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Five students, including an East-ern football player, were arrested and charged with aggravated mob action and aggravated battery on early Sun-day morning at McAfee Gym.

Students charged inc lude: Jus -tin Jones, 23, of 2219 Ninth Street, Charleston; Malcolm Jackson, 20, of 2380 Bostic Drive, Charleston; Rob-ert Pettis, 20, of 2380 Bostic Drive, Charleston; and Michael Foreman, 21, of 724 Rebecca Lane, Bolingbrook. All were released to the custody of the Coles County Sheriff ’s Office.

Jackson is a wide receiver for East-ern’s football team.

Sports Information Director Rich Moser said the athletic department has not yet received full information on the matter and will assess the situation when it does.

Student Matthew Tuquabo, 22, of 1419 Berwick Blvd. was also arrested at McAfee and charged with mob ac-tion and aggravated battery of a police officer.

Jeremy Wilkins, 23, of 1011 Green-wood, Waukegan, was also charged with aggravated mob action and aggra-vated battery.

SETH SCHRODER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMen’s basketball coach Mike Miller gestures to his players during their Feb. 4 game against Morehead State at Lantz Arena. Eastern athletic director Barbara Burke announced that Miller’s contract would not be renewed in a statement Monday afternoon.

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By Nike Ogunbodede Associate News Editor

As students and faculty of Charleston High School filed into school on Feb. 24, a call was made from within the school from a 17-year-old student, who later admitted to placing a sec-ond 911 call at 11:32 a.m.

The school, which had been searched by police officers after the first 8:45 a.m. call, was taken off security lockdown and some students, including the 17-year-old boy, were let out for lunch,

said Charleston Superintendent Jim Littleford.

Litt leford said the student was able to place the second call from a school phone.

“That student was at lunch and entered an area that was not secured at that time,” he said.

The school’s technology de-p a r t m e n t a n d C o n s o l i d a t -ed Communicat ions a l lowed them to trace the second call to a school phone line, but Little-ford said he is still not sure from where the first call was placed.

School officials have received criticism from a few parents who were not pleased with the hour and a half delay in which they were left unnotified about what was going on inside the school.

Parents l ike Stacy Stewart,

Cindy Drum and Lisa Killough said they heard about the lock-down from texts sent from their chi ldren and Facebook posts from community members.

Littleford maintains that the reason for the delay was the ad-ministration wanting to give out proper information as well as wanting to keep the panic to a minimum.

“You have to keep in mind that when a student texts a par-ent from a classroom it is imme-diate,” Littleford said. “In our situation, before we put out in-formation, we had to make sure that our information was accu-rate—that’s why there was some delay.”

Felony charges a possibility for student prank caller

By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

Editor’s Note: This is the second install-ment in a series of pension articles.

The Illinois legislature’s strategies to improve the $85 billion unfunded pension liability focus on short-run quick fixes instead of a long-term co-hesive plan, the director of accountan-cy said.

President Bill Perry and Hank Da-vis, the director of accountancy and a professor in the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences, will address discussions developing among Springfield legislators and pension re-form at 2 p.m. today at the Phipps Lecture Hall in the Physical Science Building.

“I have not seen any substantive policies from the legislature to address this pension issue,” Davis said. “An

example of this short-run thinking is the notion of shifting the cost of teacher retirement from the state to local municipalities.”

Changing the source of the funding does not change the cost so it becomes a matter of who is going to pay for it, Davis said.

Perry said if universities had to pay part of the employer contribution, it would involve reallocating universi-ty resources in some form. He said he would not be inclined to raise tuition to cover the costs for two reasons.

“I don’t think it would be the right thing to do and second, raising tuition wouldn’t cover the costs anyway,” Per-ry said. “The way tuition is structured, you pay the same tuition for four years and when the new students come in, their tuition is a little higher, but it doesn’t generate much money.”

Forum to address pension reform

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSPolice exit Charleston High School after the school received word of a possible gunman in the school Friday.

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By Katelyn Ifft Staff Reporter

Eastern alum Naomi Lear present-ed a lecture Monday to close the ex-hibit of her series “Longviews” in the Atrium of the Tarble Arts Center.

Lear said the theme of the exhib-it followed closely that of her other series.

“It seems I always go back to inte-rior spaces,” Lear said.

Lear said her paintings have a deep, personal meaning to her.

Most of the rooms featured in her works are from homes where she has lived, house-sat, or visited, Lear said.

She said she uses these paintings as her own personal diary.

In a home where she once house-sat, Lear said reptiles and kittens liked to climb up the living room furniture into decorative bowls where they would curl up.

Lear said the audience would not know this detail from looking at the painting.

“I include the little stories that I don’t expect you to understand, but for me to remember,” Lear said.

Lear attended Eastern from 1992 to1999 and graduated with a bache-lor’s in both music performance and fine arts.

Later, Lear said she went on to re-ceive her master’s in fine arts from Wichita State University in Wichi-ta, Kan.

She is now an associate professor of drawing and painting at Colum-bia College in Columbia, Mo.

