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President Bill Perry submitted his response to the Faculty Senate’s reso-lutions pertaining to Eastern’s Chick-fil-A franchise in the form of an email dated Nov. 9.

He also addressed his plans for the steering committee for program anal-ysis during the Faculty Senate meet-ing Tuesday.

In response to the resolution con-cerning student workers, which stat-ed that students should be able to opt out of being assigned to work at the restaurant, Perry wrote that the cur-rent application process accomplish-es this, and dining services would re-assign workers who are unhappy with their assignment.

Perry also responded to the resolu-tion requesting the creation of a hate and bias-motivated crime policy.

He wrote, “I am charging the ex-isting campus violence prevention committee to conduct an analysis of current institutional policies and the existing campus violence pre-vention plan. The committee will recommend changes necessary for coverage of the issues raised in the resolution.”

The final resolution sent to Per-ry requested a change in Eastern’s contract with Chick-fi l-A from an automatic renewal to one in which Eastern can either renegoti-ate the contract every year or have an open-bid process with multiple vendors.

Perry went on to say that Eastern will not be changing Chick-fil-A’s contract, but will have a new evalua-tion process.

“We will enhance our existing cus-tomer feedback mechanism for food court restaurants to assess quality, price and service, so that those results can be used in our analysis of contrac-tual relationships in the food court,” Perry said, in the email.

He also addressed the steering committee.

Perry created the steering com-mittee for program analysis in Oc-tober to analyze the effectiveness of university programs in order to plan for the budget for the fiscal year 2014.

“Their job is to develop a template, not to give budget advice,” Perry said. “Their job is to put together a tool for us to use to work on the budget in the future.”

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STUDENT SENATE

Kate Quill Staff Reporter

The Student Senate will have its fi-nal meeting of the semester at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in the Arcola-Tuscola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gu-rick, a sophomore business major, said he was pleased with everything the senate was able to accomplish this se-mester.

“We did good work and produced good results,” Gurick said. “It has been a really successful semester.”

The accomplishments of each com-mittee will be evaluated at this week’s meeting.

Senate members will also discuss the Student Action Team’s Fall Train-ing Day.

Jarrod Scherle, the student execu-tive vice president, has a bill on the ta-ble regarding travel expenses for the Student Action Team.

This group includes Scherle and 10 senate members.

“I wanted to bring young (senate members) to teach them how to do this,” Scherle said.

The group will travel to Springfield to get a behind the scenes tour about navigating through the capital. Stu-dents will also get a chance to see of-fices.

This tour is scheduled to take place on Nov. 28.

Students will leave early in the morning and get back to campus that afternoon.

Justine Ryan, the external relations co-chairwoman and senior communi-cation studies major, said she is also planning on sending care packages to soldiers and veterans.

These packages will include a letter from a student and an application to Eastern.

This would encourage soldiers to continue their education at Eastern and could possibly help Eastern’s en-rollment rate.

Sara Boro, the secretary for the Fair Trade for Global Justice Com-mittee and second-year graduate stu-dent, will also attend this week’s sen-ate meeting.

Student Senate will also host Sen-ate Outreach on the Road from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Online elections for Student Senate took place on Monday and Tuesday.

“The unofficial results will be an-nounced at the meeting this week,” Gurick said.

Official results from re-elections for next semester will be announced on Nov. 28.

Kate Quill can be reached at 581-2812 or kmquill@eiu.edu.

Last senate meeting to be reflective

By Joanna Leighton Staff Reporter

Feathers, yellow string and colored beads wove through students’ paper webs in the 7th Street Underground for The University Board’s Teach Me Tuesday.

Each student at the event received a raffle ticket to be entered in a drawing for a professionally made dream catcher.

Khalif Harris, a business administra-tion major, led the activity and helped pass out supplies. Harris said arts and crafts are a way to relieve stress as an alternative to sporting events or going to the library.

“Dream catchers are a window to your dreams. They are supposed to keep unwanted spirits away,” Harris said.

Harris said people traditionally hang dream catchers outside of their homes as a source of protection.

Harris also said the turnout at this session of Teach me Tuesday was pretty good in comparison to others.

About 35 students came to make dream catchers.

Most students chose feathers, beads and colored pencils to decorate their dream catchers based on their favorites or the color web they were given.

Angela Davis, a sociology major, said the craft of making a dream catcher was not something she was used to. She was unaware of how to even start the craft. She chose the colors based off her favor-ites and went with the flow.

After confusion soared through the room about how to start the craft, Dar-ius Francis, a communication stud-ies major and co-leader of the event, encouraged the participants to weave through the web as they saw fit.

There were endless options to the patterns that could be made. No dream catcher would look alike.

The opening in the middle of the web is where the bad dreams would be caught and spread through the strings, Francis said.

Alexandria Hunter, a biological sci-ences major, said she did not believe in the power of dream catchers, but

attended the event to accompany a stressed friend.

Art majors Lindsey Phillips and Kir-bi Eckerty attended the meditation and spirituality event the previous night and thought making a dream catcher was a good follow-up activity.

