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Community members are rallying to preserve the smell of fresh cof-fee and the sound of local musi-

cians on the square by organizing a benefit to raise $18,000 for Jackson Avenue Coffee.

The benefit Wednesday is to help owner Dano Reible pay for his business’ debt accu-mulated from unpaid state sales tax.

After being turned down for a loan, Reible was planning on closing the local coffee shop until community members began a cam-paign to save their beloved gathering place.

The group began raising money on Sat-urday with Melanie Mills, a communica-tion studies professor, spearheading the “Save the JAC” campaign because she said she felt a connection with the coffee shop and wanted to save the atmosphere.

The benefit will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday at the JAC to raise money to save the coffee shop.

“We are hoping to announce at the end of that event that we made it,” Mills said.

The Third PlaceThe group wants to save the JAC because

of its atmosphere and the family environ-ment, Mills said

“There is nowhere else besides a bar where amateur musicians can play,” Mills said. “It’s one of the few bar alternatives that we have in the community. It’s for old peo-ple and young people alike.”

Reible said staying open is not about the money, but about all the customers who fre-quent the tables of the shop.

The JAC brings in about $6,000 a year after expenses and it is a low-level business, Mills said

“One of the reasons the group of us are helping because Dano took on this business on knowing that he was not going to make

a lot of money, but having a dream and a vi-sion,” Mills said.

She said Reible had the dream of provid-ing the community with a place to gather and for the arts.

“The JAC is more than a business in our community, it is a very important third place,” Mills said.

The concept of being a third place is the motto that the JAC operates on.

Reible said the JAC is a lot of people’s third place, their home and work being the first and second.

Reible will attend a hearing at 9 a.m. Thursday in Springfield where he has to turn over $18,000 or he will lose his busi-ness license.

He said even if they cannot raise the money, he feels blessed for all the support he has gotten from the community.

JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSLaura Boyce, of Charleston, helps her daughter Arwen, 6, with homework at Jackson Avenue Coffee. Laura said the family frequents the JAC to do homework and has been going for a long time.

Community rallies to save JACBy Samantha McDaniel | Daily Editor

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By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

Although Eastern is seeing a de-cline in the upcoming spring se-mester’s transfer rate, the Office of Transfer Relations is processing more than 400 applications.

Rita Pearson, the transfer coor-dinator for the Office of Transfer Relations, said the transfer student rates for Spring 2013 reflect the statewide enrollment decline that has been taking place.

“Many students have cut back to being part-time students,” she said. “We do tend to follow that state-wide trend as well.”

Pearson said it is taking students longer to move through the system because they are only part-time and take longer to graduate.

“About three or four years ago when that recession hit, there was a huge movement to go back to school,” she said. “We had an in-crease and we were excited to see a rise in transfer students as well.”

Unfortunately, Pearson said not as many students transferred to four-year institutions as were expected.

“They just couldn’t afford to stay in school or went into a technical program and were finished in two years,” she said. “The funding just isn’t there.”

Pearson said the previous peak is just now starting to level out.

“We had a record high last year of 1,150 transfer students in the fall,” she said.

The Office of Transfer Relations

does not track spring transfer rates as much over the years because it usually stays around 300 students, Pearson said.

“Spring tends to have less trans-fer students than in the fall,” Pear-son said. “We have lots of incom-pletes because we’re still process-ing.”

Pearson said the reason they are behind on the processing is because of the number of applications.

“There’s no way of knowing who’s going to matriculate, so we have to wait and see,” she said.

The number of applicants will differ from the number of students who actually come to Eastern in the spring, as not everyone who ap-plies to Eastern will attend.

Enrollment for community col-leges and four-year institutions has seen a decline in enrollment over the past few years.

Pearson said she expects a lower transfer rate because of the decrease in community college enrollment.

Pearson said efforts are being made to improve the transfer rates by doing calling campaigns and checking up with students who have been applying to see where they are at in the application process.

“We send out notifications to community colleges as to when we’re going to be there as well,” she said. “We’ve doubled our visits to feeder schools.”

Pearson said many students who transfer to Eastern have met all the requirements for their associate de-gree, but they never applied to re-ceive it and make it official.

“They really should get the cred-it for what they’ve done, so we en-courage students to do what we call reverse transfer,” she said.

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By Amanda Wilkinson Staff Reporter

The Charleston City Council is moving forward at the end of the year with a new $4,168,552 tax levy as well as a new city attorney.

The council also approved the sale of 249 Jack-son Ave., which the city took over because the building was in poor condition.

The newly approved tax levy amount is a 15-percent increase of from last year’s amount.

The tax levy is the maximum amount of money the city requests for the fiscal year.

The amount requested with determines what the next year’s property tax rate will be.

Mayor John Inyart said this money goes toward Charleston’s general fund.

