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Precautions key to safety on campusBy Jarad Jarmon Managing Editor | @DEN_News

Incoming students should take certain pre-cautions as they prepare to attend Eastern in the fall.

Eastern resides in one of safest cities in the state, but that does not mean potential dangers do not exist on campus.

Companies such as the Value Penguin website listed Charleston as the second safest city to live in with a population of 15,000 to 30,000 peo-ple. Charleston is also rated 16th in a study of 298 cities overall.

Crimes such as sexual assault and hit-and-run’s are still reported throughout the year in Charleston though.

There is a higher risk of sexual assault on col-lege campuses.

One report done by the Bureau of Justice Sta-tistics as a part of the National Institute of Jus-tice estimated the percentage of completed or at-tempted rape victimization among women in higher educational institutions may be between 20 and 25 percent over the course of a college career.

The report also states for every 1,000 women attending a college or university, there are 35 in-cidents of rape each academic year.

To combat these potential risks, students can take steps to ensure their own safety, which might include being aware of surroundings

If there is an emergency of any kind, 21 blue emergency phone poles are located in high-traf-fic areas sprawled across campus. When the but-ton is pressed, a 911 dispatcher will answer.

Even if no voice answers, a police officer is

sent to the location immediately to check on the well being of the caller, according to the emer-gency phone page of the Eastern website.

Mark Hudson, the director of Housing and Dining, said cameras are also placed outside of the residence halls to record potential crimes and prevent them.

Night assistants also work from midnight to 4 a.m. patrolling residences halls and ensuring the safety of the residence. They are there to assist in emergencies.

Hudson said it is crucial and important to walk in well-lit, high-traffic areas at night. He

said sometimes the most direct route to the des-tination is not always the safest.

Residence hall rooms are inevitably at risk of theft, which is why it is paramount to lock the door as much as possible to prevent such risks.

He also encouraged new students to be cau-tious when going to social gatherings with peo-ple they do not know. He said making new friends is expected especially when coming to a campus alone, but students should still be wary.

Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

CHYNNA MILLER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Becca Bleeker, a junior psychology major, informs incoming freshman about the Emergency buttons on campus during a tour in the South Quad on May 4. “Do not push the button and call Jimmy John’s to see who gets here faster because it will be the police,” Bleeker said, “They are also freaky fast.”

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Graduating, newly enrolled give thoughts on college

As a freshman, life changes for you in a mat-ter of minutes.

One minute you’re with your parents or whoever brought you to the university to move in, relishing in those last minutes together, and the next they’re gone, leaving you to this new college life alone.

As a freshman, being away from what I was used to at home- both good and bad- created a shock to my system.

I immediately did everything I could to combat this change and nervousness. I felt rushed to make friends, clinging to people who I barely knew and would barely hear from af-ter first semester, and signing up for every club at Pantherpalooza (I still get emails from clubs I’ve never been to.)

But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from this crazy year, it’s that making friends and getting acclimated to the university will happen. It did happen.

Eventually. Maybe not on the exact time line I wanted, but eventually I started hanging out and getting close with a great, caring, hilarious group of people and throwing my hard work into one thing I’m passionate about-journal-ism.

In short, don’t freak out if things don’t go as you planned first semester. Sometimes, what happens instead is even better in the long run.

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As a senior about to graduate, I look back on my five years at Eastern with tears in my eyes and butterflies in my stomach.

It seems like just yesterday I arrived at EIU with all my belongings as a freshmen in An-drews Hall scared out of my mind at going into the wrong classroom on the first day, which ended up happening.

Now I’m going to pick up my cap and gown to walk across the stage in Lantz Arena to get my degree from President Perry.

Whoever said “time flies when you’re having fun” wasn’t kidding.

EIU has given me more memories, friends and opportunities than I ever expected.

From getting a random roommate to tak-ing a Ballroom Dancing class to having four on-campus jobs, I’ve lived, learned and lived some more.

Maybe I could’ve joined another RSO, done more volunteer hours or paid a little more atten-tion in class, but I’m happy with what I’ve done here and what EIU has done for me.

After all the pictures are taken and the good-byes are said, I will have nothing but kind words and great stories about EIU to share with any-one who will listen.

EIU has been my home for five years and now I’m ready to make my university proud. I am, and always will be, EIU.

