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This year’s Darwin Days focuses on the theme of evolution through anthropology, dealing with the evolution of the human form, and it involves five events and one film.

The biology department partnered with the ge-ology, geography, sociology and anthropology de-partments will implement Darwin Days, a celebra-tion of the life of Charles Darwin as well as the study of evolution.

The groups kicked off the citywide celebration of Darwin week Sunday with a lecture by Eric Meikle from the National Center for Science Edu-cation titled “Opposition to evolution in America: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.”

Stephen Mullin, one of the four Darwin Days committee members, said they are trying to raise awareness through public outreach.

“Nothing makes sense in light of evolution, and evolution attempts to enlighten that,” Mul-lin said.

Eastern started organizing Darwin Days nine years ago when incidents involving conflicts of re-ligion and the study of evolution made it into the public press, Mullin said.

“It is a conflict of ideas, not a conflict of facts,” Mullin said. “Religion is supernatural law, and evolution is natural law.”

The first Darwin Days event was a panel of re-ligions leaders explaining why people can accept both religion and evolution, Mullin said.

“Just because it is fact that doesn’t stop people from challenging it legally,” Mullin said. “It con-tinues to be debated in legislators and brought up to school boards.”

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By Robyn Dexter Campus Editor

The Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Food Court celebrated its 10th anniversa-ry last week with special deals each day.

The celebration included free birthday cake on Tuesday as well as discounts and deals throughout each of the food court vendors each day.

Celebratory balloons and placemats for the trays, which featured the week’s deals, were also on display during the week.

Mark Hudson, the direc-tor of University Housing and Dining Services, said the week seemed very successful.

“When I talked to the staff (at the food court) they seemed very pleased with how the week turned out,” Hudson said.

Hudson said the numbers have not come in yet for how successful the week was com-

pared to other normal weeks, but the results will come back in a few weeks and the staff will be able to determine just how successful it was.

“It seems like judging by the amount of traffic I saw in the food court all week that it went pretty well and people were having a good time,” Hudson said.

Shanon Norris, an employ-ee at the food court and a ju-nior mathematics major, said she worked several of the days during the 10th anniversary cel-ebration.

“Wednesday I worked at Chick-fil-A and it was a lot of fun,” Norris said.

Wednesday featured a deal where customers could buy one spicy chicken sandwich and get one free between 5 and 8 p.m.

Sandy Black, the assistant director of the food court, said Wednesday was one of the most successful days fea-

tured last week.“We had a line outside of

Chick-fil-A before 5 p.m. on Wednesday to get the buy one, get one sandwich deal,” she said.

Norris said she worked on Friday, where students could get a free fry with the purchase of a sandwich.

“We also had a lot of student participation in Free Fry Fri-day,” Norris said.

Students also had the chance to put their name on the back of their receipts in a raffle draw-ing for several prizes during the week, including Pepsi and Dr. Pepper brand items. Some of the items included a Pepsi mini fridge, a Dr. Pepper tent, a Pep-si cooler and prepaid combos at each of the food court vendors, Hudson said.

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By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor

Pens held by faculty members raced over pa-per Friday as they took notes on how to bridge the gap between student generational issues with communication, technology and entitlement.

Four panelists spoke to about 35 faculty mem-bers at the first brown-bag discussion titled “Let’s Talk Teaching: Who are our First-Year Students?” to analyze what the incoming generation’s prob-lem areas are and what faculty members can do to compensate for them for a more successful learn-ing experience.

The event was sponsored by the Faculty Devel-opment Office, and the four panelists were: Ste-phen Lucas, the department chair and graduate coordinator of secondary education and founda-tions; Melissa Ames, an assistant professor of Eng-lish; Dianne Timm of the counseling and student development department; and Moe Samad, the associate residence director of Carman Hall.

Lucas said one of the main goals needed to ad-dress the generational issues is to discover how to take the admitted freshman students and trans-form them into the graduates that faculty mem-bers envision.

Samad said he encounters generational issues every day because about 95 percent of the fresh-

man students on campus live in Carman Hall. He said two common communication issues

he witnessed are lack of face-to-face conversations and lack of courage to speak to faculty members.

“We need to find a way to break that barrier and say ‘I’m not just your instructor, but I am also here to mentor and help you to get you educat-ed enough to move on after college,’” Samad said. “I think there is an approachability factor and a comfortness that they are lacking that they aren’t really pushing themselves to.”

Samad also tied these issues to technology, es-pecially with students incorporating text lingo and using poor email etiquette.

“I think they get to a point where they think it is OK because they are doing it constantly with their friends,” Samad said. “They engage in that lingo and dialect in a daily, hourly and minute ba-sis so they don’t know any better.”

Ames addressed methods with how to keep stu-dents motivated and interactive, and she said the typical college freshman’s attention is lost after about 14 or 15 minutes.

“We have to almost trick them into our subject matter and seduce them into being interested and engaged,” Ames said.

Faculty members should abandon the teaching practice of lecturing, and students are more apt to learn and be motivated when working with oth-ers, Ames said.

Sace Elder, an associate professor of history, said she teaches using a combination of lecture and discussion, and she found these ideas trouble-some.

