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The Eastern men’s soccer team lost 0-2 to Wright State on Tuesday.
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Faculty Senate decides January as end date to resolution on shared governance
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By Brooke Schwartz News Editor | @DEN_News After a year of discussion, the question of what to do about the Higher Learning Commission’s concerns with Eastern’s organizational communication is coming to a potential end. Many solutions and ideas have been discussed, and at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, an official end date for the resolution was set to be, ideally, this upcoming January. At a senate meeting last semester on Jan. 23, 2018, Council of Academic Affairs members went to the meeting, much like they came to the most recent senate meeting, and shared governance was discussed in many of the same ways as it was on Tuesday. An underlying discussion of Faculty Senate’s larger role on campus and in other organizations was discussed at both meetings this September and last January. Jeff Stowell, senate vice-chair and psychology professor, has been leading discussions and creating plans since those first meetings last year as a part of the senate shared governance subcommittee. At Tuesday’s meeting, Stowell said he believes a change needs to happen to clarify the senate constitution, which currently says that CAA, the Council on Graduate Studies and the Council on Teacher Education are populated by the senate, but are part of “the Faculty.” “I think we should start back at the beginning, which is what is (the senate) constitution saying about our relationship (concerning organizations), and presently we specify their existence, we say they shall be committees of the faculty, and then we really don’t specify anything about what (the senate does) with them,” Stowell said. “We spawn them, and then we orphan them.” He said he thinks having a clear relationship and connection to these other organizations is important in the senate constitution. “I might suggest, that if one word was added to the constitution that says these are committees of the faculty senate, then suddenly we have a relationship, which we then want to cultivate with
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Billy Hung, the Faculty Senate recorder and a biological sciences professor, speaks at the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday in Booth Library.
these other committees,” he said. “We’re not claiming any more power than we already have; it gives us reason to collaborate more and feel like we are connected in some way.” Rebecca Throneburg, a CAA member and a communication disorders and sciences professor, was in the audience at the senate meeting and she said she strongly disagreed with Stowell’s solution. “(Adding senate) says that basically CAA is a subgroup of Faculty Senate, and I‘m OK with that, if Faculty Senate is a representative body of the other people. Many of the other universities, Faculty Senate has … two people from CAA, or
it’s all members of CAA. Then if you have a seat on the senate, you’re a member of the other body that you’re elected to serve,” Throneburg said. “If Faculty Senate is a representative body of those people, then … OK, fine. Otherwise, we really don’t like the model of CAA, COTE is a committee of the senate with a liaison being a part of that. (CAA) is opposed to that.” Billy Hung, senate recorder and biological sciences professor, said he could see both sides of the constitution interpretations.
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Homecoming week sees changes By Brooke Schwartz and Corryn Brock News Editor and Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Planning for Eastern’s Homecoming, which is taking place Oct.15 through Oct. 20, is underway, and students will see some differences from past years. The most notable difference is that the “Yell like Hell” event, which served in the past to get students excited for the Saturday football game, will not be not be included in this year’s Homecoming Week as it has been in past years. Emonie Jordan, one of the homecoming committee co-chairs, said this switch was to change the stigma that surrounded certain homecoming events, like Yell like Hell, that they were Greek life oriented. Jordan said Yell like Hell was also cancelled due to low involvement rates in past years. The coronation ceremony, which was typically held on the Tuesday of Homecoming
Week, will now be held on Friday and will be combined with an updated pep rally event that is replacing Yell like Hell on the following Friday. Coronation applications are due this Friday, Sept. 21, while the applications for faculty king and queen and little prince and princess are not due until Sept. 28. Coronation interviews are set for Oct. 6 and 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Interviews cannot be rescheduled. Picture dates for coronation will be Sept. 26 and 27 at 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in room 20B of McAfee gym. Applicants should wear Eastern spirited and their RSO’s clothing, as compared to the more formal attire that was required in the past. A meeting for applicants will be at 8 p.m. next Tuesday in the Casey room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. A coronation candidate is required to have a minimum of a 2.5 grade point average.
The winners will be chosen 60 percent by their interview, 30 percent voting and 10 percent on their application. The rush events for this year include a carnival, an obstacle course, golf cart trivia and glow bowling. Jordan said the application for participation form for this year’s homecoming can be found in the Student Activity Center. “If your (registered student organization, Greek organization or residence hall) still has not filled that out … please get that done and in the SAC office by Friday (Sept. 21),” Jordan said. Parade applications are due Sept. 28 and will be found online within the next couple of days. The theme for Homecoming Week 2018 is “This is Who We Are.” Brooke Schwartz and Corryn Brock can be reached at 581-2812 or at bssschwartz@eiu.edu or cebrock@eiu.edu.
The Tarble Arts Center presented “Real Women Have Curves” Tuesday night to a diverse audience. The film was the first shown at the Tarble Arts Center, and according to Museum Education Manager Tim Abel, the showing was a success. “It was good to see people come out,” Abel said. Abel said the film was a great one to show at the Tarble, because some of the themes are relatable for students. “It’s about someone who wants to go to college,” Abel said. “It’s really nice that seen (at the Tarble) it kind of leads to going to college.” The film was presented as part of the fall semester programs in conjunction with the “In the Eye of the Beholder” exhibition. “I like how it’s this one person’s perspective and this one person’s kind of problem solving,” Abel said. “It’s just like how the art is in the (‘In the Eye of the Beholder’) show. There’s this complete understanding that this is someone’s perspective and this is their way of being brave in the world and that’s only their direction. That idea of narrative is really strong in the movie.” Kinzi Duncan, a senior English major, said the film was very empowering. “It made me feel very OK with myself,” Duncan said. “I especially loved the scene when all the women were like stripping down and talking about how much they loved themselves. It was very sweet.” The film also resonated with Simone Reynolds, a junior theatre arts major. Reynolds said she read the play for a class, so she loved to see the movie. “The play is very different from the movie,” Reynolds said. “Even just reading (the play) and seeing (the film) there were a lot of similarities.” The film also connected with Reynolds on a personal level, because her father worked for the city of Chicago. “It was nice to see the dad not act a certain way,” Reynolds said. “He was more open and accepting to the main character Ana going to college and stuff like that.” Reynolds said there were several important messages people should take away from the film. “The grandfather tells Ana, you are at the goal, now you need to go find what fulfills you,” Reynolds said. “I think a lot of women of color, if you don’t hear that, a lot of people especially family members telling you that, it’s everything.” Another important message Reynolds took away from the film was the idea that both kinds of women portrayed in the movie are important. “If you choose to go the traditional route, you still have rights,” Reynolds said. “If you choose to go to college, we should all be included and respected for whatever decisions we make as women.” Reynolds said she would be interested in seeing a modern adaptation or sequel to the film with more inclusion. “What about the women who don’t have breasts and what about the women who don’t have vaginas?” Reynolds said. “So being more inclusive, I think that’s always a way to make something better.” Mercury Bowen can be reached at 581-2812 or mjbowen@eiu.edu.