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After hearing about the gun-shots f ired during Saturday’s “Barn Party,” Shamika Austin said her first thoughts went to her friends at the party.

“Honestly, I was upset,” she said. “My friends were at the party, and they were calling me, freaking out, panicking, talking about gunshots.”

Austin, a freshman political science major, said her feelings of safety off campus had declined since the incident.

Austin said if she had to rate her level of feeling safe, it would be a five out of 10.

In light of the shooting at the “Barn Party” at 634 W. State St. Saturday, students have had mixed reactions to the level of safety they feel off campus.

Hannah Lamzik, a freshman music major, agreed with Austin and said she is now reconsidering any weekend plans.

“It makes weekends scarier to be off campus,” she said.

Lamzik added because she lives in Pemberton Hall, her room fac-es Fourth Street and she can hear and see how people act during the weekend.

Lori Knoechel, a junior ele-mentary education major, said she was astonished when she found out about the shooting.

“If it was such a large party, it should have been watched over,” she said.

Carlos Giraldo, a sophomore biology major, said he feels both on-and-off-campus safety needs to be evaluated.

“Any person could be at the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said. “It could be a place ev-erybody goes to hang out.”

He said another concern he had was ge t t ing back home at night for both him and his friends.

“I wouldn’t want my friend to be walking home at night,” he said. “It’s a safety hazard now.”

Knoechel said she is also taking precautions after the shooting.

“I won’t put myself in that sit-uation,” she said. “I wouldn’t go to a huge party where it might not be safe.”

Hannah Blevins, an undecid-ed freshman, said she still feels as safe going off campus as before the shooting.

“It’s the first time I’ve real-ly heard of something like that happening here,” she said. “I also heard it was from people not from here.”

Blevins said she was supposed to go to the “Barn Party” but said the ticket price was too high.

She said the price was $25. Danisha Campbell, a junior

sociology major, agreed with Blevins, and said her thoughts about safety off campus have not changed.

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ABOVE: A trash can overflows with con-tainers of alcohol at a strip mall parking lot off West Lincoln Avenue Sunday. LEFT: The parking lot was covered with shards of glass from smashed bottles and littered with emptied cans and tickets to a party, which took place at a warehouse on West State Street Saturday, according to a press release sent by Charleston Police Department Sunday.

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By robert DownenAdministration Editor @DEN_News

The fight over reforms to the Illi-nois tax code will likely be a divisive issue in the state’s next gubernatorial election, according to two state repre-sentatives hailing from separate sides of the political aisle.

Rep. Naomi Jakobsson, a Demo-crat, and Rep. Ron Sandack, Repub-

lican, both agreed pending legislation that would introduce a progressive tax system into the Illinois tax code will be a focal point in upcoming elec-tions, with the latter going as far as calling it a fight for “the soul of our state’s future.”

The significance of the legislation, however, appears to be one of only a few things the two representatives have found common ground on out-side of an acknowledgement of the state’s ongoing financial woes.

Currently, the Illinois constitution requires a flat tax among all corporate and individual income taxes.

New legislation introduced by Rep. Jakobsson, however, has put in

motion a call for referendums on the Illinois constitution that would en-act a progressive tax on individual in-comes, and thus, has quickly become a point of contention in Springfield.

The proposed bill—House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amend-ment 33— would be the first step in implementing what Jakobsson refers to as a “fair tax” that would effective-ly raise tax rates for Illinoisans making over $196,000 annually.

According to Jakobsson, those making more than $196,000 would see a .9 percent increase in their tax rate. Those making more than $500,000 would see a 2.2 percent raise in income taxes, whereas the top

1 percent of earners in Illinois—those making more than 2 million dollars a year—would see their tax rates in-crease by 3.5 percent.

Though Jakobsson said those num-bers are not necessarily concrete, as the bill must first pass in the General Assembly before even reaching ballots for the 2014 general election, she also acknowledged the rates reflected what she called an ideal and fair tax system.

“Because of all the cuts we’ve seen in education and other services, this bill needs to pass,” Jakobsson said. “Higher education can’t do its job without people being prepared. This needs to pass as soon as possible.”

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Charleston Mayor Larry Rennels gave a writ-ten statement at the city council meeting Tues-day at City Hall addressing Sunday’s “Barn Par-ty” incident, saying the city is dedicated to the safety of its residents.

“I want to make it clear that the city of Charleston will not tolerate that kind of behav-ior,” Rennels said in his statement.

