November 2006

Whether it was spending summer at her house, going shopping, or choosing my career, my aunt was the biggest influence in my life. I lost that influence to alcohol. She always drank socially, but about a year ago, her alcohol intake began increasing. I ignored it for several months; she couldn’t be an alcoholic. Then […]

I would like to comment on Josh Andersen’s article in the October 18 issue. First of all, I consider myself a fundamentalist Baptist. The Westboro Baptist Church has been in the news several times over the past several years, and I would like to make it clear that they do not represent mainstream fundamentalist Christians.

The PAC championship looked more like a reality for Eastern’s men’s soccer team after their dominating regular-season-ending win over Wesley College on Oct. 25. With a roster of 21 players, including no seniors and 11 first-years, head coach Mark Wagner is leading the way to what will hopefully be Eastern’s third PAC title since he

Men’s Soccer Women’s Soccer Field Hockey Volleyball Women’s Tennis School Overall PAC School Overall PAC School Overall PAC School Overall PAC School Overall PAC 1.Alvernia 9-3-5 7-0-2 1.Eastern 13-5-1 9-0-1 1.Eastern 15-4 10-1 1.Eastern 23-10 11-0 1.Cabrini 12-4 11-0 2.Alvernia 10-4-3 6-1-2 2.Cabrini 11-5-3 8-1-1 2.Alvernia 16-3 10-1 2.Gwynedd-Mercy 18-7 9-2 2.Gwynedd-Mercy 14-6 10-1 3.Eastern

The midterm elections of 2006 will be some of the most important in recent years. With hot topics like immigration, same-sex marriage and the war in Iraq, it is important that student voters know the candidates and the issues. This is why we think the smear campaigns currently being run by candidates against each other

Professor Brian Walsh walked onto our Belize campus and began our two-week “God and Nature” course with what seemed like a simple request: Re-imagine the way you perceive the world. This being the halfway point of our Creation Care study program, his request didn’t seem like anything to get too worked up about. It seemed

This year a long-sought dream of music majors and professors alike, an orchestra ensemble, will be realized. “Last year everyone wanted to come together,” Kristin Snyder, a sophomore violinist and in the orchestra, said. “We talked about it with Dr. Matthews. This year I heard this rumor about the orchestra.” The final planning for the

There is definitely a need to pump up the volume, as the rock band Stereos mixes a diverse variety of Christian messages with powerful rock. The band consists of Ben Smither, a sophomore and student chaplain at Eastern, as well as Kina, Bryn and Ryan Graybill, and Scott Leonard. With the exception of Bryn, who

The world in which we live consists of terrorist attacks, devastating hurricanes, an AIDS epidemic, tragic and sudden deaths, inevitable wars, hunger stricken nations, nuclear war testing and seemingly insurmountable civil unrest. It is these times that the group Music Theology sings about in their new album, Troubled Times. Music Theology is led by Eastern