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Neal’s death caused by superheated gas

Senate addresses recruitment, retention

By Samantha Bilharz Managing Editor

Burnham Neal, 89, a philanthropist and longtime supporter of Eastern, died on April 12 when a fire erupt-ed and spread through his Mattoon home.

According to autopsy results and Coles County Corner Ed Schniers, Neal’s cause of death was the inhala-tion of superheated gas.

“Breathing in the gas that the fire puts off is superheated,” Schniers said. “When that goes into your lung pas-sage, it leads to your demise.”

Schniers said the cause of death may change when the official toxicol-ogy report is concluded in six to eight weeks.

Schniers also said Neal’s age made it more difficult for him to survive the fire.

Neal, a resident of Mattoon, died at the scene of the fire at 8:18 a.m.

Schniers said Neal was on the porch during the time of the house fire.

Fire Chief Pat Goodwin of the Charleston Fire Department said the cause of the fire was a clothes dryer.

“Something in the clothes dryer, a piece or part of lint, started the fire, but it originated from the clothes dry-er,” Goodwin said.

Goodwin said the fire spread from a clothes dryer to the attic, triggering the thermostat to turn on the attic fan, which then spread the fire through the whole house.

Neal’s caregiver was also in the

house at the time of the fire and was transported to the hospital and later released, Goodwin said.

Neal was a big supporter of Eastern and Lake Land College.

Eastern’s Neal Welcome Center is named after him because of the $2 million he donated to build the center.

In 1997, Neal and his wife Nancy were recognized for their longtime ser-vices at Eastern when the Philanthro-py Awards were named after them. Neal also received an honorary Doc-torate of Public Service in 2003 from Eastern.

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Burnham Neal, local philanthropist and businessman, died April 12 in a fire at his residence in Mattoon. Neal donated $2 million to build the Neal Welcome Center, which is named after him.

By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

Eastern has geared its recruitment ef-forts toward more higher profile students who are more likely to have a greater re-tention rate, the provost said Tuesday.

Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs, said part of the university’s new recruit-ment strategy is to provide more stu-dent incentives such as the $1,500 Commitment to Excellence Schol-arship, which is a renewable merit scholarship for incoming students.

So far, the university has offered the merit scholarship to 1,823 stu-dents, and 148 have accepted it.

Mary Harrington-Perry, the assis-tant vice president for academic af-fairs, and Amy Edwards, the assistant director of the Planning and Institu-tional Research Office, presented in-formation they gathered concerning admissions, recruitment and reten-tion during the Faculty Senate meet-ing Tuesday.

“Student yield is much higher with the more money we give students, not surprisingly,” Harrington-Perry said. “We were less vigilant in awarding aid

to students in the 21 and above ACT area, but we have corrected that with the merit scholarship.”

About 3,600 incoming students have been admitted for the fall, and the majority of them are from Chi-cago, Naperville and Charleston, Ed-wards said.

They admitted about 25 percent of Charleston High School’s graduating seniors, she said

In Fall 2011, the university received 7,076 incoming freshman, which was about 430 fewer than Fall 2010.

Harrington-Perry said they plan to double their efforts of recruiting transfer students to make up for the shortfall in incoming freshmen.

More than 90 percent of Eastern’s total enrollment consists of students from Illinois and about 2 or 3 per-cent come from a different state, Ed-wards said.

“Two years ago, we began offer-ing instate tuition to out-of-state stu-dents, but schools in Illinois tend to follow the high-tuition and high-aid model,” Lord said. “For example, state rates for universities in Indiana could beat our instate tuition.”

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FROM CHARLESTON

LEC TURE

“Compromise is the

–Jim Edgar, former Illinois governor and Eastern alumnus

essence of democracy.”

Edgar, an Eastern alumnus, reminisced about his personal sto-ries of living in Charleston and his work as a politician and the les-sons he learned along the way.

Growing up in Charleston, Ed-gar said he had the best of both words, with the small town feel of Charleston paired with Eastern, which brought him a lot of diverse ideas and concepts.

Attributing his political success to his Eastern experience, Edgar said he is the only governor in Il-linois history to attend a state-pub-lic institution—which was Eastern.

At 28, Edgar said he remem-bered running against a fellow Re-publican for the state representative of the district within Coles County.

He said he was convinced he was going to win because he had worked in Springfield and knew the inner workings of government.

Unfortunately, Edgar said he lost the election because the Re-publicans backed his opponent in-stead of him.

Edgar said he ran during the

worst time for a conservative—right after the Watergate Scandal in 1974, when Republicans did not want to seem divided.

