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Kathlene Shank cares about her students on a personal level, a junior special education major said.

Student Kelsey Myers described Shank, her adviser and department chair, as a person who makes the effort to go beyond the typical re-quirements of an adviser by going the extra mile to encourage and get to know her stu-dents.

“When I met her as a freshman, I was scared of her like a typical freshman,” Myers said. “She cares about her students and she makes the effort to know your name and get to know you on a personal level.”

Myers is not alone in her opinion as Shank was announced the Fall 2011 recipient of the Luis Clay Mendez Service Award presented by the Faculty Senate.

Shank said she believes service is a major part of her life and encouraging others to get involved is what makes life worth living.

“I serve because I want to make a differ-ence in the lives of students as well as peo-ple with disabilities, not for personal gain,”

Shank said. “A life of service is important, and we should all live and use our unique talents to make a difference and improve the lives of others.”

Shank said she credits a lot of service and inspiration to her students.

“All of what I do has to do with provid-ing my students with integrative learn-ing opportunit ies to work with people with disabilities,” Shank said. “The stu-dents get so much joy from it, and it is just my job to make sure they as future teachers will know what they are talking about and doing.”

In her letter recommending Shank for the award, Melissa Jones-Bromenshenkel, a spe-cial education associate professor credits Shank for staying current in the field.

“Kathlene is well-known in the field for staying abreast of what is happening in ed-ucation in general as particularly related to events/issues that significantly impact special education and the higher education programs preparing teachers to serve in that capacity,” Jones-Bromenshenkel said in the letter.

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By Robyn Dexter Staff Reporter

The Council on Academic Affairs discussed the meeting of University Learning Goal sub-committees after Thanksgiving break and made revisions to several courses at its meeting on Thursday.

At the Nov. 10 meeting, the CAA discussed the need for an additional student member to serve on the fourth learning goal subcommittee.

The University Learning Goals include writ-ing, speaking, critical thinking and global citi-zenship. Though there are subcommittees for each learning goal, CAA only has three student members.

Aseret Gonzalez, student vice president of ac-ademic affairs and a senior sociology major, said she had discussed this open position with two stu-dents, and is waiting to hear back from them on whether the CAA meeting time could fit in their schedules.

Rebecca Throneburg, professor of communi-cation disorders and sciences, said the Commit-tee for the Assessment of Student Learning rep-resentatives have been invited and of these four,

three will be joining the subcommittees after the Thanksgiving break.

“In two weeks, we will break up into differ-ent subcommittees and meet in different rooms,” Throneburg said.

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By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

Members of the Board of Trustees will vote on a $3.2 million proposal to resurface the track at O’Brien Stadium at their meeting today.

Jarrod Scherle, student representative for the Board of Trustees and student executive vice president, said it has been 10 years since the track was last surfaced, and in that time they have had to patch the track about 200 times.

“Students have made many comments to me about the condition of the track and the shape that it is in,” Scherle said. “The undersurface of the track has been bubbling up and this issue is very important with regard to safety.”

If approved, student tuition will not be af-fected as the resurfacing comes from local funds and rollover money from Fiscal Year 11, Scherle said.

The Board of Trustees will meet at 1 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

President Bill Perry said the Board of Trust-ees will be accepting a gift of land from a re-tired botany professor.

Wesley Whiteside taught at Eastern for al-most 30 years as a botany professor and created a living trust to transfer his farmland and more than five acres of arboretum and botanical gar-dens to Eastern.

“(The trustees) will all be together for the first time with the new and old members, and I think that the gift of land will be a highlight for the members to see that kind of generosity from an emeritus faculty member,” Perry said.

The biological sciences department may use the botanical gardens for research purposes, Scherle said.

“This will be a great addition to the biolog-ical sciences department and students will be able to get hands-on experience in the field,” Scherle said.

He also said he is interested to see the new Board dynamic with what each member will bring to the table.

Gov. Pat Quinn made four appointments and two reappointments to the Board of Trust-ees on Oct. 24 in accordance with an amend-ment to the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. The amendment stated that if appointments were not made by Oct. 25, then members with expired terms would be removed from the Board of Trustees.

Perry said he and Webb met with Dively on Nov. 1 and met with the other members in Chicago on Nov. 4.

They had an orientation regarding commit-tee structure, bylaws and regulations, functions and how the Board of Trustees meetings are generally structured, Perry said.

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DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Red-shirt senior guard L.C. Doss makes his way around a Loyola-Chicago player in Lantz Arena Wednesday. Eastern won their home opener 65-61.

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KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Business professor Larry White and secondary education professor Stephen Lucas listen as Peggy Holmes-Layman, professor of recreation administration, explains one of six revised recreation administration courses Thursday during the Council on Academic Affairs meet-ing in the Booth Library conference room.

The BOT’s new lineup

Four of the seven members of the board of trustees will be having their first meeting to-day. Here is a look at the new, and returning, members, starting with the four incoming members. • Joseph Dively, of Charleston, who is presi-dent of First Mid-Illinois Bank and Trust and a former chairman of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce • Rene Hutchinson, of Chicago, who has worked at Allstate Insurance Company in Northbrook for about 30 years • William Dano III, of Oswego, who has more than 20 years of business experience in sales management • Kristopher Goetz, of Lombard, who is op-erations director at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago

Here are the returning members: • Board Chairman Robert Webb, of Mattoon • Vice Chairman Roger Kratochvil, of Mt. Olive • Leo Welch, of O’Fallon, whose term expires in 2013.

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The 13th annual Festival of Trees will be today and Saturday at Sara Bush Lincoln Health Center.

Kim Uphoff, the vice presi-dent of Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Foundation, said the festival helps get the community into the holi-day spirit.

“It’s an opportunity to transform the center into a winter wonder-land,” she said.

Uphoff said the public is invited

to bid in a silent auction for dec-orated trees, wreaths and specialty items auctioned off on Saturday.

She said a gala event will also be sponsored, although it is already sold out.

Uphoff said there will also be several holiday items for sale at the “Merry Marketplace.”