Inyart said this is the first step of requesting the money from the county. After the request is sent, the county will figure any tax exemptions before property taxes next year.

Inyart said the county then figures the property tax rate for the tax bills that go out in June 2013.

Inyart said he expects the property tax rate to increase with the tax levy amount increase.

“We try to keep it in check the best we can but at the same time the cost of providing the servic-es to our residents continues to go up,” Inyart said.

Throughout the meeting, members of the coun-cil congratulated Brian Bower, the former city at-torney, for his new position as state’s attorney.

Bower was recently elected to the state’s attor-ney position, leaving an empty seat in the council.

Tax levy approved

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The Illinois State Police is current-ly looking for two people in connec-tion with a Monday shooting reported in Johnson County.

John L . Cun-ningham, 41, and Janet S. Cunning-ham, 43, of Wind-sor, are the two sus-pects, who allegedly shot a male victim. The victim was lat-er released from the hospital.

The police want people to be on the lookout for a stolen 1988 gray Dodge Dakota Pick-Up truck with a black topper. The Illinois registration is 38392W.

Anyone with information regarding informa-tion on this case can contact the Illinois State Police at 618-542-2171 ext. 1202 or 911.

The suspects are considered armed and dan-gerous.

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Linda Spence is leading a life most people only dream of, as she continues to pursue what she loves.

For the past 40 years, she has been the own-er of Spence’s on Jackson, a small shop that sells vintage clothing and accessories.

The self-proclaimed ‘Little Shoppe On The Corner,’ is at 722 Jackson Ave., in downtown Charleston.

This year is Spence’s on Jackson’s 40th anni-versary, a store that Spence opened up herself at age 28. Now 68, Spence appreciates all 40 years she has owned the shop, as very few people fol-low their passion.

“I feel very, very blessed that I can make a living doing this,” Spence said. “These 40 years have gone by in the blink of an eye. It really has, but I the love people. I love to laugh. I think this whole thing is freedom. How many people get to do what they want to do for 40 years and be happy with it? It’s a great thing.”

Spence said she instantly fell in love with rummage sales after moving to Charleston.

“I got addicted to the rummage sales,” Spen-ce said. “I lived in a town with 300 people and when I moved to Charleston, somebody asked me if I wanted to go to a rummage sale. When I went I thought, ‘how cool. This stuff is cheap. They don’t want this anymore?’”

Spence realized she wanted to open a business when friends would ask her to find things for them.

“I had more and more people asking me to try to find stuff for them,” she said. “Well, pretty soon I had more than enough of that, so I set up in a room in my house. After making appoint-ments with about 30 people, I decided I should open a shop.”

The idea of hunting for jewelry, trinkets and vintage clothing is what turned Spence on this unique hobby. But she said nothing makes her happier than when customers find exactly what they want in her store.

“I love the hunt,” Spence said. “I love look-ing for the stuff. It is just so awesome when I’m able to find something that somebody wants and they come and say, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Come here, give me a hug.’”

Spence said her best experience in her 40 years as the owner of Spence’s has been meeting so many diverse people, as she has met people from New York and all across the nation.

Spence’s friendships even reach overseas as she has created close bonds with people in Scotland and England But, her favorite people to interact with are by far the students at Eastern, she said.

“I have always catered to the students,” Spen-ce said. “I love them. I have made friends with an awful lot of them. They come back and see me, they email me, they call me and they send me birthday cards.”

She loves students so much, that she has hired some, but Spence believes that the carefree work environment gives her employees the exact feel-ing she has, which is it is not a job, rather what they have a passion for.

“I really like the style of stuff here,” said Janna Repta, an employee at Spence’s on

Jackson. “I’m not as knowledgeable as Lin-da (Spence) is, but it is definitely something I really like. I could definitely fill my entire wardrobe with just stuff from this store.”

Spence gives her employees the freedom to design the store themselves. She said it makes the place more unique, as the students can put their personalities into the store, as well.

Repta, a junior early childhood education major, said she believes that Spence letting her employees design the inside of the store appeals to the customer’s eye.

“The students who work here can put up what they like,” Repta said. “So then, it re-lates back to all different customers, because all different people work here. It’s great to be able to have an artistic input into the store.”

As for looking ahead, Spence said she does not see an end for Spence’s on Jackson in

sight.“I am going to do this as long as I possi-

bly can,” she said. “I am not the type to sit around. I don’t travel, so this is my life. It is what keeps me going, and I hope to continue on my journey as long as I can.”

The only thing that will change for Spen-ce’s on Jackson is the outlook of the store, as the store will take a step back in time.

“I have changed my outlooks,” Spence said. “It is to diversify and take back my shop to what it started out with, and be almost to-tal vintage. My love has always been and al-ways will be anything that is eclectic, differ-ent or vintage.”

