SGA to vote on constitutional revisions next week

Rape reported in Keene Hall under investigation

Juried Chautauqua art exhibit opens

Student remembered for funny a� tude, quirky habits

Eastern gets green light for free speech

Revisions made to the Student Govern-ment Association (SGA) constitution are being voted on next week by the organiza-tion’s three branches.

Credit hour requirements, new disci-plinary processes and SGA experience are among some of the changes being looked

into by the Constitutional Review Commit-tee.

“I think that it’s great that we’re updating our constitution,” Madelyn Street, student body president, said. “Th ere were a lot of changes that needed to be made.”

Jordan Yurt, member of the Con-stitutional Review Committee, said he thinks some of the processes in the constitution need to be expand-ed on.

“It’s really hard for people to look at the bylaws because they’re so vague,” Yurt said. “Th e process itself was so diff erent that it had to be updated and what better time to

do it than now.”One of the revisions being discussed

would require candidates for student body president and vice president’s of Student Senate, Student Activities Council (SAC) and Residence Life Council (RLC) to have previous ex-perience in SGA.

Cari Tretina, chair of the Con-stitutional Review Committee, said candidates would be required to have served or currently be serving one term in SGA in some capacity.

“We’ve seen in the past that the main question people ask during debates is ‘How do you expect to serve as student body presi-

dent if you’ve never served in student gov-ernment?’” Tretina said.

Michael Deaton, member of the Consti-tutional Review Committee, said he thinks the student body’s opinion shows in the votes.

“Th ose candidates don’t get as many votes as experienced leaders and, in my opinion, people think those people won’t have the ex-perience to lead,” Deaton said.

Tretina said the committee feels this re-quirement is necessary in handling SGA’s funding, in particular.

“We’re talking about thousands and thousands of dollars with someone who may

THE REVISED CONSTITUTION WILL BE REVIEWED AND VOTED ON AT NEXT WEEK’S BRANCH MEETINGS

By KYLE WOOSLEYkyle_woosley3@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE CONSTITUTION, PAGE A3

Eastern has re-ceived a green light from the Founda-tion for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for recent policy revisions that make the university more First Amend-ment friendly.

Mike Reagle, associate vice president for Student Aff airs, described FIRE as a group that was founded to make sure students, faculty and staff ’s rights are maintained at universities.

FIRE reviews school policies across the United States and highlights policies that are in violation of the First Amendment.

Samantha Harris, the director of speech code re-search at FIRE, said the green light classifi cation Eastern just received means the school is no longer in violation of the First Amendment.

“What a green light school means is that none of those school policies infringe on students free speech rights,” Harris said. “Th e universities policies are now protective of student’s free speech rights.”

Eastern is now one of 16 colleges out of about 400 that have a green light rating, Harris said.

Reagle said Eastern had three policies that were fl agged by FIRE as violating the First Amendment, two yellow lights and one red light.

Th e two yellow lights were for policies under the Student Code of Conduct and the red light was in an Information Technology policy.

Th e Student Handbook previously read, “Engag-ing in a course of conduct which is intended to ha-rass, seriously annoy and alarm another person.”

Another part of the handbook read, “No one should either off end the wider community or in-

Seth Myatt was “witty,” an avid reader and member of the EKU Men’s Rugby Team. He was one of 10 chil-dren and played football through high school.

Th e 21-year-old, junior, forestry major from Simpsonville died Jan. 23.

Seth Myatt’s youngest sister, Oliv-ia Myatt, 19, fi nance major at the Uni-versity of Louisville, said Seth Myatt was known for his intellect and sar-casm.

“He always said anything to make people laugh,” Olivia Myatt said.

Seth Myatt’s oldest sister, Amber Myatt, 37, said Seth Myatt would also be remembered for his sense of hu-mor.

“Everything had to be funny,” Am-ber Myatt said. “He was just a fun lov-ing guy.”

Amber and Olivia Myatt both said Seth Myatt was very intelligent and always reading.

He graduated from Shelby County High School with high honors.

“He was always a really good stu-dent,” Amber Myatt said. “He was one of those students that everything just came to him, he didn’t have to work at it.”

His sisters also remember him for always sharing random facts about life.

In addition to his humor, Olivia Myatt described Seth Myatt as a car-ing person who was true to himself.

“He was really genuine,” she said. “He would go out of his way for any-one.”

A favorite memory Amber Myatt has of her brother is one that includes his love of dinner rolls.

She said Seth Myatt would make a

hole in his dinner roll and put all his food inside it.

“We used to always joke about it,” Amber Myatt said. “It was Seth’s hole in the roll. I used to always tell him we were going to open a restaurant and call it Seth’s hole in a roll.”

His parents Donita and Ronnie

Myatt, nine siblings and 13 nieces and nephews survive Seth Myatt.

Services were held Jan. 28 at Shan-non Funeral Home in Shelbyville.

“He was a great person, and he’s going to be missed by lots of people,” Olivia Myatt said.

Works of art from all over the United States can now be viewed for free right here on East-ern’s campus.

A juried art exhibit will be on display at the Fred Parker Giles Gallery in the Campbell Building from Jan. 22 through Feb. 22.

Th e pieces in the exhibit, which were jury selected by Jack Girard, the head of the De-partment of Art at Transylvania University, of-fer visitors a variety of art forms, including ev-erything from bronze and copper sculptures to wood mosaics to ink sketching.

Th e exhibit, which is being brought to cam-pus as part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series, will feature 60 works by some 39 artists, said Esther Randall, an associate professor in the Department of Art and Design.

“I hope people will come see the exhibition, as it is one of the best we have had in years,” Randall said. “Th e shows we mount in the gal-lery are important resources for our classes,

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By ASHLEY VANHOOKprogress@eku.edu

› SEE CHAUTAUQUA, PAGE A4

› SEE FIRE, PAGE A3

EKU Police are currently investigating an alleged rape that occurred in Keene Hall on Saturday, Jan. 19.

“As of right now, it’s still ongoing,” said Mark Welker, Executive Director of Public Safety.

Th e incident is being classifi ed as fi rst-degree rape, a Class B felony, which can be punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Erica Richardson, former records supervisor for EKU Police, said further information would not be released “until the investigation is closed or until it has reached a point in time where it is no longer a danger to the case to release any further informa-tion.”

Welker said more information is expected to be released Friday.

Check Th e Progress next week for further infor-mation.

By KYLE WOOSLEYkyle_woosley3@mymail.eku.edu

IN MEMORIAM

PHOTO SUBMITTED BY OLIVIA MYATT

Pictured above is Seth Myatt and his youngest sister, Olivia Myatt. Seth Myatt was a junior forestry major from Simpsonville and was a member of the EKU Men’s Rugby team.

PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY ART DEPARTMENT

This piece of art is titled Evergreen Corner by David Stratton. It was constructed with pen and ink on paper. Stratton is represented by Heike Pickett Gallery.

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The Colonel’s Calendar

Jan. 29 � Th e Residence Hall Coordinator (RHC)

at Combs Hall reported a rug in front of the hall was stolen. Th e rug was maroon with a Colonel head and had “EKU” printed on it. Th e RHC said there is a surveillance cam-era that points to the front door, which might help identify the individual who took the rug. Th e rug is valued at $150.

Jan. 31 � Several items were reported stolen from

a student’s truck parked in the Alumni Col-iseum parking lot between 2 a.m. Jan. 30 and 6:30 a.m. Jan. 31. He said his truck was locked, but was unable to secure the back window, which has a visible opening be-tween the two sides. Four cigarette lighters, an Eastern parking decal and a set of Allen

wrenches were stolen. Th e items were val-ued at $59.

Feb. 1 � An instance of fi rst degree forgery was

discovered in Martin Hall. A custodian at Martin Hall found 10 pages of front and back colored, photocopy printouts of $100 bills at the bottom of the trash chute on the men’s side of Martin Hall. Th e custodian told EKU Police that he was wearing gloves when he discovered the printouts and im-mediately brought them to the EKU Police Department. He advised police that the pa-pers likely came from the second, third or fourth fl oor of the residence hall. Th e cop-ies were of various sizes consisting of 18 copies of the front of the bill and seven cop-ies of the back. Th ere was an unidentifi ed orange stain on all pages. Th e pages were packaged and logged at the EKU Police De-partment.

