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Th e partial federal government shut-down on Oct. 1 may not have aff ected most students, but the EKU VETS certainly have felt the government-funding pinch.
Th e shutdown was in response to Con-gress failing to pass a bill by Oct. 1 to con-tinue funding and prevent the U.S. from going over the debt ceiling. Funding was held up in response to political parties dis-agreeing with funding for the Aff ordable Care Act. In addition to veterans aff airs, the government shutdown also aff ected na-tional parks, memorials and non-emergen-cy services.
One way colleges have been aff ected is when Veterans Aff airs (VA) furloughed vo-cation rehabilitation and education success counselors, said Mike Bush, president of the EKU VETS Club. Bush said, Kim Dickey, campus counselor with the VA department, was one of the employees furloughed in the process.
“She provides a point of contact for any-
one using VA benefi ts who don’t have time to go to Lexington,” Bush said. “She also handles disputes and claims related to the monthly stipends.”
Even though the campus counselor is currently on furlough, claims are still being processed said Allen Back, director of mili-tary and veterans’ aff airs.
Th e VA in St. Louis has their website taken down and people aren’t answering phones, but Back said nothing is aff ecting benefi ts yet.
“When the funding runs out [on Nov. 1] we’re really going to feel an impact with our vets on campus,” Back said.
Th e VA provided stipends for this month before the shutdown took eff ect, but Bush said come Nov. 1, if a funding agreement were not reached, veterans would not re-ceive their monthly stipend that comes from the post-9/11 G.I. Bill. Th e bill provides about $1,000 per month to qualifying veter-ans, Bush said.
Th e Offi ce of Military and Veterans Af-fairs offi ce has been doing its best to make sure veterans and their dependents are kept informed about the shutdown situation.
“We’re just trying to pass information along as we receive it,” Bush said.
Bush said if the need arises, the offi ce would direct veterans to a non-profi t orga-
nization that can assist them when the fed-eral government lacks timeliness to address funding and stipend issues.
Two of the Department of Army Civilian employees who work here were furloughed during the fi rst week of the shutdown, but they have since returned to work said Lt.
Col. Grant Montgomery, executive offi cer.Th ey have also faced some minor issues
as part of the shutdown.“We’ve had challenges with resourc-
es,” Montgomery said. “But we’re working around them.”
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Homecoming 2013: Building tomorrow’s traditions today
Student shoots his way to top of national rifle championship
RSO policy changes have minor impact
Homecoming is this weekend and new events will highlight this year’s theme: Building Tomorrow’s Traditions.
Th e Colonel Corn Roast on Th ursday Oct. 17 begins at 5:30 p.m. Th is new event kicks off the festivities for the 2013 Foot-ball Homecoming on Powell Plaza. Partic-ipants can enjoy free food, a photo booth, pumpkin painting, football players meet and greet, a performance of the winner of Eastern’s Got Talent, and a bonfi re at the intramural fi elds will lead the campus into a weekend full of colonel pride activities.
Out of all the events during the Colonel Corn Roast, the bonfi re is the event Alyssa
Stump, 18, freshman, criminal justice ma-jor from Corryton, Tenn. is looking for-ward to the most.
“I’m most excited about the bonfi re at the corn roast,” Stump said. “I like snug-ging up next to a fi re with a blanket and I’m interested to see how the school works out a campus-wide fi re.”
Homecoming Weekend is meant to cel-ebrate students of yesterday, today and to-morrow.
“It’s a new era. Eastern is changing and we are going in a new direction,” said Jes-sica Ott, a member of the 2013 homecom-ing committee. “We want to honor and re-spect the past and its traditions because that is what made EKU the amazing uni-versity that it is, but we also want to be innovative and create new traditions for years to come,”
To help commemorate the past, dorms across campus will paint a banner to be
Joe Fortkamp is the best in the country.Fortkamp came in fi rst place at the Nation-
al Muzzle Loading Riffl e Association’s trap championship in September at a tournament in Friendship, Ind. Th e business communication junior from Batesville, Ind. shot a 98 out of 100 and is the youngest person to win the national ti-tle at the age of 20, beating out nearly 40 marks-men for the title.
Fortkamp said he had a huge grin on his face after the victory.
“When I won I realized, I just shot the second best score that this country has ever seen,” Fort-kamp said.
Fortkamp competed with a “primitive-style” Vic Beeson black powder muzzleloader. He said he and other muzzleloader enthusiasts refer to these guns as primitive because of their roots in early American history. Fortkamp said he specif-ically uses the same type of muzzleloaders sol-diers used in the Revolutionary War and the ear-
ly parts of the Civil War.Fortkamp said he has been shooting guns for
a while, but hasn’t shot competitively since high school.
“I’ve been shooting my whole life but I real-ly started getting more into the competitive side of things in high school,” Fortkamp said.“ I fi rst learned to shoot a gun from my grandpa. When-ever I was really young we’d go out squirrel hunt-ing and what not. I was around 7 or 8.”
Fortkamp said he learned to shoot by hunt-ing, but hunting is not his type of shooting.
“I kind of leaned away from hunting a little bit because it just seems really easy,” Fortkamp said. “A lot of people are more about ‘Oh yeah I’m going to go shoot a deer!’ but to me, [deer] are like cows. Th ey just kind of walk up to your tree-stand and you blast them. It doesn’t hold the excitement (for me) that it does for other people, apparently. I would prefer to punch holes in pa-per or knock over metal silhouette targets be-cause I get satisfaction out of knowing how ac-curate I can shoot.”
Eastern is moving forward on a proposed policy change that would give Registered Student Organi-zations the right to select their own members. Pre-viously, all RSOs were compelled to admit any stu-dent into their organization, regardless of whether the student shared the beliefs of the RSO.
Th e new measure is awaiting a vote by the Student Senate. From there, the proposal will be considered by university offi cials and Eastern’s Board of Regents.
SGA President Sarah Carpenter said the policy would transfer liability from the university to the in-dividual RSOs in the event a lawsuit is fi led.
“RSOs must abide by university policies, but they have the ability to choose their members and this will mainly aff ect the leadership of these organiza-tions,” Carpenter said. “With what it states now, the university can get into trouble if someone wanted to fi le a complaint against an organization that wouldn’t allow them to be president or something.”
Th e proposal changes just one line in the poli-cy handbook. Th e current language reads as follows: “[RSOs] must abide by all university policies and regu-lations.” Th e university, however, wants to add the fol-lowing line to the policy: “Th e university respects the rights of the RSO to determine its own membership.”
RSOs would continue to operate the same way but the membership selection process would be changed to where they now have some say in the matter, Carpenter said. Most RSOs wouldn’t even notice a change, she added.
Th e move by Eastern to change the rules for RSOs was prompted by lawsuits at other universities, where student organizations were sued for discrimination.
One prominent example occurred in April 2012 at Vanderbilt University in which the university forced student organizations to comply with its nondiscrim-inatory policies, causing religious groups to disasso-ciate themselves with the university and take their organizations off campus.
A Christian organization on Vanderbilt’s campus required members to be devout Christians in order to be involved. If a student were not a devout Christian, they were not allowed in the group. Vanderbilt said
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Joe Fortkamp won the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association trap championship in September. He is the youngest champion ever.
NEW BRANDING, EVENTS AIM TO STRENGTHEN EASTERN’S HOMECOMING TRADITION
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EASTERN VETS COPE WITH PARTIAL CLOSING OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS, SMALL GROUP PROTESTS IN D.C.By JACOB [email protected]
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Members of the EKU Band prepare for performance at last year’s homecoming. The 2013 homecoming events take place this week.
(Left to right) Ernie Braden, Audra Sommer and Chris Lane traveled to Washington, D.C. to protest the closing of Veteran’s memorials as a result of the partial federal government shutdown.
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Art Student Associa� on hosts Halloween Ball
Th e Art Student Association will host a Halloween Ball on Th ursday, Oct. 24 from 7p.m. until 11 p.m. in the lobby of the Campbell Building. Th is event will include food, music, drinks and dancing. Everyone that attends is encouraged to wear a cos-tume.
For more information contact ASA president Brittany Hoff man at brittany_hoff [email protected].
