The weather is getting warm and love is in the air. Wait, retract that statement, it’s more along the lines of war that has now fallen upon Eastern University’s campus. It’s called Assassin. At five o’clock p.m. Monday, April 3, over thirty e-mails went out, each with a designated target’s name to Assassin participants. According […]
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Lent is more than just an opportunity to give up a bad habit. For Roman Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox and some Protestants, it is instead one of the most significant times of the year, and is marked by traditions that in some cases stretch back centuries. One tradition observed by all three branches of Christianity
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The recreational gym’s new policy includes a limitation on the number of guests Eastern students can bring to the gym. To prevent the rec gym from becoming something of a local community center, at first the policy was changed to permit only Eastern students and their guests, security director John Sheehan said. While the rec
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Jammin’ Java recently hosted the annual Literary Coffeehouse and gave young writers an opportunity to showcase poetry, short stories and other forms of literature. The event, held April 6 and sponsored by the Writing Center, was orchestrated by senior English majors Andrea Priest, Shannon Whiting and Sarah Vanacore, with help from professor John Nordlof. Set
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The recent evening of worship presented by Brighter Day Ministries reached more than just Eastern students. Within the audience during that April 3 service were students from West Philadelphia High School. This was not the first time many of these students had been on campus. During the weekend of February 21, many members of WPHS’s
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The weeks from March 25 through April 8 were rough for the ladies, whose PAC record dropped from 5-3 after their split double-header against Wesley College to 6-6 after another split double-header against Immaculata University on March 31 and a double-header loss to conference favorite College Misericordia on April 1. In non-PAC play, the team
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Baseball (top): Chris Hoffman (#12) catches the throw to first for an out in one of the games against Gwynedd-Mercy on March 25. Eastern lost both games of the double-header, shut out in a no-hitter in the first game 14-0 and then losing the second game 7-4. The losses bring Eastern’s record to 3-11 (0-3
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In a small room by the nursery, four-year-old Regal Noye is talking with volunteer Karen Hertzog about building a lower-case “a” out of crayons. It was Regal’s idea and now Hertzog caught on. “Six months ago, he could not say all that,” Regal’s mother, Resident Director Theresa Noye pointed out. “That’s a miracle.” Half a
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