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.

The Daily Eastern News

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

The Daily Eastern News

Students, faculty consider Plato, politics

Leon Mire, Associate News Editor January 23, 2017

    Roughly 25 students and faculty members gathered Friday to discuss a 2,500-year-old text by the Greek philosopher Plato and its implications for modern politics. It was the first...

Plato, pizza offered at new discussion series

Leon Mire, Associate News Editor January 19, 2017

  A discussion about the relationship between persuasion and politics will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Friday on the first floor room of the Pine Honors College. The discussion will be the...

Column: Philosophy department vital to university

Leon Mire, Associate News Editor January 11, 2017

The recommendations from the vitalization project have recently been made available on Eastern’s website, and as soon as I learned they were public, I immediately logged in and looked for their recommendations...

VP recommendations put online now under review

Cassie Buchman, News Editor January 11, 2017

Editor’s Note: This story looks at some of the recommendations made in regards to academic programs during the vitalization project. Other Workgroup’s recommendations and how they pertain to and affect...

Music professor, Stefan Eckert (left) and Economics professor Teshome Abebe (right) discuss the recommendations made by Workgroups in the vitalization project that were posted on the project’s webpage Monday.

Faculty Senate raises concerns about vitalization report

Chrissy Miller, Administration Reporter January 11, 2017

*Correction: C.C. Wharram was erroneously attributed. The News regrets the error.  In a special meeting to discuss the vitalization project, the Faculty Senate raised concerns about what it called...

CAA to vote on new philosophy class

Adrian Bolaji, Staff Reporter December 9, 2015

The Council on Academic Affairs Agenda will vote to add a new philosophy and women’s studies class at 2 p.m. Thursday in Booth Library Room 4440. Marita Gronnvoll, the CAA chair, said the new class...

Philosophy professors discuss the devil

Molly Dotson, Staff Reporter October 28, 2015

Students filled Coleman Auditorium on Wednesday to play the devil’s advocate and discuss whether the being is real. The panel titled, “Does the Devil Exist?” debated the reality of an evil...

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