April 2006

Lent is more than just an opportunity to give up a bad habit. For Roman Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox and some Protestants, it is instead one of the most significant times of the year, and is marked by traditions that in some cases stretch back centuries. One tradition observed by all three branches of Christianity […]

Augustine vs. Pelagius, Round 3

The first thing the audience saw when they walked into the auditorium was a forest: a big, sprawling forest with trees that went up the sides of the stage, movable set pieces, a ramp that served as a small hill and a tower embedded into the side of the stage. It was, in a word,

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The recreational gym’s new policy includes a limitation on the number of guests Eastern students can bring to the gym. To prevent the rec gym from becoming something of a local community center, at first the policy was changed to permit only Eastern students and their guests, security director John Sheehan said. While the rec

The weather is getting warm and love is in the air. Wait, retract that statement, it’s more along the lines of war that has now fallen upon Eastern University’s campus. It’s called Assassin. At five o’clock p.m. Monday, April 3, over thirty e-mails went out, each with a designated target’s name to Assassin participants. According

The clothesline project was originally started in Boston in 1990 by a small group of women to raise awareness of issues of intimate violence like rape and abuse. They began hanging clotheslines all over the city with different shirt colors to represent different issues. For example, yellow shirts symbolized battered assault. The project was brought

By spring 2008 there will be two new buildings on campus-that is, if plans fall into place the way the university hopes they will. Eastern has run into opposition during the planning stages from numerous sources. The proposed new additions, which would be located at the corner of King of Prussia and Eagle Roads, will

Is a painful memory haunting your every thought? Or do you know someone who has become so overcome with grief that it consumes them? Such questions were the topic of the 19th Annual Peacemaking Colloquium, which was hosted by Eastern’s social work department. On Monday, March 27, the Gough Great Room was flooded with social

Not many colleges offer classes with a view of a cabin and snow covered mountains. Nor do they offer a library in the valley of the Rocky Mountains. But there is one exception: At Eastern, that class is Youth Ministry in the Wilderness. The two-week class travels to Colorado each year after the spring semester