We’re a month and a half into the NHL’s five month season, and leaders are beginning to emerge. At the time of writing, this year’s three top teams are the Montréal Canadiens (13-2), the Dallas Stars (13-4), and the New York Rangers (12-2). Two of these are not terribly surprising. The Canadiens, with 24 Stanley […]
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There is a word in the Spanish language that has been deemed one of the most difficult to translate into English: “duende.” It loosely translates to describe the profound feeling of awe during an artful experience. Sometimes we need to reach beyond our own language to fully communicate an emotion. Maybe there aren’t enough —
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I love giving people presents, especially Christmas presents. Of course, I equally adore receiving presents. But there’s something utterly delightful in presenting someone with something you know will brighten their day and bring a smile to their face. It’s that burst of affectionate glee when you see something in a store, or online (or maybe you
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Ah, how I enjoy “The Hunger Games.” You and your family sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, when suddenly your grandmother jams her fork into the table in a declaration of war, then your sister throws her knife at your head like it’s a dagger, then your parents proceed to slit each other’s throats in a
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Oct. 7, 1952: The first edition of “The Spotlight” of Eastern Baptist College is one page long and includes two sections, Sportlite and Light Chatter. The second edition is similar, featuring information about Eastern’s sports teams, jokes about dishwashers and potential slander cases, not to mention more talk of couples. I find myself smiling at
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When I first watched Taylor Swift’s “Wildest Dreams” music video, I was absolutely wonderstruck (in reference to Swift’s 2011 fragrance of the same name). Swift is a downright beaut for all three minutes and 54 seconds of the video, eliciting both admiration and envy from me and my less-than-glamorous life. With short, dark brown curls
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It was a honor to interview Coach Eric McNelley, especially since the interview was the day following Eastern’s breathtaking victory over the Cabrini Cavaliers. His knowledge of basketball is phenomenal, and I felt like we could have talked all day. Coach McNelley has a long season ahead of him, but its length is nothing compared
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The alarm goes off, and I reluctantly roll out of bed. On a good day, I get up, turn on my kettle, weigh out some beans, grind them, pull out my Chemex (a coffee brewer), and make a cup of fresh coffee for my roommate and I. As I brew the coffee, I pray my
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“A University is a society for the pursuit of learning.” – C.S. Lewis One of the things I liked about Eastern when I chose to come here was our motto: faith, reason, and justice. These are big ideas; even the term “motto” does not describe them well. Indeed, they act more like a three-word mission statement.
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Optimism in the Face of Guaranteed Heartbreak On Wed., Sept. 2 at 8:30 a.m., 18-year-old first-year Jeremy Pomeroy expressed his thoughts to a crowd of reporters about his “certain future” at Eastern University in the phenomenon fondly known as romance. Showcasing “unbridled optimism” and bubbling over with “starry-eyed, overly romanticized visions of a love life unprecedented
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