“We will prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law. We will continue, as we have in the past, to make every effort to pro-tect your property, to keep you safe and to pre-vent events that have the potential of becoming violent from being held in the city of Charles-ton.”

He also said in his statement that Charles-ton would need help from its residents in or-der to stay safe.

“The most important thing that you can do to keep Charleston a safe place in which to live and raise your family is to report everything that looks or sound suspicious,” he said. “I can assure you that your personal information will be kept private.”

Rennels said anyone who owns or manages a building large enough for events with several hundred people to be aware of the possibility of violence, property damage and liability.

Building owners or managers should be wary of anyone looking to rent the property for a one-day event and offers to pay more money then expected, he said.

“Make sure that you know what organization you are renting to and exactly what their event will involve,” Rennels said. “If you have any concerns, please contact the Charleston Police Department or City Hall and provide whatever information you have about the event.”

He also said city officials would help build-ing owners determine if their property has the proper facilities, features and equipment re-quired for a safe public event.

Other city council members Jeff Lahr, Tim Newell, Matt Hutti and Brandon Combs said they agreed with the mayor’s statement con-cerning the shooting.

Rennels said he emailed the statement to each council member before the meeting so they were able to read it and give him feedback ahead of time.

He also said members of the council met with Eastern officials earlier that day to discuss how to prevent future violence.

Rennels said Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, sent out an email earlier that day to several RSOs saying late-night parties on campus would be canceled while the “Barn Par-ty” incident is under investigation.

During their meeting, the council also ap-proved the mayor’s appointment of Ken Bak-er, former director of campus recreation, to the Charleston Parks & Recreation Advisory Board.

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By Derrick Johnsonstaff reporter@Den_news

Brenda Major wakes up and goes for a morning run around campus.

She stops in the secret garden be-hind the biological sciences build-ing to say a prayer and continues on her way.

She stops on the way to pick up trash and throw it away.

There are people on campus for the Mid-America Classic football game against Illinois State, and she wants Eastern to look the best it can.

After her run, she heads to her office to review financial aid ap-peals, trying to finish as many as she can before the big game.

This is a typical Saturday for Major.

It is a day she will cherish more and more as the year goes by be-cause next year, she will no lon-ger be the director of admissions at Eastern.

Major has been the director of admissions for nine years and has seen the total enrollment steadily decline from 12,129 undergraduate and graduate students in 2005 to 10,417 in 2012, according to East-ern’s website.

“I do understand when you’ve been serving in this capacity for nine years and you’re not able to serve the enrollment goals that the university has set, it makes people wonder, ‘What the heck are they doing?’” Major said.

She said people sometimes do not understand everything enrollment entails.

“We surpassed the application goal and admit goal, but there’s more to enrollment than that,” she said.

Major said freshmen enrollment has taken a hit because more stu-

dents are going to community col-leges before transferring to a four-year university.

In an attempt to attract those transfers to Eastern, the admissions department has set up an office at Lakeland Community College that will be opening soon, in addition to its existing office at Parkland Com-munity College.

Blair Lord, provost and vice pres-ident for academic affairs, said Ma-jor has done a good job, and both he and Major mutually agreed on her leaving.

“She’s done wonderful service for the university for a long time,” Lord said. “But we came to the decision that our numbers had gone in a di-rection where we needed to think about a new director.”

Lord said he is forming a search advisory committee to do a full na-tional search to find the right fit for the director of admissions job. He said the university needs somebody for the position by the end of the academic year in May.

Major insists the decline in num-bers was not because of a lack of hard work.

“My staff has never worked hard-er,” she said. “I really don’t want people to think that this staff is not working their tails off.”

As for Major’s future, she does not know where she is going next year, but said she will miss Eastern.

“I often find myself to be the last one to leave the building at night, and I get a little sad because I keep thinking what it’ll be like the last time I turn out these lights,” she said. “I don’t even want to think about it.”

Major said Eastern was more than just a place of work.

“It’s a little bittersweet when you really love what you do and you love the place that you’re doing it,” she said. “I’m grateful for the op-portunity I’ve gotten.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

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

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

By Brad YorkVerge Editor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dawson has high hopes for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or at [email protected].