Feb. 3 n An exit sign on the forth fl oor of Com-

monwealth Hall was damaged. Th e sign was located on the northwest side of the fl oor. Th e damage to the sign is valued at $75.

10 a.m.Kentucky Blood Center Blood DrivePowell lobby

7 p.m.Safe is SexyCombs Hall lobby

8 p.m.What Are You Doing This Spring Break?Palmer Hall lobby

4 p.m.Men’s and Women’s Track and FieldUniversity of Washington Husky InvitationalSeattle, Wash.

5 p.m.Men’s and Women’s Track and FieldIndiana University Hoosier Hills OpenBloomington, Ind.

10 a.m.Men’s Tennis v. IndianaBloomington, Ind.

5:15 p.m.Women’s Basketballv. Morehead StateMorehead

7:30 p.m.Men’s Basketballv. Morehead StateMorehead

7 p.m. Couples Co-Op Night!Walters Hall lobby

8 p.m.Dirty Drugs!!Commonwealth lobby 2nd floor

9 p.m. The Dating GamePalmer Hall

10:30 a.m.African American Read-inPowell Building middle floor lobby

8:45 a.m.Fat TuesdayWalters Hall 8th floor kitchen

7 p.m.Men’s Tennisv. University of KentuckyLexington

9 p.m.Get Your Fitness On!Fitness and Wellness Center

Last day to withdraw from a full semester class

9 a.m.Women’s Tennisv. Butler UniversityGreg Adams Indoor Tennis Facility

12 p.m.Pickup game at BegleyBegley Gym

8:14 p.m.ValentineWalters Hall 6th floor

CAMP USCAMP USBRIEFS

Housing to host mixer for new hall

A mixer for the new residence hall will be held at 9 p.m. Feb. 12 by the Housing offi ce in the Martin Hall Basement. Th e mixer will give students the opportunity to meet potential suitemates, fi nd out about the registering process, preview sample furniture and learn about the design plans of the new building. For more information about the mixer, contact Housing at 622-1515.

Alterna� ve Spring Break goes to Charleston, S.C.

Th is year’s Alternative Spring Break Trip will partner with Habitat for Human-

ity to help build houses in Charleston, S.C. Th e trip will take place March 10-16 and no prior experience is necessary because students will be trained onsite. Th e cost is $235 for students, which covers lodg-ing, travel and food for the week. Limited space is available, and students should vis-it the Student Life Offi ce to sign up for the trip. For more information contact Bran-don Mandigo at 622-3855 or email bran-don.mandigo@eku.edu.

History professor details Cassius Clay’s foreign service

Jenn Spock of the history department will present Ambassador Cassius Clay: American Lion and Russian Bear 7 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Perkins Building. Th e lecture is a part of Eastern’s year long observance of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War and will focus on the local fi g-ure who served as the ambassador to Rus-sia. For more information 150th anniver-sary observance, visit www.eku.edu/news/sesquicentennial or contact Tom Appleton tom.appleton@eku.edu or 622-1287.

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never have had experience with a budget that large,” Tretina said.

Another revision would require candi-dates to have earned 24 credit hours at East-ern. Tretina said this is to make sure stu-dents have fi rst-hand experience at Eastern before running.

“Lets say a transfer student comes in with the minimum amount of hours you need to serve and president or vice president,” Treti-na said. “How can you get all the experience and knowledge you need in one semester? Yes, we are limiting the transfer students, but no one wants a stranger running an or-ganization and dealing with such important issues.”

Deaton said the credit hour and SGA ex-perience requirements are not to discrimi-nation against the student body.

“It’s not to eliminate anyone from the general student population [from running], but taking individuals from the student pop-ulation who really are truly ready to lead in a positive fashion,” Deaton said.

Th e position of ethics administrator has been changed to an attorney general. Dea-ton said this change was to better mimic the set-up for the United States Senate.

Th e attorney general is elected a few

weeks before elections begin and imme-diately goes into offi ce. But if the revisions are passed, Tretina said the attorney general would not take their position until the new executive cabinet was sworn into offi ce.

If a grievance or complaint is fi led, the at-torney general is also responsible for naming an investigatory committee, which was pre-viously called the Committee of Inquiry, to examine the incident.

“Even freshman senators or branch mem-bers can be put on the Committee of Inqui-ry,” Tretina said. “We want everyone to have a fair chance to defend themselves.”

A revision to this section of the consti-tution would require the accuser to present tangible evidence within a 14-day grace pe-riod to fi le a grievance or complaint.

Tretina said the words “tangible evidence” could mean anything from an eyewitness to a picture or video. She said this was added so people could not fi le complaints based on the grounds of gossip or here-say.

Currently, when an investigatory com-mittee is formed, the attorney general is not at liberty to explain why an actual commit-tee is being formed.

“He can put the committee together, but when he comes to Senate to get it approved, he can’t tell us why he’s putting the commit-tee together in any sense,” Tretina said. “He can only say we need to put an investigatory committee together.”

Tretina said the constitutional revisions

would allow the attorney general to give an explanation to general explanation of the in-vestigatory committee’s formation.

“Th e people’s names cannot be known [and] the actual violation or constitutional revision can be known, but the topic can,” Tretina said. “You can’t know the details but you can have a broad sense of what’s going on.”

Yurt said he felt the attorney general po-sition and the investigatory committee’s du-ties need to be more defi ned.

“Part of the issue with the attorney gen-eral and the Committee of Inquiry was be-cause when people go before a Committee of Inquiry, they don’t know what it is,” Yurt said.

Tretina said the disciplinary actions in the current constitution are too vague and hopes to prevent as many loopholes during elections in April.

Tretina said she hopes to have the revi-sions fi nalized before the election process begins, but is planning to have them fi nished by next week.

“We’re still working on it all,” Tretina said. “None of these revisions are fi nal.”

Before the revisions are offi cially enacted, all three branches, the SGA Advisory Board and the Eastern Board of Regents, must ap-prove them.

Street said she does not see any further issues arising with the revisions.

“I think, overall, the branches are pretty

much set on what we’ve decided on,” Street said. “I don’t foresee any problems.”

Deaton said he thinks the most impor-tant aspect to the experience and credit hour requirement.

“Most of our changes, as far as the stu-dent body goes, would allow more experi-enced people to run for SGA president and vice president and make for better leaders in the future,” Deaton said. “We want to make sure SGA is staff ed with experienced lead-ers.”

Deaton said he believes all of changes are accommodating to the student body.

“All of the changes, I think, will benefi t the student population,” Deaton said. “All in all, we’ve made the constitution a lot clearer, a lot more defi ned and a lot better for the as-sociation.”

Tretina said she has kept students rights at the forefront of her mind during this revi-sion process.

“I want to make sure the revisions are constitutionally correct,” Tretina said. “I want to make sure we’re not taking away or limiting people’s rights or freedoms.”

Th e revised constitutional changes will go up for vote in SGA’s three branches next week.

(Editor’s Note: Cari Tretina serves as copy editor of our publication. However, she will not be permitted to read stories involving constitutional revisions to prevent bias.)

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fringe upon the rights and privileges of others.” Th e school’s Internet usage policy also said students shouldn’t off end others.

Reagle said it goes against the First Amendment to regulate student speech by saying students cannot “seriously an-noy” someone and he said it is unneces-sary to hold a student to judicial action for off ending someone.

“Th eoretically a student could be held to a judicial standpoint for off ending somebody,”

Reagle said. “We didn’t want a student

to be held to a judicial standard for being off ensive.”

He said that the words used in the pre-vious policy were too broad for regulating student conduct.

