Women’s & Men’s Basketball Teams Stand Strong After Winter Holiday
Anthony Barr While most of us were at home watching Netflix during winter break, student athletes on the EU Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams were hard at work winning games. Here is…
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Being A Compassionate Community
On a cold and rainy evening midway through last semester, I texted a close friend: “I need a hug and maybe a cup of tea.” It had been a particularly…
The Power of Good Coaches
The year after I graduated high school, I asked to volunteer as assistant coach for the home-school league in which I had played for the last four years. At that…
Thank You, President Obama
As your second term as our president draws to a close, I want to thank you, President Obama, for these eight years that you have served our nation. We did…
On Place and Loving Lil’ Chicago
In my first semester at Eastern, on a warm summer day, I walked with two close friends into Wayne. As we entered the bridge tunnel leading into Wayne, Pa., I…
How Modern Sci-Fi Sees Humans
In 1964, a researcher at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum created the program ELIZA which functioned as an early version of Artificial Intelligence (AI). ELIZA operated on a script which was…
Hark Ye to the Words of the Bard!
The recent decision to award Bob Dylan with the Nobel Prize in Literature has renewed vigorous debate over whether song lyrics ought to be considered poetry. The debate is not…
Eastern Recognized as Top-Tier School Among North Regional Universities
An Eastern press release recently announced some exciting news for the university. In the 2017 edition of the Best Colleges List, which is published by U.S. News & World Report,…
Do We Reward Effort or Results? Debating participation trophies
I started playing soccer at age four, began playing competitively at age eight and continued to play competitively until I graduated from high school. I make this distinction between play…
The Humanity of the Criminal
The problem of dehumanizing criminals in our minds and in our prison systems is a perennial one. Because we as a society feel betrayed when crimes are perpetuated, it is…