“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 […]
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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 the second floor of Warner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Student Activities Board welcomed students back for the spring semester in a flash on Jan. 23–with five dance parties in five locations. The “Flash Dance” was a unique event that took students party hopping all across the campus. Those planning to attend signed up beforehand so that the secret locations for each dance
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