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CHRISTMAS IN CHARLESTON

By Amy Wywialowski and Terryne McClurge Assistant Daily Editor and Staff Reporter

As the clock on Charleston County Court House struck 5 p.m., commu-nity members cluttered the streets of Charleston for the annual Christmas in the Heart of Charleston festival.

The festival is where local business-es extend their hours and shut down the streets to celebrate holidays with a parade, horse-drawn carriages, roasted chestnuts, pictures with Santa Claus and many other activities.

For many businesses, it is also their busiest day of the year.

Dano Reible, the owner of the Jack-son Avenue Coffee, said business has been slow all year, but the festival helps bring people to the square.

“This is definitely the busiest night of the year,” Dano said. “I’ve been at this event three years and this has been the best weather.”

Wendy Meyer, owner of the Lin-coln Book Shop, said she thinks part of the reason business on the square has been so slow is that not many peo-ple know there are businesses there and do not realize there is more to Charleston than Lincoln Avenue.

“The festival is absolutely wonder-ful for business,” Meyer said. “A lot of people come visit and say they didn’t even know the square was here.”

Meyer said she took over the shop in May 2011 and has since added an-tiques to the shop. She said one of the reasons so many businesses keep clos-ing on the square is because they do not make enough money for it to be a full-time job.

“It is hard to make a living doing this,” she said. “I bought the shop af-ter retiring from Eastern after 31 and a half years.”

Meyer said as a way to draw peo-ple into the shop during the festi-val, she was serving refreshments and had live music.

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JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSDan Johnson, of Charleston, holds his "Reindeer Goats" for visitors to pet at Christmas in the Heart of Charleston on Saturday. Johnson says he brings his goats to the event every year.

By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

The Charleston Police Depart-ment is warning the community that suspicious door-to-door ener-gy solicitors, not associated with the city, are making their way through Charleston.

The city is currently working to choose and contract with a new en-ergy provider, but one has not been chosen yet.

Charleston City Manager Scott Smith said he has put out several press releases letting the Charleston community know about these solic-itors, but many people may still be confused.

“Residents in Coles County who are not on electric with Coles-Moultrie Electric Cooperative and not under contract with another al-ternative retail electric supplier or on a fixed rate program with Ameren CIPS are automatically going to be in the city’s new municipal electric aggregation program,” Smith said. “They will be switched over some-time in January or February.”

Smith said the city of Charleston goes out for bid on Dec. 11.

“This is going to become a closed market for the energy providers,” Smith said.

“What they’re doing right now is running around town trying to solic-it all of our residents and pressuring them into agreements,” he said.

Smith said the city is concerned with these solicitors because many residents think they are from the city energy provider.

“With our program, you don’t have to do anything,” Smith said. “I can just about guarantee that the price program that we’re going to have available to our residents will be cheaper than the direct sale of the solicitors.”

Lt. Brad Oyer of the Charleston Police Department said governments can negotiate better prices for their citizens.

“It’s a good thing for the consum-er, but the city has not entered into any negotiations for energy as of yet, and anybody going door-to-door does not speak for anything the city is working with,” Oyer said. “They’re not licensed by the city.”

These solicitors have been going from town to town trying to get a cut of the profit while the city is in this transitional period, Smith said.

“They’re preying on people who don’t know enough about it,” he said. “They may get a savings from what they’re currently paying, but they’re likely not going to get the same deal they could get on the mu-nicipal electric aggregation program that the voters approved on Nov. 6.”

Smith said he encourages Charles-ton residents to be extremely cau-tious with solicitors.

“We do not go door-to-door, nor will we call you because it’s not any-thing related to the city’s program,” he said. “We will send a notice in late December or early January ask-ing you whether or not you want to opt out of the plan.”

Residents have filed reports of ha-rassment with the Charleston Po-lice Department and Smith said they have received many phone calls about various solicitors.

“We’re not soliciting, and they are not in any way associated with our plan,” he said. “I would encourage any resident to wait until the city’s bids are in, the pricing announced and compare that rate to any solic-itors’ and make an educated deci-sion.”

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

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By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor

A performing troupe from Chica-go will shed light on mental health issues at a performance and presen-tation Wednesday.

Jacob Knight, the chairman of the University Housing and Din-ing Services committee for Social Justice, Diversity and Community Engagement, said the idea of bring-ing “Erasing the Distance” to East-ern came from a fellow committee member who had seen them per-

form at another institution.“We’ve been looking at different

stances on diversity that we feel like our campus doesn’t always focus on, and we’re trying to give them some attention,” Knight said.

The two presentations will take place at 3 p.m. in the 7th Street Underground and at 7 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.

