MARCH 6, 2015
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The Eastern menâs basketball team loses its second round matchup against Belmont University.
On the Verge profiles the contestants for the Mr. EIU, Ms. Fitness and Ms. Physique.
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Four competitors for the Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique and Ms. Fitness bodyguiling competition strike poses. 13 men will compete for the title of Mr. EIU., six women will compete for Ms. Physique and three women will competee for the title of Ms. Fitness at 7 p.m. Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium.
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Fitness enthusiasts compete for title, prestige
By Cayla Maurer Verge Editor | @caymaurer
Months of training, dieting, countless hours in the gym and numerous hours of food preparation come down to one night to win the title of Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique or Ms. Fitness.
The 2015 Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique and Ms. Fitness bodybuilding competition is at 7 p.m. Saturday in McAfee Gymnasium. The Mr. EIU competitors are Joseph Thompson, Alex Wood, Justin Koeckritz, Joshua Hopkins, Cody Sanders, Kenneth Ballom, Taylor Bradley, Alex Westerman, Anthony Day, Cole Younger, James Mariani, Jared Buscher and Kyle Boewe. The Mr. EIU competition is broken down into five weight divisions: bantam, lightweight, middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. The men will be separated into a specific weight class after the last weigh-in Friday. A winner will be chosen from each division and those five will face off against each other in a pose down for the title of Mr. EIU. Anthony Day, a senior kinesiology and sports studies major, is competing in the Mr. EIU competition for the first time. Day is the oldest competitor at the age of 25. âI always
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wanted to compete, I just felt like I didnât have the time for preparation to complete what I needed to get done,â Day said. Day decided he would compete by August 2014 and started prepping in December. One of Dayâs main reasons for competing is to prove people wrong who said he couldnât do it. âNobody believed me, so it was to show them that I could do this if I set my mind to it,â Day said. âThere are definitely a lot of haters out there so I just wanted to silence them.â Dayâs favorite thing about preparing for the competition is that he finally got abs. âWhen they came in about four weeks out, it was like Christmas day,â Day said. This is the fifth year of the Ms. Physique competition. The Ms. Physique competitors are: Amanda White, Sabrina Wallrich, Kristin Stine, Morgan McDermott, Alexandria Stringini and Kaitlyn Corzine. Alexandria Stringini, a junior kinesiology and sports studies major, is competing in the Ms. Physique competition for the first time. Stringini is a member of Easternâs ROTC program that has physical training at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday. That training is extra to her prep for Ms. Physique. In total, she trains about four hours a day right now. âThe Army wants us trained for endurance and being in the best physical shape possible for potential deployment,â Stringini said. âMy show training is to look the best I can so itâs very different.â Even though Stringini is very competitive, she attributes her inspiration to her father who passed away in August 2014. âHe said why donât you body build. You have the perfect build for it; I think you would go really far,â Stringini said. âHe believed in me.â For Stringini, one of the most difficult aspects of preparing for this competition is food and meal preparation. âI canât just stop in somewhere and get something to eat because it doesnât work that way,â Stringini said. âI have to go home and eat or prep
UB Spring Concert to be revealed next week C AYL A MAURER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
The trophies for Ms. Physique, Mr. EIU and Ms. Fitness will be awarded at 7 p.m. Saturday.
my meals for the week on Sunday or Monday.â Stringini eats six to seven meals a day every two hours. The Ms. Fitness competitors are Christina DeMuro, Samantha Pentrarca and Kelsie Abolt. Kelsie Abolt, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major, decided to compete in the Ms. Fitness competition after learning that 70-80 percent of preparing is about dieting. Because of her dietetics background, Abolt was intrigued and wanted to get involved. âIâve been able to further my knowledge in nutrition because of bodybuilding,â Abolt said. âIt adds a whole other side to the experience.â Abolt said preparing for this competition has been fun because it isnât just her dieting, training and preparing alone. âThere is a handful of students youâre doing this with,â Abolt said. âI get excited to go to the gym to see them because weâre all going through the same thing.â The Ms. Physique competition focuses more on muscle tone, while the Ms. Fitness competition focuses on overall body symmetry. Both groups will perform a 60-90 second routine showcasing their fitness abilities and posing. Cody Schut, a graduate assistant for the Campus Recreation Center, is this yearâs coordinator of the Mr. EIU, Ms. Physique & Ms. Fitness competition. Schut said this year will be very competitive for the title of Mr. EIU in regards to the weight classes because the competitors measure up similarly. This yearâs judges are Chad Graham, the â97 Mr. EIU winner, Shannon Siemer, an International Federation of Bodybuilding professional, Tom Leon, a two-time competitor in Mr. EIU and James DiNaso and Jennifer Carter, co-owners of The Body Club in Charleston. All judges are graduates of Eastern. Tickets for the competition are $5 at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m.