Taylor Higgins
Homecoming chili cook-off Th e Association of Fire Science Techni-
cians will have a Homecoming chili cook-off starting around 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, during the tailgating events. Anyone can participate in this chili cook-off and there is no cost to enter the contest.
People can vote on which chili they think is the best at the AFST tailgating tent. Taste testers will receive tickets and place the ticket in jars set in front of the
chili pots to vote for the recipes they like. Th e chili that has the most tickets in their jar at the end of tailgating, will receive a prize. Th is is the second year AFST has done the chili cook-off .
For more information, contact AFST President Emily Kinney at [email protected].
Kayla Lasure
German Club celebrates Oktoberfest
Th e German Club will celebrate the tradi-tion of Oktoberfest from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23 in Middle Powell. Th e event will include traditional German food, games, music and a raffl e. Everyone is welcome to attend the event.
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Students learn about alcohol awareness at Rocksoberfest
Students will have the chance to learn about alcohol awareness at Rocksoberfest, the largest event for cohosted by the Health Education Action Team and the offi ce of Stu-dent Life. Th e event will last from 7 p.m. un-til 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at Powell Underground.
At the event, there will be a DUI simu-lator, drunk goggle games an alcohol trivia. Students that participate will earn a free T-shirt.
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6:30 p.m.Colonel Corn RoastPowell Plaza
7:30 p.m.SCI Chamber EnsembleGifford Theatre
4 p.m.Soccervs. Murray StateRichmond 7 p.m.Volleyballvs. Tennessee TechRichmond
NoonVolleyballvs. Jacksonville StateRichmond
3 p.m.Football(HOMECOMING)vs. Tennessee TechRichmond
4 p.m.Critical Language Scholarship Informational SessionDiscovery ClassroomNoel Studio
7 p.m.RocksoberfestPowell Underground
8 p.m.Intramural BowlingGalaxy Lanes
6:30 p.m.Volleyballvs. Northern KentuckyRichmond
7:30 p.m.Ken HaddixFaculty Trombone RecitalGifford Theatre
1 p.m.Soccervs. Austin PeayRichmond
3 p.m.Richard CrosbyFaculty Piano RecitalEKU Center for the Arts
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Oct. 4 � An offi cer respond-
ed to a call at Keene Hall at 12:06 a.m. after an RA reported a stu-dent was yelling at resi-dents. Emily Williams, 18, from Florence was staggering near the side-walk by the Model base-ball fi eld, according to the police report. Th e of-fi cer said Williams had slurred speech, blood-shot eyes and was un-steady on her feet. Wil-liams failed fi eld sobriety tests and was transport-ed to the Madison Coun-ty Detention Center.
� Eastern Police and the Richmond Fire De-partment responded to Keene Hall at 2:06 p.m. because the fi re alarm activated. Upon arrival, the offi cer learned a Fa-cilities Employee had hit
a pull station accidentally with a garbage can. Th e fi re alarm system was re-set.
Oct. 5 � An Eastern Police of-
fi cer observed a student holding an open can of beer at 4:51 p.m. in the Alumni Coliseum park-ing lot. Th e student, Mer-edith Vanlandingham, 20, from Mason, Ohio, took the open can of beer and poured it into a red plastic cup. Th e offi cer questioned Vanlanding-ham and asked for her identifi cation. She said she didn’t have any iden-tifi cation and was 21, but then after question-ing told the offi cer she was 20. Vanlandingham was cited for possession of an alcoholic beverage under the age of 21 and is scheduled to appear in court.
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Department and East-ern Police responded to the Moore Building af-ter a fi re alarm activat-ed at 8:21 a.m. Th e fi re report said 125 people were evacuated from the building. Richmond Fire Department cleared the scene and reset the alarm.
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ed to McGregor Hall af-ter a student called po-lice at 1:34 p.m. and said his backpack was taken Oct. 3 at 10 p.m. from the Fountain Food Court in the Powell Building. Th e value of the missing backpack and items inside is $110.
Oct. 9 � Eastern Police re-
sponded to the Begley Building after an em-ployee said two table skirts, valued at $100 each, were taken from the “Will Call” entrance to Roy Kidd Stadium.
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Last week, the Student Activities Council announced its choice for Eastern’s fall concert, saying up-and-coming country artist Kacey Musgraves will take the stage at the EKU Cen-ter for the Arts stage later this month.
This decision did not come lightly and was the product of months of planning, Poynter said.
“It’s impossible to bring someone that ev-eryone is dying to see,” said Ryan Poynter, SAC concert committee chair. “You can’t please everyone. What you can do is bring someone that everyone is interested enough to go see.”
Back in June, Poynter and the rest of the concert committee started working with its booking agent, who serves as a liason between the artists and venues that want to hire them.
First step: pick a genre. The concert chair and committee weigh the various kinds of mu-sic out there.
Once they decide on a genre, they pass along word to the booking agent, who then pulls touring logs, schedules and tour dates looking to furnish a list of artists who are both available and fit the venue’s genre.
“There’s two ways we can go about booking a show,” Poynter said. “Get a booking agent or interact directly with artist agencies. Using a booking agent helps alleviate some of the re-sponsibility from us and makes our lives a lit-tle easier.”
During the next part of the process, the concert committee picks its top choices from the booking agent’s list provided by the book-ing agent. As a branch of Student Government Association, SAC will pass acts that allow it to submit bids to the artists. The bids are submit-ted to the artist and their agents, who either confirm or reject the offer.
Poynter said if the artist accepts, the con-tract goes to the Office of Student Life, which is responsible for implementing and executing all of SAC’s legislation. It will go to the Uni-versity Council and then back to the concert
committee. They send it back to the artist for official signatures and then it comes back to Eastern. Once it is signed by both parties, it is considered a fully executed contract and the show preparations begin.
SAC is allotted a budget from SGA which is divided among SAC’s four committees: con-certs, weekenders, special events and cultur-al arts. The concert committee has a budget of $70,000 for the academic year. Typically, the budget is split in half between the fall and spring concert, but there’s leeway there.
“So far I’ve spent $50,000 on the two shows (Kacey Musgraves and Homecoming tailgate performer Landon Austin) we already have scheduled,” Poynter said.
The artist’s fee isn’t the only cost associated with a fall concert. There are also production and hospitality fees. Production fees are used to purchase different equipment, labor, or oth-er additional things needed for the show. And hospitality fees go toward food and beverages for the artists and touring personnel.
“One of the biggest things we can do is spend smarter not harder,” Poynter said. “Let’s say we booked an artist with a really high artist fee, just because the artist fee is huge doesn’t mean they’re a great artist and we are going to bring a packed house to see them. But even when we bring an act with a small artist fee, it doesn’t mean we can’t or won’t sell out [the show].”
There are other obstacles aside from costs. Richmond has its charms, but it’s not ex-
actly a booming metropolis. And that makes it more difficult to sell an artist on visiting the area for a show.
“Richmond is not a place that you would necessarily plan to go see a show or come see the latest or greatest,” Poynter said. “It doesn’t really draw that crowd. You have to ask your-self the questions of who can you bring people to see? And how do you book the right perfor-mances?”
In addition, the venue, and its capacity, also
enters the equation. The EKU Center for the Arts may have state
of the art equipment, but it’s still relatively small as far as concert venues go, with room for around 2,000 people. And that makes it a tougher sell to artists, who often prefer the larger arenas
“A lot of these artists I would love to bring, that I would spend the entire year’s budget on bringing here because they would be worth it, we can’t bring them because they’re booking arenas, places that hold seven to ten thousand people.” Poynter siad, “And the best I have to offer is a 2000 seat theater. So venue is another point of contention.”
Still, money ultimately does the talking. Just look at the University of Kentucky, which last week brought in The Lumineers Memorial Coliseum. The Lumineers play well to the col-lege crowd, but they’re also significantly more expensive than the artists Eastern can afford.
“I hate to see our Eastern students going to other campuses to see their show,” Poyn-ter said. “We should be bringing those shows for them to see here because they go to school here. It’s an Eastern pride thing.”
