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By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

The Enrollment Worx Group is a committee of various Eastern departments that works to en-able Eastern to meet its enrollment needs.

Implemented by President Bill Perry in Spring 2012, the group has been working to de-velop strategies for increasing applications, yield and retention.

Mary Herrington-Perry, the chairwoman of the Enrollment Worx group, said the recom-mendation for the birth of the group came from Noel-Levitz consultants in the spring.

“They key is sharing information and making sure everybody is on the same page,” she said. “There are all sorts of opportunities to collab-orate.”

The committee consists of representatives from many aspects of Eastern including finan-cial aid, integrated marketing, admissions and housing.

One of the aspects the group handles is finan-cial aid, and Director Jerry Donna is a member of the group.

“They keep us apprised of what we’re doing in terms of allocating scholarship dollars,” she said. “We’re really trying to be strategic with financial aid in terms of offering just the right amount.”

Herrington-Perry said in the past, Eastern has over-awarded some students and under-award-ed others, so the group is trying to find a mid-dle ground to get students to come to Eastern.

“Those financial aid strategies help us to not only increase enrollment, but they also help us shape the entering class because we’re trying to target students who have a higher ACT score,” she said.

Herrington-Perry said the group has ad-dressed issues like the Early Alert System, the two new positions in Admissions and the Stra-tegic Enrollment Planning effort.

At the group’s last meeting on Oct. 10, Her-rington-Perry disclosed the results of the College Choice Survey that Noel-Levitz implemented for Eastern applicants.

She said 1,204 students responded to the sur-vey and the group was able to determine that the students were most influenced by their parents on their college choice.

“We know right off the bat that we need to do more communications that the parents are seeing,” she said. “One of the new things we’re doing is sending out a postcard so it doesn’t have to be opened by the student and the parents can see the information.”

Herrington-Perry said this is just an example of one of the things the group does to help com-municate with each other better.

The group has six subcommittees: Academic Programs, Campus Visit Strategies, Communi-cation Flow, Customer Service, GIS Map Worx and MyEIU Phase II.

“For Academic Programs, we’re looking at ex-actly what Eastern is offering and what work-force needs really are,” she said.

Herrington-Perry said Brenda Major is lead-ing the subcommittee on Campus Visit Strate-gies, which focuses on open houses and campus tours to make experiences more positive for stu-dents.

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By Amanda Wilkinson Staff Reporter

A local tattoo artist urged stu-dents to think before they ink.

Randy Stuff, owner and tattoo artist at Wea Ink, has 52 tattoos, but said it is important to take appropriate time before getting a piercing or tattoo.

The “A Living Canvas: Tattoos and Piercings” presentation was a part of the University Board’s “Cultural Arts: Teach Me Tues-days.”

Stuff said he is a self-taught tattoo artist and has been tattoo-ing since 1990.

St u f f s a i d g e t t i n g a t a t -too should be a thoughtful and planned out decision.

“Don’t g e t a t a t t oo by a dumba-- that’s unclean,” Stuff said.

He said people who get a tat-

too or piercing should always see the equipment coming out of a brand-new package or else it is probably not clean.

People getting tattoos also should always ask if the equip-ment is sterilized, Stuff said.

“When it comes to this, it is art and medical combined,” Stuff said. “You want to look for a li-cense.”

Stuff said going to a clean tat-too shop is good but it is not good enough.

“Getting a tattoo is half the battle, the rest is on you,” Stuff said.

Stuff said the worst reaction to a tattoo that he has seen was in the early ’90s.

He exp l a ined tha t peop l e wou ld d i e f rom t a t too s be -cause they would give them to themselves with a hanger and a file.

However, Stuff also explained that now piercings are more dan-gerous than tattoos.

“There’s an entry and exit hole, it’s an internal wound,” Stuff said.

Stuff said people going to get a piercing should always ask for ti-tanium because it is less irritating to the skin and it does not show up on a MRI.

Stuff said tattoos are com-mon.

The star was the most common tattoo Stuff said he has done late-ly and explained that it changes with the times.

“I’ve learned a thousand dif-ferent ways to do that star,” Stuff said.

At the end o f the speech , Stu f f ’s b rother, Ter r y Stu f f , j u d g e d a “ b e s t t a t t o o c o n -test.”

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Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSTommy Zei, a senior political science major, laughs in Coleman Lecture Hall after Mitt Romney told Barack Obama that he was not finished talking yet during the screening of the Presidential Debate Tuesday.

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By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor

About 150 students filled the Coleman Auditorium Tuesday to watch the second presidential de-bate and how the issues relate to them.

Mari ta Gronnvol l , a com-munication studies professor, worked with the communication studies department to organize the event, but said it was not an original idea to hold this type of forum.

“We did this type of thing in the 2000s but it was much small-er,” Gronnvoll said. “It is a na-tional thing that many schools do; we didn’t come up with this idea on our own.”

