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“Are we ever going to kill anyone?” a jaded Marine asks after waiting for an eternity in the desert for the Persian Gulf War to begin. A war movie without combat, many casualties and a political agenda, Jarhead is in a class all its own. Sam Mendes, the Academy Award-winning director of American Beauty, tackles […]

It took long enough, but Eastern finally has the Fair Trade option. There’s only one catch: students have to want it. Under SPEAK’s current agreement with Sodexho, unless students are willing to pay the extra 50 cents for a cup of coffee, the deal is off. And SPEAK won’t always be sitting outside Walton Hall

In Dover, Pennsylvania, the question of evolution versus intelligent design has hit the front page. At issue is the nature of science. Is intelligent design science, or is it religion? In truth, it is neither. Design is a philosophical issue. Science seeks to discover how nature works, not whether there is a designer behind it—-although

“All the believers were together and had everything in common” (Acts 2:47). Welcome to Eastern University. Here, we spend time with believers in classrooms, in residence halls and in socializing. It is clear that we are in a Christian bubble, where we are in companionship with believers and sharing the love of Christ. But does

“Goolishly,” “manditory,” and “McGinnis” have something in common: They’re not words, but Eastern students seem to think they are. “Goolishly” appeared on the event notice triangles in the Dining Commons. “Manditory” and “McGinnis” were featured on swim team signs. “Well be lead,” not “will be led,” appeared on signs for a Monday night worship meeting.

Prior to the 2004 election, a buzz was started online over an animation featuring candidates John Kerry and George W. Bush singing and acting to the tune of “This Land is Your Land.” Gregg Spiridellis, the creator, recently spoke at Eastern about his own experiences within the entertainment world. On Friday, November 4, nestled in

Those with some extra cash, about two hours and a strong stomach should head to the Body Worlds exhibit at the Franklin Institute. Body Worlds is a display of over 200 real human specimens that have been preserved through the process of plastination. The exhibit is meant to educate both the medical expert and layperson

The federal government may soon have the power to watch everything you do over the Internet. The government wants to monitor all internet usage; every website and e-mail that students visit, send or receive. This would require universities across the nation to re-work their internet networks, at their own expense. “It’s an invasion of privacy,”

Christians have a tendency to canonize certain books, imbuing a select few authors with Saint Paul-like authority. Despite that pesky stipulation at the end of Revelation, which promises a plague for adding to Scripture, some believers seem as if they would love to sandwich Lewis’ Mere Christianity between Luke and Acts, or insert Foster’s Celebration

Forced prostitution. Bonded slavery. Abuse of street children. These are three of the many terrible injustices that International Justice Mission is striving to eradicate throughout the world. IJM, which started in 1997, is a nationwide group that strives to fight against injustice, specifically: “sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression,” according to the official website, www.ijm.org. “We