No one goes from a regular job straight to the National Football League, especially at the age of 30. However, in 1976, Philadelphia native Vince Papale, a part-time bartender and substitute schoolteacher, became the first man in history to do just that. During a low time in their team history, the Philadelphia Eagles decided to […]

For the past several weeks, all of Eastern’s six fall athletic teams have been hard at work preparing for their upcoming seasons. Here is a peek at each team and how they look so far. Women’s Soccer 2005 Record: (11-9, 9-2 PAC) The women’s soccer team finished last season as the runner-up in the Pennsylvania

They made the NFC Championship game four years in a row, but when 2005 came, the Philadelphia Eagles fell off the map. The NFL radar didn’t even pick up the Eagles in the race for its last remaining playoffs spots come the end of the season. To make matters worse for Eagles fans, the Steelers

Eastern athletes show dedication through hours of practice and pain

Biblical studies professor Kent Sparks was recently appointed Eastern’s first-ever special assistant to the provost. The appointment came from Chris Hall, whose job as the dean of the Templeton Honors College in addition to his new position as provost required him to have an assistant.”I had a full-time job, and I took on another full-time

I’m sitting alone on the rooftop of a dear friend’s apartment enjoying the first quiet moment I’ve had in weeks. Life has been a blur of appointments, errands, vaccinations, lists, emails, painful goodbyes, rewriting lists, franticly packing bags and hunting for reservations. But tonight I get a chance to be still and take one last

It’s time to broaden our horizons. A new year and new students give us an opportunity to meet new people. With a cavalcade of activities and events, interacting with a wide variety of people is easy. The problem is, we don’t. Instead, we gravitate toward people just like us. We settle into groups of like-minded

Since my graduation last semester, one of my biggest joys has been choosing “want to read” books rather than “have to read” books. The first book I chose to read was one recommended to me by Betsy Morgan: Saturday by Ian McEwan. McEwan’s brilliant writing immediately drew me into thinking the thoughts and living the

Professor Gary White of the business department was recently suspended from Eastern University. The suspension came after White pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud occurring from January 2001 to July 2005, according to a faculty email sent by President David Black. A federal prosecutor brought the charges after one of White’s insurance companies

Eastern student Sevag Bakalian left Beirut, Lebanon, one-and-a-half weeks into the war between Israel and Hizbullah. Sevag, a sophomore social work major, has moved back and forth between Beirut and the Unites States his entire life. His father is the pastor of an Armenian Evangelical Church and the chaplain of Haigazian University in Beirut, and