November 2004

According to the title page, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a work of fiction. As the book unfolds, however, the line distinguishing between fiction and fact is bent, blurred and removed entirely. The Things They Carried is primarily concerned with telling the true war story, not the moral war story or the […]

The lobby was buzzing with conversation, punch and cookies. The parents, students, friends and faculty were shifting impatiently waiting for the doors to open. Suddenly, a group of plainly clad women, and a few nuns, wordlessly enter the lobby and began to scrub floors and clean windows. The audience was suddenly made part of the

Although the volleyball team has been performing excellently in previous years, the team has now grown stronger through first-year player Emma Klein. She is ecstatic about playing varsity her first year. “I would have been happy just getting a chance to play, but getting to start is really amazing,” Klein said. “I was not expecting

The Eastern cheering squad is determined to make this year its best year. With a team consisting of just 10 girls, one could assume that this may be a burden. Despite their small number, however, there is reason to be excited about Eastern’s cheerleading team this year. “We’re doing better things with 10 cheerleaders than

With news of the invasion in the Iraqi city of Falluja, I am again burdened by the gravity of the choice the American people have supported in declaring war against the regime of Saddam Hussein to bring about the much-desired democracy that all freedom loving people earnestly want. Al-Zarqawi, the leader of the Iraqi insurgency,

Each year, a significant number of juniors and seniors disappear from residence halls. For some, off-campus housing may be a step toward independence or just more affordable. But one factor that seems to motivate a majority of the off-campus movers is food. Eastern’s meal plans are rather inconvenient. A first-year’s only option is to pay

Personal financial success skills, marketing economics, entrepreneurship and business ethics: these are the four principles on which the Eastern University Students in Free Enterprise club is built upon. Commonly known as SIFE, this club has been quite active this semester, and it seems that their momentum will not be slowing down anytime soon. “We try

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business,” T.S. Eliot says in his final masterpiece, Four Quartets. I often am reminded of this reality during my weekly trips with YACHT into Philadelphia, and especially during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week, which focuses on all levels of poverty in the world.

Standing in the shoes of the poor and oppressed is the emphasis of liberation theology and the focus of the latest presentation sponsored by Eastern’s Theological Society. On November 10, approximately 25 students gathered in the Gough Seminar Room to hear Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary professor of missiology Dr. Samuel Escobar speak about liberation theology’s

Cramming tests, papers, presentations and the rest is not a scarce preparation item on the produce aisle of college work. How to survive the stress of finals is a question that college students have to face this time of year. “The problem is students are stupid and don’t know how to live right,” said Eastern