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Dr. David Bradstreet is the current head of Eastern University’s Astronomy department, and creator of The Star of Bethlehem show. The Star of Bethlehem show has been playing at Eastern University for more than 45 years. Bradstreet says, “The Star of Bethlehem show was fi rst given at Eastern in December 1972 when I was […]

      Sunday Jan. 7, the SpaceX program began the new year by launching a rocket. During the webcast of the launch, it seemed as if every aspect had gone successfully. The second stage of the rocket seemed to head toward orbit, and in the process the booster safety returned to Cape Canaveral. However,

      Current reports are circulating that a portion of Wayne Avenue of Radnor Township will be closing for a stretch of time. Starting Jan. 16, there was a detour placed as construction installations began. They are expected to continue until late March. Each weekday the road will be closed from 9 a.m to

        Though we do not all go to chapel, and we may not all cheer on our Eastern Eagles at sports games, Eastern University’s students have shared in an act we have found all too familiar and unwanted– bracing for the cold. This Jan. temperatures have remained steadily below freezing, and it

      Waking up at 7 a.m., driving to a train station, and taking two trains into Philadelphia — this is just one day of preparation for the 2018 Women’s March. Many Eastern students from Students Advocating for Gender Equality (SAGE), Political Activism Club (PAC), and many other sects of campus came together Jan.

  Classwork , homework, quizzes, tests, finals, projects, work, and depression. For most, this combination is foreign to them, but, for some, it is an all-too-real reality that presents itself as a struggle each day. I was diagnosed with depression just this semester, but I struggled with the effects of sadness all throughout my life.

This past summer I picked up a small book at a yard sale called “When the Trees Say Nothing,” written by Thomas Merton who was a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani. The book reads like a journal with entries meditating on his love and wonder of the natural world. Merton talks of the

When people think of a 400-year-old text, not many people would think that it connects to a modern day dilemma such as sexual assaults on college campuses. However, Dr. William Storm, an Eastern English professor, makes just that connection. In a paper Dr. Storm is presenting to the New Chaucer Society, he claims in his

Last month, a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck at 21:18 local time near the Iraqi border, killing more than 500 people and injuring thousands, making this the world’s deadliest earthquake so far this year. The quake was so intense that it could be felt as far away as Turkey and Pakistan.

Many of the residents at Eastern University might not know about the events that took place a few months ago at our neighboring school, Cabrini’s campus. According to local NBC, on Sept. 18, a female freshman, Sennia Vann, was returning from a family outing when she realized that her dorm room door was vandalized with