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By Stephanie Markham Staff Reporter

Faculty Senate member Stacey Knight-Davis motioned to initiate the creation of an internal governing poli-cy on hate and bias motivated crimes.

Her motion passed, so the Faculty Senate will call on President Bill Per-ry, Blair Lord, the vice president for academic affairs, Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, and cam-pus police to “draft a plan to aid in the prevention of further harassment

and crimes against all members of the EIU community.”

Knight-Davis said this plan is not focused specifically on Chick-fil-A, but on hate crimes in general.

Faculty Senate member Jeffrey Stowell discussed his concerns about the Chick-fil-A contract.

He said religious student organiza-tions should be consulted about their feelings on the issue as well.

Stowell motioned to re-negotiate Chick-fil-A’s contract, which renews

automatically if neither Eastern nor the company relinquishes by the spec-ified date, for the next academic year.

This motion passed.“The university acting as a restau-

rant owner seems strange,” Knight-Davis said.

The senate passed a motion by member Jason Waller to allow student workers to opt out of being assigned to Chick-fil-A.

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“(Eastern) acting as a restaurant owner seems strange.” Stacey Knight-Davis, Faculty Senate member

By Terryne McClurge Staff Reporter

The “Pump up the Blue” home-coming is just around the cor-ner, and the committee is tying up loose ends for the weeklong pro-grams.

Homecoming provides many opportunities for Eastern students to celebrate school spirit.

Joshua Jackson, the University Board Homecoming chair-elect, said in an email the UB has been working extremely hard to pull off great and new events.

“Students are in for a WOWz-er this year,” Jackson said. “Our committee has been working hard to pull off great and new events for everyone to enjoy.”

Katana Wilder, the UB Home-coming cha i r woman, s a id the “Pump Up the Blue” theme was one of many themes that were made up, but dif ferent faculty were able to vote on “Pump Up the Blue.”

There will be events that take p lace a l l throughout the week leading up to the Oct.13 football game against Jacksonville State.

There will be a a photo con-test, random acts, service projects and spirit T-shirt sales.

The re w i l l a l s o be a “Roy-al Blue” Coronation at 7 p.m. on Monday in McAfee Gymnasium.

Tuesday there will be a Family Fun Night at 7 p.m. in the Martin

Luther King Jr. University Union. The T-Sh i r t Swap wi l l t ake

place at noon n the South Quad and the Library Quad Wednesday.

Thursday will be a Throwback Thursday Game day.

Fr iday wi l l be a Homecom-ing Golf Outing at 1 p.m. at the Charleston Country Club.

On Saturday, there wil l be a 2.5K race, a Homecoming Parade, Billy’s Backyard Tailgate and the Homecoming game against Jack-sonville State.

Members of the Black Student Union and National Pan-Hellen-ic Council will be sponsoring the annual Homecoming Late Night Dance at 10 p.m. Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium.

Jackson said there are fun events all week.

“I look forward to a great week packed full of fun, school spirit, and giveaways,” Jackson said.

Wi l d e r s a i d t h e s u c c e s s o f Homecoming depends on the stu-dents’ participation.

Jackson said students should come out enjoy the fe s t iv i t i e s Eastern has to bring to them.

“Look forward to a great week packed full of fun, school spirit, and giveaways,” Jackson said.

Terryne McClurge can be reached at 581-2812 or tmmcclurge@eiu.edu.

Staff Report

Voting for this year’s homecom-ing court has been rescheduled to take place Wednesday and run through Thursday because of tech-nical difficulties.

Voting was originally scheduled to open 12:01 a.m. on Monday, but Information Technology Servic-es took down the site mid-morning when the Homecoming Committee realized not all of candidates’ names and pictures did not make it on the site.

Homecoming chairwoman Kata-na Wilder said it was not the com-mittee’s fault they had not received

all of the candidates photos. After they were notified of the

problem the called the candidates to get the missing photos. From there they also had to identify which name went with which photo.

“It takes time, so the site is down (Tuesday) so we can work out all the kinks,” Wilder said. “ITS has to completely reload all of the names and photos.”

Wilder said because of the mix up students who voted on Monday before the site was taken down, will now have to re-vote.

“If you have already you voted you will need to re-vote, because we will be clearing they system” she said. “We are officially starting completely over.”

Voting begins at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday and will run though 11:59 p.m. on Thursday.

Late submissions pushes online voting to Wednesday Homecoming voting postponed because of photos

Committee members get pumped for week of continued tradition

DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSStephanie Gruner, a graduate student, holds her Yoda Potato Head in her home. Gruner has a collection of more than 40 Potato heads. Her first Potato head was a Spiderman potato head.

By Tim Deters Features Editor

More than 40 pairs of eyes watch Stephanie Gruner, communication studies graduate student, sleep at night.

In the corner of her bedroom on a black shelf that is over 6 feet high, Gruner displays her collection of 42 Mr. Potato Head toys.

The shelf is a burst of color as the toys constantly smile, their bright red lips dominant and their eccentric cos-tumes giving the toys’ shapeless tan bodies life.

Gruner has had to add shelves sever-al times to accommodate her growing collection.

“I just keep adding shelves, but soon I am probably going to have to expand again,” she said.

In black construction paper, Grun-er has cut out a sign for the shelf: Tow-er of Tater.

Gruner’s love of Mr. Potato Head did not grow as an extension of childhood days spent with the toys. Rather, her collection began with a birthday present from a friend.

The first Mr. Potato Head toy she re-ceived was from a friend for her 17th birthday. The toy’s name was Spiders-pud, and its entire body is wrapped by a Spider Man costume.

“(My friend) got it for me just be-cause I love Spiderman, but then it turned into a collection,” Gruner said.

One of the aspects of Mr. Potato Head that Gruner finds most appealing about the toy are the puns that serve as the toys’ names.

Among the many names of Gruner’s toys are Darth Tater and Mashter Yoda, puns on the Star Wars characters Darth Vader and Master Yoda.

