Employees win decade-long struggleEastern adopts policy allowing domestic partnership for employees
A decade-long struggle to adopt domestic partner benefits at Eastern came to an end recently when Eastern President Doug Whitlock announced at fall convocation the university would adopt the policy, making it available later this fall.
Referred to in the policy as "sponsored dependent" benefits, the term, President Whitlock told the crowd, wasn't meant to mislead.…
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Police Beat for September 2
All information is taken from Eastern police reports. August 9 Police responded to a report of terroristic threatening in the Combs building. A female employee informed police that her husband, also an employee, had threatened to "bust her in the head with a 22 bullet.…
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Domestic partnership benefits: Policy is long overdue
After more than a decade, university administration finally made the momentous decision to establish domestic partnership benefits for Eastern employees.
What this means for faculty and staff members is that if their living partners are over 18 years old, not a relative, not employed by the homeowner and ineligible for Medicare, then they will receive extended benefits through the university.…
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Kerry and Sarah LeBrun were both coached by Head Women's Soccer Coach Lindsay Basalyga for two years while playing club ball, before playing for Eastern. The Fraternal ColonelsTwins, playing in their hometown, could have opponents seeing double
Watching a Colonel soccer game, you would never know Sarah and Kerry LeBrun were sisters, let alone twin sisters.
They are fraternal and aren't the typical "finish each other's sentences" type of sisters, even though they both admit they have finished each other's sentences.…
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Gene Kleppinger, Eastern professor and Blackboard supervisor, holds up a trio of ties from his collection that totals a little more than 100. All tied upEastern professor puts his obsession for neck ties on display Eastern professor puts his obsession for neck ties on display everyday
It's not surprising to hear about people collecting stamps, coins or even crazy-eyed little dolls from foreign countries, but long time Eastern professor Gene Kleppinger has a collection all his own.
He likes ties.
Kleppinger, who helms over Blackboard as well as being a part-time philosophy professor, started wearing ties regularly back in 2000 when his office sat comfortably in the Keene Johnson building.…
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