2008 Woodie Awards
Changes we'd like to see happen next year
Editorial Board
Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: Opinions
He has taken his team to the playoffs for three straight years, and the Panthers have lost in the first round those three years. This year, the team needs to break the first-round jinx and make it all the way to the championship game.
Do it for Spoo.
We think if it were at all possible and if his family agreed to it, Ken Baker would move into the Student Recreation Center.
The director of Campus Recreation has that much passion for his job. Even this year when he took responsibility of the athletic department as its interim athletic director, he still managed to keep a close tab on Campus Recreation.
That said, we would like to see the rather blandly named building known now as the Student Recreation Center changed to the Ken Baker Building.
Tony Romo donated $100,000 to Eastern before Christmas this school year. A quarter of it went to the communication studies department and the other $75,000 went to the athletic department.
We'd like to see an even bigger donation from the Dallas Cowboys' starting quarterback next year, and have him donate $1 million to help improve and upgrade O'Brien Stadium, home of Eastern's football and track and field teams.
The money could be used to touch up some areas in desperate need of paint, replace the bleachers with chair back seats and give the light blue track surface a darker hue.
And we should also figure out a way to move the seats closer to the field, which would make going to a game there actually feel like a college football game.
Shared governance between the university and faculty is important, and that was not present within the Biology Department this past semester.
We hope everyone learns next semester that infighting will solve nothing. We believe events that promote exclusivity across our campus, specifically targeting "Greek" functions and organizations, should be abolished.
The Student Life Office lists its commitments as being the engagement, empowerment and exposure of students to services and programs - however, this is not possible.
Do it for Spoo.
We think if it were at all possible and if his family agreed to it, Ken Baker would move into the Student Recreation Center.
The director of Campus Recreation has that much passion for his job. Even this year when he took responsibility of the athletic department as its interim athletic director, he still managed to keep a close tab on Campus Recreation.
That said, we would like to see the rather blandly named building known now as the Student Recreation Center changed to the Ken Baker Building.
Tony Romo donated $100,000 to Eastern before Christmas this school year. A quarter of it went to the communication studies department and the other $75,000 went to the athletic department.
We'd like to see an even bigger donation from the Dallas Cowboys' starting quarterback next year, and have him donate $1 million to help improve and upgrade O'Brien Stadium, home of Eastern's football and track and field teams.
The money could be used to touch up some areas in desperate need of paint, replace the bleachers with chair back seats and give the light blue track surface a darker hue.
And we should also figure out a way to move the seats closer to the field, which would make going to a game there actually feel like a college football game.
Shared governance between the university and faculty is important, and that was not present within the Biology Department this past semester.
We hope everyone learns next semester that infighting will solve nothing. We believe events that promote exclusivity across our campus, specifically targeting "Greek" functions and organizations, should be abolished.
The Student Life Office lists its commitments as being the engagement, empowerment and exposure of students to services and programs - however, this is not possible.
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of course
posted 4/28/08 @ 12:08 AM CST
lets also abolish the exclusive groups such as LASO, BSU, honors orginizations, sports teams, campus political groups...all of whom your either in or not "based on trivial social values"
or we could do what would really help the students and abolish this farce of a paper, or change it into something that is more that just a place for a few students to promote their own veiwpoints as fact. (Continued…)
CHILDISH
posted 5/05/08 @ 4:13 PM CST
THIS IS PATHETIC. YOU MUST BE FROM THE GENERATION OF EVERYONE GETS A TROPHY, THERE ARE NO WINNERS AND LOSERS. LISTEN, THE GREEK SYSTEM IS THERE FOR EVERYONE. (Continued…)
EIU ALUMNI
posted 5/05/08 @ 8:45 PM CST
Wow I never knew Eastern Illinois University was such a great university that the top 3 things that need to change are the color of a fence, the greek system, and the steam plant. (Continued…)
EIU ALUMNI
posted 5/05/08 @ 8:51 PM CST
oops I meant 3 of the top things....Not the top 3.... but the same statement about everything remains the same.
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