.

The proposed fee would not support the athletics program expansion, unlike the fee in the past.

Student Senator Sebastian Torres ques-tioned whether or not they should make regional students pay the fee. He argued those students aren’t going to get a lot out of the changes.

The fee is required for all regional stu-dents because Nicholas said he wants to bring more of them to the main campus and experience what it has to offer. He also said most of them end up taking at least one course on the main campus during their time at Eastern.

The ProjectsNicholas said this is all about leaving a

lasting legacy.“Dr. [Janna] Vice said a great quote the

other day, ‘it’s a shame to think our best years are behind us,’” Nicholas said, speak-ing of the period in the 1960s where several of Eastern’s buildings were built.

This is the time to do it, Nicholas said. The state is going to continue to cut fund-ing and in several years he thinks it could switch over to performance based pay, and Eastern has to prove it can perform with

improved structures.“If it doesn’t happen now, it’s not going

to,” Nicholas said.He also said it’s about giving students

a place they can relax and hang out with friends, relating the lobby in Middle Pow-ell to that of a waiting room in a doctor’s office.

The proposed plan will remove all the dining areas from the Powell Building and move them to the new cafeteria that will take the place of McGregor Hall, Nicholas said.

Within the Powell Building officials are talking to expand the area to make it feel more open. As for what will be inside the new student center, Nicholas wants to have a series of Town Hall-style meetings where students can voice their opinions on what they want.

As for the new cafeteria, McGregor Hall will be torn down and the plan is to have a public/partnership with Aramark or an-other catering company . The company would front the cost with the agreement that Eastern enter into a long-term con-

tract for their food services.“If we give them a long-term contract

that makes them want to invest in us,” Nicholas said.

There’s nothing official with any cater-ing company right now, Nicholas said, but he said they have talked about it and are willing to consider the idea.

The other project of the EKU Cen-ter for Student Life is the new Fitness and Wellness Center. In this plan, officials are talking about tearing down Martin Hall once they have a new residence hall built, and replacing it with the new Recreation Center, twice the size of the current facil-ity on campus.

Nicholas said they need a bigger one to remain competitive with other schools in their area, as the average for recreation space per student is around 8 square feet per student, but right now it’s at 3 square feet per student.

Nicholas said he wants Eastern’s stu-dents degrees to appreciate in value, and the campus improvements the SGA works toward today will help lay the groundwork.

The Noel Studio for Academic Creativity will not have to rely on the Student Government Association funding after receiving an endowment last year from Ron and Sherrie Noel.

Rusty Carpenter, director of the Noel Studio, was in a Student Senate meeting Tuesday evening to discuss the Noel Studio’s reliance on funding from SGA’s In-formation Technology grant.

The first Memorandum of Agreement was signed between SGA and IT in 2010. The allocation provid-ed for $50,000 of funding to the Noel Studio each year for three years, Carpenter said. Updated agreements in 2012 and 2013 extended the funding from SGA’s IT grant process, through the 2015-2016 academic year.

The Noel Studio initially received the funding when the IT budget did not have funds for the space in 2010, according to a 2013 Progress article. Since the Noel Studio opened, Carpenter estimated that the break-out group spaces and practice rooms were booked for 200,000 hours.

The Noel Studio never intended to use funds to sus-tain technology, such as workstation computers and laptops, inside the space long-term, Carpenter said.

“We knew the money could be used in other ways,” Carpenter said.

A plaque is being made to recognize the contribu-tions throughout the past six years with Student Gov-ernment Association funding, Carpenter said.

By TOPHER PAYTONchristopher_payto3@mymail.eku.edu

Above are the proposed changes to the center of campus to make it more attractive to potential students. Student Governement will conduct a series of Town-Hall style meetings across campus to see get student input and will reflect that in future revisions to this plan, subject to change.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS

EKU Dining opened a Provisions on Demand (POD) store inside the Business and Technology Center last week. The new store is an addition to the south side of campus, which previously only had options for food at the Stratton Café and the C3 convenience kiosk in Keene Hall.Stephanie Smith (left) said she expects POD to attract a lot of business once students know it is open. The store is located on the lower level of the building and is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

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By JACOB BLAIRjacob_blair50@mymail.eku.edu

Noel Studio secures future funding from new endowment

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Dec. 28 � A shattered window

was located at 10:23 a.m. in the concourse area of the Begley Building.

Jan. 3 � The front door to

an apartment was re-ported damaged at 2 p.m. at Grand Cam-pus Building 1.

Jan. 9 � Money was reported

stolen from the Mod-el Laboratory School.

Jan. 16 � Stephen Bradley,

21, from Richmond, was cited for operat-ing a motor vehicle un-der the influence of al-

cohol, driving with an expired license and no taillights at 2:31 a.m. at the University Book and Supply parking lot.

Jan. 20 � Mackenzie Mulloy,

19, from Ashland, was cited for possession of marijuana, possession of drug parapherna-lia, trafficking in mar-ijuana– less than eight ounces, and present-ing another person’s driver’s license at 7:30 p.m. at the Lancast-er Lot. Mulloy volun-tarily gave the officer a grinder containing marijuana residue and a glass mason jar with 31 grams of marijua-na. Officers searched the vehicle and discov-ered several marijua-na roaches in the center console, two glass pipes and a box of 100 snack bags. Mulloy was taken

to the Madison Coun-ty Detention Center.

Jan. 21 � A staff mem-

ber reported some-one pulled an exit sign from the ceiling on the fourth floor at Grand Campus Building 1.

� Kevin Segar, 20, from Richmond, was cited for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and trafficking in mar-ijuana– less than eight ounces, at 6:08 p.m. at Grand Campus Build-ing 1. Officers searched the apartment he was staying in and locat-ed marijuana residue on digital scales, four cereal bars containing marijuana and plas-tic bags in a contain-er that smelled of mar-ijuana. He was taken to the Madison Coun-

ty Detention Center.

Jan. 23 � Dallas Mur-

phy-Johnson, 18, from Louisville, was cit-ed for possession of marijuana at 7:54 p.m. in Martin Hall.

Jan. 24 � Christopher Long,

19, from Carmel, In-diana, was cited for al-cohol intoxication at 12:29 a.m. in the Grand Campus parking lot.

Jan 26 � A staff member re-

ported ceiling tiles were damaged on the fourth floor of Keene Hall.

� A student reported a window was damaged inside the 10th floor bathroom of Dupree Hall.

Honor Students travel to

“Lowcountry”Fifteen students from

the Honors Program trav-eled to Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, S.C., as part of the Honors Program’s an-nual “Sidewalk U” course. This year’s focus was the “Inequality of the Ameri-can Society.”

The students spent Jan. 12 to 17 exploring the dif-ferent aspects of the re-gion.

One day was spent ex-ploring the agricultural la-bor camps and farms of the region while another full day exploring the cultural and societal traditions of the areas Gullah residents,

decedents of enslaved Afri-can Americans.

The third day students were able to explore the tourist and retirement communities and ameni-ties, participating in an ac-tive-learning “City as Text” exercise. The final day al-lowed students to give back to the region by volunteer-ing in a soup kitchen.

Elizabeth Underwood, from the Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Social Work, and Da-vid Coleman, the interim director of the Honors Pro-gram, led the trip.