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

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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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Good Morning Midnight band members Elgin Combs (guitarist), Michael “Woody” Woodring (drummer), Kyle Swalls (vocalist and guitarist) and Chad Barton (bass guitarist and vocalist) volunteered to play tonight at the Rock it for Relay event to help raise money for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

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Pitch-n-CatchBy Seth Schroeder Opinions Editor

President Bill Perry gets a shot of espresso. Dan Nadler, Vice President for Student Affairs, gets a venti reg-ular coffee with no room, sometimes twice a day. With winter on its way, many students are getting pepper-mint mochas and in the fall they pre-fer pumpkin spice.

This is how Kelsey Zak and Lau-ra Schneider, student workers at Java Beanery and Bakery, know many of the customers they serve. They may not always know a regular’s name, but they often get to know their usu-al drink order.

Schneider, a senior sociology major, said some of the same regulars have started to recognize her as well.

“I’ll be at a party and people will be like, ‘Java Girl!’” she said. “That’s kind of cool.”

Zak and Schneider have worked at Java for nearly three years and started working there around the same time.

They said despite the occasional rude customer and having to talk over the loud whirring sound of the blend-ers and steamers, they enjoy work-ing there. They have made life-long friends with many of their fellow em-ployees, have something extra to do that gets them out of their houses and work somewhere that smells like fresh coffee everyday.

Schneider said she works at Java ev-eryday for a total of around 18 hours a week. She said she gets there at 6:30 a.m. for the opening shift.

She said she drank coffee regular-ly before working at Java, but through her work she learned a lot about the coffee shop atmosphere and knows a wider variety of drink orders available to her.

Schneider also bakes the muf-fins, bagels and other pastries served at Java every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Before working there she said she had no baking or baris-ta experience. She said she had to memorize numerous drink orders, ten different kinds of muffins and had to get the timing down to bake them correctly.

“I was nervous at first. It was over-whelming how much there was to learn,” Schneider said.

Now, Schneider said her bosses rely on her and Zak to train new employ-ees how to bake and prepare different drink orders.

“It’s kind of cool to come here and not know anything but then be in charge of teaching it to other people,” she said.

Zak she never drank much cof-fee before working at Java, but after she started working there around 15 hours a week has now drinks around one coffee product a day.

“I started with all of the non-coffee

drinks and slowly started trying things with less cream, less sugar,” she said.

Schneider and Zak said their job is not usually too challenging and they rarely have trouble balancing their schoolwork with their hours.

Zak said occasionally customers will occasionally snap at employees es-pecial if the line is long.

“Sometimes they’ll complain if they think you made a mistake or if their drink didn’t come out as they envisioned,” she said. “No one likes waiting in line so I guess I under-stand.”

Schneider she wishes some cus-tomers would realize the employees at Java are people to and sometimes they make mistakes.

Zak said they occasionally run into unplanned problems as well such as running out of an ingredi-ent or when a necessary machine breaks.

Schneider and Zak said it can take a while to get used to working with new coworkers and developing a flow that keeps them from running into each other. This can be especial-ly problematic during the morning or afternoon rush or the 15 minutes be-fore and after every hour when classes get out and the shop is busiest.

Seth Schroeder can be reached at 581-2812 or scschroeder@eiu.edu

By Amanda Wilkinson Staff Reporter

With the upcoming holiday season, the Panther Express: Toy Drive’s goal is to make sure every child has a toy for the holidays.

In order to make that goal a re-ality, the Panther Express has part-nered with the One Stop Communi-ty Christmas, which supplies toys and other home supplies to families in six counties: Coles, Clark, Cumberland, Edgar, Shelby and Douglas.

The One Stop Community Christ-mas is a holiday assistance program that lets families go through a shop-like atmosphere to pick up toys and other supplies for the holidays.

Rachel Fisher, the director of stu-dent community service, said the One Stop Community Christmas started because different toy collective groups wanted to benefit the most people.

Fisher said for the toy drive, they will be collecting new toys for ages 18 and below.

However, they would prefer items for kids ages 11 and up.

“We are particularly focused on kids ages 11 and up because we cer-tainly know those are some of the harder ones to shop for,” Fisher said.

However, they will accept other items such as bedding, laundry deter-gent, books and new jackets.

Fisher said even fresh sheets and blankets can be a treasure for someone who does not have them.

She said that she is excited to give blanket to children too.

“Our hope is to have enough blan-kets so every child could have a new blanket and then it’s theirs,” Fisher said.

The Mattoon Public Library is do-nating books with the goal of every

child having a new book this holiday season.

Fisher said One Stop Community Christmas will also accept monetary donations to help supply other items that are in greater need.

Fisher said last year, One Stop Community Christmas gave toys to about 1,500 local children and 500 local families.

