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Th e Ramsey Heating Plant will soon be undergoing a multi-million dollar upgrade to its facilities, and according to the facilities administration, these improvements are a good thing for the plant.

“We will squeeze every dollar we can for this project,” said David Hepburn, associate director of Facilities. “We’ve got the money now to update the equip-ment.”

Hepburn added that some of the components in the plant are still in working order. Th ey are just older and need to be improved or replaced.

Th e original heat plant was built in 1909, which puts the current structure at over 100 years old. Hepburn said that the equipment they have, like the main

$2.4M upgrade for heating plant facility

Students make a difference on spring break trips

Chatting with a Congressman

Not every student chose to spend this past spring break relaxing on the beach.

Eastern continued to offer a vari-ety of service-oriented trips during the week of spring break. During this year’s break, student groups from six differ-ent residence halls and five other stu-dent-led groups, traveled to different locations to perform acts of service across the country.

Nearly 50 students participated in these programs, cumulatively earning 1,400 service hours for their volunteer

work. Both the Office of Student Life and University Housing coordinate all alternative break trips.

“The housing trips are designed for residential students,” said William Ke-aton, assistant direction of student life. “But the trips organized through the office of student life hope to engage a cross-section of the student popula-tion.”

A graduate student or a faculty member volunteer to lead each trip, with the help of a student leader. The student leader aspect of the trip is criti-cal because it adds a different perspec-tive for participants, Keaton said.

“As a graduating senior, the alterna-tive break program at EKU has opened up so many opportunities and given me a new perspective of the world around me,” said Ariel Abner, former student

trip leader and senior biology pre-med-ical science major from Manchester.

“Thanks to EKU ASB we were able to be exposed to these struggling com-munities and provide them much need-ed aid,” Abner said. “I am so thankful to have been able to fight both with and for these people.”

The alternative break program was established at Eastern in 2006 and has been growing substantially ever since. Keaton said the program started with two trips and has since expanded to as many as eleven trips offered per break between housing and student life. Of-ten times there is a waiting list full of students hoping to participate. The program also offers service trips during fall, winter, spring and summer breaks,

Football player charged in Clay Hall robbery

Eastern offi cials are moving forward with several new initiatives regarding the tobacco ban that will be put into eff ect this June.

Renee Fox, co-chair of the presidential task force investigating the tobacco ban, said the policy is trying to put into place a completely 100 percent tobacco free cam-pus. Th is includes banning e-cigarettes on campus, as well as not allowing smoking in cars that are on campus.

Fox said there is a lot of miscommuni-cation about e-cigarettes. She said they are not an FDA approved method of cessa-tion for regular smoking, and that there are still a lot of harmful chemicals dispersed through e-cigarettes.

Fox really wants to add more education on campus on why e-cigarettes are still dangerous, so that people will understand there was a purpose behind it.

“Th e policy will view e-smokers just the same as regular smokers on campus,” Fox said.

Th ey are planning on enforcing this poli-cy by using an ambassador policy they have adopted from the University of Kentucky.

Th e UK ambassador program is called Tobacco-free Take Action!, a group of stu-dent and faculty volunteers who are com-mitted to improving compliance with their tobacco free policy, they handle reminding people about the policy and reporting viola-tions, according to UK’s tobacco free policy website.

Fox said Eastern would be using much of their ambassador policy. Th ey are work-ing on most of the logistics, but Fox said the ambassadors would be mostly faculty with some part-time students working with them.

Another big change the policy is trying to implement is fi nding creative ways to use the smoke shacks without spending the money to remove the entire structure.

Tobacco ban includes e-cigs, smoking in cars

Eastern officials happy with budget compromise

Hansen enters Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame

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› SEE HEATING, PAGE A3

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NEARLY 50 STUDENTS CONTRIBUTED MORE THAN 1,400 HOURS OF SERVICE

An Eastern student who plays on the Colonels’ football team was charged with first-degree robbery and burglary Tues-day night following an investigation of an armed robbery reported in Clay Hall on Sunday, March 30.

Zain Gilmore, 19, a fi-nance major from Tampa, Fla., was arrested on April 1 at 11:20 p.m. following an investigation into Sun-day night’s robbery. Gilm-ore was a quarterback for Eastern’s football team in 2013 and was removed from the team sometime last week, cam-pus spokesman Marc Whitt said. He also was a resident of Clay Hall, Whitt said.

The robbery was reported to Eastern Police at 10:45 p.m. on Sunday. Witnesses said two masked men brandishing hand-guns entered a room in Clay Hall and ex-ited the building heading north, according to a campus-wide alert issued at 11:05 p.m. The suspects were described as two Afri-can American males dressed in black and wearing white masks.

Three male Eastern students were in the room, said Whitt, but it is unknown whether they were roommates. No details have been released regarding what items may have been stolen.

The investigation is ongoing and po-lice official are continuing to gather state-ments from people who may have wit-nessed anything related to the case, Whitt said.

EKU police said anyone with informa-tion about the case should call 859-622-1111.

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The more than 100-year-old Ramsey Heating Plant will be receiving $2.4 million in improvements in hopes of boosting energy efficiency. Upgrades will include a new gas line and a new de-areating tank. Officials are set to begin working on the project in Fall 2014.

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Th e university didn’t get everything on its wish list this budget season, but it did land the thing it sought most: $66.3 million in bonds to fund phase two of the New Sci-ence Building.

Th e Kentucky General Assembly reached a budget compromise ensuring Eastern will

receive $66.3 million funding for phase 2 of the New Science Building. Th e university also received $136 million for its operating budget, slightly more than the $135 million from the last biennial state budget appro-priation. Rather than receive the 2.5 percent cut and all capital projects proposed by the governor and the House, or no general fund-ing cuts and no capital projects, each state school received essentially a 1.5 percent cut and one major capital project. In total, East-ern received more than $200 million from the state in investments, President Michael Benson said.

“If you had told me 10 days ago that we’d be where we are, I would have taken it like

that,” Benson said of the fi nal state budget. “Anytime you have a cut, that’s diffi cult to stomach. Th at said, it could have been a lot worse.”

Benson said the university hopes to be-gin the phase 2 of the New Science Building as soon as this summer.

“Our goal is to be the fi rst project out of the gate with our project on the street,” Ben-son said.

One part of the budget university offi -cials were hoping for was a $12 million park-ing structure that did not make the budget,

STATE BUDGET INCLUDESMONEY FOR SCIENCE BUILDINGAND AVIATION PROGRAM

By WESLEY ROBINSONwesley_robinson28@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE BUDGET, PAGE A6

› SEE HANSEN, PAGE A3

U.S. Rep. Andy Barr talked with students in Middle Powell on Monday, March, 31. Several Eastern students asked a range of questions from Kentucky’s stance on higher education to immigration. The Coffee With a Congressman event was organized by Michael Poe, SGA director of government relations and Eastern’s Department of Government.

Elizabeth Hansen, foun-dation professor and chair of the Department of Com-munication is a member of this year’s Kentucky Jour-nalism Hall of Fame class.

“I am honored beyond words,” Hansen said. “It’s something I didn’t expect and I’m thrilled those who choose the members of the hall of fame thought I was worthy of being inducted.”

The University of Ken-

tucky Alumni Association gives the award to journal-ists who have contribut-ed to a significant portion of their ca-reers to journalism. Hansen, who was born and raised in Arkansas, said her involvement in 14 community jour-nalism projects across the state, her involvement in with the Kentucky Press Association and teach-ing Eastern students for 27

years helped earn her the honor.

Hansen, who will retire at the end of the school year, said the honor was valida-tion for her contri-butions to Kentucky journalism.

“I hope that af-ter 27 years I had an impact on jour-nalism in Kentucky through the stu-dents I have taught,”

Hansen said. “Now the fun

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“Anytime you have a cut, that’s difficult to stomach. That said, it could have been a lot worse.”

Michael BensonEastern President

March 23 � A student reported his

GPS was stolen from his car at 12:48 a.m. in the Walters Lot.

March 27 � An offi cer on patrol on

Lancaster Avenue at Univer-sity Drive observed someone stumbling across the street. Th e offi cer spoke with David Johnson, 48, from Richmond, who had slurred speech, the odor of an alcoholic bever-age and was unsteady on his feet. Johnson told the offi -cer he was charged multi-ple times with alcohol intox-ication. As the offi cer was charging Johnson with al-cohol intoxication, John-son kept placing his hands in his pockets. Two more EKU Police offi cers arrived and forced Johnson to remove his

hands as he was handcuff ed. While being transported to the Madison County Deten-tion Center, Johnson threat-ened the offi cer by saying, “After I get out, I will come after you,” according to the police report. Johnson kept pulling away from the offi -cer as he was being escorted into the Detention Center. Johnson was charged with alcohol intoxication, terror-istic threatening of the third degree and resisting arrest.

March 29 � EKU Police and the Rich-

mond Fire Department re-sponded to Keene Hall at 7:44 p.m. after the fi re alarm activated on the second fl oor. Th e cause of the alarm was burnt food in the kitchen.

March 30 � A student reported the

rear window of her vehicle was broken in the Brockton Residence Lot at 12:18 a.m.

� An offi cer on patrol no-ticed a white Buick run the stop sign at Martin Lot on Park Drive at 2:35 a.m. Th e offi cer made contact with the driver, Timothy Schmitt, 21, from Richmond, and de-tected the odor of an alcohol from Schmitt. Schmitt failed the fi eld sobriety tests and was cited for disregarding a stop sign and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the infl uence. Schmitt was taken to the Madison County Detention Center.

� An EKU Police offi cer re-sponded to McGregor Hall at 7:58 p.m. after receiving a complaint about the odor of marijuana on the third fl oor. Th e offi cer spoke with Gar-rett Costantino, 20, from Ravenna, and received per-mission to search his room. Th e offi cer found three pipes, a grinder and screens. Costantino was cited for drug paraphernalia.