“Erasing the Distance” will pres-

ent five skits at each of the two ses-sions that will address the topics of sexual assault, eating disorders, de-pression, drug addiction and long-term health issues.

“We really liked the fact that we could select different scenarios and monologues to have them present to our students,” he said. “We really wanted themes that would connect with our students.”

Knight said many students have

dealt with mental health issues ei-ther directly or indirectly through friends and family members.

“We contracted with them to do those five themes, which will take up the first hour or so of the presen-tation, and the last half hour they will talk through the issues with the audience and answer questions,” he said.

Kn igh t s a id they have a l so worked with the Counseling Center to bring in a representative who will help to answer questions as well.

Bringing the troupe to Eastern cost the committee $2,500, but their funds were helped by a few RSOs and halls that contributed as well.

“The Residence Hall Association, the National Residence Hall Hon-

orary, Stevenson Hall and Carman Hall all donated,” Knight said.

The committee had a yearlong budget for diversity programming, and contracting with “Erasing the Distance” was a part of that budget, Knight said.

“We had originally budgeted that much to spend that much on (the program) at the beginning of the semester, so in order to cover our marketing and a couple addition-al expenses, we reached out to those organizations,” he said. “They pret-ty much always support us, especial-ly when we want to do something that’s a little bit over our budget.”

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812

or redexter@eiu.edu.

Troupe to bring mental health awareness to EasternSkits on social issues to be performed

“We’ve been looking at different stances on diversity that we feel like our campus doesn’t always focus on, and we’re trying to give them some attention.”

Jacob Knight, chairman of the University Housing and Dining Services committee

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Candles illuminated the path visi-tors took between two historic farms to see the different ways Christmas was celebrated in the 1800s Friday.

Community members walked to the Lincoln and Sargent Farms dur-ing the Christmas candlelight tour at the Lincoln Log Cabin Historical Site Friday.

With no electricity, visitors only had candlelight, fires and paper bag latern-lined paths to see by.

Matthew Mittelstaedt, the Lin-coln Log Cabin site manager, said the two families celebrated Christ-mas differently, the Lincolns hardly at all, and the Sargent’s with a sim-pler version of today’s traditions.

“We use our two historical farms to showcase that not everyone cele-brated Christmas,” Mittelstaedt said.

He said around this time, Christ-mas was not a religious holiday, nor was it really seen as a family holiday.

“'The Night Before Christmas' was a new story at that time, and it was just really used to promote a dif-ferent version of Christmas,” Bak-er said.

He said it was common in the big cities for people to go out and drink on Christmas.

“They treat Christmas like we treat New Year’s today,” Mittelstaedt said. “They used it as an excuse to go out drinking and carrying on and shooting off guns in the country side and things like that.”

He said at the time, Christmas was not even recognized by most re-

ligious people because it was not bib-lically correct.

“Where does it say in the Bible that we celebrate Christmas?” Mit-telstaedt said. “It doesn’t, so there are the folks who don’t celebrate it at all.”

He said the Lincolns are the rep-resentation of this group of people who did not celebrate.

Donald Baker, a volunteer at the cabin and a Neoga resident, played music during an evening of socializa-tion after a long day at the Lincoln Farm.

Baker would play music and make up stories about the day to those who visited the house during the tours.

“I get to tell big stories and sing ri-diculous songs,” Baker said.

Baker played the Appalachian Dulcimer, a string instrument that appeared in the 19th century, and sang Christmas carols and animal songs for the children.

He said he likes to volunteer at the cabin during these events because he likes to show people what it was like in older times.

“I like to educate people on the country life of 1845,” Baker said. “It’s a history lesson in action.”

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

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By Lauren Morrow Staff Reporter

English graduate students will present what they have learned as they present a symposium on Charles Brockden, an American au-thor.

The Fall 2012 English 5000 Sym-posium: Charles Brockden Brown will occur on Nov. 26 and Dec. 3 in Room 3130 in Coleman Hall.

Angela Vietto, an English profes-sor who teaches the class, said it has become a tradition for the depart-ment.

“It’s become a tradition in this course that at the end of the semes-ter the students present the work they’ve been doing, and faculty from outside the class and other students come and hear them talk about their

research,” Vietto said.English 5000 is a class for all grad-

uate students, no matter their sub-ject, to learn the basics of advanced research in literature.

There are 11 graduate students, and each one of them will present a paper of about 20 minutes.

“They’re presenting a part of their long research papers and getting ad-vice that they will actually use to make those research papers better, instead of only getting advice from their professor,” Vietto said.

