News & Features

Issue 8

from the desk of Jim Magee, Director of Security

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 began 6,000 years ago because

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 skulls, people walking past stared

  The United States is overflowing with pity as it watches the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere suffer the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake.    A massive earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, ransacked Haiti on Jan. 12, leaving the world speechless.   The media flashes images of Haiti’s plight constantly: Children lying

    The Log Cabin, an original part of the Walmarthon Estate located on the island in the middle of the three campus ponds, was demolished on Dec. 14 after 30 years of ongoing debate.   Without warning, an e-mail was sent to students on Dec. 7 announcing the University’s plans to demolish the cabin,

 As the first installment of three business-focused seminars, SIFE organized a panel of SIFE alumni, including Jonathan Malone, Larry Buller, Anna Rohwer, Brandon Ziegler, Lauren Lottier and James Frederick, to answer questions about their journeys after college. About 75 students gathered to hear about the alumni’s experiences through internships, job interviews and the adjustment from

  One important change for students this fall semester was the new Web site called MyEastern. This portal has been in the works for more than three years and recently made its debut.    Its purpose is to make the registration process, as well as managing student accounts, much easier.    First-year students used the

  When she first heard about the earthquake, Dr. Joselli Deans was dumbfounded.    The first-generation Haitian American dance professor, who has numerous family members living in Port-au-Prince, did not know what to think.   “I was just sort of dazed and I didn’t realize or understand the extent of the destruction until the next

 Due to requests from the board of directors and the continued malfunctions with the e-mail server, the Information Technology department has announced a transition from the University’s current e-mail server to Google’s system, Gmail.    The complete system, Google Apps Education Edition, offers students and faculty numerous tools for online correspondence and relieves the IT