The festival will also have “Ru-dolph’s Raffle.” Tickets for the raf-fle are $1 each or 10 for $5.

Local residents donated the dec-orated trees, she said.

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Uphoff said the event has been every year since its start.

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Uphoff said the community is invited to attend.

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SHEA LAZ ANSKY | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKarla Centeno, a junior accounting major, helps Erika Workman, a junior biology major, with her dreamcatcher in the basement of Lawson Hall on November 17. University Board sponsored the event as an effort to promote Native American Heritage Month.

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CHICAGO — Chicago po-lice say more than 40 people were briefly detained during an anti-Wall Street protest that shut down a downtown bridge during evening

rush hour.Hundreds of protesters marched

in downtown Chicago Thursday evening and filed onto a bridge crossing the Chicago River. Protest-ers shut down the bridge for about 30 minutes.

Forty-six people sat down on the bridge and waited for police offi-cers to detain them. They ignored warnings from police. Eventually, each protester was told to stand up and walk to a waiting school bus.

Those detained weren't hand-

cuffed, and a Chicago police spokesman says they were issued ci-tations and released.

The remaining protesters then headed to the city's financial dis-trict where they've maintained a presence for about two months.

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The Residence Hall Association met to discuss post-Thanksgiving plans and how to spread holiday spirit to Eastern and the surrounding communities on Thursday in Andrews Hall.

Vice President Andrew Lilek en-couraged all RHA members to par-ticipate in Adopt a Family, a pro-gram that provides families in need both here in Charleston and in Coles County with gifts of clothes, toys and household items.

“Representatives should talk to their hall councils about Adopt a Family to help our community,” Lilek said. He said all the information on the program was online at eiu.edu/volunteer.

Dondre Keeler, National and Illi-nois Communication Coordinator, said in his report that forms for the Illinois Residence Hall Association conference were due by the end of the day. The conference will take place from Feb. 15-17.

During the meeting, RHA mem-bers broke up into their separate com-mittees to talk about future plans for after Thanksgiving and finals week.

Each committee reported what they were planning. The committees dis-cussed future plans for next semester

including the formation of a Relay for Life team, the organization of Social Justice and Diversity Week in March and participating in service days in April and on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Currently, the Community Service committee has boxes in the residence halls for the collection of coats and toys. The items collected from this drive will be donated to the less fortunate of the community.

The Presidents Council informed the rest of the RHA about the movies to be shown in Buzzard Hall over the upcom-ing months, and will feature movies such as “The Hangover 2.”

Lawson Hall Resident Director Alison Sinadinos encouraged RHA members to attend an event featuring guest speaker Eva Kor, who is coming to Eastern after Thanksgiving break. Kor is a Holocaust survivor and will be speaking about her experiences at 6:30 p.m on Nov. 29.

Another event happening after break is Red Week. Red Week consists of ac-tivities and events to fight against HIV/AIDS. The funds gathered from Red Week will go towards the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Several residence halls including Car-man, Weller and Stevenson are partic-ipating in Red Week-themed window painting.

Voting on the 2012 budget also took place at the meeting. The majori-ty vote was in favor of the budget, and it was approved.

RHA’s next meeting is set for 5 p.m. Dec. 1 at Stevenson Hall.

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Jazz Lab gets crowds’ toes tappingBy Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

Fun, toe-tapping jazz music was played Thursday by Eastern’s Jazz Lab Band.

Paul Johnston, the director of the Jazz Lab Band and an associate professor of jazz studies, described the different com-positions to the audience as “toe-taping, some beautiful and some that are just plan fun.”

Audience members were treat-ed to 13 jazz compositions, such as; “Blue Skies” arranged by Paul Jennings; “Witchcraft” and “The Way You Look Tonight” arranged by Sammy Nestico; “The Maids of Cadiz” arranged by Gil Evans; “Portrait of Louis Armstrong” by Duke Ellington; “Topsy” arranged by Dave Wolpe; and ending with “When the Saints Go Marching In” arranged by Dean Sorenson, among others.

Some of the compositions included solo performances by members of the lab band. Allison Buettner, a trumpet player in the Jazz Lab Band and a solo-ist in “Portrait of Louis Armstrong” and “The Maids of Cadiz,” said she liked performing her solos, but enjoyed play-ing with the band more.

“It doesn’t mean much to have a solo unless you have a good ensemble to back you up,” Buettner said.

“Maid of Cadiz” was first a collabo-ration with Miles Davis and featured on the album Miles Ahead.

“I really like the Gil Evans piece “The Maids of Cadiz,” Johnston said. “It was so different from anything else we did, which makes the piece interesting.”

The band also performed a new twist on “When the Saints Go Marching In.”

This twist gave the compositions a New Orleans jazz feel, he said.

Anna Cox, a sophomore psycholo-gy major at Lake Land College, said this composition was her favorite.

“It was on of my favorite songs while growing up with it as a kid and they had a great twist to it,” Cox said.

Buettner said she liked the tune.“It’s a familiar tune and the audience

was more engaged during it,” Buettner said. “The concert is a heck of a lot bet-ter if the audience is enjoying the mu-sic.”

Johnston said the compositions ranged in style, theme, composer and era that helps to teach the members of the band different elements of jazz music.

“We tried to do some things that were beautiful and some things that were just fun,” Johnston said.

Johnston said he thought the concert went well.

“It was a lot of fun,” Johnston

said. “It was great to play for such a great audience.”

Johnston said this concert was the last concert that would include Michael Berry, guitar, who is graduating, and Danny Kent, saxophones, who will be

student teaching. “I feel fortunate to work with this

great bunch of students and we will real-ly miss the two folks that are leaving us this semester,” Johnston said.

Cox said she just enjoyed the music.

“I’m a big fan of jazz music and big band music and anything in your face, and this band did great,” Cox said.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812

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MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJennette Grau, sophomore music education major, performs during “For All We Know” by Sam M. Lewis and J. Fred Coots during the Jazz Lab Band’s concert in The Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center Thursday. The con-cert was the last Jazz Lab Band performance of the semester.

