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UNIVERSITY | MEETING
Senate plans for technology options
By JOE ASTROUSKI
Administration Reporter
The Faculty Senate discussed the
strengths and weaknesses of Eastern’s
Information Technology Services at
its meeting Tuesday.
Senate members spoke by tele-
conference with Geoff Wold of the
Lurie Besikof Lapidus and Co. con-
sulting firm.
Eastern hired LBL to conduct
an online survey of faculty and staff
on their experiences with ITS, Wold
said.
“We want to be able to identi-
fy the strengths of ITS,” Wold said.
“We want to identify any areas that
need improvement. If there are any
teaching needs that haven’t been met
… we want to identify that, too.”
Senate members told Wold some
members of the ITS staff are more
qualified than others.
“There is a real dichotomy in
quality control,” said senate member
John Stimec. “There are several staff
at the help desk that are very adept
at what they do … there are others
that are not as adept.”
Senate chair John Pommier com-
mended ITS for communicating
with faculty, staff and students.
“There’s a real strong sense that
we are involved in this process (of
maintaining technology) because we
are informed,” Pommier said. “There
was a sense that “we’re getting it
straight.”
Stimec also said he was concerned
that the online survey LBL distribut-
ed to faculty and staff was not confi-
dential and that responses could be
traced back to individual responders.
Jeff Cooley, business affairs vice
president, said university adminis-
trators wanted the responses to be
traceable so ITS could respond to
the problems listed.
“If someone has a definite prob-
lem, we need some way to get back
to them and help fix those prob-
lems,” Cooley said, adding that the
university did not want to discour-
age negative responses.
Cooley, along with Gary Reed,
director of facilities planning and
management, also spoke to the sen-
ate about efforts to make East-
ern’s campus more environmentally
friendly.
CAMPUS | SENATE
Last Student Senate meeting to be held tonight
Election results
presented, AB
additional allocations
to be voted on
By HEATHER HOLM
Student Government Editor
Winners of the Student Gov-
ernment’s fall semester elections
will be announced at Student Sen-
ate’s final meeting tonight.
Student Body President Levi
Bulgar said every person who ran
should get a spot on the senate
next semester.
“It was an uncontested elec-
tion,” Bulgar said. “There were no
issues.”
All new members will be sworn
in at the meeting as well.
The Student Senate Speaker
position for the spring will also be
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Faculty Senate members listen to a conference call from Geoff Wold of the Lurie Besikof Lapidus and Co. con-
sulting firm Tuesday afternoon in Booth Library.
“The university has received
both state and national recogni-
tion for what we do here through
our recycling program and through
our efforts at energy conservation,”
Cooley said.
Reed said Eastern’s proposed
Renewable Energy Center would
improve the university’s energy effi-
ciency and would reduce emissions
by replacing the current coal-fired
plant.
decided at the meeting.
Drew Griffin, chair of the exter-
nals relations committee, and Stu-
dent Senate member Paul Reid
were vying for the position.
Both Griffin and Reid think
they could handle the job.
Griffin said he could handle
running a meeting.
Reid said current Student Sen-
ate Spear Issac Sandidge and Bul-
gar support him.
Because it is the senate’s last
meeting, Bulgar will present the
State of the University address.
“This speech is about the well-
being of the student body,” Bul-
gar said. “Also, I will talk about
things that have happened in the
world over the semester, such as
the election of Barrack Obama and
the state of the economy in the
speech.”
Sandidge will also give the State
of the Senate Address.
Though President Bill Perry
put plans for the plant on hold last
month, Reed said the university is
still committed to building the ener-
gy center.
“(Perry) is still committed to the
project,” Reed said. “During Janu-
ary, we’re going to make some design
changes.”
The university will take those
changes to Charleston residents in
January, Reed said.
“The State of the Senate
addresses issues within the senate
and what we have accomplished,”
Bulgar said.
