UNION UPDATE
WINNING WEEKEND
The Council on Planning and Budgeting heard updates on the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and Textbook Rental Service at its meeting Friday
Eastern’s men’s basketball team won 79-71 against Tennessee Tech, while freshman Mack Smith set the freshman single game record on Saturday
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Super Bowl Sunday
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Tahaun Williams, a freshman applied engineering major, Earl Cribbs,an applied engineering major, David Younglove, a kinesiology major and Carlos Gomez, an undecided major, watch the Super Bowl Sunday night in Thomas Hall.
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Katherine Hoffman, a junior sociology major, and Kassidy Montgomery,a junior nursing major, watch the Super Bowl Sunday afternoon at The Penalty Box Bar and Grill. Both women said they wanted the New England Patriots to win the game.
Charleston looking for bike path recommendations By Analicia Haynes Managing Editor | @Haynes1943 The city of Charleston is currently developing a bike and pedestrian network, and is looking for recommendations on where to create a bike path through campus. This plan is also intended to link the campus to the city, and eventually connect to the Lake Charleston trails and the Lincoln Prairie Trail that runs through Mattoon. Charleston City Planner Steve Pamperin said the bike plan incorporates different elements aside from just creating a safe path
pedestrians and cy"What we’re doing with the project is taking this clists can use. “ There’s a lot of community-wide embrace and linking them so we’re pieces within the b i k e p l a n b e s i d e s kind of in the middle of the chess game…and we’re the physical ‘here’s pulling the pieces together." a bike plan,” PamBrendan Lynch , advocacy director of the Bike and perin said. Hike Pa m p e r i n s a i d there are “5 Es” — engineering, education, encouragement, en- working with the Charleston Police Departforcement and evaluation — which are in- ment to make sure officers understand the corporated in the bike plan to ensure that a rules of the road when it comes to bicycles, quality product is produced in the end. which complies with the enforcement comFor example, he said currently they are ponent.
“We are looking at everything,” Pamperin said. Brendan Lynch, the advocacy director of Bike and Hike, said the bike plan is “small local governance” at its finest. “What we’re trying to do is we’re trying to integrate pieces of the puzzle holistically to best serve pedestrians and cyclists both in terms of transportation and recreation,” Lynch said. “And when you look at the comprehensive bike plan, our infrastructure capital isn’t just in terms of tangibles like the path itself, but there’s also a tremendous amount of social capital as well.” Bike, page 5