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.

The Illinois Board of Higher Education Student Advisory Committee chose Eastern's Katie Cox to serve as the student voting member on the IBHE.

Eastern's softball team will have its work cut out when it travels up Interstate 57 to Champaign to play the University of Illinois.

Eastern students will give presentations and receive awards at The Political Science Research Conference Wednesday.

An overhead video projector valued at about $10,000 was reported stolen Wednesday, April 3 from the Technology training room in McAfee Gymnasium.

Seven students competed in Roberson Auditorium in Lumpkin Hall Wednesday for the annual Smith-Merritt Public Speaking Contest.

Interim President Lou Hencken will present his State of the University Address at 3 p.m. Tuesday in University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union.