Eastern Illinois University The Keep August 1991 8-7-1991 Daily Eastern News: August 17,1991 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_aug Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: August 17,1991" (1991). August. 2. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_aug/2 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1991 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in August by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. .... Campus Sports A stroll across campus Eastern's athletic teams reveals how much has look forward to new changed and how much seasons with high has stayed the same. hopes and dreams. SECTION C . ~--f---------- -~- --- - - - - - - - - - .. --- ----- ----- - - --·- ACK CHOOL DITION AnewlOok at Eastern It won't hit you until the first time you're alone in your dorm room. You're at Eastern now, isolated from the family and friends that have filled our lives. And lucky as you may be, you're on your own - but not complete­ ly. In this New Student Edition, we'll try to help you get to know Eastern, its campus and the activities it offers you. In this first section, we outline Eastern's history, comparing the cam­ pus when it was founded more than 90 years ago to the one you'll see this fall, including the new Student Recreational Center. Also, you'll get a wrap-up of what big news events affected Eastern's campus this summer, includ­ ing the budget~[isis that lasted almost three weeks. · · - Next is'1ne ·ca_o:.wus section, in which we highlight the Student Recreation Center that opens this fall. The center has just about everything you'll need to keep in shape during your first year here. We then introduce ~ou to everyt.hing from the artin Luther King Jr. University Union to the different activi­ ties sponsored by the University Board. Also in section B, we outline life in Charleston. Staff writer Mike Cham­ bers will crawl you through the city's bar scene, while a bar alternative will be described in this segment, too. And we take a look at Greek life as an Eastern student, describing the differ­ ent fraternities and sororities offered on campus and Phase Ill of construc­ tion on Greek Court. In the final section, our sports writ­ ers talk about the different athletic pro­ grams at Eastern, from Eastern's foot­ ball team and schedule for this fall's season to men's and women's basket­ ball in the winter and next spring's soft­ ball and baseball campaigns. A group of 21 seniors leads the grid squad under head coach Bob Spoo. The Panthers will be trying to return to the Division I-AA playoffs for the sec­ ond time in three years. This preview should give you a pret­ tY good head start on what you need to learn about Eastern, so read and enjoy! ·'•· - Chris Boghossian .... New students enter a different world when passing this sign on Route 16. Some good advice for freshmen Editor's note: This column by and the generosity of The Daily away. Barry Smith, 1976-77 editor in Eastern News, I have compiled a If you decide to go out, there STAFF chief of The Daily Eastern News, few tips essential to getting are some things you should know has become a tradition in the through the first few days. Follow about the male-female relationship pages of The News' New Student my instructions and within two on campus. If you are a good­ Edition. It remains one of the most weeks, people will stop whisper­ looking young female, make it a EDITOR classic.pieces on freshmen and ing behind your back and point­ point to search out senior men and Chris Boghossian offers some helpful (?) advice. ing to you on the sidewalk. Hell, offer to buy them a drink, especial­ Enjoy. you may even get invited to a ly if they look like they might work SECTION EDITORS party. on the campus newspaper. Chris Boghossian It can probably be argued that First of all, make sure everyone Male freshmen should simply Suzanne Oliver · ,. most young people continue into knows you live in a dorm. All sit back and enjoy their own com­ college after high school so that freshmen must live in the dorms, pany because, face it, you have Mike Chambers they can be something: nuclear but most make the mistake of try­ no chance. Look f0-rward to R.J. Gerber physicist, teacher, man, married or ing to hide the fact. By freely spending a lot of time talking to whatever. admitting it - even saying that you your pillow. STAFF WRITERS But, when on that first day on like it - you take on the assured As far as academic life goes, Libby Shawgo campus you sit in your dorm room, air of one who lives there not by you'll be anchored in a bunch of Evette Pearson a little bewildered at being cut off law by by choice. Namely an low-level classes that all freshmen from friends and family (perhaps upperclassman. must take. You can skip this disad­ Jill Sauter with some relief), your aspirations Frequent the library instead of vantage by dropping subtle hints Cathy Behrendt wifl seem a long way off. the bars. Freshmen still have four to classmates that you "probably Ken Ryan It's time to learn how not to be years to catch up on their studies, should have passed this class the Brett Loman something - a freshman. so most use all that free time to first time." It won't necessarily be a Tim Shellberg Don't look for any help from "socialize," which means losing I ie; ·you probably cove re!:! . the upperclassmen, most of whom will the use of all five senses through same stuff when Y.du were .a deny ever being freshmen. I was some kind of stupor-inducing sophomore in high 'school. And PHOTO EDITOR never one. I came to Eastern with drug: flunked, too. · ~ Ralph Sordyl Jr. all the worldly knowledge and Juniors and seniors are all try­ If you do happen to get into an suave sophistication of, at least, a ing to make up those incompletes upper-level class, answer as many STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS graduate student. and are carrying 21 credit hours to of the instructor's questions as you Cathy Behrendt And you can't expect aid from cover up for dropped classes, so can, even if you are not sure of the other freshmen . What do they you'll seldom find one out living it answers. It will clearly label you a Libby Shawgo know? up. Besides, you will probably be freshman, .b_ut the upperclassmen But, out of my own kindness, carded, and that's a dead give- will thank you for it. -- You can say many things about Macintosh . • > .. ; I TAJ • 11\: 1 ,l.~ 4 .• But "I can't afford it" is It 1 I I ..... ·no longer one ·of them. You can talk about how simple the analysis. The Cl~ic is a completely Apple• Macintosh• computer is to use. Or integrated Macintosh system. Its monitor, how it C"an think the way you think. Or keyboard, mouse and system software are how compatible it is with other computers. all included, as are extras you might not But think again when the word expect-such as built-in networking and "expensive" comes to mind. Because it's the Apple SuperDrive·disk drive, which just not true any more. lets the Classic read from and write to Introducing the Macintosh Cl~ic· MS-DOS, OS/2, and-ProOOS" files. computer. It's the most affordable , Stop in today. We'll show tou hOw it's Macintosh, yet it has all the capabilities you possible for nearly anyone to afford a · need to handle basic applications, such as Macintosh. Comfortably, word processing and spreadsheet . '' Computer Corner Authorized·~ : 820 Lincoln Charleston, Il. Education Sales Consultant Eastern makes changes as time goes on By CHRIS BOGHOSSIAN more than 10,000. Editor in chief And the university, which primarily was a teacher's col­ An act of the Illinois General lege, has transformed into a Assembly on May 22, 1895, liberal arts and sciences and made a reality of a dream business school, the latter of shared by a handful of men. which is illustrated by the new The state legislature Lumpkin College of Business, approved a bill on that day which opened its doors to stu­ calling for the building of two dents last January. normal schools in Illinois, one After the construction of Old to be called Northern Illinois Main, which still highlights the State Normal School and the center of Eastern's campus, other Eastern Illinois State came Pemberton Hall - not -Normal School. At that time, only the first woman's dormito­ sites for the two schools were ry in Eastern's history but on not chosen. any state school's campus. On Sept. 7 of that same Pem Hall, as it came to be year, Charleston was selected known, was built with as the site for what is now Eastern's first gymnasium in known as Eastern Illinois 1909. Now, Eastern has 55 University, which in four years buildings, including 17 resi­ will celebrate its centennial dence halls. And this fall, the anniversary. Student Recreational Center The lawn of wild oats in opens to all students, faculty rant of Old Main, now and staff. astern's administration build­ Lord held his reign as presi­ g, was the scene of the dedi­ dent of the university until he tion of Eastern Illinois State passed away in 1933.