Phase I of the Campus Master Plan Walton Hall Regarding the changes made on the first floor of Walton Hall, Bettie Ann Brigham, Vice Provost for Student Development, says, “Lower Walton Lounge needed new furnishings and an update to become a more inviting, versatile and attractive space for students to gather.” Over […]
Although Palmer Seminary has now been located at the St. David’s campus for several months now, many undergraduates still do not know a great deal about it. For those who don’t know very much about Palmer, the seminary’s mission aptly sums up the ethos of its identity: “The Whole Gospel, for the Whole
The Templeton Honors College will now offer a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) with a uniquely classical framework. The program, developed in partnership with Great Hearts Academies, is built upon the philosophy that the purpose of education is greater than assimilating knowledge or training for a job; rather, the goal of education
A REFLECTION ON THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Matt Wolek/ The Waltonian by Jordan Kolb In order to understand the way that images shape the way we take in information and the practice of journalism, we have to imagine a world in which almost all of the news that we take in comes
On Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6, the walls of the McInnis Auditorium echoed with the uniquely beautiful sound of Znamenny chant and other styles of Orthodox music, all part of the thousand-year-old tradition of Russian monastic singing. All of this music was part of the “Psalms and Hymns” concert put on by the Center
On a basic level, friendship is a kind of love. To borrow from Josef Pieper, this means that love between friends is a way of turning to one another and saying, “It’s good that you exist; it’s good that you are in the world!” This means that friendship can never be based on
We the editors of The Waltonian would like to offer our thoughts on this 2016 presidential election. Our hope is that this statement, which is of a bipartisan nature, can provide a way forward for we who live in community at Eastern, regardless of who is elected to the presidency. What follows are
Earlier this month, Eastern announced the establishment of the Campolo Institute for Applied Research in Social Justice—or, as it is referred to in short, the Campolo Justice Institute. Social justice is already an integral part of Eastern’s mission, and the goal of the institute is to advance this part of our mission even
The semester has just begun, and already I am in “rush mode.” Texts must be read; papers must be written; people must be e-mailed; meetings must be attended. So why should something as seemingly impractical and irrelevant as fine arts be important in the face of my ever-growing to-do list? I
In May, a newsletter from President Duffett announced that phase one of Eastern’s long-term Master Plan for the St. Davids campus was revised to include “cosmetic renovations to Walton Hall and Kea-Guffin, renovations to Warner Library to establish a Learning Commons, and construction of an indoor practice venue.” Though details and timelines are
