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Five years ago, the university gathered on the baseball field when they heard about the attacks in New York. On the fifth anniversary of the tragedy of September 11, a portion of the Eastern community gathered together on the baseball field again. The commemorative service began with the meditative words of chaplain Joe Modica, followed […]

Walking into the Continental Midtown restaurant, one might feel as if she is walking into the set of some high profile movie. Or better yet, it might feel as if one should be mingling among Hollywood’s rich and famous. Think you are going crazy? Think again. Owner Stephen Starr hired a mastermind designer from Los

At the word piracy, what comes to mind first? Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean? The last picture that comes to most minds is the unauthorized duplication and/or distribution of music that includes illegal downloading, file sharing and CD-burning. When it comes to downloading from the Internet, there are many gray areas on what

September 15, 2006 (1:00 p.m.): The road trip to our tournament this week wouldn’t be quite as bad as the last one. Instead of flying for an entire day to California, we were only going about an hour away to Lebanon Valley College. We loaded our 15-passenger Eastern van with seven players, two coaches and

Nationwide, 85 percent of college students have Facebook accounts. According to a survey done by political science professor Kathy Lee, approximately 68 percent of Eastern students have Facebook accounts. Approximately 73 percent of students surveyed reported checking Facebook three or more times a day. Over 66 percent of Facebooking students felt violated by the new

Katrina one year later…

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

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

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

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