NPHC to host cookout, entertainment show

Th e National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) will present a yard show and cookout by the Downstairs Powell foun-tain at 5 p.m. Th ursday, April 3. NPHC is the governing body for the nine tra-ditionally African-American fraternities and sororities.

Six of the nine sororities and frater-nities are represented at Eastern, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Th eta Sorori-ty, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Omega Psi Phi and Phi Beta Sigma. .

Th ere will be a cookout and students will have the option between paying $2 and eating as much as they want to or they can bring canned food to donate and pay $1. Th e canned food will be giv-en to God ‘s Pantry Food Bank, and the money will be used by the organization to provide events to the Eastern com-munity in the future.

Th e entertainment will include a sev-en-minutes step-show along with chants

and strolls to represent the diff erent chapters in the organization.

“It’s time for us to be proud of our organization” said Rhonda Har-rell, president of the National Pan-Hellenic council, “we are excited to host this event and hope that as many students as possible will attend.”

Julie MathisenColor of Maroon 5K

this SaturdayCampus Recreation is hosting the

Color of Maroon 5K through Campus Recreation 10 a.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Intramural Softball Complex. Th e Color of Maroon 5K is a fi ve-kilome-ter run where runners are blasted with colored powder from various stations throughout the course.

Th e 5K route will stretch through campus starting and ending at the Intra-mural Softball Complex. T-shirts, head-bands, sunglasses, and other apparel will be sold at the race. Partial proceeds from the registration fees will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass and the Special Olym-pics of Kentucky.

Th e registration fee for students is $20, faculty $25, and general community $30.

Audrey Midkiff

Week of April 3 – 9

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

THE COLONEL’S CALENDARTHE COLONEL’S CALENDAR

7:30 p.m.Chautauqua Lecture: Arthur Benjamin, The Beauty and Magic of MathematicsO’Donnell HallWhitlock Building

7:30 p.m.New Music Ensemble RecitalHummel Planetarium

8 p.m.SAC Movie Night Lone SurvivorO’Donnell HallWhitlock Building

10 a.m.Tennis (W)vs. Murray StateRichmond

1:30 p.m.Tennis (M)vs. Murray StateRichmond

12:20 p.m.Geoffrey Baym lecturePolitical Satire, Freedom of Speech and the Heavy Lifting of the Fourth EstateWhitlock 549

7:30 p.m.Guest String RecitalWalnut HallKeen Johnson Building

NoonRed Cross Blood DriveMiddle Powell

8 p.m.EKU Dance TheatreO’Donnell HallWhitlock Building

11 a.m.No Free LunchJaggers RoomMiddle Powell

7:30 p.m.Matthew Howell lectureDonald Duck Speaks for the United States in WWII Propaganda WarLibrary 128

10 a.m.Tennis (W)vs. Austin PeayRichmond

1:30 p.m.Tennis (M)vs. Austin PeayRichmond

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as well as weekend service opportunities. Eastern has service connections with Habi-

tat for Humanity, the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City, the ongoing Hurricane Ka-trina relief effort in New Orleans and other op-portunities in Charleston, S.C. and the Outer Banks.

Currently all service trips are labor inten-sive, but that is expected to change. Many stu-dents have expressed a desire for service trips oriented around educational or economic as-sistance, Keaton said.

“Ever since starting the program we have expanded to meet the needs of our students,” Keaton said. “We’re working on offering an ever wider variety.”

Keaton said the Office of Student Life is cur-rently developing a program focused on pro-viding service in Kentucky for students who

wish to give back to the local community. He said these trips would also cost less than the New York or New Orleans trips, which would hopefully open the opportunity to a wider stu-dent base.

Along with expanding trip options, they are also exploring the possibility of offering more than just volunteer opportunities. The Of-fice of Student Life has submitted a universi-ty request to allow students to apply for course credit for participating. If approved, students would be able to receive academic credit for their service ranging from one to three cred-it hours.

Keaton said the program is designed to be malleable to suit all student needs. The office of student life is in the process of planning it’s summer service opportunities, which will take place from May 11 through 18, and is open to any suggestions from interested students.

“This is the time for students to speak up about a trip option they want to see,” Keaton said. “We will try to make it happen.”

boilers, are models from the 1960’s, and their current de-aerating tank is more than 40 years old, which will also need to be replaced with a new tank.

Th e boilers are used for burning the coal, which in turn heats the buildings around cam-pus and the de-aerating tank distills chemicals out of water and heats it to create steam. Hep-burn said there are some buildings on campus that are able to heat themselves, yet most build-ings around the plant rely on its functionality for not only heat, but also air conditioning.

Improvements that will take place at the plant include replacing the tubes in the boilers that are pivotal to functionality and replacing the current de-aerating tank with a new tank.

Hepburn said they would be upgrading the gas line that connects to the plant from the city, in order to improve how the plant uses both coal and natural gas to heat the other campus facil-

ities. Th e plant’s control room, which controls all the boilers in the plant, will also see some improvements, to improve both effi ciency and safety for the workers who watch the machines.

“We’ve proven that we can burn coal cleanly,” Hepburn said. He added that using natural gas alongside coal would be good for the campus.

Hepburn said the upgrades will vary in cost, but they have the money right now to make the necessary improvements. A new de-aerating tank will cost around $800,000 and re-tubing the boilers will cost around $1.2 million. Over-all, the cost of improvements is estimated at $2.4 million, Hepburn said.

“We had a lot of upgrades done about fi ve years ago,” Hepburn said. “We want to bring ev-erything up to date to improve effi ciency and save money.”

Hepburn said even with the work they plan to do on the plant, it will still be online and ready to go by this fall and he feels the president and administration are dedicated to improving the facilities.

“When everything is running good, we’re happy,” Hepburn said.

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Math and magic mix at next Chautauqua

Math can be considered a difficult and te-dious subject by many who decide it is unim-portant and unusable in everyday life. However, math can be entertaining and easy according to one college professor.

Professional magician and professor of mathematics, Arthur Benjamin, will demon-strate the amazing mathematical feats of what he calls “Mathemagic” in the upcoming Chau-tauqua lecture entitled “The Beauty and Magic of Mathematics,” 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 3 in O’Donnell Hall, Whitlock Building.

Benjamin is a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif. and earned a Ph.D. in mathematical sciences from Johns Hopkins University. While he teach-es mathematics, he brings a fast-paced energy to his presentations as he utilizes his love for math and magic in what he calls “Mathemat-ics.”

Benjamin has had a long interest in mag-ic and has left his audiences in awe as he per-forms mathematical calculations faster than any calculator. Using his knowledge of math, Benjamin has demonstrated how to mentally add and multiply numbers, how to figure out the day of the week of any date in history and much more to audiences around the world for the past 30 years. Three of his presentations have been TED talks, in which he contributed to the TED organization’s devotion to spread-ing different ideas worldwide.

During his career, Benjamin has received various recognitions and awards. Listed as one of America’s Top 300 Professors by the Prince-ton Review, he has received national awards for his teaching, writing and research, as well as the national teaching award by the Mathemati-

cal Association of America. Benjamin has also written several books, in-

cluding The Secrets of Mental Math, in which he shares his techniques of how to compute different mental calculations he has performed in his presentations. He has been featured on numerous programs and television shows such as The Today Show, CNN and National Public Radio. He has also been profiled in numerous publications, such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Scientific Ameri-can, Discover, Omni, Esquire, People Maga-zine and Reader’s Digest, where he was named “America’s Best Math Wiz.”

These rapid calculations Benjamin per-forms are not only strictly for academic pur-poses. Using his skills, Benjamin has been able to utilize his talents when playing backgam-mon. Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players and can involve mental calculations by players to form a winning strat-egy. In 1997, Benjamin was able to use his tal-ents and become the winner of the American Backgammon Tour.

A long time has passed since a mathemati-cian has been featured in the Chautauqua Se-ries, said Minh Nguyen, professor of philoso-phy, associate director of the Honors Program and the coordinator of the Chautauqua lecture series.

“We invited Dr. Benjamin because he’s world-famous for his extraordinary abilities to use magic to illustrate the beauty of math-ematics,” Nguyen said. “This is a fitting se-lection because the theme for the 2013-2014 Chautauqua Lecture Series is Beauty Matters.”

This Chautauqua lecture is free to the public and is sponsored by Model Laboratory School, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Office of Graduate Education and Research and the Honors Program.

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By BRIANNA WHITEprogress@eku.edu

ALCOHOL AWARENESS MONTH

April is Alcohol Awareness Month and April 11 is National Al-cohol Screening Day at Eastern.

An event is scheduled at the Powell Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is hosted by Eastern Stu-dent Health Promotion & Educa-tion department in collaboration with the Eastern Counseling Cen-ter. The event raises awareness about alcohol misuse and edu-cates students about unhealthy drinking habits.

The brief screening will help students get help if needed and referrals are for the Eastern Coun-seling Center in order to get a more in-depth assessment and treat their problem before it wors-ens.

Anyone who comes to the event will be given a kit that in-cludes a T-shirt, educational bro-chures on binge drinking, a cli-nician guide and health and wellness informational fact sheets.

An anonymous survey will also offered to help determine stu-dent’s use of alcohol. Supplies are limited, so anyone who wants to participate is encouraged to show up early. For more information contact Meghan R. Scott at Stu-dent Health Services.

Jason Marcum

OLD SOUTH WEEK

The Kappa Alpha fraternity will host KA Old South Week begin-ning April 7 continuing through April 11. The earnings from this event will benefi t Kappa Alpha’s philanthropy: the Muscular Dystro-phy Association.

