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Panthers suffer first loss since 2010Page 8
“Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.”
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By Tim Deters Features Editor
As the l i tt le gir l gripped the silver box in her hand, pressing a row of black knobs, the dome above her sprung to life.
He r b l o n d e h a i r w h i p p i n g back and forth, Hannah Berne, 7 of Charleston, glanced up and down between the controls in her hand and the dome of the East-ern Observatory above as its eye slit peeled back, the loud whir of a motor filling the tiny space un-der the dome.
With a final metallic clank, the eye slit came to rest in silence, re-vealing a cloudy, starless sky.
Despite the cloudy sky, glowing orange from the city lights, Berne continued to crane her neck and
peer into the darkness, hoping for a break in the clouds.
Berne was attending the first Observatory Open House of the Fall 2012 semester.
The Observatory Open House takes place 8 p.m. on the last Fri-day of every month during the school year and is coordinated be-tween both the Astronomy and Physics clubs.
The Eastern Observatory is op-erated by the physics department and is located southwest of Cam-pus Pond down a long gravel road. The location for the observatory was originally chosen because it is one of the darkest spots on cam-pus, in the middle of a field away from houses and campus buildings that would cast out light and ob-scure observations.
Perched atop a small grey cor-rugated steel building is a white dome, which houses a 16-inch telescope.
Hannah Tanguary, president of the Astronomy Club, said the ob-servatory can be used for many
different student projects, as well as to satisfy students’ curiosity.
Computer software can even be used to control the movements of the telescope to track specific ob-jects and gather data.
As Berne c l imbed down the wooden s ta i r s f rom the dome, she passed a wall of photographs pinned to a corkboard and began to ask questions about the photo-graphs.
The photographs were taken using the observatory’s telescope. The images of planets, stars and galaxies painted the wall a bril-l iant array of orange, blue and purple.
Stevie Momaly, vice president of the Physics Club, pointed to the photographs, answering the many questions that Berne asked, one after another after another.
“I hope she never stops asking questions,” Momaly said, grinning as Berne continued to explore the observatory.
Clouds obscure blue moon
OBSERVATORY OPEN HOUSE
By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor
With breaks like this past La-bor Day break, local police depart-ments such as the Charleston Po-lice Department and the Universi-ty Police Department aim to keep students’ property as safe as possi-ble while they are away.
Lieutenant Brad Oyer of the Charleston Police Department said there are various different types of property theft that occur in Charleston as well as on campus.
“We ask that everyone please lock their houses and vehicles,” he said. “Every community has prop-erty thefts and Charleston is no ex-ception.”
Oyer said people break into ve-hicles usually not to steal the vehi-cle itself, but to steal the property inside of it.
“Strangely enough, we find that more and more women leave their purses inside their cars and leave it unlocked,” he said.
Another aspect of property theft that Eastern directly might not deal with but may affect the sur-rounding communities is the open-ing of hunting season.
“Many hunters in east-central Illinois leave firearms in their ve-hicles during hunting season and people break in and steal those,” he said.
Hosting parties can be another open invitation to property thieves, Oyer said.
“If you have a whole house full of people and you don’t necessari-ly know who they are, they could
be checking it out to see what they want to come back and steal,” he said.
Charleston Police Department deals with the most property theft right after long weekends or breaks like Thanksgiving and Christmas.
“We take property theft very se-riously, especially when students are gone,” Oyer said. “Lock your things up, or better yet, take your most valuable possessions home with you.”
Items of importance, including laptops, game systems and games, are among some of the things Charleston residents report stolen most frequently, Oyer said.
“We had a lo t o f burg lar ie s where people come in and steal nothing but a big stack of Xbox 360 games,” he said. “These can easily be taken to a pawn shop and pawned for a few bucks apiece.”
Oyer said change jars are anoth-er possession he has repeatedly seen stolen.
“Burglars know that in student housing, if students are going to be gone for an extended period of time, they can do a burglary that may not even be noticed for a week or two,” he said.
Oyer said property theft has re-mained relatively consistent over the years in Charleston, but breaks from classes are when reports of burglaries are at a peak.
“Students wil l rol l back into town and the residential burglary reports will start rolling in as well,” he said. “By all means, don’t make it easy for the burglars.”
Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812
Students urged to be cautious with property by campus, city police
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American pride
DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSA football field sized flag is draped over O'Brien Field Thursday before Eastern's game against Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. It took more than 100 people to hold up the flag dur-ing the national anthem.
Remnants of Isaac block view of rare astronomical event
TIM DETERS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSLeon Mire, a senior biology major, motions to the reflecting mirror of the Eastern Observatory's 16-inch telescope Friday. The Observatory hosts an Open House 8 p.m. on the last Friday of each month.
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CPD Lieutenant discusses thieves on, off campus
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By Josh Jones Staff Reporter
The University Board will have an artist available on the Library Quad Wednesday to draw students’ por-traits from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Students will receive a free neck up profile of themselves if they at-tend.
