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Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 2020 3-9-2020 Daily Eastern News: March 09, 2020 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2020_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 09, 2020" (2020). March. 6. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2020_mar/6 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 2020 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in March by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ENJOYING AMERICA INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY Eastern men's tennis player Gertjan De Eastern students talked about who their female inspirations were on Interna Wilder is originally from Belgium, but he is tional Women's Day Sunday. enjoying his time in the United States. PAGE 3 PAGE 8 AILY ASTERN EWS Monday, March 9, 2020 "TELL THE TRUTH AND DON'T BE AFRAID" CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF COVERAGE NACWC Unofficial 2020 working on Students take to Charleston for annual Unofficial celebration By Corryn Brock projects at· NewsEditor I @corryn_brock The annual Unofficial St. Patrick's Day cel Eastern ebration brought Eastern students, alums and members of the surrounding communities to CharlestonSaturday. By Emilie Bowman and Elizabeth Taylor Amid the police cars, tickets and shut down StaffReporters I @DEN_news parties, Unofficial-goers dancedand drank at house parties around town. Since 1896, the National Association of Col Jess Henry, a studentattending from anoth ored Women's Club has been devoted to volun er university, said he had attended Unofficial teer work across the country. last year and enjoyed the experience. He said Eastern's chapter, Women Improving Lives, he thinks attending the event will become a uses service projects, both on and off campus, tradition. to achieve their mission of advocating for Afri "Were having a great time. I was here last can American women and children and protect year, and I might be a regular afrer that, plain ing their rights. and simple," Henrysaid. They choose their projects each semester Henry added that he felt like the atmo based on the needs of the community. sphere around the eventwas relaxed. Starr Smith, a junior community health ma "No one's messing with us, you know, ev jor, is the club's current vice president. erybody's got their own group to hang out "Involvement and inclusion is very important with plain and simple that's all, no hardfeel CORRYN BROCK I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS to us," Smith said. "You know, coming up with ings no nothing." Henry said. "Everybody's Students enjoy a beautiful Saturday afternoon for 2020 Unofficial St. Patrick's Day cel creative ways to inform the students about im out here to do one thing and that's drinkbeers ebration. Unofficialis an annual event in Charleston. ponant things in the community or that's going and drink beer. I say drink Busch light plain on in the world, as well as having fun and do and simple." "I used to go to the school and it's a really gaps between differentgroups on campos. ing service." LisettePerez, a senior hospitality major, said goodtime," Cooper said. "It doesn't matter affiliation, everyone's During African American Heritage Month, she enjoyed how many people were out and Cooper said returning for the event was a partying as one, like they know everyone's at they hosted the Black Business Expo to help partyingduring the day even though she tends nice break for him to have while he is now in one place you know it's like a whole campus promote local businesses. to be more introverted. the work force. thing."West said. The club also gives members the opportuni "I just like the environment and that's the He added that while he went to Eastern, West said one thing that stood out to him ty to connect with women from other chapters. only reason I actuallycome is because I'm not Unofficial served as a way for him to be free was the conflict that was resolved between The NACWC holds a national convention a people person, but this is likeone event that fromclasses. peopleon campus. in July each year featuring workshops and meet I actually like because everybody is in unison," "I got really f"'**** up and forgot about my "People resolved confrontations easily here, ups, as well as acknowledgement of different Perez said. classes, so it was just a really great day, it got I likethat," West said. chapters' accomplishments. Orlando Cooper, a former Eastern smdent, ridof allof the stress," Coopersaid. Even though the NACWC is a national orga said he was enjoying remrning to Charleston Kenneth West, a smdent from another uni CorrynBrock can be reached at 581-2812 or nization, most chapters focus on local issues and for Unofficial. versity, said he fdt like Unofficial bridged the [email protected]. volunteer opportunities. NACWC, page 5 Students talk 'These Shining Lives' performed at Eastern sleep schedules By ElizabethWood PhotoEditor I @DEN_news By Karamon Samuel Contributing Writer I @DEN_news Tllile, it seems, was inescapable for four women: Catherine, Pearl, Charlotte and Francis, asthey each College is a different time for people; being laughed and cried together during "These Shining on one's own for the first time, having to deal Lives" at the Doudna Fine Arts Center in The The with the amount of homework and how to pay atre on Thursday,Frida y, Samrday and Sunday. for college are on many students' minds. The play is a docudrama based on true events With all of these new responsibilities, it can that occurred before and during a court case the be hard to get a good amount of sleep while be "RaclitimGirls" filedagainst U.S. Radium Corp. in ing in college. Ottawa,Illinois, for knowingly allowing the girls to According to Mayo Clinic, adults should get not only ingestradium paint but then trying to cov seven to nine hours of sleep each night. er up the fact the girls had gotten radium poison- Some students cannot always get seven to ing. nine hours of sleep a night so they might take Josh Hernandez, a junior finance major, played naps to catch up on some sleep and re-energize Tom, Catherine's husband. themselves. Hernandez said the play emphasized that no Many students take a nap in their dorm or one's.life should be put in jeopardy-for business apartment and typically sleep in their beds, and profit. some even take naps in their cars. "T here should not be any life worth 8 cents Tayvaughn Robinson, a junior management ELIZABETH WOOD I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS a watch," Hernandez said. "There should not be-. information systems major, is a smdent manager any life expendabletoo, that's expendable for all the Josh Hernandez, a junior majoring in finance and who plays Tom, who is Catherine's husband at Stevenson Hall and said he cannot always take profitsyou makein thisworld, you know?You have in the play, and Merri Bork, a junior majoring in theatre and who plays Catherine, perform during as many naps as he wants to. to treatyour workers with respectbecause theycon dress rehearsal for "These Shining Lives" in The Theatre. In this scene, Tom comforts Catherine af He said he finds it difficult to take naps being tributeto your success." ter she had a dream about dying. Catherine has Tom promise her that neither he nor the children a full-time srudent, working at Stevenson at least Ellen Lee, a senior theatre arts major, played will forget her when she dies. 30 hours every two weeks and living off campus. Pearl. Robinson said he sleeps about seven to eight Leesaid she thought the storywas encompassed truth about her life, the world would split open,'" ing? Just four women changing the law. I think this hours but if he has a lot of homework and work, in one quote, which was included in the script by Lee said. "The play is basically about fourwomen quote justtells the most essential part of the play." he gets about five to six. the playwright, Melanie Marnich. who are hurt .by some big industry but, though they ,. ) I '• PLAY, pages ' "lt's this quote: '1£ on.e woman were to tell the suffer and die, they change the law. Isn't that arnaz- .. 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