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By Elizabeth Edwards Editor-in-Chief
While students may have been tuning into the Democratic Na-tional Convention this week, an Eastern student and graduate ex-perienced President Bill Clinton’s speech first-hand and met with po-litical leaders across the country.
Recent graduate Sarah Bigler went to the convention in Char-lotte, N.C., arriving on Saturday, as a delegate for 15th Congressio-nal district.
While Clare Smith, a senior history major, took part in the Washington Center’s internship program and arrived in Charlotte on Aug. 25, a week before the convention.
The Democ r a t i c Na t i on -al Convention took place Tues-day through Thursday with speak-ers such as Bill Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama.
Bigler was elected during the primary in March when she was a student at Eastern.
Originally, Bigler said she be-lieved she was appointed as dele-gate and did not realize it was an elected position.
She remembers watching the election ticker at home during the Coles County election and said she will never forget the feeling
when she realized she won. During Clinton’s speech, Big-
ler sat fourth row right next to her fellow Illinois delegates and de-scribed his speech as phenomenal and awe-inspiring.
She also saw the teleprompter and could tell he was ad-libbing during his speech. He would make jokes and state statistics without even using the teleprompter, Big-ler said.
“It felt like (Clinton) was speak-ing to every individual,” she said.
His speech reminded Bigler why she wanted to stay in poli-tics and reminded her of her first political memory—the election of Clinton in 1996 against Dole.
Like Bigler, Smith experienced Clinton’s speech and also de-scribed his speech as inspiring.
“Clinton is a reminder of a bet-ter time and represents the good years,” she said. “He reminds dem-ocrats that things will get better.”
Smith said Clinton’s speech em-phasized how no one could fix the economy in only four years.
Political science professor An-drew McNitt said republican and democratic conventions give a good indication of a candidate’s platform for the election and who will be the key political players in the election.
Originally, conventions were used to pick a candidate, but have
not been used to select a candidate for 20 or 30 years.
The main purposes of conven-tions now are to create unity in the party, introduce the candi-date and energize the party, Mc-Nitt said.
Bigler said throughout the Democratic National Convention, the delegates were energized and ready for the upcoming election.
In the hallways of the conven-tion building, Bigler said delegates greeted each other and stopped to talk to one another about politics.
“It feels like a big community of friends and family,” Bigler said. “We all share the same core beliefs.”
So far, Bigler sat through the First Lady’s speech and Bill Clin-ton’s speech, and will be at Presi-
dent Obama’s speech. Unfor tunate ly, Smith sa id
she was not able to see Michelle Obama’s speech, but she plans to see the president’s speech.
In order to see the president’s speech, Smith said she had go through many obstacles because she had a community pass to see him at the Bank America Stadi-um, but the speech was moved to Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte.
The Time Warner Cable Are-na does not have as may seats as the Bank America Stadium, which caused Smith to lose her seat, but luckily the coordinator at the Washington Center helped her get a pass.
By Rachel Rodgers News Editor
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a series of articles covering the 12 main points negoti-ated for the UPI 2012-2016 faculty contract.
A tentative four-year faculty contract was reached in July, months earlier compared to the previous contract, with summer pay-rate chang-es on the horizon among other agreements.
Members of Eastern’s chapter of the Univer-sity Professionals of Illinois Local 4100 negoti-ated with administrators during the summer us-ing a different bargaining method than the tra-ditional model.
During an informational session on the tenta-tive agreement Thursday, UPI Lead Negotiator Grant Sterling, a philosophy professor, described the new interest-based bargaining as when the two contracting teams sit down and try to reach a consensus of mutual gain instead of just focus-ing on one side’s interests.
UPI President Ann Fritz, a biology professor, said the new interest-based bargaining technique garnered fruitful dialogue that might not have otherwise occurred in traditional bargaining.
“The atmosphere was discussion-intensive, and we focused on ways to meet our common interests,” she said.
Fritz said changing the summer class structure served as the largest new task in the contract.
The agreement states that faculty will be paid an equal rate for all summer classes. Faculty would receive 78 percent of his or her month-ly salary for the first three years of the contract, and that amount would increase to 80 percent in the fourth year.
Sterling said university officials calculated that a 76-77 percent rate would cause the universi-ty to break even, so the pay rate is a slight in-crease overall.
Normally, a faculty member’s pay rate would depend on what type of class taught, such as on-line or through the School of Continuing Edu-cation. The pay rate also varied, as some facul-ty would receive 100-percent pay whereas others would receive the “overload” rate, which is less than a faculty member’s standard pay rate.
“The upshot is that the figure would be equal-ly applied to everyone teaching summer cours-es,” Fritz said.
With the equal rate, faculty receiving 100-percent pay would face a decrease and those receiving overload pay would see an increase.
Jennifer Stringfellow and Christina Edmonds-Behrend, both assistant professors of special ed-ucation, said they came to the informational ses-sion to receive more clarification on the summer changes.
“Before making a decision on what to think about the changes, I think we need to pull more faculty in and collaborate,” Edmonds-Behrend said, adding that both she and Stringfellow teach summer courses.
In addition to the pay-rate change, Sterling said all classes will be offered to faculty accord-ing to the department’s summer rotation list, meaning senior faculty would be hired over low-er-paid faculty and adjuncts.
However, he added that a faculty member who created or significantly revised a course would have priority to teach the course for the first two years.
Standing at attention
SETH SCHROEDER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSZach Rappe, a sophomore political science major, acts as company guidon for ROTC cadets during a formation drill Thursday in the green space between Klehm Hall and the Life Science building. Rappe said he enjoys the position because he gets to carry a flag representing the entire company.
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D U B C LU B V E T E R A N
By Jaime Lopez
Verge Editor
During the day, Matt Black wears a suit
and tie and instructs a band class full of
teenagers at Marian Catholic High School in
Chicago Heights, Ill.
At night, Black, an Eastern graduate who
majored in music, leaves the dress attire and
textbooks behind, switching them for a pair
of giant headphones and less formal wear.
Black said he then heads into nightclubs
to enliven listeners with his blend of dub-
step, which he sewed together with the use
of a computer that weaves together a collec-
tion of beats and sounds.
He said he took an interest in the genre—
a genre that he used to mock, calling it a
bunch of noise—while looking for a way to
combine a love of computers and music dur-
ing his first year of college.
“It’s kind of ironic that I ended up work-
ing with this kind of music, after making
fun of it for so long,” Black said. “I’ve ex-
panded my idea of what music is.
While attending Eastern, he said music
majors approached him and told him they
did not consider dubstep real music, a crit-
icism that has plagued the genre since it
picked up and went mainstream.
“My response to that was usually ‘I spend
more time composing a song than you spend
practicing for a concert.’”
He said that remark usually earned him
respect from his classmates.
But Black has not been deterred by the
criticism about the music he produces.
