According to senior co-captain Raya Shores, the main difference between this year’s women’s basketball team and last year’s is that “we mesh better.” The season started out with the girls winning their scrimmages, prior to playing actual games. The first game turned out to be a loss, but it was […]

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 Conversations that Matter on Feb. 15. There, she discussed her most recent book, Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, […]

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 herds, mountains, Caribou hunting Alaskan Natives, cannibals from South America, llamas and the book of Proverbs. Down the hall, leaning […]

“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 overhead lights wink edin and out over downstage right. He and Greg Walton, who posed as Fenton B. Warwick, […]

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 baseball or cheerleading practice. Try dodgeball intramurals. Dodgeball is not for the faint of heart. It is a quick-paced game […]

Student Activities try their best Dear Editor, I’m a big believer in a citizen’s right to complain; even so, I was disturbed by the editorial, “Student activities disappoints,” in the February 7 Waltonian. I found it to be mean-spirited and uninformed.Part of the problem is that the author didn’t speak […]

Dave Volpe, a junior point guard hailing from Harleysville, Pennsylvania, has been a vital link to Eastern’s basketball success. “This season has been my best so far at Eastern, not only because the team’s success on the court has surpassed what we have done in the past few years, but […]

I came to Eastern University with the belief that most people would have the same, or at least very similar, views as my own. I went to high school in an area where my views and beliefs were very different from those of the community’s. I thought that Eastern was […]

A new residence hall and a new requirement that students remain on campus all four years equal an important opportunity. With a St. Davids campus consisting mainly of students who live, work, eat, sleep and play primarily on campus comes a need to make that campus a home. If students […]

Do you ever think about Hurricane Katrina anymore? know I did not before I saw a flyer in Walton last November advertising a trip to New Orleans from Jan. 6-14 to help Hurricane Katrina victims. I wish I could say I had a grand and noble reason for deciding to […]