At the beginning of the event, Gronnvoll passed out a sheet with six questions for participants to think about as the debate went on.

“We are not trying to pick a winner, but familiarize students

with the issues,” she said. “This debate is about a combination of foreign policy and domestic poli-cy, so I hope students pay atten-tion to how the candidates act as opposed to the last debate and how they interact with the audi-ence.”

Before the discussion, par-t ic ipants watched the pres i -dential debate through CNN’s website.

At the halfway point through the debate, the stream of the debate was continuously slow, so Gronnvoll switched to You-Tube.

“ We cho s e CNN becau s e they are co-sponsoring the de-bate and thought they would have more bandwidth,” Gron-nvoll said. “Obviously, we were wrong, as more people log on, the slower it gets, and it’s frus-trating.”

Whi tney P l edge r, a soph-omore communicat ion s tud-ies major, said she sees herself

as a l iberal , but not as Dem-ocrat.

“I see flaws in both parties, so I go with what I think about the issues not a particular party,” Pledger said. “I come from a con-servative mother and a liberal fa-

ther, so I feel like I have insight from both sides.”

Pledger said she attended the event to see what her peers think about the issues, not just the can-didates.

Students watch, discuss debate

Randy Stuff, owner of Wea Ink, shows his tattoo of his parents done by his younger brother Terry, Tuesday in the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.

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In the article “Play bring love stories togeth-er,” in Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News, the location of the play was misidenti-fied. It will actually take place in The Theater of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The News re-grets the error.

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The Charleston City Council voted to amend an ordinance banning all low-speed vehicles on Tuesday.

Mayor John Inyart said the amendment will allow a certain type of low-speed vehicle that is approved by Illinois and federal government.

“In banning all low-speed vehicles, we banned some that are legal on the road,” Inyart said.

Inyart said there are vehicles, similar to the ones Eastern uses for the maintenance depart-ment, that have all the amendments and qualifi-cations to be driven on the road.

He said these vehicles have vehicle identifi-cation numbers, are legal by the federal govern-ment, proper tires, brakes and roll over protec-tion.

“We are not undoing everything we did,” In-yart said.

City attorney Brian Bower said these vehicles will still be held to standards similar to a car.

Bower said they must have license plates, in-surance and subject to traffic violations.

He said the drivers must follow any rules like they would have to in a car.

Inyart said the vehicles will be allowed on any street with the speed limit of 30 mph or less.

He said they can cross roads with higher speed limits, but will not be allowed to drive on them.

Inyart said an example would be that they can cross Lincoln Ave., but would not be allowed to drive down it.

“I’ve driven one, they are zippy,” Inyart said. “They should hold up traffic anywhere on a street that has 30 miles-per-hour speed limit, because they will zip right up to 25-26 mph almost im-mediately.”

A loan agreement for about $122,000 to pur-chase a street sweeper with a 1.75-percent rate. The loan is schedules to be paid over five years.

Inyart said the city traded in an old sweeper and paid about $166,000.

The rest will be paid by the loan. The council approved a concept plan for the

Sun Elite Athletic Club that will be build on Loxa Road.

Inyart said the plan was approved by the Cor-ridor Review Committee and it was recommend-ed that it be approved by the council.

The council also tabled an ordinance for a no parking zone around the University Village on the inside of Taurus Loop.

Inyart said there should not be any problems with the zone.

“The area was designed with more than enough off street parking originally and it’s not being used,” Inyart said. “It’s creating a traffic problem when people park on both sides, which reduces the width of the street beyond what we can go.”

He said the road is only about 14 feet wide when people park on both sides, but needs to be about 18 feet.

The item is open for public inspection and community members can present comments or concerns to the council.

The council will vote on it at the next meet-ing on Nov. 6.

The council also tabled an ordinance that would create a no-parking zone on Kenton Street.

Inyart said the area is about 175 feet long and will allow for better visibility around the curve of the road.

“There is section that is about two houses long, that when there are cars parked on both sides of the street there is a blind spot coming around that corner,” Inyart said.

He said he talked with a few residents on the street about the visibility and the no-parking zone.

“I went out and visited the neighbors in the area and I think they understand what we are try-ing to do and understand the reason for it,” In-yart said.

The city council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in Charleston City Hall.

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Concert band to change tempoBy Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor

The Eastern Concert Band will be switching paces during its concert on Thursday be changing the variety of tempos in its program.

The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thurs-day in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Alicia Neal, the director of bands and the direc-tor of the Eastern Concert Band, said she is excit-ed about the different selections for the program.

“Old Home Days,” by Charles Ives has five movements.