When she first began painting at Eastern, Lear said it was not what she was going to major in.

Lear said she took art classes just for fun.

She said she did not understand the painting medium, but when she discovered oil paints, she new she wanted to do more with art.

“These simple, basic, clumsy paintings was where it all started,”

Lear said.Lear moved on to creating human

figurines in her work. In her “Unseen Spaces” series,

Lear said she created paintings of the same room, but from different per-spectives.

She tried to lead the viewer’s eyes to places in the room that someone usually does not pay attention to.

The works of Rackstraw Downes, a British painter and author, led her to her cityscape series, Lear said.

“He painted mundane spaces in such a magnificent way that I was drawn to,” Lear said. In this series,

she experimented with lines, shapes, and the flattening of shapes.

Some of these paintings were in-spired by two of Lear’s favorite art-ists: Edouard Vuillard and Richard Diebenkorn.

Diebenkorn inspired her first in-terior space series, and Vuillard in-spired her to “lead the viewer to the furthest part of the composition,” Lear said

Alicia Kreier, a freshman art ma-jor, said she was inspired by Lear’s ex-hibit.

“I like seeing the artists and get-ting new ideas for my work,” Kreier

said. “I’ve always been told it’s good to know the artists in your field.”

For Lear, the challenge of painting is never done.

She said it is difficult to look at something and interpret what she sees into a painting, but that is what keeps her motivated.

“I’m still searching to find the honest approach and stay true to the medium,” Lear said.

Katelyn Ifft can be reached at 581-2812

or krifft@eiu.edu.

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The Alumni Association will be accepting applications and nomi-nations for the Outstanding Senior Awards until March 9.

Eligible students must be sched-uled to graduate during the Spring, Summer or Fall 2012 semester and

must have a minimum 3.0 GPA. The Alumni Association will

choose up to 25 eligible seniors for the award who will be recognized during the Outstanding Senior Awards luncheon on April 28.

The Alumni Association presents the award to seniors who demon-strate leadership through campus

and community involvement, aca-demic achievements and extra-cur-ricular honors.

Faculty, staff, alumni and rela-tives may nominate a student.

The application form requires the students to list their organiza-tions and activities inside and out-side of the university along with

honors and awards received during the students’ time at Eastern.

The last question asks the stu-dents why they think they deserve the award.

The application and nomination form can be found at http://www.eiu.edu/~alumni/seniorawards.php.

SETH SCHROEDER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSEastern alumna and painter Naomi Lear gives a presentation on her work with physical space including still lifes, landscapes and interior rooms. Lear is a member of the art faculty of Columbia College in Columbia, Mo.

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By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

Music, dances and cultures from around the world will be brought to-gether on Saturday.

The Association of International Stu-dents is having “Sounds of the World Dance” at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Uni-versity Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Samyukta Ghimire, the president for the Association of International Stu-dents, said they want to spread tradi-tions that are native to the many coun-tries of the members of the organization.

“Student can learn the culture and everything else about the internation-al students, because you can really dis-tinguish people from Asia, South Amer-ican and Europe through music; so we really want more people to come to our events, and this is one of the most await-ed events for the international students,” Ghimire said.

Ghimire said there will be perfor-mances from international students, some American students, as well other performances from range of art forms.

“We have more performances this time than last semester,” Ghimire said.

Ghimire said there will be three sing-ing performances and three dance per-formances.

“One lady from China will be per-forming a traditional instrument. I don’t know the name of the instrument, but she played it last semester for our event,” Ghimire said. “People really wanted to hear her more.”

She said Lucas Balaminut, an inter-national student from Brazil, will be performing a Salsa dance.

Ghimire said Ashim Pokharel, Oin-drila Paul, and she will be performing a traditional cultural dance.

Twin sisters Joy and Ann Ignalaga will be performing the Wushu dance, a martial arts-type dance.

There will also be a rap performance at the event, Ghirmire said.

Ghirmire said the event is more than a music performance.

“They can listen to music, but they can also learn about culture. People will be wearing traditional outfits, per-forming traditional dances and cultural songs,” Ghirmire said.

Ghirmire said the event gives stu-dents the opportunity to show that they are not as different as they are believed to be.

“We want to show, not only do they listen to their traditional songs, but they are fond of listening to new music, American music, English music and all that,” Ghirmire said. “All students listen to all kinds of music and they are west-ernized these days.”

Ghirmire said she is looking forward to having a diverse audience.

“We don’t usually have many Amer-icans at our events, either they don’t know about it or about the organiza-tions. They are not familiar with what we do or what we are like,” Ghirmire said.

Ghimire said “Sounds of the World” is something everyone can learn from.

“It is not just for international stu-dents,” Ghimire said. “We encour-age other students to join us; especially American students, so that they can get the feel of international music.”

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812

or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

Students to share music

COLLEGE ADMISSIONS

By Amanda Wilkinson Staff Reporter

Universities across the coun-try have asked students to describe themselves in 140 characters or less–roughly the size of this sen-tence.

