Category: Articles
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‘It doesn’t mean that life is over:’ Professor talks living with blindness
Professor of history Martin Hardeman has been teaching at Eastern since 1992, and he is completely blind. Hardeman is a friendly face in Eastern’s history department, and he is not afraid to discuss his disability or poke fun at it. He said he was born with glaucoma, which is an eye disease that is common…
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Farmers’ suicide rates, mental health draw important conversations
Programs aim to assist them and new ones are in the works Studies show that farmers’ suicide rates have been nearly four times higher than that of the general occupational population, but calculating those rates is extremely difficult and unique to the agricultural profession. While it is a challenge to study farmers’ suicide rates, it…
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Local farmer weighs in on Illinois flooding
Under a cloudy gray sky on a humid July morning, Alan Metzger, a Charleston farmer, scans his cornfield among the stalks. He points toward the ones that are lagging behind in growth because of flooding. He said it is impossible for people driving by to see just how much the excessive rain has affected the…
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Community members protest immigration policies, white supremacy
Members of the Coles County community lined up near Lincoln Avenue sings in hand to protest immigration policies and white supremacy at Morton Park Thursday evening. Mathematics professor Charles Delman said he was protesting the current conditions regarding immigrant families at the Mexico-U.S. Border. Delman said the separation of immigrant families and the placing of…
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