“I love that they all have puns for their names,” Gruner said. “That’s one reason why I love them so much be-cause I love puns.”

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A Spiderman Potato Head, named SpiderSpud, sits on the Tower of Tater in Gruner's room.

A movie theater receptionist spud, named Potephanie, is a mini ver-sion of its owner, Stephanie Gruner. It was a gift from a friend who worked with Gruner at the Elgin Fox Market Theater in Elgin.

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By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor

The Charleston City Coun-cil heard a presentation from an Americans with Disabilities Act consultant firm’s evaluation of 29 city buildings.

The Recreation Accessibility Consultant, LLC, went through 29 city-owned buildings to check for ADA compliance issues.

John McGovern, a consultant with the firm, said the city has compliance issues, but also has some things where they did well.

He said he walked through the buildings with the staff and showed them what areas they need to fix.

Scott Smith, the city manager, said the report will take a couple of months to analyze the different areas that need to be dealt with.

The full report will be read and

a plan will be put into place. McGovern said some areas that

need to be addressed are accessi-bility to park amenities, such as spectator areas near a sports field, parking and signs.

“Typically we see 10 rights for one wrong,” McGovern said.

McGovern said the ADA does not set a certain timeline that the issues need to be implemented or the number that have to be dealt with.

He said one for every three amenities should be handicap ac-cessible.

One example he gave was if there are three parks, at least one should be accessible.

He said if one place is unique, such as one swimming pool, that it should be handicap accessible.

He suggested they be dealt with in three phases.

The first phase should sim-

ple things that are already in ex-istence, like repainting handicap parking to yellow.

The phase two should include making recreations, such as parks, accessible.

The third phase should be the more complex projects.

The council adopted a policy that would address the process of dealing with accessibility concerns in the future.

“One of the first step in this whole process is setting up policies that we will then follow internally when someone have an issue,” In-yart said.

The policy will dictate who deals with ADA concerns and complaints, how they are ad-dressed and timeline.

The counci l a l so voted to amend an ordinance about an agreement with Ameren to allow the city of Charleston to buy its

natural gas supply from another source.

This amendment was needed in order for the City Council to agree to a contract with Center-Point Energy.

Mayor John Inyart said this agreement wi l l save the c i ty $30,000 in cost for natural gas.

He also said about $9,500 of that would normally be used by the Charleston Carnegie Public Library.

The council also approved a bid from Nico Asphalt to repave E Street from State Street north to the city limits.

The bid was for $81,360. The city council meets at 7:30

p.m. every first and third Tuesday of the month in City Hall.

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

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KRISTEN LE WIS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSNoble Gibbens gives his niece Jamila Amartey a kiss on the cheek during a Cha-Cha dance class on Wednesday in the Student Recreational Center. Charleston residents attended a meeting of Eastern’s Ballroom Dance Society to learn the Cha-Cha. Dancers met in the Dance Studio of the Student Recreation Center to learn the dance, which was partially instructed by the Lisa Perfors, a junior music major and Ballroom Dance Society president. The dance lesson was a part a four-week series in celebration of Latin American Heritage Month. Perfors said the event had average turnout, which she describes as about 15 to 20 people. The group will finish out the education series with the Bachata on Oct. 9.

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LUMPKIN HALL• Student Center 2051• Unclaimed items disposed at end of semester• Unclaimed flash drives wiped after 30 days

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DOUDNA FINE ARTS CENTER• Items turned into department dean’s offices• Unclaimed items disposed of at end of semester

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PHYSICAL SCIENCES BUILDING• Each department has own lost and found

STUDENT RECREATION CENTER• Items kept at main desk• Unclaimed items are disposed of after one month

BLAIR HALL• Items kept in Room 3170• Unclaimed items disposed of depending on value of item

KLEHM HALL• Items kept in Room 3170• Unclaimed items disposed of depending on value of item

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. UNIVERSITY UNION• Items kept in ticketing office• Items kept for indefinite time, clothes disposed of at end of semester, unclaimed credit cards are cut up and disposed

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By Rebecca Ayers Staff Reporter

The Charleston Parks and Recre-ation Department has rescheduled its T’ai Chi classes to start in No-vember after the instructor under-went hip surgery.

The classes were originally sched-uled to begin on Oct. 2, but have been rescheduled to start in Novem-ber.

The class was originally scheduled to start Oct. 2 and have three ses-sions. As of now, the first two ses-sions are canceled.

“Unfor tunate ly, I w i l l not

be teaching that class this time around,” Feltt said. “I had to have hip surgery.”

Feltt discovered he had osteoar-thritis in both hips and underwent total hip replacement surgery on Sept. 17.

Feltt will need to have his other hip replaced in a few years.

Feltt has studied martial arts for 39 years and he started his focus in Taekwondo in 1973 at Lincoln Trail College, where he became an in-structor in 1976.

It was at this school where he be-gan teaching T’ai Chi.

Since then, he said studied with

several instructors throughout the central and southern Illinois and Missouri areas.

Feltt also has training in Yang-Style T ’ai Chi Ch’uan, several schools of Taekwondo.

Kim Wargo, the supervisor of the Charleston Parks and Recreation Department, said this class is return-ing because of high demand.

Wargo said the T’ai Chi classes would help in promoting balance, flexibility, joint relief, mild cardio, muscle tone, strength and overall health.

Feltt said he intends to use T’ai Chi in his recovery from hip re-

placement surgery. T’ai Chi Ch’uan is a Chinese martial art.

He said the purpose of the course is not to demonstrate the martial applications but to study the more widely practiced applications of moving meditation.

“The roots of T’ai Chi can be traced through the roots of China for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years,” Feltt said.

He said he hopes to enrich the lives of those who wish to learn. Be-cause of his surgery, classes will now start in the beginning of November.

Classes will begin in November and will take place Tuesdays and

Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the City Hall basement at 520 Jack-son Ave.

