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The ad hoc committee decided against changing Eastern's foreign language requirements, fearing increased graduation requirements would hurt enrollment at the Faculty Senate today. Earlier this month, the Council on Academic Affiars' foreign language ad hoc committee issued a report calling on CAA to rescind its earlier decision, which would raise the required number of foreign language semesters from two to three. (1) comment
Student Body President Levi Bulgar will be presenting all of the Student Supreme Court at tonight's Student Senate meeting. "I have two last minute applications, and I have two more interviews before the meeting," he said. "I will be appointing all the members at the meeting. (0) comments
When students walked into the Charleston/Mattoon room Tuesday night, they saw a bin of colored plastic balls, a bin of ice water and a couple of pitchers filled with unappetizing substances. The items were used in activities the HERC planned for its Tobacco Fear Factor Event - an event designed to educate people about tobacco. (0) comments
Two LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgendered) supporters will debate about the role Christianity should play in the movement for the organization at 7 tonight in Phipps Lecture Hall of the Physical Science Building. Rev. Seth Ethan Carey, of United Church of Christ, and Greg Spahn, of the American Humanist Association, will focus on how to go about involving organized religion in the LGBT movement in order to make progress. (8) comments
Booth Library will be closed Saturday and Sunday for Thanksgiving Break. During the week, the library will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. The library will be closed to the general public Nov. 26, but faculty can call the Dean's Office at 581-6061 for admission. (0) comments
The struggling economy appears to be the reason why Eastern decided to put its Renewable Energy Center project on hold. President Bill Perry released a statement Tuesday explaining why the $40 million project was put on hold. "During the development of the project, an unforeseen factor, the current economic downturn, has adversely affected the feasibility of the project," Perry said in the statement. (0) comments
Student Action Team is heading to Springfield today. Eric Wilber, chair of the Student Action Team, will be leading the trip, along with Tiffany Turner, a Student Action Team member. The team will leave at 7:30 a.m. and getting back between 4-4:30 p.m. They will be taking a bus down to Springfield, which will leave from the east side of Old Main. (0) comments
The city council opened the floor to the public as motions were made to approve vacating three alleys in Charleston because they were advised by the Public Works Department to vote down the three ordinances. The council also placed the approval of the large subdivision development off Woodfall Drive on file for two weeks pending public inspection. (0) comments
A panel featuring nine speakers, all belonging to different organizations on campus, including Women's Studies, the Asian American Association, the Black Student Union and EIU Pride had an engaging discussion at the "Take It Back? A Panel Discussion on Reclaiming Slurs" in Lumpkin Hall on Tuesday night. (0) comments
