(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.

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.

Beth Cowan, a junior elementary education major, helps Jennifer Gibson, a junior special education major, carry job applications to the Booth Library Monday afternoon.

The first of four candidates for assistant vice president for academic affairs for technology spoke of focusing students in developing technology at Eastern when he interviewed with members of university councils and senates Monday in Booth Library.

GAMMA and BACCHUS are educational services on alcohol abuse and healthy lifestyles.