So what can Eastern do to bring in acts that the student body can get excited about? There’s really only one option: University of-ficials need to allot more money to SAC to spend on artists. Seventy-thousand dollars, while a princely sum for some things, doesn’t amount to a whole lot on the concert front.
Maybe if the university found a way to bol-ster the amount—say $150,000—that would go a long way toward helping SAC bring in acts that generate buzz and put the EKU Center on the map.
Yes, this means some belt-tightening in oth-er areas if Eastern is going to afford the big-ger outlay. But the EKU Center is still new and still making a name for itself. So what better way for Eastern to make its mark than to bring artists that draw some attention.
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hung in front of their building exemplify-ing the theme. New homecoming shirts have been printed with Eastern’s new logo on the front and an 80s football helmet on the back. Shirts will go on sale on Wednes-day, Oct. 16 and will also be sold at the homecoming game Saturday, Oct. 19 at 3 p.m.
Saturday morning will bring the Annu-al Homecoming Parade in which the 2013 Homecoming Court will be presented. Lo-cal businesses and members of Eastern’s
Greek community will be entering fl oats into the parade. Th e Annual 5K Homecom-ing Run will lead the parade down Lancast-er starting at 10 a.m.
“I’m excited for the parade because it re-minds me of the Pegasus Parade in Louis-ville that kicks off the Derby,” Katie Zinner. 19, freshman, undeclared major from Lou-isville said. “I’m hoping the excitement of the Homecoming parade resembles that of Derby weekend.”
Student Government Association will host a Pre-Game Tailgate in the Alum-ni Coliseum Lot starting at 11 a.m. For a full list of Homecoming Weekend activi-ties, follow the Homecoming link on EKU Alumni’s homepage.
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Homecoming participants enjoy festivities from last year’s event. Homecoming will feature a corn roast, a parade, tailgate and the traditional football game among other programming.
(Left to right) Chris Lane and Ernie Braden pile barricades at World War II memorial, which was closed due to government shutdown.
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Fortkamp said that shooting in com-petitions is much harder than hunting because of the far distances and dan-ger associated with working with primi-tive fi rearms. He noted that because of the age of his old-fashioned guns and the use of black powder, they are more dangerous than modern fi rearms. Mod-ern powder burns but black powder ex-plodes, black powder instantly ignites and turns to vapor.
“I’ve had mishaps with fi rearms as bad as it sounds, all kinds of little stuff ,” Fort-kamp said. “I’ve had guns come apart be-fore. Most recently there was a Reming-ton 870. Th e whole bottom block of the gun came apart. It pretty much exploded and the shrapnel was the problem.”
Fortkamp said the older guns lead to longer contests than shooting contests
with more modern fi rearms.“It takes about six hours to complete
the competition because muzzle load-ing requires the shooter to reload after every shot,” Fortkamp said. “You walk out to the line, wait to shoot, call your bird, shoot, walk all the way back and do all your reloading. It takes an extreme amount of time.”
But Fortkamp isn’t opposed to put-ting time into his craft in competitions or in preparation. Instead of relying on store-bought ammunition, Fortkamp said he tries to be conservative and make his own bullets.
“I cast all my own bullets and round balls,” Fortkamp said. “I melt the lead and pour the molten lead, typically be-tween 600 to 800 degrees, into steel mold blocks that’s the shape of a bullet. It’s all very sustainable.”
For his eff orts Fortkamp won a clock with the names of past winners on it and a plaque. Fortkamp will be competing again this weekend in Friendship, Ind.
the organization’s membership prac-tices violated university policy and for-bid it from being listed as a Vanderbilt student organization if it didn’t open its membership to all students.
Th e move by universities to main-tain open memberships for student or-ganizations was reinforced by a U.S. Su-preme Court decision in 2010 which held that a school can legally refuse to recognize a religious organization un-less it’s open for all students to join.
Michael Reagle, associate vice pres-ident of student aff airs, said religious groups are one of the main reasons East-ern’s considering the measure. Reagle said a Catholic organization wouldn’t want someone who doesn’t believe in Je-sus leading it, and the proposed policy change will allow these organizations to choose their own members.
“We want the groups to plan amongst themselves what they do, where they do it, and how they do it without university infi ltration,” Reagle said. “Th e universi-ty is just trying to clarify [its] position. Legally, this would make us more de-fensible if something were to come up. Th is is [Eastern] going on record taking a stand.”
Lisa Day, director of the Department of Women and Gender Studies, said that an RSO can be selective so long as it is not discriminatory.
“RSOs have a lot to gain by welcom-ing people in their group who aren’t identical to their own beliefs,” Day said.
Reagle said the policy is scheduled to go through all university channels be-fore its adopted. Currently, the propos-al is in the hands of the Student Senate awaiting a vote. After that, university offi cials will consider the measure, add-ing revisions if necessary. Th en the pro-posal will go through a 30-day public review, where anyone can weigh in and contribute public comments or con-cerns.
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As part of the shutdown, federal memori-als in Washington D.C. were also closed be-cause the government wouldn’t fund the De-partment of the Interior that uses required park services to keep memorials open.
Ernie Braden, a 13 year Army veteran, went to Washington D.C. as part of a nation-al march to support the older World War II veterans who were being restricted from ac-cessing the memorials.
Braden said Jerzees in Richmond and Red River Adventure in Me-nifee County sponsored the trip. He was also contacted by Rep. Andy Barr’s offi ce and said the congressman’s offi ce supported Braden and his group for going and marching to support veterans.
Braden said for those who were unable to make it to Washing-ton D.C., there were also events scheduled at state memorials, such as an event in Frankfort.
Braden said there was an open microphone set up at the World War II memorial where former Alaska Gov. Sarah Pal-in, Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz arrived to show their support.
“It wasn’t anything political,” Braden said. “Th is is just veterans for veterans.”
He said the march was mainly to liberate the memorials since they were paid for by American taxpayer money and by the blood of the country’s veterans.
Braden said he was thankful for the op-portunity to march at Washington D.C.
“My overall feeling was overwhelming pride and camaraderie that I shared with those guys,” Braden said. “To see tears in the eyes of those old vets from the amount of joy they had it was so overwhelming I couldn’t keep my eyes dry.”
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Th e color-race craze has made its way to Eastern. Th e Color of Maroon 5K registration is open from
now until race day on Nov. 23. It will start at 10:30 a.m. at the intramural fi elds. Th e race will take place on campus streets. Th e idea for the race is borrowed from other color runs around the country.
Anyone participating in the Color of Maroon 5K can run, walk, crawl, hop or skip. Parents can bring strollers or wagons for their children.
“Th ey’re just fun runs,” said Kevin Morgan, execu-tive event coordinator and emcee of the race. “Th ere’s no time. Th ere’s no place. Th ere’s no competition, un-less you’re competing to see who can get the most col-or on them.” Morgan is a recreation management and programming senior.
“I think it will be awesome,” said Lena Reynolds, el-ementary education junior. “I’ve run 5Ks but I’ve nev-er done a color run. I’m just going to take it easy. I don’t have any time that I’m trying to beat.”
Participants should wear as much white as possi-ble. Color packets will be thrown during and after the race. T-shirts are included with registration. Other merchandise will be available at the race.
“You are the canvas and we are the artists,” Mor-gan said. “And at the end, you all are one giant mas-terpiece.”
Race day registration opens at 8 a.m. Th e pre-race party begins at 9:15 a.m. with Zumba at 9:45 a.m. Th e race starts at 10:30 a.m. and will end once the last per-son crosses the fi nish line.
Upon crossing the fi nish line, each participant is handed a color packet to throw for the fi nish- line fi -nale. Morgan says that if you have any white showing afterward, you’re doing something wrong. Th ere will be giveaways during the fi nale and pre-race party.
So far, approximately 500 participants have regis-tered.
“I want two to three thousand at least,” Morgan said.
Th e student registration price is $14 until the fi st week of november. General participation price is $28. Prices are expected to increase in November prior to the event.
Registration fees go toward the cost of the event, the Special Olympics of Kentucky and various student organizations. A T-shirt, bib number, parking and a 4-ounce color pack are included.
