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

The Daily Eastern News

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

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Stephanie Buck, a sophomore elementary education major, poses for a picture in the Library Quad after attending the Christian Faith Communities Find Your Fit session Sunday afternoon.

Eastern provides communities for new students to join

Katja Benz, Campus Reporter August 22, 2022

“Find Your Fit” was the theme of an event hosted Sunday afternoon at spots all around campus to help new students find a community they could connect with on Sunday as a part of Welcome Weekend. Students...

Newman Catholic Center members to assist in Kentucky

Bailey Sharpmack, Contributing Writer March 10, 2020

Members of the Newman Catholic Center are taking their annual Alternative Spring Break trip to help others through community service. Since 1993, the Alternative Spring Break trip has been used as a...

Letter to the editor: DEN’s communion wafers correction unsatisfactory

Ryan McDaniel March 2, 2020

This letter was sent by Ryan McDaniel, an instructor in the School of Communication & Journalism and a Catholic priest serving at the Newman Catholic Center. On Feb. 28, The DEN expressed regret...

Maddie Harvey, a sophomore mathematics major, gives out wine during the Ash Wednesday service in the Newman Center during the noon service. Harvey said she is giving up spending money on herself for lent. “If I spend money, it has to be for other people or for a good cause,” she said.

FEATURE PHOTO: Ash Wednesday

Elizabeth Wood, Photo Editor February 27, 2020

Maddie Harvey, a sophomore mathematics major, gives out wine during the Ash Wednesday service in the Newman Center during the noon service. Harvey said she is giving up spending money on herself for lent....

40 students to spend spring break giving back

Maria Ruettiger March 7, 2019

Spring break starts March 11, and this is usually a time for people to take a break from school and enjoy their free time. However, the Newman Catholic Center has “alternative” spring break plans...

Club spreads awareness, gives back to Haiti

BreAnna Celestin, Contributing Writer March 6, 2019

The Haiti Connections Club, founded in 1989, has taken Eastern students to Haiti to help people twice every year. The organization, supported by the Newman Catholic Center, has 10 to 12 students in it...

After School Program helping kids learn, improve behavior, have fun

Elizabeth Wood, Staff Reporter January 28, 2019

At the end of school days, kids from the Charleston area head over to the Newman Center for the After School Program. For the first few weeks, tutors and kids alike gather in a circle to introduce themselves,...

Food pantry helps with food insecurity on campus

Mercury Bowen, Entertainment Reporter October 22, 2018

The Newman Food Pantry will be open more hours each week thanks to a partnership with The Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism. According to research studies performed by professor Michael Gillespie,...

Alternative Spring Break allows students to give back over break

Andrew Paisley, Campus Reporter January 12, 2018

For the last 25 years, the Newman Catholic Center has offered Alternative Spring Break at Eastern, a set of mission trips designed for students to help out in different communities instead of going home...

Paige Roberts, the campus minister at the Wesley Foundation, posts up the Grace Space signs in protest to Mikhail Savenko and Ryan Simpkins speaks with students on Monday in the Library Quad. Roberts said the Grace Space allowed them to silently counter protest against radical evangelists.

Local churches respond to Brother Jed

T'Nerra Butler, Multicultural Editor October 12, 2015

As a man goes from state to state in order to express his thoughts to students of America, ministries around Eastern’s campus try to stay level-headed about his expressive evangelization. Brother...

Newman Catholic Center to host annual Oktoberfest

Oscar Correa, Staff Reporter September 14, 2014

Community members will be able to participate in several games with live music filling the air of the Newman Catholic Center grounds for their fourth annual St. Hedwig’s Oktoberfest Sept. 21 from noon...

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