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Last season, Eastern baseball only won two games while losing 23. “Erase last year,” new head coach Keith Curley said. “Everybody has a clean slate this year.” Six weeks ago Eastern was without a head baseball coach when they filled the gap by hiring Coach Curley. Before then, Coach Brian Burke left the team to […]

The momentous day is upon you and as you reach for your diploma, a warm feeling of accomplishment and pride sweeps over you. Now as a real college graduate, you are set to embark on a journey into the real world. Armed with your diploma and years worth of higher education, the time has come

So you’re having “one of those days” again, as you step out of Walton and make your way towards McInnis, when suddenly you look up and are welcomed with open arms to a free hug. One can only dream, right? Well dream no more students of Eastern, because now every Tuesday and Thursday between 10

The 2006 season is here, and men’s tennis is eager to take on another year. Seven players and two coaches have prepared a season full of challenges. “Our team may be small in numbers, but they’re big in spirit,” head coach David Storms said. Their season has yet to start but is rapidly approaching. Upon

Donald Miller has been described by Christianity Today as “Anne Lamott with testosterone.” Indeed, Miller’s Blue Like Jazz and Lamott’s Traveling Mercies have strong parallels. Both tell the stories of the authors’ road to faith in God. Both address, topic by topic, big questions about life and spirituality they feel their readers should ask. Both

The Equality Ride is scheduled to visit Eastern in late April. The Ride is organized by Soulforce, a Christian gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights group. It will be visiting 20 religious and military schools that they feel have discriminatory policies toward homosexuals. Many of the schools that were targeted are members of the Council

I’m sure we’re all familiar with the futile battle to cool off by opening windows inside certain buildings around campus. Add to this the energy released from the impressive grid of floodlights, the engine exhaust from all the cars eternally circling in lower McInnis parking lot and the underground pressure build-up from the perpetual construction

For the last four years, I’ve generally disliked the idea of short-term mission trips. After studying abroad in Uganda, that opinion became even stronger. It got to the point where I had a knee-jerk response, verging on hatred, whenever I met someone who had been on, was planning to go on, or had ever entertained

When I was five years old, my father took me to see the Disney version of Cinderella at a packed theatre. During the scene in which the ugly stepsisters start ripping apart Cinderella’s dress, most of the other kids in the room started to cry. Not me. I stood on my chair, pointed at the

Anja Eltgroth was raised in an Episcopal home. Before she entered Eastern, she had left that more traditional church and “trended fundamentalist-like,” she said, even somewhat anti-Catholic. But now, as a senior, she has done more than just convert to Catholicism. When she graduates, she plans to become a nun. Her turn toward the higher