“It’s got a bunch of different stuff in it, some slow and some fast,” Neal said. “The last move-ment of it is 'London Bridge is Falling Down.' Ev-eryone will remember that tune from their child-

hood.”Corey Francis, the assistant director of bands,

will also be guest conducting a piece by Michael Lauridsen. They will be performing “Contre qui, Rose,” which will slow down the program’s tempo for a moment.

They will be finishing up with “Invincible Ea-gle” by John Phillip Sousa.

She said she is excited about the upcoming con-cert and hopes many parents can come support their students for their first concert.

“This is my first concert with this group,” Neal said. “I’m excited to see what kind of crowd we get for this concerts.”

Neal said she is looking forward to “Sun Dance” the most because she has never conduct-ed it.

Neal said her main goal for the concert is for

students to showcase their work.“I want the students to have a rewarding experi-

ence,” Neal said. “It’s always fun for them to show what they’ve been working on twice a week for seven weeks. I just want them to feel good about their performance and feel like they’ve learned something in the process.”

Neal said the wide variety of music will enter-tain the audiences.

“People are going to hear catchy tunes while they are there,” Neal said.

Tickets are $5. “It’s an evening of music making, it should be

really fun,” Neal said.

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President Bill Perry and the four vice presidents spoke to Faculty Sen-ate Tuesday about their concerns with enrollment and the budget, resolu-tions made about Chick-fil-A, and re-cent legislation regarding professors’ pensions.

Perry said he will present a response to the Faculty Senate about their three resolutions relating to Chick-fil-A by the last week of November.

“Overall, I’d say the three resolu-tions look sensible,” he said. “I just need to put together an analysis to re-spond adequately.”

Perry said the three meetings of debate in Faculty Senate proved the depth and importance of the issue.

William Weber, the vice president for business affairs, discussed state funding.

He said while funding issues are continuing, there is still noticeable improvement.

He said although the state owes Eastern between $11-12 million for this fiscal year, that number was much higher last year at $20-21 million.

Members of Faculty Senate ex-pressed their concerns of the effects of current Illinois legislature proposing changes to professor’s pensions.

Chairman Andrew Methvan said

current legislation is suggesting a shift in the contribution of pensions from the state to the schools’ budgets.

Perry said this change caused many faculty to retire last year because they feared they would loose benefits if they waited.

Perry said he feels confident in the recent strategic enrollment plan.

He said the number of prospec-tive students attending open houses has increased from 400 to 500, and there are currently 5,000 students us-ing the Eastern portal website versus only 1,500 at this time last year.

Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, said students surpassed the goal for combined communi-ty service with 110,000 hours, mak-ing the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

He also said student government exceeded its goal by registering more than 2,000 students to vote.

Martin also talked about the alumni honored during homecom-ing weekend, including seven dis-tinguished alums and various service awards.

He said it is important to keep alumni constantly active in the uni-versity.

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Students can share their feelings, ideas and opinions about different life experiences Wednesday at the University Board’s Open Mic Night “Poetry After Dark.”

The Poetry After Dark event will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the 7th Street Underground.

Esraa Odeh, the UB mainstage co-ordinator, said this event is a good chance for any student poets to not only share their own work, but to also witness an acclaimed artist in the profession.

The night will include a slam po-etry performance by Brandon Thorn-ton, who is otherwise known as “The Xplicit Poet.”

Odeh, a junior art major, said Thornton is not what people usually expect a typical poet to be.

She described Thornton as an ur-ban poet who is a “smooth speaker.”

She said Thornton is someone who has done other poetry tours in the

past and has made a name for him-self.

Odeh said Thornton usually covers a wide variety of topics in his perfor-mances.

Odeh said some of these subjects can include things such as social is-sues, race, love and other life experi-ences that many people can relate to.

The mic night will also give stu-dents the opportunity to share any poetry they have written that other-wise may not have been made public.

Odeh said these types of events happen quite often at Eastern; some-times as much as much as two or three times a month.

These open mic nights often in-clude reading poetry, or they can be other opportunities for students to get their work out there.

“We want the students to per-form,” Odeh said.

Odeh said this event is open to, and usually draws, all types of stu-dents who have done this type of work in the past.

She said it is not just people one

would generally assume would be the “poet” type.

“It’s usually not just one type of person,” Odeh said. “It’s just people with different types of talent that like to show their talent.”

Odeh also said that she thinks stu-dents can be hesitant to share their work at times.

She said it is part of her job to help students who may be nervous about performing.

Odeh said she is encouraging stu-dents to come to the show, whether it is to share their poetry or just to en-joy the performances.

“I do wish that there was some-thing I could do to make people feel more comfortable,” Odeh said. “All I can do is welcome everybody and en-courage them to do it and put on a good performance for the audience.”

Jordan Thiede canbe reached at 581-2812

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By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor

The Student Senate will vote Wednesday on the best way to fund Illinois Board of Higher Education-Student Advisory Committee meet-ing at Eastern in November.

Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gurick said the November meeting would not only benefit members of the Student Senate, but the universi-ty as a whole.

“It gives us a chance to show stu-dents from other school who we are, it really is an honor,” Gurick said.

Gurick said food for the event would cost $304 and would feed 25 delegates.

The resolution proposed $200 to come out of the Student Senate bud-get, and $104.55 to come from Office of Student Affairs.

“(Nadler) strongly believes in this event,” Gurick said. “He said it is a great opportunity that he does not want us to miss.”

Gurick said by hosting the IBHE-SAC meeting at Eastern, as well as the fact that Jarrod Scherle, the student ex-ecutive vice president, never stays over-night when he attends the meetings; the organization has been able to save enough money to send two Student Senate Members to a conference this upcoming weekend.

“We used to send delegates to a con-ference in Texas but because of bud-get cuts in the past few years we haven’t been able to,” Gurick said. “Student Senate member Nick Allen did a lot of research and found the American Stu-dent Government Association Confer-ence.”

Shawn Allen, a junior political sci-ence major, and Elise Klaus, a freshman

history major, will attend the confer-ence on Oct. 20 at the University of Il-linois at Chicago.

“They are both new to Student Sen-ate and are still learning about it so it is very exciting,” Gurick said. “After they come back they will give a presentation to the Student Senate to show us what they learned and how we can apply it at Eastern.”

The group will also vote on a consent agenda, which includes the approval of a new Chief Justice to the Student Su-preme Court

The Student Senate meets at 7 p.m. in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

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It’s great to live in a country where tol-erance and diversity are practiced. On “Main-Street-America,” it’s possible to have a Jewish synagogue next to an Islam-ic mosque.

Across the street might be Catholic, Prot-estant, Mormon and Charismatic churches. On the same street, we could have a gay bar; a Bible thumping, right-wing conservative Bible College; a crisis pregnancy center; an abortion clinic and a Republican headquar-ters next to a Democrat one.

The diverse list could go on with each one representing strong personal beliefs.

In the middle of the neighborhood, we

could have a community building for re-spectful dialogue and debate on the differ-ing principles.

It would be OK to carry a poster affirm-ing your support of one or the other or a placard speaking your disagreement with another.

There would be no harm done, as long as it doesn’t become a violent demonstration, an incitement to riot, ugly name-calling, or expressions of disrespect, dishonor or dis-grace. It is possible to disagree without be-ing disagreeable.

The staff of The Daily Eastern News is to be commended for their effort to let all the

voices be heard, as long as they speak with-out hate, bigotry or prejudice.

It is also fair that they print letters from the general public who just happen to be paying the taxes that keep Eastern alive and well.

You should be left with the choice to en-ter any of those institutions on “Main Street,” including Chick-fil-A.

Those who would take away that choice are the intolerant and anti-diverse.

Bob Clapp, Oakland, Illinois

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A friend of mine told me recently about a project she did for her communication class where she stopped using everything that had a screen for 24 hours. No TV, no computer, and her cell phone could only be used to make calls. All of her texts and emails were ignored. She had to read the paper or a book for information. She had to actually talk to people.

Every time she walked out of a room, she would grab her cell phone, only to re-alize that she couldn’t use it. When she had a free moment, she would reach for her com-puter, then have to set it back down and find something else to do. She could not follow her routine anymore because most of it used a screen of some kind.

We do most of our communication through social media or texting, through a screen, and as college students now, we have been doing this our whole lives.

According to Twitter’s blog, an average of 140 million Tweets sent in February of 2011, and according to the blog digitalbuzz, the av-erage number of status updates on Facebook in 20 minutes was 1,851,000 in 2011.

We are not prepared to talk face-to-face in situations that require it. Situations such as job interviews where conversation skills can mean the difference between getting a job and unemployment. The conversation is dif-ferent. That conversation is not social media, and many of us are not prepared to face it.

We are not even prepared for something as simple as speaking in class. When a teach-er asks a question in most of my classes, all I can hear are crickets. How can we make a good impression as adults if we cannot even answer a question in class?

Even as I type this, I am sitting with two of my friends. I am on my computer, and they are both on their phones. I am not sure if we have talked yet, and this is how we spend our time together: distracted. But it isn’t just us. Everyone in the room is doing the same thing.

Every time I say something to someone while they are texting, I always get told they are multi-tasking. But the sad news is that humans can’t multi-task.

According to a National Public Radio, we do not multi-task, but rather switch our concentration back and forth really fast. As much as this is an evolutionary edge that we have, it still means there is part of what I am saying that is not being heard.

What has communication come to? Are we going to become a world were everything is conducted online? What happened to con-versation?

Lets say we go to the extremes and be-come like the movie “WALL-E.” We might not be riding in floating chairs, but we could just be watching screens in front of us, never talking face-to-face. Is everyone OK with that?

