While turkey and cranberry gelatin are still digesting from Thanksgiving, Black Friday hits with a vengeance, filling shopping malls and department stores with people whose appetites have moved quickly from food to sales. But there is an alternative to braving the malls on Black Friday, and it is as simple as staying at home and

Turkey Day has a whole new meaning if you are the one supplying the turkeys. Just ask sophomore Lauren Pounds, whose family has run a turkey farm near Pittsburgh, Pa., since 1935. For Pounds, Thanksgiving means two weeks of butchering (or “processing”), plucking, singeing, bagging and boxing 11,000-12,000 turkeys. She said the farm, which also

Some Eastern students regularly smoke behind McInnis. A faculty member and a staff member in McInnis know every time those students light a cigarette. Director of INST 150 and Christian ethics professor Julie Elliott and transcript office and office manager for the registrar Crystal Tracy work along the side of McInnis where the students smoke,

It wasn’t until her first year of high school that sophomore Kara Hildebrand gave volleyball a try. She proceeded to join the Jr. Olympic Volleyball in tenth grade for a team called Norlanco. It was during her playing time with Norlanco that she was found by Eastern’s volleyball coaches. During the last two seasons, Hildebrand

Coach Nadelhoffer stopped practice midway through an inter-squad scrimmage last week to stress his point. “You have to rebound. Our guards, you have to rebound,” Nadelhoffer yelled, and then went down his roster, saying, “You have to rebound” after each guard’s name. Before practice began for the men’s basketball team last Wednesday, Nadelhoffer noted with

Men’s SoccerSchool……….Overall…PAC1. Arcadia…………….9-3-5 7-0-22. Alvernia……………10-4-3 6-1-23. Eastern……………12-5-1 6-2-14. Wesley……………..13-3-2 6-2-15. Misericordia………7-9 5-4 Recent Action11/2/06 PAC SemifinalsEastern 0, Alvernia 0 (5-6 Penalty Kicks)10/31/06 PAC QuarterfinalsEastern 9, Immaculata 0 10/25/06Eastern 3, Wesley 0 Women’s SoccerSchool…………Overall…PAC1. Eastern…………….13-5-1 9-0-12. Cabrini………………11-5-3 8-1-13. Gwynedd-Mercy…11-8 8-34. Misericordia……….14-6 8-35. Arcadia……………….8-8-3 5-4-2 Recent Action11/1/06 PAC SemifinalsEastern 1, Wesley 2 10/24/06Eastern 4, Lebanon Valley 0

November marks the end of a rewarding season for all of Eastern’s fall sports. In the end, Eastern had claimed two more PAC Championships, and each of its teams had reason to be proud. Here is a summary of how they performed. Women’s Soccer Women’s soccer was first to fall out of the PAC playoffs.

Smiles and enthusiasm stand out on the faces of the women’s basketball team at Eastern this year. What they may not have accomplished in the past has been no discouragement to the positive spirit of a team that is ready to open some eyes. As one of Eastern’s more developing athletic programs, it has a

Though the bark crumbled in his hands, structural engineer Rick Ortega of Hillier Architecture still expressed optimism for the preservation of the log cabin. On the very day the cabin was slated for demolition, Ortega was performing a pro-bono consultation for Ted Pollard, the president of the Radnor Historical Society, and Charles Kline and Beverlee