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By Kathryn Richter City Editor

On Saturday, dozens of runners traveled from all over the region to compete in the Charleston Parks and Recreation Department Mid-Winter Classic 5k, 10k and 15k race.

Gavin Prior, 13, from Mattoon ran the 5k on Saturday because he thought the race would be a good challenge.

“I thought this one would be a good one because of the hills,” Prior said.

Prior runs track and cross country for his school.

Spencer Rumbaugh and Brandon Blair from Casey also raced to help train for the upcoming track season.

Blair said the race helped provide a competitive environment and help break the monotony of training.

Blair and Rumbaugh both run track at Casey Westfield High School.

Kelly Smith, of Champaign, came to race this year after attending the previous Mid-Winter Classic.

“I ran in it last year and it was awe-some,” Smith said.

She said her favorite part of the run was the rain and meeting other people who shared a passion for running.

Smith, who ran track for the Uni-versity of Illinois, is currently in train-

ing for a half marathon, which consists of 13.1 miles.

Smith was the winner for the fe-males aged 29 and under in the 5k.

Jesus Sanchez, of Champaign, ran the 15k on Saturday and is currently training for the Champaign marathon.

Sanchez said the Mid-Winter Clas-sic was a good way to gauge his fitness level during training.

“That was a lot of fun,” Sanchez said. “I didn’t expect so many hills.”

After the races finished, the top three men and women of each age

group for each race received a trophy and various prizes were auctioned off.

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812

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By Andrew Crivilare Staff Reporter

After killing the Pope and the eu-nuch in the middle of a hostage cri-sis, the radical New Jersey nun bent down on stage and stole the Holy Fa-ther’s tiara.

The audience laughed. The mad-ness continued.

The collision of comedy and con-troversy Friday at the opening of the Charleston Alley Theatre was all part of the theater’s premiere of “Three One Act Plays by Christopher Du-rang” directed by Charleston resi-dent and veteran CAT actress Marie Jozwiak.

Jozwiak said one of the first plays she performed when she joined up with the CAT theater in 2003 was a work by Durang.

“Ever since then I’ve been hooked on Durang,” Jozwiak said. “I enjoy that kind of tongue in cheek humor that pushes the limit.”

The audience that was present at the show’s opening seemed to enjoy the three short plays, Jozwiak said.

“I did hear laughter,” she said. “And I didn’t see anyone running

away in shame.”The night began innocent-

ly enough with a fictional portray-al of Durang’s alleged aunt as the ti-tle character in a monologue titled “Mrs. Sorken” played by Linda Bag-ger, who doled out trivia and minu-tia directed at understanding drama.

Among her theories includes a connection between drama and the nausea suppressant Dramamine.

“We go to the drama seeking the metaphorical Dramamine that will cure us of our nausea of life,” Bag-ger said, in character as Mrs. Sorken. “Of course we sometimes become nauseated by the drama itself, and then we are sorry we went, especial-ly if it uses the F-word and lasts over four hours.”

Bagger, who played the least con-troversial role of the night, said she understood the appeal of Durang’s plays and hopes audiences will give him a chance.

“They’re an acquired taste, they’re not everybody’s cup of tea,” Bagger said. “I recommend everyone give him a try.”

Soon after Bagger was applauded off the stage, new actors took their

places on a kitchen set for the do-mestic quasi comedy “The Nature and Purpose of the Universe”.

In it, Victoria Bennett plays Elea-nor Mann, the downtrodden wife of a hard line Catholic and mother to three unappreciative children who abuse and mistreat her as they see fit.

At the center of the Eleanor’s problem is God, who the play’s nar-rator said has agents that do every-thing to the housewife from rape to infuse her with a false hope of salva-tion.

Alexis Evans, who plays God’s agent acting as the radical Sister An-nie De Maupassant, said she thought the play received an expected mixed reception due to its author and sub-ject matter.

“I think having Durang playing to any audience you’re going to have people say ‘What the hell?’,” Evans said. “Be prepared to be shocked and pleasantly uncomfortable.”

The show closed with one last one act also focused on a family, called “Death Comes to Us All, Mary Ag-nes.”

The ensemble play depicted a dys-functional family brought together

by the eminent death of their patri-arch.

Like “The Nature and Purpose”, “Death Comes” also breached un-comfortable topics ranging from in-cest to elder abuse, but not without purpose.

“You can look at both of them as having a love theme to them,” Jozwi-ak said. “Really the shows are about humor and comedy and creating this whole new aspect about how we should view the world.”

Jozwiak said she was proud of the CAT for staging such diverse mate-rial all year around, and looked for-ward to their future productions.

“Our goal is to have that artistic freedom,” Jozwiak said. “We don’t want to feel like we can’t do some-thing for mature audiences.”

The CAT’s “Three One-Act Plays by Christopher Durang” will contin-ue February 10-13. For more infor-mation, go to www.charlestonalley-theatre.com.

Andrew Crivilare can be reached at 581-2812 or ajcrivilare@eiu.edu.

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Passion for horses and horseback riding is what motivates members of Eastern’s Equestrian Team.

