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ERIC HILTNER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSA scene from Maggie Taylor’s “It’s always tea-time” is on display in the Tarble Arts Center as part of Taylor’s exhibit “Almost Alice: New Illustra-tions of Wonderland” running through Dec. 20.
Nightmarish version “Alice” shown in spirit of HalloweenBy Sam Bohne Staff Reporter
In the Disney movie “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice falls down the rabbit hole and into a strange new world; not knowing her dreams would soon become a twisted reality.
Eastern’s film-goers can see the other side of this classic children’s tale. At 7 p.m. today in the Doudna Fine Arts Center’s Lecture Hall, stu-dents will get the chance to see the nightmarish side of “Alice in Won-derland” in Jan Svankmajer’s 1988 film “Alice.”
In spirit of the Halloween season, English professor Robin Murray will host the screening of “Alice” to coin-cide with the “Almost Alice” exhibit
in the Tarble Arts Center.“�e movie does follow the actu-
al story of Alice, but it takes a night-marish version of the favorite char-acters,” Murray said.
Characters of Svankmajer’s film are a little less Disney-like than the characters of the original “Alice in Wonderland.”
“For example, the White Rabbit constantly loses his stuffing, only to pull his watch out of his stomach,” Murray said.
“Alice” also puts an artistic spin on the old classic by using stop-ac-tion animation along with life-action animation and two-fold narration.
“It’s an adaptation worth watch-ing; a new twist on a classic,” Mur-ray said.
ExhibitBesides the screening of “Alice”,
the Tarble Arts Center now is dis-playing the “Almost Alice” collection by Maggie Taylor.
Taylor’s works of art are most rec-
ognizable from the opening of the CBS series “Ghost Whisperer.”
The exhibit contains 45 imag-es that tell the tale of Alice’s journey through Wonderland.
Taylor created this collection based on “Alice in Wonderland.”
“For a few years, I had done imag-es with rabbits,” Taylor said. “I even-tually reread the story and thought it would be an interesting project.”
Each of Taylor’s pieces took her from a week to months to create, us-ing mostly Adobe Photoshop.
Taylor creates these pieces with in-fluences by several different sourc-es such as television, books and her husband, who is a photographer.
“I get influenced by a lot of differ-ent things, not necessarily art,” Tay-lor said.
Michael Watts, the director of the Tarble Arts Center, said Eastern’s “Al-ice in Wonderland” themed events are purely a coincidence and have nothing to do with the growing pop-ularity of the new Tim Burton film
“Alice in Wonderland.”�e “Almost Alice” exhibit at the
Tarble Arts Center was organized by the curator of Samuel P. Harn Muse-um of Art at the University of Flor-ida.
“It actually is through a traveling exhibition service,” Watts said.
Taylor’s “Almost Alice” exhibit can be seen at Tarble until Dec. 20. �e exhibits’ hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, from10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.
Another Alice in Wonderland-themed event will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Atrium where Murray will present the 1951 Dis-ney classic “Alice in Wonder-land” to contrast the previous film screening.
All of these Alice related events are free.
Sam Bohne can be reached at 581-7942 or
Take a visit down the rabbit hole
African-American alumni recruited through university efforts By Sarah Ruholl Administration Editor
Historically black colleges and universi-ties (HBCUs) released the “Top 50 Employ-er Official Seal of Approval” list in the Spring/Summer 2009 edition of its magazine, HBCU Connect. Eastern was in sixth and was the only university to crack the top 10.
“It’s a reflection of our efforts to employ a more diverse faculty and staff,” Cynthia Nich-ols, director of the office of civil rights and di-versity, said.
Those efforts range from sending person-al letters to members of minority groups and women who are listed in the Directo-ry of Graduates and Potential Degree Recipi-ent, posting positions on Asian and Hispanic-specific job boards and the HBCU list-serve, which posts the position on six different job boards.
It is practices like these that put Eastern so high on the list. McGraw-Hill Companies was the top company.
“It’s a way of recruiting alumni from those campuses, many of whom are African-Amer-ican,” Nichols said. “Particularly with this group we actively post on all of their job boards every faculty and staff position that we have open.”
�e magazine’s stated purpose for the yearly list is that it was “important that people know which companies are putting in real effort to reach out to and recruit students and gradu-ates from Historically black colleges and uni-versities.”
“�ey were focusing on employers who had taken special efforts to recruit alumni of the HBCU,” Nichols said.
�e African-American community is not the only one Eastern is trying to recruit. Full-page ads have appeared in conference programs and a publication dedicated to diversity in higher education.
“We had a full-page ad talking about Eastern in Diverse Issues in Higher Education,” Nich-ols said. “�is group is only recognizing those things we’ve done with HBCU. We’re having a presence that is really highlighting Eastern.”
Eastern earns sixth spot in HBCU Connect employer list
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Sarah Ruholl can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].
ITS finished with job cutsEleven positions eliminated
By Bob Bajek Associate News Editor
William Weber told employ-
ees he is not expecting any fur-ther job cuts from the Informa-tion Technology Services.
More than 50 ITS employees received answers concerning the ongoing restructuring of their de-partment Wednesday afternoon in the University Ballroom of the
Martin Luther King Jr. Universi-ty Union.
“There’s no discussion of elimi-nating any further positions,” said Weber, vice president for business affairs.
Eleven jobs were el iminat-ed from ITS earlier this month,
and an additional eight vacant or soon-to-be-vacant positions will not be filled, said Paul McCann, director of business services/trea-surer.
“We had empty positions in the old chart that had not been
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CCT presents play
The Charleston Community Theatre will present “A Few Good Men” 7:30 p.m. today at the Tarble Arts Center Atrium.
The play was written by Aaron Sorkin, and the acclaimed Broadway play was made into a 1992 film.
This play adaptation was directed for the CCT by Monica Mazzaro. For res-er vat ions and pr ices , contact Michae l Watts at 581-2787 or at [email protected].
Script deadline nears
New works, one-act play scripts to be con-sidered for the eighth annual New Play Read-ing, must be received in the Theatre Office in the Doudna Fine Arts Center, Room 2080 by 4 p.m Friday.