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Cayla Maurer can be reached at 581-2812 or ccmaurer@eiu.edu.
By Stephanie White Entertainment Editor | @DEN_News The University Board will announce the performer it has chosen for the Spring Concert of 2015 next week, said Darius Francis, the UB chairman. He said he does not know what day of the week the announcement will be made. Francis said the name of the performer would be announced through social media. The UB social media websites include Facebook and Twitter. The performer will also be announced through marketing materials including posters around campus and a press release. Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812 or at sewhite2@eiu.edu.
Daylight savings hits Sunday Staff Report People will lose an hour at daylight saving time. at 2 a.m. Sunday. Everyone should spring forward by setting their clocks one-hour forward. George Vernon Hudson, from New Zealand, first suggested the idea of daylight saving time in 1895. Since then, it has been an item of controversy as retailers, and other businesses benefit from it as it encourages customers to go out along shop. Farmers, parents of young children and others who depend on the sun to work have opposed it in the past.
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Theatre professor Nick Shaw gives admitted students a taste of the college classroom during the classroom experience portion of Admitted Student Day on Feb. 16 in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
More than 300 families expected to visit By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @DEN_News Easternâs admissions office is expecting to see more than 300 families visit campus Saturday for its second Admitted Student Day of the semester. Chris Dearth, the director of admissions, said 280 families made it to the last Admitted Student Day, which was Feb. 16, the Monday of Presidents Day. Many families could not make the trip because of snowy weather, which mostly affected the southern-Illinois area. Dearth said the office called and emailed families encouraging them to come Saturday, while some chose to come during other weekdays. As of Thursday afternoon, about 305
families had registered, but Dearth expects 25 or 30 more to register before Saturday, he said. He said the office decided to host one of the days on a Monday and one on a weekend to give families more options and allow them to pick whatever was more convenient. Dearth said this Saturday would run mostly like the previous Admitted Student Day, with some additions to be more accommodating to families. âThere will be some changes behind the scenes to make sure everything flows better,â Dearth said. This includes a session to answer the top five questions admitted students have because last time many ended up asking the same things about housing, orienta-
tion and financial aid. âIt wasnât admissions focused,â he said. âThis will allow us to directly address those questions.â Another change will be that two welcoming sessions will take place instead of one because last time some parents had to stand, as the Dvorak Concert Hall did not have enough seats. âEven with the weather, it was standing room only,â Dearth said. âIt was not ideal; some drove for three hours, and then they had to stand 45 minutes through the welcome.â Admitted students will also have the option to pay their $150 freshman enrollment deposits; last time 40 students paid, and Dearth said he is hoping for the same this time.
Dearth said Eastern has received close to 500 total enrollment deposits. Like the last Admitted Student Day, this Saturday will also feature sessions for financial aid and scholarship information and courses for students to sit in to get a sense of the classroom experience. Dearth said the âselfie stationâ will be present again as well, which was popular last time, especially among some parent alumni who took pictures with Billy the Panther. âWe are tracking slightly ahead (in deposits) and transfer reservations are up as well,â he said. âWe are hoping Saturday gives us a boost.â Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or samarkham@eiu.edu.
Campus Recreation, UB propose next yearâs budgets By Luis Martinez Administration Editor| @DEN_News Representatives from both Campus Recreation and the University Board to propose their fiscal year 2015 budgets at the Apportionment Board Thursday. Da r i u s Fr a n c i s a n d Me l a n i e Kaderabek, chair and vice chair of UB, came to present their proposed budget. The proposed budget is $213,000, which is $8, 870
more than their proposed budget last year. Despite the approved $204,130 UB budget last year, they only received $187,800. This was a result of the 8 percent budget cuts to UB. This yearâs proposed budget is $25,299 more than what they received the year before. They had cuts costs for the previous year from marketing, cultural arts, production, comedy.
The general budget remains the same at $43,380, the same with the Homecoming committee with a $12,785 budget. Fr a n c i s a n d K a d e r a b e k p ro posed a $4,850 increase to the comedy line item. There was also a $750 increase to the cultural arts. â T h i s y e a r, w e w e re a b l e t o bring in some comedians to campus, our most successful event w a s L e o n Ro g e r s ,â K a d e r a b e k
said. âThat was our highest event this year. We had over 75 people in attendance at that event, it was amazing.â Kaderabek said the better known the comedian, the more likely students will show up to see them. The proposed comedy budget will allow for two major comedians, as well as 4 minor comedians. Ot he r lin e ite ms wi thi n UB
with proposed increases are the mainstage committee with a $3,040, marketing-public relations with $1,433, Panther Fest with $6,035, productions with $1,315, special events with $2,000, and movies with $1. The movies committee is responsible for bringing recent blockbuster films to the school, free to students.
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