by Zinika Livingston/Staff Reporter

The Eastern chapter for Habitat for Humanity and the Coles County Habitat for Humanity have helped build more than 20 houses in Coles County in the past 19 years. Through their work, housing has been provided to 30 adults and 50 children. The local Habitats are sponsoring "Giving from the Heart," a dinner dance fundraiser on Saturday. (0) comments

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by Krystal Moya / Administration Editor

Shifting small amounts of the endowment back to risky equities is the strategy to help quell the $7 million loss in the endowment in the 2008 calendar year. After Foundation President Tim Gover announced that the endowment lost 26 percent of its value in 2008 to the Board of Trustees, Hammond Associates, the foundation's hired investment consultants, have begun work on finalizing the fiscal year's data to give a better projection of the future of the endowment in the next fiscal years. (0) comments

by Heather Holm/Activities Editor

In 1962, in the segregated Choctaw County, Alabama, 18-year-old Carl Ray responded to a white man's questions with just "yes" and "no" instead of "yes, sir" and "no, sir." Ray was then severely beaten. An hour later, the man went to Ray's home where Ray watched the man shoot his father. (0) comments

by Stephen Di Benedetto / Staff Reporter

Gregory Spicer remains the only finalist for chair of the biology department. Mary Anne Hanner, dean of the College of Sciences, said finalists Bruce Schulte and Stephen Roberts withdrew from the open position before winter break. (0) comments

by Tim Dilsaver / Staff Reporter

The Residence Hall Association has found a way to make a children's TV show relate to campus life at Eastern. RHA met at 5 p.m. Thursday to discuss events, including the first-ever Double Dare competition between all the residence halls on campus. (0) comments

by David Thill/Senior Reporter

Concerns have been raised and heard: The current nature of the economy has been taken into account, and though plans to build the new Renewable Energy Center have been put on hold, they are by no means on the back burner, at least not to Gary Reed and Paul McCann. (0) comments

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