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The Faculty Senate was asked to weigh in on an investigation occurring at Chicago State Uni-versity regarding its president’s hiring process.

The senate had to resched-ule the discussion of the Tobac-co Coalition’s proposal to initiate a tobacco-free campus for its next meeting on Jan. 8 because it was one member short of a quorum.

The shared governance com-mittee of the Chicago State Uni-versity’s Faculty Senate submitted an investigative report of Presi-

dent Wayne Watson’s process of hiring three new faculty mem-bers in the criminal justice de-partment.

Faculty Senate member Grant Sterling, a philosophy profes-sor, said the report indicated that Watson hired the new faculty in a period of two weeks and with-out consulting the official search committee.

“The selection process ordi-narily takes about a year,” Ster-ling said.

The report states that one of the new faculty members was given nearly double the intend-ed salary, and none of them were

sufficiently qualified or recom-mended by the department.

Faculty Senate chairman An-drew Methven, a biological stud-ies professor, said the Faculty Senate from Chicago State Uni-versity requested input in con-sidering what actions they should take.

“They asked us if this behav-ior and the action in and of it-self constitute grounds for a mo-tion of no confidence in the pres-ident,” Methven said.

He said senate members would continue discussion about the questions submitted and draft a response during an upcoming

meeting.The senate also reviewed vari-

ous committee reports.Methven said the executive

committee recently discussed the mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect from the de-partment of Child and Fami-ly Services and President Per-ry’s decision to require univer-sity employees to receive sexual harassment training every three years.

Methven said the conversation was inspired by the recent inci-dents of reported sexual abuse at Penn State University.

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The scenes people see on stage during plays and other productions are built in a shop at the edge of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The Scene Shop is a room filled with workbenches, tools and piec-es of wood where the scenes of productions like the “Christmas Carol” and “Almost, Maine” are brought to life.

Christopher Gadomski, the shop foreman and theatre arts pro-fessor, said the shop usually makes everything on stage outside of the costumes.

“We are responsible for tak-ing the designs from the designers for the scenery and the props and manufacturing them,” Gadoms-ki said. “If that involves building from scratch, we do so, and if it in-volves taking what we got in exist-ing stock and modifying it, we can do it as well.”

He said they are responsible for making sure everything functions properly, even when it is on stage.

Everyone who is involved in the production will make notes regard-ing the different props and if any-thing is not functioning correctly.

“It varies from show to show, some you have very little tweaking that

you have to do to get things working properly,” Gadomski said. “Others it’ll be days and days of notes.”

Gadomski said they will usual-ly find out what the problems are after technical rehearsals and have only a few days to fix the problems.

The group will run through the play and the designers will sit in the audience and take notes on the things that need to be fixed.

“We have to have everything ready by the time shop closes on (opening night),” Gadomski said.

He said the process of building the sets starts with a scene design-er sketching what they think the set should look like, including differ-ent size scales.

“We take those designs and fig-ure out how it actually has to be built, the practicality of it and what we need to do to make that design come to life,” Gadomski said.

The workers in the shop also help build special projects, some for the Costume Shop.

Gadomski and another worker built the frame for the glow serpent that was featured in the play.

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JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSpare wood is propped up against a wall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center scene shop until further use.

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JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSFreshman theatre arts major Tiffany Mazur demonstrates how the band saw functions in the scene shop at Doudna Fine Arts Center. Mazur started working in the scene shop for a class and then eventu-ally it became a hobby for her. She only needs 45 hours in the shop for the class, she has completd more than a 100 hours thus far.

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Eastern has seen a decrease in earned de-grees that is directly related to decreasing en-rollment.

Blair Lord, the vice president for Academ-ic Affairs, said Eastern will see the effects of de-clining enrollment reflected in the earned de-grees reports for the next few years.

In Fiscal Year 2012, Eastern awarded a total of 2,782 degrees that included bachelor’s de-grees, post-bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and specialist degrees.

The numbers were less than in FY 2011, when 2,907 degrees were earned by Eastern students.

“We’re starting to see how our entering classes have been somewhat smaller for a peri-od of time,” he said. “In one way I take that as evidence that we’ve graduated some of the big-ger classes that we had a number of years ago.”

Although the numbers decreased, Lord said the figures did not come as a surprise to him because of the decline Eastern has seen in en-rollment.

According to the Earned Degrees Report, the majors with the largest number of bache-lor’s degree recipients included general studies, elementary education, kinesiology and sports studies, communication studies, and family and consumer sciences.

Lord said the general studies program is housed in the School of Continuing Education and serves as a degree completion program.

