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" SPORTS + Top Cat is Megan Sparks: page 11 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 26 2005 thedailyeasternnews.com Eastern Illinois University, Charleston Technology fee increase Drake fills Student Affairs opening BY jENNIFER PERYAM maries from Eastern in 1984 and a master's degree ADMINISTRATION EDITOR in guidance and counseling with an emphasis in proposed "LyneHe Drake is student college smdent personnel in 1985. A new acting vice president for Sn1dent Affairs oriented and makes decisions In 1991, Drake served as Eastern's director of BY AMY SIMPSON has been named after a three-week search. orientation and coordinator of alcohol, dmgs and STUDENT GOVERNMENT EDITOR Lynette Drake, director of that are the best for students ..." AIDS information. In 1995, she was named the Health Services, will serve a six- MAn Ku LP, STUD. G OVT. VPSA first non-medical administrative director ofHealth Eastern's Tuition and Fee month appointment as the new Service. Committee has asked for a 15 percent acting vice president for "I've really enjoyed working at the university," increase over two years to enhance sn•- Smdent Affairs beginning Feb. position. The candidates who expressed interest in Drake said. '1 hope to continue to move the divi- dents' academic experience. I. the position were interviewed before fellow sion forward so it will be well-prepared for the next The recommendation was made on Drake will replace Shirley Smdent Affairs directors and smdent government person to step in." behalf of the Sn1dent Technology Fee Stewart, former vice president lYNETIE DRAKE officers, and input was sought from vice presidents, ''Lynette Drake is smdent oriented and makes Committee, a subgroup of Eastern's for Student Affairs, who as well. decisions that are the best for smdents at all times," Academic Technology Advisory resigned Jan. I in hopes of spending time with "I've worked witl1 Lynette a long time," said said Matt Kulp, smdent government's vice presi- Committee. The increase will add family. Eastern President Lou Hencken. ''Lynette has dent for Smdent Affairs. $6.25 and $7.20, respectively, the Hencken received Stewart's letter of resigrtation broad experience in Smdent Affairs for the past Drake said she has worked with Stewart for the next two years to the current fee of Dec. 8, and he went to the Smdent Affairs staff nine years as the director of the Health Service." $41.60 per semester. Dec. 15 and encouraged members to apply for the Drake earned her bachelor's degree in mathe- SEE DRAKE PAGE 7 That fee increase will keep Eastern in the same ball park as other state schools currently. Southern Illinois University- Carbondale charges between $50 and Young People's Area $72 per semester for technology, depending on student program The proposed enrollment. As of fall 2004, Western addition to the Illinois University charged between Charleston $2.45 and $3.33 per credit hour in Carnegie Public computer fees, also depending on the Library would cost program. This would be $36.75 to $7 million. The $49.95 for a 15 hour semester. first floor plans to Michael Hoadley, the assistant vice have a new young president for Academic Affairs for people's area, a technology, said the fee money goes meeting center toward improving technology in class- and circulation rooms and campus labs. Eastern is desks. currently on a plan to replace all com- puters and equipment every four years, he said. Eventually, Eastern would like to see all classrooms incorporate a VCR, DVD player and data projector, which are all networked to a comput- er and monitor. This kind ofsystem is termed an "enhanced classroom," Hoadley said. Some departments can also make use of document cameras DRAWN BY BCAARCHlKTURAL FIRM and electronic white boards, he said. ''A lot of faculty have expressed needs for improvement, and smdents have said they want equipment for presentations in class," Hoadley said. Charleston looking to add on to library Alan Baharlou, chairman of the STFC, said Eastern had no multime- BY HILLARY SETILE people to read or sn•dy are also very limited." until now because the building didn't have any dia equipment or "enhanced class- CITY EDITOR Although the current building is 100 years room to grow. However, the library now owns rooms" in 1994. He approached old and has undergone two additions in the several houses along the west side of the build- Sn1dent Senate along with members While smdents on Eastern's campus can past, it still lacks space to hold all the material ing and the water tower that used to interfere of Sn1dent Government and asked to easily access Booth library for information, the library would like to have, Huddlestun with expansion has been torn down, creating create a student fee to upgrade the people in the city of Charleston do not have said. room for the Library to expand westward, she technology on campus. an organized library with a large number of "Every time we get a new book, an old one said. The fee was UCianirnously approved resources. But tltat could soon change. has to leave," he said. "The reality is we have If tlte building proposal is approved in and set at $28.50 for 1995. The A $7 million addition to the Charleston no space." April, building for the addition will begin in STFC was also formed that year to Carnegie Public Library, which would increase And that is just one thing the library addi- the fall, Huddlestun said. allocate the fee money. As part of the the square footage from 9,000 square feet to tion would take care of, said Sheryl Snyder, Altltough a lot ofplanning and research has agreement to pass the fee, Baharlou 33,000 square feet, has been proposed to executive director of tlte Library. gone into developing a plan to add on to the promised the STFC would be com- bring additional space, features and resources "We're going to have quite a bit ofparking ; current library building, it must first be prised of faculty representatives from to the current library, said Eric Huddlesnm, it will have a drive-up so people can be let off approved by Charleston voters. every discipline at Eastern as well as president of the Library Board. in bad weather; there will be a book drop on The City Council agreed to place the build- students and Student Government "The library in its present form is simply the outside so (people) don't have to get out ing project on the April 5 ballot at their Dec. members. too small for our community," said Michael (of their vehicles); and we're going to have a 21 meeting, said Mayor Dan Cougill. "(Students) gave us trust to spend Leddy, an English professor at Eastern and large meeting room area that can be divided Taxpayers must agree to an increased property the fee to enhance their academic secretary of the Friends of the library, a group into smaller areas," she said. tax by voting yes to the addition before build- experience," Baharlou said. recently formed to promote use of the library. Planning for the addition started about 15 "Shelving space is very limited; the areas for years ago, Snyder said, but it didn't progress SEE UBRARY PAGE 7 SEE TECHNOlOG Y PAGE 7 FIVE-DAY OUTLOOK TODAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 37 29 35 37 42 22 18 28 32 36 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2005 EASTERN CAMPUS BRIEFS WALKING ON WATER ONLINE POLL 12 p.m. Nickel and Dimed Di~on, Booth Library, room 4440. 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