But Eastern’s Director of Admis-sions Brenda Major said Eastern will not adopt this new method be-cause they want students to be able to express themselves without re-strictions.

Univers i ty of Iowa and oth-er universities are using this new method of Twitter answers expect-ing they will get responses that are more creative than traditional es-says.

Lania Knight, an assistant Eng-lish professor, said a more concise application requirement might in-spire students.

“The fewer words you have, the more precise you have to be,” Knight said. “It’s a form of self-ex-pression that’s very different from

the traditional essay. Just because it’s short doesn’t mean it’s inferior.”

Roxane Gay, an English profes-sor, said people write in short form every day and while it is possible to properly express and sway an ad-missions committee in 140 char-acters, it may prove difficult for some.

Gay a l so sa id us ing Twit te r could send the wrong message to prospective students.

Eastern actually has expanded the length of space on admission applications the in past year.

Major said the length is subjec-tive because one student may view three paragraphs as three sentences while another views it as three sen-tences per paragraph.

Eastern’s admission committee does not want to limit self-expres-sion, Major said.

The Eastern admission appli-cation suggests two to three para-graphs for the essay; although, the admissions office has accepted ap-plications with essays anywhere

from zero words to 1,000 words. “It’s time consuming, but I think

it’s important,” Major said. “Many of us enjoy reading the essays. For me, it provides a lot more insight into the student than what we can gleam from the transcript.”

Essays can reveal whether a pro-spective students can write effec-tively at the college level, are self-conscious of their writing, if they are comfortable sharing, and if they can follow directions on the application.

“If a student just blows that off or writes one sentence or two words, to me that says something about them,” Major said. “They don’t want to do this, they don’t care anyway, no one is going to read this, but we’re reading it.”

The Twitter answers may not ap-peal to all students.

Some students at Eastern are ad-mitted from the Gateway Program, an alternative admissions program in which students must meet one of the criteria listed to be accepted.

The criteria is a student must: be the first generation to attend col-lege, reside and attend school in an economically-depressed area, live in a low-income household or be a member of an under-represented ethnic group.

I f they do not have a smar t phone with a data plan or a com-puter with Internet access, they probably do not use Twitter, Gay said, and Eastern does not want people to think that an education comes with a large price tag.

Major said she understands Uni-versity of Iowa accepting Twitter answers because of the large num-ber of applications.

But she does not see Eastern fol-lowing the trend.

“We rarely get just a standard, boring essay. But maybe that says a lot about the student that’s ap-plying to Eastern,” she said.

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

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Short-form college essaysin 140 characters or less

By Robyn Dexter Campus Editor

Big Robot, a computer-based acoustic trio, performed for a full house on Monday in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre.

The group, which featured use of multimedia along with its experimen-tal music, has been playing together since 2007.

Scott Deal, the main percussion-ist of the group, said the three start-ed making music together while hang-ing out.

“It was a really natural progression,” he said. “For the three of us, there was chemistry and everything just gelled.”

Deal said the group started writing for the context and for the percussion, and everything fell into place.

“Since we’re professors, it’s hard to go out on tour,” he said.

The three are professors at the Indi-ana University-Purdue University In-dianapolis and take the talents of Big Robot across country whenever they can.

However, the group fits in con-certs whenever possible, and Deal said they will be performing in Miami next week and Oklahoma next month.

The show included an introduction with elaborate use of percussion in-cluding cymbals, xylophone and dif-ferent types of drums.

One of the other pieces used video of a girl who seemed haunted by a de-mon of some sort.

Deal said the piece is open to inter-pretation, and the audience can take from it whatever they will.

“My personal take on it is about dealing with personal demons,” he said. “It’s a dark piece, but at the end there’s that light at the end of the tun-

nel.”Michael Drews, who is the com-

poser and computer operator of the group, said he went to school with Brad Decker, an Eastern instructor of music composition and theory, and the two of them studied experimen-tal music.

Drews said he met Deal in Indi-anapolis and the two of them dis-cussed starting an experimental musi-cal group.

“We knew we wanted to do com-puter music and we wanted to play it as well,” Drews said.

Drews said he used to write mu-

sic for other people and then sit in the audience and listen to it be per-formed.

He wanted to be a part of it and ac-tually play the music he helped write.

“We went through a lot of false starts and a lot of things that just didn’t work,” Drews said. “Jordan came into the mix shortly after we started jamming together.”

Jordan Munson, the third member of the group, performed using a com-puter and multimedia facets along with Drews.

Drews said the group gets together about once a week, but setting up for

a show can take up to four hours.Members of Big Robot will be hav-

ing workshops in Doudna Fine Arts Center on Tuesday.

Deal will teach a “master class” in percussion held in the percussion lab at 11 a.m.

Drews and Munson will teach a master class in composition and tech-nology in the EMS 0336 at 1 p.m.

Both classes are free and open to the public.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

or redexter@eiu.edu.