The artist will trace a profile on dark paper; cut it out then paste it on lighter paper similar to way roy-alty displayed their images for hun-dreds of years.
Andrea Yarbrough, UB special events coordinator and a senior Eng-
lish major, said the event differs from other events because the students get to physically take something home with them.
“We have events where students could just come enjoy food and games, but more events where stu-dents can take something home and remember the event,” Yarbrough said.
Yarbrough also believes this event bring something different and new for students by demonstrating a dif-ferent type of art, and hopes that this event may spark an interest in silhou-ettes.
The practice was named after Eti-
enne de Silhouette who was a French finance minister to Louis XV, Silhou-ette was known for his love of simple portraits, which is where the name silhouette came from.
First gaining notice in the 17th century, Silhouette found an explo-sion of popularity in the later 18th and earlier 19th centuries.
Yarbrough said that she looking forward to a great turnout and a sil-houette of her own.
Silhouettes involve almost no drawing beside a short trace of the person’s profile, and are mainly done with cuts on solid colored paper.
Troy Ganser, the director of TAG
Art Company, said his company will be sending the artist, Darren Tur-ney on Wednesday said he hopes this event inspires others.
Ganser said an appreciation for good work takes time, focus, training and patience.
“We pay a lot of attention to de-tail especially with the fine instru-ments that we use,” Ganser said. “Each drawing should only last about five minutes if the hair isn’t too wild, guys are typically easy to trace than girls.”
Josh Jones can be reached at 581-2812
UB brings traditional art style to quad
By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor
The Charleston City Council will vote on an agreement with Mattoon for an automatic response from both fire departments for calls on Route 16 between Charleston and Mat-toon.
Mayor John Inyart said this agree-ment will mean both departments will send half of their staff and trucks to a call between Charleston and Mattoon on Route 16.
“If there is an emergency out there, we’re not going to empty the stations in both towns,” Inyart said.
Inyart said this agreement will help both communities will benefit from the agreement.
“That way both communities,
at least for the initial response, will have some coverage for any other emergencies that might arise during that time,” Inyart said.
If the resolution is agreed on it will be effective starting on Oct. 1.
Inyart said there is currently an agreement with Mattoon Fire De-partment to send a Rapid Interven-tion Team if there is a structure fire within city limits, and visa versa.
The RIT agreement will stay in effect whether the joint response proposal is passed or denied.
The RIT team is a group of about three or four firefighters and an en-gine to the fire.
The purpose of the team is to en-sure safety of the other firefighters on the scene.
“The sole purpose is to standby,
fully geared, ready to do a rescue if one of the Mattoon firefighters were to have a problem,” Inyart said.
Inyart said if there was not a RIT team and there was a problem, the firefighters who have been putting the fire out would have to stage the rescue.
“Your guys that are fighting the fire could be tired, and in the fire service, you don’t want to com-pound a situation by having people that are exhausted do a rescue,” In-yart said.
The council will also vote on phase two on a plan to expand the intersection on Lincoln Drive and Ninth Street next to Joey’s.
Inyart said there has been some ingestion coming out of the campus that they want to try to fix.
Inyart said they plan to add an-other left turn lane to allow more traffic to pass through the light.
This plan is similar to one that was done on Seventh Street when Doudna Fine Arts Center was built.
This is the second phase of the plan, Inyart said.
The first phrase of the plan was planning of different options for the area.
The third phrase will be imple-mentation of the area.
The council will also vote to add a no parking zone on the west side of Thirtieth Street between Taylor and Buchanan.
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Joint fire response to be voted on
By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
In the July 2012, Forbes Magazine compiled its “America’s Best College” list for the year 2012. Of the 560 schools ranked, 26 of them were schools locat-ed in Illinois.
Six of them were state-funded schools, but Eastern was not among them.
Michael Noer, the editor of the list, did not return requests for comment but did write a separate article explaining some of the methodology of the rank-ings.
“The rankings, which are compiled exclusively for Forbes by the Washing-ton, D.C.-based Center for College Af-fordability and Productivity, focus on the things that matter the most to stu-
dents: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low-levels of debt.” Noer said in the article. “They do not attempt to assess a school’s reputation, nor are they a measure of ac-ademic selectivity and we pointedly ig-nore any metrics that would encourage schools to engage in wasteful spending.”
According to the rubric used by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, the ranking comes from a compiled score based on the following aspects: post graduate success student satisfaction, debt, four-year graduation rate and competitive awards.
The post-graduate success portion makes up 32.5 percent of the score and takes into account students who go on to obtain masters and doctorate degrees.
Student satisfaction makes up 27.5
percent, debt after college 17.5 percent, and four year graduation rate and com-petitive awards each make up 11.25 per-cent a piece of the score.
Each of these categories gathered its data from a variety of sources including other survey sites including ratemypro-fessor.com and payscale.com
Blair Lord, the provost and vice pres-ident for academic affairs and said with-out talking to the survey company it is difficult to figure out why Eastern did not make the list.