Week of Nov. 13 – Nov. 19THE COLONEL’S CALENDAR

Week of Jan. 29 – Feb. 4

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY7:30 p.m. Faculty Horn and Voice Recital Gifford Theatre 9 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. Murray State Murray

7 p.m. Men’s Tennis vs. Xavier Cincinnati

7:30 p.m. Singer, Songwriter Carrie Newcomer EKU Center for the Arts

11 a.m. Women’s Tennis vs. Chattanooga Richmond 2 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Morehead State Morehead 4:15 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. Morehead State Morehead

Noon AP S’mores Powell Corner

9 p.m. Alphabet Center’s Masquerade Ball Keen Johnson

8 p.m. The Ugly Bug Ball Keen Johnson

2 p.m. Bench Press 101 Fitness and Wellness Center

6:30 p.m.Super BowlGlendale, Ariz.

THE COLONEL’S CALENDAR

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Local middle school students got to experience what cultures all around the world are like, thanks to some of Eastern’s international students.

Fumi Cheever, the international ed-ucation coordinator, said the B. Michael Caudill Middle School faculty reached out to the international student office to ask if they would participate in their world fair. Eight international students participat-ed in the event on Dec. 9. Some countries represented were United Arab Emirates, Turkey, China, Latvia, France, the Neth-erlands, Japan and Ethiopia.

Cheever said the middle school stu-dents prepared posters with information about some countries to provide more vi-sual aids for the event.

Rebekah Seifu, 23, a pre-medical bi-ology junior from Addis Ababa, Ethio-pia, said she was surprised by how much the middle school students knew about her home country. She even learned some things she did not know before.

“Students would share facts about what they knew about our countries,” Sei-fu said. “…One kid told me there was di-nosaurs in my country, which I thought was really awesome.”

The middle school students were very welcoming to the international students, Cheever said. Some had been looking for-ward to meeting people from the coun-

tries they had learned so much about.“There was one kid who was very excit-

ed to meet the student from China,” Sei-fu said. “He had learned how to say ‘Hello’ and ‘How are you’ in Chinese.'”

Seifu explained that students brought just about anything they could to repre-sent their countries from fabrics, food, and crafts. One student from Japan brought origami. One of the students’ fa-vorite activities was getting to write their own names in the respective countries’ languages.

Melissa Gerritsen, 22, a communica-tion studies senior from Dlpendam, the Netherlands, baked cookies for the event that she said were typically for a national holiday in the Netherlands.

Seifu said she has participated in events like this in high school, but didn’t get as much of a positive response like they did at Caudill.

“You get scared when you first walk in [to the school] because you don’t know how receptive [the students] are going to be,” Selfu said. “I’ve had bad experiences before…people didn’t believe that [Ethi-opia] had buildings. It was really nice to have kids already know about your coun-try. They were excited to try on the clothes and learn dances and writing.”

This is not the only effort the Office of International students is doing to reach out to the community. Fumi is leading a student group called Global. The group plans multiple trips off campus to edu-

cate the surrounding Richmond area. The group has visited the Madison County Public Library multiple times. In one trip they taught different dances to the partic-ipants at the event. Another time they did an educational presentation about their country and national flags. Then the par-ticipants made their own flags.

The students are also responsible for giving presentations on campus, includ-

ing the study abroad fairs. They will host Meet the World, which will give Eastern students a chance to meet and mingle with them and learn about their culture and home countries. Meet the World will take place in the Grand Reading Room at the John Grant Crabbe Library at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29.

With the deconstruction of the Combs Residence Hall completed, construction of the Lancaster pedestri-an entrance can begin.

Designs are currently in the process of being com-pleted and then a date will be set to meet with President Benson for approval.

“We have a lot of concepts that are in the air right now,” said Scott Cason, vice president of Marketing and Communications. “Subcontractors for the project have been identified.”

According to Ed Herzog, director of project admin-sitration at Eastern, the engineering survey work has been completed.

“Vendors such as WEE Landscaping and Murphy/

Graves Architects are working on final designs,” Her-zog said. “They are almost ready to present to the pres-ident and administration for review, and the next step would be to do civil engineering to tie into everything designed to the existing terrain.”

President Benson wants the finished product to re-flect The Campus Beautiful.

“We want to get away from the 60s era buildings,” Cason said. The preliminary plan for the new buildings is to have a brick design with white columns.

“We envision the pedestrian entrance looking el-egant,” Cason said. “I predict the pedestrian walkway

will have a consistent wall all along Lancaster.”The university is also working on securing funding

for the new Model Laboratory School, Noel Reading Garden and football visitor’s stand and classroom facil-ity.

“We understand that looking for donors takes time,” Cason said. “Development is a lengthy process and do-nors are waiting on concrete details.”

Once a final design has been chosen, officials hope to have a model that enhances The Campus Beautiful in an effort to aid Eastern’s pedestrian community and Lancaster Avenue’s image.

By KASEY TYRINGkasey_tyring@mymail.eku.edu

Middle school gets visit from international students

Hao (Jason) Chen from China discusses his home country with students and their families.PHOTOS SUBMITTED

Pedestrian entrance design in process By BRITTANY ELLISprogress@eku.edu

An empty lot is all that's left from where Combs Hall Combs Residence Hall once stood. The lot will soon be the new home of Eastern's pedestrian entrance.

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A nationally juried art exhibition at Eastern's Giles Gallery is the latest addition to the yearlong Chautauqua series and is now open to students and the public for free.

The exhibit features 33 works of art by 15 artists from across the nation, which all correlate with the "Strategizing" theme of the Chautauqua lectures.

The juror of the exhibit Jason Franz, is an art-ist, author, professor and co-founder of the Man-ifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Cen-ter in Cincinnati. Franz, a Cincinnati native, has taught at many colleges including the Art Acade-my of Cincinnati, the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University.

Esther Randall is the Giles Gallery director and an art professor at Eastern. Randall selected Franz as the juror for the exhibition.

“He was very gracious in doing that,” Randall said. “The manifest gallery has a very high repu-tation.”

The exhibition features artists from 12 different states, including two from Kentucky. The artists submitted work to be shown in the showcase and included a statement detailing how strategizing fit into their artwork.

"This is a particularly conceptual exhibit," Ran-dall said. "Keep an open mind; art doesn't have to be exactly how you expect it to be."

The pieces of art in the exhibit consist of em-broidered physics, melted latex, exaggerated doo-dles, wordy photography, painting, sculptures and other mediums.

Kathryn Fitzer, 27, a senior occupational thera-py major, is the gallery attendant. A piece of art in the exhibition that caught her eye is one that re-quires her to turn on the artwork by plugging it into the wall.

“You can’t see the artwork until it’s plugged in,” Fitzer said. “It’s all based on the texture.”

The Chautauqua National Juried exhibition will be in the Giles Gallery through Friday, Feb. 20. An opening reception for the exhibit will be Thursday, Jan. 29 from 5 to 7 p.m. The reception will have light snacks and beverages.

The Giles Gallery is located on the main floor of the Campbell building and is open Monday and Wednesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Friday

10:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday 12:45 to 5 p.m.The Department of Art and Design, the College of

Arts and Sciences and the Chautauqua Lecture Series are sponsors of the event. For questions about the Chautauqua National Juried exhibition or the Giles

Gallery, contact Esther Randall at esther.randall@eku.edu.

Eastern's mock trial team has its eye on nationals as their winning-record continues.

