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Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 2014 3-3-2014 Daily Eastern News: March 03, 2014 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2014_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 03, 2014 " (2014). March. 1. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2014_mar/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2014 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in March by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CANDIDATE BREAKDOWN NASHVILLE OR BUST Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams will Take a look at the candidates for the be heading to Nashville, Tenn., after a weekend of upcoming primary elections, broken surprise games. down by oce. Page 8 Page 2 WWW.DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM HE DT ailyEastErnnEws Monday, March 3, 2014 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” VOL. 98 | NO. 111 Board of Trustees hears faculty concerns be more words of hope and encouragement,” said the university, he said. As enrollments “plummet,” this leads department Student fee money Grant Sterling, the chair of Faculty Senate. Howev- “I call upon the board and the administration members to be continually concerned with the size shifts for no increase er, the words he did have were of problems and fears to send an absolutely unambiguous signal to the of their class. the faculty were facing the midst of budget and sta CUPB that further diminishing of the academ- With lower class sizes, department members are By Bob Galuski cuts. ic quality of the institution is intolerable, that non- worried about the future of their programs. Managing Editors | @BobGaluski While some of the problems – pensions and state academic programs must absorb the overwhelming Sterling then brought up the university’s response funding – were out of the board’s control, Sterling brunt of these cuts,” he said. to lack of funding and lower enrollment – reduce The chairman of Faculty Senate called on the brought up a few issues faculty members were cur- President Bill Perry, however, brought up that the the number of faculty. Board of Trustees to re-evaluate how the Council on rently dealing with. fact that the process is a shared governance process, “We have fewer faculty on campus than we did University Planning and Budgets are making cuts, Despite no nal decisions having been made by and to tell the CUPB which areas to cut would be in the year 2000, and drastically fewer faculty than citing it as one reason that “morale among the facul- any means, there is nothing in the process of the “unfair” to the shared governance process. we had in 2007 when the enrollment decline be- ty is at its lowest level.” CUPB that suggests a bulk of those cuts will come Sterling also brought up the current enrollment gan,” he said. “I very much wish my rst address to you would from anywhere other than academic programs of woes plaguing Eastern. CONCERNS, page 5 New winner claims Mr. EIU competition title March By Bob Galuski Managing Editor | @BobGaluski weather to Months of training, weight lifting, run- ning and intensive dieting all accumulated into 16 competitors vying for Mr. EIU – be climatic, with Alex Wood, a junior kinesiology and sports studies major, winning. The Mr. EIU, Ms. Fitness & Ms. Phy- dangerous sique competition in McAfee Gymnasium Saturday hit a snag for one particular con- tender. Kody Waggoner, a middleweight Snowstorm Sunday contender, was falsely announced as the ‘weak’ compared to winner of his division. In reality, the only other contender for middleweight, Daniel what was predicted Redmore, was the winner. The mix-up occurred because the num- bers on the judge’s ballot were switched, By Jarad Jarmon something that head judge Chad Graham Associate News Editor | @ said had never happened before. JJarmonReporter After the mix-up was xed and Redmore was declared the winner, the night went on smooth- Despite predictions throughout Friday ly. to the contrary, the snowstorm striking Wood, who competed in the light section, Charleston Sunday was mild and not close between the weight of 154 pounds and 169 to the 10 inches expected. pounds, said when his name was announced Cameron Craig, Eastern’s climatolo- as the overall winner he “didn’t know what to gist and a geography professor, said people think.” should be looking toward the future with “I knew I had a decent shot,” he said. “But at the active climate expected. the beginning of the night I thought, ‘No way.’” While the severe weather is expected nor- He describes his work out as being “hard- mally around the middle to end of March, core” for the past three to four years, but kicked anything could happen, especially with the it up a notch just for the competition – a move “freak weather” that hit Charleston Feb. 20. that almost didn’t happen. Craig said Charleston has been hit with severe “I actually didn’t decide to compete until Jan- weather in January before. uary,” he said. He added the “freak weather” was only the be- Despite training for years and always wanting ginning. to compete, Wood said the fact that his friends “With what we saw already, we are just baking were competing and because it was his junior the cake, and it is rising,” Craig said. “We haven’t year motivated him to compete. even gotten to putting it together for layers.” “is was the year to do it,” he said. “I had He added with Severe Weather Preparedness the mindset to compete for a few years, but I Week starting Sunday, people will hopefully be knew going in with my buddies competing it reminded and prepared of the things to do dur- was going to be a blast.” ing an expectedly rough spring. Each section – Mr. EIU, Ms. Fitness and Ms. More information on the severe weather and Physique – all had the same categories the con- preparedness week can be found on the National testants needed to compete in. Weather Service website. Group symmetry had everyone out on stage Craig said as long as the Jetstream stays active, as the judges looked at every side of them, judg- there will likely be more frequent severe weather ing each of their muscle groups. than normal. Competitors then took place in the personal KATIE SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS With cold going downward and warm air routines division. Alex Wood, the winner of the 2014 Mr. EIU, poses during the final round of the competition moving upward, there will be a “perfect recipe” Individually, they came on stage, and to mu- Saturday at in the McAffee Gym. Wood was one of four competitors in the lightweight class, for dangerous weather, especially with the ground sic, exed for the audience, letting them see the which was composed of male bodybuilders weighing in between 154 and 169 lbs. warming up in future. fruits of their hard work. “You have got to pay attention to the warn- Finally, mandatory poses gave the judges in the heavyweight glass, said he learned mostly body-mind connection. ings,” Craig said. “Have a plan ready to go. Find an opportunity to have the competitors stand everything on his own, and because of that has “You learn when not to quit and how out where to go (in case of a storm).” in various positions – chest out, calves and “grown a lot as an individual from competing.” your mindset is is the deciding factor of This weather is not expected to change oblique’s, among other aspects were judged. “I never felt I really had anyone to truly guide your end result,” Yeager said. “I always felt much throughout this week though with Gina Iaaldano took rst place for the Ms. me and help me through Mr. EIU,” he said. disappointed in myself if I ever gave up on temperatures staying below freezing until Physique, while Brittany O’Dell received rst Yeager, who competed in last year’s light- anything in my life. I improved a lot when Thursday with an expected high of 37 de- place in the Ms. Fitness division. heavy class at 189 pounds, said through com- I competed last year from when I competed grees, according to the National Weather While most of the contenders had trainers peting, people learn about themselves both my freshman year.” Service. and a support system, Ryan Yeager, a contender physically and mentally, and a way to build a MR. EIU, page 5 WEATHER, page 5 2 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014 By Michael Spencer lot. Incumbent Governor Pat Quinn fac- and orsland will compete for the 15th Candidates City Editor | @DEN_NEws es opposition within the Democratic Par- U.S. congressional district in the Novem- Local weather ty while current U.S. representative John ber election. ree candidates are lined up TODAY TUESDAY The March 18 primary will select the Shimkus will run unopposed. Meanwhile, on the Republican's ticket for the state rep- eld of candidates for the mid-term elec- Eric orsland, a democrat from Mahom- resentative spot but the Democrats oer no by the issue tion this fall, and the race for governor, et, is also unopposed and will run oppo- candidate on their side of the ballot. state representative and U.S. representa- site of Shimkus in the Democrat's prima- tive will be central on the upcoming bal- ry for the U.S. representative seat. Shimkus Governor candidates Snow/Rain Mix Partly Cloudy High: 20° High: 22° It has been more than ve years since Low: 3° Low: 9° Quinn took over as governor after Reigning in spending will be a former governor Rod Blagojevich leading issue for Dillard who said For more weather visit castle.eiu.edu/weather.