Of course, I’m just as guilty of this. I cannot tell you the number of times I have walked through campus and only saw the screen of my iPhone as I texted or tweet-ed my way to class. But I am not alone. If I look up on my way to class, the majori-ty of people I see are bending their head to see a screen.

I think giving up screens would be a lib-erating experience, one that maybe every-one needs to try. Then maybe, for at least 24 hours, we can start learning how to talk to people with words and not our cell phone screens. I plan to do the 24 hours without a screen experiment during Thanksgiving break and see how long I can make it. I hope I last for all 24 hours. Look for a follow-up col-umn after Thanksgiving to see what my expe-rience was like.

Brandyce Gordon is a junior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812

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Eastern’s biggest issue currently is its decreasing enrollment. Though, like any large community, Eastern faces a variety of problems, and we at The Daily Eastern News see issues with enrollment as the highest concern because without students, there is no university.

Unfortunately, the issue does not seem to have a direct solution, and many actions taken to improve things will not necessarily have an immediate effect.

As we reported in our Oct. 9 issue, and in many previous issues, the administra-tion and faculty at Eastern have many strat-egies to help increase enrollment, like work-ing with the Noel-Levitz consulting firm, developing new recruitment strategies and implementing programs such as the Summer Institute.

But we also know there is only so much Eastern officials can do. Much of the enroll-ment issue stems from a stagnant econo-my and a state government with numerous financial issues, both of which are largely out of Eastern’s control.

We do not mean to imply that work-ing to improve things is pointless, only that the external causes are not necessarily things with which our community can deal. We are grateful for the work Eastern’s administra-tors are doing to alleviate the situation. As we have said before, students can also help increase enrollment by forming a friend-ly and accepting environment that new stu-dents would want to be a part of.

Though the actions we take may not have the profound effects we would like, the situ-ation is not hopeless.

As our community works to improve things, it is important to remember that despite the current strain of decreased enrollment and the problems associated with it, Eastern will continue on beyond this.

The Homecoming high may have just ended, and the parade, tailgating and cele-brations may already be distant memories as we return to the daily grind of class, but our returning alumni reminded us of East-ern’s legacy.

Eastern is bigger than what we are doing here and now. It has weathered and solved numerous problems we have never had to face, and it will continue to do so long after we are gone.

We should keep this in mind as we con-tinue to deal with the enrollment issue. It may seem like our university is losing more and more students and that our current home may one day be a thing of the past. But this will not be the case.

It is impossible to say that Eastern will live forever. But we are confident that this problem, however difficult to deal with, will not be the end of it.

This is only one point in our university’s history. It may not be the greatest, but it is not going to be the last. Diversity should be encouraged, not inhibited

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Representatives from every Eastern graduate program, including 22 exter-nal programs, will congregate in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Students pursuing graduate school in the future can learn about the dif-ferent programs Eastern offers as well as what other programs are available.

Bobbi Kingery, an adviser for Ca-reer Services, said there will be repre-sentatives from every program at East-ern and about 22 external programs present at the Graduate School Infor-mation Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. Universi-ty Union.

Kingery said each school will either be bringing the entire office or just representatives from specific fields.

“It’s an opportunity for students to drop-in in between classes, dressed casually, and meet people from these

programs and ask specific questions,” Kingery said.

Kingery said this gives students the opportunity to learn about programs from something other than a website.

“It gives them the opportuni-ty to speak to someone face-to-face,” Kingery said. “Although there is a lot of information available on the web-pages, the representatives from these programs are often the people who will read the transcripts as they come in. Students can get a feel for what they are looking for.”

Kingery said this is an opportunity to learn what they need to do in order to get accepted to graduate programs.

She said students can ask about dif-ferent aspects of a program

“It’s an opportunity to get in-depth answers that you can’t get from a web-site,” Kingery said.

She said students of all classes are invited to attend.

“For underclassmen who are think-ing about graduate school, or know they need to go, it’s a great opportuni-

ty to walk through and find out what those programs are looking for, be-cause graduate school is competitive,” Kingery said. “A lot of students think ‘oh, I’ll go to graduate school rather than finding a job,’ but not everyone is going to get in.”

Kingery said a full list of programs that will be represented can be found on the Career Services website.

She said for students who want to learn about graduate programs be-fore the information day can attend “Grad School-Is it for Me?” at 6 p.m. in the Charleston-Mattoon Room of

the Union.Kingery said there will be two rep-

resentatives at the panel and they will talk with students about getting into graduate school.

She said students need to learn what program want.

“The earlier you find out what they are looking for, the easier that process with be and be able to prepare for it,” Kingery said.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

The Communication Flow is man-aged by Pat Early, the assistant vice president for communications.

Sue Harvey is leading the sub-committee on Customer Service that makes sure that faculty and staff have the most positive interactions with students as possible.