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Eddie Hillman, sophomore biologi-cal sciences major and secretary of the Residence Hall Association, dis-cusses the agenda for the upcom-ing months with RHA members in Andrews Hall Thursday night.

Visiting professor performs own music

By Uriah Berryhill Staff Reporter

International clarinetist and com-poser Eric Mandat performed in the Dounda Fine Arts Center for the Faculty Recital Series on Thursday.

Mandat said he has been playing the clarinet for 45 years now, and enjoys it every time he performs.

He said he is devoted to the clar-inet because he loves the sound it makes. The sound of the clarinet initially convinced him at age two to pick up the instrument.

Before every performance, he said he does breathing preparations and relaxing exercises.

He said his favorite pieces of works are classical pieces such as Mozart and the work he has com-posed himself.

He said he has stumbled many times during a performance.

The solution to a mistake is to take a new direction, and no one

will ever know that the performer made a mistake, he said.

Mandat tours worldwide as a so-loist and chamber musician pre-senting new clarinet music as well as traditional.

He h a s p r e s e n t e d h i s m u -sic in Chicago, Stockholm, To-kyo and Vancouver had a solo part in the Latvian National Chamber Orchestra.

He has also been in the Chica-go Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony and is a mem-ber of the Chicago Symphony’s Music.

If someone plays with their heart and soul with their music, then they are his favorite musicians, he said.

Au d i e n c e m e m b e r H i l l a r y Hutchins, junior communication studies major, said the show was amazing and she liked how he in-corporated many instruments be-sides the clarinet in his show.

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How can I put this as gently as possible? The Oc-cupy Wall Street movement is being relegated to in-effective unimportance as quickly as the New York City Police Department cleared them out of their encampment in Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morn-ing. After two months of protest, camping out and doing everything they can to show how different they supposedly are compared to the 1 percent, the Occupy movement at large is facing an interesting point in their short history.

While the basics of the movement hold some merit, such as the opposition to crony capitalism and the all-around dislike of banks, the expression of an-ger over these issues has been clouded by a massive lack of a central message and discipline by claimed members of the movement.

Several weeks ago, I called for the news media to be fair in its coverage of the movement’s mistakes, and I would say that has happened at the local level more than the national level. This is exemplified by the mere fact that local news media have had to re-port the negative events that have made the Occupy movement ineffective.

What negative events, you ask? Multiple events and reports of assault, rape, vandalism, public dis-turbances and disease have popped up from Occu-py groups around the country. Even if some of those arrested actually had nothing to do with getting out the message or furthering the goals of the Occupy movement, their association with and support of the

movement has been fairly clear in all cases.In whatever way those not associated with the

Occupy movement have obtained their knowledge about the movement’s actions and ideas, the pub-lic’s perception is beginning to indicate a less posi-tive outlook.

On Wednesday, Public Policy Polling released the results of a survey showing only 33 percent of voters polled support Occupy Wall Street’s goals, while 45 percent say they oppose them. Compare that to a month ago, when 35 percent said they supported the movement and only 36 percent were opposed, and one begins to sense a significant shift in the move-ment’s perceived effectiveness.

Was this not supposed to be the movement that, according to some, would become the American equivalent to the Arab Spring? Was this movement not meant to be the beginning of a “revolution” in regard to the “system” Occupy Wall Street claims has created a great disparity in our country? If such is

the case, then it is a very, very slow beginning.I am not in any way saying that the Occupy Wall

Street movement is dead. The students who made up Occupy EIU did not stop because they suddenly felt their efforts were pointless. The nationwide effort will likely continue in whatever way, shape or form it becomes as time goes on, as it happened in some ways with the Tea Party.

The issue is that the Occupy movement has al-lowed itself to create a negative image that does not sit comfortably with mainstream Americans. They haven’t done much more than physically occupy whatever park or public square they found suitable in their respective cities, conduct a lot of screaming matches with intellectual opposition, and commit le-gally questionable and plainly illegal actions when at-tempting to spread their ideological message at large.

These people have the First Amendment right to express their point of view, but physical occupation of public space that produces an increase in unde-sirable and unsafe incidents does not fit the spirit of free speech nor good citizenship. Other routes exist as laid out by Constitution and our laws, and if the Occupy movement wishes to remain relevant, they must realize this.

Greg Sainer is a senior communications studies

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Athletic dept., administration denying coverage

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Students will no longer be able to conveniently send packages to their loved ones.

Charleston’s post office at 320 Sixth St., near the square may soon be home to a new parking lot for Huck’s Conve-nient Food Store.

This is just one of the possibilities to what the empty post office building will be used for. However, the one that is for certain is that Charleston’s post office on the historic square will be no more.

The only post office that will remain in Charleston is in the Northwest Busi-ness Park at 667 Windsor Rd. This pos-es a problem because students will now have to go farther to send a package to their family or friends.

The only option for students to go to the post office now is to drive and this could be a problem for students who don’t own a car.

The post office’s consolidated location is too far to walk to and not safe to bike to because it is off a two-lane highway. So the only option students have to get to the post office is to drive.

Another problem with the post office closing is that it is a historic building.

In Thursday’s edition of The Dai-ly Eastern News, Kit Morice, chairman of the Charleston Historic Preservation Commission said, “From a preservation angle, tearing down the old post office building to expand an existing business is not a neat gain for the community.”

The old post office should be pre-served and not torn down just to make way for a parking lot.

The building needs to be named on the National Register of Historic Plac-es in Coles County, Illinois, so the beau-ty that is the Charleston square won’t be tainted by another business hungry for more money and more customers.

Eastern’s very own Old Main and Pemberton Hall are on the National Register of Historic Places list.

Pemberton has been on the list since Aug. 26, 1982 and Old Main has been on the list since June 16, 1981.

If all these historic places on Eastern’s campus are on the list why can’t the post office be on that list as well?

We as a community should fight to keep the building and not just sit and do nothing about it.

Our mission to preserve the rich his-tory of this community into the future must extend beyond campus.

