Editor's Note: The photo captions on this story have been updated. Originally, the subjects were misidentified. Friends, here in 2024 at the age of 71, I’m a living witness to an unforgettable...

EIU’s courtyard in front of the library is deemed a free speech area, and as such, protesters are welcome to speak their minds on campus in this area. However, March 7, a certain protester armed with...

Dr. Gatrell, My perspective is a unique one that demonstrates my pride for EIU and its community through multiple avenues. PAST: I am a proud EIU alumnus who remembers the positive impacts my...

I was only 13. During the summer going into my eighth-grade year, and throughout my eighth-grade year, I was sexually assaulted. He was one of my neighbors, a boy about my age. We were friends for...

For the Spring 2023 semester, I am at two very exciting points in my life. One, this is my (hopefully) last semester before I graduate. But more importantly I am living my dream of being Editor-in-Chief...

Starting in February, I became the target of dozens of hateful and/or threatening posts on the infamous app Yik Yak because of my work for the Daily Eastern News. Posts like “her dad can’t save her...

We would like to thank Eastern Illinois University President Dr. David Glassman and the Board of Trustees for their unanimous support to choose the name of Powell-Norton Hall as the new name for a residence...

On Saturday night, my old college roommates and I met with a group of older alumni while attending some after homecoming activities in Charleston. What stood out to us was that several of these older...

I love Brother Jed day. This isn’t to say that I love Brother Jed himself, or the repugnant and hateful ideology that he and his wife semiannually spew on the library quad, but Brother Jed day? Absolutely...