ANOTHER LOSS
ROAD TRIP
The Eastern men’s basketball team lost to Jacksonville State 75-56 Thursday night.
The Eastern men’s tennis team hits the road this weekend, making its way to Wright State and Dayton. PAGE 7
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‘Take-A-Knee’
Students explore, discuss national movements By Andrew Paisley Campus Reporter | @Andrew_Paisley1 Police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement were two topics explored at the “Take-A-Knee” movement, a discussion hosted by the University Board. Del Marion, a representative of the Inclusive Cultural University and the keynote speaker of the discussion, said a lot of the criticism of the Take-A-Knee movement stems from coaches and figureheads in the sports business. “The problem is that these coaches and other people do not want their players to kneel during the national anthem, because it will anger some people,” Marion said. “When that happens, these coaches believe that they won’t sell a lot of tickets at games.” Marion also discussed how the Black Lives Matter Movement is affecting the country. Tony Talley, public relations coordinator for the University Board said it has a big impact. “I think that it is a peaceful protest, which brings interest in the movement to more people,” Talley said. “It still is very unfortunate that a small percentage of people in the country still have not been affected by the movement and sadly don’t have a desire to learn more.”
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Alleluia Musabyimana, a senior sociology major, Marciall Anthony, an Eastern visitor and Maya Lee, a junior psychology major, laugh with each other at ‘Take A Knee’ Thursday night in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
CAA reviews 2015 HLC proposal for general education By Brooke Schwartz Administration Reporter | @brookesch_wartz At a discussion before the Council on Academic Affairs meeting on Thursday, CAA members went over the 2015 Higher Learning Commission proposal for the regulation of general education courses at Eastern. The HLC will review Eastern again in 2019 to see if the recommendations to create a more structured and unified general education program are being implemented or if progress has been made. Rebecca Throneburg, a communication disorders and sciences professor, was on a committee in 2014 that researched the best way to format general education syllabi and reduce redundancies within Eastern’s current general education courses. Throneburg presented the general education committee’s findings and showed the example syllabi the committee came up with. Throneburg said current general education courses resemble high school courses that students have already taken; the courses touch on many different subjects but do not get into any one subject too deeply. “If (students) have one last science class with (Eastern), what’s the nature of the one last science class that (students) need to get? Is it so (students) know facts, (it’s) not going to be their major, they need to know facts about (the professors’) discipline? Or they need to be able to basically say ‘I’m taking a geology/geography class, and now I’ve learned that I can consume science news better and I can be a better edu-
cated science reader for the rest of my life’,” Throneburg said. “I think that’s kind of a different mindset.” The model syllabi Throneburg showed included a more specific integration of the learning goals current course proposals have to include. “If you’re going to teach a learning goal, you can’t just have 12 weeks of topical content. We want to see the topical content, we want to see time in class to teach the learning goal (and) to practice the learning goal,” Throneburg said. Academic adviser Greg Aydt said the specifics of the syllabi prompted discussion about whether Eastern should try for a broad general education program or more narrowed one. “Some places want to have more options (for general education programs), some places want to (focus more on general education programs),” Aydt said. CAA chair Stacey Ruholl, director of adult fitness, said Eastern’s choice general education program along with structure has to be decisive before any changes happen. “There’s a lot that needs to be figured out, it feels like, before we can really gung-ho and let’s get the courses changed,” Ruholl said. “There’s a lot of background decisions that need to happen first.” A discussion of general education courses will continue Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. in room 4440 of Booth Library. Brooke Schwartz can be reached at 581-2812 or at bsschwartz@eiu.edu.
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Rebecca Throneburg, a communication disorders and sciences professor, reads from a report that the general education committee she was a part of wrote back in 2014. The discussion of regulating general education courses comes from a recommendation written by the Higher Learning Commission when it reviewed Eastern in 2014.