The symposium is meant for stu-dents to present their work in the same way professors do when they attend academic conferences.

“In English, that generally means that you go and present your work and then people ask questions and make comments and suggestions on

how you can make your work bet-ter,” Vietto said.

They will all be presenting papers on the work of Charles Brockden Brown, who is considered by some to be the first professional writer or novelist in the United States.

Dana Ringuette, the chairman of the English department, said the event gives students the opportunity to practice what they have spent all semester working on and transition-ing a paper into a presentation.

“It gives them a feel for present-ing this type of thing,” Ringuette said. “There is a big difference be-tween writing a 15 to 20 page paper and distilling it into a 15 minute pre-sentation.”

Vietto said the symposium is an opportunity for the faculty to get to know the graduate students better

and see what kind of work they’re in-terested in.

“It’s also an opportunity for oth-er graduate students to practice being the kind of audience member who asks critical questions and help other students advance their work by dis-cussing it with them,” Vietto said.

Vietto said opportunities like this could also give undergraduates an idea of what Eastern graduate stu-dents do.

"For undergraduates who are thinking about graduate school, it’s a chance for them to see what kind of work they would be doing,” Viet-to said.

Lauren Morrow can be reached at 581-2812

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DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWSThe EIU High School Honor Band performs in Dvorak Concert Hall in Doudna Fine Arts Center Saturday. The concert was part of the EIU High School Honor Band Festival, where high school students were able to work with Eastern band directors and attend classes presented by music faculty.

By Miranda Ploss Assistant Photo Editor

The seats of the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Dounda Fine Arts Cen-ter were filled with parents during the EIU High School Honor Band Concert.

Renae Bauer, a parent of an hon-or band student from Centralia, said the concert was extraordinary.

“It never ceases to amaze me the talent that those kids possess and how much they put together in a show in one day,” Bauer said. “It’s really cool to watch and be part of it.”

Students from all over the state, from as far as the northwestern sub-urbs of Chicago descended upon

Eastern’s campus for a day full of intense practices completed with a concert.

The students were divided into two performing groups, the concert band and the wind symphony, and each group performed three pieces.

The high school concert band opened the show with a perfor-mance of “3 O’clock Mix” by Jon-athan Newman, making them the third group to ever perform that se-lection.

The piece used school desks, chairs, textbooks and a chalkboard as percussion instruments.

The concert band also performed “Yorkshire Ballad” by James Barnes and “Royal Coronation Dances” by Bob Margolis.

J. Corey Francis, the assistant di-rector of bands, directed the high school concert band.

Alicia Neal, the director of bands, directed both the high school wind symphony and the EIU Wind Sym-

phony in their performance and said it was a lot of fun.

“(The EIU Wind Symphony) played last on the program, and I thought that they really stepped up their game tonight to perform for high school students,” Neal said. “It’s always a lot of fun to per-form for other band’s students be-cause they kind of understand what you’re doing; they have a deeper un-derstanding and kind of connection with the music, than just the layper-son does.”

Paige Bauer, a trombone play-er and senior at Centralia High School, said she thought the concert was good.

“There is the one part in the third song ‘Pustza’ we literally look at each other and we go ‘let’s go,’” Bauer said. “It was a lot of fun, and I felt energetic. Even on the slow songs, I was really excited.”

This year’s honor band perfor-mance was Paige Bauer’s second,

and she has also attended music camp at Eastern since the eighth grade.

She said she learned a lot from Neal and that it was fun.

“(Neal) didn’t really conduct a lot,” Bauer said. “She put it up to us, and she taught us a lot about listening, and a lot about tech-nique when it comes to perform-ing as an ensemble, and not nec-essarily as an ensemble with a con-ductor.”

This year was Neal’s first year with the high school honor band program.

Neal said they had a lot of stu-dents show interest in coming to Eastern after they graduate.

She said she hopes to add 50 to 70 more students to the honor band next year.

“We did a lot of recruiting today and trying to generate excitement about Eastern Illinois and the music program we have here,” Neal said. “We seemed to be very well received by those students and their parents too.”

Miranda Ploss can be reached at 581-2812

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By Tim Deters Features Editor

Step dancing, poetry reading and modeling filled the Martin Luther King Jr. Union Grand Ballroom Saturday to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS.

The performances were part of the Fifth Annual Red Show, hosted by New Student Programs and Stu-dent Community Service.

The show was aimed at raising awareness about the dangers and prevention of HIV and AIDS. The show raised more than $200 for the Greater Community AIDS Project and Partners in Health/HIV Equity Initiative, said Cordy Love, assistant director of New Student Programs.

