News & Features

Issue 8

  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

 Students from Eastern have been lending a helping hand to New Orleans for the past four years.   This year, the group consisted of seniors Krystal Cairns, Laura Lockyer, Julie Peiffer, junior Amy Fischer, sophomore Kristi Kraft, alumnae Rebekah Miller and librarian Jonathan Beasley, who served as advisor of the trip.    The team served in

  Returning for the spring semester, most faculty and students were pleasantly surprised by a row of new coffee pots in the Dining Commons, set off by a wide green backdrop announcing the product: “aspretto.”    The drink station is significant, not only because of its selection of brews, flavored teas, and 12-ounce cups with

 Dr. Kenneth Maahs, a Biblical studies professor, is taking his almost-annual trip to Israel with interested students from May 23 to June 8. According to Maahs, during the 17-day pilgrimage the students will walk where Jesus walked and see almost what Jesus saw.    “I am hoping that, through this trip, I will be able