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thursday Eastern Illinois University, Charleston Volume | 92 Issue | 72 12.7.06 sTUDENT gOVERNMENT| Elections Campus| sTUDENT gOVERNMENT Anderson Students to contest elections By Matt Hopf calls attention Student Government Reporter The election results were to safety presented at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting with an overall total By Stephen Di Benedetto of 399 votes. Staff Reporter The only contested election was in the at-large district. The Illinois Board of Higher Student Senate member Tori Education has set aside zero dollars Frazier lost her seat by seven in its budget for improving campus votes while sophomore Chris safety. Kromphardt missed winning a seat Student Body President Sean by three votes. Anderson addressed the issue in his Frazier plans to contest the State of University speech during election results. Wednesday’s Student Senate “First my plan is to contest the Meeting. election, seeing as how the polls “Currently, campus safety is were closed for a fact whenever not one of the multiple priorities people were going to vote for me,” set forth by the Illinois Board of Frazier said. Higher Education,” Anderson said. Ashlei Birch, student executive “Illinois is one of four states in the director of elections, said the only United States which does not have times that she knew of polls being a specific comprehensive analysis of closed is if an election worker had crime statistics among colleges and to leave for class. universities.” Election workers cannot be told ERIC HILTNER | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Anderson, however, has a plan to to stay if they have class, if the other Student Body President Sean Anderson and senate member Jeff Melanson consult “Roberts Rules of Order” improve campus safety throughout worker has not yet arrived, Birch to check on a rule concerning majority votes after a roll-call vote on an amendment to senate bylaw change the state of Illinois. said. 06-07-03 during Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther “Campus Safety Initiative: Frazier will need to submit a King Jr University Union. A bylaw change, which would have made it a requirement for all members to act as Illinois is a program which will written complaint with justification liaisons to Registered Student Organization on a weekly basis, failed 11-11-2. ultimately request that the Illinois for it, said Ceci Brinker, director of Board of Higher Education and Student Life. (Student Body) Constitution for the allegations, Brinker said. Getting more students involved the governor make campus safety a The current election guidelines contesting elections and make sure Jeff Lange has been elected is what Lange plans to accomplish priority,” Anderson said. established in 2006 says any the proper guidelines are followed,” Student Senate speaker for the for his term. Anderson went on to explain his violation must be submitted within Brinker said. spring semester. three phases of CSI: Illinois. seven days after the election. A hearing of the Student Supreme Former speaker Kent Ohms did His first phase is to inform “I’ll review the procedures in the Court could be convened to review not win re-election. » see election, Page 2 and get feedback from all Illinois colleges and universities of the Campus Safety Initiative. His second phase is to gain support for the initiative Nation | 65th Anniversary through campus’ Faculty Senate, Student Senate, University Police Department and President’s Council. Pearl Harbor survivor numbers dwindling The Associated Press » see safety, Page 2 every five years for four decades, but plunged the United States into workday as a civilian pipe fitter they’re now in their 80s or 90s and World War II and set in motion the when he was thrust into assisting in PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii are not counting on a 70th reunion. events that led to atomic bombings everything from spraying water on Sean Anderson | – This will be their last visit to They have made every effort to of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. the ships to aiding casualties. Student Body President this watery grave to share stories, report for one final roll call. “I suspect not many people “From the time the first bomb exchange smiles, find peace and “We’re like the dodo bird. We’re have thought about this, but we’re dropped and for the next 15 salute their fallen friends. almost extinct,” said Middlesworth, witnessing history,” said Daniel minutes, it was complete chaos,” This, they say, will be their final now an 83-year-old retiree from Martinez, chief historian at the USS he said. “Nobody knew what was “Currently, farewell. Upland, Calif., but then on Dec. 7, Arizona Memorial. “We are seeing going on. Everybody was running campus safety With their number quickly 1941 an 18-year-old Marine on the the passing of a generation.” around like a chicken with their dwindling, survivors of Pearl USS San Francisco. The attack may have occurred head cut off.” is not one of Harbor will gather today one last Nearly 500 survivors from 65 years ago, but survivors say they Chun saw the Oklahoma the multiple time to honor those killed by the across the nation were expected to can still hear the explosions, smell and West Virginia torpedoed by Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark make the trip to Hawaii, bringing the burning flesh, taste the sea water Japanese aircraft. priorities set a day that lives in infamy. with them 1,300 family members, and hear the cries. He heard the tapping of sailors forth by the “This will be one to remember,” numerous wheelchairs and too “The younger ones were crying, trapped in the hulls of sunken said Mal Middlesworth, president many haunting memories. ‘Mom! Mom! Mom!’” said Edward ships. Illinois Board of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Memories of a shocking, two- Chun, who witnessed the attack He escaped death when Ten-Ten of Higher Association. “It’s going to be hour aerial raid that destroyed or from the Ten-Ten dock, just a was strafed, leaving behind dead something that we’ll cherish heavily damaged 21 ships and 320 couple of hundred yards away from and wounded. Education.” forever.” aircraft, that killed 2,390 people Battleship Row. The survivors have met here and wounded 1,178 others, that Chun, 83, had just begun his » see survivor, Page 7

