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Zach Rappe, a sophomore political science major, acts as company guidon for ROTC cadets during a formation drill Thursday in the green space between Klehm Hall and the Life Science building. Rappe said he enjoys the position because he gets to carry a flag representing the entire company.
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Student, alum explore Democratic Convention By Elizabeth Edwards Editor-in-Chief
While students may have been tuning into the Democratic National Convention this week, an Eastern student and graduate experienced President Bill Clinton’s speech first-hand and met with political leaders across the country. Recent graduate Sarah Bigler went to the convention in Charlotte, N.C., arriving on Saturday, as a delegate for 15th Congressional district. While Clare Smith, a senior history major, took part in the Washington Center’s internship program and arrived in Charlotte on Aug. 25, a week before the convention. T h e D e m o c r a t i c Na t i o n al Convention took place Tuesday through Thursday with speakers such as Bill Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama. Bigler was elected during the primary in March when she was a student at Eastern. Originally, Bigler said she believed she was appointed as delegate and did not realize it was an elected position. She remembers watching the election ticker at home during the Coles County election and said she will never forget the feeling
when she realized she won. During Clinton’s speech, Bigler sat fourth row right next to her fellow Illinois delegates and described his speech as phenomenal and awe-inspiring. She also saw the teleprompter and could tell he was ad-libbing during his speech. He would make jokes and state statistics without even using the teleprompter, Bigler said. “It felt like (Clinton) was speaking to every individual,” she said. His speech reminded Bigler why she wanted to stay in politics and reminded her of her first political memory—the election of Clinton in 1996 against Dole. Like Bigler, Smith experienced Clinton’s speech and also described his speech as inspiring. “Clinton is a reminder of a better time and represents the good years,” she said. “He reminds democrats that things will get better.” Smith said Clinton’s speech emphasized how no one could fix the economy in only four years. Political science professor Andrew McNitt said republican and democratic conventions give a good indication of a candidate’s platform for the election and who will be the key political players in the election. Originally, conventions were used to pick a candidate, but have
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not been used to select a candidate for 20 or 30 years. The main purposes of conventions now are to create unity in the party, introduce the candidate and energize the party, McNitt said. Bigler said throughout the Democratic National Convention, the delegates were energized and ready for the upcoming election. In the hallways of the convention building, Bigler said delegates greeted each other and stopped to talk to one another about politics. “It feels like a big community of friends and family,” Bigler said. “We all share the same core beliefs.” So far, Bigler sat through the First Lady’s speech and Bill Clinton’s speech, and will be at Presi-
dent Obama’s speech. Unfor tunately, Smith said she was not able to see Michelle Obama’s speech, but she plans to see the president’s speech. In order to see the president’s speech, Smith said she had go through many obstacles because she had a community pass to see him at the Bank America Stadium, but the speech was moved to Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte. The Time Warner Cable Arena does not have as may seats as the Bank America Stadium, which caused Smith to lose her seat, but luckily the coordinator at the Washington Center helped her get a pass. CONVENTION, page 5
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a series of articles covering the 12 main points negotiated for the UPI 2012-2016 faculty contract. A tentative four-year faculty contract was reached in July, months earlier compared to the previous contract, with summer pay-rate changes on the horizon among other agreements. Members of Eastern’s chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100 negotiated with administrators during the summer using a different bargaining method than the traditional model. During an informational session on the tentative agreement Thursday, UPI Lead Negotiator Grant Sterling, a philosophy professor, described the new interest-based bargaining as when the two contracting teams sit down and try to reach a consensus of mutual gain instead of just focusing on one side’s interests. UPI President Ann Fritz, a biology professor, said the new interest-based bargaining technique garnered fruitful dialogue that might not have otherwise occurred in traditional bargaining. “The atmosphere was discussion-intensive, and we focused on ways to meet our common interests,” she said. Fritz said changing the summer class structure served as the largest new task in the contract. The agreement states that faculty will be paid an equal rate for all summer classes. Faculty would receive 78 percent of his or her monthly salary for the first three years of the contract, and that amount would increase to 80 percent in the fourth year. Sterling said university officials calculated that a 76-77 percent rate would cause the university to break even, so the pay rate is a slight increase overall. Normally, a faculty member’s pay rate would depend on what type of class taught, such as online or through the School of Continuing Education. The pay rate also varied, as some faculty would receive 100-percent pay whereas others would receive the “overload” rate, which is less than a faculty member’s standard pay rate. “The upshot is that the figure would be equally applied to everyone teaching summer courses,” Fritz said. With the equal rate, faculty receiving 100-percent pay would face a decrease and those receiving overload pay would see an increase. Jennifer Stringfellow and Christina EdmondsBehrend, both assistant professors of special education, said they came to the informational session to receive more clarification on the summer changes. “Before making a decision on what to think about the changes, I think we need to pull more faculty in and collaborate,” Edmonds-Behrend said, adding that both she and Stringfellow teach summer courses. In addition to the pay-rate change, Sterling said all classes will be offered to faculty according to the department’s summer rotation list, meaning senior faculty would be hired over lower-paid faculty and adjuncts. However, he added that a faculty member who created or significantly revised a course would have priority to teach the course for the first two years. FACULTY, page 5