Phillips and Eckerty said they had nev-er made dream catchers before and agreed that their purpose was the catch the bad dreams and let the good dreams in.

Joanna Leighton can be reached at 581-2812 or jlleighton@eiu.edu.

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KRISTEN LE WIS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSAngela Davis, a freshman sociology major, made a dream catcher at the Make Me a Dream Catcher event hosted by the University Board Tuesday. Students made dream catchers using a variety of tools, including beads and feathers.

By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

In accordance with Eastern’s part-nership with Noel-Levitz, the Com-mittee on Retention Efforts has re-ported a list of courses that are deemed “high-risk.”

Karla Sanders, the co-chairwom-an of CORE and executive director for the Center for Academic Support and Assessment, said Eastern uses the definition of a high-risk course that is used nationally for Supplemental In-struction.

“A high-risk course is any course in which 30 percent or more students earn a D, F, or withdraw from the course,” she said. “We have reported for departments so that they can de-termine courses where students could

benefit from tutoring or other aca-demic resources.”

According to CORE’s October 2012 newsletter, in Spring 2012, a to-tal of 81 courses matched the high-risk course criteria.

The newsletter detailed the number of courses by level, and the commit-tee found that 18 of the classes were general education classes and 21 of the 81 had fewer than 10 students en-rolled.

Sanders said figuring out the num-bers behind the high-risk courses will help professors figure out resources to help their students pass the classes.

“Students should expect to work hard academically, but we want to make students aware of the resources to help them succeed,” she said.

Students struggling in courses

should talk to their professors if they feel lost in a course, Sanders said.

Jennifer Stringfellow, an assis-tant special education professor and a member of the committee, said the CORE committee is always looking to balance rigor with retention and recruitment.

“We want to get students and we want them to stay, but we also want our coursework to stay at a rigorous level,” she said. “What we’ve deemed high-risk courses are the courses where there’s a high percentage of Ds and Fs and those tend to be courses that freshmen and sophomore are tak-ing.”

Stringfellow said reporting the courses has to do with the rigor and reputation of Eastern.

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An excavator of the ancient city of Troy joined two Eastern facul-ty members Tuesday in the Doud-na Fine Arts Center to discuss areas of the world and their importance to popular mythologies.

Elizabeth Riorden, a professor of architecture at the University of Cin-cinnati, said she has been helping to excavate and study the remains of the city of Troy since 1988.

Riorden delved into the city’s his-tory following its demise, and said modern Greek civilization rose from the ashes of the fallen city.

She said there have been many at-tempts at rebuilding the ancient city — from Troy I to Troy VI.

“Will the real Troy please stand up?” she asked jokingly during the presentation.

During her 22 years of excavating Troy, Riorden said one of the biggest things she learned came from the ex-pansion of the lower section of Troy.

The audience members in the symposium were also the first to hear details of artifacts Riorden recently discovered.

She said she had not published her findings yet.

Riorden also showed the audienc-es three-dimensional reconstructions of sections of Troy. The audience could see what Troy looks like cur-rently as well as before its fall.

Along with Troy, the other two areas discussed during the “Places of Myth and Memory” symposium were Egypt and Canterbury.

Wafeek Wahby, a professor in the School of Technology, spoke about Egypt, a place he said was the birth-place of mythology.

Wahby, who is originally from Egypt, said myth began there.

“Myths are manmade answers to unanswerable questions,” Wahby said.

Wahby also said mythology is im-portant to people because it gives them a sense of memory, as the

myths are passed down generation to generation.

“A loss of memory is a loss of identity,” he said.

Wahby pointed to Giza as being a part of Egypt most important to my-thology, because of the Great Pyra-mid of Giza.

“Giza is a place charged with a blend of myth, mystery and fact,” Wahby said.

However, it is not just Giza that combines myth and fact, as Riorden was quick to point out.

She discussed the history of Troy and its famous destruction and how it became interwoven into mythology.

“Zeus made a deal with (his wife) Hera,” she said. “To preserve harmo-ny, he let Troy become under siege.”

David Raybin, an English profes-sor, said Riorden was able to reflect the history of Troy.

“It’s layered with detail that mir-rors Troy’s history,” he said.

Raybin was the final speaker at the symposium, focusing on Canterbury, England.

He began by giving a reading of the opening lines of “The Canter-bury Tales” in the original Old Eng-lish language.

He said most readers welcome a theme of completion, and one of the tragedies of “The Canterbury Tales” is that the characters do not make it to Canterbury.

“We want the pilgrims to finish their journey,” he said.

Raybin said Canterbury has be-come a “place of healing.”

He referenced stories of people who have traveled to Canterbury and had become cured of ailments such as blindness and a wounded leg.

Raybin also said one of the rea-

sons “The Canterbury Tales” has sur-vived for so long is because of the Catholic Church.

“In myth, a journey to Canter-bury was part of a divine plan,” he said.

All three speakers discussed how the areas have become a popular spot for tourists to travel to.

“Literary pilgrims travel to (Can-terbury) Cathedral, as well as Chau-cer’s tomb in Westminster,” Raybin said.

The three speakers ended the sym-posium with questions from the au-dience.

