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More than 30 students gathered to hear a more individual perspective on the topic of abortion in The Women’s Resource Center on Monday.

Before beginning the discussion and presenta-tion, the Women’s Empowerment League showed a clip from the film “I Had An Abortion,” which featured women’s personal stories about their abor-tion experiences.

Attendees of “Good Women Have Abortions” also enjoyed free soup provided by members of the Women’s Empowerment League.

Afterwards, Jeannie Ludlow, director of Wom-en’s Studies, presented her research to a crowd of mainly college females.

Ludlow, who worked at an abortion clinic in Ohio for several years, said she has seen it all when it comes to the abortion process.

“Every woman has a story,” she said.Ludlow explained to the group that abortion is

too often looked at on a large-scale basis. She said abortion is more of an individual issue than a big-ger picture idea.

“Our society’s modern-day social norms struc-ture our ideas (about abortion),” Ludlow said.

The idea for the presentation name, “Good Women Have Abortions,” came from social stig-matization, she said.

“It’s ultimately about trying to reclaim the idea of goodness,” Ludlow said.

Women share abortion stories

By Samantha Bilharz Managing Editor

2012 marks the first year teach-ers can be nominated for the Illi-nois Reading Educator of the Year Award in the college category and Eastern’s very own Linda Reven won the honor.

Reven, a professor of elementary education and the coordinator for the graduate program in elementa-ry education, has been a teacher at Eastern for 15 years.

Past students, current students, professors and the department chair all nominated Reven for the award.

Reven beat out teachers all across Illinois for the award.

“I was very humbled by it be-cause I was nominated by the of-ficers of the local reading coun-cil and several of them are current professionals and former students of mine so it meant a great deal,” Reven said.

Reven will be honored at the Annual Illinois Reading Coun-cil Conference on March 16 in Springfield.

She will receive her award and make a speech.

Reven said she has attended the conference for many years, but this is the first time she has won an award.

“I want to make certain that they know how appreciative I am of this award and I want to leave a

message to the audience about the importance of literacy,” Reven said.

April Flood, the Illinois Read-ing Council publicity chair for the state of Illinois, said she has want-ed to nominate Reven for an award in the past.

“We have been wanting to nom-inate her for several years, but at the time they didn’t have an award that recognized one of the col-lege reading teachers verses public schools K-12 so this is the first year for that,” Flood said.

In order to be nominated for the award an application form, letters of recommendation and the nom-inee’s philosophy statement needed to be submitted by Nov. 1, 2011.

According to the Illinois Read-ing Council’s website to qualify for the award an individual needs to “make contributions in promoting literacy among students, colleagues and school communities.”

Joy Russell, the department chair and coordinator of graduate studies in elementary education, was one of the people who nomi-nated Reven.

Russell said she considers Reven to be a dedicated role model.

“Dr. Reven is truly a role mod-el for her students and for oth-er faculty in terms of her high ex-pectations for herself, for her stu-dents, for the department and tru-ly the dedication and the concern that she has for the program and the students that’s not just a one

time thing, she has been here for 15 years and I think that she does that every single day,” Russell said.

Reven started her career as an elementary education teacher in Ohio and in 1990 she started teaching at Eastern after receiving her doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Ohio University.

She is currently a member of the East Central-EIU Reading Coun-cil, the College Instructors of Reading Professionals and Illinois Title 1 Association.

“I think that literacy is such an important aspect of success for

children because it permeates ev-erything that they do,” Reven said.

Russell said she thinks Reven ex-emplifies what a professor should be.

“The dedication and the service as well as the content knowledge of people in our profession. I think that she really demonstrates that,” Russell said. “She has given tireless-ly to so many efforts in the depart-ment on behalf of the students.”

Samantha Bilharz can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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NATALIE FEDDER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Linda Reven was awarded with the 2012 Illinois Reading Educator of the Year Award in the college category, and will be presented with the award March 16 during a luncheon at the annual Illinois Reading Council Conference in Springfield.

By Kathryn Richter City Editor

County Market will be opening its new store location today, as well as awarding $10,000 to the general athletic fund.

Tom Bell, a manager at County Market, said the new store will open at 5 p.m. today.

Gerry Kettler, a company spokesman and di-rector of consumer affairs for County Market’s parent company, Niemann Foods, Inc., said the new store will include a second-level mezzanine.

The mezzanine is set to include a fireplace, wireless Internet, couches, tables and a deli.

“We wanted to bring the latest and greatest shopping experience in Charleston,” Kettler said.

When designing the new County Market, stu-dents’ interests were considered, Kettler said

“We built (the new store) specifically with a student population in mind,” Kettler said.

Not only will the new store be energy efficient and the store associates will be re-trained in their area so they can be more knowledgeable about the store’s products, Kettler said

Kettler also said at the opening of the new store, a check will be presented to Eastern for $10,000.

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Blog: College CuisineBy Kathryn Richter City Editor

The Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce is currently accepting res-ervations for its annual dinner that will take place on Feb. 4.

Cindy White, the executive direc-tor of the Charleston Area Cham-ber of Commerce said the event will include a cash bar, a dinner, waiters and waitresses passing around hors d’oeuvres and a “State of the City” address from Mayor John Inyart.

Inyart will not be in attendance, but will put together a video for the dinner, White said.

“It’s a nice night, it brings people from the business community to-gether,” White said.

