DOUSIN’ THE FLAMES Following a big performance from Reggie
TEACHER OF THE YEAR Jeff Boshart was named this year’s
Smith, the Eastern men’s basketball team recorded a 20-point victory over UIC.
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BOT votes for lack of increase on room, board
Back-to-back OVC champions
By Bob Galuski News Editor | @BobGaluski The Board of Trustees voted to keep housing and tuition rates at the same amount and voted to allow President Bill Perry the opportunity to extend a 5-year contract to head football coach Dino Babers. The Board of Trustees, the governing body of Eastern, passed the proposed tuition rate for the fiscal year 2015. The rate will stay at $269 per semester hour per undergraduate student if they are an Illinois resident. Non-residential undergraduates would stay at $780 per semester hour. The voted recommendations also included graduate students. For Illinois-resident graduates, the rate per semester hour would stay at $283. For non-residential graduate students, the rate would stay at $679. Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs, said this was the first time since the 19921993 academic year tuition rates have remained unchanged. Effective next fall semester, residence hall and Greek Court housing rates will also stay at an even rate. Room rates will stay at $2,905. For the seven-meal plan option, which includes $200 dining dollars per semester and two bonus meals, the amount will be $1,245. With room rates, the total will be $4,150. The 10-meal plan option, which includes $60 dining dollars and three bonus meals, will cost $1,430. Added with room rates, the total will be $4,335. The 12-meal plan option, which includes $100 dining dollars and four bonus meals, will cost $1,593. With room rates, it will total $4,498. The 15-meal plan option, which includes $140 dining dollars per semester and five bonus meals, will cost $1,774, plus room rates, the total will be $4,679. Along with the room and board rates, the cost for special rooms such as double room as a single and triple room as a double will remain unchanged. The cost for a double room as a single will be $850. The cost for a triple room as a double will be $450. Summer room and board rates will also stay even from this past year. For University Court apartments, the rates will also stay the same. Perry said the lack of increases is a focus on attacking enrollment issues. “We are not effecting quality,” Perry said. “It is a both-and, not an either-or situation for quality and quantity.” The board also voted to authorize Perry to offer a multi-year contract to Babers. The multi-year contract would be five years and go from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2018. Concerns were raised over whether or not Babers would be leaving, which Perry was quick to quell. “Contracts do have provisions,” he said. “If a coach leaves early, there are financial benefits to the university because the time and amount is put into the person’s tenure.” The Board of Trustees’ next meeting will be on Jan. 17. Jarad Jarmon contributed to this article. Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.
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Jimmy Garoppolo and the Eastern football team celebrate, winning the Ohio Valley Conference title for the second straight year with a 52-14 win over Jacksonville State Saturday at O’Brien Field.
Landmark survey to gauge interest By Jarad Jarmon Student Governance Editor |@JJarmonReporter The strategic planning committee and the university enhancement committee will be reaching out to students for feedback and designs for a panther landmark. The landmark will be a bronze statue of a panther, with projected costs of $75,000, and is expected to be placed in the Library Quad. Student Senate members will be in charge of handing out surveys, which gauge what the students are looking for in a statue. Bianca Tomlin, the university enhancement committee chairwoman, said she is going to try to get every senate member to hand out 25 surveys to students. Tomlin, one of the leaders of the project, said online surveys are normally ineffective because there is usually a lack of interest in reading them, which is why the landmark surveys will be hard copies. They will be handing out the survey the week after Thanksgiving break. The questions will focus on students’ interest in the landmark or a project similar to it. Tomlin said if there was a lot of negative feedback for the landmark, they would rework their plans for the project but would not scrap the project entirely. The survey will also assess what students would want the landmark to look like. For instance, one question will ask the student which position they would wish the panther would be in, such as crouching on all-fours or clawing
at the air. With the survey information, those running the project will then send out an email to every student asking for design submissions for the landmark. They will be asking for designs which fit with the panther positions students said they were interested in for the survey. The emails will be sent out to students before winter break. They will be looking for submissions until a week after winter break to give people enough time to handle the project. Tomlin also said so far 27 people have approached her with interest in working on the project. While there were previous plans to pay for a professional sketch artist, the group handling the landmark project decided it would not work out. Tomlin said the artist would expect to be a part of the project if they sent their designs over. “If you go with a sketch artist, you are committing to them,” Tomlin said. “They didn’t want to do that.” Tomlin said she wanted to get the students involved in the project by having them send their own designs of the project. She added the artist whose design is favored and used will most likely have his or her name on the landmark in some way. Despite interest in asking students to pay for the statue, Tomlin said she was adamantly against the idea of students who are already paying for tuition to pay for a statue as well. When they have a design in place and most
of the plans in order, they plan on seeking out alumni and community members for support of the project. Tomlin said it would be a lot more appealing to alumni when the project plans were fully fleshed out. They also plan on having fundraising events at businesses within the area and on campus to cover the cost. The project to build the landmark has been reworked within the past few weeks to become more efficient and organized. Tomlin said there were a lot of ideas coming from everyone who was involved, but there was no definitive leader in the early stages of the project to decide what exactly would happen. It was a miscommunication from all ends. “Too many chiefs, not enough Indians,” Tomlin. “Too many wanted to head the project.” Tomlin and Heather Webb, the director of Student Standards, are now officially heading the project. Despite early plans of having the landmark done by fall 2014, the project is expected to take longer. Tomlin said they do not want to just throw out a statue to fit a timetable. A bronze statue takes time to do right, she added. It is currently undetermined when the project will be finished. Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or jsjarmon@eiu.edu.