Plays can be hand-delivered, e-mailed or mailed.
Workshop held
Betsy Pudliner, assistant professor for fam-ily and consumer sciences, will be presenting “�e Awakening of a Renaissance Spirit: Find-ing Harry Potter” at 3:30 p.m. Friday in Room 4440 at Booth Library.
�is workshop will demonstrate a correlation between Leonardo da Vinci, Joseph Campbell’s: A Hero’s Journey, Harry Potter and Travel.
Da Vinci and Harry Potter were on a quest to awaken their inner spirit of genius through the exploration and exposure to the world in which they inhabited.
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ERIC HILTNER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior exercise sciences major Marques Woods sings as he plays the Beatles' "Hey Jude" in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union on Wednesday afternoon.
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LOS ANGELES — A doctor charged with illegally funneling drugs to Anna Nicole Smith wrote in a per-sonal diary that he had to get off drugs himself and wondered if he was wrong to kiss Smith at a party four years ago.
Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry read the explosive entries from a diary of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor at a preliminary hearing Wednesday.
Kapoor's lawyer previously said he was gay and objected to prosecu-tors' allegations that he had a sexual relationship with the former Playboy model that could have contributed to him prescribing drugs for her.
However, Kapoor's diary entry on June 13, 2005, seemed to con-firm what prosecutors said they saw in video and photographs taken at a party around that time.
�e judge has ruled against show-ing the video in court.
"I was making out with Anna, my patient, blurring the lines," the judge read from Kapoor's diary. "I gave her methadone, Valium. Can she ruin me?"
�e entry also recounted his ride with Smith in a gay pride parade be-fore the party, with six police offi-cers keeping back the paparazzi. "It was mesmerizing. ... Anna and me up there all buffed out on the car," the entry said.
Diary: Doctor wondered if kissing Smith was OK
By Joe Astrouski Staff Reporter
After a long absence, the women’s studies registered student organiza-tion at Eastern has again become ac-tive, with members holding their first meeting Oct. 21.
Group members credit their facul-ty sponsor, women’s studies coordina-tor Jeannie Ludlow, with bringing the organization back to campus.
“She spearheaded it,” said member Will Kendall. “It’s very nice to see a professor on campus who cares about something and cares about her stu-dents.”
Ludlow said she supported the RSO because it can fight complacency about gender equality.
“We live in an era when women have made so many incredible gains … it is easy for students who were born in that era to think that we have reached true equality,” Ludlow said. “But there are still disparities between men’s and women’s experiences in our society.”
She said the group is planning sev-eral events to highlight those dispar-ities.
“Upcoming events include a ‘fem-inist bake sale’ that aims to increase awareness about the gender and race gaps in earning potential,” Ludlow said. She added that the group is planning a production of the stage performance ‘the Vagina Monologues’ in February. �e group is also consid-ering hosting a series of guest speakers in the spring, Ludlow said.
The group’s president, Rebec-ca Rowe, said the organization has a growing membership.
“According to the attendance sheet from our first meeting, we have 11 members, although I know of a few people who are interested (in) the group but could not make it to the meeting,” Rowe said.
Rowe said she became involved with the RSO because of her concern
about discrimination against women and others.
“�ere is something inside me that just can’t fathom why people discrim-inate and hold one group of individ-uals at a higher value than others,” Rowe said. “�is group is a big step toward helping raise awareness of the gap and, hopefully, the beginning of a bridge across it.”
Kendall said he joined the RSO to help foster feminism at Eastern.
“I think that feminism … is some-thing people on this campus don’t hear enough about,” Kendall said. “(This group) creates a place in our little Eastern community for people who care about feminism.”
�e organization is open to all stu-dents, regardless of gender or major, Ludlow said.
“You do not have to be a women’s studies minor, or ever have taken a women’s studies course, to be in the group,” Ludlow said. “You just need to want to raise awareness on our campus and work with some fun and energetic people.”
Joe Astrouski can be reached at 581-7942
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Women’s studies group returns
By Bob Bajek and Kayleigh Zyskowski Associates News Editor and Activities Editor
Today marks the beginning of the on-campus interviews as the search for the biological science department chair continues.
Diane Hoadley, dean of the college of business and applied sciences, has led the search committee of five fac-ulty members from the biological sci-ence department through its second round of applicants.
“�ere was a pool that we cut down to people who fit our criteria,” Hoad-ley said. “We then did six phone inter-views. Now, we will have four individ-uals coming to visit.”
�e first applicant, David Marcey, arrives to campus today.
Marcey received a doctorate of bi-ology from the University of Utah in 1985.
Marcey has been the Fletcher Jones professor of developmental biology at California Lutheran University since
1999.All the candidates will be required
to make a presentation while at East-ern and submit their doctoral tran-scripts, Hoadley said.
Yet, the applicants are not, the only parties trying to make a good impres-sion.
“We want to do our best to make them want to come to Eastern,” Hoad-ley said.
Each applicant has a two-day sched-ule where they will meet the Eastern administration, the biological sciences faculty and the Charleston communi-ty as a whole.
Events on the schedules include lunches with the faculty, tours of cam-pus and Charleston, meetings with the administration and a breakfast with Blair Lord, provost and vice president for academic affairs.
The three other candidates will be visiting before Nov. 10, when the search committee will hand in their evaluations, Hoadley said. The vote will take place the week after Nov. 12.
�e lone female candidate is Elai-
na Tuttle who will be visiting Monday through Tuesday.
Tuttle received her doctorate of bi-ology from the State University of New York at Albany in 1993 and has been an associate professor of life sci-ences at Indiana State University since 2006.
Tuttle has also been the secondary appointment of the women’s studies program at Indiana State University since 2004 and is a visiting fellow in the genetics division for the Conser-vation and Research for Endangered Species with the Zoological Society of San Diego.
On Nov. 4-5, Charles Macvean will be in the area for his on-campus in-terview.
Macvean received his doctorate in entomology from Colorado State Uni-versity in 1989.
He is currently dean of the college of environment and agricultural sci-ences at Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala.