Recently, two members of the Equestrian Team qualified for the regional Western competi t ion, which will be in Terre Haute, Ind. at St. Mary of the Woods on March 2.

One of the qualifiers, Stepha-nie Forsyth, a senior health stud-ies major, said she just found out a few weekends ago that she had qual-ified.

Forsyth said she is one of only two girls on the team that ride Western style, and both of them qualified for the Western competi-tion in March.

Forsyth and Audra Staley, the other qualifying team member, will travel to Terre Haute to compete in March.

“I found out I qualif ied two weekends ago and (Staley) just found out this past weekend,” For-syth said.

The two will be competing in the same class, which means they will be competing against each other.

“First and second place get to move on to semi-finals, which is in

Florida, so it would be pretty awe-some if both of us could go,” she said.

Other colleges in the region-al zone of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association include St. Mary of the Woods, Purdue University, Ball State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and In-diana State University, Forsyth said.

Forsyth said she has showed hors-es since sixth grade, but the compe-tition process is completely differ-ent.

“When you go to compete, you have no idea who your horse will be,” she said. She explained how competitors draw horses’ names be-fore the competition and have to pretty much go in blind with no prior experience on the horse.

“Everything is really luck-of-the-draw because you might get a re-ally nice horse or a more difficult horse,” she said. “ It really helps show your horsemanship skills.”

She said she was nervous, but doing well helped boost her confi-dence and self-esteem.

Erika Buado, a senior nursing major, said she’s never competed be-fore, but her first competition will be on Feb. 11 at Ball State.

“I’m nervous, but you just have to keep in mind that this is for fun and if you get too serious, it’s not as fun anymore,” she said.

To help prepare, Buado said she’s been taking lessons with her coach, Kandi Lane. Buado rides English style, unlike Forsyth, and said re-gionals for English style are not un-til April.

“I don’t think anyone will be go-ing to (English regionals) this year, but hopefully next year we will,” Buado said.

Forsyth said though the group has many members, only about eight compete regularly and they are looking for more members to learn the competition process and eventu-ally compete.

The Equestrian Team has its meetings on campus, but when the members want to ride, they go to their host barn, Reinin’ Lane Ranch in Toledo, Ill.

“We have about 30 members, but not everyone rides,” she said. “A lot of our members just show sup-port and help with fundraising, but they’re always welcome to come out to the barn with us.”

The Equestrian Team will have its next meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday in the Mattoon/Charleston Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union.

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For more than 30 years, the Wom-en’s Studies department awarded stu-dents entering the Women’s Studies Es-say Contest who demonstrated a well-written feminist perspective.

Every year in March during the Women’s History and Awareness Month, there is the essay contest and the Woman of Achievement Award.

Deadline for submission for either the Women’s Studies Essay Contest

winners or the Woman of Achievement Award is today.

Essay entries and award nominations are to be sent to Room 3144 in Cole-man Hall in the English Department.

The theme this year is “Women Imagine Change.”

The Women’s Studies Essay Contest has been going every year since 1980, said English professor Melissa Ames.

Any student, male or female, can en-ter the essay contest. Last year’s winner was William Kendall, an art history ma-jor.

Ames said a possible essay topic is at-tention to gender and sexuality, usually in the light that stresses equality, prog-ress and positive change.

Carrie New of the Women’s Re-source Center said there are two awards for the essay, one to an undergraduate student and one to a graduate student.

Jeannie Ludlow, an assistant profes-sor of English and the director of Wom-en’s Studies, said the two essay winners receive $100 each.

Daiva Markelis, a professor of Eng-lish, said the Women of Achievement

Award is presented to a woman who the Women’s History and Awareness Month committee members think has given back to the community in a sig-nificant way.

Last year’s winner was Janet Messen-ger, a Charleston resident, who won for her contribution to promoting art in Charleston.

“Most of the past winners have won because of extensive volunteer work,” Markelis said. “They don’t have to be a certain age or from a particular profes-sion.”

Ames said the committee goes be-yond campus and the local surrounding areas for the winner of The Women of Achievement Award.

New said the woman awarded is rec-ognized with a corsage and plaque.

Nomination guidelines and more in-formation can be found on the Wom-en’s Studies website.

Emily Provance can be reached at 581-2812 or eaprovance@eiu.edu.

Deadline for feminist essay contest submissions today

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SUBMIT TED PHOTOStephanie Forsyth, a senior health studies major, competes at St. Mary of the Woods in Terre Haute in December. Forsyth qualified for the regional Intercollegiate Horse Show Association competition on March 2.

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“When you go to compete, you have no idea who your horse will be.” Stephanie Forsyth

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It is sometimes hard, as Americans, to remember the importance of global pol-itics; we’re isolationists by tradition. I’m guilty of this myself, as I usually limit the scope of this column to American politics. That said—I can’t stop thinking about Iran. What’s going on there is just more impor-tant than Newt of the Moon People right now.

