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STUDENTS SELECT THE BEST OF RICHMOND, B1

SPRING GAME FEATURES RUNNING BACKS, B6

SKAGGS BRINGS BLUEGRASS HOME, A3

CAMPUS WEATHERFORECAST, A4

STAR PITCHER EXCELS ON AND OFF MOUND, B6

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WHAT’SINSIDE

Third student charged in Clay Hall robbery

EKU Police have charged a third stu-dent in connection with the Clay Hall

robbery that occurred Sunday, March 30.

Lorenzo McWilliams II, 20, broadcasting and electronic major from Roswell, Ga. was arrest-ed and charged with first-degree criminal conspiracy to commit a robbery. McWilliams was a defensive lineman for the 2013 Colonels

football team.McWilliams was initially presented to

EKU Police as a victim in the case, uni-versity officials said. EKU Police made the arrest Wednesday, April 23. McWil-liams was lodged in the Madison County Detention Center. EKU Police is continu-ing to investigate the armed robbery.

Advisory board calls foul on SGA election

The SGA Advisory Board announced the Siahkoohi/Perrin platform is ineligible for the office Wednesday, April 30.

The Advisory Board met Tuesday night and determined the decision made by the Student Court in the case of Bailey Cox vs. The Elections Committee to be incorrect. The board voted to have executive slate candidates Damir Siahkoohi and John Per-rin removed from the ballot by a 5-3 major-ity vote.

“The SGA Advisory Board finds that the Siahkoohi/Perrin executive slate should be

removed from the ballot. Per the SGA Elec-tion Bylaws, Section C, Petition and Ap-peals Process, Item i, ‘if an executive can-didate is removed after the elections, the candidate with the next highest total votes assumes the position,’” according to their opinion.

As a result of this case, executive slate candidates Kyle Nicholas and Rachael Lander will now assume office as SGA Pres-ident and Executive Vice President.

Student Senator Bailey Cox appealed the decision to the Advisory Board after Stu-dent Court ruled in favor of the Elections Committee, determining that Siahkoohi and Perrin did not violate SGA Election By-laws. The Advisory Board also determined this decision to be incorrect, voting 5-3 that Siahkoohi and Perrin did violate the bylaws.

The original grievance filed to the Elec-

tions Committee said Siahkoohi left a cam-paign banner hanging off the Powell Stu-dent Center balcony after the electronic polls in Powell opened. Election Bylaws state there is to be no active or passive cam-paigning in Powell on the day of elections, according to the grievance filed.

The difference between the Powell Building and the Powell Student Center has been a hotly debated topic in this series of hearings. The Elections Committee deter-mined them to be different saying the Pow-ell Building has be enclosed by walls, Stu-dent Court agreed with this decision.

“The SGA Advisory Board defined the Powell Student Center as the Powell Build-ing, anything underneath the Powell roof/awning, Powell balconies, Powell corners, and Powell Plaza,

as per the University reservation pro-

SIAHKOOHI/PERRIN REMOVED FROM BALLOT, NICHOLAS/LANDER TO ASSUME OFFICE AT SGA BANQUET

Ohio Valley to remain home for Eastern sports

Cason selected to lead university marketing

By TOPHER [email protected]

McWilliams II

By JACOB [email protected]

Eastern’s athletics program will be staying in the Ohio Valley Conference for the near future after not being invited to join the Sun Belt Conference.

Mark Sandy, athletic director, said Eastern wouldn’t be looking at mov-ing conferences for another two or three years. He said the department is going to take the opportunity to improve their fa-cilities.

Switching from Football Champion-ship Subdivision (FCS) to Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) would add several mil-lion dollars to the operating budget, but the increase would help Eastern get more fans into seats during athletic games and overall lift the notoriety of the school, Sandy said.

“Th is was a chance to evaluate where we are athletically, especially our facili-ties,” Sandy said. “We knew all along that we needed to improve our facilities-we have been kind of lacking for the past 10 years or so.”

Facilities projects that will be com-pleted this summer include new tennis courts located by the indoor courts across the Eastern Bypass along with new light-ing and new wooden fl oors to replace the nearly 50-year-old original fl ooring in McBrayer Arena.

Other plans to renovate, that will not be done this summer but will be in the fu-ture, include improving Eastern’s football facilities with better seating, more ameni-ties, press boxes and luxury suites.

Th ese improvements will require addi-tional funding, which is why the admin-istration is continuing with the imple-mentation of an athletics fee imposed on students.

“We plan to stay in the OVC for the foreseeable future,” President Michael Benson said. “We will, however, also move forward with the proposed student fee ($50 per semester) in order to address our athletic budget needs.”

Another aspect of being a part of larg-er conferences is increasing attendance at games.

“If you’re going to move to the FBS your stadium has to hold at least 17,000 fans

and then average 15,000 fans per game,” Sandy said. “Our stadium holds 20,000 so we have the size but we would have to fi x our average attendance.”

Sandy said moving up conferences would have improved attendance at home games because Eastern would be playing schools such a Western Kentucky Univer-sity and Marshall University.

Th e rejection is an opportunity to im-prove athletics, Sandy said.

“Th ey didn’t off er us an invitation,” Sandy said. “We were having a conversa-tion about our readiness and our ability to move up. We look at it as an opportunity to improve and we’ll move on from there.”

Even without moving to the FBS for football, Eastern will need an additional women’s sport such as triathlon, bowling or sand volleyball, Sandy said.

“Our goal next year and our goal of each years are very similar,” Sandy said. “We want to win the conference cham-pionship in every sport. Th at is how we compete. We want to compete with integ-rity and teach our athletes to have good sportsmanship and we want to graduate our students.”

After two national searches, Scott Ca-son has been selected as the vice presi-dent of marketing and communications for Eastern.

Cason will leave his role as the assis-tant vice president of communications and marketing at Augustana College to become the chief marketing and commu-nications office for at Eastern beginning July 1. Cason will earn $152,000 in the top-tier vice president role.

“This has been my goal all along,” Ca-son said. “I really wanted the privilege of serving a top level college or university as a chief marketing and communications officer.”

The search committee had three great options and recommended Cason by a small margin, said Betina Gardner, dean of libraries and chair of the committee that ultimately recommended Cason to

President Michael Benson. “Mr. Cason brings the right blend of

leadership, ability and experience to do a great job. He’s a great compliment to the presi-dent’s cabinet,” Gardner said. “It was incredibly tight. All three candi-dates brought their A-game. We had three fan-tastic candidates.”

Benson said he agreed that all three candidates were excel-lent, but added that Ca-son demonstrated with his preparedness that he wanted to be at Eastern. He noted that Cason is from Ohio and will be clos-er to his roots.

“Scott jumped out to the committee and to me [for his different experienc-es],” Benson said. “I was really impressed with how level-headed, calm and concise he is. He came into the interviews very well prepared and he asked some very

good questions. Every candidate brings a different skill set and abilities. The chal-lenge is getting the right person in at the right time. Scott struck me as someone who wanted to be here right now.”

Cason said his range of experiences from the Navy, to school teaching and his roles at Augustana College gave him con-fidence that he’d be the man for the job at Eastern throughout the interview pro-cess. He said he is eager to help build a team that will advance the reputation of the university.

“I was really taken by the spirit and en-thusiasm I saw on campus,” Cason said. “There is a real pride that’s obvious.”

Cason said he will listen and learn be-fore developing major ideas, but added that President Benson expects boldness.

“I owe it to everyone on campus to do a lot of reading, listening and research-ing first,” Cason said. “We’re going to do it, get into it and do it right. We’re going to be inclusive and reach high. There are a lot of folks with a stake in the future of

Eastern Kentucky University. Inclusivity in the process is very important.”

Cason said he plans on sharing the university’s success stories to help build momentum and expand Eastern’s recog-nition.

“There are a lot of great stories to tell,” Cason said. “I see an opportunity through digital media [to share those stories].”

Cason said he will be in Kentucky to house hunt before starting the new job. The father of four said he and his wife have already tabbed schools for his three school aged children and are looking for-ward to the move.

Cason said he will miss Augustana College and the opportunity for growth, but is excited for the new challenge at Eastern. He said everyone he met at East-ern greeted him warmly and gave him the same feeling he had when he inter-viewed at Augustana College.

“I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to working at EKU – it’s going to be a blast,” Cason said.

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By WESLEY [email protected]

Student Justices listen as Sean Potter, representing the defense, proposed questions to SGA Ethics Administer Matthew Boggs about the decision of the Elections Committee at the hearing last Wednesday. Boggs was one of the people that sat on the Elections Committee and said nothing unethical happened.

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Scott Cason

APRIL 23

� A staff member at Roy Kidd Stadium report-ed the visitor’s side rest-room had been vandal-ized as a light fi xture was pulled down and broken. An ice machine was also broken, along with a win-dow in the storage build-ing next to the restroom.

APRIL 24

� An employee report-ed someone had painted a concrete wall and bleach-ers with silver paint at Roy Kidd Stadium at 5:29 p.m. Th e employee said she would put in a work or-der to clean off the paint.

APRIL 25

� Shower steam acti-vated the fi re alarm in

Martin Hall at 6:54 a.m.

� EKU Police and the Richmond Fire Depart-ment responded to the Coates Building three times at 4:44 p.m., 5:44 p.m. and 6:48 p.m. after a bad detector activat-ed the fi re alarm system. Th e Richmond Fire De-partment advised Facili-ties Services to take the system offl ine until the detector could be fi xed.

APRIL 26

� An EKU police offi -cer responded to the Keen Johnson Building at 7:08 a.m. after a staff mem-ber reported she found the northwest entrance door damaged and ap-parently forced open at the top left corner.

APRIL 27

� An EKU Police offi cer responded to the Fountain

Food Court at 8:23 p.m. after an Aramark employ-ee reported that Charles Montgomery, 19, from Frankfort stole a pizza.

APRIL 28

� A student report-ed someone had sto-len his clothes and wal-let from the weaver Building at 8:18 p.m.

