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The Student Senate will review the diversity involvement requirement bylaw change for the third time this year at the 7 p.m. meeting in the Arcola/Tuscola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. At the Feb. 11 meeting, the senate did not pass the bylaw change with 14-7 vote with one abstention. (0) comments
Eastern's near future is going to see some changes as was addressed at Faculty Senate's meeting Tuesday. Eastern is working on an inaugural comprehensive campaign where fundraising is a top priority and concern. This process, which is expected to last about five to six years, was started in July 2006 and is anticipated to end in June 2012. (0) comments
About 80 people, including local lawmakers, gathered in Morton Park on Lincoln Avenue yesterday to protest government spending and tax increases. The protest was part of the National Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party movement, which takes its name from the 1773 Boston Tea Party when American colonists protested British taxes. (23) comments
The ailing economy is having a direct effect on transfer relations at Eastern. As state and federal aid declines for four-year public institutions, enrollment has begun to increase in community colleges across the country to reduce the blows of tuition increases. (0) comments
The cars are gone, but the former Baldwin Pontiac dealership at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Douglas Street is showing new signs of life, with rows of cars replaced by rows of trees, shrubs and rocks. Local landscapers Jonathon Wills and Tim Butler said they plan to open their new Green Tree Garden Center at the site in the coming months. (0) comments
An interim associate dean for the College of Arts and Humanities will be appointed for two years, according to a memo from Blair Lord. Lord, provost and vice president for academic affairs, sent the memo to faculty and staff throughout the college asking for nominations and expressions of interest by April 20. (0) comments
Faculty from across the university gave their "last lectures" Tuesday night to a crowd of students. The University Board hosted "The Last Lecture" series, which in an adaptation of Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who gave his finally lecture before he was forced to retire because of cancer. (0) comments
Bricks to be painted for diversity The Residence Hall Association will be hosting the Writing on the Wall Brick Painting event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Thursday in the Library and South quads. Bricks will also be painted at 5:45 p.m. Thursday in the South Quad. (0) comments
The Lincoln Log Cabin in Lerna is scheduled to reopen next week. Site Manager Matthew Mittelstaedt said the historic site would reopen by April 23. The site has been closed since Dec. 1, after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich cut funding to the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. (0) comments
People played Twister, wrote sexual confessions on a plywood board, played "pin the clitoris on the vagina" and colored pictures of penises at the Sex Positive Fair and Masturbate-athon on Tuesday night in the University Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. (2) comments