He said the university focuses not how to increase the rankings, but to help students.
“We do not typically study the meth-odology carefully with an eye to manip-ulating one or more of the parameters,” Lord said. “We do, however, take seri-
ously trying to provide opportunity and access to a superior education. The more successful we can be in achieving this, the more likely it will be reflected favorably in the ratings.”
Although, the university does not fo-cus on the rankings, Lord said it is im-portant to remember that surveys like this one are indeed a part of a business.
“There is definitely a “public service” aspect to college rankings,” he said. “It also is a business for those promulgat-ing the rankings; hence, the number of different organizations establishing them and the variations in their focus.”
Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812
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By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor
While simply going back to school is a transition enough for most stu-dents, one Eastern student has traveled from Egypt to Wisconsin, and has now begun to establish his place at Eastern.
Mohammed Saeed Dauroug, an in-ternational student from Egypt, just arrived at Eastern this fall.
Before he came to Eastern, he was enrolled at University of Wisconsin at Green Bay for two and a half years.
“Wisconsin is a lot colder and there’s not as much diversity as there is here at EIU,” he said.
He said one of the reasons he left Wisconsin was because there were not as many accessible resources there for doing research.
“I found out it was easier to get em-ployed if you are in a program oppo-site to your major,” he said. “I was there studying human biology and then I transferred here.”
Dauroug is majoring in clinical lab-oratory science and has plans to attend medical school when he graduates this year.
“My favorite part of being here is the fact that Charleston is such a col-lege town” he said.
Though he said it sounds cliché, Dauroug said the professors at Eastern have made his transition easy.
“All of my professors have been so helpful,” he said. “I had no clue what to do or how to deal with my credit transfers but they’ve all just been so awesome.”
Dauroug said his biggest struggle with being away from home is missing his family.
“You just have to take it day by day,” he said. “I don’t really know a lot of people here, but I’ve been staying busy with class and homework.”
Dauroug said Eastern classes are a lot different from classes both in Wis-consin and in Egypt.
In Egypt, he was enrolled in a pri-vate university in the pharmacy program.
“Classes are very big there, often with 300 or 400 students in a lecture,” he said. “I like how here at Eastern, it’s in the middle and classes aren’t too big or too small.”
He said one of the big differences between the United States and Egypt is the culture.
“People here are more independent and tend to mind their own business more than in Eastern civilization,” he said.
At Dauroug’s school in Egypt, males and females were in separate classes all the way up until they graduated high school.
“Egypt is very liberal compared to the rest of the Middle East, especial-ly after the revolution,” he said. “But since our classes were separated, we didn’t really interact with the opposite sex as much.”
He said he only spent one year back home in college where males and fe-males were mixed together in classes.
Dauroug said he originally planned to study abroad in Madison, Wis. be-cause of the excellent pharmacy pro-gram they have there, but it was too costly.
“I wanted to study abroad because I already spoke English and I knew it would be an interesting experience,” he said. “The whole process of trans-
ferring to the United States wasn’t even that difficult.”
Dauroug said he is currently apply-ing to hospitals in the area to complete the internship that is mandatory with the clinical lab sciences program.
“If I get in, I will be done this year,” he said.
After he graduates from Eastern, Dauroug said he plans to go to med-ical school, though the road will be tougher for him since he is not Amer-
ican.“I’m using my clinical lab as a step
to get into (medical school) because since I’m not American, I’m not eli-gible for all the loans and grants,” he said. “I’m hoping to work for a couple of years and then go to med school.”
Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812
International student has high hopes for career
By Tim Deters Features Editor
Drought, rain and construction ac-tivity have taken their toll on the green space between Klehm Hall and the Life Sciences Building, said a Facilities Plan-ning and Management official.
A majority of the grass in the green space has died, soil has eroded on the west end and rocks litter the ground.
Dave Crockett, the associate director of maintenance and operations, said sev-eral factors have contributed to the con-dition of the green space.
The main factor has been drought, he said.
The grass in the green space has dried out and died because of the se-vere drought the area has experienced throughout the summer.
To add to the situation, even if the grass received significant rain, the high-er-than-normal temperatures the area has experienced throughout the sum-mer would have still resulted in the green space dying, Crockett said.
“This drought has made landscaping
very difficult,” he said.Construction to widen drainage pipes
that run along the north end of the Life Sciences Building and down the west side of the green space has created fur-ther damage.
Construction equipment was brought onto the green space and used to tear up soil to install new piping, Crockett said. The equipment killed the grass through traffic and breaking the ground.
As recent rain fell on the exposed ground on the west end of the green space, slightly eroding the soil, Crock-ett said.
However, the rain has also allowed grounds workers to lay down a layer of fabric impregnated with grass seed.
Crockett said the soil moisture should be high enough for the grass to grow again and prevent further erosion.