Edgar encouraged students that they must have perseverance and not take “the ball and bat home.”

“I learned more from losing than winning,” he said. “I never wanted to lose again.”

Instead of taking his ball and bat home, Edgar said he contin-ued his career in politics and went to work as the precinct treasurer.

After spending time as treasur-er, Edgar said he ran for state rep-resentative again and won, because of the work he did as treasurer. Ed-gar also credited the connections he was able to make along the way.

When he left office to work as Jim Thompson’s aide, Edgar said many people thought it was not a smart de-cision, but they were wrong.

Thompson would later nom-inate Edgar for secretary of state.

“You got to have some luck, but you have to be willing to take ad-vantage,” Edgar said.

Edgar encouraged students that luck will help, but they must rec-ognize and take advantage of those opportunities.

Edgar also told a story about when he was in his lab school in the eighth grade in Charleston where he was running for vice president for student council and he was convinced he would win the election.

The speeches took place in the area that Buzzard Hall is now located.

During speeches for the election in the auditorium, a fellow student running for vice president, Harvey Baker, gave an excellent speech in which he told the girls he would ad-vocate sock hops after every game.

Sock hops were dances in the ’50s where students would take their shoes off in the gymnasium to protect the floor.

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Former Gov. Jim Edgar told students that perseverance, a little luck and preparation helped him serve 30 years as a politician during a lecture on Tuesday.

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Travel through time with musicBy Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

Audience members will take a trip through the music history and clas-sic periods with the Eastern Sympho-ny Orchestra and Concert Choir on Sunday.

The orchestra and choir will be playing pieces that are representative of the different eras in music histo-ry during “Musical Journey Through Time” at 4 p.m. on Sunday in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doud-na Fine Arts Center.

Richard Rossi, the director of the Eastern Symphony Orchestra and di-rector of orchestral and choral activi-ties, said the groups will six composi-tions one for each of the six period in music history.

The different periods will include the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century and the

contemporary period.“This is a historical concert, so

students who are taking music appre-ciation will probably greatly appreci-ate it,” Rossi said. “They will hear dif-ferent styles.”

“This is one of the biggest concerts for use, because it includes so many people,” Rossi said.

Rossi said their program involves a lot of music that is unique and have interesting backgrounds.

The first piece is “Miserere mei, Deus” by Gregorio Allegri, he said.

“(It) was originally only played on Good Friday at the Vatican,” Ros-si said. “It was banned from leaving and (Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart, being the genius he is, memorized it and wrote it down.”

Rossi said the pieces from the Ro-mantic Period should be familiar, even if the name is not.

The “Concerto Rondo in E flat

major for Horn and Orchestra, K. V. 371” piece is by Mozart.

“It’s based on a wonder Hungar-ian, gypsy sounding, that everyone will know,” Rossi said.

Rossi said he wrote the grand fina-le contemporary piece himself.

“I’m so excited because we are pre-miering my piece,” Rossi said. “It’s been published, but this is the first time we’ve done it with an orchestra.”

The piece “Of Beauty” will fea-ture the Eastern Symphony Orches-tra and the Charleston High School Advanced Chorus.

“There will be about 130 choir singers and the 80 members of the orchestra,” Rossi said. “It’s going to be a lot of sound.”

Rossi said he thinks audiences will like the combination of vocals and music.

“There is nothing more beauti-ful than the human voice with sym-

phonic sounds,” Rossi said. Rossi said he is excited about the

performance of his piece and likes what it stands for.

“It’s a contribute to all the art forms,” Rossi said. “Music is one thing that ties all the art forms to-gether. Dance, drama, painting, mu-sic ties them all together.”

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in a fight for his political career, used Illi-nois' economic problems as a "con-trast" Tuesday to bolster his chances in a June recall election.

The Republican made no secret of the fact that his speech before busi-ness leaders in Springfield was send-ing a message back home.

"If voters in our state want to know the difference between go-ing forward or backwards, they need only look at the mess that you have in state government here in Spring-field to know what it would be like if the recall ultimately prevailed," Walker told reporters after giving the keynote speech for "Illinois Employ-er Action Day."

Walker incensed public employee

unions last year by restricting collec-tive bargaining — the primary thrust behind the June 5 recall election — and has angered Illinois Democrats by criticizing their economic policies and encouraging businesses to move to Wisconsin.

He faced a receptive audience that gave him two long standing ovations while he criticized the Prairie State's multibillion budget deficit, under-

funded pension system, last year's 67 percent income tax increase, a call to cut Medicaid and a higher unem-ployment rate than Wisconsin's.