Eric Wilber, student execu-
tive vice president, said other than
elections, proposal approved by
Apportionment Board will be pre-
sented at the meeting.
Five allocations from last week
for University Board will be vot-
ed on at the meeting along with
a line-item transfer from Student
Government.
If approved, the transfer would
move $300 from student payroll to
copy service.
A proposal discussing mon-
ey for the Student Government
retreat that took place in the fall
will also be voted on.
The Black Student Union, Stu-
dent Life Office, Latin American
Student Organization and UB all
participated in the retreat.
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Faculty Senate also present-
ed Cooley, who will retire Dec. 31,
with a framed senate resolution in
his honor during the meeting.
“We are doing a search right now,
but there is no way we can replace
you,” Pommier told Cooley. “(Cool-
ey) wants to serve, and he serves
everyone so well.”
Joe Astrouski can be reached at 581-
7942 or at jmastrouski@eiu.edu.
The total cost for the retreat was
$552, and Student Government’s
portion of the cost is $110.52.
If these fail, Ceci Brinker, direc-
tor of student life, will have to foot
the bill.
The senate will vote on $4,500
for UB Special Events; $10, 460
for UB Mainstage; $4,500 for UB
Comedy; $5,235 for UB Produc-
tions; and $2, 350 for UB Home-
coming.
These passed unanimously at
AB two weeks ago.
Also, two other events AB
approved will be presented at the
meeting.
The costs for the events are
$8,275 for “Up All Nite: Casi-
no Royale,” $3,200 for “UB Rush
Hour Lucky Charm” and $9,025
for “Spring Fling Wild Safari.”
Heather Holm can be reached at
581-7942 or haholm@eiu.edu.
campus briefs
Sketch comedy
performance Thursday
Lunchbox Voodoo will perform
its last shows of the semester this
week.
Lunchbox Voodoo, a student
sketch comedy group, and Hello
Dali, a student improv group, will
perform at 9 p.m. Thursday in the
Block Box of the Doudna Fine Arts
Center.
Lunchbox Voodoo will then
make its final performance of the
semester at 9 p.m. Saturday in the
Charleston/Mattoon Room of the
Martin Luther King Jr. University
Union. Both events are free.
Artist winners to be
announced Sunday
Award winners of the 17th Bien-
nial Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois
exhibition will be announced at
2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Tarble
Arts Center.
Artists around Illinois entered
more than 100 students into the
competition. The awards total
$5,450. The actual exhibition of
the artwork will be displayed Sat-
urday and continues until Feb. 22.
The majority of works are
representational landscapes,
cityscapes, figure studies and still
lifes.
Supplies, funds needed
for animal shelter
County Animal Rescue and Edu-
cation, the Coles County animal
shelter, is in need of donations of
collars, leashes, water bowls, rub-
ber chew toys or money to raise
awareness and make a difference
for abandoned pets at the shelter.
Carl Sandburg Elementary
School and Petropics, 626 W.
Lincoln Ave., are teaming up for
the drive.
Petropics will match $1,500 in
donations brought by school
children. Donations can also be
dropped off at Petropics or at the
shelter.
To get to the C.A.R.E. from
Charleston, drive west on Route
16 and take a left on Loxa Road.
There will be a sign to direct
drivers to the shelter.
The shelter is open from 8 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on
Saturdays.
Textbooks due back
by 3 p.m. Dec. 19
Textbook Rental Service will be
open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Dec.
15; from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 16
through 18; and from 8 a.m. to
3 p.m. Dec. 19. Late fines will be
charged on textbooks returned
after Dec. 19, at the rate of $10
per book. The five-day grace
period will expire at 4:30 p.m. Dec.
24. Late textbooks will only be ac-
cepted for the following five days.
After the five-day grace period,
no textbooks will be accepted
and all textbook charges – in
addition to the previously posted
late fine charges – will be posted
to the student account.
– Compiled by News Editor
Stephen Di Benedetto
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