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Inquiring Minds: Spiritual Emphasis Week needs new emphasis

Spiritual Emphasis Week is misnamed. It’s not a week where spirituality is emphasized, it’s three days when students can easily forget God. Last week, this year’s incarnation of the event, the only difference for many students from any other time of year was Thursday’s changed class schedule. It’s not that Eastern is unspiritual. Students participate […]

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Valley Forge Military College last of its kind to become co-ed

After almost 78 years, Valley Forge Military College is opening its academic doors to women in fall 2006. VFMC is the last military college of its kind in the country to become a coeducational institution. There are four other two-year military colleges in the United States: Wentworth Military Academy, Marion Military Institute, New Mexico Military

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All I wanted for Christmas was a moral U.S. budget; instead, I got a jail cell

Some friends and I recently joined a Sojourners-sponsored prayer vigil on Capitol Hill. We prayed for the poor in our country who are threatened by a bill that would take away billions of dollars from social programs. And we ended up in jail. We went with the understanding that we were standing up for a

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Honors convocation overhauled, made more selective

Prompted by low student attendance, even among honorees, Eastern’s spring Honors Convocation ceremony will be drastically different this year. Rather than a public event for the whole Eastern community, only 60 select undergraduate students will be invited this semester. “It became futile to bring in outside speakers. The bleachers were less than half full,” said

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Hillary speaks at Philly event

Just a stone’s throw away from the birthplace of freedom, Senator Hillary Clinton delivered the keynote address for the American Democracy Institute in the National Constitution Center. Philadelphia was chosen as the site for the 2006 Eastern Regional Summit on February 6, one of many meetings around the country to help educate youth about the

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