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Just before the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics, a friend told me there was no reason why the United States shouldn’t win every medal there was to win in Beijing. His argument, in a nutshell, was that we are a vastly superior nation to any other country in the world. Unfortunately, being one of […]

Has anyone else noticed the lack of concern around here? When it comes to the student body, it seems that we have been paralyzed with both fear and apathy. This year, we were heavily involved with Student Development as executive members of our Student Government Association and as resident assistants in Eagle and Gallup. Through

As a young child, my favorite movie was Peter Pan. Something about the idea of never growing old but staying a little boy forever seemed to resonate in my 4-year-old head. As I grew older and began watching sports, my favorite athlete was Brett Favre, the Peter Pan of football, the man whose youthful exuberance

In a lecture on city living, Richard Potts, assistant director of the Washington Journalism Center where I am studying this semester, spoke on homeless in D.C. “Treat them like they exist,” he said. Before hearing most of his lecture I had already made up my mind that I knew enough about the homeless and the

First-year attack Grace Griffith earned her first PAC Player of the Week honor with an impressive 11 goals and 7 assists, leading Eastern to a 3-0 PAC week. In a 16-6 victory over Alvernia, Griffith tallied two goals and three assists. Two days later, she put up similar numbers with three goals and two assists

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Performing Arts Living Room will be performing seven plays under the title 24:7 on May 3 at 8 p.m. and May 4 at 3 p.m. in Mclnnis Auditorium. The title represents two performances, four Eastern playwrights and a total of seven plays. While three of the plays have already been produced, the other four plays

It has become customary during the time of an election for newspapers to endorse a candidate. This practice is seemingly defiant of the industry’s golden rule of remaining objective. Despite that, the Waltonian has decided to make an attempt to endorse a candidate for the presidential election. As reported in our Feb. 13 edition, of

I remember asking my father as we rode in his cobalt blue pick-up, what he thought of the primary season, the candidates, the economy, the war in Iraq and in general, American politics. An avid reader of history, well educated in the nature of world governments and American values, he responded quite frankly: “Democracy is

Transformed, Eastern’s traveling drama ministry, is one of the oldest yet least-known ministries on campus. The group, made up of nine students, travels across the Northeast, performing at churches and retreats almost every weekend. The shows consist of skits that group members have either written or adapted from other Christian dramas. The group was formed