Lawyer explains Butler lawsuit
JJ Bullock, Editor-in-Chief
February 17, 2020
The Eastern swim team was a day removed from a fifth place finish in the Summit League Championships. The team’s bus was bringing them back to campus in Charleston, carrying on it swimmers who had just combined for 20 top-16 finishes to end their season. The night should have been a celebratory o...
STAFF EDITORIAL: Eastern should support Butler
Staff Editorial
February 17, 2020
Eastern swimmer Jaylan Butler and the ACLU filed a lawsuit against police officers for an incident that occurred last February, in which police officers pinned Butler to the ground, placed him under arrest, held guns on him and threatened to “blow his f****** head off” if he moved. This is according...
UPD talks role on campus, safety
Dominique Brown, Staff Reporter
August 21, 2019
In a town with multiple police forces, the University Police Department stands out. Chief Kent Martin, who has been with the department since 1997 and has been serving as chief of the department since 2016, said the biggest difference between his police department and the Charleston Police Department...
City Council honors cops who saved person’s life
Corryn Brock, Associate News Editor
March 5, 2019
The Charleston City Council honored police officers from the Charleston Police Department and the University Police Department and approved all action items on Tuesday. The officers were honored for their life-saving actions on Feb. 16. They were called to the Charleston Walmart after man was found ...
CFD responds to attic fire Sunday
Staff Report
March 3, 2019
The Charleston Fire Department extinguished an attic fire at a residence located at 319 Madison Avenue early Sunday morning. The cause of the fire was faulty electrical wiring, according to the press release. Prior to the fire department’s arrival, the Charleston Police Department reported smoke coming from t...
Police give tips
Logan Raschke, Staff Writer
August 27, 2018
By Logan Raschke Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Eastern Illinois University Police Chief Kent Martin said when it comes to contacting the police when students need help, no time is a bad time. Martin along with Makenzie Reynolds, a graduate student and student worker for the UPD, offered advice for students...
Justice system broken; come back later
Colin Roberts
February 6, 2018
The American justice system has often been criticized for its many shortcomings, and they are many. In the international community, the one that does not include oppressive regimes, we have been taken to task for the way we treat our minority communities (for the last two centuries, we just cannot see...
Students play games, eat with police
Travis Moody, Staff Reporter
November 7, 2017
Students spent some of their leisure time with members of the campus police department in Taylor Hall Tuesday night. Pizza, Pool and Police, hosted by Residence Life and Conference Services, allowed students to get to know the university police officers. Kelsey Cripe, assistant director of Residence...
German police officer talks terrorism and the refugee crisis
Samuel Nusbaum, Administration Reporter
October 31, 2016
German police officer Wilhelm Schmidbauer talked about his experiences with terrorism to students and faculty Monday night. Schmidbauer is the head of the Bavarian State Police, a force which has 40,000 officers employed. His translator for the evening was Christiane Eydt-Beebe, chair of...
Multiple calls of shots fired Friday morning
Staff Report
October 30, 2016
The Charleston Police Department and University Police Department responded to two shots fired calls Friday morning. The first one occurred at 1:51 a.m. at Ninth Street and Garfield Avenue and the second happened at 2:24 a.m. at 1520 Edgar Drive. For the call at Edgar Drive, officers...
UPD officers serve up floats
Janet Pernell, Multicultural reporter
October 5, 2016
Students lined up outside of Coleman Hall Wednesday afternoon to be handed cups of root beer floats by officers from the University Police Department. The University Board has put together a social called “Cooling it with the Cops,” which gave students the opportunity to drink root beer floats...
No injuries after shots fired incident
Staff Report
October 3, 2016
No one was hurt after shots fired were reported early Sunday morning, Charleston Det. Tony West said. The shots were reported at 2 a.m. in the vicinity of 11th Street and Hayes Avenue. The suspect has not yet been identified, and neither have any victims. West said nobody approached the police...