The team’s most recent success came from the Commodore Classic at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on Jan. 24 to 25. The team's fourth place position at Vanderbilt came on the heels of the first place victory at the Windy City Invitational in Chica-go on Jan. 17 to 18. The team’s invitational season has been noteworthy because they have placed in every completion they’ve competed in.

Josh Lang, 21, a political science senior from Fort Thomas, is the captain of the team. He said their team tries to be different from the others to give them an advantage.

“We have a different array of skills and our stu-dents bring different abilities from other teams,” Lang said. "...Our attorneys are polished and know the rules and procedures, they speak with confi-dence, they argue with confidence. Our witnesses have been a distinguishing factor, they act well, the portray their characters well.”

Thomas Parkerhas been the coordinator of East-ern's Mock Trial program since 2006. He said the goal of any team is to make the case seem as real as

possible. “We really focus on trying to create that alternate

reality in the round,” Parker said. “…The best mock trial rounds that you see are the ones where you can lose yourself in the round and think you’re in a real trial.”

The competitions are all-weekend affairs. Teams compete in four, three-hour trials taking turns be-ing the playing the plaintiff and the defendant two times each.

“You never know, going into a trial, quite what you’re going to face.” Parker said. “Hours outside the classroom are spent going over the various sides of the case. The team challenges each other to think of all the ways their competition can approach the case.”

It may seem like a lot of work, but the team enjoys the challenge, Parker said.

“One thing that tells you that it is really enjoy-able is that we’ll come out of tournaments," Parker said. “...And you’ve been doing this for two full days and you’ll head home and people will still be talking about the case and what we’re going to do in the next case.”

The team’s success this season may not be the team’s greatest accomplishments, however. The members in mock trial receive real-world experience in trials that give them an edge when applying to law school. While not all plan to study law, a lot of mem-bers do. Lang, who has been accepted to the Universi-ty of Kentucky’s law program, said his mock trial ex-perience played a part in his acceptance.

“Many schools who have…the law school equiv-alent of mock trial value it’s experience," Lang said. "You know how to argue the case, you know the rules of procedure and evidence.”

Even if students don’t plan on attending law school the experience gives participants solid skills in com-municating, creative and critical thinking, time man-agement, and other general knowledge you pick up from the cases such as gun safety and psychology.

The end of the season is looking promising for the team as they approach regionals and nationals.

“I’ve been coaching since 2006 and since I’ve been here I don’t think we’ve ever placed in every single tournament in the invitational season before I’m hoping this is a banner year for us, or at least we keep winning,” Parker said.

By JORDAN BURKEprogress@eku.edu

Debra Lott's Lifelines is one of 33 art pieces featured in the Chautauqta art exhibition that runs through Feb, 20.HEATHER MOORE/PROGRESS

By KASEY TYRINGkasey_tyring@mymail.eku.edu

Mock trial continues winning season

Art reflects Chautauqua theme

Eastern's Mock Trial team posed for a photo in downtown Chicago after finishing in first place at the Windy City Invitational.

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Last semester, five of Eastern’s staff members found themselves without a job after a restructuring of core ad-ministrative offices.

Some of these prominent people were Mike Reagle and Claire Good, the associate vice president for campus life and the associate vice president for stu-dent success, respectively. Students in some of the master’s degree programs knew Reagle and Good well as they taught classes here, influencing the next generation of campus leaders.

Scott Cason, the vice president of marketing and communications, said the process was intended to be as ex-peditious as possible, taking just a few weeks between announcing the re-structuring to the staff and announc-ing who would be placed in various po-sitions across campus.

However, Thanksgiving break fell right between the two announcements, and while the university was closed, staff were left waiting to hear whether they would indeed have a job to come back to. That, or if the rest of the fall semester would be focused on finding another place to work or another role to serve at the university.

There is a proper timing for every-thing in the life of a university. Athlet-ics schedules are announced far in ad-vance in order to drum up hype and attract the largest crowds at games. The recent rebranding initiative, in-cluding changing logos on the univer-sity’s pedestrian walkway and replac-ing floor mats inside buildings, has been a long, drawn out process.

Yet why did this restructuring and firing process seem so sudden, swift and decisive? We’re not arguing with the administration’s ability to create its

own staff to benefit the university, but these announcements truly blindsided the five that lost their jobs.

The argument could also be made that it was only five administrators who lost their jobs, but there was not much of a transition period before other staff accepted the challenges that came with

new roles, being only a few weeks be-fore and after the winter break.

It was not that long ago when Pres-ident Whitlock and his administration led the university through a budget re-allocation. The university communi-ty knew it was coming; it was a reali-ty that the faculty did not want to face.

But we succeeded through the trial be-cause people had enough expertise and advanced notice to plan for it.

Next time the university needs to change critical staff members, and ulti-mately decide to fire the leaders of ad-ministrative departments, how about a little more advanced notice?

Adminstrative changes were badly timed

DanielKlapheke

Perspectives Editor

I enjoy a good bath. In fact, I adore a good bath. I love baths. There’s nothing like coming home after a tiring day and drawing fiery hot water into the tub that I can’t fit into anymore. Hell, may-be pour in some bubbles. It’s my bath, and I can do what I want with it.

However, my neighbor enjoys a good shower. In fact, he adores a good show-er. He loves showers. I’ve tried to sway him to the way of the bathtub, but it’s no use. He’s going to keep clean-ing himself that way unless he choos-es otherwise on his own accord, and I don’t see that happening.

Now, here’s a question: would it be appropriate of me to knock on my neighbor’s door, wait for him to open it, then point a pistol between his eyes

and kill him on his doorstep in the name of bathtubs?

It’s ludicrous, but it’s a question that gets hotly debated.

The world of religion is fiercely de-fensive, offensive and downright hos-tile. You may not see it in your weekly outing to church or temple or whatev-er you do on the weekends, but look up from your sacred text and you’ll see millions of people strangling each oth-er over who’s right and who’s going to hell. And it’s been nonstop for thou-sands of years.

A week into 2015, the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Heb-do was raided by jihadists who killed 11 unarmed people, consisting of edi-tors, journalists, cartoonists and visi-tors. The attackers were killed two days later during a hostage standoff with po-lice, but they already made their bloody mark on French security and the well-being of journalists worldwide.

Charlie Hebdo is the latest in ex-tremist attacks, following several ISIS beheadings of American, British, Japa-

nese and other nations’ journalists, and other attacks around the world. Even before the recent tragedy, the Charlie Hebdo office had been firebombed in 2011 by extremists. As part of the jour-nalism community, I long for the day when words can be written without the possibility of being murdered over what they say.

The base issue behind all this is Is-lam, but that doesn’t mean Islam is the problem. There are extremists in ev-ery group and religion, with the “God Hates Fags” chanters of Westboro Bap-tist Church, the far-left and far-right politicians, the Ku Klux Klan and so on. They’re all screaming at their en-emies, with their extremist enemies screaming directly back. And often, neither side is necessarily right.

The problem is that people can’t take criticism and offense without wanting to bludgeon someone to death. That want turns to action, and soon you have a heap of casualties over mis-understanding and a few scribbles.

It’s absolutely fine to be offended be-

cause it’s your right to be offended. You can back up your cause and rebuttal as much as your heart desires. But it’s also your right to be offensive because you have the right to say whatever the hell you want—or at least to an extent. But I’m not delving into that.

