2006

Top: junior Anthony Pastiglione. Bottom: Jon Vander Pol chips a ball onto the green. The golf team finished its season May 1st in the PAC Championships. Photos provided by sports information director Dan Mouw.

All semester, the Eastern community has anticipated the Equality Ride’s visit. With the amount of worry and hope that we had beforehand, it seems amazing how little has changed since. The debating that went on, the arguing and listening that was only part of the exchange among the Riders and the community, was mostly about

Top ten ways to know it is time to leave Eastern:

“I don’t have an M.D. or a law degree. I have a bachelor’s in kicking ass and taking names.” Meet Nick Naylor, a smooth, sweet talking tobacco lobbyist who speaks on behalf of the Academy of Tobacco Studies and is the star of Thank You For Smoking. Naylor has perfected the art of arguing, making

In 2005, Eastern had a 99% placement rate. The placement rate is the percentage of students who are either continuing their education, are employed or are volunteering full time within 6 months of graduating. 20 % are furthering their education73 % are employed6% volunteer full time75% work a job related to their major. Examples of

Multiple ECards bring multiple memories By Tremonisha Martin When people ask me if I’m ready to graduate, I simply inform them that I’m on my fifth ECard. I think getting to ECard number five is a poignant indicator that your Eastern University experience should be approaching its finale. Especially if it has been five cards

Ask seniors what they fear the most this spring, and the answer may vary from thesis presentations to student loans to making it across the stage without tripping. Yet one fear that most seniors are likely to agree on is the status of the post-graduation job. What they may not stop to realize, however, is

It is traditional, in this space and at this time, for the Waltonian’s outgoing editor-in-chief to say goodbye to the newspaper and the Eastern community and hello to next year’s staff. So: Goodbye. And, Hello. I should probably elaborate a bit. It has been a very good year for the Waltonian. We’ve been able to

The United States prides itself as a nation of immigrants. The Statue of Liberty stands as a symbol of America’s openness bidding, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” However, the debate currently taking place in the U.S. Congress over immigration reform leads me to question whether we really

At Eastern University, we have a history professor who is Catholic, an English professor who is Baptist and a communication professor who is Quaker. We have flaming liberals and staunch conservatives, both faculty and students. We have students and professors from all kinds of cultures, of all kinds of color and with all kinds of