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Eastern and other state universities in Kentucky will face immediate bud-get cuts this year and the next two years after that—just one aspect of a larger budget measure to shore up the state's hemorrhaging retirement and pension systems, according to a new budget pro-posal issued by Gov. Matt Bevin during his state address on Tuesday, Jan. 26.

The budget proposal calls for an im-mediate 4.5 percent cut in state fund-ing to universities—which amounts to approximately $3 million of EKU's $68 million state appropriation—by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, according to Kristi Middleton, EKU's spokesper-son. On top of that, EKU will face a 9 percent cut to its state allotment next year, which translates to roughly $5.85 million.

"What the governor presented will certainly pose challenges to us, both in the short term and long term," said President Michael Benson in an email sent out to faculty and staff Wednesday, Jan. 27.

By 2020, all state appropriations will be subjected to performance-based standards that will be developed in the coming months and applied over the next two biennia, according to Gov. Bevin's budget proposal.

“I want funding that incentivizes outcomes that are specific to the things people want,” Bevin said, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

For example, in performance-based funding, Bevin said there will be incen-tives for degrees in engineering because it would be in more demand than those degrees from, say, French literature, all of which are partially subsidized by tax-

payers."Governor Bevin reiterated his own

belief in our call today that access to ed-ucation is a privilege, and not a right, and the cost to educate our citizens must fall to those who benefit from those who consume it-students," Ben-son said in his email Wednesday.

Gov. Bevin said in his address that state universities will be free to offset the cuts in state funding by raising tu-ition. But Benson, joined by other state university presidents, said that puts state-funded universities in an unfortu-nate position.

"The challenge with increased tuition is that it, perforce, reduces the number of scholarship dollars we can provide to qualified students, thus choking off ac-cess to education," Benson said. "This is one of my gravest concerns."

Although the cuts in state funding could make it more challenging for uni-versities to support their scholarship ef-forts, Bevin said those scholarship ef-forts will be boosted by another facet of his budget proposal: all proceeds from the Kentucky Lottery go to the schol-arships they're intended for rather than being diverted by state lawmakers to use to shore up other areas.

Despite the cuts, Benson said EKU's construction projects will continue to move forward, as many of those are in-sulated from state budgetary concerns because they're financed through Pub-lic-Private-Partnerships, such as the new residence halls, or private dona-tions, such as the pedestrian gateway. However, Benson immediately halt-ed any increase in spending on athlet-ics, according to Richard Day's report to Faculty Senate on Monday.

Bevin said in his address that he

By BRIANNA WHITEbrianna_white68@mymail.eku.edu

Eastern to lose millions under governor's budget proposal

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At one of the busiest intersections of campus, students are greeted by closed sidewalks and construction equipment – all in the name of creating a new pe-destrian gateway.

The gateway is just one part of East-ern’s “Make No Little Plans: A Vision for 2020” which, according to the Uni-versity Strategic Plan, is focused on creating a more “student-centric” envi-ronment with the addition and renova-tions of facilities.

Paul Gannoe, director of capital construction and project administra-tion, acknowledged that campus has an assortment of projects underway, including the pedestrian gateway, im-provements to the softball stands, de-signing a new rec center, finishing phase two of the New Science Building,

extensions to the student center and new residence halls.

Gannoe said he believes all the proj-ects are important for different rea-sons, but the gateway, which would serve as EKU’s main pedestrian en-trance, has generated the most atten-tion from students, with some ques-tioning why it was included in the campus renovations.

“It is a feature that enhances the public interface,” Gannoe said.

The gateway will face outward to-ward the community and will show the beauty of EKU, Gannoe said. Not only that, but Gannoe said he imagines it as a place where students will gather, and maybe even a place where students are active, much like the ravine.

“We want them to picture it as icon-ic,” Gannoe said.

Gannoe said the cost to build the gateway was roughly $530,000. Howev-er, a few items were donated, such as a row of limestone columns provided by Craig Turner, a local businessman and chair of the EKU’s Board of Regents. The donation indicates why President

Benson often refers to the construction as “Turner Gate.”

Turner's donation and funding are completely separate from the amount that EKU has spent on the gateway, Gannoe said.

The construction crew has had some difficulty with building the gateway, Gannoe said. He said there have been the normal construction logistics with receiving supplies, such as bricks for the entranceway, but also other prob-lems out of their control.

“We’ve had lots of bad weather,” Gannoe said. “Bricks have to be dry to place, can’t be below freezing and no raining.”

Aside from those speed bumps, Gannoe said the crews are making great progress with finishing the gate-way. He said they are just waiting for the limestone column pieces to arrive, scheduled for around Feb. 22. Then the pieces can fasten together, which will take approximately three weeks.

Afterward, the crew will work on a center-section of the stage, which will involve laying pavers, adding a few

handrails, more sod and finally plant-ing. Gannoe said if everything goes ac-cording to plan, the target finish date is March 15.

