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Time management is a term that frightens all college students as much as final exams. With the large amount of schoolwork that college professors assign, students who have jobs must adhere to the time management phrase with even more attention. For the students at Eastern, employment can be divided into two categories. First, those who

I knew that Eastern alumnus Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s book, To Baghdad and Beyond, would elicit an emotional response in me, but I never thought a book review would be so difficult to write. I spent a year in Baghdad myself, and I do not have many fond memories of the Middle East. To Baghdad and Beyond

I don’t do scary movies. And I don’t do scary movies late at night so they will be fresh in mind when I go to bed. And I don’t do scary movies in the theaters, where the images are bigger, the sounds are louder and the temperature is noticeably cooler than what is comfortable. And

Israel recently completed the evacuation of its remaining military units from Gaza. This brings to an end the painful process of removing all Israeli settlers from a territory home to more than 1.4 million Palestinians. Months ago, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced plans to close the settlements in Gaza, he stated with a candor

The conundrum of being a Christian “progress-ervative”

Students gathered in Gough Great Room on September 12 to celebrate the beginning of the 2005 season of Monday Night Football. The event, hosted by Young Life, entailed the consumption of 500 wings by students, as well as a viewing of the Philadelphia Eagles’ season opening loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Photos by Casey Stauffer.

Unity as defined in Ephesians 4:3-6: “Striving to preserve the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace…” is the calling card of the Newman Club here at Eastern University. Named after Cardinal John Henry Newman, this group strives for unity between Catholics and Protestants and to have Catholic students come together and worship.

Printed at the bottom of every semester bill is a mysterious fee labeled “Wind Energy Program.” Those extra twenty-three dollars per student enables Eastern to purchase wind energy each year equal to planting 114,637 trees or taking 125 cars off the road. On May 26 at the Philadelphia Art Museum, Eastern University received an award

I want to cut through the propaganda and hype. The city’s best cheesesteak is much closer to Eastern than the South Street heavyweights Geno’s and Jim’s. Get to Wynnewood’s Dakota Pizza Company, and you can rest easy knowing you have tasted the city’s, nay, the world’s best cheesesteak. I’m not kidding. After a year of