Charlie Hebdo sparked a lot of anger amongst Muslims over their depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, but they’re allowed to do that, and Muslims world-wide have every right to be angry over it. But those two faith-blinded killers had no right to end 12 lives in retali-ation.

I don’t mourn for Charlie Hebdo be-cause of some hate for Islam, and nei-ther do millions of others who have come to the support of the magazine. Je Suis Charlie because I believe in free speech and non-censorship and free-dom of religion and freedom of sexual preference and lots of other things that probably piss some of you off. And I’m okay with that because it doesn’t mat-ter how you bathe, so long as you don’t shoot somebody over it.

State of the Union address sounds great, but might not be

It's okay to be offended, just don't kill people

On the evening of Jan. 20, President Obama addressed our country and re-flected on the past year, promising change, fortune and security with sev-eral plans to be set in motion. While higher minimum wage, free and open internet and free community college are all very promising ideas on the sur-face, we must remind ourselves that ev-ery action has its consequences.

Increasing minimum wage sounds great, especially to us college students working minimum wage jobs. Howev-er, the trickling effects of this motion will be neither harmful nor helpful. It would be nice to see some extra change

in our pockets, but we are not consider-ing the probable inflation, unemploy-ment and tax raises that would result. In the end, would it really be beneficial, or would it just be a waste of time?

Free, private and easily accessible In-ternet sounds like a dream come true. What a world it would be to never have data overages again, even better, to never pay for data again. However, this is where we have to consider what kind of information we are putting into the hands of our government. They may be able to guarantee us privacy from each other, but federally funded Internet is only going to give them every bit of in-formation about us.

I am sure many of us students would love the luxury of being debt free when we graduate, but we have to keep the fragile structure of our economy in mind.

First, making community college free would be an expensive endeavor. In order for our government to afford

such a motion, it would require mas-sive funds, most likely resulting in tax raises, and massive salary cuts to the employees of these institutions.

Second, it would have detrimental effects on our public universities, who would be losing business and would then be laying off tens of thousands of employees.

Third, because the government would be paying the salaries of these employees, they would ultimately have the final say in the curriculum. So, speaking in favor of a limited govern-ment, do we really want to allow them the control of what should or shouldn’t be taught in our classrooms?

Lastly, increasing the accessibili-ty of a higher education is only going to make employers look for more cred-ibility. Yes, a more educated society would be marvelous and progressive, but when a majority of people sudden-ly have a degree, it is no longer as valu-able. This would force many to pursue

a graduate degree in hopes of building their resume apart from others, only to send them diving back into a pool of debt and completely defeating the in-tentions of free schooling.

I am no economics major, and I am certainly no avid follower of politics, but it does not take much sense to re-alize that there will be repercussions of these motions if they are not designed strategically and in direct favor of the citizens of this country. I am also play-ing devil’s advocate here, and there may very well be a better argument.

President Obama has made many great, honorable strides in office, but I urge you to be aware of the actions that you are supporting. Above all else, we are one nation together, striving to maintain the unprecedented freedom and opportunity that makes us the United States of America.

MackenziePittman

Guest Columnist

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Veteran finds controversial war film relateable

After a semester of using Micro-soft’s new Surface Pro 3 tablet PC I can honestly say it’s become an important part of my daily life. Its integrated pen, touch screen, light weight and battery life made it ideal for college life, but like any love affair, the Surface Pro 3 is not without its f laws.

The Surface Pro 3 was designed to be both a tablet and a laptop and had the full capabilities of any PC, running full Windows 8.1. The Surface Pro 3 is not a tablet in a traditional sense, but rather is a full computer with the por-tability of a tablet and is geared not only for entertainment but for produc-tivity as well. The Surface Pro 3 runs on Intel i3, i5 or i7 processors, depen-dent on the model, and offer 4 or 8GB of RAM. It also includes one Terabyte of free cloud storage on Microsoft’ Sky Drive, which is a great place to store notes that can be accesses on other de-vise such as smartphones as well.

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 is the new-est in the line of Surface products. It includes a USB 3.0 port, micro HDMI port and a microSD card slot. The Sur-face Pro 3 also operates on a 64-bit sys-tem and has one of the best screen res-olutions in the market at 2160 x 1440. The colors are vibrant, the speakers are also louder than many other tablets or laptops I have demoed in the past.

The Surface Pro 3 is less than half

an inch thick. Despite the larger screen size the Surface Pro 3 weighs less than two pounds with the type cover at-tached. As a student this meant I could bring my laptop to class without turn-ing my backpack into a dumbbell.

Not only did the weight of the Sur-face Pro 3 lighten my load but the N-Tirg digitizer pen, which is includ-ed with the surface, allowed me to take hand written notes in class through Microsoft One Note and create note books very similar to the paper note books and binders that used to fill my backpack.

Also, in Microsoft One Note the notes were set to sync with the cloud automatically, so I could pull them up on any computer that has One Note in-stalled. The pen is particularly useful in classes where notes cannot be typed, such as math classes. Documents such a PDF’s and Microsoft Word docu-ments can be printed to One Note and can be highlighted or written on, right on the screen.

The Surface Pro 3 has a longer bat-tery life than previous models at nine hours when running regular programs or surfing the web, however, can be shorter when running intensive pro-grams such a Photoshop. I found that the battery would take me through a typical day of classes, but that I need to charge the device in the evenings.

The problems of the past Surface products were addressed with the Sur-face Pro 3. The kickstand on the Sur-

face Pro 3 operates on a hinge and can be maneuvered from stand straight up to lying almost flat and anywhere in between.

Although mostly positive, my expe-rience with the Surface Pro 3 has not been without its problems. In true Mi-crosoft form, I have had to install nu-merous updates to Microsoft 8.1 as well as firmware updates for devices such as the N-Tirg pen. Although the product will work following setup, the first batch of updates can take a while. Also sometimes when running inten-sive programs, gaming or running up-dates the device can become warm to the touch and the typically quiet fan

will make a noticeable fan, which I have been advised by Microsoft is nor-mal when doing any heavy computing. Also, unlike many laptops on the mar-ket, the Surface Pro 3 does not come preinstalled with Microsoft Office 365.

Microsoft also offers a student dis-count, which is generally set at 10 per-cent.

Despite some small issues, the pur-chase was worth it. I download digi-tal books when I can and only carry around a small emergency paper note-book and pen. Everything I need is now in one place and I feel I am much more productive.

By ZEYNAB DAYprogress@eku.edu

As a veteran myself, watching Amer-ican Sniper, was not what I was ex-pecting. I though it was going to be a docudrama or possibly something with a Saving Private Ryan feel to it. Nei-ther was my take-away. My mind raced with different faces throughout my life I could paste onto Chris Kyle. Maybe they weren’t badass snipers, but they were veterans who were proud of their military service, regardless of the shad-ows that haunt their past.

I have worn many hats in the mil-itary. I was a civilian contractor, a military technician and currently a twice-deployed National Guard soldier. Needless to say the Army has been a big part of my life for over a decade. I love my job and what my uniform rep-resents.

