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Two members of our EU community were arrested when they participated in a non-violent demonstration against the escalating gun violence in Philadelphia. Professor Drick Boyd and Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education staff member Melissa DeLong were willing to risk arrest to draw attention to the fact that Colosimo’s Gun Center, located across the […]

Members of the Multimedia Team are hard at work developing a new media Web site for the Eastern community. This site, tentatively called euMedia, will have different sections for videos, music, podcasts and photography. Once the site is launched, faculty, students and staff will be invited to upload content. As a preview of this media

With a franchise reboot of the Star Trek series, an Adam Sandler comedy set in NYC and a World War II epic directed by Quentin Tarentino, this summer’s movie season promises to be an action-packed thriller with a few hidden gems. Here are five of the most anticipated and understated films of summer 2009: 1.

When the on-campus apartment list was released on April 15, students who could not claim one of the larger residential spaces quickly noticed that one of the current apartments was missing. The apartment in Guffin Hall, located beside the Breezeway kitchen will officially not be used as residential space next year, according to Director of

The Eastern community was hit with another devastating loss on April 9 when former student and men’s lacrosse player Dave Mojica was killed in a car accident. Mojica’s passing is the fourth Eastern-related death this year.Mojica, known to his friends as “Mojo,” transferred to Eastern for the 2008 spring semester and immediately made an impact

For its last event of the school year, EU Theatre will present The Performing Arts Living Room on May 1-2 at 8 p.m. and May 3 at 3 p.m. For just five dollars, students can come to the McInnis auditorium to see a collection of ten-minute plays and monologues with “subjects ranging from marriage, family

The Campolo College of Graduate and Professional Studies will soon welcome Dr. Debra Heath-Thornton, Ed. D., who will be serving as the Dean beginning in July 2009. Heath-Thornton is replacing former Dean Tony Blair who returned to his position as a faculty member of CCGPS in the fall of 2008. Heath-Thornton’s appointment was a result

Junior Chelsea Holden is admittedly addicted to watching design shows where people completely remodel old spaces. This weekend, she will be in charge of her own extreme makeover as she leads a team of volunteers in cleaning and modernizing the John Welsh Elementary library in Philadelphia with a Phillies-inspired theme. Holden, an elementary major, found

Student concerns that recycling bins in dorms are being disregarded and simply combined with regular trash have been circulating throughout the year. Some have witnessed housekeepers dumping recylcing bin contents into trash cans. However, chances are, students are actually the ones to blame. Eastern began a single-stream recycling system this year, which means that all

Mandia brothers on the same team for the last time