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Doane Hall, also referred to as “The Mansion on the Hill,” is the oldest residence hall on campus. Once a part of the Walton family estate, it now houses Eastern undergrads. The outside of Doane is beautiful. Trees shield the view of the parking lot, and the location provides a panoramic view of campus. Wooden […]

Prompted by low student attendance, even among honorees, Eastern’s spring Honors Convocation ceremony will be drastically different this year. Rather than a public event for the whole Eastern community, only 60 select undergraduate students will be invited this semester. “It became futile to bring in outside speakers. The bleachers were less than half full,” said

Rob Miller and Elliott Simko race on tricyles around the lounge as a part of Alcohol Awareness Week. Their vision was affected by goggles that simulated a drunken state. Photo provided by Kara Hornak.

New Orleans is slowly recovering from Katrina, but the lives of six Eastern students who traveled to the city over Christmas break are permanently changed. A student’s connection with the Red Cross allowed for an informal team to travel to the city and help participate in the most extensive disaster relief effort in the nation’s

The recent theater production at Eastern was a testament to the power of human words. The Testimony Project was performed January 22 on a bare stage to a small, onstage audience. The performers used verbatim readings of interviews to tackle today’s most controversial religious and political debates. “We thought that if one made a theater

There are two sometimes-conflicting principles that drive Grow Groups, the weekly gatherings organized by student chaplains in each of the residence halls of Eastern University. They are meant to “create an atmosphere or sense of Christian community” on each floor, as University chaplain Joe Modica said, but they are also to be reflections of what

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” The words of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist denomination, would be

When it hit the market last November, the Xbox 360 created a hype similar to the first man landing on the moon. This new gaming system was supposed to be the beginning of a new millennium in video games. Its slick silver and intersecting green colors together with its absence of ninety degree edges were

The new format of the spring convocation ceremony is selective, exclusionary and, in fact, elitist. Under the new system, only 60 of Eastern’s most promising juniors and seniors will be recognized for academic excellence at a special dinner and ceremony on February 17. The event will not be public. All the other hundreds of Dean’s

Rob Miller and Elliott Simko race on tricyles around the lounge as a part of Alcohol Awareness Week. Their vision was affected by goggles that simulated a drunken state. Photo provided by Kara Hornak.