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By Brad yorkVerge Editor

Spring is a season that brings a re-freshing smell into the air as the trees be-gin to bud and the winter chills become dormant. It is a time for new life to see the wonders of Charleston. With new life comes new ambitions. New ambitions mean new music, and for Charleston that means new events.

A fresh take on the Charleston festival scene is exactly what Scott Chaplinski has been planning for nearly a year with the event Square Fest.

“I started thinking in February that it was about time to get it going with every-thing going on with Celebration, Wood-chuck Music Festival, there’s finals, there’s Easter. I realized it was crunch time to get it going,” Chaplinski said.

Square Fest will begin at 2 p.m. Sat-urday through 1 a.m. Sunday. The event will take place on Charleston’s square at the bars Mother’s, Friends & Co., Mac’s Uptowner and Top of the Roc. The event will cost $12 and allow patrons 21 and over admittance into any of the bars and performances.

Chaplinski said getting the bars in-volved was the first part of organizing the event, and after he explained the potential benefits they jumped on board.

“I kind of just threw it out there,” Chaplinski said. “They’ve given me good ideas, and they appreciate the ideas that I have. They’ve been very helpful with ev-erything I’ve been doing.”

Chaplinski has been wanting to get the bars involved with a festival event for more than year and said he feels that now was the best time to bring it all together.

“We are hoping it brings a lot of busi-ness to the square,” Chaplinski said. “We hope it is going to be a nicer day. It’s a good window of a month and a half of good weather to show all these people,

‘Hey there are all these other great bars in town, and not just the ones near Lincoln (Avenue.).”

Many of the featured acts will be Charleston based groups such as Mug-wump Specific, Andy Van Slyke and Staff Blues Band while others such as DJ Illith, Poundcake and Ryan Arnold stem from locations throughout the state.

“I figure this was a great networking opportunity for a lot of bands,” Chaplins-ki said. “We are pulling in bands from the Kankakee area, and some musicians from Champaign area. It’s bands that I like, and I know that other people (like).”

Chaplinski said most of them are younger bands that have only been play-ing for a year or two and that many times a band that has been playing for four to five years need a guarantee that they are getting paid.

“Having never done anything like this before I didn’t want to make promises to a bunch of people that I can’t fulfill.” Chap-linski said.

In fact, much of the money for pro-ducing the event was saved up by Chap-linski himself. He hopes that the $12 cov-er is enough to give some of the traveling bands money to cover their gas costs and without being too high to deter college students and community members from coming out.

One local musician, Mitch Davis, a senior management information sys-tems major, saod he plans on showing the crowd some new tunes to commemorate the new event.

“I mainly like to get people dancing, but I also play some more chill stuff,” Davis said. “I don’t want people to get burnt out, so I’ll make new songs before the shows. New shows get me motivated to make new songs. (Square Fest) is go-ing to be so new. There’s going to be so many different people playing at so many different bars. I don’t really know what to

expect. That’s why I am expecting to play in front of a totally new crowd, so I really got to try to pump people up.”

With a wide variety of performances including blues, rock, jam band, electron-ic and rap everyone is beginning to de-velop expectations for the new event and Chaplinski is no different.

“I want to be able to be out on the square, outside the bars and see people

having a good time,” Chaplinski said. “I want to hear, sort of over-hear, what they did like and what they didn’t like. I just think there will be a lot of good vibes coming. Perfect conditions for me, is hearing that people had a great time.”

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

BRAD yORk | ON tHE VERGE

Mitch Davis, a senior management information systems major, rehearses new songs and freshens up on older material Wednesday evening in his home as he prepares for today’s Square Fest event.

Square Fest provides stage for new music, new bands and new surroundings

By Brad YorkVerge Editor

Jackson Avenue Coffee (J.A.C.) is a location to go blow-off steam, study for hours on end and socialize as the creamy fragrance of lattes, cappuccinos and hot chocolates stream though the air.

J.A.C., located at 708 Jackson Ave., may sound like an unusual place for a concert setting, but Dan Reible believes it is the perfect location for live music that has not been offered to Charleston in some time.

“In the Charleston area there is no place to relax and listen to music except for a bar,” Reible said. “I’d like a place where people can come relax, have a cup of coffee, sandwich, bagel and take it easy and listen to some good acoustic music.”

Reible and his wife Vicki are currently shuffling through papers in order to become the rightful owners of J.A.C.

Reible moved to Mattoon in 1984 after serving in the Navy and soon became a truck driver, traveling the nation with his wife.

