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Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 2020 10-28-2020 Daily Eastern News: October 28, 2020 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2020_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 28, 2020" (2020). October. 19. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2020_oct/19 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 2020 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. OVC MATCHUPS RACE FOR STATE REP Learn more about Chris Miller and Kody Czerwonka, the two Take a look back at how Eastern candidates for state representative in the I 10th District. matched up with conference opponents last season. PAGE 3 . PAGE 8 A LY ASTERN EWS Wednesday, October 28, 2020 rRUT " "TELL THE AND DON'T BE \FRAID VOL. 1 OS I NO. 46 Eastern Blood donation still plans to stay on campus By Elizabeth Taylor Associate News Editor I @DEN_news Despite decisions made by other uni versities in Illinois, Eastern's administra tion intends to keep campus open as long as possible. University President David Glassman confirmed this decision in a brief written statement received by the Daily Eastern News on Tuesday. "EIU students will return to campus af ter Thanksgiving break for the remainder of the Fall semester," Glassman said. "Also, there has been no change to our Spring se mester and EIU students will return to campus after the semester break." Northern Illinois University, Southern Il linois University Carbondale, Western Illi nois University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have all made the de cision to cancel spring break in 2021 and ASHANTI THOMAS I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS adjust their schedules to accommodate the Jolene Clayton a graphic design sophomore donates blood at the blood drive Tuesday afternoon. Clayton explained "I had to try to different schedule; Eastern has no plans to get my address changed and they said oh by the way there's a blood drive going on tomorrow In Charleston and I'm like yeah sure follow suit. sign me up, I don't have anything going on this afternoon." CAMPUS, page 5 Blood drive held on campus Tue·sday By CaitlynCraig do take walk-in visits. The closest one to StaffReporter I @DEN_ news Charleston is in Champaign. The Central Illinois Community Blood Eastern partnered with Community Center gives these blood donations to local Blood Services of Illinois to collect blood hospitals like Sarah Bush Lincoln and Carle "A lot of the spaces where we normally donations on Tuesday afternoon. Foundation Hospital. The three hour event obtained six pints "We try to keep it local, so if you donate go weren't big enough to accommodate of blood from six donors in the Charleston it in this county, these county hospitals and community and from students on campus. clinics receive it," said Alyssa Freeman, the COVID-19 is likely to have impacted the mobile charge of the Eastern blood drive. for all the social distancing and COVID number of donors, according co Stephanie Hospitals in Illinois have been requesting Kalabus, marketing coordinator for Missis blood types O+, 0-, AB+ and AB- as of late sippi Valley Regional Blood Services, who because they are in "critical need," accord rules, so the mobile truck works better works with the Central Illinois Communi ing to MVRBS. ty Blood Center. AB+ and 0- are always in demand since "Everything is by appointment now, so they arc universal blood types. because we can control the number of we lose a lot of walk-in donors," Kalabus "Anyone can receive 0- blood, but peo said. ple with 0- blood can only receive 0-," people in the truck and sanitize safely:' Due to the pandemic, the center has said Freeman. to do most of its blood drives in mobile AB+ individuals can receive blood from trucks. any blood type, making them universal re -Stephanie Kalabus "A lot of the spaces where we normally cipients. go weren't big enough co accommodate for Nine percent of the population has 0- three parts: red cells, plasmas and platelets. Even if someone tests positive for COV- all the social distancing and COVID rules, blood type and 3 percent has AB+, accord . The human body has anywhere from 9-12 1 D-19, once they recover, blood donation so the mobile truck works better because ing co the American Red Cross. pints of blood, according to Freeman. centcrs--likc the Central Illinois Communi we can control the number of people in the The American Red Cross also provid "There is always a need for blood because ty Blood Center-- are asking for their plas truck and sanitize efficiently," Kalabus said. ed data that shows the most donated blood