The Gates Exhibit
Modern art installation- Central Park, New York City
Mukono, Uganda: Feb. 23 There’s something I’ve noticed about the Africans I’ve met here: they are incredibly polite and generous. Though it’s great to be in a culture like this and to feel welcomed and appreciated, it has brought about several funny circumstances. First of all, greetings here are very important. If you walk into
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The new Nursing Clinical Resource Laboratory in the downstairs of Heritage House was opened to fanfare and thankful prayers on February 23. “Nurses are involved in people’s lives from first to last,” said nursing department chair Mary Boylston. “We will be preparing students for this challenge, this privilege.” Eastern president David Black was present at
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The following is a partial list of professors’ projects in progress. Doug Trimble: Paper: The Effect of Tenure and Generation on Organizational Identification, Communication, Openness and Satisfaction Mark Hallen: A theater project with an advocate for prisoners’ rights for Philadelphia’s 2005 Fringe Festival Stephen Boyer: Book: Co-authored with Chris Hall tentatively titled Through a Glass
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Though there are never huge banners to announce the arrival of prospective students, it only takes one glance at a name tag or a new, nervous face for a current student to realize it is a prospectives day. “I didn’t even know it was preview day until someone was like, ‘Wow, that’s a lot of
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The most recent statistics show that more students are coming to Eastern, staying at Eastern and graduating from Eastern than ever before. The administration’s focus on retention is paying off, and the result is the current record-high student population. Although the percentages of incoming students graduating in four years and of first-years staying for their
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Most students just dream about getting paid to go to school to do something they love. For one psychology major, this dream is about to become a reality. After senior James Corson graduates in May, he will become one of only five students to head to the University of Virginia’s sensory and system neuroscience graduate
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I’m the only girl I know who’s never cried during a movie, and I doubt that’s about to change. But of all the films I’ve ever seen, the only one that would be worth shedding a tear over is Hotel Rwanda. This has little to do with the film’s stirring soundtrack, its captivating acting (which
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Someday, Constantine will make a fine Mystery Science Theater 4000 episode. Walking out of the theater, the people I saw this movie with were already laughing. The opening scene is highly reminiscent of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with a couple of Mexican peasants scrabbling aimlessly in the dirt until a sinkhole opens to