The Bachelor comes to Eastern in the form of a senior seminar project
Archive Extra! Extra! Read all about it. Eastern is becoming the next Hollywood. Over the past few weeks, senior communications major Amanda Dawson has filmed her very own version of a…
Archive
Windows tackles the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
As much as the saga of Anna Nicole Smith has graced the news for the last several months, so the conflict in Palestine has filled the news for longer than…
Inquiring Minds: Why criticism is absolutely necessary and how to respond to it
Criticism is a good thing. In fact, if it ruffles your feathers, it’s probably something you should be reflecting on. Criticism is often hard to hear, especially when it is…
Deconstructing the debate on Refuge
My friend in New Hampshire, who shall go unnamed, walked into a church and told the pastor after introductions, “I’m gay.” He was told to leave the premises immediately. This…
Tuition: up and up, but not away
Our education is worth so much more. Recently, the office of the president of Eastern University sent out letters to inform students of a decision to increase the cost of…
Inquiring Minds: Teacher evaluations’ true value
Yes, it’s that time of the semester again. Group projects are in full swing, term papers will be due soon, and students will soon fill out those evaluations that take…
300 dazzles audiences with its cinematography and graphics
“Prepare for Glory!” read the caption on posters advertising the movie 300, which was released on March 9, 2007. The movie, based on the graphic novel 300 by author Frank…
The Iraq War: How two Waltonian editors view the conflict
Ruth Robinson: Our troops’ safety and well-being in Iraq has now been subjugated to partisan politics. On March 23, the House of Representatives, by a breathtakingly narrow margin of six…
Wendy Smith hikes to raise money for leukemia research
Leukemia is the number one killer of children between the ages of 1 and 14, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Wendy Smith, Counseling Psychology staff member, has joined…
Easter becomes more powerful in the context of human suffering
As I embark from the school bus at the mouth of the Guatemala City cathedral, I am enveloped by its cavernous darkness, alleviated only by a few lone candles burning…