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SIFE wins regional competition and prepares for national stage

After a week of intense struggle in Washington, the White House and Democrats in Congress passed a massive national health care reform.   Under the new legislation, those Americans currently unable to afford health insurance because of financial difficulty will soon be covered through government subsidies and Medicaid.    The health care battle started coming

Accidental flood in Kea Hall triggers air quality checks and resident displacement

April Fools’ Day is commonly known as a day of practical joking and merrymaking. While some have ignored this whimsical and light-hearted day of frivolity, others have thrived in the spirit it represents and have kept the tradition going for centuries. The beginnings of April Fools’ Day are unclear. While there are some differing versions

Are you going to the Spring Banquet and why?

It all started in 2004 with a lecture on C. S. Lewis at the University of Tennessee. After speaking about Lewis’ opinions on gender relations, Dr. Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, head of the Eastern psychology department, began the process of writing her sixth self-published book, “A Sword between the Sexes?: C. S. Lewis and the

 First-year Lauren DiBona used the popularity of the recent hit show “Glee” and her own experience in high school drama club to help start a Glee Club on campus. Eastern’s Glee Club is a show choir that puts together and performs choreographed arrangements of popular music and a few show tunes.   What makes Glee

Salsa Club returns with a bang

 If you are fed up with the housing lottery, Student Development is offering a new option that would eliminate the stress of waiting for hours to hear your number called only to get placed in a room you do not want.   The Community Sustainability Option allows any current resident student to remain in their

 It has been years since a student-run radio station has broadcast from campus. “A lot of great opportunities come from radio broadcasting, and I didn’t want Eastern University students to go without that,” sophomore James Laughlin said, explaining his efforts to give Eastern a radio station of its own.    Now, having won student government