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The Daily Eastern News' weekly arts and entertainment section
sound of music:
meet the musicians
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VERGEO n th e
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henhouse prowlers
prowl at night
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'bates motel' provides
feast of terror, delight
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Marcus sMith | the Daily eastern news
SUITING UP FOR OPENEREIU softball will host Murray State Friday and Satur-day for a three-game series at Williams Field.
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MAKING MUSICTwo junior music majors will perform solo recitals at Dounda on Saturday.
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“I don’t feel safe on this campus”
Charleston | DEBaTE
Candidates answer students’ questionsBy amanda WilkinsonCity Editor
Community members and students alike gathered Tuesday to hear the Charleston mayor-al candidates answer questions prepared by the student government.
Candidates Larry Rennels, Brian Myerscough and Troy Richey, were asked about Charles-ton being the reason potential students did not choose Eastern, how students can have fun with-out being a burden to the community, bringing more sit-down restaurants to the city, the rela-tionship between the city and Eastern, and stu-dent and community safety.
Larry Rennels has been on the city council for 16 years and has worked as mayor pro-tem for eight years.
He is a lifelong resident of Charleston and re-cently retired from his family business, Rennels TV & Appliance, in 2010.
Brian Myerscough, a lifelong resident of Charleston, is currently a substitute teacher at Charleston Community School District.
He has served on the Board of Zoning and Appeals for 23 years.
Troy Richey has lived in Charleston for 15 years and works at CHI Overhead Doors in Ar-thur.
Richard Wandling, a political science profes-sor, moderated the debate in the Grand Ball-room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Universi-ty Union.
Effect of city on attracting students Richey said he thinks cleaning up the city will attract potential businesses.
“We need to show businesses we care about them and respect them,” he said. “If we help each other, we can turn this city around.”
Myerscough said he was not surprised to hear the city was the reason people chose not to at-tend Eastern.
“I’ve talked to students who feel the city has attacked them,” he said.
Myerscough said the city needs to follow the lead of Carbondale and Champaign and lower the bar entry age to 19.
Rennels said he can understand students coming from larger cities and not liking Charleston because of the city size.
If the bar owners and city fail to police the students when they are out, the state will inter-vene and it will become a state violation, Ren-nels said.
Charleston’s role in retaining stu-dents
Myerscough said how the city treats the stu-dents directly affects if they decided to stay in Charleston.
He said he wants to get back to when the city used to treat students like their own children.
“That’s what we need to get back to – a good hometown,” Myerscough said.
Richey said the city needs to treat the stu-dents better.
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DomInIC BaIma | the DaIly eastern ne WsMiKale Kelley-Ross, a senior psychology major, tells the panel how she does not feel safe on campus and then asks what they are going to do about it during the town hall meeting on Thursday in the Lumpkin auditorium.
Students weigh instaff report
“I feel it went on deaf ears because I feel that they care more about the sake of the institution than the sake of the students.”
- Mikale Kelley-Ross, a senior psy-chology major.
“Since the beginning of this I’ve been mad at President Perry and Vice Pres-ident Nadler, but I understand that they’re speaking on behalf of the entire administration so they need to watch what they say, and I know that when President Perry makes a statement that he really wants change to happen and they are trying their hardest; it’s just re-ally difficult.”
- Jenny Greenberg, a member of Women’s Empowerment League.
“I feel like they spent most of their time trying to defend themselves and clear their name. I know that they’re not ill-intentioned, but I wish there was less self-defense and more progress.”
- Katie Smith, a sophomore jour-nalism major
By Chacour Koop & sara hallSpecial Projects Reporter & Online Editor
President Bill Perry at a town hall meet-ing addressing Eastern’s sexual assault climate Thursday said without the
urgency brought on by students, faculty and community members, the issue would largely remain undiscussed.
“Absent of the students bringing this up at this time, we probably wouldn’t be here,” he re-sponded to the student’s question. “That’s an honest response.”
Perry, along with Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs; Dave Clos-son, university police crime prevention of-ficer; and Cara Pschir-rer, a counselor in the Eastern Counseling Center, were part a panel that answered ques-tions from a full audience in Lumpkin Audi-torium.
The panel updated the audience on the progress of the Sexual Assault Task Force’s new report and took questions concerning univer-sity policies.
The report was supposed to be finalized Monday, but Nadler said the weather prevent-ed it from being completed.
He said it will be complete in a couple of days.
During the town hall meeting, multiple sur-
vivors – including one of the moderators, Jean-nie Ludlow – discussed personal experiences with sexual assault, including the emotional ef-fects that last long after.
“I was raped. It was a long time ago, and I didn’t tell anybody,” Ludlow said, beginning the evening’s discussion.
Tiffany Mazur, a freshman theatre arts ma-jor, said she still deals with the aftermath of her assault, and that therapy does not help her deal with the anxiety.
“What am I supposed to do to feel better? What am I supposed to do to feel safe on this
campus that I love?” she asked the panel.
Mazur said she is look-ing for university officials to step up to the task and make students feel more secure and protected from sexual assault attacks.
“I don’t feel safe on this campus,” she said.
In response to questions of under-reporting of sexual assault at Eastern, Perry said it hap-pens at other universities, too.
“I’ve been at two universities, and the un-derreporting has occurred at both,” he said. “I am not saying Eastern is any better or any worse than anyone else. I’m just saying we have work to do, and we are working on it.”
The Clery Act is a law requiring universi-ties to publish all criminal offenses reported on campus for the previous three years.
"What am I supposed to do to feel safe on this campus that I love?"Tiffany Mazur, freshman theatre arts
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By olivia Diggsstaff reporter
Five men dressed in suits will be prowling Charleston, rather than the henhouse, as they perform their blue-grass music.
“The Henhouse Prowlers,” a blue-grass band based out of Chicago, will be playing at the Uptowner for the second time on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Jon Goldfine and Ben Wright both
said their music has a traditional, straight-ahead, bluegrass feel infused with high energy.