Gannoe posted an image on the EKU Builds website showing what he hopes the gateway will look like, but he said he worries many people will ex-pect the final outcome to be exactly like the planned image. Gannoe said he hopes those who see the gateway know that sometimes things change from the drawing to the final outcome.

Gannoe said his primary goals for all the projects are to make the spac-es more inviting, make residence halls more comfortable for students and help recruit more students to Eastern’s campus.

All the construction projects on campus are being worked on simulta-neously, however, Gannoe said he is ex-cited to finish this project.

“When we’re done with this, it’s one thing we don’t have to worry about,” Gannoe said.

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COLUMNS ARRIVING IN FEBRUARY; COMPLETION DATE SET FOR MID-MARCH

Weather delays opening of new pedestrian gateway

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Jan. 27 � An 18-year-old from Monticello and a 19-year-old

from Walker were cited for buying/possessing drug par-aphernalia at 5:05 p.m., in the Lancaster Lot.

Jan. 28 � Officers responded to a report of a vehicle that drove

into a snow bank and two subjects fighting at 2:31 a.m., on the corner of Kit Carson and University Drive. A 19-year-old from Richmond was cited for alcohol intox-ication in a public place and a 21-year-old from Dan-ville was cited for operating a motor vehicle under the influence. Both were transported to the Madison Coun-ty Detention Center.

� A staff member reported her belongings were miss-ing at 9:17 a.m., in the Coates Building.

� A resident reported damage to her vehicle at 3:17 p.m., in the Telford Lot.

� A person reported damage to her vehicle at 5:05 p.m., in the Brockton Commuter Lot.

Jan. 29 � A person was cited for criminal trespass at 8:39 a.m.,

in the Martin Lot, and was transported to the Madison County Detention Center. The person was issued a tres-pass warning on Jan. 21.

Feb. 2 � A 19-year-old from Elizabethtown was cited for pos-

session of marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession at 7:36 p.m., in Walters Hall.

Department of English & Theatre’s scholarships and

awardsEKU undergraduate English

majors are highly encouraged to apply for the Department of En-glish & Theatre’s scholarships and awards. Information regard-ing scholarships, eligibility re-quirements, and award amounts is provided below. For addition-al information and applications, students may contact Brent Shannon at brent.shannon@eku.edu, or visit the depart-mental scholarships and awards webpage www.english.eku.edu/scholarships-english-majors.

Outstanding Senior AwardThis award honors a grad-

uating senior who has demon-strated outstanding scholarship, leadership, and promise. Any se-nior English or Theatre major who will graduate in May, Au-gust, or December 2016 with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 is eligible to apply. Recent winners have received around $300. The deadline is Feb. 26.

Dr. James M. Kenkel Undergraduate Linguistics Scholarship

This award, in memory of EKU English professor Jim Ken-kel who passed away in Janu-ary 2011, is presented to an un-dergraduate English major with an interest in linguistics. The

award winner will likely receive around $250. The deadline is Feb. 26.

Philip H. Mankin Memorial Scholarship

This scholarship is present-ed to a junior English major who has demonstrated high academ-ic achievement and a love for language and literature. Any En-glish major who currently has between 60-89 credit hours and a grade point average of 3.25 or higher is eligible to apply. Recent winners have received around $750. The deadline is Feb. 26.

Donn Johnson Endowed English Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded to an English major with a finan-cial need in the Kentucky Ser-vice Region with at least a 3.25 GPA. Recent winners have re-ceived around $600. The dead-line is Feb. 26.

Bonnie Plummer Endowed Study Abroad Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded to English majors or graduate students and provides financial support for tuition, room, and/or board to students attending EKU while studying outside of the United States in a Universi-ty-approved program for study abroad classroom credit. Recent winners have received around $500. The deadline is Feb. 26.

Hazel Chrisman Memorial English Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded to a full-time freshman English

major with good high school GPA and ACT score with finan-cial need. The scholarship is re-newable with a 3.6 GPA in En-glish courses and satisfactory overall progress toward a de-gree. Recent winners have re-ceived around $400. The dead-line is Feb. 26.

Library Research Award for Undergraduates

EKU Libraries is recognizing undergraduate students whose research makes expert and cre-ative use of the services, re-sources, and collections of EKU Libraries to produce a scholarly or creative work. First place win-ner will be awarded $800, sec-ond place $500 and third place $300.

The deadline for submission is March 21. To learn more and submit your project visit encom-pass.eku.edu/ugra.

Photo BoothEKU Libraries is hosting a

Valentine’s Day themed pho-to booth from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Feb. 11, in the Main Lobby of the Main Library. A photogra-pher will be on site during this time block, but the photo booth will be open to self-photography until 4 p.m., Feb. 12. All photos will be uploaded to the library’s Facebook page, and self-pho-tographers can upload theirs as well. Tag all photo @ekulibrar-ies #ekulibraries.

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The Chautauqua Lec-ture Series is set to fea-ture Chris Impey in its first keynote of the year at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 4, in O’Donnell Hall.

