Free speech zones are areas on a college campus where people are permitted to protest and hold loud gatherings.   Eastern’s free speech zone is the Library Quad, with the Mellin Steps off...

It’s 8:30 p.m. on a Tuesday.   A late class just got out, and a student and some friends are feeling absolutely starved at that point. It’s not far to go to Late Night Pizza. Maybe not...

The Daily Eastern News staff won a combined 20 awards at the Illinois College Press Association conference Saturday in Chicago.  The News won four first place awards, eight second place awards, two...

Students will inevitably pass by blue emergency poles dotted around campus as they brave the wind and snow blowing through the quads and between buildings.  Having been here for more than 20 years,...

On the morning of Nov. 10, Eastern Illinois University received a phone report of an armed individual on campus near Booth Library.   The call ended up being unfounded, but the chaotic, lackluster...

On Oct. 7, Indiana University Bloomington’s student newspaper, The Indiana Daily Student, was told not to print news in its paper for homecoming.   Co-Editors-in-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller...

The Daily Eastern News staff won 15 national awards between Division II CMA Pinnacle Awards and ACP Pacemaker Awards over the weekend at the MediaFest 25 conference held in Washington, D.C.  The News...

On May 12, two days after graduation, news broke via email that the EIU men’s and women's tennis teams had been cut.  Former EIU tennis coach Robin Cambier said he found out the program was cut the same...

Editor's Note: This editorial has been updated from the one run in the Daily Eastern News print edition as a result of the executive order regarding NPR and PBS.  Twelve hours ago, President Donald...

Diversity, equity and inclusion have become some of the latest political buzzwords targeted online.  Thousands of claims about DEI are out there, many true, many more false. But as tends to happen...

Winter in Illinois brings along a heaping pile of problems.   From frozen pipes bursting, to car batteries dying to the ridiculous rise in electrical bills, the cold brings a heavy maintenance period...

Election years bring very heated feelings and emotions to the surface for the American people.   We see this in day-to-day life, in protests and rallies and even in our neighborhoods. These feelings...