As a math major, I have a certain affinity for numbers. So when asked to reflect on this year’s volleyball season, I approached the topic in a very calculated way. First, let’s be clear when this season started. It did not start on the first game day or the first day of […]
EUVB 2017 Season by the Numbers Read Post »
The Eastern University Women’s Basketball team looks to build upon their appearance in the MAC Freedom Tournament last year and try to go further this year. With only one senior lost from the team due to graduation, their experience from the previous season can pay off as they go throughout this season
EU Women’s Basketball Season Preview Read Post »
The typical life of a college athlete consists of homework, practice and if you are lucky enough, sleep. The down time we rarely have is either spent catching up on sleep or hanging out with teammates. To sum the experience up in one word, you could say being a college student, especially
Athlete Devotional: Prayer and the Daily Grind Read Post »
To understand the true significance of the city of Houston Texas’s first World Series championship, you would first have to understand that a story you would never imagine had taken place. First of all, when the professional baseball team called the Astros lost a franchise record 111 games in 2014, an article
The Joy of a Devastated City Read Post »
Tragedy strikes. A tsunami in Southeast Asia. A terrorist attack in Europe. A scandal in the government. You know the headlines. They appear before your eyes on television screens as you get ready for work, check social media on your phone, or read the paper (heaven forbid), but almost as soon as
America’s Attention Span Problem Read Post »
Adoption is costly. According to American Adoptions – one of the largest domestic adoption agencies in the US – the average domestic adoption costs over $30,000. This is an average, and many adoptions are significantly less costly, especially if the adoptive family is adopting out of the foster care system, but I
Adoption Tax Credit Under Fire Read Post »
When I was a baby, I lost the ability to speak. I don’t know the exact age this happened, because I was so young. My speech was developing completely fine until, one day, it just stopped. No one knew why at first, but the doctors suspected it was because I had a
Introducing American Sign Language Read Post »
The January term, otherwise known as a J-term, is an optional piece of a college’s spring semester where students can take one course within three weeks. Eastern University does not utilize this unique possible portion of the semester, but there may be benefit to integrating the J-term into Eastern University’s schedule.
J-Term for Eastern? Read Post »
In the past few weeks, the president has brought up a topic that, in light of foreign affairs and cultural clashes, hasn’t seen much limelight. This topic, the topic of drug policy, should be one that we are all concerned about. The drug crisis has had serious repercussions throughout the criminal justice
A Step Forward For Drug Policy Read Post »
Blade Runner is a deeply unsettling 1982 sci-fi movie masquerading as a blockbuster action-mystery movie. Every shot, every sound, every idea is built to shake you from what you thought coming in, in the hope that you feel something new on the way out. Set in the grimy, dark streets of 2019
Bladerunner 2049 Revisited Read Post »