Men’s basketball preview TOP CAT Eastern vs. Tennessee Tech Swimming Notebook cheatsheet Samford head coach uses Martin continues despite Tennessee Tech coach returns Break will reunite swimmers University Princeton style offense to win former teammates leaving to the sidelines after syndrome and their high school coaches President Hencken appeals » It’s these simple words that got » Eastern head coach Mike Miller » A year ago at this time, Mike Sutton » Head coach Ray Padovan said the Samford head coach Jimmy Tillette to is stopped randomly to talk about could only slightly move his thumb and winter break would allow the teams to more money for study abroad sell his players to a offense they had it. He has received e-mails and gets index finger on his left hand. work out on their own or at their former » President Lou Hencken kept himself never seen live and was unique to its phone calls all wanting to talk about six Sutton, Tennessee Tech’s head high schools. busy early this week by attending both region of the country. seconds of play. coach, collapsed April 10, 2005, Senior captain Megan Frawley an Illinois Board of Higher Education Explaining the Princeton-style “You certainly don’t see something coming out of a hotel in Norfolk, Va. said it is always nice to be able to go meeting as well as a forum hosted by offense in the middle of Dixie country like that very often,” Miller said. “People Sutton was in Norfolk at the Portsmouth home and train with old coaches and the Commission on the Abraham Lincoln became similar to teaching a foreign are still talking about it because of the Invitational watching Tech’s Willie Jenkins teammates. Study Abroad Fellowship Program in language. excitement in the moment.” compete in the camp. Chicago. Page 2 Page 11 Page 12 Page 12 www.dennews.com 2 news www.dennews.com | the daily eastern news | thursday 12.7.06 newsstaff University | Higher Education Production staff Press supervisor...... Tom Roberts Night chief...... Amy Simpson About The Daily Eastern News Lead Designer...... Kevin Murphy The Daily Eastern News is produced by the students Study abroad could get $15 million Copy editors...... Kevin Murphy of Eastern Illinois University. It is published daily ...... Brian O'Malley Monday through Friday, in Charleston, Ill., during fall By Ashley Rueff at the Harold Washington ...... Joe Waltasti and spring semesters and twice weekly during the Senior University Reporter College in Chicago...... Amy Simpson summer term except during university vacations or Online production...... Brandon Campbell examinations. “There was not anything that ...... 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Norm Coleman, R-Minn., introduced a bill in July that of higher learning that award degrees in nursing,” the Associate news editor...... Nicole Milstead Corrections ...... [email protected] would provide $15 million in grants for undergraduate IBHE action item read. The Daily Eastern News is committed to accuracy in students to study abroad. The action, however, did not affect Eastern because Senior university reporter...... Ashley Rueff its coverage of the news. Any factual error the staff ...... [email protected] finds, or is made aware of by its readers, will be The bill would help the United States meet the it is still in the process of organizing a nursing degree Senior campus reporter...... Cathy Bayer corrected on this page as promptly as possible. commission’s goal of having one million undergraduate program, which is slated to begin classes in Fall 2007...... [email protected] Senior city reporter...... Chris Essig To aid The Daily Eastern News in its quest for students study abroad within a 10-year period. “Anytime they do something like this our hope is ...... [email protected] accuracy, please report any factual error you find “I think if that did pass and there were grants for that it’s not a one-time thing,” Hencken said because in any edition of The Daily Eastern News by e-mail, Verge editor...... Holly Thomas phone, campus mail or in person. students, that would make an enormous impact on the Eastern will be eligible for the grants next year if they ...... [email protected] [email protected] amount of students who study abroad,” Hencken said. are offered. Sports staff [email protected] “I think that that will really go a long way.” “By next year we should have at least two faculty in 581-7942 (phone), 581-2923 (fax) Sports editor...... Matt Daniels 1811 Buzzard Hall Hencken also attended the IBHE meeting Tuesday nursing,” he said...... 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Betsy Jewell The Daily Eastern News is printed with soy ink on which images the discs, the pads or sitting behind a computer, is some patients that don’t even have a ...... [email protected] recycled newsprint. between the bones. They had a fluidity in postures or movement chair in their office or in their cubicle special kind of MRI machine that through ranges of posture. For anymore because they are better off allowed them to have the people in students, after you’re done with standing, working at their computer AVAILABLE NOW: a seated position because usually in class, you usually walk someplace than they are sitting because there BRITTANY RIDGE APARTMENTS an MRI you stretch out on a bench else, so getting up and moving is no argument that sitting up or a table,” Jeff Stout, a chiropractic around is a great way to get blood straight puts stress on your discs,” (950 Edgar, Charleston) doctor for Stout Chiropractic Clinic flowing to areas that have been in Troyanovich said. Listening to one’s • Refrigerator in Normal, said. static postures,” Nikki Brauer, the body and following its movements • Stove The study suggested people sit director of Illinois State University’s will be beneficial. available for “07 in a reclined position to remove Wellness Program, said. “I don’t want to send the message school year • Washer & Dryer pressure on the back. Students should make sure their that it is one way or the other, but • Trash included “Sitting in general is not good body is even when trying to reduce there is strong research that shows for your back. It is well known that back pressure. that a slightly reclined posture • Sanders & Company • 217.235.8820 • when you sit, there is at least 30 “The study also mentioned unloads the spine. We always try percent more stress on the discs in another inexpensive way to do this, to find chairs that move with you thursday @ your spine than standing, but if you which would be great for a student, so that when you lean back you are have to sit, it puts less stress on your is to get one of these exercise balls. not in one position. Joints need back if you are reclined somewhere You have to get one that is for movement. Our bodies are meant between 110 and 135 degrees,” your height, but basically sitting to move,” Brauer said. M THERS:

Sean Anderson | student body president alibu » Safety MBeach Party Girls from page 1 Prizes “In our Board of Trustees meeting next 50 Finally, his third phase requires Friday, the Faculty Senate chair, myself $2. coconut, mango, pineapple, the supporters of the initiative to Passion fruit call for their respective Board of and the chief of police are all going to Trustees to support improving present and we are going to say that are in campus safety by investing in it plus Big Bottles & Big Pitchers statewide. support of this, and hopefully they will be Anderson’s plan is also gaining empowered to talk to the state.” Functions...Tom 630-625-2438 support. “In our Board of Trustees meeting next Friday, the Faculty Congratulations to the Golden Apple Award Winners!!! Senate chair, myself and the chief of Additionally, Kent Ohms Penny Project for doing an police are all going to present and addressed in his speech what the exceptional job so far this semester November On behalf of the Greek we are going to say that we are in Student Senate has done in this and mentioned the Shuttle Bus Prof. Darrel Enck-Wanzer, Community, We would like to support of this, and hopefully they semester, and what they need to do Committee and its efforts on trying Communications Dept. thank the entire faculty & staff will be empowered to talk to the next semester. to create schedules for international Prof. Timothy Shonk, for a great semester!!! state,” Anderson said. He commended the Panther students during Winter Break. English Dept.

