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Speaker gives ethical tips By Pablo Rodriguez Staff Reporter
Just like how the U.S. Supreme Court justices said they can recognize pornography when they see it, Francine McKenna said people know what is ethical when they see it. “Stay on Your Feet” featured McKenna, a journalist and forensic auditor, on Tuesday as part of the Ethics Awareness Week Speaker Series sponsored by the Lumpkin School of Business and Applied Sciences. McKenna spoke at two presentations in Roberson Auditorium titled “Who will slay the dragon? Penn State and college football: how an ‘ethical’ institution dropped its sword and shield,” which analyzed the Penn State scandal from a corporate governance perspective, and “Stay on Your Feet,” a presentation that encouraged students to speak up and raise awareness on issues. “My intention was to talk about the Penn State scandal; not the specific crimes, but how the university reacted from a corporate governance perspective, how they reacted from corporate and crisis commu-
nication perspective,” McKenna said. With Roberson Auditorium almost filled to its maximum capacity at 7 p.m., students heard McKenna present financial and ethical tips to succeed in life. Tommy Ponce, a junior marketing major, attended McKenna’s second presentation and said people like McKenna are the ones who make you reconsider the way one makes decisions. “She just has knowledge all around, and I really liked that her presentation did not strictly focus on the business side, but life itself,” he said. “She said some things that I never really thought of.” In her second presentation, McKenna gave students a top 10 list of ways to strengthen one’s ethical decision making. McKenna encouraged students to get out, get an education that is not just skills, volunteer for the candidate of one’s choice, spend more time with one’s family members, feed one’s brain, save money, seek out mentors, be wary but do not be scared, make educated bets, and develop an educated conscience. TIPS, page 5
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WOMEN’S HISTORY & AWARENESS MONTH
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Linda Hogan, author and environmental and political theorist, signs a book for Carolyn Stephens after her speech “Women Watch Over the World” Tuesday in the Theater of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Author shares message of hope, change for world By Andrew Crivilare Staff Reporter
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Charleston City Council member Tim Newell listens as Student Senate representative Blair Jones gives her report Tuesday during the council’s meeting at City Hall.
Women have not always found themselves at the forefront of history, but that never stopped them from consistently shaping the world for the better, a visiting author said on Tuesday. Linda Hogan, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author and activist, delivered her lecture “Women Watching Over the World” as part of Women’s History and Awareness Month, sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program. Hogan said all people are now living in a world of ecological disaster, brought on by problems ranging from fracking to deforestation. In spite of the desperate need to address these problems head on, most
of the population continues to ignore them, Hogan said. “There are now people who walk in dirty water, who live in dirty water, who give birth in dirty water because of ways the world are changing,” she said. “It is women who are mostly talking about this.” Hogan also said there is no easy path toward changing the world, but everyone has the same potential to make a positive effect. “I don’t believe men and women have different imaginations,” she said. “And I do believe we can create change through the imagination.” Hogan said women from the Chickasaw, a Native American tribe that Hogan herself is descended, held constructive positions for years and suggests that
more women can do the same in today’s society. “We had many women warriors and peace ambassadors,” Hogan said. “Their names have been lost to history, but they were people with imagination.” Part of the problem is when people have stopped taking an interest in one another’s well-being when money is at stake, such as is the case in Oklahoma where natural gas companies run the risk of poisoning residents, Hogan said. “What happens is that people in poverty and people in racially concentrated areas are taken advantage of because they don’t have the means or knowledge of how to fight back. People who do this don’t care if you live or die.”
Pedestrian safety concerns Council Position changes, executive
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STUDENT SENATE
By Kathryn Richter City Editor
The Charleston City Council voted unanimously on an ordinance that would increase safety for pedestrians around a school zone on Tuesday. The ordinance states that traffic traveling on Jefferson Avenue will now stop at in intersection at Ninth Street instead of stopping at 10th Street. The ordinance also approves stops at Jefferson Avenue for those traveling on Seventh Street and 10th Street. Mayor John Inyart said the safety measures that were approved at both Tuesday’s meeting and the meeting on Feb. 21 are part of the city’s continuing efforts to improve safety.
During the Feb. 21 meeting, the City Council also approved ordinances that would outlaw parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk in a school zone as well as the decision earlier in the year to decrease the speed limit on Fourth Street to 20 miles per hour. “It’s a part of our continuing plan to increase safety around city schools and the university,” Inyart said. Another ordinance regarding traffic regulations was also passed unanimously during Tuesday’s meeting. The ordinance will change the range of the 20 mile per hour speed limit that formerly reached from the intersections of Jefferson Avenue and Sixth Street to the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Sixth Street. SAFETY, page 5
compensation ahead for Senate
By Amy Wywialowski Staff Reporter
The Student Senate will meet today to vote on five tabled proposals first introduced during its Feb. 29 meeting including one to eliminate an executive position and distribute its duties. The fund requests are $72 for the student government cosponsored Primary Awareness Campaign, as well as $327.14 for the Distinguished Professor Awards Banquet. The Senate will also vote on a fund request for refreshments for its open forum later in March.
The members will also discuss two proposals that concern holding special elections concerning the possible elimination of the student vice president for business affairs position. Student Senate Speaker Zach Samples said the proposal will determine whether Student Body President Ed Hotwagner has permission to send a vote to the students about if they should distribute the duties of the position. The Senate will also vote on a possible compensation change for the student government executives. If passed, the executives will receive a flat compensation of $2,500
toward their tuition instead of the current 12-credit hour scholarship. Hotwagner said there will be 21 seats open for this year’s election, as well as all of the executive positions. The Senate will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812 or alwywialowski@eiu.edu. An extended version of this story can be found at
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