Reible has played for various bands in the past and mentioned to his friend, Ryan Dawson and the current owner of J.A.C., he was looking for a place to host weekly concerts on Saturday evenings.

Dawson then asked Reible if he ever pictured himself owning a café. Reible expressed an interest, and soon, Dawson offered to sell the business.

Dawson said the Reibles’ have been his customers since J.A.C. opened nearly eight years ago.

“I planned on going back to school this summer to complete a degree in teacher’s certification,” Dawson said. “We were ready to move on to new things. I figured it is best not to run anything into the ground, so I offered to sell the place.”

Dawson has high hopes for

the future of J.A.C. and feels as as though hosting live musicians every Saturday night is only the beginning of the growth J.A.C. will see.

The first Saturday night performer will be “Reverend” Robert Reynolds Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. at J.A.C.

None of the performances will come with a cover cost, but instead a hat will be passed around around for donations, which go entirely to the artist.

Robert Reynolds is a musician who plays blues music from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ’40s, and is glad Reible is opening his doors to local musicians.

Reynolds said he has known Reible for a while because they have been playing music together through the years.

“It is good to play one close to home. This is more intimate than the festivals and blues bars I’ve been playing at lately,” Reynolds said. “I play electric when I’m with my band, but this show will be all acoustic.”

The intimate setting offers a place for begging and practiced musicians alike.

Reible wants to show people in Charleston music they may not have heard before.

He plans to host various artists from various genres each weekend.

“I’ve got things booked all the way through the end of June,” Reible said. “It’s mostly people I have heard in the area and a lot of local musicians. We are open

to all different styles. It doesn’t matter if I personally like it or not. It’s whatever I think our customers will like.”

Reible said his customers are an eclectic group, and notices that he has a lot of high schoolers come there every evening. He said parents know it is a safe place.

Reible said he is open to any style of music and musicians who are interested in performing the Saturday night events should come out to J.A.C. Open Mic Night every Thursday.

These open mic sessions are used as auditions of sorts for the diverse music Reible hopes to incorporate with the Saturday night performances.

In addition to the open mic night artists, Reible searches the Web and various local music hot spots in order to find performers.

“I’m hoping to get a lot of music in here that people haven’t experienced before,” Reible said. “People may have heard blues, but it probably isn’t the old delta blues that (Reverend Robert) will be playing.”

Brad York can be reached at 581-7942 or at [email protected].



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“Reverend” Robert Reynolds plays his guitar; He will play acoustic at 8 p.m. on Saturday at Jackson Avenue Coffee.

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The 7th Street Underground will turn into a concert venue tonight at 5:30 as the Colleges Against Cancer group hosts its sec-ond Rock it for Relay concert.

The benefit concert will feature the three local bands Good Morning Midnight, Cured by Fire and Madison’s Avenue, and one solo musician, Jenna Jackley.

Tickets are $5 at the door and can be purchased starting at 5 p.m.

All proceeds go to the Colleges Against Cancer’s Relay for Life team, and will ul-timately be given to the American Cancer Society.

Kyle Swalls, guitarist and vocalist for Good Morning Midnight, has witnessed the devastation of cancer first hand. Swalls said his grandma is fighting against cancer.

“It’s a constant struggle dealing with it,” Swalls said. “A lot of time the chemo won’t be as effective, and they will try a new method and stuff. And so just know-ing the constant struggle makes me want to do something like this and raise money for an individual who is having the same, who is dealing with the same kind of suffering.”

This band along with Cured by Fire is playing at Friends & Co. later in the eve-ning. They were willing to book two gigs in one night to show their support.

“We feel that playing this gig will al-low people to see that rock and roll and the whole style of it isn’t just about being on your own and not really caring about any-one else,” Logan Richardson, Madison’s Av-

enue lead singer, said. “We really do care about the issue of

breast cancer and cancer in general,” Rich-ardson continued. “Because some people

close to us have had it and, luckily, they have recovered from it.”

Many of the bands playing are new to Eastern’s campus. Richardson said perform-ing at the concert would be an opportunity to expose students to a different kind of lo-cal music.

Good Morning Midnight is an indie and alternative rock band. Beginning near-ly a year ago and stationed in Marshall, the group is fresh to the Charleston music scene, but has played in the 7th Street Un-derground before for a canned food drive.

