Why isn’t Elie Wiesel coming to Eastern? What is it about Cabrini, a college similar in size to Eastern, which allowed them to get a renowned Nobel Prize winner to come speak at their convocation? Why doesn’t Eastern bring in high profile speakers to teach us about the world? Why not Anne Lamott, Spike Lee […]

Fair Trade coffees and teas have no competition at the Eagle’s Nest and Jammin’ Java this year. Earlier this summer, Sodexho leadership decided to sell only Fair Trade coffees and teas in those locations and to provide Fair Trade coffee in the Dining Commons. “The decision was made to accommodate the students’ request,” general manager

On September 23, SPEAK held a meeting of epic proportions. It was a meeting to end all meetings. It was a meeting about peace. According to David King, executive dean of the Campolo School for Social Change, where the meeting was held, the day was about acknowledgement of the brokenness of this world and about

On September 13, about 25 students and faculty gathered in Barid Library to discuss the five-year anniversary of 9/11 from an analytical perspective. There were three speakers: Dr. Steven Boyer of the Christian studies department and Professor Bret Kincaid and Dr. Kathy Lee of the political science department. Kincaid spoke on the current state of

Sitting in a Gough dorm room last year, two Eastern students expressed their disgust for the high cost of college textbooks. They jokingly brought up the idea of starting a counter-business to give the bookstore a run for their money. Less than a year later, sophomores Ryan Ward and Justin Tomevi now have their own

CBS-3 filmed a segment of Healthwatch on September 18 in interim Dean of Arts and Sciences Betsy Morgan’s office on second floor McInnis. The segment is an advertisement for the new type-2 diabetes pill, Diachrome. This is not the first filming on campus. “We have had several catalogs shot here; Hartstrings is one,” Linda Olson

A ministry to people with AIDS recently reached Eastern. Dr. Rob MacGregor, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, spoke about his experience with HIV/AIDS in Africa at Windows on the World on September 22. A slideshow of photos enhanced his account. Students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania

Living at college is not always the easiest thing financially, and most students would not mind a little extra money in their pockets. The university provides the opportunity to receive federal work study through the government or Eastern Campus Employment through departmental budgets. Through both of these options, students can get paid for working in

The Black Dahlia was advertised as the presentation of a grisly, unsolved Hollywood murder. Do not go to the theater expecting to get that. The murder is there, but it is almost overshadowed by several other strong threads of plot. The whole conglomeration is decked out with an absurd amount of corruption and violence. From

Two new departments recently formed under the umbrella of the year-old performing arts division. One department consists of dance and theatre and the other of fine arts and music. The move, according to interim dean of arts and sciences Betsy Morgan, fills an organizational hole in Eastern’s academic structure. “These things are disciplines in their