Among a sea of red shirts and under the pink light of the Grand Ballroom, students presented their artistic and personal expressions about the diseases.

The night opened with a step performance by members of Delta Sigma Theta that echoed through-out the room and drew rousing yelps from the crowd.

The step performance was fol-lowed by an array of other perfor-mances, including modeling by stu-dents of red T-shirts they had de-signed to express their support for

the fight against HIV and AIDS, as well as their support of people af-fected by the diseases.

Jalisa Israel, a junior communi-cation studies major, performed her self-written spoken word poem ti-tled “The Carrier.”

Taking on the persona of a mad, forceful woman, Israel spoke about punishing her friend by having sex with her friend’s boyfriend, leading to everyone being infected.

Israel said she hoped the poem was impactful enough to surprise the audience and make them think about HIV and AIDS.

“I hope that it did its job on EIU’s campus,” she said. “I hope that the poem helped to make peo-ple more aware of what’s going on around them.”

Attending the Red Show was Mike Benner, executive director Greater Community AIDS Project. He was thankful his organization was receiv-ing funds from the show and for the awareness it was supporting.

He explained the Greater Com-munity AIDS Project has served 10 area counties for 27 years and helps provide support for those with HIV and AIDS. The organization pro-vides food assistance, financial as-sistance and housing assistance for those affected by the diseases.

Benner said Coles County is one of counties most affected by HIV and AIDS the organization serves.

“Of the 10 counties that GCAP serves, (Coles County) has the high-est percentage of individuals that are both HIV positive and have an AIDS diagnosis,” he said.

The affects of the diseases are not well recognized, largely because Coles County is much more rural than other counties in the state.

“We are in a more rural part of the state, so people don’t really think of it as something that’s af-fecting us as seriously as, say, Chica-go, but it really is,” he said.

The last performance of the night was a self-written poem by Andrea Grant, the associate residence direc-tor of Lawson Hall.

The poem, t it led “A Woman Speaks to AIDS,” spoke frankly and

powerfully about a woman trying to empathize with another person with AIDS and was a call to action for students to get tested.

Grant said she was glad to par-ticipate in the Red Show and wel-comed the efforts of Eastern to sup-port the fight against the diseases.

“I think it is great that EIU is showing their support in this kind of facet,” she said. “As a higher in-stitution, we have to keep putting information out there.”

HIV and AIDS have a large im-pact on the African American com-

munity, Grant said. As a member of that community, Grant said she thought the diseases were some-thing she needed to address.

However, she said HIV and AIDS is an epidemic that must be recog-nized and fought against by every-one, even if they are not of her race.

“I think it is a concern for the human race,” she said. “Their plight is my plight.”

Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812

or tadeters@eiu.edu.

Red Show entertains, educates about HIV, AIDSPerformances help raise funds, awareness for foundation

Concert hosts students from all over state

ROBYN DEXTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWSMembers of the Boyz of Poison dance organization perform a step routine as part of the Red Show Saturday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The Red Show had different campus organiza-tions showcasing step acts, spoken word presentations, singing and Red Week fashion modeling.

“It never ceases to amaze me the talent that those kids possess and how much they put together in a show in one day. It’s really cool to watch and be part of it.”

-Renae Bauer, parent of honor band student

Let me ask you a quick and simple ques-tion. It will not hurt in the slightest, you have my word.

Please, take a moment and recite within your mind the following phrase: “Ahhh, the water is boiling.”

Now, let me ask you, how did the phrase make you feel? What image did it put into your head?

At first reading the phrase, did you imagine a person screaming out, surprised that the wa-ter was beginning to boil, possibly overflowing onto the stove?

Or, did you imagine a man sighing in cheer-ful anticipation, awaiting the pot of tea he will make with the boiling water?

Further yet, did you imagine a scientist artic-ulating her curiosity as she analyzed the effects of air pressure on water’s boiling point?

It is curious, is it not, how one word, on in-terjection, “Ahhh,” can transform a sentence and the emotions and imagery responses we have simply by our own perceptions?

If I were simply to write upon a blank note-card the word “Ahhh,” one could cycle through the multitude of interpretations of the word in

the absence of any context, from an “Ahhh” of surprise to one of anger, relaxation, curiosity, pain, realization and so many more.

One interjection, one word among so many in the English language yet set apart from all others on a single notecard can encompass so many facets of the human mind and experience.

I have long been fascinated by such exam-ples of the power of the English language. It in-trigues me how one word can hold such im-mense potential within itself and when com-bined with other words create a force of subtle yet impactful significance.