SETH SCHROEDER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSPercussionist Scott Deal runs a violin bow across a cymbal during computer-acoustic band Big Robot’s perfor-mance Monday in the Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Deal is a member of the band with computer musi-cian Michael Drews and multimedia artist Jordan Munson. All three are music professors at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

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“Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.”

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Editor to be published in The Daily Eastern News. The DEN’s policy is to run all letters that are not libelous or potentially harmful.

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When I was younger—around 6 or 7—I re-member praying for God to make me white.

Perhaps it was my own warped mind, but I wanted my coarse, tightly spiraled hair to flourish into silky blonde locks and my dark-brown eyes to pale into a “nice” shade of blue—although I would settle for green.

Tears would flood my Belle pillow as I si-lently begged, and as twisted as it now sounds, I would have malice against God for neglect-ing my prayers the night before. I mean, he made Eve out of Adam’s rib—one rib I might add—surely he could lighten my skin in a few hours. But alas, my skin was not meant to re-flect the sun. The belief that I thought being white would take away so many of the super-ficial things that I considered problems was a gross misconception.

I grew up watching shows like “Sailor Moon,” and I can still remember my cheeks burning in embarrassment—and a semblance of shame—when my brother found my dia-ry hiding my thoughts of being just like Sere-na, or Usagi for those of you who watched the Japanese version.

I realized that my prayer that God would miraculously make me white was a horrible wish, but people who looked like her, with the exception of “The Cosby Show,” “Family Mat-ters,” “The Jeffersons” and “Sister Sister,” were all that I was privy to on TV or in my neigh-borhood.

My sister, who used to go by her mid-dle name, Christina, while she was at school, is probably the best human being I will ever know, and I got my first taste of prejudice

while with her. It is important for you to know and understand that my sister is bril-liant, but like a glaring nightmare, I can recall having to stay after school with her because she received a detention.

I was in first grade and my sister’s teacher—for whatever reason—did not think that my sister could have written as intelligently as she did for that day’s assignment.

I would say that my sister, along with her teacher, was a victim of stereotypes.

Lulu, short for Adeolu, was voted “Most Respected” in her senior year of high school, graduated with a bachelor’s in science from Northwestern University and is current-ly enrolled in Emory Medical School—but the teacher didn’t know that my sister, along with the handy-dandy “Hooked on Phonics,” taught me to love reading.

That teacher didn’t know her, nor did that teacher give my sister the benefit of the doubt.

But later on, after they got to know not only my sister, but my older brother and my-self, teachers and students would often say how we didn’t talk like the other black kids (never mind that we are African; that is a sto-

ry for another day) dare they say we talked al-most white. (cringe.) As if that were a compli-ment. Gee, thanks.

And for the first time, I was glad I wasn’t white.

As a former sociology major—and a for-mer watcher of “The Tyra Banks Show”—I watched video of kids taking part in Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll test. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s where young children are allowed to pick dolls with the best features.

Tests like theses usually resulted in kids of all colors choosing a white, Barbie-esque doll.

(I won’t blame society…I mean…there were black Barbies. Surely that was enough, right?)

The Clarks would later testify on a case that would snowball into the monumental Brown v. Board of Education.

A lot of things usually race through my mind, but every now and then I think of how lost so many people are nowadays.

I weep for how misguided I was and for those who will be born later with such a poor understanding of who they are.

I weep for those who will fail to see the beauty in their own skin—regardless if they happen to be born with cocoa, vanilla or any skin color in between.

Lastly, I weep for a society that places value on one form of beauty while ignoring or chas-tising another.

Nike Ogunbodede is a junior journalism major.

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

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My skin reflects beauty you’d be blind not to see

By Erin Hogg Daily Vidette Illinois State University

With the recent uproar over SOPA, ACTA, and even Google’s policy changes, the on-line activity of Internet users may seem to be compromised.

Articles about making sure to delete a us-er’s hardrive before they die and some on how to leave Google’s services prompted discus-sion over just how much of our information is out there.

Earlier this month, Target reported it can tell if a woman is pregnant before anyone else knows by what she buys at a Target store. This shocked many people, but it is just one exam-ple of how simple information like what you purchase can tell companies who you are.

Consumer groups raved on Feb. 23 as a new blueprint for a “Consumer Bill of Rights” has been proposed by the Obama ad-ministration. This is an important first step in protecting a user’s online activity, but the way it will be implemented must be monitored.

The White House and Federal Trade Com-

munications unveiled the bill, “which will serve as a policy outline for future legislation and public policy that will work to protect consumers’ privacy while online from a com-puter or mobile phone,” according to CNET.

Any data that is linkable to a specific in-dividual, including personal data linked to a specific computer or other device, will be cov-ered under the bill.

“Even without legislation, the administra-tion will convene multistakeholder process-es that use these rights as a template for codes of conduct that are enforceable by the Federal Trade Commission,” a CNN article stated.

Under the proposed blueprint for a bill, it ensured consumers will have a right to con-trol what personal information data compa-nies collect and how that information is used.

Consumers will also be able to access un-derstandable information about their priva-cy rights. Companies will still be able to col-lect, use, and disclose their personal data, but consumers will have a right to secure person-al data and will have a right to access and cor-rect their personal data.