White said the video will focus on the new positive economic devel-opment that has happened over the past year including the new County Market, the new hotel and the new senior living facility.

White said a silent auction will take place throughout the night that will include 50 to 60 items on the si-lent auction tables from local busi-nesses.

White said the items are donated by members of the Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce and will in-clude gift baskets, gift certificates and individual items.

“There’s pretty much something for everyone. We try to get a variety of stuff,” White said.

The event will take place at the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union and will include music from the EIU Jazz Combo during the event’s so-cial hour.

White said the dinner will also in-clude three awards that will be giv-en out.

The award ceremony include a “Diplomat of the Year” award, “Small Business of the Year” award and an “Outstanding Citizen of the Year” award.

The “Small Business of the Year” award will be awarded to Gateway Liquors and the “Outstanding Cit-izen of the Year” award will be giv-en to Charleston citizen, Mike Stan-field.

The “Diplomat of the Year” award will be kept secret until the event.

Mike Stanfield, a father of five and grandfather of nine, said he was sur-prised when he received a call from White around Christmas time that he had been selected to receive the award.

Stanfield, who is the owner of Stanfield Auctioning Company, said he does a lot of volunteer work in the community and usually donates his auctioning services and for 30 to 25 benefit auctions a year for different groups.

“I felt like many people were more deserving to receive that award and I was very humbled and very hon-ored,” Stanfield said. “I was just sur-prised when I was selected for that, to be honest.”

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812 or

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Even with technology making the world seem more connected by the second, college students and profes-sors have come to a point where it is almost easier to connect with some-one halfway across the world than with each other.

“Let’s Talk Teaching” is the first in a series of brown-bag discussions to be put on by the Faculty Develop-ment Advisory Committee as a way to help bridge the gap between stu-dents and teachers.

The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 3 in the University Ballroom of the Mar-tin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Those interested in participating can register through the Faculty De-velopment website.

Stephen Lucas, a member of the Faculty Development Advisory Council, came up with the idea for an event to address the evolution of student learning styles that has made teaching the new generation a chal-lenge for more traditionally minded faculty.

Lucas is the chairman of the de-partment of secondary education and foundations.

“Faculty have been saying our stu-dents are different than they were

five or 10 years ago, and we’re feel-ing more challenged to be successful in helping them to do as well as pos-sible in school,” Lucas said.

Lucas said he seeks to challenge what he has recognized as a growing belief that students are lazy and want everything handed to them.

“I was hearing some faculty using words like ‘the students feel entitled to things (and) that things should be given to them,’ and I was really kind of disturbed by that thought,” Lucas said.

The problem, according to Lucas, is that middle and high schools have created a support system that leaves students overwhelmed in the college environment where independence is expected.

The Faculty Development Adviso-ry Council selected Melissa Ames, an assistant professor of English, to take part in the event because of her suc-cesses in connecting with students through her studies on popular cul-ture.

“As a popular culture scholar, I feel quite comfortable integrating media literacy and technology into my in-struction, both which seem to work well with the 21st century learner,” Ames said.

One of Ames’ goals is to convince students, especially freshmen, that they should be interested and invest-

ed in classes they might feel forced to take because they are still relevant to their lives and career paths.

Dianne Timm, an assistant pro-fessor of counseling and student de-velopment, said she will focus her section on the behaviors of students both inside and outside of class.

“Hearing about their academ-ic pursuits, talking with them about challenges in their personal and ac-ademic lives and seeing what really motivates students enhances what I am able to now bring into the class-room,” Timm said.

Moe Samad, a graduate student in the college of student affairs, said he was suggested as a participant be-cause of his experiences with fresh-men as well as his role as a longtime student of Eastern.

Samad is also an associate resident director for Carman Hall.

Samad graduated from Eastern in 2010 with a degree in English.

During his undergraduate career, Samad worked as a resident assistant in Weller Hall for three years.

“I kind of understand the student side of it because I’ve been in their shoes, and this is something that has recently come up in my experience,” Samad said.

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Daily Eastern News incorrectly identified the event “Jungle Fever 2” dance and the sponsor. The event was sponsored by the Latin Ameri-can Student Organization. The News regrets this error.

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NATALIE FEDDER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Royce Luo; a graduate student in biological science; decorates a Chinese paper lantern in the Andrews Hall lobby on Monday during the celebration of the Chinese New Year.

By Nikki Reichert Staff Reporter

Chinese paper lanterns were used as a tool to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Monday.

The University Board celebrated the Chinese New Year in the lobby of Andrews Hall, where they had lan-terns available for students to paint.

Karla Centeno, the cultural arts coordinator for the UB, said the loca-tion was chosen so that students go-ing to dinner could stop by and see the event.

In China, the New Year’s celebra-tion includes a lantern festival.

The UB provided paper lanterns for students to decorate while lis-tening to Chinese natives talk about their traditions.

Chinese professors and Chinese natives were in attendance to answer questions from the students and to help them draw Chinese symbols.

Peter Ping Liu, professor of tech-nology, Rose Gong, a professor of foreign language, and Ximing Kro-nenfeld came to the event.

“We were able to ask questions, (the professors) were open to not just answering how they celebrate (the New Year) in China, but how they personally celebrate it here in the

United States,” Centeno said.Liu explained to the students that

the lanterns were once used for light, making, which makes their rounded shades very practical.

“Now they are for decoration pur-poses,” Gong said.

