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The Philadelphia Small College Basketball Coaches Association awarded senior men’s basketball player Matt Flanagan with the Sam Cozen award for the week ending Feb. 3. Throughout that week, Flanagan set career records in both of Eastern’s games. Against rival Cabrini, Flanagan led a late overtime comeback with 20 points and then topped that with a […]

Amanda Gass came to Eastern University as a first-year, not knowing she would have to leave a year later. Gass, among other students, decided to transfer to a college that offers nursing programs for undergraduate students. “I loved Eastern, it was a great school,” Gass said in a phone interview, now a nursing student at

There are a few things that you wouldn’t expect walking into the gym on Tuesday night, one of them being an intense dodgeball match that had teams pumped and excited. Team So Fresh and So Clean! were taking on Team Rhymenoceros. With yells as team members got out and cheers when an opposing player was

“You just have to wake up and be responsible,” Mercedes McNeal, 17, said of the Saturday morning commute from Philadelphia to Eastern’s St. Davids campus as part of the Cross Boundaries program. McNeal is one of eleven high school juniors and seniors who are part of the applied chemistry class that will be traveling to

By looking at the men’s basketball team’s leading scorer, its hard to tell that all he wants to do is play video games and be around his family. On the court, sophomore Jason Reels is a fierce competitor who will do anything to win. Jason has sparked the Eagles lately, helping them to become contenders

N’Djamena, Chad – According to Chadian news reports, on Saturday, Feb. 2, rebels entered Chad’s capital, and heavy fighting was reported around the Presidential Palace. Col. Thierry Burkhard of the French military reported to the Associated Press that an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 rebels had entered the city. The United States and France recommended that

A heat wave sweeps through the crowd gathered in the rec gym as loud cracks and slaps resound through the room along with cheers and encouragements. A red ball rolls, bounces and flies around the court as players run after it, armed with sticks. This is the scene every Monday and Wednesday from 10 to

To think Christianly about voting, especially in a presidential election year, is a difficult undertaking. Politics has become highly polemical and polarizing in our country. Just listen to talk radio. Read newspaper editorials. Watch cable television. We can easily collapse into party politics, assuming that one party is more (or less) Christian than the other.

There are not many new television show episodes lately due to the writers strike. This opened up the perfect opportunity for the show American Gladiators to make a comeback. American Gladiators is a competition in which amateur athletes compete against body builders known as gladiators. The show originally aired on cable television from 1989 to

Photography is an interesting artistic medium for the main reason that it is easily accessible to nearly anyone. The world has certainly seen an increase in affordable yet high quality digital and film cameras. The features and settings that used to be accessible only to the professionals have been placed into the hands of soccer