At Friends & Co., the Charleston bar that
hosts Dubclub, he found an audience among
people who “enjoyed the genre.”
“You’re not just music in the background
there.”At this point in his career, Black said he’s
comfortable with his body of work.
“That’s something that takes a while,” he
said. Black described the process of making music
through a computer and keyboards as time-con-
suming, not easy, but acknowledged that some
of the criticism the genre receives is partly true.
Grad blurs lines between electronic, classical music
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“School House Rock” is the theme for this year’s Residents on Campus Festival that will take place from Sept. 17 through Sept. 21.
Amanda Krch, the RHA vice president, said this year they are switching some things up.
Krch said one of the things that has been changed for the 2012 is the annual boat race.
Every year, the different res-idence halls build a boat out of duct tape and cardboard. In the past, boats just crossed the lake once.
Krch said this year the race will be a relay race. The boats will launch from one side, have
to make it to the other side and back, then travel to the other side again.
Another aspect that will be changed is the closing program.
“One of the most excit ing things is that our closing program is a picnic, instead of a dance,” Krch said.
The scavenger hunt will also be different. In previous hunts, there were clues to where each object was hidden. Krch said this year the objects will have clues as to where other objects are, so stu-dents have to find the objects to find others.
Krch said she was excited to get dining involved in more of the Roc Fest events by adding the picnic.
She added that there will also be different events throughout the week of ROC Fest.
The RHA also discussed dele-gates to the Great Lakes Affiliate of College and University Resi-dence Halls conference.
Calla Summers, the nation-al communications coordinator, said the delegates will represent Eastern at the conference and present bids for Eastern students to win Student of the Year.
The delegates are also respon-sible for creating a roll call to in-troduce themselves at the con-ference, as well as a banner that goes with the theme of the con-ference.
The RHA meets at 5 p.m. Thursday in a different residence hall each week.
By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
Every year, the Student Rec-reation Center has a cup tourna-ment between sororities, frater-nities and residence halls to see who can accumulate the most points through intramural activ-ities.
While this is not a new fea-ture to campus, what is new is the contests that now count for points.
There are three divisions, each of which has a separate winner.
The winner gets a trophy as well as an “intramural champion-ship” T-shirt.
Kevin Linker, who oversees the whole intramural program, de-cides which ports are offered by the program and the residence hall cup came first as “a way to generate competition.”
Linker said he chooses the sports based on the season as well as what he thinks will be popu-lar.
“Traditional sports are always the best bet, but it also depends on popularity,” Linker said. “The three most important things safe-ty, space and time, those play a big role in what we can do.”
Some of the most popular sports the department offers are basketball, flag football and vol-leyball.
Last year, there were 91 teams playing flag football when the maximum amount of teams the
rec can accommodate is 97. Volleyball is the most popular
sport for women and Linker said last year was the first time that the women’s leagues have had less than or the same amount of teams as the men’s leagues
One thing that is new this year was the Sept. 5 checkers tourna-ment, which counted for points as well.
At press time, Linker had 38 participants sign up.
“Mostly we deal with physi-cal activities, but every once in a while we like to throw something in that makes people think,” Linker said.
Typically co-ed sports are not for points as it is hard to divide them between teams.
Registration for each sport begins a week before the dead-line, something Linker said has changed over the years.
“We used to give them more than a week, but students do not sign up until the last minute,” Linker said. “If they come in a day late and we still have spots we will sign them up, if not we put them on a waiting list.”
At the time of the interview, Linker was collecting registra-tion for dodgeball, something he and his team began doing prior the movie released in 2004, but Linker said gained popularity af-ter the movie. Because it is co-ed it does not count for cup points.
The Rec Center offers 13 in-tramural sports and nine spe-
cial events for the fall semester, a complete listing can be found at its website.
Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812
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ROC Fest events
• Boat Race — 5:30 p.m. Mon-day, Sept. 17, at Campus Pond
• Bingo — 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, in Lawson Hall basement
• Obstacle Course — 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, in South Quad
• Scavenger Hunt — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, campus-wide
• Closing Picnic — 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in South Quad
In the feature photo, “Everybody do your share” in the Sept. 6 edition of The Daily Eastern News, the two students in the photo were mis-identified. The News regrets this error.
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By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor
The Information Technology Ser-vices department implemented the Desire2Learn program that will even-tually replace WebCT, the previously used learning program.
Julie Lockett, the director of In-structional Technology Services, said the new system was necessary after Blackboard bought WebCT and start-ed phasing it out.
“At the end of the semester, We-bCT will no longer exist,” Lockett said.
Lockett said this program has many of the same features as WebCT, but it also has other features that professors and students requested.
The program allows professors to teach entire courses or post materials online, similar to the WebCT.
Lockett said a committee devel-oped a request for proposal to help narrow down the options for poten-tial systems.
“They got input from faculty about features they would like to see in a learning management system,” Lock-ett said.
After the request for proposal was sent out, companies with systems that met the requested features brought their system to campus for a demon-stration.
Lockett said the committee selected Desire2Learn because it met most of the requests by faculty and staff.
Lockett said some of the requested features were basic tools most systems have, like content modules, quizzes and discussion. She said Desire2Learn had this plus electronic portfolios and an object-learning repository, which is a system that allows easy sharing of learning materials.
“It is very user-friendly and intui-tive,” Lockett said.
Janel Moore, an Information Tech-nology Services worker, said WebCT has been the main system on Eastern’s campus for years and people were get-ting tired of it.
“(Desire2Learn) is newer, more up-dated, so there should be less frustra-tions for everybody,” Moore said.
Moore said she thinks this system will be more efficient on campus be-cause it is newer and should be more responsive.
Moore said something she did not like about the old system was the time it took to get to different places.
“It got old to people, lots of clicks to get to places and do things,” Moore said. “This should be better about that because it is designed for easier use.”
Lockett said both systems are be-ing offered this semester so students and faculty can get used to the pro-graming.
“It is offered so we can phase in the new system,” Lockett said. “Also so faculty who are ready to use the new system can learn and others can stay to WebCT.”
Lockett said they always have this transition phase whenever they change programs.
Lockett said the content on current WebCT accounts will be transferred over to allow faculty to use them in-stead of making new ones.
Moore said the system is still being built upon.
“We are working this semester to bring in the pieces and parts,” Moore said. “If it is not there yet, we are working on it.”
Lockett said the change is going smoothly.
“We are still working on the pro-cess of migrating the content over, but those who have used their con-tent have had very few issues,” Lock-ett said.
Lockett said they will continue to work on the system.
“There might be minor issues here and there that we might need to make some changes to get it to work the way we want it too,” Lockett said.
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812
Desire2Learn takes over WebCT at semester’s endINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
By Tim Deters Features Editor
The Tarble Arts Center is hosting an exhibit outlining the changing role of women in art since the late 19th century.
