Students de-stress at the Union before final exam week
Rylee DeLong
December 3, 2019
With finals around the corner, so is the overwhelming amount of projects, papers and exams. This year Student Senate held "De-stress the Test, Everything in One" located in the Bridge Lounge in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Tuesday night to help combat the stress of finals. The event...
Senate to discuss solutions to open seats
Zoë Donovan, Staff Reporter
November 19, 2019
Eastern’s Student Senate will address plans to recruit new student senators at its 7 p.m. meeting Wednesday in the Arcola/Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The senate is looking for applications for spring semester, and it has tentative plans for tabling events, passing out...
Student body president reflects on time at Eastern
Corryn Brock, News Editor
November 8, 2019
The first semester of Student Body President Carson Gordon’s term is nearing an end as well as her time as an undergraduate at Eastern. Gordon, a Mattoon native, is a senior political science major with two minors in pre-law and Spanish. Gordon came to Eastern in 2017 following her high school g...
Student Senate to vote on 2 RSOs
Zoë Donovan, Staff Reporter
November 5, 2019
Student Senate will vote Wednesday on the approval of two new registered student organizations at its weekly meeting in the Arcola/Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union at 7 p.m. Samira Abdoulaye-Pedila, student body vice president of student affairs, said the two RSOs seeking approv...
Student Senate plans to pass out last drug test kits
Zoë Donovan, Staff Reporter
October 30, 2019
Michael Perri, speaker for Student Senate, said Wednesday that because the senate was only able to pass out 6 of 100 date rape drug testing kits during this week’s tabling event because of low student turnout, it will pass the remaining kits during the “It’s on us” campaign in April. Last week...
Student Senate to vote on emergency bill
Corryn Brock, News Editor
October 22, 2019
The Student Senate will vote Wednesday on an emergency bill to approve releasing funds for date rape drug testing kits. The kits will be given out to students during a “Your Campus, Your Voice” campus safety and health table on Oct. 29 in front of Coleman Hall from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The...
STAFF EDITORIAL: Think of college mental health
Staff Editorial
October 14, 2019
Mental health has historically been a subject people do not focus on enough. So it’s great to hear that Student Body President Carson Gordon has an initiative to spread awareness this week at Eastern. In an Oct. 10 article from The Daily Eastern News, we reported that the senate would partner with the a...
Student Senate to hear committee reports
Staff Report
October 8, 2019
Student Senate will meet in the Arcola/Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Wednesday at 7 p.m. The appointment of Justin Richards as Parliamentarian is included in the consent agenda for the meeting. The senate will hear reports from: • Ceci Brinker (Advisor Report) • Sophia Sar...
Students learn about budgeting, financial responsibility
Trevin Milner, Contributing Writer
April 16, 2019
Students participated in games, answered questions about budgeting and finances and were able to ask some of their own at “How to Beat the Game of Life,” put on by the student government on Tuesday. The event was designed to have interactive ways for students to learn more about budgeting and ...
Denim Day: Students to raise awareness about sexual assault
Logan Raschke, News Editor
April 16, 2019
Student government encourages everyone to sport their best denim attire Wednesday in honor of Denim Day. Nia Douglas, a senior majoring in family and consumer sciences and the chair of student government’s Student Affairs Committee, said student senators, and hopefully the rest of the school, will walk a...
Student Senate votes to approve all 5 budget allocation bills
Logan Raschke, News Editor
April 10, 2019
Senators voted 16-0-2 to approve all five of the budget allocation bills during the Student Senate meeting Wednesday. Two senators abstained to vote because they were active members of the Apportionment Board. Three nominees for next term’s speaker were also presented at the senate meeting. Apportionment Boar...
Student Senate to vote on budget allocation bills
Logan Raschke, News Editor
April 9, 2019
Student Senate will vote on five budget allocation bills during its Wednesday meeting. These bills detail how much money will go into the 2019-2020 budgets for University Board, the Student Recreation Center, Student Government and Apportionment Board if approved. Apportionment Board is proposing Student Sen...
