Eastern club Latinos Unidos (Latinos United), created a number of years ago, was revived last semester by Sophomores Ashley Molina and Yazlane Villegas. The club stands as a place for students of Latin and Spanish heritage to come together and share their cultures. Recognizing a need to bring students of […]

Faith, reason, justice. At Eastern University, we’ve heard the importance of all three, especially justice. Unlike last February, students at Eastern University did not have the opportunity to experience justice locally. The renowned Justice Conference, an annual national primary conference that educates, inspires, and connects men and women to biblical […]

Recently, CNN released a report on the reading level of college athletes.  Their investigation was prompted by the research of Mary Willingham, a learning specialist at UNC Chapel Hill, who had discovered that many of the school’s athletes could barely read, making it difficult, if not nearly impossible for them […]

The infamously difficult mobile game Flappy Bird–which centers around a beady-eyed bird clumsily fluttering its way through an endless path of pipes–has been removed from the iTunes store following an intense spike in popularity. But why pull it when it was raking in $50,000 per day? Amid conspiracy theories of […]

On January 15, 2014, Dr. Martha Shalitta passed away at the age of 90. Affectionately called “Martie,” or “Doc,” by her students, Shalitta was an undergraduate professor of psychology at Eastern University. Before arriving to Eastern, Dr. Shalitta had a distinguished educational career, having been an assistant principal at Garnet […]

Pope Francis will have been the head of the Catholic Church for one year this March. In the past months, he has successfully stirred the pot with his emphasis on charity, his political tweets, and rumors of his sneaking out of the Vatican to spend time with the poor. Though […]

As the 2014 Olympic Winter Games approaches the city of Sochi, Russia, anticipation looms not only over the potential results within the veritable selection of sports, but over the safety of its participants and crowd-goers.  Threats range from acts of terrorism, to the downplaying of any homosexual identities within the […]

Eric Cohen, Executive Director of the Tikvah Fund and editor-at-large of the New Atlantis, recently drew quite a crowd to Eastern University with his lecture “Science, Technology and the Common Good”. In his speech, Cohen sought to raise awareness of growing societal issues involving science and technology and also to […]

Christianity Today has recognized “The Mystery of God: Theology for Knowing the Unknowable” this year as a top choice book to “shape evangelical thought, life, and culture.” Authored by Eastern University’s Dr. Steven D. Boyer and Dr. Christopher A. Hall,the book was published by Baker Academic and was released on […]

On January 9, 7,500 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol also containing “PPH,” which contains glycol ether, was released into the Elk River in West Virginia.  These chemicals belonged to Freedom Industries, a company that creates a wide range of mining and water treatment chemicals. The White House ordered a state of […]