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By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

Eastern sponsored the grand open-ing of Java Beanery & Bakery’s out-door café Friday.

Dan Nadler, vice president for stu-dent affairs, said the café has been in the plans for a couple of years.

Nadler said this is part of the plan for a pedestrian plaza on campus.

“This is something we’ve been talk-ing about for some time,” Nadler said. “Last spring it went into the planning phase, so I hope it’s well used and en-joyed.”

Cathy Engelkes, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Universi-

ty Union, said the café will be a good place for students.

“I hope people will go in, get coffee or a drink, or visit the Panther Pantry, or even the Food Court, and come out and have fun,” Engelkes said.

Nadler said many students seem ex-cited about the café.

“People are very excited, we are pleased with the turnout,” Nadler said.

Nadler said he is happy to have the café open for students to use.

“We hope people will get as much use out of it as possible before the weather gets bad, but we will be ready to jump right back in when the weath-er improves,” Nadler said.

Nadler said he realizes the café will

only be used part of the year.“It’s no doubt that an outdoor café

in this part of the country is most fre-quently used mid- to late fall to late spring and the summer months,” Nadler said.

Englkes said the outside café may be covered eventually, but has not put into action yet.

Kristina Garza, a senior family and consumer sciences major, said she thinks the café is a good environment.

“It’s a nice place to come and talk and hang out with your friends,” Graza said. “In between classes, sitting, grab a cup of coffee and wait for your next class to start.”

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EDUC ATION

Basic Skills Test changes greatly reduce passing rateBy Amy Wywialowski Staff Reporter

The number of students who passed the Basic Skills Test has de-creased 57 percent since scoring changes were made to the test in 2010.

Doug Bower, associate dean of the College of Education and Pro-fessional Studies, said the test itself did not change much, but the State Board of Education changed what scores are considered passing.

“Prior to this change about 90 percent of students passed, now only about 33 percent do,” Bow-er said. “They need at least an 80 percent in each of the subtests to pass.”

Along with these changes, stu-dents can take the test a maxi-mum of five times in their lifetime if they hope to be a teacher in Il-linois.

Education majors make up 35 percent of Eastern students, and these students need to pass this test to be able to take many of their teacher certification classes.

Stephen Lucas, the chair of the secondary education and founda-tions department, said the chang-es in the Basic Skills Test have con-tributed to decreased enrollment.

“Enrollment has been down be-cause of the job market as well as this hurdle,” Lucas said. “Our gen-eral methods courses are down 40 percent enrollment from 2009, and we’ve had to drop sections and have some small sections as well.”

The Basic Skills Test will be Nov. 12 and students must register to take the test no later than Nov. 8.

“We’re providing a lot of new workshops, tutoring sessions, stu-dent-led tutorials, computer soft-ware as well as final prep. Students should plan to study about 7 to 10 hours a week,” Bower said.

Two of the new offerings include study groups and one-on-one con-sultations to set up a study plan.

Lucas said the student lead drop-in programs are often less in-timidating to students and some students feel they can learn better from a fellow student instead of a faculty member.

Lucas said the department is also offering faculty-lead sessions.

Bower said these study groups can help provide a sense of com-munity to help students work through their test anxiety and help one another.

Another resource is the one-on-one consultations to help students plan their study schedules.

Sharon Kim, a first year gradu-ate student who works with Bower, conducts these consultations.

“I’ve had three students come in so far and they seemed to appreci-ate it,” Kim said. “I plan according to their schedules; I think know-ing what they can and cannot go to helps.”

Although these changes have made it more difficult for students, both Bower and Lucas agree the changes were necessary.

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HIGH SCHOOL BAND COMPETITION

O’Brien Field overflowed with music SaturdayBy Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

Eastern’s O’Brien Stadium was filled with competitive music and 29 high school marching bands Saturday.

The Panther Marching Band spon-sored its 35th annual Panther March-ing Band Festival for Illinois’ high schools to come see how their bands compare with others.

The 29 high schools that partic-ipated in the festival were split into one of four sections that were based off of the number of participants of their band, 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A.

Each section consisted of six to eight bands who played songs rang-ing from “This is Halloween” from the Nightmare Before Christmas to “Proud to be an American” by Lee Greenwood.

Awards for the best drum major, best auxiliary, outstanding percus-sions, general affect, best visual, best music selection, first, second, third place and participation awards were given to each section throughout

the day. Alan Sullivan, interim director

of bands and director of the Pan-ther Marching Band and the East-ern Wind Symphony, said for his first year he thinks the day went re-ally good.

“It went very smooth,” Sullivan said. “The day just seemed to go really smoothly. Except the wind, we didn’t have any problems with the weather. And with the 29 bands, it went well.”

Sullivan said he hopes the band learned something from the compe-tition.

“I hope they learn from the judges’ comments and continue their musi-cal education and learn from it,” Sul-livan said.

Wendy Ronna, the director of the Hoopeston Area High School march-ing band, said she thinks her band did well.

“The competition is good to see how well you perform,” Ronna said. “In a competition like this, they have judges from all around who judge dif-ferent parts of the performance, and

their comments help the bands im-prove.”

The Hoopeston marching band took first place in the 2A section of the competition.

Wyatt Roberds, the director of the Granite City Marching band, said his bands performance was their best so far.

“We don’t care where they place as long as it was better than the last one,” Roberds said. “I tell them if you compete better (last) Friday night than today, then you lose. If you do better you are champions.”

Roberds said that while his band is competing with other bands, the real competition is with themselves.

Rodney Embrey, a Chatsworth resident, said he thinks the bands learn discipl ine and teamwork through competitions like the festi-val.

