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Walking alone at night can be scary. However, univer-sity officials hope students will feel safer with a new safe-ty app thats set to launch Monday, Feb. 1.

After the terror threats last spring, Student Body President Katie Scott and Executive Vice President Col-lin Potter decided an initiative was needed to bring stu-dent safety into the 21st century and make it more stu-dent friendly.

Scott said she thought a safety app would allow stu-dents to feel more invested in campus safety by having it at their finger tips.

If youre going to take student safety seriously, it has to start with the students," Scott said.

The LiveSafe app will enable Eastern community members (including parents, students, regional campus students, staff, faculty, etc.) to submit tips and informa-tion about any incidents on campus such as accidents, assault, drugs or alcohol use, metal health problems, sus-picious activity, parking and repair reports.

Photos, video and audio can be added to any tip to serve as evidence of the incident.

Other features include: SafeWalk: a user can ask friends or family to virtual-

ly walk him or her to their final destination. The user can send a request to someone and the other user must ac-cept before the live GPS tracking is initiated.

wSafety Escort: a user can call a campus safety officer to escort them to their destination.

wLocation sharing during emergency situations (when you call or text police, your location is made available to them).

wSafety resources and information. wAn alert system that is similar to the RAVE system.

However, students must re-enroll in RAVE every year, whereas LiveSafe is a one-time enrollment.

wSexual assault help.

wEmergency procedures. wCampus maps and building information. wAn in-app call and text system to reach the EKU Po-

lice Department, or 911 if you are off campus.Scott said SGA had to put a request for proposal on

the app with Student Senate and then put it out to bid. The app is funded through a $100,000 IT grant that SGA receives every year. The LiveSafe app is being appropriat-ed $27,500 a year, and SGA plans to fund it for two years. The expense is high because the app is free for all students and is customized to Easterns campus, Scott said.

After a committee composed of SGA officers, public safety officials and the EKU police department reviewed eight different proposals, they ul-timately chose LiveSafe because of its user-friendly interface, wide variety of options and real-time safe walk capabilities, Scott said.

The app does not go live un-til Monday, but students can download it now to get fa-miliar with its features. It is Android and Apple friendly, with the only dif-ference being a more de-tailed map in the Android version.

The University of Ken-tucky also has a LiveSafe. Scott said within its first three weeks of use at use at the university, there were 33 campus safety tips reported.

The use by the University of Ken- tucky was an added value to se- lect-ing the app because many of our students and faculty live in Lexing-ton and can manually switch between the two, Scott said.

SGA will be hosting door prize giveaways next week for people who have downloaded the app.

By LEXI WALTERSalexia_walters29@mymail.eku.edu

Safety app goes live for campus community

EKU Campus Recreation be-gan enforcing a dress code in all indoor facilities Jan. 25, prohib-iting shirts that expose the lower back, ribcage and midriff. Open-toed shoes and non-athletic bot-toms, including jeans and khaki shorts, are also not allowed.

Students may wear any man-ufactured tank tops, T-shirts covering the torso and altered T-shirts with a hole less than four inches from the armpit. All pants and shorts made of athletic mate-rial are allowed as long as it cov-ers the entire buttocks and the waste band touches the bottom of a T-shirt.

In an email sent to all Campus Recreation employees, Director of Campus Recreation Brent Palm-

er said the dress code will create a welcoming and inclusive environ-ment, prevent disease transmis-sion and prolong the life of exer-cise equipment.

I understand why they set the rules in place, said Emma Tomp-kins, a sophomore music market-ing major from Lexington. Not seeing other peoples perfect abs every time they go to the gym will give insecure girls and guys more confidence.

The policy is enforced in all sections of the Fitness & Wellness Center, Burke Wellness Center, Begley Building, Weaver Gymna-sium and the intramural courts.

Students who do not fol-low the proper upper-body dress code will be given a free Campus Rec T-shirt on their first offense. Those who do not follow the low-er-body dress code will be given a warning. If a student continues to violate the dress code, he or she will be asked to leave the facility.

Campus Rec received back-lash over the new changes from some Eastern students via Twit-ter. Students such as Hailee Da-

vis, a sophomore humanities ma-jor from Louisville, said the Rec is trying to make the gym less com-fortable.

I dont think anyone should be told to leave just for having a lon-ger length between your shirt and arm, Davis said. You should be allowed to dress in something you are comfortable in.

