September 2006

Dear Eastern University students, It has been brought to the attention of the Student Development Office that you are having fun. Please stop. Thank you. I’m not sure how many of you read the letter concerning irresponsible drinking sent to our mailboxes, but from my observances standing in the mail room on the day of […]

Katrina one year later…

Katrina one year later…

The very precise fictional character Phineas Fogg made it around the world in 80 days in the book by Jules Verne. Senior Kayon Watson recently discussed her trip around the world in 50 minutes. On September 13, Watson led an interactive session in Baird Library about her study abroad semester this past spring in Australia.

Thanks to a generous donation by former board member Conrad Fowler, Eastern University’s planetarium is receiving an upgrade. Its waning optical-mechanical projector will be replaced with a new digital projector run by computer. The SciDome projector, created by Starry Night, is state of the art and one of only about 35 of its kind, according

Nationwide, 85 percent of college students have Facebook accounts. According to a survey done by political science professor Kathy Lee, approximately 68 percent of Eastern students have Facebook accounts. Approximately 73 percent of students surveyed reported checking Facebook three or more times a day. Over 66 percent of Facebooking students felt violated by the new

Five years ago, the university gathered on the baseball field when they heard about the attacks in New York. On the fifth anniversary of the tragedy of September 11, a portion of the Eastern community gathered together on the baseball field again. The commemorative service began with the meditative words of chaplain Joe Modica, followed

Katrina one year later…

The political science department welcomes Dr. Rosemary “Rosie” Cowan, Ph.D. Cowan hails from Lisburm, northern Ireland. She is teaching justice in a pluralistic society, American government, and political theory classes this semester. “I feel quite strongly about the integration of evangelism with social injustice… in terms of where I’m coming from,” Cowan said, referring to

September 15, 2006 (1:00 p.m.): The road trip to our tournament this week wouldn’t be quite as bad as the last one. Instead of flying for an entire day to California, we were only going about an hour away to Lebanon Valley College. We loaded our 15-passenger Eastern van with seven players, two coaches and