Raybin ended the symposium af-ter he said, “Health, peace and com-fort are at the heart of myths.”

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Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSWafeek Wahby, a professor in the school of technology, raises his hand after asking the audience who all had been to Egypt during the Myth and Memories Symposium in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center Tuesday. When no other hands went up, Wahby joked that he could make up whatever he wanted.

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Students and teachers wi l l present the research they have been working on relating to the many applications of geograph-ic informational systems during an informational fair Wednes-day.

The fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Michael Cornebise, the chair-man of the geology/geography department, said some ceme-teries create electronic maps of their burial plots and keep au-

tomatic records similar to the information available through Google Maps.

A geographic informational sys-tem integrates hardware, software and data to organize geographic in-formation, but it can be used by a variety of sciences and enterprises, Cornebise said.

He said the fair is also in rec-ognition of National Geography Awareness Week and Geograph-ic Informational Systems Day, which were initiated by National Geographic in 1999 to promote knowledge of geography and ap-plications of technology in soci-ety.

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Hurricane Sandy may have swept through the East Coast almost two and a half weeks ago, but picking up the pieces from the destruction is far from over, even for some East-ern faculty.

When history professor Charles Foy had a routine flight scheduled back to his home in Brooklyn on Nov. 1, he was greeted with a som-brous event: the funeral of a girl he coached in soccer. The girl had died during the destruction from Hurri-cane Sandy as four trees with trunks 40 inches wide collapsed on her as she was walking her dog just a few blocks down from his own home.

“It wasn’t until The (New York) Times wrote an article about her and there was a picture (that I knew), and I said ‘Oh my god, it’s Jessie,’” he said. “I literally had no idea.”

Another history professor, Brian Mann, is trying to help his retired parents, whose entire first floor of their home in Oceanside was flood-ed out by eight-foot waves, forcing them to live out of the second floor of their home — and is becoming increasingly frustrated by the day, as not one person from the gov-ernment has been out to help their neighborhood.

“I call FEMA for my parents...at least two times a day, and I have yet to reach a human being,” he said. “It’s been horrible, totally stressful.”

Unprecedented destructionMost of the structural damage

occurred in lower Manhattan, Stat-en Island and The Rockaway Penin-sula, Foy said.

These areas where the hurricane hit hardest, Mann said. The scene is almost something out of post-apoc-alyptic movie.

Mann said his parents have told him there is still garbage piled up everywhere that’s starting to smell. People are waiting in line for gas anywhere from four to six hours, sometimes even being turned away after they run out.

Every neighborhood in the New York area was affected differently, Foy said, with characterizing damage based on each micro environment.

In Ditmus Park, Foy’s neighbor-hood of Brooklyn, no power outag-es or water damages occurred, and the largest extent of damage came from large trees being knocked down.

Foy was greeted from his visit home with minimal property dam-age — just a broken fence and scat-tered disarray — but just a few blocks down from him, trees were falling into houses, completely de-stroying them.

Everything on the first floor of Mann’s parents’ home was swept away, leaving them with no power, refrigerated food, transportation or heat — and with no signs of gov-ernmental help at all. Mann’s par-ents have been confined the sec-ond floor, wearing layers on layers of thick clothing, not leaving bed,

trying to stay warm in the nights where temperatures drop to freez-ing levels.

“To them, it’s like they’re living in a third world country,” he said.

Mann’s parents are not out of the norm. A friend of his had to spend $20,000 to get the waterlogged car-pets in his home removed to make sure nothing infectious like mold developed.

“Just $20,000 — that was his whole life savings, and that’s just the carpet,” he said. “Now he’s wait-ing on his insurance company to give him the money back, and he doesn’t even know if he’s going to get it at all.”

Still, both professors agree the hardest hit areas was the Rockaway Peninsula, the five-block finger-like area of New York sticking out in the water.

“You’ve got a real pocket of pov-erty there, and those people have no power or the resources to say, ‘Oh I’m going to go to a hotel for a night,’” he said.

Mann, who grew up in Far Rock-away, agrees that’s where the biggest problems are.

“Oceanside was neglected, but these people are really being ne-glected, and these people are living paycheck to paycheck,” he said.

Emotional impactOne of the hardest parts about

Hurricane Sandy for these professors is the extent to which they’re involved — yet still physically removed from the situation.

Foy said having to observe the ex-tent of damage from a distance is a source of distress.

“You live here in the Midwest, but your life to some degree is still

out there,” he said. “It’s one of these things you can’t do much about it and unfortunately, here, I’m removed.”

Mann said he feels even more help-less because he has no communication with his parents besides a few min-utes here and there through spotty cell phone service.

Through these conversations, he’s learned the memories his parents have built up in the home they’ve lived in for the past 20 years are gone with no way of ever being replaced.

“They’re devastated,” he said. “They were going through the garbage, find-ing pictures of me as a baby, pictures of their wedding that are waterlogged or have mold on them,” he said.

What’s even more concerning for Foy is not getting a response at all. He said after the storm hit, he sent out three emails to a friend from Staten Island he’s known for 30 years, normally known for his quick replies, and has yet to hear a response.

