Eastern Illinois University The Keep August 2018 8-22-2018 Daily Eastern News: August 22, 2018 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2018_aug Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: August 22, 2018" (2018). August. 4. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2018_aug/4 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 2018 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in August by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact tabruns@eiu.edu. CITY COUNCIL DROPPED THE BALL The Eastern men’s soccer team lost 2-1 The Charleston City Council gave the Eastern Illinois University Police to DePaul Tuesday. Department access to the Charleston Police Department’s finger printing machine. PAGE 8 PAGE 3 HE T Wednesday, Augustaily 22, 2018 astErn Ews D E“TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” n VOL. 103 | NO. 3 CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF COVERAGE EST. 1915 WWW.DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM Senate talks Irish Music Circle performs at JAC By Mercury Bowen structure of Entertainment Reporter | @DEN_News An undeniable energy pulsed through the new college floorboards at Jackson Avenue Coffee Tues- day evening as the Irish Music Circle band performed. committees The band played a variety of Irish mu- sic including “Jack Ryan’s Polka” and an By Analicia Haynes Irish waltz. The band also performed sev- Editor-in-Chief | @Haynes1943 eral forms of Irish music including jigs and reels. The Faculty Senate created an Ad Hoc Enthusiastic applause followed each num- committee to look at restructuring college ber, with audience members cheering for representation of certain committees on cam- more. pus and within the new colleges at its Tues- To choose what music was performed, the day meeting. band went around in a circle ahead of time The Senate also unanimously approved in- and selected a song just as in Irish pubs. stitutional repository librarian Todd Bruns as This among other things lent to a pal- the chair of the senate for the semester. pable camaraderie between the members of Over the summer, the Board of Trustees ap- the group. proved a new college structure that was intro- Gaye Harrison, founder and fiddle player duced by Eastern’s Provost Jay Gatrell. for the Irish Music Circle, said the perfor- The new organization creates two new col- mance on Tuesday night was a trial run for leges and schools: the College of Liberal Arts the band’s performance at Night of HOPE and Sciences, the College of Health and Hu- in September, also at Jackson Avenue Cof- man Services, the School of Communication fee. and Journalism and the School of the Arts. Harrison started the band after retiring However, the committees with college rep- around six years ago. resentation are still functioning based off of “I just really wanted to explore that kind the old college organization. of music, and I was so surprised when oth- Since the College of Liberal Arts and Sci- er people said, ‘Yeah we’ll come,’” Harrison ences combines the old College of Arts and said. Humanities and the old College of Sciences, Harrison added that, while a core group music professor Stefan Eckert and Jeff Stow- of people had been fairly consistent for the ell, the vice chair of the Senate, said the new band, they have had several new people college has four times as many faculty com- show up to events as well. pared to the other three colleges. Harrison said some of her favorite mu- Stowell said the College of Liberal Arts and sic to play is that by Liz Carroll, an Irish- Sciences has 235 faculty members, the Col- American fiddler and composer from Chi- lege of Health and Human Services has 62, cago. the Lumpkin College of Business and Tech- “I’ve known her for probably 30 years,” nology has 66 and the College of Education Harrison said. “She’s played all over. She has 47. played for Obama in the White House.” Eckert said because of the size of the Col- James Trevarthan, another fiddle player lege of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Senate for the group, said he has been a part of the has to look at representation and think about band since the beginning. those sub headings and sub groups within the Trevarthan said his favorite song to play colleges to find equal representation. is “Irish Washerwoman.” “How do we actually think about our col- “It’s the one that got me started play- lege now so that we have some equal represen- ing on the fiddle, so it has a special place,” MERCURY BOWEN | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS tation,” Eckert said. Trevarthan said. Gaye Harrison (center), founder and fiddle player for the “Irish Music Circle,” plays a jig at the FACULTY SENATE, page 5 IRISH MUSIC, page 5 band’s performance Tuesday evening at Jackson Avenue Coffee. Students audition for ‘9 to 5, ‘The Moors’ By Karena Ozier Staff Reporter | @DEN_News Auditions: a time that most actresses and actors dread, the time when one must show- case their skills to win over the directors in hope of landing a part. The start of the new school year means new performances to be watched and cast. The nerve-racking process of auditions start- ed at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Students from all levels of theater expe- rience took their chances in hopes of being cast in the upcoming play or musical. Students were scattered around Doudna to prepare for auditions for the musical, “9 to JORDAN BOYER | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS 5,” and the play, “The Moors.” Students fill out audition forms for the upcoming productions of “The Moors” and “9 to 5: The Musical” Tuesday afternoon in the Doudna Fine Of the group of students gathered in Arts Center. Doudna, each of them were trying in their “I try to make sure I know my monologue volved in “Next to Normal” last year. and from other various sources. own way to prepare for auditions. front to back and prepare for the worst,” Hill She said she was looking for the next Among these students was an Eastern Lucy Hill, an Eastern sophomore and mu- said. chance to be a part of theater. freshman and management major, Jamal sic major with a concentration in perfor- Hill has been participating in Eastern’s Many of the students said they knew Johnson. mance, was one of those students. theater program for two years and was in- about auditions through the theater program AUDITIONS, page 5 2 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | AP NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2018 Local weather State and Nation THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Supporters of Police: Iowa student killed woman facing deportation go on Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny High: 77° High: 79° by undocumented immigrant hunger strike Low: 54° Low: 60° MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — to her on that particular day, for crime by people living in the country A man from Mexico living in the U.S. whatever reason he chose to abduct illegally, citing among other things HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — illegally has confessed to kidnapping her," Rahn told reporters at a news the indictments of 11 suspected MS- Relatives and other supporters of an college student Mollie Tibbetts while conference outside the sheriff's office in 13 gang members from El Salvador immigrant from Bangladesh are on a she was running in her small Iowa Montezuma, where Rivera was being charged in connection with the slayings 43-hour hunger strike in Connecticut The Daily hometown, killing her and dumping jailed. of two Virginia teens. Trump also has to protest her deportation. her body in a cornfield, authorities said The news that the highly publicized held events at the White House with Federal authorities have ordered easTern news Tuesday. and gruesome crime was allegedly members of "angel families," whose Salma Sikandar to return to “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, was committed by a person in the country relatives were killed by immigrants. Bangladesh on Thursday. arrested and charged with first-degree illegally drew immediate outrage. Iowa Although Trump claims legal U.S. Relatives and other immigrants The Daily Eastern News murder in the death of Tibbetts, whose Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said: residents are less likely to commit crime, rallied outside the federal courthouse 1802 Buzzard Hall July 18 disappearance set off a massive "As Iowans, we are heartbroken, and we several studies from social scientists and in Hartford on Tuesday to urge Eastern Illinois University search involving state and federal are angry." the libertarian think tank Cato Institute federal officials to allow Sikandar to Charleston, IL 61920 217-581-2812 authorities. "We are angry that a broken find that isn't accurate and states with stay at her New Haven home while 217-581-2923 (fax) Rivera led investigators early Tuesday immigration system allowed a predator a higher share of people living in the she tries to reopen her immigration to a body believed to be Tibbetts in a like this to live in our community, and country illegally have lower violent crime case. Her U.S.-born teenage son, News Staff cornfield about 12 miles (19 kilometers) we will do all we can to bring justice to rates. Samir Mahmud, says the hunger Podcast Editor southeast of Brooklyn, Iowa, where Mollie's killer," she said in a statement. U.S. Immigration and Customs strike began with seven people Travis Bulkwalter Editor-in-Chief Tibbetts was last seen running, Division The arrest is likely to spark calls Enforcement said that it lodged a federal Tuesday afternoon.
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