"I know how important that is, because at the same time we're at 6.9 percent, Illinois is still at about the same spot it was last year, at 9.1 per-cent," Walker said. "Is it any wonder? It's because of the choices made right here in the state capital."

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Fair Trade events to promote worker equality

By Joshua Bryant Staff Reporter

The huge social atmosphere of a university creates an environment where people from all over the world can interact and develop relationships.

Programs designed to prevent, rec-ognize and defeat the bad from taking a toll on the college experience counter the negative aspects of college campus.

The Red Flag Campaign is a nation-al initiative started by the Virginia Sex-ual and Domestic Violence Action Al-liance and localized by Eastern’s Sexual Assault Prevention Task Force designed to raise awareness of relationship is-sues, teach peers how to spot them in each other’s relationships and our own alike and encourage peers to speak up

when a ‘red flag’ is spotted. Launching the campaign for the

Eastern’s campus is Katie McCarthy, the assistant director of the Counsel-ing Center, bringing the school into a fold of more than 100 campuses run-ning the program nationwide.

“We were looking to get more so-cial marketing on campus to high-light issues around healthy relation-ships and the possibilities of dating vi-olence,” McCarthy said.

She said the Sexual Assault Preven-tion Task Force on campus involves the counseling center, faculty mem-bers, Student Affairs, Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service, community members, University Po-lice Department and the Charleston Police Department.

“We’re trying to raise the issue on campus and draw more attention to it,” McCarthy said. “We all chipped in together to bring it here.”

McCarthy said the dates were spe-cifically selected to give information to students about the red flags of dat-ing violence.

“The more we can catch potential risk factors earlier on, the healthier all of our relationships will be,” she said. “It’s also about recognizing these flags in your friends’ relationships and finding ways to express your concern to them.”

The last campaign event will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 23 with volunteers distributing fliers across campus.

The fliers will highlight the defin-ing signals of potential relationship

problems and how to counter them.Donna Hudson, a SACIS repre-

sentative for the Red Flag Campaign, said the campaign was so important that they decided to do it twice.

“April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month so we wanted to do something that raised awareness on more than one day,” Hudson said.

Hudson said she saw a spark of in-terest in students while participating in the campaign.

“People seemed to be reading what we were handing out to them,” she said. “I even engaged in some conver-sations with a few students who want-ed to talk a little bit about the red flags and unhealthy relationships.”

She said she hopes the campaign encourages people to think about

their personal relationships. “We’re hoping that even if people

don’t openly talk to us a lot about what’s going on in their relationships, they are taking the information in and consid-ering whether their own relationships would raise any red flags,” Hudson said.

McCarthy said the prevention of sex-ual assault through awareness and edu-cation is the primary goal for the event.

“In relationships that aren’t necessari-ly violent, they can be healthier if you re-alize that maybe if I’m being really jeal-ous, that’s not helpful to a relationship,” McCarthy said. “You can find a different way to express concern, so there are good reminders for everybody.”

Joshua Bryant can be reached at 581-2812 or jpbryant@eiu.edu.

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By Robyn Dexter Campus Editor

To promote fair wages for workers and employees across the world, East-ern’s Fair Trade for Global Justice Com-mittee is having events to raise global awareness.

This week is EIU Fair Trade Week with the theme “Consumption with a Conscience.” The committee has lined up a series of events to bring global is-sues to light on campus.

Sara Boro, the secretary for the Fair Trade for Global Justice Committee, said the week will feature events from peace in Palestine to human trafficking.

Wednesday’s events will include a Fair Trade Sale in the South Quad from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a speaker in the evening.

“We get all our products for the fair trade sale from Catholic Relief Servic-es,” Boro said. “They have products from all over the world including ear-rings from India and baskets from Gha-na.”

Boro said the committee ordered a lot of jewelry for the sale, as well as oth-er handcrafts from across the world.

“Every item will be labeled with where it was made,” she said.

Boro said fair trade ensures workers who make the products are given fair wages for their labor.

“I’ve been involved with the fair trade sale since 2009 and that’s when the Fair Trade Coalition first got start-ed,” Boro said. “We’re fairly new to campus.”

She said past fair trade sales have been successful, and the group usual-

ly sells about $1,500 worth of fair trade products.

“The good thing is that we use con-signment products, so anything we don’t sell, we can return,” Boro said.

She said the group now has about 10

members that help organize Fair Trade Week events.

The event will also include a speaker at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Room 1255 of Coleman Hall.