�e last visiting candidate is Dan-iel Moon, he will be on campus Nov.
9-10.Moon received his doctorate of phi-
losophy and biology from the Univer-sity of South Florida in 2001. He is currently an associate professor in the biology department of the Univeristy of South Florida since 2008.
Mary Anne Hanner, dean of the college of sciences, said all the can-didates have credentials that indicate they all could bring something to the university.
“�ey all have high quality academ-ics, various experiences as administra-tors or directors,” Hanner said. “�ey are accomplished in their research skills, publication and (gaining aca-demic grants).”
This attempt will be the second round of on-campus interviews for the search committee. After Andrew Methven stepped down from the po-sition as department chair to return to a faculty staff position in February 2008, the process has continued.
“Searches are usually successful with one search, but that is not always the case,” Hanner said. “�at was the case
last year with the biological sciences.” Hanner said four people were
brought last year. In some cases, the candidates decided not to pursue the position after they visited.
�e search committee did not want to offer a contract to one, while the other declined an offer because of re-location difficulties.
“Since last spring, the situation in the department for biological scienc-es has been stable,” Hanner said. “�e department appears to be functioning well as a collegial group.”
Godson Obia, associate dean for the college of sciences, was interim chair for the spring semester and Gary Bulla is now serving as interim chair for the biological science department.
“What we want to find is a lead-er for biological sciences who is dy-namic and talented and committed to the goals and values of EIU,” Han-ner said.
Bob Bajek and Kayleigh Zyskows-ki can be reached at 581-7943 or [email protected].
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“There is something inside me that just can’t fathom why people discriminate and hold one group of individuals at a higher value than others.” Rebecca Rowe, president of women’s studies RSO
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Taking time to slow it all down and breathe
When I was a child, I remember reading the book “Ferdinand the Bull.”
Ferdinand was a bull that chose to stop and smell the flowers rather than fight in the bull-fights.
The overall moral of the story was that just because you’re a bull doesn’t mean you have to act like one. But many readers simply remem-ber the need to stop and smell the flowers once in awhile.
On Friday, Kate Vandermeer, writer for �e Verge, wrote an article about fall and the new be-ginnings that follow. She ended it with a quote that made me stop and reflect on my own life a bit.
�e quote, by Eddie Cantor, says “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Every now and then a quote like that will re-ally touch a nerve with me and this one, in par-ticular, made me stop and reflect on my entire outlook of school.
As the semester roles on, I, like many other students, find myself in a constant cycle of class, projects, papers and homework.
Just when you breathe in a sigh of relief over the completion of one project, out come the wolves, choking your next breath with a new as-signment.
For the past two-and-a-half years, I’ve focused so much on completing my given tasks I’ve be-gun to lose my overall sense of why I started school in the first place and where it is taking me.
We all congregated here for the same pur-pose, everyone from the psychology majors to the journalism majors to the nursing majors: To make a better life for ourselves and the people we interact with.
�roughout the process, however, we some-times forget to consider our own peace of mind and our own happiness.
We get so wrapped up in schoolwork we for-get our connection with the world around us. We fail to stop and smell the roses that are our reason for being.
I, myself, became so caught up in the many options and extracurricular activities offered by Eastern that I began to lose sight of everything that I was accomplishing in the process.
I found myself feeling like a failure for not be-ing more involved in school functions and ex-tras, all the while not realizing that it was the outside world that I was neglecting and where my future within was headed.
So now, thanks in part to Vandermeer and that quote, I find myself taking in a huge breath of fresh air and focusing on how my major will relate to the world. I’m considering that the real extras in life that need focusing on are the ros-es that sit quietly and wait to be admired while the commoner like me plows through his own existence.
If you’re finding yourself overwhelmed in midterms and exams, take the time to reflect and reconnect to your surroundings and think about the No. 1 in your life, which needs to be your happiness.
If you’re not content in your own being, you’ll find it rather hard to be of assistance to others.
Julian Russell is a junior communication studies major. He can be reached at 581-
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Key to Halloween festivities: Safety and common sense
DAILY EDITORIALThe daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
More than 2,000 years ago, the Celts, who occupied the area now known as Ireland, recognized Nov. 1 as the beginning of the new year. Oct. 31, in turn, was a day they
believed marked the blurring of the lines between the ma-terial and spiritual worlds.
�ey celebrated the day by wearing skins and heads of animals and dancing around a large communal bonfire in hopes of gaining the favor of the spirits for protection over the cold, dark winter months.
Halloween is the great-great-great grandchild of this festival and, in all honesty, is a much less important hol-iday in our culture. But it is an important holiday none-theless.
As children, most of us looked forward to Halloween with tempered glee. Who could possibly deny the chance to dress up as our favorite pop culture character or any-thing our imagination could muster up? Add to that the opportunity to gain access to free candy simply by throw-ing out the typically idle threat of “Trick or Treat!” and you’ve got a recipe for one of the favorite holidays of American children.
However, years later, few of us still look forward to the holiday with the same type of unbridled excitement. Few college students still go out trick-or-treating. If you do, stop it. You are big boys and girls now, and it’s time to leave the begging for sugary snacks to the children.
But, all the same, it is still a highly celebrated tradition all across the nation among people of all ages.
Among college students, though, it is more often a chance to go out and drink under the guise of costumed anonymity. �e important thing is not so much the cos-tume one chooses or even the destination one arrives at, but that everyone exercises safety.
Among college students, Halloween tends to rank right
“The important thing is not so much the costume one chooses or even the destination one arrives at, but that everyone exercises safety.”
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up there with New Year’s Eve and St. Patrick’s Day in terms of ridiculous debauchery and drunkenness. And as long as those who partake are of age, far be it for those at �e Daily Eastern News to tell you how to celebrate your holiday. Except, again, to plead for the case of safety.
We are all used to the site on the typical weekend: Stu-dents walking in packs and droves, all over town, more of-ten than not, wandering out into the streets. Not all look both ways and some not at all.
But when it comes to Halloween, this tendency is kicked into overdrive.