� An EKU Police offi -cer responded to the sec-ond fl oor of Martin Hall at 7:13 p.m., after some-one reported it smelled like marijuana. Th e offi cer searched William Essing-ton III, 19, from Louisville and Austin Spaeth, 20, from Lynchburg, Ohio. Th e offi cer found marijua-na and drug paraphernalia during the search and cit-ed Essington for posses-sion of marijuana. Spaeth was cited for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

ISA TAKES TIME TO LOOK BACK

It’s the time of year for adios, farewell, auf wiedersehen, and goodbye. Th e International Student Association had its “Goodbye Party” Friday, April 25, to say goodbye to students.

More than a hundred people converged on the venue, immersing themselves in the atmosphere of the party, socializing and mix-ing with the diverse nationalities around the room. Th e dinner was provided by Casa Fi-esta, and there were 30 nationalities repre-sented at the goodbye dinner, including those from India and France.

Everyone waited expectantly for the elec-tion of the new International Student Asso-ciation.

Allia Vaez, 19, the current president of ISA, recapped on the previous year and the events that took place. She mentioned the success of the organization across the past year.

“Th e International Banquet last semester

was defi nitely the highlight of the interna-tional events,” Vaez said.

More than 400 people from all parts of the world delighted in tasting the delicacies from diff erent countries, ranging from chick-en curry from India to chocolate balls from Latvia.

Th is year the new International Student’s government wants to have a more organized feel with more international events around campus for everyone to get involved, said Ga-jana Porosjan, vice president-elect for ISA who attends graduate school at Eastern.

“It is a perfect way to help the community at EKU and I have a lot of time on my hands,” Porosjan said. “I want it to be more of an um-brella organization, a lot of the groups are separated amongst the diff erent nationalities and I would like us to be more of a one big or-ganization.”

Melissa Gerritsen, 21, from Th e Nether-lands, said the evening was “encouraging and a great experience for all of us international students. We were able to meet new people and say goodbye to others, and I really look forward to what the ISA have in store for next year.”

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Options available for loan repayment

The time of year has finally come for many hardworking students to graduate from East-ern and begin a new life.

Graduates have a grace period of six months before they must begin paying off any loans accrued during college.

Repayment plans are helpful to students when paying off debt and the Financial Aid of-fice on campus is open to offering advice for this new financial journey.

Student loans affect students on campus both currently and in the future.

“I’ve been very fortunate not to have to take out a loan so far,” said Taylor Royse, 19, an oc-cupational science freshman from Simpson-ville. “But the master’s program I want to do will drain a lot of my savings and I might need one in year five or six.”

If a student graduating soon wishes to re-turn to school in the fall and is enrolled for at least six credit hours, they stay in deferment on the repayment of their loans, said Shelley Park, director of Financial Assistance at East-ern. Notification from the university would be sent to the federal government and the loan agency so they know the student does not have to begin paying off their loans until they have finished school.

If a student is finished with school, then a one-time grace period of six months begins before repayment starts in November. During this period, a student should begin looking for a job and will receive information from their service about different repayment plans.

Graduating students who will not return are also required by the federal government to complete exit counseling. Information will be sent from the Financial Aid office about exit counseling to students.

The repayment plan chosen by the student will determine how long it will take for them to repay their loans. This could take any-where from 10 to 25 years, depending on the plan, Park said. There are numerous repay-ment plans for students to choose from. Each repayment plan can be reviewed at studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans.

If a student is unable to find a job in the grace period, they can discuss with their ser-vicer about getting a deferment or a forbear-ance. This delays payment on the loan until a job is found, but the loan does not stop accru-ing interest, Park said.

“An EKU student getting a bachelor’s de-gree, their average loan debt is about $26,000,” Park said.

Monitoring loans taken out is important for both those graduating and for underclass-men continuing their education.

“The federal government wants you to have loans, but they want you to get into school and get out,” Park said. “The more time you waste getting in and out of school, the more debt you

have.”Many don’t see the long term problems tak-

ing out loans can have, Park said.When wanting to keep loan debt as low as

possible, a student needs to make important decisions when regarding what they want to do. Direct costs, such as housing, a meal plan and tuition, are important, but taking out a loan for a spring break trip isn’t very neces-sary, Park said.

If a loan were needed, a subsidized loan would be best to use if able because the in-terest on unsubsidized loans can increase the next academic year and is not covered by the federal government, but is accrued to the loan, Park said. Park also advises students to stay away from private loans if possible.

Some students already have a plan to begin paying off their loans after graduation.

“I plan to work in a juvenile correction cen-ter,” said Robert Breitenstein, 22, a criminal justice senior from Dayton, Ky. “My payment plan is a 10 year plan, but hopefully I can make it in less.”

Student debt will not go away until it is ful-ly repaid and can affect financial decisions in the future. Students can view the amount of loans they have taken out on www.nslds.ed.gov and can contact the Financial Aid of-fice for more information on student loans.

By BRIANNA [email protected]

Student earns award for Ole Miss grad program

Skaggs bring bluegrass home to EKU Center

An Eastern student recently won a prestigious award that will pay for her schooling while studying fi ction writing at the University of Mississippi.

Ashley Mullins, a senior studying creative writing, was the winner of the 2014 John and Renée Grisham Fellow-ship Award. Th e fellowship is valued at $60,000 and will pay for her to continue her studies at Ole Miss, where she’ll pur-sue an MFA in fi ction writing later this year.

Mullins, who came to Eastern after at-tending community college in Hazard for two years, said she originally was a psy-chology major before she found herself spending less time on her school work and more time on her writing. Th at’s when she began thinking about chang-ing her major, which she did a year after transferring to Eastern.

Her writing career began when she was younger. She said she used to tell wild and crazy stories to anyone who would listen. When she was in grade school, she would write stories in class, drawing praise from her teaches.

“From the time I was little, I was keep-ing journals and was always telling wild stories about me in the mountains,” Mul-

lins said. “It was just second nature. It was always a part of my life I just never considered making it my life.”

Mullins said she knew from the start that she wanted to go to an MFA pro-gram to continue her education in cre-ative writing. At Ole Miss, which was one of the schools she applied to, any-one who submits an application is eligible for the fellowship, but the school awards

only two of them: one for fi ction and one for poetry. Mullins said she assumed it was going to be a long shot, but she didn’t let that bother her, since she was going to apply to the school anyway.

When she found out she won the fel-lowship, she said it was early in the morning. It was around 2 a.m. and her night was not going as well as she had

planned. She was writing a story and it wasn’t coming together like she’d hoped. She then began questioning her writing abilities and was thinking about giving up on everything.

“It was one of those 2 a.m. moments where you’re sort of in a 2 a.m. existen-tial crisis questioning everything—ques-tioning my ability to write and thinking maybe I’m not cut out to do this,” Mul-lins said. “Maybe this isn’t really where I’m supposed to be. Maybe I’m not as tal-ented. Maybe I’m not as good.”

Th en she checked her email and there it was: she had won the fellowship. Si-lence came over her, and she was in a state of shock, she said.

“Someone says here’s the thing you want most in the world,” Mullins said. “How do you react?”

Mullins plans to attend graduate school right away, adding that she’s eager to put more time into her writing and to be surrounded by people who share the same passion for writing as she does.

Mullins credited her instructors, spe-cifi cally Derek Nikitas, director of East-ern’s MFA program in Creative Writing, and Bob Johnson, who teaches in the pro-gram. She said they gave her the encour-agement she needed and taught her how to “pick apart a story and look at it on ev-ery level.”

By AKEYLA [email protected]

By JACOB [email protected]

“It was one of those 2 a.m. moments where you’re sort of...questioning everything.”

Ashley MullinsCreative writing senior

“An EKU student getting a bachelor’s degree, their average loan debt is about $26,000.”

Shelley ParkDirector of Financial Assistance

Ricky Skaggs, a 14-time Grammy winner, is no stranger to Richmond. The Grammy award-winning coun-try and bluegrass musician and singer addressed students at the Spring 2005 graduation, where he was awarded an honorary degree.

He was back last Friday night when he performed a mesh of bluegrass, country and gospel music with his band, Kentucky Thunder, to a large crowd, but not a sold out crowd at the EKU Center for the Arts.

About 200 people had already lis-tened to some bluegrass earlier that night, as the pre-show event was 45 minutes of music by the Mountain Music Ambassadors from The Ken-tucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University.

“Let’s play some music from Ken-tucky,” Skaggs said as he welcomed the audience and reached for his mando-lin.

He entertained the audience not only with music, but also with his wit-ty banter and some comic relief be-tween songs.

“Have you ever noticed how a chick-en will gain weight, but it’ll never gain weight in his face?” Skaggs said.

Skaggs performed a host of his own songs, and those from his heroes, such as bluegrass giant Bill Monroe. Skaggs actually played with Monroe in Skaggs’ hometown of Martha when he was six-years-old, according to his on-line biography.

“I’m glad they didn’t write words to that, I‘d be passed out by now,” Skaggs said after concluding a rousing rendi-tion of Monroe’s Bluegrass Breakdown.

An overzealous fan shouted out during one of the song breaks and

asked for Skaggs to sing a particular song.

“Later, you’ll have to wait,” Skaggs replied.

Before he could return to playing, Skaggs had to tune his mandolin to the right key for his next song.

“Every time I tune, I think about my dad,” Skaggs said.

He then talked about his mother.“A precious Christian woman,”

Skaggs said. “Nothing upset her until you got up in her face and talked back. She’d throw you through a door and you’d have to fix it. I thought I was go-ing into the carpentry business for a while.”

Skaggs said his father told him there are only two things you can’t buy: true love and homegrown tomatoes. Before playing The Way It Is, he continued talking about his father.

“He’d say son, if you’re a little out of tune, it’s all OK,” Skaggs said. “It sounds like there’s more playing. Me and dad sound like a whole band sometimes.”

During the next change, Skaggs talked about how thankful he was for the Kentucky Thunder band and get-ting the opportunity to play with them throughout his career.

“If I was up here by myself, I’d have three or four instruments and it’d get boring in 20 minutes,” Skaggs said.

Then, while tuning his guitar, he talked about his gratitude for technol-ogy.

“Thank goodness for iTunes, you can actually find these [Bill Monroe] songs, old songs,” Skaggs said.

He then made a connection with many of the older audience members that had to listen to music that wasn’t in a digital format.

