For more than a year now, "reality" television has been all the rage on legitimate and half-baked networks alike, with shows spreading like a life-choking cancer across television airwaves in households nationwide.

Eastern faculty contract negotiations are ongoing after the University Professionals of Illinois, Eastern's faculty union, and Eastern administrators failed again last night to make an agreement.

A Weller Hall student pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of child pornography and will be sentenced Nov. 7.

Mary Anne Hanner, dean of the college of sciences, has asked the council on academic affairs to designate 13 biology courses as writing intensive.

The Apportionment Board will meet with the boards it funds at its first meeting at 7 p.m. at the Arcola-Tuscola Room today.

It is nearly impossible to find anyone who didn't look at the world differently after Sept. 11.

To accommodate for the increase in freshmen enrollment this fall, several academic departments increased class sizes, added more sections and hired new faculty. While that was a successful effort in the eyes of some faculty, others have expressed concern that the overload of students has put academic quality at risk.

In an attempt to motivate senators to fulfill their diversity requirement in a timely and high-spirited manner, the Student Senate is strictly adhering to recent changes in its diversity bylaw.

The university-community party noise committee will soon revisit the issue of a noise ordinance that was tested last academic year.

Sept. 11, 2001 started out as a seemingly peaceful, beautiful late summer morning that resulted in the tragic loss of nearly 3,000 lives.

Students struggling to come up with money and dependent on financial aid may have noticed a dip in allocations this year, a trend the state hopes won't continue.

As the terror attacks of Sept. 11 unfolded last year, attending class may have seemed like an afterthought for many students.