“They have to work as a team to do the routine and if they don’t have dis-cipline it messes up the whole team,” Embrey said.

The other first-place winners were

Atwood-Hammond for 1A and Ma-homet-Seymour for 4A.

The second place winners were Oak Valley for 1A, Tri Valley for 2A,

Champaign Centennial for 3A, and Normal for 4A.

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KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS A student from Centralia High School plays the baritone Saturday dur-ing the 35th annual Panther Marching Band Festival on O’Brien Field. 29 schools competed, Centralia taking 3rd place in the Class 2A section.

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By Andrew Crivilare Staff Reporter

Vendors, graduate students and members of the community alike came together Saturday and Sun-day at Lincoln Log Cabins for the historic site’s annual Fall Festival.

The Fall Festival consisted of two days of activities, which ranged from skillet tossing and log sawing to a rep-lication of a 1840s Sunday sermon.

Cathy Grafton, of Pontiac, came dressed in a conservative dress and bonnet for the festival.

“I represent an older style,” Graf-ton said. “Fashion didn’t change too quickly back then.”

Grafton was one of more than a dozen costumed vendors selling homemade replicas of tools, cloth-ing and toys from the era.

She said it was not uncommon in the 19th century for people to decorate their clothing with intri-cate patches of embroidery.

“They didn’t decorate their hous-es like we do today, so they decorat-ed their clothing,” Grafton said. “The amount of skilled people had decorat-ing their clothing was astounding.”

Carl Handel, of Blue Mound, said men, too, would decorate the tools they used in their day-to-day life.

Handel attended the Fall Fes-tival this year as a 19th centu-ry farmer and sold powder horns, devices used to load powder in to a muzzle-loading firearm. He said these powder horns were of-ten decorated with calligraphy as a creative channel for those who made them.

“People are people,” he said. “They’ll always want an outlet to

express themselves.”Handel said he is no exception, and

the vendors attending the event are not strictly about selling their goods.

“Part of it is our interest in his-tory, our interest to teach,” Handel said. “It’s an outlet for us.”

Emily Irwin, an Eastern gradu-ate student in historical administra-tion, was on site in costume playing a 19th century children’s’ game called Hoops and Graces along with a fel-low graduate student and another two girls from the third grade.

Irwin said the goal of the game was to use two sticks to fling a small wooden hoop to the other player, who was expected to catch the hoop on her stick, but she acknowledged a lack of skill in the game compared to her younger counterparts. Playing the game in costume is used as part of Lincoln Log Cabins’ living histo-ry exhibition.

“This is a new experience for me,” Irwin said. “I have never done a living history before.”

Living histories can draw atten-tion towards aspects of a historical setting in a way traditional exhibits cannot, Irwin said.

“For kids, this is important,” she said. “They can’t get this experience from looking at a panel in a muse-um or a history book.”

Phyllis Borris-Meek, of Marshall, said she had been coming to the Lin-coln Log Cabins since she was in grade school and was now bringing her family to the Fall Festival.

“I want my niece and nephews to see what life is like out here,” she said. “It’s one thing to be told people used to live like this, it’s another thing to see it.”

Borris-Meek said she enjoys seeing

a time when families worked togeth-er and were closer, and thinks that this made them stronger.

“It makes you appreciate what you’ve got,” she said. “I’m thankful

that places like this still exist.”

Andrew Crivilare can be reached at 581-7942

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K ATIE OVERBY | DAILY EASTERN NE WSEmily Erickson, 9, Shelbyville, learns to play Graces with the help of Maren mcKee, graduate student, historical administration, at the Fall Festival at the Lincoln Log Cabin on October 1. Graces was a popular game in the 19th century, where girls would send a ribboned hoop trough the air to each other and catch the hoop on wooden sticks or wands.

By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

A one-man performer will be talk-ing about race and diversity, which will make audience members ques-tion how they view themselves today.

The University Board invited Michael Fosberg to perform his one-man show called “Incognito”.

Fosberg will be speaking about his journey of discovering who he is and how he sees himself at 7 p.m. today in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Fosberg said he talks with audi-ence members about who they are and about how their background af-fects how they identify themselves.

He said the play brings up all the different things that people associate with who they are, and that element

of the play is what makes it fascinating.Fosberg said not everyone iden-

tifies themselves the same way as someone else and our perceptions of others are different.

“Who you are is a lifetime jour-ney and I think that is why the play has resonated with so many peo-ple,” Fosberg said.

Fosberg’s play details the journey he took to find his father and how he learned his heritage.

Fosberg grew up in Waukegan in a working class caucasian family.

“All my life, for some unex-plained reason, I always felt a deep connection to African American culture,” Fosberg said.

Fosberg said that when he found out who his father was, his connec-tion to African American culture made sense. Fosberg’s father and

heritage are African American. “It was a really joyous event to

learn my heritage,” Fosberg said. Fosberg said when he meet his

father he learned so much. “I grew up in a working white class

family and learned that I am so much more than that,” Fosberg said.

Fosberg said he refers to himself as “Tri-ple A—African America and Armenian.”

“I try to embrace all of who I am,” Fosberg said.

After finding out about his heri-

tage, he said he did not have an is-sue adjusting to the idea of being African American.

“All of my friends have been ac-cepting,” he said. “Although I get all kinds of reactions when I perform.”

Fosberg said that learning how you are is not something that you find out in one day.

“All these things make up who you are right now,” he said. “As you get older things change.”

Fosberg said that even though the show is a play that it is very en-tertaining and interesting.

“You walk in, have a great time, and walk out thinking about what you just saw,” Fosberg said.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-7942

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One-man performer questions student’s identities

Michael Fosberg talks to audi-ences about who they are and how their background affects how they identify themselves. Topics which help audience members think internally in-clude race and diversity.

