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If I could do anything during Spring Break, I would …

For a moment, the stage in McInnis Auditorium resembled a Fruit of the Loom commercials, as six oversized produce products jumped and scurried around. The hilarious opening introduced an hour-long dance piece, called “Fruit for Thought” that explored the different meanings of the fruits of the spirits and their opposites. The emotional collection of dances,

Although it was early for a Saturday, several members of Students in Free Enterprise and Earthkeepers met at 10 a.m. at the greenhouse behind Doane Hall to complete manual work as a part of Blackout, a month-long campaign to save energy. What was advertised as Clean-up Day turned out to be a day of up-keeping

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Gangs rob and rape women in Haiti

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 not enough to fulfill Phil’s

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

“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 Center, where the meeting was