Cured by Fire is a Charleston metal band. Megan Givens, the concert coordi-nator said the group sounds similar to Me-tallica or Godsmack and does a good job of getting a crowd going. Their influenc-es come from those bands and others like Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue and Black Sabbath.

Jenna Jackley is a Mattoon High School student who plays the guitar and sings.

“She is just memorizing to watch,” Me-gan Givens said. “She is in high school, so she is still very young, but the caliber of voice she has is just amazing.”

Madison’s Avenue is another young al-ternative rock band from Charleston that has been putting out their own music for eight months. The group has played all over Charleston, in Havana and in Centralia, but tonight will be one of their first times playing on campus.

Givens, a junior elementary education major, said all the bands are hard working and were booked because they came recom-mended by other artists.

The Colleges Against Cancer has raised more than $5,000 through their fall breast cancer T-shirt sales and other fundrais-ers. They have pledged to raise $8,000, and across campus different groups have pledged to raise $70,000 for the American Cancer Society.

Last year, the concert drew a small crowd, but Givens is hoping for more pub-lic support.

“What ever little amount can put to-wards the American Cancer Society will help in some way,” Givens said.

Colleen Kitka can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].

pHOtO COURtESy Of GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHt

Good Morning Midnight band members Elgin Combs (guitarist), Michael “Woody” Woodring (drummer), Kyle Swalls (vocalist and guitarist) and Chad Barton (bass guitarist and vocalist) volunteered to play tonight at the Rock it for Relay event to help raise money for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

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Jenna Jackley is a Mattoon High School student and will be playing at the 7th Street Underground tonight at 5:30 p.m.

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At the beg inning of August 2014, Eastern students were treat-ed to a brand-new movie streaming service.

Students started out each semes-ter with 16 movies, and the ser-vice updates each month to offer 16 brand new movies. The movies are available to students at least six months before they are out on Net-flix or in video rental stores.

Now a year later, Mark Hudson, the director of Housing and Din-ing Services, said the usage of the site went really well.

“We are very pleased with how the movie-streaming service has

worked out,” Hudson said. “We are getting on average 1,875 movies viewed each month.”

Even though it is a fairly new idea for Eastern, Hudson said no problems occurred over the year.

“Everything has worked out well,” Hudson said. “We did not really experience any complica-tions.”

While the movie-streaming ser-vice has had a successful first year, Hudson sa id over the summer Eastern will see some changes to the service.

“We will be receiving an upgrade to the system this summer; it will allow students to now view movies on mobile devices in addition to computers and laptops,” Hudson

said. “We anticipate this increasing the usage of the sit on campus.”

Hudson also said Eastern plans on doubling the available movie options.

“The University will be able to have 200 pre-selected movies avail-able for the entire year,” Hudson said. “In addition to these 200 movies, we will be able to add 16 new titles each month.”

Hudson said he hopes with the larger number of movies offered, there will be an even bigger audi-ence of students next year.

To access the movie streaming service, students would need to go to movies.eiu.edu. This will take students directly to the available movie list; however, students will

not be able to access these outside of the residence halls. Students liv-ing off-campus will not be able to use this service.

For a complete list of all of the available movies, students would have to visit the website itself.

“Students will need to visit the website to see the complete list-ing of movies,” Hudson said. “We will continue next year to place ta-ble tents in our dining centers that have the listing of new movies for the month.”

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or [email protected].



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Based on my experience, my suggestion for new students would be to try coed living if you really want to; it can be fun and provide different perspectives you wouldn’t get living with only one gender.

During my first year as a resi-dent assistant, the building I was assigned to went coed for the first time, which I thought was cool and progressive of Eastern.

At first I was a little skeptical; women and men operate differ-ently in terms of personal space and bathroom etiquette. Howev-er, I soon realized I had nothing to worry about — sort of.

I had one resident who seemed to attract the eyes of some of the women on my floor, which was fine. It was none of my business until he had sex with two of my female residents and had eyes for a third. It was a mess.

He was with one woman for maybe a week after a series of ob-vious flirting, and then sudden-ly they weren’t together. Not long after that he began to date her neighbor — keep in mind, all three rooms were next to one an-other. My resident dated the oth-er woman on the floor, and those two seemed to have strong chem-istry.

The drama on my floor

was entirely ridiculous; people stopped speaking to one anoth-er, wouldn’t be in the same room and rumors started to spread — it was like high school all over again. To make matters worse, ev-eryone knew he was a serial dat-er on my floor, which coined the term “floorcest.”

