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Coffee is good stuff. It’s a perfect accessory for conversation. It’s a wake-up agent. It’s just plain tasty. Considering its popularity, you’d think the producers of those spunky little beans would rake in generous amounts of cash. But here’s the thing: they’re dirt poor. In fact, coffee growers are some of the poorest people on […]

Harriet Miers, White House Counsel and President Bush’s nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, attended not one, but two worship services on Sunday, October 9, in her hometown, Dallas, Texas. After an early Episcopal service, she joined a breakaway group from Valley View Christian Church (her home church for over 25 years) in singing

Ten Eastern students recently put their faith into practice when they gave up four days to help with cleanup work after the devastation of hurricane Katrina, travelling 27 hours to Pass Christian, Mississippi. “I felt so insignificant because of everything that needed to be done,” sophomore Christie Davis said after taking the trip. “But in

Aslan, Caspian and Narnia are names that conjure up images of fantastic faraway worlds and epic adventures that are synonymous with C.S. Lewis. A series of lectures and discussions about this man will be taking place this fall. Narnia on Tour is the collective effort of several Christian organizations, including Intervarsity Press and The Matthew’s

School can seem pricey after one sees the bill. Annual tuition increases, several grand for room and board, and the scary truth that those loans have to be paid back with interest can make a student want to cry. However, there are reasons why tuition is what it is. Efforts made by Eastern staff keep

Dear Editor, Re: “Holistic health not easy, especially here,” 10/13/05 I encourage Katrina Charalambidis and other compassionate, health-conscious students who want more vegetarian and vegan meals on campus to visit peta2.com to find out how students at the University of California at Berkeley and other colleges nationwide have convinced their school cafaterias to offer more

Right: due to the rain, some of the Fall Festival booths were moved into the Gough Great Room. In this photo, people visit the booths and take shelter from the rain. Below: Homecoming also featured a student art show. This is the best of show winner, “Discussing Jesus,” by junior Jean Komline. Other ribbon winners

“I got 99 problems and 82 of them are the parking spaces that you cannot find on campus.” This popular online Facebook club portrays the frustrations that nearly 200 Eastern students share about the parking situation at the university. Currently, McInnis parking lot offers the largest area of parking for students. Kea-Guffin, Hainer, Doane, and

Although it may not be possible to go back in time as Michael J. Fox did in the movie Back to the Future, there are some things that may allow us to relive our history. Swing dance is one of these. At Eastern, we have our very own time warper and that is ETHELS swing

Homecoming is a good time to think about what makes a university different and what holds true about it over time. Eastern is a young school, barely 50 years old. That means it’s very light on tradition, the identifying characteristics that make Wheaton and Harvard different from each other and better than Strayer and DeVry.