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The first coffeehouse of the semester was held on Jan. 30 in Gough Great Room. Students displayed talents both on stage and off. Art by various students was on display throughout the room, raising awareness for the newly formed Mike Ski Art Foundation.

On Jan. 28, just three days into the softball season, Head Coach Mark Ambler unexpectedly passed away following a heart attack. Ambler, who had been a part of the Eastern community for the past 10 years, was entering his seventh season as head coach of the softball team. The news came as a shock to

When junior Jeriah Garton was in the midst of her college searching, playing basketball was not one of her top priorities. Despite having played the game since she was in fifth grade, the 5’11” center did not think she was talented enough to play at the college level. Now, in her third year with Eastern’s

Street luge, like many other extreme sports, was born in Southern California. The sport began in the 1970s with riders using modified skateboards to race down steep roadways. In the early days, there were no organized rules, so riders were permitted to use anything from regular skateboards to custom-built vehicles. The sport died down in

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Golf Finishing fifth in the PAC last season, Eastern’s golf team plans to step up their game as they enter the MAC Conference. “Our guys should compete very well in the MAC,” head coach Mark Birtwistle said. Even though the MAC presents a different challenge, all of the players intend to leave their mark. With

For the second consecutive year, a team of Eastern students participated in a Transformational Travel trip to Haiti from Jan. 3rd through the 11th. Eight students went on this year’s trip, along with faculty advisor Brett Kincaid. Transformational Travel is a program created by Beyond Borders that strives to provide a more thoughtful approach to

Before Mark Hallen, the theatre department of Eastern University was not one that brought about the performances Eastern has grown accustomed to – plays that have been heart-warming, thought-provoking and even controversial, but always entertaining and enlightening. The theatre department was almost nonexistent until Hallen arrived in 1992 and began to form the current program.

Throughout all of 2008, America’s televisions blared with commercials about the government-mandated transition from the analog signal to one that is purely digital. Now that 2009 is upon us, so is the transition. All analog televisions that use rooftop antennas or antennas that simply sit on the set will now have to have a digital

To many he was Mr. Eastern or the King of the Class of ’08, and others also knew him as “Flow-Ski,” but to all he was a great friend. There are no words to adequately express how Mike impacted the Eastern community. While I was reading many comments left by people who knew Mike, I