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In a classroom of 27 students sit 25 Caucasian students and two black students. An Eastern professor says something to the effect of, “Today we will talk about race and racism.” One black student sits with folded arms as if to say, “This is going nowhere.” The other sits in anticipation. Amidst the sea of […]

With the addition of parking spaces underway, spots for athletic buses, other campus traffic changes may be in the works

Arrington finds her career in her new position with Eastern finance

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

It’s official. Eastern University has decided to become a campus dependent solely on wind energy. Eastern is not the first school to make the switch, but Community Energy, Inc., who will provide the energy, believes it is the first Christian school to use wind as its sole energy source. With recommendations from SGA, SPEAK and