The Skirting Convention Exhibit looks into the lives of Illinois wom-en and their artworks between the Civil War and World War I and the growing presence women held in art.
“It’s an opportunity to talk about how the opportunities for women to study art and to work as artists changed over that century of time,” said Kristan McKinsey, the vice president of collections and exhib-
its at Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria.
The Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences organized the exhibit.
During the Civil War and for sev-eral decades after the war, McKinsey said women had few opportunities to practice art.
“Society did not always accept that; women were supposed to be wives and stay home,” she said. “Some of the women, especially in the earlier days, had to give up be-ing artists, any dream of having a career in art when they got mar-ried.”
Even if women were able to get into art schools, they contributions to art would normally go unno-
ticed.“Many of these women had not
been remembered since their death because they had not made a na-tional reputation that they were quite talented,” McKinsey said.
However, as World War I called men to the frontlines, art schools and exhibition halls began to allow women to fill their classes and halls, McKinsey said.
“When men go off to war, an art school doesn’t want to close their doors and go broke because they have no admission or tuition pay-ments, so they start to let women in,” she said.
The Skirting Convention Exhib-it spans various styles of art, includ-
ing impressionism, surrealism and abstraction, as well as various media of art, like paintings, drawing and prints.
The artworks were collected by Channy Lyons, a Peoria-based au-thor and editor, who has collected the artworks from all over Illinois.
“This relates to long-going proj-ect she had,” McKinsey said. “She’s identified over 500 women artists working in that time period in Il-linois. This is just a sampling of those,” she said.
The exhibit is on display until Sept. 16, and admission is free.
Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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By Stephanie Markham Staff Reporter
The Council of Academic Affairs met on Thursday to approve a Histo-ry of Cinema course and make it a re-quirement for the Film Studies minor.
Robin Murray, the film studies mi-nor coordinator, and Chris Mitch-ell, the professor of theater arts, spoke about adding the course and the im-portance of making it a requirement for the minor. Both requests were unanimously approved.
Murray expressed the importance of the History of Cinema class.
“We’re really excited about this course,” Murray said. “It will be add-ing to what we think is a gap in art history general education classes.”
Murray explained that the new class would be giving students an overview of the history of film rather than the “filming of history” which is taught in another course.
“With that foundation, they would do better in our courses because they’d have a background of the films we show,” Murray said.
Before the class becomes a “regu-lar feature,” it has to be “tried out” for a semester to make sure it works and accomplished the goals and fill the gaps it was created to.
The council approved this request by approving the class and changes to the minor.
“We have clearance to test drive it in the spring,” Mitchell said
Additionally, the council ap-proved appointments to the Honors Council and John Stimac, dean of the Honors College, went over the 2011-2012 Honors College Annu-al Report.
Stimac said many students are discouraged from applying and joining the Honors College because they believe it to be too difficult for them.
“There are a lways some stu-dents who are honors caliber but aren’t in the program. They think they will have harder work or more work,” Stimac said. “The challenge is to convince entering freshman and transfer students to take on the Hon-ors College.”
Stimac talked about how next year’s annual report will be more student fo-cused as opposed to this year’s, which he believed to be more data focused.
Stimac said CAA could possibly add an internship course for honors students.
In other business, Lora Green, an academic adviser, was approved to continue to represent the CAA for the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee.
After continued correspondence with the Lumpkin College of Busi-ness, the council made an executive action that allows two elective music classes, Introduction to Music Tech-nology and Music Technology II, count toward the entrepreneurship minor.
CAA will meet again at 3 p.m. on Sept. 20 in Booth Library Room 4440.
Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812
CAA approves cinema class
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Exhibit features Illinois women artists
Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior Mike Hamer, an art major, uses a MIG welder in Doudna on Wednesday to create a piece of art. Hamer is planning to create a series of art pieces throughout the semester.
Weld it up
Every time I log into Facebook, I instantly get depressed.
No, not because of my friend count or the number of likes one of my statuses receives, but because it looks as if everyone around me leads a much more interesting life.
As each new status piles onto the other, I grow weary sitting in front of the monitor that I need to do more with my life.
People post hundreds of pictures of them-selves surfing on a beach in California or horse-back riding into a sunset, while the most excit-ing picture in my photo gallery features me eat-ing a churro. (Kidding, totally not kidding.)
Then there are the statuses: “Sitting on a beach in Cabo enjoying the hot sun! Eating in a café in Paris.”
Really? That’s cool. I’m sitting in my dark room, reading about everything you’re doing, curling my fists because there is a lack of action in my life.
Those painful 20 minutes I spend on Face-book wanting to pull my computer from the wall so I can slam it onto the floor seem like an eternity when I’m learning about the adven-tures everyone else is having.
I’m not jealous about the exciting trips my friends take to other countries—OK, just a lit-tle jealous—I’m worried that everyone else has moved forward, leaving me behind to witness their triumphs.
And after growling and grumbling for 20 minutes, I remind myself that my daily life, though it consists of reading and watching movies and doing homework, isn’t half bad, and that comparing the two different lives is like comparing apples and oranges.
There are 365 days in the year; not everyone can journey to a strange country once a month or go hang gliding once a week, unless they happen to afford it.
I know I can’t be the only one left with a feeling of inferiority after looking through Facebook and learning about the exciting things everyone else is up to.
You feel like you’re at a standstill, waiting for something exciting to happen that will pull you out of the rut.
Who knows, those people posting pictures about the highpoints in their lives may have the same reaction you have when they find out someone else is doing something adventurous.
Those pictures you see of people climbing the tallest mountains on Earth, shaking hands with the president (I have a friend who shook Barack Obama’s hand on his birthday), or jamming out at a concert don’t make your life any less exciting.
Don’t sell yourself short; take time to appre-ciate the things in your life.
Remember, just because something super ex-citing isn’t happening to you right now, that doesn’t mean it won’t happen soon.
Jaime Lopez is a sophomore journalism major. He can be reached 581-2812 or
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It’s Friday. Your homework is done and the sun goes down.
You better not be in your room watch-ing Netflix.
The key element to college is breaking away from home and being among thou-sands of people in your age group. It’s time to socialize.
The choice is yours — dance the night away, flirt, have some adult beverages, whatever you choose. It’s one of the best ways to leave all of your stress behind.
The unspoken component of life at East-ern in the academic setting is the par-ty scene. It’s almost taboo. You’ll never see a school promoting parties on their bro-chures, but you can expect to hear whis-pers about nighttime activities as the week-end draws closer. And if you don’t, you’ll hear plenty anyway on Friday and Saturday nights, whether you like it or not.
You’ve got to change the pace. Class, meetings, practice, homework, eat and sleep. If those are the only factors in your daily college life, I wholeheartedly encour-
age you to enroll at The University of Phoe-nix, because there’s no point in changing lo-cations unless you plan to become social.
I love this school because the students here are very social, generally kind and know how to have a blast.
