Don’t ‘cancel’ people; hold them accountable, demand change
Logan Raschke, Senior Designer
July 3, 2020
Just because people have done wrong and are held accountable for their actions does not mean they should be stripped of the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and do better. Instead of promoting a toxic, ominous "Cancel Culture," we need to demand change and uphold our standards as consumers...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Eastern’s senates condemn white supremacy posters
Student, staff and faculty senates
February 28, 2020
This letter was submitted by the staff, student and faculty senates of Eastern. “The Student, Staff and Faculty Senates of Eastern Illinois University condemn those attempting to propagate hate, and racial and religious disharmony at EIU, and to incite violence and mistrust in the name of white sup...
Eastern responds to hate messages
Corryn Brock, News Editor
February 21, 2020
White power propaganda and rocks in bags were found around campus Wednesday and many student leaders on campus spoke out against the actions of the person or people who left the bags. Most fliers had the message “White Power, Get Some!” printed on it along with a swastika. Many of the st...
White Power posters found at Eastern
Staff Report
February 20, 2020
Plastic bags containing rocks and posters that read “White Power, Get Some!” with images of swastikas were found littered across campus Wednesday where they were left lying for students and staff to find. A large number of the bags were found near Eastern’s Greek Court. Police told one of the...
Keep hate messages off campus
Staff Editorial
February 20, 2020
Plastic bags filled with a rock and a poster decorated with a swastika that reads “White Power. Get Some!” were left around Eastern’s campus on Wednesday, a majority of which were found in Eastern’s Greek Court. To whomever left these hateful messages around our campus, we at The Daily Eastern...
‘Different’ people are still people
Zoë Donovan, Columnist
February 13, 2020
How is that we as a society and culture have come to classify groups of people who simply want to exist and enjoy the same liberties and freedoms as everyone else, and hate groups who believe that people that they see as “other” should be seen as lesser, are ranked at the same level of “radica...
1619 Exhibit, Race Card Project kick off ‘400th’
Corryn Brock, News Editor
September 3, 2019
Two events were held to kick off a series of events with the purpose of looking in depth at race in the past, present and future in American society. The event falls on the 400th anniversary of the first Africans being brought the what is now the U.S. The first event of the day was held in Booth...
Ariel is not real; leave her alone
Dillan Schorfheide, Sports Editor
July 9, 2019
Race is a subject that should not be thrown around willy-nilly; it is a delicate subject with real, powerful meaning. Even me and my fellow student journalists here at Eastern are taught to not mention race unless it is pertinent to the story. So I want to apply this logic to the “Little Mermaid”...
Editorials exist for us to read, react and act
February 21, 2019
There is no shred of doubt that the editorial that Goodloe Sutton published in his the Democrat-Reporter on Feb. 14 promotes a demonstrably false, morally irresponsible agenda that hurts minorities and political figures who were unjustly targeted. On Feb. 14, Sutton published the editorial called “Klan ...
Eastern responds to racial slur written on Doudna’s Stairwell
Analicia Haynes, Managing Editor
February 25, 2018
After a racist slur was written in a stairwell of the Doudna Fine Arts Center, Kiara Reed, a freshman political science major, took to social media to call out racism on campus. She said when her friend showed her the picture he had taken of the N-word, which was written in the stairwell in big,...
Column: Symbols of hate should be removed
Chris Picazo, Staff Reporter
June 22, 2015
Tragedy struck Charleston, S.C. when a shooting took place that left nine people dead Wednesday evening in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The act of terror came out of nowhere from the shooter who allegedly spent an hour praying with victims before he attacked. The suspect, Dylann...
