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Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 2021 4-2-2021 Daily Eastern News: April 02, 2021 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2021_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 02, 2021" (2021). April. 2. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2021_apr/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 2021 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CAA MEETING FORMAL INTRODUCTION The Council on Academic Affairs met Thursday, Marty Simmons was introduced as approving all three items on the agenda. the new head coach of the men's PAGE 3 basketball team Thursday. PAGE 4 AILY ASTERN EWS "TELL THE TRUTH AND DON'T BE AFRAID " Naming Intramural activity Committee holds final forum Thursday ByCorryn Brock Ntws Editor I@clllTyn _ brodc The Naming Committee hooted its final forum on the potential renaming of Douglas Hall with mem­ bers ofthe Residenc.e Hall Association. The forum was the seventh forum ofits kind and followed a trend ofsuppon for changing the name of -._ Douglas Hall. Other forums offered covered the student body as a whole, Eastern faculty, Eastern staff, students af­ filiated with the Black Student Union, Latin Ameri­ can Student Organaation and Alpha Psi Lambda and students affiliated with the Student Government, In­ terfraternity Council and PanHellenic Council. 1hn:e students spoke during the forum, all in fa­ vor of a name change or speaking on behalf ofindi­ viduals from the areas they represent in favor ofthe name change. Ben Drake, national communications coordinator t• for the Residence Hall Association and history educa­ ZACH HRGER I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS tion major, said he understood the significanc.e ofthe Jackson Wiseman (left), a senior majoring in sports management, and Dennis Frantsve, a freshman majoring in psychology, com- · t debates but fdt they should be recognized in a way peted in intramural Kan jam at the Student Rec Center Thursday night. The Kanjam tournament playoffs finished yesterday but the • l other than residenc.e halls. semifinals start at 8 p.m. on Monday. .. FORUM, page 3 Flag honoring Asian, Pacific heritage raised Thursday By Corryn Broe~ we think about race we think of African Amer­ . News Editor j@corryn_brock icans, we think of our Latinx and with every­ thing that's going on now, especially with the A flag honoring Asian/Pacific Islander Heri­ discourse of our Asian Americans, it's bananas," tage Month was raised Thursday. Davenport said. "I don't understand why some­ Graduate students Starr Winburn and Justice one wouldn't like someone because of the color McGruder raised the flag with a small crowd of their skin." around noon. · Flaherty said she believed the flag came at the Though Asian/Pacific islander Heritage right time with the rise in racism toward Asian Month is typically celebrated in May, Eastern Americans. celebrates the month early so it falls in the tradi­ "It's particularly timely this year when you tional academic calendar. think about all of the anti-Asian hate that is go­ The month celebrates the achievements and ing on in this country... the video I saw yesterday contributions of those from all of the Asian of the woman who was kicked to the ground in continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia New York, it's just heart wrenching." (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji Flaherty called the Aag a visual way to sup­ and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marian­ port Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. as, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, "We just want to send a message that we Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Mi­ don't tolerate that sort of behavior and we value cronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawai­ all races, including our Asian and Pacific Island­ ian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, er students and faculty and staff and we think American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, CORRYN BROCK I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS this is a good way to recognize this particular French Polynesia and Easter Island). Starr Winburn (left) and Justice McGruder, both graduate students, raise a flag on the We Are group this month, through the flag, our We Are Recently, University President David Glass­ EIU Flagpole Thursday that honors Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage EIU Aag," Flaherty said. man, sent an email speaking on the rise in rac­ Davenport said she is looking forward to a , ism towards Asian people amidst the COV­ Each of us has a role in creating that culture on Vice President of Student Affairs Anne Fla­ month of events honoring Asian Americans and ID-19 pandemic. campus today, and