All you need to do is get a group of good friends and set out.
If you’re new here, that’s OK. In fact, that’s the best situation possible.
It’s time to set out on a new adventure.Get fresh, throw on your best clothes
and take a stroll on the town. You’ll hear music and see open doors. Kids in this town will give you an old fashioned invite
by hollering at you to join them from the sidewalk. If they don’t look like creeps, se-rial killers or meth-heads, go ahead and give it a shot.
That’s when you build a group of go-to people to hit up and hang with. It can get boring at times, and if you feel like spend-ing some quality time during the week, you can earn workout buddies, dinner dates, study partners, you name it.
Seeing the advantages yet?College is about connections. Period.Get all the good grades you want. A 4.0
won’t get you to the top of any career lad-der unless you are an entrepreneur.
It’s about who you know.Socializing is healthy. Don’t waste the
best years of your life being shy or setting yourself apart.
Tonight could be the best night of your life. All you have to do is get out there.
Joshua Bryant is a senior journalism ma-jor. He can be reached at 581-2812 or
Joshua Bryant
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COLUMN
Eastern’s enrollment is down. It’s down and it’s been decreasing for the past several years.
In Thursday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News, we reported on a 761 student decrease since last year. We also discussed in Monday’s edition how fewer students can mean big trouble for the university’s financial situation.
Luckily, officials at Eastern have been work-ing hard to reverse this trend. And while they are going up against a trying situation largely out of their control, we think their efforts are forming solutions with noticeable effects.
One newly implemented tactic was the Summer Institute. This program brought in 52 students with high test scores but seemed to lack academic motivation and allowed them to live and study at Eastern during the summer.
These students normally would have been denied by Eastern, but instead, 49 succeeded at the program and 46 ended up enrolling at Eastern as freshmen.
We at The News think highly of this program. Not only is it great to see peo-ple earn a second chance at their academ-ic future but the program successfully brought a sizeable chunk of new students to our community.
Also newly implemented are the Pan-ther Promise Scholarship and Commit-ment to Excellence merit scholarship.
Incoming students qualifying for the Pan-ther Promise Scholarship had to have an annu-al household income between $33,000 and $63,000 and could be awarded up to $2,500.
The scholarship is aimed at assisting middle-income families. This is a difficult economic environment for almost every-one, and since lower-income families often qualify for larger amounts of government financial aid, it’s good to see Eastern pay-ing attention to other groups who may be struggling with the cost of college.
The 384 students who accepted this scholarship this year may have not been able to attend Eastern without it.
The Commitment to Excellence mer-it scholarship is awarded to students for aca-demic success. We are frankly surprised that this is new to Eastern. Nearly every other public Illinois university has a merit schol-arship, and in previous years this has given them a competitive edge in recruiting new students.
We’re glad Eastern is adding the schol-arship since they have been competing more with not just Illinois schools, but with university’s from out of state as well.
Low enrollment is a difficult issue to solve. While it seems it will always be a problem as long the nation is in a tough financial situation, we’re glad to see the university embrace unique and competi-tive solutions.
We plan to continue covering this issue to the best of our ability. We’re eager to see the new solutions Eastern comes up with and the effects they have.
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Before the convention, Smith said she took classes, while this week she worked for the National Democratic Institute, which is a nonprofit, non-partisan group that promotes democ-racy internationally.
During the convention, the group hosts an International Leadership Fo-rum in conjunction with the conven-tion.
The forum brought 300 interna-tional leaders, whom Smith got to meet, such as a prime minister from Zimbabwe.
Smith said she also ran into Gov. Pat Quinn at the airport when she was picking up a diplomatic.
During the day Bigler got to par-ticipate in caucus and demographic meetings for youth and women.
Like Smith, Bigler was able to meet Gov. Pat Quinn, caucuses leaders, representatives and union speakers during the day.
To Bigler’s excitement, she even got to meet and say hello to Ander-son Cooper—an American journal-ist and television personality—whom she admires and described as perfect-looking.
Bigler was not the only student who was elected as delegate for the district, but the other two students, Tommy Zei and Desiree Dussard, did not attend.
Unlike Bigler, Smith decided to at-tend the convention after seeing an email about the Washington Center’s Campaign 2012 program.
After missing the original dead-line to apply, Smith said she went to the Honors College and helped get $4,000 in order to attend the conven-tion.
Thomas Spencer, the director of honors students and affairs, said the Honors College has programs that will help students like Smith study
abroad and attend internships. Margaret Messer, the retired di-
rector of honors students and af-fairs, also helped Smith get a $500 scholarship from the Washington Center.
Smith and Bigler both said the convention was one of the most eventful and exciting weeks of their lives and both look forward to the up-coming election.
Professor McNitt expects the elec-tion between Mitt Romney and Obama will be close because of the current Gallup polls show a very close margin.
The effect of the Republican and Democratic convention will not be known until the Gallup polls come out next week, McNitt said.
Elizabeth Edwards can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
The agreement also includes an across-the-board pay increase of 1.5 percent for each year of the con-tract.
Two clauses were built into the contract for each side to have the opportunity to call for renegotia-tion of the pay increase.
If Eastern falls into a financial emergency, the administration can call for renegotiations, and if the university experiences a dramatic
increase in revenue, then the UPI can request renegotiations during the last two years of the contract.
Fritz said the ballots to ratify the contract have already been sent out to UPI’s some 650 members, and are due by Sept. 14 to David Car-well, chairman of the UPI balloting committee.
Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor
Since the beginning of September, Charleston has been hit with 3.75 inches of rain.
This is a drastic change from the dry summer Charleston residents have been used to.
Cameron Craig, a geographer and climatologist at Eastern, said the amount of rain Charleston has re-ceived for this month is above the 30-year average for the entirety of Sep-tember.
“We’ve gotten all the rain we need for September in the first five days of the month,” he said. “Our drought situation has improved greatly.”
Craig said Charleston has moved from “extreme” to “moderate” on the drought scale.
“Hurricane Isaac really helped us out significantly,” he said. “For the rest of the month, we’re looking at above normal temperatures and above normal precipitation as well.”
David Crockett, the interim direc-tor of Facilities, Planning and Man-agement, said the crew was hard at work as the rain poured down.
“We had some minor flooding in the southeast corner of the (O’Brien) stadium in some of the coaches’ ar-eas,” he said.
Crockett said they discovered an abandoned electrical conduit from the stadium project with the new track.
“We had some water infiltration and we’ve been working to clean that up and digging down on the outside of the building to cap that conduit
and seal it from the inside as well,” he said.
Crockett said going from extreme-ly dry weather to periods of extensive rain can make roofs unstable, and that was one of the things FPM was work-ing to maintain.
“A lot of times we have roof leaks like this because with this exception-ally hot and dry summer, what we see is some of the older roofs can crack and it’s just a function of the in-tense heat and being older,” he said. “With a million and a half square feet of roofing on campus, there’s just no way to know that until it rains.”