Impey, a professor of astronomy at the Uni-versity of Arizona, will address space explora-tion and life beyond Earth in his lecture, What If We Live Off-Earth? Exploring Our Future in Space.

According to an EKU press release, Impey has re-

searched gravitational lensing, observational cos-mology and the evolution and structure of galaxies. NASA and the National Science Foundation have supported Impey through $20 million in grants.

He has also written over 40 articles on cosmolo-gy and astrobiology that have been well-received by readers and critics, as well as two introductory text-books for college-level astronomy, a novel and five popular science books.

Impey has won numerous teaching awards, in-cluding 11 from the University of Arizona, according to the press release.

His writings about the origin of the universe and about the long term fate of the universe include his most recent book, Beyond: Our Future in Space. The New York Times called the book “an expansive and enlightening overview of space travel’s past, present

and possible future.”During his lecture, Impey will give insight into

the importance of space evolution and exploration, as well as what happens when humanity’s curiosity and inventiveness inevitably takes us to inhabit plac-es outside the safe zone of planet Earth.

Impey will also be a guest on the Eastern Standard program on WEKU-FM, which will air at 11 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 4. Students can meet Impey between 4:45 and 5:45 p.m. prior to the Chautauqua event in the Crabbe Library, Room 201. There will also be a book signing and Q&A after the lecture.

For more information on Impey and future Chau-tauqua Lecturers, visit www.chatauqua.eku.edu or contact Chautauqua Lecture Coordinator Erik Lid-dell at erik.liddell@eku.edu.

For the second year in a row, Eastern’s cheerleading team traveled to Florida for the UCA College Cheerleading National Championship and returned home with a trophy.

The team, composed of both an all-girls squad and a co-ed squad, took two prizes this year: Third place in the co-ed compe-tition and fourth place in the all-girls com-petition.

Last year, the team competed in just the all-girls competition and took home a third-place trophy--a finish that was all the more remarkable because the team hadn't competed in nationals in five years.

This year's team followed up on that success, coming up big in both the all-girls and the co-ed competitions--and the co-ed team started competing again just this year after more than a five-year layoff.

But the team's recent success didn't come without sacrifices.

The teams learned the routine in Au-

gust, and had routine practices on Tues-days, Thursdays and Sundays, while also cheering at games. As the competition date grew closer, the teams practiced twice a day over winter break.

All that preparation speaks to an often overlooked aspect of cheerleading: It's a highly technical sport. In fact, the compe-tition looks at several factors.

Each score is divided into different components, such as stunts, tumbling, pyramids and a cheer portion. There is also an allotted 15 points designated to a spirit video showcasing the teams spirit level and use of pom-poms through clips of parades, pep rallies and games demonstrating their ability to pump up the crowd.

The cheerleaders said once on the stage during finals in Orlando, it's all they can do to fight off their nerves.

Emily LaRoche, 20, a child development major from Independence, said it’s a lot like acting or putting on a play.

“You practice all year and then get two minutes,” LaRoche said.

The team also experienced technical is-sues when one of the girls tore her Achil-

les tendon and had to find a replacement to learn the routine in three days.

After their win, the cheerleaders made sure to enjoy their time in Florida.

The team also had down time at Disney World on their day off enjoying the amuse-ment park taking team rides on Space Mountain.

Astrologist explores idea of humans living in space

Something to cheer about: Team takes third at nationals

By TRENTON MEADEprogress@eku.edu

On Monday, 75 faculty members from departments across Eastern gathered in a hot and stuffy Keen Johnson for the monthly Faculty Senate meeting. Among the issues discussed:

n Betina Gardner, dean of libraries, pre-sented a timeline regarding Eastern’s search for a new learning management sys-tem that could replace the current Black-board system. Teams of six to 10 EKU fac-ulty members will conduct pilot studies with the various software platforms, both with online classes and face-to-face cours-

es. A final decision will be made summer of 2017.

n Senate member Randall Swain from the Department of Government raised concern about Eastern students who are selling their class notes to online websites that then turn around and sell those notes to other students. Senator Swain suggest-ed that the senate look into creating a poli-cy that would deter students from skipping class and resorting to online notes. Provost Janna Vice, who is chair of the Counsel on Academic Affairs, said she will take the proposal up with the Policies Academic In-tegrity Committee and will report back at the next Faculty Senate meeting.

n In Richard Day's chair's report, he up-dated the Faculty Senate on Gov. Matt Bevin's recent budget proposal. Day said EKU President Michael Benson was absent from the Faculty Senate meeting, away in Frankfort where he was meeting with the governor to discuss the state budget cuts. Bevin announced last week that state funding for higher education will be cut by 4.5 percent this fiscal year and will see ad-ditional cuts of 9 percent each of the next two years. EKU was budgeted to receive roughly $68 million in state funding this year. In a conference call with other state university presidents last week, Bevin said that college was a privilege, not a right, and

that students bear the responsibility to pay their way. Day said that Bevin also is look-ing into making all state funding for public colleges performance-based.