Recent rain has also allowed the ground to settle where tunnels were built for drainage pipes. Crockett said when the soil was dry it did not compact as it would with normal moisture content.
“When you have a fresh tunnel and dig like that, it’s been so dry you don’t get
much settling,” he said. Now, as rain moved into the area, the
soil moisture increased, and the ground where soil was disturbed has sunk.
Crockett said soil will be brought in to maintain the level of the ground as the soil settles.
“We’ll probably get a lot of settling where they dug, and we will definitely have to haul in dirt,” he said.
Construction also introduced rocks into the soil that will have to be removed for grass to grow properly, Crockett said.
“The grounds department will have to go in and clean that rock and debris and rake out the big rocks,” he said. If there are too many rocks, a mechanical device can be attached to a skid steer that scoops up soil and sifts out rocks.
Along with restoring the green space to a lush and grassy plot, a chain hand-rail will be added to the sidewalk on the north side of the green space, Crockett said.
Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812
Green space in rough shape
ROBYN DEXTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMohammed Saeed Dauroug, a senior clinical laboratory sciences major, transferred to Eastern from University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, but is originally from Egypt. Dauroug plans to attend medical school after he graduates from Eastern.
“My favorite part of being here is the fact that Charleston is such a college town.”Mohammed Saeed Dauroug, international student
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Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS The greenspace that began construction in March 2011 stands mostly bare of grass. Although the space was com-pletely covered in grass during the end of the 2011-12 school year, the green no longer stands.
STUDENT LIFE
By Ethan Enloe Staff Reporter
Students wanting to learn new ways to eat healthier are in luck, there will be a class on healthy cooking on Sept. 25 in Klehm Hall Room 2309.
According to a 2012 Gallup.com study about 2011, one in three peo-ple were overweight and one in four people were obese; with a higher percentage of people who make less money.
Rachael Jannusch, the nutri-tion education coordinator for the Health Education and the instruc-tor of the class, said healthy eating is possible on a college budget.
“It’s important for students to learn about proper nutrition, and incorporate cooking techniques into meals,” Jannusch said. “Cook-ing healthy is fun and can be done on a college budget.”
According to Livestrong.com, there are numerous benefits of eat-ing healthy including improving cognitive function, the brain’s abil-ity to perceive, think, reason and remember. Eating healthy can also enhance immune systems to defend against infections and sickness.
Students will have to pre-register to attend the 6:30 p.m. class, which is free.
The theme of the class will be fruits and vegetables.
Jannusch wil l s tar t the c lass
by giving a brief presentation on healthy eating.
She will present the attendees with special cooking techniques and each attendee will receive three rec-ipes.
Students will then be split into groups with each group having its own recipes that they will cook by themselves; while being assisted from Jannusch and her team of two interns and a couple of volunteers.
After preparing their recipes, the amateur cooks will be able to eat their projects.
Jannusch said when she taught this class during the spring 2012 se-mester, everyone who attended the class enjoyed the two hours of cook-ing projects.
There will be another class this semester on Oct. 24 at 5:30 p.m.
Students can pre-register at any-time leading up to the class. The second class will have a different theme that is yet to be determined as well as different recipes for stu-dents to cook and eat.
Jannusch said she hopes to have more than just the two classes for spring 2013.
Students can pre-register for the class on the Health Education Re-source Center website.
Ethan Enloe can be reached at 581-2812
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Free cooking class focuses on health
After two weeks of my senior year, I have been thinking about my past endeavors and life choices—and I have a little advice to share to my fellow students who are three years young-er than me.
Dear freshmen, I promise my advice will not preach or seem overly motherly.
1. Don’t forget about the ’rents. Yes, I am talking about your parents who
raised you since you were little and helped you get into an institution like Eastern.
I especially understand since my little broth-er just left for college, and my mother has been caught watching home videos of us as children more than once.
Even if you do not want to go home, give them a call once a week and let them know you are still alive.
Your parents probably don’t call themselves because they don’t want to seem overbearing but are really dying to know about how your classes are going or what friends you are making.
2. Don’t miss class. I have missed classes in order to write a pa-
per and it has only gotten me more behind. You may catch up for one class, but in the
long run it only makes you lose out on possible important information.
So get your butt to class and work on your homework assignments around your class schedule. (And don’t give me that whining ex-cuse that you can’t because you can).
3. Take advantage of the opportunities around you.
I know it may sound lame, but Eastern tru-ly offers places to make lasting friends and learn invaluable skills.
I have worked for The Daily Eastern News for three years and have learned more there then I have ever learned in the classroom (no offense, professors).
In the newsroom, I have made life long friends who truly care about the future of jour-nalism and the integrity of our profession.
We have become a family over the years and can get through anything together.
At Eastern, I know you will find that niche—the place where you belong.
It may be scary at first, but put yourself out there and I promise you will be rewarded.
You only have four years here—so make the most of it.
