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INSIDE FAMILY WEEKEND
SAFET Y | POLICY
New policies lift late-night party pause By Bob Galuski News Editor @BobGaluski
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Beginning Friday, the temporary suspension on all late-night on-campus parties will be lifted after new policies regarding them go into effect, President Bill Perry said. Early last week, Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, formed a work group to re-evaluate and revise the policies regarding latenight on-campus events. Perry said the new policies the university is adopting are: With the exception of certain events, Eastern students may bring one Eastern or non-Eastern student guest to a late-night event. With the exception of certain events, tickets must be purchased by
noon on Friday in advance of the event. Tickets will be sold through University Tickets – an online service. No tickets will be sold at the door. As before, all students and guests must have a photo ID for admittance. However, now on entrance to the event, student ID’s will be electronically card-swiped. Non-Eastern student guest ID’s will be scanned or photographed. Perry said students would show up to events and be unsure if they would be able to get a ticket to the event, and that would result in large crowds forming at the start. He said that also includes students who do not want to come at the beginning, but still need to be there to buy a ticket. “This way, the tickets are bought in advance and if a person isn’t going
to come at the beginning, they could come when they want. This would alleviate some of that crush,” Perry said. In regards to the certain events mentioned in the new policies, Perry said those pertain to activities outside of when students would only bring a friend or a date. “But some events like Homecoming, Black Student Reunion, Step Show, Miss Black EIU – those are events where it’s not like one person inviting another like a date. There, we’ll use our existing procedures,” Perry said. Tickets will still need to be purchased in advance, but Perry said the advance time might have to change accordingly. “We have ways to sell tickets up to a certain period before an event,” he said.
Perry also said these policies would not have an impact on Family Weekend events, as they pertain only to events that would go beyond building closing hours. Even though the incident that sparked these changes – the “Barn Party” shooting on Sept. 15 – was off campus, Perry said he still felt compelled to see a change in policy. The work group in charge of revising the policies also looked into various other campuses and what their policies were like. The campuses they researched included the University of Illinois, Illinois State University, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Western Illinois University and Northern Illinois University.
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By Jarad Jarmon Student Governance Editor @jsjarmon Lawson Hall won the Evolution of ROCFest guitar, toppling Weller Hall’s four-year winning streak during the Residence Hall Associationmeeting on Thursday. The ROCFest guitar is given as an award to the hall that wins the week of ROCFest, which is a weeklong series of competitions between the residence halls as well as Greek Court. Vice President Patrick Morrow, a senior family and consumer sciences major, said RHA advisers decided the winner of ROCFest based on points that were added up throughout the week. Residence halls would receive points for participation from their hall as well as placing in one of the competitions. Laura Imbirowicz, the resident director of Lawson, said it was a really close race between the residence halls. This will be Lawson’s second win for ROCFest, previously winning in 2007. Weller Vice President Michael Neal, a sophomore political science major, said he would have liked to see more students from Weller participate.
“We got swamped by everybody with their attendance,” Neal said. “It was pretty much the same few people doing the event.” Neal said he was happy with those who participated though. “The same few people that we had did an awesome job with the things that they did,” Neal said. Lawson President Meghan Garby, a senior special education major, said they had numerous students from Lawson attend the competitions. “We put up publicity and just kind of advertised it on our Facebook,” Garby said. Every hall that wins has their name placed upon the frets of the small wooden guitar. Garby said the guitar will probably be placed on the wall behind the front desk. “We’ll make sure it’s somewhere everyone can see it,” Garby said. Other awards were also given out to students who won certain competitions throughout the week. While the executive board did not have the awards ready during the announcement, the winners will be receiving paddles. Andrews Hall won the windowpainting contest with their “Rock the Beat” theme.
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Patrick Morrow, a senior family and consumer sciences major and RHA vice president, hands the first-place prize to Kenneth Barbee, a sophomore applied engineering technology and RHA representative from Lawson, at the weekly meeting Thursday.
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Eastern welcomes families for weekend By Bob Galuski News Editor @DEN_News As torrents of cars filled with families and friends alike begin to enter Eastern’s campus, students who do not have visitors arriving reflect on the weekend’s fes-
tivities. Kelly Alexander, a sophomore education major, said her parents will be out of state during Family Weekend. “They’re going to be at a concert in Nashville,” she said. Alexander added she was not planning on going to most of the events
planned because her parents would not be here. “I won’t go alone,” she said. “My family won’t be here.” Among the activities planned include a Cheap Trick concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in Lantz Arena and tailgating before Eastern’s football game against Eastern
Kentucky from noon to 1:30 p.m., at the O’Brien Field Tailgate Area, with the game’s kick off at 1:30 p.m. at O’Brien Field. Students, community members and family and friends can “Run For a Reason: Run Red,” at 9:15 a.m. Saturday at the Panther Trail.
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or rggaluski@eiu.edu. For the in-depth version of this article & a list of places to eat in town go to:
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