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Students participate in Pantherchella in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Saturday.
Pantherchella takes over Panther Bash
What to expect at Springfest
What to expect at Springfest
Jody Stone interacts with students after his student interview for Dean of Students Friday. April 13,2024 in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union,
Interim dean of students interviews to maintain position
The crowd jumps in excitement over Matt Bennet in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Grand Ballroom on Saturday.
Matt Bennett brings nostalgia to Pantherchella
President of Eastern Illinois University Jay Gatrell in his office in Old Main during an interview with the Daily Eastern News about his first year as president. Gatrell said, Anytime you take a new job, there’s going to be a learning curve. But you know, I feel sort of blessed to have been here and to know this place and the newer students.”  
Jay Gatrell: The first year
Daily Eastern News “Staff Picks”
STAFF PICKS: NBA finals winner
Redshirt junior outfield Dylan Drumke gets a run to first after hitting outfield at the game against Bradley University Tuesday
EIU baseball loses to non-D1 opponent for first time since 2019
Junior outfielder Quade Peters swinging and hitting the ball during Easterns game against Bradley University on Tuesday,
EIU beats Bradley in shortened game
Sophomore forward Sincere Malone (5) attempts a contested layup by freshman guard Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn (2) during the Panthers first mens basketball game of the season. The Panthers lost 52-80 to the Fighting Illini Monday night.
Malone, Gibson enter transfer portal
Assistant coach Carlif Taylor runs drills with players during football practice at OBrien Field April 4.
Former NFL player takes new coaching role at Eastern
Drew Coffey
COLUMN: ‘The Social Network:’ nice guys finish last
COLUMN: Educators need to be more valued
COLUMN: Educators need to be more valued
Jason Farias
COLUMN: Concerns with free speech zones
Dan Hahn is a graduate student studying English and can be reached at 217-581-2812.
COLUMN: The spirit of Linux and the attention economy
Jacob Hamm
COLUMN: 32-hour work weeks should be the standard
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
Drew Coffey
COLUMN: ‘The Social Network:’ nice guys finish last
COLUMN: Educators need to be more valued
COLUMN: Educators need to be more valued
Jason Farias
COLUMN: Concerns with free speech zones
Dan Hahn is a graduate student studying English and can be reached at 217-581-2812.
COLUMN: The spirit of Linux and the attention economy
Jacob Hamm
COLUMN: 32-hour work weeks should be the standard
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
Drew Coffey
COLUMN: ‘The Social Network:’ nice guys finish last
Students participate in Pantherchella in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Saturday.
Pantherchella takes over Panther Bash
What to expect at Springfest
What to expect at Springfest
The crowd jumps in excitement over Matt Bennet in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Grand Ballroom on Saturday.
Matt Bennett brings nostalgia to Pantherchella
Christiana Harkulich teaches a class Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in the Doudua Fine Arts Center. Harkulich is a dramaturge and instructor for theater, film studies and women and gender studies.
A glimpse into Christiana Harkulich’s theatrical world
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
Jennifer Buchter, a special education professor, gets out of the water during the Special Olympics Polar Plunge Sunday.
THROUGH THE LENS: Students, faculty get bold, cold
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!
two dudes talk movies
Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 57: Reviewing the 2024 Oscars
Panther Profiles: Ep. 19: Sebastian Pares
Panther Profiles: Ep. 19: Sebastian Pares
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Jessica Nantes, Photographer

Jessica Nantes is a sophomore TV and video production. This is her second semester at The News.

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Hannah Lawrence, a freshman prenursing major, and Mikyla Hodges, a freshman administration major, decorate stockings at the Christmas Around the World event hosted at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union University Ballroom Thursday night. There were spread around the room of different countries and the way they celebrate Christmas.

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Angela Gausmann, a junior vocal performance major, and Makayla McPhedran, (right) a senior music major, talk with Mrs. Claus during the Holiday Winter Fest in Doudna Fine Arts Center Thursday night.

[Photo] Holiday Winter Fest at Doudna

December 2, 2021

THROUGH THE LENS: BETTE DAVIS AIN’T FOR SISSIES

Jessica Nantes, Photographer
November 19, 2021
Jessica Sherr, actress and playwright of the solo show Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies, acts as Bette Davis whom in this scene has just finished a performance as Maxine in the The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. Backstage, the nemesis-like figure of Joan Crawford comes to meet with her. Davis is initially unamused by Crawford’s idea of using a book she’s read as the perfect script to get them both back into the Hollywood game after they’d been cast aside for being “too old”. But Crawford’s pleading had peaked Davis’s curiosity and upon reading the book, “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane”, she was convinced they needed to bring this to light and act in it to step back into the spotlight of film.