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By Colleen KitkaAssistant Verge Editor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colleen Kitka can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

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

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K aTiE smiTh | ThE DaiLy EasTErN NE wsBrenda major, who has served as the director of admissions for nine years, will no longer hold the position after the end of this year. Her departure was mutually agreed upon between her and Eastern provost and vice president for academic affairs Blair Lord. Lord said the position needs to be filled by the end of the academic year in may.

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For the first time in 10 years, Eastern conducted a National Cen-tral Association self-study survey that could be taken by faculty, staff, stu-dents, alumni or anyone else that is affiliated with the university.

There were at least 1,431 students who started the survey and 1,112 students that completed the whole survey.

Jeff Stowell, a psychology profes-sor and a co-chairman of the accred-itation steering committee, said that it would be hard for them to under-stand the perspective of the student body without that information from the students.

“It is really up to the students to tell us how well we are serving them,” Stowell said.

Claire Pilkerton, a senior health studies major, said she saw the sur-vey, which was sent through email,

but did not take it because she did not get a chance.

“I try to take as many surveys I can when Eastern sends them to me,” Pilkerton said. “I feel as if it doesn’t really affect me, and I didn’t really understand what it was, so, therefore, I passed on taking the sur-vey because I didn’t think it would affect me at all.”

She added this survey is good for the university because it is a way for the NCA to see what Eastern is do-ing and what is going on here at the college.

Stowell said the survey is a set of questions that are developed by a sub-committee that help Eastern ad-dress the criteria that they are being evaluated against.

There are five different parts to this survey, which include mission, integrity, teaching and learning qual-ity, researches and support, teaching and learning evaluation, and support and also resources, planning and in-stitutional effectiveness.

Stowell said the mission por-tion of the survey will help them write about the students, faculty and staffs’s perception of how familiar they are with the mission.

“The survey is really just trying to get attitudes and opinions about how well Eastern is doing,” Stowell said.

He said the average for complet-ing the survey was about 10 to 20 minutes.

Bob Augustine, the graduate school dean and the other co-chair-man of the committee, said he wants the students to understand that their voice is important.

“We want to hear what they have to say about the elements of the cri-teria that we have to address,” Au-gustine said. “So asking our stu-dents to participate in a survey gives us their perspective, and we want to make note that his is critically im-portant for us to provide the best ed-ucation possible.”

Augustine said a total of 73 mem-

bers run the whole self-study pro-cess, and there are 13 members of the steering committee, which in-clude co-chairs for the five different parts of the criteria in the survey.

Also, there are three members that are serving in the overall leadership role of the committee, which include Augustine, Stowell and Mary Her-rington-Perry, the assistant vice pres-ident for academic affairs.

The whole self-study process is a two-year process, which will ulti-mately involve a site visit in Octo-ber 2014.

The site visitors will hold open-sessions for students, staff and facul-ty to see if what was in the survey, which is now complete, is the same as what the students, staff and facul-ty tell them when they come.

After the site visit, a report will be given out.

Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812

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By Marcus CurtisEntertainment Editor@DEN_News

Auditions for the University Board mainstage poetry contest, “Brave New Voices,” will take place Wednesday.

David Groves, Jr., the UB main-stage coordinator and a senior busi-ness management major, said the purpose of this event is to give stu-dents on campus a chance to ex-press themselves in relation to how they feel about events in their lives.

“This is a different way for stu-dents to express themselves,” he said.

Students who are interested in attending auditions for “Brave New Voices,” will have to have a one-to-two minute original piece prepared.

Groves said the auditions would

give the judges a chance to pick five to 10 people that can write an original piece of poetry or a song in poetry form.

“We have to check to see if it’s original,” he said.

The open audition is for the open mic-styled poetry slam next Wednesday at 7th Street Under-ground from 7 to 9 p.m.

Groves said the idea for the po-etry slam came from the former HBO original series “Brave New Voices,” created by co-founder of Def Jam Records, Russell Sim-mons.

HBO’s “Brave New Voices ,” was a show that consisted of sev-eral spoken word and poetry per-formances from teenagers. In these poems, teenagers discussed events in their everyday life that had an effect on them.

The structure of UB Mainstage’s “Brave New Voices,” will be similar.

Groves said this program would be the pre-show to popular poet, Jasmine Mans’ performance on Oct. 30.

The poet that gets the best re-action from the crowd will get a chance to perform as the opener at Mans’ poetry show.

Graves said every poet will re-ceive an award for their perfor-mances , regardless of how the crowd reacts.

A few things Groves wants stu-dents who participate in “Brave New Voices” to focus on is origi-nality, creativity and crowd influ-ence.