Other students voiced their unhappiness with the changes be-cause they prohibit the way stu-dents dress for pick-up and intra-mural games.

I dont usually wear cutoffs, but a lot of my fraternity brothers who do arent very happy about the changes, said John Wolf, a freshman criminal justice major from Chicago.

Despite Twitter backlash, Campus Rec and its faculty main-tain the dress code will create a more comfortable and sanitary environment for all who seek fit-ness.

By TAYLOR WEITERtaylor_weiter@mymail.eku.edu

Recreation centers enforce safer dress code

Eastern follows other universities in hoverboard ban

Eastern has joined a nationwide effort to ban hover-boards. Due to the recently discovered safety risks, all hov-erboards and similar devices are prohibited from being stored or used in residence halls.

Banning the boards is not a new campus trend. Many universities and schools have also banned the boards on campuses, including the University of Kentucky and West-ern Kentucky University.

By STEPHANIE DARIAprogress@eku.edu

The self-balancing vehicles hit the market late last year and quickly became a popular item, but now theyre being taken off the market as quick as they came. Online stores such as Amazon have begun removing the item from the store due to the rising safety concerns, according to USA Today.

Eastern's Chief External Affairs Officer Kristi Middle-ton said the Housing and police departments saw reports that the boards were catching fire and causing injuries from falls, and decided to issue the ban before students ar-rived back on campus.

On Jan. 11, an email sent to students said to leave all hoverboards at home.

It became a concern for the students safety, Middle-ton said. It was a risk we didnt want to take.

Housing staff have been keeping an eye out for the boards, including it as an item they look for during room checks.

If a student is caught with one, the board will be confis-cated until the student is able to take it home.

The use of hoverboards on campus outside of residence halls is under no restrictions at the moment, but public safety is looking to ban it campus wide in the future, and it is currently under review by the university.

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PROPERLY FITTED CLOTHING REQUIRED FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Starting January 25, 2016 shirts exposing the rib cage, midriff and lower back will no longer be allowed in Cam-pus Recreation Facilities. Khaki shorts, jeans, and oth-er non-athletic lower-body apparel is also prohibited. Proper footwear, non-mark-ing, athletic, closed-toed shoes are also required.

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BEATPOLICEBEATPOLICE

Jan. 18 A resident report-

ed someone entered her room and stole $100 from her wallet at 3:19 p.m., in Todd Hall.

A 43-year-old from Richmond was issued a trespass warning at 10:31 p.m., in the Fitzpatrick Lot. Reports claimed the man was using binoculars and claimed he stopped by for nostalgic reasons. No bin-oculars were in plain view in the vehicle.

Jan. 19 A student reported sus-

picious activity after an un-known person knocked on her door at 11:13 p.m., at the Brockton Apartments.

Jan. 25 An Aramark work-

er reported that his park-ing pass was stolen.

A student report-ed someone took a bag of tools from his pickup truck at 8:20 p.m., in the Keene Lot.

Blind musician to perform intimate concert

Raul Midn, a blind musician with a soaring voice and flamen-co-inspired guitar playing, will be having a MainStage Lounge concert event at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 28, at the EKU Center for the Arts. Attendees of the concert will sit on stage in a casual setting, where they can enjoy drinks, desserts and coffee. General admission is $25.

Speaker to discuss living in space

Chris Impey, University Dis-tinguished Professor of Astron-omy at University of Arizona, Author of New York Times Ed-itors Choice Beyond: Our Fu-

ture in Space and Humble before the Void plus Dreams of Oth-er Worlds, How it Ends, How It Began, and The Living Cosmos: What If We Live Off-Earth? Ex-ploring Our Future in Space, will be speaking in the Chau-tauqua Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m.,Thursday, Feb. 4, in ODon-nell Hall of the Whitlock Build-ing.

Impey will be discussing liv-ing off Earth and exploring the future of humans in space.

Relaxation and meditation group meets twice a week

Natalie Deering will be host-ing a relaxation and meditation event that is open to all students, faculty and staff. Deering will be teaching various techniques to help Eastern community mem-bers calm and relax their minds. Yoga mats, pillows and blankets are provided, and comfortable clothing is recommended.

The class will start at 3 p.m. and end at 4 p.m., Mondays and

Thursdays, in Room 568 of the Whitlock Building. Deering re-quests that everyone who wants to join needs to show up at least five minutes early.

