Students Express Their Diversity by Tie-Dying T-Shirts, Other Clothes
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PAGE 8 PAGE 8 HE T Tuesday, March 27, 2018aily astErn Ews D E“TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” n VOL. 102 | NO. 127 CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF COVERAGE EST. 1915 WWW.DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM OLIVIA SWENSON-HULTZ | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Katelyn Olsem, a junior special education major, applies green dye onto her T-shirt during “Tie-Diversity” in the South Quad Monday afternoon. Students express their diversity by tie-dying T-shirts, other clothes Olivia Swenson-Hultz OLIVIA SWENSON-HULTZ | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Associate News Editor | @DEN_News “I have a disability and Dashawn McCray, a freshman sociology major, applies red dye onto his T-shirt during “Tie-Diversi- ty” in the South Quad Monday afternoon. I’m part of the LGBTQ Students gathered in the South Quad to celebrate their diversity through tie-dying community, so it’s nice to be T-shirts and other articles of clothing at able to spread awareness Tie-Diversity Monday afternoon. This marked the beginning of Social and represent who you are Justice and Diversity Week, which consists through events like this of four different events that are organized by the Residence Hall Association. without feeling the need to Participants were able to choose be- hide it.” tween five different colors to express their -Katelyn Olsem, different facets of diversity. a junior special White T-shirts were provided to stu- education major on dents, but they were welcome to bring ad- “Tie-Diversity” ditional items to use for the event. Amidst the clusters of students working on crafting their new apparel was Katelyn you are through events like this without Olsem, a junior special education major feeling the need to hide it,” Olsem said. who had just placed her multi-colored T- Dashawn McCray, a freshman sociolo- shirt into a plastic bag to take home, said gy major who was in the process of wring- she saw the five different colors available ing out his shirt doused in different col- as an opportunity to express how diverse a ors to create a splotchy-red design, said person can be. he wanted to participate in Tie-Diversity OLIVIA SWENSON-HULTZ | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS “I have a disability and I’m part of the so could have an opportunity to show his Natalie Santillan, a sophomore early childhood education major, and Nina Woods, a sophomore LGBTQ community, so it’s nice to be able creativity. business major, work on tie-dying T-shirts during “Tie-Diversity” Monday in the South Quad. to spread awareness and represent who Diversity, page 5 200 volunteers expected during Panther Service Day By Mays Omar Crystal Brown, the assistant director for the Office The office will be partnering for the second year March 28, but registration will be open until the day Contributing Writer | @DEN_News of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism, said the pur- with Greek Week. before the service day. pose of Panther Service Day is to partner with the lo- Beth Gillespie, the interim director of civic engage- Volunteers should wear clothes they do not mind About 200 students are set to help out at the Of- cal community and give back. ment and volunteerism, said after partnering with fra- getting dirty and closed-toed shoes. fice of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism’s final There are roughly 15 different locations that stu- ternities and sororities last year, participation in Pan- “Just come with a smile and eager to have fun with service opportunity of the semester. dents can sign up for, including the Douglas Hart ther Service Day from greek life increased. your peers and make a difference in the communi- Panther Service Day is set for April 7 and check-in Nature Center, First Fruits Homestead, the Five Mile Fraternities and sororities get participation points ty,” Brown said. for participants will start at 9:30 a.m. in the McAfee House and Community Aid-Ashmore. for coming and being a part of Panther Service Day. Individuals and groups who want to volunteer at North Gym. Each station will be two hours long and each vol- “It is an easy way to get a free T-shirt, make a dif- Panther Service Day are can visit www.eiu.edu/apps/ Transportation will be available from campus to unteer can sign up for one event. Participants will ference and enjoy some time with some students be- registration or call the office at 217-581-3967. the service events and back to campus. Buses taking spend time painting, cleaning, doing light yard work, fore the semester ends,” Gillespie said. students to their destinations will leave campus at 10 measuring ingredients for cooking, planting and To guarantee to get the right size of the T-shirts, Mays Omar can be reached at a.m. and return by 12:30 p.m. much more with both inside and outside activities. students can sign up for Panther Service Day before 581-2812 or [email protected]. 2 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | AP BRIEFS TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2018 Local weather TUESDAY WEDNESDAY STATE AND NATION THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cook County sues Marches to encourage voting on fraud charges Rain Cloudy Charlie Goodman looked at the usually focuses on registering people out still lags behind other generations. High: 58° High: 62° massive crowd around him, the largest at concerts and music festivals, also Some students from "the silent mi- CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County Low: 45° Low: 47° youth-led protest in Washington since helped mobilize teams at Saturday's nority" still said they felt excluded. is suing Facebook and Cambridge Ana- the Vietnam War era. He listened to marches in 30 U.S. cities and have Kyle Kashuv, another student at lytica for fraud after revelations that the people speak about toughening gun created a registration tool kit for high the Florida school, also appeared on latter obtained data on millions of Face- laws. They included some of his peers school students. "Face the Nation" to voice his sup- book users. at the Florida high school who've The White House issued a state- port for the 2nd Amendment and for The lawsuit filed Friday in Cook sparked this movement, as well as the ment about the student-led march enforcement of existing gun laws. He County Circuit Court alleges Trump- The Daily 9-year-old granddaughter of the Rev. and also pointed to the president's expressed his disappointment that he affiliated political consulting firm Cam- Martin Luther King. support for the Stop School Vio- was not invited to speak at Saturday's bridge Analytica deceived the millions easTern news When she spoke, he was moved to lence Act, which authorized grants march and placed blame for the dead- of Illinois Facebook users whose infor- “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” tears. to schools to bolster security and at- ly shooting at his school on local law mation it collected. It says Facebook "This is truly a revolution," said tempts to improve background enforcement and the FBI. failed to protect its users' privacy and The Daily Eastern News Goodman, a sophomore at Marjory checks. Rick Santorum, a former Repub- misrepresented how their data would be 1802 Buzzard Hall Stoneman Douglas High School in But Cameron Kasky, a student lican Senator from Pennsylvania and used. Eastern Illinois University Parkland, Florida, where 17 people leader at Marjory Stoneman Doug- now a CNN commentator, suggest- London-based Cambridge Analyt- Charleston, IL 61920 were gunned down last month. "We las High School, says the current laws ed Sunday that students shouldn't ica has been accused of using Face- 217-581-2812 217-581-2923 (fax) can really change the world." and legislation don't go far enough. look to others to solve their problem. book data to influence voter behavior The marches unified hundreds of The students, he said, are demand- "Do something about maybe taking in 2016. thousands of people in cities across ing an assault weapons ban, prohi- CPR classes or trying to deal with sit- The Chicago Tribune reports the law- News Staff Faculty Advisers the country and have galvanized this bition of sales of high-capacity mag- uations that when there is a violent suit filed by Cook County State's Attor- Editor-in-Chief Editorial Adviser movement, he and others say. Now azines and universal background shooter that you can actually respond ney Kimberly Foxx on behalf of Illinois Cassie Buchman Lola Burnham they are vowing to get young voters checks. But, Kasky said this won't to that," Santorum said on CNN's residents brings one consumer fraud [email protected] Photo Adviser registered and send a message in up- happen if his peers across the nation "State of the Union." count each against Facebook and Cam- Managing Editor Brian Poulter coming elections.