Furthermore, consumers will have the right

to put a limit on how much personal data is collected and companies must hold them-selves to a high standard that adheres to the Consumer Bill of Rights.

While this sounds like the administration is interested in protecting consumers’ rights, it is hard to say how much of an influence Google, Facebook, or Microsoft will have over the lawmaking. Loopholes in legislation have been prevalent forever and there will probably be some catch to the bill.

The bill, if passed, will ultimately respect a browser’s “Do Not Track” setting. Google re-cently signed an agreement to respect the set-ting, currently only available on Firefox.

As of now, consumers should not rely on this possible Consumer Bill of Rights to pro-tect their online activity. Using the “Do Not Track” setting and becoming educated on just how much of your personal information is out there can improve the privacy of anyone online.

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Welcome to Illinois, Land of Lincoln, Corn Cornucopia, Den of Debt.

For decades, Illinois lawmakers have worked hard to firmly establish Illinois as the national model of fiscal irresponsibility.

Now, as Gov. Pat Quinn tries to create a path to future financial stability, the state cannot afford to pay pensions it promised to universi-ty employees. The pension problem has been perpetually punted by the legislature, but it looks as if Quinn, who seems to have a taste for unpopular legislation, is ready to rope the run-away pension beast.

He asked a pensions working group to study the issue and report to him in mid-April. The decision Quinn makes will affect the future of pensions in Illinois and the lives of every mem-ber of he Eastern community.

Several ideas have been proposed, none of which bode well for Eastern.

One option is a drastic reduction in pen-sion benefits. Clearly, this would save mon-ey for the state, but it would also be unfair to state employees. Cuts could extend to those who have already retired. This would be unfair to people who worked hard and planned for their retirement expecting the state to live up to its end of the deal. Cuts would also be unfair to current employees who have planned to retire early enough to enjoy their retirement, but would have to postpone their retirement for sev-eral more years to ensure financial security.

Of course, drastic cuts could also lead to an exodus of younger Illinois educators. If profes-sors learns that their pensions will be worth a lot less in Illinois a year from now, who could fault them for packing up and heading to a state that knows how to take care of its teachers?

Another option under consideration is shift-ing pension funding from the state to univer-sities. This extra burden on university budgets would require a significant increase in revenue and may well lead to increased tuition and tax-es. It could also limit the number of faculty the university could keep on payroll, limiting class offerings and increasing class sizes.

It is likely the final reform package will include cuts from the state and increased fund-ing from both universities and employees. On the upside, such an agreement would leave teachers and universities with more control over the future of pensions. But there will be very little reason to celebrate and plenty of justified anger when reforms are announced. Most likely, Eastern professors will lose hard-earned pension dollars and Eastern will lose talented potential faculty through no fault of their own.

The Committee on University Planning and Budget has asked President Perry to appear on a panel to discuss pension reform in a meeting at 2 p.m. today at Phipps Lecture Hall in the Physical Science Building.

The meeting is open to the entire Eastern community and we urge anyone and everyone concerned to attend (for, whether we choose involvement or ignorance, we are all involved).

This is a complex matter with broad conse-quences. It is worth understanding and deserves attention and input.

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Students wishing to study abroad in the summer or coming fall semes-ter need to have their applications in by March 1 in order to be eligible to go.

The Office of Study Abroad has sev-eral different programs for students in the summer months.

Applications are due March 1 for the scheduled Summer and Fall 2012 programs.

Kelly Holland, the study abroad co-ordinator, said studying abroad is ben-eficial to students in many ways.

“Summer months are ideal for stu-dents who are otherwise unable to travel during the school year,” she said. “Many of our students are extraordi-narily active on campus with clubs, sports, Greek life and other commit-ments.”

Holland said many students partic-ipate in the faculty-led aspect of study abroad with numbers varying from eight to 20 students per group.

“Students can use this time to explore their options outside of their major, as there are many course options available to students,” Holland said. “This way, Eastern students are meeting classmates from other colleges and enjoying a more interdisciplinary experience.”

Holland said the study abroad pro-gram includes all years, from freshmen undergraduates to graduate-level stu-dents.

Study abroad summer programs may vary in length from about two to eight weeks.

Holland said many students studying abroad for the first time choose a short-

er-term program. These programs allow them to both

study abroad and keep a summer job or internship as well.

“The longer the trip is, chances are the students will earn more credits,” Holland said.

Holland said a short trip, like “German Life, German School, Ger-man Media,” has preparation work before students actually go abroad.

She said students on the trip are physically abroad from May 13 to May 30, but do online coursework about a week in advance.

Holland said many programs have courses that are pre-approved for se-nior seminar credit.

Depending on the course, stu-dents can receive three credits of se-nior seminar in addition to another pre-approved course.

“It makes summer both produc-tive and interesting, as they earn cred-its and get to travel during their sum-mer break.”