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NIGHT OF HOPE

By Sara Hall City Editor

Attendees of “Night of HOPE” crowded in shoulder-to-shoulder on Friday at Jackson Avenue Coffee (JAC) to show their support against domestic violence.

Dan Reible, owner of JAC, de-scribed the evening benefit of mu-sic and food as their busiest night of the year. He said the event has gained popularity throughout the years be-cause people are eager to show their support for HOPE, which stands for Housing, Outreach, Prevention and Education.

“It’s a great event,” he said. “(HOPE) is working towards a great cause. They offer somewhere for peo-ple needing to get out of an abusive situation.”

Reible said while all regular food and drink items at JAC were offered, many attendees opted for the café’s bread bowls of either wild rice and chicken or broccoli and cheese soup because all proceeds went towards HOPE.

Bands Motherlode, Reverend Rob-ert and Some of Us provided live mu-sic. Poetry group Speak Easy also per-formed at the event.

In addition to the funds raised from the bread bowls, a silent auction was sponsored, with items donated from local artists and businesses. Raf-

fle tickets were sold for a blown glass vase made by Randy Turner, of Paris.

Angie Hunt, housing and program director of HOPE, said the event originated seven years ago out of a need for a fundraiser, but also a way to kick off Domestic Violence Aware-ness Month.

“It’s about funds, but also about raising awareness and coming togeth-er,” she said.

Hunt said she enjoys not only see-ing people come out to support the event every year, but also entertain-ment and joy it brings attendees.

“The community and people of all ages come together and have the best time,” she said.

Pauline Kade, a HOPE volunteer and event committee member, said although Night of HOPE is now in its seventh year, and it has only grown and gained extensive support from community members throughout the years.

“We get a broad base of the com-munity, not just one section,” she said. “It’s good that everyone in the community comes out to support (Night of HOPE).”

Hunt said the event remains rele-vant every year because the issue of domestic violence has not disappeared and continues to need support shown against it.

“Domestic violence can happen to anyone,” she said. ‘We need to come to-

gether to help it stop from happening.”Shanna House, of Gayes, said she

came to show her support for the cause because, as a teacher, she fre-quently sees the effects of domestic vi-olence on others at her job.

“I see family and students affect-ed by domestic violence,” she said. “It’s close to my heart. I like to sup-port HOPE because it’s nice for peo-ple to have a safe shelter to go to and get help.”

Damiya Perkins, a senior family and consumer sciences major, said she attended the event because she sup-ports fighting domestic violence, a cause she said is often misunderstood and needs to be stopped.

“People don’t understand the do-mestic violence factor. It affects both families and people’s lives,” she said. “Coming to this helps people under-stand the meaning of helping out.”

Reible said overall, Night of HOPE attendees were proud to show their support and were appreciative of the one-night event against domestic vio-lence.

“We’ve had people thanking us all week for putting on this event,” he said. “We’re proud to be part and help what we do helps even the slightest.”

For more information on HOPE, visit www.hope-eci.org.

Sara Hall can be reached at 581-7942 or smhall3@eiu.edu.

‘Night of HOPE’ attendees raise money over coffee

By: Jessica Nunez Staff Reporter

Students got the chance to trav-el the world and learn about many different cultures through music Friday.

The Assoc iat ion of Interna-tional Students (AIS) sponsored their fourth annual “Sounds of the World Dance” in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.

The event included individu-al and group performances by AIS members, an open dance floor for audience members, musical chairs, raffles and food.

The first performance included an interpretive Indian dance held by two international students from India.

One of the dancers, Samyuktha Chowdary, a graduate technology major, said she was proud to take part in this event for her second year at Eastern.

Chowdary said this is one of the many great activities Eastern pro-vides for International students.

“We can feel free here and get exposed to other cultures while still expressing our own,” Chow-dary said.

Cheng Nian, a graduate biology major from China, took advantage of this event to introduce East-ern students to Chinese tradition-al music, culture and arts. He in-vited his wife, Zhou Siyan, to play the Guzheng, a traditional Chinese instrument.

Siyan has played for 12 years practicing up to eight hours a day, and is always in search of other op-portunities to play for students.

“This was a good opportunity to give students a perspective of Chi-nese culture and music,” Nian said.

Joy Ignalaga, a senior graphic design major from the Philippines and the media coordinator for AIS, led a Hip Hop dance with a group of other female International stu-dents.

“These girls were good dancers but they never danced Hip Hop before this performance,” Ignala-ga said.

Ignalaga said the performance was all about exposing women to American culture. The women chose to incorporate internation-al music from their own cultures as well songs they heard on the radio into the dance.

“There were ups and downs but we made it through. I know it was challenging for them but it was also a good experience,” Ignalaga said.

One important part of the event was getting the audience togeth-er to partake in the dancing. AIS provided multiple songs for all dif-ferent types of students to get on the dance floor including the “Cu-pid Shuffle,” which many audience members joined into.

Arelys Flores, a junior biolo-gy major, said she came out to the event to get familiar with other cultures and styles of dancing.

“When you are familiar with dif-ferent cultures you become more tolerant and accepting to different ways of thinking,” Flores said.

Jessica Nunez can be reached at 581-7942 or janunez@eiu.edu.

AIS shows ‘Sounds of World’ through dance

KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Jazz, blues and folk singer Reverend Robert performs a cover of the band Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher” Saturday during A Night of HOPE at Jackson Avenue Coffee. The night was dedicated to raising money for the HOPE Family Services, an organization helping victims of domestic violence.

JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND WOODWIND SYMPHONY PERFORMANCE

By Andrew Crivilare Staff Reporter

Two genres of music shared a stage when the Eastern’s Jazz Ensemble and Woodwind Symphony played Friday at the Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The multiple-award-winning Jazz Ensemble took the stage first under the direction of Professor Sam Fagaly.

Fagaly said the ensemble had just performed little more than a week prior to their Friday night concert.

“We didn’t want to repeat too many parts,” Fagaly said.

The Jazz Ensemble was conscious of the fact that they were playing to an audience mixed with members pri-marily anticipating the Woodwind Symphony as well as their own fans, Fagaly said.

“We tried to have enough variety that the audience will find something they enjoy,” he said. “They seemed to enjoy it.”

Fagaly said the ensemble has been hard at work practicing together since the beginning of the semester but also devote time on their own to practic-ing skills they bring to the ensemble.

“Most of them are studying jazz,” Fagaly said. “The students work on improv on their own.”

Steve Kaiser, a graduate student studying music and the Ensemble’s guitarist, was met with applause dur-ing his improvisation during the En-semble’s final number, “And Another Thing.”

Kaiser said to prepare for the im-provisation the members of the band each turn to their musical heroes for inspiration.

“We try to emulate who we look up to,” Kaiser said. “Tonight, I was thinking about Pat Metheny, he’s a big influence.”

The Ensemble also sought to hon-or a jazz great when they performed “Boplicity,” made famous by Miles Davis, in a way resembling Davis’s 1949 recording as accurately as pos-sible.

“Once in a while we like to pay tribute to a classic recording,” Fagaly said. “We try to recreate the recording as best we can since its such an im-portant part of our literature.”

The Wind Symphony performed second, conducted by Alan Sullivan.

Sullivan started the Symphony off with an piece called “Graysondance.” Sullivan said the composer David Holsinger wrote it about Holsinger’s son in 1993.

Sullivan said the song’s hectic, up-beat pace betrays that Holsinger’s son was a little hyperactive.

The Symphony closed with a num-ber called “Bayou Breakdown.”

“It’s like Bach meets Percy Grang-er meets jazz,” Sullivan said. “It’s the most different Bach you’ll ever hear in

your life.”Michelle Sullivan, conductor Alan

Sullivan’s daughter, was on hand to watch her father’s first performance at Eastern.

“He was stressing out,” she said.Sullivan said when the evening was

complete and her father took his bow, she knew the concert had been a suc-cess.

“I remember him coming off the stage with a big smile on his face,” she said.

Lisa Gaza, a senior music major and French horn player in the Sym-phony, said Woodwind Symphony said she too thought Friday’s perfor-mance went as well as planned.

“We did a lot of rehearsals, get-ting the kinks out,” Gaza said. “But I think tonight we really kicked it.”

Andrew Crivilare can be reached at 581-7942 or ajcrivilare@eiu.edu.

Jazz, Classical share stage

MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSPianist David Hoffman performs a solo Friday during an EIU Jazz Ensemble performance in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The EIU Jazz Ensemble and Wind Symphony joined together for “Life in the Groove.”

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By Jason Waller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Philosophy-Eastern Illinois University

Recently, a group of conservative stu-dents at the University of California at Berkeley staged a protest against affirma-tive action. The protest was a mock bake sale where they charged white students more for the same cookies than black stu-dents. Liberal groups staged a counter-pro-test. The debate quickly became hysterical, predictable, and frankly dumb.

In this essay I would like to present a so-ber liberal response to this protest. I do not think that the students are racists, but I do think they are scientifically ignorant. And here’s why:

The problem is that the bake sale is not relevantly similar to affirmative action pro-grams. The mock bake sale treats a group of similar people (namely, students at one of America’s top universities) different-ly for no good reason. The assumption be-hind the protest is that the system is fair and then affirmative action programs come along and make the system unfair. With-out such programs everyone would have an

equal opportunity, but then these programs mess up this fair system by giving some people an undeserved advantage.

But supporters of these programs argue that affirmative action programs do not ac-tually give “preferential treatment” to mi-norities, but they correct (at least a little) for pre-existing undeserved disadvantag-es suffered by minorities. (Or, put anoth-er way—these programs help give minor-ities the same undeserved advantages that whites enjoy.) These programs take a sys-tem that is currently unfair and help to make it a little more fair.

So who is right? Is the system fair to start with? Do minorities in America suf-fer from significant and undeserved disad-vantages because of their race? Ultimately, this is a scientific (not a political) question. The only way to answer this question is by doing some science.

Decades worth of social science has built up a compelling case for the conclusion that minority groups (not only in Ameri-ca but in many societies around the world) suffer from pervasive and significant disad-vantages.

In her new book “The Imperative of In-

tegration” (Oxford: 2010), philosopher Elizabeth Anderson provides a good sum-mary of this data. Not all of these disad-vantages arise because of overt racism (al-though there is strong evidence that such racism remains pervasive.) Rather, the dis-advantages arise from a host of less obvi-ous causes.

To give just one example, studies find that people tend to socialize mainly with members of their own race. This gener-al tendency results in certain racial groups being systematically excluded from the broader society.

Studies of many different societies have found that this type of systemic social ex-clusion (however benign its causes) de-prives the members of the excluded group of many important opportunities enjoyed by other members of the society.

Perhaps affirmative action programs are not a good way to correct for the unfair disadvantages that socially excluded groups face (that is a political question), but pro-posing a plausible conservative alternative will require a more sober and scientifically informed discussion than the one the bake sale provoked.

The Berkeley bake sale: A sober liberal response

LET TERS TO THE EDITOR

There are 21 million reasons to ques-tion the accountability of Illinois paying its dues.