The cost of the classes will be $30 per session.

For individuals interested in at-tending T’ai Chi classes, or any oth-er classes offered by the Recreation Department, one can register online at www.charlestonillinois.org, or vis-it the office in City Hall or visit the Charleston Recreation Department office at 520 Jackson Ave.

Rebecca Ayers can

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City council to meet with Student SenateBy Kate Quill Staff Reporter

The members of the Student Sen-ate will meet with the Charleston City Council at their meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Although the Student Senate usu-ally meets at 7 p.m. because of the schedules of the council members, they move it up to 6 p.m.

Members of Student Senate invit-ed members of city council to attend a meet-and-greet to familiarize mem-bers of each group with one another.

Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gu-rick said this is one of the first times they have organized a meeting be-tween the two groups.

“We want to work to strengthen

the bond between Eastern and the town of Charleston,” Gurick said.

The event will take place in the Charleston-Mattoon Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and is open to the public.

Gurick said the meeting would al-low students and the senate members to ask questions and address any con-cerns they have for the Charleston community.

“We would love to have students there to ask questions and address concerns,” Gurick said. “It is a really good opportunity to meet your may-or and interact with him.”

Justine Ryan, a senior communica-tions studies major and Student Sen-ate member, said she is looking for-ward to speaking with the council

members and feels it will be benefi-cial for both groups.

“There has not been as much con-versation between the two groups in a past as we would have liked,” Ryan said. “It will defiantly be beneficial for them to hear what we want in the community.”

Charleston Mayor John Inyart and council member Larry Rennels have accepted the groups invitation, how-ever other council members may still

attend the event. Both will address the group during

the audience participation section of the meeting.

The Student Senate has no old business although they will intro-duce a resolution to host a meeting of the Illinois Board of Higher Edu-cation’s Student Advisory Committee on Nov. 10.

Jarrod Scherle, the student exec-utive vice president, is a member of

the committee as a part of the re-quirements of his position.

Scherle attends each of the IB-HE’s meetings and the Student Sen-ate funds his travel to and from the locations of the meeting.

The resolution states the reasons for Eastern to host the event.

They include ideas such as to lim-it eliminate travel expenses for Scher-le and the Student Senate, as well as to put Eastern on a statewide stage.

The Student Senate meets Wednes-days at 7 p.m. and will return to that meeting time after this week’s meet-ing.

Kate Quill can be reached at 581-2812

or kmquill@eiu.edu.

“We want to work to strengthen the bond between Eastern and the town of Charleston,” Mitch Gurick, Student Senate Speaker

By Amanda Wilkinson Staff Reporter

For every residence hall on campus, there is a lost and found at the front desk.

Joshua Lawrie, assistant director for residential life, said that the policy is usu-ally the same for each residence hall.

If something is turned into a residents hall’s lost and found, they will keep the item for a semester or until someone claims it. If no one claims an item, it is either donated or thrown away, Law-rie said.

Jody Stone, the associate director of residential life and conference services, said lost and found items in Ford and Weller halls are taken to McKinney Hall.

Lawrie said if the front desk of a res-idence hall receives room keys, they would send them to the matching build-ing.

Stone said many lost and found items in the residence halls are directly or even-tually sent to the University Police De-partment.

“If it’s something really valuable, then it is given to University Police Depart-ment,” Stone said. “If they don’t take it, then we keep it until someone claims it.”

Jenifer Shupe, an employee of the University Police Department, said items are kept at the department forever, unless they are claimed.

“Money that is not claimed just stays there,” Shupe said.

Arlene Brown, office manager for Booth Library, said that items in Booth Library are kept indefinitely.

There are two lost and founds in Booth Library. Anything that may have value, like a wallet, jewelry or cellphone, is kept upstairs in the Administration of-fice, Brown said. The circulation desk keeps items like gloves, hats and back-packs.

“Valuables are claimed fairly quickly,” Brown said. “If we can identify them, we email them. If it’s a cellphone we look through the contacts list and call mom and dad.”

Brown said one of the longest items in the lost and found at Booth Library was an iPod and car keys.

“We had an mp3 player for over a year,” Brown said. “We still have one or two keys that we have had for over a year. You’re not going anywhere if you lose your keys.”

But Brown said the reason she thinks people do not claim items is because they do not realize they’re lost.

“People don’t know that they have lost items so they don’t think to check here,” Brown said.

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.

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Yesterday our discussion on abortion focused on perspectives from multiple women. The staff at The Daily Eastern News believes men are also entitled to their opinion on the topic, so we chose to spend an extra day on the issue for them to join the conversation.

However, as we discussed in yesterday’s staff editorial, our staff believes women have more say on this topic than men. The decision to have a child or have an abortion puts incredibly more stress on the woman involved physically, mental-ly and emotionally. We do encourage women to consult their partners regardless of their decision but in the end it is mostly up to them.

With this in mind, we find it disconcerting that most of the representatives who will be voting on this issue on a state and national level are men.

Men are just as capable of being informed on a topic as women, and many men understand the topic, but abortion is still a women’s issue. Not only should the decision to have an abortion be up to an individual woman, but also any legis-lation dealing with the matter should be decid-

ed by representatives with adequate knowledge of women’s reproductive health. In most cases, these are going to be doctors and women.

We understand the current representatives can not exactly change their gender or the majority of their life experience, but they can still make an effort in educating themselves on this matter.

Elected officials should be meeting with doctors who perform abortions so they can learn about the actual process. They need to talk with women who are both for and against abortion in order to get an idea of what their constituents are thinking.

Just as we ask voters to be informed about the candidates they are voting for, we too ask candi-dates to be informed on the legislation they are voting and deciding on.

This is almost so obvious we wish we did not have to say it. But unfortunately many politicians are constantly disappointing us in this matter.

Missouri Representative Todd Akin’s com-ments last August were a perfect example of this.