Last week, I mentioned Obama’s hawk-like State of the Union remarks regarding Iran and Israel. Granted, this issue is too big for one Monday, and I recommend you do your own recon and avoid as many U.S. news sources as possible. Still, unlike the last two wars we started in the Middle East, I thought it might be beneficial to whet the palate for Iranian and U.S. foreign policy. You know, in case we bomb them this year.

The problem lies with Tehran’s nuclear program, and the nation’s intentions for the future of this program, which they claim to be entirely energy-based and peaceful. How-ever, Iran does have a complicated history with United Nations inspectors that has ap-parently not improved. Add to that Iran’s constant refusal to negotiate, and the re-moval of uranium enrichment facilities to a secure mountain bunker: smells like nucle-ar spirit.

Let’s say Iran is building nuclear weap-ons. Step away, if you will, from our “iron-clad commitment to Israel” and consid-er that Israel may have nothing to do with why Obama suddenly started sounding like

a neo-con. I submit the possibility that what the war-hawks are really worried about is a regional shift in power that the West does not control.

Whether or not Iran is building bombs, tensions are extremely high. An Israeli jour-nalist reported to NPR expectations that Is-rael will attack Iran in 2012. Iran has prom-ised to hit any nation used as a launch-pad for attacks.

Last month, in solidarity with Isra-el, Western countries including the United States, Canada and the UK, imposed more sanctions on Iranian oil and financial sec-tors. Such extreme sanctions are designed to cripple the nation into cooperating with the foreign powers, and the Iranian economy is feeling the heat.

However, these efforts could ultimately prove to be against our own interests as we continue to struggle against a weak econo-my and an uncertain energy future. Iran has insisted that these sanctions are only exas-perating the problem for both sides, threat-ening to close the Strait of Hormuz, nec-

essary to much of the globe’s sea-based oil traffic, and target U.S. Gulf bases like Qatar and Kuwait.

Plus, the sanctions aren’t really working. According to Al Jazeera English, Iranian for-eign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehm-anparast said: “If our people feel that ene-mies want to deprive them of their rights by threatening, bullying and adopting ille-gal and irrational methods, they will pursue the path that they have taken more united and more determined than ever.” So… that’s a good start. (Unless of course by “rights” they actually do mean nuclear energy.)

I’m not suggesting that a nuked-out Iran couldn’t be a threat to Israel. But despite be-ing coy about their military capabilities, Is-rael does have nuclear weapons (and even if they didn’t, they clearly have us). I have to admit, my Fantasy World War III team would have bigger guns than the other guys, but can we please avoid a nuclear holocaust?

Qatar and Turkey are practically beg-ging for talks, arguing that an attack is not an option, but a recipe for regional disas-ter. U.S. communications with Iran since this all started total approximately 45 min-utes, and we have since given up trying to open a dialogue. Apparently the “no options off the table for Iran” doesn’t include sensi-ble diplomacy.

Mia Tapella is a senior political science major.

She can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com.

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I would rather avoid nuclear holocaust, thank you

By Beth Clothier Western Courier Western Illinois University

There seems to be a run on stupid moves by politicians lately. While in many cases these elected officials are promoting their stupid pet causes, one state senator from Oklahoma may have just topped them all.

According to newsok.com, state senator Ralph Shortey introduced a bill last week that would ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food products. Shortey, a Republican in his first term of office, stated that he was prompt-ed to submit the bill after Internet research led him to believe that some food companies use embryonic stem cells to develop artificial fla-vors. I can’t help but wonder what reputable source of information Shortey got these ideas from.

Of course, I guess this kind of brilliance and eye for necessity should come as no surprise from a man who, in the last few years, has in-troduced several controversial bills, fortunately none of which have been passed into law.

Also according to newsok.com, past propos-als have included a measure to crack down on illegal immigrants by giving law enforcement

a green light to seize their property, as well as deny Oklahoma citizenship to children born to these immigrants. He also proposed that the Court of Criminal Appeals be abolished, and that state legislators be allowed to carry firearms anywhere in the state, including the floors of the House and Senate. I don’t know about anyone else, but something tells me that is probably not the best idea. Angry southern-ers arguing while heavily armed? Sounds like the plot of a movie-of-the-week.

Fortunately for humanity, not everyone has lost their mind, or they are doing pretty well to keep this huge “Soylent Green is people” se-cret covered up. The Food and Drug Admin-istration is denying that fetus food is an issue, as is the executive director of Oklahomans for Life, an anti-abortion group that has been re-sponsible for helping push through some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the United States.

Sen. Brian Crain, the chairman of the Sen-ate Human Services Committee in Oklaho-ma, who describes himself as being “pro-life,” has denounced the bill, saying that there were more important issues at hand than Shortey’s conspiracy theory-like legislation.

“I’d hate to think we’re going to spend our

time coming up with possibilities of things we need to stop,” Crain said.

Brian, buddy, I think it’s too late, and it has been for a long, long time.

As long as there are people in charge who think we need to be protected from every little thing, even if there is only the smallest remote possibility, there is going to continue to be use-less legislation.

Personally, I think Shortey is just trying to gain a reputation by proposing the most far-fetched, outlandish bills he possibly can in or-der to look like a responsible politician. More people are interested in those who do big, no-torious things -all you have to do to see proof of that is look at any channel on television, where “reality” shows are king.