“The program is dedicated almost complete-ly to nontraditional students,” he said. “Stu-dents in that program are almost entirely peo-ple who have been away from higher education or never started higher education when they left high school.”

General studies was the highest on the list of bachelor’s degree recipients with 236 degrees earned in FY 2012.

Lord said many of these students take classes on weekends and online.

“This segment of our market and for high-er education in general is the one that is grow-ing the most right now,” he said. “I expect we’ll continue to see some growth in this area be-cause it’s an area where there’s opportunities for growth.”

Lord said public policy is encouraging more people to get a higher education degree.

“It’s likely to be our biggest growth area,” he said.

Graduation rates must be calculated over several years, but Lord said Eastern has seen a fairly consistent six-year graduation rate of around 60 percent.

“For a regional comprehensive institution, our graduation rate is very high,” Lord said. “We’re 10 to 12 percentage points higher than typical regional comprehensive institutions.”

Graduation rates are not instantly assessable, but Lord said Eastern will be able to see the residual effects of enrollment decreases in the next few years.

“We’ve started to see some of the decreases, but they’ll be modest changes if they follow the pattern of enrollment change,” he said. “The biggest changes (in degree recipients) happen when the really big classes graduate.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Mitch Davis, a senior management information systems major, rehearses new songs and freshens up on older material Wednesday evening in his home as he prepares for today’s Square Fest event.

Square Fest provides stage for new music, new bands and new surroundings

By Brad YorkVerge Editor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dawson has high hopes for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In the chill autumn air, stu-dents and community members braced themselves against the cold to fight hunger Tuesday.

The students and commu-nity members participated in the Freeze Out Hunger 3K at 4 p.m. near the Campus Pond.

Freeze Out Hunger 3K was hosted by the Student Volunteer Center as part of the month-long EIU Hunger Challenge, which helped raise funds, ma-terials and awareness of hunger.

In temperatures barely above freezing, participants in the 3K could either walk or run the length of the Panther Trail.

Registrat ion was $10, and all funds went to support the Charleston Food Pantry.

Rachel Fisher, the director of the Student Volunteer Center, explained that for each dollar

raised, the food pantry can pro-vide $10 worth of food to com-munity families in need.

This year was the second year for the 3K after the Student Volunteer Center first hosted the event in 2011.

After near ly seven part ic i -pants registered last year, the center decided to host the pro-gram again.

Fisher said 15 participants registered for Tuesday’s run and she hopes the volunteer cen-ter hosts the run next year with greater success.

“If we can keep doubling ev-ery year, that’s some math I can really enjoy,” she said.

Marko Grunhagen, a business professor, walked the 3K while bundled in a large brown coat and deep-blue knitted cap.

His face red from the cold, Grunhagen said he was glad to see students helping people in need as winter approaches.

“I am glad so many students showed up to support this,” he said. “We are doing something good for people in need.”

As he approached the f in-ish line next to the Campus Pa-vilion, he was welcomed by a group of eight young children cheering him on.

The chi ldren were par t of Teen REACH, a loca l a f ter -s c h o o l p ro g r a m f o r a t - r i s k Charleston High School stu-dents.

Brianna Wojnowski, a junior psychology major, volunteers as a counselor at Teen REACH and walked and ran alongside the children.

She said the 3K was a good way to get the children involved in the community.

“It was nice to get them out and cheering people on who are participating,” she said. “It shows how good it is to get in-volved in the community.”

Fi s h e r c r ow d e d i n t o t h e group of children and joined their cheers. As her breath rose in a cloud of vapor, she yelled, “Looking good! Finish strong!”

The pre sence o f the Teen REACH children was a great and welcome addition to the 3K, Fisher said.

As the last students crossed the finish line, the evening sun sunk quickly among the streaks of clouds on the horizon.

The f inal pink and yel low rays g l inted of f the Campus Pond as Fisher reflected on the purpose of the event and her hopes for the efforts of the Stu-dent Volunteer Center.

“It’s a very, very good day, and it’s a very good addition to the history of what we are try-ing to do here,” she said.

Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812

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The Charleston Parks and Recre-ation Department plans to spread Christmas cheer to families and stu-dents on Dec. 1.

Christmas in the Heart of Charles-ton will have music, refreshments, en-tertainment and a parade.

Cherri Sims, the past co-chair-woman of the Charleston Christmas Committee, said the Christmas cele-bration started 15 years ago with Sal-lie Cougill, the original coordinator.

Sims said the first Christmas in the Heart of Charleston was much small-er than it is today.

Sims said she; Bob Kincade, owner of What’s Cookin’; and seven others wanted to keep the Christmas celebra-tion going for the community.