“Th ere are lots of things that are off en-sive to some people that aren’t to others,” Reagle said. “Free speech sometimes is going to be off ensive to people”

Eastern initiated contact with FIRE in August 2012 to begin making changes to policies and has been working on it on and off Reagle said. Th e Board of Regents approved the changes to the policies.

“We as a university want to support the rights to free speech,” Reagle said. “We’ve got to protect the right of people to say what they want to say.”

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Students fi nish fourth Jelly Bucket

Th e Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern has creat-ed the fourth issue of the graduate student–produced literary journal, Jelly Bucket.

Russel Helm, the managing editor for Jelly Buck-et, said the book’s title came from an old coal miners slang term for “lunch pail.”

“Kentucky has been pretty known for coal min-ing,” Helm said. “Th e name was created to give a nod to the region of Kentucky.”

Jelly Bucket features works of fi ction, poetry and creative nonfi ction submitted from people all over the world.

Not only does the book pay tribute to literary art, but it also displays visual art as well. Th e cover of the book and a one, eight-page color insert within the book honor visual art.

“Th e cover artist is Brian Dettmer, an artist that takes books, pastes them together and then carves into them to make neat sculptures,” Helm said. “His work is displayed all over the world, and I asked him if I could showcase his artwork in our book.”

Jelly Bucket is produced by Th e Bluegrass Writers Stu-dio in the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Program at Eastern.

Th e MFA program is for students interested in writing novels, stories, poetry, plays and other forms of art. Students can apply and then be chosen by the directors of the department to be editors of Jel-ly Bucket. Editors for each section of literary work category displayed in the book collectively pick and choose from the works submitted to them.

“All of our submissions are done online,” Helm said. “Th is is because we have people that submit stuff from places such as Poland, the Philippines, It-aly, Th ailand, Niagara, Canada, diff erent parts of the United States, etc.”

Continuing with the uniqueness of the book, Jelly Bucket features works written in diff erent languages, and then the book translates it into English on the

corresponding page. “Th is gives people a chance to see how it’s orig-

inally written, and gives the book more character,” said Bill Mullen, the fi ction editor of previous issue of Jelly Bucket and now Eastern faculty member.

Mullen said no one issue of Jelly Bucket is better than the others because each stands out on its own. He also said he had an overall positive experience in the MFA program and helping with the previous is-sue of the book.

“MFA is good because it introduces the students to great literature and focus’ on the literature from a writer’s standpoint instead of just a reader’s stand-point,” Mullen said. “Not only are the students learn-

ing how to write, but learning how to judge literature, and make key con-nections. Th ey get to see who’s pub-lishing, what’s hot at the moment and really be in the writing world.”

Mullen also said classes in the MFA program are small, about eight or 10 people in each class. He said it allows professors get to know the stu-dents on a personal level and gives each student the ability to feel like their voice is heard.

Mullen said he thinks the program is fairly successful in helping the stu-dents achieve their dreams and be-come better writers.

“Faculty are straight forward and honest,” Mullen said. “I like that they will tell you If something works or not. You don’t want things sugar

coated about your work, you want the truth. Th ey’ll help you and tell you how to make it better.”

MFA produces a newsletter once every four or fi ve months. Mullen said he hasn’t seen a newsletter yet that doesn’t highlight the success of a student for producing a new novel or other literary work.

Jelly Bucket seems to be only one of many good aspects the MFA program is doing for Eastern’s cam-pus.

Helm said he recommends for anyone who picks up Jelly Bucket to read the creative nonfi ction work called “Chocolate Water Running Down Her Legs” by Adriana Paramo.

Jelly Bucket, Helm said, can be purchased at any Barnes and Noble store and Hasting’s.

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but they are meant for the whole of the Eastern community as well. Like the concerts given by the mu-sic department, or the produc-tions put on by the theater depart-ment, the gallery adds to the rich cultural environment one fi nds here. It is the part of one’s educa-tion no matter what one’s major is to be exposed to these things.”

Th e exhibit is being present-ed under this year’s Chautau-qua theme, which is Crossroads. Th e works are selected from art-ists from across the country—ev-erywhere from Madison, Wis., to San Francisco. Also included are

works from a handful of Kentucky artists, including Jeremy Newell from Richmond, who’s a former Eastern student.

Eastern has made art exhibits a tradition over the last decade, hosting one every year.

“One of my earliest goals after assuming the directorship of Giles Gallery was to host a juried exhi-bition,” Randall said. “We have a beautiful space, which is often re-marked upon by visiting artists.”

Th e free jury art exhibit in con-junction with the Chautauqua lec-ture series is currently open un-til Feb. 22, but it is closed on the weekends.

For specifi c times, please con-tact the Department of Art & De-sign at 859-622-1629.

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The art pictured above titled Three Roses is a wood mosaic created by Naoko Morisawa.

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It’s fi nally here. Th e time I’ve dreamed about since my fi rst day of freshman year has now become a reality, I’ve started my fi nal se-mester of college, of school, forever.

I’ve imagined what my last semester would be like hundreds, if not thousands of times, and I had done my best to make it as much like my dreams as possible. I’ve long anticipated the feeling of glorious victory inching closer to my reach, the surge of en-ergy coming from the fact that I’ve just about won. It’s like the last ditch sprint one begins

as they round the fi nal turn in a marathon and see the fi nish line in the distance.

But the thing is, I’ve never run a mara-thon, and that feeling is complete bullshit.

Far from a victory lap, the fi nal semes-ter of college is more like a slow, tired slog one suff ers through when they’re lost in the woods, a situation I actually am familiar with.

Th e sun’s going down and you’re running out of water, and you hope to fi nd a road be-fore darkness comes and you’re forced to spend the night in the cold like a lonely pen-guin (I like penguins) hoping some bear doesn’t decide to make an easy meal out of you.

In reality, after nearly twenty years of school, the fi nal semester of college is one of the most stressful things you will have to en-dure. It’s not necessarily because of classes, or schedules or work, although those things might all be factors. It’s because of you.

Life as you know it is rapidly coming to an end. Th e days of absorbing information in a

classroom are almost over, and it’s time for you to grow up and join the real world. But learning is exhausting. In my personal expe-rience, it’s more tiring (though far less repeti-tive and tedious) as a full time job.

Collecting and processing the information from all the various subjects we study in col-lege is the mental equivalent of a hard work out, it takes a toll on you, but it makes you a better person in the long run. Th e prob-lem is that there isn’t a cool down period (for me anyway) at the end of college. Right after stumbling out of the woods onto that road, I still have to follow it on the mysterious and indefi nite journey that is job hunting.

Th e result of my looming second chal-lenge is what has aff ectionately been referred to as “senioritis.”

Th is feeling of absolute apathy and lazi-ness is the student’s equivalent of a hiker’s body telling him, “You’ve reached the road; it’s safe to sit down and rest a while.” Unfortu-nately, this is far from true.

Reaching the road to graduation is not the same as reaching graduation itself. In fact, you’re just about to reach what could be considered the hardest part, the desper-ate march down the road until some sort of civilization is found.

Please don’t see the point of this column as a message of bleakness though. In many ways, it’s the exact opposite. Th e fi nal part of my trek to graduation may be tough, but it is also far more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. I’m already starting to see the fruits of my hard work, and even though I’m fi ghting myself tooth and nail through these last few months, it was all worth it.

I’m not going to dash across my fi nish line with outstretched arms making the “V” for victory. Rather, I’m going to take it one step at a time and conquer my demon, and when it’s fi nally over, I’m going to look back on it all with pride.

In the Student Government Association’s (SGA) constitution, it states that every mem-ber of the student body is a member of SGA.

But if revisions going up for a vote next week are passed, all members of Eastern’s student population will not be permitted to run for student body president or executive vice president positions in SGA.

Among these revisions is a requirement that would force all candidates to serve or currently be serving one term in the orga-nization and minimum of 24 credit hours earned at Eastern.

And while we at Th e Progress understand SGA’s intentions with these revisions, we believe this change is doing a lot more than proposed.