Akin stated a woman’s body would be able to shut down a pregnancy whenever in the case

of “legitimate rape.” He stated he received this information from doctors he talked to.

In a New York Times article published the next day, modern health experts explain how there is no biological basis for Akin’s statement.

Though there was an article published in 1999 describing how women who were raped were less likely to get pregnant, the author, John C. Will-ke, is a former president for the National Right to Life Committee and we question his ability to remain unbiased.

Akin was basing his statement, and his actions, off of dated, biased information.

Our staff is glad Akin is not representing our state because this is not the type of politician that should be making decisions for any kind of leg-islation.

It is not just his opinions we disagree with, but his methods. We would like to see politicians that are researching issues that they are deciding on.

Akin is not the only politician guilty of this but we would like the others take note: this is not how we want to be represented in any issue.

More than one million abortions occur annually in the United States. That’s one million unprovoked deaths every year.

As the presidential election nears, and Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama campaign against one another, the debate on abortion is a hot topic.

Being a Republican and someone who believes in the value of human life, the presidential nominee’s view on abortion is a major factor in deciding my vote.

Coming from a small town in southern Illinois, abortion was never a debate.

The vast majority of the community was anti-abortion and firmly believed in the value of life. I stand firmly with these be-liefs.

I feel that in certain cases abortion could be necessary, but often times, it is a quick fix to a difficult scenario.

There is no doubt that raising a child at a young age is extremely difficult.

It gets in the way of your life plans, your schoolwork or job, and can severely limit your budget.

All of these are viable reasons for avoid-ing a major problem, but ending a life is not worth a little more money in the bank account or a little more free time on a dai-ly basis.

There were more than 1.2 million re-ported abortions in 2011 in the United States. Many of those abortions came from women in the college age group.

Women between the ages of 18 and 19 accounted for 11 percent of all abortions, while women between the ages of 20 and 24 accounted for 33 percent of all abor-tions.

That’s an alarming number of abortions given to women in the college age range. Based off the 2011 statistics, 528 thousand babies were aborted by women between the ages of 18 and 24.

The leading reasons for getting an abor-tion were: concern for responsibility to

others, money issues, interference with life plans and the difficulty of being a single parent.

For those who do not want to handle the responsibilities of raising a child, adop-tion is always the better alternative.

Although the process is lengthy and rather pricey, giving a child to a gracious family is a much better alternative than ending a life through abortion.

I am against abortion, but in circum-stances like rape and incest, aborting should be a viable option.

If a women were to be raped, and be-came pregnant as a result, carrying that burden would be too much for anybody to ask for.

The psychological effects of carrying the baby of your rapist may be a scarring memory that no women should have to handle.

Abortion is still violating a life so out-side of rape, abortion should not be con-sidered as an option.

This is a major problem facing our so-ciety.

Yes, the challenges of raising a child at a young age is overwhelming and extreme-ly stressful, but is the burden of ending a child’s life something you want on your conscious?

Jordan Pottorff is a senior journalism ma-jor. He can be reached at 581-2812

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Jordan Pottorff

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Of all the issues in today’s political arena, few spark more controversy than abortion.

It’s a hotbed for vitriol and violence, and has been convoluted by so much contradiction and fallacy that reaching a middle-ground seems im-possible.

It’s religious. It’s political. It’s “moral.” Consti-tutional, and financial, and its’ divisive nature is the perfect storm for an already-divided country.

Yet in spite of this, we must still confront it. To do so, however, we must first abandon the following assumption: political conviction and religious belief must always agree with one an-other.

That notion is critical to understanding the President’s stance on abortion. Obama feels gov-ernment should never infringe on individu-al choices like abortion or gay marriage, and has been a steadfast proponent the individual since his days as a senator.

Despite being an adamant Christian, he un-derstands religious conviction has no place in governmental affairs, and his voting record shows he has never wavered from that ideal. The crux of President Obama’s stance is defined in the sepa-ration of church and state and the idea that indi-vidual choices should be left to the individual.

Of course, this is where many will interject with the claim that “Obamacare” forces state-funded abortions, thus negating any idea of indi-vidual choice.

Simply put, this is a fallacy. Under the Afford-able Care Act, states are actually required to pro-vide an insurance plan that does not cover abor-tions, while citizens who would like abortions covered pay an extra fee.

Take in to account Obama’s consistent sign-ing of the Hyde Agreement, which bans the use of federal funds for abortions, and the narrative that Obama is “forcing abortion” on the Ameri-can people seems increasingly absurd.

President Obama’s abortion stance is rooted in extending the right to choose to both sides of the abortion debate. He has consistently earned ap-proval ratings from pro-choice groups since his days as a senator, and it doesn’t appear he’ll be

wavering on his ideals any time soon.Unfortunately, one can’t say the same for

Romney. In both 1994 and 2002 campaigns, Romney was an advocate for the right to choose, consistently defending Roe v. Wade. However, after emerging as a presidential-hopeful in 2008, he was quick to change his stance.

Today, Romney supports abortion from rape or incest, though he has suggested he would try to reverse Roe v. Wade. He has also considered cutting funding to Planned Parenthood. Accord-ing to a P.P. spokeswoman, only three percent of the group’s funding is allocated towards abortion. The rest of the group’s funding goes to things like STD-prevention and breast exams.

Granted, Romney’s abortion stance, while flawed, is hardly extreme on its own. However, it is worth noting that Paul Ryan, who could very-well stand one mishap away from the presiden-cy, is exactly that—extreme. Ryan has repeated-ly backed legislature that severely limit a woman’s right to choose, even stating he will “never NOT vote pro-life.”

The Obama stance on abortion is rooted in the freedom of choice for both sides, whereas the Romney/Ryan plan puts social and financial lim-its on women’s rights based on their own person-al and religious ideologies.

In this election, there are really only two op-tions: the right for all to choose, or the right for the government to choose for you. So this No-vember, choose wisely.