Unfortunately, the potential of words and the English language is something many of us

take for granted. In a world of total sensory im-mersion, it is easy to forget the impact words have on us when we encounter them every day, non-stop, in our textbooks, in our phones, on the Internet, on television, on the radio, on billboards and even in communication with our friends and family.

Just as when you repeat a word over and over again it can begin to lose its meaning, so too can the words we hear every day slowly desensi-tize us to the impact and potential of the mere squiggles and syllables that flitter past our eyes and ears.

However, I urge you, the reader, do not sim-ply intake the words you read here and dispose of or neglect their meaning and significance. As you drift through your days, take time to rec-ognize the way words can not only sway our thoughts and emotions, but our actions as well. Because, ultimately, if you do not recognize and realize this power, it could come to control you.

Tim Deters is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812

or denopinions@gmail.com.

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In the midst of schoolwork and regular classes, I found a class that tested me in new ways — Computer-Assisted Reporting.

From day one, my professor was upfront in telling my fellow students and me that we would have to fight for the information that we wanted. My professor also went into detail explaining that there were laws put in place —not just for journalists, but citizens across the country. I sighed with relief, not knowing that soon I would be sighing in disbelief, exaspera-tion and all-around annoyance.

There is nothing as frustrating as asking for public information and someone acting as though it is private. Eastern is a public insti-tution, funded by public monies — not a lot of documents should be private.

We weren’t asking for war strategies.Still, we found ourselves in a stalemate

with the university I have called home for al-most four years now.

I.Was.In.Shock.

In my Communication Law class, a re-quired journalism course, I was taught to weigh decisions by judging how a reason-able person would see these requests as rea-sonable.

The information being requested was not damning or dangerous to the general public in any way, in fact it would provide nothing but educational value.

For four years, Eastern has been the love of my life — my friends at Big 10 schools can attest to that — but within the last few weeks I have found myself getting increasingly un-happy with the current state and action being taken by the university.

I have exhausted multiple avenues from contacting Illinois’ Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, to requesting help from the Student Press Law Center, to meeting with the presi-dent of Eastern.

I am waiting with bated breath to know the real reason why I cannot have access to scholarship amounts when my mandated stu-dents fees make up a portion of the grant-in-aid scholarships. I want to know why I can’t have copies of drinking and alcohol viola-tions that occur on campus.

I want to be educated, but not patronized. I want the law to be followed, but not to

be hidden behind.I don’t know how you can hide behind the

law when the law is not on your side. The semester is drawing to a close, but our

quest for the information will continued un-til we get what we want.

We won’t give up.

Nike Ogunbodede is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812

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You guys, it’s almost here. We know it comes around the same time every year, but yet we all try to forget about it usually.

That’s right, finals week is almost here. And while we can almost taste the eggnog (if you’re into that sort of thing), we still have a week-ish left of classes and work.

We at The Daily Eastern News have compiled a list of tips for you in these last few brutal days of class:

• Create a schedule — Instead of getting anxious about how much stuff you have to do, why not make a schedule to prevent yourself from procrastinating? It’ll let you know exact-ly what you have to do so you’re not frantical-ly scrambling around last-minute trying to fin-ish everything.

• Break up your study plans — If you can study for extended periods of time, that’s great. But for most people, that isn’t always the case; most people need mini breaks in-between to break up the monotony.

• Find your stress reliever — In the midst of all your studying, make sure to schedule some you time. Whether it’s playing a video game, watching an episode of your favorite TV show or just talking to your friends, make time for it. Not only does it create an incentive for you to actually study, but it helps make the time go by more quickly.

• Work out — Speaking of stress relievers, there’s nothing like a good workout session to get your mind reenergized. According to a study for The Journal of Physiology, it helps increase brain activity.

• Prioritize — If you’re getting an A in English but a D in history, it’s time for you to focus your efforts on that history class that you skipped one too many times. Evaluate what really deserves your attention the most out of all the classes you have finals for, and then divide and conquer accordingly.

• Get plenty of rest — Don’t rely just on caffeine — A few cups of coffee or energy drinks are fine, but don’t substitute caffeine for sleep. Even if you think you need to pull an all-nighter to get the good grade, sometimes going to bed earlier and waking up earlier helps you feel more refreshed and able to study. When you’re trying to fight off a caffeine hangover in the middle of shuffling through flash cards, it can be rough, so just save yourself the trouble in the first place.

• Talk to your professors and maintain communication — Even if you’re just now get-ting familiar with your professor’s office hours, it’s not too late to start talking to them. Your profes-sors may not be the happiest that you’re just now going to see them, but it’s always worth a shot to get that last-minute help you need.

