An endowment tea to honor scholarship donors and scholarship recipients will be held at 3 p.m. Friday in the north lobby of Booth Library.

A maintenance agreement with IBM will require the company to prevent any equipment malfunctions in the university server and service occurring problems to ensure a reliable, updated electronic system.

Students entering the Board of Trustees Bachelor of Arts degree program in the fall 2002 semester will be taking more required classes and fewer electives.

Carman Hall Resident Assistants, Val Wiedner, a sophomore business marketing major, and Jess Voights, a sophomore psychology major, painted the windows of the lower level of Carman Hall between the north and south towers.

Adult students in the Board of Trustees Bachelor of Arts Degree Program may have to take less electives and more required classes next year.

A heated contract negotiation between Eastern and one of its unions has sparked a wave of subpoenas from a federal investigation reaching all the way to the executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Anyone who is feeling lucky is encouraged to attend Lincoln, Stevenson and Douglas halls' casino night Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Stevenson lobby.

Wesley NcNair will expand students' minds by conducting a reading of his poetry today at 4 p.m. in the Tarble Arts Center.

Letter to the editor:

Dust and tumbleweeds may have to be ordered from a ghost town by Student Senate executives to act as filler for the lack of applicants for Student Senate membership.

Students living in Carman and Andrews halls will have more reliable elevators after they are revamped this summer.

Students seeking jobs this summer have opportunities in Charleston despite this past year's sluggish economy.