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Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 2020 2-17-2020 Daily Eastern News: February 17, 2020 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2020_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 17, 2020" (2020). February. 10. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2020_feb/10 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 2020 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 I 1 COOPER IN DOUDNA TOUGH LOSSES The Kristina Reiko Cooper trio performed in The Eastern men's basketball team dropped Doudna Fine Arts Center over the weekend. two games to Southern Illinois Edwardsville and Tennessee-Martin over the weekend. Cooper herself plays_the cello. PAGE 3 Eastern is now 5-9 in OVC play. PAGE 8. AILY ASTERN Council on Acaden.rlcAffairs suspends bylaws By JJ Bullock The Daily Eastern News pushed back gram, one that aims to give students appli currently has no public history internship Editor-in-Chief I @bullockjj against the proposed bylaw change and flied cation for their history degree beyond teach course specific to undergraduate students. a grievance with the Illinois' public access ing. The public history practicum course was The Council on Academic Affairs voted to counselor at the Attorney General's office, to Three courses were also. created in light of designed to prepare students to do work in suspend its bylaws at its meeting Thursday get a ruling on the C.AXs bylaw change. The the minor. HIS 3000: Intro to Public His areas like museums or archives after gradu until the Illinois public access counselor ren CAA has now decided to suspend all its by tory, was created as one of "several" cours .ation. ders a.decision regarding the CAA and the laws until the ruling is delivered. es that will tie into the public history mi Tw o courses within the communications · Open Meetings Act. The idea to suspend the bylaws was pro: nor, HIS 4930 will be deleted from. Eastern's department ·were amended, one was created The CAA proposed a bylaw change, posed by council member Stacey Ruholl. catalog. and the advertising mi�or was also amend backed by Eastern's general counsel Laura A public history minor was also approved A public history internship and a public ed by the CAA. McLaughlin, that would make it no longer by the CAA. The minor was approved unan history practicum were both approved by the subject to the Open Meetings Act, an Illi imously. The minor was created due to high CAA. History faculry member David Smith CAA,pageS nois state law. deµiand among undergraduates for the pro- will be the head of the internship, Eastern Waiting for students to arrive Registration open for 1st 'Womxn Up' By Logan Raschke Managing Editor I @LoganRaschke Students can register for free to attend - Eastern's firstWornxn Up conference, an edu cational and engaging feries of c6.nversations about woman empowerm"ent. The conference is split into three main parts: an opening speech, separate "break out" sessions and a closing speech. Crystal Brown, assistant director of the Of fice of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism, said communication studies professor Marita Gronnvoll will discuss women empowerment in the context of "taking up space" during the opening speech. "The topic is about taking up space be cause if you think of society today, at lot of times it's that impression of women don't stand up, there's that glass ceiling, they're told to just be quiet and take a back seat, so what ever that means to you and how you identi fy with taking up space -..being visible, hav ing a voice -we wanted to have our conver sation to kick it off," Brown said. For the closing speech near the end of the conference, Brown said Carole Collins Ayan laja, professor of educational leadership, will close out the conference with a speech on ELIZA.BETH WOOD I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS feminism and leadership. Krystal Lynch, an associate professor, and Mario laugh at Billy the Panther's antics while they wait for high school students to arrive at In between the opening and closing talks, the biology department's opening ceremony for Feb Fest in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Friday morning. attendees will disperse in a number of "break out" sessions that discuss different topics in women empowerment. SACIS announces new biweekly event The sessions include: � Fueling the female body By Colleen Kane good way to incorporate that for people who were excited and eager for the next meeting. • Building the sisterhood Contributing Reporter I @DEN_News were still interested." Paige Darnell, a counselor at SACIS said • Running for office EIU FEM was-an RSO on campus that was "We all love working with the (Charleston) • Women of color The Sexual Assault Counseling & Informa all about feminism. They: have been on hiatus population," Darnell said. "We are just a • Intersectionaliry tion Services has a new biweekly event held for over a year and there is still no clear un bunch of females and love to empower other • Sexual/vaginal health on campus. "Let's Talk About Feminism" is derstanding if or when it will return. The lack females. I think this (event) fits along with all • Negative self-talk every other Thursday for the re of the se of feminism discussions on campus is what our values .and morals." • Student leadership panel mester. led to SACIS creating this new event. The SACIS team has only held two of these Sophie Cieslicki, graduate assistant for the Students can have an open discussions;..Jt When it comes to what topics they will dis events so far but are hoping with time it be office, said besides providing an education on is a safe space. where students can learn about ....c;uss each week is up to the people who at comes a bigger event. They hope to reach a woman empowerment to students, the pur feminism and what it means to be a femi tend. · variety o.fstudents of all backgrounds. They pose of the conference is to give women a nist. Different topics will be discussed at each "We wanted to leave it up to the people want a non-judgmental space where people sense of communiry. meeting, to get a new experience each time. who are coming to decide which topics would can come and learn. The more people talk the Anyone is free to participate in the confer Ta ylor Diskin, social justice empowerment be covered since there voluntarily coming out more they can learn. ence; Brown and Cieslicki both stressed the services coordinator, said they felt this was a to have this discussion." Diskin said. SACIS hopes to attract not just the atten importance of using the "x" in "Womxn Up" thing the campus has been missing since EIU At these meeting there are a variety of ac tion of women. to explain that women are also people who FEM left in late 2018. tivities. Some included self-reflection and Amanda Feder, director of prevention said, identifyas such, and they are welcome into a "I came across the 'Feminist Handbook,' group discussions. "feminism is for everybody." communiry of women. I �aid what's a better way to get involved on People in attendance brought up person Colleen Kane can ,be reat;hedat 9r campus," Diskin said. "Because we no longer al experiences and how feminism has affect 581-2812 , 1-•••• have the EIU FEM, I thought this would be a . ed them. Many people who wer<l ip attended cmkanel@eiu��du. '/ , . �, W�MXN UP, page 5 , I ,..-1 ... .. "�,:.' .. THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS I AP NEWS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2020 Local weather MONDAY TUESDAY Democratic hopefuls now test Rains halts Daytona 500 Cloudy Partly Cloudy High: 46°. High: 39° strength among minority voters · again, dam13ening Low: 35° Low: 23° NASCAR opener COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - For Bend, Indiana. Their success thus far is Mike Bloomberg, the former New LS. Leevy Johnson, the Democrats' has come in front of overwhelming York mayor and billionaire own DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - search for a challenger to take on ly white electorates in Iowa and New er of a financial services and media The Daytona 500 is being delayed by President Donald Trump is personal. Hampshire .. empire. Bloomberg has spent heavi rain for the second time, dampening THE DAILY "T here is what I call an 'ABT It's also a potential last comeback ly from his personal fortune in states NASCAR's season opener that start mood' in the black communi opportunity for former Vice Presi with sizable minority populations ed with a visit from President Don EASTERN NEWS ty: Anybody but Trump," said the dent Joe Biden. He finished· poorly that will vote in the March 3 prima ald Trump. "Tell the truth and don't be afraid." 77-year-old who was the first black in those first two contests but argues ries. The Super Tuesday contests are The first delay lasted 50 minutes graduate of the University of South he has durable support among the the first.where his name will appear and came moments after the presi Carolina's law school. "It has people minority voters who will soon make on the ballot. dential motorcade completed a cere The Daily Eastern News of color very motivated and excited their choices. It adds up to a muddled field that monial parade lap around the 2 1/2- 1802 Buzzard Hall Eastern Illinois University about voting this time because they Nevada's caucuses are this com lacks clarity even after Iowa and New mile track.