Fei Teng, a junior applied engineer-ing and technology major, is a native of China.

Teng said, “The Chinese New Year is when we make dumplings and the lanterns hang everywhere to make people feel warm.”

Because the Chinese follow the lu-nar calendar, the new year falls on Jan. 23 this year.

“We use the lunar calendar, so ev-ery year the day is different,” Teng said.

Gong said the Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in China.

“It’s the biggest celebration of the year,” Gong said. “It’s as big as Christ-mas.”

Some of the preparations for the New Year involve sweeping floors, cleaning the house and hanging lan-terns along with other decorations, Gong also said.

“They make pork into all kinds of dishes, beef, but not so much turkey,” Gong said.

Kronenfeld said Chinese people

often give presents during this time, but the presents are mostly for chil-dren.

One of the presents is often money, Kronenfeld said.

“We put the money in a red en-velope,” Kronenfeld said. “The kids must say ‘Happy New Year’ to their elders before they receive their money.”

China celebrates the holiday a little differently depending on the region.

“In some areas we write some rid-dles on the lanterns, then the kids try to solve the riddles,” Kronenfeld said.

Another big part of the Chinese New Year’s celebration is the use of fireworks.

“Recently for the concern of pollu-tion and safety, the use have been re-duced,” said Gong.

Liu said this year is the year of the dragon according to the Chinese zo-diac.

“Dragon means strong, brave, power, for instance,” Liu said.

Kronenfeld agreed with Liu. “(The Dragon) is a symbol of

spirit,” Kronenfeld said.

Nikki Reichert can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected].

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Eastern kicks offChinese New Year

By Natalie Fedder Staff Reporter

A reading discussion will focus on the worlds of antiquing, flea markets and auctions on Wednes-day.

Maureen Stanton, from Colum-bia, Missouri, will read her nonfic-tion book, which she refers to as lit-erally journalism focusing on ad-venture, history and odd artifacts.

The reading will be at 4 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The book is called “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money; Seeking Histo-ry and Hidden Gems in Flea-Mar-ket America,” which was published June 2011.

Stanton wrote the book based on an article she was supposed to write in college, but never came around to writing.

After spending a lot of time on the road with her college friend and antique dealer, Curt Avery.

Stanton said she became more knowledgeable about the world of antiquing and auctions.

“The more I spent time with him the more interest I gained,” Stan-ton said.

The book goes into detail of

what antiquing and auctions is re-ally about, Stanton said antiqu-ing is not really like what television makes it seem to be like.

After writing the book Stanton said she had more of a challenge writing the book than writing sev-eral articles in the past.

Stanton said she hopes her au-dience becomes more informed on the knowledge needed to make this a living.

Stanton said she loves sharing her book with others.

“My book has a lot of humor, so I love seeing people laugh,” she said.

People get interested in what an-tiquing is all about and get a new angle on the subject.

Stanton’s advice is for future writers to keep writing even if no one else has faith in the pieces.

“You have to read great materi-al to write great material,” she said.

Stanton said she always was in-terested in writing and being part of her school newspaper, but never knew how to write correctly.

Writing is something you love to do, but rarely get paid for the work.

This reading session is the last of the series “Lions in Winter” reading series featuring emerging writers.

Natalie Fedder can be reached at 581-2812 or

[email protected].

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Last of ‘Lions in Winter’ series to be featured

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We are now starting to feel the ef-fects of winter and it seems the cold trickles into our social lives, as peo-ple tend to prefer to stay home and we find ourselves alone watching television on the couch. My heart stays warm thanks to some people in my life who have no idea they touch me so.

My first interaction with the peo-ple that make Eastern tick is when the Panther Express shuttle pulls into the parking lot across from Roc’s Black-front. A smiling Dan Icenogle always greets me and has a great conversation brewing to stimulate my brain before he drops me off at my Spanish class.

Dan is always ready to listen to stu-dents’ problems and he helps in any way he can. One morning I confided to him that I was nervous to have a col-umn I wrote about porn published af-ter getting negative responses to a pre-vious column that urged people to be more genuine with each other.

Like a protective grandfather, he told me: “There were people that hat-ed Jesus Christ, ya know? So I say what chance do we all have? There will al-ways be people ready to criticize, and some that love what you do.” His wis-dom helped me carry on.

Two of my classes last semester met about 70 times total, and they would have dragged on had I not had such enthusiastic, caring professors.

Dr. Addison shared interesting arti-cles to help his statistics students con-ceptualize the material in a real-world fashion. He told us funny personal sto-ries that helped us remember things more easily by attaching humor to con-cepts. A guy who dresses up but wears blue-and-red tennis shoes is anything but forgettable, but he made sure that his subject matter would stick with us.

Dr. McNeal motivated his Span-ish students by infusing laughter into a 9 a.m. class, teaching us funny words and phrases such as “viejo verde,” which translates to “dirty old man.” He showed us Rubi y Los Casinos’ mu-sic video about a woman scorned by a rock star. We translated the song and

had fun trashing the player boyfriend in Spanish.

This semester I get to hear a differ-ent badass ‘70s band every time I go to Dr. Mace’s Research Methods class. While the sound of him slipping and occasionally calling me “Nicole” burns my ears, the music and jokes keep me happy. Yes, Dr. Mace, we know you were born before 1970.

