Mukono, Uganda: Feb. 23 There’s something I’ve noticed about the Africans I’ve met here: they are incredibly polite and generous. Though it’s great to be in a culture like this and to feel welcomed and appreciated, it has brought about several funny circumstances. First of all, greetings here are very important. If you walk into […]

The Warner Library recently had 30 books mysteriously checked out under the name of Napoleon Dynamite. Seemingly hungry for world religion, Dynamite has been reading Hinduism & Buddhism, SRI Ramakrishna: The Great Master, The Works of St. John of the Cross and The Golden Bout Collection. But a popular fictional character has not suddenly enrolled

Class Action Fairness Act signed

The most recent statistics show that more students are coming to Eastern, staying at Eastern and graduating from Eastern than ever before. The administration’s focus on retention is paying off, and the result is the current record-high student population. Although the percentages of incoming students graduating in four years and of first-years staying for their

Most students just dream about getting paid to go to school to do something they love. For one psychology major, this dream is about to become a reality. After senior James Corson graduates in May, he will become one of only five students to head to the University of Virginia’s sensory and system neuroscience graduate

Though there are never huge banners to announce the arrival of prospective students, it only takes one glance at a name tag or a new, nervous face for a current student to realize it is a prospectives day. “I didn’t even know it was preview day until someone was like, ‘Wow, that’s a lot of

The following is a partial list of professors’ projects in progress. Doug Trimble: Paper: The Effect of Tenure and Generation on Organizational Identification, Communication, Openness and Satisfaction Mark Hallen: A theater project with an advocate for prisoners’ rights for Philadelphia’s 2005 Fringe Festival Stephen Boyer: Book: Co-authored with Chris Hall tentatively titled Through a Glass

The new Nursing Clinical Resource Laboratory in the downstairs of Heritage House was opened to fanfare and thankful prayers on February 23. “Nurses are involved in people’s lives from first to last,” said nursing department chair Mary Boylston. “We will be preparing students for this challenge, this privilege.” Eastern president David Black was present at

Few people would connect piles of snow to a spring break in a tropical climate. But a group of eight determined Eastern students found a way to do just that. The snowy weekend of January 21 brought with it opportunity for first-years Gail Longernecker, Hannah Young and Peder Wiegner to raise money toward their trip

Located in the Eden-like Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon, an Eastern study-away program called the Oregon Extension provides students with a place to retreat and personally investigate deep questions of gender, faith and reconciliation. The May term of the program runs from May 17 to June 10. The course focuses on women’s studies. Everyone in