The Daily Eastern News – The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

Column: New look Eastern picked 8th in preseaon poll
JJ Bullock, Editor-in-Chief | July 19, 2019
Community members protest immigration policies, white supremacy
Logan Raschke, Editor-in-Chief | July 19, 2019
FEATURE PHOTO: Late-night watercolor
Raine Zhu, Photographer | July 18, 2019
FEATURE PHOTO: Splendid strings
Raine Zhu, Photographer | July 16, 2019
FEATURE PHOTO: Spin those flags
Raine Zhu, Photographer | July 11, 2019

Alyssa Cravens, Staff Reporter

July 19, 2019 • No Comments

In addition to regularly scheduled summer maintenance, several of Eastern's residence halls have received improvements since the end of the spring semester in May. Mark Hudson, director of University Housing and Dining Services, said several residence halls are receiving new mattresses and upgraded...

Eastern professor shares experience co-developing Five Feline Farm

Zoë Donovan, Staff Reporter

July 18, 2019 • No Comments

For the last four years, Donna Coonce and Julia Miller have been steadily growing Five Feline Farm as a business. The pair began selling produce and honey at the Farmers Market in Charleston in 2015 after they had an abundance in their produce and honey that season. Coonce and Miller were already...

City Council accepts IHDA APP grant award

Logan Raschke, Editor-in-Chief

July 17, 2019 • No Comments

The Charleston City Council voted Tuesday to accept the Illinois Housing Development Authority APP grant award in the amount of $55,000. Mayor Brandon Combs said the city applied for grant funding from the IHDA's Abandoned Property program in December of last year. Since then, the IHDA agreed to issue...

City Council to vote on Illinois Housing Development grant

Staff Report

July 16, 2019 • No Comments

The Charleston City Council will vote on six action items Tuesday, including a resolution that would authorize accepting the Illinois Housing Development Authority APP Grant Award. According to the resolution, the Illinois Housing Development Authority has agreed to issue a grant from the Abandoned...

Kenneth Wetstein assumes role as VP for University Advancement

July 15, 2019

Eastern alumnus Kenneth Wetstein has been selected as the new vice president for University Advancement and begins his new role on Monday, according to a press release. The...

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Sports

Papavasilopoulos’ great season leads to Oracles Master’s selection

Dillan Schorfheide, Sports Editor

July 9, 2019 • No Comments

Sam Kercheval knew Rachel Papavasilopoulos was an important part of the Eastern women’s tennis team’s lineup for the OVC tournament. Kercheval,...

Former rugby field to be converted to new soccer field

June 21, 2019

The field that formerly housed Eastern rugby will be converted to a soccer field for Eastern athletics. Work on the field, which is located right next...

IHSA boys track, field state semifinals, finals to come to O’Brien Field

May 22, 2019

The Illinois High School Association’s Boys Track and Field state semifinals and finals will take place at O’Brien Field Thursday through Saturday. All...

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Opinions

Audiences deserve more than Disney reboots

Zoë Donovan, Staff Reporter

July 18, 2019 • No Comments

Looking at the Disney line-up for the next few years can make audiences do a double-take and wonder if they’d stepped back in time Following the success of the live action remake...

PODCAST: Popcorn Talk Episode 4 (‘Stuber’)

July 17, 2019

The cop action comedy "Stuber," starring Kumail Nanjiani as Uber driver Stu and David Bautista as detective Vic, takes viewers through...

Let the trash talking fly

July 16, 2019

Trash talking is and always has been a big part of my life, as bad or as silly that makes me seem. Considering video games have been...

Coffee is one influential drink

July 16, 2019

I didn’t like coffee—at least, not at first. It took several years of drinks littered with sugar and the slightest coffee taste to...

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Through the lens

FEATURE PHOTO: Playing pickleball with a pal

Raine Zhu, Photographer
July 9, 2019

Olivia Bommelje, a graduate from the Charleston High School Class of 2019, plays pickleball with a friend at the tennis court next to Andrew Hall Tuesday afternoon. Bommelje said she will attend the University of Missouri and major in engineering.

FEATURE PHOTO: Summer science

Raine Zhu, Photographer
July 9, 2019

Hongshan He (left), a chemistry professor, instructs Beibei Liu, a research assistant, on how to use a spin coater in the Physical Sciences Building Monday afternoon. Liu said she joined the summer research program during spring semester. Liu said she works five to six hours per day and five days per week during this summer semester with He.

FEATURE PHOTO: Closing time

Analicia Haynes, Senior Staff Reporter
July 9, 2019

It was 9 p.m. Monday night, exactly one hour before closing time at the Charleston Starbucks on Lincoln Avenue. Shawn Walker, a senior kinesiology major, prepared a tall vanilla iced coffee with cream and classic on top of the other tasks that needed to be done before 10 p.m. He talked about his major, what he likes to call it (exercise science), asked about the newspaper and asked where...

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