According to the Sept. 30 article in The Daily Eastern News, Illinois owes Eastern $21 million for FY11, which is about 42 percent of our total appropriations.

This is no small chunk of change we are talking about here. It is the equivalent of buying a $3 cup of coffee from Starbucks every day for around the next 20,000 years.

It seems like you can count on the state being behind on payments as much as you can count on there being air to breathe on Earth.

However, the aspect of this situation that seems most questionable is the fact that the state has changed the way it is making its payments.

According to the article, when the state was behind on FY10 payments, they didn’t begin paying FY11 until FY10 was paid off. The state is implementing a different strategy that is making us nervous.

The state has decided to pay FY12 on time, in the amount of about $7 million, and we have not received FY11 payments for nearly three months.

On the surface, it seems like a good thing that the state is taking the initiative to make timely payments for FY12. How-ever, we hope that the state does not think that it can sweep $21 million under the rug.

“We are not digging a hole further but it is still an awful lot of money from last year’s budget that they still owe us,” Trea-surer Paul McCann said in the article.

The fact that the state is behind on such a large amount deters Eastern from buying supplies, doing construction and hiring faculty and staff members as others leave the university.

“Unfortunately, I think it makes it dif-ficult for a lot of the faculty who are not getting all of the supplies they might need,” McCann said in the article. “We play a balancing game trying to keep enough money going into that process, but we do not always succeed.”

Eastern has been staying afloat by mak-ing these expense cuts and being conserva-tive with funds, but doing so is a band-aid to the problem, not a solution.

Playing the waiting game is putting us on edge and $21 million is not going to be forgotten easily.

Hopefully the state will try to pay for FY11 and FY12, but right now the state seems to be freezing its payments for FY11.

The state should be more clear as to why they are not paying FY10 so Eastern can better plan its own budget.

“Google God” cannot give us love

Congratulations to Mr. Sainer for his spirited and fact-filled defense of the Tea Party against the attacks of racism being leveled against us. He is writing in the spirit of Eastern’s first Pres-ident, Livingston C. Lord, whose words are en-graved at the entrance of Old Main. They are, “...not who is right, but what is true.”

As a participant in the Sept. 12, 2010 rally, I saw the diversity of opinion expressed there. Young black Americans joined us there and I have the pictures as evidence.

As we marched together, they began the chant, “Black and white must unite.” Many of us joined in the chant. Apparently, Justice Clar-ence Thomas is not the only one to have “fled the plantation.” Some of us have indeed found common ground.

Very truly yours,

Leonidas H. Miller Mattoon

I’m writing this letter as a short com-mentary of Sarah Bigler’s Sept. 27 col-umn, “Praise be to Google, Who doth know all things.”

I had mixed feelings after reading her column. I found it to be very wit-ty and clever. Yet I was also saddened to a certain degree regarding her charac-terization of what “God” is and her use of Google to, as I see it, poke fun at the Christian concept of God.

I believe that her column uninten-tionally revealed a kind of values men-tality that seems to be very insufficient. She displays a lack of comprehension when comparing Google’s characteris-tics to God (it doesn’t bother me that she makes the comparison, only the way she does so.)

She seems to find Google so “holy” and “never failing” that she compares it to a God. Why? Because Google pro-

vides information and knowledge. She “feels the need to worship.” I’m not a Fundamentalist, but her feeling of ven-eration toward information is where I see the danger.

Atheists often seem to place human intelligence and knowledge as the su-preme virtue (Christopher Hitchens is a case in point). This is not so with Christianity. The traditional Christian explanation of God has always been this, “Deus Caritas Est,” or, “God is Love.”

My point is this: We must never for-get as a society that what is most valu-able in our world is love, not just intel-ligence. Both are extremely important, but Google cannot give us love, that most fundamental human longing.

Geoffrey Zokal Charleston

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Children learn about Latin culture at campBy Dan Somenek Staff Reporter

Children ages 3 to 13 made maracas, played Latin bingo and danced to the “Macarena” at a Latin American Student Organization event last Saturday morning in the Andrews Hall basement.

LASO planned the event, called “Ni-nos, Come On, Vamonos!”, to hap-pen during National Hispanic Heritage Month, which this year runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

Karla Centeno, vice president of LASO, said the main goal is to enlight-en young children with the Latin Amer-ican culture.

“We hope that they’re able to experi-ence it for themselves, learn some Spanish and overall have a good time,” she said.

Attendee Robert Dinkins said the chil-dren had the most fun and energy when the Macarena came on. Dinkins said his little cousin had fun dancing at the event.

“I remember doing the Macarena when I was little so it was good to see him get into it to,” Dinkins said.

Centeno said this is the first year LASO is sponsoring the event.

“We try to program at least two pro-

grams every year for Hispanic Heritage Month, and this one is one for the years,” Centeno said.

A total of 25 children registered for the camp.

LASO plans to continue this event and they hope to continue expanding chil-dren’s knowledge on the Latin culture.

“So far, I believe that the children have responded very well,” Centeno said. “Many of them were actually referred to the event by their Spanish teacher, so it shows that they already have the interest.”

This is not the only event LASO has put together for Hispanic Heritage Month.

“We also did a ‘Formation of Latin America’ Sept. 15, and it was a presenta-tion of how the Latin American countries gained their independence, wars fought and key characters,” Centeno said. “In past years we’ve done other events like pi-ñata making.”

Centeno said LASO has provid-ed many activities over this month and hopes to improve and expand in the fu-ture years.

Dan Somenek can be reached at 581-7942 or ddsomenek@eiu.edu.