Rhea Shirley and Jessica St. Pierre provide great companionship, laugh-ing at my jokes and sharing their own. If I miss a class or need a piece of pa-per, Jess always comes to my rescue. Rhea loves Spanish as much as I do, and is always willing to have a snack with me before we have to part ways for the classes required for our majors. My friends make an already awesome major and suitable minor into the best decisions I’ve ever made.

The people I am forced to interact with are not the only sources of com-fort in my daily life at Eastern. Zum-ba instructors Emily and Jessica take fitness to a whole new level of fun in their own ways. Emily will make fun-ny, mean faces when we dig deep, en-couraging us to do the same, and Jes-sica will pull a drill sergeant voice out of nowhere, causing me to laugh at the petite blonde. They really care about their Zumba regulars, and it shows.

It may be miserable outside, but thanks to several special people on campus, the warmth in my life perse-veres. Thanks guys!

Nikki Davidson is a junior psychology

major. She can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

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People warm my heartas winter cold sets in

By Jeremy Boak Director, Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research, Colorado School of Mines

(Viewpoints are mine, not positions of the Colorado School of Mines.)

Mia Tapella’s Monday column, “You’ll be hearing a lot fracking more about oil shale,” perpetuated a num-ber of confusions and myths about oil shale, some of them apparently deliv-ered to her by Dr. Burns.

First, oil shale is in some respects very much like coal, in that the hy-drocarbons in the rock are solid (with a very small fraction of liquids and gases), and relatively insoluble in tra-ditional hydrocarbon solvents (which is the actual definition of kerogen). In Estonia and China, some oil shale is burned like coal to drive power plants. However, this is not the best use of oil shale, because oil shale kerogen is richer in hydrogen than coal kerogen, and hence yields more liquid hydro-carbon on heating, whether natural-ly (by deep burial) or artificially (by either mining and “retorting” or by

heating underground). The kerogen in oil shale is in fact

the richest type of kerogen in terms of potential to produce liquid hydro-carbons. However, we have to do the cooking, as nature didn’t get around to it. This does, however, mean that we can design the process to meet our needs. Such production does, how-ever, require larger energy inputs. But the real reason for interest in U. S. oil shale is the potential to recov-er as much as 1 million barrels of oil from every acre, which makes the are-al density of the resource greater even than that of the largest oil fields in the world. It remains to be seen whether we can realize this potential.

Estonia, China and Brazil have pro-duced oil economically from oil shale for decades. There is no current pro-duction of oil from oil shale in the U.S., because so many less expensive options existed, but that is likely to change in the next two years. It is in-accurate to assert that oil shale is not an economically viable energy option. The most recent available estimate of oil shale economics suggest that rea-sonable profits can be made at an oil price somewhere in the range of $40-70 per barrel. Enefit American Oil is in the process of designing and building a plant to process Utah oil shale, with plans to start in 2019 or 2020. These things aren’t built overnight.

Surface processing of oil shale in-volves no fracking, although it does in-volve mining. In situ production of oil shale, a new technology currently be-ing investigated by several major oil companies, may use fracking or not, depending on the method. Nearly all of the fracking conducted over the past 50 years had been done without dyna-

mite, by injecting water and sand (to prop fractures once formed) with small amounts of chemicals to pressurize the formation above the rock strength, thus inducing fracturing.

The “obvious” environmental prob-lems she cited are far from well docu-mented, and the movie “Gasland” is a superb example of misrepresentation of the risks. Lighting someone’s faucet on fire does suggest a well contaminat-ed by some source of natural gas, but that is not an ingredient in fracture flu-ids. While it is possible that such leaks come from natural gas wells (not nec-essarily fracked wells), there are equal-ly well-documented cases where the source is shallow coal horizons adja-cent to a poorly cased water well. Poor casing jobs are not solely a problem for fracked wells, and do not bear any rela-tionship to the fracking process. There are legitimate risks involved in this pro-cess, but most are already extensively regulated.

Most fracking today is done on gas shale and oil-bearing shale formations (like the Barnett, Haynesville, Mar-cellus, Utica, Bakken and Eagle Ford) that have been buried much more deeply than oil shale, and hence con-tain oil and/or gas generated from the kerogen-rich rocks which give the for-mations their names. In some cases, the oil or gas is in silts or other slightly more porous, but still highly imperme-able rocks adjacent to the source shale.

There has been a great deal of con-fusion in the press, the public and even the industry about the distinction be-tween these rocks and their product (shale-hosted oil or shale gas) on the one hand, and oil shale and its prod-uct, shale oil, on the other.

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It has not been an easy couple of years to be the pres-ident of a state university. However, President Bill Perry has held the reigns of Eastern with stoic poise (and some-times a Panther-blue wig) for the past five years. And thanks to the Board of Trustees extending his contract for three more years, we can hold on to him for that much longer.

Perry’s salary for the first year of his contract extension is $290,000, which is about a 3.8 percent increase from last year’s $275,834. (To put this in perspective, new football coach Dino Babers will be earning $170,000, base salary.)

But what does this contract extension mean to East-ern? Foremost, it means three years of leadership and sta-bility in a time when financing for Illinois higher educa-tion is as bleak as Paula Abdul’s music career.

In January of 2008, Perry sent out an email to the campus community outlining his goals for his presidency – one of those being to make Eastern a first-choice uni-versity through faculty development.

And Perry’s dedication has not gone unnoticed by fac-ulty. At the board meeting, English professor David Ray-bin recognized how involved Perry has been.