American Sniper is an action-packed, box office hit that has made headlines due to a national debate over whether Americans should promote the Iraqi War and portray military snipers as he-roes. Celebrities such as radical film-maker Michael Moore won attention by tweeting, “snipers were cowards.” While patriots such as Sarah Palin and

Whoopi Goldberg defend the movie.This biographical rated-R movie fol-

lows the life of highly decorated U.S. Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Kyle. Kyle is known as the deadliest sniper in Amer-ican history, hitting more marks then any other sniper on his four deploy-ments to Iraq. The movie is based off Kyle’s autobiography. It is directed by Clint Eastwood and nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Pic-ture.

Actor Bradley Cooper, who portrays Kyle in the movie, told the Daily Beast that these activists and politicians have missed the point.

American Sniper is not a political discussion about war,” Cooper said. ”It’s a discussion about the reality. And the reality is that people are com-ing home, and we have to take care of them.”

This movie depicts Kyle struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) when he comes home from war. He has mood swings, a short temper and is constantly on guard. However he finds solace in counseling and train-ing other veterans when they leave ac-tive duty.

The movie does not show Kyle’s death, which happened in 2013 when he was trying to mentor a former ma-rine who tragically shot Kyle and one other man at a local shooting range.

I have lost friends to suicide, depres-sion, alcoholism and drugs. I have seen

families broken apart, amazing cou-ples divorce and single soldiers practi-cally destroy themselves all because of the implications that war has on their mentality. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates 22 veterans commit suicide each day. No matter how much critics crunch that number into some-thing else, it doesn’t change the issue that many veterans out there aren’t get-ting the help they need.

This movie concentrates mostly on what happened to Kyle during his de-ployments. In the movie, the writers touch on many different components such as why snipers are important, how combat veterans are taught to dehu-manize an enemy in order to complete the mission, why its difficult to trust innocent Iraqi citizens to provide in-formation due to the fear they had for themselves or their families and how hard deployments are on the service members’ families left behind.

The cinematography of this mov-ie is well done. Many viewers may find the hard cuts and jumps somewhat jar-ring. However, it’s easy to follow and the style shows how life at home and overseas can blend together and affect a soldier and their family.

Many critics feel the movie doesn’t capture who Chris Kyle really was, based on his stories and strong opin-ions in his memoir. No one can specu-late on what went through Kyle’s mind exactly, but I am sure it’s similar to

many other combat veterans. It seems to me that the critics don’t understand the complex situations these service members experience when they have boots on the ground.

The world is completely different in a war zone and this war is unlike any fought in the past. For example, you can’t trust many of the civilians there. A farmer in a village may or may not be innocent. There is a good chance he might be the whistle blower who caused the last convoy that came through to be blown up by an Improvised Explo-sive Devise (IED), or he might hide a cache of weapons for extra money. As-suming all civilians are innocent might be the death of you and your comrades.

Many veterans might have almost been killed themselves or had broth-ers-in-arms killed in combat. That is as personal as it gets and all combat veter-ans who go through it handle it a vari-ety of different ways.

This movie is a well thought out ac-tion drama many people put a lot of heart and soul into. It’s not supposed to be political, but to show an inside perspective on the American military culture and stimulate a call to action to provide help for veterans when they come home from war.

Rebecca Wood

Guest Columnist

The Surface Pro 3 encompasses most of the functions of a laptop or desktop computer, with the easy portability of a tablet. The Surface pro 3 offers a hinged kickstand and also comes with a digitizer pen to allow the user to take handwritten notes when typing isn’t an option.

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Students compete in Global Game Jam

Reflecting on the top 10 video games of 2014

By COURTNEE HALLprogress@eku.edu

The Alphabet Center will host a semi-formal mas-querade ball in the Keen Johnson Ballroom on Feb. 2 from 9 to 11 p.m.

Eastern’s Alphabet Center is a resource center for the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) com-munity and all other students who are considered “al-lies” for the community. The masquerade ball is open to anyone who wants to come, not just LGBT students.

Adam Sparks, 20, a public relations junior from Mt. Sterling, is the vice president and public relations co-ordinator for The Alphabet Center.

“I feel like there’s potential for it to be bigger,” Sparks said. “It would be cool if we could all come together and have something in common that we can all share. That’s why I’m in The Alphabet Center and that’s why I try to get the word out as much as possible.”

Corey Bowling, 22, a public relations senior from Somerset and president of The Alphabet Center, said he hopes that the ball will be an event where friend-ships are made and good times are had.

“It’s really kind of rewarding for me, as one of the leaders, and as someone who has been with The Al-phabet Center for the longest at this point, to see peo-ple walk away from one of our events and be satisfied,” Bowling said. “I kind of secretly hope everyone is kind of like, ‘Oh my god that was the greatest event ever.”

Ashton Curry, 22, a pre-med biology senior from Richmond, said she is excited to attend the ball. She has attended The Alphabet Center’s events in the past, such as last semester’s Speed Friending and was high-ly satisfied.

“I walked away with three new friends, along with several other new acquaintances that I speak to regu-larly now,” Curry said.

Planning the ball takes more effort than it may ap-pear. The ball has been on the drawing board since December Sparks said.

“The biggest part of the planning process is finding places and figuring out what facilities we need, ” Bowl-ing said. “It’s hard for student organizations to actu-ally find spots on this campus. From what I’ve heard from other students and other organizations, it’s actu-ally a really big problem. It’s gotten to the point where we actually just give everything to Women and Gen-der Studies and they find us spaces if they can; if they can’t, we move stuff around until they can.”

Bowling said there were some fun parts, such as shopping for decorations at the Dollar Store.

“I’m just going to take everything purple, green and

yellow right here,” said Bowling, laughing and miming sweeping the whole counter into a basket.

“The best part about these events is knowing that ev-eryone is there for the same reasons, which is to have fun and make friends,” Curry said. “There’s no hate, no one’s singled out, and we really couldn’t care less about how you dress or look. I love the atmosphere, basically.”

The event’s main objective to just to be fun and com-fortable for everyone.

“As long as you come in with an open mind, you’re welcome,” Sparks said. “It’s all about inclusiveness. We welcome straight people, we welcome asexual people, anybody who wants to come and socialize.”

Tickets are $2 for one ticket and $3 for two tickets.

The Alphabet Center to host masquerade ball

Eastern’s Department of Computer Sci-ence participated in a Global Game Jam from Friday, Jan. 23 to 25.

Developers gathered in the Wallace Building and had 48 hours to create a game for the competition. The theme of the Game Jam was “what would you do now?” Game developers from all around the world developed games based on this question in the hopes to have their game recognized by different companies and promoted.

The games being developed had to be submitted online by 3 p.m., Sunday. They are all available to play online.

“We feel like Game Jams are one of the most unique aspects of game develop-ment because not many other fields you take a weekend and take everything you’ve ever learned and put it into practice,” said George Landon, associate professor of computer science.

Contestants gather at different locations in teams or alone and develop their own video games to enter. Roughly 250,000 contestants worldwide were competing in this semester’s Game Jam.

The range of experience was everything from freshmen to seniors and for both peo-ple in the program and those who are not.

“I like how everything is fast paced and you don’t know what the end result is going

to be,” said Daniel Marifjeren, 25, a com-puter science senior from Richmond. “It forces you to be creative.”

Just because a game does not win the competition, doesn’t mean that it loses its chance to gain popularity. In some in-stances, games mentioned on social media websites and in the media become popular even without claiming a win.

Starwhal, a game about narwhals in space, is an example of this. While it did not win a Game Jam, it quickly became a hit in its own way.

