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Left, Eastern Illinois University President Jay Gatrell holds petition for all-gender restrooms, hand delivered by graduate student Theo Edwards while petition signers stand in support in the Martin Luther King Jr., University Union.
Students hand deliver petition for all-gender restrooms to Gatrell
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
Three different graduation ceremonies were held for the different colleges Saturday afternoon, May 7, 2022, in Lantz Arena; Lumpkin College of Business and Technology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Education all held ceremonies for the students in the respective colleges.
Seniors prepare for graduation
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
Emerson Gausmann (right) and Kaumi Stuart (left) perform as the party crashes in a short play titled The Party during the New Works Symposium on Friday night April 19,2024.
New productions displayed at symposium
Alli Hausman
COLUMN: Lance Stroll should take a walk
Redshirt junior infielder Dylan Drumke prepares to bat at the EIU baseball game in Coaches Stadium on Sunday.
EIU splits doubleheader with USI
Redshirt freshman running back MJ Flowers (20) celebrates a touchdown with redshirt junior offensive lineman Elkhanan Tanelus (72). Eastern beat Tennessee State 30-17 Saturday afternoon at O’ Brien Field.
Panthers of the Year: MJ Flowers, Macy McGlone, Sara Thomas
Freshman right-handed pitcher Slater Wilcox throws the ball at the game against Bradley University Tuesday
Nine-run first inning too much for EIU to overcome
Senior guard Jordan Tiger Booker during the mens basketball game against Tennessee Tech Thursday night at Groniger Arena. The Panthers beat the Golden Eagles 68-59.
Panthers of the Semester: Tiger Booker, Macy McGlone, Tara Archibald
Alli Hausman
COLUMN: Lance Stroll should take a walk
Dan Hahn is a graduate student studying English and can be reached at 217-581-2812.
COLUMN: Next steps, shoes as symbols of growth
Camron Hardy
COLUMN: ‘Civil War,’ Journalists have their own wars
Jason Farias
COLUMN: Observing my first Ramadan in solidarity with Palestine
Drew Coffey
COLUMN: ‘The Social Network:’ nice guys finish last
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
Dan Hahn is a graduate student studying English and can be reached at 217-581-2812.
COLUMN: Next steps, shoes as symbols of growth
Camron Hardy
COLUMN: ‘Civil War,’ Journalists have their own wars
Jason Farias
COLUMN: Observing my first Ramadan in solidarity with Palestine
Drew Coffey
COLUMN: ‘The Social Network:’ nice guys finish last
COLUMN: Educators need to be more valued
COLUMN: Educators need to be more valued
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
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
Emerson Gausmann (right) and Kaumi Stuart (left) perform as the party crashes in a short play titled The Party during the New Works Symposium on Friday night April 19,2024.
New productions displayed at symposium
Students celebrate EIUs unofficial Holi in the Library Quad. Holi is a festival celebrated in India. It is celebrated as the festival of colors, love and spring.
EIU celebrates Holi festival of colors
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
Senior utility, Cole Gober throws his base to the side as he runs to first base at the game against Bradley University Tuesday,
THROUGH THE LENS: EIU vs Bradley Baseball
Students enjoy Pantherchella where Matt Bennett DJd in the Martin Luther King Jr., University Union Grand Ballroom
THROUGH THE LENS : Matt Bennett plays Pantherchella
Senior Addison Brown stands and waits for the double match to start against Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks, at Atkins indoor tennis center
THROUGH THE LENS: EIU women’s tennis play against SEMO
(93) Sophomore punter Jacob Horvath and (98) redshirt junior long snapper Brett Galletti, at football’s first spring practice.
THROUGH THE LENS: EIU football’s first spring practice
two dudes talk movies
Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 63: Is The Bear That Good?
two dudes talk movies
Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 61: The Social Network: Nice Guys Finish Last
two dudes talk movies
Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 60: Why Is Midsommar So Weird?
two dudes talk movies
Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 59: Is Ex Machina The Best Sci-Fi Movie?
two dudes talk movies
Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 58: Road House 2024 Is Terrible!
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All content by Mercury Bowen

Sometimes, it is hard to say goodbye

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
December 9, 2018

Professor performs 1st recital as faculty

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
December 5, 2018

Volunteers wanted to help with Christmas giving event

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
December 4, 2018

Don’t live a life that will lead to regrets

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
December 2, 2018
Members of the St. Louis Ballet Company perform in the Theatre at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Saturday eventing. “The confetti, I was not expecting that,” Usher Amanda Kiessling said. “Then when they put the lights back and it was still coming down when the bowed I was like ‘That’s so pretty.’”