After rain like that occurs, he said the roofing crew works to repair the roofs of buildings quickly.
“We did all that work, and the rest of it was mostly just little drips here and there with windows,” he said. “Luckily, it wasn’t anything signifi-cant.”
Crockett also said a roof drain in McAfee Gym was found to be leak-ing, but has since been repaired.
Aside from the few minor leaks, Crockett said all of the recent con-structions on buildings like Life Sci-ences Building held up quite well.
“We didn’t have any flooding (in the Life Sciences Building) and that was part of what we were trying to accomplish there,” he said. “We still have a lot of grass to grow, but the new drainage system that was put in helped out tremendously and we’re happy we had some good results there.”
Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior sociology major Eric Von Qualen spots senior sociology major Jeremy Jackson Wednesday in the Student Recreation Center. The Rec center generally experiences a larger crowd weekdays after 3 p.m. Check out our photo gallery about the Rec at dailyeasternnews.com.
Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSAfter speaking about the life of Douglas Lawhead, Kristy Mellendorf, a 2008 graduate, hugs journalism professor Sally Renaud. Lawhead died on Aug. 23.
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MARCUS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSReynae Hutchinson, a junior outside hitter, digs for the ball at practice Wednesday in Lantz Arena. She finished second on the squad last season, with 328 kills.
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Price also said with the Panthers already taking down Big East op-ponent DePaul earlier this season, they will now look to take down Marquette, despite being in the top of the Big East.
Confidence lingers throughout the locker room as freshman set-ter/outside hitter Abby Saalfrank it is t ime for the hard work in practice to pay off by taking the tournament.
“I expect to see great results, Saal frank said. “We have been working real ly hard these past couple of days in practice and I expect it to pay off this weekend with bringing home a tournament championship.”
After the Ambassador Hotel Marquette Golden Eagle Clas-sic, the Panthers will travel to the Penn State Classic tournament, where they will see No. 2 ranked Penn State, Duquense and Port-land.
The Penn State Clas s ic wi l l wrap up tournament play for the Panther s , who wi l l then open Ohio Valley Conference play.
Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
By Nicholas Ruffolo Staff Reporter
The only time a loss has any va lue i s when the team learns from it.
The women’s rugby team will look to learn from only its second loss in almost four seasons and improve play for the next match, which happens to be at 2 p.m. on Saturday against the Wisconsin All-Stars in Stevens Point, Wisc..
The Wisconsin All-Stars fea-tures the best rugby players from the Division-II Great Waters Con-ference.
In the last match-up in 2008, Eastern pulled out a narrow vic-tory with a 12-10 score at Lake-side Field.
Eastern head coach Frank Gra-ziano remembers the chal lenge that the Wisconsin All-Stars posed in the harsh conditions.
“It was the f irst game of the year and the field wasn’t in good shape,” Graziano sa id. “It was at least 100 degrees and neither team was playing well. We proba-bly used about eight or 10 subs in that game because it was just too hot.”
This contest between them will not be as hot, and will be the last match played in a 7-on-7 format, but it is a good opportunity for the team to show they can play with the new rules.
Eastern’s last match using rugby sevens against Quinnipiac did not go as head coach Frank Graziano had planned, but he promised that the team would improve their play against the Wisconsin All-Stars.
“I’m very encouraged individu-ally that we’ve had a good week of practice and that we are ready to head down to Stevens Point,” Gra-ziano said. “I think we just need-ed to get the bad game out of the way.”
One person who did not have the benefit of those practices was senior f lanker Stefanie Mahan, who is still out with a facial injury she suffered in an alumni scrim-mage on Aug. 25.
M a h a n s a t o u t t h e m a t c h against Quinnipiac; a match that fe l t her absence as Quinnipiac outscored Eastern 25-5. She will be a game-time decision on Sat-urday.
“I think she gets her stitches out in the next couple of days,” Graziano said. “After that we will get her mouth guard in and see where it goes.”
The Panthers will head to Ste-vens Point and face-off at 2 p.m. Saturday in Stevens Point, Wisc., in an attempt to climb back to .500 on the season.
Nicholas Ruffolo can be reached at 581-2821
All-Star team awaits Panthers in Wisconsin
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By Holden Fuehne Staff Reporter
The Eastern men’s and women’s cross country teams look ready for an-other season after its successful 2011 season.
Coming off an Ohio Valley Con-ference title, the OVC coaches named the women’s team conference favorite in a preseason poll.
“It’s awesome to be ranked number one in the OVC, but it’s important that we still work hard,” head coach Erin Howarth said.
The men’s team received high hon-ors as well, as the OVC coaches voted the team to second in the conference behind Eastern Kentucky.
The women’s team boasts four holdovers from the championship team.
All-OVC first team members se-nior Erika Ramos and red-shirt se-nior Olivia Klaus return along with All-OVC second team members se-niors Britney Whitehead and Steph-anie Peisker.
Each of these runners could reach even greater heights this season, How-arth said.
“Any four of those women could definitely put forth a good ef-fort to be the conference champi-onship,” Howarth said. “(Amanda Sanchez is) coming back from an injury and she’s just had her first week of running, she’s looked real-ly good.”
Freshmen Quincy Knolhoff and Victoria Quarton also look to make an impact on the women’s team.
On the men’s side, returning is sophomore Bryce Basting, who made the All-OVC team last year.
Howarth said Basting is even bet-ter this season, a scary thought for the OVC opponents.
Co-captains Danny Delaney and Ryan Ballard, both juniors, are ex-pected to bolster the team as well.
Delaney joined Basting on the All-OVC second team last year.
Red-shirt freshman Joe Callio, ju-nior Matt Black, and a solid group of sophomores round out the men’s team.
The biggest thing Howarth wants from this team is improvement all the way to the regional and conference championships.
“I put goals for the team every year that I want to see us get more and more competitive at the regional lev-el,” she said. “I think this year the goal is for both teams to finish in the top 15 in the region.”
Last season, the men finished 16th at regionals and the women finished 18th.
Howarth has been focusing on teamwork, saying it’s the biggest com-ponent.
“Teamwork,” Howarth said. “I just want the team to race in groups of three or four or five (at the meet). We’re only as good as our weakest link in this sport.”
The men’s and women’s teams host the Walt Crawford Open at 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 7.
Holden Fuehne can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Team starts season with Walt Crawford
MEN’S SOCCER
Alex McNamee Staff Reporter
The Eastern men’s soccer team en-ters its second consecutive regular sea-son tournament this weekend in Day-ton, Ohio.
The Panthers are coming off two losses at last weekend’s 38th Panther Invitational in Milwaukee, Wisc., but will hope to bounce back starting Fri-day.
The Panthers play Missouri State at 3:30 p.m. Friday, facing a former con-ference foe in the Missouri Valley.