Studying can be a drag, but we all know it actually pays off in the long haul. If you can just stay focused these last few days, you can have all the fun you want in the three and a half weeks that follow. Don’t give up when you’ve made it this far already.

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“It is a very joyful time,” Meyer said. “I had two friends volunteer to play at the shop, and we also had cider and cookies.”

Along with retail, other service-based business owners also said they see an increase this time of year.

Shawn Snyder, the owner and school instructor of ATA Martial Arts at 610 Jackson Ave., said the school has been on the square for four years.

As a part of the festival, Snyder

and his team hosted a free lesson at 7 p.m.

Snyder said the weather played a big part in the success of the fes-tival.

Along with the business aspect of the festival, other community members set up stands and were giving out refreshments such as roasted chestnuts provided by the Charleston Knights of Columbus Council 4024.

Mike Kuncl, a member of the counci l , has been working the

chestnut stand for eight years. He said the group pre-cooks the nuts prior the festival because they take about an hour to cook.

“You have to make sure you score them, otherwise they ex-plode,” Kuncl said. “It’s just not Christmas without chestnuts.”

Terryne McClurge and Amy Wywialowski can

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JACOB SALMICH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSAttendees of Christmas in the Heart of Charleston wait for the parade to start on Saturday.

Dance program to promote health

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Students will teach a Latin dance Tuesday to promote a healthy life-style.

The kinesiology and sports studies department will host a dance work-shop Tuesday to promote healthy lifestyle where they will teach the Cha-cha and Waltz.

The Cha-cha is a combination of the Mambo and swing dance.

The workshop will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in McAfee Gymnasi-um Room 1140.

Students and faculty are invited to come and learn steps to the Cha-cha and Waltz.

Dance instructor Diana Lenzi, a professor of kinesiology and sports studies, said she has been teaching dance for 40 years and has taught this workshop a couple of times.

Lenzi said the waltz is a graceful and beautiful dance and the Cha-cha will add a “little spice” to the cold holiday season.

Students from Lenzi’s Technique of Theory and Folk, Square and Ball-room class will help teach the work-shop.

The kinesiology and sports stud-ies department has a healthy lifestyle

workshop each month. The Healthy Lifestyle program is a

program for students and staff based on nutrition, physical and mental concepts.

This workshop will focus on the physical concept of a healthy life-style.

There have been two other dance workshops in the past.

She said she enjoys teaching these workshops because it gives her the chance to meet university staff and students.

Lenzi said many of the people who come enjoy it.

“I rarely see dancers who are not smiling. I think it’s a wonderful de-stressor,” Lenzi said. “I always tell my students that dance is communi-cation without words.”

“I rarely see dancers who are not smiling. I think it’s a wonderful

de-stressor. I always tell my students that dance is

communication without words.”

-Diana Lenzi, professor of kinesiology and sports studies

Healthy lifestyle workshop taught by students

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By Jordan Pottorff Sports Editor

The 2012 season for Eastern’s football team was special.

The Panthers claimed an outright Ohio Valley Conference championship, advanced to the FCS Playoffs for the 14th time in program history, gar-nered OVC Offensive Player of the Year honors as well as OVC Coach of the Year honors, and was the only program in the nation to have two players nominated for the Walter Payton Award for the na-tion’s top player.

Eastern’s success under first-year head coach Dino Babers came as a surprise, as it was picked to finish second to last in the OVC preseason polls. Despite low expectations throughout the confer-ence, the Panthers became just the fourth team in OVC history to record a worst-to-first turn-around.

Eastern was in danger of dropping its third con-secutive game and falling to 1-3 on the season, but a back-and-forth affair had the Panthers coming away with a thrilling 50-49 overtime win that was capped off with a reversal play that had wide receiver Erik Lora throwing the game-winning pass on a two-point conversion to fellow receiver Von Wise.

Eastern’s success was largely because of its up-tempo offense that ranked in the top 10 nationally in scoring, total offense, first downs and passing of-fense, but strong defense down the stretch run had the Panthers claiming a conference title.

The success seen in 2012 came as a surprise, but with Walter Payton Award watch list nominees Jim-my Garoppolo and Erik Lora set to return for their senior seasons, the Panthers will return their top two offensive playmakers.

The Panthers also have a core of defensive players in defensive lineman Pat Wertz, defensive back Nick Beard, and linebackers LeQuince McCall and Rob-ert Haynes returning that will have the Panthers en-tering the 2013 season as frontrunners in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Jordan Pottorff can be reached at 581-2812 or jbpottorff@eiu.edu.

Anthony Jackson scored 13 points and added 11 rebounds in the Seawolves’ winning effort.