“It was a purely grassroots commu-

nity effort,” Sims said.The Christmas celebration will

be from 5 to 7 p.m. with the parade starting at 5 p.m.

The grand marshal for the parade is Sasha Edwards.

Edwards is a local teenager who battled with leukemia in the past. She is in remission and started Sasha’s Softies, an organization that makes blankets to give to children with can-cer.

Diana Ratliff, the tourism and spe-cial events supervisor, said Edwards makes the blankets herself and do-nates them to hospitals.

“She makes blankets and donates them back to the children’s hospital cancer wards,” Ratliff said.

Other groups, like First Federal of Coles County and the Christian Campus House, will also be in the pa-rade.

Ratliff said there will be enter-tainment from the Salvation Army, the Charleston Community Band members and carolers.

“(The Salvation Army) are going to have a brass quartet out on the square playing Christmas carols,” Ratliff said. “We also have several groups walking around who will be caroling.”

The Charleston Community Band members will play from 6:15 to 7 p.m.

The Salvation Army, the Knights of Columbus and the Boy Scouts will pass out different refreshments, like roasted chestnuts throughout the evening.

Many stores on the square will be open during the celebration.

Art Smart will have ornament making in their store, at 720 Jack-son Ave., for $5.

Ratliff said Persimmon Lane and the Lincoln Book Shop will also be open during the celebration.

“Lincoln Book Shop will be open that evening and will have Mother-lode playing there,” Rafliff said.

Ratliff said the community turn-out depends on the weather.

“If we have good weather, we get a bigger crowd,” Ratliff said. “(If ) we get bad weather, it’s a lit-tle smaller.”

Ratliff said she hopes a lot of people attend this year, because it is a free event to show appreciation to the community.

“It’s more of a family environ-ment, but we welcome the students to come out,” Ratliff said.

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

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The University Board has changed the day of its monthly Open Mic Night program to accommodate an-other event on campus.

The UB, which hosts a monthly open mic night program on Wednes-days, has changed this month’s pro-gram to Thursday.

UB co-chairman David Sims, a se-nior kinesiology and sports studies major, said the reason for the change is because the Essence of a Man con-test, a male scholarship contest run by the Black Student Union.

“They had their date before we did so when we found about it we changed ours,” Sims said. “We want-ed to pay our respect to them and not create a conflict of events for people.”

Sims said when the UB decided to change the date they also had to change the location of the program, which was originally scheduled to take place at the Java Beanery & Bak-ery coffee shop in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

“Java was already booked, so we changed it to the 7th Street Under-ground,” Sims said.

The theme of this week’s open mic is “Unplugged”

“It’s supposed to be more acoustic,” Sims said. “I guess technically the in-struments could be plugged in, but not really heavy metal or rock.”

Sims described the theme of Thurs-day’s performances as “coffee shop type music.”

“This theme is more up in the air,” he said. “With some of the oth-er main stage events we have had cer-tain requirements of the performers.”

Sims said these requirements have included that the performers perform original pieces such as for the So You Think You Can Rap? contest.

“They can perform whatever they want,” Sims said. “It doesn’t have to be something they wrote.”

The program is also not a contest so no awards will be given out, al-though UB members will raffle UB merchandise as door prizes.

This is the last UB sponsored open mic night of the semester and Sims said he is looking forward to a chang-es to the mainstage division of UB next semester, including the new spot-light series of programming, which will be based upon the idea of an open mic night.

In February, the winner of that contest will receive their own UB event to “showcase their talent” and will be featured on the poster.

“Hopefully it will give students more incentive to get involved,” Sims said. “If audience members see the performers treating it more seriously, they might attend more.”

Along with the new programs, Sims said the UB is currently re-cruiting for a new mainstage coor-dinator. Applications for the posi-tion are available online or in the Student Activity Center of the Union. Applications are due Fri-day.

Thursday’s open mic program begins at 7 p.m. in the 7th Street Underground of the Union.

Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812 or alwywialowski@eiu.

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Kate Quill Staff Reporter

The final Student Senate meet-ing of the semester will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Student Body President Kaci Abolt will be giving the State of the Univer-sity Address at the beginning of this meeting.

Gurick, a sophomore business ma-jor, will follow this with the State of the Senate Address.

At this meeting, Student Senate members for next semester will be of-

ficially announced and seated.Gurick will also give one Student

Senate member the Senator of the Se-mester Award.

Elections for next semester’s speaker of the student senate will take place and be announced at this meeting as well.

Student Senate member John Prof-fitt, a senior history major, and cur-rent Student Senate Speaker Mitch Gurick will both be running for the speaker position.

Following these announcements, committee chair members will pres-ent their final reports of the semester.

