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Remember the question that was supposed to be a conversation starter: “What would you do with $100,000?” Well, it is now Eastern’s turn to start that conversation. Eastern ’02 alumna Kelly Wilbraham nee Van Der Aa, has donated $100,000 to the Cushing Center for Counseling and Academic Support. CCAS has reported that they will use […]

Imagine you’re at the Palmer Seminary music library, seated in front of an old safe crammed with legal documents, slowly sorting through each yellowed page. As you look through the next bundle of aged papers, you catch your breath, unable to believe what you’ve just discovered. You’re holding the lost manuscript of Mozart’s Fantasy in

It was an epic class battle of sorts each year. Could the seniors sneak off campus without the juniors finding out? It was the tradition of the Senior Sneak, right here at Eastern. The Senior Sneak was a yearly event, adopted from the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The first college sneak was in October of

Imagine you are watching a movie and you begin to see images of a place you recognize; familiar buildings and landscapes flash across the screen, and you are astonished as you realize you’ve been in the building where this movie was filmed. This is what happened to an Eastern alumnus who saw the film Oh!

WOMEN’S SOCCER The women’s soccer team was one of two teams to go undefeated in the PAC. The team lit up the scoreboard for five or more goals eight different times, finishing with a 19-3 record. However, the season was not only about offense. The team put together a solid defense which frustrated their opponents’

There may be no place like home for the holidays, but when your family is halfway around the world, somewhere else will often just have to suffice. “If I have a ticket to Korea, I want to go [home for Christmas break],” said Eun Young Jeon, a student in the Korean Nurse Program, “but I

Audience members on stage? This was the scene at Eastern from Nov. 14 to 18, as the theater department brought the rich story of the evolution vs. creation debate to life with theater director Mark Hallen’s adapted version of Inherit the Wind. The story is set in Tennessee in the 1920s, as a schoolteacher is

Raise your fist and join in the chant, because Kea-Guffin has captured the PowderPuff championship for the second year in a row. “From the beginning of the season the girls have been fired up to play in this one game, so I was determined to do anything I could to get them there,” said junior

A new phrase has recently emerged in the Christian lexicon and even has an article on Wikipedia. “Red letter” Christians focus on the words of Jesus (the red type in some Bibles) and endorse more progressive political views. The phrase appears to have been birthed out of a desire of some evangelicals to distinguish themselves