He even approached me and said yet another woman on my floor was looking cute. I told him to look somewhere else, and he took what I said literally and dat-ed a new woman on the second floor on the opposite end of the residence hall. Those two eventu-ally broke up.

However, avoid sleeping with people on your floor if you can to bypass the drama. Branch out as much as possible and meet new people.

Roberto Hodge can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected]

C O N F E S S I O N S O F A R E S I D E N T A S S I S T A N T

Roberto Hodge

Beware of dating in close circles

Olivia Diggs

I don’t want you to get in trouble

I was an RA for two years in Weller Hall, and I have seen my fair share of underage college stu-dents getting so drunk they are incoherent and unresponsive. My least favorite thing to do was write up students who had alcohol in their room, knowing it shouldn’t be in there.

One resident, who actually happened to be of age, had Mike’s Harder Lemonade in a Facebook photo of her in the residence hall.

Arguing with her about how the allowed .7 alcohol limit in the halls was the most painful experi-ence of my life.

While writing her up I even felt nit picky about it.

My all time scariest write up had to do with another resident who mentioned to me how nice these two girls were for carry-ing a male resident to his room because he was too plastered to walk up the steps himself. Once I got to the room, the door was locked and he wouldn’t get up to let me and two other RAs into the room.

We had to call the police, we realized he had a fake I.D. which could have him end up with a fel-ony offence, and the police officer had to shake him awake multiple times, which ended with Emer-gency medical professionals com-

ing to cart him off to Sarah Bush. When he finally came back

to the residence hall, they had pumped his stomach, and he ad-mitted to us that his father had a government job for which he had to carry a gun, and if the resident was convicted with a felony of-fense due to having the fake I.D., he probably couldn’t move home and live with his father because his father had to be able to carry a gun.

When you have a felony of-fense you cannot live in a resi-dence that has a gun. The student later transferred to another uni-versity, and I am not sure what happened to him after that.

The choices residents make have the ability to affect them in the long-term.

Olivia Diggs can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected]

Your RA is there for your benefit

My freshman year of college was so different than the rest of my experience, that it almost feels like it didn’t happen.

I lived in the South Quad, and I did not know anyone. All the girls on my floor seemed to real-ly clique right away, but not me.

If it were not for my terrific random roommate who quickly became a close friend, I proba-bly would have felt more isolated than I remember feeling. (Shout out to Lacy Roedl, 4 South.)

The rest of the girls were so sociable and went out together, but I didn’t drink or smoke, and I had never been to a party, be-cause I flat out didn’t want to.

The residence halls feel partic-ularly tailored to outgoing peo-ple, and I felt I was being forced to become active in a community I did not care to be part of.

Strangely enough, that is ex-actly why I decided to be become a resident assistant the next year.

I knew people like me exist-ed and I thought if I could pull them out of their shells in a way that felt comfortable to them, they might have a better experi-ence.

That proved to be true, and it resulted in a lot of my residents sharing stories with me I am hon-

ored they felt comfortable telling. From panic attacks, to mourn-

ing, to insecurities about their sexuality or gender identity, I was the only person they could un-leash their emotions on to.

If I could offer an piece of ad-vice to a new student on campus, I would tell them to take advan-tage of the resources available on campus.

The counseling center proved to be a place people were both afraid of and ultimately thankful for. The Sexual Assault Counsel-ing and Information Services is another terrific resource not a lot of people knew about. Confiding in your RA is great, but they are not trained professionals. If you feel isolated, or left out, use them as a reference point to resources that can really make an impact.

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Booth Library offers research help, technologyBy Cassie BuchmanCity Editor | @DEN_News

Students at Eastern can research, work on projects, look at exhibits and more at Booth Library located in the center of campus.

Beth Heldebrandt, the public relations director for the library, said everyone is encouraged to visit the li-brary at the beginning of the year.

“We have tours at the beginning of every semes-ter, so students want to watch out for that,” she said. “Or they can just ask questions; someone can answer them if they have a minute.”

A service that students find helpful when work-ing on research projects is the reference desk on the third floor.

“At any given time it is stuffed with librarians who are experts in reference,” Heldebrandt said.“Any time someone needs help with a paper, they can come into the desk and just let us know what they are looking for.”

She said having a reference person to explain things to a student face to face can be more benefi-cial than using a computer, though a database is avail-able online as well.

