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ENDURE, Eastern University’s peer mentoring group, ended the year on a tasty note. The group held its own Top Chef competition on Friday, April 17. The event featured a cook-off between junior Elaine Dube and senior Dante Johnson. Each contestant prepared a dinner and a dessert that were tasted and voted on by a panel

Beginning in the fall of 2009, Eastern will be offering a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program to undergraduates. A nursing department has been in place at Eastern since 1980, but a BSN degree has never been offered to traditional undergraduates. Dr. Mary Anne Peters, chair of the nursing department, expects the new nursing opportunity

Women’s Lacrosse The defending PAC Champions performed on a different stage this season. Returning from their PAC Championship run last season, the Lady Eagles wanted to make a statement early. The Eagles stumbled at the beginning of the season, but, like a championship team, they picked it up. “Every game, we showed improvement some way,”

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