“We want to see someone who can reach out to the crowd cre-atively through a story about their life,” Groves said.

Groves said he thinks this poetry slam will stand out more than any of the other poetry performances.

“ Th i s w i l l b e more power -ful than any other poetry event,” Graves said.

In addi t ion, Graves sa id he hopes that students will be able to connect with each other through one of the poet’s performances.

“I hope students can relate to someone else’s story,” he said.

Groves emphasized that the main focus of this event is to encourage students to express themselves.

“I want people to learn how to express themselves,” he said. “Ev-eryone has something to say—it all starts with words.”

Marcus Curtis can be reached at 581-2812


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The phone number on the “For Lease” sign outside the warehouse used for the “Barn Party” is list-ed to Drake Siding and Sunrooms and not to the individuals named in Tuesday’s issue of The Daily Eastern News, in the article “2 arrested on charges connected to “Barn Party.”

The News regrets the error.

The cutline with the volleyball photograph with the article “Pan-thers out-hit in tourney,” in Tues-day’s edition of The Daily East-ern News was incorrect. Amanda Wilkinson took the photograph, and the cutline was supposed to read “Members of Eastern’s wom-en’s volleyball team work on spiking during a practice Sept. 4 at Lantz Arena.” The News regrets the error.

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The Residence Hall Association members plan to provide a raffle at their meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday in Lawson Hall.

The RHA President Miguel Wil-liams said RHA members will be re-viewing ROCFest and describing how successful it has been throughout the week.

“We will be talking about ROCFest how it is going and how everyone think it’s went,” Williams said.

The RHA has been working on ROCFest since their first meeting on Sept. 5 planning throughout the week.

Currently, they have only gone through the cardboard boat race and the window painting competition, which took place on Monday.

ROCFest will be also be hosting an obstacle course race in the South Quad on Wednesday.

Thursday there will be a 12-hour scavenger hunt between the residence halls and Greek Court.

ROCFest will be wrapping up on Friday when a dunk tank will be set up on the South Quad. The people who will be dunked on Friday will be different executive members.

“It is going to be a pretty minor meeting,” Williams said.

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WEDNESDAY | 9.18.13OPINIONS

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The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.

NO. 23, Volume 98

Editor in Chief Seth Schroeder

News Editor bob Galuski

Online EditorSean copeland

Managing Editor Dominic renzetti

Associate News EditorSamantha McDaniel

Opinions Editor emily Provance

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Don’t let your life interfere with your life

Our POSiTiOn • Situation: Volunteer shuttle will take stu-dents to volunteer at locations the students choose. • Stance: Take advantage of the free shut-tle service.

Get volunteer hours; take advantage of shuttleStudent Community Service is providing a shuttle to students

this semester to help them get to volunteer locations. All students should take advantage of the free shuttle because

volunteering is a good experience, no mat-ter what your age is. Whether you think you need it or not, volunteering is a good thing to have in your pocket when you graduate.

Volunteering looks great on a resume. Employers will look at this and see you care. For you that have been volunteering at the same place for a while, employers will see that you can dedicate yourself to something and stick with it. This makes them think you could be a good fit for their company.

Other reasons students have to do volunteering and take advan-tage of the shuttle is for volunteer hours. Fraternities and sororities both have to do volunteer hours for their houses here at Eastern.

Some majors on campus require volunteer hours as a part of the curriculum. What better way to get the volunteer hours then to vol-unteer at a place you want to and to have a free shuttle service to take you there?

Every year, each residence hall on campus gets assigned a volun-

teering location from a list of their choices. The residents of the hall get together and volunteer at their assigned location as much as they can. In the past, they have had to find their own way to the places,

but now that the volunteer shuttle is avail-able, it will be easier for groups to get to vol-unteer locations.

The last reason to volunteer is just for fun. Volunteering can give you many good life experiences, whether you are volunteering and a nursing home and playing a game with a resident or at the local animal shelter play-ing with a dog. Volunteering can be a good stress reliever.

The SCS offers this free shuttle on Thursdays from noon – 4 p.m. during the fall semester. Eastern’s online calendar event for the vol-unteer shuttle says “just call the agency in advance to arrange your volunteering and SCS will get you there…in style.”

