2005

On November 15, the SGA held a poker forum in the Dining Commons to discuss gambling and poker issues on campus. In attendance were Heidi Birtwistle, Shannon Hartsock, Gershwin Sandberg, John Romanski and Teresa Noye, the RDs of Hainer, Doane, NCH, Gallup and Kea-Guffin, respectively. The only RDs not present were Gough’s Brian Crawford and […]

Imagine you are an alien. You have been sent to Earth to survey the human race and to report on all its dealings. Now imagine trying to explain human war. It might go something like this: “Every now and again, certain humans decide that other humans no longer have the right to go on living.

It took long enough, but Eastern finally has the Fair Trade option. There’s only one catch: students have to want it. Under SPEAK’s current agreement with Sodexho, unless students are willing to pay the extra 50 cents for a cup of coffee, the deal is off. And SPEAK won’t always be sitting outside Walton Hall

“Are we ever going to kill anyone?” a jaded Marine asks after waiting for an eternity in the desert for the Persian Gulf War to begin. A war movie without combat, many casualties and a political agenda, Jarhead is in a class all its own. Sam Mendes, the Academy Award-winning director of American Beauty, tackles

During the November 12 event in the Gough Great Room, the SAB men devoted ‘N SYNC’s “God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You” to the SAB women, particularly senior Rebecca Kolb, far right.

In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the U.S. invades Canada in order to free American children from the smutty influence of the Canadian media industry. Why? Welcome to the world of satire! The makers of South Park pour derision on a pseudo-morality that finds “fart jokes” and movie sex unconscionable while cheerily applauding (or

Starting in the fall of 2006, incoming students will again be expected to spend their entire college careers living on campus. For current students, the policy regarding off-campus living will remain the same, said Bettie Ann Brigham, vice president of student development. At the same time, there will be exceptions granted for some incoming students.

Members of Youth Against Complacency and Homelessness Today prepare to hand out clothes and coffee to the Philadelphian homeless on the night of November 18. During the week of November 14-18, YACHT ran Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, which was a time dedicated to becoming aware of poverty issues around the world. Other HAHA week

“I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada,” Henry David Thoreau said. “What I got by going to Canada was a cold.” But like so many Americans who ask, “Do they speak American up there?” Mr. Thoreau likely didn’t bother to do his homework before heading into the Great White North.

Dear Editor, In the last issue of the Waltonian, Josh Andersen reflected on reaching 2,000 deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. He closed his article with the words, “I still don’t get it.” It is my fear that there are many people in our country who “still don’t get it.” It’s easy to point to