Monday and Tuesday be-tween 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. mem-bers of the Kappa Alpha order will be on the patio between Dupree Hall and Todd Hall having change wars. Everyone is welcome to do-nate change to the delegates cho-sen for their Rodeo Clown compe-tition.

Tuesday beginning at 6 p.m. in Weaver Gym KA will host it’s an-nual Rodeo, at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Weaver Gym. Admission is $2 to watch and participate in the games, banner competition and rodeo clown competition.

The Magnolia Show, an event where competitors can compete in a game of “Are You Smarter Than a KA” followed by a talent show Wednesday in Weaver Gym Starting at 6 p.m.

Janie Smith

KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES IN NEED

OF SUPPLIES

The Sidewalk U: Migrations and Movements class will be host-ing a donation drop off and peti-tion signing for the Kentucky Refu-gee Ministries based in Lexington on Powell Corner Friday, April 4.

KRM, a faith-based organi-zation that is dedicated to help-ing refugees entering the United States, transition into their new lives. This includes providing and setting up affordable housing, of-fering basic household items and amenities and helping them fi nd employment. They also offer lan-guage tutoring and childcare ser-vices.

KRM recently lost a federal grant that provided the majori-ty of the funding needed to oper-ate. Now there are in great need of supplies and support from the community. Eastern students can contribute to this cause by com-ing to Powell corner Friday to sign a petition that may convince state legislature to keep funding KRM.

Students can donate money, school supplies, diapers, plates, eating utensils, cleaning sup-plies, toothbrushes and tooth-paste along with general house-hold goods when KRM is located at Powell Corner.

Tara Leisure

WEIGH THE WASTE

To highlight Earth Day, the EKU Green Crew will host Weigh the Waste from 10:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. April 9, and from 4:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. April 10 in The Fresh Food Company in Upstairs Powell.

The conveyor belt will be shut down and all remaining food left on plates and in bowls will be weighed. The purpose of the event is to give the students of Eastern an idea of how much food is being wasted on a daily basis.

“Students often ask why we don’t have trays upstairs, it’s be-cause so much food will fi t on a tray and half of it doesn’t get eat-en” said Alice Jones, professor of geography and geology.

This is just one of the many Earth Day events the EKU Green Crew will host during the month of April. For more information con-tact Alice Jones, alice.jones@eku.edu.

Jennifer Hurst

OPERA GUILD BRINGING CLASSIC POEM TO LIFE

The EKU Opera Guild will give performances of The Mighty Casey at 7:30 p.m. on April 4, and 2 p.m. on April 5, at the EKU Cen-ter for the Arts’ Black Box Theater. The opera is a musical interpreta-tion of the classic poem Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thay-er. It is directed by Dr. Joyce Wolf, the music department’s faculty advisor. The guild is a registered student organization with the mu-sic department.

The poem Casey at the Bat keeps true to its title, as it is about a bat of the baseball player Casey. Casey plays for the town of Mud-ville and is their beloved hero. The whole town is confi dent that he will surely save the game once he gets a chance to hit, but it may not be as easy for the mighty Casey as his supporters would like to be-lieve.

Clarissa Smith, 20, is a ju-nior music education and perfor-mance double major from Bard-stown and plays the lead female role as Merry, the title character Casey’s girlfriend. Several schools in the area will be attending the performances, which she says is perfect for younger audiences.

“The play is very worth coming to see,” Smith said. “It is very edu-cational.”

Smith said the opera is a love story at its core, one in which many people will be able to relate to.

“Love comes in several ways, but if you truly love someone you will let them go,” Smith said.

The musical adaptation will feature familiar sounding tunes such as “Take Me Out to the Ball-game,” which may seem odd for an opera. Senior Chase Ram-mage, however, knows otherwise.

Rammage, 21, is a vocal per-formance and music theory and composition double major from Burna. He plays the male lead as the Watchman, an older and wiser member of the Mudville commu-nity who acts more as the narra-tor of the performance. He says opera is more than meets the eye.

“Opera is not what it’s stereo-typed to be. Opera can be about anything,” Rammage said. “Hope-fully they [the audience] will real-ize this and start coming to more productions.”

Suggested donation for tickets at the door are $2 for Eastern stu-dents with their ID and $5 for gen-eral admission adults. Children under the age of 5 will be admit-ted for free. Proceeds go to help funding the educational activities of the EKU Opera Workshop.

For more information con-tact either Emily Welch at emily_welch2@mymail.eku.edu, or Dr. Joyce Wolf at joyce.wolf@eku.edu.

Daniel Klapheke

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part is seeing students who I have taught get-ting inducted into the hall of fame.”

Hansen joins six others in the 33rd hall of fame class: Lee Mueller, a former Eastern Ken-

tucky reporter for the Lexington Herald-Lead-er, Mark Hebert, WHAS-TV in Louisville; Dave McBride, Ohio County Times News; Mike Phillips, Kentucky Post/Cincinnati Post; Wes Strader, Western Kentucky University; and the late Hunter S. Thompson, creator of Gonzo journalism.

Hansen said she is proud to go in to the hall with such an esteemed class of journalists.

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Much like the orcs of Middle Earth, East-ern Kentucky University has gruesome hu-man-like creatures that roam within its bor-ders. Th ese trolls, unlike those found on the Internet, must not be fed at all costs.

Th e trolls are everywhere—and if you haven’t noticed and unlike other legions of unsavory characters, the trolls are diverse.

You must not feed the trolls no matter what. Moreover, you must not feed them be-cause they know not what they do and many of the trolls aren’t even aware they are trolls.

Th ere are the obvious trolls, whose orange November skin and unearthly blonde hair clearly don’t need our nourishment. Th is troll is close kin to salmon-short sporting, red-framed bespectacled troll, which hails from the fratio everyone knows not to feed.

No these trolls are a diff erent breed. Cun-ning in their conspiring, loathsome for their laziness and angry with their associations—these trolls often cause calamity and skew the balance of the university. Two types of trolls are particularly important to watch for, as they come in many forms.

One particular type of troll aged and sea-soned in its ways will lumber through the hallways at a snail’s pace. When students try

and stop it to ask why grades haven’t been posted online, it always seems to be busy...although its immediate route is currently to the nearest coff ee pot.

In the beginning of the semester, it may show up timely and prepared for class, but as the semester takes its toll, it morphs into something more evil. It is constantly late, be-ginning to forget to make copies of handouts or canceling class so he can watch golf or the Colonels in the NCAA Tournament. Its lack of concern for his students is obvious, but he somehow, prior to joining the ranks of the troll, it managed to achieve tenure, so there’s no getting rid of it. Th e students are left to fend for themselves by midterm-- the result is hatred heard ‘round the world.’

Trolls like our old kind can be found out-side of the classroom. Th is troll may angrily hoard the rough, coarse wiping paper from university facilities or it may devote its time to telling stories, scaring lawmakers and graduates into giving up money and relent-less selfi es with Eastern’s fi nest in an attempt to capture human souls and turn them troll. It is a cagey species you cannot escape.

Alas, the old troll species knows its time is short and has recruited young trolls in its

tutelage. Th is training troll is a passive ma-nipulator. Always forgetting class and as-signments, it has an excuse for every occa-sion... and the unwitting instructors take pity, falling for the facade or too uncaring to take proper disciplinary action, this troll’s professor lets the young troll have its way.

It never is counted for absences and somehow it managed to make up that mid-term two weeks after spring break. Its peers see through this troll’s thick skin and wish to stop the growing creature from mutat-ing into the older troll. However an amaz-ing lack of self-awareness, personal pity and perpetual state of YOLO doom this troll to enter into the vicious university troll cycle after matriculating, several years trolling in the public sector and an epiphany that it wishes to perpetuate the way of the troll at the university level.

Th e young troll is far more diverse than the old troll as university life dictates. Rath-er than get slogged down with a full time troll, these young trolls can experience all Eastern has to off er. Th e classroom version of this troll may snuggle up with the old troll, looking to brown nose its way through school or it can show up late to every sched-

uled class, meeting or timed function. It can be a complaining troll that fi nds some-thing wrong with everything on campus or it can be a non-traditional troll who thinks it knows more than the old trolls that choose to spread the way of the troll.

In any case, do not feed any of these trolls for the consequences are deadly. Not only do you risk disturbing the balance of the ecosystem, you risk turning the university into a den of the depraved creatures, ruining the hard work of Daniel Boone, Keen John-son and our favorite naked statue.

If you search hard enough, you may fi nd trolls in the Combs Building, deep with-in the dens of the student newspaper, but those trolls may be the most dangerous of them all. Lo, these trolls are armed with pens, paper, and word processors, an amaz-ing sense of self-importance and a vitriol for the rest of the university that is unparalleled to any group, even Eastern’s most ardent ri-vals. Worse than that, they rear their ugly heads every week to proclaim the worst of the news, attacking the other trolls and leav-ing nothing unscathed.

According to lore these trolls are the worst near the fi rst of April.

Don’t feed the trolls

Wild animals—lions, tigers, bears, and the like—are a mystery and I’m certainly not the only one who likes learning as much as possible about their behavior and what makes them tick. Even though I love animals and care for their well-being, I’ve never con-sidered myself responsible for the well-being of the ones in captivity until recently.

Th e unwarranted deaths of fi ve animals at the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark has drawn international media coverage, calling into question the quality of care animals in cap-tivity are receiving.

Last month, a healthy giraff e at the zoo was slaughtered and fed to the lions in front of zoo guests. Just last week, the same zoo eu-thanized four lions, two of them cubs, solely to bring in a new male lion. Th e zoo claimed two

of the lions were old and the cubs, belonging to the older lions, would not have survived on their own. Th e zoo said its management team thought hard about the decision.

Shouldn’t some higher authority have had the fi nal say?