Herrington-Perry said the GIS Map Worx subcommittee—led by John Stimac—is using geographic in-formation sciences to help Eastern understand enrollment more.

The tools can plot maps that help the Enrollment Worx group figure out where students come from and use the data to improve enrollment.

The final subcommittee, MyEIU Phase II, is chaired by webmaster

Ryan Gibson and helps attract pro-spective students and allows the group to communicate with students online.

The Enrollment Worx group meets twice a month, but can schedule to meet more frequently if necessary.

The Enrollment Worx group is in the process of interviews for the new assistant vice president for enrollment management, and are not meeting this week.

“I think we’re all sharing a lot of good information and we have such a dedicated team that’s totally support-ive of EIU,” Herrington-Perry said.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

or redexter@eiu.edu.

There were only three partic-ipants but Terry’s decision was slightly more difficult even with less choices.

Terry looked at the quality of lines, color, shading and overall quality of the tattoo.

Ultimately, Terry picked Hannah Ferris as the winner.

Hannah Ferris, a sophomore un-decided major, won a $75 gift card with her gumball machine tattoo on her left triceps.

Ferris said her tattoos do not have any significance behind them.

“They’re just pretty and I like them,” Ferris said. “They are anoth-er way to decorate myself.”

Ferris’ sister Molly was also in contending for the “best tattoo con-test.”

Molly Ferris, a junior psychology major, said she thinks she gets tat-toos because of the experience.

“We both got free tattoos on our toes and it’s just a fun story,” Mol-ly said.

Hannah said people should not only take the time to research what tattoo they want, but also be willing to pay an adequate amount of mon-ey to get the best result.

“A good tattoo is not cheap and a cheap tattoo is not good,” Han-nah said.

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.

“I’ve watched the past few de-bates by myself, I’m big on being an informed citizen,” Pledger said. “Now that I am in college, I think it is more important than ever, these are the issues that will affect me and my future children someday.”

While some participants were not partisan, both the EIU Col-lege Democrats and EIU College Republicans had representatives at the event and helped lead the dis-cussion.

Tommy Zei, a member of the EIU College Democrats and a se-nior political science major, said he was interested to see how the debate would go but said his major goal within the event was to educate.

“Early voting has already started but I want to clarify issues and help stu-dents understand exactly what the can-didates are talking about,” Zei said.

Nick Tieman, the president of the EIU College Republicans and a junior accounting major, said poli-tics is something he has always been passionate about and that it is im-portant for student to be informed.

“We were invited and wanted to come help educate and share out views,” Tieman said.

The next presidential debate will take place Oct. 22.

Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812

or alwywialowski@eiu.edu.

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Jacksonville State running back Washaun Eal-ey owns Eastern.

Ealey, a transfer from Georgia, has played two games against Eastern since he became a Game-cock last year.

His stats in those two games: evidence why he was recruited to be a Georgia Bulldog. Saturday, Ealey ran for 149 yards and three touchdowns on 23 attempts. Last year, he ran for 155 yards with-out scoring a touchdown.

Ealey is just one in a long line of Division-I transfers to come to the Ohio Valley Conference level and perform at a high level.

Ealey, like some of the top tier players who transfer to OVC schools, has a history of trou-blemaking.

He was granted a release from Georgia in May 2011 after a couple suspensions — one involving a hit-and-run.

This season, Ealey was arrested on drug pos-session charges and suspended for one game, the Gamecocks’ home opener in September.

Even so, Ealey has performed well this sea-son and Saturday’s game could be a breakout game for him. He rushed for 149 of his 327 total yards and scored three of his four touch-downs.

Ealey is one of the top 10 rushers in the OVC. Also on that list: Eastern Kentucky run-ning back Matt Denham, who transferred from Kentucky.

Denham is the second-best rusher in the OVC with 874 yards and eight touchdowns this sea-son.

Two of the OVC’s top wide receivers were also transfers to their schools. Tennessee-Martin re-ceiver Quentin Sims transferred from Georgia Tech and is in the top five of the league with 691 receiving yards. He also leads the Skyhawks in that category.

Just below him on the list is Tennessee Tech receiver Da’Rick Rogers, who transferred from Tennessee this summer after multiple violations of the school’s substance-abuse policy for ath-letes.

Rogers is best known this year for his huge performance catching the ball early this season when he had 18 receptions for 303 yards and two touchdowns in one game.

The transfer train doesn’t stop with these play-ers, though. There are plenty high profile names spread throughout the conference.

Murray State has nine players who’ve trans-ferred into their program from higher profile schools like Ohio State, Arkansas, South Caroli-na and Ole Miss.

Eastern Kentucky has six transfers, including two from Virginia Tech.

It comes full circle with Jacksonville State, though. The Gamecocks are from Alabama, the closest OVC school to the Southeastern Confer-ence, and have always seemed like an SEC facto-ry for players coming down a level.

