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A former Eastern student who was planning to return soon and who had recently been on campus died unexpectedly last week. Joshua Gerber, 23, was reportedly found by friends from home last Wednesday morning, April 27. The funeral was held on Saturday. Those who knew him well describe him as very friendly and generous, someone […]

Are biblical authority and male/female equality as incompatible as Mac software on a PC? Eastern University will play host to this and other gender-related questions at the ninth annual Christians for Biblical Equality conference entitled One Body, Many Gifts. From July 29-31, hundreds of biblical scholars, church workers and interested individuals will gather to explore

Campus life is dead. At least that is what Nietzsche would say if he were a resident student at Eastern. And he would be right. Walk around just about any dorm hall on a Friday or Saturday night, and you’ll find next to nothing. This might be heaven for a hermit, but for the average

The students of the Templeton Honors College have ratified the THC Constitution, a document which provides for the mandatory participation of all new honors students in committees related to the Honors Council. The constitution received insufficient support in its original form and was revised by current council members. The requirement that each student serve four

Those who attended the Doane talent show saw skits, heard musical pieces, tasted cookies, crackers, chips, and soda, felt the cool evening air and smelled the stench of the pond. The Doane talent show, which took place outside of Doane Hall on a lighted, makeshift stage at 8 p.m. on April 13, gave Doane residents

Wanting to give students from Gough and from all over campus a unique experience, Gough’s hall council decided to perform a show described by sophomore Eddie Hall as an “interactive-dinner-murder-mystery-comedy.” “I don’t know if Eastern has done anything like this before,” sophomore Richard Figueroa said. Hall wrote, directed and starred in the farcical murder-mystery entitled

A new glistening glass award etched with the words “first runner-up” now sits on business professor Dr. Al Socci’s desk. The award is the product of two semesters of work done by Eastern’s new chapter of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE). Sadly, the club lost to the following three first-placers in their league of six

I was reading an issue of the Waltonian on the website a few weeks ago and saw that within the same issue, there was a review of Hotel Rwanda and an opinion editorial about the war in Sudan. While I’m glad that our school paper pays attentions to world events, I couldn’t help but get

I Heart Huckabees is the story of Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), a disillusioned environmentalist who starts to question whether his efforts to save the earth are really worth it. Albert enlists existentialist detectives Vivian and Bernard Jaffe (Lily Tomlin, Dustin Hoffman) to help him out. The two follow Albert everywhere he goes, hoping to fit

Through a labyrinth of puzzles and codes, a Harvard symbologist and a French cryptologist race against monastic knights and a faceless powerbroker to retrieve a secret knowledge that, if unleashed, has the power to alter the world forever. This summarizes Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code, upon which Dr. Gary Jenkins has recently