“I have known (Perry) to not only know his facul-ty members’ names, but their accomplishments and their ideas,” he said. He later continued, “He listens in ways I

wasn’t used to seeing.” In his 31 years of teaching, Raybin has seen six presidents run Old Main.

In Perry’s time, we’ve seen a pile of steel and brick become the Doudna Fine Arts Center. We’ve received national attention for our “Go Green” initiatives, includ-ing the new Renewable Energy Center. And with the ongoing campus master plan, Perry hopes a new science building will be the next to go up.

Perry’s extended contract also means we have three more years of having a university president dedicated to reaching out to the students. Last semester, Perry began his “Escape from Old Main” project. He has also adapted to the new ways with which students communicate. His blog, “Eastern Ways,” has received over 8,000 views since its inception last semester.

Significant fundraising for the university to offset Illi-nois’ financial woes has also been key during Perry’s first five years. The “EI&U” campaign has raised $48.8 mil-lion of its $50 million goal. This money will help lay the foundation for Eastern even after Perry’s tenure as pres-ident. But luckily, we don’t have to worry about losing him yet.

We understand Perry did not mix the mortar for the new buildings with his bare hands and did not knock on every single door for fundraising efforts – but if you asked, he would do it. And that makes all the difference.

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Leland Bough, the Weller Hall building service worker from Mat-toon, has been at his job for 15 years, but he says he is better known to the Weller dwellers as “Pee Wee.”

Bough, who served two years in Okinawa, Japan during the Viet-nam War, said working as a build-ing service worker has been the most rewarding job that he has ever had.

Bough said he keeps in contact with former students, as well as for-mer service workers who have re-tired.

“It’s just like a big family,” Bough said. “You get attached to these kids and you remember a lot of them.”

Bough said one of the best mo-ments from working in Weller was when two former residents, who had been resident advisors in Weller at the time, had called him and in-vited him to their wedding.

Bough said he now sees the cou-ple, Joe and Natalie Darling, as well

as their twin girls, about twice a year.

At 5:30 a.m., Bough starts his day and arrives at Weller by 7 a.m. and does a quick walkthrough of the building to make sure all the residents have soap, toilet paper, pa-per towels and other necessities.

Bough said his job usually takes until 10 a.m. to finish both the girls’ and boys’ sides of the build-ing.

“It’s rather rewarding,” Bough said. “I’ve had a lot of them tell me they appreciate the job I do.”

Bough said he does not have trouble with the Weller residents making messes and he sa id he thanks the current resident advisors for that.

“If you have a good resident ad-visor, then the buildings stays pretty clean,” Bough said.

Bough said that he had to discuss problems with certain floors when he worked in other buildings in the past, but the floor residents, service workers and resident advisors work together to solve the problem.

The residents and resident ad-

visors in Weller are the best that Bough has ever had, he said.

“This is the only job that I’ve ever had that I wake-up in the morning and want to go to work,” Bough said.

Bough said the hardest part of working as a building service work-er is when the students move back home.

Bough said that he not only miss-es the students, but there is also a lot of work that needs to be done to the buildings over summer includ-ing cleaning and moving the furni-ture around in the dorms and clean-ing up after the various camps and conferences that use the dorms dur-ing the summer.

Working around such a young and energetic group of people keeps Bough on his toes, he said.

“When you work around young people, it keeps you young,” Bough said.

Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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Chelsea Eversole, a junior psy-chology major, is a member of the Women’s Empowerment League.

Eversole said the organization was only expecting about 15 people to come to its event. “I was really im-pressed, we had an awesome turn-out,” she said.

Ludlow also presented statistics and research about how laws that have been put into effect or could be put in effect in the coming Novem-ber election could affect abortion clinics across the country.

By the end of 2011, 135 new pro-visions were enacted in 36 states, she said.

Of these, more than half restrict access to abortion services.

Several more provisions are in bills that could be passed this No-vember as well, which would further restrict women’s access to services.

“Women’s access to abortion across the country is steadily being eroded,” she said.

This is a problem not only be-cause of heightened restrictions, but also because the generation of abor-tion providers is aging.

The generation of abortion pro-viders that started their business-es to prevent illegal abortions is, for the majority, growing older, Ludlow said.

“Many med schools don’t teach abortion services anymore,” Ludlow said.

She said although abortion has become more accepted in society, it is still not discussed to the individu-al degree it should.

“Abortion doesn’t happen because life is easy, it happens because life is complicated,” she said.

Ludlow informed students of the two different methods of abortions, one that takes only a few minutes, and one that takes several weeks.

One of the processes is the sur-

gical method, which takes under three minutes to perform. The oth-er abortion process is done by a se-ries of pills over several weeks.

“Many women prefer (the pills) because it’s more private and dis-creet,” Ludlow said.

Regardless of the process choice, Ludlow said each woman reacts dif-ferently.

“Women’s emotional responses run a huge gambit,” she said.

Across the country, the average cost of an abortion during the first-trimester costs $425. After that, the price increases by week, Ludlow said.

The presentation date was cho-sen in light of the recent 39th anni-versary of the famous Roe v. Wade court case, which occurred on Jan. 22, 1973.

Ludlow said more than 50 mil-lion women have had abortions since the case.

The event focused on the individ-ual aspect of abortion and both the film and Ludlow encouraged attend-ees to see abortion on a more per-sonal level, and not just as an overall constant political controversy.

