February 2008

From Fiddler on the Roof to The Sound of Music, the familiar tunes and lyrics of several Broadway musicals filled the McInnis Auditorium on Feb. 23. The Saturday afternoon presentation marked the final performance of the collegiate career of GODCHA senior co-founders Bailey Pretak and Natalie Cisternas. GODCHA, which stands for Global Outreach Drama Company […]

Cuba- Fidel Castro’s reign as president of Cuba ended on Tuesday, Feb. 19, as he sent in his letter of resignation. Fidel wrote that he would not be able to continue as president due to his physical condition. In summer of 2006, Fidel had emergency colon surgery and has not fully recovered since. The reign

The Board of Trustees is a group of about 40 men and women who advise the university on matters of policy, finance, governance and real estate. The board met for three days in succession, Feb. 7, 8 and 9, making decisions about issues that will affect Eastern students in the near future. The board members

When Sabrina Calloway graduated from Eastern in 2004 and moved to California, she had no idea that she would be teaching a classroom of Eastern Eagles a few years later. Especially a class between the ages of 8-9. As part of Aspire Public Schools, Calloway instructs a third-grade class at Rosa Parks Academy in Stanton,

There are not many new television show episodes lately due to the writers strike. This opened up the perfect opportunity for the show American Gladiators to make a comeback. American Gladiators is a competition in which amateur athletes compete against body builders known as gladiators. The show originally aired on cable television from 1989 to

N’Djamena, Chad – According to Chadian news reports, on Saturday, Feb. 2, rebels entered Chad’s capital, and heavy fighting was reported around the Presidential Palace. Col. Thierry Burkhard of the French military reported to the Associated Press that an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 rebels had entered the city. The United States and France recommended that

“You just have to wake up and be responsible,” Mercedes McNeal, 17, said of the Saturday morning commute from Philadelphia to Eastern’s St. Davids campus as part of the Cross Boundaries program. McNeal is one of eleven high school juniors and seniors who are part of the applied chemistry class that will be traveling to

Amanda Gass came to Eastern University as a first-year, not knowing she would have to leave a year later. Gass, among other students, decided to transfer to a college that offers nursing programs for undergraduate students. “I loved Eastern, it was a great school,” Gass said in a phone interview, now a nursing student at

Five first-year students were involved in a serious car accident on Saturday night around midnight. The students were driving on Eagle Road, heading for the main entrance to campus, when they hit a telephone poll and rolled the car. The car landed sideways against a tree. The five students, Evan Winter, Ryan Fineran, Steph Onarecker,

Thanks to a private donation, the Eastern biokinetics program, which is comprised of the athletic training and exercise science majors, will be receiving a new laboratory space in McInnis Learning Center. “We are excited, we love being in the athletic training room, but it will give us more space. We won’t be in the way