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

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EDITORIAL: Signs of divide

EDITORIAL: Signs of divide

Editorial Board November 6, 2024

Election years bring very heated feelings and emotions to the surface for the American people.   We see this in day-to-day life, in protests and rallies and even in our neighborhoods. These feelings...

EDITORIAL: Ranked choice voting is the way to go

EDITORIAL: Ranked choice voting is the way to go

Editorial Board October 9, 2024

Welcome to the 2024 presidential election season.   Your options this year include one Democrat and one Republican, neither of whom probably represent the full extent on how you feel about the world....

EDITORIAL: Local voting matters just as much as national

EDITORIAL: Local voting matters just as much as national

Editorial Board September 26, 2024

We are faced with what seems a very close presidential race as voting season nears the horizon. Despite what some say, your vote matters just as much in your local community.   Some say their vote...

Cartoon by Gunnar Olson

EDITORIAL: AI threatens independent thinking

Editorial Board September 10, 2024

What if meticulous hours of note taking, grueling Quizlets and long nights powered by questionable amounts of caffeine ceased to exist? Thanks to artificial intelligence, it can.   The current education...

Gunnar Olson, Senior, Journalism.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Politics, multimedia take stage for DEN

Gunnar Olson, Editor-in-Chief August 23, 2024

If you would have told me a year ago that I would be editor-in-chief of The Daily Eastern News, I would have been shocked. This is my senior year at Eastern, along with this being my second year working...

Daily Eastern News logo est. summer 2024.

Meet the fall 2024 editors

Editorial Staff August 23, 2024

Managing Hello there! My name is Alli Hausman, and I am the managing editor here at The News. I am a junior journalism major with a deep love for most things weird. At the DEN, I act as a final editor...

EDITORIAL: Class evaluations should matter

EDITORIAL: Class evaluations should matter

Editorial Board April 4, 2024

At the end of the semester, students submit anonymous evaluations about their classes and professors with aims of helping better the class for future students. As a board, we had seen a vast range of...

The News won 34 awards at the Illinois Collegiate Press Association 2024.

EDITORIAL: The News wins 34 state awards

Editorial Board February 21, 2024

The Daily Eastern News staff won 34 awards at the Illinois Collegiate Press Association this past weekend in Chicago. The staff beat its previous record of 28 awards set at last year's ICPA in both...

Ryan Hendrickson during the open interviews in Buzzard Auditorium. He is one out of four candidates for provost position Thursday morning.

EDITORIAL: We endorse Hendrickson as next provost

Editorial Board February 13, 2024

The Editorial Board majority endorsed Eastern’s current Interim Provost Ryan Hendrickson to serve as the official provost. After weeks of interviews, Eastern heard out the four provost candidates...

EDITORIAL: Should you trust the mystic, weather-predicting rodent?

EDITORIAL: Should you trust the mystic, weather-predicting rodent?

Editorial Board February 5, 2024

Groundhog Day is a celebration celebrated on Feb. 2 every year. The celebration's main focus is on a wise, ancient groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil. Every year, they drag Phil out a of deep winter's...

Students from Eastern Illinois University take pictures together during Block Party Pep Rally event at O‘Brien Stadium Friday night.

EDITORIAL: Eastern needs a devoted provost

Editorial Board January 25, 2024

As students, we need someone who will be able to guide us and the university we devote much of our time to. As a provost, academics and students are the main priorities.  If Eastern is educating...

EDITORIAL: The importance of local voting

EDITORIAL: The importance of local voting

Editorial Board January 23, 2024

When voting, most people think about the biggest election race-- the presidential race. But sometimes when we walk into the booth, we forget about the smaller positions and names on the ballot.  When...

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