This week’s meeting will be longer than usual because of the re-election,

seating of new Student Senate mem-bers and the two addresses.

The Student Senate will also ap-prove Undergraduate Dietetic Re-search Organization and Order of Omega as registered student organi-zations.

The Undergraduate Dietetic Re-search Organization promotes nu-trition and health through booths, events, awareness weeks and partici-pate in the annual heath fair.

The Order of Omega recognizes men and women in Greek life who have demonstrated great leadership in Greek activities to encourage them to continue inspiring others.

Mark Hudson, the director of the University Housing and Dining Ser-vices, will be giving a Bond Revenue presentation at the Student Senate meeting.

Ceci Brinker, the director of the Student Life Office, will also pres-ent her advisory report to the Student Senate.

There will not be a Student Out-reach on the Road table because this is the last meeting.

Meetings will resume in January.

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Yesterday’s suggestion that political discus-sion should continue apart from campaign sea-sons is a good one.

One challenge is the question which asks if there exists a season apart from campaign sea-sons. A need, which is lacking is the disappear-ance of the “ watchdog press,” which has been

both the intellectual understandings and the ambition to report on both parties with inves-tigative probity, exposing their weaknesses and phony claims. Yes, even their strengths could be announced.

We could hope for creating a firewall of commonly shared knowledge, which could de-fend us from all the false claims, which under-mine our ability to arrive at good decisions.

We need more light, better philosophy, and less heat.

“...the anger of man does not work the righ-teousness of God” (James 1: 20).

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I’ve been watching a lot of “Justice League” lately. The 2001-2006 cartoon wasn’t my favor-ite as a kid, but it brought together Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and others for fantas-tic adventures filled with colorful fight scenes, so I watched it all the time.

Having rediscovered the series on YouTube, I realized it had so much more to offer. For a show marketed to kids, it tackled some serious ethical dilemmas and questions like, “Is it real-ly a good idea to have a group of superpowered individuals traveling around the world dishing out their version of justice unchecked?”

Can you imagine people with superpowers? People are terrible. They lie, cheat, steal, mur-der and can generally just ruin your day. Sure, it might be awesome for you to have a power or two, but are you sure you’ll act justly? When you imagine yourself with some metahuman ability (we all do, occasionally) do you typically imagine how much you’re going to help people, or how much you’re going to help yourself and how much easier your life will be?

When it comes down to it, power corrupts. It’s why people don’t always trust politicians (like the four Illinois governors who have been jailed in the past 40 years) or police (for refer-ence, see the movie “Serpico”) because people in power have a history of abusing it.

If we started handing out invulnerability and heat vision to the general public, it’s hard to imagine a world with more heroes than villains.

But I’m not about to give up hope. Enter Kim Peek, a man who could perfectly remem-ber about 98 percent of his life and had mem-orized 12,000 books. Peek was the inspiration

for the 1988 film “Rain Man,” where Dustin Hoffman’s character displayed extraordinary memory as a result of his autism. Though not autistic, Peek’s memory can still be regarded as superhuman (he was a primary example in the article “6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mu-tant Superpowers” on Cracked.com).

We can all imagine situations where a pow-erful memory would come in handy; finals are coming up, after all. As demonstrated in “Rain Man,” superb recall can win you a lot of money at blackjack. But despite the financial potential, Peek reportedly said using his ability to gamble would be unethical and refused. He was a man with a real life superpower and he lived uncor-rupted by it.

Maybe a world of superheroes isn’t impos-sible. While I’m fairly certain the universe of four-colored comic books is far from reality, one never knows what the future holds. Peek’s ability was likely caused by congenital brain ab-normalities. These are rare, of course, but the human race has grown vast. Our species adapts and who knows what new kinds of unique batches of brain chemistry are being produced with each new birth.

We might see a world similar to the TV show Alphas’ “neurodiversity,” where unique brain structure results in individuals with unique abilities but in exchange have a down-side. Despite Peek’s amazing memory, he had trouble with everyday motor skills and needed help dressing himself.

Our superpowered world would require us to work together because if more of us had ex-traordinary abilities we’d presumably have ex-traordinary weaknesses as well. We’d be interde-pendent to compensate for these weaknesses in order for our powers to contribute to society.

Which isn’t really all that far from real life anyway. We all have our abilities and we have to work in concert in order to achieve our level of society. It would have been impossible for us to achieve the level of industrialized success that we have without us working together in groups.

Sure our abilities may not exactly be su-perhuman, but they can still be super. You may be a talented musician or maybe you can solve differential equations like it’s nobodies business. You might paint, throw an amaz-ing fastball or you could be a great listen-er that helps their friends get through rough parts of life.