The band has multiple singers that carry harmonies and contribute to the whole band’s sound.
During live performances, all mem-bers, formed in a semi-circle, contribute to singing around one center-stage mi-crophone to continue on with old blue-grass tradition.
The band is known for wearing suits
and ties for every performance and in-terview.
Jon Goldfine, the stand-up bass play-er, said the band dresses in suits and ties because of another American bluegrass musician they are inspired by.
“Bill Monroe is considered the fa-ther of bluegrass music, and he would always say that you have to respect the music, and that is a way of respecting the music by dressing up nice,” Gold-fine said.
Ben Wright, the banjo player, said he started playing the banjo on a whim when he saw the instrument sitting in the window at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.
Olivia Diggs can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
c amPUs | GUEST SPEAKER
By Jack sheehanstaff reporter
A guest speaker from the University of Miami is coming to Eastern to pres-ent a lecture on the baseball career of Satchel Paige, linking Paige’s experience and persona to the Civil Rights Move-ment.
“Satchel Paige and Black Baseball in the Rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement” will be presented at 7 p.m. Monday in Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center, with free admission to the public.
Guest lecturer Donald Spivey, a his-tory professor at the University of Mi-ami, wrote his recently published biogra-phy “If You Were Only White: The Life
of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige,” after more than a decade of research into Paige’s career.
Ed Wehrle, a history professor, said he had a major hand in getting Spivey to come to Eastern to lecture on Paige and the Civil Rights Movement, which is all made possible through the Barry D. Riccio History Fund.
Wehrle said Spivey was clearly the best candidate for the lecture after read-ing his biography on Paige.
Wehrle said Spivey will offer a richly detailed portrait of the pitcher, setting Paige in historical context to everyone viewing the lecture.
Paige and his unique relationship to the Civil Rights Movement will be the subject of Spivey’s.
Wehrle said he hopes viewers walk
away from the lecture with a better idea on how Paige and black baseball in gen-eral was complicated, and that they both defy an easy categorization.
Kevin Austin, an Eastern baseball player, said he is attending the lecture because he realizes the opportunities that early non-Caucasian baseball play-ers like Paige have given him through-out his career.
“If you think about it, it’s amazing what players like Satchel Paige and Jack-ie Robinson have done for the game of baseball and for our country moving forward,” Austin said.
He said Paige is an inspiration to him when he is faced with adversity be-cause he knows about all the hardships Paige went through to play in the Ma-
jor Leagues at that point in time.“It’s a liberating feeling thinking
about how far the game and the play-ers involved in it have come because of players like Satchel (Paige),” he said.
Wehrle said the lecture is all made possible through the Barry D. Riccio History Fund.
“The fund was created by the friends and colleagues of Riccio, who was a be-loved professor in the EIU History De-partment until his death from cancer in 2001,” Wehrle said.
A reception will follow the lecture at the Doudna Fine Arts Center, outside of the main lecture hall.
Jack Sheehan can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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By Alyssa torresstaff Reporter
The Committee on Retention Ef-forts reviewed its initiatives to in-crease the student retention rate at Thursday’s Council on Academic Af-fairs meeting.
Eastern’s freshman-to-sophomore retention rate is 79 percent.
“The good news is that our num-bers are relatively steady, and the bad news is that our numbers are relative-ly steady. We need to move the num-bers up a little bit,” said Kimberlie Moock, co-chairwoman of the com-mittee.
According to the retention data from 2011, all first-time students are 79 percent, minority first-time stu-dents are 76 percent, first-generation students are 78 percent, and zero-ex-pected family contribution students are 74 percent.
“We far exceed the benchmarks of other institutions,” Moock said.
On average, it takes 4.79 years to graduate for most students attending Eastern.
“There are a variety of factors as to why students don’t graduate in four years, and we try to identify these ear-ly on,” Moock said.
Some reasons can be students who do not have an associate degree and transfer, and students attending who
either do not know what they want to major in or want to change their major.
Karla Sanders, a co-chairwoman of the committee, said a lot of students say they want to change their major but do not know how.
Sanders said they are looking to find an easier way for students to do so by possibly changing the catalogue and creating an easier online process.
“Students are actively seeking pre-vious devices, like grades posted on-line throughout the semester, some-thing similar to what they may have had in high school,” Moock said.
They presented data showing the change of demographics over a five-year period.
About 78 percent of all Eastern students rely on financial aid, a 6-per-cent increase. First-generation stu-dents have increased by 7.65 percent to 48.65 percent. About 45.8 percent are transfer students, a 6.8 percent in-crease, and 21.7 percent of students are an ethnic minority, an 8-percent increase.
Eastern is at a 79 percent reten-tion rate, but the presidential goal is 85 percent.
Moock also talked about ways fac-ulty can improve the retention and graduation rate such as the Early Alert System.
The Early Alert System notifies stu-dents when they are getting failing grades and refers them to a center on campus.
Alyssa Torres can be reached at 581-2812
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mArCus smitH | tHe DAiLY eAstern ne WsJeremy Nowell, president of glAM, gives some last minute words of encouragement before the show Thursday evening in the University ballroom of the Martin luther King Jr. University Union.
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Board approves budgets for FY ’14staff report
The Apportionment Board passed the four budgets for Fiscal Year 2014 at its meeting Thursday.
Jenna Mitchell, the student vice president for student affairs, said Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, projected the Apportionment Board will have about $500,000 to al-locate.
The money allocated will go to the student government, Apportionment Board, the University Board and the Student Recreation Center.
The UB’s budget of $200,091 was approved.
The UB budget was $16,398 less than its FY 13 budget.
The Apportionment Board mem-bers approved student government’s budget of $43,735.
“Even though the board is being al-located the same amount of money as last year, student government came to us with a decrease in their budget,” Mitchell said.
Their budget was decreased by $3,396.
The Apportionment Board was ap-
proved for a $350 increase to its bud-get, which is $25,730.
