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Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 2014 2-20-2014 Daily Eastern News: Feburary 20, 2014 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2014_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: Feburary 20, 2014" (2014). February. 13. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2014_feb/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2014 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SELFLESS STUDENTS MOVIN’ ON UP Alternative Spring Break oers Eastern quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo heads students a chance to spend to Indianapolis Sunday for the NFL Scouting their break helping others. Combine. Page 2 Page 7 WWW.DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM HE T aily astErn EwsEws Thursday,D Feb. 20, 2014 E n VOL. 98 | NO. 104 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” Universities strive to keep salaries competitive By Jack Cruikshank Administration Editor | @JackCruik Even with a $7 million budget cut throughout the semester, as suggested by the Council on University Planning and Budget, Eastern nears $100 million in sal- aries across the board, trying to stay com- petitive. Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs, said salaries at Eastern are comparable to similar universities. “We have salaries that are competitive for institutions like Eastern,” Lord said. “For entering salaries, we try to be appropriately competitive, but that doesn’t mean someone won’t say ‘That’s still not enough.’” For professor salaries at Eastern, Lord, in conjunction with the department chairs and deans, compares salaries in line with region- SHEA LAZANSKY | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS al and national standards in order to set a Thamsanqa Shabalala, a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, leads the group in a performance in the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna base salary. Fine Arts Center on Wednesday. The group was founded 54 years ago by Shabalala’s father Joseph, the lead singer. “We don’t want to lose all of our hiring possibilities to the institutions around us,” Lord said. “We pay attention to what they Ladysmith Black Mambazo performs world music are doing.” Lord said during the past 15 years, East- By Bob Galuski were present during the concert and will be ern has been working to “systematically im- Managing Editor | @BobGaluski "People never lose hope." taking over to help lead the group into fu- prove faculty salaries.” ture years. He said the improvements are on par They sing for hope. They sing for the Albert Mazibuko, member Joseph Shabalala’s son, Thamsanqa Sha- with other institutions, due to the contract past, present and future. They sing for of Ladysmith Black Mambazo balala led the group in Wednesday’s con- bargaining process through the University peace, love and harmony. cert, backed up by the other eight members. Professionals of Illinois union. And on Wednesday, they sang for Eastern Most of the songs gave the audience dif- “There was some movement over time in in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna group member Albert Mazibuko said the ferent messages, such as, “Marriage is as the negotiated raises in the contracts,” Lord Fine Arts Center. song was about a boy never losing hope. good thing,” in response to a song about a said. “Now, the statistics for our faculty sal- Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the four- The boy, who lived on a farm, watched man who gets cold feet before his wedding aries look reasonable for our kind of insti- time Grammy Award winning band from the girl he loved leave. Despite others day. tution.” South Africa, stepped – no, danced – onto around him telling him to move on, the boy Other messages came in the form of ad- the stage Wednesday as part of their tour. never lost hope. He continued to love her. vice: “In order to succeed, you need to fo- EIU The nine-member a cappella group per- Eventually, the girl returned and the two cus.” Of every employee at Eastern, the to- formed a wide-range of their songs, from of them were married. Clad in traditional South African cloth- tal combined yearly salaries for 2013 were the older hits to the most recent off of their Mazibuko said the song, “Nomathemba” ing, with animal prints ranging from zebra $94,914,224.20, which averages out to be new CD, “Always With Us.” was first written in the early 1960s, with its to rhino to lion and leopard, the a cappella $55,930.60 over 1,698 total employees. Mixing together different genres – Chris- release in 1970. group could not stop moving. A total of 193 of those 1,698 are mak- tian gospel with African music – the group “People never lose hope,” he said. Initially beginning the performance by ing fewer than $30,000, many of which are were not ones to stand still during the per- The concert also gave Eastern a chance to standing rigid at the microphones, it took not full time, such as instructors who come formance. get to see the next generation of Ladysmith no longer than the first song for them to to teach only a minimal amount of courses. Slipping in small jokes throughout the Black Mambazo. break out in dances. Raising their legs, For Eastern, a combined 341 professors concert, such as dancing out of line and Group leader Joseph Shabalala created moving their arms across their chests and (not including instructors) make a total of running around the stage, Ladysmith Black the band in 1964, however, he could not at- then marching in place, the band gradual- $26,409,062.45. Mambazo worked on multiple levels. tend Wednesday’s concert because of sur- ly let the dance moves become more extrav- Crooning to the audience one of their gery. agant. SALARIES, page 5 first hits – a song about hope – original However, his children and grandchildren LADYSMITH, page 5 City still without salt shipments; reserves running low Trac accidents in the month of February bridge or a hill. Drivers are entering dangerous ty good job trying to keep the streets cleared,” By Kristen Gisondi are currently lower than December of 2013 spaces too quickly and breaking too late, which Bennett said. “e rst big snow caused most Sta Reporter | @DEN_News and January of 2014, even with the sand and adds to the likelihood of a crash. of the state to take their snow plows off the salt mixture, though not all accidents have still “People need to realize that they need to road, but our city kept going.” e city of Charleston is still missing its last been an issue. slow down,” Bennett said. “It’s a matter of the For Eastern’s Facilities Planning and Man- two shipments of salt and no word on when a A number of accidents resulted in the tem- bad weather and people not thinking.” agement department, there should be enough new supply will we be on the way, said Curt porary closure of Illinois 16 on Feb. 14. Illinois Charleston spends approximately $42,000 ice-melt to keep sidewalks and roads clear on Buescher, the director of public works. Route 16 is the state’s responsibility to main- on salt in a year. campus. The street department began mixing salt tain the roads. Trac accidents are projected to Cargill, the state’s contractor, gets their salt Scott Hall, the superintendent of grounds, with sand and placing the mixture at locations get even lower in the upcoming months. from Louisiana and ships it up the Mississippi said the university has two pallets of ice-melt that were likely to be dangerous. “When we have this ice on the road, peo- River on barges. Because of the frigid temper- left in reserve and it should not run out. “We have approximately 75 tons of salt re- ple need to take extreme caution,” said Steve atures, the Mississippi River has frozen over so “I have enough ice melt to last two more maining,” Buescher said. “With a 50-50 blend Bennett, the assistant re chief. “Whenever we the barges are trapped in the ice. snow storms,” Hall said. of sand, we have 150 tons of mixture remain- have so much sleet and ice like the other day, Despite the implications, Charleston has ing.” it’s best to stay o the road.” cleared the roads well, even continuing work Kristen Gisondi can at means the total salt reserve is down to Bennett said accidents occurred when peo- while other departments did not, Bennet said. be reached at 581-2812 half of what it was just two weeks ago. ple drove too fast, especially coming up a “The street department has done a pret- or [email protected]. 2 THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 2014 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | NEWS Local weather TODAY FRIDAY CAA to introduce new goals By Jack Cruikshank new revised learning goals so that ing, while the university learning The council will vote on 13 pro- Administration Editor | @JackCruik the campus has a good understand- goals still require them. posals within kinesiology which will ing of what they are at this point,” The five meetings for the individ- amend the courses to “update and The Council on Academic Affairs Lucas said. ual meetings are: Writing/Critical revise” the courses to serve majors will host a series of six workshops to Lucas said the point of the revi- Thinking at 2 p.m. Feb. 25 in the better. Sunny Partly Cloudy introduce its newly adopted learn- sions to the goals was to elaborate Arcola-Tuscola room, Speaking/Lis- These changes act as the sec- High: 59° High: 45° ing goals to the university.