People are focused and locked-in on their destination: A house party, a bar with a costume contest, or a hodge-podge of anywhere and everywhere. And too often many students are paying more attention to the costumes worn by the people passing them by than the overall safety of those people.
Halloween is an incredibly fun holiday. Who doesn’t still love the chance to dress up and pretend, for just one night, they are somebody they aren’t? We may have grown, but the child and imagination inside still thrives and most people still love to take full advantage of the fes-tivities.
But let’s all do our part to make sure we make mem-ories we can all actually remember and insure the night passes tragedy free.
Watch how much you are drinking and, of course, al-ways keep an eye on your drink. Keep an eye out for friends and watch the traffic.
�is should all go without saying, but safety is key on this of all holidays. Wearing a mask will not shield you from the realities that can accompany drunken nonsense.
Create a clever costume, gather your friends and act like complete goofballs. But do it safely. Everyone wants to be around for next year’s goofy costume.
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Revised Student Body Constitution discussed
By Erica Whelan Staff Reporter
The Student Senate appointed three new justices to the Student Su-preme Court during Wednesday’s meeting at the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union.
Eric Baker, a sophomore manage-ment major, Donald Stone, a junior history major, and Artie Burns, a se-nior member of the BGS program, were sworn in at the meeting follow-ing Student Body President Michelle Murphy’s stamp of approval.
“�is is an all-star cast of appoint-ments,” Murphy said.
All three justices expressed a nar-row interpretation of the Student Body Constitution, as well as sim-ilar perspectives as to what may be deemed unconstitutional.
During a period of questions, Burns described the Student Body Constitution in its current form to be “worded broadly.”
�is concern, among others, is to be addressed at the Student Govern-ment open forum.
Mark Olendzki, chair of the com-mittee for constitutional oversight, indicated that the most significant revisions pending approval include the elimination of Student Senate districts, as well as an amendment that will increase GPA requirements
in all branches of the Student Gov-ernment.
“I stand by everything that’s in these documents,” Olendzki said, regarding the revised Student Body Constitution distributed at the meet-ing.
Approval of revisions, along with a proposal to redefine “diversity,” was tabled until next week.
The resolution to redefine the term in order to include sex and age as more inclusive factors was defend-ed by Isaac Sandidge, a graduate stu-dent currently on a leave of absence from the Student Senate.
“We do have a significant portion of nontraditional students here at Eastern,” Sandidge said.
In the process of revising the def-inition of diversity, Sandidge collab-orated with the diversity affairs com-mittee of the Student Senate for sup-port, and hopes to appeal to a more expansive range of students on cam-pus.
To better serve students, select members of the Student Senate will be traveling to Texas to attend a lead-ership Conference after securing the approval of a line-item transfer from the Apportionment Board.
Last Thursday, the Board ap-
proved the Student Senate to allo-cate $3,400 of internal funds to send three representatives and an adviser to the Conference on Student Gov-ernment Associations.
The line-item proposal passed unanimously in the Student Senate.
In other news:Eric Wilber, student executive vice
president, was appointed as the stu-dent representative to the city coun-cil for the third consecutive year. Wilber indicated increasing voter registration on campus as his main focus for the upcoming elections.
Tiffany Turner, student senate speaker, admonished members for what she considers a lack of support for one another demonstrated by not attending Student Senate-sponsored functions.
Her concerns were echoed by Olendzki and Jason Sandidge, chair of the university development and recycling committee.
he Apportionment Board will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
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“We do have a significant portion of nontraditional students here at Eastern.” Isaac Sandidge, Eastern graduate student
fi l led for a long time, and they will not be filled,” McCann said.
He sa id four to f ive ret i rees make up par t of the vacant or soon-to-be-vacant positions.
Weber said replacement of fu-ture retirements will be discussed as they come up.
“If we have a further retirement beyond what we have already iden-tified in the restructuring process, essentially (Chat Chatterji, assis-tant vice president of ITS) would have to make the case to me that this is a really important position that needs to be replaced, then I would have to make that case to the president,” Weber said.
Only crucial vacancies will be filled.
New positionsWeber said the new positions
created include a new database ad-ministrative position for ITS and four new positions in Web devel-opment outside of ITS.
“I expect those positions to be advertised and be available come January,” Weber said. “We wil l start retraining in mid-Novem-ber.”
Charles Phillips, director of ITS human resources, said it is hold-ing off posting job wanted ads for the four new positions until Jan-uary so the laid off workers will have the first chance to be rehired after training.
“We are in the process of set-ting up training for the individ-uals that were laid off,” Phillips said. “We are also making sure that they get in to test for other
positions that they might qualify for, so we are making that a pri-ority.”
Cost savingsWith the eliminated positions,
the univers ity wil l save money that could be redirected in other areas.
“We don’t know what will hap-pen to these dollars ,” McCann said. “They will be redirected by the president, and we will await that word. Certainly, the dollars we are talking about in the way of salaries is roughly $800,000.”
Weber said President Bill Perry might use those recovered salaries to fund campus deficits.
ConcernsSome ITS members voiced con-
cerns during the meeting. One member said she thinks
ITS needs to re-brand itself into a more positive image.
Weber told her he agreed with that assessment, and hopes the univers ity wil l have a campus-wide evaluation of ITS beginning next year.
Another mentioned how the In-structional Support Specialists are not standardized in their skills or knowledge.
Weber said there could be ways to standardize skills sets, educa-tion and certification to close the skills gap because ISS workers are vital to ITS with helping academ-ic departments.
Bob Bajek can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].
By Amanda Smith Staff Reporter
American schools and Harry Potter’s Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have something in common. Surprisingly, a lot more than Harry Pot-ter fans and students realize when com-paring the two.
“The Pedagogy of Hogwarts: Can American Schools Conjure the Magic of Dumbledore?” presentation was held in the Booth Library Wednesday night. Marie Fero, an elementary education professor, and Sheila Lambert, a Title I reading teacher at Williams Elementary School in Mattoon, were the leaders of the discussion.
Different teaching styles of Hogwarts professors were examined. �e teaching style talked about first was the teacher-centered style of teaching. Professor Sy-bill Trelawney was the divination teach-er at Hogwarts, and is often considered emotional and theatrical.