Sure, it’s a single occurrence at one zoo in Europe, but things like this happen every-where. Th e Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia was named the “world’s cruelest zoo” by the UK’s Daily Mail for neglecting many of its ani-mals. A little closer to home, the Cherokee Bear Zoo in North Carolina keeps bears in too-small concrete enclosures in which they are deprived of much-needed natural stim-ulation. SeaWorld has been known to cap-ture its orcas illegally from the wild, stealing young away from their pod.

Animals aren’t the only ones getting hurt in these types of environments. Th ree people were killed in separate incidents, spanning some 30 years, by one of the orcas, Tilikum, at Orlando, Florida’s SeaWorld.

Some of the other orcas have been respon-sible for attacks on humans too and animal behaviorists contend that captivity is caus-ing mental illness in these majestic marine

mammals.Th e Copenhagen Zoo was in the news be-

fore in 2012, but it was because a man was killed by Siberian tigers after entering their den. Last year, a worker at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. was attacked by a zebra. Th ose are just a few of the attacks on humans that have occurred, but they really happen all the time. Animal Planet has a whole show about it. Attacks on humans are a reminder that just because animals may be born into captivity they are not domesticated or tamed.

Most everyone has been to a zoo or sim-ilar environment where animals are show-cased for entertainment and profi ts. I’ve en-joyed those experiences, but is it really OK to keep wild animals in cages for our own amusement?

Some zoos do take in animals for rehabili-tation purposes with the intention of releas-ing them back into the wild, so it might not be fair to close all of them down.

Maybe stricter regulations should be in place at zoos to limit what they can do with their animals. Th e Animal Welfare Act is the only Federal law in the U.S. that regu-lates treatment of animals, but it doesn’t

cover everything. For instance cold-blooded animals, such

as reptiles and amphibians, are not pro-tected by the Animal Welfare Association (AWA). Th e AWA employs the Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service to enforce the AWA requirements, but staffi ng is sparse. Fa-cilities are only required one inspection per year unless a complaint has been received.

A lot of ideas have been proposed as a pos-sible solution to the animal cruelty in cap-tivity issue. Maybe zoos and similar facili-ties could use more funding to fi x inadequate habitats? But then they would need to be monitored to make sure the money was be-ing used for the right purpose.

Maybe the public should simply be aware of the treatment of some animals in zoos and what part they play in that? We expect the animals to be happy that we “rescued” them from the dangerous outside world and placed them in small enclosures where they get to live out their lives as entertainers, and then we tap on the glass and hope they’ll do a cool trick.

Kelli Stokes is a journalism junior. Email progress@eku.edu.

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“I captured my neighbor’s chickens and stuff ed them in my aunt’s car.”

Critley KingHometown: SomersetMajor: Theater Year: Senior

“On April Fool’s 2014, I told my boy-friend of 5 years that I was pregnant. He reacted as though he were very worried/concerned, basically like someone in a state of shock. Feeling really bad – think-ing that I had go� en him all worked up for nothing – I started to console him like every good girlfriend would. Then, right as I told him, ‘Honey, everything’s going to be all right,’ he looks up, grin-ning, and says, ‘ Why? Because this is an April Fool’s joke?’ I was like, ‘What? You Knew?!?!’ He responded, ‘Yes, I knew the whole � me.’ I was so frustrated by this because the best April Fool’s joke that I’d ever come up with, and actually tried to pull on someone, ended with the joke being on me.”

Mikayla KathlinaHometown: WinchesterMajor: Accoun� ngYear: Freshman

“When I was 17, my friends pulled an April Fool’s prank on me by having this girl they knew I had a crush on, act as though she was really into/interested in me. Flir� ng, she said, ‘How are you do-ing sweet thang?’ I was so hyped! Then my boys came out with the camera.”

Tranard ChesterHometown: LexingtonMajor: UndeclaredYear: Freshman

What’s the best April Fool’s Day prank you’ve heard of?

“One � me, when my parents were down-stairs and my older brother and I were upstairs, we pulled an April Fool’s prank on them. We pretended to fi ght and then I fake fell down loudly, so my parents could hear it. My brother then yelled, ‘Oh my God! I think I killed him!’ My mother, a nurse, immediately sprinted to my aid and just as she was kneeling down be-side me to check for a pulse, I looked up at her and said, ‘Gotcha!’ Needless to say, my brother and I were grounded for some� me a� er that prank; but seeing her reac� on made it worth while.”

Tyler Pendergra� Hometown: ErlangerMajor: BiologyYear: Freshman

“My friend used vinegar and passed it off as Sprite and got someone to drink it.”

Madeline MorabitoHometown: Springboro, OhioMajor: NursingYear: Freshman

“My parents told me that they got me a new car and later told me that it was not true.”

Sherri LunsfordHometown: LexingtonMajor: Wildlife managementYear: Senior

First world problems have become a so-cial phenomenon complete with hashtags and websites dedicated to the topic. You feel guilty when complaining about something trivial when you think about all the luxu-ries available to you just because of where you live.

As a college student, I experience fi rst world problems on a daily basis. For ex-ample: walking to class when it’s cold out-side, complaining about the food in upstairs Powell, or having to take the stairs when the

elevator is broken. Th ese may seem like sil-ly complaints; that’s why they’re fi rst world problems. I’m happy to be an Eastern stu-dent, but here are some of my fi rst world problems, college edition.

In mid-January, I was moving from Clay Hall into Martin. I was given only 24 hours to move my belongings and it happened to be on the day Richmond had a blizzard. Af-ter de-icing my vehicle, cramming my stuff inside, sliding in my car around campus, fi ghting the snow and carrying my things up four fl ights of stairs (there’s no elevator in Martin), I was fi nally moved in.

Th e next morning, a shower was the per-fect way to start my day. Upon turning on the shower, I discovered there wasn’t any hot water. I gathered my shower-caddy and went to the bathroom downstairs, same result. My nerves wearing thin, I waited for 30 min-utes for the water to fi nally warm up to a de-cent temperature. I’ve come to learn Martin

showers have only two settings, arctic cold or Satan’s bath water. Later that day, Martin had not one, but two fi re drills. Th ese were two of eight alarms that happened within a week. By this time I was starting to really dislike the cold.

Eastern is a fi ne institution, but tell me why appliances and technology never seem to work on campus. Wi-Fi is almost non-existent no matter where you are, el-evators are constantly out of order even though they always have repairmen work-ing on them, heaters only work when it’s already warm outside and it’s impossible to do laundry for under $10 because the dryer can never dry your clothes enough. Th ese are Eastern technology fi rst world problems.

Parking is a situation that everyone com-plains about and it seems like it can never get fi xed. Th is is especially true if you’re one of the unlucky students parking in the Lan-

caster lot. Th e university was nice enough to build a crosswalk over the highway for stu-dents, but to be honest I think it’s quicker to just cross the highway rather than tak-ing stairs or a slow elevator to the top of the crosswalk and then back down.

Being a lazy college student, dodging traffi c seems like a decent choice. By the time you’ve reached your dorm or class-room, you’ve walked enough to count that as your workout for the month. Th e Lancast-er lot is defi nitely an Eastern student’s fi rst world problems.

Th ere are many things a college student could consider a fi rst world problem. Th ese are things which really shouldn’t be com-plained about, but that doesn’t make them any less undesirable. As long as college stu-dents have things to complain about, there will always be fi rst world problems.

Kayla Lasure is a journalism sophomore. Email progress@eku.edu.

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Student artwork on display in Crabbe Library

Student artists will have the opportuni-ty to showcase their work to anyone pass-ing through Eastern’s library over the next month and may have the chance to win prizes.

Th e 2014 Inaugural Student Art Exhib-it will be on display from April 2 to May 2 in the South Lobby of the Crabbe Library. Th e library has allowed students, both part-time and full-time, to enter any fl at artwork (due to space restrictions) they have created.

Th e art exhibit is the fi rst of many the library intends to showcase on its walls in the near future, said Melissa Abney, graphic designer for EKU Libraries.

“We are excited to present the artwork of many talented EKU student artists in the Libraries’ Inaugural Student Art Ex-hibit.” Abney said. “Th e Libraries strive to provide events and opportunities that pro-mote and encourage student success, and we look forward to future exhibits that will continue to showcase the talents of our students.”

Th e exhibit features 16 pieces contrib-uted by eight students. Th e works off er some variety in medium as well, with both drawings and paintings among the work, Abney said

Th e group ‘Friends of EKU Libraries’ has donated $300 to pay for the prizes that the top three entries will receive. Ab-ney said they are not permitted to give out money; however there will be prizes.

Th e artwork committee will have com-pleted their voting by Monday, March 31.

Although sign-ups for the event have ended, Abney encourages students to look

out for more exhibits in the future.For more information concerning ap-

plication processes and policies go to http://library.eku.edu/student-exhibit.

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Artwork of the 2014 Inagural Student Art Exhibit that be on display form April 2 to May 2 in the South Lobby of the Crabbe Library.

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A student claim of seeing a “bug” crawling on furniture in Middle Powell led facilities personnel to perform a thor-ough search for bed bugs Tuesday, March 25.

Bed bugs are small parasitic insects that feed on the blood of humans and ani-mals by attaching themselves to clothing, beds, furniture and other items to travel from one place to another, according to the CDC. Common in highly populated areas, such as hotels or even college dor-mitories, bed bugs hide in crevices, mat-tress seams, headboards and cluttered areas during the day, and then become ac-tive at night.

Reports of supposed pests are fairly common on Eastern’s campus and happen at least once a month, said John Cook, as-sociate director of Facilities Services.

“Most of the time, they’re false alarms,” Cook said.

When a call is received, trained facili-ties personnel are dispatched to perform a lengthy and thorough check of the sus-pected area, such as what was done re-cently in Powell, Cook said.

