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Attention Eastern sports fans: two very important games pitting the Eastern Eagles against some of the top Division III teams in the nation will be taking place on our home turf. At 7 p.m. on Sept. 29, the women’s volleyball team will be playing against the defending national champions and current number one team in […]

Kenyan children are amazed at the pastiness of our skin. They are equally astonished by the fact that we have hair on our arms; they will play with it and never let go, as if it were gold. These children will hold your hand and grab your arm and not let go until you pull

Since the beginning of the fall semester, the traffic on Thomas Drive has increased due to the closing of the Fairview Drive exit. With construction vehicles, students, faculty and visitors driving in and out of Eastern, Thomas Drive has become very crowded. Joggers, bikers and students who choose to take that road only add to

Last February, The Waltonian printed an opinions article mentioning how Sodexho could work better with students’ schedules on the weekends. In response to the article and other student input, the Breezeway will be open on Saturdays from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. for the month of September. This opening is a test trial, and if

Eight anti-depressants and $5,000 worth of debt later, my grandmother found herself in a hospital bed. Pulling back the curtain that shielded her from the busy ER, I found her staring blankly at a wall. At this point I thought of a good MasterCard commercial: one ambulance trip – $800, three nights in the psych

While drag racing is a sport that seems simple, in reality it is very complicated. There are 12 classes of cars, four of which are professional. Each class has a designated weight, wheel size and fuel. The race track is typically a quarter of a mile long with a speed trap at the end to

New OrleansIt has been two years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and students in the areas most affected are still facing difficulties such as poor attendance, underachievement and a high drop-out rate. Between 20,000 and 30,000 elementary and high school students failed to show up at school and more than 10,000 school age boys

I know that returning students who are reading this right now were just as heated as I was when rumors were going around about the Eastern’s new housing policy last fall. Unbeknownst to many of us when we decided to attend, all students who enter Eastern in the fall of 2006 and after are required

Who says you need to know it all as a first-year? If Amy Achey knows one thing, it is that since the age of five, soccer has been the sport for her. “Soccer stuck,” Achey said. “In basketball and football, there are set plays, but in soccer it’s always unpredictable.” After playing through grade school

The Philadelphia Kixx won the Men’s Indoor Soccer League National Championship this past spring, breaking the fabled Curse of William Penn, which has haunted many other Philadelphia teams for years. What connection do the Kixx have to Eastern? Unknown to most of the campus, one of their stars walks among us every day. Andy Guastaferro,