Robert Downen is a senior journalism and polit-ical science major. He can be reached at 581-2812

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I am a semi daily user of the Java Beanery & Bakery (JB&B) located in the student union. The EIU community as a whole loves the JB&B.

It provides our daily dose of caffeine and sugar laced carbohydrates for folks like me who do not function effectively to make their own caffeine early in the a.m. (read 11 a.m.).

It also serves as an important meeting spot for the great Eastern triumvirate of students, faculty and administrators. It is our little place away from

the maddening crowd… or so it is most days. The success of the JB&B has caused it to be-

come very hectic and long-line laden at peak hours.

This is not to fault the staff, which is efficient, professional and competent for the task at hand, but more in the planning that an entire universi-ty relies solely on one location for their caffeine fix (the coffee in the food court seems lacking in the much needed caffeine jolt).

If funding permits I propose a second location on campus of the JB&B (say in the basement of Booth Library). This would give stack dwellers a sufficient break area without the need to pack up all their materials and would offer an opportuni-ty for some students to know what the inside of Booth Library looks like (kidding).

I know there would be problems inherent in opening another JB&B. Should it be the same size as the original location or something small-

er? Could it start small and based on revenue be expanded to meet demand? Could the hours go into the evening hours to serve late night study sessions?

Given the chance, I believe the solutions to these problems would easily be created.

The only thing needed would be progressive thinking and our morning cup of coffee.

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Wendy Williamson, the director of study abroad, said the proposal she made to the Council on Academic Af-fairs last spring.

Williamson’s proposal is to allow students the option to count one-credit hour of study abroad plus a one cred-it STA 4000 course in place of their se-nior seminar.

She said this would be an intensive writing course, and there would be a career component to help students in-tegrate their study abroad experience into their job search.

Williamson said this proposal has the potential to “dramatically increase the quality of our study abroad pro-gram.”

Rebecca Throneburg and Karla Sanders from the Committee for the Assessment of Student Learning dis-cussed the executive summary of data for the 2012 academic year.

Sanders said the evaluation of stu-dents’ electronic writing portfolios will be completed in the spring.

Sanders said the CASL was not hap-py with the information the Collegiate Learning Assessment provided the first

time it was administered; however, the tests have changed to include more ru-brics and value added data.

According to CLA data, freshmen writing effectiveness is lower at Eastern than other universities, and senior writ-ing effectiveness is lower than what it should be based upon ACT scores.

Sanders also discussed students’ communication abilities.

“Students can communicate, just not in an overly sophisticated way,” she said.

However, she said there is visible growth in communication skills in stu-dents from freshmen to senior year.

Throneburg said the downward-sloping trend in students’ critical thinking skills has improved since 2006.

Throneburg also talked about data on students’ global citizenship.

She said even though it is difficult to objectively quantify this type of data, it is clear that there has been a general in-crease in the students’ sense of global citizenship.

She said freshmen tend to have more neutral opinions while seniors

tend to think more strongly of their beliefs.

Vice chairman Michael Mulvaney commended the CASL for their ef-forts.

The senate passed a motion by Mul-vaney to communicate with chairman of the CAA Larry White about finding an appointee to fill the CAA position that will be left vacant by Janice Col-lins in January 2013.

Lord requested assistance from the faculty senate to search for candidates for dean of honors and dean of the school for continuing education.

His discussion on recruitment, ad-missions and enrollment is resched-uled for the faculty senate meeting next Tuesday.

Knight-Davis also withdrew her previous motion asking President Bill Perry to issue a statement reaffirming Eastern’s commitment to diversity be-cause he sent a mass email enforcing the mission statement on his own ac-cord.

Stephanie Markman can be reached at 581-2812

or samarkham@eiu.edu.

Gruner also said she loves the var-ious costumes and themes of Mr. Po-tato Head that are constantly coming out.

“I never have to worry about run-ning out of Potato Heads because they always come out with new ones,” she said.

For each holiday season, Gruner places the appropriately themed toy in her living room. For Halloween, she has a toy named Trick-or-Tater, whose entire body is enveloped in a sheet ex-cept for a pair of eyes pegged through the fabric.

Gruner has so many different Mr. Potato Head toys that she has a list of all 42 so that her friends and relatives do not buy her one she already has.

She even has a toy her friend made to resemble Gruner’s likeness named Potephanie, complete with blonde

hair and a T-shirt.However, Gruner said there is one

Mr. Potato Head she wants that has not been made yet.

“I wish they had a ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ Potato Head with Gene Kelly tap dancing,” she said, “But I doubt they will ever have that one.”

As Gruner gets older, she still plans to collect the toys.

“I don’t think that I would ever stop collecting Mr. Potato Heads,” she said.

And if Gruner ever has children, she joked that she will not likely let her children play with her collection.

“They can start their own collection if they want,” she said, laughing.

Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812

or tadeters@eiu.edu.

By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

Eastern’s Expect Greatness cam-pa i gn wen t b eyond the e s t i -mated goal and raised a total of $63,696,747.

President Bill Perry said the cam-paign has been going on since 2006 because it is a comprehensive cam-paign and is ongoing.

“We are seeking support for stu-dents, faculty, facilities and pro-grams,” he said.

Perry said the types of gifts peo-ple donate to the campaign include cash gifts, a cash pledge, land or a planned gift such as putting Eastern in their will.

The funds will be used for things such as scholarships, faculty research and study abroad programs.

“There are a number of ways that giving has an impact on the univer-sity,” he said.

Perry said all universities use the Council for Advancement and Sup-port of Education’s guidelines for cal-culating and achieving the amount of money raised in the campaign.

“Most universities will begin the process with a consultant,” he said. “They meet with the donor base con-fidentially and will test the case for your university, the need for your funding and the confidence of the

donors.”After that, the steering committee

will set a goal total and begin rais-ing funds.

“Once you get to 60 percent of your goal, that’s when you announce and kick off your campaign,” Perry said.