She said they are hoping to supply toys and household items to 700 to 800 local families this year.

“Any and all items will be incred-ibly appreciated and will immediate-ly go into the hands of someone who will have great value in them,” Fish-er said.

Items can be dropped off at the Human Services Building, the Aca-demic Advising Center, the history and special education offices as well as the Student Community Service and

business office located in the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Items will be collected until Dec. 12.

Fisher said she hopes to see many items donated because the holidays are the time for giving.

“It certainly is a time of year when people are very aware of giving and the value of family,” Fisher said. “We certainly see culturally, there’s a real desire to give back during the holiday season.”

Fisher said when people are out with their families or friends, it is easy to pick up something extra to donate.

“Something you would enjoy, grab one more,” Fisher said. “It’s going to be a great gift to someone in our com-munity.”

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812

or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.

HOLIDAYS

Java serves up friendliness

HOUSING AND DINING

By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

President Bill Perry, along with other vice presidents, will be partic-ipating in Eastern’s bi-annual finals feast on Sunday.

“They’ll be helping serve on the line and greeting students as they come in,” Chris Wojtysiak, the unit director for Thomas Hall Dining Center, said.

This year’s theme is centered on the popular book and movie series, “The Hunger Games.”

Mark Hudson, the director of University Housing and Dining Services, said the theme was voted on during a Residence Hall Associ-ation meeting.

Wojtysiak said the food featured at finals feast will include a variety of appetizers.

“We’ll have buffalo chicken em-panadas , c rab rangoon, onion rings, barbequed meatballs, pretzel bites, veggie trays and fruit trays,”

Wojtysiak said.Wojtysiak said a raffle will be tak-

ing place for all who attend the fi-nals.

“We have prizes baskets that you can win,” he said.

The baskets will include prizes such as “The Hunger Games” movie and book, along with T-shirts featur-ing types of cereal.

“We also have a bunch of prod-ucts from mtvU like games and notepads,” Wojtysiak said.

Students will also have the op-portunity to play games at the finals feast that will pertain to “The Hunger Games” theme.

“We’ll have different games like Nerf gun target-type games where you can win additional prizes,” he said.

Wojtysiak said housing and din-ing starts planning finals feast a few months before it occurs by assem-bling all the unit directors of the din-ing centers.

“We brainstorm different ideas and come up with different possibili-ties,” he said. “Every year we try to do something that’s completely different from what we’ve done in the past.”

Finals feast has taken place each se-mester for about seven or eight years, Wojtysiak said.

The finals feast will take place from 9 to 11 p.m. on Sunday in the Thom-as Hall Dining Center.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

or redexter@eiu.edu.

“We’ll have buffalo chicken empanadas, crab ran-goon, onion rings, barbequed meatballs, pretzel bites, veggie trays and fruit trays.”

-Chris Wojtysiak, unit director for Thomas Hall Dining Center

‘Hunger Games’ theme of feast Drive supports local families

Well, well, well…what is ChuckVegas?It’s everything that your parents warned you

about when they dropped you off here for the first time.

You won’t see it on any EIU brochures: Keg stands, grinding, DJs, flashing lights and alco-hol, but it exists.

And it changed me forever.I am not the man I was when I arrived at

Carman Hall in August 2008 to meet some of the best friends and worst influences imagin-able. The second I bid my parents farewell and saw them drive away, I felt a rush of freedom that I’ve never felt before. It was like being un-leashed after 18 years of being restricted.

I get the same feeling each weekend down here.

It’s the side of college life that no one wants to bring up in civilized discussion, despite the fact that those who run the world are likely to have participated in the same unspoken acts in their younger days.

That’s where I came in.I made a Facebook page dedicated to the

unspoken part of the school so that people

in the community would see just how much they have in common and how awesome this school can be.

With people having younger siblings, cous-ins, parents and a host of other people on Facebook that they don’t want to know about their hidden insanity, the page is a place where I could talk about all the shocking, freaky and weird stuff that goes down here, and people could laugh at it.

I want to get this off my chest: Partying does not make you a bad person, a bad stu-dent or a bad influence, despite what many parents, professors and administrators make it seem to be. The stigma just exists in the pro-

fessional world. I’m nice to everyone I see, I work hard, go to class and…well…I’m not al-ways the best influence, but we’re all adults who should be able to think for themselves, so I won’t count that against myself too hard.

The vast majority of the 3,000-plus peo-ple who like my page have figured out who I am by now, and I’ve made friends with some and enemies with others. But in all, I wouldn’t take back anything I’ve done since I’ve been here. I love my friends, my old teammates on the football team and everyone who greets me in public, though I’ll admit that I have abso-lutely no clue who a lot of you guys are…for lots of reasons.