Campus Recreation, the Colonel-Run Club, Hous-ing, Soft Shoe, the Richmond Athletic Club and Chick-fi l-A are sponsoring the race. Chick-fi l-A will provide food for all of the participants.
Th e Color of Maroon 5K is designed to teach every-one to “color outside the lines.”
By EMILY [email protected]
Eastern has continued to carve a name for itself as a military-friend-ly school, catching the eye of Vic-tory Media, which recently ranked the university as a “military-friend-ly school” among the top 20 percent of institutions of higher learning for the upcoming 2014 year. This marks the fifth consecutive year that East-ern has been named a “Military-Friendly School” by Victory Media.
Only the top 20 percent of in-stitutions of higher learning out of the more than 10,000 schools that receive funding from the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs are ranked “Military-Friendly.” The ranking will appear in G.I. Jobs magazine, a magazine for service members that distributes 75,000 copies per month.
Victory Media publishes “Mili-tary Friendly” lists to encourage vet-erans and active service members to consider new opportunities for not just higher education but also em-ployment opportunities.
Eastern is not a newcomer into providing excellence for veterans as demonstrated in 2011 and 2013 when Eastern was ranked the No. 1 School in the “Best for Vets” category by the Military Times EDGE magazine.
The G.I. Jobs magazine said they surveyed student veterans and when asked about their experience, veter-ans rated Eastern a 3.8 out of 4.
Eastern’s good reviews with mili-tary students have already benefited the school in ways. Student enroll-ment, for instance, had leveled off at Eastern in recent years. But that’s not the case for military students.
The number of veterans has con-tinued to grow, said Allen Back, di-rector of Military and Veterans Af-fairs. Eastern had 550 veterans in 2009 and that figure has grown to 1,354 this semester.
Back attributed the growth to a campaign by Eastern called Opera-tion Veteran Success that started in 2010 and more veterans using the post-9/11 G.I. Bill benefits that of-fer more advancement and higher learning opportunities.
The post-9/11 G.I. Bill, enacted in
August 2009, is meant to entice vet-erans to higher education opportu-nities by providing in-state tuition, which at Eastern amounts to $3,768 per semester, Back said.
The bill also provides opportu-nities for veterans not just to attend school, but also for to extend educa-tional benefit to their dependents.
Eastern also tries to help veter-ans get the most for their active duty service experience by offering cred-it hours in for military experience during a veteran’s tour of duty, Back said. He referenced one student who was able to get 70 credit hours for his military experience.
In September 2012, the program moved out of the Whitlock Build-ing and set up their new office in the Burnam House, down the road from campus on Lancaster Ave.
Back said the new office benefits veterans because unlike other uni-versities he can handle a majority of issues, such as admission applica-tions and paperwork. The Burnam House also provides handicapped accessible parking to veterans.
Mike Bush, president of the EKU VETS club, said university life is dif-ferent for veterans compared to tra-ditional students.
“The military needs support, they have spent the last four years over-
seas being told what to wear, where to go and what time to be there,” Bush said.
Bush also said Veterans Affairs tries to help outside of the academ-ic life by making sure veterans have enough money to pay for daily needs when the Department of Veterans Affairs isn’t timely with getting a stipend check to them.
When they fi rst arrive at East-ern, veterans may not have a place to stay in town or nearby. Back said there is one house, soon to be two houses, with multiple bedrooms that veterans are staying in while here in Richmond. Th e houses are aff ordable at $250 rent per month and provide a better environment for older vet-erans than the residence halls with younger students, Back said.
Back said having a program that continuously ranks among the top schools for veterans takes a lot of work.
“This doesn’t happen by any one person,” Back said. “This is a collab-orative effort by the university.”
If students know veterans that need assistance with college or if veterans are thinking about attend-ing college here, they can go online to va.eku.edu or call the Military and Veterans Affairs office at (859) 622-2345.
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Veterans gathered to celebrate homecoming last year. Eastern’s traditionally ranks high on national lists for veterans services and accommodations annually.
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Noah Guthrie is a 19-year-old South Carolina native who started his career with a YouTube video and an acoustic guitar.
Guthrie started playing guitar at age 14 after his father acquired an acoustic guitar that was abandoned by one of his customers at his online consignment shop. Guthrie saw the guitar as an easy way to pickup girls and eventually fell in love with the instrument.
“The guitar kind of picked me,” Guthrie said. “As corny as that sounds I picked it up and it just kind of fit.” His father and stepmoth-er were studio engineers so Guth-rie was always around music grow-ing up.
Guthrie’s first YouTube video was a cover of U2’s Where the Streets Have No Name. About a week later, a producer from Ellen called his fa-ther’s cellphone and left a voicemail asking permission to post Guthrie’s cover on its website.
“My first reaction was that it was a joke,” Guthrie said. “My dad smiled the biggest smile, not that he doesn’t smile, but the smile just spread all the way across his face and he start-ed laughing.” Guthrie couldn’t be-lieve it until the following week when he discovered that he won the contest on the Ellen website.
Guthrie’s latest achievement came about as a bit of an accident. He was playing a bluesy riff on his guitar and started to sing, “Wig-gle, wiggle, wiggle, yea.” The popu-lar LMFAO song Sexy and I Know It randomly became Guthrie’s next big hit. He needed to post a cover video on his channel and decided to cover
the song as a bit of a joke. The next morning when Guthrie woke up the video had more than 20,000 views.
“I looked at it and knew that it was a mistake. I was used to getting around 10,000 views a week.” Guth-rie said. “I think now the video has 20 million and it still hasn’t sank in yet.”
The video launched Guthrie’s career to the next level. His agent called him three days later and told him that he was going to perform the song live on the Today Show. He couldn’t believe it.
As he was warming up, Matt Lau-er started walking toward him and
Guthrie began to panic. Lauer intro-duced himself and told Guthrie how much he enjoyed his covers and his own personal style.
“All I could think was whoa. This guy’s shoes are worth more than my life right now,” Guthrie said.
As a self proclaimed dorky, chub-by, romantic that loves music, Guth-rie played a soulful concert that drew around 40 audience members.
After the concert, Guthrie stayed around to take pictures and share stories with audience members. He loves hanging around to meet his fans who have put him where he is today.
Th e Alpha Psi Omega drama fraternity performed Bang! Bang! You’re Dead on Friday and Saturday in the Pearl Buchanan Th eater under the direction of Brittany Underwood.
Th e theater walls were lined with yellow caution tape and newspaper articles highlighted in red, handwritten signs, “What did I do? Is this my life?” Black and white photos were posted capturing harrowing moments of panic and turmoil.
Director Brittany Underwood set the mood at the be-ginning of the show by asking the audience to take a step back and focus on the true message behind the school shooting. A young boy was emotionally beaten to the point that he could see no other way to regain some of his pride.
“What would happen if something bad was to hap-pen and you were there?” Underwood asked the audience. “It’s very real, it contains things that happen in everyday life that many of us choose to overlook.”
Th e play provided an inside look into the subconscious of a high-school shooter who had been bullied through-out his middle and high school years; sort of an inside look into the child behind the rifl e.
Josh, played by Chris Conley, is seen as an outcast in his school. Th e girl that he loves is dating a jock and the voices in his head refuse to be quiet. Th e internal mono-logue between Josh and his shadow, played by Jonathan
Michael, help to set the ominous tone that is prevalent throughout Josh’s internal struggle to silence the menac-ing voices.
Th e players were dressed casually in black shirts and dark jeans. Josh was dressed in a simple white T-shirt and camoufl age pants. Th e diff erence between costumes fur-ther enhanced the social separation between Josh and the rest of his peers. Josh was unable to fully integrate into a social clique. His shadow was dressed in all black in order to represent the darkness in Josh’s mind.
Bang! Bang! You’re Dead featured a haunting style of chant and prose. Th ere were also subtle jokes placed throughout the dialogue in order to break the tension. Th e fi ve murdered students chanted in rhythm and sepa-rately to create a powerful message.
“You make your face a mask.A mask that hides your face.A face that hides your pain.A pain that’s in your heart.A heart that nobody knows.”Emily White, 17, a freshman from Winchester, attend-
ed the show and said she was strongly moved by the play’s message.
