CAA KICKS OFF
NEW YEAR, NEW GOALS
The Council on Academic Affairs will have its first meeting of the year on Thursday.
With the conference season coming back on Sept. 14, Eastern’s women’s soccer team is looking to improve and gain experience. PAGE 8
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Student Government tries to fill several vacancies By Corryn Brock Staff Reporter | @corryn_brock Members of Eastern’s Student Government are trying to fill the Vice President of Student Affairs opening after former VPSA Tyler Stoklosa resigned. In addition to the VPSA opening, there are currently 27 openings for student senators. Current members did not comment on why Stoklosa resigned, but following the resignation, Executive Vice President Zachary Cohen assumed the duties of the position. He was the elected VPSA during the previous school year in which he ran uncontested. Some of the duties Cohen took on include organizing the upcoming Pantherpalooza. Pantherpalooza is an event on Eastern’s campus in which registered student organizations have the opportunity to showcase their organization to students. According to the Eastern’s Student Life Office there are over 200 RSOs currently registered with the school. “It hasn’t been too bad because I was in that position last year,” Cohen said. “So since I’ve already done two Pantherpaloozas … I know everything I have to go through. I just have to actually do it.” Having the knowledge of VPSA duties, he said, “I think I kind of have an advantage.” Cohen is also currently acting as the Student Speaker of the Senate. “Hopefully within the next couple of weeks we should have those (positions) filled,” he said. “As soon as we have Senate going on a new Speaker will get elected and when we have the new election we’ll have a new VPSA.” VICE PRESIDENT, page 5
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Zac Cohen, who is currently serving as student vice president of student affairs, gives a presentation during a student senate meeting last semester. The Student Government is trying to fill the position of student vice president of student affairs this semester.
Black Student Union hosts cosmic bowling By Megan Keane Reporter | @DEN_News The Black Student Union hosted “Cosmic Bowling” Wednesday night at EIU Lanes in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union in an attempt to recruit members. BSU’s leaders, junior business major David Hagler and senior kinesiology and sports studies major Jessica Jimerson hosted the recruitment event in the hopes of reaching out to Eastern’s newest students with the promise of free bowling and ice cream sundaes. The event started at 7 p.m., but at 6:45 members were already setting up the sundae station and helping other students grab their bowling shoes. Lots of students were already settling into their lanes, excited to get the night started. One of those students was Jalyn Long, a freshman chemistry major. She said she was interested in joining the Black Student Union and was ready to get her and her friends’ game started. “I’m kind of a good bowler,” she said. She offered advice for new bowlers and said to walk in a straight line. That advice was echoed by Gabrielle Bersamin, a senior graphic design major, who is already an active member of the BSU.
"We’re going to work to keep the traditions of the Black Student Union going strong." Lou Soltysiak, Black Student Union graduate assistant She claimed to be an “average” bowler herself and advised other bowlers to stay in their lane. Bersamin said she came to support the BSU and that she came with friends. Hagler and Jimerson said they decided to hold the event at the Union’s bowling alley because it was close for students living on-campus or in the Greek Court and they wanted it to be easy for everyone to come to. Kytyra Jackson, a senior community health major, was a member of the BSU her sophomore year but has returned this year, because she was re-recruited by her friend, and persuaded to come to the event on her study break. She said she was most excited about the sundae bar, but was ready to get out and bowl. Jackson said she wasn’t the greatest at bowling and confessed to using bumpers.
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Shakeinah West, a senior communication studies major, waits in line at the ice cream bar in the bowling alley at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Wednesday night during the Black Student Union’s “Cosmic Bowling” night.
“I do! I do (use bumpers). That sounds so bad to admit,” she said, laughing. She said she returned to the BSU with interest and with hopes to get involved. The BSU’s graduate assistants—Cierra Howard, a family and consumer sciences major who received her undergraduate degree at Eastern, and Lou Soltysiak, a college student affairs major who received his political science degree at the University of Dayton—were in attendance.
They said it was their first year as advisers for the BSU, and they are looking forward to being involved. “I’m excited just to work with them,” Howard said. “There’s great members and there’s the long history with the Black Student Union.” Soltysiak said he was also excited by the history of the BSU.
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