As EKU looks to find ways to make up the loss in state funding, Day told the Senate that a survey would be sent for faculty to help identify "areas of excess" that could help the administration avoid cutting personnel. Some 85 percent of EKU’s $240 million budget is personnel, but EKU administrators hope to focus their cuts in other areas.

By EMILY VINSONprogress@eku.edu

Faculty senate talks budget cuts, Blackboard replacement

By STEPHANIA DARIAprogress@eku.edu

hadn't approved any state-funded con-struction projects for universities as of yet. Bevin said universities may still sub-mit those construction project propos-als--EKU for instance has asked for $93 million to fund improvements to the Avi-ation program and to build a new Model Lab school--and that the governor's office would weigh those proposals on a case-by-case basis.

In his email, Benson noted that EKU has long faced funding cuts and other

challenges in its history, adding that he is confident the university will come out of this chapter in good shape.

"This situation is a sort of financial gal-lows for us and will require our best and most focused thinking and effort both in-dividually and collectively," Benson said.

In another email sent late Tuesday, Feb. 2, to the university, Benson reiterated that the ongoing university construction projects will not be affected by the budget cuts because they are not funded by the state, utilizing private donations, univer-sity bonds and other sources.

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Currently, the Bluegrass state is battling a new, addictive enemy of public health. Over the past few years, heroin has become the drug of choice in Ken-tucky, allowing users a good high for a relatively low rate. Cheaper than pills, heroin is gaining populari-ty and is having devastating consequences.

Heroin is most commonly used via a hypodermic needle, which allows the drug to go directly into the user's bloodstream. Unfortunately, these needles, which can be tainted with the HIV virus and Hep-

atitis C, tend to be passed around from person to person. This raises the risk of contracting a painful and lifelong disease, such as those mentioned above.

Hypodermic needle use has been directly linked to the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C worldwide, with Kentucky having the highest rate of Hepatitis C in the United States.

Luckily, there are cities and counties across Ken-tucky that have instituted needle exchange pro-grams. These programs allow users to anonymously exchange their used needles for clean, unused ones. Lexington, Louisville and Falmouth all have ex-change programs, with Jessamine County being the latest to add this to their list of health services. Of-ficials hope this measure will impede the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C throughout the state.

Heroin abuse is not an issue to be taken light-ly or encouraged, but providing a safer alternative to those already using could prove beneficial. I, like most Kentuckians, would rather see the heroin cri-sis over with, but reducing the damage it causes is a start. There's no harm in relinquishing our title as No. 1 in Hepatitis C cases, and could potentially be the start to a heroin-free Kentucky.

Bluegrass state attempts to battle with Hep C and HIV

Clinton and Cruz win Iowa Caucus

The Trump phenomenon and being 'politically

correct'

Donald Trump has taken the 2016 race by storm since coverage began.

Brash, unapologetic and transparent, he's resonat-ing with people because he tells them what he thinks and feels. Democrats degrade him because they think he’s racist, and Republicans seem to love the fact he doesn't care what everyone else thinks.

What the left fails to realize is that they created the Trump phenomena and it's so-called “political cor-rectness.”

Between cotton balls being in front of the black cul-ture center on campus and people using slurs driving by minority students in their cars, it’s terrible. In the cotton ball incident however, the students who did it were arrested and suspended indefinitely. Even Na-than Stephens, the director of the black culture center, said “I am excited that justice has prevailed.”

Somebody try and give me a logistically sound way to catch the people who drive by students in their car and yell things at them. You simply can’t. The media is how you do it. Especially in today’s 24 hour news cy-cle where they cover everything with a slew of oppos-ing opinions.

Being racist is horrible, and in an ideal world we could rid ourselves of all these people. But if somebody is truly “racist” and literally hates another race, do you think some class is going to change that? Unfortunate-ly, I can't say that because according to the "politically correct" police, I'm a racist if I do. You could see how this would make some people angry.

A sad truth to the world we live in is that these types of people will always exist. There is no vetting process that can find them or any class that will change what these people think of people regarding their race.

The power of the "politically correct" police has gotten so strong, it's even affecting how we handle na-tional security issues.

Over the summer of 2015, Pamela Geller hosted a cartoon drawing contest with drawings of the proph-et Mohammed. The event was shot up by Muslim ex-tremists. Somehow, when all the dust settled, we actu-ally had people in this country defending the gunmen, claiming this was “hate speech.”

Yet when Catholics protested a satanic black mass in Oklahoma roughly two years ago, a writer for the Boston Globe said that Christians “just needed to get over it”.

Do we want to live in a country where people who protest something over religion are ridiculed and peo-ple who kill over their religion are defended? We aren't even allowed to call terrorists who follow the word of Islam "Muslim extremists" or invoke the idea of radi-cal Islam.

A spokesman for the Hillary Clinton campaign issued a statement after the last democratic debate where nobody could use these terms in response to a question about whether we should say these things or not. The response Clinton gave was “We don’t need to go to war with Islam. We’re going to war with extrem-ists.”