I only have one piece of advice to leave the students with: College is going to be over, and it’s going to be over quick, trust me. It goes by like lightning. Don’t hesitate, don’t hold back and don’t miss opportunities. You never know what can happen in ChuckVegas.

Joshua Bryant is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or

denopinions@gmail.com.

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They must be less than 250 words.

Letters to the editor can be brought in with identification to The DEN at 1811 Buzzard Hall.

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Imagine for a second that for one day, you would live in a world without news.

Oh yes, I said it. Your news sources would be gone; from print to speech, you would be dis-connected from the world of now.

And I would love to cover the day’s events; I would love to go out to take pictures and write a story about the day. But I can’t.

I wouldn’t have a means with which to share this news.

I can’t put it in the paper, that’s for sure. But I also can’t put it online, for some reason I can’t put it anywhere online.

My Internet is gone as well. There’s no on-line news media anywhere to be found. No ce-lebrity gossip, movie previews, or weather up-dates. There are no game scores or search en-gines. Nothing will open.

And when I go to check my Facebook and Twitter they freeze to a blank white screen.

I can’t get anything to open, not even my email.

My point is simple; the world without news would be terrible.

If you look at any facet of life you can deter-mine that it would be greatly undermined by a lack of news and information.

Look at the American Presidency for an ex-ample.

If we took away news for a day, the president and his staff would have no way of knowing what was going on in the world, let alone their own country.

They wouldn’t know what bills were being en-acted or what wars were being fought at home or around the world. A foreign nation could attack and there would be know way of knowing.

And we all wouldn’t know either.

We would be completely cut off from what was going on in politics internationally, along with locally.

We wouldn’t know anything about anything that was going on in our backyard.

If students were being taken from their hous-es or dorm rooms around campus, there would be no way of letting us know.

If hate crimes were raging rampant at night, we would have no way of knowing night was a bad time to be out.

We would have a disconnect from our neigh-bors and our friends.

All because news is what is happening now. It’s what you want to know about the world around you. News is news because it’s what you’re interested in, and a lack of news would keep you from knowing what you want to know.

Without news, the world would stand still.

Zachary White is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or

denopinions@gmail.com.

Zachary White

Joshua Bryant

Let us behold a world without news

Off-campus students may have noticed door-to-door solicitors visiting within the past few months with promises of new and cheaper energy plans. They may have also heard the city of Charleston is starting a new energy program that will start next year.

However, as The Daily Eastern News reported Monday, the solicitors are in no way affiliated with the city and students should be suspicious of the promises they are making.

The city’s new program will allow the city to negotiate bid from an energy provider as a group. Charleston City Manager Scott Smith said this will help the residents get better prices on energy.

Smith said the solicitors may in fact get lower energy prices but they likely will not be as low as the energy prices they would get if they stuck with the city’s plan.

The solicitors not only promise cheap-er rates but have been known to pressure people into making the switch to their plan without consulting other options, act as if the decision is obvious and claim to have already signed up other residents in the indi-viduals neighborhood.

If students and other residents would like to consider each plan, they may in fact find the solicitors have a better plan that will get them better energy prices than the city’s plan. However, this decision should not be made lightly and should only be made with plenty of research.

Charleston residents should also keep in mind the city of Charleston came up with the energy plan with only the intent to help their citizens save money. The solici-tors instead appear to be preying on people’s confusion and trying to take advantage of a transition period in order to make a profit. They likely do not have Charleston’s citizen’s best interest at heart.

Smith has said the city will not be going door-to-door to tell citizens of the upcoming change. The city’s program will not require any action by individual citizens and the switch will be made automatically. He said they will send a notice before the switch is made so citizens have a chance to opt out of it if they wish.

The energy plan the solicitors are offer-ing may in fact save individual Charles-ton residents more money than if they stuck with the city’s plan, but Smith has said this is unlikely.

In general, if citizens are feeling pres-sured they should at most accept informa-tion to look over later but refrain from sign-ing anything. There is never a reason to agree to something without consulting your options first. Always remember that if you feel uncomfortable you can shut the door and walk away.

I am EIU…and started ChuckVegas too

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Pacing back and forth, fiddling with papers and mouthing silent words, six students prepared to see whose speech would rise above the rest Monday.

The students competed in the 10th annual Betty Balasi Public Speaking Contest, hosted in the Lumpkin Hall Auditorium by the communication studies department.

The contest was open to students of any major who have taken CMN 1310: Introduction to Speech Communica-tion or CMN 1390: Introduction to Speech Communication (Honors) dur-ing the summer or fall of 2012.

Each student had seven to nine min-utes to present their speeches they had also submitted for a grade in class.

Prizes for winners were $500 for first place, $300 for second place and $100 for third place.