Lester Graham, the senior editor and

correspondent for the investigative and accountability journalism unit of Mich-igan Radio, Michigan Watch, will be discussing water issues across the world in his “Global Water Problems” presen-tation.

“He will be talking about what we can do to relieve some of the problems related to water worldwide,” Boro said.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or redexter@eiu.edu.

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Dear Wisconsin:I’ve been chosen by me to write to you on be-

half of the good people of Illinois. We want to tell you: It’s OK. We all make mistakes.

We’ve always felt a real connection with you, though we don’t always say it (Midwestern hu-mility, you understand). Our states already have so much in common—Lake Michigan, snow, flatness, fat people—and now that you have a terrible governor disgracing your reputation na-tionally, we feel like your clearly more attractive twin. Yes, Scott Walker is a bad, bad man. He is destroying your state with remarkable efficiency.

Nobody understands what you’re going through right now better than us FIBs. We do bad governors like you do...you know, whatev-er you guys do up there. Worse, we have no one but ourselves to blame. You would think that af-ter having three of the last six elected governors convicted on criminal charges, we would have learned our lesson. But Blagojevich had the cut-est dimples...we’re suckers for a nice smile.

But you couldn’t have seen this coming. Scott Walker ran as fun-loving frat boy, endearing for his stupidity, and never campaigned on union busting. You couldn’t have known that, upon as-suming office, he would focus all his efforts on systematically stripping unions of their collec-tive-bargaining rights.

How infuriating it must have been when Walker explained that the state had to denude its workers of rights established through generations of struggle in order to balance the budget, while simultaneously passing massive tax cuts that hugely increased the deficit.

But you knew it was never about the budget, and not just because he exempted the unions that supported his campaign. When governors of other Midwestern states, like Ohio and Indi-

ana (they got nothin’ on you, neighbor), tried to dismantle unions, it was clear that this was a na-tional political strategy for the GOP.

Indeed, union busting is all about the money. It’s a straightforward strategy:

The biggest contributors to the Democratic Party are unions. Of the five outside groups who did the most campaign spending in 2008, the top two were unions. The other three were cor-porate-funded Political Action Committees that mainly funded Republicans.

In the 2010 election (after Citizens United) seven of the top 10 groups, including the top four, were corporate PACs that funded Repub-licans. Kill the unions, kill the major organizing and financial force that makes the Democrat-ic Party able to compete with the corporate cash that fuels the right.

To say we were proud of your reaction, Wis-consin, is a gross understatement. You flood-ed Madison and stormed the Capitol, braving months of bitter cold to express your outrage. You held recall elections and unseated two GOP state senators and gathered more than 1 million signatures to force a recall election for governor and lieutenant governor for June 5.

We are so enamored of you, we don’t even mind that Walker slithered to Springfield Tues-day to campaign in front the Illinois Chamber

of Commerce at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel. (We even staged a mini-Madison protest of 3,000 outside.)

You might be surprised Walker found time to campaign in Illinois. He seemed to be busy try-ing to win the hearts and minds of cheeseheads, signing bills this month that repealed the Equal Pay Enforcement Act (because why does wage discrimination have to be a legal issue?), require schools to “stress abstinence” in sex education and “ignore contraception completely,” and limit abortion coverage.

But there he was in Springfield (the Wiscon-sin Dells of politics), invoking our great secular saint, Abraham Lincoln, in his courageous War Against the Unions. You guys still teach history up there, right?

He’s changed his tune a bit. Apparently this whole union busting business was about job cre-ation all along. Of course, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lists Wisconsin as 50th in the na-tion in job growth, but those are just numbers. Sorry, this was supposed to be uplifting.

Listen, you are setting things right. On June 5, you can start fresh and go back to the fine place we vacation When we are broke and out of ideas. Walker will get a cushy job in the private sector he loves so dearly, which will be less em-barrassing than if he, say, joined the cast of “Ce-lebrity Apprentice.”

Then the two of us can go back to feuding about important matters, like sports rivalries and the appropriate speed for driving in the left lane.

With love, sympathy and support,Illinois

Dave Balson is a senior journalism major.

He can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com.

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To Wisconsin, with love: We all make mistakes

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Phishing scams, like the one that about 1,300 Eastern students and faculty fell victim to on April 11, can range from a small threat to a big one.

The phishing scam was an email delivered through Panthermail advising Eastern stu-dents and faculty that they need to re-login into their Panthermail account in order to be able to continue to send and receive emails. It provided a link that seemed to bring users to a login page, but was actually a front to steal account information.