Missouri State is 3-0-1 overall, hav-ing outscored opponents 6-1 this sea-son. The Bears have had six different players score each of their goals.
Cole Alexander, who has put a team-high five shots on goal this sea-son, leads the Bears, along with Jared Gain, who has one goal and two assists on the year.
So far this year, Missouri State has been a team that starts well in the first half, scoring four of its six goals in the first 45 minutes.
Eastern and Missouri State have played one common team this year, Lipscomb. Both teams beat Lipscomb, Eastern winning by a wider margin, 2-0.
The Panthers have had a long histo-ry against Missouri State, having played them in the Missouri Valley Conference each year, but this is the first time the Panthers will play them since leaving the conference two years ago.
Eastern is 3-10 against Missouri State in head coach Adam Howarth’s career at Eastern.
After playing Missouri State on Fri-day, the Panthers will play the host team, Dayton at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Dayton is 3-1-0 this season, with its only loss coming to the College of Charleston last weekend; however, Dayton has beaten Ohio State, Ken-
tucky and Furman this season.Daniel Berko leads the Flyers this
season with a total of seven points on three goals and one assist. Berko has only taken three shots on goal this year – all were goals.
Four other Flyers have scored goals after Berko, including Greg Enstone, Andres Acevedo and Evan McCrea-ry. All three of them have netted two. Abe Keller has also scored a goal this season.
Dayton has given up more goals this season than Missouri State, but they’re giving up the same as Eastern. Both the Flyers and Panthers have surrendered eight goals, the differ-ence being the Flyers have countered it with 10 goals of their own. Eastern is being outscored 8-5 this season.
Day ton’s goa lkeepe r, Chr i s
Froschauer has been in net for all three of the team’s games and has made 19 saves.
Eastern has used two goalies this season, including freshman goalkeep-er Garrett Creasor who has started three games. Senior goalkeeper Evan Turner has started once.
In other Summit League action, Indiana University-Purdue Uni-versity-Indianapolis lost to Xavier Wednesday, 3-1.
Oakland holds the best overall re-cord so far this season, at 3-0. Oak-land will travel to West Virginia next week to play its next game.
This weekend’s pair of games will be Eastern’s last on the road for two games. The Panthers will be home next on Sept. 14 against Central Ar-kansas.
Panthers to enter second tournament
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FOOTBALL
By Jordan Pottorff Sports Editor
The Eastern football team is set to take on Eric Carder and West-ern Michigan at 6 p.m. Saturday in Kalamazoo, Mich., taking on one of the most dynamic offenses in the country.
Carder ranked ninth in the na-tion in passing yards last season, recording more passing yards than USC quarterback Matt Barkley and No. 1 overall NFL draft pick Andrew Luck.
This year, Carder is the nation’s top returning passer after averag-ing 337 yards per game in 2011.
Carder had a presence at the wide receiver position last season in Jordan White, but his depar-ture leaves the Broncos with sev-eral questions at the wide receiv-er position.
“Whatever (Carder) does, I’ve got faith in my defense,” East-ern quarterback Jimmy Garoppo-lo said. “I have faith they will shut down the pass game and the run game. They will handle him.”
In Western Michigan’s week one loss to the Illinois Fighting Illini, Carder was limited to 229 pass-ing yards and threw three inter-ceptions.
Although he struggled against the Illini, he developed a connec-tion with freshman wide receiver Jaime Wilson. He had eight catch-es for 59 yards against the Illini.
Although Western Michigan is praised for having a high-powered offensive scheme, Eastern boasts a strong defense that ranks near the top in several defensive categories.
The Panthers rank first in the FCS in turnovers gained, after forcing six turnovers in their sea-son opening win against South-ern Illinois-Carbondale. They also have a pair of defensive players who are nationally ranked at their
respective position.D.J. Bland and Nick Beard are
both nationally ranked corner-backs.
Bland is ranked third in pass-es defended after breaking up two passes and recording an intercep-tion.
Beard is ranked 10th in pass-es defended, also breaking up two passes against Southern.
The Panthers also feature a pass rush that recorded four sacks in the win against Southern. Robert Haynes, Jerone Williams, Judes Amilcar and Pat Wertzall record-ed sacks.
Senior defensive end Artaveous Dowdell also forced and recovered a fumble.
“Game in and game out I know the team is counting on me on third down and fourth down to get a good pass rush,” Dowdell said. “That’s what I take pride in is getting better every day in prac-t ice to make sure I ’ l l be ready when my number is called.”
The Panthers hold the all-time series advantage, winning the two teams’ only meeting in 1996 by a score of 28-20. Eastern missed three field goals and had another blocked in the game.
The Broncos were then coached by former Eastern coach Al Mol-de.
Eastern is 3-4 all-time against Mid-American Conference teams, beating Eastern Michigan, North-ern Il l inois and Western Mich-igan, but losing to Toledo and Central Michigan each twice.
Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The game will also be aired on ESPN3.
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DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore D.J. Bland runs with the ball during the game on Thursday, Aug. 30 agaisnt Southern Illinois-Carbon-dale at O’Brien Field. The Panthers won the game 49-28.
VOLLEYBALLWOMEN’S SOCCER
By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor
Eastern’s volleyball team wants to get back to its winning ways in attempts to snap its three-game losing streak after being swept in the Oakland Invitational, Sept. 7-8.
The Panthers will take their ef-forts to Milwaukee for the Ambas-sador Hotel Marquette Golden Ea-gle Classic, Sept. 7-8.
The Panthers will begin play at 10 a.m. on Friday as they take on host Marquette (4-1), a 5 p.m. match will follow as the Panthers battle Wake Forest (3-1).
Then at noon Saturday, Eastern will be pitted against undefeated No. 23 Michigan (7-0).
Head coach Kate Price said she wants to see her squad get back to the basics and focus on what they can control in the upcoming tour-nament.
“I’m hoping for a little bit bet-ter of a per formance from our
team,” Price said. “Getting back to the bas ics and making sure we’re taking care of what’s go-ing on, on our side. As opposed to worrying so much about what’s going on around us.”
The feeling flows down through the players, as well.
Freshman libero Stephanie Wal-lace said past tournaments have not finished how they have hoped, but this week in practice the team has put in the effort and is deter-mined to see a tournament cham-pionship.
Similar to its previous non-con-ference tournaments, Eastern will face off with schools from major conferences, such as the Big East, the Atlantic Coastal Conference and the Big Ten.
Price said they set up the non-conference tournaments to be challenging in order to gain expe-rience, and that the Panthers ex-pect to win but look to improve as a team.
Volleyball team enters tournamentBy Dominic Renzetti
Staff Reporter
The Eastern women’s soccer team will face two non-conference opponents this weekend, as the Panthers will travel to face Evans-ville at 3 p.m. Friday, before com-ing home to host Northern Illinois at 1 p.m. Sunday at Lakeside Field.