“Lord have mercy, I used to have boxes of 8-tracks,” Skaggs said. “I had a boy in Elkhorn City say, ‘Ricky,

when’s your Bluegrass Rules! coming out on 8-track?’ Didn’t you just love it when in the middle of a chorus it would change tracks?”

Before he introduced his instru-mental song New Jerusalem, Skaggs talked about music and his faith in God.

“I know [the songs] are from the Lord,” Skaggs said. “I’ll be sitting around and I’ll hear them.”

After the song, he continued talk-ing about his faith.

“God’s in everything I feel like,” Skaggs said. “He made everything for himself.”

Skaggs then mentioned Passover and Easter Sunday after his song Mu-sic To My Ears.

“Jesus was our Passover lamb. It satisfied the Father,” Skaggs said.

That statement left the audience clapping before he sang You Can’t Shake Jesus, which Skaggs noted he sang in the Garden of Gethsemane, a garden at the bottom of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, where the Bible says Jesus prayed the night before his crucifixion.

Following the song, Paul Brewster, a tenor vocalist and rhythm guitar play-er for Kentucky Thunder, sang Ken-tucky Waltz, which got the audience cheering. Skaggs followed up with Highway 40 Blues and Monroe’s Uncle Pen.

Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder then thanked the audience and walked off the stage while the audience applaud-ed and chanted for an encore.

“It’s a one hour and 40 minute show already,” Skaggs said as he returned to the stage. “That’s 90…100 minutes, whatever time it is!”

He then played Black Eyed Suzie as his encore before he left the stage, ap-plause still echoing throughout the building long after he’d departed.

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Cody Kilby (left), from the band Kentucky Thunder, performed with Ricky Skaggs (right) for alumni and community members at the EKU Center for the Arts. Skaggs has won 14 Grammy Awards, 7 Country Music Association Awards and 12 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards.

FINANCIAL AID QUICK LINKSIndividual student loan repayment plans can be viewed at studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans.

Students can view the amount of loans they have taken out at www.nslds.ed.gov.

For more information of student loans, you can contact the EKU Offi ce of Student Financial Assistance at (859) 622-2361 or fi [email protected].

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Hall of Distinguished Alumni renovated

Th e Hall of Distinguished Alumni in the Keen Johnson Building was dedicated last Friday and opened to the pub-lic after receiving a much-needed update.

More than 300 alumni have received the Distinguished Alumni Award at Eastern and the Hall of Distinguished Alumni is a place to showcase the accomplishments of each alumni.

Jennifer Ott, associate director of Alumni Relations, said the fi rst hall of distinguished alumni awards were giv-en to the fi rst class in 1974.

Th e Hall also serves the purpose of providing inspira-tion for current students so they have something to aspire to, said Tonya Tarver Crum, president of the Alumni As-sociation.

Crum said members of the Board have been talking about possible renovations for a long time, but they needed someone to step in and take charge of the project. Crum said she was passionate about making the renovation hap-pen, so when she became president of the association, planning began.

“It had been a long time of neglect,” Crum said. Th e Hall of Distinguished Alumni was last renovated in

1978, according to one of the displays.At the dedication, Crum and President Benson gave

short speeches in Walnut Hall, located in the Keen John-son Building. Crum thanked the people involved in the renovation process such as the director of Project Admin-istration Ed Herzog and project manager Ron Snider.

“It was a commitment of resources,” Benson said. Benson said he was proud of the alumni at Eastern and

proud of the university.Along with the renovation of the Hall, he said it was

great to hear the carillon bells chiming for the fi rst time since 1999. Benson said the two improvements gave him an even greater sense of pride.

Guests who attended the dedication were then invited to visit the Hall, which is located in a room to the right of the Keen Johnson entrance.

Th e room is open and brightly lit with just a few fur-nishings. Albums full of alumni profi les are featured on a bookcase. Th e bookcase also holds pictures of the old Hall and Eastern memorabilia. A screen on one wall features alumni pictures and biographies in a continuous slide-show.

Crum said the new renovations matched her expecta-tions for the space. She said the room is an honorable addi-tion to the university.

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Scholarships, awards given at Minority Leadership Awards

“A lot of people come to Eastern and graduate without anyone know-ing who they are,” said Sheila Press-ley, associate professor of environ-mental health science. “We want to recognize [minority students] for something good.”

Pressley was the recipient of the most outstanding professor award at the third annual Minority Lead-

ership Awards that took place Mon-day, April 28. Th e award ceremony is designed to honor and celebrate the successes and talent of all minority students at Eastern. Th e African and African American Studies Club were the sponsors of the event.

Awards are given yearly for most outstanding male and female ath-lete, most outstanding student group, best social event, best com-munity service event, most edu-cational event, top fraternity and

sorority GPA, most outstanding professor and the Dr. Salome Nno-romele award for leadership.

Th e awards ceremony also gave the AFA program the opportunity to recognize those receiving minor certifi cates and graduating minority students. Any sophomore, junior or senior with a GPA of 3.75 or higher was recognized as well.

“Student athletes are recognized for their hard work and student lead-ers on our campus, and most out-standing professor is given recogni-tion and shown that what they have done has not gone unnoticed,” said Raven Hester, president of the Afri-can and African American Studies Club.

Unlike typical award ceremo-nies, the host and hostess not only handed out plaques for those who have achieved recognition, but they also danced onto stage and began the event by asking the audience trivia questions about the AFA pro-gram. Th is continued in between award presentations. Musical per-formances by Ayanna Ross, Clair Johnson, Domonique Richards, Shu-kura Spotts and a dramatic spiritu-al mime performance by Dashuan Washington were also part of the night’s showcase.

Th e awards were decided by a people’s choice survey taken by members of minority organizations, Hester said.

Dhahran Mason, a graduating senior in the program, was special-ly recognized for his eff orts with-in AFA. Mason started the annual minority awards show because he thought it was important to specifi -cally celebrate minority success and it has been growing every year since, Pressley said.

Adoption connects family, inspires book

Holly Prosser, the wife of Eastern’s Baptist Campus Ministries (BCM) minister Jeff Prosser, and her hus-band adopted their daughter Ellie from Ethiopia in 2009.

Prosser said adopting was in-spired by religion. Scripture tells us to take care of the or-phans, Prosser said.

Since their trip, Prosser has writ-ten a book enti-tled Colliding With Grace, which tells a story of adop-tion and hope. She said it is a com-bination of her own personal story of healing from sexual assault and the birth mother of her daughter heal-ing from assault, the friendship they have formed and of course the adop-tion process.

Prosser said they have been back to Ethiopia three times since the adoption. Every time they return, they make sure to visit Ellie’s birth mother, who gave Ellie up for adop-tion due to her poverty and because she felt she couldn’t provide for her.

Ellie’s birth mother told her sto-ry to the Prossers so the family could relay it to her when she got a little older, she said. Later on when Prosser decided to write a book, she said she asked Ellie’s birth mother for permission to publish her story.

Prosser also tackles her own struggles in the book.

“I was raped when I was 17 and struggled for many years with that,” Prosser said.

She said she felt a lot of shame, depression and bitterness for a long time. However, through work with a really good counselor, she said she saw that God really could heal her and make her whole again.

“I have fully forgiven,” Prosser said.

Prosser said she has several rea-

sons for writing her book. “I’ve always loved writing and

I’ve always wanted to write a book,” Prosser said.

She said there were a lot of girls who have come to her to talk about being assaulted, that was one of the main reasons she felt it was impor-tant to share their stories.

She said she also wants those girls to know that it’s okay to talk about having been assaulted and talk-ing about it is a better alternative to keeping everything bottled up. She added the last reason was to honor Ellie’s birth mother.

“When we go through diffi cult things in our lives, I think as fol-lowers of Christ we are supposed to share,” Prosser said. “To let oth-ers know that God is there for their struggles too.”

Colliding With Grace is not avail-able in big name bookstores yet, but it can be purchased at www.tatepub-lishing.com and also at www.holly-prosser.com.

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The recipients of Minority Leadership Awards were recognized at a ceremony that took place Monday night. The awards were decided by a survey that was taken by members of minority organizations.

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Landscape architecture closes out Chautauqua topics for 2013-2014

Th ere are few people in America who can truly say that they are reshaping the coun-try, and Eastern was lucky enough to host one of them. Not only is she redesigning America for the betterment of the people, but also for the environment.

Kate Orff , a landscape architect, gave a lecture as a part of Eastern’s “Beauty Mat-ters” Chautauqua series Th ursday, April 24. Th e lecture, entitled Toxic Beauty, was the last of the Chautauqua lectures this year.

Orff , an assistant professor at the Colum-bia University Graduate School of Archi-

tecture, Planning and Preservation, is one of the leading designers in her fi eld. She is a lead creative designer at her fi rm, SCAPE, and has worked on projects across the coun-try. She has been cited in major publications, especially New York magazines, where her company is based.

Orff ’s speech was separated into three sections titled “Petrochemical America,” “Town Branch Commons” and “Oyster Tec-ture.” Each section focused on one of her three main projects she has worked on for the last several years.

“Petrochemical America” is the title of her book collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach. Th e book shows the ef-

fects of petroleum plants on America’s land and population, especially in the Louisiana area.

“Americans think oil is just what we put in our cars,” Orff said. “Oil, natural gas, coal, they are the building blocks for everything we use.”

Th e book is full of graphics and charts showing the detrimental nature of petro-chemical plants, but what draws the reader in most is the connection between the infor-mation and the photography.

“It is so accessible, and it opened up top-ics of large scale questions from a cultural standpoint,” Orff said concerning what she intended by pairing her research with pho-tography. “I wanted to capitalize on peo-ple being drawn in by the images, then ask, ‘What did you learn?’”

Th e section “Town Branch Commons” was about her fi rm’s future project on the Town Branch creek that runs under Vine Street in Lexington. Th e project is divided into four sections of the city with four dif-ferent goals, being to “reveal, clean, carve and connect.” Orff said that the project is not just about making Lexington better looking, however.

“We had to fi gure out how to strategically reveal Town Branch itself and how the sys-tem can improve ecologically,” Orff said.