accomplish. the actions of Student » Election In other business, Government. December from page 1 a bylaw change that would have Also, the Student Senate member Prof. Angie Jacobs required all Student Senate members of the Semester award was given to Communications dept. Committees will be comprised to attend a Registered Student Rich Higginbotham. Prof Suzanne Davis to create a mission statement and a Organization meeting once a week Higginbotham is always in Happy Holidays!!! vision statement. has been voted down. the office, said Student Senate Business admin. Dept. Trying to get more students Supporters of the bylaw change member Quentin Frazier, one to run for open seats is also hoped that it would inform of the members who nominated PANHELLENIC & INTERFRATERNITY COUNCILS another plan that Lange plans to more students about him. Campus | Toy Drive www.dennews.com | Page 3 Charity drives combine forces Panther Service Days Chad Quinones | Head of Toys for Tots The program is hoping for campus and Alumni Services another successful year by asking “I know there are a lot of people that students to donate. work together Donations will be made to need help in Coles County. I want everyone the H.O.P.E. foundation, Coles thursday By Dylan Divit Co. Mental Health, and Catholic 12.7.06 Staff Reporter to have a nice Christmas.” Charities. Quinones said Christmas is the With Christmas being the giving season and people should season to give, two groups on Everyone is asked to bring service,” Frederick said. “It’s also give to people less fortunate than campusbriefs Eastern’s campus are combining food, clothing or toy donations important to meet faculty in a themselves. to give back to the community. and celebrate the holiday season different light.” “I know there a lot of people Panther Service Days and by helping our community said The toys donated from Panther that need help in Coles County,” Textbook Rental Alumni Services are joining up Chelsea Frederick, assistant Services Days will be passed on to Quinones said. “I want everyone » Textbook Rental Service would like with the on-campus Toys for Tots director of Alumni Services. Eastern’s Toys for Tots drive, said to have a nice Christmas.” to announce it is open all semester project in an effort to give back to Frederick said she hopes both graduate student Chad Quinones, Toy donations can be made long, not just in August and December. the community. students and faculty get a chance who is heading Toys for Tots. until Dec. 13 at the Student Be smart … Return your books Student, faculty and alumni to mingle over hot chocolate and The Toys for Tots program is Activities Center, Student Life early and bypass the lines. are encouraged to participate in help out the community at the in its third year at Eastern and Office and the University Book Textbook Rental Service Hours: Panther Service Days, a charity same time. has had tremendous success in the Store. Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. social, today from 5 to 6 p.m. in “It’s a great way to kick off the past by giving hundreds of gifts to All are located in the Martin the Cougill Foyer of Old Main. winter season and do community local organizations. Luther King Jr. University Union. Real World Star Coming » Real World star Johanna Botta will give a behind-the-scenes look at her time on the show. Botta will speak at 8 tonight in the Campus | University Board Grand Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union about season 16 of the Real World set in Austin, Texas. Alcohol awareness and binge drinking are two other topics for her lecture. Botta, 23, was born and raised in Lima, Peru and moved to the states when she was 10 years old. Before the Real World, Botta attended the University of California in Riverside. The event is free and sponsored by the University Board Lectures Committee.

Flu Shot Clinic on Dec. 6-7 » Flu shots will be given at 9:30- 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and at 1-3 p.m. Thursday as well as at 9:30-11:30 a.m. Thursday in the Effingham Room, Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Current employees, as well as annuitants, are eligible to receive the flu shot free. Spouses and children of current employees/annuitants may also receive the flu shot at a cost of $30 for spouse and $8 per child. Also available are pneumonia shots, which are available to current employees, annuitants, spouses and children at a cost of $30/adult and $8/child. Questions regarding clinics should Carrie Hollis | The Daily Eastern News be directed to the Benefit Services Office Scott Tarazevits watches Mason Granger, both members of The Mayhem Poets, scream about world hunger during their performance in the at 581-5825. University Ballroom Wednesday evening. oncampus Poetic trio brings ‘Mayhem’ to Union today Student Musical Recital Comedy group The Mayhem and musical influences, such as hip-hop. growing up. He had people asked him, “What Josh Marcus, saxophone Each member of the trio brought their own are you?” Time | 2 p.m. Poets interact with each other, style to the show as they interacted not only His response, “full-blooded hybrid.” crowd in University Ballroom with one another, but also with the crowd. Tarazevits – who is white - rapped about the Location | McAfee North Sutton with his hip-hop style and dance lack of racial harmony and people asking him Price | Free brought a theatrical feel. if he could rhyme. By Julie Morss The audience empathized with Sutton’s “In iambic pentameter,” was Tarazevits Study Abroad Info Session Staff Reporter poem about living in an apartment infested response. with coach roaches; It is horrid. His segment Granger talked about technology intimacy Time | 4 p.m. “Welcome to what you want and what you led to Tarazevits’ unusual performance about when he met a girl at a party who would not Location | Blair Hall, Room 1207 need, what you got” rapped Kyle Sutton, Scott chicken. Tarazevits with his rap, like Weird Al talked over the phone, but only through text More info | 581-7267 Tarazevits and Mason Granger in front of a Yankovic, harmonized about chicken. message. crowd of 10 at 7 last night in the University “KFC stands for kill for chicken,” Tarazevits “Telephone call is too intimate,” Granger Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. said. joked. “Lesson & Carols” -– EIU Concert Choir University Union. During Tarazevits poem, Granger started This led into a beat about companies and and Women’s Chorus Sutton, Tarazevits and Granger make up clucking like a chicken. Granger then switched icons on the Internet like Myspace, Friendstar, Time | 7:30 p.m. the Mayhem Poets. To get a feel for the crowd, to imitating people complaining about his AIM and Apple, and how it’s possible to have a Location | Wesley United Methodist Sutton did some icebreakers such asking where dietary habits. relationship and never meet them. Church, 2206 Fourth St. members of the audience were from. Sutton “Do you know how many calories are in This is Sutton’s love life. More info |581-3010 asked the crowd if they had seen the car being those cheddar fries?” Granger asked in a high “You’ve never met face to face?” Tarazevits broken into outside the union. whinny voice. While Granger rapped and sang asked Sutton about a girl he met online who “Do you think it was a hate crime?” Sutton as he interacted with the audience, by going wouldn’t respond back to him. In the end the asked. after Miller’s foot. girl was really Tarazevits. J.C. Miller, political science major and UB Throughout the performance, the group Sutton, Tarazevits and Granger came Comments | Corrections | chair, responded with it being finals frustration. changed tones, accents, rhythm and stage together again to perform “one word poem” in events Sutton, Tarazevits and Granger have performed positions. which each person spoke one word. To report any errors, local events or together for last five years after meeting at From serious bits about Corretta Scott King “This,” Sutton said. general suggestions for future editions Rutgers University in New Jersey. to comical bits about technology, the poets “is,” Tarazevits said. please contact our news editor, Sarah Sutton told the audience members the group evoked laughter from the audience. Sutton “a,” Granger said. Whitney, via: got their influence from movie called “Slam” talked about racial harmony while he was “one word poem,” group said together. Phone | 581-7942, E-mail | [email protected] Office visit | 1811 Buzzard Hall. View from the UK www.dennews.com | Page 4 Editorial Board guest columnist | simon russell Editor in Chief | Kyle Mayhugh Jim Allocco | Opinions Editor Managing Editor | Amy Simpson Jay Grabiec | Photo Editor Guns v. Spears News Editor | Sarah Whitney Nora Maberry | Online Editor Certain recent events have got views me thinking. What is, I wonder, the drawn from the news | dan niwa similarity between the police officers thursday involved in the latest accidental shooting 12.7.06 in New York and Britney Spears’ second divorce? You may indeed raise an eyebrow. But are they both humming, “Oops, I did it again?” I know. It’s no ourview joke. Any which way, the damn tune keeps rattling through my mind. I can assure you that having Britney constantly Laptops playing in one’s head is no laugh-a- minute. But, then again, neither is the shooting of innocent civilians in the name of Law and Order. Ms. Spears might be simple to silence (hmm, would be not nearly easy enough), but how do we muffle the indignation that (one presumes) reverberates all around? The quandary faced by the police force – to shoot or not to shoot helpful – is a tough one all right. They should remember, though, that in the eyes of For the past several months, the the law, we are all innocent until proven Academic Technology Advisory guilty. The onus is on the prosecution to Committee has bounced an idea around guest columnist | matthew niemerg prove guilt “beyond reasonable doubt.” to require students to purchase laptops This burden of proof may rankle upon enrolling at Eastern. some, but it is the cornerstone of both It’s a good idea for several reasons. the U.S. and UK legal systems. Every A laptop purchased through the time the police open fire pre-emptively university can be cheaper, offer a larger Church and state not you have to ask whether it’s better a warranty and provide free software for guilty person escapes a crime-scene than students, said journalism professor Brian see another bride-to-be weeping on her Poulter in an article in the Nov. 28 wedding day for all the wrong reasons. A edition of The Daily Eastern News. completely separate tough stance is one thing – imagine it’s Many students buy computers for you that’s caught in the crosshairs. personal use during college anyway. The topic of same-sex marriages has Civil unions should more or less be In the UK, our beat police are Surveys presented to Faculty Senate been beaten around the bush more than defined as contractual agreements between unarmed. Their battle cry to the during its Nov. 29 meeting showed more enough times, but here is my two copper two people living in a common household criminal world, “Stop! Or I’ll shout than 65 percent of Eastern students buy pieces on the whole sha-bang. The solution to pool their independent resources together ‘Stop!’ again,” is the stuff of jokes. That laptops for college. is quite simple, is hard to refute and relies for an extended period of time in such a said, instances of unlawful shooting The benefit is that through ATAC’s solely on one very important premise of our way that they receive benefits from the (by our Armed Response Units) are initiative students who qualify for Constitution: the First Amendment. government in the form of tax breaks. thankfully rare. High-speed motorized financial aid could use that money to Everyone knows that the First This is, in essence, what marriage pursuits are far more likely to cause purchase the laptops. Amendment guarantees basic liberties: is about. However, if people view the injury and deaths, and with every During the 2003 to 2004 school year, freedom of speech, freedom of religion term “marriage” as a religious term, our incident the law enforcement agencies 9,180 students received $6.8 million and the right of the people to assemble. I lawmakers need to adopt this idea of a become more cautious, preferring to let in financial aid, according to Eastern’s want to zero in on the clause that speaks contractual agreement as a civil union in the criminals escape rather than harm Planning and Institutional Studies. specifically about religion. order to lose the religious emphasis. the general public. Better safe, we feel, Eastern’s total enrollment was 12,129 “Congress shall make no law respecting I predict that it will take our lawmakers than sorry. in 2005. So more than 75 percent of an establishment of religion or prohibiting nearly 20 years to see this as the only Not that this means we’re soft on Eastern’s students would have financial the free exercise thereof.” equitable solution. By equitable solution I crime. The introduction of CCTV help to purchase the laptop. Enough said. Congress does not have mean that no one can argue (with any real cameras to most city centres has proved The advantage for students is not the right to pass legislation that enables defense) that this is not constitutional and an invaluable asset in the capture and just the laptop; the software specific to or inhibits religion. Straight from the simple enough to work. Gay couples should conviction of all sorts of criminals. The each student’s field of study could come Constitution itself, yet our lawmakers fail to be guaranteed the same rights as straight high-speed chase is now often replaced with it. For example, journalism design recognize this. couples if only solely for the reason that by electronic ground surveillance, students use a layout program called Where am I going with this? Well, our government does not have the right to with the option of a police helicopter Adobe InDesign. The students use this currently marriage documents are issued as enforce a moral definition of marriage. overhead to guide officers in the right program to literally electronically build a a single document by both the State and Sometimes Christians have a hard time direction. Rarely in such cases do the newspaper, bulletin or advertisement. the religion in which the couple wants to realizing that people are given free will, and criminals escape. City centres themselves Adobe InDesign CS2 retails at $699 be married into. Whatever happened to even if you personally do not agree with have become safer, with crime levels for on Adobe’s Web site. To upgrade to separation of Church and State? someone’s decision, this does not mean that affray, theft and damage to property in CS2, it costs $169. With the initiative, Since the problem with same-sex you have the right to inhibit someone else’s some cases down by 50 percent. People the software could be free. The same marriages is based on the Christian religion’s actions, even if it is for their own good. think twice now before transgressing holds true for other concentrations as depiction of how human society should Clearly the God of the Christians