2008 Woodie Awards
Changes we'd like to see happen next year
Editorial Board
Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: Opinions
| Our View | |
| Situation: | As the 2007-08 school year comes to a close, we have many suggestions about what needs to be changed in upcoming years. |
| Stance: | Among the changes are finding a home for the nursing program, getting a new steam plant and more state funding. |
Finals start today, and many of us have already checked our brains out and are anticipating nearly four months of vacation or the steady paycheck that comes with a new job.
As we look ahead to next school year, here are some goals that we hope get accomplished during the 2008-09 school year.
In the upcoming school year, we hope to see Lou Hencken's dream become a reality when the new Textbook Rental facility finally breaks ground.
However, we would like the university to use orange safety fences instead of the ugly chain-link fences that have surrounded Doudna for years. We're adults; we understand a fence of any sort means do not enter.
We hope the Doudna Fine Arts Center opens as scheduled. The state-of-the-art building has been under construction for years and will cost an estimated $63 million, including equipment.
The completion of the building will allow Eastern to finally give their fine arts students a permanent home, while hosting first-class music, theater and art events on campus.
After years of delays, fine arts students will finally have a permanent home on Eastern's campus. Another department that needs to find a permanent home in the upcoming year is Eastern's nursing program.
The program, started in 2007, is currently housed in Lawson Hall. Come May, the program will be relocated, but to where is anyone's guess.
Thirty students are currently enrolled in the program. These 30 students deserve a spot to call their own on Eastern's campus by August.
There is one thing that Eastern desperately needs. We need a National Championship for football coach Bob Spoo. Spoo just finished his 20th season as head coach of the Panthers.
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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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