Let’s talk about sex
Archive Acclaimed Christian author Lauren F. Winner (left) chats with Student Development office manager at a luncheon Feb. 16. Winner was Eastern’s Spiritual Emphasis Week speaker, and began her presentations with…
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Elk herds, environmentalism and the modern church
A bearded, barrel-chested man with a black eye-patch and a gruff voice stood like a rock at the entrance of the Wheaton College dining commons telling me tales of elk…
The Jingle Man proves to be irresistible
“You know, here the only things we pay for are pens and pencils and coffee-and the faulty lighting system.” Jingle Man Jerry Niles (played by Bob Grant) looked up as…
The best will soon be determined: Eastern winter intramurals
Dodgeball Sweat. Pain. Intensity. Controversy. Exuberance. Victory. Defeat. Nothing else can explain what goes on in Eastern’s recreational gym every Tuesday night from 10 p.m. to midnight. No, it isn’t…
Top 10 things to make in your toaster oven
Let’s say it’s 8 p.m. on a Saturday night. You’re hungry and you don’t want to order a pizza. You look around your room and see your boring, old toaster…
Diversity in the housing process
Answer a few questions on the housing contract about your living habits and voilà! The mystical process of being assigned your first-year roommate has begun. Your future heavily depends on…
A semester spent in Georgia
I have never…been born in Bolivia. Moved to Mexico. Lived in Costa Rica. But Peder Wiegner has. Even now, as a junior political science major at Eastern, Wiegner is adding…
10 tips for staying plague-free
According to Judith Cocking, the director of the Health Center, at least 30 EU students on Feb. 6th reported to the Health Center with a stomach virus. This begs the…
Students discover there is hope for an end to the havoc and hunger in Haiti
The second week of January was unique for 13 Eastern students who flew to a country some refer to as a fourth-world. Juniors Cori Davis and Cara May Neuenschwander, a…
Religion on our campus
For many years, Eastern has attracted people from a wide variety of ethnicities, cultures, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations and, in particular, religious belief systems. This is still true to this…