Previously, any member of the student body could run for student body president

or executive vice president of Senate, Student Activities Council (SAC) and Residence Life Council (RLC).

If students are required to have previ-ous experience, then we are discriminating against a large portion of the student body.

Perhaps one of the groups most aff ected by these revisions are transfer students.

A transfer student should not be denied the opportunity to run for offi ce like every other student at Eastern.

A transfer student, though not completely informed of every happening at this universi-ty, would represent a large population of stu-dents on this campus. Because they do not have expert knowledge on every facet of stu-dent government does not mean they can’t bring a diff erent kind of knowledge to the ta-ble.

Th ese students are just as aware of prob-

lems students encounter outside of student government and have the advantage to ap-proach it from a diff ering perspective.

We understand SGA wants to have a qualifi ed and educated individual in charge of managing its organization. But at the same time, we do not feel an organization that strives to serve the students should be exiling so many students from the candidate pool.

Caleb Armbrust, who served as student body president during the 2010-11 school year, was not a member of the organization before being elected. Had these revisions been active during this term, he would not have qualifi ed to run in the fi rst place.

Clearly the student population wanted this man to be their representative, regard-less of whether or not he had past experi-ence. And to silence these voices just because a committee believes the person is not quali-

fi ed to do something is completely unaccept-able.

We at Th e Progress feel it’s the student opinion that matters most in terms of stu-dent government. Looking past the legisla-tion proposals, heated debates and executive sessions, SGA is about the students.

If members of the student body want to at least have a chance to run for offi ce in the elections, they need to take a stand now. Th ese constitutional revisions have the abili-ty to impact more than just our generation at Eastern, but future generations as well.

Th e student body needs to take a stand for what is right and not sit idly by and allow SGA to limit their options for who they want to represent them, regardless of previous ex-perience or credit requirements.

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Jeff Davis of Richmond isn’t just looking to bring more convenience through local res-taurant-delivery with his new venture, the Starving Monkey. He’s also hoping to honor his deceased daughter.

It all began a few years ago when Davis was on a business trip in Chicago for his former employer Circle K. He and a friend were craving Mexican cuisine, but they didn’t dare to venture out in the big city and get lost.

“We were fl ipping through our hotel directory and, lo and behold, there was a place that would bring food to you, right to your room,” Davis said. “We ordered it and about 30-35 minutes later, it came and it was hot, fresh, just really deli-cious. And I thought, ‘Man, we need some-thing like that in Richmond.’”

Th e idea sat in the back of Davis’ brain for years as he made the transition from manage-ment at Circle K to Love’s travel stop. Th ough

he left for a pay increase, the switch was not a pleasant experience.

“Th e money part didn’t bring the happi-ness part,” Davis said. “Even though I did get to spend some time with my family, it was sporadic at best. And with the truck drivers being on the road for fi ve days in row, stink-ing to high heaven, not taking a shower, mad because they missed a deadline or whatev-er the case may be, they were just often ugly, ugly people.”

Th en, on top of it all, tragedy struck.In late April 2012, Davis’

eight-year-old daughter Caya was involved in a swing set accident that left her uncon-scious and on life support until she passed away in May.

“It took a big piece of me,” Davis said. “It forever changed me as a man. Un-til you lose a child, you nev-er know how low you can go. Well, you fi nd out real quick.”

After months of grieving, Davis realized where he was in his life was no longer cut-ting it and decided to make a change.

“When Caya left us, I just told myself that I could not deal with negative people any-more,” Davis said. “I couldn’t be around neg-ative surroundings, so I prayed about it and I said, ‘Lord, give me something to do that’s

positive.’ And soon enough, he kind of put the monkey, the image of the restaurant home delivery, back into my head.”

Th ough he questioned himself at fi rst, Da-vis soon fully dedicated himself to the idea of honoring his daughter through this new busi-ness.

“I came to the realization that I was going to take my daughter’s love of monkeys and fi nd some way to remember her every minute of the day,” Davis said. “We went and Googled a picture of an adorable monkey, and that be-came our logo. And of course we had that put on her headstone, and that’s how we were go-ing to portray this thing.”

He quickly began building his ros-ter of restaurants the Starving Monkey would service. His strategy was to focus on the independent restaurants and smaller franchises in town rather than the bigger, more corporate eateries.

“I wanted to have some-thing other than pizza and Chi-nese food,” Davis said. “I want-ed it even grander. I knew the bigger that I made it in my head, it sounds kind of funny, but that’s how it was going to help me heal from losing my daughter and having all the idle time to sit and think and ponder. So it gave me more initiative to stretch it out

and expand on it.”Davis currently has seven business lined

up, including Sonic, Masala, Maroon’s, Jack-son’s, Nuevo Vallarta, Lee’s Chicken and Cap-tain D’s, with potentially more to come as time passes. Davis noted customer interest in Babylon and Madison Garden.

“And I’ve got restaurants coming at me now,” Davis said. “I didn’t do that in the begin-ning. In the beginning, I went and recruited

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As a child, many of us aspired to achieve careers that seemed very reachable at the time, such as a professional athlete, a glam-orous movie star, an eccentric musician or a valiant astronaut. Th ough as time passed, we realized that the majority of us do not have the drive, work ethic or the fl at out tal-ent to acquire these outlandish goals.

For one former Richmond resident, his goal is no longer just a childhood dream, but merely a few votes away from becoming a full-blown reality.

Chuckie Campbell, 31, is a respected English professor and basketball coach at Bryant and Stratton College in Buff alo, N.Y. Oh, and did I mention he is also an extreme-ly talented hip-hop artist currently compet-ing in a contest hosted by the same group of

people that put on the Grammy’s? Not only is he competing in this contest, he is pres-ently in the lead with nearly 80,000 amps (shares and listens) on the Grammy Ampli-fi er.

According to Grammy Amplifi er, this contest was created to connect musicians to some of the biggest artists in the music industry. If the artist gains enough ampli-fi es on the website, the judges, composed of Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Clarkson, Linkin Park and RZA, will share the artist’s music on their social media sites, reaching more than 70 million people.

So how did an English Professor living in Buff alo, N.Y., and a former Eastern student become so involved in the music industry, specifi cally hip-hop?

Campbell said, since high school, he’s had an infatuation with words and the art of lan-guage. During this period of his life, he said

he began to write songs as well as poetry and short stories.

Along with being the starting point guard for the 1999 Madison Central Indian’s bas-ketball team (the only team to win the Ken-tucky State AAU Championship), Campbell also was competing in numerous rap battles around Richmond. He released his fi rst CD that same year, under the name Soul Sleep.

After high school, Campbell accepted an athletic scholarship to Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn. In addition to basketball, Campbell ran cross-country for a year, and he wrote and edited for Th e Lee Review mag-azine, published by the university.

“I went through a lot of changes as a per-son during this period of my life,” Campbell said. “Undoing the former model of nega-tivity that had permeated parts of my child-

Chuckie Campbell asks Richmond to support his dream

Kentucky is a warm state known for its warmer sports. Hidden away at Eastern,

however, are about a dozen athletes who make up the icy, beating heart of athletics at our uni-

versity: EKU Hockey.Many students may not know that such a team

even exists, but those players and fans who have been lucky enough to experience it fi rsthand know that a trip to the ice rink should not be missed.

Currently, hockey at Eastern is a club sport, meaning it’s not primarily funded by the university.

“It’s ACHA, American Collegiate Hockey Association, so it is a college-sanctioned sport, it’s just not recognized by the school as anything more than a club sport,” said Jake Suslowitz, 20, a fi re protection administration major from New Philadelphia, OH, serving as an alternate captain and right wing for the team.

“Th ere’s a lot of things that would go into making us NCAA and recognized by the school and all that stuff , but the actual league we’re in is a college league and we play other big schools and stuff , so it’s still pretty cool.”

Th e Colonels just fi nished their last home set last weekend against Memphis, losing both games by one to two points.

But, losing isn’t an unfamiliar territory for our Colonels.“We haven’t won one yet (laughs),” said Jason Gambrell, 23, a

math teaching major from Elizabethtown, serving as team cap-tain and defensive player.