“I found myself being able to relate to Josh in a terrify-ing way,” White said. “I understood why he wanted to in-fl ict the pain that he felt onto others. A person can only handle so much abuse before they fi nally decided to stand up for themselves.”
Th ere are kids that hurt so bad inside that the only way to feel slightly better about themselves is to hurt some-one else. Bullying in schools is a very real issue that hun-dreds of kids face every day. While Josh’s story was fi c-tional, the message is applicable to anyone who has ever been a victim of bullying.
Weird Al Yankovic had the audience roaring with ap-plause and laughter during his performance Th ursday at the EKU Center for the Arts, a stop along his “Alpoca-lypse Tour.”
Before the show, the line snaked out the door as fans were eager to get inside for the concert.
“I’m mindlessly happy right now,” said Alex Marson, 20, a criminal justice major from Jamestown who at-tended the show with friends.
Th e EKU Center, which was almost fi lled to capac-ity, came alive as the crowd streamed inside, greeted by three giant television screens, each displaying what looked like a screen saver of Weird Al Yankovic’s tour logo.
Yankovic hit the stage playing his accordion, accom-panied by Steve Jay on bass, John Schwartz on drums, Rubén Valtierra on keyboards and Jim West on guitar, playing a mash-up of popular radio songs, such as Poker Face by Lady Gaga and I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry.
“It’s been a while since we’ve done a show in Ken-
tucky,” Yankovic said. “So we wanted to do something a little special. Drum solo!”
Th e lights centered on the drums, and the drummer made a fl ourish, indicating he was about to launch into an epic drum solo, only to pull up short, giving only a quick roll on the snare and bass—drawing a hearty laugh from the crowd.
And that marked the beginning of the hijinks—some-thing that’s become a staple at a Yankovic concert. For instance, during his performance of Wanna B Ur Lover, Yankovic strolled into the audience wearing an orange zebra print tuxedo and sat on the laps of audience mem-bers as he belted out the song.
Yankovic sang many of his most recognized hits, in-cluding Eat it, Canadian Idiot, Amish Paradise, and White and Nerdy.
During the performance of Smells Like Nirvana, Yankovic was accompanied by two of Eastern’s Dance Team members, Alexis Fox and Dora Sanders. Fox and Sanders were dressed as cheerleaders, dancing in the background as noticeable silhouettes.
“It was really cool being behind him,” said Sanders, 20, a criminal justice junior from Ponpiac, Mich. “Alexis and I were the only dancers behind him. Th e whole ex-perience was awesome.”
In between songs, fans were treated to snippets of AL TV while the band changed costumes. It was a nice ad-dition that smoothed the transitions from song to song.
“I really liked how he played all of his ‘AL TV’ stuff ,” said Ian Hopkins, 21, a business management senior from Frankfort. “His transitions were smooth, and his stage presence was awesome.”
Yankovic’s entire band changed their attire for many of the songs. On Amish Paradise, for instance, every band member was garbed in fake beards and overalls. Yankovic wore a fat-suit for I’m Fat, and he rode in on a Segway for White & Nerdy while the band members dressed like gangsters. Yankovic also wore a peacock suit for Perform Th is Way.
Th e concert hit a new theme after I’m Fat played. Yankovic came out in a brown and cream robe singing Th e Saga Begins. Seven dancers from the 501 Legion, a Star Wars-themed dance group, were in line behind Yankovic to complete the set. Darth Vader was in the middle with three storm troopers on his left and right.
“We love it,” said Tim Birch, a member of the 501 Le-gion. “It’s what we live for. We absolutely love Weird Al. We are honored to play with him. Anywhere he goes he checks in with us to practice and perform.”
Th e band left the stage and the show was supposed to be over, but the crowd started chanting for an encore.
And that’s what the audience got. Th e stage went black while lights focused on the key-
boardist. He played Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Bach with a black robe draping his face. Th ey began playing Yoda, which was accompanied by the infamous Yoda Chant to end the show.
“It was really fantastic and he hit all of his popular songs,” said Lindsay Harper, 20, a music industry junior from Elizabethtown. “Th e encore was like barbershop quartet meets nonsense.”
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The play written by student Brittany Underwood filled the Pearl Buchanan Theater Tuesday night. The production, performed by Alpha Psi Omega, delves into many psychological and social issues related to a fictional school shooting.
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There ’ s no p lace l i ke home .
Grab your survival kits, tools and sup-plies: Zombies are going be invading Rich-mond. On Oct. 24, the Beard and Loath-ing organization will host a Zombie Walk that will start at Grand Campus at Yorick Place and end at the Paddy Wagon on Main Street.
Th e event will be-gin at 5 p.m. in front of Grand Campus and the crowd will start to walk to the Paddy Wagon at 6 p.m.
Th e Paddy Wagon is an Irish pub that is allowing those who are 20 and young-er into the back parking lot for food, refreshments, and games once the walk ends. A local band, Jason and the Punk Necks, will be the night’s fea-tured entertainment.
Th is is the fi rst zombie walk for the or-
ganization. Matt Armistead, the event co-ordinator and Beard and Loathing member, said he has seen a zombie walk they have in Nashville and wanted to bring it back to Richmond.
Th ere will be a best dressed contest at 8 p.m. where the winner will receive a
prize. Armistead said he has seen some pretty elaborate zombie cos-
tumes which can include fake blood, prosthet-
ics, movie makeup and ripped cloth-ing. He also said
that he has also seen people who have dressed
up as zombie hunters. Ar-mistead said you do not have to dress up to partic-ipate.
“During the walk we encourage people to do their best imperson-ation as a zombie,” Ar-
mistead said. “We en-courage participators to
interact with other people in the walk and bystanders who come out to watch.
But don’t do anything that will off end or physically hurt someone. A lot of bystand-ers that will interact will run away from the zombies and act scared like they are in a sit-uation where they would really have to run away from zombies. We just want everyone to have a good time with it.”
Beard and Loathing is a non-profi t beard team that par-ticipates in facial hair com-petitions. Th e d e s c r i p t i o n on the group’s Facebook page is, “To unite those who care about beards, chops & a crazy stash or two for the com-mon good of mankind!”
Rather than having an entry fee for people to at-tend the event, the Beard and Loathing organization is asking for canned foods as payment.
“All of the proceeds and canned goods received at the event are being donated to the Hope’s Wings charity in Richmond,”
Armistead said. “We really just felt like we could use this event to help with a good cause.”
Hope’s Wings is a program located in Madison County that provides a safe place for women and their children to stay to es-
cape domestic violence in their home.“It is amazing
that they are donat-ing their canned foods to us and we
are so thankful,” said Heather Shepherd, the
housing coordinator for Hopes Wings. “We always
try to keep our health pan-try stocked with food to try to help families that might not have the resources. It’s al-ways nice to get donations to help us out.”
Beard and Loathing has a Facebook page where they
have created a Richmond, Ky. Zombie Walk event that peo-
ple can join to RSVP to the event. Sixty-fi ve people currently plan to attend the zombie festivities.
Th e Student Alumni Ambassadors will be hosting a Halloween “Ghost Walk” on cam-pus Th ursday Oct. 24.
Th is event is open to the Richmond com-munity and Eastern students and is in con-junction with the Student Alumni Ambassa-dors (SAA) peanut butter drive for Haiti.
Anyone who wants to participate in the tour is asked to bring one jar of peanut but-er which will be donated to villages in Haiti.
Th e Ghost Walk will have two tours on Th ursday Oct. 24. A tour geared toward chil-dren is scheduled for 7 p.m., while a more
adult-oriented tour is scheduled at 9 p.m.
For those who are look-ing to register for the walk, registra-tion will be at Alumni Coliseum or at the Keene Johnson building. Both lo-cations will have registra-tion desks where people can donate their jar of peanut butter. Th ere will also be SAA breast cancer aware-ness T-shirts for sale at these locations. Th e T-shirts will cost $12 for long
sleeve or $10 for short sleeve. Non-students are encouraged to park at
Alumni Coliseum, while students are en-couraged to register for the Ghost Walk at Keene Johnson.
