Student Activities try their best Dear Editor, I’m a big believer in a citizen’s right to complain; even so, I was disturbed by the editorial, “Student activities disappoints,” in the February 7 Waltonian. I found it to be mean-spirited and uninformed.Part of the problem is that the author didn’t speak with Director of Student Activities […]

A bearded, barrel-chested man with a black eye-patch and a gruff voice stood like a rock at the entrance of the Wheaton College dining commons telling me tales of elk herds, mountains, Caribou hunting Alaskan Natives, cannibals from South America, llamas and the book of Proverbs. Down the hall, leaning back in an easy chair,

Answer a few questions on the housing contract about your living habits and voilà! The mystical process of being assigned your first-year roommate has begun. Your future heavily depends on your response. But what steps lie within this mysterious process? According to senior Christine Underwood, the process begins around this time every year. Incoming students

With the addition of parking spaces underway, spots for athletic buses, other campus traffic changes may be in the works

Of all the things that make Eastern proud, welcoming back one of its own is really something that makes the school hold its head high. That is why there is a buzz everywhere about Eastern graduate, Dr. Christine Bayles Kortsch, who is now a new faculty member in the English Department, where she is teaching

On Jan. 16, sophomores Ryan Ward and Justin Tomevi launched their website, halfcollegebooks.com, through their own corporation: Ward and Tomevi. With the month of February about half over, they have already made a couple thousand dollars. When they began, their mission was to provide cheaper colleges books to students in the general Philadelphia area, which

For many years, Eastern has attracted people from a wide variety of ethnicities, cultures, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations and, in particular, religious belief systems. This is still true to this day. The students and faculty of Eastern attend at least 80 churches from 17 different denominations. There are also students and faculty who attend nondenominational

The second week of January was unique for 13 Eastern students who flew to a country some refer to as a fourth-world. Juniors Cori Davis and Cara May Neuenschwander, a youth ministry major, led the missions trip to Haiti. “A lot of people say there’s third-world countries and then there’s Haiti,” junior psychology major Brittany

According to Judith Cocking, the director of the Health Center, at least 30 EU students on Feb. 6th reported to the Health Center with a stomach virus. This begs the question: What can we do to stay healthy in the cold winter months? Here are ten things college kids should know to stay healthy. 1.

Let’s say it’s 8 p.m. on a Saturday night. You’re hungry and you don’t want to order a pizza. You look around your room and see your boring, old toaster oven. Well, think again. You can do more than pop a couple of pieces of bread in the toaster for breakfast. Possessing a toaster oven