Elizabeth Edwards is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or
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Students can help combat Eastern’s challenges, issues
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The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
“Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.”
Editor in ChiefElizabeth Edwards
Managing Editor Ashley Holstrom
Online EditorSara Hall
News Editor Rachel Rodgers
Associate News EditorNike Ogunbodede
Opinions Editor Seth Schroeder Letters to the editor can be submitted at any time on any topic to the Opinions
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.
They must be less than 250 words.
Letters to the editor can be brought in with identification to The DEN at 1811 Buzzard Hall.
Letters may also be submitted electronically from the author’s EIU e-mail address to [email protected].
We’ve all probably heard about how ev-eryone comes to college from uniquely dif-ferent backgrounds. I won’t list them all here, but in a presidential election year people’s different backgrounds and inter-ests become more noticeable, ranging from those who entirely don’t care about politics to those who dive into every single news item about the election.
I tend to be one of the latter, but with the start of my ninth semester here at Eastern I can honestly say I’ve gotten to know people repre-senting nearly every type of interest level in pol-itics that could exist on a college campus.
With this experience I have found that dis-cussions involving politics or simple political issues can be one of the following for people: boring, interesting, frustrating or confusing.
While the above reactions are expectable, I’d like to take this opportunity to offer some suggestions for people who may find them-selves in a political conversation between now and Election Day on Nov. 6.
First: If the subject of conversation inter-ests you in the slightest bit, don’t be afraid to involve yourself. You don’t need to butt into the discussion to prove you have the ti-niest piece of knowledge about the subject, but simply interjecting your opinion can help keep things alive and interesting.
Second: Surprise! You’ve found someone who disagrees with you! The person you are
speaking with could be conservative (like me), moderate, liberal, libertarian, some-thing in between or beyond, but they don’t have the same opinion as you.
Shying away from a potential debate/argu-ment at this point is not the way to go, espe-cially in a college setting. People in the out-side world aren’t always going to agree with you, and college provides a great opportunity to practice holding civil discussions over dis-agreeable subjects. Take advantage of this op-portunity to learn more about the person or people you are speaking with and their views.
Third: Holding a civil political discussion is possible. This is probably the hardest part about the idea of holding a political discussion, since it tends to be what drives people away from paying attention to politics in the first place.
If you feel yourself tensing up over what you hear the person across from you saying or notice a hint of steam coming from their ears when you’re talking, take a step back and
ensure that no one is just throwing insults at each other. A discussion that relies only on clichés and sound byte jabs is not really go-ing to produce much intellectual exercise.
Finally: Know that it is okay to agree to dis-agree. If the conversation is going in circles, it may be time to change the subject or pick it up later.
Now, these are some very general sugges-tions, none of which I’ve necessarily mas-tered myself, but I hope they’re helpful. Just because politics is constantly portrayed as a series of endless nagging arguments does not mean our conversations have to be or necessarily will be the same.
As the presidential election kicks into high gear, I’ll be here writing my opin-ions and interacting with The Daily Eastern News’ readers, and hopefully all of you will take the opportunity to participate in our democratic process as well.
We heard a lot about the importance of the “youth vote” in the 2008 presidential election. As college students we are prepar-ing for our futures in the real world, and part of that process should include develop-ing our abilities to hold a substantive civil discussion about the issues that affect us all.
Greg Sainer is a senior communication studies major. He can be reached at 581-2812
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President Bill Perry recognized two ongoing challenges facing the university in the upcom-ing year, and we think these issues should be a concern for the entire Eastern community.
In Friday’s edition of the The Daily Eastern News, we reported on a speech given by Perry to a group of gathered faculty and administrators during the “The Coming Year Faculty Reception.” During his speech, Perry said the two biggest issues facing East-ern’s community are low enrollment and state sup-port.
A decrease in state appropriations isn’t exactly a new problem, but as the Illinois General Assembly continues to struggle with its own financial prob-lems, it’s unlikely to go away anytime soon.
As Perry said in his speech, less money coming in from our state’s government forces Eastern to act as a private university. This means relying more on the funds the university receives from student tuition.
This is problematic. As Perry also pointed out in his speech, Eastern has faced decreased student enrollment in the last several years. Though the enrollment numbers for the cur-rent academic year have not been released yet, a decrease seems to be on the horizon.
This means there’s less tuition for the university to rely on.
While we believe Eastern’s faculty and admin-istration are working hard to deal with these issues, this isn’t just their problem. A contin-ued financial struggle at Eastern is going to affect everyone here, and likely not for the better.
If there is anything we as students can do to help, it is not only in our best interest to do so, but it is in the best interest of the friends and family we have accumulated here.
It can sometimes seem improbable for our actions as students to make any kind of lasting impact at school, and it can seem like we have no control over university policies or how things run here.
Not only is this not the case, but frankly, these issues are of a big enough concern that we don’t have time for that kind of thinking.
We have the ability to combat these issues. The actions we should take to help the situa-tion are things we should be doing anyway.