Volunteering is good for all involved, so take advantage of the free shuttle this semester.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor:

I doubt I am the first to point it out, but Mr. Copeland’s column on Friday, the 13th of September defending morality and call-ing for equality begins by stating “The Unit-ed State Constitution declares that ‘all men are created equal’” and that each person is entitled to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is absolutely untrue. Mr. Copeland is quot-ing the Declaration of Independence, a won-derful propaganda document that is not, nor has ever been, legally binding on anyone. If Mr. Copeland wishes to use the U.S. Constitu-tion to bolster his arguments, I would suggest he might bother to read it first. That is, after all, where you can find that pesky First Amend-ment guaranteeing freedom of the press.

Sincerely,

David CarwellDepartment of Political Science

Copeland’s column needs fact checking

PAWS UP/PAWS DOWN

FOOTball: Eastern’s football team broke records in the game against Illinois State on Saturday.

ShOOTinG: Three attendees of the “Barn Party” were injured Saturday night.

cOnSTiTuTiOn Day: Students practiced free speech by the Doudna steps Tuesday and signed the Freedom Wall with whatever they wanted.

Never did I think hearing the news would be this hard.

My dad had prepared me for it for a week. It was a great possibility, and I thought I was prepared enough.

But, sitting across from my grandfather, three days before I left for this fall semester, I realized I was nowhere near prepared.

My grandfather told me in the simplest terms he had cancer, and it did not look good.

The words hit me with such thunderous momentum I thought I would be knocked clear through his living room wall and out-side next to the American flag he raised every day.

After that day, I resolved to make sure whatever time I had left with him, I would make count.

And now, five weeks or so into the semes-ter, I realized one night – as I calculat-ed the nine hours of sleep I had accumulat-ed throughout the week – that I had been neglectful.

You see, I put in long hours at my job as news editor for The Daily Eastern News and

when I am working, everything else seems to fade away.

For me, this is not acceptable, and it should not be acceptable to you, too.

College is preparing you for the next chapter in your life, but you should not for-get about what brought you to this point in the first place.

Family and friends should not fade away, no matter how busy the schedule may be.

When the college years are long gone and cannot be found again, these are the people who will be waiting for you.

If you forget about them now while being too busy, then there is a good chance they will forget about you.

College is fun. College is also hard. Espe-cially juggling school, a job, a social life and maybe a relationship or two. But find-ing time for people who are not 10 feet away from you should be a priority.

Your new life has a funny way of sneak-ing up on you and taking hold of everything you do.

But don’t think for a second your job or studies should be raised to a higher value than the people in your life.

Not that school and work aren’t impor-tant, but those things go away.

Family and friends need to be factored into your life somehow.

Don’t get sucked into an endless cycle of working, studying and occasionally seeing your friends. Take a few minutes. Call your mom and dad. Call your friends, or do that texting thing I hear is so popular.

Make sure they know they are important now.

Bob Galuski is a senior English and journal-ism major. He can be reached at 581-2812


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The sun was shining and the sky was clear of clouds on Friday during the tagging of monarch butterflies.

The Douglas-Hart Nature Cen-ter hosted a “Monarch Training and Tagging” program for everyone to join and will repeat the program on Thursday.

The tagging is a science program that partners with Monarchwatch.org to research the migration pat-terns of monarch butterflies.

The program trains the residents to tag the butterflies in a specif-ic way and explains why they tag the butterflies, said Jennifer Tariq, the education director for Douglas-Hart.

The program participants will be tagging butterflies they have raised and will be trying to tag wild but-terflies they find.

When tagging a butterfly, they are not harming them, she said. They are caught with a net and are handled properly. The tag has a spe-cial code that will identify them as

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der the butterfly’s wings in a partic-ular spot.

The placement of the tags will not interfere with their flying or health, Tariq said.

The monarch population will spend its summer in Canada be-cause it is cooler and then migrate to Mexico for winter.

Some butterflies will probably not survive through the migration, she said.

Many generations of butterflies make their way to Mexico, Tariq said.

When a butterfly is found with a tag, they can be looked up at monarchwatch.org to see where they are from. This way the re-searchers can determine what kind of needs they have for their migra-tion, she said.

For example, a monarch will only lay its eggs on a milk leaf. When the eggs hatch, the caterpillar will only live on a milk leaf.

“We’re trying to educate to resi-

dents that milk leaves are very es-sential and we need to take care of them,” Tariq said.

The number of monarchs is de-clining and with this education, people can help them survive, she said.

The tagging program consists of about eight to 10 people. Tariq said that this is the perfect amount for training.