VOLUNTEERING

“Make a Difference Day” features car washing, gardening and other activities

By Kathryn Richter Staff Reporter

Eastern hosted the student-run “Make a Difference Day,” across Charleston and surrounding areas to promote community service on Saturday.

Eastern sponsored four different projects, two of them on campus and two in the surrounding area. The proj-ects included a police department ap-preciation carwash, a community gar-den makeover, a city of Kansas park party and Casey Elementary School aid project.

Serena Loranca, a senior environ-mental biology major, helped to win-terize the local community garden and was a volunteer organizer.

Loranca was said she was passionate about the project because it promotes green living and a sense of community.

“I think today is important because we need to make connections with the

community and we can do that by giv-ing back to one another,” Loranca said.

Loranca had previously helped es-tablish the community garden over the summer. She said she enjoys spending time there.

Brittney Edwards, a freshman graph-ic design major, came out to the com-munity garden to volunteer with friends.

“It’s a fun experience for me,” Ed-wards said. “It’s something I don’t nor-mally do.”

Edwards came to the community garden with Lupa Ostiguin, a freshman pre-nursing major.

“We live in the city so we don’t nor-mally do stuff like this,” Ostiguin said.

Samantha Cornwell, a junior English and history major, was also at the com-munity garden.

Cornwell’s main duties of the day involved turning over the garden so it would be ready for planting in the spring and painting the pavilion.

“We’re out here showing the com-munity that we don’t just go to school and party, we’re here to help,” Corn-wall said. “It’s part of our community as well.”

In Kansas, volunteers from Eastern spent the day playing games with chil-

dren and running booths at a local park opening.

Kristina Graves, a sophomore sec-ondary education major, said that vol-unteering with the children at the park helped reaffirm her decision to become a teacher.

“I just like volunteering and I love kids,” Graves said.

Megan Rose, a freshman middle school education major, said she felt that by volunteering, it would reflect well upon Eastern, but that is not the only reason she wanted to volunteer.

“I just wanted to something other than sit in a dorm,” Rose said.

Rachel Fisher, the director of student community service, said she felt the day was a success.

“It really was a day that made a dif-ference in our community,” Fisher said.

She said she felt the reason “Make a Difference Day” was so successful was due to the highly enthusiastic volunteers and the great locations and weather.

“It just shows the growing dedi-cation of EIU students to the com-munity around them,” Fisher said.

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-7942

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Students make a difference

KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Shelby Mileham, a junior psychology and health studies major, rebuilds a fence Saturday while winterizing the community garden behind the Charleston VFW. Winterizing involves pulling weeds and putting down tarp and mulch, Mileham said.

Kayla Wagner, a senior physical ed-ucation major, said the café is a good place to hang out with friends and do homework.

“It’s a great location for students to connect and also an inspiration-al place to get ideas for assignments,” Wagner said.

Josephine Baik, a junior kinesiolo-gy and sports studies major, said she likes the outdoors café because it is on campus.

“Usually I go to Starbucks, they

have an outdoor café too, but this is closer,” Baik said.

Engelkes said she thinks the café will be a great place for students.

“Everyone has been really excited and upbeat about it, so really it’s just another meeting place for students and faculty,” Engelkes said.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-7942 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

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“The state made these changes for a variety of reasons including the percep-tion that teaching is an ‘easy’ profession,” Bower said. “If we want higher quality teachers, we need higher standards.”

Lucas said he is encouraging students to take the test as soon as they can, as ei-ther a freshman or even when they are still in high school.

“The test is similar to the ACT but it is still different,” Lucas said. “It is geared to information we expect students to have before college.”

Bower said one of the issues they are struggling to understand is that students who had good ACT scores are not doing as well as expected on this test.

“Many students struggle to remember the math formulas; they are not something

we use every day in college,” Kim said.Bower said the test is by no means

impossible and students just need to think differently about it.

“They cannot just show up Saturday morning after doing their Friday night thing and expect to do well,” Bower said. “This is not just a College of Education initiative; it is an Eastern initiative and all the deans are on board as well as the Provost.”

More information about the Ba-sic Skills Test programs can be found at http://www.eiu.edu/ceps/basicskills.php or email Sharon Kim at sykim@eiu.edu to schedule a one-on-one consultation.

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Sullivan said he hoped the bands had fun, whether they won or not.

“I am hoping they had a really enjoy-able time on the Eastern Illinois Univer-sity campus,” Sullivan said. “I hope they remember these memories and being able to perform in front of a big crowd.”

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-7942 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

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Panthers drop two OVC matches over weekendStaff Report

The Panthers lost two Ohio Valley Conference matches over the week-end, one to reigning OVC champi-ons Morehead State and one to East-ern Kentucky.

The weekend losses move the Pan-thers to 4-13 overall and 2-5 in con-ference play.

Despite leading in overall kills, as-sists, and digs, the Panthers dropped a tough four-set OVC home match to Eastern Kentucky (28-26, 25-23, 19-25, 25-21) Friday.

Junior Emily Franklin led the team in the loss against Eastern Kentucky with 18 kills and 17 digs and nine kills and three digs Saturday.

Sophomore Reynae Hutchinson scored 17 kills and 16 digs Friday while acquiring nine kills and 11 digs Saturday.

On Friday against Eastern Ken-tucky, the first two sets featured 25 ties and seven lead changes as both teams were neck and neck until the other Eastern prevailed.

The last set in the series featured six ties and two lead changes and at one point, the Panthers led.

Unfortunately, Eastern Kentucky tied it up off of Panther miscues.  Down 22-17, the Panthers pulled within two, but errors would give

Eastern Kentucky the match at 25-21.In Saturday’s game against More-

head State, they were able to hold on and top the Panthers in total kills (46 to 35), assists (43 to 33), aces (nine to two), digs (48 to 36), and blocks (sev-en to five).