St. Louis Ballet performs for full house at Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
December 2, 2018
Kyara Morales, a freshman English major, and Luis Paniagua, a freshman art major, make stress balls out of balloons and sand at the event Thursday evening. “I’ve never made any of this before,” Morales said. “I wanted to try it out,”

Students de-stress with slime before finals

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 30, 2018

Students to de-stress before final exams

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 29, 2018

Take time for yourself during the holidays

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 26, 2018

New campus group to support minorities in STEM fields

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 14, 2018

Know when to speak your mind

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 11, 2018

Students perform ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ at the Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 9, 2018

Annual faculty concert to benefit jazz students

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 9, 2018

Professor to cite original work at memorial poetry reading

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 7, 2018

Comedy show to cover alcohol dangers, issues

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 7, 2018

Hunger Action Month kicks off with lecture on food insecurities

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 5, 2018

Community celebrates Dia de los Muertos

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 2, 2018
Alyssa Jacobucci, a sophomore music performance major, smiles after her performance with the EIU Wind Symphony at Call to Duty: A Veteran’s Day Tribute Thursday night in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

Doudna honors veterans: EIU Wind Symphony performs a Veteran’s Day tribute concert

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
November 2, 2018

Dia de los Muertos to raise cultural awareness around Eastern

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 31, 2018

Past ALT-TV episodes to air on television

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 29, 2018
Sadie Armstrong plays the violin in her handmade Swan Lake costume. “I was like ‘What am I going to be?’” Armstrong said. “Then we were playing (Swan Lake) so I was like ‘Oh I’ll just do that.”

Costumed orchestra performs Fright Night at Dounda

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 28, 2018

Keep the holidays in order, please

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 28, 2018
Bruce Hecksel performs with Julie Patchouli Thursday night at “The Landscape of Guitar” in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Recital Hall. “We were warming up to this song (Sounds of Silence) and our tour manager came in and said ‘you should play that tonight.’ We looked at each other and then at him and said ‘it isn’t on the approved play list.’ Our tour manager said ‘I don’t care, you should play it.’ So we went out there and played the song and we were only four words in when the entire place erupted in cheers,” Patchouli said.

Music brings art to life at Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 28, 2018

Landscape of Guitar concert to incorporate animated paintings

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 24, 2018

Cultural Fest to include international food, entertainment

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 23, 2018

Alum author to sign books at Bob’s Bookstore

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 23, 2018

Food pantry helps with food insecurity on campus

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 22, 2018

Libraries are overlooked and underrated

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 21, 2018

Panthers to give ‘Paws For A Cause’

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 18, 2018

Improv group to perform ‘When Hello Met Dali’ Friday

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 18, 2018

Professor plays to the beat of his own drum

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 16, 2018

Self-harm can take several forms

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 14, 2018
Pavlo performs in the Dvorak Concert Hall at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Wednesday evening.

Audience spends ‘An Evening With Pavlo’ at Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 10, 2018

Guitarist Pavlo to perform at Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 9, 2018

Drones presentation flies into Eastern

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
October 9, 2018
Jacob Shepard sings in the Elementium concert Sunday afternoon.

Choral groups perform in Elementium concert

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 7, 2018

Leave your political views off social media

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 7, 2018
Jackie Renteria, a junior pre-nursing major, gets her lunch after waiting in a line of over twenty people for food from Vita’s Mexican Food Truck, which is a part of Latino Heritage Month. Renteria said she enjoyed having the food truck on campus. “I think it’s cool that a lot of people on campus get to experience authentic Mexican food,” said Renteria. The next Latino Heritage Month event will be the “What is Latinx?” student discussion panel that will take place Thursday in the Charleston-Mattoon Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Student panel to discuss ‘What is Latinx?’