in advancing those values in herty said the email was important. Pacific Islanders. In Glassman's email he said, Eastern "prides our own communities tomorrow." "I think it's important as senior leaders that "We have the opportunity to show homage itself on our inclusiveness. We work daily to "It's clear that despite the progress we have we take a stand and share our viewpoints when and to try to do what we can to educate because ensure students representing every culture and made as individuals and as a country, the strug­ we see hate, that we stand up to it," Flaherty we are at an educational institution, I think that 1 background are offered the best and safest ex­ gle for racial and social equality in America con­ said. these flags and the programming that we do is periences possible. A critical component of that tinues," Glassman said. "We must leverage cur­ Mona Davenport, executive director of the going to be so important for our students to on-campus culture demands our deepest com­ rent events as decisive, teachable moments for Office of Inclusion and Academic Engagement, learn," Davenport said. mitments to civility and compassion, and in everyone in our EIU community, and remind said the recent rise in hate towards Asian Amer­ guaranteeing those commitments are extend­ ourselves daily of the categorical responsibilities icans is why the Aag is significant. Corryn Brock can be reached at 581-2812 or at ed to every member of our diverse community. , we share in advancing the common good." "That's why I think it's so important. When 581-2812 or at [email protected]. THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS I NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2021 Local weather FRIDAY SATURDAY ...... I~ US nearing IOOM Pritzker commutes Sunny Sunny High: 49• High: 62. Low: 33• Low: 43· vaccinations as sentence of man baseball resumes convicted of 1990 THE DAILY The U.S. moved closer Thurs- VID-19, the team canceled the game. day toward vaccinating I 00 million It was not immediately rescheduled. double murder EASTERN NEWS Americans in a race against an up­ At American Family Field in Mil­ "Tell the truth and don't be afraid.• tick in COVID-19 cases that is fuel­ waukee, Tonia Smith said she didn't CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Gov. mela Powers and Willie Williams, includ­ ing fears of another nationwide surge have any safety concerns about re­ J.B. Pritzker on Thursday oommuted the ing ballistics evidence linking him to the just as the major league baseball sea­ turning to the stadium where the sentence of a man who claimed he was murder~n. The Daily Eastern News son starts and thousands of fans re­ Brewers were facing off against the fumed by Chicago polic.e detectives for a Reed has spent 29 years in prison for 1802 Buzzard Hall Eastern Illinois University turn to stadiums. Minnesota Twins. The stadium lim­ 1990 double mwder. the deaths of Powers and Williams. De­ Charleston, IL 61920 More than ~9 million people have ited attendance to about 16,000 fans Gerald Reed was granted a new trial fense attorney Elliot Zinger says despite 217-581-2812 received at least one dose of the vac­ - a quarter of its capacity. in 2018 on claims he was tonured into the commutation, he will continue to 217-581-2923 (fax) cine, and more than 56 million peo­ "It was hard to judge how quick­ a false murder confession by detectives push to have Reed's conviction vacated. ple - 17% of the nation's population ly to get here. It's a different opening working fur notorious polic.e command­ Reed's attorney, Sheila Bedi of North­ - have been fully vaccinated, accord­ day experience. But just having those er Jon Burge. But last year, Cook County western University Law School, said she ing to data from the Centers for Dis­ smells hit you, walking in and having Judge Thomas Hennelly ruled the Reed, News Staff Advertising was told by Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton that ease Control and Prevention. that experience back, it's invigorat­ 57, should stay in prison because the Reed will be coming home from Statev­ Staff Editor-in-Chief A total of 154 million vaccines had ing," said Smith, 45, of Sussex, Wis­ statement resulting from the alleged abillC ille Correctional Center, where he was AdamTumino Facult y Advisers been administered as of Thursday. consin. was never used against him during trial, [email protected] imprisoned. Members of Burge's crew Editorial Adviser President Joe Biden's new goal is to In Chicago, officials warned that so his rights were never violated. have been accused of torturing suspects Lola Burnham give 200 million vaccine doses during they will stop letting baseball fans Special Prosecutor Robert Milan has between 1972 and 1991. Burge died in Photo Adviser his first l 00 days in office.

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