September 2005

Eastern’s fundraising response just the first planned step

After traveling to many different places, including Palestine, as a missionary, Eastern’s new associate professor of missions decided to try something different. Andrew Bush began serving as a missionary in 1986, ministering mostly in the Philippines, southeast Asia and Ramallah, Palestine. He and his wife decided to move back to the United States in order

The Student Activity Board’s Labor Day trips proved to be a worthwhile undertaking, according to its members. On Labor Day, the SAB sponsored free trips to Ocean City, New Jersey and Philadelphia’s South Street. They were also going to sponsor a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo but canceled the trip when nobody signed up. “[We

–FYI–Recently came across your pic of me w/kids from one of this summer’s camps, and wanted to point out that the camp being pictured was not held in Chestnut Hill, as the caption suggested, but rather the Brewerytown section of North Philly at Trinity Baptist Church.

There is a parking problem on this campus. And it is not that there are too few spaces, because little can be done about that. It’s that people can’t park in the spaces we have. Almost every day, there are vehicles parked inappropriately in the upper and lower McInnis lots. Some vehicles straddle two parking

Beer is good, and sex is too. Now that I said it, I’m sure it got your attention. But before you form a lynch mob, hear me out. The traditions in which most of us were raised have us too afraid to talk about these important issues. But instead of fearfully shrinking away from these

If you’re from Philadelphia, New Jersey, or eastern Pennsylvania, you probably know who the Amish are. To some, they stand out like fish on dry land, or, more noticeably, like horse-drawn buggies traveling alongside automobiles on Route 30. The Amish are a peculiar people who dress as if they’re living in the 1700s, live by

In the United States, oppression, discrimination, misrepresentation and marginalization of African-Americans are an integral part of our history and experience. We live in a society where social stratification exists. That is, people are routinely and hierarchically categorized on the bases of race and class. Low socio-economic groups and people of color often lack the access

I’d like to make it clear that I DO hug trees, but only for money. I’m an arborist, which means I climb all over maples, poplars and oaks, but do it surrounded by gas-powered chainsaws, leaf blowers and an old Dodge dump-truck whose tank costs around $90 to top off. Despite the immense fuel costs

The former Eastern SGA president responsible for the wind energy program has taken the first steps toward running for a U.S. Representative position in southern New Jersey. Robin Weinstein, who graduated from Eastern in 2003 and from Palmer Theological Seminary (formerly Eastern Baptist) in 2005, has formed an exploratory committee for the state’s 2nd congressional