In Eastern’s case, a $50 million goal was set to be achieved by the end of June 2014.

Bob Martin, the vice president for University Advancement, said af-ter assessment, they realized donors could make large commitments.

“We raised over $63 million dol-lars on a $50 million goal,” Martin said. “One-third of that is planned gifts, which means people thought enough of their time at Eastern to remember us in their final estate plans.”

Though the university will not see that money right away, Martin said that portion of the campaign is part of the reason it was such a success.

Martin said there were more than 43,000 gifts donated to the cam-paign.

“We used to average about $3 million a year in gifts and pledges,” Martin said. “However, during the campaign we raised $9.6 million two years ago, and a record $13.8 million last year,” he said.

The three goals of the campaign

were set at the beginning of the cam-paign in 2006.

Martin said these three include in-creasing alumni contacts, increasing volunteer relationships and achieving the goal of $50 million.

“Our alumni value their expe-rience at Eastern so much and it meant a lot to them, so they want their university to continue to be great,” Martin said. “Our theme was ‘expect greatness’ and our al-ums stepped up to the plate and said they want Eastern to continue to be great.”

Martin praised everyone who do-nated to the campaign, and said a

stewardship tour is being planned to thank everyone for what they did for Eastern.

“Donors need to know the influ-ence they’ve had on students for gen-erations to come,” he said. “That money can go a very long way.”

Perry said although the coun-try has been suffering financially throughout the campaign, it did not affect the outcome or success of the campaign.

“What happened was, even though we started this in a recession, the loyalty, dedication and faith of the alumni and friends of the univer-sity led to use getting to more than

$63 million a year and a half early,” Perry said.

Achieving such a high amount was a 27 percent increase, Perry said, and Eastern celebrated Friday night with a barbecue and fireworks, along with displaying a banner of the total amount raised at halftime of Satur-day’s football game.

“All universities do this, but this was our first (campaign),” he said. “It was a big step for us, but the success has made us very pleased.”

Robyn Dexter canbe reached at 581-2812

or redexter@eiu.edu.

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DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMembers of Eastern’s faculty, staff and administration hold the EI&U Greatness campaign banner at O’Brien Field on Sept. 29 during the Panthers’ football game against Austin Peay. The campaign began in 2006, but was not set to be completed until 2014.

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DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior forward Kristin Germann tries to get the ball from a Western Illinois player during the Sept. 9, game at Lakeside Field.

SOCCER, from page 8

The Panthers had five shots in the first half, but Howarth said the team came out flat in the second half and Evansville took advantage.

Evansville’s Dylan Terry hit a shot just to the left, passed Crea-sor and a sliding Eastern defender for the Aces’ first goal of the game from five yards out seven minutes into the second half.

The Panthers best chance of the game came early in the second half when red-shirt freshman Garet Christianson broke free along the right sideline and hit a touch pass to freshman forward Braiden Ac-ton. The shot was Acton’s only of the game and was saved by Evans-ville’s Eric Teppen.

Evansville converted on one of its eight corners in the game in the 63rd minute when Evansville’s Joel Craig headed a ball into the top left shelf of the goal from a corner by Hajderovic.

Hajderovic scored three minutes later on an unassisted goal.

“After that first goal we were c h a s i n g t h e g a m e a n d t h a t stretched us out,” Howarth said. “The second and third goals were pretty poor from a goalkeeping standpoint.”

Creasor was taken out of the game after 71 minutes of play. Se-nior goalkeeper Evan Turner en-tered the game and finished it off, making one save.

“Confidence-wise you have to make sure (Creasor) doesn’t get too down on himself,” Howarth said.

The Panthers hit the road for their next game back into Summit League play.

The Panthers will play Nebras-ka-Omaha at 1 p.m. Saturday.

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or admcnamee@eiu.edu.

“Really, what I do for a living is look at players and evaluate them and let college coaches know if they can play for them and at what level best fits their skill set,” Taylor said.

Taylor also stressed the impor-tance of getting involved in the recruiting process quickly so that coaches can fully understand the player they are targeting.

“The recruiting process starts very early,” he said. “There is a third-party out in the world that helps college coaches find players

and help them understand where players are. (Athletes) need to be active and understand that it’s the coaches’ jobs to get the players re-cruited, but it’s also up to the ath-lete. (The athlete) needs to under-stand that Facebook and Twitter is where college coaches learn about character.”

To ensure prospects that they are proper ly prepar ing for the next level of competition, Taylor has influenced ‘athleadership’ to help aspiring collegiate athletes use sports to help them reach their

goals.“An athleader is someone who

uses sports to get ahead,” Taylor said. “That’s what we feel like we are in the business for. We work with college coaches and fami-lies, and we have what we call ‘ca-reer match.’ We really work with these kids as soon as they become prospects, and we are going to help them and make sure they get the best offer possible.”

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By Dominic Renzetti Staff Reporter

The Eastern women’s soccer team ended its losing streak on Sunday, taking down conference foe Tennes-see Tech in a 3-2 overtime win.

Panthers see overtime for fourth time

For the fourth time this season, the Panther saw a match head into extra time.

This was the first time the team has gone to overtime since the Aug. 26 win at Lakeside Field against Cleveland State.

The Panthers opened the season with three of the team’s first four matches going into extra time. The team currently has a record of 2-2 when in overtime.

Taldone pulled for second time

For the second time this season, red-shirt junior goalkeeper Jessica Taldone was pulled.

Taldone was first pulled in the Cleveland State match in favor of freshman Emily Hinton.

In Sunday’s match against Ten-nessee Tech, junior goalkeeper and Charleston native Brittany O’Dell entered the game for the remaining 27 minutes. O’Dell made one save,

while Taldone, who started, made six saves and allowed two goals.

