The weekend of Jan. 28 marked the kickoff for KaGe, the student lounge located near the Breezeway, in the Kea-Guffin resident hall. Friday and Saturday night, students were able to stop in and enjoy games, food and fun. During the kick off, perspective students attending Encounter Weekend were encouraged to stop in to see what […]
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Belmont University, a Christian university of approximately 5,900 students located in Nashville, Tenn., recently hired new soccer coach Heather Henson. Henson has 16 years of experience in coaching college soccer and is replacing former coach, Lisa Howe. Why is this important? Henson’s new employment only occurred after Howe was allegedly dismissed after coming out
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“It was really awesome, just a lot of fun,” senior Gabrielle Kempton says about her Fall 2010 semester. However, Kempton was not at Eastern last fall: she was studying abroad at LLC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Junior Kimberly Strauch and sophomore Stephanie Shelly also studied at LCC International last fall. LCC International, formerly known
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Junior Bryant Burkhart, a Sociology and Theology major, spent the last semester among the trees and mountains of Oregon, away from the structure of traditional college life. There he studied one subject at a time and bonded closely with the 24 other students who went. “I first heard about (The Oregon Extension) freshman year and
Eastern men’s basketball has had its ups and downs this year. The team had a strong start with a string of wins. It also claimed its first two conference games of the season and lost its third game by three points to the current number one team, DeSales. But the team this year, if nothing
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Portman and Kutcher answer this question
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Wikileaks creator, Julian Assange, was detained at a London police station on Dec. 7, 2010 after willingly turning himself in. He was arrested on accusations of rape and alleged sexual misconduct. On the same day as his arrest, Assange went to court. Many notable journalists, film makers and artists offered to pay Assange’s bail. However,
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The tragedy in Tucson, Arizona on Jan. 8, 2011 has shocked America to its core. When the carnage wrought by Jared Lee Loughner finally ended, six people were dead, including a Federal Judge, and thirteen more were wounded. Most prominent among the survivors is United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who is believed to have been
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In the past few years of my life, I’ve had the overwhelming experience of witnessing a shift of values in my own generation, as well as the generation before mine. This shift has been characterized almost solely by the integration of social networking into the everyday lives of the people around me. Social networking was,
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