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Despite all the discussion that has occurred about whether to switch to a 4×4 curriculum plan, there are still some serious questions that need to be answered before the decision is made. Proponents of the plan claim that the switch will allow students to focus more on each class by having fewer courses each semester […]

SGA sophomore president Shannen Shadel recently resigned her post in order to pursue a career in the Army Reserves. “It’s a personal decision, and I want to be involved with something bigger than myself,” she said. She has always expressed support for the armed forces. She made her announcement on December 5 at the SGA’s

It’s been a little over a decade since I met Jesus in a Tennessee Waffle House. He plucked me out of my plastic orange booth and, simultaneously, from a deeply destructive lifestyle. It was a radical conversion on Halloween night. A waiter pranced around in full Elvira drag while I recited a tearful sinner’s prayer

Dear Editor, In the last issue of the Waltonian, one of the front-page articles addressed the issue of mandatory on-campus living for students. This may seem like a good idea at first, but I personally do not think it is going to work. There are many issues that are not brought up regarding the reasons

From Wayne’s World to Rocky, Blue Velvet to Pulp Fiction, Clerks X to Twin Peaks, all kinds of movies were represented at Movie-oke. Sponsored by and held at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Movie-oke took place the night of December 1. Movie-oke is a twist on karoake. Instead of a person singing the lyrics to

We’ve got to get our priorities straight. I refer specifically to Josh Andersen’s attitude toward the Iraqi war, which he expressed in his November 12 Waltonian article. In that article, he voiced his grief over the deaths of 2,000 American soldiers and his anger at the war we have waged in Iraq. I feel his

When I was seven years old, I used to pray that the powers that be would release movie versions of the final three Chronicles of Narnia books. I loved the BBC versions of the first four books. Sure, they seem terrible now, but back then it made no difference to me that Mr. Beaver definitely

Even as Eastern considers the switch from a 3×5 credit scheme to a 4×4 credit scheme, other similarly sized schools have made the move in the other direction. Eastern Nazarene College and Whitworth College, both small Christian liberal arts colleges, have recently switched from 4×4 to 3×5. According to Rick Stephens, dean at ENC, “That

After four years of hard work, Eastern received a grant of $1 million from Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania. Each year the governor asks for a set amount of funds, called Redevelopment Assistance Capital Projects, that he allots to different public works projects. Senior vice president Tom Ridington, with the help of United States Senator Connie

An anonymous buyer bought Palmer Seminary’s eighty-page Beethoven manuscript at a London auction for $1.72 million, which is roughly $21,500 a page. The manuscript, discovered at Palmer in July, was sold at Sotheby’s of London. The manuscript was displayed at Palmer and then in New York and London, where Sotheby’s has offices. Executive director of