“�e kids usually think of her class as a fluff class,” Fero said. “She was very self-centered, and believed that every-thing would come back to her.”
Professor Severus Snape, the potions professor, was discussed as well. He crit-icized Hogwarts students, with the in-tent to hurt their feelings.
“Professor Snape, to me, is about tor-
turing the students, he’s punitive,” Fero said.
Other professors included in the cat-egory of teacher-style professors were professors Gilderoy Lockhart and Cuth-bert Binns.
Continuing with teacher styles were the student-centered professors. Pro-fessors who were considered student
centered professors included Madam Hooch, Filius Flitwick and Pomona Sprout.
Lambert said Hooch was an effective teacher.
“She let the students perform after showing them what to do,” Lambert said. “She also let the students find their way to learn.”
Professor Minerva McGonagall was thought to be a mix of both of the teaching styles.
“She was somewhat not organized,” Lambert said.
McGonagall also had somewhat of a maternal instinct, especially to Harry.
Professor Albus Dumbledore was the last professor.
“He was the best, he would have won teacher of the year anywhere,” Fero said.
Next in the lecture were schools structures and levels.
“We have to assume that Hogwarts students had some kind of education beforehand,” Lambert said.
At the elementary school level, Amer-ican students are taught English as well as math and science as we move up in the education system.
“We never assume students master anything in American,” Fero said. “At Hogwarts they know, and they study subjects more deeply, its recurring in-
formation.” National initiatives in American
schools were debated. �e Ministry of Magic, the U.S. Department of Educa-tion and the No Child Left Behind Act were discussed.
“Not all students are going to per-form exactly the same,” Fero said.
“In Hogwarts, when Umbridge is overseeing the school, some teachers modify their agendas to fit what she was trying to see,” said Sara Huber, a senior early childhood and middle level educa-tion major.
�e last subject talked about was the Hogwarts and U.S. students’ reactions to school initiatives.
“Students had classes in secret, they revolted, they had that wonderful room,” Fero said. “We don’t want to rock the boat, especially in the U.S.”
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WASHINGTON — House Dem-ocrats reached agreement Wednesday on key elements of a health care bill that would vastly alter America’s med-ical landscape, requiring virtually uni-versal sign-ups and establishing a new government-run insurance option for millions.
House Speaker Nancy Pelo-si planned a formal announcement �ursday morning in front of the Cap-itol. Lawmakers said the legislation could be up for a vote on the House floor next week.
�e rollout will cap months of ar-duous negotiations to bridge differenc-es between liberal and moderate Dem-ocrats and blend health care overhaul bills passed by three separate commit-tees over the summer. The develop-ments in the House came as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., tried to round up support among moderate Democrats for his bill, which includes a modified government insur-ance option that states could opt out of.
Reid met Wednesday with Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who faces a po-tentially tough re-election next year.
The final product in the House, reflecting many of President Barack Obama’s priorities, includes new re-quirements for employers to offer in-surance to their workers or face penal-ties, fines on Americans who don’t pur-chase coverage and subsidies to help lower-income people do so. Insur-ance companies would face new pro-hibitions against charging much more to older people or denying coverage to people with health conditions.
Pelosi has also said the bill would strip the health insurance industry of a long-standing exemption from anti-trust laws covering market allocation,
price fixing and bid rigging.The price tag, topping $1 trillion
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Republicans criticized the bill even before it was unveiled.
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LINCOLN — A Beason fami-ly found slain in their home Sept. 21 may have died during an armed rob-bery in which a laptop computer was taken by two Armington brothers – one of them a former son-in-law of one of the victims – according to in-dictments filed Wednesday.
Rick and Ruth Gee and three of their children died of blunt force trauma, likely caused by a tire iron, prosecutors disclosed in newly filed charges.
Christopher J. Harris, 30, and his brother, Jason L. Harris, 22, each were arraigned on more than 50 first-degree murder counts and addition-al charges of armed robbery, home in-vasion, residential burglary and the attempted criminal sexual assault of 16-year-old victim Justina Constant. Chris Harris, who was once married
to Rick Gee’s older daughter, Nicole, faces a total of 68 charges.
Jason Harris faces the same charges plus three counts of obstructing jus-tice that say he burned his brother’s clothing, concealed a laptop comput-er and lied about where he and Chris Harris were in the early morning hours of Sept. 21.
Both brothers pleaded not guilty to killing the Gees and their children, Justina Constant, Dillen Constant, 14, and Austin Gee, 11.
�e hearing was the first time pros-ecutors have disclosed the weapon used to inflict the head injuries that killed the five victims and caused seri-ous injuries to Tabitha Gee, the cou-ple’s 3-year-old daughter, who sur-vived the attacks. Searchers combed farm fields near the Gee home af-ter the deaths looking for a cylinder-shaped object, a sharp-edged tool and a laptop computer, The Pantagraph
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Judge Thomas Harris appointed James Elmore and Matthew Maurer to assist public defender Tim Timon-ey with Chris Harris’ case.
�e judge also approved an addi-tional counsel to work with Jason Harris’ lawyer, Steve Skelton, but Skelton said he is waiting to hear if the second attorney is available.
Authorities said there is an unusu-ally high number of counts in the in-dictment because the charge allege crimes being committed during oth-er alleged criminal acts, all involving multiple victims.
After the hearing, Skelton ad-dressed the large number of charg-es. “It’s a record, across the board,” he said.
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penalties to each defendant during their 15-minute hearings at the Lo-gan County Courthouse.
�e multiple murder counts relate to the fact that each victim allegedly was killed during the commission of additional offenses.
The punishment on the murder counts ranges from 20 years to life in prison or the death penalty.
Many of the remaining counts car-ry prison terms of six to 30 years.
A Dec. 3 pretrial hearing is sched-uled but it is unlikely a trial will fol-low in December, given the complex-ity of the case.
