Student Government Association elections take place every April, but this year the running is looking less competitive than last year’s record-breaking race. A highly public campaign for the executive board last April ended with the election of president senior Maggie Stewart, vice president junior Nate Riedy, treasurer junior Ian Hoffman […]

Just days after Pennsylvania’s favorite groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, predicted six more weeks of winter, the largest snow storm of the winter blanketed Philadelphia with 28.5 inches of snow on Feb. 6. That much snow had not fallen in the city since the infamous 1996 blizzard. As if that snowfall were […]

Blast hits close to home for students

Chalk another one up for Eastern in the environmental movement. In a 2010 report by Renewal, a student-led movement that works on Christian campuses to take better care of creation, the University was recognized for its numerous energy and environmental initiatives. The report, “Green Awakenings,” offered a summary of what […]

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The Eastern University Theological Society had its first meeting of the semester on Jan. 26, with assistant Christian studies professor Dr. Jonathan Yonan presenting a lecture on the age of the Earth. Yonan covered a variety of topics, including memory, time and history, but his final conclusion was that “man […]

A mass of heavy-hearted local citizens, including some Eastern students, dressed in black, gathered outside of Broadstreet Ministry, a church in Philadelphia, and mourned a terrible and unjust death: the death of justice. As the protesters marched toward Center City on Feb. 3 carrying candles, banners and signs shaped like […]

“Have you ever been somewhere where you thought, ‘Oh, I wish I had my camera’?” General Counsel Rick Eisenstaedt said, opening the Feb. 4 Board of Trustees meeting with an anecdote. “This building used to be named for a man I didn’t know,” Eisenstaedt said of the Harold C. Howard […]

Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak conducted a town hall-style meeting at Eastern with students, faculty and local residents on Feb. 1. Sestak represents the 7th district and hopes to beat out five-term Senator Arlen Spector to become the Democratic Party’s candidate in the 2010 senatorial elections. The event took place on […]