People can email the Douglas-Hart Nature Center to sign up for a training session at [email protected].

Tariq warns people that it is a hit or miss with the training.

The next training will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the nature center.

“This is not just for adults; this is for families,” Tariq said. Children can easily learn how to tag a but-terfly and can have a lot of fun, she added.

Katie Cook can be reached at 581-2812


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“We only seem to have trouble when outsiders come,” she said.

Stephanie Wood, a sophomore early childhood education major, said the shooting has changed her perception of party scenes.

She said she would feel safe off-campus in a public location, but not at a party.

“It’s scary to think somebody would feel the need to do that at a party,” Wood said.

Good judgment should be a fac-tor in decisions made when going to parties, Joshua Wiggs, a fresh-man psychology major said.

“It’s common sense,” he said. “Don’t bring a gun when alcohol is going to be involved.”

Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, sent an email to all students at about 3 p.m. Tues-day, giving information about East-ern’s counseling services for any-body at the “Barn Party.”

“I am writing to reach out to in-dividuals who attended the off-cam-pus “Barn Party” this past week-end,” Nadler said in the email. “EIU’s Counseling Center staff members are available to assist any EIU students who may be experi-encing distress following the event.”

Nadler encouraged students to visit a licensed counselor, even if

it is just briefly to “process your thoughts.”

The Counseling Center is on the first floor of the Human Servic-es Building. Their number is 217-581-3413 and the center is open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Students who wish to call for after-hours emer-gencies should call 217-549-6483.

The “Barn Party” investigation is ongoing and more information will be available as the Charleston Police Department continues its investiga-tion.

Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected]

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She also said a progressive tax sys-tem would result in lower effective tax rates for Illinoisans making less than $95,000, with the lowest tax brack-et—those making less than $18,000— seeing a 2 percent decrease.

Jakobsson, who has fought previ-ously for the move to a graduated tax system, said her legislation would alle-viate what she said is a great tax bur-den for low and middle-income fami-lies while asking the richest Illinoisans to contribute their fair share.

However, many of Jakobsson’s Re-publican colleagues in the Illinois House have voiced adamant opposi-tion to any move away from the cur-rent flat tax rate, including Sandack, who has written a number of articles denouncing the legislation.

“Anyone who believes this is about ‘equity’ or ‘fairness’ is mistaken or woefully naïve,” Sandack said. “Illi-nois does not have a revenue problem, rather a spending problem. Period.”

In a September article for Reboot Illinois, Sandack said the downsides of a progressive tax system are well doc-umented, stating the move could sti-fle entrepreneurship and job creation within Illinois.

Ralph Martire, executive director at the Center for Tax and Budget Ac-countability, however, adamantly dis-agreed with many of Sandack’s claims.

Martire, who has worked extensive-ly with Jakobsson to promote HJR-CA33, said the threat of job loss and the migration of wealthy Illinois was false.

“Where is the top 1 percent go-ing to go?” Martire asked. “Every sur-

rounding state has a lower tax bracket than Illinois.”

Martire also said California, where individual income tax rates are some of the highest in the nation, have con-sistently brought in more millionaires per year than any other state.

However, for Martire, the fight for tax reform goes far beyond a simple change in the tax code. He said the switch would drastically change the scope of public education funding in the state, namely for those in low-in-come areas.

According to data from the CTBA, the switch to Jakobsson’s proposed tax system would raise 15 percent more revenue than the current flat tax rate.

However, those opposed to the switch, including the Illinois Policy Institute, have cited significantly dif-ferent numbers as evidence opposing the amendment.

According to an IPI press release from April, Jakobsson’s proposed raise would force tax hikes on 85 percent of Illinois taxpayers, as well destroy at least 65,000 jobs.

Martire, however, countered, stat-ing the IPI’s claims were made up of “spurious numbers,” and questioning the validity of their research methods.

Regardless, one thing does seem ap-parent: the fight over the Illinois’ tax rate is far from over and will likely be a major issue in next year’s general elec-tion.

Robert Downen can be reached at 581-2812

or at [email protected].

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The council also:

• Approved the purchase of prop-erty at 1120 VanBuren Avenue.

•Approved the annexation of 2651 Douglas Drive.

• Approved a mutual aid agree-ment for ambulance service with

the Oakland fire protection district.• Approved a resolution for fund-

ing regarding a new federal require-ment for street sign reflectivity.

