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Listening to Nickel Creek’s third album, Why Should the Fire Die? was extremely pleasant. This album does not fit into a specific genre. However, I would say Nickel Creek, in this album, sounds like a mix of bluegrass, pop and emo. The band has three members: Chris Thile, Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins. For 12 […]

The federal government may soon have the power to watch everything you do over the Internet. The government wants to monitor all internet usage; every website and e-mail that students visit, send or receive. This would require universities across the nation to re-work their internet networks, at their own expense. “It’s an invasion of privacy,”

Those with some extra cash, about two hours and a strong stomach should head to the Body Worlds exhibit at the Franklin Institute. Body Worlds is a display of over 200 real human specimens that have been preserved through the process of plastination. The exhibit is meant to educate both the medical expert and layperson

I decided to write this article two weeks ago, when the American death toll in Iraq was still shy of 2,000. But I knew the milestone was coming. It doesn’t take a prophet to see a cycle of violence that kills with drumbeat consistency. I marched in protest back in 2003, hollering at the White

Forced prostitution. Bonded slavery. Abuse of street children. These are three of the many terrible injustices that International Justice Mission is striving to eradicate throughout the world. IJM, which started in 1997, is a nationwide group that strives to fight against injustice, specifically: “sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression,” according to the official website, www.ijm.org. “We

The cast of Dances with Cell Phones promises that the show will be like none other. There will be drama. There will be dance. There will be generous audience participation. You are asked to bring your cell phone. And get this, you’ll be asked to keep your phone turned ON. Dances with Cell Phones, the

Christians have a tendency to canonize certain books, imbuing a select few authors with Saint Paul-like authority. Despite that pesky stipulation at the end of Revelation, which promises a plague for adding to Scripture, some believers seem as if they would love to sandwich Lewis’ Mere Christianity between Luke and Acts, or insert Foster’s Celebration

Not every elementary school has the educational resources and facilities that elementary schools surrounding Eastern do. Because of this, for about 12 years Eastern has cultivated a partnership with the Barry School, a city school in Philadelphia. From this relationship spawned such programs as Fall Festival Day, held on October 15. Barry School fifth-graders were

The sold-out concert put on by Thousand Foot Krutch, Hawk Nelson, Dizmas and 4th Avenue Jones allows for the possibility that Eastern’s gymnasium will again rock as it did on October 16. The concert, which was the last of the “Art of Breaking Tour,” sold over 250 tickets on campus and about 900 tickets total.

October 31, All Hallows Eve or Halloween was originally set aside as a day to celebrate the deaths of Christian martyrs. However, as time went on, the day changed. It was the night before the Celtic Harvest Festival when the souls of the dead were said to come back to earth to revisit their homes