“With all due respect to the authors of draft resolution 1.2 and to the esteemed delegate from Mongolia, this draft resolution is trash.” Here, the delegate from Maldives raised a paper up for the entire Historical General Assembly of 1971 to see… and tore it up into the microphone. “Maldives cannot support a resolution with […]
Donald Miller has been described by Christianity Today as “Anne Lamott with testosterone.” Indeed, Miller’s Blue Like Jazz and Lamott’s Traveling Mercies have strong parallels. Both tell the stories of the authors’ road to faith in God. Both address, topic by topic, big questions about life and spirituality they feel their readers should ask. Both
After returning from spring break spent in Florida, the Eastern softball team now has a clearer sense of their upcoming season. They know who will be playing where and what changes will be made from last season. They also know that despite a strong 2005 season and losing four key players that Coach Mark Ambler
This spring will witness a trial run for men’s flag football intramurals. The season will run for two weeks at the end of March and a week in April. “I’m still on the fence as to whether to make it a real intramural,”intramurals director Rob Granholm said. Granholm, a senior Information Technologies major, has been
Another season of Eastern’s women’s lacrosse is here, and so are its 20 players. When asked what the expectations of this season are, first year Ashley Jones replied, “To win PAC’s! To be a great and positive example to other teams through our attitudes, how we play together, and how we make sure to keep
The 2006 season is here, and men’s tennis is eager to take on another year. Seven players and two coaches have prepared a season full of challenges. “Our team may be small in numbers, but they’re big in spirit,” head coach David Storms said. Their season has yet to start but is rapidly approaching. Upon
Last season, Eastern baseball only won two games while losing 23. “Erase last year,” new head coach Keith Curley said. “Everybody has a clean slate this year.” Six weeks ago Eastern was without a head baseball coach when they filled the gap by hiring Coach Curley. Before then, Coach Brian Burke left the team to
Reverend Trimble Gilbert is the chief and minister to a tribe of 150 Gwich`in people on the land of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which the Bush Administration is presently trying to open up for oil drilling. The drilling would disrupt the migration of the Caribou herds the Gwich`in depend on to survive and would
Anja Eltgroth was raised in an Episcopal home. Before she entered Eastern, she had left that more traditional church and “trended fundamentalist-like,” she said, even somewhat anti-Catholic. But now, as a senior, she has done more than just convert to Catholicism. When she graduates, she plans to become a nun. Her turn toward the higher
When I was five years old, my father took me to see the Disney version of Cinderella at a packed theatre. During the scene in which the ugly stepsisters start ripping apart Cinderella’s dress, most of the other kids in the room started to cry. Not me. I stood on my chair, pointed at the