Pr ior to the Tennessee Tech match, Taldone had not given up more than one goal in six of the team’s last seven matches. Taldone pulled for second time

Around the OVCJunior midfielder Hannah Mc-

Gowen of Tennessee-Martin was named OVC Offensive Player of the Week following a two-goal perfor-mance against Murray State. Ten-nessee-Martin would beat Murray State 2-1 in the match. It was her first multi-goal game of her career.

Fre shman mid f i e ld e r Ka t i e Manns of Jacksonville State was named Co-Defensive Player of the Week after playing all 180 minutes over the weekend’s games. Manns scored a penalty kick and had an as-sist in the team’s win over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.

Also earning Co-Defensive Player of the Week honors was senior de-fender Hayley Abbot of Southeast Missouri.

The Australia native played 290 minutes in three matches, becoming Southeast Missouri’s all-time min-utes leader.

She scored the game-winning goal and had an assist against Mur-ray State for her first points of the season.

Jacksonville State’s Katelyn Ged-dings was named Goalkeeper of the Week, allowing two goals in as

many matches, making a total of 25 saves.

Conference standingsThe Eastern women’s soccer

team stands at 1-2 in the Ohio Val-ley Conference, and are one of five teams who share the same record in conference.

Jacksonville State, who has won four straight matches, including one over Eastern on Friday, stands atop the conference with a record of 3-0.

The Gamecocks are 10-2-1 over-all, having more wins than any oth-er OVC team.

The Gamecocks are also a perfect 5-0 on the road this season.

Tennessee-Martin, the defending OVC champions, have a 2-0-1 re-cord in conference play and are 5-4-3 overall.

Eastern Kentucky is 1-0-1 in the OVC and 5-4-2 overall, while Southeast Missouri is 1-1-1 in con-ference and 2-7-3 overall.

Morehead State is 1-1 in confer-ence and 1-8 overall.

Austin Peay, along with Eastern, Murray State, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and Tennessee Tech are all tied with 1-1 records in the OVC. Belmont is at the bottom of the OVC with a record of 0-0-1.

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By Aldo Soto Staff Reporter

The Eastern men’s tennis team wi l l hos t i t s f i r s t dua l match Wednesday against Missouri-St. Louis at 2 p.m. at Darling Courts.

The Panthers wil l try to im-prove upon their last performance at the Raider Shootout, where they finished with a 12-14 record in singles play and 5-4 record in doubles.

Head coach John Blackburn said he is looking forward to play-ing at home for the first time this year.

The team will be led by senior Michae l Sperr y, who was suc-cessful in singles play at Wright State in September, winning the A-flight consolation champion-ship.

Blackburn said the team has been working hard in pract ice since the last tournament.

“We have nine players, and in practice we are trying to focus on improving every ones individual skills,” Blackburn said.

Despite having a below average performance in singles competi-tion, the Panthers have fared bet-ter in doubles play.

Senior Warren Race and fresh-man Robert Skolik were victorious in their B-flight competition, tak-ing home first place at the Raider Shootout.

Freshman Rui Silva and sopho-more David Constantinescu also look to continue their good play and improve on their second place finish at the C-flight finals from the previous tournament.

Missouri-St . Louis comes to Charleston with a young team led by junior Tim Gorter.

The Tritons have competed in three tournaments, the last being at the ITA Midwest Regional.

Blackburn said they are not fa-miliar with the team, but is look-ing forward to the match.

“ I don’t know much abou t them, but looking at their results they are a solid team,” he said.

“They have solid players.”In its most recent match, the

Tritons were able to advance soph-omores Tim McLarty and Nils Mueggenburg into the round of 32 in singles.

The duo also teamed up and re-corded a first round victory before being eliminated in doubles com-petition.

Sophomore Harry Heyburn has racked up consolation finals victo-ries at No. 3 singles, No. 3 dou-bles with Gorter at the Art Pe-terson Invite, and another conso-lation win in the B-flight finals match at the Lynn Imergoot Invi-tational.

The Triton roster is filled with international players.

Missouri-St. Louis features a brother duo from Venezuela, Ir-ving and Nils Corrales.

Gorter hai l s f rom the Neth-erlands and Mueggenburg from Germany.

Heyburn comes from North-ern Ireland, while McLarty is from neighboring England.

F r e s h m a n M i l o s Vu k i c e v -ic rounds out the diverse roster, coming from Serbia.

Early in the season coach Black-burn s a id he ha s empha s i z ed working on team goals, but also keeping on track with individual player goals.

As Blackburn always expresses to his team, he said competing is most important.

“The main goal is to compete when we go out there and play,” he said.

Following the dual with Mis-souri-St. Louis, the Panthers will head back to the road to com-pete at the Southern Illinois Fall Shootout, hosted by Southern Illi-nois-Carbondale.

T h e So u t h e r n I l l i n o i s Fa l l Shootout i s the f inal meet be-fore the ITA Regional, hosted by Michigan State.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812

or asoto2@eiu.edu

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Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKayla Nesbitt, a freshman outside hitter, spikes the ball over Tennessee-Martin players during the game on Friday, Sept. 22 at Lantz Arena. The Panthers take on the University of Illinois-Chicago at 7p.m. and Morehead State at 7p.m. on Oct. 5 in Lantz Arena.

By Jordan Pottorff Sports Editor

Randy Taylor is one of the nation’s top recruiters. He has served as re-cruiting coordinator for UNLV and UCLA, and was named the nation’s top recruiting coordinator by ESPN.com.

Now, Taylor is the director of re-cruiting at National Collegiate Scout-ing Association (NCSA) Athletic Re-cruiting, and is affiliated with a num-ber of premier teams in college foot-ball and specializes in talent evalua-tion in high school athletics.

As for his connection with East-ern, Taylor played a role in discover-ing junior quarterback Jimmy Garop-polo while he was a high school se-nior at Rolling Meadows in Arlington Heights.

“When (Garoppolo) was a senior, he was kind of off the radar, and I went out to watch him practice,” Tay-lor said. “We made him our top quar-terback target, and I’ve always been a huge fan of his.”