“Life could be frenetic right now, or something could be wrong,” he said.

Foy said this situation is compa-rable to September 11 in that some of the effects will not be felt for a while; he expects he will find out information as it it dribbles out to his various circles of friends over time.

“I didn’t know how people were affected only until much later who got injured, hurt, killed,” he said. “This is the same kind of thing.”

Slow recovery and future disaster prevention

Foy said because New York’s expe-rience is episodic at best, even as spo-radic as by the decade, it caught many of its residents off guard and unpre-

pared.“As much as you think something

bad is going to happen, you never expect to be quite as bad as this,” he said.

Cameron Craig, a geographer and climatologist at Eastern, said anoth-er occurrence like Hurricane Sandy in this area is not unlikely if the right weather conditions align.

“It’s a rare situation, but it’s not totally impossible,” he said. “There needs to be a different mindset in the way we plan for disasters, and people need to become more aware.”

Moving forward, Mann said he hopes Hurricane Sandy is yet another reminder that prior disaster planning is not an option, but a necessity.

“I think the whole system is not working. I don’t think this country is prepared for this,” he said. “You would think they would have woken up (from Katrina).”

As Foy heads back to Brooklyn this Thursday for Thanksgiving break, he expects to see the bits and pieces add up to a total picture of destruction that will take time to rebuild.

“You keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best, but the realis-tic part of it is that people were hurt and damaged, there’s no doubt about it,” he said.

Despite all his frustrations that some things are gone forever, Mann is grateful the most important thing sur-vived: the people.

“The most important thing is they’re still here,” he said. “The car can be replaced, the washer and dry-er can be replaced, but people can’t re-placed.”

Sara Hall can be reached at 581-2812

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HURRICANE HEARTBREAKSandy’s aftermath still ongoing concern for faculty members

HEALTH

By Amanda Wilkinson Staff Reporter

A fair will showcase a wide va-riety of health topics that can help students, faculty and staff maintain a quality lifestyle.

The EIU Annual Health Fair, sponsored by the Health Servic-es and Health Education Resource Center, will have games, exhibitors, goodie bags and door prizes.

The health fair will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Recreation Center.

Rob McKinney, the peer edu-cation and leadership coordinator for HERC, said 70 exhibitors from Charleston and Mattoon will be at “2012: A Health Odyssey.”

Each exhibitor will have their own table to talk about their own issue, McKinney said.

Exhibitors at the health fair will include organizations such as Com-plete Nutrition, My Charleston Dentist, the American Cancer Soci-ety as well as different student orga-nizations.

McKinney said a wide variety of topics will be presented at the fair along with where to find health resources at Eastern and in the Charleston-Mattoon area.

Exhibitors plan to discuss topics such as overeating, exercise, sexu-al health, adequate sleep, smoking, nutrition and alcohol consumption.

McKinney said the health fair is a completely student-run event.

“Students came up with planning and creating the event,” McKinney said. “It was wonderful.”

However, McKinney said stu-dents organized the health fair but it is for everyone to come check out.

“It’s geared towards anybody on campus,” McKinney said. “We’re hoping 1,500 students and faculty come through the event this year.”

McKinney said he hopes facul-ty and staff will come to the fair as well, even just to receive general in-formation.

Besides handing out informa-tion, exhibitors at the fair will also be giving out free samples.

McKinney said the first 300 peo-ple to come to the health fair will receive a gift bag with snacks, water, pamphlets, pens, a T-shirt, coupons and gift cards.

Gift cards from local business-es such as Lola’s Naturals, Buffa-lo Wild Wings, Park Hills Spa and Wellness Center and others will be given out as door prizes.

McKinney said he hopes a lot of people come to the health fair be-cause exhibitors will discuss almost every health topic.

“No matter what health interests you have, you can find something for you at the health fair,” McKin-ney said.

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812

or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.

Fair to showcase variety of topics70 exhibitors featured from Charleston and Mattoon

Whether it’s owning their dream house, raising a happy family, or climbing Mount Everest, everyone has their aspirations.

There are so many things to do in just too little time, and we must decide what we find to be crucial in leading a fulfilling life.

Besides having the general goals of carry-ing a steady job, financial stability, and rais-ing a family, it’s important for us to have other things to strive for, as life is more than money and possessions.

For me, life is about experiences and what I can take away from them.

There is hardly anything more suiting than a journey when it comes to a learning experi-ence, and there is one particular journey that I plan to embark on in the near future.

What I see as possibly the most fulfilling, liberating, and enlightening experience of my life is to take three to six months out of my life and hike the Appalachian Trail.

For those of you who don’t know, the Ap-palachian Trail is footpath that runs from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mount Ka-tahdin in Maine—an approximate 2,184 miles.

It draws millions of hikers annually, with some hiking small portions of it and others attempting to hike the trail in its entirety.

I have no experience with long hikes or camping, but that just makes me want to do it even more.

Ever since I first read about the Appala-chian Trail, it has had a place in my dreams and has remained a minor obsession of mine.

I see it as an adventure, an opportunity to get in touch with nature, reality, myself and to meet some amazing folks.