does – you never know, Big Brother might be well. work and that homosexuality is morally not intervene with humanity’s free will, watching. Most students have their own wrong, our representatives do not have otherwise the entirety of humanity would Of course, it’s up to the individual computer, but how many students have the right to pass laws that conform to the worship him and live according to his to decide whether such watchfulness the money to buy the software they’ll viewpoint of the Christian religion – or strict code of conduct. I believe it is a little is an infringement of our civil liberties use even after they graduate? This gives any religion for that matter. This includes presumptuous to think that Christians have or merely a potent weapon against the them an advantage over students from allowing or disallowing same-sex marriage. the right to enforce such minority in society who wish to cause other schools that might not have had My solution, which is not unique, is laws, especially since harm. The fair-minded amongst us have the additional access to software. just common sense. Let the state issue their God refuses to do nothing to fear, or so the government Students won’t be limited to just civil union licenses and let each respective so. line goes. But there’s always the chance learning software during classroom religion issue their own marriage licenses. that a means to do good can be turned hours. If they need more practice What is so hard about that? Now the into a means to control. (Does this figuring out how a program works, conflict between allowing or not allowing Matthew sound familiar, Home Security people?) they’ll be able to do so at 3 in the same-sex marriage is a moot point because Niemerg Vigilance is required: vigilance of those morning. each religion can decide for themselves if who vigil. The laptop initiative is only that they want to allow same-sex marriage in In an ideal world, the police would right now. It’s not even a proposal, but their church. The state must then issue Matthew Niemerg is a junior math and computer never make mistakes. That said, in an ATAC should continue pursing the civil union licenses to people who meet the sciences major. He can be reached at ideal world there’d be no Britney Spears. idea as it will be more cost-effective for requirements. [email protected]. So, we’re not living in an ideal world. students, provide them with up-to-date But that just means we must hold on software programs, making them more tightly to our ideals. competitive in the work force when they graduate, and give them more opportunities to learn. All of these Featured blogger | katey mitchell benefits will further the university’s mission to educate its students to the best of its abilities. "The film ‘Tenacious D and the Pick of Simon Destiny’ is a hard movie to really peg Russell The editorial is the majority opinion of down because it rides a fine line between The Daily Eastern News editorial board. comedic genius and immature flop." Simon Russell is a UK exchange student and Reach the opinions editor at junior sport psychology major. He can be [email protected]. reached at [email protected]. thursday 12.7.06 | the daily eastern news | www.dennews.com news 5 state | notebook Hundreds mourn governor’s mother-in-law The Associated Press Prosecutor: mom helped in contended Wednesday that There was no evidence of a break-in, three patients without properly deaths to save relationship authorities zeroed in on Hamm Johnson said. examining or documenting them. CHICAGO – The political elite and badgered her into making Tests meant to determine if Citing “an immediate danger to were among hundreds who gathered DECATUR – A mother helped conflicting statements about the Bracht had been sexually assaulted the public,” Daniel Bluthardt, chief Wednesday for the funeral of plot the drowning deaths of her deaths. are pending, Johnson said. of the state’s Division of Professional Margaret Mell, the wife of Chicago three children to preserve her More than four years ago, Regulation, pulled Charles Alderman Richard Mell and Gov. relationship with the man who Acquaintance accused in Baltimore police arrested Lindsey Earnshaw’s license on Monday. Rod Blagojevich’s mother-in-law. killed them, prosecutors said in college student’s slaying after they said he raped two women, The suspension followed the Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, closing arguments Wednesday in ages 18 and 19, after the victims recommendation of Sadzi Olivia, the city aldermen and state officials the woman’s murder trial. BELLEVILLE – A Belleville responded to an adult telephone department’s medical prosecutions were treated to stories about Prosecutor Roger Simpson man is accused of strangling a chat-line ad in a weekly newspaper. chief, who accused Earnshaw of Mell, who was known as Marge said Amanda Hamm, 30, has low Southwestern Illinois College In July 2003, a prosecutor prescribing drugs without physically and remembered as a wonderful self-esteem and needed a man to student whose body was found there dismissed five other felonies, examining three patients, including mother, a friend and a successful “validate her existence.” slumped last week in her bathtub. including the rape charges, after two with whom he allegedly was businesswoman who loved travel Hamm faces life in prison if St. Clair County prosecutors Lindsey pleaded guilty to assault. involved sexually. and baseball. convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday charged Emmett Lindsey, He was sentenced to time served The order also referred to “I feel so blessed to have had her in the deaths of her children, 27, with first-degree murder in while awaiting trial plus eight years, Earnshaw’s being arrested twice in a in my life,” said longtime friend Christopher Hamm, 6, Austin the strangling of 18-year-old Amy but the sentence was suspended, the five-week span this year for drunken Betty Bukraba, who had a floral Brown, 3, and Kyleigh Hamm, 23 Bracht, an education major who Baltimore city prosecutor’s office driving with loaded firearms. shop with Mell before Mell went to months. The children died after worked at a Christian school in told the Belleville News-Democrat. A hearing on the suspension work at the family manufacturing Hamm’s car sank at a Clinton Lake nearby Shiloh. In 1994, Lindsey, then 15, was has been scheduled for Dec. 19 in firm. boat ramp on Sept. 2, 2003. Authorities have not discussed convicted of rape but completed Chicago. An administrative judge Mell, 62, died Sunday of a Prosecutors allege Hamm and a possible motive in the slaying his sentence in 1999, a Maryland will hear arguments from both degenerative brain disease similar then-boyfriend Maurice LaGrone but described Lindsey as Bracht’s Department of Corrections sides on whether the temporary to Parkinson’s disease. Her daughter Jr. planned the drownings because acquaintance. spokesman said. suspension was justified, said Sue Deborah said the family was the children were in the way of their Sheriff’s Lt. 