What is the rush? Live life in the moment
Megan Keane, Columnist
February 27, 2019
In high school, my freshman year health teacher had us do this assignment where we wrote down our goals for the future and sort of allocated our resources. Well, I knew what I wanted—how I flipped to being completely unsure of myself by junior/senior year has a lot to do with this. (Everything make...
Tutors available to help students improve grades
Victoria Wasiloski, Staff Reporter
January 29, 2019
Filed under News
It is never too early to get started studying or to schedule tutoring sessions to help maintain the good grades students strive to achieve. Luckily, there are many tutoring facilities around campus to help students, regardless of class subject. Eastern’s website lists many options for students who would like to get help from tutors, an...
Registration open for Lions in Winter creative writing festival
Logan Raschke, News Editor
January 9, 2019
Filed under News
Registration is now open for The Lions in Winter creative writing festival, which will take place on Saturday, Jan. 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The annual creative writing festival will feature readings from three published writers and workshops designed and created by them ...
Explore your talents working for the newspaper
Staff Editorial
August 29, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
As a student publication, we want to get students involved and enjoy working for us. The purpose of The Daily Eastern News is to share the news of what occurs at Eastern, but we also strive to have journalism students and any other students interested get involved and develop experience in print jour...
Research is essential to success
Staff Editorial
March 5, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Conducting research and writing about your findings is essential to a college career. That being said, we cannot help but notice the lack of enthusiasm when it comes to approaching research topics. It seems as though there is just one empty complaint after another when it comes to a research paper...
Chronicling the day-to-day: a centering experience
Shelby Niehaus, Columnist
November 6, 2017
On a social network I frequent, there is a trending #smallstories movement. Members from around the site, across nodes, linguistic groups and life experiences write out their day’s smallest, most vibrant experiences in 500 characters or fewer. Writers add flowering language and introspective quips...
Good writing means expressing yourself
Chrissy Miller, News Editor
September 26, 2017
Often, I hear people say they cannot write because they have nothing to say or they are not a “good writer.” In an English class a few weeks ago, a professor mentioned that to linguists, every time a person speaks, they are speaking in a dialect of the language they are using. This means any...
Don’t let writing, reading slip away
Carole Hodorowicz, Columnist
September 26, 2017
There’s nothing that makes me hit the snooze button on my alarm faster than the sun rising on a Monday morning. Mondays signal the end of a good weekend and the beginning of another long week. As the glamour of a free weekend fades away and a week full of responsibilities materializes, it is...
Learning Goal Committee focuses on critical thinking
Chrissy Miller, Administration Reporter
January 20, 2017
Filed under News
The Learning Goal Committee convened to discuss their academic revision proposal. Learning Goal Committee member Karla Sanders said that the committee’s main purpose at this time is to find a way to implement the undergraduate learning goals in general education in a systematic way. The proposed...
Students read non-fiction to their audiences
Mackenzie Freund, City Editor
December 10, 2015
Filed under News
Students volunteered to read essays they wrote to an audience during “The Ghosts of the Riders Present” reading in the 7th Street Underground Wednesday. Students of the Advanced Creative Non-Fiction class volunteered to read one of the essays they have worked on in class during the semester...
