2009

Women’s Lacrosse The defending PAC Champions performed on a different stage this season. Returning from their PAC Championship run last season, the Lady Eagles wanted to make a statement early. The Eagles stumbled at the beginning of the season, but, like a championship team, they picked it up. “Every game, we showed improvement some way,” […]

With a history of excellent athletes and coaches, Eastern athletics announced its first class for the newly established Hall of Honor at the annual sports awards dinner on April 26. “We chose honor instead of fame because it’s more biblical,” President David Black said at the beginning of the ceremony. “Honor connotes commitment to specific

Softball Eastern’s softball team has had an unpleasantly unique experience for their first year in the MAC. The death of Head Coach Mark Ambler during the first week of the season threw a wrench in the team’s plans but new Head Coach Colleen Stuppy stepped in to grab the reins. Nevertheless, the Lady Eagles have

Student concerns that recycling bins in dorms are being disregarded and simply combined with regular trash have been circulating throughout the year. Some have witnessed housekeepers dumping recylcing bin contents into trash cans. However, chances are, students are actually the ones to blame. Eastern began a single-stream recycling system this year, which means that all

The Eastern community was hit with another devastating loss on April 9 when former student and men’s lacrosse player Dave Mojica was killed in a car accident. Mojica’s passing is the fourth Eastern-related death this year.Mojica, known to his friends as “Mojo,” transferred to Eastern for the 2008 spring semester and immediately made an impact

Along with blooming trees and April showers, the coming of spring heralds the annual chance for Eastern students to show off their vocal talents at EU Idol, presented by the campus chapter of International Justice Mission. The judges for this year’s competition were Communications Professor Kevin Maness, Dean of Students Daryl Hawkins and English department

On April 17 many Eastern students hung signs across their torsos, equipped themselves with information cards and kept their lips tightly shut. Such actions were all part of participation in the National Day of Silence, a day of activism intended to protest against harassment of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual or transgender (LGBT) students. The Day of

Each year, the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia invites 18 colleges and universities to recommend one of their students who is in the top 25th percentile of their class. This year, the scholarship program’s top pick was sophomore Katie Girsch of the Templeton Honors College. It is the first year that an Eastern student has

When the on-campus apartment list was released on April 15, students who could not claim one of the larger residential spaces quickly noticed that one of the current apartments was missing. The apartment in Guffin Hall, located beside the Breezeway kitchen will officially not be used as residential space next year, according to Director of

Beginning in the fall of 2009, Eastern will be offering a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program to undergraduates. A nursing department has been in place at Eastern since 1980, but a BSN degree has never been offered to traditional undergraduates. Dr. Mary Anne Peters, chair of the nursing department, expects the new nursing opportunity