“Th ey will gain more knowledge about campus and it will be something fun and hopefully scary for them,” said India Barg-er, 21, a psychology major from Hyden, who serves as vice president of SAA external af-fairs.
Th e “Ghost Walk” will take participants around a small area on campus where his-torical background will be given along with a ghost story.
Th e tour is expected to cover the Moore Science Building, the Ravine, Sullivan Hall
and Burnam Hall.Participants may be
interested in the lo-cal campus folklore of ghost sightings. Stories such as “Th e Naked Ghost” of the Moore Science Building and the “Nurse Ghost” of Sullivan Hall will be covered in the tour.
“It’s going to be diff erent and scarier than your typical ‘Blue Lady’ story,” Barger said.
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& A few years ago, a duct tape craze began. Th e fad of assembling and crafting things out of duct tape still remains in style today.
Many people have become famous for duct tape art by crafting dresses, bags, bracelets and a wide variety of other items. Sometimes the cus-tomers will even pay big money for these diff er-ent crafts.
More than 180,000 duct tape crafts videos have been posted on YouTube and more than three million results for “duct tape craft” appear on Google searches.
Once the crafts became public, the companies began branching out with diff erent styles, pat-terns, and textures so people would have a vari-ety to choose from. You can go online these days and fi nd any kind of duct tape that you want just for these crafts.
Victoria Reeves, 20, art major, began doing duct tape crafts as a hobby that turned into more than something she just did in her free time.
When Reeves was a junior in high school, she began duct tape crafts out of boredom and as a hobby. All she had to do was look up YouTube vid-
eos to bring out her artistic ways, and that is when she began creating duct tape roses.
When Reeves fi rst started, she would do them throughout the halls of high school and in be-tween classes. When she started the duct tape ros-es, she never realized that it would be something that she enjoyed to do so much. She began to get diff erent colors of duct tape and found diff erent sizes and styles of roses that she could make.
Reeves started mak-ing them just as some-thing to do and would give them to her friends just as little knick knacks, until one day when she was sitting in class and her teacher came up to her and seemed intrigued by what she was doing.
“During my senior year, my teacher came up to me right before class began and asked what I was doing,” Reeves said. “After I explained what I was doing, she asked if I would make those for our prom.”
Since then, Reeves has taught her cousin and friend how to create duct tape roses and began making duct tape roses of all sorts so they could be used as decoration at prom.
“Once we were fi nished, we probably had around 75 duct tape ros-es that we had made,” Reeves said.
Reeves uses an assort-ment of colors and siz-es for whatever the oth-er person wants. Some of the prints on the duct tape range from a solid blue or purple to leopard and zebra prints.
Reeves makes more than just duct tape roses. She has expanded to duct tape rose bouquets, rose pens, fl ip fl ops, and wal-
lets. She now sells these duct tape crafts to anyone who is interested or wanting to purchase them. Prices range from $2 to $6.
If anyone is interested in purchasing any of Reeves’ duct tape crafts, you can contact her via email at [email protected].
As games become bigger and bigger in terms of budget and vision it’s easy to see a good intention, and a lot of resources, inevitably go to waste.
That’s exactly what Beyond: Two Souls is, a waste, both of time and potential for telling a great story in the medium of video games.
Beyond: Two Souls, released on Oct. 8, is the latest game from the French Devel-opment team, Quantic Dream, which is headed by founder and the game director David Cage.
Beyond: Two Souls tells the story of Jodie Holmes (Ellen Page), an orphan girl who has inexplicably been linked to a ghost-like entity known as Aiden. Aid-en acts independently but also shares a conscious with Holmes. When Holmes gets angry, Aiden gets angry and so on. This “gift” leads to Holmes being put into a military ward and in the care of Dr. Na-than Dawkins (Willem Dafoe). Dawkins acts as her caretaker, and eventual father figure, in order to learn more about Aid-en and help her cope with her Psychoki-netic abilities.
The games previously developed by Cage such as Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain all have defined parallels among one another, such as story, presentation and gameplay.
You can control Holmes and switch to Aiden as you interact with the en-
vironment, whether finding things or performing actions through on-screen prompts known as quick-time events, which are similar to ones found in pre-vious quantic dream games. Beyond Two Soul’s plot and progression are affect-ed by the choices the player makes and is the best part of this game whether you are performing CIA training with Jodie or manipulating people and things as the ethereal Aiden.
The most prominent feature of these games is the use of motion capture and emphasis on storytelling rather than gameplay. A second feature is the use of actors’ body and voice talents to bring in-game characters to life in an effort to tell a more relatable and engaging story.
Therein lies the problem. While the presentation and setup are phenomenal, the actual delivery and payoff is muffled by a story that forgets basic writing rules. For example, there is a scene in which Jodie is describing a man by saying he’s charming, and funny, but the game nev-er shows him doing anything beforehand. It’s lazy, and the game, while beautiful, only seems to feature big set pieces with-out them actually making sense. Things are eventually revealed, but until it is, the player is just supposed to accept things without explanation, which ruins the en-gagement.
The effect is more pronounced due to the non-linear storytelling as the game jumps between different points in a time-line. Jodie could be grown and on the run and then transition to a level that takes
place in her childhood while still in the care of those trying to catch her.
The acting, for the most part, is good. It was good to bring in talents like Page and Dafoe to literally give their like-ness to the characters but it feels like they were hired more for their star pow-er rather than fitting specific roles. The evidence for this is even more prevalent with the actors’ names featured promi-nently on the box art like a movie poster.
Beyond: Two Souls is as engaging as it can be, given the limitations of the script
and the resources. But the end product just seems marred to death by forced di-alogue and situations that don’t go any-where. Cage labels himself as a visionary for his combination of story and game-play, but if this is the best he can do he will only be remembered as an example of what not to do when it comes to this type of product.
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Eastern has always been a diverse col-lege, open to everyone, including stu-dents from other countries. One way to celebrate and welcome international stu-dents is to educate other students about their countries and background.
Eastern will be hosting a cultur-
al event that will show the traditions of Japan. Like the cultural event of Kenya that took place on Oct. 8, American stu-dents will be able to learn about Japanese cultures and traditions, eat traditional foods, listen to Japanese music and look at photographs of Japan.
“International students are invited to attend,” said Lisa Daniels, senior office assistant of the Cultural Center. “Japa-nese students will be there to answer any questions and share their culture with the American students.”
The Cultural Center celebrates two or three countries per month. Daniels said it is all about the informalities of the cul-
ture. Some international students who participate will cook traditional food for the event and even bring pictures of their families and homes.
“An international student from Ke-nya brought fried cake to share with stu-dents, during the Kenya cultural event,” Daniels said.
Cultural events also leave an impact on American students. Some can sign up to volunteer to help set up the events. All they have to do is go to the Cultural Cen-ter and ask to help with the next cultur-al event. When the next event comes up, several students will be chosen to help set up everything.
Daniels said while this event is not like the Sakura Festival, it is a way for inter-national and American students to find a common bond with each other that could lead to a lifelong friendship.
So if students want to learn about Ja-pan’s culture and traditions, eat great food and make some friends, they should stop by. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 18 in the Kennamer Room in Powell.
For more information, contact Lisa Daniels at [email protected] or George Gallien at [email protected]. Students can also contact the Cul-tural Center at 622-4373.
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Th e reality of the situation is it has been greatly exaggerated. According to the KHSAA, more than two dozen con-fl icts occurred during handshaking in the last three years. Th is number is ini-tially astounding, but is nowhere near as drastic as it appears. Assuming the number of confl icts is 30, the average number of confl icts per year is 10. As the KHSAA did not specifi cally note in which sports the confl icts took place, it is safe to assume that the confl icts were
recorded by several of the 16 KHSAA-sanctioned sports. Th is would conclude that each sport has less than one confl ict per year, spanning across 120 Kentucky counties.
Of course athletes will be frustrated after games, and this might potentially provoke skirmishes, but to question the respectability of the post game handshake is absurd. Th e problem is minimal, and in no way needs dealing with. It could be argued that the handshake would be better placed prior to the game, but this would take from the meaning of the act. Th e handshake is an understanding that what’s done is done, and the respect be-tween the two teams for participating is mutual. To take it away would only lead to greater confl ict between teams and ultimately turn sports into a malicious venue for score settling. I for one am not ready to witness the death of athletics.
