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MOVIES The Darjeeling Limitedthree brothers, a trip across India, and Owen Wilson Sept. 28 Lust, Cautionintrigue, romance, history and warSept. 28 EVENTS Beyond Therapyinsanity, love and comedy on the stageOct. 2-14Villanova TheatreCall the box office at 610-519-7474 for tickets. Fine Arts FestivalOct. 12St. Davids campusCall the box office at 610-225-5545 for more information. CONCERTS Blue […]

Sept. 9Mike Wilson Cross Country Wilson finished 5th out of 152 with a time of 27:57 at the Delaware Valley Invitational and third at the Lebanon Valley Invitational with a time of 27:38. The sophomore set school records for Eastern with both times, earning the award for the week of the Sept. 9. Sept. 16Lindsay

Book review: Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

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,

Over the course of the last hundred years or so, America has placed a great deal of interest, passion and pride into its professional sports teams. Where sports have traditionally held a good clean place in society, controversies have caused their integrity to be lost. In the span of just a summer, a fury of

For anyone looking for some exercise or a lesson in local history, the Philadelphia Ghost Tour is a great evening activity. And, with a decent amount of imagination, it can even be a creepy adventure into Old City Philadelphia in hopes of seeing a ghost, possibly even Ben Franklin himself. Our tour guide proved to

Why should I go? Is this event worthwhile? Will it be educational and broaden my perspective? The beginning of each semester presents seemingly more invitations to campus events than the one before. Here is yet another invitation, but a worthwhile and useful one. On Sept. 14, Michael Nutter, the 2008 Democratic mayoral candidate for Philadelphia,

Following the shooting at Virginia Tech in April, many schools across the country are pumping up their security and communication systems to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again. For Eastern University and many other colleges the answer lies with e2campus, a mass notification system that enables a non-technical administrator to communicate time-sensitive information to