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Each year, the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia invites 18 colleges and universities to recommend one of their students who is in the top 25th percentile of their class. This year, the scholarship program’s top pick was sophomore Katie Girsch of the Templeton Honors College. It is the first year that an Eastern student has […]

After spending four years at Eastern as a student and baseball player, senior Andrew Reynolds plans to graduate this year with a degree in marketing. Reynolds, who attended Central High School in Philadelphia, started playing baseball at the age of seven. The first organized team he became a member of was his high school squad.

On April 17 many Eastern students hung signs across their torsos, equipped themselves with information cards and kept their lips tightly shut. Such actions were all part of participation in the National Day of Silence, a day of activism intended to protest against harassment of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual or transgender (LGBT) students. The Day of

Softball Eastern’s softball team has had an unpleasantly unique experience for their first year in the MAC. The death of Head Coach Mark Ambler during the first week of the season threw a wrench in the team’s plans but new Head Coach Colleen Stuppy stepped in to grab the reins. Nevertheless, the Lady Eagles have

Alex Long’s opinion in the Feb. 11 Waltonian suggested that business plays an essential role in the accomplishment of God’s goals, and asks whether a relationship between theology and business might make each discipline more useful in the hands of God. I think a relationship between the two disciplines is essential – but there are

Along with blooming trees and April showers, the coming of spring heralds the annual chance for Eastern students to show off their vocal talents at EU Idol, presented by the campus chapter of International Justice Mission. The judges for this year’s competition were Communications Professor Kevin Maness, Dean of Students Daryl Hawkins and English department

Eastern will be taking on exciting new recruitment opportunities this summer with representatives and advertisements at the nation’s two largest Christian music festivals: Creation Northeast and Creation Northwest. The chance to expand Eastern’s visibility at Creation came through Chancellor Hall’s friendship with Pastor Harry Thomas, co-founder of Creation and graduate of Eastern Baptist Seminary. The

With the beautiful scenery on Eastern’s campus, it is no wonder that many students and alumni are doing all they can to help restore it. The waterwheel is one of the current projects the senior class and Director of Alumni Relations Mary Gardner are working on. “The waterwheel is our icon here at Eastern,” Gardner

Eastern theater’s latest production, Songs for a New World, presented a collection of 18 songs composed by musician Jason Robert Brown. SFANW represents the lighter side of Eastern’s theater, following the traditional plays, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Three Sisters, which were performed earlier in the academic year. The musical did not have

The Edison Room on the top floor of Warner Library may just look like another study room to a student searching for a quiet place to write a paper, but it contains one-of-a-kind artifacts and photographs related to Thomas Edison. This room was renovated by Friends of the Library last year, said Joy Dlugosz, reader