Two new faces will join Eastern's Board of Regents, replacing Daisy French and Cookie Henson. Both French's and Henson's terms expired Wednesday, according to Eastern's Division of Public Relations and Marketing. Gov. Ernie Fletcher announced Wednesday his first appointments to each of the state's public postsecondary educational institutions.…

The Board of Regents threw their support to the university's first ever capital campaign Monday. The OK allows the university's Foundation Board to move forward with a major fundraising operation expected to raise "tens of millions of dollars," according to Bart Meyer, vice president of university advancement.…

Resignations, retirements and hires make up several recent administrative changes at Eastern altering the face of the university's leadership. The changes mean all four vice presidents are fairly new to campus, each hired in the last 16 months. Vice President of Student Affairs James Conneely, hired in February of last year, is now the senior most vice president.…

Following the request of national and state leaders, university offices will be closed and summer classes will not be held Friday in honor and remembrance of Former President Ronald Reagan. President George W. Bush declared Friday a National Day of Mourning and Gov.…

When the lights went out This semester campus experienced one of the worst power outages in at least 10 years. The outages started Jan. 25 when an electrical cable failed in the university's electrical system. The buildings affected included the 700 and 800 blocks of Brockton, Begley, Coates, Jones, Roark and Memorial Science.…

Bernie Rhodenbarr stole Lawrence Block's heart, or so his turquoise T-shirt said. The New York Times best-selling writer came to campus Monday afternoon for a talk and reception on his current tour for his book "The Burglar on the Prowl." The book is one in a series that follows Rhodenbarr, an antiquarian bookseller by day and burglar by night.…

The university's tuition and residence halls fee plan was unveiled Thursday - and for many students the news was bad. Eastern's Board of Regents approved increases in tuition and residence hall rates next fall that will require students to pay at least $500 more to attend the university, and tuition for some could rise more than $1,700.…

The caps and gowns have been received, invitations have been sent out and the presents have begun rolling in. There is no turning back now. Every candidate is probably counting the days, even the hours, until they are no longer a student but an alumni. Former NASA astronaut Story Musgrave and Lt.…

News editor named Kentucky Colonel Adam Baker, The Eastern Progress news editor, received a Kentucky Colonel commission for his coverage of credit card legislation as it regards college students. Rep. Susan Westrom, D-Lexington, nominated Baker for his efforts.…

April 19 Joseph Lansing, 24, of Richmond, was arrested for and charged with having an improper registration plate and operating on a suspended operator's license. Shalamar Stokley reported two residents in Burnam Hall were harassed by a student. April 20 Chad D.…

This is the last part in a three-part series about online classes. While Eastern's campus will not become one big computer lab, online classes continue to be a topic of discussion on a number of levels. University President Joanne Glasser said the availability of online classes is more and more significant, but many areas of this subject have only recently been explored.…

The EKU Dance Theatre held its Spring Concert last week. The concert included a wide variety of several types of dances including hip-hop and interpretive dancing. …

Eastern will say "goodbye" to history professor Mary Ellen Klatte when she retires after the fall semester. When Klatte came here in 1970, five people shared an office in a basement with only one phone and one typewriter. In 1976 the social science department moved to the third floor of the Keith Building.…

Joel Roitman has been a fixture in Eastern's history department for 34 years. Roitman, 67, grew up in Memphis but moved to Richmond when he began teaching at Eastern in the fall of 1970. Before deciding on a career as a professor, Roitman served in the military for three years and worked as a newspaper reporter at The Press-Scimitar in Memphis.…

Eastern is losing a 34-year veteran from the history department. Hank Everman has spent 37 years of his life educating others, and only three of those years were not spent at Eastern. Government and social sciences are his expertise, but Everman's specialty at Eastern was history.…

Since the fall of 1968 Michael "Mick" Lewis has taught at Eastern in the history department. After this semester he and a few of his longtime colleagues will retire. Lewis has had the opportunity of teaching in six different departments, including history, government, philosophy, geography, humanities and in the Honors Program.…

They say the third time's a charm. That wasn't true, though, for Rep. Susan Westrom, D-Lexington, in this year's General Assembly. For the third year in a row Westrom's proposed legislation to restrict credit card legislation on college campuses failed to be made law.…