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While taking a quiet walk around campus or hustling to those evening classes, you may at some point have thought you were in Scotland, or simply hearing things. You hear bagpipes playing in the background and know for sure Eastern does not have a bagpipe band, and so you say to yourself, “Where is that […]

An annual phenomenon has once again befallen Eastern’s campus. Every weekend, hordes of students with homework and laundry baskets in tow crowd into their cars and head for home. Residence hall parking lots are suddenly and blissfully half-empty. Paths congested during the week are bare except for small numbers of students making their way to

As tuition steadily rises and scholarships are in high demand, students are often left wondering what their best options for covering college costs are. An overwhelming amount of college students and their parents decide to take out loans to meet their financial needs. However, without enough research, it is easy for students to become overwhelmed

Eight anti-depressants and $5,000 worth of debt later, my grandmother found herself in a hospital bed. Pulling back the curtain that shielded her from the busy ER, I found her staring blankly at a wall. At this point I thought of a good MasterCard commercial: one ambulance trip – $800, three nights in the psych

While drag racing is a sport that seems simple, in reality it is very complicated. There are 12 classes of cars, four of which are professional. Each class has a designated weight, wheel size and fuel. The race track is typically a quarter of a mile long with a speed trap at the end to

New OrleansIt has been two years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and students in the areas most affected are still facing difficulties such as poor attendance, underachievement and a high drop-out rate. Between 20,000 and 30,000 elementary and high school students failed to show up at school and more than 10,000 school age boys

I know that returning students who are reading this right now were just as heated as I was when rumors were going around about the Eastern’s new housing policy last fall. Unbeknownst to many of us when we decided to attend, all students who enter Eastern in the fall of 2006 and after are required

The Philadelphia Kixx won the Men’s Indoor Soccer League National Championship this past spring, breaking the fabled Curse of William Penn, which has haunted many other Philadelphia teams for years. What connection do the Kixx have to Eastern? Unknown to most of the campus, one of their stars walks among us every day. Andy Guastaferro,

Why should I go? Is this event worthwhile? Will it be educational and broaden my perspective? The beginning of each semester presents seemingly more invitations to campus events than the one before. Here is yet another invitation, but a worthwhile and useful one. On Sept. 14, Michael Nutter, the 2008 Democratic mayoral candidate for Philadelphia,

For five hours on Saturday, Sept. 1, the Women’s Tennis Team faced off against Messiah College in their first match of the season. In spite of their valiant efforts, the Eagles were unable to wrestle a single set from Messiah, losing the match 0-9. Despite the loss, Coach Angela Spock was proud of the team’s