The Student Recreation Cen-ter budget remained the same at $211,000.
The Apportionment Board ap-proved $480,556, which leaves about $19,444 left.
Mitchell said the money will go into the Student Activity Reserve.
The budgets will go to Student Senate for approval next.
Mitchell said the budgets will be introduced Wednesday at the Student Senate meeting.
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Credit rating may be a future problem
In the short-term, Eastern’s recent-ly reduced credit-rating is nothing to wor-ry about.
Moody’s Investor’s Service reduced East-ern’s rating from A2 to A3 with a stable outlook. This will likely increase the inter-est rates of future bonds, but Eastern’s cur-rent bonds are at a fixed rate and will not change based on rating.
Moody’s cited a high reliance on finance from state dollars and lowering enrollment as reasons for the lowered rating. These are defi-nitely things Eastern needs to work on, but they are major problems regardless of the university’s rating.
Eastern’s treasurer, Paul McCann said the university’s main focuses will be increasing enrollment and maintaining affordable tuition rate. This is how it should be, as an institute of higher learning, Eastern’s students should always be its main focus.
McCann also said the change in credit rating does not affect Eastern at all. This is difficult to imagine. The credit rating affects the interest rates of bonds the university takes out. Yes, this may only be an issue when Eastern needs to borrow money, but borrowing money could very well be necessary in the com-ing future.
The new science building Eastern wants to build will likely require a bond, as will any large project Eastern has within its master plan. This may not be a concern for students for the next few years, but it will be a concern.
These bigger projects will be more difficult to pull off. Since many of these projects have the potential to recruit students, this could cre-ate more new challenges for the university to deal with in the future.
Eastern is considered a riskier investment now. This generation of students may not care about
this now, but future potential students may pass over Eastern because of this.
They may not care about the credit rating, but students interested in science may care about the quality of our science building. Similarly, many new stu-dents could be drawn in by the various new projects that will require bonds.
Even when Eastern manages to obtain bonds required for these projects, they will likely be at a higher interest rate. This means the university will have to pay more in order to eliminate their debt.
Though these issues are not a clear and present danger, they have the poten-tial to create a destructive cycle, resulting in a weaker Eastern in the future.
The current generation of students may not take notice now, but they will. Years down the road, when they have become alum-nus, Eastern’s current students will hope their institution still stands strong. Hopefully this will be the case.
Editing for style; playing for life
Ashley Holstrom
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ouR Position • situation: Eastern’s credit rating has been re-duced from A2 to A3. • stance: The credit rating may be a future problem.
WEDNESDAY’S QUESTIONDo you think the drinking
age should be lowered? Why or why not?
HERE’S WHAT YOU SAID
Lower the drinking age but increase the enforcement and fines for public intox, underage drinking and DUI.
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If you can vote and serve in the army by 18, then that should be the drink-ing age 18,
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We live in a world full of self-editors, of people who constantly censor their true words.
How many times do you hold your tongue when you’re talking to a professor or, even more so, with grandma?
What about in your classes? Do your peers make any difference in what you say, or if you speak up at all? Say, if you’re in a class full of friends versus a class full of know-it-alls?
Then there’s the big kahuna of our generation: so-cial media. Do you let your every thought — from the “I really hope no one notices I forgot to show-er for the third day in a row” to the dark corners of your wandering mind during class — get published, or do you only post the ones that you’re comfort-able with being out in cyberspace, forever attached to your name?
This topic came up in one of my lit classes a few weeks ago. We were trying to pinpoint the difference between actual history and fiction in literature, then landed on the idea that everything is a forgery of re-ality, including ourselves. It was just a casual existen-tialist day, no big deal.
Our realities are altered by our surroundings,
whether it be simply not dropping F-bombs in front of our grandparents, or creating new personas when we’re online.
Each and every environment — be it in real life or online — requires a different facet of our person-alities. We only let out a small portion of what’s re-ally going on in our heads, in our pasts, in our ev-erything.
We talk about authors, musicians, movie stars, internet personalities, the Kardashians, etc., as if by knowing their work, we know their lives. But that’s simply not true. E.L. James does not equal “Fifty Shades of Grey” — or so I hope — because that was just a part of her mind that she wanted to expose. Tom Felton is not Draco Malfoy. The list goes on.
Even people like Sylvia Plath were censoring themselves. Sure, her journals have been published, but how do we know that her every single thought went directly from her mind onto paper?
In our day, the Internet is flooding with “in-ternet personalities,” and they are exactly that: personalities. People like Tyler Oakley, Jenna Marbles and Jimmy Tatro may seem like they’re revealing their 100-percent true selves to the in-ternet, but they’re not. They’ve created their quirky personalities to exist in their Internet world while they keep their real lives complete-ly separate.
The anonymity of the Internet allows every-one to do that: create a new identity. We por-tray ourselves the way we want people to see us.
It’s really not that much different from real, flesh-to-flesh communication.
In the end, we’re all just playing along in this farce called life.
Ashley Holstrom is a senior English major. She can be reached at 581-2812
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“We need to get back to a communi-ty atmosphere,” he said.
Rennels said the city tries to keep looking attractive by remodeling and tearing down decrepit buildings.
He said he went on a ride-along dur-ing Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day, and the police treated the students fairly.
Of the 46 alcohol violation tickets given out, seven were written to Eastern students, Rennels said.
Many of the tickets went to non-stu-dents and students from other schools, he said.
Student life on the weekendRennels said there are many reasons
students may leave on the weekends such as wanting to go to a bigger city or seeing their friends back in their home-town.
He said he looked at the municipal code for Chicago and the surrounding suburbs and the bar entry age was 21.
Myerscough said reducing the bar entry age at 19 does not mean that those under 21 will drink.
He said the bar owner has a right to set the bar entry age at 21 or 19.
Richey said the city needs to host more weekend activities.
“We need to get more nightlife for students,” he said.