She presented several images of what Town Branch is proposed to look like, which included waterfalls, walking areas, event ar-eas and a recreational park.

Th e fi nal section of her speech, “Oyster Tecture,” was a project much closer to home for Orff . Th e project is a redesign of the New York coastal region, specifi cally Staten Is-land. Th e aim is to rebuild the area from the devastation of Hurricane Irene and Super-storm Sandy using the potential for a thriv-ing reef ecosystem.

“First we wanted to foster an oyster farm-ing reef in the shallow areas off Staten Is-

land,” Orff said. “Th en we began to expand the bounds of Staten Island and look at the entire New York region.”

Orff said that her fi rm teamed up with New York science teachers in order to de-termine the best functional design for Stat-en Island’s reefs and beaches. Orff showed images of futuristic-looking proposals for beachside laboratories, kayak storage and oyster farms.

David Coleman, director of the Honors Program at Eastern, said he was extremely impressed by Orff and her work.

“It was just amazing,” Coleman said. “She is the kind of interdisciplinary thinker that our society needs. She shows us, as a per-son who listens to artists, scientists and the community, how we can begin to not have the four acre lawn version of the American dream.”

Minh Nguyen, coordinator of the Chau-tauqua series, said he was also very im-pressed by Orff . He said that he was so glad that she was selected to help Eastern com-memorate Earth Day and to close the series and that her work is extremely important to Kentucky, specifi cally to the Lexington and Richmond area.

“As she showed in her plan for Town Branch Commons, we have to focus on green infrastructure, but it’s possible to do it in a way that simultaneously creates beau-tiful public space, increases commercial de-velopment and improves the environment,” Nguyen said. “Th e beauty of her design is that it accentuates the unity and synergy of various aesthetic, commercial, environmen-tal and educational elements.”

Orff said that overall, she wants the coun-try to see her ecological vision of the future.

“I’m motivated by being effi cacious, ad-vancing ideas and my own personal experi-ences,” Orff said. “We can live more close-ly together physically, spatially and from a community standpoint.”

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Students test odds in a chance to study abroadTh ree Eastern students won the

chance to study abroad this sum-mer with a scholarship contest Fri-day morning in Middle Powell.

Out of the 268 students who ap-plied for the study abroad scholar-ship drawing, Matthew Moore, 22, a chemistry senior from London and Paige Van Zandt, 19, an inter-national business sophomore from Muscatine, Iowa will spend part of their summer in Greece. Brenna Rowan, from Shelbyville, will be going abroad to Germany.

Bill Holmes, director of the center for international education, said the online application was open for 48 hours.

“We didn’t know what to ex-pect,” Holmes said.

Th e students submitted an ap-plication, their names were drawn

at random by President Benson and they got to spin a prize wheel to determine where they would spend the summer.

“I’ve always wanted to do a study abroad, but it hasn’t been an option [fi nancially] for me,” Moore said. “Th is is too good to be true.”

Van Zandt is no stranger to study abroad trips as she’s had the chance to study in Italy before learning she would go to Greece.

“I did a study abroad trip last year, so I fi gured why not,” Van Zandt said.

She said her favorite aspect of study abroad was seeing diff erent cultures and living in a diff erent place for a month.

President Benson said online that he is going to match the funds to send six people on study abroad the next time the Center for In-ternational Education hosts the scholarship drawing.

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Brenna Rowan, from Shelbyville, waits for the wheel to stop to learn her destination for a full scholarship in a study abroad trip.

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Kate Orff emphasizes the importance of creating infrastructure that is environmentally friendly.

cess,” according to the board’s opinion document.

In Cox’s original appeal, he claimed the Powell Student Center is not just one building with four walls; the walkway and the balcony are both covered by in-surance, meaning it is part of the center.

The night of the SGA election, the Elections Committee ruled unanimous-ly in favor of Siahkoohi and Perrin. Af-ter this, Cox filed an appeal to have this decision overturned by Student Court.

Student Court heard the case

Wednesday, April 23, and decided unan-imously that the decision of the Elec-tions Committee was correct and no vi-olation occurred. The result of this case urged Cox to file his appeal with the Ad-visory Board, something that has not happened since the spring of 2012.

Sean Potter, who represented the Elections Committee at the Student Court hearing, told the student justices in his opening statement that the words that matter the most are the words that govern the SGA, the same words the Elections Committee used to base their decision. At the conclusion of his open-ing statement Potter took a sheet of pa-per and taped it to the front of the lec-tern and asked the Justices to consider

if that was inside the lectern, or off the lectern.

John Hardin, who served on the Elec-tions Committee and a witness on be-half of the defense, said the committee took the bylaws to mean that campaign-ing had to be done closed inside the building.

In a closing statement, Cox said the precedent has always been to take down the banners during an election, that’s what everyone else has done and be-cause of this he said he wants the deci-sion made by the Elections Committee over turned.

In Potter’s closing statement he said the decision made by the Elections Com-mittee was based on the wording of the current bylaws.

The Student Court reached its deci-sion last Thursday.

“The Court found that the Elections Committee decision was correct in that the Siahkoohi/Perrin Executive Slate did

not breach the Elections Bylaws because the banner was not in the Powell Stu-dent Center at the time that electronic polls were open,” according to Student Court Opinion document.

The court reached this decision unanimously and ordered that the Elec-tions Committee’s decision not be over-turned.

“I personally was not pleased with the results of both the Court Hearing and the decision made by the Elections Committee,” Cox said. “I find the prec-edent set that a banner can be up in the Powell Student Center to be a bit ironic as we are operating on the same bylaws as we have been since May of 2012, yet in previous elections a banner was not allowed to be in the Powell Student Cen-ter.”

Nicholas and Lander were inaugurat-ed into office at the annual SGA Ban-quet.

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PPERSPECTIVESERSPECTIVESIt’s that time of year again. In just a week, fi nal exams

will be over and most of the students will go home.While most look at summer as a time to relax or save

money, it’s also an important time and opportunity for growing, both personally and professionally.

Th e summer vacation, should students opt for tak-ing a break instead of slogging through summer classes, isn’t really about taking a break. It is an opportunity to be productive—to have a job and make some money. But it’s also an opportunity to try some new things in the fi eld you’re studying. Not only will it round out your resume, but it also gives you a chance to discover what you like and don’t like about yourself or your current major.

If you decide that what you are doing isn’t for you it’s is not necessarily a bad thing. It is better you learn that now, before you’ve committed several more years of col-lege to something that might not be for you.

If you do take a job, keep a few things in mind. First, it’s easy to get trapped in the high school mind-

set, where all you’re after is a job that provides you with money.

Th ere’s more to it than that now. Sure, you want the job that provides the best wage you can get, but there’s also something else to consider: the opportunity costs.

Opportunity costs are the idea that you consider the alternatives to what you want to do to get a bigger picture of the “relative value” of something.

Let’s say you’re tasked with buying clothes for inter-viewing for an internship or summer job. You think you have a chance at the job and you really want to wow your prospective employer with how professional you are. But you only have $100 to get dressed head-to-toe.

Depending on your gender, this can be a bit more dif-fi cult. You may have some elements of the outfi t on hand, but they don’t match with the aff ordable options on your local department store’s clearance racks. So what do you do? Spend all $100 on a brand new matching outfi t or spend $80 on a new shirt and tie and go to thrift shopping for new slacks? What is that $20 worth to you at that time?

Th e same idea applies to opportunities you have dur-ing the summer.

Sure, you might make more money going back to your regular restaurant job at Cracker Barrel, Logan’s or Buf-falo Wild Wings, but you give up the opportunity to work an entry-level job in your profession, such as a freelance

correspondent for your community newspaper. It pays less, or it may not even pay at all, but if you

don’t take the entry-level job you miss the opportunity to get your foot in the door.

Isn’t the wiser decision to forgo the restaurant job now, take the entry-level career job and make more money in the future through earning potential? Th at’s the question every student has to think about and make a decision on when it comes to summer jobs.

If you end up working in a fi eld you’re studying and you e njoy it that can also open up opportunities once the campus becomes lively again in the fall. You could have the ability to use what you learned during the summer to benefi t not just the campus, but also the community of Richmond.

Th e city is billed as having more than 31,000 residents, but nearly 5,000 are added through students staying in the dorms, so the demand for resources and workers grows on the city.

Unless you grew up in an urban area, I’m sure Rich-mond has more opportunities while you’re here in college than you would have at home.

If you reach your senior year and graduate with a high GPA, while working a 20 to 30 hour part-time job in the career fi eld for your major, it really shows that you have a good ability to multitask and you have more than just a high GPA alone.

Ultimately, opportunity costs but it could provide a payout in your future. Don’t waste your summer, get out, experience life.

Spend your summer wisely for future benefits

A bachelor’s degree is supposed to take four years, sometimes fi ve to complete. My college career has been like a Choose Your Own Adventure Book spanning 11 years of real-time.

You could read it once through and get the highlights pretty quickly if you pick the right path, or you can choose a more drawn out path, take a few risks, experience a few setbacks and have to start the story all over again. I chose the longer, more expansive adventure.When I started college at the University of Kentucky in 2003, I didn’t really want to go to school, but I didn’t have any other op-tions. Th e military seemed like a bad idea for a free-thinker who didn’t like to listen, mom’s house wasn’t simply a viable option and the idea of more school seemed like a chore—especially considering I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

I thought I wanted to be something like a David E. Kelley character on Th e Practice. Th at idea was short-lived after my writ-ing skills were atomic bombed in English classes. I couldn’t quit.

I was told I had to major in something,

so I chose Spanish because I had been studying the language and culture in some fashion since the summer between fi fth and sixth grade after taking an extracurric-ular course taught by a Panamanian neigh-bor in my hometown of Tacoma, Wash.

Th at academic plan didn’t work out too well either because the commitment to learning another language becomes ex-tremely diffi cult after taking 300-level courses dedicated to reading and writing and not having an opportunity to be im-mersed in the language through studies abroad, but I pressed on mostly in vain.

At the same time I was digging a dubi-ous academic hole with a foreign language and a wayward adventure, I discovered journalism. I’ve always been interested in the newspapers, mostly the sports section, but I had developed a love for learning and sharing stories.