After receiving a call of a student see-ing a “bug” crawling on the game room furniture in Middle Powell, trained per-sonnel were immediately dispatched and performed a lengthy inspection for any possible pests that could have been in the building, Cook said.

Th e inspections involve facilities per-sonnel checking as many areas as they can, such as the furniture and even the light fi xtures, with fl ashlights for bed bugs and other pests. If anything was found during the search, the trained person-nel would properly treat the aff ected area with special procedures as quickly as pos-sible, Cook said.

Th e results of the pest inspection proved the case to be a common false alarm.

“Fortunately, there were no bed bugs found and the area is totally safe for use,” Cook said.

Although cases of bed bugs have been found on Eastern’s campus in previous years, no new cases have occurred dur-ing the 2013-2014 academic year. Regular bed bug inspections are done in the dorms each year when the rooms are turned over to new residents. Th is ensures each stu-dent their safety and a hygienic environ-ment for the duration of an academic year, Cook said.

If an individual wanted to report a pos-sible pest sighting, they can do so in two ways. If the sighting is in a dorm, a student should contact the Residence Hall Coor-dinator (RHC). If the sighting is in any other building on campus, students and staff can call the Facilities Services offi ce at 859-622-2966.

Bedbug search turns up emptyBy BRIANNA WHITEprogress@eku.edu

Benson said. He added that he was disap-pointed likewise that funding to restore the water-damaged Moore building was struck from the budget.

“I don’t want to ever come across as someone who’s an ingrate,” Benson said. “I’m so thankful the legislature gave us what they did.”

Th e university also received $2 mil-lion for capital improvements to the avia-tion program, which will go toward build-ing new hangars, training facilities and fl ight preparation space, said David McFad-din, university director of government re-lations.

Benson and McFaddin both made a point to say that Rocky Adkins (D-San-dy Hook) was instrumental in advocating for the improvements to the aviation area. Benson added that Rita Smart (D-Rich-mond), Greg Stumbo (D-Prestonsburg), Robert Stivers (R-Manchester) and Jar-ed Carpenter (R-Berea) also stepped up in support of Eastern.

“I’ve been heartened by the fact that when people told you they were support-ive and they’d deliver, you could believe it,” Benson said.

Th e legislature also approved $15 mil-lion in improvements for athletic facilities. Benson said the bonds would be paid off through existing revenue streams the uni-versity has in place. He said the university would also try to raise $15 million in pri-vate donations to match the state’s alloca-tion.

Benson said he believes the recent suc-cess of the men’s basketball team will help with fundraising and that the facility im-provements will most touch all sports, not just basketball and football.

“We’ve tried our best to say ‘Hey what needs immediate attention?’ and will put eff orts there,” Benson said.

Th e budget also included $75 million for Eastern’s future housing improvements. Th e university is looking at building its own new housing, leasing rooms from ex-isting apartments and public/private part-nerships to build on campus. Benson said the university is also looking to establish its own housing foundation, similar to West-ern Kentucky University.

McFaddin said the university succeeded in getting its priority items owing to the ef-

forts of Benson, the Board of Regents, the Alumni Foundation and other members of the campus community.

“I think the fi nal budget was a great compromise,” McFaddin said. “Eastern will benefi t from [the legislature’s] willingness to invest in higher ed.”

Sharing the Eastern story and show-ing what a solid business model will yield helped the university receive funding with the important things it was asking for, said Craig Turner, Board of Regents chair. Turn-er said the Board has gotten more aggres-sive in lobbying on behalf of the university because of the economic hardships public universities in the state are facing, which was part of the motivation for the Board’s retreat at Frankfort in February.

“It started a while back with an attitude that we’re going to have to get involved be-cause of the economic circumstances ev-eryone is facing,” Turner said. “It’s unbe-lievably competitive for a small amount of dollars. We have to pick the right plans go-ing forward.”

Turner said reallocations helped prove to Gov. Beshear and the House that Eastern was a good investment, which helped gain funding for phase 2 of the science building. He added that everyone involved worked together to get Eastern most of what it asked for.

“We’ve got everyone on board and roll-ing in the right direction,” Turner said. “Th is is a good example of how we stayed united in our front. It was a great day for Eastern.”

Benson said it’s too early to project if the legislature’s compromise will be par for the course going forward, but he said it’s imperative Kentucky invests in higher ed-ucation.

“It’s hard to project the future,” Benson said. “Every legislature is diff erent, but we hope this bodes well for an increased in-vestment from our state.”

“We’ll actually be moving those [glass frames] when the policy comes into place,” Fox said. “And then we’ll be doing exciting things with those areas. So there’s a concrete base underneath it and we’re going to be partnering with the art department and using some of those bases to build big art sculptures on.”

Other plans the task force has for the smoke shacks are to use some as bus stops for students and to turn the other ones into green houses. Fox said they are trying to fi nd creative ways to use these spaces to help with the cam-pus beautifi cation process.

Currently they are working on fi nal-izing the draft for it to be approved by the Board of Regents at this month’s meeting.

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Sen. Jared Carpenter, an Eastern graduate, expressed his support for Eastern’s goals when the Board of Regents held its February retreat in Frankfort.

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NOTABLE BUDGET ITEMS• $66.3 million for completion of

Phase II of the Science Building

• $2 million for capital investments into the aviation program

• $136 million in operating funds

• $75 million approval for a potential P3 (Public-Private-Partnership) for University Housing

• $15 million for agency bonds to expand and renovate the athletics facilities

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Students and faculty alike came out Monday night to give Eastern President Michael Benson a bruis-ing at a campus-wide dodge ball tournament.

Organized by the EKU Gurus, the tournament brought together 19 teams to compete for the oppor-tunity to play in the championship game against the “Benson Bomb-ers,” a team consisting of Benson, his assistant Matt Roan, football coach Dean Hood, softball coach Jane Worthington, assistant volley-ball coach Liz Sellers and student Robert Butcher, a ringer brought in from the semi-finalist team “Abusement Park,” who was re-cruited by Benson.

The tournament was played in a packed Weaver Gym. Some teams warmed up their throwing arms, while others took advantage of the SGA cotton candy and snow cones. Matches lasted six minutes and the team with the most players still standing at the end advanced in the tournament. Alpha Phi Sigma was the first team to be sent home while Rec’n to the Oldies, Sigma Nu and The College Republicans made it to the second round.

After some great play, the Abusement Park team faced the Kappa Sigmas in the semifinal round. The Kappa Sigmas pulled out the win to earn their place in the final match against the Benson Bombers.

Leading into the champion-ship match, the energy in the room was palpable as the countdown be-

gan. The Kappa Sigmas grabbed most of the dodge balls early on. President Benson nailed student Seth Miller of Kappa Sigma team at the halfway mark, swinging the momentum in the Bomber’s direction. But the Kappa Sigmas fought back, ultimately winning the match and seemingly the championship.

But President Benson wasn’t ready to give up. Unwilling to go down, Benson and his team chal-lenged the Kappa Sigmas to the best two out of three and the fra-

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A communications senior from Salvisa, has a head start in her marketing career through co-operative education.

Ashley Robe, 21, is a marketing team mem-ber for Ale-8-One, where she travels the state promoting the drink. Robe joined the team in August 2013, after she moved to Richmond, go-ing to the company for an interview.

Ale-8-One sent an email to the Department of Communications Chair Liz Hansen at East-ern, off ering communication students the po-sition. Karen Rudick, an Associate Professor at Eastern, forwarded the e-mail to her Interview-ing and Negotiation students, which informed Robe of the position.

Robe went with her friend Jordan McGuf-fi n to an Ale-8-One event, where she met high-er-ups in the company. McGuffi n still works at Ale-8-One, Robe said.

“One of my best friends started working at the company before I did,” Robe said. “She got the position and I actually met my boss at an event I went to with her. He got my contact in-formation and we just stayed in touch. I’d def-initely say that networking was in my favor in landing this position.”

Robe has had a connection to the brand since she was a child.

“I was like four and we had Ale-8-One in our fridge, in the original bottle. I was never saw any drinks in bottles other than beer, so for

the longest time I thought Ale-8-One was beer. One time I snuck it out and drank it thinking I was a rebel.”

Robe’s position in the marketing event team is new. Th e position it’s self is a new develop-ment for Ale-8-One’s marketing campaign. At the events sponsored by Ale-8-One, Robe’s job is to talk to people who have never tried Ale-8-One before, off ering samples and telling them about the product, possibly making new fans of the product, Robe said.

“Introducing the drink to new people that have never had and them enjoying it is proba-bly my favorite part of the job,” Robe said. “It’s a pretty fun job.”

Robe usually promoted the drink in grocery stores.

“We’ve actually had a lot of sampling events at Kroger and Wal-Mart around the state. We usually set up right next to our product so we visually get to see them buy the product when we are at these events.

“A lot of the time they’re surprised that it tastes good. Th ey usually hear ‘Oh that’s just Winchester swamp water’.”

Robe’s time in the fi eld has been an eye-opener for her future career goals. Traveling, making connections and meeting new people throughout the state made her love the fi eld of marketing, Robe said. She traveled to Louis-ville, Frankfort, Lexington and Winchester.

“With my major I have many opportunities and a variety of fi elds I can go into,” Robe said. “But my time with Ale-8-One has made me re-ally love marketing. I plan on hopefully pursu-ing a career in marketing.”

Marketing student travels state promoting Ale-8-OneBy WYATT MADDENprogress@eku.edu

By JESSICA CASEBOLTprogress@eku.edu

PHOTO SUBMITTEDAshley Robe poses next to an Ale 8 distribution truck. She interned with the Winchester-based company and traveled the state to promote the brand.

