FESTIVAL OF COLORS
ON THE DEFENSIVE
Defense won 43-38 over the offense in the Eastern football team’s spring game Saturday.
Students celebrated Holi 2015 in the Library Quad Friday by throwing handfuls of colorful powder at each other. PAGE 3
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Board approves student fee increase, tuition rates By Luis Martinez Administration Editor | @DEN_News The Board of Trustees approved the revised student fee increases and new tuition rates during its meeting Friday. Next year, student fees are the following per credit hour: $6.25 for academic computer technology, $5.45 for student legal service, $10.50 for campus improvement, $3.75 for student activity, $13 for athletics, 80 cents for concert fees and $1 for student publications. President Bill Perry said members of the Student Senate wanted to change how the fees were distributed among the seven areas.
“The process of arriving at these recommendations includes confrontation with the students and the Student Senate,” Perry said. “The set recommendations, which were proposed by student senators who sponsored the resolutions, were slightly different than this.” Perry also said he decided to change the athletics fee from $5.30 to $4.36, and he gave the remaining funds to both the student activity fee and campus improvement fee equally. “A lot of the discussion the night of the Student Senate meeting focused around the distribution of these increases,” Perry said. “The consensus of the senate was that the distribution needed more to address fees that affect
more students than just students affect by the athletics program.” Six of the areas received increases from their present fees, with athletics receiving the biggest increase of $4.36. Campus improvement is the only area to receive a decrease from it current fees with $1.50 less. The board also approved next year’s tuition for both undergraduate and graduate students. New incoming undergraduate Illinois residents will have to pay $285 per semester credit hour. Non-residents will have to pay $356 per semester credit hour; graduate Illinois residents will have to pay $285, and non-resident graduate students will have to pay $684.
“By establishing a more competitive rate tuition for non-resident students who are coming in next year, we thought it was only fair for the current students who are non-resident undergrad to get the same rate,” Perry said. “The decision to make the change in the undergraduate rate was a competition for outside non-resident students.” Perry also said the rate for non-resident graduate students is roughly in the middle of the rates other Illinois public institutions charged for their graduate students.
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Mac Miller show takes audience from seats during Spring Concert By Katie Smith Editor-in-Chief | @DEN_News The stage at Lantz Arena was not reserved strictly for Spring Concert artist Mac Miller, but also the two women from the audience who the opening act, Clockwork DJ invited on stage to “twerk” with him. Clockwork DJ requested two girls join him on stage and dance while he performed a song titled “Clocktwerk.” The DJ, who situated himself between both women while they danced, said he liked the look of Eastern’s student body. “Eastern, you have some fine a** ladies here,” he said. “She’s sexy.” Stevie Roberson, a sophomore art major won free meet-and-greet passes during the reveal of the performing artist in late March. Roberson said she was surprised when the two women took the stage. “I definitely wouldn’t have gone up there but go them for having the guts to that, I suppose,” she said. Miller greeted the standing audience with a sudden wave of a heavy and seemingly familiar bass line, and lyrics from his 2014 album “Faces.” The now 23-year-old released his first mixtape, “But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy” in 2007 at just 14 years old, and his since
amassed a net worth of roughly $10 million. The crowd reacted most to Miller’s performances “Best Day Ever” and his final encore performance “Donald Trump.” Roberson said she has been listening to Miller since 2011, and although she enjoyed the show, she wished he had played his older music. “I would maybe see him again if he was going to play older songs because I didn’t know a lot of the newer ones,” she said. “If he was at a musical festival or something that I was at I would definitely go watch him.” Although the arena was arranged with seating for the audience, University Board members were quickly forced to remove chairs when crowd members crawled over the seats and stacked them on top one another to create standing room. One audience member jumped from the balcony seating onto the arena floor to make his way closer to the stage. Although the audience was under Miller’s command to keep their hands up throughout most of the concert, the artist shifted moods momentarily to take to the piano and play “Youforia,” the song Miller said is his favorite to perform. MAC MILLER, page 5
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Mac Miller encourages the audience to participate in a call -andresponse song during Saturday’s Spring Concert in Lantz Arena.
Library employee reflects on 35 years at Eastern By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor | @BertoHodge In his 35 years working in the circulation area of Booth Library, Phil Blair has seen everything from card catalogues to manual typewriters and now electronic databases. Blair, who is retiring at the end of April, began his job in 1979 in acquisitions. He was in charge of books coming in and out of the library, but a lot has changed since then. “It’s been years and years now — it’s all done on the computer now,” Blair said. The library, which was completed in 1950, was a lot smaller when it was built than it is today; the building was nearly square of 150 feet by 154 feet with two full floors and a partial third. By the ‘90s the library was due for a space upgrade, which is when the renova-
tions to expand began and did not finish until 2002 with more study spaces, computers and lounge chairs. Larry Auchstetter, one of Blair’s co-workers and friends, said Blair is loyal and dedicated to his job, especially for staying for as long as he has. Auchstetter said Blair would bend over backward and give the shirt off his back helping others. Auchsetter said at one point he was in a financial bind and Blair gave him about $100. “I didn’t ask him either,” Auchstetter said. Auchstetter said Blair also has a sense of humor, especially when talking to their coworker Jennifer Dodson. He said it’s going to be strange not seeing Blair as much anymore because they have known each other for 20 years.
“I just wish him the best; we’re going to miss his humor,” Auchstetter said. Blair was a student in the early ‘70s, and not many things were as digitized as they are now; computers did exist, but not to the extent that they are currently. He said when using the system 30 years ago, it was not as easy to search as it is now. A four-number code was needed to search for a book. When Blair worked at the reserve desk, he said students would be all in a line ready to check their books out, and checkouts had to be manually done on cards. At night the cards needed to be sorted and counted, but the system is done digitally now. He said he recalled using a stamp that would have to be twisted to find the specific date it would be due and press it into the book, which he does not see much of any-
more. “The card catalogue vanished about the turn of the 21st century,” Blair said. Blair said during that time many people smoked, and when he was an undergraduate, students could smoke in the library. When he started working, the amount of tobacco use in the building lessened. However, he does not smoke. Students in the ‘70s were very much the same as they are in 2015; he said some aspects about the campus have changed, such as student demographics and new buildings. Blair said the city and the university was mostly Caucasians, but thing have changed. “I see more (students) wearing their caps on backwards; that started happening in the ‘90s,” Blair said. LIBRARY, page 5