Politics become reality at latest Model UN
Archive “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…
March 2006
Head-to-Head: Miller’s Blue Like Jazz and Lamott’s Traveling Mercies
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…
Softball swings away at teamwork
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…
Spring intramurals ready to go, flag football makes its debut
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…
Women’s LAX preps for another competitive season
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…
Men’s tennis works hard, sets personal goals
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…
Baseball goal: ‘Erase last year’
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…
The Cross and the Caribou
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…
Why students go traditional
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…
All I know about justice I learned from Cinderella
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…