A hearing is scheduled for today for Jennifer Earnest, Jason Harris’ girlfriend who is charged with giving a false alibi for Chris Harris. She has asked that her bond requiring her to post $5,000 be reduced.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Sus-pected militants exploded a car bomb in a market crowded with women and children Wednesday, kil l ing 100 people and turning shops selling wedding dresses, toys and jewelry into a mass of burning debris and bodies.
The attack in the northwest-ern city of Peshawar was Pakistan’s deadliest since 2007 and came as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rod-ham Clinton visited the country to offer support for its fight against a strengthening al-Qaida and Tali-ban-led insurgency based along the Afghan border.
Clinton was three hours’ drive away in the capital meeting Paki-stani government leaders when the bomb went off in Peshawar.
Obama signs bill authorizing $680 billion in military spending
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11 “___ Boys” (1886 novel)
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16 Musician who started the Obscure Records label
17 Band without a drummer?
19 1989 one-man Broadway drama
20 Divine creature with six wings
21 Get in a lather
23 Rappers’ posses
24 “See ya, idiot!”?
27 Goddess with a cow as an emblem
28 Corn syrup brand
29 Say again
30 “Gotta love him!”
34 N.F.L. coach Whisenhunt
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39 Having the most substance
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50 Cut again
51 Concoct
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53 Small range
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58 Full-screen picture, maybe: Abbr.
59 Cryptozoology figure
60 Exam with a reading comprehension section, for short
61 Orthodontist’s deg.
62 Beat decisively, in slang
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6 Back muscle, briefly
7 It comes between dusk and dawn
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9 Rapid, to Rossini
10 Subject of an insurance investigation
11 Aids for spacewalkers
12 Torrents
13 “Let’s eat!”
18 PC graphics format
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26 Open galleries
28 Publisher of the fictional New York Inquirer
31 1927 E. E. Cummings play
32 Extremely, in combinations
33 ’09, ’10, etc.
35 Ever faithfully
36 Parts of some appliance delivery jobs
37 Quaking
38 Lallygagged
41 “MythBusters” subj.
44 Patriotic chant
45 Latin dances
46 Mazelike
48 Grps.
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52 Beloved object of 28-Down
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56 “Not nice!”
57 One to one, for one
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After a steady rain the night be-fore the match, the field was torn up during the double overtime af-fair.
The south end of the field was particularly in shambles with a huge mud spot in the center of the box that thwarted at least one Creighton shot attempt.
Child said that was one of the worst field conditions he has ever played on, but the field last year at Drake was worse.
After the match, Harrison admit-ted the conditions were poor, but said the Panthers worked hard to play through it.
Eastern junior goalkeeper Sean Molony said with a field in such rough shape, the team just had to be smart.
“Instead of making the most glo-rious save, you just try to get the ball away,” Molony said. “If it goes out for a throw- it goes out for a throw. If it goes out for a corner- it goes out for a corner. So you just have to be smart with everything that you do and make sure you get the job done.”
Everyone getting involvedIn the match against Asbury (Ky.)
Monday, everyone on Eastern’s ros-ter except for Molony and senior defender Nick Bonaker played dur-ing the match.
Howarth said he gave the two a rest for precautionary reasons.
In the match, a number of young players contributed.
Red-shirt freshman forwards Ian McCausland, Grey Genenbacher and Austin Andrekus scored their first goals of their career.
“It was good that everybody was able to play today,” Howarth said.
“That was our plan coming into the game and they played well. We had a number of really good perfor-mances today.”
Child said one of the strengths of the team is its depth, which should help them down the stretch.
So far, all 23 players on the roster have played in a match this season.
Around the leagueEntering the final stretch of the
MVC season, Missouri State is in the lead with 16 points with a 5-1-1 record.
Creighton is one point behind with 15 points with a 4-2-3 record. Evansville (4-3-1), Drake (4-2-0), Eastern (2-4-1) and Bradley (0-7) follow.
On Oct. 21, the Braves lost 3-0 to the Bears this weekend in Spring-field, Miss., while Evansville de-feated Drake 1-0 on the Fox Soccer Channel.
This week Creighton plays a huge non-conference match Satur-day when they travel to UCLA to take on the Bruins, who are ranked No. 4 in the country by the Nation-al Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Missouri State junior forward Paul Paradise was named MVC Of-fensive Player of the Week after scoring two goals Saturday in a win against Bradley.
Creighton defender Chirs Schul-er was named Defensive Player of the Week after the Bluejays post-ed two shutouts, one against Brad-ley Wednesday and against Eastern Sunday.
Molony was named honorable mention for the Defensive Player of the Week award.
Dan Cusack can be reached at 581-7944 or [email protected].
FIGHT, from page 12
HOME, from page 12
Never giving up The theme for the Panthers the
past couple of weekends has been to never give up.
Though many times the Panthers have found themselves down in the match, or a set behind, the team has battled for every point and is final-ly being rewarded for its hard work.
“When you compete hard for ev-ery point, good things happen,” Se-
gal said. Earlier in the season, the Pan-
thers had a hard time coming back after being down in matches. How-ever, in the past couple of weeks the team has shown the ability to battle through adversity and has shown a lot of promise for next season.
Kevin Maras can be reached at 581-7944 or [email protected].
CHELSEA GR ADY | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore libero Brittany Wallace gets ready to pass the ball during the match against Jacksonville State on Oct. 10 in Lantz Arena.
By Neil Schneider Staff Reporter
As the old saying goes, speed kills. And that theory couldn’t be any more truthful than in the case of Eastern wide receiver Lorence Ricks.
Ricks’ speed was a major factor in the Eastern football team’s (ranked No. 24 at time) recent upset win against Jacksonville State (ranked No.12 at the time), with Ricks blocking a punt, forcing a fumble on punt coverage and returning a kickoff 87-yards for a touchdown.
Against Jacksonville State, Ricks totaled 165 all-purpose yards, with two kickoff returns for 124 yards, one punt return for 26 yards and one reception for 15 yards.
Ricks’ 87-yard kick off return was his first of the season in only five re-turning attempts. In addition to his touchdown, Ricks is averaging 38.8 yards per return, which currently ranks first on the Eastern football team’s kick off returns.
The sophomore said the upfront blocking he received on the play helped him find a lane for his kick-off return touchdown.
