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Zoe Volk,a junior graphic design major, working on projects in the Doudna computer lab.
EIU to replace campus computers
Old main, Eastern Illinois University Charleston Ill,
Unpacking the 2025 budget
Runners participate in the Toddler Trot on the OBrien Stadium football field 50-yard line during the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Races for all Paces event Saturday morning.
Running for a cause: Sarah Bush Lincoln ready for annual races
Cicadas shells collect on mature tree just west of Eastern Illinois University campus, May 8 2011 Charleston, Ill.
Cicadas swarm state track meet
Samira Dadson sews a zipper onto denim in preparation for the denim day fashion shoot in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Fashion Lab, Charleston Ill., April 18, 2024. Dadson has been sewing for the past 10 years.
Fighting inequality with fashion
Pierce Holley, a junior quarterback, stiff arms a Bryant University Bulldogs defender at O‘Brien Field saturday afternoon.
Holley, Panthers receive preseason recognition
Defender Kya Trejo attempts a long pass on Lakeside Field. The Panthers lost 1-0 against the ISU Redbirds Thursday afternoon.
How does women’s soccer train for the fall?
Head coach, Tara Archibald, speaks to her team between innings during the softball programs first ever NCAA Regional appearance at Sharon J. Drysdale Field on the Northwestern University campus on May 19 in Evanston, Il. The Panthers lost 2-0 to the Wildcats.
Archibald leaves EIU softball program to coach with father
The NCAAs $2.75 billion settlement will affect Easterns athletic department. Just how much is not yet known. Scroll down for more.
OVC concerned with the NCAA’s handling of a $2.75 billion settlement
Forward Casey Welage (8) and midfielder Jake Pollock (25) chase after the ball at mens soccer practice at Lakeside Field on Thursday.
How does men’s soccer train for the fall?
Gunnar Olson
‘Planet of the Apes’ an intro course on ethics
Spring 2024 staff portrait of Payton Liggins.
Column: The ethics of AI
Jacob Hamm
Dear Democrats: Take Trump seriously
COLUMN: Journalism is not just for journalism majors
COLUMN: Journalism is not just for journalism majors
Dan Hahn is a graduate student studying English and can be reached at 217-581-2812.
COLUMN: Next steps, shoes as symbols of growth
EDITORIAL: Class evaluations should matter
EDITORIAL: Class evaluations should matter
The News won 34 awards at the Illinois Collegiate Press Association 2024.
EDITORIAL: The News wins 34 state awards
Ryan Hendrickson during the open interviews in Buzzard Auditorium. He is one out of four candidates for provost position Thursday morning.
EDITORIAL: We endorse Hendrickson as next provost
EDITORIAL: Should you trust the mystic, weather-predicting rodent?
EDITORIAL: Should you trust the mystic, weather-predicting rodent?
Students from Eastern Illinois University take pictures together during Block Party Pep Rally event at O‘Brien Stadium Friday night.
EDITORIAL: Eastern needs a devoted provost
Gunnar Olson
‘Planet of the Apes’ an intro course on ethics
Spring 2024 staff portrait of Payton Liggins.
Column: The ethics of AI
Jacob Hamm
Dear Democrats: Take Trump seriously
COLUMN: Journalism is not just for journalism majors
COLUMN: Journalism is not just for journalism majors
Dan Hahn is a graduate student studying English and can be reached at 217-581-2812.
COLUMN: Next steps, shoes as symbols of growth
Bob Ceder and friend Killer siting on a couch with their dogs back in 1974.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The saga of the Pale Riders of ’74
Jacob Kimsey poses with Ethan Lozada dressed as Jesus at a counterprotest against religious protester Chris Svochak.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A queer student’s perspective on the March 7 protest
Spencer Spear, an educational leadership graduate student, supports his wife, Shelly Spear, an English instructor, in her fight for a fair contract in front of Old Main Wednesday afternoon.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: To Provost Gatrell, get EIU strong
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: My story, not all men but enough
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: My story, not all men but enough
Madelyn Kidd is a senior journalism major and can be reached at 217-581-2812.
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Meet the new Editor-in-Chief for the new semester
Samira Dadson sews a zipper onto denim in preparation for the denim day fashion shoot in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Fashion Lab, Charleston Ill., April 18, 2024. Dadson has been sewing for the past 10 years.
Fighting inequality with fashion
From left, Theo Edwards, Ronnie Kosciuk and Emery Johnson walk with a crowd in the slut walk near Lawson Hall Thursday.
Slut walk combats sexual assault, harassment at EIU
The Kat Walk models walk in the Denim Day Fashion show in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Wednesday, April 24.
Denim Day fashion show brings awareness to sexual assault
Camron Hardy
COLUMN: ‘Civil War,’ Journalists have their own wars
Grace McClellan, a senior majoring in art education, was named Artist of the Year for the Blueroom arts magazine during a ceremony at Doudna Fine Arts Center April 1.
Art revolves around McClellan
2023s Miss Coles County Fair winner, Laney Wright, tossed candy to the parade crowd.
THROUGH THE LENS: Red, White, and Blue Days In Charleston
Athletes at Easterns Cross Country camp line up for a running start at their annual banana relay Friday, June 28.
THROUGH THE LENS: EIU Cross Country camp goes bananas
Bredesen after buying a bouquet of wildflowers on June 15.
Down to Earth: the Farmers Market at Courthouse Square
The owner of Revival City Doughnuts, Marschelle McCoy, takes out a tray of doughnuts from the cart and gives advice on what went wrong and what could have been better with the doughnuts to her employee Bronica Bazzano at Revival City Doughnuts on Feb. 8.
THROUGH THE LENS: The Lord will provide
Flamm Orchards hires around 130 to 150 workers per season to plant, tend to and process crops for thousands of families. Flamm Orchards is one of many farms in cooperation with Illinois’ statewide program to curb hunger and help stock food banks. Crops are sorted into categories where lesser-rated produce is donated to food banks.
THROUGH THE LENS: Small town standard
Panther Profiles: Ep. 21: Mike OConor
Panther Profiles: Ep. 21: Mike O’Conor
Panther Profiles: Ep. 20: Bella Marcum
Panther Profiles: Ep. 20: Bella Marcum
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Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 63: Drew’s Last Episode + How We Started The Podcast
two dudes talk movies
Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 62: Is The Bear That Good?
two dudes talk movies
Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 61: The Social Network: Nice Guys Finish Last
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Melissa Jabek