there is no medical replacement for blood, ma to help hospitals with treatment. Plasma The group has co limit the amount of type is O+ with 39 percent of the popu so it's important to donate and help out," from former positivc�COVID-19 patients people inside to two donors at a time to lation having this type. The least donated said Freeman. have antibodies in their blood that can help maintain safe social distancing procedures, blood type is AB-, since only l percent of In order to donate blood, one must be at others fight off the virus. as well as sanitizing the truck after each do the population has that type. least 16 years old. If they are 16 or 17, they nor. With every donation of one pint of need parental consent. Donors must be in . On top of their mobile trucks, they also blood, Freeman said three lives arc saved healthy condition and not taJc,ing any blood Caitlyn Craig can� reachedat 581-2812 or have six donation centers in the .state cha� since blood donations get separated into thinners:.... ...... .. [email protected]. THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS I AP NEWS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020 AND �?o��!A��!!��vr [STATHE ASSOCIATED TE PRESS NATION Barrett sworn in at court Pritzker bans WASHINGTON (AP) - Amy line vote. She is expected co begin ic,n he said in an interview with indoor dining, Ooudy Rainy Coney Barrett was formally sworn work as a justice on Tuesday after CBS News' "60 Minutes." High: ss· High: 45· in Tuesday as the Supreme Court's taking the second of two oaths re On Friday, Barrett, the most open bar service • Low: 42' Low: 35 ninth justice, her oath administered quired of judges by federal law. No opponent of abortion rights to join in private by Chief Justice John justice has assumed office so close the court in decades, also could be in Chicago Roberts. Her first votes on the court to a presidential election or imme called upon to weigh in on Missis could include two big topics affect diately confronted issues so direct sippi's 15-week abortion ban. The SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Surg ing the man who appointed her. ly tied to the incumbent president's state is appealing lower court rulings ing coronavirus infections in Chica The court is weighing a plea from political and personal fortunes. invalidating the ban. Abortion op go have prompted Illinois Gov. J.B. THE DAILY President Donald Trump co pre Barrett declined to commit to ponents in Pittsburgh also are chal Pritzkerto ban indoor dining and bar vent che Manhattan district attorney Democratic demands that she step lenging a so-called bubble zone that servicesin the city and limit the num EASTERN NEWS from acquiring his tax returns. It is aside from any cases on controver prevents protesters from getting too ber of people gathering in one place. aTel/ the truthand don't be afraid.• also considering appeals from che sial topics, including a potential close to abortion clinics. The rules taking effect Friday will Trump campaign and Republicans pose-election dispute over the pres The court put offacting on both forcediners and bar patrons outdoors to shorten the deadline forreceiving idential results. cases before Barrett joined the court, and shut down service at 11 p.m. No The Daily Eastern News and counting absentee ballots in the At 48, she's the youngest justice without offering any explanation more than 25 people may gather at 1802 Buzzard Hall Eastern Illinois University bactleground states of North Caroli since Clarence Thomas joined the in the Mississippi case. It ordered one rime. Occupancy may not exceed Charleston, IL61920 • na and Pennsylvania. court in 1991 at age 43. Pittsburgh to file a response to the 25% capacity. 217-581-2812 Northeastern Pennsylvania's Lu Other election-related issues are appeal filed by the protesters, who The govc;rnor said chat "without ac 217-581-2923 (fax) II zerne County filedlegal papers at pending at the high court, which call themselves sidewalk counselors. tion, this could look worse than any the court Tuesday arguing that Bar next week also will hear a clash of It's not clear that the public will thing we saw in the spring." rett should not take part in the LGBTQ rights and religious free know how Barrett voted in the two Chicago joins six other regions in Pennsylvania case. It's not clear if doms. The fate of the Affordable abortion cases because the court Illinois that are subject to what the News Staff Advertising she will vote in the pending cases, Care Act is on the agenda on Nov. typically doesn't make the vote Pritzker administration calls "resur Staff EdltoMn<hlef but she will make that call.