The Daily Eastern News

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: To Provost Gatrell, get EIU strong

Spencer Spear • April 21, 2023

Dr. Gatrell, My perspective is a unique one that demonstrates my pride for EIU and its community through multiple avenues. PAST: I am a proud EIU alumnus who remembers the positive impacts my...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: UPD failed me, do not let them fail others

Corryn Brock • December 1, 2022

Starting in February, I became the target of dozens of hateful and/or threatening posts on the infamous app Yik Yak because of my work for the Daily Eastern News. Posts like “her dad can’t save her...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 1978 EIU Championship Football Team members forced to pay for a ticket to the Homecoming game

Jason Buckhold • October 25, 2021

On Saturday night, my old college roommates and I met with a group of older alumni while attending some after homecoming activities in Charleston. What stood out to us was that several of these older...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: I love when Brother Jed comes to campus

Nate Carlson • September 14, 2021

I love Brother Jed day. This isn’t to say that I love Brother Jed himself, or the repugnant and hateful ideology that he and his wife semiannually spew on the library quad, but Brother Jed day? Absolutely...

Letter from the editor: Our mission for Spring 2020

JJ Bullock, Editor-in-Chief • March 31, 2020

Our mission at The Daily Eastern News has been and always will be to deliver high-quality journalism and reporting to the Eastern campus and community on all things happening at Eastern. We will...

Letter to the editor: Catholicism is much more than meets the eye

Ben Hahn • March 4, 2020

This letter was submitted by Ben Hahn. During this Lenten season, I was struck by multiple references in last week’s news that failed to capture what Catholicism is really about. From the front...

Letter to the editor: DEN’s communion wafers correction unsatisfactory

Ryan McDaniel • March 2, 2020

This letter was sent by Ryan McDaniel, an instructor in the School of Communication & Journalism and a Catholic priest serving at the Newman Catholic Center. On Feb. 28, The DEN expressed regret...

Open Letter: Africana studies, philosophy essential to university mission

February 2, 2017

A preview of this letter appeared in our print edition on Feb. 2nd, 2017. Dear President Glassman: We, the undersigned members of the Women’s Studies program at Eastern, protest in the strongest...

Letter to the Editor: Commit to paper, thought

Leonidas Miller • September 9, 2016

Dear Editor: Alex Bonnott did well to point out that "going paperless has its downsides, too." Being totally paperless makes possible that I do "not even have to leave my bed," because I have "no need...

Letter to the Editor: Don’t begrudgingly vote Clinton

Jonathan M. Williams • September 9, 2016

Throughout this campaign, we have all heard many reasons why we should not elect Donald Trump as our next president. Although, despite the intense anxiety the word “Trump” generates, the feeling on...

Letter to the Editor: Neutrality not a viable stance on Ferguson

September 4, 2014

I’m writing today in response to a Letter to the Editor published on September 1 entitled “In Ferguson, we are all ignorant to the facts.” To the author, you attribute your silence on Ferguson to...