Dear Eastern University students, It has been brought to the attention of the Student Development Office that you are having fun. Please stop. Thank you. I’m not sure how many of you read the letter concerning irresponsible drinking sent to our mailboxes, but from my observances standing in the mail room on the day of […]
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Why isn’t Elie Wiesel coming to Eastern? What is it about Cabrini, a college similar in size to Eastern, which allowed them to get a renowned Nobel Prize winner to come speak at their convocation? Why doesn’t Eastern bring in high profile speakers to teach us about the world? Why not Anne Lamott, Spike Lee
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From the veranda at Nabitunich, the farm where my program is taking place this semester, I can look out over the unfolding palms and find ancient Mayan ruins emerging from the morning fog. The ruins of Xanantunich, breathtaking and ghostly, barely a mile from where I now stand, symbolize just how easily an empire can
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A ministry to people with AIDS recently reached Eastern. Dr. Rob MacGregor, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, spoke about his experience with HIV/AIDS in Africa at Windows on the World on September 22. A slideshow of photos enhanced his account. Students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania
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The Black Dahlia was advertised as the presentation of a grisly, unsolved Hollywood murder. Do not go to the theater expecting to get that. The murder is there, but it is almost overshadowed by several other strong threads of plot. The whole conglomeration is decked out with an absurd amount of corruption and violence. From
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CBS-3 filmed a segment of Healthwatch on September 18 in interim Dean of Arts and Sciences Betsy Morgan’s office on second floor McInnis. The segment is an advertisement for the new type-2 diabetes pill, Diachrome. This is not the first filming on campus. “We have had several catalogs shot here; Hartstrings is one,” Linda Olson
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Fair Trade coffees and teas have no competition at the Eagle’s Nest and Jammin’ Java this year. Earlier this summer, Sodexho leadership decided to sell only Fair Trade coffees and teas in those locations and to provide Fair Trade coffee in the Dining Commons. “The decision was made to accommodate the students’ request,” general manager
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Sitting in a Gough dorm room last year, two Eastern students expressed their disgust for the high cost of college textbooks. They jokingly brought up the idea of starting a counter-business to give the bookstore a run for their money. Less than a year later, sophomores Ryan Ward and Justin Tomevi now have their own
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On September 13, about 25 students and faculty gathered in Barid Library to discuss the five-year anniversary of 9/11 from an analytical perspective. There were three speakers: Dr. Steven Boyer of the Christian studies department and Professor Bret Kincaid and Dr. Kathy Lee of the political science department. Kincaid spoke on the current state of
Post-9/11 policies, politics and religion explored in recent forum Read Post »