Blind date with a bookEKU Libraries will be hosting

a Valentines Day themed event called Blind Date with a Book. The event starts at 7:30 a.m., Monday, Feb. 8, and ends at 4:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 12.

Librarians want partici-pants to take a book on a blind date and give it chance to make a good impression. Perspective participants can pick up their date in the main lobby of the main library.

After the date, let the library know how it went by tweeting them @ekulibraries #blindate #ekulibraries.

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Last year, Eastern announced it would be opening its very own Fer-mentation Science Program. The pro-gram will be designed to allow students who are interested in the chemistry, or the art of craft brewing to get hands on experience and learn the necessary steps they must take in order to create their own brew.

Scientifically speaking, fermenta-tion is a metabolic process that con-

verts sugar to acids, gases or alcohol. While most may not be familiar with the term, odds are theyre familiar with its result: beer, wine and other spirited beverages.

Though it was originally planned to begin this semester and received vast student interest when announced, the program has been pushed back to fall semester 2016 to allow time for con-struction of a place to do fermentation on campus.

Weve postponed so students will have a place for on-site fermentation, said Darren Smith, a chemistry pro-

fessor at Eastern who is spearheading the program. We have a place ear-marked on the 5th floor of the new Sci-ence Building within the department of chemistry.

Smith said the program will show students how different products are used with enzymes in order to produce fermented beverages.

Students will actually learn from the scientific side of things how making something like that happens, Smith said.

When the pro-gram goes into ef-fect come fall, it will feature a variety of courses covering the brewing pro-cess. The courses will have an "FMT" tag, which stands for "fermentation." The two courses at the center of the fer-mentation program include FMT 340, which requires that students first take In-troductory Chemistry II (CHE 102) or Organic Chemistry (CHE 361). The FMT 340 class

will focus on the basics of fermenta-tion, covering such topics as the chem-istry and chemical principles present at different steps of fermentation, in-cluding the composition of initial feed-stock, the malting process, packaging and storing, as well as others.

As students advance in the pro-gram, those over the age of 21 will have

an opportunity to take FMT 345: Sensory Analysis. This class focuses on the actu-

al tasting process and how different chemi-cals interact with dif-

ferent enzymes to produce certain tastes.

Although the program initially is billed as a certi-fication, Smith said it could one day go further than that.

Were trying to get it as a poten-tial minor, and stu-dents will receive a certificate once

theyve completed the program, Smith said.

By TAYLOR CUSICKprogress@eku.edu

Fermentation class: Won't be on tap until fall semester

DAN KLAPHEKE/PROGRESS

President Michael Benson touted the work of Facilities Services during the recent winter storm when he began his report at the Board of Regents meeting, Monday, Jan. 25, in the Gentry Building. Eastern was buried under deep snow, causing night classes to be canceled Wednesday and Thursday, while the campus was closed Friday and Saturday.

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Cassandrea Grey, Editor The Eastern Progress | www.easternprogress.com Thursday, January 28, 2015

No pun intended, but I think it's high time weed became legalized in Kentucky.

Marijuana legalization has made some significant headway over the past few years, now legal for recreational use in four states and medicinal use in 25. Pretty soon another state, namely Ken-tucky, could be added to the list, either for medicinal and recreational use.

The Cannabis Freedom Act, a bill filed by state Senator Perry B. Clark of Lou-isville, would repeal Kentucky's current ban on marijuana and legalize sales to people 21 and over, while those under age 21 could use it with a doctor's pre-scription.

Taxes generated from the sale of mar-ijuana would go toward a variety of gov-ernment programs, including need-based scholarships to Kentucky students pursu-ing a college degrees. These taxes would also generate revenue for Support Edu-cational Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK), which provides money for Kentucky's school districts and grants to po- l ic e departments to purchase gear.

In addition

to the fact that we live in the 21st cen-tury, the tax revenue would greatly ben-efit Kentucky students seeking a college education. Tuition costs rise every year, putting college out of reach for some, and further stressing those already enrolled. So given the chance to alleviate some of the financial burden on students, why are some legislators so hesitant?