The source of the phishing scam is unknown at this time, however they did block access to that particular link on campus.

The Information Technology Services receives these phishing scams on a monthly basis. They are usually caught by ITS’s anti-spam software but, apparently, some do get through.

We want you to know how to protect yourself if and when another scam like this lands in your inbox.

First off, you were warned as a child by your teachers and parents not to give out any of your personal information, so you should already be conditioned against this. But if that whole lesson fell short for you, here is a simple tip: Just don’t ever give out your per-sonal information. It really is as simple as that.

If Eastern, or any other source, emails you asking for your information, automatically assume it’s a scam.

On Eastern’s Panthermail website it says in big red letters: “ITS Will Never Ask For Your Password Via Email.” And for those of you who for some reason don’t see that message, there is another one below it that says: “ITS would like to remind everyone that the Uni-versity will never ask for username and pass-word information over email and users should never reply to such messages. If your email account has been closed due to suspicious activity, you need to contact the Help Desk. Never reply to a message asking for your user-name and password information.”

ITS lists on its website some good tips to avoid phishing scams:

-Don’t respond to any emails asking for your password.

-Make sure the URL that you’re clicking on is “.eiu.edu”.

-If any questions arise, call 581-HELP.ITS makes it pretty black and white when

it comes to informing students and facul-ty of this message. If you read all this and still choose to fall victim to one of these phishing scams, then it’s your own ignorance that is to blame.

And if you don’t learn your lesson the first time, ITS may lock your Panthermail account if it becomes compromised. This will lead to you having to call ITS to get your account unlocked.

So remember friends, make it simple for yourself and just don’t give out your personal information when asked in an email.

A bleak new world; if Panthermail isn’t safe, what is?I am a victim.A victim of a new-age technological warfare

that I have remained, for the most part, shel-tered from. No, I am not talking about Potter-more, a pretty awesome RPG. I’ll leave that for another column.

I am a little ashamed to say that I am one of the people who didn’t recognize the Panther-mail scam for what it was. I felt protected in my eiu.edu email bliss. But now I am as scared as ever.

I can barely leave my interweb cocoon with-out thinking someone somewhere is watch-ing. I am a docile cat licking my wounds as my friends continuously mock me for my stupidity.

In the defense of myself and others, the form of scam that I experienced was not what I was expecting.

Like a chameleon, it was incognito. The link had an eiu.edu Web address that

looked pretty legit from my computer screen. So I thought “hey, no way would the school let this scam spam get by its servers and drop into my mail box.” Boy, was I wrong.

The click sent a wave of repercussions simi-lar to bedding a lady of the night riddled with gonorrhea, AIDS and syphilis. My inbox and my life as an Eastern student was in jeopardy. Sure, my password opens my Panthermail, but it also opens my WebCT and PAWS. That gives

access to my social security number, tax infor-mation, address and my weight. Having unlaw-ful access to those codes is worse than declaring nuclear war against the usually sovereign, but angry Niklantis.

The opening entry in the Panthermail win-dow may say “ITS Will Never Ask For Your Password Via Email,” but the link wasn’t really, in my opinion, asking for my password. I sim-ply logged out, then logged back in.

So beware people, things aren’t always what they seem.

Treat the Internet like you would a one-night stand. Use protection and make sure all the websites you click on are clean. The world isn’t safe anymore. Beware.

Nike Ogunbodede is a junior journalism major.

She can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com.

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The Char les ton City Coun-cil voted to approve various or-dinances that awarded Tax Incre-ment Financing grants to business owners in the square that would help them fund various renovation projects.

City Manager Scott Smith said this project has been on-going and the recently passed ordinances are a continuation of that project.

Smith said this project is a part of multiple efforts to restore the downtown square.

“I think it will be a nice im-provement in those areas,” Smith said.

Those who wi l l rece ive the grant money are: Mike Ziebka, John Wil l iams, James DiNaso, Bob Murphy, Kathy Jenkins, Todd Cornwell, Tina Grissom and Shi Jie Gao.

Dur ing th e mee t ing , May -or John Inyart said the majority of owners will be paying half the amount of the renovations and the

grants provided are the other half of the cost.

The grants cover renovations including new windows, paint, and updating handicap accessibil-ity.

The council also approved the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Inyart said he had heard feedback from someone about the availabili-ty of the budget that was placed on file for public inspection on March 20.

“We did hear one concern about the accessibility of that document,” Inyart said.

The council also approved the or-dinance that will increase the wa-ter and sewer usage rates. The rates will be raised 41 cents for a 1,000 gallons or fewer, making the new rate $12.06.

