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Trust me: do not let the fact that The Yes Men is a documentary keep you away from this funny and interesting film. Sure, it cannot compare to hilarious comedies like this summer’s Wedding Crashers, but I think this documentary can almost reach the greatness of last year’s Supersize Me. The documentary chronicles the events […]

When senior volleyball player Erin Meredith made the 5000th assist of her college career, she didn’t even realize what she had done. “I honestly didn’t know when it was going to happen,” she said. If she had known, she added, “I don’t think it would have fazed me.” Meredith made her 5000th assist during the

If you have ever seen the movie White Noise, you might have a lot of questions about the subject of speaking to the dead. The movie’s protagonist is Michael Keaton, whose character becomes a widower who faces numerous challenges in undertaking techniques to communicate with the dead. The movie deals with the Electronic Voice Phenomenon

I read with interest your account of the discovery of the Beethoven score at Palmer Theological Seminary. Information attributed to me was slightly but significantly misreported. I did not say that this and other valuable musical scores were donated to the sacred music department. They were donated to the Seminary but were in the possession

October 31, All Hallows Eve or Halloween was originally set aside as a day to celebrate the deaths of Christian martyrs. However, as time went on, the day changed. It was the night before the Celtic Harvest Festival when the souls of the dead were said to come back to earth to revisit their homes

Grosse Fuge to be sold at Sotheby’s London, proceeds going to the Seminary

What could one do with $2 million? People dream of winning the lottery or befriending a long-lost rich uncle who is about to bite the dust. Essentially, that’s what happened to Eastern, or at least to our seminary. That money won’t be coming to the St. Davids campus, at least not all of it. But

You are what you eat. But are you also what you drive? According to some Eastern professors, the connection between vehicle and personality is remarkably strong. History professor Stephen Gatlin’s 2005 Beetle convertible, for example, links him to the past he so dearly loves. “Several things converge,” he said. “It’s kind of a nostalgia piece

I am a true Philadelphia Eagles fan, one that will stay with them until I die. These guys go out and play hard every given Sunday from September until the playoffs in January and the Super Bowl in February, like the 31 other teams in the National Football League. But some of the students at

David Lee Castañeda, an alumnus of Eastern who graduated in 2005, stated in an interview that overcoming color prejudice does not lie in ignoring the color differences that individuals have. Castañeda is from Costa Rica. At Eastern, he was a sociology major. Currently, he is working with Eastern University financial services and Nueva Esperanza. During