We can make this community a friendly and accepting place. We can make it a place people want to live and work at. We can help out our neighbors, we can volunteer and we can go out of our way to make sure those around us are getting what they need.
People often leave a university or don’t join in the first place because they don’t think they fit in or can’t find a place in the community.
We believe almost anyone can find acceptance and a support system at Eastern. But it’s going to take work from everyone. We’re supposed to be adults now, and there’s no reason we can’t act accepting and compassionate to one another.
To get us more state funding, show the state of Illinois’ officials they’re going to get a return on their investment.
When you leave here, make the most of your education. Act like the qualified and talented men and women we know you are. Prove to those in charge that higher education is crucial to the devel-opment of our society and economy. Do it, not just because it’s good for you, but because it will be good for everyone.
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MOON, from page 1Peering out from the door of the
observatory, Tiandra Burns, secre-tary of the Astronomy Club, lament-ed the cloudy sky created by Hurri-cane Isaac as it crept northward.
“I wish we had more cool stuff to look at,” she said. “The hurricane kind of messed that up.”
Burns said she comes to every open house and even visits the obser-vatory simply to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere and the stars.
The mysteries of space and the in-ability of humans to reach its vast expanse are the biggest reasons why Burns loves astronomy.
“Not knowing what is there and learning about things you can’t get to” are what attract her to keep com-ing back and learning more about space, Burns said. “You can’t touch it or get in a rocket to get to it.”
While club members, community members and students mingled out-side, Astronomy Club adviser and Observatory director James Conwell set up a pair of binoculars on a tri-pod and aimed them east.
Conversations about NASA pro-grams and astronomical phenome-na blended with conversations about comics and “Rocky Horror Picture Show” as several students and com-munity members filtered through the observatory.
However, conversations hushed as Conwell called out, announcing a break in the clouds to the east.
Berne came bounding from the observatory and gripped the binocu-lars as the clouds parted, revealing a blue moon, a rare occurrence when a second full moon rises within a sin-gle month.
Glowing orange, the blue moon competed with the lights of campus as it emerged above Taylor Hall.
“Oh my God! I can see it!” Ber-ne yelled. “I’m shaking because I’ve never seen it this close!”
However, the moment was brief as the clouds overtook the moon again.
“I think it’s gone for good this time,” Tanquary said.
She was correct. The blanket of Isaac’s clouds per-
sisted through the night.As Berne left the observatory,
walking down the gravel road with her parents, her questions slowly fad-ed in the distance as she kept gazing at the sky.
Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812
TIM DETERS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSHannah Berne, 7 of Charleston, pushes the controls that open the dome of the Eastern Observatory Friday. Although the sky was cloudy, a blue moon was able to peek out for a brief moment later that night for Berne to see.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
The Student Senate will swear in 15 new Student Senate members and introduce four pieces of legis-lation at its’ first meeting of the se-mester on Wednesday.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and take place in the Arcola-Tusco-la Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Prior to meeting, Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gurick was charged with the task of filling the 15 Stu-dent Senate seats that were vacated at the end of last semester.
Gurick said he received 29 appli-cants for the positions and was ex-
cited that many seemed overly qual-ified for the positions.
“I sent out letters letting the ap-plicants know whether or not they would be appointed,” Gurick said. “For those who did not make it, I encouraged them to still get in-volved in non-senate positions such as Apportionment Board and in-cluded a list of these positions.”
The new Student Senate mem-bers will be sworn in by Student Body President Kaci Abolt.
The new senate members will then have a regular meeting which a has various agenda items including the approval outside appointments to university governing boards, in-troduction of the Student Senate
committee chairs and four possi-ble resolutions that could influence how the senate functions on a dai-ly basis.
Gurick said many of the outside appointments like student represen-tative on the Council on Academic Affairs, Council of University Busi-ness and Planning, are two former student executives who want to re-main involved.
The four resolutions being intro-duced are being sponsored by the student senate members who partic-ipated in summer senate, John Prof-itt, James Johnson and John Bays.
Senate reorganizes for fall semester
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“We were sloppy in the first 20 minutes and gave up goals,” How-arth said.
In the second half, the Panthers made a comeback, but an early penalty kick opportunity would’ve changed the face of the game, but the Panthers missed it.
The Panthers scored in bunches in the second half.
Red-shirt sophomore midfield-er Chris Boswell scored two goals one minute apart.
Then, sophomore midfielder Jake Brillhart scored four minutes later.
But after Brillhart’s 72nd min-ute goal, Canisius scored off of a corner kick one minute later and held onto the lead from there.
“We missed chances,” Howarth said.
The Panthers fall to 1-3-0 on the season and will start another tournament next weekend in Day-ton, Ohio, on Friday.
Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-2812
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By Dominic Renzetti Staff Reporter
The Eastern women’s soccer team was minutes from seeing its fourth straight match head to extra time, but a late goal by Indiana State propelled the Syc-amores to a 1-0 win over the Panthers in Terre Haute, Ind.
