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This year a long-sought dream of music majors and professors alike, an orchestra ensemble, will be realized. “Last year everyone wanted to come together,” Kristin Snyder, a sophomore violinist and in the orchestra, said. “We talked about it with Dr. Matthews. This year I heard this rumor about the orchestra.” The final planning for the […]

Professor Brian Walsh walked onto our Belize campus and began our two-week “God and Nature” course with what seemed like a simple request: Re-imagine the way you perceive the world. This being the halfway point of our Creation Care study program, his request didn’t seem like anything to get too worked up about. It seemed

“Love is watching someone die.” I had never truly appreciated the lyrical content of the Death Cab for Cutie song, “What Sarah Said” until this past summer. A man whom I had known for the better part of my life lay in the Intensive Care Unit of University of Maryland Hospital, degraded to a near

The midterm elections of 2006 will be some of the most important in recent years. With hot topics like immigration, same-sex marriage and the war in Iraq, it is important that student voters know the candidates and the issues. This is why we think the smear campaigns currently being run by candidates against each other

If you are determined to break Eastern’s codes of conduct, why are you here? In the last issue of the Waltonian, Kate Savo wrote in response to the letter we all received concerning irresponsible drinking. Her basic argument was that we should not be prevented from attending parties where there is underage drinking because resisting

Eastern State Penitentiary delivers real scares

“Sometimes other things just need to take priority,” former Eastern student Rebecca Bartram said. “I’ll finish college eventually.” On September 15th, Bartram will have marked the one year anniversary of the day she left her college days of music and philosophy behind and joined the Army. Over the past year, she has spent nine weeks

I have a strange imagination that, at times, projects me into tragedies. Maybe it’s my feeble attempt at empathy. Sometimes I read the newspaper, read about some horrible event, and try to imagine what exactly was going through the minds of the people involved. So it was no surprise when I woke up the other

Along with five other college students from across the U.S., senior Christopher Franklin traveled in a school bus this summer to speak to thousands of people at youth programs in churches and schools. Leaving from Washington, D.C., and ending up in Seattle, Wash., the Living Hope Bus trip covered 16 states and was sponsored by

On a beautiful Homecoming weekend, the mood can either be swayed positively by the outcome of Eastern’s athletic contests or leave the whole crowd with a sour taste for the day.Come mid-afternoon on Oct. 14, everyone attending Homecoming had a seen a much better day, thanks to victories from all but one of Eastern’s athletic