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Check out our special edition “On the Verge of Family Weekend” to get all your information for this weekend. From stories about events, to why athletes think Family Weekend is important, you can find what you need section B.
Hip, hip hooray, it’s Family Weekend! Welcome parents, friends and everyone else. We’ve missed you!
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Friday, September 21, 2018
“TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID ”
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CAA expresses shock, concerns Eastern with shared governance proposal prepares By Brooke Schwartz News Editor | @DEN_News While the end of shared governance discussions may have seemed over to some following the conclusion of the Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday, members of the Council on Academic Affairs were in for a surprise at their meeting Sept. 20. The senate ended their meeting with Todd Bruns, senate chair and scholarly communication librarian and institutional repository director, heading off to write a more formal proposal of his Faculty Congress idea. The congress idea would, Bruns said at that meeting, make the organizations on campus less hierarchical and more equal. “(Faculty Congress) is the organizational um-
brella of CAA, which works on curriculum, of COTE, which works on teacher education, CGS, which does what it does, Faculty Senate does everything else,” he said. “It’s basically just codifying and saying CAA, COTE, CGS and Faculty Senate combined represent the faculty.” Jeff Stowell, senate vice-chair and psychology professor, had proposed earlier in that meeting a change in senate constitution that would officially make CAA, the Council on Graduate Studies and the Council on Teacher Education organizations of the Faculty Senate, not of the Faculty as the constitution now says. “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 these other committees,” he said.
“To hear that (Stowell) feels he wants to go ahead and do this resolution, which is going to be pushed through... it’s disappointing. I don’t really understand where it’s coming from...” -Marita Gronnvoll, the CAA chair
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James Cleary (center), the national account manager, and Michelle Warner (right), the material resources manager at Team Fenex, laughs with students Thursday afternoon in the Martin Luther King Jr. university Union.
Students find opportunity at job fair By Jelan Buchanan Staff Reporter |@DEN_News Students came to the job fair to meet potential new employers during the Job and Internship fair Thursday in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. Union. Essence Chatman, a senior public relations major, said she attended the job fair because this is her last year at Eastern. “I’m graduating in May so I wanted to see if they had any internships related to public relations in jobs,” she said. Senior psychology major Pleasant Singleton said he attended the job fair because he also is leaving Eastern soon.
“I’ll be graduating in December and I need to get a job by the time I walk the stage, that’s my goal,” he said. Singleton said he knows a lot of people who have gotten jobs from coming to the job fair in the past. “That’s one of the main reasons why I come, just so I can possibly be one of those people by the time I graduate,” he said. Jimmy Smith, a senior sales counter executive at Schneider National, said freshmen should come out to the job fair because they could meet and gain knowledge from many of the businesses. “It doesn’t hurt, I mean (freshmen are) very young, (they) may not know if (they are) going to stick to this major or if (they are) going to change majors, but I’m not going to tell people not to come because you
never know what opportunities you can get,” he said. “Not a lot of (businesses) offer stuff to freshman, but it’s never a bad thing to network.” Jeff Leichty, the accounting manager for Caterpillar Inc., said more freshmen should come to the job fair to get familiar with it. “I think that even if you don’t know what your major is, I think that it’s beneficial to attend, to come see it, to walk around to kind of understand what it’s about and get some of those first time jitters out of the way,” he said. “(Then) when you do have your career picked, you are a little more seasoned when you are here as a junior/senior.” Jelan Buchanan can be reached at 581-2812 or at jjbuchanan@eiu.edu.
for Family Weekend By Logan Raschke Staff Reporter | @DEN_news Family Weekend will host a series of events for students and their families starting Friday at several locations on Eastern’s campus. Students can check in and receive additional information about the schedule of events from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Java B&B and Bookstore at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union on Friday. Beth Dunahee, assistant director for new student and family programs, said Family Weekend will include a movie night, a family breakfast, a murder mystery dinner, several volunteer projects, a creation station, Family FUNfest, the football game, bowling night, bingo and other events. Dunahee said everyone is welcome to the events for Family Weekend, and all but three of the events are free. “(There are) events that free for anyone to attend, and then there are also events that you have to purchase the tickets to,” she said. Everyone who wants to attend the department of music’s concert hall and the murder mystery dinner will have to purchase tickets, but students will receive two free tickets to the football game—one for them and one for a family member or friend, she said. The murder mystery dinner, movie night, concert, bubble show, rock ‘n’ bowl and family bingo will be on Friday, Sept. 21. According to Eastern’s website, the murder mystery dinner will start at 5:30 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. at the University Ballroom in the Union. The murder mystery dinner will have an 80’s style, and tickets are available to order online at Eastern’s website, Dunahee said. The family movie will be showing Incredibles 2 at 7:30 p.m. on Friday in the Martinsville room in the Union and 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Charleston/Mattoon Room in the Union, and refreshments will be provided, according to Eastern’s website. The department of music collage concert will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center, and tickets are also available to purchase on Eastern’s website, Dunahee said. Bob’s bubble show will go from 8 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Grand Ballroom in The Union. Rock ‘n’ bowl games are $2 per game including free shoe rental, and it goes from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. at the Bowling Lanes in the Union on both Friday and Saturday. Family Bingo will go from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. at McAfee south gym. WEEKEND, page 5