With that in mind, more people are go-ing to remember Ralph Shortey’s name not be-cause he was the guy who was instrumental in ensuring a clean water supply or because he helped make it safe to go out after dark again. Instead, it will be because he was “that crack-pot” who advocated an armed legislation and said that they were putting babies in our food, and what tasty food it is, too.

To read more go to www.westerncourier.com

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To: luvdaladyz@hotmail.comFrom: professorx@eiu.eduSubject: Re: Whats the deal?Hello DJ,I am not sure which English class you are refer-

ring to. I won’t give you notes or homework since I don’t know which class and section you are in.

That being said, in the future you should end your email with your name so I may know whom I am addressing. Since you are not using your free panthermail account, there is no last name for me to see and use to check who you are.

P.S. If you “can’t fail this class” then I suggest you start working on your grammar.

As we addressed in Friday’s editorial, bad stu-dent emails are a curse professors have to deal with too often, but that is no excuse for our mentors and role models to respond in kind. Professors can’t be expected to remember every student’s name and which class they are in. They are not nannies and do not have to email miss-ing students to check up on them, and send them the homework and notes. But professors are expected to be adults and act like adults, even if their students do not.

Too many professors often fall to the level of their students when replying to emails. The example above sounds reasonable enough, but there is big difference between “I won’t give you notes or homework since I don’t know which class and section you are in,” and “I can’t give you...” Students will often translate the “won’t” as professors saying there is no way the student will be getting the notes and homework.

For every professor out there who does announce in the first week of class they will not email homework and notes to students who miss class, there is one who does not announce it but assumes the students will know. It is with-in every professor’s power to make a pre-emp-tive strike against bad emails. An example email can be included in the syllabus, could be emailed to the class, or could be discussed the first week of class if it is a big enough problem.

Every students has had at least one profes-sor that has said “I don’t use email.” That is a lie. Every professor uses email. The school contacts them through panthermail, their department can contact them through email, their family and friends can contact them through email. If there is a professor who cannot figure out email, it may be time for him to consider retirement.

Email is easy and convenient to use, especial-ly for students, the clients of the professors. We depend on email as a mode of communication and we have panthermail as an official avenue for that communication.

Professors should at least read student emails and respond to those that require a response, even if it is their policy not to. If a professor is obstinate about not using email for class, then fine, just make sure that there is enough time set aside to confer with students in phone calls and office visits.

But know that there are students who are working or raising families and can only rely on email to contact their professor.

Soylent Green is people! Congress pledges action

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GENERATION, from page 1“As a historian, there is no way

around teaching students content because they have to know stuff in order to do the kind of criti-cal thinking and analysis that we all want and expect our students to have,” Elder said.

She also said she does not usual-ly organize her class into groups be-cause she did not think they were useful when she was a student.

“Dr. Ames gave me a lot to think about in terms of how to structure classroom time and giving students opportunities for choice and group interaction,” Elder said.

Timm spoke about how what stu-dents learn outside of the classroom affects how they act inside of the classroom.

One example of this is that GPS has always been available to students during the course of their lives, Timm said.

“Students have always had some-thing to give them direction, and they expect that in the classroom so teachers need to reach out to stu-dents when they are struggling and direct them,” she said.

Dagni Bredesen, the interim di-rector of Faculty Development and an English professor, said catering to everything the students want will not help them grow so faculty mem-bers need to discover how to bridge the gap between when students need a lot of support to then becoming more independent, life-long learn-ers.

“I think what emerged from the discussion is that it is important to know who the students are and what

they are coming in with in terms of expectations and skill sets,” Brede-sen said. “I think it is important to know how to reach those students, but I also think that we have to cre-ate the conditions so that they will really be prepared for the world.”

The next “Let’s Talk Teaching: Who are our First-Year Students?” discussion is scheduled for March 30.

Those interested can register at the Faculty Development website.

Rachel Rodgers can be reached at 581-2812

or rjrodgers@eiu.edu.

By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor

A comedian has been asked to re-turn to campus after a performance in 2010.

Comedian Arvin Mitchell will be performing at 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Shauna Miller, the comedy co-ordinator for the University Board, said Mitchell performed in the 7th Street Underground in September 2010 and filled the room.

“A lot of students found him funny and that is why we asked him to come back for Afr ican American Heritage month show,” Miller said.

Miller said she thinks Mitchell is a good comedian for the students.

“He was just a really funny guy for that show, and he’s still very funny to the students,” Miller said.

Mil ler sa id she i s excited to see the show because of the good things she has heard about him.

“I’ve heard a lot of good things

about that show and how everyone enjoyed it,” Miller said. “I’ve nev-er heard any negative comments about it.”

This comedy show is being co-sponsored by the University Board and the Black Student Union. The Black Student Union will be pro-viding refreshments during the show.

“ We chose h im because we thought he was a good African American comedian that students will enjoy,” Miller said.

Miller said Mitchell’s comedy is something everyone can relate to in a clean way.

