I want to cut through the propaganda and hype. The city’s best cheesesteak is much closer to Eastern than the South Street heavyweights Geno’s and Jim’s. Get to Wynnewood’s Dakota Pizza Company, and you can rest easy knowing you have tasted the city’s, nay, the world’s best cheesesteak. I’m not kidding. After a year of […]

Time management is a term that frightens all college students as much as final exams. With the large amount of schoolwork that college professors assign, students who have jobs must adhere to the time management phrase with even more attention. For the students at Eastern, employment can be divided into two categories. First, those who

On September 18, staff and students alike gathered in the Dining Commons to show their support for friend and former colleague Rosetta Linder. The open-mic night, which began at 7pm, was a fundraiser to help pay Linder’s medical bills. Linder, who worked in Andrews Hall as part of the Arthur Jackson cleaning service until 2003,

If anyone wonders why a Life Fitness course is a breadth requirement at Eastern, there is a new faculty member on campus who has the answer. Tom Franek is the new director of Eastern’s Life Fitness program, as well as the Clinical Coordinator for the University’s athletic training education program. From his handshake to his

Printed at the bottom of every semester bill is a mysterious fee labeled “Wind Energy Program.” Those extra twenty-three dollars per student enables Eastern to purchase wind energy each year equal to planting 114,637 trees or taking 125 cars off the road. On May 26 at the Philadelphia Art Museum, Eastern University received an award

Dear Editor, Ben Wallis is to be commended for his willingness (in the Sept. 15 Waltonian) to discuss an issue many of us would rather simply avoid — namely, whether or not churches should support monogamous same-sex unions. However, on three issues I believe a deeper understanding is necessary. Those three issues are as follow:

http://www.waltonian.com/media/paper752/news/2005/09/28/Opinion/no.Easy.Cure.Understanding.The.Nuances.Of.Mental.Illness-1001810.shtml Editors: First and foremost, “mental illnesses, ” please. Plural. As with physical illnesses, there are many, and they range from minor to severe. And, as with physical illnesses, people do, or do not recover, though most do. And, as with physical illnesses, people’s responses are as varied as the illnesses, themselves. Some of us

To The Editor, Though I am not a current student nor an alum of your University I felt prompted to write after reading several letters which state firm opposition to the acceptance of homosexuality in Christian Churches. First, contrary to all of the author’s assertions, accepted science tells us that sexuality of all kinds is

The Yes! And… theater group, featuring urban and suburban kids and led by Eastern alumni and faculty, brought their talents to Eastern in their production of Extra! Extra! Play All About It! The four performances, held from last Friday to last Sunday, were greeted with enthusiam.

The rain pounded, the wind blew and the lightning struck. On September 17, what would have been the first ever outdoor coffeehouse at Eastern University was forced to move indoors. “It is unfortunate, but I think that everyone is still having a good time,” said SAB adviser Shannon Hartsock at the event. The SAB has