Eastern shot 34 percent from the floor, while Stony Brook made 41 percent of its shots. The three-ball killed the Panthers yet again, as the Seawolves drained 10-of-25 from

three-point range.Despite Eastern shooting 86

percent from the charity stripe, it only made 6-of-7 shots, while Stony Brook sank 16-of-17 from the line.

Eastern tied Stony Brook in re-bounds at 32 each. However, the

Panthers hauled in 12 offensive rebounds to the Seawolves’ eight. Herron had a team-high eight for Eastern.

“Stony Brook is a good team and a good rebounding team,” head coach Jay Spoonhour said in a press release. “We out-rebound-

ed them on the offensive glass. We had a hard time creating shots and were not able to get to the free throw line.”

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

By Aldo Soto Staff Reporter

The Panthers competed and left the House of Champions meet with new season best times, but ultimate-ly finished near the bottom of the scorecard over the weekend in Indi-anapolis.

The women’s team finished fifth out of seven teams, while the men finished in last place.

The three-day long meet began Friday when the Eastern swim team swam its way to 23 season-best times.

The men’s team best performance came with a third place finish in the 200-free relay.

Seniors Colin McGill, Dan Enge, Joe Ciliak and junior Adam Jones set a new best time this year of 1:27.35.

Freshmen Kaylee Morris compet-ed in the 50-free, recording a season best time of 24.47.

Morris’ time is also the ninth fast-est in school history.

The men’s team was led by Mc-Gill as he recorded a new season-best time of 21.85 in the A Finals of the 50-free and finished eighth in the preliminary round.

Although both teams showed some success throughout the day, they came out sluggish head coach Elliott McGill said.

“We came out a little rusty in the morning, but tonight [Friday] we had swimmers make some great adjust-ments on races,” said McGill. “We were a little inconsistent, which just can’t hap-pen in an invite meet like this.”

One of those adjustments came with another solid performance by senior Hailey Foss.

Foss won the B Final of the 500-free and recorded an in-season per-sonal best time of 5:13.57.

“Hailey had a solid night swim and Mary Lacine also perfumed well in her 200-IM,” McGill said.

The coach also praised the swim-ming of freshman Conner Conroy and junior Steve Swiercz.

“They both made excellent chang-es to their race strategies and swam faster tonight (Friday),” McGill said.

Both teams improved on day two of the competition, McGill said.

The Panthers recorded 30 new season best times on Saturday in both individual and relay action.

“Again we had a lot of smart ad-

justments made in between sessions which led to some significant im-provements,” McGill said.

Along with the new season best times, eight individual swimmers ad-vanced in the top finals of the day’s competition.

The duo of Morris and Foss set Eastern Top 10 times in the 100-Back and 400-IM, respectively, dur-ing the preliminary rounds.

Morris recorded a time of 1:01.11 while Foss’ top 10 time was 4:44.30.

During the Saturday night session, two Panthers swam their way to fifth place finishes in their finals races.

Second-year swimmer Mackenzie Anderson set a new best time for her season in her fifth place finish, re-cording a time of 59.11 in the 100-Back, while Enge finished the 100-fly finals at 53.30.

The second day of the meet turned out to be a good one, McGill said, add-ing he was especially happy with the strong relay races swam by both teams.

The Panthers were led by Conroy on Sunday as the freshman won the B Finals of the 200-fly with a time of 1:59.25.

Olga Livshits finished with the

highest place in the finals for the women’s team as the Israel native re-corded a time of 2:10.33 in her sec-ond-place finish in the B Finals of the 200-back.

McGill has emphasized the impor-tance of improving times as the teams approach the conference meets.

The House of Champions brought a new format this year and with sessions being split in two with preliminary rounds held in the morning and finals raced in the eve-ning, the Panthers got a taste of what it will be like in February.

McGill said the swimmers were fresher after Thanksgiving but added the ultimate goal is to do the best at the end of the year.

“Being a young team, we are do-ing a good job at learning how to handle a three day meet like this which will only help to benefit us this coming February at our confer-ence meet,” McGill said.

The Panthers return to action on Dec. 15 as they head to Evansville, Ind., starting at 11 a.m.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu.

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Panthers poised for 2013 season

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DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSLaura Horvat, a freshman swimmer, swims during the intersquad meet on Oct. 12 at Padovan Pool. The Panthers’ next meet is on Dec. 15 as they head to Evansville, Ind.

Individuals outshine team as whole

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By Dominic Renzetti Assistant Online Editor

The Eastern hockey club split its weekend se-ries against Louisville at the David S. Palmer Arena in Danville.

The Panthers lost in the first game by a score of 5-4 on Friday, but won the second game on Saturday by a shutout score of 3-0.