So, does Islamic extremist not make total sense based on that logic? Nobody is saying we’re at war with all Muslims or all of Islam: just the ones that are will-ing to kill over it. This is one of those myths the "po-litically correct" police would want you to believe to make the ones they disagree with seem like monsters.

This has become a dangerous standard if we can't even call our problems out because we might "offend" somebody. Even in the wake of everything that has happened in the past year, our liberal leaders insist that their strategy is working.

Is it not sensible to check the refugees in at the bor-der and ensure we are not allowing followers of this radical section of the religion into our country? Un-fortunately, we can’t even discuss problems or solu-tions to these problems because the "politically cor-rect" police will have you believe it is offensive.

The First Amendment was not created to protect speech we all agree on. It was created to protect speech we might not like. Being called a racist or a bigot is a serious accusation and we throw these words around like they mean nothing. These words shut down de-bates and are used more and more without merit. It’s easy to accuse someone of these things without actu-ally debating somebody whose opinion makes you un-comfortable.

People are sick of this kind of insanity and their support of Trump is how they tell you they're sick of it. If nothing else, he stands up to those people. People want to be able to comment on these situations that affect our country, but the "politically correct" police want each race to stick to commenting solely on its own race. All this does is divide us, not bring us to-gether.

When you take the importance out of words like "racist" then it would seem that everyone was racist. People are fed up with it, and liberals have nobody but themselves to blame. I’m even starting to see articles about liberals being fed up and that’s why they support a socialist in Bernie Sanders. I'm not sure what they have to be fed up about.

The oh-so important Iowa Caucus took place on Feb. 1, 2016. Representing the people's opinion of the presidential candidates, the caucus is important in determining how the candidates will do through-out the race.

Interestingly, the way the Democrats and Repub-licans handle the caucus are completely different.

For Republicans, voters use secret ballots, and then tally their votes to see who attends the party's county, state and national conventions. The Iowa GOP has 27 Republican delegate positions awarded based on the statewide vote proportionally. Overall, Iowa sends 30 to the GOP convention.

For Democrats, however, after an hour of hearing candidates' volunteers make their case about why they should vote for them, the precincts hold an un-official ballot as a test of opinion. Candidates who don't get at least 15 percent of the vote are out of the running.

In rural precincts where the population is so small they only elect a single delegate, the selection is done by majority vote on a paper ballot.

Those caucusing for these remaining qualifying candidates then seek to persuade each other to sup-port their candidate and get the most votes. Iowa Democrats will elect 29 delegates at the district lev-

el. The state will send 52 to the convention.I also find it interesting that Iowa is one of the

states that holds a caucus. Iowa isn't a particular-ly exciting state, and when I think of it, I think of nothing more than corn. Iowa's population isn't huge and I doubt most people who live outside of the state could place it on a map.

Iowa is a swing state, but there are some who speculate that it may be turning more Republican than Democratic. This makes sense considering most states who focus on agriculture tend to follow more right leaning beliefs.

In first place for the Republicans was Ted Cruz, leading with eight delegates. Marco Rubio and Don-ald Trump followed closely with seven delegates each. Apparently, Trump's candidacy has not been an elaborate hoax.

The Democrats had Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders going neck and neck, leaving Martin O'Mal-ley to sit there and think about how horribly he lost. Clinton had a total of 23 delegates with Sanders fol-lowing with a total of 21 delegates. O'Malley had zero and has officially suspended his campaign.

While most people are not surprised at Clin-ton's win over Sanders, there is some buzz at how close the race came. Throughout the caucus, Clin-ton tried to maintain a small lead in votes, occasion-ally tying with Sanders. Before the voting was over, the Clinton party declared victory, confident that she would win.

As for the Republican's, let's just say I'm disap-pointed. Do you know what Ted Cruz said in his vic-tory speech? He just repeatedly slams the Obama presidency while mixing in quotes from the Scrip-ture.

This may just be the liberal in me talking, but I don't trust a man to keep a separation between church and state when he claims "our rights come from our Creator" and not our government.

At least Trump didn't win, I guess.

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How ‘Rate My Professor’ sways class selection at EKU

As the clock strikes midnight on registration days, students swarm EKU Direct to select classes for the upcoming semes-ter. Students no longer go into the registration process blind, though, with the help of an or-ganized list of upcoming classes and the holy-grail of recommen-dations: ‘Rate My Professor’.

‘Rate My Professor’ is an anonymous review site created by a software engineer in 1999 as a way to help college students rate professors throughout America, Canada and the Unit-ed Kingdom. Currently owned by mtvU, MTV’s cable system given to on-campus housing, ‘Rate My Professor’ has over 15 million ratings on over one mil-lion campuses and professors.

‘Rate My Professor’ has grown into a must-have for stu-dents everywhere. Students can check what previous students think of their possible profes-sor. Is he or she hot? Does he or sheactually use the textbook? How helpful is he or she outside of class? All of those questions, and more, are rated in every re-view.

“‘Rate My Professor’ is basi-cally a lifeline for me, especial-ly when it comes to finding good

Gen. Ed. classes,” said Brandon Mitchell, a sophomore criminal justice major from Lexington.