“Let’s say they’re doing a paper on breast cancer,” Heldebrandt said. “They type in breast cancer, and 10,000 things pop up. Even the online database is huge.”

When asking a reference person, students will be able to narrow down what they need to use and go through the research process faster.

Next to the reference desk are computers students can use to print papers for their projects. On these computers social media sites like Facebook cannot be used; they are only for research.

Things like magazine articles or journal articles that can be used in research can be printed for free.

“I don’t think most libraries do that kind of thing,” Heldebrandt said.

She said the reference desk was kind of like the Writing Center in the English department because it helps students, though they are not always aware of it.

“Students get to be juniors or seniors and they don’t know about the Writing Center,” Heldebrandt said.

Aside from the reference center, computers are available on the fourth floor.

“These computers the students can use for any-thing: Facebook, papers,” Heldebrandt said.

By the computer lab is a desk of people with tech-nological backgrounds who are able to fix technology

if students are having trouble with it. “They are very knowledgeable about these things,”

Heldebrandt said.Next to this desk is a large CD and DVD collec-

tion.“I know students can go to Family Video and Net-

flix, but this is free,” Heldebrandt said. “They do a real good job of bringing popular TV shows.”

The fourth floor also has soundproof rooms for students to go to listen to the CDs or play their own instruments without bothering others.

“Music students love it,” Heldebrandt said. “We they can’t get space, they come in, shut the door, play guitar or piano in an almost soundproof room.”

Some of the programs the library provides are ex-hibits featuring art or historical archives.

This fall’s exhibit will be “Lincoln: The Constitu-tion and the Civil War,” which will come to the li-brary in early September and stay for about six weeks.

On the first floor of the library is the technology center where students or registered student organiza-tions needing equipment for projects can check some out, though a faculty adviser’s approval may be need-ed.

Although students can be found on any given night studying in the library, they can also be seen resting in the lounge area nearest the clock tower on the fourth floor.

“It’s a pretty quiet area,” Heldebrandt said. “People take naps there; that’s fine, but I also hope their alarm is on so they don’t sleep through class.”

Heldebrandt said food and drinks are allowed in

the library, with some students ordering pizza and drinking coffee from Java Beanery and Bakery and Starbucks.

If students cannot physically come to the library, they are not out of luck. The online “ask a librarian” service is a chat option on the website where students can type a question they have.

Most days the library is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., excluding Fridays when it closes at 5 p.m. and Saturdays when it is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cassie Buchman can be

reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor | @BertoHodge

Eastern has more than 200 registered student or-ganizations to choose from, and for students look-ing for more of a cultural connection to the cam-pus, various multicultural organizations are avail-able.

Matthew Willkie, the vice president of Latin American Student Organization, said LASO strives to spread the Latino culture to campus and the sur-rounding community with various events, such as a “Day of the Dead” celebration and “Fiesta Latina.”

Willkie said students do not have to be Latino to join the organization, and everyone is welcome to

come see what the members are all about. If students’ tastes are a little more international,

they have an option of joining the Association of In-ternational Students.

Shifa Shamim, the president of AIS, said the group promotes intellectual, social and cultural ac-tivities and international fellowship. It also assists in the orientation of students from other countries.

One of the largest events AIS hosts yearly is the “Sounds of the World,” which allows students from countries like Nepal, India and China a chance to wear their native garb and celebrate with native mu-sic.

One organization that can be found nearly on all college campuses across the nation in some form is

the Black Student Union. Tylen Elliot, the BSU public relations and mar-

keting director, said BSU is the largest minority or-ganization on campus. He said through academics, service and social support, members strive to help foster the development of students.

Another organization Eastern offers is the Na-tional Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.

Angela Davis, the first vice president of NAC-WC, said the organization not only serves the cam-pus but the community and nation. Historically, the organization has supported women’s suffrage, prohibition and civil rights agendas.

Davis said the group was founded in 1896 and is the oldest organization in the country for wom-

en of color. Eastern also offers EIU Pride, which is an organi-

zation that works to express the rights of those iden-tifying in the LGBTQ and ally community.

For the students who are aspiring to go Greek, Eastern also has many of the predominately Afri-can-American fraternities and sororities, such as Al-pha Phi Alpha fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, Omega Psi Phi fraternity, Delta Sigma Theta soror-ity, Zeta Phi Beta sorority and Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.

Roberto Hodge can be

reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

Variety of RSOs give students a chance to get involved

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