“We’ve had some tough games against really good teams and

it’s also been a matter of numbers this semester. We’ve only got 11, 12 skaters so basically just two lines. Th at’s it. And we’ve also got a very young team. At least half the players are freshmen.”

Suslowitz added that location is as another disadvantage.“Obviously, Kentucky’s not a big hockey state at all,” Suslow-

itz said. “Th e kids that are coming to play for us are not coming to school to play hockey. Th ey’re coming for their education fi rst and then fi nd out about the team.”

A smaller pool of players inevitably means a fi tter group as well, according to Suslowitz.

“We do a lot more conditioning than any of the other teams in the ACHA just because we have such a small team and we have to keep up our stamina,” Suslowitz said.

“We practice two times a week. Do a lot of running, pushups, stairs, stuff like that. We get on ice for an hour and work on drills and systems. Outside of that, we have gym hours that we have to complete and we also do library hours. Trying to keep our aca-demics up. We’re trying to get it headed in the right direction so hopefully we can hopefully someday have it recognized by the school.”

With such frequent defeat and lowered expectations this sea-son, what keeps these players suiting up every game night?

“I really have no idea (laughs). No, it’s just a game I love,” Gam-brell said. “I suppose it’s just something diff erent. When you’re out there, you can think about some things, but most of it is just reaction, I really enjoy that aspect.”

For Suslowitz, who has been playing the game since the fi rst grade, it’s the entire encompassing experience.

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Kentucky is a warm state known for warmer sports. Hidden away at Easte

however, are about a dozen athletes who maup the icy, beating heart of athletics at our u

versity: EKU Hockey

By ADAM TURNERadam_turner66@mymail.eku.edu

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Warm Bodies adds romantic bite to zombie genreBy MICHAEL EMERSONprogress@eku.edu

Finally, a chick fl ick made with guys in mind.

Warm Bodies is the fi lm adaptation of Isaac Marion’s popular novel of the same name and brings a heartwarming element to the zombie apocalypse genre. Th e fi lm is di-rected by fairly new fi lm director Jonathan Levine, who also directed the comedy-dra-ma 50/50, and was produced by independent fi lm studio Mandeville Films.

Th e fi lm is set in a zombie-infested world and stars Nicholas Hoult as R, a zombie. Th e zombies in this fi lm shamble around like usu-al, but still retain sentient thought provided through an inner monologue. Th e zombies also consume brains as it gives them the vic-tim’s memories and allow them to feel human if only for a short time.

Th e remaining humans have held up on the inside of a walled city lead by Gener-al Grigio (John Malkovich) the father of Ju-lie Grigio (Teresa Palmer). After a medicine raid, Julie is abducted by R who falls in love with her and starts to feel human again due to their growing relationship which starts to af-fect the rest of the zombies in the same way as they recall their own memories.

Th e fi lm is a mix of genres including hor-ror, romance, comedy, and action all wrapped up in a nice package even if it does move slowly in some spots.

Th e way the movie’s been billed, people probably expect this fi lm to be little more than a campy romantic comedy with a few zombies spread about.

But actually it’s an endearing take on the Beauty and the Beast idea of a monster be-coming human after falling in love. Th e char-acters for the most part are typical teenage and zombie movie stereotypes save for the two leads that are likeable and interesting as their relationship grows, listening to R’s vinyl record collection and joyride in abandoned sports cars.

Usually movies like this tend to lose bal-ance when putting something as relatively

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When you hear the words, “strawber-ry jam,” you proba-bly think one of two things: a delicious red strawberry pre-serve, usually sealed in a jar or can often to be eaten later with your breakfast bread of choice. Or you may think of the name of a critically ac-claimed studio album by the psy-chedelic rock group Animal Collec-tive.

Either way, the two things have something in common, and if you haven’t been fortunate enough to ex-perience it, you’re in for a real treat.

While strawberry jam is a great food item, Animal Collective is some-thing even more surprising and won-derful.

Strawberry Jam is just one of the many albums by Animal Collective. Featuring strange, dark, distorted sounds and singing that sounds al-most folk-like in essence.

Although on your fi rst listen through you may not grasp all of the song’s concepts, they still seem vague-ly positive due to the high pitches and upbeat rhythms.

Merriweather Post Pavilion, anoth-er album by Animal Collective, is best described as some sort of psychedel-ic trip, or even hypnotic trance music.

Many would probably label it “hip-py” music, but that can defi nitely be looked at as a good thing because it seems to be pretty peaceful and rev-olutionary in its own regard.

Songs on the album, like “My Girls,” really stand out from anything that we’ve heard in music in quite some time.

Also the stand-

out track “Guys Eyes” sounds like something that will be appreciated for

years to come with its overlap-ping vocals, high-pitched

repetitive harmonies and all around psychedel-

ic momentum build-ing sounds deep fried in the emotions and great writing that is, Animal Collective.

Th e band mem-bers of the group

aren’t afraid to let their emotional, sometimes off -

key, trance-like voices con-sume the song and transform it into a memorable journey.

Th ey also aren’t strangers to the idea of letting the music and instru-ments do the talking.

You might catch yourself just lis-tening to an instrumental that paints the visuals of falling down an endless tunnel of beautiful colors and sounds. Th e band presents this as an almost out-of-body experience that is truly enjoyable.

I wouldn’t say that Animal Collec-tive is for everyone, but it defi nite-ly is for someone who is looking for something they’ve never heard before; something that really plays behind its own rules.

Th e group, to me, is a trendsetter. Th eir music is very much like a kalei-doscope in its abstractness.

I personally really enjoy the direc-tion that they’ve taken and with 10 albums out and the group’s activity dating back to 1999. Th ere’s going to be something on one of the albums

you’re bound to enjoy and appre-ciate, at least for their musical brav-ery.

I mean, who do you know that doesn’t like straw-berry jam?

You can check out more informa-tion about Animal Collective on Spo-tify or iTunes to-day.

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After graduation, Campbell moved to Nash-ville to pursue a music career. He lived with Wil-lie Breeding, a singer/songwriter for the folk-rock band, Th e Breedings. Only a year into it, the two artists were forced to return back to Richmond Ky, because of fi nancial reasons.

A month after the move took place, Campbell was assaulted. Th e beating broke his jaw in two places, requiring reconstructive facial surgery. His music career was put on hold for almost sev-en years after the incident.

“I had to reconfi gure my plans for things,” he said. “So, I enrolled in EKU, and six months later I was accepted to the M.A. Program for English and Creative Writing.”

By the time he had graduated from the pro-gram, he received the award for best student writ-ing in a graduate course. Also, his short story “Virgil Walks When Prometheus Rises” won him the Madonna Marsden Award for best fi ction at the graduate level.

As a grad student, Campbell began his teach-ing career and carried an eight-course load as an adjunct professor between Eastern and Somerset.

He then applied to Ph.D. programs, one of which took him all the way to China to teach English as a second language.

Even after all of the success that followed from his academic years, such as landing a job at Bry-ant and Stratton College in Buff alo, N.Y. Camp-bell has faced some tragic events that continue to haunt him to this day.

Last year, Campbell lost nine of his good friends in a ten-month span. Th ough he was devastated, the sadness he felt helped drive him to write “Th e Streets,” which is the song that he chose to enter in to the Amplifi er contest.

“‘Th e Streets’ is me putting all of this togeth-er, questioning myself being refl ective,” Camp-bell said. “It’s a reaching out. A coming to terms of what it means to have compassion for others.”

For Campbell, music is more than just some-thing that you can listen to. He said he believes it is an art that you should be able to feel.

Campbell is engaged to singer and songwrit-er Beth Farmer. Th ey have performed together on various stages throughout Kentucky, one of these at the Jubilo Music Festival. In 2011, they released a collaborative EP titled Love Comes Around.

Feb. 9 is the last day for Campbell to receive amps on the Amplifi er website. He asks that ev-eryone from the Richmond area show support by going to the Grammy Amplifi er website and lis-ten to his song and share it with as many people as possible.