Legalizing weed would also promote tourism in Kentucky, seeing that we would be the first state on the Eastern seaboard where recreational marijuana would be legal. This would become an added incentive for people visiting our state, and would help the hospitality and tourism industries flourish. Not to men-tion, the state is ideally suited to grow marijuana. We used to be one of the top hemp producing states, which suggests that we just might be a pretty good at growing its more heady cousin.

Critics of marijuana legalization ar-gue that not enough research has been done and that legalization could lead to the potential for marijuana monopolies, making it difficult to regulate. While these are valid concerns, proponents of the Cannabis Freedom Act have add-ed clauses that would create a three-tier system, preventing any one entity from monopolizing all the facets of marijuana cultivation and sales. Senator Clark in-sists that marijuana would be regulated exactly like alcohol is, requiring an ID to purchase through licensed dealers.

The bottom line is Kentuckians are using marijuana every day and a lot of money is changing hands. So why not set it up so a portion of that money goes to help the state?

Kentucky to potentially become buds with bud

On Jan. 11, the state of Kentucky in-troduced a bill allowing people to carry concealed weapons on school grounds, government run facilities, and in gener-al assembly, excluding courtrooms and detention centers.

Much of this bill and debate in gener-al is due to the recent attacks in Califor-nia and on school grounds. Representa-tive Tim Moore, who is a sponsor of the bill, calls it an "anti-terrorist bill".

If we are going to implement a bill like this, my one caveat would be that we make concealed weapon training better. School grounds and government build-ings are serious places to have a gun and you must be properly trained to do so. On it's fundamental principle however, I do think this a good thing.

On Oct. 13, the Crime Prevention Research Center conducted a study and found that since 2009, nearly 92 per-cent of mass shootings have occurred in gun free zones. With a number that high, there has to be something to it. It tells the mentally unstable and dis-turbed that people are just sitting ducks in these areas.

Would someone carrying a gun on campus have prevented the Oregon shooting or the Sandy Hook shooting? Maybe, not certainly, but can we all agree it might have helped? When you're dealing with lives at risk, is any safety measure a good one?

The issue is not the gun itself, but the

person behind the gun. Both sides of the aisle have their own arguments. When these mass shootings or laws like this pass, the left tends to blame the gun, while the right tends to blame the per-son behind the gun and the mental sta-bility of that person.

People who want to commit these horrendous shootings at schools and workplaces will find a way to get a gun regardless, which is why I have no prob-lem with the proposed bill.

The Crime Prevention Research Cen-ter had another interesting study they ran in July. Since 2007, concealed hand-gun permits went from 4.6 million to 12.8 million and the murder rate per 100,000 people has dropped from 5.6 to 4.2. The number could possibly be higher since eight states do not require a permit.

During their research, while search-ing through the biggest concealed carry states in Florida and Texas, they found permitted concealed carrying individ-uals are convicted of misdemeanors or felonies at a sixth of the rate as police of-ficers illustrating that they are not the ones committing these crimes.

This is not just a partisan opinion ei-ther. A Gallup poll done in 2000 found that 35 percent of Americans thought owning a gun made their home safer and by 2014 that number was 63 per-cent.

People are buying into the notion more and more that they would rather everyone have a gun than just the crim-inals and mentally unstable who will get a hold of one anyway.

You can't get rid of guns in this coun-try. It's almost as ridiculous as Trump's idea to round up every illegal immi-grant. We don't have the capacity or re-sources. Let law abiding citizens car-ry on school property and government buildings and maybe it will make a dif-ference next time someone wants to cause harm to children and adults.

C O N C E A L E D C A R R Y O N S C H O O L G R O U N D S

Recently, a proposal supported by Tim Moore has set a bill in place to al-low people with concealed carry licens-es to carry a firearm on public school property as well as in buildings con-trolled by state and local government, except courtrooms and detention facil-ities. This bill is currently in the House.

While the bill has been proposed to heighten safety on school grounds to account for the increase of reported school shootings in the United States, the idea of allowing more guns into the area is similar to fighting fire with fire; everyone gets burned.

The issue is not that there are gun-free zones. The issue is how easy it is to obtain a firearm within the United States.

For example, federal law does not re-quire that private sellers initiate a back-ground check on a person purchasing a weapon prior to sale of a firearm. If a gun is being sold by a private seller, anyone can obtain a weapon.

In Kentucky, however, the rules are more lax than this. To own a firearm in the state of Kentucky, a person does not need a license as a firearm owner. They also do not need to register this firearm. There is no limit on how many firearms can be purchased, nor is there a waiting period imposed on firearm purchases. Ammunition sales are also not closely regulated .