Many students at EKU, in-cluding Cassie McFarland, a se-nior English major from Wil-liamsburg, refuse to finalize upcoming schedules before checking with ‘Rate My Pro-fessor’ for the teacher’s overall rating. McFarland said that she will go as far as to change her entire schedule if she sees a pro-fessor has a bad rating.

“I’ve found that the reviews are really accurate, and I will do everything possible to switch around my schedule and get out of a class where the professor has horrible ratings,” McFar-land said.

Biology lecturer Marcia Wat-kins and English professor Kev-in Rahimzadeh are two of the highest and most rated profes-sors on Eastern’s campus with more than 70 ratings each.

With such a huge following, ‘Rate My Professor’ added cam-pus ratings, allowing students to rate their own college in cate-gories such as reputation, inter-net access and social scene.

EKU’s “Campus Beautiful” stacked up a 3.8/5 overall qual-ity rating, sitting right below the University of Kentucky, Univer-sity of Louisville and Western Kentucky University. Though

Eastern’s 211 ratings for inter-net and food are less than aver-age, overall student happiness ranks higher than nearly every other public university in Ken-tucky.

Additionally, the site has gained popularity amongst pro-fessors, with many using the site as a way to connect with stu-dents. ‘Rate My Professor’ al-

lows professors to customize their page and add notes on spe-cific classes and issues in or-der to show students that their feedback is being heard.

With an easy, anonymous rating system, not even East-ern’s SGA President Katie Scott can ignore the website’s power.

“I use it (‘Rate My Professor’) for professors I’ve never had and

always read feedback because sometimes the things others hate, I love,” Scott said.

While ‘Rate My Professor’ reviews may not apply to every-one, students have the ability to read other’s opinions and make their own decision on what classes to take.

Walking into a classroom on the first days of the semester, students anxious-ly await to hear the rules each profes-sor has. It seems like the same things are said every semester: attendance is re-quired, an 89.9 is a B and participation is part of the grade. Each is dreadful in its own way, but which is worst?

The thought of having to come to class every day isn’t ideal, and thinking a professor doesn’t care about their stu-dent’s grade is disheartening. However, students know what those rules entail. What exactly is counted as participat-ing?

Freshman Whitley Bardroff, an edu-cation major from Frankfort, said she be-lieves in order to get a good grade, you have to pay attention in class and do the work.

Other students like freshman Zac Sa-lyer, an education major from Paintsville, said he believes participating in a course means being active in discussions.

“I like it sometimes,” Salyer said of

class discussions. “They should reward people who want to participate, but shouldn’t hurt someone who doesn’t.”

Some students said they shouldn’t have to take a wild guess on how to earn a good grade, but what’s the solu-tion?

T h e first step is figur-ing out what type of student you are. Whether you’re too shy to join in or you’re the per-son who likes to talk enough for the entire class, there’s a solution for everyone.

Talk to your professors to mention is-sues you have with speaking up if you’re the shy student. If you’re the overachiev-

er, listen to others and let them have a chance at earning points. On the oth-

er hand, maybe you just don’t know what to ask. In this case, mention

something from a previous lec-ture because it proves you’ve

been listening.Participation

doesn’t al-ways have to

take place during

lecture, though.Melissa

Dieckmann, a geology

professor at EKU, is a big

advocate for par-

ticipation points. To

her, partici-pation comes from in-class

assignments. She said she grades participation “on effort, not quality.”

Dieckmann added she thinks this as-

pect of a student’s grade is important be-cause it boosts morale. In her mind, a student shouldn’t have to fail a class if they’re working hard. She goes on to ex-plain some students struggle with mate-rial, even if they’re hard workers.

Nutrition professor Karina Christo-pher said she considered a student par-ticipating when they were disconnected from electronic devices and actively en-gaged while she lectures. She said it’s im-portant because it gives the student the best opportunity to understand material.

Christopher said as she’s putting in grades at the end of the semester, if she knew a student had been on time most days and made an effort, she would round them up to the next letter grade if it was close.

As it turns out, participation isn’t as big of a mystery or as hard as students make it out to be. The next time a pro-fessor announces that they include par-ticipation in your grade, be excited for a chance at some easy points. Now, stu-dents just have to worry about actually going to class every day (or at least most days).

What’s not to love about winter? From leg warmers and burgundy tights to trendy hoodies, some of the best fashion trends surface in the win-ter. So it’s only natural for the best winter trends to reside on Eastern’s cam-pus too.

This upcoming winter, students will want to be prepared for both new and old fads that are appear-ing on fashion magazines everywhere that will un-doubtedly be hitting the

campus soon.How many times have

you seen a girl wearing the perfect outfit and said to yourself, ‘I really love that scarf she’s wearing I won-der where she bought it!’ With our help, you will have every answer your burning heart desires. Each month we will be bringing you some of the latest and hottest trends straight out of fashion magazines and into the classrooms.