Former quarterback Ryan Perrilloux is a great example. He transferred from Louisiana State University in 2008 after some trouble and im-mediately became a force to be reckoned with as a Gamecock.

He passed for 236 yards and one touchdown against Eastern on Oct. 24, 2009, and ran for 36 yards and a touchdown.

Ealey is the new big name at Jacksonville State, finally gathering the stats that recruiters expected from him a few years ago.

But he’s not the only one. No matter how all the high profile players got to where they are to-day, they’re exciting to watch and can really bol-ster a program.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-2812 or admcnamee@eiu.edu.

STAT ATTACK

CROSS COUNTRYRed-shirt senior Olivia Klaus set the program record in the women’s 6K, completing the race in 21:35 at the Bradley Classic over the weekend. Klaus’ time of 21:35 earned her a 10th place finish.

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515.86FOOTBALLEastern’s football team is among the nation’s best in terms of offensive production. Its average of 515.86 total yards of offense per game ranks second in the nation. Eastern also ranks second in scoring offense (43.43 points per game) and fifth in passing offense (390.86 yards per game).

VOLLEYBALLRed-shirt junior Stephanie Arnold recorded 11 blocks in Eastern’s four-set road win against Murray State. Her 11-block effort included 10 roofs, placing her seventh all-time in program history for roofs in a game en route to being named the Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Week.

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WOMEN’S SOCCEREastern’s women’s soccer team has just three matches remaining in the regular season, and is currently out of contention for the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament as only the top six teams advance to the postseason tournament. The Pan-thers will need to win at least two of three games to qualify for the postseason tournament. 3

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Top Catwith Olivia Klaus, red-shirt senior cross country runner

FOOTBALL

By Jordan Pottorff Sports Editor

Having won three of its last four games, Eastern’s football team is gain-ing recognition throughout the FCS football ranks once again following its 31-28 Homecoming win over Jack-sonville State on Saturday.

FCS PollsThe Panthers find themselves as one

of several teams in the “other teams re-ceiving votes” category. The Panthers rank No. 40 in the nation in the Sports Network FCS Top 25 poll and rank No. 32 in the FCS Coaches poll. The No. 32 ranking is the highest ranking the Panthers have had this season.

In the top 25, both polls saw major shakeups as four of the nation’s top five teams lost over the weekend.

Coming off a win over previously unbeaten Montana State, the Eastern Washington Eagles have taken over the No. 1 ranking in both the Sports Net-work FCS Top 25 poll and the FCS Coaches poll. Eastern Washington re-ceived 92 first-place votes in the Sports Network FCS Top 25 poll and 11 first-place votes in the FCS Coaches poll.

In the Sports Network FCS Top 25 poll, James Madison, Georgia South-ern, North Dakota State and Montana

State round out the top five. Tennessee State is the highest ranked Ohio Valley Conference team, ranking No. 17 na-tionally. Eastern Kentucky is also na-tionally ranked, coming in as the No. 23 ranked team.

Tennessee-Martin, Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State join Eastern as OVC schools to receive national recog-nition as “other teams receiving votes.”

In the FCS Coaches poll, the same five teams hold the top five rankings, but Tennessee State is ranked No. 18, while Eastern Kentucky sits as the No. 24 ranked team in the nation.

Weekly AwardsTwo players combined to share OVC

Offensive Player of the Week honors this past week as Tennessee State junior running back Trabis Ward and Tennes-see-Martin senior quarterback Derek Carr shared the honors.

Ward led all OVC running backs with 267 rushing yards and four touch-downs in the 40-28 win over Southeast Missouri. His 267 rushing yards and four touchdowns both rank second in program history.

Carr was nearly perfect in Tennessee-Martin’s 66-59 win over Murray State. He completed 42 of his 46 pass attempts and threw for a career-best 560 yards and seven touchdowns. His seven touch-

down passes set the Tennessee-Martin re-cord for touchdown passes in a game, and his 560 passing yards set the OVC record for passing yards in a game.

Defensively, two players also com-bined to share the award as Tennessee State’s sophomore defensive back Steven Godbolt III and Tennessee-Martin’s se-nior defensive back Thad Williams com-bined to take home the defensive honors.

Godbolt paced the Tennessee State defense as his four tackles and 62-yard interception return helped the Tigers im-prove to 7-0 on the season. It was God-bolt’s fourth interception of the season.

Williams also had an impact defen-sively as his 42-yard interception re-turned for a touchdown gave the Sky-hawks a 7-0 lead in the opening min-utes of the game. Williams also added six tackles, a pass break-up and a tack-le-for-loss in the win over Murray State.

