It is Halloween night, and you weren’t planning on dressing up until a group of your friends came pounding on your door, begging you to go trick-or-treating with them. But you have nothing to wear. Have no fear: Here are several quick, last-minute costumes that you can throw together. 1. Ghost. The quintessential last-minute […]
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According to junior Beth Sherron, the coordinator for this year’s Mr. Eastern, there will be four different rounds in the competition. “We will have the talent section, lip-syncing, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and, since the event is happening so close to Halloween, we will have them dress up for Halloween and make them bob
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When the Halloween season comes around, many Christian conservatives cringe. But why is that? What is so wrong with a holiday that so many children grow up looking forward to? The holiday when they can dress up as Red Riding Hood and Ninja Turtles. The real question is, as Christians, should we even celebrate Halloween?
Should we celebrate Halloween? Read Post »
By now we’ve all heard plenty about Falcon Henne and his staged balloon ride across Colorado. If not, put “balloon boy” in your web browser and soak up the drama of possibly the biggest hoax in recent history. The latest development? According to a CNN report on Oct. 23, Mayumi Henne admitted in a court
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In these times of hardship, peace and justice are at the forefront of the minds of many all around the world. These are the things that come to mind when I think of a Nobel Peace Prize winner. However, I have been wondering about the most recent recipient President Barack Obama. Upon hearing that he
Hasty decisions are bad decisions Read Post »
Eastern welcomes all visitors with open arms, particularly on preview days for prospective students. On Nov. 9, there will be a different kind of preview day with a much younger group of prospective students. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., current students will lead 115 seventh and eighth graders from John Welsh elementary school in
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Procrastinating, late, disorganized, lacking focus. These are just some of the words you could use to describe a lot of students. Everyone knows that member of their class who never gets the work or reading done on time or who stays up to 4 a.m. to get that term paper done–the one that was assigned
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Perched atop the hill, keeping watch over campus, Doane Hall would be the perfect setting for a typical low-budget horror film. The building, constructed in the 1910s, even has its own ghost story. According to the Web site strangehappenings.org, students have reported finding rope and seeing feet dangling below the door of a bathroom stall
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