After losing the first set 25-12, the Panthers gave Morehead State a good run, coming together for 21 ties and eight lead changes over the final two sets.

Despite the weekend’s losses, East-ern still holds a game lead over both teams overall.

They are 16-15 over Eastern Ken-tucky, with Friday’s loss being East-ern’s eighth straight loss against them.

Eastern holds a slim lead over Morehead State with a 15-14 all-time series lead.

The next game is against OVC ri-val Southeast Missouri Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Split on OVC roadStaff Report

It was the second weekend of Ohio Valley Conference for Eastern’s wom-en’s soccer team.

They were into the weekend 2-0, but came out 3-1 after a loss to Southeastern Missouri followed by a win over Tennessee-Martin by the same score.

The weekend started with 82 score-less minutes for the Panthers on Fri-day against Southeast Missouri until Redhawk forward Erin Shulman net-ted one in the closing minutes to give Southeast Missouri the win.

The goal came against red-shirt sophomore goalie Jessica Taldone, who made a season-high 14 saves throughout the contest.

Reigning Adidas OVC Defend-er of the Week Brenna Vogel led the Panthers offensively against Southeast Missouri, as the sophomore took two shots, one on goal, against the Red-hawks.

Southeast Missouri’s goalie only had to make one save to record the shutout against the Panthers.

The loss to Southeast Missouri also saw Panther skipper Summer Per-ala fail in her third attempt to beat Southeast Missouri, dropping her re-cord as head coach to 0-2-1 against the Redhawks.

Following their loss to Southeast

Missouri the Panthers traveled to Martin, Tenn., to take on the Sky-hawks in a Sunday afternoon tilt that saw the Panthers, this time, winning a 1-0 decision.

The only goal of that match was scored by junior midfielder/forward Jessie Morgan in the 75th minute on a pass from red-shirt junior Ash-ley Streid.

The goal was Morgan’s first of the season and the first game-winner of her Panther career.

Taldone was in goal again for the Panthers in Martin, notching anoth-er 14-save performance for the shut-out, totaling a final weekend save per-centage of .966 for the red-shirt soph-omore.

Junior forward Kristin Germann led the Panther attack with two shots, one on goal. Morgan, Streid and Vo-gel added one shot on goal each against the Skyhawks.

The win against UT Martin lifted Perala’s career record against the Sky-hawks to 2-1 as a Panther.

The weekend lifts the Panthers to 4-7-2 overall and 1-5-2 away from Lakeside Field.

The Panthers will be off for fami-ly weekend and return to action at Lakeside Field Oct. 14 and 16 against Eastern Kentucky at 3 p.m. and Morehead State at 1 p.m.

Staff Report

The Eastern men’s and women’s cross country teams competed Friday at the Notre Dame Gold Division Invite in South Bend, Ind.

Despite low temperatures in the 40s with winds blowing at 20-30 mph, and top gusts reaching 40 mph and above, and an extremely wet course due to severe rain in the area over the past week, the Panthers came out in the top 10.

The women placed sixth overall against 20 teams.

Grand Val ley State won the meet with 40 points, followed by

Northwestern with 56 points, Central Michigan University with 61 points, Indiana State with 173 points and Bradley University with 219 points.

The top finisher for the Panther women’s team was red-shirt junior Olivia Klaus for the third straight meet.

Klaus placed 28th out of 170 total runners in the 5K course with a time of 18:31.

Other scoring finishers for the Panther women include Erika Ramos in 41st with a time of 18:48, Britney Whitehead in 51st, Megan Gingerich in 53rd and Caitlin Napoleoni in 65th.

The Panther men placed eighth overall against 20 teams.

The top finisher for the Panther men was red-shirt senior Brad LaRocque for the third meet straight. LaRocque placed 30th out of 165 total runners on the 8K course with a time of 25:50.

Other scoring finishers for the Panther men include Danny Delaney in 52nd with a time of 26:08, Bryce Basting in 56th, Graham Morris in 71st and Matt Feldhake in 73rd.

The Panther men and women will return to action in two weeks for the Bradley Classic in Peoria.

CROSS COUNTRY

Tough conditions in South Bend Junior wide receiver Kenny Whit-taker also had four catches in the game, finishing with 30 yards.

Bellantoni said the team’s problems didn’t have to do so much with com-patibility and attitude as it did techni-cal issues and efficiency.

“It’s a matter of execution, not mo-rale,” Bellantoni said.

The Panthers will get another shot

at a win over an OVC opponent at the Family Weekend game against Eastern Kentucky.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday at O’Brien Field.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7944

or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

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DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Sophomore wing Cara Hahne runs and fights off a defender during a Sept. 10 game against Minnesota on Lakeside Field.

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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Former Panther Mike Heimerdinger passed away at 58. He played baseball at EIU and was an NFL defensive coordinator.

FOOTBALL

RUGBY

Panthers pass first road testRugby wins 91-7 against Fighting Illini in first road game

By Jordan Pottorff Staff Reporter

The Eastern rugby team improved itsrecord to 4-0 after posting their first road win of the season.

This is the third consecutive season the team has hit that record.

The Panthers defeated the Fighting Illini in Champaign on their way to the 91-7 victory.

The Panther s had been he ld in the 20-point range for the previous two games, but Saturday the team notched its highest point total this season.

The defense has always been good, but Eastern head coach Frank Graziano said it was good to see his team pick up the pace on the other side of the ball.

“It was good for us to get going on the offensive side,” Graziano said. “We’ve been working very hard over the past two weeks and I’m very pleased with the offensive performance.”

