Women’s volleyball soars to seventh straight conference title. I struggle to find a title to adequately describe the Eastern women’s volleyball team’s past two decades or so. The 18-Year Dynasty? The Reign of Terror? The Queens of the Court, perhaps? In essence, there is no easy way to describe the program that added its seventh […]
Eastern men’s basketball will be under way Saturday Nov. 15. This season has the potential to be a good season for the Eastern Eagles men’s basketball team. They were picked fourth in the Freedom Conference preseason polls. If this prediction is right, then the Eagles will make the Freedom Conference tournament. This would be a
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We are just a couple of days away from the beginning of another women’s basketball season. They kick off the season Nov. 14 against UMBC and then play the notorious school from across the street, Cabrini, on Nov. 17. This season should be exciting and interesting. Eastern is ranked second in the Freedom Conference preseason
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Even though the Eastern Eagles lost on Saturday against King’s College, they still had a very successful season. If the Eagles won on Saturday it would have been their first conference championship since 2007. However, they played extremely well in the heart-breaking double overtime loss against King’s. The Eagles started this year as the favorites
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The World Series is the pinnacle of baseball’s 162-game season, and this year the battle for the best team took place between a band of misfits, the San Francisco Giants, and America’s team, the Kansas City Royals. Game one seemed to be established in the first inning of the game. Pablo Sandoval’s RBI double started
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Press Release from the Task Force on Human Sexuality Eastern Community – In the face of new understandings and historical dynamics, and because scripture tells us we are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” President Duffett has called a task force to plan for campus-wide conversation on human sexuality “in all its facets” from historical, Biblical, theological,
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Bryan Stevenson, Eastern alum of the class of 1981, has recently been receiving national attention in regards to his work against the injustice within the legal system. Racial bias, false convictions, unreliable eyewitness testimonies, and botched executions are just a few of the issues that plague the American Justice system within the 21st century. Born
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The Islamic State has been constantly growing in force and number since their first emergence. Social media has been a major factor in the recruiting of new members, and recently there have been hundreds of French youths, particularly females, joining ISIS. The new onslaught of young women leaving home for ISIS came as a shock
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The beginning of autumn has ushered in cold weather, crisp leaves and sore throats. Because of the change in seasons and a general lack of sleep, students are more likely to get sick. But there is a new virus in the United States that supersedes the commonplace illnesses that usually accompany fall. It is difficult
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On October 1, 2014, Mayor Nutter signed a new piece of legislation to decriminalize marijuana within the Philadelphia area. From October 20 on, this new law will fine people around twenty-five dollars if thirty grams of marijuana or less are found on them. This eliminates arrests and charging individuals with small amounts in their possession,
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