The Sept. 14 carnival provided inflatable outdoor fun.

So picture this … you are studying abroad and will be learning a new language. More than that, you are already in your upper 40s, and learning a language is not so easy anymore. You come to a university full of people whose culture and language are completely foreign. You try to engage them, but

Kenyan children are amazed at the pastiness of our skin. They are equally astonished by the fact that we have hair on our arms; they will play with it and never let go, as if it were gold. These children will hold your hand and grab your arm and not let go until you pull

Eastern’s Equestrian Club is planning on taking a new route this year. Unknown by most outsiders, Valley Forge Military Academy has a barn and an indoor polo arena on their campus. The academy has an equestrian program in which they play polo and compete against other schools. How does this affect our school’s club? “I

Book review: Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

Something new is starting on campus. It is not a club or group, but rather a get-together that will happen at least once a month. It will be a time for Eastern students to watch a movie and then discuss it together, under the event name Movies that Matter. The first movie, The Wooden Camera,

An annual phenomenon has once again befallen Eastern’s campus. Every weekend, hordes of students with homework and laundry baskets in tow crowd into their cars and head for home. Residence hall parking lots are suddenly and blissfully half-empty. Paths congested during the week are bare except for small numbers of students making their way to

While taking a quiet walk around campus or hustling to those evening classes, you may at some point have thought you were in Scotland, or simply hearing things. You hear bagpipes playing in the background and know for sure Eastern does not have a bagpipe band, and so you say to yourself, “Where is that

Students are not the only ones on Facebook. A steady influx of outsiders-those not belonging to the original college student-targeted membership-have joined the Facebook ranks in the three years since its creation. Facebook is now open to anyone with a desire to join, but why would professors or the administration have any interest in joining?

Early September brought the advent of College.com, the latest in a series of online social networks. The site is hoping to attract the market of frustrated college-age Facebook users. Over 200,000 new users register on Facebook daily, however, the site, once limited to college students, was opened to the general public in Sept. 2006. College.com