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Th e process would start over again for Feeback each day he was called upon.
He said the team covered all his meals and housing, and that he didn’t need any money unless he went out.
He also said there would be 3,000-5,000 fans at practice everyday, so that only adds to the pressure to perform at a high level, just like the athletes he worked with every-day.
What were those world-class athletes like to be around everyday?
“Th ey just want to be treated normal, they’re just like me and you in that aspect,” Feeback said. “I tried to keep it on a profes-sional level.”
Feeback said one player he got to know pretty well, and even developed sort of a friendship with, was All-Pro tight end Ja-son Witten.
“[With] him being from Tennessee and me from Kentucky, it was kind of natural.” Feeback said.
Feeback said he was with the running backs everyday though, and was with them in practice.
“DeMarco Murray and I got to know each other pretty well,” Feeback said.
Murray is the starting running back for the Cowboys and is the all-time rush-ing touchdowns leader at the University of Oklahoma.
Feeback laughed a little when asked
about the Cowboys widely known owner Jerry Jones.
“I was told to keep my distance, he’s in his own world,” Feeback said. “But some-times I’d see him in the hallways and we’d say hello.”
Th e Cowboys were so impressed by Fee-back they gave him an opportunity to be with them once again.
Feeback accepted a two-year, seasonal internship and will be with the Cowboys during the entire 2014 and 2015 seasons. Feeback graduates in May, and then will be leaving to be with the team.
“I will [be] leaving probably immediate-ly; off -season workouts begin shortly after that,” Feeback said.
Rookie minicamps begin in May, and organized team activity off season work-outs are from the end of May to a few weeks into June.
Feeback said he credits Dr. Eric Fuchs, director of Eastern’s athletic training pro-gram, and Jim Madaleno, the University of Kentucky football’s head athletic trainer, for getting him where he needed to be in order to be the attractive candidate he was for the Cowboys.
Feeback said the overall experience was unlike any other.
“It was a phenomenal experience,” Fee-back said. “I’m very fortunate. I don’t know if it’s for everybody. But I enjoyed waking up everyday and working with the best athletes in the world, I wouldn’t trade it for anything else.”
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Bowling in the 2008-09 season. “I kinda wanted to get a 63 to get the
record,” Riggs said. “I looked out for 63, but I settled for 64.”
Despite his strong performance, Riggs was second to Ashton Van Horne, a sophomore from Belmont, who scored one less than Riggs with 205. Van Horne went 67-69-69.
Eastern tied with Austin Peay State University for second place overall with an 852 (-12) total. Belmont University won the event with an 848 (-16) total.
Riggs wasn’t the only Colonel to have a strong showing. Senior Garrett Hin-ton tied for fourth place after going 72-67-72, a total of 211 (-5). Junior Patric
Sundlof tied for 17th after going 73-68-73, a total of 217 (+1).
Riggs, Hinton and Sundlof all shot under 70 in round two. The team’s 272 (-16) round was the best for Eastern this season. The previous best was 279.
Senior Stuart Witt tied for 21 with a three round total of 218 (+2) and fresh-man Travis Rose placed 79 with a total of 233(+17) to round out Eastern’s ros-ter.
Sophomore Daniel De Luca compet-ed as an individual, placing 84th with a three-round total of 239 (+23).
The event took place at the par-72, 7,132 course The Links at Novadell in Hopkinsville.
The Colonels will take three months off, resuming play on Feb. 10 at the Ball State, Eastern Michigan, EKU Match Play in Dade City, Fla.
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conference,” Edmond said. Eastern led the entire fi rst set, capital-
izing on a Wright State service error and attack error to grab the win for set one. During set two the Colonels were up 23-19 when Wright State came back by two points. Vick made a kill for Eastern to end the set in the Colonels’ favor.
Wright State led the Colonels for the entire third set, where a block and kill for the Raiders trumped Eastern. In the fourth and fi nal set, the Colonels capi-talized on a service error and made four
straight points. Kills made by Edmond and junior Alexis Plagens ended the match for an Eastern victory.
“It wasn’t one of our best outings,” head coach Lori Duncan said. “Some-times it’s ugly but at the same time you’ve still got to fi nd a way to win.”
Edmond and Vick led the team with 13 kills each with freshman Johanna Boy-er following with 12 kills. Vick also led the team with three blocks.
Ott led Eastern with a team-high 19 digs with junior Abbey Cvelbar recording 12 digs of her own as well as 40 assists.
Th e Colonels will return home to play Tennessee Tech at 7 p.m., Oct. 18 and Jacksonville State University at noon, Oct. 19.
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Junior Paige Larkin played all 110 minutes against Southeast Missouri State University on Oct. 11.
Eastern’s soccer team (2-10-2, 1-3-1 OVC) found mixed results after facing two OVC opponents on Oct. 11 and 13. Th e Colonels played Southeast Missouri State University to a scoreless draw and lost 1-0 to the University of Tennessee at Martin.
Southeast MissouriTh e game against Southeast Missouri
went scoreless for 110 minutes. Th e fi rst half showed a strong attack from Eastern. Th e Colonels outshot the Redhawks 9-3 and had multiple attempts while in the 18-yard box.
“We put a lot of emphasis this week on our attacking,” head coach Melissa Barnes said. “It showed in the fi rst half. We were able to win the ball off of SEMO in midfi eld and then push forward.”
Eastern did not keep its momentum in the second half. Southeast Missouri came back with a vengeance, outshooting the Colonels 7-0. Sophomore Samm Melton rose to the challenge. Melton played all 110 minutes and made three saves.
“In the second half, they played a lot more direct,” Barnes said. “We were win-ning the ball in our defensive half rather than in the midfi eld. Th at’s why we weren’t able to put together as many attacks in the second half.”
Senior Nikki Donnelly was the off ensive highlight for Eastern. She had four shots, including one that bounced off the post of the goal in the fi rst half.
“We’re just taking it one step at a time,” Donnelly said. “Th e past couple games we haven’t been getting those off ensive chanc-es. So, now that we are getting them, we’re focusing on putting them away. We’ve got to work on that next step: burying it.”
Both teams held each other scoreless during the two overtime periods. Donnel-ly’s shot in the 92 minute went high and Southeast Missouri’s goalkeeper saved ju-nior Paige Larkin’s shot. A shot by sopho-more Amani Th omas in the fi nal period went high, ending the game with a stale-mate.
Th e Colonels earned a point in the OVC for the tie.
UT MartinTh e second game of the weekend didn’t
go as well for Eastern. Th e Colonels fell, 1-0 ,against the UT Martin Skyhawks after the Skyhawks scored in the 77 minute.
Th e Colonels were outshot by UT Mar-tin. Eastern had a total of 10 shots while the Skyhawks walked away with 18. UT Martin found the most success with its corner kicks . Th e Skyhawks had six cor-ner kicks, one ending with a goal. Eastern had none.
Donnelly once again led Eastern’s of-fense. She had a team-high three shots, one that was on goal. Th omas had East-ern’s strongest attempt when she went one-on-one in the 33 minute with UT Mar-tin’s goalkeeper. Her shot was blocked, and Eastern stayed scoreless for the rest of the game.
Th e Skyhawks took the game in the 77 minute after scoring on a set piece from a
corner kick. Th e Colonels tried for the tie with three more attempts in the 83 min-ute. Donnelly shot wide and senior Kristan Paynter had two shots blocked by the goal-keeper.
“We had a lot of chances that we didn’t fi nish,” Th omas said. “We have pretty fast forwards, but sometimes we need to antici-pate the far passes so we can get there on
time. Sometimes the long passes are better to get by the defense.”
Melton played all 90 minutes in goal, al-lowing one goal on seven saves.
Th e Colonels return to play at 4 p.m. on Oct. 18 at the EKU S occer Field against Murray State University and at 1 p.m. on Oct. 20 against Austin Peay State Univer-sity.
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Women’s golf finishes third in F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate tournament
Eastern’s women’s golf team fi nished in third place after a two-day tournament at the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate Oct. 15-16. Th e Colonels shot 609 for the tour-nament, following Jacksonville State Uni-versity in fi rst place with a total of 607 and Murray State University at second place with a total of 608.