We’ve all been blessed. It may not be in the way we hoped. Our lives aren’t always going to be extraordinary, but we all bring something different to the table and that’s what can make us super.

Seth Schroeder is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or

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As new Student Senate members are being sworn in today, now is the time for them to think ahead about improvements that can be made for the next semester.

The senate has made some initiatives that do deserve commendation, even though communicat-ing these initiatives with students has been lacking.

Two actions that can benefit students have been the Student Senate’s Dial-A-Ride program, Pan-therpalooza and an informative tab on its webpage for students considering living off-campus.

However, there have also been issues where the Student Senate has been relatively silent.

The Student Senate has not reached out to the student body to thoroughly examine the Chick-fil-A controversy.

Students have approached the Student Senate presenting their views on this issue, but the sen-ate has for the most part kept silent.

Anything students deem an important issue — especially an active debate like this — should be at the forefront of the senate’s attention.

A perfect way to address this, and to draw stu-dent’s attention to care about issues, would have been to have at least one forum (preferably several) with students and Eastern community members.

The Student Senate can also take more initia-tive in seeking student body’s opinion. Students probably have many issues they want their stu-dent government to address.

The student government should work with University Police Department and offer more safety walks and forums to discuss how students can be safe on campus.

Not that the Eastern is not a safe place to go to school, but safety around college campuses should be a top priority in any situation.

The student government has an opportuni-ty to offer students something that protects their well-being.

The student government should strive to address issues before they are brought to its meeting.

For example, a current issue that has been brought up in previous years is being discussed again — a tobacco-free campus.

Many students will be passionate on either side of the issue.

The student government should analyze how their campuses and student governments across are dealing with this very real issue.

While they are analyzing the issue, they can also be surveying the current student body to better rep-resent how students on campus feel about smoking.

With only 30 Student Senate members, they were elected to represent about 367 students each.

This is not an easy task for anyone, but this is a job in which they are elected to do.

They are the voice of Eastern’s student body and by keeping silent they are silencing student voices as well.

The student government’s mission statement reads as followed “student government will pro-tect the rights and interests of the students while also enhancing the quality of the EIU experience through the power that is vested in them by East-ern Illinois University.”

Eastern athletics have started a new era, it is time for the student government to have one too.

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“Those are fun extra challenges that are not technically part of my job,” Gadomski said. “It’s one of those fun problem solving things.”

The scene shop employs about sev-en students and have different stu-dents come in to fulfill hours for classes.

“We have a steady stream, or well you hope a steady stream, of workers who come into the shop and put in their time,” Gadomski said.

Gadomski said one of his respon-sibilities is to help students find out what they are good at and what they like to do.

“I’ll have anywhere from two to 15 people in the shop sometimes and ev-erybody keeps coming to me and ask-ing me what to do,” Gadomski said.

He said he likes working with the stu-dents who come in to work in the shop.

“We have fun, we get the work done, but we have fun,” Gadomski said.

He said there are some people who are really good at building while oth-ers cannot. He said he tries to match their likes and skills.

Gadomski said he worked in the shop when he was a student here in 1995.

“I started working in the scene shop, just putting in a lot of hours be-cause I enjoyed doing it,” Gadomski said.

He said he worked in the shop for about three years until he graduated in December 1998.

Gadomski returned this fall to

take over as the foreman and to teach classes.

“Ever since I got my master’s de-gree, I always said I wanted to come back to Eastern and teach, so it’s kind of my dream job, being back here in the theater department,” Gadomski said.

The scene shop is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.

He said he enjoys the shop. “It’s never the same thing twice, it’s

always getting to do something fun and creative and new, and I thorough-ly enjoy that part of my job,” Gadom-ski said.

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

“The sexual harassment training is not something required by the state, but the president thought it was a good thing that we should be doing,” he said.

Methven also spoke about recent discussions at the Program Analysis Steering Committee.

He said the committee began de-liberation on what metrics to use to measure the internal and external demands for university programs.

“The thing that I thought was re-ally good about the exercises we’ve been doing is that they’re really broad based as far as the different constituency represented on campus, and so there were a lot of different perspectives and a variety of differ-ent interests coming into it,” he said.

Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or sa-

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Anyone who prefers or enjoys the taste of homemade cookies can learn how to create eight differ-ent types of dough at the Cook-ie Dough Swap Shop from 6 to 9 p.m. next Thursday in Room 2309 of Klehm Hall.

The School of Continuing Ed-ucation and the School of Family and Consumer Sciences are offering the instructional, non-credit class to prepare students for the holiday baking season.

Participants will be divided into groups of four amongst six separate kitchens.

Kathy Rhodes, a family and con-sumer sciences professor, will show members of each kitchen how to prepare a different type of cookie dough.