Perhaps it runs in the family. My un-cle, a longtime editor within the Gan-nett network has always been someone I admired and his sister, my mom, was a bit of a journalist in her past, according to her transcripts buried amongst oth-er keepsakes in her Louisville basement.I found myself at one of my major cross-roads after the fourth time I took time off school to fi gure out what I was doing. I had fi gured out school. I learned how to net-work, volunteer, learn outside of the class-room and how to gain real meaningful experience through the university struc-ture. I had racked up quite a bit of student debt and essentially proven I wasn’t a good

scholar. I had crapped out on the college gamble, at least at UK.

Just before I was laid off at my last full-time job, my boss told me that I had the potential to do her job and higher if I ap-plied myself and if that was what I want-ed to do. She echoed the same words as she explained the company’s layoff pol-icy and whether or not I wanted to stay on in a menial role until more prospects opened up, or if I wanted to pursue other opportunities including fi nishing a degree.I choose school and I decided to transfer to Eastern.

It’s cliché to say it was the best decision of my life, but to this point, I can’t think of anything more impactful. To me East-ern has been fi nishing school… obviously not in the traditional sense of the term, but in the sense that it helped me complete my collegiate experience.

Literally, I will fi nish here. Figuratively, this university has been the culmination point of my learning experiences to this point in life.

I came here looking to get a degree and get out.

Show up. Go to class. Get good grades. Earn a degree and move on.

I’m writing this farewell as the editor of the newspaper, so it’s safe to say I got in-volved a little bit.

When I transferred to Eastern I had a simple goal. I wanted to graduate before my little sister. Th at may not seem like a big task, but when I started college, she was in elementary school. When I walk across

the stage May 10, I’ll have beat her by just one year, but I achieved my goal, because I didn’t quit and it is thanks to people push-ing me in ways I cannot begin to repay.

Getting through college has been a col-lective experience that so many people have impacted.

So many people have left an important mark on my story I can’t begin to name them all. I don’t have the economy of words to describe just how much of a journey this has been, but to put it into perspective, the guy who couldn’t cut it at the Interior Journal in Stanford is headed off to try his hand at the Washington Post. Doesn’t make sense, does it?

At times I’ve wanted to quit, I was in complete despair, but people have given me a hand up and sometimes had more confi -dence in me that I’ve had in myself.

Th is adventure has been worth choosing because of kindness, compassion and un-derstanding from family, friends and men-tors. Whether it’s the loving text I get ev-ery Sunday morning when I’m dreading the fact that I’m again working with no days off or the warm embraces I receive when I run into someone who has seen my trans-formation from graphic T-shirts and fi tted caps to now, I value it all more than words can describe.

When I didn’t have the strength to turn the page, you helped and that means every-thing.

Wesley Robinson is a journalism senior. Email [email protected].

Graduation adventure worth long, winding pathWesley

RobinsonEditor

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“Being apart of EKU’s Dance Team and ge� ng to travel to St. Louis, Missouri and dance with the team at the NCAA Tournament.”

Bryn BarjucaHometown: LexingtonMajor: UndeclaredYear: Freshman

“Playing in EKU’s Spring Football Game as the star� ng QB for the White Team and bea� ng the Maroon Team 24-20.”

Barton MannHometown: Russell SpringsMajor: UndeclaredYear: Freshman

“A meaningful experience I had this year at EKU was visi� ng Rupp Arena with HALT (an EKU student organiza� on). We went there to do a security tour of their locker rooms, which are really awesome by the way.”

Josh HamblinHometown: IrvineMajor: Homeland SecurityYear: Senior

What was your most meaningful experience at Eastern this year?

“Beginning my MLS program and meet-ing and bonding with my new classmates as we struggle through together.”

Therese Vogelsang Hometown: Versailles Major: Medical laboratory scienceYear: Junior

“My most meaningful experience this past year was being apart of the 2013 Marching Colonels. I played the mello-phone. The experience was meaningful because I made a lot of friends while suppor� ng EKU athle� cs. Also, the pay wasn’t bad either.”

Taylor RoyseHometown: SimpsonvilleMajor: Occupa� onal scienceYear: Freshman

“The most meaningful experience I have gained at Eastern would be learning that I want to help others. This experience is what encouraged me to apply for an RA posi� on.”

Alexis Hunter Hometown: Ft. MitchellMajor: NursingYear: Freshman

Campus Sound Off

Is dead week and impending fi nals stressing you out?

Yeah, it’s stressing me out too. But what I don’t understand is with stress maxed out, how can so many people be propos-ing and getting married recently. Why have you made the decision to get married or engaged?

I just want to add a quick disclaimer that I’m happy for you if you make the de-cision to get engaged or married, but what I fi nd intriguing is the timing. I know that

I’m single and if you ask me this week if I’m happy being single, I will say that I am. Why? Because I know that I would go ber-serk if I had to juggle the potential aspect of balancing a relationship, let alone getting married, fi nding a job, trying to do well in my classes, publishing the paper and some-how fi nding time to work on my honors thesis and study for fi nals.

My big thing is; why do you spend months to either save up enough mon-ey to buy the ring or plan out the ceremo-ny when you have a fi nal exam to worry about? Honestly, your schoolwork should proba bly take up the rest of your time un-til every last grade is posted. I know the ex-ams are stressful, but make the decision to either propose or having the ceremony count by planning properly, and don’t go into the library or outside the Powell Build-ing and try to propose, while your signifi -

cant other is studying for their exam, that’s just a bad idea.

Have you realized that not many people get engaged or married when it’s 30 degrees outside? As soon as the humidity and tem-perature cranked up, so did all the notifi ca-tions on Facebook and everywhere else on social media. Don’t blow up my news feed when I’m trying to focus on other things and using Facebook as a distraction, you’re not helping my productivity level increase. Along with Facebook, engagement notices lose their value when several couples pro-pose within a few days time. Just like when six people share the same birthday. It gets annoying to repeatedly type the same mes-sage and attempt to show some emotion without rolling your eyes at the screen.

I also want engaged couples to think about the cost of the wedding for a min-ute. You should sincerely ask yourself if it

is aff ordable to propose or have a wedding at the current time. Let’s say that you pro-pose during fi nals week of your senior year, your fi ancé says yes and you get married six months down the road. At the same time you and your families are shelling out big bucks to make the day go perfectly and ar-range for a honeymoon getaway, you’ll be getting a loan debt repayment notice from your government student loans. Th at’s an awesome wedding gift.

In closing, I mainly wanted to say think about what you’re doing before you jump off the diving board into the deep end of a relationship. As for me, I might go hide from Facebook for a while until engage-ment photo season is over. I think it will be safe to return to social media when it’s 30 degrees outside.

Jacob Blair is a journalism junior. Email [email protected]

Action without excuse — I came across this Arabic saying a few years ago when I put my hands on a book that told the stories of notable Brazilian plas-tic surgeons. At the moment, I was puz-zled and did not understand what it real-ly meant. After all, weren’t we taught that all of our actions must be connected to an ultimate goal?

As I read the chapter I started compre-hending the essence of the saying. It sim-ply meant we had to work diligently on the task at hand, constantly striving to do our best. Th ere were two advantages of follow-ing this principle: We can end up going far beyond where we initially expected to go and avoid the frustration of being unable to attain a particular objective.

Eventually, this saying became my mot-to. As a student, I always tried to do my best in every situation. I believe my time at Eastern has proven that.

I ended up in Kentucky by pure chance. I was born and raised in Brazil and when I was in my late teens I already knew I wanted to study abroad. Many of my fel-low musicians were already in the U.S., and the perspectives of a good education in music in my home country were not particularly exciting. Th e opportunity to leave Brazil appeared when Dr. Bernar-do Scarambone, assistant music professor at Eastern and my current piano teacher, came to perform in my hometown Recife. He posted an announcement on a website regarding scholarships to study in the U.S. I contacted him shortly afterwards and was soon trying to get all the paperwork ready for the trip. At the time, however, he taught at another institution.

One day I got a call from him saying “I am going to Kentucky. Are you coming with me?”

A few days later I applied to the music program at Eastern, and you might be able to guess what happened next.

When talking about international stu-dents, cultural shock is one of the fi rst things to come to mind. People tend to naturally focus on the major aspects: Th e diffi culty with the language, the diff erent social habits and the lack of sense of be-longing. I did not experience any of these

issues due to my introspective nature and my English profi ciency.

Th is was not the case with two other areas.

Th e fi rst one was food. I was mentally prepared for all the fat, salt and grease but what I found here surpassed my imagina-tion. Peanut butter, biscuits, cookies ... ev-ery day I tried something I had never had before.

I didn’t do that because I liked it, I just did it to try something new (I really don’t enjoy peanut butter, biscuits are OK, but cookies are great). And the cultural shock was not that terrible, after all we have piz-za and bananas in Brazil.

Th e second obstacle I encountered was being a foreigner. Many simple things for most Americans, like getting a driver’s li-cense, involved time-consuming proce-dures for noncitizens. Besides that, I had to do everything by myself, since all my family was in Brazil. Being away from my family was one of the greatest joys of liv-ing abroad – I never had to worry about organizing my messy room for the past four years.

It is hard to evaluate the time I have spent at Eastern, since it is only possible to truly evaluate the impact of an event long after it has happened. Nonetheless, some

of the things I have learned at Eastern—both in music and in life—will remain with me as long as I live.

From a musical point of view, Eastern off ered everything I really needed: Time and a practice room. I didn’t come here all the way from Brazil to party or have fun. Studying was the only thing I had in mind. Paradoxically enough, I realized that eat-ing, breathing and sleeping are some of the most important things in life. Most of our actions are guided towards the sat-isfaction of these needs, and if we forget about them, something isn’t right.

My time at Eastern has given me some remarkable memories as well. I still re-member my encounter with Carlos Na-kai, a Native American fl utist who gave a Chautauqua lecture on campus a few years ago. Shortly after I introduced my-self to him, he said “Only get married af-ter you’re past 30 and after you’ve trav-elled the world.”

It is certainly something I am willing to try. Th e only problem with this advice, though, is that I may not want to get mar-ried after all that.

