Recently, the Philadelphia Public Health Department installed seven safe needle disposal bins in the Kensington neighborhood. These boxes are called Sharps deposit boxes and function to keep needles off the streets to prevent harm to other people. Besides needles, there are other items that can be placed in these boxes including syringes, […]
Eastern University was pleased to host another HAHA week, organized by the YACHT club on Campus. YACHT stands for Youth Against Complacency and Homelessness Today. The group makes frequent trips to Philadelphia, giving sandwiches to the homeless. This week, called HAHA for short, stands for Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week. It
The girl’s volleyball team is enjoying a great season this year with a record of 25-6. The team had a winning streak, winning 5 games in a row at the beginning of the season before losing to Marymount University. The team played Misericordia University at the semi-finals and came away with a
My name is Alex Baldassarre and I am a Senior thrower on the Track and Field team here at Eastern. I started doing sports when I was 8 years old. I started with soccer, football, and finally my favorite sport track. Throughout my athletic career there have been many ups and downs
Athlete Devotional: Eastern’s Track & Field athlete Alex Baldassarre Read Post »
Figure skating is a sport where ice skaters, perform freestyle aerobic movements. Movements can include but are not limited to spins, lifts, and footwork. It combines ice skating with the process of drawing “figures.” Various events and deviations have arisen from figure skating. In the Olympics, each category of skating changes the
A Glance At Olympic Figure Skating Read Post »
In our society today, we seem to be overcome by a large array of tragedies on a daily basis. Just in the past couple months alone, there have been several mass shootings on innocent people, and multiple lives have been lost. However, as human beings, we have a responsibility to respond justly
Athletes Paying Tribute In The Wake of The Pittsburgh Shooting Read Post »
Growing up as a youth pastor’s daughter, I had the privilege of getting involved in a lot of different ministries. From the time when I was a child in diapers until now, I was always highly involved in Presbyterian church camps. From graduating high school to being a junior in college I
A Place Apart: An Unorthodox Path to Ministry Read Post »
There’s a lot of debate nowadays about what exactly the purpose of a University is. You might think it is fairly straightforward, but upon further inspection it is not so certain. Many people will tell you to go to school to get a job. I assume that’s at least true in some
Marketplace of Ideas? Read Post »
When you are new, be it at work, at school, or anywhere, you find yourself in an awkward position. If you are too ambitious or bold, you run the risk of seeming aggressive or overconfident. If you hold back, people might walk all over you. Especially in the workplace, there seems to
Stewardship: Be The Change You Want to See in Your Own World Read Post »
Politics are ever-present in the lives of most Americans. While I can’t say this with absolute certainty, it at least seems as though this fact is more true on college campuses than anywhere else. Where your Thanksgiving dinner table or workplace shies away from the topic, the university embraces the national dialogue;
