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[email protected]. "Tell the truth and don't be afraid. " SECTION + Women fall to fifth with loss: page 12A THE D AILY FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10 2006 Eastern Illinois University, Charleston BIG BROTHERS, BIG SISTERS Eastern tops enrollment growth Group has BY )ACLYN GORSKI 80 volunteer STAFF REPORTER disparity Eastern's smdent population for the spring semester of this year has BY KRISTEN lARSEN seen an increase in student enroll CITY EDITOR ment since last year around this time. Charleston's Big Brothers Big Sisters A 5.3 percent increase brought program is 80 volunteers short for the the enrollment from I0,839 in the I20 children enrolled in the program. spring of 2005 to II ,4I4 this Of the 80 children that are spnng. unmatched, exactly half are from each It is the biggest increase com gender. pared to the changes in smdent "There is almost always a problem in enrollment at Western illinois all the agencies of finding matches for University, the University of Illinois boys," said Marsha Ndoko, program at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois supervisor at Big Brothers Big Sisters of State University.