Gabriel Fernandes is a music perfor-mance and music theory and composition senior. Email gabriel_ [email protected].

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Cook Out has been in Richmond for less than a year, but it has made a major impact on the Richmond commu-nity. People love the food and how cheap it is. Open late, Eastern students love it for their late night cravings while studying.

“Cook out is cheap food and you get a lot,” said Brytani Raymond, 19, an English sophomore from Elizabethtown.

Cook Out is a fast food privately owned restaurant chain in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Caro-lina, Tennessee and Virginia. Famous for their milkshakes, burgers and barbeque it’s a great restaurant to visit any-time of the day.

Cook out features what you’d expect to see at any tradi-tional cookout: hamburgers, hotdogs, hush puppies, fries and some unusual southern favorites, such as bacon wraps.

“I love Cook Out; the food reminds me of the fair,” said Jessica Pool, 20, a marketing sophomore from Elizabeth-town.

Th e low cost and the amount of food are great for col-lege students that have a tight budget.

Winning in its category both years since its opening in August 2012, Olive You Bou-tique has become the go-to store for East-ern students and members of the com-munity. Th e store name is a play on words created by owner, Katie Stallons, who wanted people of all ages to be able to shop at her store.

“Th e name Olive You was made to sound like ‘all of you’,” Stallons said. “I wanted something for all age groups. A lot of times things are catered to a younger age group. I wanted to make sure that if a girl comes with her mother, the mother could fi nd something as well. I wanted to make it a fun experience for everyone.”

Olive You carries varieties of clothing, accessories, purses, jewelry, men’s ties, fur-niture and gift items. Stallons travels all over the country to fi nd the latest brands and fashions. Th e store carries brands like Judith March, Everly, C.Luce, Glam, BB Dakota, Karlie, Splendid, etc.

Stallons said the store gets quite a bit of business from Eastern students. She said she tries to always keep maroon and white clothing in stock and off ers a 10 percent discount to Colonels on Sundays. She said a lot of students come to their store to fi nd clothes for formals, graduation, homecom-ing, or when students have parents in town they will come to Olive You to shop togeth-er.

Stallons said all of the college students love the chevron pattern and the Piko tops. For their college-age costumers, Olive You stocks up with lots of jewelry, accessories, scarves and dresses. Stallons said Olive You even tries to keep track of diff erent so-rority girls who come in and buy dresses so other girls don’t come in and buy the same dress for the same event.

Stallons said the staff at Olive You is ex-tremely pleased to receive the Best of Rich-mond award for the second year in a row.

“It’s so exciting to have people shop here and to get this award,” Stallons said. “It means that people enjoy us and what we have to off er. We’re fulfi lling our goal that everyone can shop here. Our customers are our fi rst priority.”

Hosting a variety of musical per-formances, and loaded with liquors, the Paddy Wagon still stands strong

in its popularity among Eastern’s college crowd and with the Rich-mond community.

“After the fi re we weren’t going to rebuild but everyone told us that we had to,” said owner Chuck Fields, Professor of Justice Studies at East-ern.

Th e fi re that engulfed the original Paddy Wagon six years ago did not lower the bars popularity. Seating only around 50, the original Paddy Wagon was a hot spot for bar-goers. Th e new location, seating 174 inside and nearly 150 on the back patio still holds to that popularity.

“It’s the people we work with,” said Madelyn Street, a bartender at the Paddy Wagon. “We never have a dull moment.”

Shirley King, Folk Soul Revival, Th e Wolftones and others have per-formed at the Paddy Wagon, bring-ing a variety of activities for the Richmond community. Other events such as the Beach Bash and occa-sional dress parties off er more vari-ety to patrons.

“We have a tremendous staff that puts in the extra eff ort to take care of the customers,” said general man-ager Silas Smith. “Th at’s 100 percent of them.”

Two weeks ago, the Paddy Wagon celebrated their 10-year anniversary, where previous musical performers returned to play in celebration.

Th e Paddy Wagon off ers a safe and fun environment where anyone, over 21, can socialize and enjoy the seasonal activities off ered.

“In the 10 years I can count what I would call fi ghts on one hand,” Fields said.

An event that isn’t advertised is how the Paddy Wagon celebrates Th anksgiving for the Richmond community and students.

“I started doing it for graduate students who lived so far away that they couldn’t get home for the holi-days,” Fields said.

On Th anksgiving Day, around 5 or 6 p.m., dinner is served for around 125-150 people.

“You might get too much fam-ily and might want to go out some-where,” Fields said.

Th e Paddy Wagon plans to erect a full service bar on the outside patio in the future.

“I’m really grateful to Richmond,” Fields said. “We provide you with a place to go, but people like you give it personality.”

Best new bar or restaurant: Cook out

Best local clothing store: Olive You

Best local bar/nightclub and best live music venue: The Paddy Wagon

Best new business: DSP The Studio

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Dustin Stevenson Photography studio, located on Th ird Street in downtown Rich-mond, is the city’s best new business. Th e studio opened March of last year by owner and photographer Dustin Stevenson. Th e studio doubles as a trendy boutique and photography studio.

“We have a unique sense of style,” Ste-venson said. “Not just the clothes and the jewelry, but as far as the whole atmosphere I think it’s diff erent then anywhere else in Richmond.”

Stevenson said he sees many diff erent types of customers shopping at the bou-tique.

“We cater to a lot of the college crowd and some of the high school crowd,” Ste-venson said. “We have all ages, but I’d say

the youngest is high school.”Th e photography studio caters to clients

from engagements to babies and anything in between.

Th e idea of the dual-studio came from his fi rst photography studio in Irvin.

“It was me sitting by myself, pret-ty much not having anyone walk in and I didn’t want to waste the space so I thought I could run a boutique too,” Stevenson said.

Th e boutique off ers a wide range of jew-elry including statement necklace, watch-es, headbands and some handmade piec-es. Th e clothing featured in the boutique is preppy styles including a variety of pastels, stripes and geometric prints.

To see more of DSP the Studio visit the store at 106 S. Th ird Street or visit their Facebook pages: facebook.com/dspthestu-dio and facebook.com/DustinStevenson-Photography

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McAlister’s Deli off ers the best sandwiches in Rich-mond. Th e portion, the fl avor, the preparation and the pre-sentation is what makes people respond so well to McAli-ster’s Deli said General Manager, Michelle Spradlin.

Th e restaurant has diff erent varieties of sandwiches ranging from hot sandwiches, such as southwest turkey melt, french dip and the New Yorker to club sandwiches, such as grilled chicken club and veggie club.

McAlister’s Deli is also known for having its famous

tea and other food options, such as grilled chicken salads, southwest cobb and huge potatoes.

Th e family-oriented atmosphere provides the custom-ers a relaxing experience, and children are off ered crayons and coloring pages with their meals.

McAlister’s Deli was founded in 1989 in Oxford, Miss. by a former dentist Don Newcomb, and now has more than 300 locations in 23 states.

Th e original restaurant was started in a refurbished gas station and still maintains its old look with the garage door and black-and-white tile fl ooring located inside.

McAlister’s Deli is located at 620 Eastern Bypass in the shopping center.

Liquor Mart has won Richmond’s Best Local Liquor Store a few years in a row. Th e awards are hanging on the wall in the store.

“We have hot deals for students and the community as a whole,” said Tres McIntosh, 22, a manager at Liquor Mart Manager.

Liquor Mart off ers a new way of buying called a Growl-er. Th e Growler is a refi llable half-gallon glass jug that can be bought and fi lled with beer at the customer’s prefer-ence. Th e customer buys the Growler and pays to fi ll it up with the beer of their choosing. Th is style of drinking dates back to the early 1900s, and Liquor Mart is the only store in Richmond that off ers this method.

“I’ve worked here for three years, the students always come to us for cheap beer or to try something new,” McIn-tosh said. “We have the best deals.”

Sun Tan City, located right off the by-pass, was voted the Best Place to Tan by Eastern students. Th e win can be attribut-ed to the aff ordable packages, convenient hours, proximity to campus and a variety of bed types.

“I started going to Sun Tan City because it was so close to campus,” said Tori Fen-tor, 20, a biology pre-medicine sophomore from Troy Ohis.

Unlike other tanning salons in Rich-mond, Sun Tan City off ers clients multiple tanning options including spray tanning. Th e Fast bed is the starter bed for achieving a base tan within a couple weeks. Th e Fast bed is best for maintaining a base tan. Th e

Faster bed and booth work around two to three times faster than the base beds. Th e benefi t to the Faster booth is the available stand up bed.

Th e Fastest bed is the next bed up and is three to fi ve times faster than the Fast-er beds. People that decide to use the Fast-est bed can achieve an allover tan in four to seven visits. After the Fastest comes the Instant. Instant beds can achieve a tan in as few as two to three visits.

Sun Tan City off ers weekly promotions on package deals and tanning lotions. Ev-ery week they off er a Lotion of the Week which is on sale for up to 50 percent off reg-ular price. Walk-ins are welcome Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to midnight and Sunday from 10 a.m. to midnight.

Winning in its category for a sec-ond consecutive year, Salon 116 has become a favorite amongst Eastern students.

“We are so honored,” said salon owner, Natalie Land. “I think we have the greatest stylists in Richmond, so getting positive feedback from the community is awesome; we’re so thankful.”

Th e salon has been in business for 14 years and staff s 11 stylists. Sa-lon 116 off ers a variety of services for men, women and children. Services include haircuts, all-over color, om-bre, balayage, color corrections, Bra-zilian blowouts, conditioning treat-ments and event styling. Salon 116 off ers other services as well, such as massages, all facial and body waxing and nail services.

“We keep up with all of the trends,” Land said. “We love trying new things to make our clients feel beautiful and we strive to keep our clients 100 per-cent satisfi ed.”

Being only a few miles from cam-pus, the salon is located at 116 Tates Creek Ave. in Richmond. Th e close proximity to campus makes it easy for students.

“We always love getting new cus-tomers,” Land said. “A lot of our cli-ents come to us during their time spent at EKU, and most become life-long clients. EKU is the heartbeat of our community, so most of our cus-tomers have some sort of affi liation.”