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Lee Soucy | Pearl Harbor survivor had its moment and we’re going to » Survivor have ours,” he said. from page 1 But some veterans don’t believe, “There are some guys that are going to die with hate in their heart. I or refuse to accept, that this will be “How I never got hit, I don’t don’t have in me any hatred in my heart.” the last major gathering. know,” said Chun, who was later “They claimed the 60th was drafted and served in the Korean going to be the last one. Now they and Vietnam wars. “I’ll tell you a build any lips.” Once again, it seemed that Hyland, who was almost killed have the 65th. When they have the secret: When your number comes And he was lucky. America had been caught sleeping. in the attack, married a woman 70th, then they’ll be claiming, ‘This up, you’re going to go. Well, every Many of the dead were teenage Interest in Pearl Harbor and its from Japan. They met at the 50th will be the last one,’” Hyland said. morning I get up, I change my sailors and Marines away from aging survivors surged. The old Pearl Harbor anniversary and wed “They’ve been crying wolf too many number.” home for the first time. soldiers are much in demand _ to the following year. times.” Everett Hyland doesn’t know They died before they had an sign autographs, walk in parades, “I got over it a long time ago,” Hyland does accept the fact that how he stayed alive when almost opportunity to get married, have speak to classrooms and pose for he said. their numbers are falling fast. everyone around him didn’t. children, build lives. Four in five pictures. Visits to the USS Arizona Former NBC anchor Tom “We all have our turn and our He was radioman aboard the servicemen on the USS Arizona Memorial are at record levels. Brokaw, who dubbed Americans turn is getting closer,” he said. Pennsylvania, which was in Dry 1,177 in all did not survive the day. Not that everyone sees similarities who came of age during the Great But until then, they are drawn Dock No. 1, and was helping It was the greatest loss of life of any between the two attacks. “There Depression and World War II “the to Pearl Harbor, and to each other. transport ammunition to the anti- ship in U.S. naval history. is no comparison,” Hyland said. greatest generation,” agreed to be Military historian Douglas Smith, aircraft gun when a bomb exploded. They remain entombed in the “That was terrorists killing a pile of keynote speaker for Thursday’s a professor at the U.S. Naval War Badly burned, Hyland regained battleship’s sunken hull, which still civilians. Here, you had professional ceremony. A moment of silence College in Newport, R.I., says they consciousness 18 days later, on seeps oil every few seconds, leaving a fighters versus professional fighters. at 7:55 a.m. was to mark the time are proud of their service and eager Christmas night. During that time, colorful sheen on the harbor water. Two different things.” when the attack began. to return “to their glory days,” but his older brother visited. The survivors say they have more There are those who are Martinez, the USS Arizona most of all they revel in the bonds “The only way he knew it was than horrific memories to offer. unable to forgive the Japanese, historian, likened it to another they formed long ago, when they me was the tag on my toe,” Hyland “Remember Pearl Harbor” is just But others testify to the power of reunion 68 years ago the final were young. said. “He (later) told me we looked the first half of the association’s reconciliation. gathering of Civil War veterans The bond is so strong that some like roast turkeys lined up.” motto; the rest is “Keep America “There are some guys that are in Gettysburg, Pa., when aging ask to have their ashes interred Today, scar tissue covers most of alert.” going to die with hate in their heart. warriors in blue and gray shook inside the Arizona, laid to rest with his arms and legs. Martinez said many Pearl Harbor I don’t have in me any hatred in my hands and shared war stories. In shipmates who were not so fortunate “I got a quick facial out of it. I survivors were disheartened by the heart,” said 87-year-old survivor 1938, as in 2006, the nation faced as to survive Dec. 7, 1941. used to be a freckled-faced kid,” he Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, “as Lee Soucy, of Plainview, Texas. an uncertain future in a world “They’re coming home,” said. “I don’t have any lips. They if they had not done their job hard “They were doing their job just like gripped by conflict. Middlesworth said. “They feel could fix faces, but they couldn’t enough.” we were.” “The passing of that generation they’re coming home.” VILLAGE POINTE RENTAL Park Place Apartments on the corner of 7th &Grant • 3 Bedroom next to the Union 2 Bathroom NOW SHOWING Apartment FOR 2007 1, 2, 3 Bedroom Apartments • Discounted Remodeled Units Rent – Sublease FREE Parking (through August 3, 2007) Fully Furnished Trash PAID Contact Jennifer 348.1479 CALL 217-493-7559 FOR MORE INFORMATION

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have seen a good amount of minutes » Sidelines Gullian-Barre Syndrome » Waltasti rotating between the two shooting from page 12 guard positions. However, Kluempers, » How is it treated? » What is it? from page 12 Scaggs and Lipperd should see more There is no known cure for Guillain- Guillain-Barre (ghee-yan bah-ray) floor time at small forward to take Payne ran the day-to-day Barre syndrome, but therapies can syndrome is a disorder in which the Scaggs, Kluempers and Lipperd the load off Galligan’s already heavily operations of the team and was the lessen the severity of the illness body’s immune system attacks part of are perfect for this role. loaded shoulders. head coach in several games, mainly and accelerate the recovery in most the peripheral nervous system. The Huffman is an obvious starter Tennessee Tech will be a good road games Sutton could not travel patients. body’s immune system begins to attack at point guard, as is Galligan in a showcase of the four-guard offense’s to. the body itself, causing what is known hybrid center/power forward role, ability to function against a taller as an autoimmune disease. Guillain- Tech finished 19-12 last season, » What is the recovery period? but the other three positions should squad. third in the Ohio Valley Conference Barre is called a syndrome rather than be changed out frequently. Rebounding and defending taller and reached the OVC tournament The recovery period may be as little as a disease because there is not clear Sallee’s high-octane system takes players are always the issues with a semifinals. a few weeks or as long as a few years. specific disease-causing agent. a lot out of his players because of four-guard offense but the Panther’s “I think he did an extraordinary About 30 percent of those with Guillain- -Information courtesy of the the constant motion and frequent four guards will get a chance to job with everything,” said Tech Barre still have a residual weakness National Institute of Neurological substitutions are needed. prove themselves as a whole tonight junior forward Amadi McKenzie after 3 years Disorders and Strokes Thomas, Eck, Canale, Brittney in conference play – because even about Payne’s role last season. “Lot Coleman and Amanda Maxedon Galligan can’t do it all by herself. of times, the team was thinking He has visited hospitals and has ‘this is for coach.’ Especially when met with people who suffer from coach came back.” the same syndrome he does. non sequitur | wiley miller Sutton was at Tech’s home It’s something Sutton embraces games last season after Christmas, about this rare syndrome. coaching from the sidelines while “There’s a sense of sitting in a wheelchair. understanding,” said Sutton of His first away game was when when he meets other people with Tech traveled to Peoria to play Guillain-Barre Syndrome. “People Bradley in February. don’t know what you go through Sutton has been to every game with this condition because it’s so this year, home and away, and uses unknown.” a walker or a wheelchair to move Now, Sutton can move all of his around. fingers and is slowly getting back “It’s crazy,” said Tech junior the use of his nerves. guard Anthony Fisher. “You saw Tech (3-3) has already picked him in the hospital, he couldn’t up wins against 2006 NCAA move. Now he’s standing around, Tournament opponents Bradley getting around with a walker.” and Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and crossword puzzle | MCT campus Sutton does not plan on letting was picked to finish third in the this syndrome stop his coaching OVC. nor is he asking for sympathy. Talk about basketball is “It doesn’t do any good to something Sutton looks forward to question these things,” Sutton said. now. “I have to worry about what’s going However, he does realize he has a to get me better. As unfortunate long recovery period ahead of him. as this may seem, I’m still in a lot “I’m looking forward to (therapy) better condition than some people and expect a full recovery,” Sutton with this condition.” said. “When the nerves are damaged Sutton is now a national and they regenerate, it’s a slow rate. spokesperson for Guillain-Barre As long as I continue to improve, Syndrome. that’s the key.” Men’s basketball at tennessee tech

