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Jarod Scherle (left), Resident Hall Association president, talks during Thursday's meeting about the upcoming Eastern baseball game, which is RHA day. At the game a member of RHA will throw the first pitch. (John Bailey/The Daily Eastern News)

Textbook Rental building hot topic at meeting

$1 increase to fund new construction supported by RHA President

By: Heather Holm/RHA Reporter

Posted: 4/11/08

The Residence Hall Association discussed the new textbook prices from the previous Student Senate meeting at last night's RHA meeting.

Next year, the fee for textbooks will be $9.95, a dollar increase from this year. This will help pay for the new Textbook Rental building, which will be located between the Sigma Sigma Sigma and Sigma Kappa buildings.

RHA President Jarrod Scherle said it is a $4.2 million project and said he thinks increasing the fees is a good idea.

"The new building looks amazing," he said, "The facility we have now in Pemberton is run-down and overstocked. This setup would help eliminate many problems."

Scherle said Dan Nadler, vice president of Student Affairs, is in charge of this new fee. The Student Senate discussion was tabled until next Wednesday.

"It (the new building) will be a place more accessible to students and will cause less traffic on Fourth Street," said Mark Hudson, director of Housing and Dining Services. "The new building would be up and running by Fall 2010."

A bus service will also run to the new building.

Hudson also mentioned a barbeque planned this weekend for the Gregg Triad's 50th anniversary.

"We will have a celebration of the three buildings with the unveiling of the portraits of the three namesakes," Hudson said. "They are Isabelle McKinney, Ellen Ford and Annie Weller."

The barbeque will be held from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday in the Triad.

Also, the Communications Coordinators are going on the Spring Retreat for the Illinois RHA this weekend at North Central College.

"This is a way for new and old communications coordinators to come together for IRHA, it is a different way to transition the new members," said Brittany Kraft, this year's National/Illinois Communications Coordinator for RHA.

Next week's meeting will be at 5 p.m. Thursday in Pemberton Hall.

Also at the meeting:

• The Student United Party came to RHA to discuss its platform. RHA members encouraged members to vote next week Monday and Tuesday in the Library Quad.

• Lincoln, Douglas and Stevenson Halls are having a fashion show Friday.

• Pemberton is having its 100th anniversary in the fall and will be receiving a new hardwood floor during the summer. Pemberton is the oldest building at Eastern.

• After next week's meeting, members will get to pie their executive board in the middle of the North Quad. The money donated will go toward RHA scholarships.

• The Residence Hall Association's end-of-the-year banquet will be at 5 p.m. April 23 in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Grand Ballroom.

Heather Holm can be reached at 581-7942? or at haholm@eiu.edu.