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Incoming students should take certain precautions 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 people. Charleston is also rated 16th in a study of 298 cities overall. Crimes such as sexual assault and hit-andrun’s are still reported throughout the year in Charleston though. There is a higher risk of sexual assault on college campuses. One report done by the Bureau of Justice Statistics as a part of the National Institute of Justice estimated the percentage of completed or attempted 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 incidents 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-traffic areas sprawled across campus. When the button is pressed, a 911 dispatcher will answer. Even if no voice answers, a police officer is
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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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As a freshman, life changes for you in a matter 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 after 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-journalism. 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.
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 Andrews 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 taking a Ballroom Dancing class to having four oncampus 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 attention 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 goodbyes are said, I will have nothing but kind words and great stories about EIU to share with anyone 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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without being too high to deter college students and community members from coming out. One local musician, Mitch Davis, a senior management information systems 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 going 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
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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, electronic and rap everyone is beginning to develop 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
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“We are very pleased with how the movie streaming is going. We’re getting on average 1,875 movies viewers each month.”
At t h e b e g i n n i n g o f Au g u s t 2014, Eastern students were treated to a brand-new movie streaming service. Students started out each semester with 16 movies, and the service updates each month to offer 16 brand new movies. The movies are available to students at least six months before they are out on Netflix or in video rental stores. Now a year later, Mark Hudson, the director of Housing and Dining Services, said the usage of the site went really well. “We are very pleased with how the movie-streaming service has
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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. “Ever ything has worked out well,” Hudson said. “We did not really experience any complications.” While the movie-streaming service has had a successful first year, Hudson said 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
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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 available 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 audience 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 living 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 listing of movies,” Hudson said. “We will continue next year to place table tents in our dining centers that have the listing of new movies for the month.” Luis Martinez can be reached at 581-2812 or lpmartinez@eiu.edu.
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CONFESSIONS OF A RESIDENT ASSISTANT
Beware of dating I don’t want you in close circles to get in trouble 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 resident 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 differently in terms of personal space and bathroom etiquette. However, 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 obvious flirting, and then suddenly they weren’t together. Not long after that he began to date her neighbor — keep in mind, all three rooms were next to one another. My resident dated the other woman on the floor, and those two seemed to have strong chemistry. The drama on my floor
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was entirely ridiculous; people stopped speaking to one another, wouldn’t be in the same room and rumors started to spread — it was like high school all over again. To make matters worse, everyone knew he was a serial dater 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 dated a new woman on the second floor on the opposite end of the residence hall. Those two eventually 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 rlhodge@eiu.edu
I was an RA for two years in Weller Hall, and I have seen my fair share of underage college students 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 experience 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 carrying 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 felony offence, and the police officer had to shake him awake multiple times, which ended with Emergency medical professionals com-
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ing to cart him off to Sarah Bush. When he finally came back to the residence hall, they had pumped his stomach, and he admitted 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 offense 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 offense you cannot live in a residence that has a gun. The student later transferred to another university, 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.
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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 really clique right away, but not me. If it were not for my terrific random roommate who quickly became a close friend, I probably 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, because I flat out didn’t want to. The residence halls feel particularly tailored to outgoing people, 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 exactly why I decided to be become a resident assistant the next year. I knew people like me existed 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 experience. That proved to be true, and it resulted in a lot of my residents sharing stories with me I am hon-
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ored they felt comfortable telling. From panic attacks, to mourning, to insecurities about their sexuality or gender identity, I was the only person they could unleash their emotions on to. If I could offer an piece of advice to a new student on campus, I would tell them to take advantage 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 Counseling 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. Katie Smith can be reached at 581-2812 or kesmith2@eiu.edu.
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Booth Library offers research help, technology By Cassie Buchman City 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 library at the beginning of the year. “We have tours at the beginning of every semester, 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 working 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 beneficial than using a computer, though a database is available 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 anything: Facebook, papers,” Heldebrandt said. By the computer lab is a desk of people with technological backgrounds who are able to fix technology
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Booth Library is centrally located on campus and is a common place for students to study on campus.
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 collection. “I know students can go to Family Video and Netflix, 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 exhibits featuring art or historical archives.
This fall’s exhibit will be “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War,” which will come to the library 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 organizations needing equipment for projects can check some out, though a faculty adviser’s approval may be needed. 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 cjbuchman@eiu.edu.
Variety of RSOs give students a chance to get involved By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor | @BertoHodge Eastern has more than 200 registered student organizations to choose from, and for students looking for more of a cultural connection to the campus, various multicultural organizations are available. Matthew Willkie, the vice president of Latin American Student Organization, said LASO strives to spread the Latino culture to campus and the surrounding 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 International Students. Shifa Shamim, the president of AIS, said the group promotes intellectual, social and cultural activities 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 music. 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 marketing director, said BSU is the largest minority organization 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 National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Angela Davis, the first vice president of NACWC, said the organization not only serves the campus 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-
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en of color. Eastern also offers EIU Pride, which is an organization that works to express the rights of those identifying in the LGBTQ and ally community. For the students who are aspiring to go Greek, Eastern also has many of the predominately African-American fraternities and sororities, such as Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, Omega Psi Phi fraternity, Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Zeta Phi Beta sorority and Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. Roberto Hodge can be reached at 581-2812 or rlhodge@eiu.edu.
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