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In Tuesday's edition of The Daily Eastern News, the Diva Drag Show's years running was incorrect. This year's drag show was its sixth annual. The DEN regrets the error. (0) comments
Legislation has been introduced in the Illinois General Assembly that would reduce the Fiscal Year 2009 budgets by 8 percent for all state agencies that report to the governor. Eastern is one of those agencies. Wednesday night, President Bill Perry was asked to outline potential impacts that such a cut would have on the university and send it to the legislature for a hearing held Thursday in Springfield. (0) comments
Residence Hall Association vice president nominations took place at Thursday night's RHA meeting at Thomas Hall to replace former RHA Vice President Michael Andrew who had resigned. At least five people were nominated including Bryn Rich, Matt Triezenberg, Brad Saribekian, Shannon Davis and Karla Browning. (0) comments
View Larger Map Nathan Shortridge, 20, of Miami Gardens, Fla., was charged with driving on a suspended license after a 12:33 a.m. Wednesday arrest, said the University Police Department. (0) comments
The two students injured by a heavy panel inside Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center are recovering. According to an e-mail obtained by The Daily Eastern News, student Pat Rheingruber sustained severe injuries to his hand and was sent to Springfield Memorial Hospital to see a hand specialist. (6) comments
Updated 11/29 at 6:30 p.m. A home invasion reported to the Charleston Police Department did not involve any Eastern students, according to a university crime advisory issued Wednesday afternoon. The incident took place in the 1500 block of First Street and involved two suspects, the Charleston Police Department said in a press release. (0) comments
Josh Marcus performs a solo during "Chase Scene" in the Eastern Jazz Ensemble's concert Thursday night in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Theater. Director Sam Fagaly said before the song to think of one's favorite chase scene in a movie and visualize it as they play. (0) comments
Bailey Young, professor of archeology, and Herbert Lasky, retired dean of the Honors College, organized an American committee, Friends of the Walloon Heritage, to help the Heritage Institute of Wallonia (IPW) raise funds to preserve the Walhain Castle in Belgium. (0) comments
Eastern will be installing new energy-efficient soda machines in the coming weeks. The new machines could save the university $10,000 in yearly energy costs, according to Ryan Siegel, Eastern's campus energy and sustainability coordinator. "The new machines are energy-star rated," Siegel said. (0) comments
Sgt. Willard of the U. S. Army shows off some of the Army's newest technology called a PackBot. This robot is designed to go places that danger is too high to have a human presence. According to Sgt. Willard the robot normally has an arm attached to interact with the environment it is sent into. (0) comments
University employees were unintentionally paid on Tuesday because of an error created by a new software the payroll department is using. "We recently were required to begin using a different type of software to transmit the direct deposits to the bank," said Linda Holloway, assistant director for payroll and benefits. (0) comments
Approval of a construction bid for the new facility is just one agenda item the Board of Trustees has to decide on at its 1 p.m. meeting today in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. "That's an exciting thing for us," said Jill Nilsen, vice president for external relations, about the possible new facility. (0) comments
Apportionment Board allocated money for at least one University Board event. University Board asked for $25,000 at Thursday night's Apportionment Board meeting. UB received $4,500 for Up All Night Blue and Beige Extreme Sports was on Jan. 14. The other three event allocations were tabled. (0) comments