Dressed in a black pinstripe suit, a squared black bowtie and neon green tennis shoes, Christian Ilunga Matthie-sen, a freshman business major, stood before an empty classroom practicing his speech before the competition.

While he was nervous about his speech on nonverbal communication, he said he was confident his nerves would help his performance.

“Of course you get nervous, and it keeps you on your toes,” he said.

Dawn Williams, a freshman mathe-matics major, said she had practiced her speech many times but was still nervous about presenting her speech on the por-trayal of women in the media.

“I’m kind of nervous,” she said, dressed in a black pantsuit and tur-quoise heels. “Well, I take that back, I am very nervous right now.”

Lindsey Johnson, a sophomore spe-cial education major, said she had not in-tended on participating in the competi-tion until her honors speech instructor, Rich Jones, encouraged her to compete.

“I didn’t think that I would even make it this far,” she said about enter-ing her speech about the importance of Facebook for students.

Richard Jones, a communication studies faculty member and coordinator of competition, said he enjoys watch-ing students prepare and practice their speeches before the competition.

“When you go to speech compe-titions, it is normal to see a bunch of people talking to themselves,” he said. “People find their own place to prep, which is fun to watch.”

Jones said seeing students take pride in their preparations and presenting

their speeches with enthusiasm is en-couraging to see.

Each student presented their speech-es with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation before a crowd of nearly 70 students, faculty and staff.

After all the speeches had conclud-ed and the judges handed their results to Jones, Johnson was awarded first place, Matthiesen second place and Lester Wang, a senior mathematics major, placed third for his speech on the importance of science, technolo-gy, engineering and mathematics ed-ucation.

“I was shocked,” Johnson said. “The

other speeches were really, really well thought-out and executed well.”

She said she was honored to have won the competition and believes the skill of public speaking can help stu-dents in many ways.

“There’s going to be a lot of situa-tions that you are going to be nervous in, especially as a teacher,” she said.

However, defeating nervous tenden-cies will be crucial to students’ success, she said.

Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812

or tadeters@eiu.edu.

Students compete in speech competition

TIM DETERS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSLindsay Johnson, a sophomore special education major, competes in the 10th annual Betty Balasi Public Speaking Competition Tuesday in Lumpkin Hall Auditorium. Johnson won first place for her speech about the impor-tance of Facebook for students.

Mills said Reible did not ask for any help at first.

“We literally had to beg him for the opportunity to see if we could organize people to help him,” Mills said. “It’s not easy to say ‘I made a mistake in my business and now it’s going to close’ so we had to convince him that the JAC is important enough to the communi-ty to let us try.”

Reible said he tries to do a good thing by provide a safe atmosphere for musicians and young people.

“If we close down, this community is going to lose a place that parents can feel safe about leaving their kids, you can go and just relax and not feel pres-sure, and get things done,” Reible said.

He said the place is the common hang out for the different types of peo-ple and without it, they would not be able to come together.

“On the back of our business card it even says we want to be your third place, home being your first, work be-ing your second and JAC being your third,” Reible said.

History of the JACReible’s connection to the JAC start-

ed five years ago when he and his wife would visit on the weekends he was home.

His life as a trucker caused him to travel frequently and they would go to the JAC to relax and talk.

Reible said he was talking to the pre-vious owner about finding a local job so he could be home with his wife.

At the time the JAC was not for sale, but the owner suggested he buy it any-way.

“I said I’d love to buy the JAC if it was for sale and he said it is for sale for the right person,” Reible said. “That’s when it started.”

Despite his lack of knowledge in the

business field, he bought the shop.

Efforts to Save the JAC “I’ve talked to business people and I

got advice on how to run things differ-ently,” Reible said.

He said if he remains open he will take out the tax daily and put it into a separate account to prevent it from happening again.

Since starting on Saturday, Reible was able to make a down payment of $3,000 on Monday and by 10 a.m. Tuesday received about $800 more in donations.

People can donate money by going to the JAC or through PayPal at dano@jacksonavenuecoffee.com.

All the money raised will go to paying off the debt, even if the JAC is closed.

Reible said he is thankful for all the support he has gotten, even if he has to close at the end of the week.

“I have seen so much outpouring of not just funds, but people who love this place,” Reible said. “It’s been very heart-warming.”

Mills said if the JAC is closed at the end of the week a piece of the commu-nity will be gone.

“I think a lot of people gather there who will be kind of lost,” Mills said.

Reible said he feels in his heart that the JAC can be saved.

He said it was the atmosphere of the shop that attracted him to the shop and it is the reason he wants to keep it open.

“So many different people inter-act here that would never interact any-where else,” Reible said. “So many peo-ple have gained new friendships and new hobbies and new interest because of Jackson Avenue Coffee.”

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

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In this process, students can get their associate degree while continu-ing to take classes at Eastern.

