Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 2020 2-7-2020 Daily Eastern News: February 07, 2020 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2020_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 07, 2020" (2020). February. 5. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2020_feb/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 2020 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. JAZZ IT UP ANOTHER BIG WIN I The Eastern women's basketball team ' Group 'Blacktet' will perform with the EIU Jazz Ensemble on Friday, and beat Eastern Kentucky the , 85-38, ,, Eastern will host jazz clinics all day Saturday for students. second-straight blowout win for the Panthers. PAGE 3 l' .. AILY ASTERNT Friday, February "TELL THE RUTHAND DON'T BE AFRAI ' 7, 2020 VOL. 104 NO. 92 CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF COVERAGE EST. 1915 ·WWW.DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM McLaughlin talks to CAA Platoon atta ck training about OMA StaffReport I @DEN_news The Council on Academic Affairs approved a program change within the geology department, which willchange the way students complete their work in fidd camps. Eastern was able to send students to do field campwork that was byrun Easternin the past, but that stopped in 2010 because of issues staffing the field camps.Eastern has since beensending itsgeol­ ogy students to conduct field camp work in camps run by other universities. The change approved by the CAA on Thursdaywill now just make it a re­ quirement forthe geologydegree that students at­ tend a field camp runby another school. General education committee The CAA was also given an update by council member Billy Hung on the progress of Eastern's general educationcommittee. Hung told the CAAthat the c;ommittee is cur­ rently assessing both writing and speaking_ learning goals at Eastern and will' soon assess critical think­ ingskills and their rdationshipto general education. A subcommittee will write the general consensus of the general education committee, which will aim to determine which recommendations are feasible with Eastern'sresources, Hung said. Hung said one of the difficulties in assessing gen­ eral education is that students do not all take gen­ eral education courses at the same time; some stu­ KARINA DELGADO I THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Eastern's Army ROTC takes place in McAfee Gym on Thursday evening. Students prepare and get ready to go over their operat on plan dentstake a majority of them as freshmen and soph­ i omores, while other students wait until later in their forMilitary Science lab. collegiate careers.And transfer students often arrive with many of their general education courses com­ pleted. That complicates the issue of trying to assess what students are learningfrom Eastern, he said. Open MeetingsAct Students discuss update to Drug Free Act The CAA was also given an update on its pro­ By Austen Brown posedbylaw changesfrom UniversityCounsel Lau­ StaffReporter I @DEN_news "People are going to (drink and do drugs) regardless, ra Mclaughlin. When the CAA began revising its bylaws, McLaughlin recommended changes say­ Eastern students offered their take o� drug and whether you tell them about it or not." ing that the CAAis not subject to theIllinois Open alcohol use on campus following the updated Drug MeetingsAct andcould insteadoperate in the "spir­ Free Schools and Communities Act, which offers a Andrew Hillyard, sophomore music education major it" of the act. strategic plan to reduce substance use on campus. McLaughlin cited a 1977 Illinois FourthAppel­ The Drug Free Schools and Communities Act Emily Becker, a sophomore psychology and in Illinois, the topic of using canna�is on campus­ late District opinion involving the University of Il­ was passed in 1986 to minimize drug use on col­ criminology major, agreed that alcoholism is not a es is one of note. linois, Pope v. Parkinson, which stated that a judge lege campuses and has seen a handful of amend­ major conflict on campus. Becker said educating students on the effects of would look at three things to determine whether a ments since that time. "I don't personally know anyone on campus marijuana use more effectively might be necessary university committee was subject to the OMA: 1) One amendment to the act wasa regulationthat who has an alcohol dependency," she said. now that recreational cannabis is legal. "who appoints the council and to whom it is ac­ reqµired schools receiving federal funding to edu­ Becker alsosaid she believes the use of hardsub­ Hillyard said it would not be any safer or more countable''; 2) "whether it is soldy advisory''; and 3) cate students everyother year on the effectsof drug stances such as cocaine, heroin and meth is