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gan. The Kappa Sigmas grabbed most of the dodge balls early on.President Benson nailed student Seth Miller of Kappa Sigma teamat the halfway mark, swinging he momentum in the Bomber’s

direction. But the Kappa Sigmas ought back, ultimately winning he match and seemingly thehampionship.

But President Benson wasn’t eady to give up. Unwilling to go

down, Benson and his team chal-enged the Kappa Sigmas to the

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President Michael Benson puts his body into a throw at the first Dodge The Prez event (above). A team chants during the competition(left). Robert Butcher, 24, Sophomore from Ashland particpated in Team Abusement Park. Their team dressed as various superheros and were awarded a trophey for their creative costumes.

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ternity was happy to oblige. Game 2 began with two big outs for Benson. The Bombers held an ad-vantage for much of the match, but Kappa Sigma closed in on the Benson Bombers with a minute to go, leaving just President Benson and Coach Worthington remaining on the floor. The crowd erupted as President Benson dove for a ball that bounced off Worthington’s leg for a big save. But the ball slipped from his fingers as he dove the ground, and the second game went to Kappa Sig-ma.

Still, President Benson refused to let the match end. He once again challenged the Kappa Sigmas, this time to a third round. The third game was just as thrilling, but when President Benson was the last man standing, it was Seth Miller who had his revenge.

“It was one of my goals of the tournament to take out President Benson,” Miller said.

Nate Edwards and Lloyd Macy of Kappa Sigma said it was their intention from the beginning to leave President Benson as the last man standing. Kevin Bartlet, of Kappa Sigma, said he had led his fraternity to an intermural dodge ball win earlier this year and said that this tournament was a way to defend their title.

The prize for first place included T-shirts and a candy-filled trophy. Second and third place also received candy-filled trophies. An additional award was presented to the Abusement Park team as winners of the most original costume and flair.

After three matches and some impromptu play, President Benson wiped his brow and smiled for photos with students.

“I had a lot of fun, obviously because I kept try-ing to extend the series,” said Benson, who has an athletic pedigree, having played college basketball and participated in marathons, the Boston Mara-thon a few years ago.

Brooke King, coordinator for the Gurus, said she couldn’t wait for next year’s tournament. She said she hopes the dodge ball tournament will be an annual event. She also said the organizers were thankful for the support they received from sev-eral campus groups to make the event a success.

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Th e Muppets, created by Jim Henson, made their debut in 1955 and over the course of half a century they’ve become a permanent staple in the eyes of both children and adults as icons of comedy through simplicity.

Th e trend continues with the latest movie, Muppets: Th e Most Wanted, a musical com-edy fi lm produced by Disney, and made with as much love and care as the original fi lms and show and continue to preserve the precious legacy left behind by Henson.

Th e fi lm pick up after the 2011 when the Muppets realized the success of their return to the big screen they set out on a world tour orchestrated by a new agent, Domi-nic Badguy (pronounced “badgey”) who is secretly a master thief corroborating with the villainous Constantine. Constantine escapes from a pris-on in Russia, and the fact that he looks exactly like Kermit the Frog allows him to switch places with the icon in order to trick the Muppets into traveling to locations of a treasure hunt in an at-tempt to steal the crown jewels of London.

Th e plot supports the most prominent tool fea-tured in the newer Muppet fi lms: the tongue in cheek self-awareness littered throughout the fi lm. Th is meta-humor is the fi lms’ biggest strength as it treats the audience with respect by letting them in on the joke-they’re watching a bunch of fl ail-ing sock puppets.

Th at being said, the fi lm is engag-ing enough to stand on its own and keeps the plot interesting. New char-acters that interact with the Muppets are fun to watch, the standout being

the Warden of Gulag prison (Tina Fey) and her respective inmates composed of charac-ter actors.

Th e problems with the movie are no diff erent from the ones that have plagued theatri-cal Muppet fi lms since the beginning. Obvious green/blue screen and CG animation in-serted through the more complicated scenes. Another problem would be the emotional pathos that’s incredibly awkward when delivered by the static puppets but it’s saved by the amazing voice acting and live puppetry presented in the fi lm.

As a bonus, the songs featured in the fi lm are defi nite earworms that celebrate the sil-liness of the Muppets, while staying in tone with the rest of the fi lm.

Th e Muppets: Most Wanted won’t put the Muppets back on the map, but it keeps the spirit alive and if you’re a fan of the Muppets, puppetry in general or just want a nice fam-ily fi lm that anyone can enjoy, it certainly delivers.

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Hideo Kojima produces some of the best block-buster titles that are enticingly satisfying, providing players with excellent game-play and are highly developed multi-lay-ered stories dealing with politics and government conspir-acies.

Each game by Kojima is expertly crafted and off ers more to the players than just “one time” experiences. Met-al Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (MGSV: GZ) is no excep-tion to the trend.

MGSV: GZ is the prequel, better yet a paid demo, to the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: Th e Phantom Pain (MGSV: PP), estimated to be released in 2015.

Taking place one year after the events of 2010 game: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (MGS:PW), MGSV:GZ plays off the backstory of the original game. Th ose who have played the previous titles would have some knowledge as to what was going on. But newcomers are left guessing.

Th e game takes place on the southern tip of Cuba on Omega, a US Naval Base. Th e base is the only location in the game and at times it seems too small and isolated from the rest of Cuba. Separated into areas such as an aban-doned prison, some heli-pads and a huge naval facility, MGSV: GZ’s has a rich landscape worth exploring. Even with the lacking of another area to explore, MGSV: GZ de-livers a memorable experience that will have players com-ing back, at least until MGSV: PP is released.

MGS games focus on stealth as the core game-play. MGSV: GZ’s takes it to another level by being the fi rst in the series with open-world elements, removing any sign of linear game-play, creating endless possibilities in the game. If you want to go in “guns-blazing,” you can. Howev-er, you get penalized with a lower score and you won’t re-ceive any locked items.

Th e overall presentation is amazing. Water droplets bounce off of heavily armored military suits. Flashlights from enemies, searching for the player, shine in the dis-tance creating a sense of horror as you crawl throughout the campaign’s rainy night.

One of MGSV: GZ’s greatest achievements is the updat-ed artifi cial intelligence of the enemies. On the more diffi -cult levels enemies sport an eerie 20/20 vision, reacting to the slightest of movements. Crawling through bushes has never been so diffi cult, or exciting.

Many new game-play features allow MGS: GZ’s to be accessible to casual gamers. In the instance that an enemy spots the player, the game slows down (bullet-time) allow-ing the player the chance to neutralize the threat, stopping

other nearby enemies from knowing the player’s position. Th is small feature made remarkable changes in the way the player can take down an enemy.

Th ere are fi ve extra missions named Side Ops and Extra Ops. Th ese missions range from searching the naval base, collecting intel, capturing refugees or collecting enemies of the U.S. Some of these missions miss the main point of the game (stealth) and didn’t really give any incentive to play them again.

For $29.99, the package of MGSV: GZ feels like a true MGS game, but leaves the player wanting more. Keep in mind the game is a demo to show how MGSV: PP will in-corporate diff erent game-play elements. Th is makes the wait for MGSV: PP more excruciating for fans of the series.

For the present, all MGS fans have is MGSV: GZ. It’s satisfying for now, but MGSV: GZ will easily be overlooked when MGSV: PP is released.

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Winter guard performer uses talent to spin stories

Kathlyn Cummings, 20, spends her days studying and going to class as she works towards completing her degree in Occupational Science. At night she be-comes one of Charlotte’s children, spin-ning webs and creating a family atmo-sphere with her brothers and sisters.

While Cummings isn’t actually a spi-der she participates in the independent winter guard, Lexis. Lexis is an indepen-dent guard located in Richmond with this year’s show titled, Charlottes Magnum Opus.

Charlottes Magnum Opus is based on the story of Charlotte’s web. Th e Lexis cast members are Charlotte’s many chil-dren and spin webs throughout the show spelling out inspirational words towards

the audience. Th e solid black uniforms contrast the bright white of the web spun by the cast members. Charlotte’s children race around the tarp searching for their brothers and sisters to reunite the fami-ly. Unfortunately the ending of the show is not as positive as the beginning, as all of the spiders die after living short but ful-fi lling lives as they were surrounded by the love of their family.

Th e family message behind the show translates directly to the family atmo-sphere created within Lexis as many members rely on each other and spend so much time together.

“We keep each other hyped up,” Cum-mings said. “Th e cool thing about this year is that we all love the show so much that it has brought us all that much closer together.”

Most people know what a color guard

is because they recognize the fl ag spinners behind the marching bands at their lo-cal high schools. But what happens to the color guard members when the horns and drums are put away for the season? Th e solution is winter guard.

Winter guard performances feature more interpretive dance styles and fo-cus on telling a subtle story as compared to color guard which interacts with the marching band in order to enhance the drill set upon the football fi eld. Winter guard is a sport like any other with nightly practices, intense conditioning and occa-sional trips to the emergency room.

Cummings has participated in color guard and winter guard since her fresh-man year of high school at George Rog-ers Clark in Winchester. After graduating in 2011, Cummings auditioned for Lexis and was announced as an offi cial member

shortly thereafter. Her fi rst Lexis show was titled For Th e Boys and featured the 1940’s with pinup style army uniforms. Th e show celebrated the strong patriotism of the United States and highlighted the high energy of the wartime singers.

Cummings second show was titled, Th e Joy! of Cooking. Th e show was particular-ly emotional as it focused on the direc-tor’s mother. He created the work in or-der to show his mother’s love of cooking. Th e show was particularly challenging as some of the Lexis members were spinning their fl ags with oven mitts on their hands.