“I do not know anything about the sys-tems,” said Jordan Lewis, 21, an aviation freshman from Richmond. “If I do well it’ll be a fluke or I’ll do bad, but I’ll be happy”

Everyone can participate in a Game Jam no matter his or her major or experience; it is actually encouraged. While program-mers are necessary, they are not the only component to a well-rounded game devel-opment team.

“If students are ever curious at all they are more than welcome to attend,” Landon said. “We have to have writers, we have to have artists, and we need composition for music. Just because you do not know how to program does not mean you cannot come and help. We can sit and make dem-os all day, but they aren’t going to be any-thing until we have art and graphic design-ers with it.”

By COREY BOWLINGprogress@eku.edu

Daniel Marifjeren, 25, a computer science senior from Richmond, participated in the Game Jam. He said he wasn’t sure how his game would turn out, but that he was just happy to compete.

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1. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

2014 featured several games wor-thy of regard. Shadow of Mordor is the best example of this because it fits the mystical and medieval world crafted by Tolkien’s Middle Earth and the game-play fits just as perfectly. The game fea-tures a sprawling world to explore as the revenge-hungry ranger, Talion, who is banished from death and uses his con-nections to bring down the Orc leader who killed his family. The game’s bat-tle system can be described as one part Assassin’s Creed and one part Batman: Arkham Asylum. Each encounter is en-joyable as well as challenging. The real highlight of the game is the newly mint-ed “Nemesis” system which, does a fan-tastic job of randomizing each orc you run into. This system also gives each en-emy their own traits and weaknesses that you can exploit making no one play the same. Shadow of Mordor deserves the top spot for the refreshing way in which a game based off of a pre-con-ceived property can stand on its own.

2. Dragon Age: Inquisition

This game is an outstanding return to form for Bioware after their last en-try in the Dragon Age franchise left fans and new gamers confused on what was so special about the series. Inquisition offers the tried and true Bioware experi-ence in every little side quest. From col-lecting flowers to hunting dragons, tiny story elements add up to compel the player to rush towards the next task no matter how small. The player also gets more than nine companions to fight with, interact and even take control of. Top it off with a compelling worldly sto-ry and stopping an evil force from de-stroying the world you have an expert entry from the creators at Bioware that fans have come to expect.

3. South Park: The Stick of Truth

There’s something to admire about a

game that can sport some of the most shameless toilet humor, not only pres-ent it in a completely straightforward and clever manner, but also make it ac-tually a part of the plot. Of course if anyone can commit to such a feat it’s the brilliant minds behind the long run-ning South Park Franchise. While most licensed games sport some of the laziest game designs in order to catch a quick buck from the popularity of a new film or TV series, Stick of Truth shows how to recreate the feel of the original prod-uct while making a game that can still stand on its own. Brilliantly execut-ed RPG combat developed by Obsidi-an meshed with the crass but expertly handled portrayal of South Park makes Stick of Truth the benchmark when it comes TV/Movie spin-offs.

4. Infamous: Second Son

As cookie-cutter as Second Son feels it still represents a game company that isn’t just filling out a check list but crafting something they can be proud of. Sucker Punch Studios crafts a true representation of the fabled “next gen” graphics. Second Son dazzles with par-ticle and lighting effects that are impos-sible not to notice such as reflections on

rainy streets to the vibrant neon powers, a huge cityscape playground in the Em-erald city. With seemingly never ending enemy variety and a protagonist who can actually smile at the prospect of us-ing these new powers make Second Son a great start in a new age of super hero games.

5. Far Cry 4

It’s a double edged sword and Ubisoft knows this parable more than anyone in the industry. The fourth in the Far Cry family seems to ironically break tradi-tion by making a nearly identical game as Far Cry 3, just based in the Himala-yas. This is both good and bad as it tech-nically shares the fun of Far Cry 3 but it suffers from “sequel-itis”. What made Far Cry 3 brilliant wasn’t just its amaz-ingly unique gameplay and setting but its presentation and story mixed per-fectly with it. It’s a quality game we’ve come to expect and with its own twists and turns to keep the player guessing and enough things to do to warrant a full price.

To read the full top 10 list, visit www.easternprogress.com.

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Turnovers doom Colonels on OVC road trip

Senior Corey Walden scored 22 points, made seven assists and had three steals against Tennessee Tech University on Jan. 24. PROGRESS FILE PHOTO

Eastern’s men’s basketball team has now dropped two consecutive games on the road against OVC op-ponents Jacksonville State University and Tennessee Tech University after winning two of its first three games to open up conference play. Following the two losses, the Colonels now hold an 11-8, 3-3 OVC re-cord.

Eastern 67 Jacksonville State 71

The Colonels’ first loss of the two came at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22 when Eastern traveled to Pete Mathews Coliseum in Jacksonville, Alabama to face the Gamecocks of Jacksonville State (9-12, 2-5 OVC).

Eastern led by seven points with just 1:31 left in the game, but its lead quickly dissipated as the Colonels were outscored by 11 points.

Darion Rackley led the Gamecocks late game comeback with less than two minutes left in the game by hitting two free throws and then coming up with a timely steal that he turned into a three-point basket for his team. Rackley’s quick five points cut Jacksonville State’s deficit to two points with just 1:16 remaining in the game.

Rackley came up with another steal on the Colo-nels’s next possession and assisted his teammate Jamal Hunter on an and-one layup. Hunter hit his free throw to give Jacksonville State the lead at 67-66 with 48 sec-onds remaining. After giving up its seven-point lead, Eastern never regained control.

Rackley shot eight for 15 from the field and went eight for eight from the free-throw line as he led all scorers with 25 points. Hunter went eight for nine from the free throw line during the night, adding 14 points and six rebounds for the Gamecocks.

Seniors Timmy Knipp and Eric Stutz led Eastern in scoring with 16 points a piece. Stutz also led the Colo-nels in rebounding as he added eight boards.

Eastern came into the game with the second high-est turnover margin (+9.4) in the nation, but the Colo-nels turned the ball over 17 times against Jacksonville State and finished the game with two more turnovers than the Gamecocks. Eastern entered the game com-mitting an average of 11 turnovers per game.

The loss to Jacksonville State broke an eight game winning streak for Eastern against the Gamecocks.

Eastern 81 Tennessee Tech 83 (Overtime)

Eastern suffered its second loss to the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles (10-11, 2-6 OVC) in overtime Sat-urday, Jan. 24 at the Eblen Center in Cookeville, Ten-nessee.

Eastern led by 11 points during the halftime in-termission, but Tennessee Tech made 13 of its first 14

shots during the second half to keep the game close.After leading by a score of 57-49, Eastern gave up a

12-0 run to the Golden Eagles that put Tennessee Tech up by four points with 8:08 left in regulation.

Trailing by two points with just 4.8 seconds left in the game, senior guard Corey Walden drew a foul and went to the charity stripe for Eastern. Walden knocked both free throws and leveled the game up at 72-all to send the game into overtime.

Walden led all scorers with 22 points as he made seven of his 15 field goal attempts. Walden also added seven assists and three steals. Stutz had 20 points and nine rebounds for the Colonels.

Walden’s three steals moved him past John Allen into third place on Eastern’s all-time steals list. Walden only needs two more steals to move into second place and 33 more steals to break the Eastern all-time steals record of 221 steals.