The post office is too important to the square to lose, and the square is too important to Charleston to cede to immediate commercial demands.

If we need to get rid of a post office, we should get rid of the one that is already far from students and the square.

Occupy Wall Street movement losing effectiveness

The search for the next football head coach is in full swing and it is our goal to provide extensive cov-erage of the finalists’ visits to campus, in order to help you understand who the candidates are and al-low you to form an opinion on which you think is the best choice.

After hearing about an “open forum,” which the public is invited to Friday, we thought we would have a great opportunity to photograph and inter-view the candidate, Randall McCray. Unfortunately, the administration and the athletic department told us no recorders or cameras would be allowed at this public, open forum, as it was publicized in a press re-lease from the athletic department Monday.

At an event the public can attend, there should never be any restrictions against bringing these two items – both of which help our staff report the story most accurately for our readers. Instead, we are being forced to only take notes of the candidate’s answers.

If the athletic department is afraid we’ll get in the way or distract others, they’re wrong. Photographers can stand 50 yards away from a person and still get a close-up photo. Recorders are the smallest, least dis-tracting piece of equipment we own.

I brought up my concerns in an interview with President Bill Perry Thursday, and I used a recorder to save his response. I asked him if I could use it, he agreed, and from that point on it was like the record-er wasn’t even there. Distracting, ha!

Perry stood by the restrictions, saying it is the “tra-ditional” way of doing things. He denied that it was an “open forum,” as the athletic department has so openly publicized it to be. He called it an “inter-view,” comparing it to the one he’ll be having with the candidate. I’m sorry, maybe I’m off my nut, but those don’t seem to be similar in any way.

Both Perry and Rich Moser, of media and public relations in the athletic department, denied that the event was a press conference. Moser called it an open forum. Perry called it an interview. This just made

the whole situation even more ridiculous. No matter the title attached to it, it is and will be

a press conference if there ever was one. The way Per-ry described it – the candidate making a statement and then taking questions – is as good a definition of press conference as I’ve ever heard.

So why restrict the media? What do you have to hide? Each candidate should be used to having cam-eras and recorders in their faces. All four are from major Division I football schools, which draw a lu-dicrous amount of press coverage. If it’s the candi-date who is saying he doesn’t want recorders or cam-eras at this, then he shouldn’t be the next head foot-ball coach anywhere, let alone Eastern. These men are public figures and should expect to be treated as such, especially by student media. No matter what Perry told me, anyone in the public is invited; thus, the event is public and these restrictions shouldn’t be allowed.

Granted, Perry is correct in some of his assump-tions. Yes, we have an option to talk to the candi-dates aside from their campus visits. I’ve taken this route. All four candidates have voicemails on the phones in their offices. Since calling them Monday, I haven’t gotten a response. Unfortunately for The News and its readers, this is just another example of the athletic department and the administration try-ing to keep things away from us. I haven’t heard a good excuse for these restrictions yet. I don’t care what you want to call this thing – an open forum or

interview. We should be allowed in to do our jobs. We haven’t had a football-coach search in 25

years, but now that it’s here the athletic department is doing everything to keep us away. I’ve asked Moser to make a short period of time during the day, may-be 10 minutes, where we can photograph the candi-date and formerly ask a few questions. He said no.

The candidate will be here for two days! You’re not going to tell me he won’t have 10 free minutes on the schedule. Moser is supposed to be the media relations man for the athletic department, but by de-nying my request he’s not communicating with the media effectively.

Moreover, Perry is calling the search process one of the most open of its kind in the nation – more open than any university has ever been about this specific kind of search.

Sure, you told us who the candidates are. You dangled that information in our faces.

Now, all I see is the same old crap of athletic de-partments and administrations trying to restrict stu-dent-media coverage.

A new age of Eastern football is upon us and we’re excited about it, but by restricting us the university is already setting a tone that this is the way it’s going to be for the next 25 years or however long he stays.

By doing this, they’re telling the future head coach it’s OK to bully the student media, ignore them and not take them seriously.

The university is wrong. They’re doing a disservice to the faculty and staff of this university, but especial-ly the students, who pay over $100 in each of their student fees to keep the athletic department afloat and this losing football program alive.

By restricting us, you’re restricting them. See where that gets you.

Alex McNamee is the Editor in Chief.

He can be reached at DENeic@gmail.com or 581-7324

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Spring is a season that brings a re-freshing smell into the air as the trees be-gin to bud and the winter chills become dormant. It is a time for new life to see the wonders of Charleston. With new life comes new ambitions. New ambitions mean new music, and for Charleston that means new events.

A fresh take on the Charleston festival scene is exactly what Scott Chaplinski has been planning for nearly a year with the event Square Fest.

“I started thinking in February that it was about time to get it going with every-thing going on with Celebration, Wood-chuck Music Festival, there’s finals, there’s Easter. I realized it was crunch time to get it going,” Chaplinski said.

Square Fest will begin at 2 p.m. Sat-urday through 1 a.m. Sunday. The event will take place on Charleston’s square at the bars Mother’s, Friends & Co., Mac’s Uptowner and Top of the Roc. The event will cost $12 and allow patrons 21 and over admittance into any of the bars and performances.

Chaplinski said getting the bars in-volved was the first part of organizing the event, and after he explained the potential benefits they jumped on board.

“I kind of just threw it out there,” Chaplinski said. “They’ve given me good ideas, and they appreciate the ideas that I have. They’ve been very helpful with ev-erything I’ve been doing.”

Chaplinski has been wanting to get the bars involved with a festival event for more than year and said he feels that now was the best time to bring it all together.

“We are hoping it brings a lot of busi-ness to the square,” Chaplinski said. “We hope it is going to be a nicer day. It’s a good window of a month and a half of good weather to show all these people,

‘Hey there are all these other great bars in town, and not just the ones near Lincoln (Avenue.).”

Many of the featured acts will be Charleston based groups such as Mug-wump Specific, Andy Van Slyke and Staff Blues Band while others such as DJ Illith, Poundcake and Ryan Arnold stem from locations throughout the state.