Eastern head coach Summer Per-ala said both teams, Evansville and Northern, don’t bring much to the table that the Panthers haven’t al-ready seen this year against earlier opponents.
“Both teams will be very physi-cal and quick to counter,” she said, “Evansville is going to try and clog the middle and pressure quick-ly when we have possession. NIU, under a new coach, have become very blue-collar and hard working.”
Evansvil le is currently in the same position as Eastern, 1-4 on the season and coming off a loss.
The Purple Aces have g iven up a combined five goals in their last two matches, while also being shut-out in all of the team’s four
losses. Evansville’s most recent loss came against Purdue in a 4-0 rout, a team the Panthers lost to in dou-ble-overtime in the second match of the season.
As Perala mentioned, North-ern is under new leadership, with new head coach John Ross. Ross, a 2000 alumnus of Northern, was previously an assistant at North Dakota State. Under Ross, the Huskies are off to a 2-2 start, com-ing off a 3-0 win over Loyola.
For the Panthers, the main ob-jective in these two matches is go-ing to be possession, Perala said.
“Our main focus for the games this weekend is possession,” she said. “If we can’t find a way to keep the ball and connect to our own players, we’ll be chasing through-out the entire game. Our goal is to keep the ball moving and look to stretch the other team and counter through those opportunities.”
Perala said the Panthers need to come away with two wins this weekend.
“I think it’s extremely impor-tant to come out with two wins,”
she said. “A win on the road Friday against Evansville will be a huge turning point for the mentality of the girls. Everyone is very motivat-ed to get a positive result after the way they played last weekend.”
Of Eastern’s five matches, four have been decided by one goal, with three going into double-over-time.
Eastern holds the all-time ad-vantage over Evansville, 3-8-2, but are a startling 0-6-1 when taking on the Purple Aces on the road.
The Huskies have not paid a visit to Charleston since 1996, with the series being 1-2-1 be-tween the in-state rivals. The two teams ended in a 0-0 t ie when they met last season.
T h e m a t c h a g a i n s t Ev a n s -ville will start at 7 p.m. Friday in Evansville, Ind., while the match against Northern is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Sunday at Lakeside Field.
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hipsters matter to music industry
'What to expect' average comedy
SEPTERMBER 7, 2012
The Daily Eastern News' weekly arts and entertainment section
D U B C L U B V E T E R A NBy Jaime Lopez Verge Editor
During the day, Matt Black wears a suit and tie and instructs a band class full of teenagers at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Ill.
At night, Black, an Eastern graduate who majored in music, leaves the dress attire and textbooks behind, switching them for a pair of giant headphones and less formal wear.
Black said he then heads into nightclubs to enliven listeners with his blend of dub-step, which he sewed together with the use of a computer that weaves together a collec-tion of beats and sounds.
He said he took an interest in the genre—
a genre that he used to mock, calling it a bunch of noise—while looking for a way to combine a love of computers and music dur-ing his first year of college.
“It’s kind of ironic that I ended up work-ing with this kind of music, after making fun of it for so long,” Black said. “I’ve ex-panded my idea of what music is.
While attending Eastern, he said music majors approached him and told him they did not consider dubstep real music, a crit-icism that has plagued the genre since it picked up and went mainstream.
“My response to that was usually ‘I spend more time composing a song than you spend practicing for a concert.’”
He said that remark usually earned him
respect from his classmates. But Black has not been deterred by the
criticism about the music he produces.At Friends & Co., the Charleston bar that
hosts Dubclub, he found an audience among people who “enjoyed the genre.”
“You’re not just music in the background there.”
At this point in his career, Black said he’s comfortable with his body of work.
“That’s something that takes a while,” he said.
Black described the process of making music through a computer and keyboards as time-con-suming, not easy, but acknowledged that some of the criticism the genre receives is partly true.
Grad blurs lines between electronic, classical music
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"What to Expect When You're Expecting," starring various fa-mous actors such as Cameron Diaz, Matthew Morrison and J. Todd Smith, is like any modern comedy.
The only thing separating this movie from the ones like it is that the different perspectives are a thing to be appreciated as well as confused by.
Nevertheless, the movie has a pleasant ending on all sides of each five characters.
This lovesick comedy introduc-es the audience to the lives of five couples who are going through the stressful but rewarding expe-rience of having a baby.
Perhaps the movie should have left out the teenager’s story as it was a bit scattered and inconsis-tent.
The teenage couple’s characters were undeveloped and seemed to prance around the screen whenev-er there was a blank moment in the other couple’s lives or when-ever a cliffhanger was needed.
Despite this, the movie had its funny moments like when Den-nis Quaid and Ben Falcone’s char-acters have a father-son bonding moment while driving recklessly on golf carts.
Of course, one is expected to see Matthew Morrison’s hilari-ously horrified expression when his on-screen wife Cameron Di-az’s character comes up screaming from a particularly painful con-
traction in the hospital. And no one can forget the
‘dude group’ that consi s t s of Chris Rock, Thomas Lennon, Amir Talai and Rob Huebel that never fails to generate laughter from the audience.
Then, like any other movie in this genre, there is the infamously clichéd moment of ‘break up and make up.’
Disagreements ar i se a long with an unexpected hiccup with-in a couple’s pregnancy.
But all turns up well in the end and the characters are all smiles.
For some background informa-tion about the production, "What to Expect When You're Expect-ing" is based on the book written by Heidi Murkoff.
The screenplay was adapted by Heather Hach and rewritten by Shauna Cross.
When the script was complet-ed, Kirk Jones directed the film under the establishment of Lion-sgate Films.
Whereas the acting was fairly good, the plot left something to
be desired. As stated earlier, the multiple
points of view were confusing. While I understand the point
they were trying to reach—that every couple has a different expe-rience when it comes to having a child—the way they went about it was spotty and confusing.
Nonetheless, the humor had its good moments, but not enough to spend $8 to see in a movie the-ater.
"What to Expect When You're Expecting" will be playing at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Buzzard Hall. All Buzzard movies are free.
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'What to Expect' subpar funny, good moments not worth the extra cash
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SUBMIT TED PHOTO Matt Black's equipment includes an iPod, turn table and midi controller in which he uses to perform.
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Reading through July’s issue of Rolling Stone, which I read from cover to cover, I arrived at a fea-ture story about Justin Bieber and sighed heavily and said, “gosh, he’s much too trendy for my taste.”
At that moment I realized—though I denied it for months af-terward—that I was hipster.
The magazine fel l from my hands, and I sat in bed for hours, mouth wide open, trying to figure out what had just run through my mind.
I thought, "but I don’t wear vintage plaid shirts or bulky black rimmed glasses without lenses, or walk around yelling ‘death to the mainstream.’”
But is being a hipster really all that bad?