“His comedy is very relevant and also he is a comedian who doesn’t cuss near as much, and his mate-rials are a lot more clean,” Miller said. “He gets the job done without being crude the whole time, which is a different style than comedians do now.”

The comedy show will be opened up by Andrew Hicks, a commu-nication studies major, during the Happy Half Hour at 8:30 p.m. in

the 7th Street Underground.“He is a really funny comedian

on campus,” Miller said. Miller said the comedy show will

give students a chance to laugh.“I think any comedy show we

put on just gives students a break from the normal study, homework, meetings,” Miller said. “ It’s just a good break where people are able to laugh.”

Miller said there will also be two tickets given away to another com-edy show in April. The tickets will be for The 23rd annual Clements Comedy Cafe at the Virginia The-atre in Champaign.

Miller said she cannot wait to see how many students come to the show.

“We know he packed the (7th Street Underground) last time, we wanted to see if he’ll do it again,” Miller said.

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812

or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.

C AMPUS

Comedian returns toEastern for second time

Lisa Guymon, an employee of the food court, said the success of the week was obvious by the num-ber of customers during the course of the week.

“You can tell the students really enjoy the work we do,” she said.

Black said overall, the week went exceptionally well.

“We really appreciate all the stu-dents coming out and supporting us,” she said. “We’re definitely go-ing to try to have specials more of-ten.”

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or redexter@eiu.edu.

The funding from such events comes from a variety of places in-cluding retired professors, hon-ors groups and the departments in-volved.

Mullin said the group gets a lot of help from honors fraternities such as Tri-Beta, Phi Sigma, Sig-

ma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa as well as the Biological Graduate Student Associations.

Mullin said preparation for the week of events is getting the speak-ers to Eastern and finding a place for them to stay as well as other lo-gistical concerns like organizing lo-

cations for the events. All events are open to the public.

Amy Wywialowski can be reached at alwywialowski@eiu.

edu.

EVOLUTION, from page 1

UNION, from page 1

• “Darwin and the Human Fossil Record: 150 Years of Discovery, Exploration and Debate” - 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, Lumpkin Audito-rium (Room 2030)

• “Hominid paleobiology” - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, Life Sciences Building, Room 2080

• Paul Garber (University of Il-linois, Anthropology) presents “Playing Nice: The Ecological and Social Benefits of Coopera-tive Behavior in Primate Evolu-tion” - 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, Lumpkin Auditorium (Room 2030)

• “Race, Genetics and Health” presented by Jada Benn-Torres (Notre Dame University, Anthro-pology - Noon on Thursday, Feb. 9, Phipps Auditorium (Room 1205), Physical Science Building

Darwin Day Events

SETH SCHROEDER | DAILY EASTERN NE WSFreshman English major Michael Skasick plays his keytar Wednesday evening in the Thomas Hall lobby. Skasick said he plays there just to pass the time.

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Red-shirt sophomore pole vault-er Jade Riebold continued to rewrite the Eastern history books, breaking her own school record in the women’s pole vault event. Riebold first broke the Eastern record in her debut as a Pan-ther, then broke it again the following week, and has now broken it a third time.

Riebold posted a vault of 13-feet, 1.75-inches, finishing fourth place in the event.

Also in field events, red-shirt senior Donald Romero posted a personal best of 65-feet, 9-inches in the men’s weight throw event, landing him in second place on the all-time Eastern list.

Meanwhile, in the women’s 4x400-meter relay event, seniors Megan Ging-erich, Bridget Sanchez and Emily Qui-nones, along with junior Erika Ramos posted a time of 3:48.53. The time, ranks as the second best in Eastern his-tory, was the fastest time posted by an Eastern team since 1981.

The Notre Dame Meyo Invite, which hosts some of the best track and field competition in the nation, was a great opportunity for the Panthers to show what they can do, Boey said.

“Teams don’t give us much respect because we’re Eastern Illinois,” he said. “Week in and week out we show ev-erybody else that we’re Eastern Illinois. Just because we’re a small school, we can compete with the best.”

He said that other teams around the nation need to recognize the talent on the Eastern roster.

“It’s funny how everybody looks down on us, but we’ve got five or six guys ranked in the top twenty five in the nation, every year, year in and year out,” Boey said. “I hope they start to re-alize that, ‘Hey, Eastern Illinois can bat-tle with the best teams in the nation. We come ready to compete against anybody.”

The Panthers will compete next at the Grand Valley State Invite in Allen-dale, Mich., next weekend.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942

or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

Granger said despite the recent struggles the Panthers won’t count themselves out of anything, including the conference tournament.

“You never count yourself out, you never say ‘we can’t make it’, you always want to come out and go as hard as you can and try to win every game,” Grang-er said.

The Panthers return to action Thurs-day when they go on the road to face OVC rival Tennessee Tech. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. In Cookville, Tenn.

Rob Mortell can be reached at 581-7944 or at rdmortell@eiu.edu.

TENNIS

Staff Report

Both the Eastern men’s and women’s tennis teams took huge hits, as the men lost to St. Louis University and the women lost to Southern Illinois Uni-versity-Carbondale by the same score of 5-2.