The city can create a community center for students to go to and have fun, Richey said.
Bringing more sit-down restaurants to Charleston
Myerscough said two new restau-rants opened up in the city recently – Brick House Bar & Grill and Dirty’s Bar and Grill.
He said it’s very hard to get a ma-jor restaurant chain into Charleston be-cause the population is too low to in-vest in.
Richey said there are not many fami-ly-style restaurants in Charleston.
He said the city needs to try to at-tract those businesses by showing them the city can support them.
By shopping locally, the city may at-tract new businesses, Richey said.
Rennels said the city hired a com-pany to look at the demographics such as age, income and education level and pair them with different potential busi-nesses that would be the best candidate to move to Charleston.
He said a business that was paired with Charleston as a good candidate was Panera Bread.
After hearing many “mmm’s” from the audience, Rennels said he thinks people like that business.
He said he thinks it is time to dust off the list that was put away after the economy took a dip and the businesses did not want to expand.
The candidates were also asked about improving relations between Eastern and Charleston and what they would do to increase student and communi-ty safety.
This was the last public forum before the election on April 9.
Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812
Template analysis explainedC AMPUS | OPEN FOrum
By Stephanie MarkhamAdministration editor
Faculty and staff members voiced their concerns about the template be-ing drafted to cut the costs of univer-sity programs during an open forum Thursday.
The program analysis template asks for numerical data like enrollment and cost expenditures and narrative data about what the program contrib-utes to the university.
The vice presidents would then use the analysis of each program to decide how to decrease the Fiscal Year 2014 budget.
The deadline for the finalization of the template is May, and program heads are supposed to complete the narrative questions by August.
Fern Kory, an English professor, said the summer timeframe would not give faculty members the oppor-tunity to contribute to the data.
William Weber, chairman of the program analysis steering committee and vice president for business affairs, said President Bill Perry would like a first attempt completed by August, but faculty members would be able to
adjust the data in the fall.Weber said there is no timetable
for use of the template or a target amount that the budget needs to be decreased by.
“The only thing that President Per-ry has really said regarding future use is primarily the vice presidents will be using the data to move their division forward and help promote excellence across their division,” he said.
Weber also said collective bargain-ing agreements would have to be con-sidered when changes are made as a result of the program analysis.
“If the provost, based on the data and analysis, decides to makes struc-tural changes in academic affairs, whatever action may come out at a later date we’d have to follow whatev-er’s been agreed to in those collective bargaining agreements,” he said.
Heather Webb, the director of stu-dent standards, said the section of the template asking what is unique about the program would not apply to pro-grams that have to comply with gov-ernment requirements.
“Sometimes there are things that are different that are good, but some-times the things that are better is the
fact that we’re fitting ourselves into these boxes we’ve been given and we’re doing it effectively,” Webb said.
Elliot McGill, the head swim coach, said there should be a sec-tion of the template to explain what the programs could accomplish with more funding.
Ann Fritz, a biological scienc-es professor, said the “quality of pro-gram outcomes” section should fo-cus more on outcomes that are mea-surable.
The section states, “Administra-tive programs are expected to use best practices and provide value to the cli-enteles served.”
“That seems to be a worthy goal, but I’m not sure how that is an as-sessment that is useful in this tem-plate,” she said. “That seems to me to be something we strive for rather than an outcome to be measured.”
Another open forum is scheduled for April 3 at 3 p.m. in the Effingham Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812
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For violent crimes such as sexual assault, the crime only needs to be reported to campus security author-ities — which is anyone with a re-sponsibility of student safety, from police officers to resident assistants.
These types of crimes must be re-ported even if there are no arrests or convictions. Drug and alcohol vi-olations, arrests and campus disci-plinary action is required to be tal-lied on the Clery report.
According to the Clery report filed by Eastern, six sexual assaults have been reported over the past three years.
Pschirrer said the counseling cen-ter works with sexual assault survi-vors on a regular basis.
She said they do not force people to report, but just provide options to survivors.
Pe r r y s a i d v i c t i m - b l a m i n g throughout the reporting process may prevent potential cases from be-ing brought to the administration.
“I don’t discount any possibility,” he said.
He said to combat this, employees who deal both directly and indirectly with victims need to have more in-tensive training in a more stream-lined process.
Closson was asked twice how much training university police of-ficers go through, and both times he said that training needs to be improved for dealing with sexu-al assault cases. He said officers are trained in the police academy before joining the department.
“Follow-up training is an area we can improve on,” he said.
Closson said not many cases of sexual assault get reported to the University Police Department, but
they want it reported more.Nadler said the Sexual Assault
Task Force, which was created in 1989 and works to provide educa-tion and response coordination and collaboration, meets regularly.
Nadler said the task force meets almost weekly given the recent events, but prior to that, he was un-sure of the frequency of its meetings. He estimated the meetings took place monthly.
“I’ve only been here for eight years, so I don’t know what hap-pened then,” he said.
Chuck Eberly was a member of the first Sexual Assault Task Force when it was first established 22 years ago.
“What is sad to me is that the base rate – the occurrence of sexual assault – to my knowledge despite all of our efforts at sexual assault educa-tion from 1989 to now – essential-ly 25 years later has not changed,” he said.
Practically speaking, Eberly said Eastern will never reach that ideal.
“I wish I could say there has been a steady improvement,” he said. “I cannot find it.”
Eberly has been involved with higher education for more than 40 years, and he was impressed with President Perry’s responses to audi-ence questions.
“The president sitting here and re-sponding as genuinely and openly as he did is unbelievably rare, so rare. This says volumes about the integri-ty of this man we call President Per-ry,” Eberly said.
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By Jack Sheehanstaff Reporter
The Eastern softball team will hit the road this weekend to square off with fellow Ohio Valley Conference West Division foe, Murray State Racers.
The Panthers have been hot of late, winning nine out of their last 10 games.
The Racers trail Eastern by only one game in the standings.
