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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, […]

“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

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

I came to Eastern University with the belief that most people would have the same, or at least very similar, views as my own. I went to high school in an area where my views and beliefs were very different from those of the community’s. I thought that Eastern was going to be a place

For the past several decades, Diane Keaton has entertained us on the big screen and occupied our television sets, delivering memorable and remarkable performances in dozens of Hollywood hits. Anticipating the release of the new major motion film Because I Said So, Keaton’s fans and movie-goers were eager to see her star in a new

I have never…been born in Bolivia. Moved to Mexico. Lived in Costa Rica. But Peder Wiegner has. Even now, as a junior political science major at Eastern, Wiegner is adding to his repertoire of exotic residences with five months in the Republic of Georgia. Wiegner is taking no university classes. He lives not on a

Oscar outcomes: predictions of winners in six major categories

Answer a few questions on the housing contract about your living habits and voilà! The mystical process of being assigned your first-year roommate has begun. Your future heavily depends on your response. But what steps lie within this mysterious process? According to senior Christine Underwood, the process begins around this time every year. Incoming students