“I figure this was a great networking opportunity for a lot of bands,” Chaplins-ki said. “We are pulling in bands from the Kankakee area, and some musicians from Champaign area. It’s bands that I like, and I know that other people (like).”

Chaplinski said most of them are younger bands that have only been play-ing for a year or two and that many times a band that has been playing for four to five years need a guarantee that they are getting paid.

“Having never done anything like this before I didn’t want to make promises to a bunch of people that I can’t fulfill.” Chap-linski said.

In fact, much of the money for pro-ducing the event was saved up by Chap-linski himself. He hopes that the $12 cov-er is enough to give some of the traveling bands money to cover their gas costs and without being too high to deter college students and community members from coming out.

One local musician, Mitch Davis, a senior management information sys-tems major, saod he plans on showing the crowd some new tunes to commemorate the new event.

“I mainly like to get people dancing, but I also play some more chill stuff,” Davis said. “I don’t want people to get burnt out, so I’ll make new songs before the shows. New shows get me motivated to make new songs. (Square Fest) is go-ing to be so new. There’s going to be so many different people playing at so many different bars. I don’t really know what to

expect. That’s why I am expecting to play in front of a totally new crowd, so I really got to try to pump people up.”

With a wide variety of performances including blues, rock, jam band, electron-ic and rap everyone is beginning to de-velop expectations for the new event and Chaplinski is no different.

“I want to be able to be out on the square, outside the bars and see people

having a good time,” Chaplinski said. “I want to hear, sort of over-hear, what they did like and what they didn’t like. I just think there will be a lot of good vibes coming. Perfect conditions for me, is hearing that people had a great time.”

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or bayork@eiu.edu.

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By Brad YorkVerge Editor

Jackson Avenue Coffee (J.A.C.) is a location to go blow-off steam, study for hours on end and socialize as the creamy fragrance of lattes, cappuccinos and hot chocolates stream though the air.

J.A.C., located at 708 Jackson Ave., may sound like an unusual place for a concert setting, but Dan Reible believes it is the perfect location for live music that has not been offered to Charleston in some time.

“In the Charleston area there is no place to relax and listen to music except for a bar,” Reible said. “I’d like a place where people can come relax, have a cup of coffee, sandwich, bagel and take it easy and listen to some good acoustic music.”

Reible and his wife Vicki are currently shuffling through papers in order to become the rightful owners of J.A.C.

Reible moved to Mattoon in 1984 after serving in the Navy and soon became a truck driver, traveling the nation with his wife.

Reible has played for various bands in the past and mentioned to his friend, Ryan Dawson and the current owner of J.A.C., he was looking for a place to host weekly concerts on Saturday evenings.

Dawson then asked Reible if he ever pictured himself owning a café. Reible expressed an interest, and soon, Dawson offered to sell the business.

Dawson said the Reibles’ have been his customers since J.A.C. opened nearly eight years ago.

“I planned on going back to school this summer to complete a degree in teacher’s certification,” Dawson said. “We were ready to move on to new things. I figured it is best not to run anything into the ground, so I offered to sell the place.”

Dawson has high hopes for

the future of J.A.C. and feels as as though hosting live musicians every Saturday night is only the beginning of the growth J.A.C. will see.

The first Saturday night performer will be “Reverend” Robert Reynolds Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. at J.A.C.

None of the performances will come with a cover cost, but instead a hat will be passed around around for donations, which go entirely to the artist.

Robert Reynolds is a musician who plays blues music from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ’40s, and is glad Reible is opening his doors to local musicians.

Reynolds said he has known Reible for a while because they have been playing music together through the years.

“It is good to play one close to home. This is more intimate than the festivals and blues bars I’ve been playing at lately,” Reynolds said. “I play electric when I’m with my band, but this show will be all acoustic.”

The intimate setting offers a place for begging and practiced musicians alike.

Reible wants to show people in Charleston music they may not have heard before.

He plans to host various artists from various genres each weekend.

“I’ve got things booked all the way through the end of June,” Reible said. “It’s mostly people I have heard in the area and a lot of local musicians. We are open

to all different styles. It doesn’t matter if I personally like it or not. It’s whatever I think our customers will like.”

Reible said his customers are an eclectic group, and notices that he has a lot of high schoolers come there every evening. He said parents know it is a safe place.

Reible said he is open to any style of music and musicians who are interested in performing the Saturday night events should come out to J.A.C. Open Mic Night every Thursday.

These open mic sessions are used as auditions of sorts for the diverse music Reible hopes to incorporate with the Saturday night performances.

In addition to the open mic night artists, Reible searches the Web and various local music hot spots in order to find performers.

“I’m hoping to get a lot of music in here that people haven’t experienced before,” Reible said. “People may have heard blues, but it probably isn’t the old delta blues that (Reverend Robert) will be playing.”

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or at bayork@eiu.edu.

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The 7th Street Underground will turn into a concert venue tonight at 5:30 as the Colleges Against Cancer group hosts its sec-ond Rock it for Relay concert.

The benefit concert will feature the three local bands Good Morning Midnight, Cured by Fire and Madison’s Avenue, and one solo musician, Jenna Jackley.

Tickets are $5 at the door and can be purchased starting at 5 p.m.

All proceeds go to the Colleges Against Cancer’s Relay for Life team, and will ul-timately be given to the American Cancer Society.

Kyle Swalls, guitarist and vocalist for Good Morning Midnight, has witnessed the devastation of cancer first hand. Swalls said his grandma is fighting against cancer.

“It’s a constant struggle dealing with it,” Swalls said. “A lot of time the chemo won’t be as effective, and they will try a new method and stuff. And so just know-ing the constant struggle makes me want to do something like this and raise money for an individual who is having the same, who is dealing with the same kind of suffering.”

This band along with Cured by Fire is playing at Friends & Co. later in the eve-ning. They were willing to book two gigs in one night to show their support.

“We feel that playing this gig will al-low people to see that rock and roll and the whole style of it isn’t just about being on your own and not really caring about any-one else,” Logan Richardson, Madison’s Av-

enue lead singer, said. “We really do care about the issue of

breast cancer and cancer in general,” Rich-ardson continued. “Because some people

close to us have had it and, luckily, they have recovered from it.”

