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NOVEMBER 18, 2011 V O LU M E 9 6 | N o. 1 5 7
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CHARLESTON, ILL. D A I LY E A S T E R N N E W S . C O M T WIT TER.COM/DENNE WS
Jazz Lab Band plays last notes of semester
Rugby season in review: Team cruises to 10-0 finish
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‘Team has 3 games over break’ see page 8
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BOT to vote on fate of EIU’s patchwork track By Rachel Rodgers Administration Editor
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Red-shirt senior guard L.C. Doss makes his way around a Loyola-Chicago player in Lantz Arena Wednesday. Eastern won their home opener 65-61.
FACULT Y SENATE
Special Ed. chair receives Mendez Service Award By Amy Wywialowski Staff Reporter
Kathlene Shank cares about her students on a personal level, a junior special education major said. Student Kelsey Myers described Shank, her adviser and department chair, as a person who makes the effort to go beyond the typical requirements of an adviser by going the extra mile to encourage and get to know her students. “When I met her as a freshman, I was scared of her like a typical freshman,” Myers said. “She cares about her students and she makes the effort to know your name and get to know you on a personal level.” Myers is not alone in her opinion as Shank was announced the Fall 2011 recipient of the Luis Clay Mendez Service Award presented by the Faculty Senate. Shank said she believes service is a major part of her life and encouraging others to get involved is what makes life worth living. “I serve because I want to make a difference in the lives of students as well as people with disabilities, not for personal gain,”
Shank said. “A life of service is important, and we should all live and use our unique talents to make a difference and improve the lives of others.” Shank said she credits a lot of service and inspiration to her students. “All of what I do has to do with providing my students with integrative learning opportunities to work with people with disabilities,” Shank said. “The students get so much joy from it, and it is just my job to make sure they as future teachers will know what they are talking about and doing.” In her letter recommending Shank for the award, Melissa Jones-Bromenshenkel, a special education associate professor credits Shank for staying current in the field. “Kathlene is well-known in the field for staying abreast of what is happening in education in general as particularly related to events/issues that significantly impact special education and the higher education programs preparing teachers to serve in that capacity,” Jones-Bromenshenkel said in the letter. AWARD, page 5
Members of the Board of Trustees will vote on a $3.2 million proposal to resurface the track at O’Brien Stadium at their meeting today. Jarrod Scherle, student representative for the Board of Trustees and student executive vice president, said it has been 10 years since the track was last surfaced, and in that time they have had to patch the track about 200 times. “Students have made many comments to me about the condition of the track and the shape that it is in,” Scherle said. “The undersurface of the track has been bubbling up and this issue is very important with regard to safety.” If approved, student tuition will not be affected as the resurfacing comes from local funds and rollover money from Fiscal Year 11, Scherle said. The Board of Trustees will meet at 1 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. President Bill Perry said the Board of Trustees will be accepting a gift of land from a retired botany professor. Wesley Whiteside taught at Eastern for almost 30 years as a botany professor and created a living trust to transfer his farmland and more than five acres of arboretum and botanical gardens to Eastern. “(The trustees) will all be together for the first time with the new and old members, and I think that the gift of land will be a highlight for the members to see that kind of generosity from an emeritus faculty member,” Perry said. The biological sciences department may use the botanical gardens for research purposes, Scherle said. “This will be a great addition to the biological sciences department and students will be able to get hands-on experience in the field,” Scherle said.
The BOT’s new lineup Four of the seven members of the board of trustees will be having their first meeting today. Here is a look at the new, and returning, members, starting with the four incoming members. • Joseph Dively, of Charleston, who is president of First Mid-Illinois Bank and Trust and a former chairman of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce • Rene Hutchinson, of Chicago, who has worked at Allstate Insurance Company in Northbrook for about 30 years • William Dano III, of Oswego, who has more than 20 years of business experience in sales management • Kristopher Goetz, of Lombard, who is operations director at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago Here are the returning members: • Board Chairman Robert Webb, of Mattoon • Vice Chairman Roger Kratochvil, of Mt. Olive • Leo Welch, of O’Fallon, whose term expires in 2013.
He also said he is interested to see the new Board dynamic with what each member will bring to the table. Gov. Pat Quinn made four appointments and two reappointments to the Board of Trustees on Oct. 24 in accordance with an amendment to the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. The amendment stated that if appointments were not made by Oct. 25, then members with expired terms would be removed from the Board of Trustees. Perry said he and Webb met with Dively on Nov. 1 and met with the other members in Chicago on Nov. 4. They had an orientation regarding committee structure, bylaws and regulations, functions and how the Board of Trustees meetings are generally structured, Perry said.
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COUNCIL FOR AC ADEMIC AFFAIRS
CAA rules on revisions to Recreation major By Robyn Dexter Staff Reporter
The Council on Academic Affairs discussed the meeting of University Learning Goal subcommittees after Thanksgiving break and made revisions to several courses at its meeting on Thursday. At the Nov. 10 meeting, the CAA discussed the need for an additional student member to serve on the fourth learning goal subcommittee. The University Learning Goals include writing, speaking, critical thinking and global citizenship. Though there are subcommittees for each learning goal, CAA only has three student members. Aseret Gonzalez, student vice president of academic affairs and a senior sociology major, said she had discussed this open position with two students, and is waiting to hear back from them on whether the CAA meeting time could fit in their schedules. Rebecca Throneburg, professor of communication disorders and sciences, said the Committee for the Assessment of Student Learning representatives have been invited and of these four,
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Business professor Larry White and secondary education professor Stephen Lucas listen as Peggy Holmes-Layman, professor of recreation administration, explains one of six revised recreation administration courses Thursday during the Council on Academic Affairs meeting in the Booth Library conference room.
three will be joining the subcommittees after the Thanksgiving break. “In two weeks, we will break up into different subcommittees and meet in different rooms,” Throneburg said. CAA, page 5