At the end of the workshop, workers from each section will go around and exchange samples with the other stations.

Each participant will collect a to-tal of eight selections of dough that they can take home and store in

their freezer to be baked for the hol-idays.

JoEllen Hickenbottom, a pro-gram coordinator in the School of Continuing Education and one of the organizers of the swap shop event, said she had fun participating in the shop last year.

“It’s just like when you make a batch at home, except here you will walk away with eight different types,” Hickenbottom said.

She said groups of friends who would like to work together can sign up, but the division of workers per station might be dependent on the number of participants.

“Last year, we even had mother-daughter teams coming in,” Hick-enbottom said.

She said the types of dough of-fered change each year, and last year’s selection included chocolate chip, snicker doodles, sugar cook-ies and her personal favorite, cow-boy cookies.

She said there are many benefits to making cookie dough over buy-

ing it pre-made from a store.“The number one thing is that

you can use the ingredients you want to use,” Hickenbottom said. “You can create your own recipe; if you have a peanut allergy you can just take those out.”

She also said following recipes and baking are skills that are easily picked up, even for those with min-imal kitchen experience.

“You’ll find that when you do it yourself, the cookies will taste bet-ter and they’re healthier than what you find at the store, and in this case everything is provided for you,” she said.

Participants must be at least 18 years old and pay a $40 fee for the instruction and supplies.

People who want to participate have to register Wednesday by con-tacting the School of Continuing Education.

Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812

or samarkham@eiu.edu.

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FILE PHOTO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSParticipants prepare thumbprint cookie dough during the “Cookie Dough Swap Shop” Dec. 4, 2011, in Khelm Hall. Last year’s participants made enough cookie dough to bake over 1,000 cookies.

“You’ll find that when you do it yourself, the cookies will taste better and they’re healthier than what you find at the store.”

-JoEllen Hickenbottom, organizer of swap shop event

Class to prepare students for holiday season

SCIENCE

By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

Dr. Kenneth Ramos of the Uni-versity of Louisville came to campus Tuesday to educate students on his research about genetic reprogram-ming.

His “Genome Plasticity: a Story on Lines and Genetic Reprogram-ming” presentation focused on the technical, medical side of his biolog-ical research.

Ramos also met with students be-fore his presentation for an extended lunch to talk about his research and answer any questions the students had.

He began by linking the human genome, or set of genetic material, to

plasticity because it is not static.“We have regulations about code

and if you get a hold of plasticity, you can hope to make a difference in the way we manage human disease and the way we change the trajectory of disease,” he said.

Ramos introduced the group to the biological concept of LINEs, which stands for long, interspersed, nuclear elements.

“They’re essentially the ‘junk’ of DNA,” he said.

He stressed the importance of the ENCODE Project, which is the ency-clopedia of DNA elements.

“The ENCODE is essentially the post completion of human ge-nome sequencing,” he said. “The realization came that having the

code and the alphabet of the hu-man genome was just the begin-ning of the trip.”

Ramos said the code has helped his research in genetics and reprogram-ming.

“The ENCODE was basically to assign meaning and functionality to the human genome code, which had just been revealed in the early 2000s,” he said.

The biggest surprise that was real-ized through the code was that hu-mans are not superior to other species genetically, Ramos said.

“Not because we have more genes or make more proteins, but because the ways that we regulate genetic pro-gramming,” he said. “Out of that ex-ercise, we came to realize that we’re

not that much different from chim-panzees or worms, even.”

Ramos said technology empowered his research team to make a number of discoveries about “junk” DNA, or DNA that did not appear to have any recognizable function.

“It’s really not junk anymore,” he said. “Many of the sequences carry functions of the biology itself.”

Ramos covered the technical and architectural aspects of the proj-ect and detailed all the processes and components that make up the ge-nome including the chromosomes and the chromatin.

“Understanding the biology of reg-ulation of this level can actually give you tools to manipulate genetic ex-pression,” he said.

After talking about some of his re-search, Ramos talked about the im-portance it can have to medicine and society.

“Cells can transition to different genetic stages, but all of (them) are stages that can be moderated and re-versed,” he said. “If I’m managing a patient, maybe someday I might be able to manage that patient in the complete absence of biological knowl-edge, only with the basis of under-standing the biology that is taking place.”

Ramos said he hopes it will bring about the “medicine of the future.”

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

or redexter@eiu.edu.

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The men’s basketball team gives up an av-erage of 58.9 points per game, surrender-ing 412 total points in seven games this season. That ranks second best among Ohio Valley Confer-ence teams. However, the Panthers’ scoring offense averages just 57.1 points per game, scoring 12 points fewer than their op-ponents through those same seven games. That places Eastern last in the OVC, as the only team to average fewer than 60 points per game.

