September 2007

An annual phenomenon has once again befallen Eastern’s campus. Every weekend, hordes of students with homework and laundry baskets in tow crowd into their cars and head for home. Residence hall parking lots are suddenly and blissfully half-empty. Paths congested during the week are bare except for small numbers of students making their way to […]

While taking a quiet walk around campus or hustling to those evening classes, you may at some point have thought you were in Scotland, or simply hearing things. You hear bagpipes playing in the background and know for sure Eastern does not have a bagpipe band, and so you say to yourself, “Where is that

Students are not the only ones on Facebook. A steady influx of outsiders-those not belonging to the original college student-targeted membership-have joined the Facebook ranks in the three years since its creation. Facebook is now open to anyone with a desire to join, but why would professors or the administration have any interest in joining?

Early September brought the advent of College.com, the latest in a series of online social networks. The site is hoping to attract the market of frustrated college-age Facebook users. Over 200,000 new users register on Facebook daily, however, the site, once limited to college students, was opened to the general public in Sept. 2006. College.com

Imagine yourself walking down the street, through the grocery store or up the apartment stairs. Lost in your own existence, a faint noise encroaches your perfect world. A muffled tone slowly but surely invades your personal calm. At first, your attempts to identify the noise fail miserably; your brain can’t seem to process what your

Baghdad – Recently, there has been an outbreak of cholera in Baghdad. So far it is believed to have infected over 7,000 people and seems to be spreading at an alarming rate. This epidemic has spread over the north of Iraq and has begun to spread to the south as well. The war in Iraq

How online presences affect college students across America

Let me begin by saying that I am no expert on relationships. I am in a relationship and everyday it is an adventure. My girlfriend will probably tell you that I succeed and I fail, that I do a good job at truly loving her and other times I’m just short of being the biggest

1. Don’t post inappropriate pictures2. Don’t put too much personal contact information3. Don’t have a relationship status4. Don’t write down incriminating interests5. Don’t write on people’s walls about other people, professors or coaches6. Don’t join inappropriate groups7.. Don’t use inappropriate applications

Staying up all night to write a research paper can be stressful without a good wireless Internet connection. In addition, having the mobility to work from a comfy chair or bed instead of a desk chair with a 10-foot Ethernet cable can be a huge asset when time is running out. To make Internet access