As college students, we certainly understand that shopping on a budget re-stricts just about every option we have. With the

help of Richmond’s local shopping centers and bou-tiques, however, we hope that you will be able to recreate various looks at an affordable price!

As EKU students, we all know that a proper winter wardrobe is a must. Boots, coats, hat and gloves are just a few staple items that have become the norm, and campus fashionistas have made sure to recre-ate those bland items into more memorable outfits.

January’s hottest trends were blanket scarfs and vests. Here are just a few of our own fashionistas rocking the popular look.

By SARA ROBERTSprogress@eku.edu

By NIALA WAGSTAFFprogress@eku.edu

SUPER HOT!GRAPHIC BY COREY WALL

RATE MY PROFESSORANONYMOUS REVIEWS OF EKU PROFESSORS

“She was an AWFUL teacher”

“I wouldn’t recommend her for lower level ENG classes”

“He tells you exactly how to get an A”

Class participation: an easy way for class points?

Effortless and cheap winter trends found on campus

GRAPHIC BY COREY WALL

Gabby wears a Mustard-Blanket Scarf ($23)Love It? Source: ShopAdorabelles.com

Madison wears a faux fur vest to keep her warm ($21) Love It? Source: AltardState.com

Madi and Hannah effortlessly rock their blanket scarves and long sleeeved dresses ($25)Love It? Source: ShopAdorabelles.com

Evan Nichols, Editor The Eastern Progress | www.easternprogress.com Thursday, February 4, 2016 Page 6

Michaela Hunter seized the lead for Eastern (11-9, 5-4 OVC) with a 3-point-er in overtime, giving a one point lead over in-state rival Morehead State University (9-14, 3-6 OVC), and further ensured the win by stealing twice and scoring on both turn-overs.

The game was sent into overtime by Morehead’s Brianna McQueen, tying the game at 85. Before the end of regulation, Eastern had led by 11, but its lead was cut down by a combination 3-point shooting, quick goals from the field, and free throws from the Eagles.

The Colonel defense, led by senior Jas-mine Henshaw and juniors Jalen O’Bannon and Hunter, were able to hold Morehead to only eight points in overtime, gaining a combined total of 27 rebounds and eight steals for the night. O’Bannon led the team in blocks with four. Hunter also contribut-ed one block.

Offensively, the Colonels were led by O’Bannon (18), senior Shameekia Murray (19), and Hunter (23), while hunter scored three from beyond the arc, and junior Ma-riah Massengill had two. During More-head’s attack in the fourth, Murray, Hunter, and Massengill were able to keep Eastern ahead until McQueen sent the game into overtime.

Morehead’s comeback was due in part to Eastern’s excessive turnovers during the game, with 11-24 happening in second half. Morehead had 21, with its last two stolen by Hunter in overtime for two quick goals

in five seconds: once at halfcourt, stealing from Eriel McKee and off of an inbound pass from Aaliylah Wells.

Eighth year head coach Chrissy Roberts said that turnovers caused the Colonels a hard time.

“They’re going to haunt me,” Roberts said. “We’re going to look at every turnover we have, because that’s been a nightmare for me the past few games.”

Eastern’s plan was to drive against More-head’s two best shot blockers and try to “get to the free-throw line, and the main thing was being aggressive,”. Henshaw was able to utilize her physical play to get key rebounds and score when Eastern needed it. Roberts said about Henshaw that she is “strong, she can score when she wants to.”

Henshaw’s leadership was visible on the court. Roberts said that she’s always com-municating and helping the team stay on the same page.

“It’s easy for her to do that because we listen,” Hunter said about Henshaw’s con-trol of the court.

Despite O’Bannon being double and tri-ple-teamed, she was able to score.

“She [O’Bannon] passes the ball very well, and she’s very patient, and that’s hard to teach,” Roberts said.

Hunter made some great defensive plays towards the end that helped push Eastern to victory.

“I had an adrenaline rush at the end,” Hunter said. “I tried to make a big play at the end because we have got beat off the ending play the last two times.”

Eastern goes on the road to face the Bel-mont University Bruins (14-7, 6-2 OVC) at 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6, in Nashville.

Hunter leads Eastern to 100-93 win over rival Morehead

The Eastern Track and Field team came home with four gold medals after competing in the Thundering Herd Invitational at the Jeff Small Track at the Cline Athletic Complex in Huntington, W. Va.

The men’s team finished with 85 points, securing a third place finish out of 12 teams. The women’s team fin-ished 10th out of 16 teams with 23 points.

Sophomore Tom Koringo won both the men’s mile and the 800 meter. Koringo beat teammate, Erick Rotich in the mile with a time of 4:13.67. Koringo finished the 800 meter race with record-time at Jeff Small Track of 1:53.10.