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STAT ATTACK

RepoRting by Anthony C Atezone; photos by DominiC bAimA, JAson howell, AmAnDA wilkinson AnD file photos; Design by sAR A hAll | the DAily eAsteRn ne ws

Stat Attack is a weekly feature that highlights the key statistics of sporting events. This week, we feature football, volleyball and men’s soccer.

The Eastern football team set a program record with 739 yards of total offense in its 57-24 win against Illinois State Saturday. The Panthers broke the 27-year-old record by 56 yards. They had 491 yards passing and 248 yards rushing. The longest pass play from the Panthers came on an 86-yard touchdown pass by Jimmy Garoppolo to receiver Keiondre Gober. The longest running play was by Shepard Little’s 73-yard touchdown.

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The Eastern football team has a chance to become the third fCs team ever to beat two fbs schools in one season, as it plays Northern Illinois on the road Saturday. The previous two schools are North Texas and North Dakota State. In 1998, North Texas beat both Texas Tech and Rice. In 2007, North Dakota State beat both Minnesota and Central Michigan. Eastern beat San Diego State 40-19 on the road to open its 2013 season.

3 Red-shirt senior middle hitter Stephanie Arnold of the Eastern volleyball team is third in the Ohio Valley Conference with one block per set. She is tied for second in the conference with 38 total blocks in just as many sets. Arnold is also third in the OVC in hit percentage with .341. She is second on the Panthers with 87 kills this season.

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The Eastern men’s soccer team has a shooting percentage of .084 through four games this season. Eastern has scored four goals off 46 shots this season. That ranks the Panthers fourth in the Summit League out of seven teams. Opponents, however, have a shooting percentage of .235 against Eastern — 12 goals on 51 shots. Midfielder Will Butler is one of four Panthers to score a goal this season.

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K ATIE smITH | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE ws Members of the eastern rugby team rush to tackle an opponent on the Wisconsin all-Stars during a match Sept. 7 at lakeside field. The panthers lost 66-7 and are currently 0-3 on the season.

Local recruits eager to improveby bob reynoldsStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports

On Aug. 12, Eastern women’s rugby players Miranda Hankins and Hannah Vieth stepped onto a rugby field for the first time.

Both of them knew nothing about the sport, and Hankins had never heard of rugby until her senior year of high school.

Hankins said her first ever rugby game against Quinnipiac was very nerve-racking.

“It was my first Division I sport that I had only picked up three weeks ago,” Hankins said. “Lucki-ly, right before the game, I talked to one of my co-workers who helped me calm my nerves down.”

Vieth said she was nervous, scared and excited all at the same time and also added that she had no idea what was going on.

Eastern coach Frank Graziano said Vieth is playing one of the hardest positions in rugby, fly-half, and it will take time for her to learn it.

“Hannah certainly has a huge overload,” Graziano said. “It is al-most like playing quarterback in football. Imagine if you tried to play quarterback in football and never played the sport before. She certainly has more mental aspect of the game because of the position she plays.”

Hankins, who went to Charleston High School, was not a fan of going to the college in her hometown.

“I started to think about all the people who support me still close by,” she said. “I have an amaz-ing support group, and I am lucky to be so close to home. “I’ve al-ways dreamed of playing a Division I sport. I knew if I worked hard, I could achieve that goal.”

Vieth, who lives in Mattoon, said

she was first worried about attending Eastern because she had been away from home at Illinois Central Col-lege, playing soccer for two years al-ready.

“Now that I am so busy, I don’t even realize that I am 10 minutes from home,” Vieth said. “It is neat to represent the local athletes and play at this high of a level.”

Graziano said he tries to recruit local athletes.

Hankins did not know she was be-ing recruited to play rugby when one day her mother was walking by the campus pond on the way to work in April of her senior year of high school and passed Graziano.

They started to talk about how Graziano goes to track meets to re-cruit some of his athletes.

Hankins mother mentioned her name and then Graziano stopped in his tracks.

“He had been trying to recruit me for months,” Hankins said. “I nev-er got any of the papers he sent. Af-ter that, we kept in touch, and here I am.”

Vieth, on the other hand, was get-ting set to sign with a school in Chi-cago to player soccer.

Her dad joked with her about playing rugby at Eastern and said he would give her five dollars if she

emailed coach Graziano. “I thought he was crazy when he

told me that, but one of my dad’s friends knows Coach,” Vieth said. “I didn’t think I would get a reply, and five minutes later, Coach respond-ed. I had a choice to start something new or continue with soccer. It was hard, but I wanted to try something new and took on the challenge.”