It brings people from all walks of life. It would be rewarding for me to talk with these people and hear why they decided to hike the trail. They could be trying to find them-selves, their soul mate, lose weight, have fun, or any combination of these.

I myself have this idea that if I successfully hike the trail, I will be able to overcome any challenge that I face in life.

If I encounter anything that seems impos-

sible, I will always have that experience to compare it to.

It’s not unlikely that I won’t be successful. According to Appalachian Mountain Club at outdoors.org, hiking the trail is typically a multi-month journey and only 20 percent of hikers complete it.

Many of these are likely more experienced than myself.

However, it is always something I can try multiple times and, even if I fail, it will at the least allow me to know my limits.

So far, I haven’t met anyone who also plans to hike the trail and very few seem to know what it is, but I would recommend that any-one look into it, for you may find it as evoc-ative as I do.

But the main point of this is that, no mat-ter what future lies ahead of you, make it your future.

Make time for the things that will tru-ly make you a happier person and, instead of having a list of things to do before you die, have a list of things to do before you settle down and live.

Alex Hill is a freshman English major. He can be reached at 581-2812

or denopinions@gmail.com.

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As the next few days pass by, wheth-er they be quick and care-free or grueling and homework-filled, we can all look for-ward to the upcoming break from classes and work.

However, next week is more than just a time to put our textbooks aside and let our minds drift away momentarily from the re-sponsibilities awaiting us back on campus or in the office. Next week is a time to cel-ebrate the love and precious moments we have with the ones we care about most. As well, it is a time to take a step back and recognize all that we are fortunate to have in our lives.

Unfortunately, I know that many of us will simply take the time to veg out, play video games, watch movies and eat as much as possible, revelling in the time we have away from classes and the opportunity we have to procrastinate just that much more.

Some students, I am sure, will take steps to recognize the importance of the holiday and the many aspects of their lives they are thankful for, but many others will not.

As I have scrolled through my newsfeed on Facebook, I have seen promising signs

that my friends and fellow students realize the importance of the upcoming Thanks-giving holiday. Many of their statuses sing the praises of veterans, their parents and other special people in their lives.

However, are my friends and fellow stu-dents taking the time to actually thank those people they praise in their statuses? I highly doubt so, and I think this is quite unfortunate.

Simply writing on your Facebook time-line or tweeting out a sentimental message might do well to express your thanks with friends and followers, but will the World War II veteran in the nursing home see the message? Will your mother, who does not have a Facebook or a Twitter profile, see

the message? Will your professor, who has not friended or followed you, see the mes-sage? No.

So, instead of using this upcoming break as a chance to veg out, chow down and put your work off, take the time to truly ex-press your thanks.

Make the drive to the nursing home and thank your local veterans. Set the time aside to speak with your mother face-to-face and thank her for all she has done in your life. Visit your professors in their of-fice and sit down, get to know them better and let them know how much you appre-ciate the invaluable knowledge they have provided you.

Each effort you make to truly express your thanks will make your Thanksgiving break more than just time away from cam-pus. It will be a meaningful and purpose-filled experience that will leave both you and the special people in your lives feeling better about yourselves.

Tim Deters is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or

denopinions@gmail.com.

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Charleston residents voted yes for the municipal electrical aggregation program on Election Day and joined other municipalities across the state taking part in the program.

The program is projected to save Charleston residents 20-28 percent on their electrical bill, said Scott Smith, the city manager in a previous article.

Municipal electrical aggregation is “a pro-gram where a county or city can negotiate the purchase of their electric supply to its residents and small businesses, according to Section 1-92 of the Illinois Power Agency Act.”

The act states only counties and cites that are Ameren Illinois and ComEd service areas can pursue an electrical aggregation program. It is a residential-driven program, but small businesses can take part in the program too.

More than 1.3 million users have switched to a retail electrical supplier, according to Plug In Illi-nois.org. We at The Daily Eastern News are glad Charleston will now be added to the user list.

The city of Charleston partnered with many municipalities to come together to purchase the electricity.

Scott Smith also said in a previous arti-cle that the idea behind partnering with oth-er municipalities is that more municipalities together will have more buying power.

The Daily Eastern News congratulates Scott Smith and other Charleston officials on working a project that will save their residents money.

The program will not start immediately, but will start once the city goes to bid for the elec-trical supplier in December.

The city first must go to bid and select their supplier. Then by February residents should start to see a decrease in their electrical bill.

Students, who are already Ameren custom-ers will automatically be opted into the pro-gram and will get to see the benefits of the city’s hard work right away.

If students do not wish to be part of the program, they will receive an opt-out waiver in the mail.

Though, students, who already signed with an alternative electrical supplier, will not auto-matically be part of the program.

Those students will have to conduct research to see if it would be cheaper to break with their alternative electrical supplier and join with the city’s electrical aggregation program.

We at The News encourage students to take an active role in being knowledgeable about the municipal electrical aggregation program and decide if they wish to be part of it.

As adults, we have to start taking the ini-tiative in seeing what will save us money and what is in our best interest.

