A major point of anxiety for many people is getting in front of a large group and speaking without a prepared script or even a known topic. This is not true for the players involved in Comedy Sportz and other improvisational shows like it. This rare species thrives on the unknown. This is the basic […]
This past year for the late night comedy show Saturday Night Live has come with many new changes. There were the changes that happen every year, like welcoming new cast members and saying goodbye to old ones, but a bigger change that happened this year was SNL’s long-running announcer, Don Pardo passed away and was
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Students frustrated over prolonged bridge construction As many of you are aware, the bridge on Chamounix Road by the gym has been out for a long time now. It has been under construction since last semester. Many students are frustrated that this bridge is not fixed yet. Sophomore Andrew O’Brien says, “It is an inconvenience
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The Halloween Harry Potter edition 1. Arrogant first year students walking around like they own the castle. You are sitting in the Great Hall having your morning pumpkin juice when a group of frankie first years comes walking in boldly, laughing and doing foolish wand-waving and silly incantations. They scream to each other across the
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Intrinsically, we are just ordinary people. Many of us are ordinary college students who, on a typical day, wake up, go to class, eat a couple of meals, watch a lot of television and goof around with our friends until we remember the stack of homework we haven’t done, in which we quickly do it,
Ordinary to Extraordinary Read Post »
From Becky Herold In regards to the piece “Got Milk?” in last issue’s opinions section, I offer a few counterpoints for Eastern’s student body to consider. 1) The mechanisms described are misinformed. Firstly, milk and other acid-forming foods do not simply make your body acidic, and this is a misleading way to approach their effects.
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[twocol_one]True Threat Kit Apostolacus The millennial generation is a threat to the workplace, but not because of any generalized traits or stereotypes. Instead, the millennial generation is a threat to the workplace because I have a faith in my peers to stand up for justice, even in the workplace. The workplace is not abstracted from
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The Eastern Eagles field hockey team currently finds themselves on the outside looking in when it comes to making the conference playoffs. They have two games left in the regular season. They dropped a 4-3 decision on Oct. 25 at Manhattanville College and will have wrapped up the regular season by Oct. 28. The Eagles
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The Eastern women’s volleyball team has continued their dominance of the Freedom Conference, running their conference record for the season to 6-0 with three consecutive victories from Oct. 7-21. The Eagles sweetened the pot when they added a fourth victory, a four set upset of 10th ranked Juniata. After a strong defensive performance saw the
Volleyball Team Slugs Their Way to Four Straight Wins Read Post »
Women’s soccer has had a long and exhaustive season thus far. With a current record of 5-12-0 overall as well as a conference record of 2-4-0, Coach Dan Mouw and the Eagles are holding on to a fourth place ranking for the Freedom Conference Tournament in the upcoming weeks. Despite the fight for their place
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