The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

STAFF EDITORIAL: We made it through the school year

Staff Editorial April 28, 2019

We made it. Congratulations, everyone. The end of the semester and school year is upon us, and in a few days we can all relax knowing that we do not have classes anymore, or projects or homework. For...

Sports fan rage is absolutely terrifying

Logan Raschke, News Editor April 25, 2019

This probably goes without saying, but the rage of an angry sports fan is simply terrifying. I don’t know about you guys, but my dad is so bad about this. My dad is a very lax dude. He’s easygoing,...

Experience makes you who you are

Jordan Boyer, Photo Editor April 25, 2019

This is my last week here at The Daily Eastern News, and it is certainly a bittersweet feeling. I have had the best time working here the past couple of years, and I am certainly going to miss this place. I...

Graffiti, while illegal, can sometimes be art

Staff Editorial April 25, 2019

When we think of graffiti, we usually think of the typically amateur scribbling on the trains we watch cross by in our cars. Or we think about the quick glimpses we catch of the simple nicknames and profanity...

Find your tanning bed; try something new

Megan Keane, columnist April 24, 2019

I’d never tanned in a tanning bed before, but I had tanned ... once or twice. When I was younger, I tanned nicely. I wasn’t always super pasty and freckly. What I’m really saying is, I wasn’t...

College is a cup of coffee: too brief

Carole Hodorowicz, Columnist April 24, 2019

For the past couple of weeks, my dad has been repeating a few words to me that have yet to hit me with their full weight until I sat down to write this column, my last column for The Daily Eastern News: “College...

The country wastes time on too much social media

Staff Editorial April 24, 2019

People everywhere in the U.S. are spending too much time on their social media instead of actually going outside and communicating with others face-to-face. Don’t get us wrong; social media and smartphones...

Don’t be afraid to try new things

Staff Editorial April 22, 2019

Often, people are so quick to say they do not enjoy doing a certain activity or spending time with a certain person. The problem is that most of the people who say these things have never actually done...

Swiping left on one’s own marriage

Natalee Reynolds, Columnist April 22, 2019

Welcome to a new generation: fake love. Millennials and iGen’s were the foundation of this new age of love, and I’d like to think that Tinder and other social media sites planted the seed. Tinder...

Procrastination can lead to problems

Karena Ozier, Columnist April 22, 2019

A lot of students procrastinate. My personal definition of procrastination is when someone waits until the last minute to complete a task. I have never been one to procrastinate, simply because I hate...

Eastern needs more school spirit

Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor April 21, 2019

There is a lot of hypocrisy within the student body at Eastern that I want to address. Doing so at the end of the year may seem like a lost cause, since a lot of students are graduating or may be transferring. But...

3 traits to determine a friend’s toxicity

Kate Rehwinkel, Columnist April 21, 2019

Friends are people who are supposed to care about you and your wellbeing, or so I thought. I recently had a friendship end a couple of weeks ago. The friendship lasted a year and a half and I thought we...

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