Students should call and get estimates from the different electrical suppliers to see what would be in their best interest.

We encourage students to take part in this program, but we also encourage students to make sure the program will save them money before jumping in.

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“We want students to know that Eastern is a viable option as a place for students to go for higher educa-tion,” she said.

Meeting with an instructor one-on-one is the first thing Stringfellow recommends for students struggling in these “high-risk” courses.

“We want students to keep their lines of communications open,” she said. “That’s the starting place.”

Faculty are also notified through the early alert system in Student Ad-vising.

“We strongly encourage students to go seek out the help that is on the university campus,” she said. “It’s about not being content to be incon-spicuous.”

Stringfellow said she thinks the whole process is part of the integrative learning that is pushed at Eastern.

“Faculty and staff are really striving to get to know their students as peo-ple,” she said. “This is part of that, be-cause we’re trying to help those stu-dents who are struggling and may not feel very connected.”

The Noel-Levitz report lets the university know where the cours-es stand and what paths Eastern can take to help students, Stringfellow said.

“We want to identify early on those students who are struggling and the courses they’re struggling in,” she said. “We’re not trying to weed peo-ple out, but we need to maintain cer-tain standards in the coursework we provide.”

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

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Perry said the criteria for deter-mining how to budget programs in the future includes their inter-nal and external demands, resourc-es used, future opportunities gener-ated and their relevance to the uni-versity mission statement.

Faculty Senate member Jeffrey Ashley, a political science profes-sor, asked how the programs would be judged fairly if sports programs generated more revenue than cer-tain academic programs.

Perry said the committee would use a combination of numerical and narrative data to judge the programs fairly.

“This template is not an algo-rithm, but its something we’ll use with good judgment,” he said.

Perry said the committee would also consider issues with pension re-form, declining state funding and tuition affordability.

He said the committee would in-tegrate the “six planks” of the stra-tegic plan, including academic ex-cellence, global competition and changing demographics, emerging technologies, campus and commu-nity life, and financial sustainabili-ty.

William Weber, the vice presi-dent for business affairs, said the

committee would have open meet-ings and post its drafted proposal on the school website.

“My pledge is that we’ll have an open, transparent collaborative pro-cess which might be used for strate-gic planning,” Weber said.

The committee began data col-lection in October and plans to continue consulting with campus governance groups through March, draft a report by April, and submit their report to Perry in May.

Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812

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As students prepare for Thanks-giving Break, the University Board will offer a Rush Hour program al-lowing students to get free henna tattoos Wednesday.

The program will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union.

Henna, which is a paste made from leaves, is used by many Mid-dle Eastern and African cultures to decorate themselves for religious ceremonies, including weddings.

Henna is a temporary tattoo. Danny Turano, a senior sociolo-

gy major and chair of the UB, said the Rush Hour program series was created a few years ago as a way to give students something to do be-tween classes.

“It is for students with a little break between classes and who go through the Union anyway,” Turano said. “It is mainly things that stu-dents can take with them, wheth-er it be a caricature, a painting or a henna tattoo.”

Turano said the UB chose hen-na tattoos because it was offered by the company the UB has used for previous events and they thought it would be something students would enjoy. The company brings the art-ists and the supplies needed for the program.

“There is really no meaning be-hind this particular program,” Tura-no said. “We just thought it would be fun for students to get one be-tween classes.”

Turano said the Rush Hour pro-grams typically get 100 to 200 par-ticipants during the four-hour span.

He said the turnout differs based on interest in the program, but

that it is typically good because of the extended time and that many students already pass through the Union during the day.

This is not the first time the UB has done a program concern-ing henna, but Turano said in the past it fell under the jurisdiction of the UB cultural arts coordinator, while this semester the event was the project of the special events co-ordinator.

“Last year it was done by cultural arts because they also had a speak-er,” Turano said. “This year it is just the tattoos.”

The UB special events coordina-tor, cultural arts coordinator and mainstage coordinator positions re-main vacant.

Turano said the reasons for va-cancies vary, but that it is not a re-flection of the UB.

“It is time-consuming and some-

times people do not know how to manage their time,” Turano said. “People were fall ing behind on schoolwork and we don’t want that.”

He said he believes the UB mem-bers need to focus on being stu-dents first and UB members second.

Because of the vacancies, Tura-no and UB vice chairman David Simms, have had to pick up the re-sponsibilities usually delegated to those positions.

“It hard work but in the end we’re here to make great programs for students,” Turano said. “David and I wouldn’t be in these positions if we couldn’t handle them, we have a very united board and our gradu-ate assistants help as well.”

Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812

or alwywialowski@eiu.edu.

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In the last installation the Health Education Resource Center of the Six Pack Series, a representative from Eastern’s will educate students on the issues surrounding alcohol poisoning.

The “Alcohol Poisoning” presenta-tion will be given by Maggie Lune-burg, the HERC’s Substance Abuse Coordinator.

“We’re going to discuss how alco-hol affects your body, why students don’t intervene when they should and what they can do when someone is in a situation involving alcohol poison-ing,” Luneburg said.

The presentation will also detail harm reduction strategies when con-suming alcohol.

