State Representatives Tom Cross and Chapin Rose will be riding along with university administrators Tuesday, but they won’t be driving in cars around Springfield.

They’ll be in golf carts.

The representatives will tour Eastern’s campus with interim President Lou Hencken; Blair Lord, vice president for academic affairs, and Jill Nilsen, vice president for external relations.

Director for Facilities Carol Strode and Alice Phillips, director for Facilities Planning and Management will also be present.

House Minority Leader Cross and Rose, state representative of the 110th District, which covers Eastern, are taking a 40-minute tour beginning at 9 a.m. from Old Main.

At 9:10 a.m., the representatives will take the golf carts to the steam plant where Gary Reed, the plant’s director, will answer questions.

Stephen Shrake, an architect with Facilities Planning and Management is then scheduled to take the representatives through the Doudna Fine Arts Center at 9:15 a.m.

Rose and Cross will be led through the fine arts building to the Booth Library quad and into the library at 9:25 a.m.

Golf carts will be waiting at the library’s south door to lead the representatives to political science professor Jeff Ashley’s class for discussion with students, if time allows.

The tour is scheduled to end at 9:40 a.m.

“Mr. Cross was instrumental in making the higher education cuts less strong than they may have been,” Rose said.

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