Indiana State’s Sydney Lovelace add-ed the only goal of the match in the 87th minute of play. Crete native Alexandra Rodas added the assist for Indiana State. The goal was Lovelace’s first of the sea-son.
The Panthers, who had a surge of of-fense in their last match against Cleve-land State, saw it come to a screeching halt against Indiana State, as they were out-shot 17-5 by the Sycamores.
The Panthers had only registered three shots in the first half.
Head coach Summer Perala said her team was simply outworked by Indiana State.
“Indiana State did a fantastic job coming out with energy,” she said. “We got outworked and outplayed in the first half and didn’t do quite enough in the second half to try and get the result.”
Perala said it was poor defense let-ting up the goal late in the second half, and that the team needs to find a way to come out firing.
Red-shirt junior Jessica Taldone was back in goal for the Panthers, making five saves in the match.
Freshman goalkeeper Erin Mitchell got the start for the Sycamores, and she needed only one save to earn the victory.
The majority of Indiana State’s shots came from Lovelace, who fired six of the team’s 17 shots. Sophomore Emily Chura had three, while sophomore Bria Caldwell had two. The Sycamores had six other players each record one shot on goal in the non-conference match.
For the Panthers, all five of the team’s shots each came from five different play-ers.
Senior Kristin Germann, who scored three goals in the last match, did not re-
cord a shot in the match.With the loss, the Panthers fall to 1-4,
while the Sycamores improve to 2-2, snapping their two-match losing streak.
Perala said she’s hoping the team will be able to get its legs back for a tough match coming up against Evansville.
The Panthers will be back in action on Sept. 7, when they will head back to Indiana to take on Evansville at 3 p.m. in Evansville, Ind.
Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812
Goal pushes Sycamores past PanthersWOMEN’S SOCCER
VOLLEYBALL
Oakland invite brings sweep By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor
The Eastern volleyball team suffered a tough loss over the weekend, fall-ing to 2-4 after an 0-3 performance in the Oakland Invitational in Rochester, Mich., Aug. 31-Sept. 1.
The Panthers closed out the tour-nament Saturday with a heartbreak-ing five-set loss (16-25, 21-25, 25-21, 26-24, 10-15) to Toledo, after be-ing swept by host Oakland University earlier that day (22-25, 12-25, 23-25) and also falling to Iowa on Friday in a tough four-set battle (30-32, 13-25, 26-24, 20-25).
Freshman setter/right side hitter Abby Saalfrank continued the out-standing play amongEastern newcom-ers, receiving All-Tournament honors.
On Friday, in the Panthers’ loss to Iowa, Saalfrank recorded a triple-dou-ble, the first Eastern player to achieve that particular triple-double since Me-leah Cutler (1996-99) recorded with
15 kills, 11 assists and 22 digs against Southeast Missouri State on Oct. 22, 1998. The following day, against Tole-do, Saalfrank was one dig shy of seeing the same results.
Junior Reynae Hutchinson notched her 18th career double-double in the match against Toledo.
Hutchinson chipped in for 10 kills and 11 digs in the five-set loss.
The Panthers were able to stay alive throughout the match thanks to their blocking game.
Leading all players on the floor was junior Stephanie Arnold with seven blocks. Saalfrank, along with seniors Alison Berens and Emily Franklin, each finished with five stuffs, as well.
Freshman libero Stephanie Wallace continued her early success, falling one dig short of her career high with 24 against Toledo after contributing with 14 digs earlier in the day against Oak-land.
Fellow freshman Marah Bradbury tied Wallace with two service aces
apiece againstToledo; Bradbury added 27 assists in
the loss to the Rockets. Bradbury also flourished with 22 assists in the match against Oakland and 25 against Iowa. Bradbury saw other success against Iowa, leading all payers with three aces, hitting .667, and two kills.
An impressive .636 attack with sev-en kills and zero miscues was recorded by sophomore Kelsey Roggemann led all Panthers against Oakland.
For the tournament, Eastern was out-hit .246 to .186. The Panthers trailed in digs (181 to 177), aces (17 to 15), blocks per game (24 to 22), and points (217 to 185).
Up next for the Panthers is the Mar-quette Classic in Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 7-8. Eastern will face off with the host Golden Eagles, Wake Forest, and 22nd ranked Michigan.
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FILE PHOTO| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore midfielder Meagan Radloff moves the ball down the field during the game against Northern Iowa on Aug. 24th at Lakeside Field. The team lost this weekend against Indiana State with a score of 0-1. The Panther's next home game is Sept. 9 at Lakeside Field against Northern Illinois University.
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RUGBY
By Nicholas Ruffolo Staff Reporter
Saturday featured the first colle-giate women’s rugby 7-on-7 match in the history of the NCAA; Saturday also featured the first loss for the Pan-thers in more than two years.