Coach Graziano said the Charles-ton and Mattoon areas always have great athletes that come out of their high schools.

He said it is great to have local tal-ent on his team.

“If you check some of the other sports teams, you will find local tal-ent, male or female,” Graziano said. “Obviously, there are some good ath-letes locally, and we are excited to have them on the team.”

Hankins was a multi-sport ath-lete in high school, playing volleyball and running track and field.

She also plans to walk onto the track and field team in the spring at Eastern.

Graziano said both Vieth and Hankins are great to have on his team because they both have a lot of natural talent and a lot of athlet-ic ability.

“This is great to have in our pro-gram,” Graziano said. “It is certainly

going to take them a while to learn the game of rugby to where their personal assets become a gigantic plus.”

With Hankins playing both of those sports for all four years in high school, she said track and field has helped her most with rugby.

“Track is about how fast you run,” Hankins said. “Rugby has the same concept. It is just about how fast you can run with the ball in your hand.”

Vieth also was a multi-sport ath-lete at Mattoon High School in play-ing soccer and volleyball and said soccer has helped her become a bet-ter rugby player.

Graziano said the personality of Hankins and Vieth has been great and that they are very coachable.

“They are eager to learn,” he said. “Rugby can be a very complicat-ed game to learn, especially if you haven’t grown up with it. They do extra work. They are always eager to do whatever it takes to be successful for their team.”

Learning any sport for the first time is not easy, and Hankins and Vieth had to learn rugby for the first time this year.

Hankins said it was hard at first, and she also adds that she improved a lot.

“I still don’t have some of the passing techniques down, but I am getting better,” Hankins said. “It is such a hard sport if you haven’t played football in your past. A lot of the moves and running the ball are like football. It is a fun sport that I cannot wait to increase my knowl-edge and become a great rugby play-er.”

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by michael spencerStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports

The Summit League men’s soccer season was in full swing this week-end with a total of 10 matches being played around the league, while two key players returned to the field for Eastern.

Conference teams collectively played in three tournaments, includ-ing the 50 Years of Men’s Soccer tour-nament hosted by Eastern at Lake-side Field. League play begins in two weeks.

However, no Summit League team managed to win a single match this weekend.

Eastern (0-4) lost twice, bringing up the rear in the Summit League af-ter this week’s slate of results. How-ever, the Panthers remain just a win away from vaulting to the middle of the league standings.

Eastern coach Adam Howarth said he has the league picture in perspec-tive.

The former Panther said he wants to make sure he has his key players healthy by the time conference play begins.

“We’re hoping that, certainly by conference time, we’re going to have everyone we need available,” Howarth said.

Red-shirt sophomore midfielder Spencer Filosa, who started in all but two matches for Eastern as a fresh-man, was back from injury after a pair of surgeries forced him to use a medi-cal red-shirt for the 2012 season.

Filosa scored the opening goal in Sunday’s match against Western Michigan, just nine minutes into his return to the side. He played 36 min-utes against the Broncos.

Additionally, red-shirt junior for-ward Chris Boswell was back in ac-tion for the Panthers Friday. How-arth said Boswell is farther along in his recovery than Filosa, who is still playing a limited number of minutes.

Elsewhere in the Summit League, Denver (1-3-1) stumbled against Saint Louis, 1-0.

Omaha (1-3) lost to Drake by a score of 4-3 as Friday’s match was brought to a close when a penalty kick was awarded with only 16 sec-onds remaining on the clock.

Western Illinois (1-4) held Dayton to two goals in the Flyers’ shutout vic-tory over the Leathernecks in the Bay-mont Inn Classic. Dayton is the high-est-scoring offense in Division I, scor-ing 3.67 goals per game. Western lost the final match of the tournament to Missouri State 2-1 in overtime Sun-day.

IUPUI (0-5-2) played twice over the weekend, losing to Valparaiso and Milwaukee 2-1 and 3-0, respectively.

Oral Roberts (0-4-1) came away with the best result of the week, tying Mid-American Christian 0-0. Com-ing in at sixth in the league is Fort Wayne (0-5-1).

The Mastodons dropped two matches this weekend at the Qdoba Invitational, losing to St. Francis (Pa.) and Marshall.

Michael Spencer can be reached at 581-2812

or at [email protected].

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