A crowd of Colonels led the men’s 3000 meter race. Junior Jaime Escriche led the field with a time of 8:17.39. Sophomore Jamaine Coleman finished second with a time of 8:22.59, junior Ambrose Maritim finished fourth with a time of 8:22.98, junior Luis Luna finished fifth with a time of 8:23.25, and freshman Timothy Asis finished sixth with

a time of 8:28.97 to round off the Colonel scorers.Junior Harry Earl won the men’s 5000 meter race fin-

ishing with a time of 14:42.24. Sophomore Ronald Korir finished second with a time of 14:42.34 and junior Luka Ndungu finished third with a time of 14:43.51.

Senior Adam Howard who placed seventh, jumping 22-1.5 in the men’s long jump, and junior Toby Howard fin-ished eighth in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.98.

For the women’s team, sophomore Charlotte Imer fin-ished second the women’s 3000 meter race with a time of 9:56.92.

Senior Ashley Svec finished fifth in the women’s 5000 meter with a time of 17:28.64, sophomore Ciara Scott fin-ished seventh in the women’s 5000 meter with a time of 17:55.72. Senior Alena Galetova finished seventh in the in-door pentathlon with 3,225 points followed by senior Ash-ley Woolum who finished eighth in the women’s pentath-lon with a total of 3,217 points.

The track and field team will compete Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Middle Tennessee State Invitational.

Track and Field earns four gold medals at Marshall

By BRYCE STEPHENSprogress@eku.edu

Murray State 75 Eastern 71

In a game between in-state rivals, the Colonels fell to the Murray State Racers (11-10, 5-3 OVC) by a final score of 75-71.

The Colonels (12-11, 3-5 OVC) were coming off of a close loss the Saturday be-fore to Tennessee Tech and were look-ing to bounce back against the Racers on Wednesday Jan. 27, in McBrayer Arena. Murray entered the game atop of the OVC West, while Eastern entered the contest last in the OVC East.

The Colonels defense started out strong, allowing EKU to jump out to an early 10-2 lead with four of the five starters scoring by the first media timeout.

Murray State’s junior guard Damar-cus Croaker threw down a dunk to spark an 11-2 run, putting the Racers up six with

4:36 left in the first half.The Colonels kept battling back, but

couldn’t overcome Murray’s hot hand as the Racers made eight 3-pointers during the first half.

The teams continued to trade blows with eight ties and six lead changes half-way through the second.

Eastern slowed Murray’s hot shooting from the first half and only allowed one made 3-pointer in the second half.

With 48 seconds left, Reischel made a huge 3-pointer to put the Colonels up by one point. Murray State junior guard Jus-tin Seymour came back and answered with a three of his own to quiet the crowd and give the Racers 73-71 lead with 20 seconds left. EKU could never recover, losing 71 to 75.

The Colonels were out-rebounded 21 to 32 and didn’t grab a single offensive re-bound. EKU also gave up 15 free throws in the second half.

Sophomore point guard Paul Jackson had 10 points and 10 assists to earn his

second double-double of the season while Mayo scored a game-high 22 points for Eastern, while Reischel added 21 points.

“He’s dominant,” Head Coach Dan McHale said of Mayo. “I can’t wait to coach him for the next couple years. He has to be more aggressive on the boards, though.”

The 6-foot-9 freshman had just one re-bound.

Morehead State 70 Eastern 67

Saturday night, the Colonels hosted Morehead State in conference play.

The teams came out trading buckets with a quick 10 to 7 score four minutes in. Six of the Colonels (12-12, 3-6 OVC) 10 points came off of Morehead (11-9, 5-3 OVC) turnovers while four of the five start-ers scored.

Morehead continued to score, but the Colonels battled back after a thunder-ous dunk from freshman forward Antho-ny Pratt and layup by guard Xavier Moon,

leading EKU to a 32-28 halftime lead.The Colonels came out of the half firing,

but Morehead continued to hang around and after an 12 to 2 run, took a three point lead at 41 to 38.

A slam by junior forward JaVontae Hawkins helped cut the lead to four with just over 12 minutes left in the game and the Colonels stormed back with under four minutes left to cut the lead to one after a Reischel layup.

With two minutes left, Nick Mayo drew a foul and made both free throws to tie the game up at 62. The following possession, Morehead made a 3-pointer to retake the lead, but Mayo continued to score, keeping the Colonels within one.

The Colonels could not find enough to come back though, losing 70-67.

Nick Mayo had 19 points, 10 boards and four blocks. Reischel added 18 points and eight boards.

The Colonels return Thursday, Feb. 4 when Eastern travels to Nashville to take on Tennessee State University at 2 p.m.

Colonels lose two close ones to rivals in final minutes

PHOTO COURTESY OF EKU SPORTS

Eastern senior Shameekia Murray (10) absorbing contact from a Morehead State player.

By TREY BAKERprogress@eku.edu

PHOTO COURTESY OF EKU SPORTS

Harry Earl (4), Ronald Korir (1) and Luka Ndungu (3) competing at the Thundering Herd Invitational.

By ROBERT RISTANEO progress@eku.edu

PHOTO COURTESY OF EKU SPORTSEastern senior forward Ja’Mill Powell (32) driving during Saturday night’s 70-67 loss to Morehead State.