The weekend series against Louisville marks the fourth time this season that the club has split with an opponent. The team has also seen splits against Loyola, Illinois and Northern Illinois.

The series brings the Panthers’ record to 8-5-3 on the season, while Louisville now has a record of 8-14.

The series also saw a pair of firsts for the team this season. In the first game, senior forward Tim Shannon recorded his first hat-trick, scor-ing three of the team’s five goals. In the second game, senior goalie Andrew Teske recorded his first shutout of the season. Teske has started all of the team’s games this season.

Shannon had one goal in the first game, bringing his weekend total to four, while senior captain Michael Sorrentino had two goals in the second game, adding to the win.

Teske said in a press release on the team’s website that it was the help of the defense that led to the second game shutout.

“It felt great to get the shutout, they played well in front of me, but I felt like I played solid also,” he said. “It was a big win for the boys, and now it is time to celebrate in Charleston.”

The series was the first time the Panthers had played at their home ice arena in Danville since the first week of the season against Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15. The Pan-thers will not play at home again until Dec. 18.

The Panthers will be back on the road next week-end, taking on Missouri State at 2 p.m. on Dec. 7 and then again at 5 p.m. on Dec. 8. Both games will be at Mediacom Ice Park in Springfield, Mo.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-2812 or dcrenzetti@eiu.edu.

By Anthony Catezone Assistant Sports Editor

A late 16-3 run in the second half propelled Stony Brook to a 66-52 win over the Eastern men’s basketball team.

The Panthers dropped their second straight game, and fell to 3-6 on the year. Meanwhile, the Seawolves improved to 6-2, having won two straight.

Eastern narrowed the margin to as little as one point twice in the second half before Stony Brook’s late surge. A bucket by junior forward Sherman Blanford cut the deficit to 50-49 with 5:57 remaining in the game.

The Panthers had a chance to take the lead, but had two shots blocked on each of their fol-lowing possessions. The Seawolves had seven

blocks in the game, while the Panthers had zero.Earlier, Eastern trailed Stony Brook by 12

points, but the Panthers put the Seawolves on their heels at the 10:30 mark with the score at 45-44.

Sophomore forward Josh Piper sparked the run, as he drained a pair of three-pointers and freshman guard Alex Austin scored on a lay-up in the middle of the lane. Austin also added a three of his own to cut the Panthers’ deficit to one.

Piper led the Panthers’ offensive attack with 14 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the field and 3-of-5 shooting from beyond the arch.

Austin and Blanford contributed eight points apiece. Senior guard Austin Akers dished out a season-high six assists in a game-high 35 minutes.

Two free throws by Tommy Brenton kick-

started the Seawolves’ closing run, while anoth-er blocked Panthers shot came on the ensuing possession.

At that point, Stony Brook dropped 11 straight points before the next Eastern bucket, which came at 1:02 left in the game.

Much of the same was seen in the first half, as the Seawolves closed it on an 8-0 run and en-tered halftime leading 33-24.

Senior guard Malcolm Herron brought the game to a one-point difference, 25-24, when he drilled a three-pointer with 2:25 remaining in the first half.

But, Marcus Rouse scored all eight points on the Stony Brook run with a driving lay-up and back-to-back threes. Rouse finished with a game-high 16 points.

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VOLLEYBALL

Staff Report

Eastern’s volleyball team added two prep standouts to its 2013 recruiting class, signing Lexi Brown and Josie Winner.

Brown is a 6-foot outside hitter from Buena Park, Calif., while Winner is a 5-foot-10-inch middle hitter from Osgood, Ohio.

“I’m very excited about the two ladies we have signed for 2013,” Eastern head coach Kate Price said in a press release. “I think they will be great additions to our team, both on and off the court.”

Brown played her high school ball at Kennedy High School in La Palma, Calif., while playing club ball for TCA volleyball club in Orange County.

While at Kennedy High School, Brown was a three-time All-Empire honoree, nabbing back-to-back first team selections as a junior and a senior. Brown also earned 2012 Scholar-Athlete honors.

Winner played high school ball for Ohio Division-IV powerhouse Marion Local High School in Maria Stein, Ohio. Marion Local claimed the state championship in Winner’s freshman and senior season. She was also an All-Ohio honoree, First Team MAC selection and a Second Team District-8 selection. Winner was also a four-year Honor Roll member.

Eastern signs 2 prep standouts

Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKeenan Anderson, a sophomore forward, fights for the ball with Robert Crawford, a senior guard, on Nov. 28. The Panthers lost to the Stony Brook Seawolves 66-52 Saturday.