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Bette Davis, played by actress playwright, Jessica Sherr, recounts how her mother, Ruthie, worked hard for Davis to reach stardom and was her number one supporter and friend. She contrasts this with an opposing experience she had with her mostly absent father who came to see her in a play she starred in in “The Wild Duck” as Hedvig in Boston. We see her joyfully receiving the admiration of the crowd and in her words she is having her first stardust, a time in her life where she is the star on stage and no one else shares her starlight. This is followed immediately by his discouraging words, “You see all those stars up there Bette, there are millions and millions of them, remember that always, you’ll know how unimportant you are”. Throughout the show we see her fight against these kinds of words and and even greater systems to her way to the top of Hollywood. The show was performed on Thursday night at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre.

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Bette Davis, played by Jessica Sherr, actress and playwright, speaks on the telephone with her close friend Olivia de Havilland (“Gone with the Wind”) as they gossip about the other stars in the film “Gone with the Wind” who were up for awards as nominees. The show was performed at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre on Thursday night.

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Jessica Sherr, actress and playwright of the solo show Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies, performs as Bette Davis, diving into the role of the film star’s life throughout the 90-minute show. The show starts on the night of the Academy Awards in 1939, when she finds out she has lost the award for Best Actress since it’s been leaked to the press that Vivienne Leigh (“Gone with the Wind”) will win. Sherr began developing the show in 2008 when she had been dared to write a solo show, and the show was directed by Karen Carpenter (Love loss and What I wore, Harry Townsend’s Last Stand). It was performed on Thursday night at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre.

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In “The Impresario” by Mozart, Ms. Scruples, the head of the opera, played by Angela Gausmann, a junior vocal performance major, listens to Madame Goldenthrill portrayed by Mikayla Beck, graduate student studying vocal performance, who is trying to appeal to them. The show was performed at the Recital Hall in Doudna Fine Arts Center.

THROUGH THE LENS: The Impersario

Jessica Nantes, Photographer
November 14, 2021
Lucy Hill, senior vocal performance major, portrays her character, Ms. Bluff in “The Impresario” a comedic opera by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart about characters in the business of a premier opera house trying to save it from closing. Hill described Ms. Bluff as, “the smiling face of the theatre because my boss [Ms. Scruples] lacks the patience and poise to deal with important people”. The show took place at the Recital Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

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Mikayla Beck, graduate student studying vocal performance, plays Madame Goldenthrill in “The Impresario” who demands higher payment from Mr. Angel, the opera’s richest donor, played by Makayla McPhedran, senior music major, for her performing as a seasoned opera singer.

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Mikayla Beck, graduate student studying vocal performance, plays Madame Goldenthrill, a seasoned opera singer who is singing operatically in competition and spite against her younger naturally talented counterpart, Madame Silverpeal [not pictured] in “The Impresario” by Mozart. Both “The Impressario” and the collection of opera scenes were translated by Rebecca von Kamp and Giovanni Cardelli into English to provide connection and familiarity to the operas.

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In the “Blood at the Root” play at Doudna Fine Arts Theatre Thursday night, a group of students attending fictional Cedar High School in Louisiana, stand in protest to a racial threat.

THROUGH THE LENS: ‘Blood at the Root’ performance

Jessica Nantes, Photographer
November 11, 2021
In the play “Blood at the Root” at Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre, immediately after a fight breaks out, everyone is gossips about who started it, what happened, and why.

[Photo] 'Blood at the Root' examines racism, social justice

November 14, 2021
Arron Whitt, a junior theatre arts major, plays Justin in the play “Blood at the Root” directed by Janai Lashon at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre Thursday night.

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Chuck Westendorf, a sophomore digital media major who plays Colin, talks to Raylynn who is played by Brea Howard, a freshman theatre arts major, in “Blood at the Root” play at Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre Thursday night

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Brea Howard, a freshman theatre arts major, plays her character, Raylynn, who meets Colin, played by Chuck Westendorf, a sophomore digital media major, in the “Blood at the Root” play at Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre Nov. 10.

[Photo] THROUGH THE LENS: The News’ year in photos

The News
December 31, 2021
Arron Whitt, a junior theatre arts major, plays Justin in the “Blood at the Root” play directed by Janai Lashon at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Theatre Thursday night.

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Members of the Blood at The Root play perform their scene during the preview night Tuesday at Doudna Fine Arts Center.

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Francis Akosah Akwaboa, a graduate student studying art, with a focus in metal sculptures, explains the multi-faceted elephant piece he is working on Thursday night in Doudna Fine Arts Center. Akosah Akwaboa’s choice of the elephant was to highlight their importance in the ecosystem as they are being poached and traded as a commodity to the verge of extinction. He is showing the metal rod and wire side of the elephant that represents the senseless death that is bringing about the African elephant’s extinction.

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Francis Akosah Akwaboa, a graduate student studying art with a focus in metal sculptures, explains the multi-faceted elephant piece he works on Thursday night in Doudna Fine Arts Center. He uses pliers to work on the left leg of an African elephant, a species on the verge of extinction due to their use as a trade commodity. This fuller left side is an opposite parallel to the hollow right side of the elephant. The wood is representative of life and the environment they live in. The scraps of metal represent the materials used to hunt down the elephants. He wants to bring to light the impact of poaching animals on the environment and species that are affected by it.