The women took on Southern Illi-nois-Carbondale this past Saturday in Danville where only two singles com-petitors won their match, senior Aman-da Dibbs and sophomore Jennifer Kim. Dibbs beat Natasha Tomishima of the Salukis in three sets with scores of 6-4, 3-6, and 7-5. Kim won her match by defeating Jennifer Dien of Southern Illinois-Carbondale also in three sets with scores of 6-3, 6-7, and 6-2.

All other singles competitors lost in their matches to the Salukis with soph-omore Janelle Prisner, junior Merritt Whitley, junior Kristen Laird, and se-nior Annie Egan coming up short.

Prisner lost her match in two sets, getting beat by Southern’s Melanie Del-sart with the same score, 6-2. Whitley also lost in two sets to Anita Lee with scores of 7-6 and 6-1. Laird lost to one of the Cairo Basa twins getting beat by Ariadna in two sets with socres of 6-1 and 7-5 and Egan lost to the other Cai-ro Basa twin, in two sets with the same score of 6-1.

In doubles, the team did not fair much better. The team of Prisner and Whitley lost to the team of Tomishi-ma and Dien for the Salukis with a

score of 8-7. The team of senior Shan-non Brooks and Dibbs also lost in their match to Lee and Southern Illinois-Carbondale’s Anastacia Simons with a score of 5-3. The team of Egan and Laird lost their match too, getting beat by Delsart and one of the Cairo Basa twins with a score of 8-4.

The women are now 1-2 for the sea-son, and they are now 0-2 at home. But with their next match being on the road, they are so far at a record of 1-0. That match will be this Saturday against the Chicago State Cougars in Chicago, with the match beginning at 2 p.m.

On the men’s side, it was not that much better, as only one singles com-petitor won his match for the Panthers. Two doubles teams, however, did win their matches as compared to the wom-en losing all three. The men’s tennis team took on the St. Louis University Bilikens this past Friday at the St. Clair Tennis Club in O’Fallon.

Senior Matyas Hilgert won his match against Vuk Poledica of St. Lou-is, winning in two sets of the same score of 6-3. All other singles competi-tors lost their matches to St. Louis.

Tennis teams have rough weekend

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Actually, Morehead State's tall-est player to see playing time was Mackenzi Arledge, who is 6-foot-2. Arledge played 16 minutes, but didn't score any points.

King could feel the advantage in height and even though the Gold-en Eagles weren't as short as she thought, she still had a dominant game. King scored 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds.

The Panthers made an effort to get the ball in the paint. Sallee said it was in the game plan.

"We did a great job executing in the first half and did a good job getting it in (the paint) with (Oro-szova), Mariah, even at the end there with DeAnna and Taryn," Sallee said. "We got the ball right where it needed to go."

King was 10-of-15 from the field, attempting six more shots than anyone on the team. Oroszo-va was second on the team in that category, going 5-of-9 from the field. Oroszova had 11 points and eight rebounds.

“We were so much taller than them so we took advantage of that,” Oroszova said.

The Panthers improve to 19-4 overall (10-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference). Their next game is Monday at 7 p.m. in Lantz Arena against Eastern Kentucky.

Monday’s game will be one of two games the Panthers have left at home.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-7942

or admcnamee@eiu.edu.

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SHEA LAZ ANSKY | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSFreshman forward Sabina Oroszova defends freshman forward Mackenzie Arledge of Morehead State Saturday in Lantz Arena. The Panthers beat the Eagles with a score of 78-58, giving the Panthers their 12th straight win.

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“Week in and week out we show everybody else that we’re Eastern Illinois. Just because we’re a small school, we can compete with the best.” Zye Boey, red-shirt senior sprinter

By Dominic Renzetti Sports Editor

Though it took them a little bit longer to get there, the Eastern men's and women's track and field teams eventually made it to South Bend, Ind., on Friday for the Notre Dame Meyo Invite. The team was hit with a two and a half hour delay when their bus caught a flat tire en route to the meet.

“Well, we were just driving, and all of a sudden I heard like, a pop, and a boom-boom-boom-boom, and I was like, 'What's going on?'” red-shirt senior sprinter Zye Boey said. “That's when I realized we had a flat tire.”

The delay caused several of the

Panthers to miss their events, as the meet was scheduled to being at 4:00 p.m., beginning with the women's weight throw event.

Sophomores Jalisa Paramore and Justine Moore, along with junior Jill MacEachen were unable to com-pete in the women's 60-meter hur-dle event, due to the delay.

“It was like a two and a half hour delay, so a couple of our athletes, they were late and they couldn't get to their races, but it really didn't af-fect me that much,” Boey said.

Boey would go on to win the men's 200-meter dash with a time of 21.12 seconds, while finishing in second place in the men's 60-meter dash with a time of 6.77 seconds.

Despite the success, Boey said there is still room for improvement.

“I accept the victory, of course, but just the time I ran, I actually wanted to go a little bit faster,” he said.

Boey said it was a matter of him not running his race, and concen-trating more on this time.

“That's what affected me the most, just worrying about time in-stead of running my race,” he said.

Boey said the Notre Dame Meyo Invite was a great meet for the team,

featuring a lot of great performanc-es.