rare on harmful to allow recreational pot use on campus, whether the council deals only with internal [ ...] af­ and alcohol use and addiction. campus. but the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act fuirs." AndrewHillyard, a sophomore music education Nicholas Tkachuk, a senior music education is necessary to maintain a healthy school environ­ Under thisanalysis, she said, the CAAwould fail major, saidhe hassome experience with alcohol-de­ major, on the other hand, said alcohol abuseis, in ment. to meetthe first requirement as it does not appear to pendent people. fact,an issueon campus. However, he acknowledged that students might ' have been created by the Faculty Senate, the Board However, Hillyard said alcoholism is not as He said it is not an epidemic campus-wide, but smoke pot off campus and said that is not an issue. of Tr ustees or the president, all of which are "crea­ common as some people would believe on Eastern's the "college stigma" of alcoholism proves true at Overall, though, he "think(s) marijuana should � of the agency" of the state, havingbee,n set up campus. Eastern. stay offcampus. " byeither state law or by the BOT and/or its prede­ 'Tm not sure that (alcoholism) is necessarily a Overall, Tkachuk said alcohol and drug use on Tkachuk saiduse of cannabis is common among cessors. pandemic on the campus ... so much as individ­ campus is a result of peer p�ure. Eastern students, but most of it occursoff campus. "As I've read your bylaws, obviously, you were uals probably usirig it more than they should," he "I think the pressures of situations put people · He also said it would be reasonable to keep mar­ created independent of any of the senates or at least said. into circumstances where theydo (drugs) regardless ijuana offcampus as tobacco is also prohibited. your bylaws indicatethat it's not rdated to the sen­ Hillyard also said educatingstudents on the ef­ of their knowledge (of the effects),"he said. Tkachuk said marijuana would cause problems ate. You've not been created by the Board of Trust­ fects of substance abuse might not be an effective Educating students more on the topic of alco­ ifit waslegalized for on-campus use. ees. It's not created by the president," Mclaughlin way to go about minimizing it, but it could dem­ hol and drug abuse may or may not influencetheir He saideducating studentson peer pressure and said."You have your own entity. It was somehow onstratehow to safdy partakein those activities. choices. use in moderation should be the bottom line foral­ createdwithin the university. It failsthe firstdement "People are going to (drink and do drugs) re­ Tkachuk s.aid a more effective approach to re­ cohol and drug education. of the Pope analysis of being a creatureof the agen­ gardless, whether you tell them about it or not," ducing drug and alcohol abuse on campus might " cy. he said. ''.At least theyknow how to be safe with it be to teach students to avoid situations in which Austen Brown can be reached at 581-2812 ... ifyou tdl them about.it, rather than continually theywould be influenced to use drugs and alcohol. or [email protected]. CAA, pages pushfor them to not use it." With the legalization-0f recreational marijuana . , , t • � ''t"'.,\I THE DAILY E�STERN NEWS I AP NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020 I. I Local weather State and Nation I FRIDAY SATURDAY TIIEASSOCIATED PRESS New virus vaccine may not come in time WASHINGTON (AP) - The and Chinese authorities to give it a no specific treatment, some doctors fectious Diseases' Vaccine Research Partly sunny Mostly cloudy flu-like virus that exploded ·from try this time around. Because the also are experimenting with antiviral Center. Without that step,..:.'we're _go­ High: 35 High: 33 China has-researchers worldwide new virus is a dose-cousin of SARS, medicines developed for other con­ ing to be at risk for new pandemics." Low: 2s· Low: 24° once again scrambling to find .a vac­ it just might protect, said Dr. Peter ditions. Traditionally, making vaccines re­ cine against a surprise health threat, Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine. • "Ours is already manufactured quired fir6t growing lots of virus in with no guarantee one will arrive in and Te xas Children's Hospital. _ and could.take off pretty quickly," a lab. The NIH team is pursuing a time. All that work is coming at light- said Hotez, who created the earli­ newer and farfaster metpod: Simply Just days after Chinese scientists ning speed compared to past out- er SARS vaccine with Te xas Chil­ use a piece of the virus' genetic code, THE DAILY shared the genetic m�p of the culprit breaks. Yet many eii.perts agree it still dren's colleague Maria. Elena Bot­ called messenger RNA or mRNA, coronavirus, researchers at the U.S.