However, this bill is about allowing those with a concealed carry license

on government property. What is not addressed is that it is required by the state that local law enforcement issue a concealed carry license to anyone who meets the basic qualifications.

According to the Kentucky State Po-lice website, all that is required to re-ceive a concealed carry license is ba-sically, a semi-clean record, all child support to be paid, proof of citizenship in the Commonwealth, and a one day course on gun safety and care.

Since the start of 2014 to now, Ken-tucky alone has faced eight different shootings that injured or killed four or more people. How would loosening gun laws even more help this?

According to the statistics by the CDC, the states with the most gun-re-lated deaths (including suicides) are directly correlated with more lax gun laws. Based on information recorded from 2014, these states include Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Ar-kansas, Wyoming, Montana, Oklaho-ma, New Mexico, and Tennessee. Six of the states in that list are also states with the top 10 homicide rates in the coun-try.

In cities with a lot of violence, but strict gun laws, the guns are brought in from other areas. It makes sense that areas surrounded by lax gun laws would have gun violence, despite the laws in the area. Guns are not hard to hide. A few guns purchased from an-other area and then brought into some-where like Detroit is not an impossible scenario.

In other countries, such as Sweden, where firearms and ammunition are more closely regulated, gun violence is less of an issue. In Sweden, there are 1.47 firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people, while in the United States, there are 10.64 firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people.

This bill would not make Kentucky safer. As stated earlier, this would only provide more fuel to the fire.

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Andrew Sleighter shines at first Thursday Night Live

Ever wonder how to consis-tently get free breakfast, or why the HGTV channel is biased against renters? Well, comedian Andrew Sleighter has you cov-ered. If you had the opportu-nity to see Sleighter put on his comedy act Jan. 21, you proba-bly spent the entire time with gut-wrenching laughter.

The performance as a whole included several different skits about life with much audience interaction. The small crowd of about 20 spent their Thursday night hearing tales from a fa-mous comedian.

After introducing himself and getting more familiar with the crowd, Sleighter opened the night with a rant about the pop-ular television channel HGTV.

I feel like HGTV is biased towards home owners, Sleight-

er said. Where are the shows for the renter? I want to see a show called get my security de-posit back.

The rant continues, Two sketchy contractors show up, and say Were here to patch holes, a lot of holes, and figure out where that popcorn smell is coming from so we can get your security deposit back.

Sleighter says he rents be-cause he doesnt have much money and likes to combat be-ing broke by eating continen-tal breakfast at hotels he doesnt stay at.

Just get up before 9 oclock, go to a Hampton Inn, make a waffle and thats it. Just get the hell out of there, Sleight-er said. They cant stop you. No front desk employee making nine bucks an hour has the balls to accuse you of that ridiculous crime.

Sleighter has done this a dozen times

and said he is cocky. He wish-es some-one would say some-

thing to him. I am the John Dillinger of

breakfast stealing, I dare you to say something, Sleighter said.

Sleighter said he tries to teach his wife how to use cheap guy bullshit, but she doesnt want to listen. Weve skipped teaching her how to steal con-tinental breakfast because that shit is pretty advanced.

Its hard to adjust sleeping in the same bed as someone else, Sleighter said. My wife will have anxiety and only wants to talk about it when I am asleep, he said. She keeps me up all night talking about bad dreams, ISIS and whatever else, but is so against bringing a third person into the bedroom.

The night went on with more happenings of Sleighters life. As he went on, he kept talking to the audience and asking them if they could relate.

Wendys is probably my fa-vorite fast-food restaurant be-cause of how nice they are, Sleighter said. After I ordered, the cashier asked me if it was for the dining room or to-go. I just stared at him and waited for a door to open to a fancier restau-

rant.Sleighter continued his rant,

saying that not all Wendys are well kept. Dont trust any Wendys that is in a town with a population over five-thou-sand, he said. If Dave Thom-as could come alive and see how bad theyre doing, he would kill

himself all over again.Easterns Student Activities

Council will be hosting Thurs-day Night Live and other events throughout the semester. Fol-low @SAC_EKU on Twitter for updates and info and all the even SAC puts on during the se-mester.