Luneburg said although the pre-sentation is not based on AlcoholEdu, the program all incoming students are required to complete, it will cover some of the same information.

“This presentation is really geared to if you’re in a situation and you’re with someone who is experiencing al-cohol poisoning, it’ll show you what to do to help instead of letting some-

one go home by themselves,” Lune-burg said.

The presentation will be given from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Room 1255 of Coleman Hall.

“Alcohol Poisoning” is the sixth and last part of the Six Pack Series put on by the HERC.

Other sessions have included “Sur-viving Social Media,” “Myth Busting Alcohol,” “Your Choices, Your Fu-ture” and “Sex and Booze.”

“There has been a variation in at-tendance,” Luneburg said. “The larg-est session had around 100 students and the smallest was probably around 15.”

Luneburg said she thinks the pre-sentations have been a success this se-mester.

“Students should come to this last presentation because we’ll talk about how alcohol really affects your body and this one really gives students di-rect ways that they can help them-selves as well as help others,” she said. “It’s going to be very informative.”

“Alcohol Poisoning” can also help clear up alcohol myths and misunder-standings, Luneburg said.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALLEastern’s women’s basketball team managed just nine points in the first half of its season-opening game against Indiana State. The Panthers were held to 4-of-25 shooting from the field in the first half and made just one of their nine first-half free-throw at-tempts. The Panthers lost to Indiana State, 69-39.

57.7MEN’S BASKETBALLEastern’s men’s basketball team allowed in-state foe Bradley to shoot 57.7 per-cent from the field in the season-open-ing game on Friday. The Braves con-nected on 30 of their 52 shot attempts, and were led by Tyshon Pickett’s team-leading 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting.

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FOOTBALLEastern’s defense al-lowed just 31 r ushing yards in the second half against Southeast Mis-souri. The Redhawks’ rushing attack gashed the Panthers’ defense for 164 rushing yards in the first half , but a strong defensive per-formance in the second half negated the Red-hawks’ running game.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Eastern swimming entered a new era after the departure of previous head coach Matt Bos in 2011 when a new young face was given the keys to the car.

Former Eastern swimmer Elliott McGill, 25, at the time became the youngest coach in the NCAA and took over after an impressive year by the men’s team.

Whether you are an athlete or a coach, you will experience many ups, but certainly many downs during your first year.

The year before McGill took over, the men’s team went 7-2 and finished with two second-place finishes in the Western Kentucky Invita-tional and Tunica Invitational.

McGill’s first year as coach saw the team lose six of its eight meets.

During this season, the men also finished fifth out of eight teams in the House of Cham-pions meet, and in the Summit League Cham-pionships the team finished second to last.

But as a young coach he had a different per-spective on the losing record.

“Of course we would rather win, but what we focus on is improving our times and getting better after every meet,” McGill said. “We can-not focus on the other team, sometimes we are going to run into faster swimmers and there is nothing we can do about that.”

Everyone wants to win all the time, but ob-viously that’s not possible.

What the second-year coach emphasizes to his swimmers is to personal responsibility.

There is no greater indicator of this mental-ity than of his younger brother, senior captain Colin McGill.

“I know if I go into the pool and have a bad practice I need to be better, [Coach] doesn’t need to tell me, because I already know,” the senior said.

But is it true? Has the team’s times gotten better? As a matter of fact they have.

Senior Joe Ciliak was part of the third-place finish of the men’s 200-Medly Relay at the Summit meet, which set a new school-record time of 1:32.27.

Ciliak also set a new personal best in the 200-Breast at the Summit meet.

He also swam the 10th fastest time for the Panthers in the 50-Free that same year.

Senior Michael Bower also improved dur-ing McGill’s first year as coach. Bower saw full-time action this season, and by the end of the year, he recorded three of his top times in the Summit League meet.

On the women’s side, Kelli DiCanio, who was a junior at the time received All-Summit League honors and was a part of new school re-cord in the 200-Medly Relay.

Another swimmer who improved was Mary Lacine.

She bested her previous school-record in the 400-IM at the Summit League meet.

Although the win loss record was poor dur-ing his first year, McGill has seen many swim-mers improve which is most important for him and the team.

Both squads have seen limited success in terms of tallies under the “W” column, but with a talented freshman class being led by Kaylee Morris and senior Hailey Foss, the fu-ture is bright for Eastern swimming.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812

or asoto2@eiu.edu.

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Swimmers splash into New Era, too

By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

The Eastern women’s basket-ball team had a day off on Tues-day following its one-point loss aga ins t Brad ley on Monday night.

Eastern head coach Lee Bu-chanan said the team would use the day off to rest.

“We’ll rest some bodies, rest some minds,” Buchanan said. “We still have to fix some defen-sive issues – we’re giving up too many points.”

Buchanan said the Panthers set out to hold Bradley to less than 60 points Monday, but the Braves ended up winning the game 66-65.

Had the Panther s accom-plished the goal, they would’ve beaten Bradley, Buchanan said.

Even in the loss, the Panthers played better than they did Fri-

day in the season opener against Indiana State in Terre Haute, Ind.

