The 2006 season is here, and men’s tennis is eager to take on another year. Seven players and two coaches have prepared a season full of challenges. “Our team may be small in numbers, but they’re big in spirit,” head coach David Storms said. Their season has yet to start but is rapidly approaching. Upon […]

Last season, Eastern baseball only won two games while losing 23. “Erase last year,” new head coach Keith Curley said. “Everybody has a clean slate this year.” Six weeks ago Eastern was without a head baseball coach when they filled the gap by hiring Coach Curley. Before then, Coach Brian Burke left the team to

Reverend Trimble Gilbert is the chief and minister to a tribe of 150 Gwich`in people on the land of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which the Bush Administration is presently trying to open up for oil drilling. The drilling would disrupt the migration of the Caribou herds the Gwich`in depend on to survive and would

Anja Eltgroth was raised in an Episcopal home. Before she entered Eastern, she had left that more traditional church and “trended fundamentalist-like,” she said, even somewhat anti-Catholic. But now, as a senior, she has done more than just convert to Catholicism. When she graduates, she plans to become a nun. Her turn toward the higher

When I was five years old, my father took me to see the Disney version of Cinderella at a packed theatre. During the scene in which the ugly stepsisters start ripping apart Cinderella’s dress, most of the other kids in the room started to cry. Not me. I stood on my chair, pointed at the

For the last four years, I’ve generally disliked the idea of short-term mission trips. After studying abroad in Uganda, that opinion became even stronger. It got to the point where I had a knee-jerk response, verging on hatred, whenever I met someone who had been on, was planning to go on, or had ever entertained

I’m sure we’re all familiar with the futile battle to cool off by opening windows inside certain buildings around campus. Add to this the energy released from the impressive grid of floodlights, the engine exhaust from all the cars eternally circling in lower McInnis parking lot and the underground pressure build-up from the perpetual construction

We at the Waltonian, traditional undergraduate students at the traditional undergraduate campus, worry about Eastern’s direction. It seems sometimes that what the University really needs is not another new non-traditional college or new name or new organizational structure, but just the opposite: a renewed focus on the undergraduate endeavour. But we’re very excited about the