Th e auditions for the 2015 Lexis sea-son are in September and feature fl ag, ri-fl e and saber. Th e Eastern Marching Colo-nels are also looking for members of their color guard. Tryouts are from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 26 in Begley Gym

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Colonel CornerKrislyn CamposKrislyn CamposKrislyn Campos is a freshman shortstop on the softball team. She came to Eastern from Las Vegas, Nev., and studies sports management. She has started all 28 games this season, and is batting .300. She also has a perfect fi elding percentage this season.

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6-3 win while Oscoz brought in a victory with 6-1, 6-1.

The No. 4-6 singles were won in 8-game pro sets. Junior Milena Poffo landed an 8-2 victory in No. 4 singles,

Rodriguez defeated her No. 5 spot oppo-nent 8-1 and Jimenez won in the No. 6 singles 8-0.

Eastern dominated in doubles as Oscoz and Rodriguez led the team in the No. 1 spot with an 8-4 defeat. Labeja joined forc-es with sophomore Danielle Kinnen to grab the No. 3 doubles, 8-4. Sunday’s match was Kinnen’s fi rst of the season, since an injury had kept her from play the fi rst part of the

season. “She was really excited to get back,”

Oertel said. “She’s been waiting a long time, waiting patiently. We just have so many good, strong girls so it’s hard to get her in the lineup, you know? But I know she was ecstatic.”

With Eastern’s win over Belmont and with past OVC Tournament matches in-cluded, the team has won 30 OVC matches in a row.

“Th ese girls haven’t lost a match in three years in the OVC,” Oertel said.

Th is record puts the Colonels at the top of its game as it heads into more OVC play this coming week. Eastern competes again at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 5 in Richmond against Murray State University. Murray State is also undefeated in the OVC.

“More than likely, assuming we take care of business against Morehead [March 2], that match against Murray will be for the No. 1 conference seed,” Oertel said.

Another home match will take place at 10 a.m., Sunday, March 6 against Austin Peay State University.

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Four years ago, Parsons was graduating from Morgan-town High School in Morgantown, W.Va. His team just lost the state championship to Capitol High School, but he knew he didn’t want his basketball career to end there. Parsons knew he wanted to play college basketball. It had always been a dream of his to play at the highest level and the way his life played out, he got his chance at Eastern.

Parsons’ father, Mike, was the associate athletic direc-tor at West Virginia University and had known Neubauer from his time at the university as an assistant. Th ey made contact and Parsons got his chance.

Th e fi rst two years Parsons was at Eastern, the teams had a combined record of 31-32. But when Glenn Cosey, Corey Walden, Tarius Johnson and Marcus Lewis came in two years ago, he knew that’d change.

“When they got here, we knew they were talented right away,” Parsons said.

Parsons said he embraced his role on the team and knew that he may not get to play as much, because of the new talent Eastern had on the team.

“I never really worried that much about playing time,” Parsons said. “I came here to win and not get personal hon-ors. It didn’t really matter to me.” During that time, East-ern won 49 games, an OVC championship and an NCAA tournament berth, which Parsons calls the best moment of his career.

Now that basketball is over, Parsons is headed to law school. He took the law school entrance exam the same day Eastern played Longwood Dec. 7. He doesn’t know where he is going to school yet, but said he will always fol-low Eastern basketball.

“It’s been a great learning experience for me, just in life,” Parsons said. “I’ll remember the fi rst two years when we weren’t winning, those tough times. Worked hard and stuck with it and reached the top.”

Mike Parsons told his son that watching Eastern play Kansas on March 20 in St. Louis was the best tournament experience he ever had. Mike watched West Virginia reach the Final Four in 2010 and the Elite Eight in 2005 under John Beilein (Neubauer happened to be an assistant on that team), but this one was his favorite.

On that December day just before the turn of 2013, Mike wore a maroon sweater, taking a break from the gold and blue he had worn his whole life. He and the rest of his family were cheering on the Colonels. Th at day and the rest of Ryan’s experiences at Eastern are sure to be things told around the Parsons family for years to come. Maybe that’s why he is so happy.

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a hit past third base and pushed fel-low junior Shannon McQueen home.

Senior Christina Ciolek busted a double to left fi eld in the fourth in-ning and was pushed forward to third after tagging up on a fl y ball hit by junior Katie Tackett. Despite scoring position, Ciolek did not reach home due to an Eastern fl y ball to center fi eld and an out at fi rst base to end the inning.

Th e fi fth inning was a strong of-fensive inning for the Colonels. Af-ter reaching fi rst base on a walk, Mitchell stole second base and se-nior Nicole Heitz followed suit as she walked her way to fi rst base. Sophomore Kayla Joyce came next and made her way to fi rst base off a hit to second base.

With one out, bases were loaded for the Colonels and freshman Kris-lyn Campos hit a ball to right fi eld and knocked Mitchell around to home. Ci-olek was next to bat and was hit by a wild pitch, which moved another East-ern runner home to make the score 3-0. Tackett fl ew out to right and Joyce tagged up at third base, but was thrown out at home plate, ending the inning.

McQueen blasted a home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to bump the score up 4-0 with one out.

A line drive over third base from pinch hitter junior Darcy Schuel-er put Eastern at second place. Heitz made a double off an Eastern Ten-nessee error and pushed another run across home plate to end the inning on a 5-0 advantage.

“When our defense or something happened on that side of the fi eld,” Pittsenbarger said, “that would carry over to the off ensive side. We could just build off of each other.”

Th ree quick outs at the top of the seventh inning gave Eastern the fi nal victory.

Game 2Game two in Tuesday’s double-

header was slow to start for Eastern. Both teams failed to score until East Tennessee put the fi rst run on the board in the top of the sixth inning. Eastern came out on top 4-3.

Th e fi rst opportunity for the Colo-nels to score came in the fourth in-ning, when Joyce made her way to fi rst base on a bunt. Campos laid down a sacrifi ce bunt to move Joyce to second and Ciolek pushed Joyce onto third. Tackett came up to the plate next but hit the ball back to the pitcher and she was thrown out at fi rst, leaving Joyce on base.

Th e Buccaneer’s Danielle Knoe-tze stepped up to bat and busted out a home run, which gave East Tennes-see a 1-0 lead. A home run-RBI in

the next inning put East Tennessee ahead by two while the Colonels sat on a zero score.

All hope seemed lost for the Colo-nels until a seventh inning rally where Eastern showed its strength. A Bucca-neer error put Ciolek on base and Tack-ett followed with a solid hit past second base. With a hit to left fi eld from Fobbs, bases loaded up for Eastern.

Freshman Amber Murray made a hit just in front of home plate, but in-decisiveness on East Tennessee’s side put a run across the board and Mur-ray safe at fi rst base. Eastern trailed the Buccaneers by two runs.

Mitchell reached on a fi elder’s choice shortly after, driving in a run. With two outs, Joyce pushed Mitch-ell home with a hit and the Colonels claimed the victory.

Sophomore Hayley Flynn, junior Shaylon Robb and freshman Alex Sallberg each took a turn pitching in game two.

“Everything just came together,” Pittsenbarger said. “It was a great team eff ort. I think we just knew that we could hit…I guess when it came down to do or die, we knew we could do it.”

Th e Colonels head back on the road April 5 against Eastern Illinois University, April 6 against South-ern Illinois University Edwardsville and April 8 against Morehead State University. Each game will begin at 2 p.m.

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Colonels flatten competition in 1,500-meters at Oliver Nikoloff Invitational

Eastern’s track and fi eld team dominated the 1,500-meters race at the University of Cincinna-ti Oliver Nikoloff Invitational at Gettler Stadium on March 29. A combined eight Colonels fi nished in the top 10 in the men’s and women’s race.

Th e women’s team had fi ve runners in the top 10 in the wom-en’s 1,500-meters. Junior Ann Ea-son, in her second performance this track season, decisively won the race with a time of 4:33.07. Sophomore Julie Mathisen placed second a few seconds behind Ea-son, fi nishing with a time of 4:37.08.

Sophomore Cecile Chevil-lard (4:46.10) fi nished fi fth, junior Shannon Rutherford (4:50.86) fi nished seventh and sophomore Ashley Svec (4:51.40) rounded out

the Colonels’ top runners with an eighth place fi nish.

Sophomore Amos Kosgey won the 1,500-meters for the men’s event. He fi nished just shy of the four-minute mark with a time of 4:00.60. Senior Sean Vandermo-sten (4:01.33) fi nished second and junior Ole Hesselbjerg (4:01.54) was a hair behind Vandermosten, placing third.

Head coach Rick Erdmann said the poor weather conditions were a hindrance to the team, but did not aff ect the runners’ overall performance.

Th e Colonels had other stand-out performances in the event.

Senior Hannah Miller fi nished second in the women’s 800-me-ters with a time of 2:18.85, just .19 seconds slower than the fi rst place time (2:18.66). Graduate student Una Britton fi nished fourth in the women’s 5,000-meters with a time of 17:28.94. Lastly, senior

Ben Toroitich fi nished second in the men’s 5,000-meters with a time of 14:44.72.

Host University of Cincinnati won the event overall, while East-ern’s men fi nished ninth and the women fi nished six.

Th e Colonels will split up April 4 and 5 to compete in the Stan-ford Distance Carnival and the Bellarmine Invitational.

Eason and seniors Soufi -ane Bouchikhi and Wade Med-dles will head to Palo Alto, Ca. to compete in the Stanford Dis-tance Carnival 5,000-meters race. All three Colonels, who are each All-Americans, will be competing against top runners from schools like Notre Dame, Oklahoma State and Stanford University.

Erdmann said he hopes the three will earn NCAA qualifying times so they do not have to chase an NCAA spot in the rest of sea-

son. Th e event will be the fi rst race

of the year for Bouchikhi, who sat out of the indoor track sea-son because of eligibility issues. It will also be Eason’s third race

this year, meaning not very much hands-on practice for the team’s top two runners.

