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The new Nursing Clinical Resource Laboratory in the downstairs of Heritage House was opened to fanfare and thankful prayers on February 23. “Nurses are involved in people’s lives from first to last,” said nursing department chair Mary Boylston. “We will be preparing students for this challenge, this privilege.” Eastern president David Black was present at […]

Most students just dream about getting paid to go to school to do something they love. For one psychology major, this dream is about to become a reality. After senior James Corson graduates in May, he will become one of only five students to head to the University of Virginia’s sensory and system neuroscience graduate

Located in the Eden-like Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon, an Eastern study-away program called the Oregon Extension provides students with a place to retreat and personally investigate deep questions of gender, faith and reconciliation. The May term of the program runs from May 17 to June 10. The course focuses on women’s studies. Everyone in

Few people would connect piles of snow to a spring break in a tropical climate. But a group of eight determined Eastern students found a way to do just that. The snowy weekend of January 21 brought with it opportunity for first-years Gail Longernecker, Hannah Young and Peder Wiegner to raise money toward their trip

As many as 30 percent of Americans today carry the parasite Taxoplasma gondii, one of the leading causes of death for those with AIDS. New light is being cast on the widespread condition by an Eastern professor, thanks in part to a grant of $107,000 from the National Institute of Health. After receiving an extension

Sometimes an issue touches the heart; sometimes a crisis can change a life. Such is the case of junior Ebony White, who took up the challenge of representing Eastern at the Student AIDS Summit: A Christian Call to Action at Wheaton College as a result of her compassion for all kinds of AIDS victims. Last

Movie Review: Hitch

One day this past summer, I found myself talking with a middle-aged New Ager about absolute truth, pluralism and Christianity. I thought this a rather odd event, since I was doing so with a staff member over lunch in a Christian nursing home. Something even odder happened last semester in my STV class: I found

In May of last year the United States Department of Health and Human Services issued a press release, The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General, stating that the surgeon general’s list of smoking related diseases has expanded. According to the report, smoking is now directly linked to diseases such as lukemia,

College students know adjusting to college life is both difficult and exciting. The students who transferred to Eastern at the beginning of the spring semester are experiencing the challenges and the rewards of doing it twice. “I feel like a freshman in a sophomore body,” said sophomore Casey Bradstreet, who transferred from Waynesburg College in