[Photo] THROUGH THE LENS: Extinction sculpture advocates for endangered species

November 4, 2021
Wutthigrai Boonsuk, who has a doctorate in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, helps with the robotics team’s robot for The Association of Technology Management, and Applied Engineering annual competition in Orlando, Florida. The competition will be held Wednesday to Friday; the robotics team will leave Thursday. Robotics Club members Caden Miller, a senior computer info technology major, and Grace Fosu, a graduate student studying technology, watch as Boonsuk tests and adjusts their robot. Miller worked on the coding for the robot.

THROUGH THE LENS: Robotics club prepares for competition

Jessica Nantes, Photographer
November 1, 2021
Stevie McDunn, a senior TV and video production major, and Paul Blanchard, a senior German major, improvise in a game of Action Replay. They are seeking the first place trophy in a hula hooping competition.

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Lucas Grindley, a sophomore environmental biology major, interviews Paul Blanchard, a senior German major, for his upcoming movie, Titanic 2, a romantic comedy starring Barack Obama and Adam Sandler, for their Hello Dali improv comedy show in the Doudna Lecture Hall.

THROUGH THE LENS: Hello Dali Improv Comedy Show

Jessica Nantes, Photographer
October 28, 2021
Jerimiah Boyd-Johnson, a senior political science major, Jordan Holmes, a criminology major, Diana Rogel, a senior spanish major, Chase Austin, a criminology major, and Dr. Karen Swanson attend the Who’s Protecting Us? panel in the Grand Ballroom of Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

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Jerimiah Boyd-Johnson, a senior political science major, and Jordan Holmes, a criminology major and member of the Criminal Justice club, talk to a university police officer after the Who’s Protecting Us? panel in the Grand Ballroom of Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

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Easten alumna Cheyenne Brickner, performs at the Percussion Ensemble Concert. The focus of the concert was Afro-Cuban music.

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The Percussion Ensemble plays assorted instruments in the Percussion Ensemble Concert Tuesday night. The focus of the concert was Afro-Cuban music.

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Garrison Reed, a sophomore music education major, plays the “Reflection Canon” by Kieffer on the vibraphone at the Percussion Ensemble Concert Tuesday night. The Reflection Canon piece consisted of four parts including “There is Light for One Year,” “The Smallest Become the Tallest,” “Flying” and “Knowledge of Eternity.” The focus of the concert was Afro-Cuban music.

[Photo] Afro-Cuban music highlighted by ensemble

October 26, 2021
Part of the Percussion Ensemble play “Gilded Cage” by Susan Powell at the Tuesday night Percussion Ensemble Concert. The focus of the concert was Afro-Cuban music.

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David Martins, a graduate student studying percussion performance plays “Gilded Cage” by Susan Powell at the Percussion Ensemble Concert Tuesday night. The focus of the concert was Afro-Cuban music.

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During the 2-21 homecoming pep rally on Oct. 24, students play a game of hungry hippo. Teams have to work together to gather as many balls as they can before the music stops.

[Photo] Eastern's 2022 Homecoming Week to begin on Monday

October 10, 2022
Cherish Crosby, a junior mass communication major, steals one of the chairs faster than her opponent in an intense game of musical chairs during the homecoming pep rally in McAfee gym Friday night.

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Members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. dance at the Homecoming Week tailgate. The tailgate took place before the Homecoming football game at O’Brian Saturday afternoon.

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Anthony Lewis, a senior criminal justice major, grills buffalo chicken wings at the Saturday Homecoming Week tailgate outside of O’Brian Field.

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Amairany Bueno, a freshman management major, Evodie Tshipamba, an electrical engineering major, and Diana Maggi, a freshman biology major, compete against each other in inflatable jousting during the Kick-Off in the Library Quad.

THROUGH THE LENS: Homecoming Kick-Off

Jessica Nantes, Photographer
October 18, 2021

THROUGH THE LENS: The Hungarian Uprising at 65: An Exhibit

Jessica Nantes and Rob Le Cates
October 11, 2021
Stephen Szigethy presents one of the artifacts to the group of viewers Monday afternoon.

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Stephen Szigethy presents the opening night to The Hungarian Uprising at 65: An Exhibit at Booth Library Monday afternoon.

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Megan Miller, a senior art education major, creates jewelry for one of her projects on Sept. 29.

[Photo] FEATURE PHOTOS: Creating art in Design and Fundamentals 3-D

September 29, 2021
Rachel Barringer, a contortion performance artist, perfoms with the Boston Circus Guild inside the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center on Sept. 28.

PHOTO GALLERY: Circus at Dounda

Ashanti Thomas and Jessica Nantes
September 29, 2021
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