“They can take their few remain-ing classes, send an Eastern transcript back to their community college and not delay starting their sequence here,” she said. “We don’t want them to waste any time.”

Pearson said she has seen the num-ber of students who do the reverse transfer process increase.

Though the numbers for spring transfer students will not be in until

the 10-day count in January, Pearson said she is optimistic about the num-ber of transfer students that will come to Eastern.

She estimates somewhere between 200 and 300 students.

“We have about an 80-percent show rate,” she said. “Transfer stu-dents yield at a higher rate than fresh-men.”

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

or redexter@eiu.edu.

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Rachael Cunningham, an attor-ney at the Brainard Law Office, was hired in as city attorney and was welcomed during her first meeting Tuesday.

Scott Smith, the Charleston city manager, said he appreciates Bower for all the years of service he gave to the city of Charleston.

“I’ve had the wonderful opportu-

nity to work with Brian for almost all the 23 years of service,” Smith said. “Brian’s done a good job of guiding me through treacherous wa-ters.”

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

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By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

The Eastern men’s basketball team has won just one of its four games in Lantz Arena this season.

Now before reading on, realize that this is not to point out the flaws of the Eastern basketball team. It is rather to point out the flaws of those reading, and es-pecially those who aren’t.

Who is that? The Eastern student body.In the four games the Panthers have played in Lantz

Arena, a total of 2,280 fans have filled the stands. That is across all four games. On average, a dismal 570 fans scatter into Lantz Arena each game. All 11 remaining schools in the Ohio Valley Conference average at least double that, with almost half tripling it.

In his introductory press conference, head coach Jay Spoonhour said he hopes students anticipate games in Lantz Arena.

“I can’t wait for the time when (Panther fans) say ‘I cannot wait for that game,’ or, ‘we have to get there early, because they’re going to close it down,’” Spoonhour said.

I realize, and Spoonhour does, too, as he has said many times, that with an energetic fan base, there must be an equally entertaining product on the court.

Eastern’s last home game, a 74-72 loss to Central Arkansas that came off a buzzer-beater as time ex-pired, drew in a season-high 811 people. Still, writing that feels weird, putting season-high and 811 in the same sentence when talking about attendance.

That was the most exciting NCAA basketball game I have ever witnessed in person. Take it as you will, wheth-er I don’t go to many collegiate basketball games or I am just easily entertained, but I stick to my statement.

Who’s to say what a little more fan support would do? It can’t hurt to try.

So go to the game against Western Illinois at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Lantz Arena.

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

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MEN’S BASKETBALLEastern’s men’s bas-ketball team is shoot-ing 35 percent from three-point land. The Panthers’ premiere sharp shooter to this point in the season has been sophomore forward Josh Piper as he has connected on 44 percent of his three point attempts.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLEastern’s women’s basketball team is av-eraging an Ohio Valley Conference-best 15.2 assists per game this season. The Panthers have been led by senior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon’s 5.5 assists per game average. Nixon ranks second in the OVC

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MEN’S BASKETBALLEastern’s men’s basketball team is allowing just 61.3 points per game this season. The Panthers’ opponents’ 61.3 scoring average ranks second best among Ohio Valley Conference teams, trail-ing only Jacksonville State for the stingiest defense in the confer-ence.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALLEastern’s women’s basketball team is averaging 65.7 points per game under first-year head coach Lee Buchanan. The Panthers’ 65.7 scoring average ranks fourth in the OVC as they have been led by senior forward Mariah King’s 14.5 points per game. King ranks fifth in the OVC in points per game.

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By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

The Evansville Purple Aces had some tired eyes late in Tuesday night’s game as the Eastern wom-en’s basketball team asserted itself when shots started to fall.

The Panthers finished on a 15-6 run in the last 8:15 of the game, holding the Aces at the 51-point mark for almost six minutes. The Panthers cruised to a 70-57 win at Lantz Arena.

Four Evansville players compet-ed in at least 30 minutes of the game, including Khristian Hart who played in 38 minutes, while only Eastern senior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon played 30 or more for the Panthers.

“That helped us at the end,” Nixon said. “They probably got a little tired.”

Eastern head coach Lee Buchan-an said Evansville’s tired legs may have contributed to its shooting woes in the second half.

The Aces were 7-of-26 from the field in the second half after mak-ing 50 percent of their shots in the first half.

Meanwhile, the Panthers’ shots started to fall — sinking 6-of-14 three pointers and 46.7 percent of shots in the second half.

“When players start to see shots go in, it’s a relief like everything is going to be OK,” Buchanan said.

The Panthers made four consec-utive three pointers between the 10:32-mark and 5:44-mark of the second half — from three different players.

Eastern red-shirt sophomore for-ward Katlyn Payne sank two three pointers on the Panthers way to a commanding lead. Also, junior guard Jordyne Crunk and soph-omore forward Sabina Oroszova sank threes.