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to them with basically my business card and strong words. It was kind of going on a wing and a prayer.”

With the businesses lined up, Davis was able to focus on his main priority for the Starving Mon-key: customer service. For $5.99, Davis and his crew will deliver food from any of their affi liated restaurants to anywhere within Richmond city lim-its.

“It’s all about image,” Davis said. “We’re doing this the way customer service needs to be, the way it was intended to be. Th ere’s so much negative in the world, so this gives Richmond something posi-tive to grasp onto.”

Davis said this business is his way of giving back to a community that helped his family through such a diffi cult time.

“I’m not trying to become a millionaire with this,” Davis said. “I’m doing this to give back to my community. My main goal is to take care some of these horrid medical bills we have, because we have a lot with what we went through, but ulti-mately I want to sit down when I’m paying my res-taurants back and write a check to my church and

thank them for everything they’ve done for us. We didn’t cook for two months after the tragedy. Peo-ple fed us. How loving is that?”

Ultimately, Davis said he feels all the success and praise belongs to a higher power.

“It’s really weird how since I’ve placed this in God’s hands, it’s all come full circle,” Davis said. “It’s amazing unless you’ve experienced it. To be hon-est, I wasn’t as spiritual before I lost my baby. I can’t explain it other than I’m trying to do the right thing so much in my head to get to where my daughter’s at.”

With the business only days away from kicking off its services, Davis said he’s excited and optimis-tic for what’s to come.

“Let the community grow this thing,” Davis said. “Th at’s what’s so exciting for me and I want my family to share and watch how big it becomes right in front of our very eyes. It’s happening at such a rapid pace, and it could go in so many ways. Th e sky’s the limit, and I’m prepared. I know there are going to be hiccups in the road; there always are, but if I let God control every bit of this, it will work out fi ne.”

For more information, check out Th e Starv-ing Monkey’s website at www.thestarvingmonkey.com, like their Facebook page or give them a call at 859-420-7685.

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Lately, my gears have been grinding, and it’s not because of something that is in motion; it is because of something that has been stopped.

A new law that no longer allows individuals from un-locking their own hardware, and by extension, other peo-ples’ hardware went into eff ect on January 26.

But what is unlocking, and why should I care? Well, let’s say you want that pretty new iPhone, but you can only af-ford to pay for T-Mobile, StraightTalk, Cricket or other ser-vices. Before the 26, you could obtain an iPhone from eBay, Craigslist, AT&T or just a friend and unlock the device for use outside of AT&T’s network. Th is global standard has allowed for lower cost of hardware and open competition.

I’m singling out AT&T because it is the nation’s largest Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) carri-er. GSM hardware is interoperable, meaning you can use the device on a variety of networks because of the radio installed in the device. Th is is diff erent than the technol-ogy used by Sprint and Verizon, which essentially locks customer to its network, or in Sprint’s case, licensees of its network.

Th anks to the new revision to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if you unlock your device, you could be subject to a $200-$2500 fi ne. If you have an eBay or Craig-slist business based around unlocking devices, your risk is much higher.

A fi rst-time business off ender could be subject to up to a $500,000 fi ne and/or fi ve years imprisonment. After the fi rst off ense, the potential fi ne goes up to $1 million and/or 10 years imprisonment.

How will the government know that you have unlocked your device? Well, this part is still a bit murky. Potentially, when you take that precious new iPhone to T-Mobile for a new service, the company will run a check of the IMEI number, which is essentially the phones social security number.

If it turns up as a locked device from another carrier, T-Mobile could then alert AT&T, and you would be pros-ecuted.

Th e only issue I see with this scenario is T-Mobile is the entity that has everything to gain from your switch; whistle blowing would be crippling to business. In recent years, T-Mobile has been very open to customers bringing iPhones over to its network from AT&T.

Th e aspect really bothering me about the new law is cell phone companies already had protection against custom-ers leaving for other networks before their contract was up. Th e carriers call them Early-Termination Fees (ETFs).

Depending on the carrier, the price diff ers. Generally, an ETF costs $350 and lowers over time. If an individual were to buy a $200-$300 phone and wanted to leave the carrier, the customer would have to eat an ETF and pay $550-$650.

Normally, the cost covers the price of the subsidized hardware. If the customer doesn’t leave within the fi rst couple months of service, the carrier profi ts from the sale. However, the reason the carriers say they need this protec-tion is because of the way the market has been setup. Car-riers bank on the fact people will be paying subscription fees for two-year periods at a time.

Th us, insuring them a couple grand in the bank per sub-scriber.

If there were a fl uctuation in which people started opt-ing for the more aff ordable carriers because of long-term fi nancial gain, it would destroy the current model. Instead of adapting to the environment and allowing the market to play out, the carriers went to the government and asked for protection from their subscribers.

Give me a break.

Your Phone in a CellBy CHRIS BUNDYprogress@eku.edu

trivial as a relationship in the middle of a living hell, and it usually falls fl at every time. However Warm Bodies uses the romance between the two leads as a reason for hope in the zombie apocalypse since not just R but the other zombies be-gin to become human again as they remember what it’s like to experience emotions.

And that is where the movie shines in its story, even if the pacing suff ers from time to time focusing on the romantic side a little too much and not giving any explanation as to the

pseudo-science that commences. But it focuses mainly on them for the major-ity of the movie and all of the annoying characters or clichés were cut out early in the plot. Romance in general can be en-joyed only when and if the love interests are attractive in an emotional sense and this movie does this well enough.

Also having a good amount of ac-tion and come-dy cleverly spaced around the main plot makes the fi lm enjoyable for almost

anybody since it never goes too far or too long with any of its genres. Special mention has to go to Rob Corddry as the “dude” zombifi ed best friend, who is torn between his insa-tiable hunger and helping R in his trials.

While the story is pretty good for the most part, the actors do feel a bit awkward and forced at times and the cast doesn’t seem to fi t quite right. Th ere’s also a bit of inconsistency with how the zombies are portrayed as being both sentient and mindless at the same time which leads to some head scratch-ing moments that distract from the interesting plot.

Th e fi lm as a whole is defi nitely enjoyable from beginning to end and is probably the best story told in this light of emo-tional situation, and is defi nitely worth a watch.

Verdict: B

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“Th e love of the sport. Our teammates. Our fans,” Su-slowitz said. “I mean we’ve been a losing team ever since I got here three years ago, and I’ve pretty much played on losing teams my whole life. I’m just happy to be playing here. Th is team this year has been the best group of guys I’ve ever skated with. I love being on the ice with them, and I love being around them outside the game as well. Our fans that come out every home game and support us, that’s one of the biggest things. We’re still losing games and they’re still coming out, being rowdy up there and I love it.”

Th e fans are defi nitely an essential part of the experi-ence. Each of Eastern’s home games are fi lled with groups of reliable fans, ready to cheer or jeer at any moment’s no-tice.

“People around here don’t often get the chance to see hockey. A lot of people that come, it seems, are fi re ma-jors and they’re usually from the North and Eastern states where they have hockey, and they come to Kentucky and that’s mostly it for them,” Suslowitz said. “It’s almost be-come a sort of tradition, having all the fi re guys with their helmets up there every game.”

Gambrell said the lure of potential fi ghts attracts many people to their games as well. However, the team is actively trying to curb their more aggressive tendencies.

“We defi nitely used to fi ght a lot two years ago, but we’re really trying to get away from that some,” Gambrell said. “Defi nitely not the physicality, but we’re trying to get away from fi ghting because it’s really not allowed. Normally if there’s a fi ght the team will probably get about fi ve min-ute major penalty and then the player’s off the ice, won’t be able to play the next game. We’ve especially not wanted to fi ght whatsoever this year because we can’t aff ord to lose the players.”

Ultimately, despite all the hardships, hard work and de-feat, the game is still worth it to the players, the fans and Eastern.