The rates will increase depending on water usage and the location of the building.

The council also voted in favor of an ordinance that will raise the ambulance rates within the city limits.

The rate increase includes in-

creases in the base rate for various levels of life support, disposable medical supplies used and extrica-tion services, as well as other ser-vices.

Inyart also re-appointed Alan

Lanham and Mary Droste to the Charleston Carnegie Library Board of Trustees.

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812 or kjrichter@eiu.edu.

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Another area they want to improve is marketing, Harrington-Perry said.

“The national average amount univer-sities of Eastern’s size spend on recruit-ing is $779 per student, which would to-tal about $2.5 million, and we just don’t have those kinds of funds to spend com-pared to other schools like Illinois State (University),” she said.

They gather the pool of prospective students to contact when students send their ACT scores or indicate they are in-terested in universities through Free Ap-plication for Federal Student Aid. She said the university has also purchased names of prospective students using ACT-score filters.

In January, 20,000 names were pur-chased of students with ACT scores from 21 and above.

The admissions staff recruits students from about 300 schools in Illinois, Har-rington-Perry said.

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812 or rjrodgers@eiu.edu.

Edgar said he was not prepared for his speech and only mumbled a few words when he got up in front of the student body.

After losing the election, Edgar said he would always be prepared for his speeches and would do his homework.

After the Harvey Baker incident, Ed-gar said he has an outline prepared for every speech he gives.

Edgar also reminisced about his time as student body president at Eastern. He remembered when he tried to get rid of Eastern women hours, a curfew for only women on campus.

Though he did not get along with Eastern President Quincy Doudna, Ed-gar said he had to be willing to compro-mise with him to get rid of the women hours.

Originally, Doudna was an advocate for the hours, though Edgar worked with Doudna to allow women over the age of 21 not to have a curfew.

Eventually, he would convince the president to get rid of the hours all to-gether, Edgar said.

He told students that compromises are important and students should not burn bridges with people throughout their lives.

“Compromise is the essence of de-mocracy,” Edgar said.

Edgar ended his speech encourag-ing students to take every opportuni-ty Eastern has to offer, not only in the classroom, but outside in the classroom as well.

Elizabeth Edwards can be reached at 581-2812 or eaedwards@eiu.edu.

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He was the founder of Neal Tire & Auto Service, which has 28 locations in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, includ-ing locations in Charleston and Mat-toon.

Neal was born on May 15, 1922, in Toledo and is survived by his daughter and two grandsons.

Visitation for Neal will be from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home in Mat-toon. The funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Samantha Bilharz can be reached at 581-2812

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The Panther softball team will try to extend its conference-winning streak to eight games tonight when they take on the Southeast Missouri Redhawks at Williams Field with the first pitch scheduled for 5 p.m.

Eastern will enter the game with a 22-17 overall record and a 12-6 con-ference record. At one point in the sea-son, Eastern was only 5-6 in the con-ference race, but they have put them-selves in a good position to compete for the title in the Ohio Valley Con-ference. With their seven-game confer-ence-winning streak, the Panthers have catapulted from seventh place in the conference standings to third.

The Redhawks come into Charles-ton with an overall record of 19-24 and a conference record of 10-12. They have also been hot as of late and enter the contest with a five-game win-ning streak.

This will be the final game of a three-game series between the two teams. In the previous two contests, Eastern won a pair of close games.

The first game was a competitive contest with good pitching on both sides. Sophomore ace Stephanie Ma-day made the start for Eastern and went 5.1 innings while allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits and a walk. Sophomore Hanna Mennen-ga closed the door on the Redhawks, pitching the final 1.2 innings and al-lowing no runs while striking out three. Southeast Missouri ace Alora

Marble pitched a complete game, al-lowing only three runs on seven hits, which was just one run too many, re-sulting in a 3-2 Eastern victory.

Eastern won the second game of the series by a final score of 5-3 with good pitching and opportune hitting. Men-nenga made the start on the mound for Eastern and went 5.1 strong in-nings, allowing only three runs (two earned) on five hits. Maday closed the game, pitching the final 1.2 innings and allowing only one hit.

Eastern out-hit the Redhawks by a total of 7-6 in the game and had a wide array of productive hitters. Six different Panther players had at least one hit. Freshman shortstop Bailey O’Dell and junior outfielder Melise Brown both had a hit. Sophomore Reynae Hutchinson was one-for-three with a big homerun. Senior Hayley Pieper was one-for-three with a run scored, while sophomore Morgan Biel was one-for-two with two runs scored. Sophomore third baseman Ashleigh Westover was the most productive Panther, going two-for-three in the game with two RBIs.