“When we’re on the same page, shots just start dropping for every-body,” senior forward Sydney Mitch-ell said.

Payne and Crunk led the way for the Panthers beyond the arc, each sinking two three pointers.

Both players came off the bench as a part of the Panthers’ 31 bench points in the game. The Panthers outscored the Aces off the bench, 31-8.

“I think we’re starting to come together — 31 points off the bench is huge,” Buchanan said. “We got a little contribution from everybody and that’s what a good team is sup-posed to do.”

Mitchell and freshman guard Danielle Woolfolk were a big part of the bench’s effort in the game.

Mitchell, who has been nursing hamstring issues all season, scored 10 points in the game and grabbed four rebounds.

“I just think I was under the ra-dar because of my performance be-fore this game and (Evansville) didn’t expect me to do anything,” Mitchell said.

In six previous games, Mitch-ell only scored points in three of them. Her previous season-high was nine points against Dayton on Nov. 25.

“She kind of looked like Sydney again,” Buchanan said.

Woolfolk set her career-high points and rebounds with seven points and six rebounds in nine minutes of play.

“She can do it every game if she wants to,” Nixon said. “She doesn’t play little.”

Woolfolk is only 5-foot-3, but was third on the team Tuesday night with six rebounds.

Four players finished in double figures for the Panthers’ — Nixon, Crunk, Mitchell and senior forward Mariah King.

The Panthers next game is at 7 p.m. Friday against Sacramento State in Lantz Arena.

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DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior forward Taryn Olson makes a rebound and begins to send it back to her team during Eastern’s 70-57 vic-tory over Evansville Tuesday in Lantz Arena.

Panthers sink Aces with hot shooting

“I think we’re starting to come together — 31 points off the bench is huge. We got a little con-tribution from everybody and that’s what a good team is supposed to do.”Lee Buchanan, head women’s

basketball coach

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By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

The Eastern men’s basketball team returns home after two heartbreaking losses to Central Arkansas and Stony Brook University.

Stony Brook used a late 16-3 run in the second half to close out Eastern and drop its record to 3-6.

The last time the Panthers were home, the Bears of Central Arkansas sank them with a last-second buzzer-beater.

Now, the Panthers must stay focused on their next opponent against in-state rival Western Illi-nois (5-3). The two will battle at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Lantz Arena.

“We can’t go into the next game

thinking about the last game,” se-nior guard Austin Akers said. “We just need to go out, follow Coach Spoonhour’s game plan and limit our breakdowns.”

The Panthers are 1-3 in their home arena, while the Leathernecks are 2-3 on the road.

This will be the 154th meeting between the two. Eastern narrow-ly holds the all-time lead 77-76, but possess a dominant 47-22 series lead in Charleston.

The last Western victory on East-ern’s home floor was in 1996.

The Leathernecks bested the Pan-thers last season, on their way to a 64-48 victory.

Both Eastern and Western aver-age less than 60 points per game, with

58.2 and 58.8, respectively.However, fans can expect a de-

fensive struggle, as Eastern surren-ders 61.3 points per game, second best in the OVC, Western gives up just 53.5 points per game, tops in the Summit League.

Akers has paved the way for the Panther offense this season as he averages 4.2 assists per game, sixth best in the Ohio Valley Confer-ence, while his 2.9 assist-to-turn-over ratio ranks second in the con-ference.

“We are going to control the tempo and play our brand of bas-ketball,” Akers said. “We want to limit their open shots and play sol-id on both ends of the court.”

Sophomore forward Josh Piper is

the only player to average in double figures with 12.1 points per game. He is shooting a team-high 48.6 percent from the floor, while also adding 5.2 rebounds per game.

Fellow forward Sherman Blan-ford leads the Panthers in rebounds with 5.4 per game, while contrib-uting 9.8 points a game.

Western is opposite Eastern in terms of streaks, as it has won two straight, behind a 68-63 win over Kansas City, and a 73-71 win over South Dakota.

Western can bring a suffocating defense, as it only allows 39.4 per-cent of opponent’s shots.

However, the Leatherneck of-fense has had its struggles.

On Nov. 24, Western’s latest

loss, the Leathernecks fell to Sa-vannah State 39-38.

Ceola Clark is the frontrunner for Western’s offense. He leads the Leath-ernecks with 14.5 points per game. He also averages 3.2 rebounds per game and 3.5 assists per game.

Terell Parks is the leader on the glass, averaging nine rebounds a game.

Parks is the only other Leatherneck to average double-digit points, with 13.4 per game.

Tip off for Eastern and Western is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Lantz Arena.

Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812

or ajcatezone@eiu.edu.

Eastern hosts Western for in-state matchup