“Th ere’s times when it gets frustrating, yeah, but we’re there to have fun,” Suslowitz said. “We love playing hockey. We get a chance to play collegiate hockey and a lot of peo-ple don’t get that chance.”

For more information, check out their website at www.colonelshockey.com or follow them on Twitter @ekuhock-ey.

Preparations for the next season are set to begin right away, and any interested athletes are encouraged to con-tact the team.

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“It was a great learning experience,” head coach Rob Oretel said. “One of our biggest focuses it to make the team more knowledgeable.”

Despite Eastern’s loss against Xavier, the Colonels were able to bounce back on Sat-urday to win both matches against the Uni-versity of the Cumberlands (0-3) and the University of Alabama at Huntsville (0-2).

One of the main things Oretel was fo-cused on was just getting some wins under the team’s belt, and they did just that. Th e Colonels won 12 out of 12 singles matches in straight sets with Jaunjo de la Llera, Lu-cas Smets and Florian Graskamp not drop-ping a single game during their matches.

Th e Colonels were also able to take six of six doubles matches on the day.

“Rest was defi nitely a concern when we only have nine men on the roster, but the result was satisfying” Oretel said.

Th e Colonels plan to take on Wright State at home on Friday. Oretel believes it will be a great way to see how the men have progressed throughout the week.

“I would consider Wright State being on the same level as Xavier,” Oretel said. “It will be a great way to see what we have worked well at and what we still need to fo-cus on for future matches.”

Th e match is scheduled for 10 a.m., Sat-urday, at home.

Eastern took the lead in the second half, the Redhawks managed to cut the lead to one on a seven-point run. Eastern coun-tered with an 11-2 run of its own to regain the lead, which the team kept for the rest of the game.

Southeast Missouri managed to get within fi ve points of the Colonels with less than a minute left in the game, but four straight free throws for Eastern pushed the Colonels ahead; the Redhawks couldn’t catch up.

Eastern’s defense had a severe impact on Southeast Missouri’s shooting percent-age. Th e Redhawks ended the game a with weaker second half at 36 percent.

Sophomore Eric Stutz had 12 points, a team-high 11 rebounds and a team-high seven blocks, which gave him his fi rst ca-reer double-double.

Eastern’s overall shooting game out-classed the Redhawks’. Th e Colonels shot 53 percent overall and 47 percent at the 3-point arc. Southeast Missouri shot 47 percent overall and only 25 percent from 3-point range.

Despite eff orts from Stutz, the Red-hawks still had two more rebounds than Eastern. Eastern had 29, and Southeast Missouri had 31.

Junior Glenn Cosey continued his im-pressive performance by scoring a team-high 21 points and contributing four as-sists. He went nine for 10 on free throws and had four 3-pointers.

Eastern had two other standout perfor-mances. Senior Mike DiNunno scored 18 points and had three assists. Junior Mar-cus Lewis had ten points and a dunk off an alley-oop, which made it onto SportsCen-ter’s top 10 plays of the day.

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a time of 5:07.64.Th e Colonels had a strong showing

in some of the shorter races. Freshman Tashuana Yapchung placed third in the women’s 400 meters with a time of 58.98 and fourth in the fi nal of the women’s 55 meter dash with a time of 7.29.

Th e men’s side had many of its key runners taking the week off , so it was up to the rest of the team to try and make up for their absence.

Eastern had two distance runners who had standout performances. Senior Yosi Goasdoue placed second in the men’s 3,000 meters with a time of 8:36.35, and freshman Amos Kosgey placed third in the men’s mile with a time of 4:18.68.

Junior Sean Vandermosten and senior

Anthony Eason both competed in the men’s 800 meters. Vandermosten placed third with a time of 1:56.70, and Eason placed fourth with a time of 1:57.57.

Eastern’s jumpers had some victo-ries, as well. Sophomores Tanner Kend-all and Zack Hill tied for second place in the men’s high jump with jumps of 1.98 meters.

Top runners such as senior Soufi ane Bouchikhi, junior Wade Meddles and sophomore Th ijs Nijhuis didn’t compete last weekend, but they trained at home in preparation for their next meet.

Th e team will split up this weekend for two events on separate sides of the coun-try. Some runners will be competing at the Washington Husky Invitational in Se-attle while the majority of the team will compete in the Indiana University Hoo-sier Hills Open in Bloomington, Ind., on Feb. 8.

with the teams getting within two points of each other. In a fl urry of missed shots by the Colonels, including a lay-up and two 3-pointers, Tennessee-Martin kept the lead.

Th is game marked junior Glenn Cosey’s return from a six-game break after he suf-fered an injury, and he didn’t take a minute of the game for granted. Th e guard had a team-high 20 points and contributed four assists. His accuracy was on the low side after he shot seven of 18 from the fi eld and six of 14 from the 3-point range.

Senior Mike DiNunno also was a stand-out for the Colonels after he had team-

high seven assists and fi ve steals. His main weakness, similar to Cosey, was his shot percentage. He made fi ve of 18 shots, three of 13 from the 3-point arc.

Th e Colonels inaccurate shooting was a huge hindrance for the team. Th ey shot 23 of 65 from the fi eld and 12 of 38 from be-hind the 3-point arc.

Sophomore Corey Walden was the most accurate Colonel at the free throw line with 2 for 2.

Overall, the Skyhawks outshot and outrebounded Eastern, which is what gave Tennessee-Martin the edge to win. The Colonels went 7-of-13 in successful free throws and were out-rebounded by 25.

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behind with only 26 percent.Th e second half was even better for the

Colonels than the fi rst. Th ey kept scor-ing, barely allowing the Pioneers to get any points.

With three minutes left in the game, Eastern was leading by 70 points.

After two more points were added to the scoreboard, the Colonels didn’t net another basket for the remainder of the game.

Th e Pioneers managed to get a few more shots in, but there was no point by then. Th e game ended with Eastern at the top,

97-31.Sophomore, Eric Stutz continued his

defensive dominance from earlier games. He had seven rebounds and seven steals.

Th e game was a chance for some of the less experienced Colonels to get some play-ing time.

“I was looking to get some freshmen in-volved,” Stenzel said. “I scored enough to-night, so I was just trying to get everyone else involved.”

Senior Mike DiNunno sat out because of an injury.

The Colonels return this Saturday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. against rival More-head State University for a conference re-match.

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Even traveling doesn’t stop the Lady Colonels from winning. Eastern’s women’s basketball team traveled Sat-urday to Cape Girardeau, Mo. to face the Southeast Mis-souri State University Redhawks and came back with an-other win, 53-49.

This win makes it the seventh out of their last 10 games to be in the win column.

The Lady Colonels had big performances from Alex Jones and Marie Carpenter to help them secure a road conference win. Senior Alex Jones had another double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds.

Junior Guard Marie Carpenter led the team with 15 points in just 14 minutes of action. In the first half, Car-penter was called for two quick fouls and only played three minutes.

However, Carpenter turned it on in the second half and made sure the Colonels wouldn’t lose.

“I knew when I got back into the game in the second half, I needed to play to the best of my ability, and give them a spark,” Carpenter said.

Carpenter scored all of her 15 points in the second half with two 3-pointers and hitting seven of eight free throws.

Since Carpenter’s return from a broken hand injury earlier in the year, she’s helped spark the Lady Colonels and lift the team’s energy.

“Its always great to have her back, it took her a couple games to get back into it but she is tenacious and hard working,” senior guard Raechele Gray said. “She’s our best defender also so it’s great having her back.”

The Nashville, Tenn. native Carpenter attributed her comeback to getting extra shots in the gym after practice.

“I’ve been getting back into it slowly but surely,” Car-penter said.

Freshman Miranda Maples gave the Lady Colonels a lift off the bench late in the game after hitting a three to give Eastern a two-point lead with three minutes to go. Finally, an offensive rebound led Eastern to the win.

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The Lady Colonels (13-8, 7-3 OVC) fin-ished another road weekend on a low note after falling to the University of Tennessee at Martin Skyhawks 60-75 on Feb. 4.

