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.

Blair Lord, vice president for academic affairs, told the Faculty Senate Tuesday he is close to choosing, but not close enough to name, the new deans of the College of Sciences and the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences.

A new Home Depot that will be built in Mattoon during the upcoming warm months will boost the community's economy, but may infringe on competing smaller businesses.

The international students program will honor its exceptional students at the International Programs Spring Awards Banquet at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

(Editors Note: The following essay was written during the month of the attack on the United States.)

The culmination of several major campus projects, the budget, recruitment and retention of students and off-campus relations were the focus of interim President Lou Hencken during the annual State of the University address, held Tuesday in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Eastern will ask the Board of Trustees for a 3.5 percent tuition increase to compensate for a projected decline in state funding, interim President Lou Hencken said Tuesday.

WEIU-TV will start new changes to digitalize equipment that will modernize the station and give employees a head start in broadcasting careers.

The Student Senate will discuss a possible bylaw change for on-campus senators at Wednesday's meeting.

Despite the opening of the renovated food court in February and plenty of traffic ever since, local businesses have not felt a change in the amount of business.