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The Eastern men’s soccer team is currently ranked fourth in the Summit League. PAGE 7
STYLE SURVIVAL
Career Services is hosting Dress for Success in collaboration with GLAM Modeling Wednesday. PAGE 3
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Students pleased with quick mumps response Eastern has two confirmed cases of the virus By Luis Martinez Entertainment Editor| @DEN_News Students received an email alert Monday from Eastern’s Health Services, stating they diagnosed a number of students with mumps between Sept. 8th and Sept. 11th. Eastern has reported at least two confirmed cases of mumps on campus and were in the process of investigating further possible cases; however, they did not specify how many cases they were looking into. Mumps is an illness that is spread only through direct contact through infected fluids such as saliva or by using contaminated objects such as spoons, forks and cups. Ryan Brown, a senior accounting major, said he did not know much about the mumps virus, but was glad Eastern managed to warn him about the possible contagion. “I’m glad they let us know instead of just keeping it behind the scenes,” Brown said. “I’m glad they let us know so that we know what to look out for.” Brown also said other students who are not infected now know what to look out for, and any students who may have some symptoms know to isolate themselves to prevent further infection. “As far as the mumps being here, it’s said it’s happened before,” Brown said. “It’s not real scary, and I’m not really scared, I’m just glad that they let us know.”
“I’m glad they let us know so that we know what to look out for.” -Ryan Brown, senior accounting major Patrick Muhne, a sophomore kinesiology major, said he thinks the mumps on campus is a big deal. “As a spreadable disease, I think it’s a big deal with the campus, where everyone’s really close,” Muhne said. Muhne also said since there are a lot of people living pretty close together in the residence halls and the apartments around campus, it can easily be spread. He also said he thought Eastern did the right thing when they sent out the email to all students. “I mean, I think that’s all they only can do,” Muhne said. “I think that was a good job on letting people be aware after the fact.”
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Enrollment numbers for American Indian/ Alaskan Native, African-American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students have declined, while enrollment for Asian American, Latin American, and those students listing two or more races has increased.
Minority student enrollment differs By T’Nerra Butler Multicultural Editor | @Den_News Racial minorities make up 26 percent of campus, a 1-percent increase from the previous semester, but the university shows evidence of a disparity and decline with individual classifications. Minority students include American Indians/ Alaskan Natives, Latin Americans, AfricanAmericans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and biracial students. Mona Davenport, the director of minority affairs, said the strategy of recruitment was
the same, but students were probably exposed to newer programs before applying. She said some of the programs the university has in place helped increase the amount of minority students. The number of American Indian or Alaskan Native last fall was 21, and now it is at 20. The number of Asian American students is now 92, an increase of 12 from the previous semester. Last fall, 1,500 African-Americans attended Eastern and that number declined by nearly 60. Latin American student enrollment went up by 27 students to 471 and nearly 200 students
identify as two or more ethnicities on campus. However, international students have seen growth with an increase of 7 percent this fall semester. Kevin Vicker, the director of the office of international students and scholars, said tuition is one of the reasons Eastern is seeing an increase of international students. This fall, 291 students on campus are international, up 39 percent from fall 2013. Only 141 international students attended the university 10 years ago.
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Faculty Senate discusses budget concerns By Cassie Buchman Administration Editor | @cjbuchman President David Glassman and John Henderson, the assistant vice president for academic affairs for technology, addressed the Faculty Senate and answered questions at their meeting Tuesday. Glassman said there were a lot of questions about the budget. “We don’t know what the budget situation is for Eastern at this time,” Glassman said. He said the budget they forecasted for this year and are operating on is a budget that has had a reduction over last year’s spending of about 6.5 percent, which the legislature has passed but the governor has not signed into law. Glassman also talked about layoffs and bumping rights. He said it is not the employee who is being told they should exit the university but the position itself that is being eliminated. “It is that position that is taken away,” Glassman said. “That individual, based on their seniority can then bump somebody in another area in a position that was considered vital and
was saved. Then that person would move and could bump somebody with less seniority.” Each individual has 30 days to decide whether to bump somebody or not. “The difficulty and the dollar element to it is if we’re eliminating a position, we know that person has, let’s say a $40,000 salary,” Glassman said. “That person bumps somebody else, they’ve now moved from one place to another, they retain the $40,000 salary that they have, but they’ve now bumped somebody who had $36,000, who then bumps somebody else who’s lower who’s at $30,000.” Glassman said by doing this the university is saving $30,000. “This is what we’re going through right now,” Glassman said. “And we won’t know until the bumping finishes.” There are other areas of revenue the university is recouping because of a stronger than predicted incoming freshman class. The incoming freshman class has increased by 47 students from the previous year. “We’ve cut back on the fleet of university vehicles, so we’ve had some savings there,” Glass-
man said. “We’re varying all the different strategies that we have in order to maximize our ability to defeat this deficit so we can position ourselves where we can balance our budget, live within our budget and our means and take all our focus and our energies and look to our future and to growth and turnaround spirits.” Jason Waller, a senator and a professor in the philosophy department, asked about communication. “When there is a dearth of information coming from your office, the faculty and staff are not sitting around waiting to see what happens,” Waller said. “We’re guessing, and guessing turns into rumors, and rumors spread very quickly and are almost always worse than reality.” Waller said they started off communicating well in July, but then the communication started drifting with long periods of silence. Waller asked if it was possible to give out more information to contain the rumors. “I believe in communication and know it’s really important,” he said. “I do want to be keeping everyone informed quickly.” SENATE, page 6