The Lady Colonels led most of the first half, but a run in the final four minutes pushed the Skyhawks (11-13, 6-4 OVC) ahead by seven at the half.

Eastern never got closer than three the rest of the way and ended up falling to the preseason OVC favorite.

Junior Guard Marie Carpenter led the Lady Colonels again in scoring with 17 off of five 3-pointers, and Senior Alex Jones con-tributed 15 points and 16 rebounds. Eastern was forced into 23 turnovers against the Sky-hawks, which was a big reason for the loss.

“Th ose turnovers came from us being impa-tient,” senior Raechele Gray said. “We needed to shoot out of it. I know you don’t make them all, but sometimes that’s the best option.”

The Lady Colonels struggled offensive-ly, shooting 30 percent during the first half. Gray said she thinks that is one of the rea-sons for the loss.

“We were a little stagnant offensively,” Gray said. “We need to relax and play our game.”

Tennessee-Martin also holds the top two scorers in the OVC. Jasmine Newsome and Heather Butler are one and two, respectively, in the OVC in scoring.

Eastern entered the game as the top de-fense in the OVC and held the Skyhawks, the best shooing team in the OVC, to just 22 of 58 from the field.

“We try to defend the team according to personnel,” Carpenter said. “We know the players that try to penetrate, the shooters, it all.”

Gray also said she considered the Lady Colonel’s defense to be important.

“Defense wins championships,” Gray said. “We pride ourselves in defense. Our ‘d’ is what helps us on the offensive end as well.”

Eastern is currently ranked third in the OVC. The Lady Colonels will attempt to keep this rank on the road against Morehead State Feb. 9 and face in-state rival Lady Ea-gles.

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Sophomore Ann Eason was the highlight for the women’s team of the meet. She won the women’s 800 meters race with a personal-best time of 2:13.53.

Sophomore Corey Walden had 11 points and four steals against Crowley’s Ridge College on Tuesday. Jeff Neubauer became Eastern’s second winningest coach with the team’s win.

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Th e Eastern Kentucky University men’s tennis team took charge this past weekend by winning two out of three matches, which brings their overall record to 2-3. With a rough start to the season, the Colonels are starting to come back and pull out some suc-cess.

Friday came as a struggle, losing to Xavier University (4-1) 7-0. Xavier won fi ve out of six singles matches in straight sets. Lucas Smets, a freshman from Bruxelles, Bel-gium, took the No. 2 singles match it to the third set but fell to his opponent 6-4.

Determination and drive helped Eastern’s track and fi eld team fi nd success at the Middle Tennessee State University Invitational on Feb. 2. Th is win came even without some of the men’s team top runners.

Th e star of the invitational was sophomore Ann Eason with winning the women’s 800 me-ters race. Eason continued her streak of success in distance running with a time of 2:13.53 in the race. Her closest competitor was a senior from Middle Tennessee who placed second with a time of 2:17.67. She competed against 24 other runners.

“Th e meet was a workout for me,” Eason said.

“It wasn’t anything too high pressure or anything like that. I just went there to race and work on my speed a little bit.”

Head coach Rick Erdmann said making Ea-son, who is normally a distance runner, run shorter distances would help round her out to be a better distance runner.

Eason was not the only runner to fi nd suc-cess in the women’s 800 meters race; freshman Julie Mathisen and sophomore Shannon Ruther-ford both placed in the top 10. Mathisen earned fourth place with a time of 2:19.27, and Ruther-ford placed seventh with a time of 2:21.58.

Also, freshman Viivi Rantanen placed fourth out of 25 runners in the women’s mile race with

Women’s tennis team finds its groove with win against Miami University

Colonels fall to Tennessee-Martin despite standout play

Eastern cruises after rough start against SEMO

Men’s tennis scores its first home winagainst University of the Cumberlands

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Despite top eff orts from key players, Eastern’s men’s basketball team couldn’t hold off host University of Tennessee at Martin Skyhawks on Jan. 31. Th e Colo-nels lost the game 65-72.

Eastern was neck and neck with the Skyhawks for the majority of the game. Th e score was tied nine times, and the lead changed 11 times. Th e teams were tied 35-35 at the end of the fi rst half.

Th e second half was equally as in-tense However, the Skyhawks managed to push ahead in the last two minutes

“That’s one of my strenghts. I run everywhere. The longer the point, the better it is for me.”

Amandine FaouziSophomore

Th e fi rst non-OVC game in nine games for Eastern’s men’s basketball team had a rough start with a winning end re-sult over the Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks 81-72 on Feb. 2.

Th e game started poorly for the Colo-nels. Th e Redhawks dominated the fi rst half by shooting 60 percent and out-re-bounding Eastern by seven. Th e half end-ed with the teams close, but Southeast Missouri had the narrow lead 40-38.

During the second half, the Colonel defense fi nally came out to play. After

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With its win against the University of the Cumberlands, the men’s tennis team improved its record to 2-3. The team faces Wright State on Feb. 8 at home.

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T E N N I S

Eason continues her trailblazing ways, sets her personal best in 800 meters

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Colonels blow past Crowley’s Ridge 97-31

A two-game losing streak ceased after Eastern’s women’s tennis team won 5-2 against the Miami University Redhawks on Feb. 2. The Colonels (3-2) won five of the six singles matches.

The start of the match for the Colonels was rocky after the Red-hawks (2-4) earned the doubles point.

Sophomore Melis-sa Gerritsen and junior Saioa Oscoz clinched the No. 1 doubles match 8-5.

The other two dou-bles matches didn’t go well for the Colonels. Sophomore Kristina Labeja and junior Milena Poffo dropped the No. 2 doubles match 8-1, and sopho-more Amandine Faouzi and junior Car-men Rodriguez lost the No. 3 doubles match 8-5.

Eastern managed to pull ahead in the singles matches with Faouzi winning the No. 1 match 7-5, 6-0. After a long first set, Faouzi said she used her stamina to

get the edge on her opponent. “I started bad,” Faouzi said. “I was 3-0

down. I started to be more competitive. I ran everywhere, found better angles. She got more and more tired. By the time we got to 6-0, she couldn’t move anymore. I beat her with my physical stamina.”

Faouzi said she doesn’t have the strength to out hit some of her oppo-

nents, so she tries to tire them out.

“That’s one of my strengths,” Faouzi said. “I run everywhere. The longer the points, the better it is for me.”

Gerritsen was the only Colonel to lose a singles match. She lost the No. 2 match 6-2, 6-2. Labeja won the No. 3 match in straight sets 6-1, 6-3.

The No. 4 and No. 5 matches both went into three sets. Oscoz came back after losing her first set to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the No. 4 match. Sopho-more Marcela Jimenez dropped her sec-ond set but still managed to pull the win in the No. 6 match 6-4, 1-6, 6-4.

The Colonels return home 9 a.m. Feb. 10 to face Butler University.

Th e men’s basketball team steamrolled over non-conference opponent Crowley’s Ridge College Pioneers with a 97-31 win.

Sophomore Robbie Stenzel was the star of the night after scoring a team-high and career high 14 points.

Stenzel had the best-shot accuracy for the Colonels. He shot fi ve of six from the fi eld, three of which were 3-pointers. He also contributed three assists and three steals.

“I’m really pleased at how our team handled this challenge,” head coach Jeff Neubau-er said. “Our focus was guarding the ball one-on-one. We did a much better job guard-ing the ball tonight and not putting our teammates in ‘help’ situations.”

Th e game started off even with both teams tied at 3-3, but Eastern used runs to blast its lead off and they never looked back.

Eastern’s fi rst run had the team scoring 14 unanswered points. Th e Pioneers scored fi ve baskets, which prompted the Colonels to go on a 23-4 run.

Eastern powered on for the rest of the fi rst half. Finally, after an impressive windmill dunk by junior Marcus Lewis and high scoring eff ort by the team, the Colonels had a massive lead 52-16.

Eastern shot an impressive 60 percent in the fi rst half, while Crowley’s Ridge lagged

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