Many of the bands playing are new to Eastern’s campus. Richardson said perform-ing at the concert would be an opportunity to expose students to a different kind of lo-cal music.

Good Morning Midnight is an indie and alternative rock band. Beginning near-ly a year ago and stationed in Marshall, the group is fresh to the Charleston music scene, but has played in the 7th Street Un-derground before for a canned food drive.

Cured by Fire is a Charleston metal band. Megan Givens, the concert coordi-nator said the group sounds similar to Me-tallica or Godsmack and does a good job of getting a crowd going. Their influenc-es come from those bands and others like Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue and Black Sabbath.

Jenna Jackley is a Mattoon High School student who plays the guitar and sings.

“She is just memorizing to watch,” Me-gan Givens said. “She is in high school, so she is still very young, but the caliber of voice she has is just amazing.”

Madison’s Avenue is another young al-ternative rock band from Charleston that has been putting out their own music for eight months. The group has played all over Charleston, in Havana and in Centralia, but tonight will be one of their first times playing on campus.

Givens, a junior elementary education major, said all the bands are hard working and were booked because they came recom-mended by other artists.

The Colleges Against Cancer has raised more than $5,000 through their fall breast cancer T-shirt sales and other fundrais-ers. They have pledged to raise $8,000, and across campus different groups have pledged to raise $70,000 for the American Cancer Society.

Last year, the concert drew a small crowd, but Givens is hoping for more pub-lic support.

“What ever little amount can put to-wards the American Cancer Society will help in some way,” Givens said.

Colleen Kitka can be reached at 581-7942 or crkitka@eiu.edu.

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Lightworks in Mattoon to brighten up holidays By Timothy Deters Staff Reporter

The 20th annual Lightworks hol-iday light show will begin Friday at Peterson Park in Mattoon and will run until Dec. 25.

Lightworks features numerous light displays that viewers can enjoy as they drive along the road wind-ing through Peterson Park, located at 500 Broadway Ave. in Mattoon.

Angelia Burgett, tourism director of Mattoon, said about 15,000 cars visit Lightworks each year.

“It’s a positive part of the holi-day,” Burgett said. “We’re very proud of it.”

While most displays are Christ-mas related, others are patriotic or educational, Burgett said.

Burgett said there will be five new displays this year.

She said her favorite display is a 100-foot long metal archway cov-ered in lights. She said the archway was made by a local welder and is an icon of the park.

The first four Friday nights in De-cember, local churches will sponsor a live nativity scene, Burgett said.

Melissa Hull, a resident of Mat-toon, said she has visited Lightworks nearly every year since she was in kindergarten.

“It’s a part of my childhood that I like to revisit every holiday season,” Hull said as her children ran along the playground in Peterson Park.

Hull says that her favorite dis-play is one of a reindeer in an out-house. This display was added to

Lightworks last year and was a comi-cal hit, said Burgett.

Hull plans on visiting Lightworks again this year and bringing her chil-dren, Anthony, 7, and Ashley, 5.

Burgett said viewers of Lightworks must be in a vehicle to go along the display road due to safety concerns.

However, the rest of the park is still open to the public as normal, she said.

Lightworks is open 5-9 p.m. Sun-day to Thursday and 5-10 p.m. Fri-day and Saturday.

Admission is free, though do-nations are welcome, Burgett said. Al l donations fund next year’s Lightworks.

Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812 or tadeters@eiu.edu.

While Shank has received many other awards at varying levels, from her students, department and state to the national level, she said she feels like she is coming full circle by being recognized by the university.

“I’m very blessed to be recog-nized,” she said. “Other students and faculty in the department have just as much if not more, but do not receive the same recognition.”

The Faculty Senate began taking applications for the award in early October.

“Applicants are nominated or can self nominate, and we announced our decision at the Oct. 25 Facul-ty Senate meeting,” said Jeff Stowell, Faculty Senate Award Chair. “We regularly get 10 to 12 applicants, it just depends on the year.”

Around this time is when Shank, received notification of the award, which she will receive at her college’s graduation ceremony in December.

“I received a phone call from Jeff Stowell informing me I had won and would receive a letter, I didn’t even know I was nominated,” Shank said. “I was very, very pleasantly sur-prised, when I think of this award I think of it going to faculty, not an administrator, I was humbled. I do service and I am proud of it,; I don’t expect awards for it.”

Amy Wywialowski can be

reached at 581-2812 or alwywialowski@eiu.edu

She also said the faculty experts for each subcommittee will be in atten-dance.

The learning goal subcommittees will meet at 2 p.m. and the regular CAA agenda will be discussed at 3 p.m. on Dec. 1.

The agenda also had six recreation courses to be revised, as well as the re-vision of the Recreation Administra-tion major and the Recreation Ad-ministration: Therapeutic Recreation Option.

These courses include: Recreation Services for People with Disabilities, Foundations of Therapeutic Recre-ation, Therapeutic Recreation Modal-ities and Facilitation Techniques, Ev-idence Based Intervention Planning

in Therapeutic Recreation, Advanced Therapeutic Recreation Processes, and Assessment and Administration in Therapeutic Recreation.

All of the revisions were approved.Michael Mulvaney, assistant pro-

fessor of the department of recreation administration, said the major is be-ing revised because the elective op-tions are being decreased.

“We are also shifting REC 3900, Operation of Leisure Facilities, into the core,” he said. “These changes will help students get their certification.”

The CAA will reconvene on Dec. 1 in Booth Library Room 4440.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or redexter@eiu.edu.

A follow-up orientation is sched-uled from 9-10:45 a.m. today dur-ing the Executive Planning Com-mittee meeting.

“They are all enthusiastic and they all bring a set of excellent skills and perspectives to the board,” Per-

ry said. “The board has always act-ed in the university’s best interests, and I am confident that it will con-tinue.”