Sometimes people picture them as the droll kids sitting on the edge of a couch, PBR in hand, judging you for your taste in mu-sic, because to them it leans to-ward the popular and uninspired.
But I’ve never actually come across a hipster who does that, only people who try to assume a certain image.
In fact, hipsters who dress like some oddity and walk around head held high may not even ex-ist, those might just be posers.
No, hipsters don’t have to fit a certain image.
The one rumor I believe is true is that hipsters base their collec-tion of music on what they like, not what seems to be popular at the time, which is what mainly
angers people about them. Well, can you blame hipsters
for being enraged when the mu-sic they’ve been going crazy over for months finally gets attention?
Remember Gotye’s “Somebody I Used to Know?”
Yeah, I listened to that song nonstop months before it cracked the Billboard charts, when my friends described the song as awk-ward and off-putting.
And when the song finally hit the airwaves, it seemed to play ev-erywhere.
I remember becoming angry not because Gotye’s song final-ly earned the recognition it de-served, but because it took so long for everyone else to appreci-ate his talent.
Peop le may not have even known who he was until radio stations played him.
The hipster, in my opinion, forms a vital part in our under-standing of what is good and what is bad, even if the art they enjoy is unpopular.
Oftentimes, people seem to go for what appears to be trendy without ever leaving room for
other artists who have just as much to offer, maybe even a little more than Katy Perry and Beyon-cé (who I also happen to love).
Hipsters, in a way, act as mi-n o r i t i e s , i m p a r t i n g f o r e i g n knowledge about art and culture that is often ignored.
What is to be said about us when we only listen to what mu-sic companies promote heavily?
Well, it means we’re getting lazy, we’re forgetting that the In-ternet provides us with the tools to search for all artists, not just the really famous ones.
We’re settling. Though there are some peo-
ple actively seeking out new art-ists, but what good is that if they never share their love for their work?
If you only l isten to an ob-scure artist when you’re all alone because others may deem it as lame, listen to it in public, sing out loud.
Don’t be ashamed of what oth-ers will think, because chances are they may like it too.
For those who are turned off by unpopular art ists l ike Hot Chip, Lana Del Rey and Sha-ron Van Etten, I challenge you to look for artists you’ve never heard of and listen intently.
You might like what you hear if you let down your guard and just listen.
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Hipsters shed light on industry
Jaime Lopez Verge Editor
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Band: Hot ChipFrom: LondonGenre: Electronic
“See, there is some really bad dubstep out there, and that hap-pens when artists don’t push the boundaries, don’t push the enve-lope,” Black said. “Dubstep for the sake of dubstep.”
The better dubstep, he said, arises when artists find ways to incorporate different genres and subgenres into a song that can feature everything from classical to modern rock.
And building a song that fea-tures music from composers like Bach and ar t i s t s l ike Bri tney Spears can be quite challenging, he said.
Some of the music Black made borrowed elements of jazz and house and techno, and he said of-tentimes he believes that is what goes unnoticed.
“Peop le don’t no t i c e wha t goes into the music,” Black said. “They sometimes think it’s easy.The trick is turning an idea into a song.”
Black said he prerecorded mu-sic when he first started, but af-ter sharpening his abil it ies to cra f t sounds , Black began to make music while he was per-
forming. Audiences at parties and clubs
help him decide what turn the music will take.
“ You can b r ing the c rowd down with different songs and beats,” Black said.
Black said dubstep is a new genre and that people enjoy it be-cause old songs and new songs are combined to create a new experi-ence for listeners.
While Black said he has a new-found love for dubstep, he still enjoys traditional music, some-thing he grew up on, with his parents and grandparents all hav-ing some involvement in music.
Right now, he leads a double life—one as a schoolteacher, the other as a DJ.
Black said both of his jobs have found a way to cross over into the other.
“They sort of bleed into each other,” Black said. “I find my-self incorporating electronic mu-sic into the lessons, and my stu-dents are becoming better players and learning more about music.”
He said he wants to teach his students to keep an open mind
about what music can be, and ad-vised that all listeners should keep
their ears open. Jaime Lopez can be reached
581-2812 or [email protected].
Band: The xxFrom: LondonGenre: Indie pop
Artist The AntlersFrom: New YorkGenre: Indie rock/folk
Band: Sigur RósFrom: IcelandGenre: Ambient/Post-
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Artist: Sharon Van EttenFrom: New YorkGenre: Indie rock/folk
Band: Azealia BanksFrom: New YorkGenre: Rap
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By Jaime Lopez Verge Editor
On the weekends, when students are out enjoying the best days of their lives, night assistants stay in to watch over the buildings and ready them-selves to help students after a rough night out.
Andrea Sierra, a sophomore psy-chology major, who has been a night assistant for almost a year, said foot traffic picks up over the weekends, as well as the shenanigans.
She said sometimes students have entertaining conversations with her about how good or bad their nights went, but they usually end up raising their voices without noticing.
“They talk louder than they think,” Sierra said.
Sierra said she has no problem giv-ing up her weekends to help her fel-low students because she has made plenty of friends with residents.
“People come and talk to you, they show some interest in what you have to do,” Sierra said.
Staying up throughout the course of the night, Sierra said she some-times gets drowsy and forces herself to stay awake.
Jenna Kuehl, a graduate student concentrating in business administra-tion, said residents sometimes embar-rass themselves when they come back in from a night out on the town.
One kid, she said, walked and up to her and slipped her his phone number.
“He said, ‘I don’t normally do this, but here is my number.’”
Another time, a resident walked up to her and started playing with her hair.
She said Marty’s, the bar across the street from Stevenson Hall, sometimes provides her with entertainment when-ever she is stationed in Stevenson Hall.
“Once I saw a guy run out of the bar with a stool. I couldn’t believe it!” Kuehl said.
Kuehl pointed to her bottle of Pep-si and said, “that is what keeps me up at night.”
Alexandria Payne, a theatre arts ma-
jor and first-time night assistant, de-tailed her schedule and said that when she is watching over the Triad she moves from building to building every hour.
Payne just started and said she has had no trouble with residents and that her work schedule has not worn her down.
Payne said she does not care about staying in on the weekends.
When she needs to pass the time because things are moving slowly, Payne said she catches up on her TV shows.
“I have some time to catch up on
my ‘Big Brother,’” she said. Payne said a big part of her job in-
volves making sure students follow university policy.
She described her first weekend working as a night assistant as calm, but said she is ready for anything that may happen.
“Obviously you have people drinking on the weekends, but I’ve learned the proper protocol needed to help students," Payne said. “ I’m here to keep them safe.”
Jaime Lopez can be reached
at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Night assistants devote weekends to watching over students, buildings
Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore Andria Sierra, a psychology major, works as a night assistant on campus. Sierra says she has to force herself to stay awake sometimes during her shifts.
Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS The binder the night assistants use for Stevenson Hall lays on a table in Stevenson.