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The men’s volleyball team may only have club status, but they still have competitions and feel the frustrations of not enough practice. Since volleyball is not currently an established varsity team, the team faces challenges getting practice time in the gym. “We don’t get anything,” said first-year Jon Falcone, one of the members frustrated with […]

Whether they see it as a distant event or an approaching reality, students have many questions about marriage. The campus mentoring group ENDURE helped students get some of those questions answered by an actual couple involved in a successful marriage in an April 18 seminar. The seminar was led by Henry and his wife Theresa

At the end of March, the financial aid and student accounts offices became fully staffed, ending a staff shortage that had existed for the past four years. The staff shortage was most severe over the past summer, when the financial aid department was short three people and the student accounts department was short one, according

Everybody knows people who didn’t have their green cards in time to move onto campus, or waited weeks later than they expected to receive their loan refund checks. This can lead to headaches and late class registration, as well as angry phone calls home. However, the situation has been gradually getting better than it used

One thing that no one will have to worry about catching Vanessa Pagenkopf doing is nothing. “I’m always busy. Always,” Pagenkopf said. That is probably because, as financial aid counselor and student employment counselor, Pagenkopf does the work of at least two people. Before coming to work at Eastern three and a half years ago,

Eastern students know that when a bill needs to be paid or a paycheck cashed or a loan applied for, they must head to Mall Cottage, the tiny building situated neatly between McInnis and Walton. Once in the door, however, students are faced with a tough decision: choosing which counter to direct their question, financial

The additions of the cross country and men’s lacrosse teams to Eastern’s PAC competition next year are the buzz of the athletic department. Until now, cross country has been running on its own. The team is excited to be gaining a coach and joining the PAC. The men’s lacrosse team has been participating in the

Two Eastern students took their passion for justice a step further than most when they went to Washington, D.C. to speak for action in Darfur, Sudan. First-year Naomi Sonne and junior Dorothy Stowe visited D.C. on April 6 as part of the Genocide Intervention Fund’s 100 Days of Action Campaign kickoff and Congress RUSH. The

Business majors make me laugh. Many of us goof around too much, laugh too much, don’t show up for classes enough and don’t know anything about anyone save ourselves. Most of us like money too much and don’t use our heads as often as we should. We are a weird breed, and we need to

This school is full of crap. You teach Christian values to be used by students in their professional and personal lives, but the school does not follow their own teachings when they see it fit.. This institution purposefully leaves loopholes in the rules so that they may be manipulated by the institution to their benefit.