Men’s tennis works hard, sets personal goals
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…
Baseball goal: ‘Erase last year’
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…
The Cross and the Caribou
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…
Why students go traditional
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…
All I know about justice I learned from Cinderella
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…
The missions trip puzzle: Short-, long- or no-term?
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…
Let’s all take a wild ride on Spaceship Eastern U.
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…
Inquiring Minds: Junior college in the city a better idea than most
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…