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The plane carrying 1st Lt. Jared Southworth's body arrived at 9:50 a.m. Thursday at the Coles County Memorial Airport for a military service with his family. Southworth, 26, was killed Feb. 8 in Afghanistan while serving in the Illinois National Guard. Awaiting the arrival of Southworth's body were personnel from the Mattoon, Charleston, Ashmore, Kansas and Lincoln Fire Departments as well as members of the local Veterans of Foreign War and the Mid East Illinois Patriot Guard Riders. (5) comments
If Eastern activates its emergency sirens, Web-based/e-mail announcements or text-messaging systems, the community should act accordingly. The systems will not be part of the active shooter drill today in Buzzard Hall. The drill will take place in the Buzzard Auditorium area, the second-floor balcony and parts of the hallways adjacent to the foyer. (0) comments
Tasha Dunn, the vice president for public relations for the Graduate Student Advisory Council, said when she attended a national conference for graduate students and told other schools of Eastern's current graduate student budget, they laughed. (0) comments
The death of Osiris Johnson's father on the streets motivated him to write the poem "I Just Wanna Elevate." Johnson recited his emotional poem during Janice Harrington's poetry reading Thursday night in the Black Box Theater of the Doudna Fines Arts Center. (1) comment
After being tabled last week, the additional allocation for the Campus Safety Week was passed 6-1-0 at Thursday's Apportionment Board meeting. Student Body President Levi Bulgar was the presenter and advocate for Campus Safety Week, which will be held April 6 to 10. (0) comments
Comedian Richie Holliday describes his performance as full of ridiculousness. "A lot of silliness, that's the best way to describe it," Holliday said. Holliday will perform at 9 p.m. today in the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Luther King, Jr. (0) comments
The concert "Dueling Pianos" will commemorate the work of Louis Teicher and Arthur Ferrante, a piano duo that sold 88 million albums over four decades. The concert begins at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Susan Teicher and Richard Robert Rossi, music faculty members, will perform two of the duo's arrangement accompanied by the Eastern Symphony Orchestra. (0) comments
The suspect was seen wearing a facemask, Carhartt jacket with two weapons, a shotgun and a handgun, leaving the Buzzard Hall Auditorium. This along with phrases like "victims on the ground" and "gun shot to the leg" could be heard over the police radio scanner Friday morning during the active shooter drill on campus. (2) comments
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