REPORTING BY ANTHONY C ATEZONE; PHOTOS BY DOMINIC BAIMA, MIR ANDA PLOSS, JACOB SALMICH; DESIGN BY ASHLEY HOLSTROM | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS

FIVE FACTS FOR FANS

Eastern’s women’s basketball team ranks in the bottom half of the OVC in both field goal percent-age defense (10th) and three-point field goal percentage de-fense (12th), giving up 48.8 percent and 42.3 percent, respec-tively. Through their first five games, the Panthers suffer from a -11.4 scoring margin (8th), as their most recent loss came as a 105-42 thrashing by No. 25 Dayton. The Panthers also suf-fered a 30 point loss, 69-39, in their sea-son opener at Indi-ana State on Nov. 9 in Terre Haute, Ind. The team is currently 3-4 on the season.

The men’s basketball team is shooting an OVC-worst 56.9 per-cent from the free throw line. The Pan-thers have sunk 62-of-109 attempts from the charity stripe, as opposed to their opponents’ 104-of-145 (71.7 percent). Without sophomore forward Josh Piper shooting 19-of-21 (90.5) on the year, Eastern would be making just 48.8 per-cent of its foul shots. Piper is shooting .484, tied with Sher-man Blanford for best on the team.

Senior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon has been the main facili-tator for the women’s basketball team, as she ranks second in the OVC in both as-sists per game and assist-to-turnover ratio. Nixon leads the Panthers with 5.4 assists per game through five contests. She is the only Pan-ther inside the top 15 in the conference. Nixon also posts a 1.7 assist-to-turnover ratio, with 27 assists to 16 turnovers. The senior from Michigan City, Ind., was a First Team OVC selection last season.

Senior guard Austin Akers averages 35.3 minutes per game for the men’s basketball team, which is second most among all OVC players. He leads the Panthers in total min-utes with 247, which is 31 total minutes and five minutes per game more than the next teammate. In those minutes, Akers has compiled a team-best 27 assists, aver-aging 3.9 assists per game, placing him seventh in the OVC.

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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: #EIU men’s basketball will host Central Arkansas on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Lantz Arena

All Accesswith Hailey Foss, women’s swimming

MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior Hailey Foss sits by Padovan Pool Tuesday. Floss holds the second fastest time in the 500-meter freestyle at Eastern and the fourth fastest time in the 1,000-meter freestyle, which she set this year.

By Aldo Soto Staff Reporter

An athlete’s expectations are placed on you by coaches, teammates, fans, yourself and your family, but for Hai-ley Foss, those expectations are raised when they come from a former na-tional swimming champion in three different events.

Foss is no stranger to success, hav-ing earned several accolades through-out her high school career; which in-cluded being named team MVP all four years on her varsity swim team and was also a four-time-all-confer-ence honoree.

Foss said she began to swim at an early age.

“I started swimming when I was seven and all because they sent out a flier at school about the local swim team in my area, the Beloit Aquatic

club,” Foss said.But since she began to swim, there

has been one person who has influ-enced her the most, her mother.

“I later found out my mom was a swimmer all her life, and a good one at that,” Foss said. “Once I found out my mom was a swimmer, it made me love the sport more. I have always looked up to my mom a lot and this is just one more thing I have in com-mon with her.”

Tracey Foss, Hailey’s mother, was preparing to compete at the Olym-pic Trials when she found out she was pregnant with Hailey.

Foss said she owes everything to her mom.

“I am very thankful she gave up so much to have me,” Foss said.

Foss said the expectations placed on her by her mom are immense, but that she welcomes the pressure.

“I think she has high expectations for me, but it’s just because she knows what I am capable of and believes in me as a swimmer,” Foss said. “Some-times I feel the pressure, but what ath-lete doesn’t have pressure to do well?”

Foss said that although her mother was a great swimmer, who was ranked No.1 in Wisconsin and won nation-als in three events as a member of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay swim team, she does not feel she lives under her mom’s shadow.

The senior said she separates her career from her mom’s, as her mom swam in different events and only swam for one year in college, but takes her advice at every point in her life.

Foss’ mother has always been by her side, through the good and the bad.

Foss looked to her mother after a disappointing finish to her junior year

when she said she had a bad perfor-mance during the team’s conference meet.

“Not swimming well at the end of the year is rough when all you can think about is all the hard work you have put in,” Foss said.

This was much more disappointing to Foss after having a breakout season in her sophomore year that had her recording the second best time in the 500-Free in Eastern history.