Eastern junior kicker Cameron Ber-ra was tabbed as the OVC Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance against Jacksonville State. Berra was a perfect 4-of-4 on his point after attempts and he also converted on a 43-yard field goal attempt as time expired in the first half. Berra is now a perfect 6-of-6 on field goal attempts this season.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-2812 or jbpottorff@eiu.edu.

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Panthers climbing national ranks

By Holden Fuehne Staff Reporter

Olivia Klaus continued her ex-cellence as a runner in her red-shirt senior season by breaking the East-ern all-time record for best time in the 6k run.

Before the race, Klaus, said her goal was to crack the top 20 and the 22 minute mark.

Finishing 10th out of 222 at the Bradley Classic with a record-break-ing time of 21:35 satisfies those goals, she said.

The 21:35 team beats the old re-cord of 21:47 set by teammate Eri-ka Ramos.

Klaus said what started out as a normal race turned into a dominant

performance. She hit record pace toward the

middle of the race and eventually picked it up down the stretch.

“Coach (Erin) Howarth was tell-ing me I was on record pace toward the mid to end of the race, so that was motivational,” the Eureka na-tive said.

As good as Klaus is as a run-ner, she said she cares even more about how her team performs as a whole.

“It was a great day all around for our team, everyone was hitting personal bests and having awe-some races,” Klaus said. “For me to get the record was awesome and meaningful because it makes me feel like my hard work is all pay-

ing off.”This record seemed to be meant

for Klaus s ince she transferred from Miami (Ohio) four years ago.

She already made the second team All-Ohio Valley Conference in her first season as a Panther.

Klaus has made the All-OVC first team in each of the last two seasons.

She also holds the sixth best time in Eastern history in the 5K.

“But I think seeing our team progress and run awesome was so much more important,” Klaus said. “The record was kind of like icing on the cake.”

The f inish by Klaus and the Panthers comes at the end of the

season, as they are getting hot at the right time, Klaus said, with the OVC Championship on Oct. 27.

“I think it’s just what we need go-ing into the championship,” Klaus said. “Confidence in ourselves is what our team will succeed off

of. The best is yet to come in our team.”

Holden Fuehne can be reached at 581-2812

or hjfuehne@eiu.edu.

Klaus distances herself from competition

By Cody Delmendo Staff Reporter

Eastern’s men’s golf team finished up the fall season Tuesday at Har-bor Side Golf Course in East Chi-cago for the Chicago State Fall in-vitational, as it finished sixth place overall out of 11 teams.

The Panthers finished with an overall score of 615 (+39).

This was the best finish the team had this fall season so it was great to end on a high note, senior Tommy Ponce said.

“I’m very proud of how our team came back today, Ponce said. “We could have been lower than what we ended up, but we showed improve-ment and that’s what we needed and that’s what we needed to see to give us motivation moving into the spring season.”

Eastern was once again led by se-nior Kevin Flack, who finished with an overall score of 149 (+5).

Flack finished tied for eighth place overall with Brandon White from Lewis, Kirby Brown from St. Xavier, Tom Boockmeier from Green Bay and Brad Winters from Valparaiso Gold.

Ponce and freshman Austin Sp-roles finished tied for 30th place in-dividually with an overall score of 155 (+11).

Brad Stephens from DePaul, Sam Weber from Green Bay, and Kev-in Workman from Indian Hills CC also tied for 30th place, but per-formed independently.

“I fee l good,” sa id Ponce. “I had a lot of positives come out of this tournament. I just didn’t get everything going like I want-ed to.”

As for his individual future, Ponce said he plans to use the off-season to work towards improving in the spring.

“I plan to work hard this off-season to eliminate some minor mistakes that hurt me in the fall

and be more on top of my game fo r the spr ing s ea son ,” Ponce said.

Junior Zach Holland finished t ied for 41st place individual -ly with an overal l score of 158 (+14).

Sean Hickey from Loyola-Chica-go and Brad Peterson from DePaul finished tied with Holland individ-ually.

James Jansen and Adam Decker from Loyola-Chicago finished tied for 56th place individually with an overall score of 165 (+21).

Green Bay finished at the top of the board as a team with an overall score of 590 (+14).

Green Bay was led by Chad Eb-ert, who finished in third place with an overall score of 146 (+2).

Oscar Sharpe from Indian Hills nabbed the top spot individually with an overall score of 142 (-2).

Sharpe competed independently so his score did not go toward his team.

The Panthers are finished with the fall season and will not start back up until the spring season in March.

Cody Delmendo can be reached at 581-2812

or cddelmendo@eiu.edu.

Men’s golf team wraps up season

GOLF

“We showed improvement and that’s what we needed and that’s what we needed to see to give us motivation moving into the spring season.” Tommy Ponce, senior golfer

“For me to get the record was awesome and meaningful because it makes me feel like my hard work is all paying off.” Olivia Klaus, red-shirt senior runner

Team finishes 6th out of 11 teams