Land said when costumers come to Salon 116, they won’t be disappointed. She said the staff off ers years of expe-rience and their dedication is beyond compare. Land said they not only val-ue their clients’ business, but also their friendship too.

“We understand it’s scary to try

something new sometimes,” Land said. “It’s hard to fi nd a hairstylist you like that isn’t the one you would nor-mally go to in your hometown. We want to ease their mind that they can get that here.”

Land said the salon loves their Col-onels and they’re always running spe-cials for students. For the month of May, Salon 116 is off ering a special for Eastern students and staff of 15 per-cent off of any color service.

Best sandwich: McAlister’s Deli

Best local liquor store: Liquor Mart

Best place to get a tan: Sun Tan City

Best local salon: Salon 116

Best late-night eatery: Apollo Pizza

By JUSTIN [email protected]

By COREY [email protected]

By MEGAN [email protected]

By KAYLA [email protected]

Founded in 1981, Apollo Pizza is considered the best late-night eatery in Richmond. Th is late-night hang out is known to many as the home of to a large variety of special-ty pizzas, the beer emporium and the Wagon Wheel a 20-inch pizza.

Apollo Pizza is a small restaurant located on 2nd St. in downtown Richmond. As small as it may seem, it is large part of the late night scene in Richmond and the campus community. Students can come in and eat or order out.

Kayla Horn, employee at Apollo Pizza, said Apollo is a pretty chill place with a group of exciting employees and customers.

Late night feasters get more than a pizza when they eat at Apollo’s; they get an experience. With friendly employ-ees and a relaxed atmosphere there is more to this eatery than meets the eye. Customers are greeted with retro ar-cade machines such as Galaga and Pac-Man, a bar with a large selection of beers and friendly staff .

“Our food is the best, one of the best beer selections in town,” Horn said.

To Eastern students who enjoy beer, pizza and a relaxed atmosphere these are just a few of the reasons why Apollo Pizza is Richmond’s best.

By DAWSON [email protected]

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Colonel CornerBen FisherBen Fisher Ben Fisher is a freshman fi rst baseman on Eastern’s baseball team. He is from Richmond and graduated from Madison Central in 2013. He majors in biology with a physical therapy concentration. Fisher has started all 44 games for the Colonels this season and is second on the team with a .313 batting average. Fisher also has the second highest fi elding percentage on the team at .989, with just four errors on the season.

Q: Why EKU? It was Division one, made sense fi nancially for me, liked the coaching staff, and it just fi t well for me.

Q: If you could play any other posi� on what would it be?I wish I could play outfi eld, but I don’t have the speed to do that. I wish I did though.

Q: What is your favorite song right now? I really like a Christian song, Undefeated by KB. I don’t stick with songs that long, but he just came out with an album and its good.

Q: What do you feel is your strongest talent on the fi eld? I really take pride in my defense. Offense can really come and go. My defense stays there. That’s part of the reason I won the job as a freshman. I could come in and do that for [head coach Jason Stein].

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Q: What do you do when you have some off � me? As far as leisure activities, I really like hanging out with guys on the team. I watch a lot of movies and Netfl ix too. My favorite TV show is How I Met Your Mother. I hated the ending. The ending made it seem like the entire nine other seasons were pointless. But it’s still my favorite.

Q: Who’s your best friend on the team? I really like my roommate Taylor Blair. We have a lot of freshman friends we hang out with on the team; for upperclassman, probably Logan Hershe-now. We’ve played on the same summer ball team since we were sophomores in high school and we’ve kind of got to know each other that way, and our families are close and it just drew us together.

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Eastern’s baseball team ended up on the losing side of a three-game road series from April 25 to 27 against the Austin Peay State University Governors. Th e Colo-nels dropped games one and two, but managed to take game three.

Game OneAustin Peay’s late-game come-

back sank Eastern’s early lead April 25. Th e Governors won the series opener 6-5.

The teams went into the ninth inning tied 4-4. Eastern pulled ahead after an RBI sin-gle from senior Sean Hagen, but could not hold onto the lead. Austin Peay managed to score on an RBI single and capitalized on a wild pitch from senior An-thony Bazzani to score the win-ning run.

“I kinda blew that one,” Ba-zzani said. “I go out there and try and execute each and every pitch. When something doesn’t go your way, you have to shake it and get back on the mound with the next pitch.”

Th e Colonels got on the board

fi rst, after scoring three runs in the top of the second inning. A two-run RBI from sophomore TJ Alas and an RBI single from se-nior Bryan Soloman pushed East-ern to 3-0.

Th e Governors rallied with four runs in the fourth inning, ty-ing the game with Eastern.

Alas was the highlight for Eastern’s lineup. He went 2-for-4 with three RBIs.

Bazzani suff ered the loss after allowing two runs on three hits in the ninth inning.

Game Two Th e Colonels fell 9-13 after a

back and forth aff air in game two. Th e lead changed four times

in the fi rst six innings. Eastern struck fi rst with one run in the fi rst inning. Th e score was tied 4-4 going into the fourth inning.

Alas started a rally in the fourth inning by hitting a two-RBI single. Soloman followed with a two-run home run, giving the Colonels a 6-3 lead.

Austin Peay bounced back in the fi fth and sixth innings. Th e Governors scored two runs in the fi fth inning and four in the sixth inning. Eastern responded with

one run in the sixth inning. Th is gave Austin Peay a 10-7 lead. De-spite a two-run rally in the ninth inning, Eastern could not make up the defi cit.

Soloman went 4-for-5 with four RBIs, including his ninth home run of the season.

“I was being aggressive and just trusting my swing,” Soloman said. “Th e fi rst half of the year, I was just feeling for the at bats in-stead of just turning it loose. Now, I’m trusting in my ability.”

Senior Myles Scott suff ered the loss for Eastern. He allowed four runs on hits in the one-third of an inning pitched.

Game ThreeTh e Colonels managed to avoid

the sweep after defeating Austin Peay 7-6 April 27 thanks to pow-er hitting and junior Ben Gullo’s pitching.

Tied 5-5 in the fi fth inning, the game was decided by a home run.

Soloman started the fi fth in-ning with a single and a home run from Hagen drove him home. Th is pushed Eastern’s lead to 7-5. Th e Governors tried to come back in the bottom of the fi fth, but only managed to score

one run. Gullo came to the mound in

the middle of the fourth inning. He allowed one run in the fi fth in-ning, but kept Austin Peay score-less in the next three innings. Th e right-hander struck out six bat-ters and only allowed four hits in the four and a third innings he pitched.

Bazzani earned the save after holding the Governors scoreless in the ninth inning.

“It’s my job as a closer: you’ve got to have a short memory,” Ba-zzani said. “Forget about what

happened on Friday. After a day of back and forth and back and forth, it was good to go out there and end it.”

Sophomores Doug Teegarden and Luke Wurzelbacher hit back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning, tying the game 5-5.

Eastern’s game against Mar-shall University April 29 was can-celled due to poor weather condi-tions.

Th e Colonels will face Eastern Illinois University at 6 p.m., May 2; 3 p.m., May 3; and 1 p.m., May 4 in a three-game home series.

Baseball drops two games to Austin Peay despite powerful battingBy MATTHEW [email protected]

With round three canceled due to a thunderstorm, Eastern’s men’s golf team placed second in the 2014 OVC Men’s Championship April 27. Th e Colonels tied with Austin Peay State University with a score of 573.

Rain, lightning and powerful winds caused the championship to revert to a 36-hole total, cutting the teams off in round three.

Jacksonville State University won the event with a two-round total of 567.

Eastern ended with four Colonels fi n-

ishing in the top ten. Freshman Travis Rose and junior Patric Sundlof tied for sixth place with 143, going -1 for par.

Rose ended the fi rst round in fourth place with a 3-under score of 69, but his

round two score of 74 bumped him back to sixth place.

“Th e fi rst day I played well,” Rose said. “I real-ly liked the course. It was pretty open and pretty long. Th e second day, the team played a lot better. Th ey kind of carried me

the second day.”

Sundlof jumped from 14th place in the fi rst round to sixth in the second thanks to three birdies in the fi nal six holes.

Senior Garrett Hinton and junior Tay-lor Riggs ended the championship tied for 10th place with even scores of 144. Riggs managed to reach 6-under par in the sec-ond round, but a double bogey on the last hole pushed him to a 4-under score of 68.

Rose said the team had a shot at winning going into the third round, but the weather had other plans.

“Our game plan was to put our team in place for a chance to win the third day,” Rose said. “We were in the place we wanted to be. I think the whole team thought we

could’ve come back to win.”Eleven teams competed at the event.

Th e University of Tennessee at Martin (575) placed fourth, Belmont University (584) fi nished fi fth, Southern Illinois Uni-versity Edwardsville (598) fi nished sixth, Eastern Illinois University (604) ended up seventh and Murray State University and Tennessee Tech University tied for eighth with a total of 606. Morehead State Uni-versity (627) fi nished 10th and Tennessee State University (629) rounded out the fi eld at 11th place.

Th e event took place at a par-72 course, Th e Fighting Joe course in Muscle Shoals, Ala.

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Despite the picks, Hood was pleased by how the quarterbacks responded in the second half.

“I was really impressed with our quarterbacks in the second half because I thought defense had their way with them in the fi rst half,” Hood said. “I like how they stood up and took a punch.”

Senior quarterback Jared Mc-Clain led the quarterbacks with 139 yards on 11 of 17 passing. He also had a touchdown run to give the maroon team a late lead.

Redshirt freshman Barton Mann led the white team on a 96-yard drive and redshirt sophomore Taylor Davis led the game-winning scoring drive in the fi nal minutes.

Th e game also gave fans the opportunity to see familiar play-ers in diff erent positions.

Starting cornerback redshirt sophomore Kiante Northington played some wide receiver and for-mer running back redshirt sopho-more Th omas Owens got used to his full time position at linebacker. Redshirt sophomore Jared Sanders, who started some games at run-ning back last year, played corner-back during the game.

“Not only did we make posi-tion changes from off ense to de-fense and defense to off ense, but within the off ense and defense,” Hood said. “We had a period dur-ing spring we called crossover where we took defensive guys and had them play off ensive positions like Kiante Northington.”