“I just missed the record by hun-dredths of a second but it was a great time for me,” Foss said.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812

or asoto2@eiu.edu.

Foss makes her mark at Eastern

By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

The Eastern women’s basketball team went 2-1 over the Thanksgiving break, fueled by a couple of high-scoring per-formances.

Junior guard Jordyne Crunk played 25 minutes off the bench in a 21-point home win over San Jose State, for the team’s first win this season.

Crunk scored a team-high 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting, including three three-pointers.

Four of five starters in the game reached double figures in scoring, led by Mariah King who aided her 4-of-13 shooting performance from the field by making 6-of-10 shots from the free throw line.

Sophomore forward Sabina Oro-szova was the only starter not to reach double figures, but she performed well by scoring nine points and grab-bing seven rebounds.

In the Panthers’ next game, a 16-point win over Buffalo, senior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon led the Pan-thers with 22 points, 10 rebounds and six assists in 28 minutes.

Mitchell coming onSenior forward Sydney Mitchell has

come on in recent games, scoring nine and seven points, respectively, in her last two games out.

Mitchell, who has started the sea-son in an unfamiliar role — coming off the bench — is trying to get into game shape after nursing an injury most of the summer.

Mitchell only scored three points in the first three games on 1-of-15 shoot-ing, but emerged against Buffalo and scored seven points on 3-of-7 shooting.

Against No. 25 Dayton, Mitchell scored nine points and grabbed six re-bounds in 19 minutes of play.

“This might have been Sydney’s best game,” Eastern head coach Lee Buchanan said.

So far, it has been, but Mitchell is a ways away from the 11 points she av-eraged per game, last season.

Dayton beats Eastern, moves up in polls

The Dayton Flyers came into the game against Eastern on Sunday ranked No. 25 in the nation.

After its convincing 63-point win, the Flyers have moved up to No. 23 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll and to No. 22 in the USA Today Top 25 poll.

The Flyers are sixth in the nation in scoring, averaging 84.7 points per game, but have scored more points than almost any team — 508 in six games.

The Flyers are 6-0 this season and play Wright State (2-2) next.

Conference scoring leadersThe usual pair, Tennessee-Martin’s

Heather Butler and Jasmine Newsome, is first and third in the scoring ranks early this season.

Butler leads the Ohio Valley Confer-ence with 21.8 points per game, while Newsome scores 19.7 points per game.

Eastern senior forward Mariah King is sixth in the conference, averaging 13.6 points per game.

The Panthers’ next game is at 7 p.m. Thursday against Indiana-Purdue-Indi-anapolis in Lantz Arena.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-2812

or admcnamee@eiu.edu.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Panthers finding groove

MEN’S BASKETBALL

By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

The Eastern men’s basketball team is eyeing to improve to .500 for the first time this season.

Eastern will wrap up its current three-game home stretch, as it hosts Central Arkansas at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Lantz Arena. The Panthers enter the non-conference match with a 3-4 re-cord, while the Bears come in at 1-3.

The Panthers have won three of their last four games. The most recent was a 64-44 home win over Houston Baptist Saturday afternoon.

Sophomore Josh Piper has been a

force at the forward position during that stretch, as he has scored in dou-ble-digits the last five games. Two ca-reer-highs by Piper have highlighted that span.

Piper posted a career-high 28 points and seven rebounds to pick up the first win under the Spoonhour era, beating Texas-Pan American 63-50 on Nov. 17.

Piper is also the Panthers’ leading scorer averaging 13 points a game. His 5.3 rebounds put him at second on the team, while junior forward Sherman Blanford leads the team with 5.9 re-bounds.

Blanford is the team’s second leading

scorer with 10.6 points per game.Eastern possesses the second best

scoring defense in the Ohio Valley Con-ference, as it gives up 58.9 points per game, as it is one of two teams to allow under 60 points.

However, the Panthers’ scoring of-fense averages just 57.1 points per game, ranking last in the conference as they are the only team being held under 60 points per game in the OVC.

For the Bears, they are on a two-game skid, losing to Sacramento State and Arkansas State, 71-68 and 73-72, respectively. Their third loss comes at the hands of Arizona State 79-64.

Central Arkansas has four players

that average double-digit points per game. The duo of forwards Jarvis Gar-ner and Jordan Harks lead that group with 15.3 and 14.5 points per game, re-spectively.

Those two are also the team’s top re-bounding men as they are neck-and-neck again with 6.3 and six rebounds per game.

After the three-game home stand is capped off, Eastern will travel to New York to take on Stony Brook at 1 p.m. Dec. 1.

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.

Panthers to host Central Arkansas

An extended version of this story is available at

dailyeasternnews.com