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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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;
As all student know, Eastern University’s mission statement is Faith, Reason and Justice. The university, through the freshman course INST 150. teaches all students what this motto means and how we can live it out. INST 150, Introduction to Faith, Reason and Justice helps students to capture the importance of each of
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