“Overall, we did great, for the most part,” he said. “There's just a couple areas that we need to work

on. For the most part, pretty good, solid performances.”

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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Final: #EIU - 55, #MoreheadState - 56.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Bus issues don't slow down track team

Warner, Morehead silence comeback effort

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

By Rob Mortell Staff Reporter

Silence is the only word that

could describe the state of Lantz Arena after Morehead State’s An-gelo Warner hit the game-winning free throw with 2.2 seconds left on the clock.

Down nine with just under three minutes to play Eastern’s men’s basketball team began a ferocious comeback attempt. Senior guard Jeremy Granger showed his lead-ership as he made a three point shot to catapult the Panthers run. A Morehead miss led to another three-point shot, this time by fresh-man guard Joey Miller, which cut the lead to 52-49.

After a couple free throws by Lamont Austin, Miller hit another three that sent the fans to their feet.

Now down 54-52, a once intim-idating lead was easily manageable with 45 seconds left in the game. All the Panthers needed was a mis-take.

After Morehead’s guard Ty Prof-itt made 1-of-2 free throws the Pan-thers were one shot away from tying the game. Which is where Grang-er wants to be. Stepping into a three-point shot with 19 seconds left Granger fond nothing but the bottom of the net and Lantz Arena went wild.

They had done it. Despite be-ing on a seven-game losing-streak the Panthers had found a way to tie the defending Ohio Valley Confer-ence champions all they needed was a stop on defense. A gutsy decision was made by the Eagles head coach Donnie Tyndall to not call a time-out and setup a final play.

Instead Tyndall made the call

from the sideline leaving Eastern’s offense heavy line-up on the court.

The Eagles isolated Lamont on Miller at the top of the key and Lamont missed a running jump-shot in the lane; however, Warner was in the right place at the right time a grabbed the biggest offensive rebound of the night.

Smothered by Panther defenders Warner jumped into a crowd and came away with a foul on Eastern red-shirt junior forward James Hol-lowell.

Warner stepped to the line. Every Panther fan in the arena was yelling at the top of their lungs. He shot. The ball clanked off the front of the rim, giving the fans and more im-portantly the players a glimmer of hope.

Granger said he was begging for

Warner to miss the second shot. “I was thinking we can go into

overtime or maybe hit a big shot to win,” Granger said.

But Warner was not on the same page as Granger. He hit the second free throw and knock the wind out of Lantz Arena. Granger threw up a last second heave, but it missed ev-erything and the Panther lost their eighth consecutive game 56-55.

In a game, where the Panthers statistically out-played Morehead State in many areas, head coach Mike Miller said the game came down to free throws. Eastern was out shot 22-to-6 at the free throw line, as the Eagles made 17 of those shots, while the Panthers made only four.

Mike Miller said the team played the way the wanted to for most of

the game.“You look at those kids and how

hard they played, they deserved to win,” Mike Miller said.

With the loss the Panthers fall to 9-14 overall and 2-9 in the OVC, while Morehead State improves to 13-12 overall and 6-5 in conference play.

Eastern was led by Granger and Joey Miller with 17 and 15 points respectively. Miller shot 5-of-12 from beyond the three-point line.

Morehead State was led by Drew Kelly, Milton Chavis and Proffitt who each had 11 points.

Joey Miller said this is a tough loss to take but the team has to move forward.

Panthers lose 8th consecutive game

Despite delay, team still performs well

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SETH SCHROEDER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSFreshman guard Joey Miller attempts to dribble past an opponent from Morehead State Saturday evening in Lantz Arena. The Panthers lost 55-56. This was their eighth straight loss.

By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

The Eastern women's basketball team has made a habit of ending the first half of games on big runs. The team did it again Saturday.

The Panthers dominated during a 20-0 run in the last 9:32 of the first half against Morehead State to take a 42-13 lead into the halftime lock-er room.

Eastern went 7-of-12 from the field and 6-of-10 from the free throw line during the run, which highlight-ed a lopsided first half.

At halftime, the Panthers led by 29 points, made 16 more free throws, grabbed 13 more rebounds, com-mitted 12 fewer fouls, and six fewer turnovers.

"It was awesome," freshman for-ward Sabina Oroszova said. "We just dominated."

Eastern head coach Brady Sallee said his team's first half performance was as good as it has played all sea-son.

The first half was almost a polar opposite to the way Eastern played Wednesday against Southeast Mis-souri when the junior guard Ta'Kenya Nixon said the Panthers were watch-ing the scoreboard and trying to win the game in the first four minutes of the game.

Sallee said the team worked hard in practice to prevent that from hap-pening again this week.

"We did a lot of work in the last couple days between their ears just trying to set the table for February and understanding what February basketball is all about," Sallee said.

Besides being mentally ready to play, the Panthers had a game plan they followed to perfection - getting the ball in the paint and exploiting Morehead State's weakness.

Panthers’ post dominates in win

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DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSZye Boey, a red-shirt senior sprinter, runs in the men's 60-meter dash preliminaries during the John Craft Invite 2012 in the Lantz Fieldhouse Jan. 21.