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KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS (Left to right) Erin Deason, a freshman political science major; Megan Weller, a senior family and consumer scienc-es major; and Kelsey Flack, a senior early childhood education major, attempt to find a plant based on a given set of characteristics Monday in the H.F. Thut Greenhouse. The scavenger hunt was an activity for professor Gordon Tucker’s environmental biology class to expose the students to plants growing in the various climates simulated in the greenhouse including tropical and desert conditions.

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Littleford said he is actually glad students were able to let informa-tion out their parents and guard-ians through the use of technology.

In accordance with CHS Stu-dent Handbook policy on “Cellu-lar Telephone/Video Recording/Electronic Paging Devices,” stu-dents are not allowed to have their cell phones out or turned on while within school grounds.

“We have determined that the use of the cell phones (in these cir-cumstances) is probably more ad-vantageous than bad that this point because at least those students in lockdown were able to text their parents and let them know they were OK,” Littleford said.

De p u t y Po l i c e C h i e f Da ve Chambers said the case will be in the hands of Steve Ferguson, the Coles County State’s Attorney.

Chambers said it is a possibili-ty that the student will be charged with a felony as an adult.

Accord ing to I l l ino i s Com-piled Statutes, someone who calls in a false alarm of complaint when they know there is “no reason-

able ground” for making said call while also knowing it will result in a reaction from any public agen-cy could be charged with a Class 4 felony.

This is if the student is tried as an adult.

Littleford said he could not dis-cuss whether or not the student was expelled from school because it is currently a “student privacy issue dealing with discipline.”

Littleford said he does think someone would be aware of the ramifications when making such a serious and false call to law en-forcement.

“I would think that anytime a student would make calls of that nature that they would have to un-derstand that this is pretty serious,” Littleford said.

Littleford said he was in contact with CHS Assistant Principal Trev-or Doughty on Monday.

“We had no incidents at school (on Monday),” Litt leford said. “We are fortunate that we did not have (what happened in Ohio) in Charleston on Friday.”

Nike Ogunbodede can be reached at 581-2812

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sponsored by the Council on Univer-sity Planning and Budget to facilitate conversation on how pension reform will affect the university, Perry said.

“Depending on the reform, it could have a negative impact on recruiting and retaining faculty by being non-competitive with retirement benefits compared to other states, and that af-fects instruction in the university,” Per-ry said. “That could also affect stu-dents if they lose their mentors, and we could lose expert faculty leader-ship.”

Perry said several reports regard-ing different approaches to pension reform are circulating throughout the state, and one report could help pro-mote discussion within the university and the community.

The report titled “Fiscal Sustainabil-ity and Retirement Security: A Reform Proposal for the Illinois State Univer-sities Retirement System” was writ-ten by University of Illinois at Urba-

na-Champaign’s Jeffrey Brown, the di-rector of the Center for Business and Public Policy, and Robert Rich, direc-tor of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs.

Davis said the report is the first doc-ument he has seen that addresses a long-term, viable approach to pension reform.

The State Universities Retirement System is one of the five Illinois pen-sion systems.

The other four are the Teachers’ Re-tirement System, which is the largest, the Judges’ Retirement System, the State Employees Retirement System and the General Assembly Retirement System.

The report revolves around three overarching goals of reforming SURS: to attract talented faculty and staff by providing adequate benefits from a re-liable funding source; to be financially sustainable by having the state reduce unfunded pension liabilities through a credible commitment; and to re-

spect state constitutional protections by honoring the retirement benefits of current retirees.

William Weber, the vice president for business affairs, said however the pension reform advances, he hopes that it would satisfy certain parame-ters.

“First, I hope that whatever hap-pens would be phased in over a reason-able number of years to give us time to plan and adapt,” Weber said. “Sec-ond, I would hope that the state’s cur-rent obligations for the unfunded pen-sion liability that has built up for years is not shifted to the universities and that the state is the one that is respon-sible for it.”

Perry said they plan to have a sec-ond forum in late-March, and he will use the first-hand concerns brought up at the forums to continue conversa-tions with state legislators.

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

Programs vary in length from 2-8 weeks

“It makes summer both productive and interesting, as they earn credits and get to travel during their summer break.” Kelly Holland, study abroad coordinator

“I would think that anytime a student would make calls of that nature that they would have to understand that this is pretty serious.” Jim Littleford, Charleston superintendent

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By Erik Jensen Staff Reporter

The Panthers softball team traveled to Birmingham, Ala., this past weekend to compete in the Samford Scramble against the Mercer Bears and host Samford Bull-dogs.

In what was a great weekend of games, Eastern ended up beating Samford twice (4-1, 3-1), and losing to Mercer twice (2-0, 9-6).

In the Panthers’ first game of tourna-ment play on Saturday, they defeated the Samford Bulldogs in a well-played game, 4-1.

Sophomore ace Stephanie Mayday was once again brilliant. She pitched a com-plete game while only allowing one run on three hits and five walks. She also struck out nine batters. This was Maday’s third win in the young season.