In today’s games, it is likely fans will see a rematch of the first series game between Eastern ace Stephanie Ma-day and Southeast Missouri ace Alo-ra Marble. Maday currently has a 12-9 record on the mound with a 2.00 ERA in 150.2 innings pitched. She has pitched 13 complete games and re-corded 141 strikeouts for the season.

Erik Jensen can be reached at 581-7942 or eajensen@eiu.edu.

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“I love that he is pitching against tough teams,” Schmitz said. “He went through a little bit of hesitance, but like we say about hitting, you have to let the bat fly. As a pitcher, you have to make your best pitch and be aggressive. He did that at Illinois and I’m really anxious to see him take the next step this week.”

The Illini will turn to freshman right-hander Josh Ferry to get the start against the Panthers. For the season, Ferry has posted a 2-1 record, but has struggled to keep runs off the scoreboard as he has recorded a 7.24 ERA in 27.1 innings pitched.

The Panthers will need to have an ag-gressive approach against the freshman right-hander if they expect to pick up the upset win over the Illini. Eastern has seen an increase in production in its of-fense of late, but has still struggled to put together a long streak of consistent run support this season.

“We need to go on a run,” Schmitz said. “Even the big wins against Saint Louis and Louisville have not sparked us

or got us going. The only way you go on a run is to play consistent baseball, and the team will look at the next five weeks and put it together. Hopefully the Illi-nois game will get us going.”

In the overall series, the Panthers have gone 14-33 against the Illini, but have improved under the direction of head coach Jim Schmitz as he has posted a 10-10 record against the Illini. In games played at Grimes Field at Peterson Park, the Panthers have gone 2-1 against the Illini, including a 4-1 win on April 12, 2011.

“It’s a fun night, there is a lot of pro-motions and it’s been one of the best days we have had,” Schmitz said. “The weather will be great and hopefully the students will come out to Mattoon and support us.”

The in-state matchup is scheduled to begin at 6:05 p.m. at Grimes Field in Pe-terson Park in Mattoon.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-7942 or at jbpottorff@eiu.edu

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SOFTBALL

Panthers hope to win eighth straight game

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Former Eastern running back Chevon Walker was signed by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadi-an Football League (CFL) according to the Toronto Sun.

Walker transferred to Eastern from the University of Florida before fin-ishing his collegiate career at Sioux Falls of the National Association of

Intercollegiate Athletics.As a Panther, Walker played in

eight games in the 2008 season, total-ing 365 yards, scoring two times and averaging 4.9 yards per carry. Walker was dismissed from the team by for-mer head coach Bob Spoo before the beginning of the 2010 season for un-specified rule violations. Walker was set to become the No. 1 running back in the 2009 season prior to his release.

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Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Head Coach Jim Schmitz watches the eastern outfielders shift positions in their game against Austin Peay on Saturday, April 7.

By Jordan Pottorff Assistant Sports Editor

Eastern’s baseball team is in need of a signature win that will have it gaining momentum heading into the final month of the regular season. The Panthers will have the chance to knock off a Big Ten opponent and in-state rival when it hosts the Illinois Fighting Illini today at Peterson Park in Mattoon.

The Panthers (14-19,5-6 OVC) have struggled to put together a run of consistent play this season, and as a result, have hung around the .500 mark in Ohio Valley Conference play.

“The key we are talking about is that we have not gone on any kind of run at all this season,” Eastern head coach Jim Schmitz said. “We have won two in a row but then we lose two in a row. It’s the middle of the season and we are getting to the point where we have to make some-thing out of this season.”

The Panthers will turn to fresh-man right-hander Andrew Grahn to pick up the win against their in-

state rivals. Grahn has been solid this season, posting an 0-3 record to go a long with a 4.56 ERA in 23.2 in-nings of work. In his last appearance, also against the Illini, Grahn gave up three runs (one earned) on three hits and also recorded a strikeout in two innings of work.

“I thought he actually threw re-ally well against Illinois,” Schmitz said. “We just need him to keep the ball down. We need a fourth start-er and we need someone that the team can say, ‘Andrew has this game,’ and hopefully this will be one of the next couple mid-week games that he pitches well.”

Grahn has also gained valuable ex-

perience in his freshman season as he has faced off against quality teams for the majority of the season. Grahn has started or appeared in games against Illinois, Illinois State, Southeastern Louisiana and Saint Louis.

