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Eastern Illinois baseball head coach Jason Anderson, who was named the 2025 Ohio Valley Conference coach of the year, talks to the team after being doused with water following a 9-7 victory over Western Illinois that secured the OVC regular season title Saturday afternoon at Coaches Stadium in Charleston, Illinois

Eastern Illinois baseball prepares for OVC tournament as 1-seed

Gabe Newman, Sports Editor May 20, 2025

After securing its first Ohio Valley Conference regular season title since 2009, Eastern baseball prepares itself for a run at the OVC tournament championship as the 1-seed and an auto-bid to the NCAA...

The Eastern Illinois baseball team poses for a photo after beating Western Illinois 9-7 at Coaches Stadium in Charleston, Illinois Saturday afternoon to become regular season champions of the Ohio Valley Conference for the first time since 2009.

EIU baseball wins first OVC regular season title in 16 years

Bryce Parker, Multimedia reporter May 17, 2025

To celebrate the Eastern Illinois baseball team’s first Ohio Valley Conference regular season title since 2009, head coach Jason Anderson swung the hammer into a crowd of ecstatic Panthers players to...

Tennis ball by the nets at the Darling Courts Wednesday afternoon

Eastern cuts men’s, women’s tennis programs

Sports Staff May 12, 2025

The EIU men’s and women’s tennis programs will be cut effective immediately, Eastern Illinois University announced in an email this afternoon. The cost and demands of both teams being in separate...

Eastern Illinois softball team surround junior infielder Kendall Grover after she stole home to win the Ohio Valley Conference championship against Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 1-0 on Saturday.

EIU softball wins second OVC championship in three years

Patrick Schmitz, Assistant Photo Editor May 10, 2025

Kendall Grover did not get a pitch in the zone all day.   In the bottom of the eighth inning of the winner-take-all Ohio Valley Conference championship game, the first OVC title game ever to go into...

Screen grab from agrivoltaics video.

Land-use conflict sprouts new agricultural and energy collection method

Rob Le Cates, Design Editor May 9, 2025

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Senior, guard NaKyel Shelton, makes a free point during the game against the Tennessee State Tigers at Groniger Arena on the Eastern Illinois University campus, Charleston Ill. Panthers lost 66-49.

Panthers of the Semester: NaKyel Shelton, Macy McGlone, Marqus McGlothan

Zaria Flippin, Sports Editor May 6, 2025

The male Panther of the Semester is going to NaKyel Shelton from the men's basketball team. The senior guard from Chicago started in 28 games for the Panthers throughout the 2024-2025 season. Shelton...

Chairman of the Coles County Democratics Mac White gives a speech about jobs at the May Day rally protesting the current administration in honor of workers in Morton Park on Saturday.

Charleston community holds speeches at May Day protest

Jason Coulombe, Assistant News Editor May 5, 2025

Editor's Note: Mac White has been correctly identified. He is the chairman of the Coles County Democrats, not the Coles County Board. Members of the Charleston community held a demonstration and rally...

Emergency personal responded to Odd Fellow-Rebekah Home in Mattoon Friday afternoon, May 2, 2025, for a car crash. Mattoon Police Chief Sam Gaines said the force is investigating a potential DUI.

One dead, one injured from crash into Mattoon nursing home

Luke Brewer, News Editor May 2, 2025

One resident died and another was injured after a man driving a 2015 Nissan Pathfinder crashed into Odd Fellow-Rebekah Home, 201 Lafayette Ave. E. in Mattoon, Friday, according to Mattoon Police Chief...

Undergraduate graduation statistics and rates between fiscal year 2013 and 2023.

Looking back before EIU graduation

Rob Le Cates, Design Editor April 30, 2025

As graduation nears the horizon, let’s take a look at graduation statistics and facts from the 2014-2015 school year all the way to the 2023-2024 school year.  Women made up the majority of all college...

Eastern Illinois University  Pride host their weekly meeting choosing their executive board members for the upcoming fall 2025 semester. This important meeting comes following low numbers during the spring 2025 semester. The meeting was held in the Arcola Tuscola room on the of the Martin Luther King Union on the campus of Eastern Illinois University, Monday.

Graduation puts RSOs at risk

Alexis Moore-Jones, Feature Reporter April 30, 2025

As graduates make their way closer and closer to the stage, many registered student organizations on campus must work harder to keep their organizations afloat without them.   Senior political science...

Senior fashion merchandising and design major Ashaureah Reed posing for a picture in the photo studio in Buzzard Hall on April 21, 2025., She said that she is excited to graduate and excited for the next stage in her life.

Graduation is closing in. How are graduating EIU students feeling?

Rob Crownson, Reporter April 30, 2025

Graduation is the time when seniors find themselves exiting college and entering the world of careers and markets to find their place within society.  For many of the seniors, they are ready to...

EIU students wrote post cards in appreciation to alumni and for scholarships they have received on Tuesday at EIU Giving Day.

EIU raises $120,000 from Giving Day

Koria Downs, Reporter April 23, 2025

EIU Giving Day raised $120,000 Tuesday, run by the EIU office of advancement, EIU university board and EIU student government.   The event in Library Quad was a fundraiser as well as a way to appreciate...

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