“We need to point to stigmatiza-tion and say why can’t we see every-one as an individual,” Ludlow said.

Ludlow said she thinks wom-en have to make decisions based on their own lives and the people they love around them.

“It’s up to us to be supportive, regardless of whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life,” she said.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

Ryan Hastings, the assistant ath-letic director for development, said Barbara Burke will be accepting the check with President Bill Perry and the money will be added to the gen-eral athletic fund.

Hastings said the athletic de-partment entered into a corpo-rate agreement with Neimann Foods and Neimann Foods will be a part of a corporate spon-s o r s p a c k a g e w i t h E a s t e r n athletics.

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After winning for the first time of the season against Western Illinois, the Eastern swimmers split in its home meet against Indiana University-Pur-due University Indianapolis, with the men winning 113-88 and the women losing by a small margin, 122.5-80.5. The Panthers will finish the regular season in a tri-meet against Saint Lou-is and Evansville in St. Louis on Sat-urday.

Around the Summit LeagueOakland sophomore Amr el Sayed

won the Men’s Athlete of the Week award for the second time this season. Sayed won both the 1,000 and the 500-yard Freestyles.

Oakland sophomore Vanessza Ba-logh has become a regular as she

earned the Women’s Athlete of the Week award for the fourth time this season. Balogh finished in first place in both the 200 and 500-yard Breast-rokes and the 200-yard Individual Medley. She is now tied for third in Summit League history with four Ath-lete of the Week awards within a sin-gle season.

With the help of Sayed and Balogh, the men and women of Oakland won in their tri-meet against Cleveland State and Xavier. Oakland also won a quad-meet against Ashland, Cincinna-ti and Kenyon. The Golden Grizzlies will next face IUPUI on Saturday.

Both the men and women’s teams of South Dakota State beat the Uni-versity of South Dakota 152-74 and 140-97 this past Saturday. South Da-kota State will face North Dakota next in Grand Forks, N.D., Friday evening.

Western Illinois came in last in the

tri-meet against St. Louis, Xavier and IUPUI. Western Illinois on Saturday will meet at home against Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The University of South Dakota lost against South Dakota State with the men losing 87-140 and the women losing 74-152 last Saturday. The next meet will be at 1 p.m. at North Dako-ta on Saturday.

The women of the University of Omaha competed against at the Grin-nell Invitational this past weekend and finished second to Gustavus Adolphus College. Omaha will battle Iowa State on Friday evening.

After receiving a split against East-ern, IUPUI will head to Rochester, Mich., to face Oakland on Saturday.

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SWIMMING

KIMBERLY FOSTER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMembers of the men's and women's swimming teams react Saturday as junior Michael Bower races to the finish during the men’s 500 yard freestyle Saturday in Padovan Pool. Bower placed second as Indiana University Purdue University's Luke Green eked out a win by a .02 second margin.

Team earns 2nd home win

By Olivia Sloss & Dominic Renzetti Staff Reporter & Sports Editor

On Saturday, the Eastern’s men’s and women’s track and field teams hosted the teams’ first meet of 2012 with the John Craft Invitational. The meet, formerly known as the EIU Mega Meet, was renamed in honor of Eastern alum John Craft. Craft, who graduated in 1969, later went on to compete in the 1979 Munich Olym-pics, participating in the triple jump event. A jersey was retired in Craft’s honor in Lantz Fieldhouse last sea-son.

Sanchez falls short in 400-meter dash, rebounds in relay

Senior Bridget Sanchez, who was set to win the 400m dash, wasn’t able to finish due to her falling as she was trying to take the lead after the first lap.

“During our first lap, a girl from Greenville came to the cut in first and I saw her slowing down and I knew that I could easily past her up before the straight away, so I moved in over because I thought my path was clear, but she must have seen me coming,” Sanchez said. “She moved in over a little onto my lane, and when that happened her trail leg went right into my leg as I was going forward and I tripped on her leg and then the girl behind me kicked my other leg.”

She said she had no chance of re-gaining her balance, causing her to fall about 250 meters into the race.

Sanchez didn’t let her fall disable her from competing in the 4x400-meter relay and helping her team fin-ish first. Sanchez, along with senior Emily Quinones, red-shirt senior Me-gan Gingerich and junior Erika Ra-mos won the event with a time of 3:57.21.

“I didn’t stand around pouting af-ter my fall and being upset about it,” Sanchez said. “This was a learning les-son; you live and you learn is what I always say. I wanted to come out strong to make up for my 400-meter performance.”

Panthers pick up pace in relays

On the men’s side, the Panthers were able to come away with victo-ries in both the distance medley re-lay and the 4x400-meter relay. The team of sophomore Danny Delaney, freshman Bryce Basting, freshman Ephraim Dorsey and junior Graham Morris took first place in the distance medley relay with a time of 10:41.73.

In the men’s 4x400-meter relay, red-shirt junior Joe Augustine, fresh-man Stefan Gorol, sophomore Cody Boarman and red-shirt junior Sean Wiggan took first place with a time of 3:22.01.

Twice is nice for QuinonesTo add to her win total from last

Saturday, Quinones picked up vic-tories in both the women’s 200-me-ter and 400-meter dash. She finished first in the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.05 seconds, while taking the 400-meter dash with a time of 58.96 seconds. Quinones is coming off a 2011 indoor season in which she earned All-Ohio Valley Conference honors as a member of the distance medley relay team.