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

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Bill a ‘legislative drive-by shooting’By The Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Two Repub-lican congressmen became visibly emotional Thursday during a federal court hearing over a new congressio-nal map drawn by Democrats, and a third proclaimed the plan as “a legis-lative drive-by shooting.”

Four GOP members of the state’s congressional delegation testified during the first day of a federal trial that will decide the fate of a Republi-can lawsuit against the map.

Reps. John Shimkus and Don-ald Manzullo got choked up during their testimony, and Rep. Peter Ros-kam recalled for the court his viscer-al reaction when he first saw the map when his wife pulled it up on their computer at home.

“I described it to her as a leg-islative drive-by shooting,” Ros-kam recalled because it would keep the state’s Democratic incumbents safe and decimate recent Republi-can gains in Congress from Illinois, which sent five freshmen to the U.S. House in 2010.

Prominent Republicans, including all but one of the 11 GOP members of Illinois’ congressional delegation, have sued the state over the map that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law this summer. The lawsuit alleges that not only will the new map unfairly wipe out Republican gains in Congress, it dilutes the voting influence of the state’s growing Latino population. They have offered an alternative map to the three-judge panel that will de-cide the case.

It’s a court battle that will be closely watched as Democrats na-tionwide try to reclaim the U.S. House after losing it during a 2010 GOP wave.

New congressional districts are drawn every 10 years based on the latest census numbers. Democrats dominated Illinois’ map-making this year because they control the Gener-al Assembly and the governor’s office.

The new map drew Republicans out of their districts and lumped in-cumbent GOP members together or threw them into Democrat-friendly territory.

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I know it’s just one game, but af-ter the Eastern’s men's basketball team’s victory over the University of Loyola-Chicago, I am ecstatic to see the Panthers play again.

They are sitting at 1-1 after play-ing two good teams. The loss was 79-72 to defending Missouri Valley Champion Indiana State.

I really think the Panthers have a good chance to make some noise in the Ohio Valley Conference this year. Head coach Mike Miller has assembled his deepest team in some time and that will be the team's strength.

It gives a coach a lot of confi-dence knowing he has 12 guys on his team that can play minutes and perform at a high level. With the additions of seven newcomers, I was unsure how good the bench could be, but freshman guard Joey Mill-er and freshman forward Josh Pip-er are already giving the team good minutes.

Junior guard Austin Akers is ex-citing as well. He makes the occa-sional bad pass, but he has the abil-ity to run a Division I offense at the point guard position. He showed that with 5 assists and 1 turnover against Indiana State.

But, the player I am most excited about is sophomore forward Alfon-zo McKinnie. I have said before that McKinnie has by far the most raw talent on Eastern's roster. And he showed all of his abilities Wednes-day night.

McKinnie led the team with 13 points, eight rebounds, four blocks and two steals. The 13 points was a little surprising to me, but Mike Miller said McKinnie put in a ton of work over the offseason. It seems as though he has developed a solid series of post moves that can be ef-fective.

McKinnie was also 5-of-5 from the freethrow line, showing that he has the ability to develop a jump shot and when that happens look out. Miller told me the sky is the limit with this player and I have to say I agree.

If he develops a consistent outside shot and puts on a few more pounds of muscle, his athleticism and defen-sive ability could earn him a huge paycheck.

I am really excited to see where McKinnie is come March. If he con-tinues on the path he is on he will easily be one of the best forwards in the conference.

Rob Mortell can be reached at 581-7944 or at rdmortell@eiu.edu.

Panthers, McKinnie show real potential

Rob Mortell

ADDS, from page 8In the second game, one bench play-

er logged more playing time than two of the starters. Mitchell played 28 min-utes, scoring 15 points. Mitchell’s 15 points led the team. The next top bench player was Crunk, who played 14 min-utes, scoring seven points.

In the first game, Crunk came off the bench to play more minutes than anyone on the team. Crunk played 24 minutes and tied for a team-high in points with 15.

Wyss also scored 15 points, coming off the bench. She played 19 minutes.

The bench combined to play more minutes than the starting five in the game.

Team to be busy over breakThe Panthers play three games over

Thanksgiving break. The first will be at noon Monday in Lantz Arena against Illinois State.

Then the team will hit the road for

California.They’ll play two games, one against

San Jose State and another against Sacramento State.

The game against San Jose State will be at 9 p.m. in San Jose, Calif., The game against Sacramento State will be at 4 p.m. in Sacramento.

Alex McNamee can be reached

at 581-7942 or deneic@gmail.com.

RUGBY, from page 8“It’s certainly great for Eastern Illi-

nois University and the sport of rugby,” Eastern head coach Frank Graziano said following the Sept. 18 match-up with Quinnipiac. “It took 13 years to get to this point and with the connection we have with Quinnipiac; it probably starts a new era.”

Eastern continued to steam roll through their schedule as they were set to travel to Hamden, Conn., to take on the Quinnipiac Bobcats in the second of three meetings on the season. With Eastern sitting at a perfect 5-0, the team boarded a plane for the first time since the 2007 season and headed east to New England. The Panthers were able to over-come adversity and they recorded their first signature road win of the season.

“The three Quinnipiac games from a game prospective were very crucial for the sport of rugby in general,” Graziano said. “We had a great experience when we went to Quinnipiac to play, and cer-tainly those three games were the high-light of the season.”

The Panthers beat up on the Bobcats by a score of 33-5.

Following the dramatic road victory, the Panthers returned to Lakeside Field to host the Northern Iowa Panthers in what was the most physical game of the

season. Graziano had feared that the clashing styles of play would make it dif-ficult for his small and speedy squad to stop the much larger and physical North-ern Iowa squad on the defensive side of the ball.

“We just don’t physically match up very well with them. It’s diffi-cult for our 150-pound girls to tack-le their 210-pound girls,” Graziano said. “To some extent I think we had a great chance to shut them out that game, but to only give up five points was a great win for us.”

The Panthers improved to 7-0 on the season with a 24-5 win over Northern Iowa.

