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Season jumpstarts with practices despite weather

The question was not whether the show would go on, but just how much money the school would dish out to allow it to go on. Eastern’s theater program nearly suffered a budget cut and is soon to suffer the absence of director Mark Hallen, who will be going on sabbatical in the spring. Hallen

Overcrowding in the parking lots, which apparently stemmed from a rise in first year permit grants and illegal parking by resident students and commuters, has been a source of frustration for many Eastern students. “I don’t think first-years should be granted parking permits,” said junior Kim Siegel. “First-years should build a community with one another.

Dear Sir/Madam I was dismayed to stumble across your contributor, Ruth Robinson’s review of Tom Baker’s book. I was disappointed to see her come down so unthinkingly and wholeheartedly on the side of the bigotry, scare-mongering and wilful misunderstanding that defiles every page of this unfortunate tome. But I had at the back of my

Editor, Could you be kind enough to pass this on to Ms, Robinson? Book Review: Dewitched, by Tim BakerBy Ruth Robinson “I’ve never really been a Wiccan,” he said, “but I’ve had this dance around it.” Dear Ms. Robinson, I am sure Mr. Baker means well, but religious belief is a matter of opinion and

Cramming tests, papers, presentations and the rest is not a scarce preparation item on the produce aisle of college work. How to survive the stress of finals is a question that college students have to face this time of year. “The problem is students are stupid and don’t know how to live right,” said Eastern

Although the volleyball team has been performing excellently in previous years, the team has now grown stronger through first-year player Emma Klein. She is ecstatic about playing varsity her first year. “I would have been happy just getting a chance to play, but getting to start is really amazing,” Klein said. “I was not expecting

Standing in the shoes of the poor and oppressed is the emphasis of liberation theology and the focus of the latest presentation sponsored by Eastern’s Theological Society. On November 10, approximately 25 students gathered in the Gough Seminar Room to hear Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary professor of missiology Dr. Samuel Escobar speak about liberation theology’s

The lobby was buzzing with conversation, punch and cookies. The parents, students, friends and faculty were shifting impatiently waiting for the doors to open. Suddenly, a group of plainly clad women, and a few nuns, wordlessly enter the lobby and began to scrub floors and clean windows. The audience was suddenly made part of the

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business,” T.S. Eliot says in his final masterpiece, Four Quartets. I often am reminded of this reality during my weekly trips with YACHT into Philadelphia, and especially during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week, which focuses on all levels of poverty in the world.