2005

When English professor Chris Bittenbender went to Scotland during his sabbatical last year, he expected to research the censored work of Scottish writers. Instead, he found himself doing research on something different. “I got sidetracked into researching Scottish writers who were obscured but not necessarily censored,” he said. Bittenbender conducted both his planned and unplanned […]

The wheels on the vans go round and round; however, the numbers of wheels have been cut significantly here as Eastern has recently discontinued use of several of the university’s 15-passenger vans. The cut, which was made over the summer, was made for a number of reasons, according to Bettie Ann Brigham, vice president of

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