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At 6:30 a.m. on Saturday Jan. 5, nine Eastern students, including myself, along with one staff member, left the Philadelphia International Airport for New Orleans, La. We were on our way to help with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. I made the same trip with a group from my home church in Harmony, Md., back […]

This spring break, from March 1 to 8, Eastern’s Habitat for Humanity club will be taking two teams to Valdosta, Ga., and Christianburg, Va. “Over the last four years I have learned to install drywall, siding, trusses and roofing,” said Andy Horvath, director of service learning and campus ministries, in an e-mail interview. “The trips,

Some religious upbringings teach adolescents the dangers of rap music. Though rap as a genre could never be defined as evil, if it ever were, artist Oppose in his new album Time to Deliver, Psalm 32:7 is working to redeem it with his beats and lyrics. Hailing from Philadelphia, the coordinator of seminary relations and

The tragedy and hope that can be found in Israel and Palestine are displayed in photographs in the McInnis lobby. Junior Adam Beach and senior Peder Weigner travelled there this past summer to capture the realities of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict through photography and documentary. Beach’s passion for the conflict began when he went

After enduring months of grueling construction traffic along Thomas Drive, not to mention the large amounts of dust that accumulated there, CCGPS, an acronym for the Campolo College of Graduate and Professional Studies, is now open and in full use. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony was on January 17. The building, for now, is called the

The core courses such as INST150 and BIB101 are a part of Eastern that most students take for granted, but the core curriculum review committee has been meeting about possible changes occurring in the core. Betsy Morgan, dean of arts and sciences, said that four plans have been proposed, but no action is planned to

After a fall season that saw the women’s soccer team break numerous records and claim their first PAC championship, it is only fitting that junior Ashley Hackman add one final piece to the historic year. On Dec. 17, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America announced that Hackman earned a spot on the Division III

A Winter Sort of Thing: The Greatest Snow on Earth took place on Jan. 24-27. A circus invaded the McInnis lobby, and snow fell in the auditorium. Music, laughter and the smell of popcorn were all around as guests awaited the start of the theatrical production. When never-ending snow threatens to bury their town, six

Moscow, Russia – On Saturday, Jan. 19, General Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia’s military chief of staff, reported that Russia could use its nuclear arsenal in a preventative strike against major threats to Russian sovereignty and integrity. Among the list of possible threats are “the striving by a number of countries for hegemony on a regional and

Growing up in a family with six siblings and playing a sport every season in high school, senior Mandy Kuiken has always engaged in an active lifestyle. It is no surprise that she has such an upbeat and energetic personality. Mandy, who first began playing basketball at the age of six, serves as the point