After falling to Skidmore University in the Elite 8 game of the NCAA tournament last season, this year’s women’s field hockey team wanted another run at the national championship. With five senior leaders having graduated last year, this year’s team knew it had some challenges to overcome. The team finished their season with a […]
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The most wonderful time of the year has come once again. As people finish their Thanksgiving leftovers and decorate the tree, thoughts turn to shopping lists and holiday sales. Christmas has certainly gotten its share of criticism for being a holiday steeped in consumerism, but it does not have to be. This Christmas, hundreds of
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After her team returned from their march to the Final Four in St. Louis, All-American volleyball star Maria Horning reflected that this past season has been a great ending to her four-year stint playing for the Eagles. Finally seeing all of the team’s talent and relentless work ethic pay off, Horning commented, “This season has
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Do gray winter skies and bitter cold seem to affect your mood? Does the winter weather get you down? If so, you may be part of the estimated 6% of the Americans that suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is a form of depression triggered by seasonal changes, typically beginning around the end of autumn
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The women’s basketball team has kicked off its season with a bang. After taking the Eagles to a 16-9 overall record last season, second-year head coach Nate Davis looks to make an even stronger drive to the playoffs this season. “We want to win the Freedom Conference and make a push for the NCAA tournament.
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Eastern University has announced that its new College Success Program for Students Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder will officially begin offering services in Fall 2012. The idea formed in the late 1990s: The Cushing Center for Counseling and Academic Support could be expanded to include a cohort-based program to help students on the Autism Spectrum
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No two political dilemmas are ever, or have ever been, identical. Every situation has its own set of particularities: these people, this place, this issue, these rules. This means that politics is almost always messy and solutions are rarely clear-cut. How, then, can students prepare for these sorts of dilemmas? How can they prepare for
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On November 18, Eastern University’s Board of Trustees announced that, after 15 years of service, Dr. David R. Black will be retiring. Having battled health problems and being apart from his wife during his tenure at the University, Black has decided to join her in Florida. “(My wife and I) decided years ago that, once
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