Th e event took place at the par-72, 5,960-yard Clarksville Country Club.
On Oct. 14, Eastern shot a round of 300,
placing them in second place for the day. Th e Colonels were unable to keep hold of that place, falling behind on day two of the tournament.
“I thought we had a good week,” head coach Mike Whitson said. “I think it’d be a stretch to say we played well but I don’t think we played poorly either. We have a lot we can work on but we did a lot of good things too. Overall, it was a good week.”
Whitson said the team’s putting and short game are some of the things it needs to work on.
Freshman Sofi e Levin led the Colonels and tied sixth overall with rounds of 75 and 76 for a total of 151. Sophomore Ra-chel Welker tied for seventh overall. Welk-er shot a career-best round of 72 on Mon-day with a fi nal round of 80 on Tuesday to total 152.
“I was really proud of Rachel and the way she played,” Whitson said. “She had struggled a couple days in practice before leading up to that and then just went out on the course and played golf so I was really proud of the way she played.”
Sophomore Anna Gleixner tied for
12 with a total of 154 while sophomore Becky Sharpe tied for 18 with a total of 156. Freshman Emilie Simmons tied for 25 with a total of 158.
“We just need to keep doing what we’re doing and just keep motivating each other to work hard and work on scoring,” Welker said. “I think it’ll all come together really soon. You can tell we’re right on the edge of pushing through and doing something re-ally great.”
Eastern returns on Nov. 2 and 3 to com-pete in the Winthrop Intercollegiate in Rock Hill, S.C.
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Sportsmanship symbol should not be banned
One of the most iconic gestures in sports is the post game handshake. Practiced by nearly every sport across the world, it has stood the test of time as a symbol of sportsmanship and leaving bad blood on the fi eld. Unfortunately, this practice is now under a sort of reconsideration.
Th e Kentucky High School Ath-letic Association (KHSAA) has asked offi cials to closely monitor the post-game handshake and completely do away with it when necessary. Th is has been deemed necessary due to the high number of post game con-fl icts between teams in Kentucky over the last several years. When the statement was announced by the KHSAA, it was fi rst seen as a dras-tic ban. Since then, the sanctioning body has clarifi ed the rule to be ap-plied only when necessary.
As many athletes and sports fans would agree, this measure is radi-cal. It has unjustifi ably targeted high school athletes as barbaric and hav-ing no interest in the actual sport being played. You would be hard- pressed to fi nd a high school student whose only interest is to step foot on a fi eld and deliberately hurt some-one; yet this is what the KHSAA has deemed athletes to be.
Many athletes and parents devote a great deal of time, money and eff ort for the love of their game, and the KHSAA is not respecting this fact. Because of the eff ort put into their sports, teams deserve to shake hands after a game. I specifi cally use the
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Bobby Feeback (center), a senior athletic training major, spent the past two summers working as an intern with the Dallas Cowboys. He would wake up every morning at 5:15 a.m. and hit the training room, where he’d set up Gatorade and water for players or help tape injuries for practice.
Riggs ties record for Eastern’s lowest golf round
INTERNING WITH THE DALLAS COWBOYS
Junior Taylor Riggs was one of the highlights for Eastern’s men’s golf team after tying a school record by shooting a 64 (-8) at the F&M Bank Austin Peay In-tercollegiate on Oct. 14 and 15. The Colonels tied for second overall in their best performance of the season.
Riggs finished second overall with a 54-hole total of 206 (-10). He started the event by going two-under par (70) in the first round. Riggs’s momentum carried into the second round, where he shot 64 (-8). He made par in the third round with a score of 72.
Riggs said he started playing well in the second round and just built on his performance.
“I was told to not be afraid to make long putts and go really deep,” Riggs said. “The second round, I started hitting for birdies. I had a stretch of five holes on the back nine where I hit straight threes. I was hitting birdies everywhere, trying to get it going.”
Riggs’ score of 64 tied for the low-est round recorded by a Colonel in school history. The last Colonel to shoot a 64 was Trey
› SEE COLUMN, PAGE B4
Th e Dallas Cowboys: America’s team. Th ey’ve played in a record eight Super
Bowls and won fi ve of those. Th ey play in a brand new 1.4 billion dollar stadium that has held over 100,000 people for a foot-ball game. Hall of famers Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin have tat-tooed the famous Cowboys’ star on Ameri-
ca’s heart forever. Th e Dallas Cowboys are legendary.
Some 905 miles away, a young man from Eastern was fortunate and talented enough to work with arguably the most recognized sports franchise on Earth.
Bobby Feeback is a senior, athletic train-ing major, whose skills in the world of keep-ing athletes fast and healthy landed him a pretty good summer job, to say the least.
“I sent in my resume, got a call, inter-viewed, and was lucky enough to get the job,” Feeback said.
For the last two summers, Feeback has been with the Cowboys at their training
camp in Oxnard, Ca. and in Dallas at their brand new billion-dollar home.
“Usually we’d start out in California, we [the interns] would stay in a Marriot that was just a short walk away from the fi eld,” Feeback said.
Feeback’s routine was busy.“Th is was training camp, so we’d have
an off day every Th ursday,” Feeback said. “I’d wake up usually around 5:15 a.m., in the training room by 5:45, then treatments for the players from 6:30-7 a.m.”
Th e rest of his day would go something like this:
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Volleyball defeats Wright State, Eastern Illinois, falls to Southern Illinois
Eastern’s volleyball team (9-12, 2-4 OVC) lost to conference foe Southern Il-linois University Edwardsville and tri-umphed over Eastern Illinois University as well as non-conference opponent Wright State University.
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Th e Colonels suff ered a 3-2 loss at home against Southern Illinois University- Ed-wardsville (7-12, 3-3 OVC) in a fi ve set match on Oct. 11.
Th e fi rst set saw 13 ties and seven lead changes, with the fi nal lead resting in the hands of the Colonels at 23-22. Two con-secutive attack errors from Southeast Il-linois and two straight kills from fresh-man Johanna Boyer gave Eastern the upper hand in set one of fi ve.
Set two of the match was in Eastern’s fa-vor until Southern Illinois made a 9-1 run to take the four point lead from the Colo-nels. A kill for Southern Illinois ended the set with a 23-22 victory for the Cougars.
Southern Illinois grabbed nine straight points in the third set, forcing Eastern to commit four attack errors. Th e Cougars recorded a win with a score of 25-22. Th e Colonels were down 2-1 in the fourth set but came back to grab a 25-18 victory.
Th e fi fth and fi nal set remained in Southern Illinois’ favor. Th e Cougars gained a 3-2 lead over Eastern and the team
kept that lead. Southern Illinois took ad-vantage of the Colonels’ three straight at-tack errors to pick up a 15-13 victory.
Senior Ashley Edmond led the Colonels with 17 kills followed by sophomore Ra-chel Vick with 10 kills. Edmond also led the team with 14 digs and sophomore Mallori Moff at recorded 14 digs of her own.
Eastern Illinois University Eastern grabbed its second victory at
home on Oct. 12 after taking all three sets against Eastern Illinois University (9-10, 3-3 OVC).
Th e Panthers made six straight points after Eastern led by as many as eight points. Despite the point-run for Eastern Illinois, the Colonels grabbed the lead in the fi rst set with a .389 attack percentage.
Eastern outscored the Panthers 9-6 in the second set to take a 25-22 lead. Th e third set saw 13 ties, with an Eastern Il-linois attack error putting the Colonels ahead 25-23.
Vick recorded a match-high fi ve blocks and made eight kills while Edmond led the Colonels with 12 kills. Junior Dena Ott led the team with 18 digs.
Wright State University Th e Colonels defeated non-conference
Wright State University (6-17), 3-1, on Oct. 14.
“It’s good to show that we can go out there and be motivated even when it’s not
Senior Ashley Edmond (right) led Eastern with 13 kills against Wright State, 12 kills against Eastern Illinois, and 17 against Southern Illinois. Eastern is now 9-12 (2-4 OVC) after the weekend.
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