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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 oven. Well, think again. You can do more than pop a couple of pieces of bread in the toaster for breakfast. Possessing a toaster oven […]

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 your response. But what steps lie within this mysterious process? According to senior Christine Underwood, the process begins around this time every year. Incoming students

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 to his repertoire of exotic residences with five months in the Republic of Georgia. Wiegner is taking no university classes. He lives not on a

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 question: What can we do to stay healthy in the cold winter months? Here are ten things college kids should know to stay healthy. 1.

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 youth ministry major, led the missions trip to Haiti. “A lot of people say there’s third-world countries and then there’s Haiti,” junior psychology major Brittany

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 day. The students and faculty of Eastern attend at least 80 churches from 17 different denominations. There are also students and faculty who attend nondenominational

On Jan. 16, sophomores Ryan Ward and Justin Tomevi launched their website, halfcollegebooks.com, through their own corporation: Ward and Tomevi. With the month of February about half over, they have already made a couple thousand dollars. When they began, their mission was to provide cheaper colleges books to students in the general Philadelphia area, which

Of all the things that make Eastern proud, welcoming back one of its own is really something that makes the school hold its head high. That is why there is a buzz everywhere about Eastern graduate, Dr. Christine Bayles Kortsch, who is now a new faculty member in the English Department, where she is teaching

For the past several decades, Diane Keaton has entertained us on the big screen and occupied our television sets, delivering memorable and remarkable performances in dozens of Hollywood hits. Anticipating the release of the new major motion film Because I Said So, Keaton’s fans and movie-goers were eager to see her star in a new

On Feb. 2, McInnis auditorium was filled with students and professors who had all come to Windows on the World to hear Dr. Steve Fuller speak on the topic of intelligent design. History professor Stephen Gatlin excitedly introduced Fuller, calling him “a polymath,” a person of great learning in several fields of study. Fuller has