Murray State has been on a hot streak lately as well, winning five of its previous six games, all by three runs or less.
Sophomore infielder Alexa Beck-er leads the Racers offensively this season with a .329 batting average while also showcasing her power with seven home runs.
Murray State also has a tandem of pitchers that have pitched most of the team’s innings this season, sophomore CheyAnne Gasky and senior Shelby Kosmecki.
Gasky leads the Racers in ERA (2.61) while Kosmecki leads Mur-ray State in innings pitched at 86.2.
Junior Ashleigh Westover said to have success this weekend, the Pan-thers need to keep up their recent winning attitude.
“We just need to make sure we stay together and play ball like we have been lately,” Westover said.
Westover is coming off a good of-fensive weekend, improving her sea-
son batting average to .268 while also leading the Panthers in walks with 10.
Murray State enters the three-game weekend series with an overall
record of 12-15, and an OVC West record of 5-1.
The streaking Panthers head into the weekend at 16-9 overall, and are currently in first-place in the OVC
with a record of 6-1 this season. The two teams will meet at 4
p.m., Friday and will play a dou-bleheader on Saturday with the first game beginning at noon and the
nightcap at 4 p.m.
Jack Sheehan can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]
DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSAbby Wood, a senior catcher, catches a warm-up pitch during the alumni game on Sept. 8 at Williams Field. The Panthers will play Murray State Friday and Saturday.
Panthers gearing up for the RacersEastern to play Murray State this weekend
TOURNAMENT | WEEKEND GAME
Men’s golf travels for 3rd tournament of seasonBy Cody Delmendostaff Reporter
Eastern’s men’s golf team travels to Jonesboro, Ark., for the ASU Red Wolf Intercollegiate at RidgePointe Country Club starting on Sunday.
Last spring season, the Panthers fin-ished in ninth place out of 22 teams. Tommy Ponce is the only current Pan-ther who has experience on this golf course.
Though, Ponce is not playing in this upcoming tournament because of a coach’s decision.
Coach Mike Moncel removed him from this upcoming tournament be-cause of an incident in a hotel room af-ter the last tournament in Jacksonville.
The last time Ponce missed a tour-nament was during the spring of his sophomore season at the MSU Bran-son Creek Invitational in Branson, Mo.
“Trust me I’m pissed,” Ponce said.
Moncel still doesn’t know whom he is going to start in place of Ponce.
“I’m still in the process,” Moncel said. “I will probably go with Oscar (Borda), Kevin (Flack), and James (Jansen).”
Senior Kevin Flack missed the last two tournaments because he failed a drug test, but he will be back to play in his first tournament of the spring.
“He’s a talented kid so he’ll be fine,” Moncel said. “He’s been hitting in the net and when you’re getting 8 or 9
inches of snow it’s hard for anyone to get any practice time.”
The tournament this season will be the third match the men’s team has had this spring season.
The last two tournaments were dur-ing spring break and both in Jackson-ville, Fla., where the Panthers finished in 12th place at the Don Benbow But-ler Invitational and sixth place at the Butler Bulldog Florida Invitational.
The freshman from Brazil, Oscar
Borda, led Eastern in overall individu-al scoring at both tournaments in Jack-sonville.
Eastern and five other schools from the OVC will be competing in the tour-nament that includes: Austin Peay, Bel-mont, Southern Illinois University-Ed-wardsville, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech and Tennessee-Martin.
Cody Delmendo can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
By Aldo SotoAssistant Sports Editor
Andre Bishop led Jacksonville State over Eastern, driving in his sec-ond RBI of the game in the eighth inning to give the Gamecocks a 3-2 victory.
Bishop tripled to right field in the second, which scored his team’s first run, scoring Eddie Mora-Loera, who also tripled at the start of the inning.
Bishop stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth, facing Eastern pitcher Scott Houdek.
After getting ahead in the count (2-1) Bishop drove a ball to Derek Page in right field.
Page was unable to throw out Jacksonville State’s Zach Elbirt, who pinch-ran for Paschal Petrongolo.
The sacrifice fly gave the Game-cocks the win, improving them to 13-14 overall and 7-3 in the Ohio Valley Conference.
The Panthers dropped to 6-16, having lost two in a row.
Eastern sits at the bottom of the OVC with an 0-6 conference record.
The Panthers entered the bottom of the seventh inning with a 2-1 lead over Jacksonville State, scoring their only two runs in the fourth inning.
“If you’re going to rely on five hits and two runs, then you’re not go-ing to win many games,” coach Jim Schmitz said about his offense.
Eastern had an opportunity to score in the top half of the eighth in-ning, having runners at first and sec-ond base with one out.
The Gamecocks’ Michael Mason came into the inning, relieving start-er Casey Antley.
Eastern’s Dane Sauer and pinch-runner Nathan Sopena were left stranded at first and second base.
Mason was able to retire Ty-ler Schweigert on a fly out, before Cody Ponder came in for Mason and forced Caleb Howell to fly out to left field to end the threat.
The Panthers also let another scor-ing chance slip away in the seventh inning.
Treysen Vavra began the inning by popping out to right field, but Brant Valach and Nick Priessman followed with singles.
Catcher Jacob Reese was at the plate when Valach was caught steal-ing third base. Priessman was safe at second.
“It was a terrible call by the um-pire,” Schmitz said. “The ball was in the dirt, just a bad call.”
Reese delivered with two outs, sin-gling through the infield into left field, but Priessman was thrown out at home plate on a relay throw from first baseman Adam Miller.
“We teach our guys to round the bag and continue running hard, es-pecially with two outs,” Schmitz said. “(Priessman) ran hard, but he didn’t read the play correctly.”
Jacksonville State’s starter, Antley, began the afternoon with three per-fect innings before giving up a triple
by Howell that scored Schweigert, who started the inning by reaching on an error.
The Panthers’ second run came on a sacrifice fly to center field hit by Vavra.
