Illinois Department of Transportation started construction on Route 16 yesterday to repair damage done from high traffic in the area.

The Council on University Planning and Budget will be discussing the 2004 fiscal year budget, as well as hearing reports from various subcommittees on Friday.

A donation to the "2000 and Beyond Capital Campaign" for the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences will help fund a group of alumni and non-alumni who help advise Eastern's accounting program and will help the general accounting program.

Eastern's search for a new president is in its final stage, negotiations.

Students, faculty, members of the International Students Program and members of the community gathered in the Tarble Arts building at 4 p.m. Thursday, for the fourth annual International Poetry Reading.

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Incoming freshman applying to attend Eastern may be running out of time as increases in application numbers have sparked interim President Lou Hencken to impose an admissions application deadline.

A forum sponsored by the Eastern chapter of the NAACP focused on black unity for the progression of the black student body and the black race as a whole.

After a year of suffering callbacks and a cut to higher education's base budget, state legislators are proposing another $200 million in cuts, about 8 percent of higher education's total budget.

Adam Strood, a freshman business major and Vanashia Mason, a freshman accounting major, get hot dogs at the campus picnic that was held by the campus pond Wednesday evening.

Underage students will have more to be aware of the next time they try to buy alcohol or drink at a bar if a new bill passes the Illinois Congress.