Anthony Catezone Staff Reporter

The Eastern men’s golf team took sixth place in the Tennessee State Big Blue Inter-collegiate as the invite came to a close Tues-day. The three-round tournament was played at the Par 72, 6,822-yard Hermitage Golf Course.

Junior Tommy Ponce led all panthers fin-ishing with an even-par 216. Ponce’s perfor-mance placed him tied for 14th individual-ly, as well as notching his third top 20 finish of the season.

Not far behind were seniors Gino Parrodi and David Lawrence with 218 (+2) and 219 (+3) totals to tie themselves for 21st and 26th place, respectively.

The tournament consisted of nine oth-er schools. Five of which being Ohio Valley Conference foes, giving the Panthers some practice against those squads for the OVC Championships in one week.

The team shot a combined score of 873 (+9), beating out Morehead State (7th) and Tennessee State (T-8th), which played host at the tournament. First place went to Murray State, which posted a dominating 21-under-par 843, while Tennessee Tech and Tennessee-Martin followed placing second and fourth, respectively.

April 25-28, the men will head back to Nashville, Tenn., only this time to compete in the OVC Championship Tournament at the Greystone Golf Course. Eastern hopes to see better results than last year’s eighth place fin-ish, which put them second to last overall.

Staff Report

Eastern men’s head basketball coach Jay Spoonhour announced Bob Sundvold as an as-sistant coach for the upcoming season.

Sundvold is the first assistant named to Spoonhour’s staff and has 30 years of experience as both an assistant and head coach.

Spoonhour and Sundvold have had experi-ence coaching with one another as Spoonhour served as a graduate assistant for Sundvold’s Central Missouri State teams in 1995 and 1996. Sundvold served as the head coach for Central Missouri State for four seasons and guided them to an Elite Eight appearance in the 1995 NCAA Division-II tournament. Following his tenure at Central Missouri, Sundvold served as the head coach for Missouri-Kansas City from 1997-2000. Sundvold’s most successful season for the ‘Roos came in 2000 when he guided them to a winning season and a second-place finish in the Mid-Continent Conference.

Sundvold also has experience at the profes-sional level as he served as the head coach/gen-eral manager for the ABA’s Kansas City Knights. His 2005 team recorded a 19-9 record en route to reaching the quarterfinals of the ABA play-offs. Sundvold has also served as a color analyst for ESPN covering the Big 12 and the Missouri Valley Conference.

By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

The Eastern track and field team brought home three of the Ohio Valley Conference's week-ly awards.

Red-shirt senior Zye Boey, and red-shirt sophomores Mick Viken and Jade Riebold each took home awards. Boey was named OVC Male Track Athlete of the Week, while Viken was named OVC Male Field Athlete of the Week, and Riebold was named OVC Fe-male Field Athlete of the Week.

Boey took home three first place finishes at last weekend's Hilltopper Relays, hosted by Western Kentucky.

Boey won the men's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, as well as taking first as the third leg on the 4x100-meter relay team.

Viken broke the school record in the men's pole vault, finishing with a mark of 17-feet, 8.5-inch-es. Viken's mark is currently the No. 9 vault in the nation.

R i e b o l d a l s o b r o k e t h e school record, vaulting 12-feet, 9.5-inches. Riebold took first

place in the event and holds the top time in the OVC.

Two pole vaulters sign with Panthers

Two pole vaulters have signed with the Eastern track and field team for next season.

The Sentential-Standard in Michigan is reporting that Pewa-mo-Westphalia High School's Kristie Wieber signed her nation-al letter of intent to compete at Eastern next year. Wieber is the three-time Division-4 state cham-pion pole vaulter in Michigan.

The Pantagraph is reporting that Normal Community West High School's Eric Gordon has also signed his national letter of intent to join the Panthers next season.

Gordon's career-best is 16-feet, 2.75-inches, currently tied for No. 8 in the nation.

Gordon was also considering Central Michigan, Illinois State, Memphis and Olivet Nazarene.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942

or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Spoonhour announces 1st assistant Bob Sundvold to become assistant basketball coach

TR ACK & FIELD

GOLF

Men’s golf takes sixth in Nashville

Boey, Viken, Riebold take home honors

Upcoming Game

Where: Grimes Field in Peterson Park in Mattoon

When: Wednesday at 6:05 p.m.

Cost: Free

SHEA LAZ ANSKY | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore red-shirt Mick Viken flies through the air during his pole vault March 24 at O'Brien Field. Viken was named the Ohio Valley Con-ference male field athlete of the week.