All Maday needed to win the game was a couple runs of support, which she received in the first two innings. Soph-omore Morgan Biel singled Ashleigh Westover to the plate in the first in-ning. In the second inning, Brooke Ow-ens drove in freshman shortstop Bailey O’Dell for the teams second run in as many innings.

For the game, O’Dell continued her good play at the plate going two-for-three with an RBI and two runs scored. Mor-gan Biel also had another solid game, go-ing two-for-three at the plate with an RBI, run scored, and two stolen bases.

Eastern’s second game of the day did not go as well for the team, as the Mer-cer Bears shut them out with a final score of 2-0.

Sophomore Hanna Mennenga got the start for Eastern and went four innings. She gave up two runs on three hits and surrendered two walks. She also struck out six Mercer batters.

Eastern was not able to get much go-ing offensively in the game and were only able to record three hits. Mercer’s Jessica

Holsinger pitched a brilliant game, go-ing the full seven innings and allowing no runs.

LAUREN KRIEGER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior catcher Abby Wood waits for a sign indicating what pitch would be thrown during softball practice Feb. 1 on Williams Field. The Panthers won two out of three games at the Georgia State Tournament over the week-end.

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“I think the team could be good,” he said. “As long as those guys just keep working hard, I know the off-season's right around the corner; they’ll have quite a few returning guys back, so they get a new coach in here and get things headed in the right direction.”

Still one question mark for the team’s future is the status of freshman guard Joey Miller, the son of the now former head coach Mike Miller. Doss said he hadn’t heard from Joey, but thinks he’s a good player, who, even if he doesn't re-turn to Charleston, will land at a good school.

“I actually haven't had the chance to talk to Joey (Miller), but he's a good player. I’m sure he'll wind up at a good school,” Doss said.

Hollowell said with Miller also being Joey’s dad, it puts him in a particularly tough spot.

“It’s a tough situation for Joey. For ev-erybody else, that’s our coach, but that’s his dad, so I'm sure he’s in a tough spot right now,” he said. “If he wants to come back, we’re going to embrace him. We’re not going to treat him any differently. If he comes back or if he leaves, he’s still going to be a friend of ours. I’m just try-ing to support him and his family right now.”

The Eastern athletic department said in a press release that it will not have any further comments on its men’s basketball coaching position at this time. Accord-ing to the press release, a national search for Miller’s replacement is already under-way.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942

or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

TWITTER, from page 8The #FIREMIKEMILLER hashtag

was featured in a story on OVCBall.net earlier this semester and turned into a popular base for a hashtag.

Fans of Eastern Kentucky basketball picked it up and added their own coach-es name to it, for #FireJeffNeubauer.

Current Panther basketball player James Hollowell said he and the team noticed the #FIREMIKEMILLER

hashtag.“I think one time I ended up seeing

somebody retweet something,” Hollow-ell said. “If something's on the Internet, on Twitter, everybody’s going to find out eventually about it.”

With Miller out of the equation, the three alums are confident Burke will bring in good candidates to replace him.

However, Whitchurch said the next

head coach will have to rebuild the pro-gram.

“It will likely take several years for (the next head coach) to reconstruct the mess he is left with,” Whitchurch said.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-7942

or admcnamee@eiu.edu.

For a more in-depth version of the story check out:

dailyeasternnews.comErik Jensen can be reached at

581-7942 or eajensen@eiu.edu.

ONLINEStory: Panthers look to snap skid against Cardinals

Eastern’s baseball team continued its 2012 season with a three-game series against Southeastern Louisiana over the weekend. The Panthers will play against No. 14 Louis-

ville at 3 p.m. today in Louisville, Ky.

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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: #EIU men’s basketball coach Mike Miller’s contract will not be renewed.

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By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

Just days after the men’s basket-ball team was eliminated from the Ohio Valley Conference tourna-ment race, Eastern athletic direc-tor Barbara Burke announced that head men's basketball coach Mike Miller's contract would not be re-newed.

“I want to take this opportunity to thank Mike Miller for his service to Eastern Illinois University and in particular to our men's basket-ball program,” Burke said in a press release. “He is a quality individu-al who has worked extremely hard and dedicated many hours to our student-athletes and the Panther basketball program.”

Miller’s contract officially expires April 30.

Miller, who finished his seventh season as head coach, led the Pan-thers to an overall record of 12-17, with an OVC record of 5-11. The Panthers ended the season on an three-game losing streak. Mill-er failed to make the OVC tour-nament in the team’s previous two seasons, but did reach the tourna-ment in 2009 and 2010.

Miller said in a press release he was thankful for the opportunity to lead the team.

“I appreciate the opportuni-ty I was given to lead the program at Eastern Illinois and the sup-port and friendships we have de-veloped in the community,” he said. “I want to thank the mem-bers of my staff especially associate head coach Chad Altadonna who has worked tirelessly the last sev-en years to improve this program.

I want to thank all the players who have played for us and represented the program.”

According to the press release, the search for Miller's replacement will begin immediately. Altadonna, along with assistant coaches Geoff

Alexander and Barron Thelmon, will be retained until a new head coach is hired.