Team racks up first place finishes

Gorol, Morris, Wiggan and senior Tyler Carter all finished in first place in their respective events. Gorol won the men’s 400-meter dash with a time of 49.69. Morris won the men’s mile run with a time of 4:15.18. Wiggan won the men’s 600-meter dash with a time of 1:20.98, and Carter finished first in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.04 seconds.

In field events, senior Queenie Adeboyejo won the women’s tri-ple jump with a bound of 37-feet, 1.75-inches. While on the men’s side, junior Bryce Hogan won the long jump with a mark of 23-feet, 8.25-inches. Red-shirt sophomore Tyler Allen won the men’s triple jump, landing 45-feet, 1.75-inches, and re-shirt senior Donald Romero won the weight throw with a distance of 60-feet, 6-inches.

The Panthers will hit the road next week, heading to the Indiana Relays for a two-day event in Bloomington, Ind. The action starts Friday Jan. 27 and concludes Saturday Jan. 28.

Olivia Sloss and Dominic Renzetti

can be reached at 581-7942 or densportsdesk@

eiu.edu

Runners wrap up successful weekendTeam ready to run in Indiana this weekend

TR ACK

BABERS, from page 8Spoo won two OVC Coach of the

Year awards, 2001 and 2005, and multiple other awards prior to 2001.

For earning a spot in the FCS play-offs, Babers will receive $1,000, and will earn an additional $2,000 for each game played in beyond the first round.

Babers will receive $5,000 for play-ing in the national championship game — an additional $10,000 for winning it.

Based on the end-of-season rank-ings, Babers could earn $5,000 for being the No. 1 ranked team in the FCS Coaches Poll, $2,500 for placing in the top five or $1,000 for being in the top 25. These amounts are not cu-mulative; for example, Babers will not earn all three amounts for being the No. 1 team, rather only the $5,000.

Babers will receive $2,500 per win against Football Bowl Subdivision teams. For example, Eastern played Northwestern this season but lost. Northwestern is an FBS school.

Babers’ final incentive comes from summer camps. He will receive $2,500 at the conclusion of summer football camps on an annual basis if 150 overnight campers are housed in Eastern’s residence halls during the camps.

Provided that Babers’ successful-ly completes all incentives, he could earn up to $220,500 in a single sea-son.

Babers is now the highest paid member of the athletic department. Athletic Director Barbara Burke makes $144,000 per year.

Spoo’s last contract had him mak-

ing $116,860 without any incentives. Spoo won at least a share of the

conference title four times in his ca-reer. His team advanced to the NCAA first round seven times, and the quar-terfinals once. The Panthers finished in the top 25 polls 10 times during his tenure.

Babers’ three-year contract ends Jan. 1, 2015; however, if he’s still the coach Sept. 1, 2015, his base salary will increase to $185,000.

Babers will announce his first East-ern recruiting class Feb. 1 on National Signing Day, and will start his career Aug. 30 at home against Southern Il-linois-Carbondale.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-7942

or [email protected].

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

Editor’s Note: This is the first story in an occasional series examining coaches’ salaries and budgets in the athletic de-partment.

New Eastern football head coach Dino Babers is slated to make $53,140 more annually than former head coach Bob Spoo made in his final contract, following the approval of his salary Fri-day.

The Board of Trustees approved Babers’ three-year contract worth $170,000 per year — a total of $510,000 at the end of the deal.

Babers was promised in his con-tract, which he signed Jan. 3, a hand-ful of incentives that could be added onto his base salary — adding up to a potential bonus of $50,500, if he ac-complishes all in one season.

These incentives, which the con-tract calls “achievement compensation awards,” are one-time, lump sum pay-ments; for example, if Babers earned one of the “awards” in his first season, he would receive that as a bonus, but his base salary would still be $170,000 the next year. The incentives are both

academic- and performance-based. If at the end of any spring semes-

ter his team’s GPA is at or above 2.8, Babers will receive $2,000. Further-more, Babers will receive $2,000 if the team’s Academic Progress Rate is at or above 950, starting with the 2013-2014 academic calendar.

Academic Progress Rate is a statistic created by the NCAA to measure the success of college teams in moving stu-dent-athletes toward graduation.

If the Panthers win seven games in a single season, Babers is promised $1,500; however if the team wins nine games, he will be given $3,000 instead.

Babers will receive $3,000 for win-ning an outright regular season confer-ence championship — only $1,500 if the team is co-champions with anoth-er school.

Babers will receive $1,500 for being named Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year, as well as $5,000 more if he’s named the Sports Network FCS Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, which is the Football Championship Subdivision’s national coach of the year award.

Babers now highest paid in athletic department

FOOTBALL

By Rob Mortell Staff Reporter

Sophomore forward Alfonzo McKin-nie is showing why his coaches believe he has unlimited potential.

The 6-foot-7-inch forward tied his career-high with 14 rebounds, nine of which were offensive, in the 76-64 loss to Austin Peay last Saturday. He also had a team-high 15 points on 6-of-9 shoot-ing.

McKinnie said he just goes out and tries to play with as much energy as pos-sible.

At 195 pounds, McKinnie is not the bulkiest forward in the league, so he said he gets rebounds with effort.

“(Other players) might be bigger, but I am a little faster,” McKinnie said.

