FINGER PRINTING
NEW HORIZONS
The Charleston City Council will vote on allowing the University Police Department access to the Charleston Police Department’s finger printing machine. PAGE 3
Eastern’s interim director of tennis Sam Kercheval will be leaving Eastern to take a new position at Notre Dame. PAGE 8
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Collegue, students look back on life of professor
Creating a college from scratch
By Andrew Paisley Opinions Editor | @Andrew_Paisley1
In an empty room in Klehm Hall, Jeanne Lord sat surrounded by empty walls and empty offices.
As the school year begins, the psychology department at Eastern is feeling incomplete. Joseph Williams dedicated 25 years to helping colleagues and teaching students in Eastern’s psychology department. Williams was one of only two bio-psychologists on campus and was also a member of several professional and Joseph Williams honor societies including Sigma Xi (National Research) and Psi Chi (Psychology). Williams died on Aug. 7 from complications after surgery and Jeffery Stowell, the associate chair for the psychology department said that everyone in the department was shocked. “He had just had surgery and told us he was ready to come back this year and work and then suddenly he was gone,” Stowell said. Stowell said it was hard to learn about Williams’ passing because of their close relationship. “We taught a lot of the same classes,” Stowell said. “We were the only ones in the department who were biopsychologists, so that made us more unique than any other person in the department and we were pretty close.” According to his obituary, he also served as the faculty advisor for the Psi Chi Psychology Student Honor Society. He also served as a professor at Boston University, University of Massachusetts in Boston, Loyola University, Roosevelt and Mundelein Colleges in Chicago and at North Central College in Naperville. Dydra Arnold, a senior psychology major, said Williams was very humorous. “I really think that was one of his main qualities,” Arnold said. “He always liked to have fun and tell jokes.” Arnold said Williams was always positive and expected a lot, but it was the first college class she took that made her learn to be more discipline and independent. “He really shaped me to be a better student,” Arnold said. WILLIAMS, page 5
College of Health and Human Services interim dean talks about new position By Brooke Schwartz News Editor | @DEN_News
When the Board of Trustees approved the college restructuring plan over the summer, they named Lord, who was located at the old College of Business and Technology Sciences for 10 years, as the interim dean of the newly approved College of Health and Human Services. Lord was assigned to a building, Klehm Hall, and associate deans and department chairs started being chosen as Lord went out and bought office supplies and business cards and the building started
to populate. “It really was starting from the ground up,” Lord said, as everyone came together and tried to figure out college committees, budgets and policies for this new college. The new college has three main missions, which were decided on by Lord and the various department chairs and directors. “The first is creating visibility,” Lord said. “We want to create, first of all, an on-campus visibility and identity, letting people know who
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we are. Creating visibility on campus, but also creating visibility in the community and creating regional visibility.” To achieve this, a “Taste of the College of Health and Human Services” event is being planned for Sept. 4 in the Library Quad, where music, food and giveaways will be set up and students can learn more about the new college and its mission. HEALTH, page 5
Save the Date What: Auditions for “The Moors” and “9 to 5: The Musical”
Where: The Globe Studio in the Dounda Fine Arts Center
Time: 5:30 p.m.
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Samantha Boomgarden, a senior psychology major, drives a golf cart Monday afternoon in the Library Quad. She waved and said hi to some people she knew as she drove by them.
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A man and a woman ride bikes across campus Monday afternoon in the Library Quad.
By Mercury Bowen Entertainment Reporter | @DEN_News Eastern’s Department of Theatre Arts will be holding auditions for the upcoming productions of “The Moors” and “9 to 5: The Musical” beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday at The Globe studio in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Those interested are asked to come dressed to move and prepared to have a photo taken. Auditions are open to everyone, and though priority is often given to theater majors and minors, Kevin Doolen, the department chair of theatre arts, said non-major and freshmen students have often been cast in larger roles. “I would urge students not to assume they can’t do something,” Doolen said, “If you’ve got an interest in something, you owe it to yourself to explore it.” According to Doolen, some of the best actors he’s seen are also some of the humblest people with insecurities.
AUDITIONS, page 5