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Survey based on a poll of 300 Eastern students.

The recent recording of the Hugh Hewitt Show in McInnis auditorium was part of a birthday celebration for Eastern board member Jack Templeton. The Feb. 19 show featured a debate between Eastern Professor Emeritus Tony Campolo and Frank Gaffney, the president of the Center for Security Policy, on the role of America in the world.

“1, 2, 3… Nigger” resounded throughout Baird Library. At the command of the night’s speaker, Butch Slaughter, author of web site www.dienigga.com, the phrase was repeated over and over until he thought everyone felt comfortable with the term. The Feb. 28 BSL/MAC sponsored event was entitled “The N-Word Tragedy” and was focused on the connotations

Dave Volpe, a junior point guard hailing from Harleysville, Pennsylvania, has been a vital link to Eastern’s basketball success. “This season has been my best so far at Eastern, not only because the team’s success on the court has surpassed what we have done in the past few years, but also because of the relations

Dodgeball Sweat. Pain. Intensity. Controversy. Exuberance. Victory. Defeat. Nothing else can explain what goes on in Eastern’s recreational gym every Tuesday night from 10 p.m. to midnight. No, it isn’t baseball or cheerleading practice. Try dodgeball intramurals. Dodgeball is not for the faint of heart. It is a quick-paced game with kickballs flying across the

“You know, here the only things we pay for are pens and pencils and coffee-and the faulty lighting system.” Jingle Man Jerry Niles (played by Bob Grant) looked up as the overhead lights wink edin and out over downstage right. He and Greg Walton, who posed as Fenton B. Warwick, accountant and ex-jingler, were forced

According to senior co-captain Raya Shores, the main difference between this year’s women’s basketball team and last year’s is that “we mesh better.” The season started out with the girls winning their scrimmages, prior to playing actual games. The first game turned out to be a loss, but it was an encouraging loss, Shores says,

Acclaimed Christian author Lauren F. Winner (left) chats with Student Development office manager at a luncheon Feb. 16. Winner was Eastern’s Spiritual Emphasis Week speaker, and began her presentations with Conversations that Matter on Feb. 15. There, she discussed her most recent book, Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, followed by a commentary with

A bearded, barrel-chested man with a black eye-patch and a gruff voice stood like a rock at the entrance of the Wheaton College dining commons telling me tales of elk herds, mountains, Caribou hunting Alaskan Natives, cannibals from South America, llamas and the book of Proverbs. Down the hall, leaning back in an easy chair,

Student Activities try their best Dear Editor, I’m a big believer in a citizen’s right to complain; even so, I was disturbed by the editorial, “Student activities disappoints,” in the February 7 Waltonian. I found it to be mean-spirited and uninformed.Part of the problem is that the author didn’t speak with Director of Student Activities