Hood gave praise to the de-fense for giving so much trouble to the off ense. Redshirt freshman Jeff rey Canady led the defense with eight tackles.

Th e Colonels will start the sea-son Aug. 28 at Robert Morris Uni-versity.

tion her brother has in his daily life as her largest encouragement.

“Whenever I’m at a point of adversity in a game I think, this is kind of a situation he deals with in everyday life,” Pittsenbarger said. “He overcomes it so I can overcome it.”

Pittsenbarger’s commitment to success becomes infectious when she steps onto the fi eld. Teammates, younger and older, look to her as a leader and follow whatever lead she takes.

“Especially the younger pitchers on the team,” said fellow junior and roommate Katie Tackett. “Th ey really look up to her and ask her for advice. She’s always there to

help them out.” Tackett perhaps knows Pittsenbarger

more than anyone on the team. Not only is Tackett a roommate with Pittsenbarger, but she also catches for her. Th at means the two are together around the clock, and Tackett said anytime Pittsenbarger steps on the fi eld she creates a good environment.

“She just really understands the game,” Tackett said. “She really knows what she’s doing.”

Pittsenbarger’s road to success has not been a simple one. She said she under-stands she is not the most athletic person on the fi eld, which means she has to work harder than the rest, add in that extra pitch to get to be at a diff erent level than the rest. In her time as a Colonel, Worthing-ton said Pittsenbarger has added two dif-

ferent pitches into her bag of tricks, which has only pushed her higher as a pitcher.

As a pre-med psychology major plus the top pitcher on Eastern’s softball team, Pitt-senbarger’s schedule is anything but idle. Pittsenbarger’s eff orts in the classroom rank just as high as her eff ort on the fi eld. Pittsenbarger had the highest GPA on the softball team her freshman year and was named a 2012-2013 Colonel Scholar her sophomore year at Eastern. But for Pittsen-barger, the extremely busy schedule is pre-ferred over a laid-back one.

“I honestly think that it’s a little bit easier to juggle softball and school than it would be to just do one of those things,” Pittsenbarg-er said. “Because then you don’t have time to procrastinate since you only have a certain amount of time to do your school work.”

With a focus on sports as well as school-ing, Pittsenbarger said she has no choice but to do every task in front of her because of her tight schedule.

“When it comes to her school work, she’s the same kind of person,” Tackett said. “She’s really dedicated to school.”

With a new year coming up for Pittsen-barger after this season, Worthington said more accomplishments are sure to come and Pittsenbarger will keep climbing the totem pole of success. For Pittsenbarger, the sky is the limit, Worthington said.

“She’s just going to keep getting bet-ter,” Worthington said. “I just wish we could have her for another 10 years. I mean, truthfully, she is a coach’s dream, and I would think she would be a teammate that everybody would want to have.”

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Junior Jeff Glover (right) ran the ball 31 yards after a pass from quarterback Jared McClain in the second half.

CAITLYN COOK/PROGRESSSophomore Luke Wurzelbacher hit a solo home run in the game against Austin Peay State University April 27. The Colonels’ overall record is 21-23.

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Redshirt senior Ja’Tyuan Landing tackles junior Stanley Absanon at the spring game April 24. The white team won 24-20.

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Quarterback senior Jared McClain (12) finished 11-of-17 through the air for 139 yards. The white team scored the game-winning touchdown with 23 seconds left to play.

Star pitcher excels on and off the field

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Junior Leanna Pittsenbarger was named OVC Softball Pitcher of the Week three times this season and is tied for Eastern’s softball single season shutout record after her 11th shutout in the game against Tennessee Tech April 26.

Most mornings, junior Lean-na Pittsenbarger wakes up and heads straight to weight lifting with her teammates. After lifting, she goes to her classes for the day then heads to the softball fi eld be-fore practice for a round of pitch-ing. Th at’s before practice even gets started. Once practice begins, Pitt-senbarger picks up where she left off and pitches some more before treating her arm in the training room. Th en it’s back to the books.

Practice, games, classes and school work give Pittsenbarger lit-tle time to do much else. But, de-spite her busy schedule, she said her family’s support encourages her to push herself to her limits. Because Pittsenbarger is so pas-sionate about both being a pre-med psychology major and softball, she said she could keep her priorities in check easier.

“I really enjoy my major and learning about that,” Pittsenbarg-

er said. “Everyone has something they’re passionate about and I chose softball. It’s important for every-body to fi nd that one true love, what they like to do. Mine just happens to be softball, but I also enjoy doing those other things as well.”

Pittsenbarger, a 21-year-old Ur-bana, Ohio native, was named OVC Softball Pitcher of the Week three times, pitched her second ca-reer no-hitter and set a new East-ern single-game record with 18 strikeouts against Eastern Illinois University this season. She is also tied for Eastern’s softball single season shutout record after pitch-ing 11 shutouts this season.

Self-motivation drives Pittsen-barger, but on the larger scale, self-motivation barely tips the scale. For the most part, her family is the true inspiration. Up until her freshman year in high school, Pitt-senbarger participated in almost every sport off ered, including bas-ketball, soccer, volleyball and soft-ball. She was even a member of a traveling volleyball team the year

before she entered high school. But her father ushered her toward hon-ing her skills for just one sport, and softball was the winner. Softball was the sport she felt she was best at, and was the sport that stuck most with her.

Pittsenbarger started tee-ball when she was three years old and around nine or 10, she said she started down the path that would eventually lead her to Eastern: pitching. Her dad pushed her to al-ways work on her pitching skills and is one of her biggest supporters.

“He always encouraged me to go pitch when I was little,” Pittsen-barger said. “When I was little he would sit on a bucket for hours and catch me, and he still catches me when I go home.”

But Pittsenbarger said her great-est inspiration, on and off the fi eld, is her little brother. Pittsenbarger’s brother is fi ve years younger than her and has autism. Pittsenbarger named the hard work and dedica-

Eastern’s softball team trav-eled April 26 and 27 for a week-end of competitions against Tennessee Tech University. Th e Colonels brought home a 2-0 win in game one of Saturday’s double header, a 9-1 loss in game two and a 3-2 loss in the fi nal game Sunday.

Game 1Eastern took down the

Tennessee Tech Golden Ea-gles (20-33, 12-12 OVC) with runs late in the fourth and fifth in-nings.

Sophomore Sara Fobbs came through with a single and junior Lauren Mitchell followed with another single two bats after Fobbs. Fellow junior Katie Tackett pulled out an RBI and Fobbs crossed home plate for the first run in the fourth inning.

Senior Nicole Heitz blast-ed a double in the fifth in-ning and a sacrifice bunt from sophomore Kayla Joyce moved Heitz to third base. Se-nior Christina Ciolek pushed Heitz home with an RBI and gave Eastern a 2-0 lead.

Junior Leanna Pittsen-barger pitched her 11th shut-out and struck out nine bat-ters, allowing just three hits. Her shutout record ties with Eastern’s softball program’s single-season record. East-ern Athletics Hall of Famer Jonelle Csora set the record in 2001.

The victory marked head coach Jane Worthington’s 600th career win in her 22 years at Eastern.

Game 2An early Tennessee Tech

lead held the Colonels off in game two. Six of the Golden Eagles’ nine runs came from a single hit and three Eastern er-rors in the fi rst inning.

Tennessee Tech’s Alyssa Richards singled and advanced on a throwing error, which al-lowed a Golden Eagle to score. Th e rest of the runs came from four walks, an Eastern fi elding error and a sacrifi ce fl y.

A solo home run gave Ten-nessee Tech a cushioned lead in the third inning. Eastern attempted a comeback when Heitz singled, but left the bat-ter on base at the end of the same inning.

Another RBI single gave the Golden Eagles a 9-0 lead of the Colonels in the fourth inning. Redshirt sophomore Haley Schenasi came in as pinch run-ner for Tackett after she was hit by a pitch. Joyce hit an RBI single and Schenasi recorded Eastern’s lone run.

Sophomore Hayley Flynn re-ceived the loss after pitching three innings.

Game 3Despite an early lead for

the Colonels April 27, Tennes-see Tech fought back to pick up the 3-2 victory. Pittsen-barger had eight strikeouts in the six innings she pitched.

Campos knocked out a two-run home run to put Eastern at an early 2-0 lead in the third inning. Tennes-see Tech retaliated with an RBI single and a two-run RBI to take the lead in the fifth in-ning.

Eastern tried to take the lead back in the sixth inning with two hits but ended the inning with two runners on base.

The Colonels (27-19, 14-8 OVC) return home at 1 p.m. May 3 and 4 for a final run in the regular season against Jacksonville State University.

Errors doom Colonels softball

Eastern’s head foot-ball coach Dean Hood has some serious decisions to make with a packed back-fi eld heading into the fall season.

More than 1,000 East-ern fans saw glimpses of University of Kentucky transfer Dy’Shawn Mobley and University of Tennes-see transfer Channing Fu-gate at the Maroon-White spring game last Th ursday.

Mobley, a junior, is the clear No. 1 back accord-ing to Hood. Hood said because of that, they shut him down in the second half. Mobley, who is 5 feet 11 inches tall and 217 pounds, ran through tack-les most of the fi rst half, averaging more than fi ve yards a carry.

Fugate made a success-ful Colonel debut, scoring the game-winning touch-down with 23 seconds to

go to give the white team the 24-20 win.

Th e other backs did well, too. Redshirt sophomore Bo Brooks ran for a touch-down, redshirt freshman Kentayvus Hopkins ran for 25 yards and redshirt se-nior Caleb Watkins aver-aged more than fi ve yards a carry on his way to a game-high 48 yards rushing.

Th e fi rst nine posses-sions of the game, howev-er, weren’t so pretty. Th ree Eastern quarterbacks com-bined to throw fi ve inter-ceptions during those nine possessions.

Another newcomer, ju-nior Tyrell Curry, returned the fi rst interception for a 70-yard touchdown.

Redshirt sophomore Jalen Rose, redshirt ju-nior Trey Th omas, redshirt freshman Vincent Green and redshirt seniors Bran-don Stanley and Th eron Norman also had intercep-tions.

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