In Eastern men's track head coach Tom Akers' words, it was a flat-footed win.

The Tarble Arts Center will present the spring junior-senior high school enrichment program, Tuesday as part of the "Companions and Choices: Quilts and Paintings" exhibition.

Eastern's Board of Trustees voted Monday to award Honorary Degrees to actress Joan Allen and University of Illinois professor Marianne Ferber.

Booth Library will open its doors in mid February, university administrators said Monday, but some areas of the building may still be inaccessible.

Guests at an annuitant's luncheon left the Cross County Mall in Mattoon last Monday with the impression that interim President Lou Hencken was readying his application for president of the university.

Comedian Ramont Harris filled the University Ballroom with laughter Saturday evening.

Avid listeners came to the Tarble Arts Center Friday night to hear Caryl Bryer Fallert, a world-renowned quilt artist, lecture about her featured works.

The Shuttle Bus Committee is spreading the word about service for handicap patrons because the normal Panther Express buses have been taken out of service, resulting in replacement buses that are not accessible.

Eastern's Tarble Arts Center will host a docent meeting highlighting new exhibits Monday.

Eastern took its first steps toward federal funding last week when Jill Nilsen, vice president for external affairs, and interim President Lou Hencken met with both Illinois senators and several other congressmen.

The Student Senate has planned additional advertising and a word-of-mouth campaign to try and fill five off-campus senate seats that remain vacant two months after elections last semester.

The University was forced to install a clearance barrier on the outside of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union walkway because trucks have repeatedly rammed it, gouging holes in the bottom of the walkway.