BALANCING ACT
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The Eastern football team took down Tennessee Tech with the offense balancing the way head coach Kim Dameron wanted.
Winners of the Tarble Art Center’s 20th Biennial exhibition were announced, with contestants submitting pieces from all over Illinois.
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Monday, Nov. 3, 2014
VOL. 99 | NO. 49
“TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
MEET THE 2014 CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR MINIMUM WAGE
PENSION REFORM
He wants to raise Illinois’ minimum wage from $8.25 to at least $10 over the next two years
Rauner is pension reform, noting that he plans to ensure pay and benefits do not rise faster than the rate of inflation, eliminate massive pay raises
JOBS He created construction jobs with the Illinois Jobs Now! law and initiated the Illinois Small Business Tax Credit to benefit small businesses.
JOBS Rauner wants to create jobs by lowering the cost of running a business; to do that, he plans to eliminate Quinn’s tax increases, allow communities to decide whether or not workers must join a union, and reform workers’ compensation.
EDUCATION
Bruce Rauner
He wants to give educators more autonomy in running their schools and letting families choose what school fits their children’s needs, paying teachers based on merit, and spending more on teachers and classroom technology rather than administration.
EDUCATION Quinn’s budget would invest in education, giving $1.5 billion to expand early childhood education and attempting to double MAP Grant funding.
Pat Quinn
Gubernatorial candidates differ on issues By Stephanie Markham News Editor | @stephm202 Vying for the title of Illinois governor in Tuesday’s midterm elections are incumbent Democratic candidate Pat Quinn and Republican candidate Bruce Rauner. In addition to their party differences, the candidates both have distinct qualifications and campaign promises. Quinn served as Illinois’ lieuten-
ant governor from 2003 until 2009 when he assumed the position of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was impeached. He also was the Illinois state treasurer from 1991 to ’95. Quinn earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a doctorate from Northwestern University’s School of Law. He is 65 years old. According to Quinn’s campaign website, he wants to raise Illinois’
minimum wage from $8.25 to at least $10 over the next two years in order to alleviate poverty, drive economic growth and ensure workers’ fair treatment. The website also lists creating jobs as an issue important to Quinn, citing that he created construction jobs with the Illinois Jobs Now! law and initiated the Illinois Small Business Tax Credit to benefit small businesses. Additionally, Quinn’s budget
would invest in education, giving $1.5 billion to expand early childhood education and attempting to double MAP Grant funding. Ryan Woods, president of the EIU College Democrats, said Quinn is a viable candidate because he helped to rebound Illinois after the recession, and though opposition cites Rauner’s business experience, Woods said Quinn has already balanced Illinois’ budget. “Because Bruce Rauner is a ven-
ture capitalist and he made a bunch of billions of dollars does not translate into ‘OK, he knows how to make a state run well,’” Woods said. “Running a state isn’t about making money, it’s about providing services to the citizens of the state.” Woods also said Quinn has been forthcoming in challenging the legislature, having suspended all legislative pay in order to force congress to pass a budget. CANDIDATES, page 5
Birth control question Panel to address social issues use past stirs up new debate Students experiences for By Roberto Hodge Multicultural Editor | @BertoHodge An advisory question to gauge public opinion on birth control will be part of the ballot for the midterm elections on Tuesday. The question will ask if health insurance companies should be required to cover prescriptions for birth control as part of their normal coverage. Ryan Woods, the president of EIU College Democrats, said this should be covered, and it already is under the Affordable Care Act. Under the Affordable Care Act, 29.7 million women have gained additional care under their private health in-
surances, which does cover contraceptive services, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website. Woods said this is a type of question to see how the public feels about certain issues; depending on how the question is received, it could be used as a platform to run on for further elections. He said birth control coverage could become the next hot-button topic. As part of the Affordable Care Act, the Health and Human Service mandate requires companies to provide and facilitate health essentials including contraceptives. BIRTH CONTROL, page 5
future endeavors By Luis Martinez Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Students prepare to talk about the need for a new social movement, while revisiting the past in an upcoming discussion panel, at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 4440 in Booth Library. The panel, “Revisiting the Civil Rights Movements of the 1 9 6 0 ’s” i s p a r t o f t h e Re vo l u tionary Decade series at Booth. Felix Kumah-Abiwu, a professor of Africana Studies, will be
moderating the panel. The students in charge of the panel are from the African-American Social movement course. The panel will focus on some of the successes of past civil rights movements and also look at the current conditions to see if a new social movement is needed. “The whole idea of our presentation is going to center on the Civil Rights movements against racial segregation in many parts o f t h e s o u t h ,” Ku m a h - A b i w u said. The panel will focus on the idea of representation, both then and now, for African-Americans all over the country. “ The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s has really brought
the conciseness of the American public to things such as the Jim Crow Laws,” Kumah-Abiwu said.“ The laws virtually separate blacks and whites and because of that, there was oppression in public facilities.” The student panel will be using the ideas from the past to answer the question of whether or not there needs to be a new social movement to help address the current state of affairs going on in the country. “The struggle for civil and political rights is the centerpiece for our presentation,” KumahAbiwu said. “We know that there h a v e b e e n g re a t a c h i e v e m e n t s that have been made in terms of progress.” PANEL, page 5