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 what you need to know about how our Eastern Eagles are doing and what to look for this […]
Author: Anthony Barr
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 rough day for me, compounding the pain of a rough week. The particulars of my pain that night […]
Featured Eastern University Poets
Ours is an age which has learned to domesticate despair by approaching any and all enchantment as illusions and, therefore, lies. I believe that poetry is an antidote to this despair, not because reading or writing poems makes one happy, though often it does, but rather because poetry is meaningful […]
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 point in my life, I had played soccer every season from the time I was four years old […]
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 not agree on everything, and some of our disagreements, regarding abortion, for example, are profound. Yet my respect […]
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 noticed the graffiti which announced that we were “now entering lil chicago.” I still don’t know exactly why […]
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 designed to mirror the speech patterns of a psychoanalyst (responding to almost everything with a question) such that […]
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 because Dylan is somehow a polarizing figure but rather because poetry is so often neglected as a literary […]
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, Eastern was again ranked in the Top Tier of North Regional Universities. Eastern is at number 91 on […]
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 and competitive play not because my four-year old-self did not understand the concept of winning or losing, but rather […]