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The new artificial turf playing field is under construction and on schedule for completion by Homecoming. Meanwhile, some of the sports teams have had to practice elsewhere. “It is an absolute inconvenience,” Harry Gutelius, athletics director, said, “but I think the teams are happy.” The teams have been practicing at Villanova and Rocket Sports, and […]

Eastern’s fall sports teams are looking forward to big competitions and new challenges as the 2005 season rolls around. Last year’s men’s soccer, women’s soccer, tennis, volleyball and field hockey teams are back with the addition of a new cross country team to the fall lineup. The new co-ed cross country team is coached by

Theater group Yes! And… invites urban and suburban kids into a play’s creative process. “We tell these less fortunate kids that if they can imagine it, we’ll make it,” said Mark Hallen, director of Eastern Theatre and member of the YAboard. Y A has held 19 camps over the last eight summers that have let

Open the newspaper on any given day and you are bound to find at least one news article documenting the political conflicts in Iraq. But the reality of the war is often glossed over by the media in an effort to keep from upsetting the public. Television clips and photographs portray the war as a

Although I’ve never slapped a “Kill Your TV” sticker on my bumper, I resonate deeply with those who have. That said, I feel sufficiently qualified to argue the superiority of the written word over flashing, blinking, fancy-sound-tracked nonsense that passes today as TV news. I should warn you, however, for those who might claim I

A concern for Zimbabwe and a willingness to help students characterize Eastern’s new associate professor of biology.

Book Review

Each year, a few professors disappear from campus and some students find strangers teaching courses that used to belong to their favorite professors. The culprit is the sabbatical, the leave of absence of a semester or a full year for which professors are eligible after every six years of teaching. “The idea is to periodically

Advice, of a sort

Last spring, David Greenhalgh, Dean of Arts and Sciences, announced an administrative change: a new performing arts division. “It seemed to me that each of these [programs] have grown and have unique demands,” Greenhalgh said. Space for lessons and rehearsals, as well as pedagogical needs and the art students’ commuting to Rosemont, are some of