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
October 3, 2018

Mindfulness Club aims to help students reduce stress

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
October 1, 2018

#MeToo is not enough, we need change now

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 30, 2018

UB hosts transgender comedian Jeffrey Jay

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 30, 2018

UB hosts comedy night on Friday

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 27, 2018

Lincoln Trio performs at Doudna Fine Arts Center

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
September 25, 2018

Piano trio to play at Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
September 24, 2018

Concert Band and Wind Symphony to perform at Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 20, 2018

Theatre troupe to perform at ’80s-themed dinner, murder mystery

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 20, 2018

Tarble Arts Center presents ‘Real Women Have Curves’ film

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 18, 2018

Introverts are not necessarily antisocial

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 17, 2018

Eastern to celebrate Latino Heritage Month

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 16, 2018

‘Up All Night’ play festival will be on Friday in Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 13, 2018

M-PACT takes the stage on Saturday at Doudna

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 13, 2018

Fall programs lined up at Tarble

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 10, 2018

Ignore generational distinctions; unite with other generations

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
September 9, 2018

Eastern students given opportunity to ‘PLAY’

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 6, 2018

Children to spend day at ‘Castle’

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 6, 2018
Ivan Escott (right), a sophomore marketing major, fist bumps Officer Samantha Berry from the University Police Department. “I love seeing that sort of stuff out here, especially on a college campus,” Escott said. “I love seeing support for the police.”

Students have ‘Pops with the Cops’

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 5, 2018

Be who you are, not who others want

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 4, 2018

Kinesiology and Sports Studies, Recreation departments combine

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
September 3, 2018

Volunteer opportunities available in Charleston community

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
August 30, 2018
Alex Hill, the vice president of the Spirituality Club, and Josh Harden, a club member, offer passing students free fruit. “We may run out,” Hill said. “Apparently people like fruit.”

Spirituality Club sees the fruits of their labor

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
August 29, 2018
Kayla Jandek, a freshman finance major, speaks to Laura Diltz and Elizabeth Stark about the special olympics event JURASSIC SOFF at Lakeland College on Saturday, September 15. “We cannot do this event without Eastern Illinois University volunteers,” Diltz said.

[Photo] Volunteer groups, local businesses showcased at fair, expo

Logan Raschke, Staff Reporter
August 29, 2018

Don’t let fear hold you back

Mercury Bowen, Columnist
August 28, 2018

Student opportunities to be presented at Volunteer Fair and Business Expo

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
August 28, 2018
Comedian Barry Brewer laughs with audience Friday night during his comedy show in the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Comedian laughs it up with students

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
August 26, 2018
Student-created art hangs in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. This piece was created by a senior graphic design class and the advanced printmaking class under the supervision of Alan Pocaro, a professor of art, and Samantha Osborne, a professor of graphic design.

Department of Art, Design resurrect, reconfigure BA in graphic design

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
August 23, 2018
Paul Hinson, and Gary Rollings, members of the “Irish Music Circle” perform for the crowd Tuesday evening at Jackson Ave. Coffee.

Irish Music Circle performs at JAC

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
August 22, 2018

New students get a ‘Jumpstart’ on volunteering

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
August 15, 2018

EIU students to ‘Take the Lake’

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter
August 15, 2018

‘Haunted Hike’ hunts for help

Mercury Bowen, Contributing Writer
October 23, 2017

Annual concert looks to help end sexual assault

Mercury Bowen, Contributing Writer
November 3, 2016
Morgan Brown, a freshman English education major, and Cara Soucie, a freshman family and consumer sciences major, color Halloween themed coloring pages.

[Photo] Coleman Hall becomes Halloween Hall

Angelica Cataldo, Entertainment Reporter
October 25, 2016

Cochren & Company to perform ‘backwoods Motown’

Mercury Bowen, Verge Reporter
April 21, 2016
Jacqueline D. Wright, graduate studio art graduate student, places her largest artistic work in the center of her display in hopes of catching the viewers attention.

Tarble to unveil graduate thesis show

Mercury Bowen, Verge Reporter
April 14, 2016
Multiple students volunteer to be apart of the exhibition team. They are responsible for building the parts for all of the artwork displayed in the Making Illinois exhibit.

Tarble to exhibit ‘Making Illinois’

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
April 8, 2016

Students use alternative spring break to give back

Mercury Bowen, Verge Reporter
April 1, 2016

Students Unite for Prayer Vigil

Mercury Bowen, Verge Reporter
April 1, 2016

Eastern Euphonics lack of instruments, lots of fun

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
February 26, 2016
Renown band is respected for producing traditional celtic sounds. Lúnasa members are: Kevin Crawford (flutes, low whistles and tin whistles), Trevor Hutchinson (double bass), Ed Boyd (guitar), Colin Farrell (fiddle and whistles), and Cillian Vallely (uilleann pipes and low whistles).

Performance to combine Irish, American sounds

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
February 18, 2016
Chanell Hall passion inspires her to start her own makeup business.

Sophomore realizes creative ability with makeup business

Mercury Bowen, Staff Reporter
February 7, 2016
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