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Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 2018 10-30-2018 Daily Eastern News: October 30, 2018 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2018_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 30, 2018" (2018). October. 21. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2018_oct/21 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 2018 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]. HIGH HOPES TV STARS The Eastern women’s basketball team is The Alternative Television and Film Club will have some of their past hoping for an improved season, with their episodes aired on local TV starting in January. first exhibition game against Illinois- Wesleyan coming up on Thursday. PAGE 3 PAGE 8 HE T Tuesday, October 30,aily 2018 astErn Ews D E“TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” n VOL. 103 | NO. 50 CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF COVERAGE EST. 1915 WWW.DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM Presidential pumpkin-painting Faculty Senate to discuss potential constitution changes By Brooke Schwartz of the university mission or the fiscal and News Editor | @bsschwart1 personnel resources required.” Stowell said that, due to the role of the The Faculty Senate will look at senate senate as it is currently laid out in their constitution changes and the university constitution, they need to have a consult- think tank proposal at its meeting Oct. 30 ing role on matters that have major struc- at 2 p.m. in Room 4440 of Booth Library. tural or staffing changes, or in this case Proposed changes to the senate consti- the resource allocations for new programs tution now includes the new shared gov- requiring Illinois Board of Higher Educa- ernance proposal discussed at the senate’s tion approval. Oct. 17 meeting. At the Council on Academic Affairs’ Billy Hung, senate recorder and a bio- Oct. 18 meeting, this proposal was dis- logical sciences professor, said at that Oct. cussed, with many council members 17 meeting that he thinks including a seeming confused about the need for a constitutional change in regard to senate proposal like this. mission would be beneficial for current Amy Rosenstein, CAA member and and future senators. professor in the department of special ed- “One of the problems (Faculty Sen- ucation, said at that Oct. 18 CAA meet- ate has), or (the senate) had, with previ- ing that she did not understand why hav- ous years is some of (the senate’s) roles are ing the senate look over resource alloca- not clearly defined and then people didn’t tion and mission alignment for those new know what we were supposed to do ver- IBHE programs was necessary. sus what we were not supposed to do, and “As far as resources go, that’s all in the then when (senate) tries to do things we discussion in the provost’s office, … (fac- butt heads; we run into (other committees ulty proposing a new program) tease out and organizations on campus),” Hung all information before it gets to the Pro- said on Oct. 17. “I think a better clarifica- vost’s office, and then it goes through tion, in whatever format, is what I want.” their own college curriculum committees, The shared governance proposal, which so it’s not like faculty in that college have is now being folded into the constitution- not already had a say on it,” Rosenstein al changes discussion, is meant to address said. “Then it comes to (the CAA), then a problem Jeff Stowell, senate vice chair as (elected) faculty, we are the voice of the and psychology professor, said has come faculty (on curriculum).” out of the past shared governance discus- Marita Gronnvoll, CAA chair and a sions. communication studies professor, said In the draft proposal Stowell shared the council will need to see the final with the senate on Oct. 17, he wrote, resolution before it can decide what JORDAN BOYER | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS “Curricular bodies on campus (CAA, stance to take on it. Eastern President David Glassman watches some students paint pumpkins at Pumpkin with the Prez CGS, COTE) are not explicitly asked to Monday afternoon in the Library Quad. Student government hosted the event. consider the new program in the context FACULTY SENATE, page 5 New accelerated 9 students set grad programs to perform in in place this fall drag show By Valentina Vargas Staff Reporter | @DEN_News By Corryn Brock Associate News Editor | @corryn_brock New accelerated graduate programs were implemented the Fall 2018 semester starting off in the English department. A student drag show will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in the Randall Beebe, coordinator of graduate studies in the Eng- Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. lish department, said the accelerated English graduate pro- Nine students will perform in drag during the event. gram was designed and introduced for this academic year of Jovan Williams, a sophomore music performance major, will 2017-2018. be performing “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj and “S&M” by Ri- “The idea is not a new concept. It’s new to EIU, but the hanna as their drag persona, Lady Deviant. This is their second idea is to offer a program for undergraduates who are interest- year participating in the event. ed in earning master-level degree credits while they are under- Williams and Grace Osborn, a sophomore clinical laboratory graduates,” Beebe said. science major, said the drag show showcases diversity on campus. Undergraduates who are honors students in the English de- “It’s all about diversity,” Osborn said. “For people like me who partment are required to take at least one graduate seminar, are from small towns, I think it’s a really cool way to show them which Beebe said normally is taken during their senior year. what a drag show is really like.” “Those credits that they take when it’s 5000-level course This will be Osborn’s first performance in drag, and she will be only apply to their undergraduate degree, they would nev- performing “My, My, My” by Troye Sivan and “Girls Girls Boys” er apply to their graduate degree,” Beebe said. “This program by Panic! At The Disco as her drag persona, Mode. FILE PHOTO | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS though is what makes it possible for any graduate level course Williams said even though they are already a confident per- Lady Save the Bees performs a routine before hosting the 2nd (undergrad students) take satisfy to different things (certifica- son, participating in the drag show brings out more confidence annual Student Drag Show at the 7th Street Underground at the tions).” in them. Martin Luther King Jr. University Union in October 2017. (The GRADUATE PROGRAMS, page 5 DRAG SHOW, page 5 performers did not want to reveal their real names). 2 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | AP NEWS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018 Local weather State and Nation THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Pentagon sending 5,200 troops to border WASHINGTON (AP) — A week are on their way to southern Texas, directly with migrants. who complete the long trek to the south- Partly Cloudy Showers out from the midterm elections, the Pen- O’Shaughnessy said, and their numbers The White House is also weighing ad- ern U.S. border face already major hur- High: 72° High: 60° tagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 will top 5,200 by week’s end. He said ditional border security measures, includ- dles, both physical and bureaucratic, to Low: 56° Low: 44° troops, some armed, to the Southwest troops would focus first on Texas, fol- ing blocking those traveling in the cara- being allowed into the United States. 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