Area temperatures during Eastern's finals week should hover around the 40s and possibly the 50s, said local weather observer Dalias Price.

This semester, complaints have run rampant about Student Senate. As senate members, we too were disheartened by the lack of proactive response to student concerns. This was key in our decisions to end our senate terms this semester.

Taking a trip back in time to fireplace cooking and hand-made Christmas ornaments, this past weekend's Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site event gave Eastern students and area residents the chance to see what the holidays were like in the 1800s.

To the sounds of cheering, applause and air horns, approximately 750 students received their Eastern degrees during commencement ceremonies Saturday in Lantz Arena.

To the sounds of cheering, applause and air horns, approximately 750 students received their Eastern degrees during commencement ceremonies Saturday in Lantz Arena.

Eastern students have grown accustomed to construction delays- they're almost as common as the chain-link fences that accompany the delayed construction projects themselves.

In response to Raymond Keeler's Dec. 6 column, "It's Thank You Time," I have a few compliments for Raymond and those fabulous newswriting skills of his. First, I'd like to give a huge thanks and tell you how impressed I am that you kicked off your column commending the rugby girls on their "tough season" and still managed to end on a negative note, bashing the volleyball team and women's basketball team.

Journalists have a tendency to be cynical. However, I do not consider myself to be a cynical person. When people tell me something, I believe them. However, events of the last few days have led me to believe that there is a reason journalists have to be cynical.

'Twas the week before finals

The Illinois Board of Higher Education votes Tuesday on budget recommendations set to increase Eastern's funding by 5.4 percent for the next fiscal year.

A good turnout at Thursday's "Floor to Ceiling" art exhibition floored the event's coordinator and has raised the ceiling of his expectations.

More than 99 percent of the students on this campus cannot answer the question "Where were you Dec. 7, 1941?" simply because they weren't born yet. Many of our parents had not even been born.