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

The Daily Eastern News

Chloe Proffitt

COLUMN: Body image within athletes

Chloe Proffitt, Sports Reporter February 15, 2024

When it comes to athletics, how far would one go to achieve their goals? As an athlete, one will do the unthinkable to achieve their standards. For me and many other athletes, our mind creates a hypothesis...

COLUMN: Stop altering your photos

COLUMN: Stop altering your photos

Kyara Morales-Rodriguez, Columnist November 14, 2021

For years, we have been hearing about how dangerous seeing photographs of digitally altered models in magazines and advertisements is for the public exposed to them. You would think that after all the...

Ellen Dooley

COLUMN: Confidence in clothes

Ellen Dooley, Columnist October 20, 2021

Self-image is on a lot of peoples’ minds. Some hold their image to a high standard or are not the most confident. People may have certain outfits that they just feel the most powerful in. I did competitive...

Accepting yourself is the mark of maturity

Carole Hodorowicz, Opinions Editor January 21, 2018

The older I get, the less I feel inclined to achieve the degree of the “perfection” my peers, society and the world deems mandatory. The less I feel inclined, the more I cringe thinking about how much...

Column: Body image: ripped pants are not a sign

Abby Carlin, Copy Editor January 9, 2017

On Wednesday, Dec. 21st, 2016, I ripped my pants. My heart broke when I realized that my favorite pair of jeans, the jeans I bought with the money I earned from my first job, the jeans I wore on my first...

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