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Imagine yourself walking down the street, through the grocery store or up the apartment stairs. Lost in your own existence, a faint noise encroaches your perfect world. A muffled tone slowly but surely invades your personal calm. At first, your attempts to identify the noise fail miserably; your brain can’t seem to process what your […]

It takes a lot for a first-year to stand out on a team with a solid returning lineup. It takes even more effort to get playing time. But that is exactly what first-year Dann DeLorenzo has managed to do since arriving at Eastern. Playing on the Eagle’s front line, Dann has been a strong contributor

Who says you need to know it all as a first-year? If Amy Achey knows one thing, it is that since the age of five, soccer has been the sport for her. “Soccer stuck,” Achey said. “In basketball and football, there are set plays, but in soccer it’s always unpredictable.” After playing through grade school

Everybody likes a good lip-synch competition. When the participants are first-years willing to make fools of themselves for the audience’s enjoyment, the show is even better. On the evening of Aug. 31, the first-year color groups performed at the annual variety show in Eastern’s main gymnasium. Amidst entertained upperclassmen, the first-years danced, acted and lip-synched

Each September, Eastern’s theatre department features a play involving a variety of alumni, students and staff. This year, the campus will be treated to a very artistic showing of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by alumnus Justin Poole. Poole, who graduated from Eastern in 2002 and is currently working on a doctorate at the University

Over the course of the last hundred years or so, America has placed a great deal of interest, passion and pride into its professional sports teams. Where sports have traditionally held a good clean place in society, controversies have caused their integrity to be lost. In the span of just a summer, a fury of

Come out and represent your first-year class as part of the Student Government Association for the 2007-2008 school year. Applications are still being accepted. Election packets can be picked up at the SGA bulletin board across from the mailroom or in the SGA office located in the lounge across from the Jammin’ Java. This is

Drug testing could potentially reach Eastern’s campus with a new pilot study the National Collegiate Athletic Association is implementing in Division III. According to the NCAA website, the drug testing program was created to protect the health and safety of student athletes and to ensure that no one participant might have artificially induced advantages or

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