The Panthers were held to 39 points and lost by 30 points.

“We did improve,” senior for-ward Mariah King said. “We just need to put two halves together and get a win.”

Sallee isn’t here anymoreFollowing Monday’s loss, Bu-

chanan silenced those who may have expected a smooth tran-sition from former head coach Brady Sallee to his staff.

Although he was the associ-ate head coach for Sallee and has been on the staff for the entire careers of everyone on the current roster, Buchanan said he’s not the same coach as his predecessor.

“I coach different than my pre-decessor,” Buchanan said. “(The players) are still trying to learn my coaching style.”

The players are also trying to get used to playing together again, having not played compet-itive basketball as a team before Friday since March.

Add to that, injuries. Play-ers like senior forward Sydney Mitchell are still trying to recover from lingering injuries.

Mitchell, a perennial starter, hasn’t started either of the team’s first two games.

Mitchell played eight minutes Monday and could be seen on an exercise bike next to the bench between playing stints.

Late runs clinch Braves’ win

In a game in which the Pan-thers’ largest lead was six points and Bradley’s seven, a late run to end the first half and anoth-er to end the game catapulted the Braves to a victory.

After a slow start, the Panthers

led the Braves 32-26 with 4:19 to go in the first half. Bradley ended the half on an 11-0 run to take a lead into the locker room, 37-32.

Then, leading 61-56 with 5:18 to go in the game, the Panthers were in good position to come out with a win.

But Bradley finished the game on a 10-4 run, clinching the win on Jenny Smith’s two free throws with one second left in the game.

Smith scored six of Bradley’s points during the 10-4 run, in-cluding four from the free throw line. She finished with just eight points the entire game.

The Panthers have a week off before their home game on Monday against San Jose State. They’ll play three games over the Thanksgiving Break – two on the road.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-2812

or admcnamee@eiu.edu.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Players adjusting to Buchanan’s style

MARCUS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMorris Woods, a junior guard, shoots a three-pointer Tuesday in Lantz Arena. The Panthers lost 56-44 against Wright State.

Panthers fall in home-openerBy Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

The Eastern men’s basketball team dropped its home-opener to non-conference foe Wright State 56-44 Tuesday at Lantz Arena, al-though the scoreboard doesn’t ap-propriately reflect that the game was never in question.

The Raiders took a 32-17 lead into halftime, and never relin-quished that lead.

The Panthers resolved play in the second half still was not enough, as Eastern out-scored Wright State 27-24.

“Let’s be honest, the game was never in doubt,” Spoonhour said. “The game got out of hand and we put ourselves there. We put our-selves behind with some mental mistakes and some physical mis-takes. The games don’t last long, so you can’t make that many mistakes, even at home.”

The loss puts Eastern at 0-2 on the year, while Wright State im-proves to 2-0 this season.

Wright State’s lead reached as high as 21 points, as it saw three players score in double-digits.

“In the first half we were just let-ting them catch it on the wing and get it to their offense,” freshman guard Alex Austin said.

Austin said the Panthers made adjustments to take away the wings on defense in the second half, but it wasn’t enough, as they fell short.

Austin also said that the Raider defense pressured the Panthers, and as a young team, the Panthers are still trying to adjust to pressure.

Eastern was out-rebounded by Wright State 37-24 for the game. The Panthers managed to register only one offensive rebound the en-tire second half.

Spoonhour said that is unaccept-able, as they need offensive boards to win in future games.

He said that the Panthers need a mentality to go for the ball and make a play when rebounding.

“We get into deals where we wait for somebody else to go get it,” Spoonhour said. “The mentality

needs to be you can’t wait on any-body else. You have to make plays. You have to go get it. I think we stand, look and hope sometimes.”

Spoonhour said that he is look-ing for the offense to flow more through sophomore forward Josh Piper.

“We have to figure out how to get Josh (Piper) more looks,” Spoonhour said. “He can shoot i t a n d we h a ve t o g e t h i m looks.”

Spoonhour also said, that on top of feeding the ball to piper, the offense must run through senior guard Austin Akers, as fa-tigue and mentality wore him down as the game went on.

“We have to get the ball out of (Austin) Akers’ hands,” the first year head coach said. “He played 37 minutes, and that’s too long to guard the fastest guy on the floor and handle the ball, and then continue to cre-ate shots.”

Austin picked up where he left off, coming off his Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Week performance. The guard scored a team-high 11 points, while shoot-ing 4-of-6 from the field.

Austin also tied senior guard Malcolm Herron with five re-bounds.

Junior Sherman Blanford fol-lowed on offense with 10 points, also on 4-of-6 shooting.

He added three rebounds and three assists to his stat sheet.

The Raiders out-shot the Pan-thers 42 percent to 37 percent for the game.

The Panthers will look to build off their second half performance and defensive effort as they hit the road for three games in as many days.

Eastern will compete in the East-ern Michigan Tournament where they will battle host Eastern Mich-igan, Texas-Pan American and IPFW Nov. 16-18 in Ypsilanti, Mich.

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or

ajacatezone@eiu.edu.