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Eastern Illinois Panthers Tennessee Tech Location: Charleston Location: Cookeville, Tenn. Ohio Valley Conference Ohio Valley Conference Record 3-5, 0-1 (OVC) Record 3-3, 0-1 (MVC) Starters Starters F- Bobby Catchings (6-6, Jr.) F- Amadi McKenzie (6-7, Jr.) C- Jake Byrne (6-8, Jr.) F- Jonathan Jones (6-7, Sr.) G- Mike Robinson (5-11, So.) G- Belton Rivers (6-4, Sr.) G- Romain Martin (6-3, Fr.) G- Anthony Fisher (6-2, Jr.) G- Jon’Tee Willhite (6-1, Jr.) G- Rashaud Nixon (6-4, Jr.) -Head coach Mike Miller (9-26) -Head coach Mike Sutton (73-55)

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The basic steps and motions of the Princeton Offense: Ivy League Influence Tillette brought 5 Princeton offense

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Less grind and more glide. Step 1: The offense begins with It’s these simple words that got the point guard (1) passing to the small forward on the wing Samford head coach Jimmy Tillette (3). The point guard makes a to sell his players on a offense they back-door cut to the weak side had never seen live and was unique and the shooting guard (2) fills to its region of the country. in at the top of the key. Explaining the Princeton-style offense in the middle of Dixie country became similar to teaching 5 a foreign language. 1 “What ended up happening is that when you really learn it and 4 3 try to explain it, we became better as teachers,” Tillette said. “That’s 2 the whole point of coaching, to teach.” The Bulldogs are the only school in the Ohio Valley Conference Step 2: The small forward (3) to use the system and less than a has options in the second handful use the entire package on courtesy of samford sports information phase. He can swing the ball to offense. Samford head coach Jimmy Tillette installed the Princeton offense at Samford when he took control of the the other side to the shooting “I think what makes it so program in 1997-98. Tillette has only one losing season and is the school’s all-time winningest coach. guard (2) or he can drive to the successful for a Samford is that no free throw line. If he does drive, the shooting guard (2) makes a other school in your league runs 2007 predicted finish 6. Austin Peay 110 back-door cut to the left side of it,” said Seth Davis, a CBS college 1. Samford (9) 177 7. Jacksonville State 103 the basket while the point guard basketball analyst and Sports 2. Tennessee State (6) 169 8. Eastern Kentucky 71 and the power forward rotate. Illustrated staff writer. The offense is based on all 3. Tennessee Tech (4) 165 9. Eastern Illinois 56 4. Murray State (3) 144 10. Tennessee-Martin 53 2 five players touching the ball, 5 cutting without the basketball but 5. Southeast Missouri 134 11. Morehead State 28 with little screening and outside shooting. 1 3 “They might not shoot nothing certain principles and aspects of the Air Force head coach Jeff Bzdelik, The Bulldogs have a policy to but three’s and layups the entire Princeton-style to their offensive former Princeton head coach and red-shirt all freshmen in order to 4 night,” Tennessee Tech head coach sets with more athletic players. current Georgetown coach John get them acclimated to an aggressive Mike Sutton said. “But they’ll “I think you’re definitely starting Thompson III and another former schedule of class and athletics. beat you doing that because they to see it run even better by teams Princeton head coach and current This plan gives the player five execute it so comfortably.” with athletes,” Davis said. “You Northwestern head coach Bill years in the program. Step 3: If the ball is not passed The system normally runs 15 to can run a lot of variations without Carmody. “They don’t get enough credit to the shooting guard (2), the 20 seconds off the shot clock before putting in the entire kitchen sink.” Tillette would the first to admit for the players they have because small forward (3) can back a shot is taken and slows the overall Tillette studied the concepts live it’s no coincidence these kinds of it’s not normal to play against out and pass to the center (5) tempo of the game down. This from Princeton legend and Hall of institutions are running it. three, four or even five fifth-year underneath the basket. If the technique is difficult to simulate in Fame coach Pete Carill. “One of the most important seniors,” Sutton said. defense does not double team the week of game preparation for Tillette is one of the few people things we do at Samford is According to Tillette, their style the center (5) he can attempt to score on a lay-up or pass to the Bulldogs. with no ties to the Princeton family accurately interpret reality with our of offense goes together with its the power forward (4) on a cut “You can walk through it all you who was granted access to how they recruits,” Tillette said. “We are a recruiting philosophy. to the basket. If the defense want but we know that we can’t do teach it. very different school with rigorous “The kids that can do it all and does double the center (5), he it they way they can,” Sutton said. “I saw them play it and fell in academic standards and a religious have unlimited ability are going to can pass the ball to the small “You just have to be willing to play love with it,” Tillette said. “With atmosphere. This is the best plan go to Duke or Vanderbilt,” Tillette forward (3) for an open 3-point 35 seconds of defense every time the kind of character kids we get for success here and at those schools said. “Once you throw them out shot or to the rotating point down the floor.” here, I was confident it would with the same ideas.” and begin to identify specific skills guard (1) at the top of the key. The irony is a number of work. The average ACT scores for we need, but with gaps in their schools including Georgetown, The current “Princeton Tree” accepted Samford applicants is 26 games, it’s easy to identify who we 3 Vanderbilt and North Carolina of coaches who use the system is and the average first-year freshmen recruit.” State are beginning to simulate Princeton head coach Joe Scott, receives a 3.6 GPA. The best plan doesn’t come 4 5 without struggles however. Kids who were local stars in high school are forced to learn a 2 slow-down offense based on what Preseason All-Conference team seem like frustrating fundamental 1 First Team All-OVC Position Year Height Hometown principles. Shawn Witherspoon, Murray State Froward Senior 6’5” Oviedo, Fla. “Coming in as a freshman I had no clue what I was doing or Courtney Bradley, Jacksonville State