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The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

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Vice President for Business Affairs Matt Bierman discusses updated fees for the 2025-26 school year with the EIU student senate at its weekly meeting in the 1895 room of the Martin Luther King Jr student union on Wednesday.
Student senate reviews 2.75% tuition increase for 2026
Jason Coulombe, Assistant News Editor • March 17, 2025

The EIU student senate reviewed tuition and student fees for the 2025-26 school year at its meeting on Wednesday. Across the board, tuition will increase...

Events and Exhibit Coordinator Diane Highland show directions on where to find the Jane Addams exhibit to the audience at Booth Library for Women’s History Month on March 13.
Booth Library honors Jane Addams for Women’s History Month
Koria Downs, Reporter • March 14, 2025

March is Women’s History and Awareness Month, and to celebrate, Booth Library hosted an exhibit tributing American activist Jane Addams on Thursday from...

Partygoers dance and listen to music at the second house on First Street at Unofficial on March 8.
Crime rates remain similar to last year at Unofficial
Bryce Parker, Multimedia Reporter • March 14, 2025

The annual pseudo-holiday Unofficial took place on Saturday and led to the usual increase in police calls.   This year’s Unofficial had a similar...

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The Trojans are set to play their first home game on March 25 against Cumberland at Karch Field.
CHS softball looks to keep success going ahead of new season
Gabe Newman, Assistant Sports Editor • March 17, 2025

Editor's Note: Blain Mayhall was at Charleston High School for 12 seasons, not 11. Allyson O’dell is far from a stranger to the Charleston...

Sophomore Aleyla Wooten bites her lip while hitting the ball over to the other team during the doubles match against Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks at Atkins Tennis Center.
Panthers of the Week: Aleyla Wooten, Zak Goodwin
Zaria Flippin, Sports Editor • March 17, 2025

The female Panther of the Week is going to Aleyla Wooten from the tennis team. The junior from Lakeland, Tennessee recorded wins...

Charleston High School baseball manager Daniel Bennett speaks with his team before a practice at Baker Field on Wednesday in Charleston, Illinois. 
CHS baseball leans on experience ahead of new season
Jason Coulombe, Assistant News Editor • March 16, 2025

As the weather gets warmer, Charleston High School baseball is gearing up for the 2025 season.   The Trojans are coming off a 14-16...

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Cam'ron Hardy
“The Batman:” a new perspective three years later 
Cam'ron Hardy, Reporter • March 20, 2025

As a life-long Batman fan it was hard for me to come to the realization that a new Batman film was coming out in 2022.  Before it came...

Rob Le Cates
COLUMN: I went to Unofficial sober so you don’t have to
Rob Le Cates, Design Editor • March 14, 2025

Ah yes, Unofficial.   The “official” time of year to party with friends and get absolutely plastered before 10 a.m. Unlike me, hundreds...

Jacob Hamm
COLUMN: ‘Children of Jihad:’ captivating, thrilling, chilling
Jacob Hamm, Reporter • March 13, 2025

Last year, I was loaned a book by one of my professors after he read aloud a passage during class in order to teach us how to write creatively.   That...

The Weeklings lead guitarist John Merjave [Left] and guitarist Bob Burger [Right] perform "I Am the Walrus" at The Weeklings Beatles Bash concert in the Dvorak Concert Hall on Saturday.
Beatles tribute band rocks out at Doudna
Jason Coulombe, Assistant News Editor • March 10, 2025

The sounds of one of the most successful bands of all time came to Doudna Fine Arts Center’s Dvorak Concert Hall Saturday night in the form...

The team listens as its captain Patience Cox [Number 25] lectures to them about what's appropriate to talk about through practice during "The Wolves" on Thursday, March 6, in the Black Box Theatre in the Doudna Fine Arts Center in Charleston, Ill.
‘The Wolves’ premieres at Doudna Fine Arts Center
Rob Crownson, Reporter • March 9, 2025

“The Wolves” premiered at Eastern Illinois University in Doudna Fine Arts Center’s Black Box theater on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.   Directed...

A family shows how proud they are as their child excitedly points to his name on the art exhibit wall in the Tarble Arts Center on Friday.
K-12 students show art at Tarble Arts Center
Koria Downs, Reporter • February 9, 2025

With a full house of families, teachers and students from across east-central Illinois, the Tarble Arts Center opened “Art from Here” on...

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