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EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CHARLESTON, ILL. D A I LY E A S T E R N N E W S . C O M T WIT TER.COM/DENNE WS
Student presents antient architecture
Road struggles continue for men’s soccer team
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STUDENT SENATE
Council approves ordinance for unlawful depositing
Senate adds new members
City Editor Sara Hall
By Kathryn Richter Staff Reporter
The City Council voted to approve amending a nuisance ordinance for unlawful dumping or depositing of materials at Tuesday’s meeting. Mayor John Inyart said the measure is necessary because the language in the current ordinance does not specifically call out landscape waste as prohibited. He said the amendment would therefore not allow citizens to rake leaves into the streets because it causes problems for storm sewers. “We can’t get (the storm sewers) flowing,” he said. “The water backs up, and it doesn’t take too many leaves to clog the sewers and cause a problem.” City attorney Brian Bower said the amendment is necessary to clarify to citizens the prohibition of what is not allowed in streets.
The Student Senate will welcome two new student senator members and a new parliamentarian after two members resigned. Alex Boyd and Alex Lais, former co-chairs of university development and recycling committee, resigned at the Oct. 26 meeting. Lais said he ended his term as student senator in order to focus on other activities, while Boyd said he resigned in order to focus more on school, among other things. The two new members to be sworn in are Caleb Arthur, a senior history major, and Tom Schroeder, pre-business accounting major. Jenna Mitchell, a student senate member and a junior political science major, will be appointed as Parliamentarian. Arthur previously served as a non-senate committee member after originally being denied the position of a student senator member. He said he still wants to be involved in student government.
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Blair Jones, the Student Senate representative for Charleston City Council meetings, relays Tuesday the details of Student Senate's Oct. 26 rally in Springfield in support of a new physical science building.
CONCERT
Bluegrass, gospel band to perform at Eastern By Samantha McDaniel Activities Editor
Eastern students and the local community members can listen to gospel and bluegrass music from a group that has been performing for about 72 years. Fi ve - t i m e Gr a m m y Aw a rd winners The Blind Boys of Alabama will be performing on Eastern’s campus Sunday. The members of The Blind Boys of Alabama include: Jimmy Carter, a founding member on vocals; Ben Moore on vocals;
Eric “Rickey” Mckinnie on vocals; Joey Williams on lead guitar; Tracy Pierce on bass; Peter Levin on organ; and Austin Moore on drums. The Blind Boys of Alabama was founded in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, but they were only prominently known in the black gospel circuit until almost 40 years later. Most of the founding members are no longer touring with the band. Clarence Fountain, vocals and
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Doggy Dates
Jimmy Carter, vocals, still tour with the band on occasions. The other founding members include: Johnny Fields (deceased), vocals; George Scott (deceased), vocals; Ollice Thomas (deceased), vocals; JT Hutton, vocals; and Vel Bozman Traylor (deceased), vocals. Siblings Sara and Sean Watkins from Nickel Creek, a progressive bluegrass band will open show will be opened by. BAND, page 5
STUDENT SERVICES
Old steam plant to become new Student Services Center By Samantha Bilharz Associate News Editor
Eastern’s old steam plant will become the new home for the Student Services Center in the future. The building will be an all-in -one place where students can go to for records, admissions, financial aid and computer services. The current building may even receive a new addition to the west. According to Eastern’s Master Plan, "The proposed new 60,000 square ft. Student Services Center will comprise the renovated
and repurposed Steam Plant and a significant addition to the west, around an open exterior court.” Although there is no set start date for the project, officials plan on using the existing steam plant building for the new Student Services Center, instead of tearing the building down and making a new one. “The old steam plant building will stay there. We may add an addition to the west to accommodate all of the things we envision being in the building,” said Paul McCann, the university treasurer.
Ryan Siegel, the campus energy and sustainability coordinator said, he is glad Eastern is utilizing the space they currently have and are not just building a new facility. “Due to its heritage, it is worth preserving as it is where the university produced campus steam for many decades,” Siegel said. The project is in its early stages, so the cost for the updates to the old steam plant are currently unknown. PLANT, page 5
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Senior physics major Julia Novotny sits and plays with Chester and Cayne, dogs owned by associate professor of sociology Lisa New Freeland Tuesday outside Taylor Hall. Novotny, an RA on floor 3N in Taylor, has teamed up with New Freeland to set up "Doggy Dates", a floor program designed to let residents play with and walk any of the professor's three dogs for fun.