Stutz converted a layup that evened the game at 81-all with 35.2 seconds left in overtime, but Josiah Moore

answered with a baseline jumper that gave Tennessee Tech a two-point lead with just 7.2 seconds left in the game. Walden shot a three-pointer at the buzzer that would have given Eastern the victory, but Walden’s shot didn’t fall through.

Center Charles Jackson registered a double-dou-ble for the Golden Eagles, scoring 18 points and grab-bing 10 rebounds. Guard Torrance Rowe also had a double-double with 14 points and 10 assists during the night.

Eastern only allowed three of its first 15 opponents to score 70 or more points, but has now given up at least 70 or more points to opponents in three of its last four games. The Colonels have lost all three of its last four games when giving up 70 or more points.

The Colonels look to rebound on the road against Murray State University (17-4, 7-0) at 9 p.m. this coming Thursday, Jan. 29. The game will be tele-vised on ESPNU.

Smart shooting earns womens basketball consecutive road wins

Eastern’s Colonel’s brought home its second con-secutive win and third consecutive OVC road win Jan. 24 after defeating the Golden Eagles of Tennessee Tech University in double overtime. This was the first dou-ble overtime for the women’s basketball team since 2011.

After the 97-93 victory against Tennessee Tech (5-17, 2-7 OVC), the Colonels have an 8-9, 3-4 OVC record.

Catherine Taylor of the Golden Eagles hit a 3-pointer buzzer shot to give Tennessee Tech a 41-39 lead heading into half time. The Golden Eagles kept the lead throughout the majority of the second half. With a littler over seven minutes left to play, Tennes-see Tech had a 10-point lead over the Colonels.

That lead shortened to just seven points with un-der two minutes to go, then junior Miranda Maples and sophomore Michaela Hunter cut the lead even shorter after sinking a pair of free throws.

A full court press pushed gave Eastern the mo-mentum for a steal when junior Shameekia Murray hit a 3-point shot. With nine seconds left in regulation, Tennessee Tech grabbed the lead back with a layup. Hunter retaliated shortly after, however, and hit a bucket to tie the game with 1.5 seconds to go.

Hunter’s bucket sent Eastern into its first overtime of the night.

The overtime went back and forth with two ties

between the two teams until just over a minute to go. Maples came through with two free throws and sent the game into its second overtime.

The Colonels were down by one point with 1:26 remaining when Murray hit a three point to give Eastern the lead. Eastern stayed ahead by two points with 30 seconds to go when junior Jasmine Stafford pushed the lead further with a two-point buck-et.

Tennessee Tech tried for a comeback but only pulled off one free throw, missing an attempted 3-point shot with eight seconds to go.

Eastern hit a season-high 12 made 3-pointers and 24 made free throws in the win.

Hunter led the Colonels with a career-high 40 points, the third-most scored points by an Eastern women’s bas-ketball player in one game. Maples fol-lowed with 21 points, marking a career-high of her own. Murray went six for six from the charity stripe and added 16 points.

Maples pulled down nine boards while Mur-ray added seven.

The Colonels return to action at 2 p.m., Jan. 31 against OVC foe Morehead State University.

By ASHLEY OWENSashley_owens46@mymail.eku.edu

COLONELS HIT SEASON-HIGH 12 3-POINTERS IN DOUBLE-OVERTIME VICTORY AGAINST OVC FOE TENNESSEE TECH UNIVERSITY

MENS BASKETBALL TURNS BALL OVER 17 TIMES AGAINST JACKSONVILLE STATE, TWO MORE TURNOVERS THAN GAMECOCKS

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Young Dayton talent trumps mens tennis at home

Womens tennis drops home opener despite comeback attempt

By ASHLEY OWENSashley_owens46@mymail.eku.edu

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Eastern’s women’s team dropped its first home match of the 2015 season Jan. 24 against Xavier Uni-versity. The Colonels lost by a tight 3-4 score, despite battling hard in the team’s singles performances.

Xavier (2-0) took an early lead after winning the doubles point, widening the lead with victories in the No. 3 and No. 4 singles spots.

Senior Amandine Faouzi gave a hearty effort in the No. 1 singles spot. The match looked grim when the returning Colonel was down 5-1 in the third set. However, Faouzi fought through two match points to win the tiebreaker 9-7.

“That was truly an inspiration to all of us, to have a player with such a monstrous heart to come back from 5-1 down in the third,” said head coach Rob

Oertel. “What a courageous match.” With a win in the next two

matches, the Colonels evened the score 3-all.

Fellow senior Kristina Labeja pulled through at No. 2 singles with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 win and newcomer Marina Marti (No. 6) won her sin-gles match in straight sets (6-1, 6-1).

“Marina cleaned her up pretty easy,” Oertel said. “So, impressive scores on top of the fact that she played her best match as a Colonel.”

The match rested on the No. 5 singles spot where Xavier’s Daniel-la Patton defeated freshman Raquel Montalvo 7-6 (4), 6-2 for the final victory.

Oertel said Montalvo’s performance was well fought, regardless, because this was her first ever in-door match. Oertel said she is used to playing on clay, outdoor courts and had a huge change of scenery with Eastern’s concrete, indoor courts.

“That was a tall task for Raquel as freshman who

just got here in January, with all that pressure,” Oertel said.

Freshman Javiera Gonzalez and Dominika Hadnadova also join Eastern’s ranks this season.

Eastern 1 Miami (Ohio) 6

The Colonels traveled to Ohio on Jan. 25 to take on Miami Uni-versity.

Faouzi pushed to a 2-0 singles record for the season after claim-ing Eastern’s only win of the match. The senior won in straight sets of 6-4, 7-6 (1) in the No. 1 singles spot.

Labeja put up a fight in the No. 2 spot but was unable to get through the two tiebreakers. Miami (1-1) won the final four spots in straight sets, also taking the early doubles point with three doubles wins.

The Colonels (0-2, 0-0 OVC) return home at 11 a.m., Jan. 31 against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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Senior Amandine Faouzi fought off two match points in singles against Xavier University on Jan. 24 and was Eastern’s lone victory against Miami (Ohio) University on Jan. 25 in the No.1 singles spot.

Eastern’s men’s tennis team opened its 2015 home season in a close match against the University of Dayton on Jan. 30. The Colonels had an early 3-2 lead but fell later in the match in the 3-4 loss.

“To Dayton’s credit, this is the best Dayton team

I’ve seen in their history,” said head coach Rob Oer-tel. “There’s a lot of good, young talent.”

Eastern took the lead quickly after winning the doubles point with the help of senior Juanjo de le Lle-ra, junior Alex Alvaro, sophomore Alberto Tintoré and freshman Ramon van Flymen.

Alvaro and de le Llera stormed past Dayton (2-3) in the No. 1 doubles spot with a 6-1 victory. The duo were paired up the majority of last season in doubles and continued their on-court chemistry in Friday’s match at Greg Adams Indoor Tennis Center.

Tintoré teamed with newcomer Flymen in the No. 3 doubles and won 6-3.

“Ramon [Flymen] and Beto [Tintoré] had a nice win in doubles today,” Oertel said. “I was re-ally proud of the way they returned. They won the clinching match to win our doubles point.”