Antley was economical in his 7.1 innings of work, throwing 80 pitch-es, (55 for strikes) scattering five hits, and walking only one.
Schmitz said he was disappoint-ed by the entire offense because it did not follow the game plan of tak-ing fastballs on the outer half of the plate to the opposite field, how the Panther batters were instructed to do.
“No one took the ball the oth-er way,” he said. “All nine guys were taking that fastball away and trying to pull it. No one seems to be taking
charge on offense.”The Gamecock bullpen shut down
the Panthers, as Mason, Ponder and Travis Stout combined to pitch 1.2 innings of perfect baseball.
Ponder picked up his first win of the year, evening his record to 1-1, while Stout recorded his seventh save.
Stout retired the Panthers No. 3, 4 and 5 batters in order in the ninth, as Vavra, Valach and Priessman looked at a total of seven pitches.
Left-handed pitcher Ben Kennedy took the loss for Eastern after starting the eighth inning on the mound for the Panthers.
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DoMInIc BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTErn nE wSNathan Sopena, a senior infielder, high fives his teammates after he scores a run during the game against South-ern Illinois University Carbondale March 19. The Panthers fell to Jacksonville State 3-2 on Thursday.
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Eastern set for weekend roadtripBy Al warpinskiStaff Reporter
Eastern’s women’s tennis will look to start a winning streak this week-end in Nashville, Tenn.
The Panthers could not have asked for two better opponents to begin another streak of success. The Pan-thers face Belmont and Tennessee State Friday and Saturday, respec-tively.
Belmont sits at 2-11 on the season and has only one Ohio Valley Con-ference win.
Eastern has not played Belmont in the past five seasons.
Saturday’s match up against Ten-nessee State may prove to be a good chance for the Panthers to pick up a victory.
Eastern has beaten Tennessee State badly the last five seasons. The Tigers have only taken two games from the Panthers five match wins.
The Panthers’ scores against Ten-nessee State include a 5-1 win in 2007-08 and a 6-1 win in the 2008-09 season. Three consecutive 7-0 sweeps lead up to Saturday’s match.
In last year’s sweep, four Panthers’ picked up wins.
Juniors Janelle Prisner and Jenni-fer Kim picked up wins over their Tennessee State opponents last sea-son, while seniors Kristen Laird and Merritt Whitley also tallied straight set wins last season.
All three doubles teams recorded 8-0 sweeps over Tennessee State last season.
The Eastern men’s tennis team will look to put the 4-0 Sunday loss against Austin Peay in the rear view mirror.
The men’s tennis team will face Tennessee State and Belmont.
The Panthers have not played the Bruins in the past five seasons.
They do, however, have experience against Tennessee State. Just like the women, the men have had great suc-cess against the Tigers the past five seasons.
The men have only dropped two games out the past five match wins. Last year’s match was a 6-1 win at home on Darling Courts.
Michael Sperry was the lone Pan-ther to drop a singles match. He lost in straight sets 6-2, 6-2.
Senior Warren Race, junior Kev-in Bauman, sophomore David Con-stantinescu and junior Volodymyr Zverkovsky all picked up singles wins.
Race defeated Shaun Ingram 6-1, 6-0 and Constantinescu swept his opponent 6-0, 6-0. Bauman defeated his opponent 6-0, 2-0 after his oppo-nent retired.
The men will look to bounce back and gain some momentum after go-ing 1-1 in their OVC opener the previous weekend.
First serve for the men’s and wom-en’s tennis match is set for 10 a.m. in Nashville, Tenn.
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By Jaime Lopez Verge Editor
The men’s and women’s track and field teams will officially be-gin their season on Friday at the Southern Illinois-Carbondale Bill Cornell Spring Classic.
The meet will take place on Car-bondale’s recently renovated track.
The Panthers will be in the com-pany of Bradley State University, DePaul University, Chicago State University, Illinois State, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and other schools.
Eleven men’s teams and 12 wom-en’s teams will be competing at the competition.
The advantage of this season for some athletes is the inclusion of the steeplechase and the longer rac-es.
Red-shirt junior pole vaulter Jade Riebold recently came off of a successful outing at indoor na-tionals.
She cleared the bar at 14-feet, 7 .25- inches , breaking her o ld school record with a height that was 7.25 inches higher than her previous best.
Her teammate Mick Viken has also been clearing the bar at a con-sistent height during the last meets of the indoor season.
Viken has been making it over the bar at 17-feet, 8.5-inches.
Sophomore and jun io r d i s -tance runners Bryce Basting and Sean Wiggan are ranked third and fourth on the men’s indoor record book; both athletes are currently running a time of 1:50 in the men’s 800-meter run, respectively. Senior distance runner Britney White-head will be competing again after breaking her record in the women’s 3,000-meter run and 5,000-meter run.
In the mile, Whitehead is second on the women’s record book, right behind her teammate Erika Ramos. Ramos’ time in the mile is 4:47.16.
Junior hurdler Jalisa Paramore is coming back to the track after her most successful hurdle race in the indoor season, the EIU Friday Night Special, where she managed to hit a personal best of 8.49.
Senior hurdler Dominique Hall took 10th place in the men’s record book after hitting a time 8.03 in the men’s 60-meter hurdles.
Sophomore jumper Maura Cum-mins is coming back to the track as well.
Her best jump in the high jump was 5-feet, 8.5-inches this past in-door season.
Cummins’ jump put her in third on Eastern’s women’s indoor record book.
Red-shirt distance runner Pablo Ramirez will also be coming back to the track after hitting a time of 14:24.76 in the men’s 5,000-meter run.
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Jade rieboldPole vaulterPr: 14’7.5”notable Finish: NCaa runner-up at indoor nationals
Mick VikenPole vaulterPr: ”17’8.5”notable Finish: 2012 OvC Male Field athlete of the Year (Outdoor)
Jalisa ParamoreHurdlerPr: 9.14 seconds in 60M hurdlesnotable Finish: 3rd place finish at OvC Championships
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Have you ever wondered how Norman Bates ended up the way he did? Maybe some questions will be answered with the new TV series “Bates Motel.”