“A real nice hole was opened up by the blockers, and once I saw the hole, I just hit the hole and ran as fast as I could down the sideline,” Ricks said.
Eastern’s associate head coach and offensive coordinator Roy Wittke, said Ricks’ speed has made him a le-gitimate deep threat on every play.
“He is without question our best deep threat,” Wittke said. “He’s playing extremely fast right now.
He’s the guy that we look to stretch the defense down the field and his special teams play has really begun to pick up. He’s playing with a real high level of confidence right now and he really took advantage of the opportunity that was given to him
against Jacksonville State.”Despite his contribution on spe-
cial teams, Ricks is listed as a wide receiver for the Panthers, and on the season, he has 12 catches for 241 yards and two touchdowns. Ricks also has an average of 20.1 yards per
reception, while also accounting for the longest pass of the season with a 52-yard reception on Sept. 19, against Southern Missouri. Ricks’ recent play on special teams has drawn the attention of Eastern spe-cial teams coach Matthew Smiley.
“At the beginning of the season, he was not one of our kickoff re-turners, but with the more oppor-tunities we give him, the more he continues to impress,” Smiley said.
Smiley said one of the main fac-tors that makes Ricks a dangerous kick returner is the fact that he is fearless running the ball north and south.
“He’s not afraid to take the ball north and south,” Smiley said. “He really doesn’t dance around back there, he hits the hole strong and uses his speed to pull away. Obvi-ously, his speed is big factor as was evident on Saturday when he out-ran both the kicker and the safety down the sideline.”
Ricks, formerly of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., said he really isn’t concerned with where he plays on the football field, as long as he is contributing to helping the Panthers win.
“Wherever coach wants me to play, I have no problem playing there,” Ricks said. “ If I don’t know how to play a position, then I will do everything I can to learn about that position and execute every-thing they (Eastern Coaching Staff ) put in front of me.”
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AUDREY SAWYER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore wide receiver Lorence Ricks returns the kickoff during the game against Tennessee Tech on Oct. 17, at O’Brien Field. Ricks totaled 165 all-purpose yards against Jacksonville State on 124 kick return yards, 26 punt return yards and 15 receiving yards. Ricks also ran a kickoff back for an 87-yard touchdown.
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RUGBY
By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter
The rugby team will no lon-ger be playing at Appalachian State this weekend, nor against Tennessee next Sunday because of a schedul-ing change.
According to head coach Frank Graziano, Appalachian State was having problems both with field conditions and the flu.
“We didn’t want to travel all the
way there to play on a torn up field, against a team that has health is-sues,” Graziano said.
He also said Tennessee’s team is having similar problems. However, it wasn’t difficult to fill the holes in the schedule.
“I’m always communicating with the teams on our schedule through-out the season,” Graziano said. “I’ve actually been talking to Tennessee for the past month.”
Graziano also said he contacts his
upcoming opponents a few weeks before their games, in order to make sure everything will go smoothly.
Instead of Appalachian State, the women’s rugby team will travel to Southern Illinois-Carbondale at 1 p.m. Saturday.
In program history, Eastern (8-0) is undefeated in its three total games against their in-state opponent, the last win in 2002.
The Panthers won that game 19-12.
Next weekend’s game is a toss up between either Purdue or Michigan State, who play each other on Hal-loween. According to Graziano, the winner of that match-up will come to Eastern to play the Panthers.
“We worked it out so that the winner of the Purdue and Michigan State game will come to campus and play us,” Graziano said.
The game will be played either on Nov. 7 or 8 and will be the team’s Senior Day, including a pre-game
ceremony.The five players who will be play-
ing their final game include fly half Chase Cain, center Ashley Jenkins, wing Crystal Jones and lock Stepha-nie Militello.
Junior flanker Tiffany Kennedy, who is graduating early, will also be honored.
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VOLLEYBALL
CHELSEA GR ADY | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior outside hitter Jessica Wheeler spikes the ball during the match against Jacksonville State on Oct. 10 in Lantz Arena. Eastern lost the set in four matches against the top team in the conference.
Injury theme for PanthersBy Kevin Maras Staff Reporter
Shoulder surgeries, stomach inju-ries and foot injuries. The women’s volleyball squad has seen all of this and more over the course of the 2009 season.
Injuries have plagued the Panthers for much of the year, and because of this, it has been difficult for the team to put together consistent lineups.
Changes have had to be made, substitutions have had to fill in and the Eastern bench has certainly been used.
But through all of this, the vol-leyball team has pulled through, and continues to battle on. “Any lineup change in volleyball is a big deal,” said junior outside hitter Kelsey Orr. “But we have a great team with play-ers that can fill in at each position.”
Early on in the season, Orr and fel-low junior outside hitter Erin Hake were sidelined by foot injuries that held them out for multiple match-es. Soon after Orr and Hake returned to the lineup, another blow was dealt
to the team when junior outside hit-ter Alex Zwettler was sidelined by a stomach injury.
Zwettler currently leads the team in double-double performances and has been an offensive threat through-out the season.
“Starting every match differently throws you off,” Hake said.
Among other injuries was junior middle blocker Jorie Dieter’s surgery she had on her shoulder.
�ough the surgery happened last year, the slap repair she underwent kept her out for most of the spring.
“It’s tough, but we find other peo-ple that can fill our shoes when peo-ple are out,” Dieter said.
The Panthers have dealt with in-juries in the past, but never with the amount or severity of injuries that have happened this year.
“Bigger injuries have occurred this year than in years past,” Zwet-tler said.
The volleyball team is currently 9-17 overall and 2-11 in the OVC.
On the surface, 9-17 might not look like anything to boast about,
but considering the Panthers injuries during the course of the season and the vast number of near victories that ended up in losses, the Panthers feel they are much better than their re-cord lets on.
“When you really dissect the games, we have been right in a lot of matches that just haven’t gone our way,” said head coach Alan Segal.
�e Panthers took two tough loss-es against first place Jacksonville State who have dominated the Ohio Valley Conference all season.