The 15 points and 14 rebounds marked the second career double-dou-ble for McKinnie, who helped the team out-rebound the Governors 40-30. Fif-teen of the Panthers rebounds were of-fensive.

Head coach Mike Miller said 15 of-fensive rebounds is huge for the Pan-thers because they are not playing a

dominant post game and they have to score inside other ways and offensive re-bounding is a big help.

Hollowell playing well in limited minutes

The Panthers have missed the pres-ence of red-shirt junior forward James Hollowell for most of the season, but he is making strides toward returning to his normal self.

Hollowell has missed 10 games this season due to a nagging back injury, but in his limited play he has still averaged six points and four rebounds per game.

Hollowell had eight points and four rebounds against Austin Peay in just 12 minutes of play, including two impor-tant tap-ins after missed shots on offense.

Hollowell said he had more ener-gy and his body felt better against the Governors than it did against Tennes-see State.

Miller said Hollowell has only prac-ticed about seven or eight times this sea-son, which is why he is not in game-shape just yet.

“He looked better (against Austin Peay),” Miller said. “He did some good

things and made some big tip-ins late.”

Around the OVC Murray State is the last undefeat-

ed team left in NCAA Division I bas-ketball, as the Racers improved to 20-0 overall and 8-0 in the OVC with a win over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville last Saturday.

Murray proved to be too much for SIU-E to handle as it won easily, 82-65. Guard Isaiah Canaan led the Racers with 21 points. With the win Murray State now ranks No. 9 in the nation.

Tennessee Tech handled Southeast Missouri State 77-62, thanks to a big performance from senior forward Kev-in Murphy. He scored 26 points, while shooting 4-of-4 from behind the three-point line.

With the win the Golden Eagles im-prove to 12-8 overall and 4-3 in the OVC, while the Redhawks fall to 10-9 overall and 5-2 in conference play.

Rob Mortell can be reached at 581-7944

or [email protected]

McKinnie grabs second career double-double

MEN’S BASKETBALL

DANNY DAMIANI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJordyne Crunk, a sophomore guard, shoots from under Tennessee State's senior guard Kim Haynes in Lantz Arena during the first half of play Monday. Eastern beat Tennessee State 88-73.

By Alex McNamee Staff Reporter

Junior guard Ta’Kenya Nixon had to earn her double-double Monday in the Eastern women’s basketball team’s 88-73 win over Tennessee State, so she made the other team earn their points, too.

No matter the time left in the game or the score, Nixon went hard to shut down the Tennessee State offense.

So it came as no surprise to her teammates or her coach when as Ten-nessee State’s Rachel Allen drove down the court with seconds left in the game trying to get a cheap lay-up, Nixon stuffed it back in her face.

“Good punctuation,” Eastern head coach Brady Sallee said.

Bitter she let the shot clock run out on Eastern’s last possession of the game, just prior to her game-defining block, Nixon had to get something back.

“It was a little mistake,” said Nixon, referring to Eastern’s last possession. “I was just returning the favor.”

While the block didn’t mean any-thing more than being a testament to Eastern’s tough play, Eastern won by 15 points. Sallee said the block said a lot about the team’s attitude.

“With our team, you have a pretty prideful group,” Sallee said. “Wheth-er it’s one second to go, up 20, or it’s a two-point game, we’re not going to let somebody lay it in.”

Although Eastern held a double-dig-it lead for most of the game, Tennessee State never gave up. Their effort led to some “things,” Sallee said.

Sallee said the game was tough for the team to play in, knowing they weren’t going to lose, but trying to stay away from the things Tennessee State was trying to make them do.

“There were some things going on out of our control that just made it im-possible to play cleanly,” Sallee said.

Tennessee State began to mount a comeback with a 12-7 run with 8:33 to

go in the game. Angered at the Panthers play, Sallee called a timeout with a 74-60 lead.

“There for a moment we got crazy,” Sallee said. “That’s their strength, get-ting it in that circus-like atmosphere.”

Junior forward Mariah King, who had a double-double in the game, said the Panthers tried to stay composed in the second half.

“We said ‘Keep your cool,’” King said. “Keep it professional. Don’t play into their hands. Play our game.”

The Panthers did just that, gaining their tempo back and holding onto the lead for the win. The Panthers improve to 6-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Six of eight Panthers who played in the game scored in double figures. Nix-on led the team with 16 points and 12 assists. Junior forward Sydney Mitchell was next with 15 points. King scored 13 points. Sophomore guard Jordyne Crunk scored 11. Senior forward Ch-antelle Pressley scored 10 and junior guard Kelsey Wyss scored 11.

All of Wyss’ 11 points were in the first half. Wyss and her teammates were making a lot of shots in the first half against the Tennessee State zone, lead-ing to a lead at halftime.

Eastern shot 49 percent from the field in the first half, 50 percent from beyond the three-point line. Wyss was 4-of-6 shooting, including 3-of-5 from beyond the three-point line.

Red-shirt freshman guard Katlyn Payne came off the bench to hit two three pointers in the first half as well.

“You saw if you don’t guard her, it’s going to go up and you’re going to hope she misses,” Sallee said. “She’s a really good shooter.”

The Panthers end their home stand having gone 3-0. They’ll hit the road for their next game, which is against Jack-sonville State at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Alex McNamee can be reached at 581-7942

or [email protected].

Nixon leads in win against Tenn. State