“It’s a pretty high level to start with,” Erdmann said. “But they’re pretty high level athletes.”

Poor batting condemns Colonels baseball to losses

Lackluster hitting was Eastern’s baseball team’s downfall after losing two out of three games against the University of Evansville March 28 to 30.

Game One Evansville pitcher Kyle Freeland

struck out 10 batters March 28, ef-fectively shutting down Eastern’s of-fense. Th e Colonels lost 8-2.

Evansville started the game with a large off ensive push. It scored all eight runs in the fi rst four innings, while scoring a run in each of the four innings.

Th e Colonels fi rst run came in the top of the seventh inning after a groundout by sophomore Doug Tee-garden scored a run. Eastern tried for a fi nal rally in the ninth inning, but only managed to score one run after an RBI double from sophomore Ken-ny Hostrander.

Senior Tanner Perkins suff ered the loss for Eastern after pitching for fi ve innings and allowing all eight runs on 11 hits. Freeland pitched eight innings and allowed one run on fi ve hits, securing the win for Evans-ville.

Senior Bryan Soloman said East-ern’s off ense approached Freeland

cautiously, despite facing comparable pitchers in previous games.

“We felt he was a good arm and we just needed to do what we can against him,” Soloman said. “Instead of going up there and say ‘I’m better than you and we need to beat this arm.’ He’s a very hittable guy. I think we beat our-selves into the ground, not that he beat us.”

Sophomore Luke Wurzelbacher went 2-for-4 with one run scored.

Game TwoEvansville rolled over Eastern in

game two after defeating the Colo-nels 12-1.

Th e game started with Evansville pushing out singles. Evansville was 6-0 for the fi rst seven innings. Soph-omore TJ Alas was able to score for Eastern on a wild pitch in the sev-enth inning, but that was as far as the Colonels could get. Evansville responded with two more runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, but solidifi ed the win after Kevin Kaczmarski hit a grand slam in the eighth inning.

Senior Brent Cobb took the loss for Eastern. Cobb pitched just more than four innings and allowed six runs on nine hits.

Soloman, Teegarden and Hostrander went 2-for-4 for Eastern.

Game ThreeEastern fought back in the third

game in the series and won 3-2 thanks to bats by Soloman and fresh-man Ben Fisher and strong defensive play.

Senior Sean Hagen started the game with a solo home run. Evans-ville responded with two RBI singles in the second inning, pushing it in front of the Colonels. An RBI double from Soloman and an RBI single by Fisher in the fi fth inning put Eastern in the lead.

Relievers junior Logan Hershe-now and senior Anthony Bazzani kept Evansville scoreless for the fi -nal three innings, giving Eastern the win.

Soloman and Fisher were the high-lights of Eastern’s lineup. Soloman went 3-for-4 with one run scored and Fisher went 4-for-4 with an RBI.

“We had timely hitting and pitched very good,” Soloman said. “We had a much better mentality than Saturday and Friday. We were more mental savvy.”

Eastern will be back home at the Turkey Hughes Field to play in-state rival Morehead State University on March 4 to 6. Th e games March 4 and 5 will start at 6 p.m. and at 1 p.m. March 6. Eastern will face Marshall University away March 8.

By MATTHEW CRUMPmatthew_crump3@mymail.eku.edu

By MATTHEW CRUMPmatthew_crump3@mymail.eku.edu

Sophomore Julie Mathisen finished second in the 1,500-meters March 29. PHOTO COURTESY OF SANDY KING/EASTERN ILLINOIS ATHLETICS

Thursday, April 3, 2014 B6The Eastern Progress | www.easternprogress.com Matthew Crump, Editor

SPORTS

Eastern’s women’s tennis team contin-ued its OVC dominance March 29 and 30 against Tennessee State University and Bel-mont University in Nashville. Th e Colonels defeated the Tennessee State Tigers 4-0, while fl attening the Belmont Bruins 7-0. Th e wins marked Eastern’s 30th consecu-tive OVC win.

Because of a time constraint, the match only consisted of singles play, and inclement weather pushed the event indoors.

“We played late and indoors because it was cold and raining,” head coach Rob Oer-tel said, “and the guys played after us so we just started with singles fi rst and just played to four.”

In Saturday’s match against the Tigers (2-11, 0-9 OVC), junior Kristina Labeja led the team in the No. 1 spot and defeated her opponent in straight sets of 6-0, 6-1. Labeja gave up only one game in the victory.

In the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 spots, se-

nior Carmen Rodriguez and juniors Ama-dine Faouzi and Marcella Jimenez picked up straight-set wins as well. Rodriguez (No. 4) came out with a 6-1, 6-0 win, Faouzi (No. 2) won 6-1, 4-1 and Jimenez (No. 3) fi nished with a 6-1, 6-1 win.

EKU 7Belmont 0

In another shutout, Eastern took down OVC-foe Belmont University 7-0 March 30. Th e win marked the Colonel’s seventh win in a row.

“Th e girls were a little down in Febru-ary, hitting that rough part of the schedule,” Oertel said. “But they realize playing those tough teams helped us a lot.”

Once again, Labeja took control of the No. 1 singles for the Colonels and won against the Bruins (3-8, 1-5 OVC) in straight sets (6-1, 6-0). Faouzi (No. 2) and senior Saioa Oscoz (No. 3) also won their singles play in straight sets. Faouzi picked up a 6-0,

By ASHLEY OWENSashley_owens46@mymail.eku.edu

TYLER PHILLIPS/PROGRESS

Pittsenbarger throws no-hitter against East Tenn.

TYLER PHILLIPS/PROGRESS

Junior Leanna Pittsenbarger (right) had 12 strikeouts and threw her second career no-hitter in the first game in the doubleheader against East Tennessee State University on April 1. Junior Shannon McQueen (center) hit a solo home run in the sixth inning of the first game.

Eastern’s softball team took down the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers on Tuesday, April 1 in a clean-sweep double-header. Th e Colonels picked up a 5-0 victory in game one and won a nail-biting battle in game two by just one run.

Junior Leanna Pittsenbarger threw her second career no-hitter in game one. She al-

lowed one walk, keeping her shy of a perfect game.

Game 1East Tennessee fought to get on the board,

but failed to get past the Colonels’ sturdy de-fense. Junior Leanna Pittsenbarger started the game off with a strikeout, which sparked Eastern’s defense to keep every attempt at a hit in the infi eld. Pittsenbarger ended the game with a total of 12 strikeouts.

Only one East Tennessee player reached base off of a walk from Pittsenbarger in the second inning.

“Honestly, the only thing I think about is throwing one pitch at a time,” Pittsenbarger said. “If I do one pitch at a time then that’ll add up to strikeouts and scoreless innings, and that will add up to games.”

Eastern’s fi rst run came from a Buccaneer error, where junior Lauren Mitchell knocked

Women’s tennis wins 30th consecutive OVC match

CAITLYN COOK/PROGRESS

Seniors Saioa Oscoz (left) and Milena Poffo (right) both won their singles matches against Belmont University on March 30. The match win is Eastern’s third consecutive shutout. › SEE TENNIS, PAGE B4

By ASHLEY OWENSashley_owens46@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE NO-HITTER, PAGE B5

Men’s basketball coach nominated for

national award

Walden named finalist for Defensive Player of

the Year award

Eastern head men’s bas-ketball coach Jeff Neubauer was nominated to be one of 15 fi nalists for the 2014 Hugh Durham Award.

Th e award is given annual-ly to the nation’s top mid-ma-jor coach. Th e winner will be announced on April 4 at the 2014 Final Four.

Junior Corey Walden was named to the 2013-14 Lefty Driesell Defensive All-Amer-ica team by Collegeinsid-er.com. He is also one of the 25 players nominated for the 2014 Lefty Driesell National Defensive Player of the Year Award. Th e winner will be announced at the Collegein-sider.com Awards Banquet on April 4.

Jeff Neubauer

Corey Walden

BASKETBALL PLAYER RYAN PARSONS LIVES OUT HIS DREAMIN THE COLONELS’ MAROON

Senior finds unexpected home away from home

Ryan Parsons sat down with a huge smile, one that seemed to be permanently etched on his face. Th e senior was wearing black Nike Roshe running shoes with shorts and an EKU basketball T-shirt. He was hap-py, maybe because the Yankees just started their season or he happened to catch a Sein-feld marathon. His smile is genuine, but just a week ago, his basketball career ended.

“Just the other night, I was sitting in my apartment and my body felt so weird,” Par-sons said. “And I thought, I haven’t sweat in a week. It’s been really weird, now I know I’m never going back.”

Parsons has had his fair share of inter-esting highlights in his Colonel uniform. One of those came against a team he had watched his entire life, in an arena where he

watched many games over his life.On Dec. 30, 2012, junior Corey Walden

fouled out against the West Virginia Moun-taineers in Morgantown, W.Va. Eastern head coach Jeff Neubauer then looked down the bench and pointed at Parsons to go in.

“I knew coach Neubauer was going to try and get me in the game because he knew how much West Virginia meant to me,” Parsons said. “I didn’t know if I was going to get in but I knew he would try. When Co-rey fouled out he points at me and I go, ‘Oh boy’.”

In front of his family and friends (who made giant cutouts of his face) Parsons drew a charge and a few minutes later hit a three-pointer in the face of WVU guard Juwan Staten (who led the Big 12 in scoring and assists this year).

“When I hit the shot, I fl oated back down the court,” Parsons said. “It was like, ‘did I really just make this shot?’”

Th at moment of happiness was just one of many Parsons had during his time in a Colonel uniform.

By TYLER PHILLIPStyler_phillips33@mymail.eku.edu

› SEE PARSONS, PAGE B5