The Colonels started singles play with the upper hand with straight-set wins in the first two spots. Eastern used experience with Alvaro in the No. 1 spot where he won 6-4, 6-2 and senior Daridge Saidi (No. 2) defeated Dayton’s Aidan Koross 6-3, 6-3.

The Colonels then moved ahead 3-2. Tintoré led at No. 5 singles by one set until an injury set him back in the second set of his match. Dayton’s Zach Berry capitalized on the injury and won the second set before also taking the final set for the singles point.

Sophomore Diego Asis had a 1-set lead at No. 6 but Dayton’s Simon Jayaram managed to win the fi-nal two sets in the deciding match.

The loss comes after a 7-0 loss against No. 18 University of Kentucky on Jan. 15, but Oertel said the team wasn’t at its full strength in Friday’s match.

“We’ve got some quality players that weren’t playing today due to illness, injury or eligibility with the NCAA,” Oertel said. “A lot of our higher guys in the lineup were out today. Once we get ev-eryone back and get our full roster, we’re going to be fine.”

Along with Flymen, Eastern welcomes fresh-men Colin Hart, Jonas Stropus and sophomore Dio-go Soares to its roster this season.

Junior Florian Graskamp and sophomore Se-bastian Mueller are also returning players for the Colonels’ upcoming season.

The Colonels (0-2, 0-0 OVC) hit the road at 7 p.m., Jan. 30 against Xavier University.

Junior Alex Alvaro won the No. 1 singles with a straight-set score of 6-4, 6-2 against the University of Dayton on Jan. 23.

Senior Daridge Saidi won the No. 2 singles spot in straight sets against the University of Dayton’s Aidan Koross on Jan. 23.

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COLONELS JUMP PAST UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, DAYTON USES YOUNG PLAYERS IN FINAL SETS TO COMEBACK FOR FINAL 3-4 VICTORY.

SENIOR AMANDINE FAOUZI FIGHTS BACK AGAINST XAVIER UNIVERSITY JAN. 24 AFTER 5-1 DEFICIT IN NO. 1 SINGLES “That was truly an

inspiration to all of us, to have a player with such a monstrous heart...”

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“To Dayton’s credit, this is the best Dayton team I’ve seen in their history.”

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Students for Life, held an open vigil to remember those who have lost their lives as a result of the Roe v. Wade decision in the Powell Plaza on Thursday, Jan. 22.

“Our goal is to spread awareness of this day in history and the implications it’s had on the nation,” said Savannah Merlin, president of Students for Life. “We as cit-izens need to be informed because it’s the only way we’re going to make the right decisions.”

On Jan. 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade legal-ized abortion in all 50 states at any time for any reason throughout pregnancy. Since its passing, there have been approx-imately 56 million abortions in the Unit-ed States, and over one billion abortions worldwide since 1980. Now, on its 42nd anniversary, many come together in re-membrance of all the lives that have been lost through abortion.

The Rev. Jim Sichko, a priest from Saint Mark’s Catholic Church in Richmond, led a short introduction and a moment of prayer for those in attendance. Sichko was followed by other speakers, including Ken Southgate, minister of Eastern’s Wes-ley Foundation and Minh Nguyen, direc-tor of the Asian studies program. Nguyen spoke about the “culture of life,” and how we should treat all human life to the stan-dards of this idea, including the unborn.

“[The culture of life] is a way of life

based on the truth that all human life is sacred,” Nguyen said.

Southgate told a story of a young wom-an he met, who he later found out had al-ways felt she was unwanted. They have remained friends through the years, Southgate said, and added that though they had no family ties, he had come to see her as a daughter. Southgate shared this story to show the attendees that some people may feel unwanted, but there are other people who care about them.

“I was 14 years old when Roe v. Wade was passed, I was shocked then and now still,” Southgate said. “These children are not unwanted.”

At the end of the vigil there was a mo-ment of silent prayer. Attendees held can-dles in honor of the people who have been victimized by abortion. Whether it was for five, 10 or 30 minutes, some prayed alone while others held hands in-group prayer.

“It was a nice, quiet time to reflect,” said Alex Lolli, 22, a senior public rela-tions major. “Everyone was holding their candle and praying with each other.”

The vigil, though only lasting an hour, was a show of support for the fight against abortion. Students who gathered said they would continue to pray and hope for the day where this law no longer exists.

“This is why we hold this event,” Mer-lin said. “To pray, show remembrance, spread awareness and promote peace.”

Vigil honors babies killed in abortionsBy TYLER BROWNprogress@eku.edu

Eastern students as well as Richmond citizens gathered Thursday, Jan. 22 on the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade case decision that made abortion legal in the U.S. The vigil honored the lives that have been lost as a result of abortion.

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The Eastern cheerleading squad received third place Saturday, Jan. 17 after a five-year absence at the Universal Cheerleaders Association College National Competition in Orlando, Fla.

After being hired as the head cheerleading coach this July, Beth Brunner started coaching the team and hit the ground running to get her squad ready for nationals.

“It was a large undertaking getting the job and picking and recruiting a squad all in July,” Brunner said. “Cheerleaders usually work all year long to pre-pare for the national competition. To be the new kid on the block and receive third was huge.”

The team performed their two and a half minute routine for the judges during the semifinal round early that Saturday. The team was ranked third be-fore going into the championship and kept their third place rank after performing for the second time.

Samantha Chenault, 23, a general business senior from Richmond, said this is her first year cheering for the Eastern team after taking a five year break from cheering after high school.

“When you explain what we do to people who think cheerleading isn’t a sport, or to someone who plays a sport like basketball or football, they don’t seem to think about how nerve wracking a compe-tition is,” Chenault said. “If they miss a three point-er in basketball or don’t make a touchdown, they can

always try again or do better the next half or quarter. We only get two and half minutes.”

Erica Ellis, 20, a psychology junior from Danville, said the squad was seen as the underdogs and came out and surprised everyone. She said other teams and coaches were nice and supported them during the whole competition.

“The competition was almost what you would ex-pect from a movie,” Ellis said. “It was really all cheer-leaders everywhere. Everywhere you went, oth-er teams were stunting and practicing for the same goal.”

Brunner said the squad practiced three times a week since July. Starting finals week of the fall se-mester the team practiced every day and a week af-ter Christmas the team went to two-a-day practices.

Kara Tooley, 18, a pre-occupational science fresh-man from Somerset, said she’s been cheering for eight

years and it’s a big change from high school to college competitions.

“We were in an area and we walked out onto the floor from a castle,” Tooley said. “You walk out and have thousands of people watching and you have cameras on you. It’s an anxious feeling. You can’t think about the routine anymore, you just have to let your body do what you’ve been practicing for.”

Each cheerleader on the team received a medal and the team as a whole received a third place trophy.

The team also got to have fun and experience parts of Disney World. Chenault said the team went to Magic Kingdom, rode rides together and got to have fun as a team bonding experience.

Wasting no time, Brunner said the team is going to take a small break but jump right back into prac-ticing and working on skills for next year. The team will be holding tryouts May 14 through 17.

Eastern’s cheerleading squad received third place Saturday, Jan. 17 at the University Cheerleaders Association College National Championship after not having competed for five years.

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Eastern cheerleaders receive third place at national competition

By KAYLA LASUREkayla_lasure@mymail.eku.edu

WITH ONLY SIX MONTHS PRACTICE, EASTERN BRINGS BACK THIRD PLACE TROPHY