Graziano stressed the importance of getting off to a quick start, following the two-week break between games.

Eastern’s offensive attack was out in full force, with junior wing Kayla Heal having a career day.

Heal paced the Panthers with six trys and also dished out two assists in the rout of the Illini.

Sophomore wing Cara Hahne also had a big afternoon as she recorded four trys in the win.

The four trys ties a career high for Hahne, which she set in last year’s match-up against Illinois.

Junior center Lauren Doyle and freshman fullback Nia Williams were busy; as they each chipped in two five-point trys.

Doyle also dished out a team-high three assists to go along with her two trys.

Senior scrum-half Narissa Ramirez also got in on the action, as she tallied one try and recorded three helpers in the rout of the Illini.

“Offensively, we have always had the potential to do very well and put a lot of points up, but that takes timing and the girls have to believe I called the right play at the right time,” Graziano said.

“If that happens, we have the tendency to be faster than the opposition we play,” he said.

The team will be back in action this weekend when they travel to Milwaukee to take on the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-7944

or jbpottorff@eiu.edu.

MEN’S SOCCER

West conquers EastBy Rob Mortell Staff Reporter

The first Summit League match for Eastern’s men’s soc-cer team ended in a tough 3-0 loss.

Head coach Adam How-arth called the Panthers perfor-mance disappointing.

“We struggled as a group and did not finish our chanc-es,” Howarth said. “(Western) is a good team, but we did not play well.”

Eastern fell behind ear-ly when Western’s Torrance Brown scored from five yards out in the 12th minute.

Western would extend the lead as the first half was winding down. Husref Jupic brought the lead to 2-0 with a goal just in front of the net. Mario Alvarez ended scoring for the game in the 63rd

minute. The loss drops the Panthers

record to 4-5-1 overall and 0-1-1 in conference play. West-ern improves to 5-4-1 over-all and 1-0-0 in the Summit League.

Howarth said the team nor-mally doesn’t change how they play when they get behind ear-ly in a match.

“We have been behind be-fore, but yesterday we strug-gled to get back on  track,” Howarth said. “It was not for a lack of chances.”

The Panthers out-shot West-ern 14-13. Nine of the Pan-thers’ 14 shots came in the first half.

Only four of Eastern’s 14 shots were on target, but West-ern goalkeeper Andy Ryan managed to stop them all.

Freshman midfielder Jake Brillhart led the team with

three shots. Freshmen forward Will Butler fired two shots on goal; however, he was unable to score his third goal of the season.

Howarth said the Panthers need to finish the opportuni-ties presented to them if they are going to win matches.

“I would be more worried if we were being out shot by a lot and not creating chances,” Howarth said. “That is not the case but we do need to step up as a group.”

The Panthers return to ac-tion Friday against conference rival Oral Roberts.

“It is one game and it was an off day,” Howarth said. “We must work hard this week in training and get better each day.”

Rob Mortell can be reached at 581-7944

or at rdmortell@eiu.edu.

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Sophomore wing Cara Hahne runs and fights off a defender during a Sept. 10 game against Minnesota on Lakeside Field. Hahne matched her career high of four trys Saturday, helping the Panthers on the way to a 91-7 win over the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Quick Facts

• The Panthers have scored a total of 181 points in two games

• Last year, the Panthers defeated Illinois by a score of 96-0.

• The seven points scored by the Illini was the most by the team since the 2007 season when they scored 40 points over the course of two games.

• The next game is against the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers this weekend.

By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

The Eastern football team fell for the fourth straight week.

This week they came up short against Ohio Valley Con-ference opponent Southeast Missouri.

Eastern entered the game without a win against a confer-ence opponent, while South-east Missouri had yet to win a game this season.

The Redhawks’ 37-30 win over the Panthers brings their overall record to 1-3, with a 1-1 record in the OVC, while the Panthers are now 1-4 over-all and 0-3 in the OVC.

Defensive coordinator Roc Bellantoni put the game’s end result into simple terms follow-ing the Panthers’ loss.

“We got beat, simple as that,” Bellantoni said.

Bellantoni said a key factor

in the team’s loss was Southeast Missouri State’s ability to run the ball at will.

The Redhawks finished with a total of 411 rushing yards among four different players.

Quarterback Matt Scheible led the team with 161 rush-ing yards, while running back and fullback Levi Terrell and Ron Coleman had 106 and 77 yards, respectively. Running back Renard Celestin also had 71 yards on just two touches.

“Their quarterback is a very good player who is able to make plays,” Bellantoni said.

Scheible’s 161 yards were a career high for the junior quar-terback, who threw for three touchdowns to compliment his two rushing touchdowns.

Scheible completed 14 of 18 pass attempts, totaling 130 yards. Scheible’s leading receiv-er was D.J. Foster, who had three catches, two of which were for touchdowns, totaling

56 yards.Red-shirt junior running

back Jake Walker shared the load for the Panthers with red-shirt freshman AJ Woodson.

Walker finished with 43 yards on the ground and one touchdown, while Woodson had 36 yards, but averaged 5.1 yards per carry.

Walker averaged just 3.3 yards per carry.

Sophomore quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo threw 26 passes in the game, completing 16 of them for a total of 192 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.

Garoppolo’s leading receiver was red-shirt junior Von Wise, who had four catches for 65 yards.

Junior wide receiver Chris Wright saw Garoppolo’s only touchdown pass of the night, while also finishing with 24 yards on three catches.

Junior wide receiver Kenny

Eastern loses 4 in a row

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KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Pete Houlihan, sophomore defensive back and special teams player, stiff arms a defender while returning a punt Sept. 1 in a game against Illinois State on O’Brien Field.