In their last match against the Gamecocks, the Panthers won the first set 26-24 and seemingly had control of the match only to narrow-ly lose in the fourth set by a score of 21-25. Whether it is injuries or just
sheer bad luck, the Panthers have en-dured a lot during the course of this season.
�e good news for the Panthers is they have drastically improved upon last year’s 5-24 overall record despite the injuries to many key players.
Kevin Maras can be reached at 581-7944 or [email protected].
By Dan Cusack Assistant Sports Editor
With three matches left in the season, the men’s soccer team is fighting for their lives.
Eastern is currently in fifth place in the conference, with the top four teams making it to the Missouri Valley Conference Tour-nament.
Eastern has seven points in the conference season, five points be-hind Drake and six points behind Evansville.
The Panthers three remaining matches are against Bradley in Peoria followed by Missouri State and Drake at home.
“The next few games are our season, that’s what it comes down to,” sophomore forward Ryan Child said. “Whatever way you look at it, Bradley is a must win game, especially since everyone has just been taking points off of each other this year.”
Eastern is at a disadvantage be-cause Drake has four matches re-maining, but following Eastern’s 0-0 tie against Creighton Satur-day, Eastern coach Adam Howarth said Eastern is right where it needs to be in the thick of the race.
The Panthers have advanced to the MVC Tournament the last four seasons.
Eastern solid at home�e round robin schedule in the
MVC has adopted this season has been huge for the Panthers so far this season.
Eastern is 3-2-1 at home this season and 1-1-1 in conference with a win against Bradley and a tie against Creighton.
Eastern had previously lost to the Bluejays 5-1 on the road.
The Panthers came back to tie them at Lakeside Field.
The Panthers are hoping for the same luck against Drake, a
team the Panthers lost to 3-0 on the road Oct. 21, in Des Moines, Iowa.
“Even though we lost 3-0, I have never seen a team posses the ball better than we did in that game,” Child said. “At times, we looked really good; we just didn’t
put our chances away.”He said he is certain Eastern
can be more competitive at home and they can beat the Bulldogs at Lakeside Field.
Child said he is not sure what the difference has been at home so far this season.
He does not know because he said the Panthers have also gotten great support on the road.
Lakeside torn apartHowarth said after the match,
the conditions at Lakeside Field
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Top Cat: Ricks shows speed kills, page 10 Volleyball battles through injuries, page 11
MEN’S SOCCER NOTEBOOK
VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK
By Kevin Maras Staff Reporter
With only six matches left in the season, Eastern’s volleyball team is back home in Charleston where it will stay for the remain-der of the year.
The Panthers have a six-match home stand to end off the sea-son and are playing arguably their best volleyball of the year.
“It’ll be nice to play at home again, we’ve played a lot of road games this season,” head coach Alan Segal said.
Coming off a five-set victory
against Tennessee State in Nash-ville, Tenn., the Panthers have now won two out of their last three matches.
After going on a nine game losing skid that plagued them throughout most of the month of October, the team is finally show-ing the type of volleyball Segal believes it is capable of playing.
Rebounding After the First Set
The Panthers last two wins have come against Southern Illi-nois-Edwardsville on Oct. 16 and Tennessee State Saturday.
In both of those matches the Panthers dropped the first set of the game and gave the momen-tum to the opposing team.
However, the difference be-tween the Panthers wins against SIU-E and TSU is that unlike previous matches earlier on in the season.
The team managed to battle through the first set, tie up the match in the second set and keep the momentum going their way throughout the rest of the match.
Against the Cougars, Eastern dropped the first set 28-26, but persevered and ended up winning
the next three sets to claim its first victory in 10 matches.
“That win was just what we needed,” junior middle blocker Jorie Dieter said.
Similarly, after a series of hit-ting errors against Tennessee State, the Panthers dropped the first set 25-20.
However, the Panthers bounced back, and tied the match up at one set apiece.
Although they lost the third set, the team kept battling for ev-ery point and won the match in five sets.
Team to finish season at Lantz
AMIR PRELLBERG | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore midfielder Mike Picinich tries to out run Ashbury sophomore defender Sam Miller during the game against Ashbury College (Ky.) Monday afternoon at Lakeside Field. The Panthers won 4-0.
Panthers fight to the end
HOME, page 9
FIGHT, page 9
Kevin Maras
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Finally, the Eastern volleyball team is home sweet home.
With only six matches left in the season, the Panthers are back home and will stay for the duration of the season.
The Panthers have a six-match home stand to end the year and are playing, arguably, their best volleyball of the season.
The Panthers will kick off their home stand with a “Dig for the Cure” night in support of breast cancer research on Friday against UT Martin.
“It’ll be nice to play at home again, we’ve played a lot of road games this season,” head coach Alan Segal said.
The Panthers have only played in a handful of home matches at Lantz Arena.
The team has seen some rough matches in 2009 including a nine-match losing skid that stretched into the month of October.
Through all of the hardships they endured, they have been able to bounce back and com-pete for wins match after match.
If any team in any sport at Eastern is de-serving of a six game home stand to end their season, it is the volleyball team.
Though it may be a tad too late to change their 2-11 Ohio Valley Conference record into a winning one, the Panthers are 9-17 overall which is a drastic turnaround from last season when they managed to win only five matches the entire year.
As Segal said at the beginning of the sea-son, you don’t change things overnight.
If this season is any indication of the prog-ress the volleyball team will be making each year, there is no reason to believe the Panthers cannot turn into an above .500 team within the next couple of seasons.
In fact, the Panthers may have been closer to the .500 mark this season had injuries not plagued them early in the season.
The 9-17 record is a little misleading con-sidering the fact the Panthers suffered numer-ous injuries.
They include foot injuries to juniors Erin Hake and Kelsey Orr earlier in the season.
The Panthers have also lost some close matches that could have gone either way, in-cluding a hard fought battle between top ranked Jacksonville State, which the Panthers took the first set of the match and seemingly had control.
The point is: The volleyball team is a lot better than the record shows, and their cur-rent six-match home stand to end the season is well deserved.
Kevin Maras can be reached at 581-7944 or [email protected].
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