Eastern head coach Frank Grazia-no had some mixed emotions after the match.
“It’s disappointing, but we will get over it,” Graziano said. “It’s just something we need to work on in practice, especially since we just start-ed learning rugby sevens on Mon-day.”
Quinnipiac head coach Becky Carlson and Graziano agreed to play rugby sevens in their matchup less than a week before game-time. This resulted in both teams having little time to assimilate to the rule changes,
culminating into what coach Grazia-no called “sloppy” play.
Rugby sevens featured two seven-minute halves for each game, with three games in total. Much like soc-cer, the clock was continuous unless an injury occurred.
The winner was the team that took two of the three games in the match.
In the first game, Quinnipiac shot off to a 5-0 lead after a try by senior center Emily Carroll.
The ensuing two-point conversion by Colleen Doherty sailed wide and the Bobcats took a 5-0 lead into the first halftime.
Right out of the gate in the sec-ond half, sophomore center Madison Kissner weaved behind the Quinnipi-ac defense and scored a breakaway try to tie the game at five apiece.
“Our spacing was nicer so I had a deeper pass,” Kissner said. “Then Ca-
rissa (Burge) just tossed it to me, so that was super.”
Burge drilled the two-point con-version and the Panthers took a 7-5 lead.
Quinnipiac tested Eastern near the end of the first game when they drove deep inside the Panther’s 22-meter line.
The Bobcats broke through the Panther defense and downed the rock inside the end line only to have the try called back for a forward pass. Eastern won the ensuing scrum and grabbed the first game 7-5.
Scoring did not pick up until the second half of the second game as both teams went scoreless in the first half. However, Quinnipiac picked up scoring right away in the second frame with a try less than a minute into the second half. After the score by Katie Wood, tries by Meghan
Hannemann and Allison Gnys buried Eastern into a 15-0 hole. It turned out to be too much for the Panthers as they fell in the second game 15-0.
With the series tied 1-1, Eastern faced Quinnipiac in a decisive third game. Both teams held each oth-er scoreless in the first half, but the frustration started to creep in as well. Quinnipiac head coach Becky Carl-son and Eastern head coach Frank Graziano voiced their frustration with their teams during the third halftime.
The second half of the final game started with the Panthers deep inside Bobcat territory.
Eastern could not capitalize and instead turned the ball over which led to a long run for Quinnipiac.
After a few more passes and a goal-line scrum victory, the Bobcats punched through for a try with a
minute remaining. As the final seconds ticked off
the clock, the Quinnipiac players stormed the field in celebration of a 5-0 win in the final game and a 2-1 win in the match.
It was the first victory for Quin-nipiac over the Panthers, after going 0-3 in the previous meetings. Coach Becky Carlson was relieved to secure the elusive victory over Eastern.
“It feels pretty good,” Carlson said. “It was not a traditional 15’s game, so I’m very proud of the way these girls played.”
The Panthers will look to learn from the loss and jump back on track next week against the Wisconsin All-Stars.
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Sophomore lock Kim Youhas goes to tackle the Quinnipiac ball carrier during Saturday's game at Lakeside Field. Saturday’s game marks the first time the Panthers lost since 2010.
MEN’S SOCCER
By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter
The Eastern men’s soccer team dropped its last game of the 38th Panther Invitational on Sunday in a 2-0 loss to Wisconsin-Milwau-kee.
Eastern head coach Adam How-arth said the two goals were “poor goals to give up.”
The first goal for Milwaukee came when Laurie Bell headed in
a cross from 12 yards out early in the game to take the lead.
On the goal, Howarth said the Panthers’ defense didn’t do a good job of defending the cross, which was set up by Milwaukee’s Zach Stevenson and Richard Johnson.
The score held at 1-0 until the 79th minute when Jamie Blad-en wrapped a free kick around the Panthers’ defense to take a 2-0 lead that would seal the victory.
The Panthers played in front of
a crowd of 1,608 in Milwaukee Sunday in the loss against the host team.
Even in the loss, Howarth said playing on the road, in front of a crowd of that size, is a good expe-rience.
“Whenever you play games on the road it is good for the team to get experience in a hostile en-vironment,” Howarth said. “(Sun-day) was a good example – great for our young players to have
this.”T h e Pa n t h e r s ’ t o u r n a m e n t
opener was a much more wide open game than Sunday’s game, but the Panthers lost 4-3 to Ca-nisius.
Ea s t e rn had t o make a b i g comeback in the second half, af-ter going into halftime trailing 3-0 against Canisius.
The Panthers were only outshot in the f irst half, 10-9, but Ca-nisius capitalized on its opportu-
nities.The Golden Gri f f ins took a
penalty kick chance and scored in the 11th minute, off the foot of Gavin Falconer.
Regan Steele headed a ball into the goal after a shot went of the cross bar in the 22nd minute.
Then, Paul Klopfer scored again before halftime.
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Panthers go winless in holiday soccer tourney