Coming off of two signature wins against Quinnipiac and Northern Iowa, the Panthers used that momentum to get their offensive attack back on pace. The Panthers have always been seen as a run-and-gun team that routinely puts up big numbers on the scoreboard, but leading up to the final three games of the season, the 2011 version of Panther rugby was not blowing out their opponents.

The Panthers were involved in low scoring affairs throughout the season, but the light bulb finally went off and the Panthers offensive attack exploded for 222 points over their final three games.

The Panthers dominated the Iowa State Cyclones, the Quinnipiac Bobcats and the Purdue Boilermakers to record their third perfect season in the last four years.

Over those three games, the Panthers outscored their opponents by a total of 222-25. The offensive explosion was led by junior wing Lauren Doyle who tallied 11 trys over the final three games of the season.

Although the Panthers were “per-fect” in 2011, Graziano said he still sees his 2005 team as his most talented bunch. The 2005 squad did not go un-defeated but is regarded as the most com-plete and skilled squad to come through Eastern during Graziano’s 13-year tenure.

“I still hold the ’05 team at the top, but this squad is within the top five of all-time over the last 13 years. I think this team needed to have a little more tenac-ity and toughness on the goal line, and I’ve had some teams that were definitely better than us defensively,” Graziano said. “From a scoring prospective we were as athletic and fast as we have ever been. It was a good season for us and the girls im-proved throughout the entire year.”

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-7942 or jbpottoff@eiu.edu.

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By Jordan Pottorff Staff Reporter

The women’s rugby team capped off another memorable season with its third undefeated season in the last four years. This year’s team did not resemble the Panther teams of the past, but it overcame multiple obsta-cles on its way to perfection.

The Panthers season was full of excitement from the get-go as they welcomed the Grand Valley State Golden Rams to Lakeside Field for a chance at vengeance. Grand Val-ley State did what few other teams have done over the past four year’s as they were able to record a win against Eastern. The Panthers were heav-ily anticipating the season opener and they were able to start the year on a good note with a 46-7 win over Grand Valley State.

“This sets the tone for every-thing we are doing this year,” ju-nior wing Kayla Heal said follow-ing the win on Sept. 3. “Everyone just brought it today and we played like it was our job.”

The Panthers continued to im-press leading up to the marquee game on their schedule. With East-ern leading the way for the sport of women’s rugby, they had the hon-ors of hosting the Quinnipiac Bob-cats in what was the first NCAA Division I women’s rugby game. The Panthers played up to expec-tations and were able to record a history-making 24-0 win over the Bobcats.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S BASKETBALL

Win over Grand Valley paced season

K AROLINA STR ACK | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Senior forward Chantelle Pressley jumps to beat a defender for the rebound Nov. 11 during a women's basketball game against Oakland City in Lantz Arena.

By Alex McNamee Editor-in-chief

The Eastern women’s basketball team signed a player from Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville, Alece Shumpert signed during the NCAA’s early national letter of in-tent period.

Shumpert will become the sec-ond player on Eastern’s team from Althoff Catholic. Sophomore guard Jordyne Crunk is the other player from the high school.

Shumpert was named to the First Team all-South Seven Con-ference team her junior season, av-eraging 11 points per game.

Starting lineups changingTwo games into the season, the

women’s basketball team has had two different starting lineups.

This is going to a trend the rest of the season, head coach Brady Sallee said. Sallee said the starting lineup will be adjusted based on the team they’re playing.

If they’re playing a bigger team, they’ll start the taller players to bal-ance out the size match-up, he said.

In the first game, the Panthers started Sabina Oroszova, Chan-telle Pressley, Mariah King, Sydney Mitchell, and Ta’Kenya Nixon.

In the second game, the line-up changed. Sallee chose to go with Kelsey Wyss instead of Mitchell, al-though Mitchell is the taller player.

Bench players being used often

Sallee has gone to his bench a lot early in this season. In the first game, every active player on

the roster saw action.In the second game, all but

two bench players saw action. Jackie Herman and DeAnna Wil-

lis did not appear in the second game, against Bradley.

Panthers adds one player

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Staff Report

After a thrilling win against the Uni-versity of Loyola-Chicago, Eastern’s men’s basketball team heads north to take on in-state rival Northern Illinois.

The Panthers enter the game at 1-1 overall, while the Huskies enter the game at 0-2 with losses to the Universi-ty of Purdue and the University of Wis-consin at Milwaukee.

Northern Illinois is led offensive-ly senior forward Tim Toler who leads the team averaging 11 points per game. Toler is also averaging 4.5 rebounds and one block per game.

Sophomore forward Aksel Bolin leads the Huskies in rebounding at six per game. Bolin is also averaging 7.5 points per game and shooting 50 per-cent from the three-point line.

Eastern is led offensively by senior guard Jeremy Granger. Granger is aver-aging 18 points a game, scoring a total of 36 points in the Panthers’ first two games of the season.

Also over the Thanksgiving break, the Panthers will take on Eureka Col-lege at 7 p.m. at home on November 23 and then against Central Arkansas at 4 p.m. on November 26 on the road in Conway, Ark.

Eureka College currently holds a record of 1-0, with the Red Devils’

only win coming over North Park by a score of 81-79. The Red Devils will take on Rockford on Saturday No-vember 19 before heading to Eastern. Eureka College, an NCAA Division-III school who competes at in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Confer-ence (SLIAC), is led by junior forward Dustin Fritsch, who scored 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the team’s last win.

Head coach Chip Wilde is in his fifth season coaching the Red Devils’ with an overall coaching record of 42-60.

Central Arkansas has yet to win a game this season, posting an 0-3 record after falling to Stanford, Sacramento State, and Philander Smith.

Central Arkansas is led by sopho-more guard LaQuentin Miles. Miles may appear as a familiar face to some members of the Eastern team, as Miles transferred to Central Arkansas last season from Ohio Valley Conference’s Southeast Missouri. Miles is currently averaging 16 points per game.

Around the OVC Southeast Missouri fell short, losing

to Bradley by a score of 66-65.Tennessee State won over Fisk by a

score of 80-57 at home.

Team prepares for games over break

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