Melissa Jabek, Staff Photographer

Hi, I’m Melissa Jabek I am 20 years old I am a junior at Eastern and I am a photographer for The Daily Eastern News. My major is photojournalism and I have been taking pictures since I was 10.

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Caleigh Miller, a freshman sports management major, and Kristina Robinson, a freshman communication disorders and sciences major, relax in a hammock outside of the Library Quad Thursday afternoon. Miller and Robinson were hanging out in the hammock while their friends played music and chatted with them from a nearby bench.

FEATURE PHOTO: Hammock weather

Melissa Jabek, Photographer
March 6, 2020
Debbie Banos, Katherine Bellantone and Nathaniel Smith, all members of the Still Point group, perform a play called “The True Cost,” based on real stories of human trafficking, at Buzzard Auditorium Thursday. Still Point is based in Chicago.

FEATURE PHOTO: ‘The True Cost’ performance

Melissa Jabek, Photographer
February 28, 2020
Luz Stanislawek (left), freshman pre physical therapy major, Brianna King (middle), a freshman criminology major, and Margaret McNellis, a freshman special education major, enjoy lunch together on Thursday afternoon at the Food Court in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. King decided to stop by at the lunch table after seeing Stanislawek and McNellis eating lunch.

FEATURE PHOTO: Chatting and chewing

Melissa Jabek, Photographer
February 21, 2020
Tiffany Jones, a senior accounting major, hugs Kaitlyn Ebert, a senior public relations major, during the Senior BBQ Friday afternoon in McAfee Gym.

[Photo] Gallery: Senior BBQ

April 22, 2019

Original Japanese manga art, artifacts up for viewing at Booth Library

Melissa Jabek, Contributing Writer
April 10, 2019

April marks Sexual Assualt Awareness Month

Melissa Jabek, Contributing Writer
March 31, 2019
Jenny Brown, a trumpet instuctor, and Will Porter, a trombone instructor, perform one of the five movements from “Celestial Suite” Wednesday afternoon at Booth Library. The five movements each highlight an astronomer or physicist.

Music reflects astronomers’ contributions

Melissa Jabek, Contributing Writer
March 27, 2019
Sushma Saragadam (left), a graduate student in geographic information sciences, and Amulya Boddu (right), a graduate student in computer technology, shop at the Annapoorna store in Champaign on Saturday.

[Photo] Eastern students travel to Champaign grocery stores

Blake Faith, Staff Reporter
February 17, 2019
Director of accounting Nicholas Robinson, speaks with the crowd during the Income Tax Workshop Wednesday afternoon in Lumpkin Hall.

Workshop informs, answers questions about filing taxes

Melissa Jabek, Contributing Writer
February 13, 2019
Teriq Phillips, a freshman business management major, throws a pie at Matthew Wright, the director of football operations, Thursday afternoon at Pie a Celeb in the Library Quad.

[Photo] FEATURE PHOTO: Pie a celeb

November 8, 2018
Dr. Kathryn Havercroft is one of the people teaching Youth Mental Health First Aid Training which was held on Friday, October 26, 2018 in Buzzard Hall.

[Photo] Students train for Youth Mental Health First Aid

Brooke Schwartz, News Editor
October 28, 2018

Eastern’s career outcome exceeds national average

Melissa Jabek, Contributing Writer
November 26, 2017
Lucy Hill, a student volunteer actor, lays on the floor to act out her “scene” on Saturday night during the Pemberton Hall Haunted House. Hill said she did her own makeup and was trying to go for a evil clown look.

[Photo] Students face fears during Pemberton Hall’s Haunted House

Analicia Haynes, Managing Editor
October 30, 2017
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