Women’s basketball coach Brady Sallee declined to comment on the story.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942 or

dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

Alex McNamee contributed to this story.

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMen's basketball coach Mike Miller walks back to the sideline after UT Martin scores on Eastern during the Panthers' 68-55 win Jan. 12 in Lantz Arena.

By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

Three Eastern alums who started a #FIRE-MIKEMILLER hashtag on Twitter last season are happy with Eastern athletic director Barbara Burke’s decision Monday not to retain men’s bas-ketball coach Mike Miller.

It’s never a good thing when someone loses a job, the three said, but the move was necessary to move the program in a new direction.

“One winning season is unacceptable for any program, and seven years is too long to let it go on,” said Orion Buckingham, a 2010 Eastern graduate.

Miller’s only winning season in seven years was two years ago, when the three men behind the Twitter hashtag graduated. After the winning sea-son, Miller’s team had 21 wins in the next two sea-sons.

“I've never been the type to openly root for someone to lose their job,” said Collin Whitchurch, a 2010 Eastern graduate. “I don't doubt that Miller tried his best, I just feel like he was overmatched and wasn’t equipped to coach at the Division I level.”

Eric Hiltner, a 2010 Eastern graduate, said he was relieved to hear the news Monday but said he felt the move should have been made years ago.

Buckingham said Miller was not able to devel-op his talent and may have had even bigger prob-lems behind closed doors.

“If what I'm hearing from former support staff and players is true, then the problem was big-ger than just coaching and development,” Buck-ingham said. “If it’s true, then the players weren’t playing for him, or didn’t believe in him.”

The three sent a letter to Burke and other East-ern administrators Wednesday to express their concerns for the program. The letter appeared in The News on Thursday.

Burke responded to the letter via email, and Whitchurch posted her response on dennews.com Thursday. In her response, Burke said she was eval-uating Miller’s job security with his contract expir-ing at the end of the season.

One of the reasons Whitchurch wanted to write the letter was because he was afraid of apathy among the Eastern student body when it came to athletics. He said he felt if somebody was not caus-ing a stir about the team’s struggles then he feared Burke would not notice.

By sending the letter, Whitchurch said Burke would see a group of disgruntled alumni.

“If we’re unhappy, it’s likely that others are un-happy,” Whitchurch said. “Disappointed fans equal a decrease in revenue. Everyone knows that.”

Whitchurch said Burke’s response made it sound like she was going to make a change regard-less of receiving the letter.

“Men's basketball, along with football, is the most profitable sport (at Eastern), and for the uni-versity to continuously accept mediocrity was ab-surd,” Whitchurch said.

Hiltner said he thinks the campaign had some affect on the final decision.

“I have to think that if it didn’t gain such ground, the athletic department might not have realized just how upset so many of the fans of the program have become,” Hiltner said.

Miller’s contract will not be renewed Coach’s tenure ends after seven seasons

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By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

With the announcement that head men’s basketball coach Mike Miller's contract would not be re-newed, some players have already voiced their reactions.

Red-shirt junior James Hol-lowell, one of the players origi-nally recruited by Miller, said he was disappointed in the decision.

“I was pretty upset, disap-pointed,” he said. “I mean, Miller brought me in here. Me and him, over the course of my four years, we grew a close bond with each other.”

Red-shirt seniors LC Doss and Nick McFarlin each said they were disappointed with the way the season ended and with Mill-er's contract not being renewed.

“It’s not the way we wanted to go out, missing the tournament and having our coach get fired,” Doss said.

McFarlin acknowledged the ru-mors that Miller might be let go at the end of the season and said the team had been struggling all season.

“Obviously we had been hear-

ing rumors of him not coming back or not having his contract renewed and stuff like that,” he said.

Hollowell said though he was disappointed, he had a lingering feeling that it might come to this for Miller.

“I was pretty disappointed, but at the same time, you kind of had a feeling in the back of your mind, you can’t help but think that this is going to happen,” he said. “Dealing in the sports in-dustry and the college indus-try, the emphasis is on winning, so I kind of had it in the back of my mind, but I just didn’t real-ly accept it until today. It’s been kind of tough just trying to put it in perspective, really what hap-pened.”

Despite the absence of a head coach, both Doss and McFarlin both said with the right direc-tion, the Panthers can be a great team.

McFarlin said with the amount of returning players the Panthers have, the team should be in good shape for next season.

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Players react to Miller’s departure

FILE PHOTO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRed-shirt senior forward Nick McFarlin watches from the sideline during a Dec. 7 men’s basketball game against Oakland City in Lantz Arena. McFarlin, in response to head coach Mike Miller's contract not being renewed, said he wishes the best for Miller's future career.

ONLINE

Story: Conference foes to battle for NCAA tourney spot

Eastern’s men’s basketball season is over, but the rest of the Ohio Valley Conference is preparing for the most important part of their schedule: the conference tournament.

The winner will receive an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Tournament. The only team that is a sure thing to make the tournament is Murray State.

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