This A&E show is designed to be a prequel to the classic film “Psy-cho.”
Vera Farmiga gives a good per-formance as Norma Bates. Unlike her TV son, we do not really have anything to compare it to when it comes to the original movie.
Still, she does well at playing the tormented woman who has led a tough life. You can see that this just may have been the way the character was throughout her life.
Freddie Highmore, who plays Norman Bates, is the one who stands out the most so far, at least when it comes to his appearance.
Just by watching some of the pre-views for the show, it is obvious that he has the look down for one of the creepiest and most infamous charac-ters in movie history.
His performance is accurate, too, as he succeeds at playing the awk-ward young man the audience will expect.
You can really see this teenager as being the one who will one day grow up to be a monster.
There is one rather startling as-pect of the show, and that is the time period it is set in. It does not
take place in the '50s like one would expect, to coincide with the 1960 film. It is set in current times.
This take on the prequel seems to be an obvious attempt to appeal to a younger demographic.
Having the show today rather than decades in the past will possi-bly appeal to people who are not in-terested in watching a period piece, along with those who may have nev-er seen the movie before.
Even with it set in contemporary times, there are some subtle refer-ences to the past to try to keep that old feeling alive.
The series starts out with Norman watching a classic black-and-white movie on what appears to be an out of date television set.
Viewers will also see record play-ers and some clothes that look rath-er old-fashioned. The past, thankful-ly, is not completely forgotten.
So far, one of the most interesting things about this series is to see this interpretation of how all the charac-ters ended up.
This show will give its audience a possible explanation for how Nor-man turned out the way he did.
The first episode starts off with the mysterious, sudden death of his father, which prompts the family to move and start a new life.
We also see how demanding and jealous Norma is. Her overbearing nature prevents her son from hav-ing a life.
She does not want to let Nor-man out of her sight, even when he has the chance to meet some new friends.
These new friends are all teenage girls so far. This is not exactly what you would expect with the awkward Norman Bates.
Perhaps we can expect something to eventually go wrong, helping to lead to Norman’s future problems with women.
As a fan, it is nice to see the re-surgence in popularity “Psycho” has had in the last year.
This series, along with last year’s “Hitchcock,” which detailed the making of the classic shocker, has put the film back in the spotlight where it belongs.
Viewers better tune in at 9 p.m. on Mondays or Norman will make them sorry.
Jordan Thiede can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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'Bates Motel' terrifying goldmine on TVA film destined to echo in the minds
of viewers acts as a magician, dashing about showcasing a soon-to-disappear white rabbit, charmingly removing his top hat with one fluid gesture and pull-ing an elephant out of the hat.
“The Cabin in the Woods” hyp-notizes the audience with an ordi-nary rabbit, an obvious formula any-one with knowledge of horror mov-ies can predict, and produces an ele-phant, a deliciously pleasant surprise that shatters the norm to pieces.
Five teenagers — an athlete, a ston-er, a bimbo, an innocently well-man-nered girl and a nerdy Adonis thrown in as a love interest — journey to an isolated cabin to drink away their inhi-bitions and explore their encaged hor-mones.
At once, horror buffs know exactly which characters will die, the fatal mis-takes they will make to induce their downfall and in what order the carnage will occur.
However, co-writers Joss Whedon (“The Avengers,” “Serenity”) and Drew Goddard (“Cloverfield,” “Lost”) trick those cynical horror buffs and have them wrapping the film around their minds again and again.
It is difficult to gauge if Whedon and director Goddard sought to cre-ate a parody-filled homage to the horror genre topped with trickery or if they strove to stab at the clas-sic formula that is frequently used and abused to oblivion. Whatever the case of their motives, the result
sprung the film to its own shelf in a warehouse cluttered with duplicates.
The film masks its trick with a shroud of tropes — a local inbred gas station owner creates an unwelcome at-mosphere foreshadowing the dread to come, and the swell of ferocious teen-age stubbornness ignores his warning.
Each static item borrowed from the formula adds to the turn, the point where the hidden creativity emerg-es. Throughout the duration of the film, small cues sitting in the corner of the viewers’ eyes begin to emerge un-til the time comes when they under-stand that the certainty of an obvious ending has melted away; expectation transforms into a clenching curiosity.
Those who have seen the film should not give away the surprise, just as a magician will not tell the ge-nius behind the trick. The treasure of a trick is not the impressive execution of pulling an elephant from a top hat but eluding the viewer into thinking something is guaranteed to happen. It is refreshing to be proven wrong.
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Junior music major Tim Layden was never able to play the saxophone
when he and his classmates were first giv-en instruments in the fifth grade.
His teeth were too big for the mouth of the instrument. Wright settled for what he considered the next best thing, the horn.
Layden continued playing well into college. The more seasoned he got, the more he considered majoring in music in college.
“I would like to play professionally af-ter I graduate,” Layden said.
Since the start of the semester, as re-quired by music majors who specialize in performance, he has been working on the music for his senior recital.
The songs he picked are horn concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss and four impro-visations for horn solo.
Layden rehearsed two, sometimes three hours, every day since he decided to take on these pieces of music.
He said he rehearses the pieces rigor-ously in order to feel confident about them.
“I can’t just rehearse them once or twice,” Layden said.
Layden said making the piece sound like it is easy for him to play is challeng-ing.
“If you feel stressed out and it sounds like you’re struggling to play the mu-sic, the professors who are criticizing will know,” Layden said.
Layden said he feels a lot better about the way he plays his music at this point than he did last year.
Though it has taken him a whole year to get the music down, Layden has some history with “Horn Concerto No. 1”
In his freshman year, Layden played a small part of the piece.
With the assistance of Katherine McBain, a horn instructor, Layden has been able to find a way to master the mu-sic.