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Eastern 91 Jacksonville State 88

As snow blanketed Richmond last Thursday night and people pre-pared for the snow-pocalypse of 2016, junior forward JaVontae Haw-kins recorded his first double-dou-ble of the season and helped propel the Colonels (12-9, 3-3 OVC) to a 91-88 victory over Jacksonville State (7-15, 3-4 OVC).

Hawkins scored a team-high 21 points, 16 of which came during the second half, and grabbed a team-high 10 boards during the win. The 6-foot-5 wing made 6 of his 11 shots from the field and converted 8 of 11 free throws at the charity stripe.

Freshman forward Nick Mayo contributed 18 points to Easterns cause, while Colonel senior forward Jarelle Reischel added 16 points and six rebounds in 35 minutes on the court.

Easterns sophomore point guard Paul Jackson came close to notching his second double-double of the sea-son, scoring 10 points and dishing nine of the Colonels 20 total assists. Four Eastern starters scored in dou-ble figures during the game.

Senior forward Jeremy Watson scored a game-high 26 points off the bench for the Gamecocks on 11 of 12 shooting. Watson also pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds during the contest. Drumwright added 19 points and five assists for Jacksonville State.

The victory snapped a two-game losing streak for Eastern.

Tennessee Tech 89 Eastern 83

Despite three starters scoring 20 or more points, Eastern (12-10, 3-4 OVC) was unable to put back-to-back wins together as the Colonels fell to the Golden Eagles (14-7, 6-2 OVC) 89-83.

Reischel, the Colonels lead-ing scorer at 19.3 points per game (ppg) and leading rebounder at 7.6 rebounds per game (rpg), scored a game-high 25 points. The Frankfurt, Germany native added nine rebounds

and five assists in 36 minutes on the court.

Eastern starters Hawkins and Mayo both contributed offensive-ly, pouring in a combined 42 points. Hawkins finished with 22 points and five rebounds, while Mayo scored 20 points and grabbed 10 boards on his way to recording the first double-dou-ble of his career.

Mayos play over the previous two games earned the 6-foot-9 forward the distinction of OVC Freshman of the Week for the seventh time this season. Mayo is the first Colonel since Matt Witt (02-03) to achieve that feat.

Tennessee Tech was able to over-come the Eastern trio mainly due to the play of senior guard Torrance Rowe and sophomore guard Aleksa Jugovic, who scored 24 points apiece for the Golden Eagles. Rowe added five assists, while Jugovic dished four assists.

Eastern will look to rebound from the loss during rivalry week, as the Colonels will play host to Morehead State at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 30.

Eastern men fall to 3-4 in OVC playBy EVAN NICHOLS

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DAN KLAPHEKE/PROGRESSEasterns junior forward JaVontae Hawkins (above) throws down a dunk.

Eastern 72 Murray State 60

In a game between two conference rivals, Eastern (10-7, 4-2 OVC) was able to outlast the Murray State Racers (6-10, 2-4 OVC) in a 72-60 victory.

The Colonels finished the third quarter with a 53-49 lead, while junior guard Michaela Hunter, who fin-ished with 14 points, did not play at all in the third.

Jalen OBannon dominated, fin-ishing with 25 points and 12 boards. OBannon shot 70 percent both from the field and the free throw line.

The Colonels finished shooting 44 percent from the field and out-re-bounded Murray State 52-35.

The Racers bench outscored Easterns 20-2.

We always talk about how its a game of runs, but you have to get stops down the stretch, and we were able to, and convert those to of-fense, and thats big, Eastern Head Coach Chrissy Roberts said.

Tennessee Tech 77 Eastern 72

Eastern returned to action Saturday for the second half of a double-header against the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles.

The Colonels (10-8, 4-3 OVC) got an outstanding performance from OBannon, but Eastern fell to the Golden Eagles (7-14, 3-5 OVC) by a final score of 77-72.

The game came down to the wire, and with 20 sec-onds to go the Colonels were down two points and be-gan fouling. Unfortunately, a late charge call on senior Shameekia Murray gave the Golden Eagles the ball back with 15 seconds left, down three points. Tennes-see Tech senior guard Samaria Howard stepped up and made both free throws to put the game away at 77-72.

OBannon led the Colonels with 28 points, missing just one shot. Murray added 20 points and five assists for Eastern.

Women split two games at home

By ROBERT RISTANEOprogress@eku.edu

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