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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

Yo,I was reading the Waltonian online because I’m a dork and I noticed that I wrote a story about the Eagles hopefully making it to the Super Bowl again. I graduated in May and I don’t want the Eagles to make it again!Just curious why it says my name and not the real author. Thanks

CD Review

A new partnership between Eastern University and Lamberton Public School in Philadelphia will allow urban students to earn up to two years of college credit while still in high school. “The most exciting aspect of this project is the opportunity to transform education and make an impact on the inner city,” Yvonne Turner, the early

Misconceptions abound from outside perspectives that construe Eastern RAs as police, chauffeurs, gophers, and reconnaissance for the rest of the Residence Life staff. During my application process, I understood some portion of the responsibility attached to the position, but I did not know the inluence a single RA’s perspective has. Last week, abstract discussion became

Notes From Afar

It took years, but the new library was worth the wait. We know, the brick looks a little out-of-place next to the stone of Old Warner and the other buildings of Main Campus, but the inside is so roomy and functional and the view out those huge windows is so good that we hardly mind

To Whom It May Concern: I was recently interviewed and quoted in The Waltonian in a story covering Gavin Peretti’s film “Follow Thy Master.” While the article was informative and the journalist kept the integrity of the piece and my discussion with him, I am unhappy about my quotes. If someone does not specifically say