Along with recruiting Garoppolo, Taylor had high praise for the quarter-back now that he has established him-self as one of the best in the Ohio Val-ley Conference, and believes that an opportunity to play professionally is not out of reach.

“(Eastern) played Northwestern in Evanston last year, and we were talk-ing about how (Garoppolo) should be playing at a higher level,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see Garoppo-lo get a shot (to play professionally.) He has another year to develop, and I have to believe with his production, he may get a shot.”

Outside of being involved in the recruitment of Garoppolo, Taylor be-gan his career in college football as an assistant coach for the Illinois Fight-ing Illini. He served as an offensive line coach and played a major role in recruiting until he became the recruit-ing coordinator at UNLV.

“My role at the time was primari-ly recruiting,” Taylor said. “It was the start, it was paying my dues. I was working for free, but just having that opportunity to be at that level in col-lege football prepared me for big time sports.”

Following a stint at UNLV, Tay-lor was named the recruiting coordi-nator at UCLA, and was awarded the nations top recruiting coordinator by ESPN.com after the Bruins land-ed the No. 1 ranked recruiting class in the nation.

Although Taylor is actively in-volved in the recruiting process with coaches, he has focused on educating high school prospects on what college coaches expect from them at the col-legiate level.

“The most important thing that (prospects) have to know is what col-lege coaches are looking for,” Taylor said. “Talent, academics and character all tie in. Talent is the easiest to eval-uate, but the academic part and char-acter can knock you out of playing for the school of your dreams.”

Taylor is also a fixture in talent evaluation as he will analyze an ath-lete’s skill set and inform coaches throughout the country what type of player a given athlete can be.

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By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

The Eastern men’s soccer team gave up three goals on a misty Lake-side Field Tuesday in a 3-0 loss against Evansville on Tuesday.

Players on both teams slipped all over the field as the light rain damp-ened the grass, and it may have affect-ed Eastern freshman goalkeeper Gar-rett Creasor on Evansville’s third and final goal, head coach Adam Howarth said.

Evansville’s Faik Hajderovic hit a shot from 22 yards out at the 66-min-ute mark. The shot lacked power, trickling along the grass, but Crea-

sor’s foot caught the grass wrong and he slipped.

The slip allowed the ball to sneak past Creasor’s left side and into the goal.

The goal was the third and final goal of the game for the Aces, but the score could’ve been even higher if a few chances in the first half crossed the goal line.

Evansville’s Jesse Sharp found the ball at his feet in the goal box after one of the Aces’ eight corner kicks in the game and his shot got passed the Creasor’s right side. On the play, though, Creasor wasn’t the last line of defense.

Eastern sophomore forward Tayron

Martin was standing on the goal line and blocked the ball of his legs to save a goal.

Creasor got tangled up with mul-tiple Evansville attackers 15 minutes into the game, leaving the goal box wide open.

Eastern freshman midfielder Nick Smith, standing at the same spot Mar-tin was seven minutes earlier, blocked an open shot with his legs. Then, he blocked a rebound shot in the stom-ach by the same Evansville player.

At the 28-minute mark, Evansville’s bench erupted thinking it had a goal, but once again an Eastern defender saved a wide open net.

Creasor, diving to save a shot, col-

lided with a charging Evansville de-fender and lost control of the ball. The ball slid to the feet of an Evans-ville attacker, who tried chipping it into the goal; however, an Eastern de-fender was there and cleared it before it went over the goal line.

Going into halftime, the game was scoreless. Despite what could’ve been a 3-0 Evansville lead, Howarth said the team was still confident in its chances.

“Even though (Evansville) had those chances, we played pretty well and created some things offensively,” Howarth said.

By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

The Eastern volleyball team will have a short break from the Ohio Val-ley Conference as it closes out its cur-rent three-game road trip Wednesday at 7 p.m. against Illinois-Chicago.

The Panthers sit at 3-13 and are currently on an eight-game losing streak, leaving them winless through the first four games in conference play.

After four days off, senior middle hitter Alison Berens said her and her teammates have used it to focus on what they can control on their side of the ball.

“The past four days we’ve really just been working on ourselves and fo-cusing on the things we can control, which seems to be what we’ve been struggling with,” she said.

The Flames come in at 8-10, having lost their last two match-es, the first to Youngstown State in five sets (25-23, 23-25, 23-25, 25-21, 15-12), followed by Cleveland State in straight sets (25-21, 25-16, 25-14).

The Panthers and the Flames have faced off once each year since 2007, aside from the 2008 season. In those four contests, the Panthers have best-ed the Flames each year.

Berens said she remembers the matches against Illinois-Chicago as fun competition and has hopes of

building off a good result.“Personally I have always remem-

bered UIC to give us a pretty fun game,” Berens said. “I’m excited and hopeful that the result of this game gives us a confidence booster that we need.”

Last season, Eastern downed Il-

linois-Chicago in a four set battle, fighting back after a first set loss at home (22-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-22).

Hutchinson nabbed a double-double with 18 kills and 12 digs. Senior outside senior Emily Frank-lin, along with fellow captain Be-rens, followed with 16 and 12 kills, respectively.

The two also collided towards the end of the first set as they butt-ed heads running for a ball.

The collision resulted in Frank-lin having to sit out the second set and having to wear a different number jersey.

A two-game home stand awaits the Panthers after Chicago. The Panthers will host defending OVC champion Morehead State at 7 p.m. Friday in Lantz Arena.

The Panthers were able to upset the Eagles on the road last season in their second match-up. A 2 p.m. match against Eastern Kentucky on Saturday will follow.

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.

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MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMidfielder/forward Will Butler looks back as members of Evansville University’s men’s soccer team celebrate a goal made by forward Dylan Terry. The Panthers were defeated by Evansville 3-0.

Men’s soccer team slips, loses 3-0