“She gives me pointers when I’m hav-ing a tough time with the music; she an-swers all of my questions that I feel a lot more confident about what I’m doing,” Layden said.
Bill Mitchell, a junior music education major, will be playing his bass trombone for his junior recital.
Mitchell plans on taking on Fanta-sia in A minor and Sonata for trombone. Mitchell said the first song is strictly writ-ten for a flute player, and he said the tech-nical aspects of the song were tricky to
master. He started working on Fantasia in A
minor a semester and a half ago, and it was smooth sailing up until a month ago when he was also told that he needed to play Senata for trombone.
A couple of weeks ago, Mitchell said he was feeling overwhelmed and nervous. Plus, it was crunch time, and he needed to practice even more intensely than be-fore because his preview recital was right around the corner.
Luckily, Mitchell passed the preview and was given the green light to move on-ward with his junior recital.
He said he picked Georg Philipp Te-lemann’s piece because he wanted to try his hand at something that was a bit more challenging.
Unlike Layden, who knew he always wanted to have a career associated with music, Mitchell said he decided to study music during his senior year of high school after being taught by “some amaz-ing” instructors.
He said he is not feeling as nervous as he did before his preview recital about his junior recital.
Jaime Lopez can be reached at 581-2812
Semester of rehearsals lead to one concert
The one thing I love more about Melissa McCarthy than her is her ability to invest of much of her-self as possible into a character. She wastes no time when she’s on the screen.
Every scene she is in is filled with excitement.
Here we have an actress who doesn’t mind picking at any scabs for a laugh.
Whether she’s trying to se-d u c e a n a i r m a r s h a l i n “Bridesmaids”(that scene where she’s using all of her charms, or what she believes to be charming, to hit on that air marshal is prob-ably the best part of the movie) or stealing someone’s identity in her latest film, “Identity Thief,”
McCarthy is an actress who seiz-es every moment on the screen to entertain audiences with her lines and facial expressions.
She lives up to her reputation in “Identity Thief.”
In her first starring role in a movie, McCarthy plays Diana, a big-haired, charming lady who has recently discovered the finer things in life — or what women like her consider to be the finer things in life — after stealing a Sandy Patter-son’s identity (Jason Bateman) and spending his money, forcing him to drive cross-country to turn her into justice.
The plot’s as excit ing as i t sounds.
However, Diana’s anecdotes and sad background story allow us to sympathize with her, even though she is a criminal.
Sandy later sees what we see and Diana, and the two characters, de-spite the fact that they find them-selves in several predicaments, dis-cover they’re not so different.
That’s why I have trouble enjoy-ing “Identity Thief,” it becomes a different version of “The Hang-over,” where characters forgo unre-alistic, unfunny scenarios and de-velop a strong friendship.
I’m all for friendship in film, but I think there are times when recy-cled lines and scenes need to be put to rest.
McCarthy, however, uses all of her comedic abilities and manag-es to churn another great character to add to her collection of memo-rable ones.
On the other hand, Bateman falls into his traditional role of Mi-chael Bluth on “Arrested Develop-ment” and unfortunately, or fortu-nately — depends on your point of view — falls into the background, letting McCarthy take the reigns of a film that is going nowhere.
She doesn't slow down, even when it seems like Bateman is drag-ging her down.
Pairing these two actors togeth-er was like putting oil and water in a bottle; they don’t mix well, and it seems like Jason Bateman only sets up McCarthy for a major line or gag.
Jaime Lopez can be reached at 581-2812
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Student musicians to take stage over weekend with junior recitals at Doudna
Instrument: Bass trombone Year: JuniorMajor: Music with concentration in educationExperience: Started playing at the age of 10 and plays tuba on the side.
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Instrument: HornYear: JuniorMajor: Music with concentration in performance Experience: Started playing the horn at the age of 10 after first trying out the saxaphone. Marcus sMith | the Daily eastern ne ws
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When Henhouse Prowlers started performing, they had no idea what direction their musical careers would take.
Instead of running away from fame and success, they chased it and continue to do so, charting unfa-miliar territory with every tour they take.
Much of their career has been spent on a tour bus, Ben Wright, the band’s banjo player said.
The Prowlers formed under simi-lar conditions, with only two of the original members remaining since it started.
Wright said members came and left when they realized touring
would interfere with their person-al lives.
The bands current line-up — Ben Wright, the banjo player; Dan An-dree, the violinist; Jon Goldfine, the stand up bass player; Grant Zi-olkowski, the mandolin player; Star Moss, the acoustic guitar player — met through a slew of connections in the city of Chicago. Wright said the band never really found a fol-lowing in the windy city, but also pointed out that most musicians spend years trying to amass a follow-ing.
“I don’t think any city responds very well to any band that just starts out,” Wright said.
“We all came together because of friends and because we had met each other at concerts,” Wright said.
“In Chicago, though, when you like a certain kind of music, you’ll meet other people who like it as well.”
Wright said there is no way for him to measure out how many
Wright said he cannot pinpoint why exactly they chose to become a bluegrass band. However, he bought his banjo out of impulse after he saw it in a display case.
They have taken their brand of bluegrass across the states and even overseas, but their earnings have been used mostly to foot their ca-reers and expenses.
“This is a career where you have to constantly perform if you want to make a living,” Wright said. “You can’t just decide to not perform.”
Wright said touring is a huge part
of being a musician; he explained they can’t just thrive off of album sales. They played over 221 shows last year and managed to crack it in Europe for three weeks.
However, the band still needs to continue performing if they want to survive, Wright said.
“We don’t make a lot of money in this business,” Wright said. He said being on the road can be hard when band members have other commit-ments.
“Many of our members have come in and left because of their families,” Wright said. “You have to be really active with a band if you want to be with it.”
Jaime Lopez can be reachedat 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Many of our members have come in and left because of their families. You have to be really active with a
band if you want to be with it. ben wright, banjo Player