Valentina Vargas, Multicultural Reporter

April 22, 2019 • No Comments

At midnight on a Friday, Luis Paniagua sits at Steak-n-Shake in Mattoon with his Latino group of friends and one Caucasian friend. He is sitting in a red booth, looking over the food menu, while he speaks in Spanish to his friends asking them about their day. In another booth near them, a group...

Logan Raschke, News Editor

April 22, 2019 • No Comments

The first autism transitional program for college students in the state of Illinois began at Eastern; it is called the Students with Autism Transitional Education Program. STEP director Rebecca Edgington said graduate assistants at STEP guide autistic students through the transition to college life. She...

Analicia Haynes, Editor-in-Chief

April 22, 2019 • No Comments

Nine students were named winners of the 2019 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creativity on April 17. Every year the Booth Library Advisory Board sponsors the Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creativity. The Library Advisory Board, which is made up of faculty, staff and two...

Morgan Bledsoe, Contributing Writer

April 22, 2019 • No Comments

Students can appreciate original artwork that graduate students in the studio art program have created for their master’s theses at the Graduate Art Exhibition at the Main Galleries of the Tarble Arts Center starting Wednesday with a reception on Friday. The work on exhibit is courtesy of 10 graduate...