Forward Senior 6’5” Utica, Miss. where I was supposed to go,” said Step 4: If the center (5) passes Clarence Matthews, Tennessee Tech Forward Senior 6’7” Beaumont, Texas junior guard Joe Ross Merritt. “I to the point guard (1), the point kept wondering, ‘Am I just getting guard can reset the offense and Randall Gulina, Samford Guard Senior 6’1” Baton Rouge, La. worse at a basketball player? Now I run the play again. Anthony Fisher, Tennessee Tech Guard Junior 6’2” Alpharetta, Ga. understand this is how I was meant to play the game.” men’s basketball | Eastern vs. Tennessee Tech www.dennews.com | Page 12 Sutton back full-time as Golden Eagles coach Tech head coach suffering from He was supposed to go He was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre to south Florida after seeing Syndrome, a rare disease that attacks the sports rare nervous system syndrome Jenkins play to visit his wife, peripheral nervous system. According to the Karen, and see a grandchild. National Institute of Neurological Disorders By Matt Daniels All that changed when and Stroke Web site regarding Guillain-Barre thursday Sports Editor Sutton collapsed in the Syndrome, symptoms start with a degree of 12.7.06 parking lot of the hotel. tingling sensations in the arms or legs. A year ago at this time, Mike Sutton could Mike Sutton “Obviously it was a Symptoms can increase in intensity until only slightly move his thumb and index finger Tennessee Tech shock,” said Tech associate all muscles can’t be used or the person is scoreboard on his left hand. men’s basketball head coach Steve Payne almost completely paralyzed. The syndrome He was in a hospital from mid-April of 2005 head coach. about hearing of Sutton’s can happen because a person has a respiratory panther Sports schedule to just before Thanksgiving of that year. health. “You don’t think virus. Which is what Sutton had. Sutton, Tennessee Tech’s head coach, about basketball a lot. You’re “I had no use of my hands, couldn’t stand or women’s basketball TONIGHT at Tennessee Tech | collapsed coming out of a hotel in Norfolk, worried about your friend and somebody you do anything at all,” he said. “I couldn’t support 5:30 p.m. Cookeville, Tenn. Va., on April 10, 2005. Sutton was in Norfolk love being OK.” my own body weight at all.” at the Portsmouth Invitational watching Tech’s Sutton was taken to a Norfolk hospital, All of that and Sutton is in his fifth season men’s basketball Willie Jenkins compete in the camp. where he was on a respirator for a week, fighting as Tech’s head coach when Eastern takes on the TONIGHT at Tennessee Tech | The camp is held every April to give seniors a for his life. Golden Eagles tonight in Cookeville, Tenn. 7:30 p.m. Cookeville, Tenn. chance to showcase their skills to NBA scouts. “I don’t remember a great deal about the He had not been feeling well and felt tired. rest of the week,” Sutton said Tuesday. » see sidelines, Page 9 Joe Waltasti | the extra point One guard top cat | michael robinson too many Be Like Mike Robinson’s 40-foot Ellen Canale’s return to the buzzer beater will be starting line-up last weekend was the beginning of head coach Brady remembered forever Sallee’s four-guard offense. Along with the 5-foot-9 Canale, By Matthew Stevens Eastern’s four starting guards are Sports Reporter 5-foot-8 Ashley Thomas and the 5- foot-7 pair of Jessica Huffman and Eastern head coach Mike Meggie Eck. Miller is stopped randomly to talk The only starting forward and about it. He has received e-mails starter with any size is 6-foot- and gets phone calls all wanting to 2 sophomore standout Rachel talk about six seconds of play. Galligan. “You certainly don’t see Galligan has proven she is a something like that very often,” fantastic post player and can more Miller said. “People are still talking than hold her own with the best of about it because of the excitement the conference. But putting on an in the moment.” island in the paint is just that much Panthers sophomore point more pressure for the reigning guard Mike Robinson may break Ohio Valley Conference freshman records and win awards before his of the year. four-year career is over but on one Sallee looks to Galligan to be a night in December he cemented leader on the team and expects a lot his name to an Eastern all-time out of her. moment. When the Panthers are not Robinson’s 40-foot buzzer racking up fast-break points and beater to defeat Arkansas State the offense slows down into a half- 73-70 Saturday night was a play court set, it is Galligan that is the that, according to some, will be focal point of the offense. remembered for quite a while. Huffman’s first read and first “I would certainly rate it a Top option is routinely Galligan. 10 moment or shot since I’ve been In Eastern’s 81-71 win against doing Eastern basketball games,” Creighton, Sallee said he was WEIU play-by-play broadcaster pleased with how many touches Mike Bradd said. Huffman gave Galligan. Bradd has been calling Eastern The forward took 15 shots, games for 19 years. almost 30 percent of the Panthers The point guard is averaging total shots, and she played 29 10.8 points, 4 rebounds and 2.5 minutes in the win, three more assists per game. minutes than Eastern’s three other “He’s really coming on but I forwards combined. believe his best days are in front of Meagan Scaggs, Lindsey him,” Miller said Kluempers and Julie Lipperd played The first person Robinson a total of 46 minutes in two games called in the locker room was at the State Farm Tiger Classic. his parents in Chicago who were The three scored only four unable to make it to Lantz Arena. points (all by Lipperd against “My father was the first Alabama A&M) but pulled down person I called to let him know,” an impressive 17 rebounds. Robinson said. That is exactly what Eastern Robinson’s father Vernon needs from another forward in the recently suffered a stroke and starting line-up. therefore is unable to attend The Panther guards will get their Eastern’s games. points and Galligan will score down “I try to call them after low, but Eastern needs an energetic every game and let them know post player to get rebounds and how I played and I how I feel,” play tough defense. Robinson said. “My family is a eric hiltner | the daily eastern news main influence in my life.” Sophomore guard Mike Robinson stands where he took the game-winning 40-foot shot to give Eastern a Growing up in Chicago allowed 73-70 victory against Arkansas State. » see waltasti Robinson to develop toughness Page 10 and a confidence not normally court style comes from the pick When it came time to attend disagreed with that assessment. seen in a 19-year-old. up games in the local playgrounds high school Robinson figured he “Think about it this way,” “He is not only the best but around Chicago. would simply go to the local public he said. “I didn’t want to go to he’s the toughest player to defend “Playing on the concrete is school with all of his friends but catholic school, I would get joked I’ve ever seen,” said Eastern guard a lot more rougher and serious, his mother had other ideas. on wearing a shirt, tie, dress pants Freddie Perry. “Playing against kind of like a job where people “She said that Hales to school and then I found out it Joe Waltasti is a senior history major Mike makes you realize what D-I are running to the gates to see it,” (Franciscan) would be the best was an all-boys school.” with journalism minor. He can be is all about.” Robinson said. “You’re playing place for me,” Robinson said. reached at [email protected]. Robinson says his on-the- with grown men at an early age.” It’s safe to say Robinson » see mike, Page 9