Eastern Opens Center City Location
Hector Davila The arrival of a new year brings new opportunities, new hopes and obtainable goals. This is also true for Eastern as we strive to continue climbing up the ladder of…
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Templeton Honors College to Offer Master of Arts in Teaching
Jordan Kolb The Templeton Honors College will now offer a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) with a uniquely classical framework. The program, developed in partnership with Great Hearts Academies, is built…
Master Plan Renovations Begin on St. Davids Campus
Lauren Murphy With the beginning of the spring semester, members of the Eastern community are seeing many of the plans outlined in Phase I of the Campus Master Plan come to fruition…
The Christmas Pickle
Hannah Rymarowicz Every Christmas for as long as I can remember, there has been a palm-sized, metallic green pickle ornament hanging on my family’s Christmas tree. This ornament is always the last…
Rwanda: A story of healing and love
Anne Mozel Rwanda taught me to love. The land of a thousand hills is home to a beautiful and vibrant culture in which I was lucky enough to study abroad. I took…
Wonder Woman: From superhero to icon to UN Ambassador
Billy Faulkner In a year that has seen death, destruction and the most controversial election of all time, some light shines through the darkness. On Oct. 21, 2016, the United Nations anointed…
On Place and Loving Lil’ Chicago
Anthony Barr In my first semester at Eastern, on a warm summer day, I walked with two close friends into Wayne. As we entered the bridge tunnel leading into Wayne, Pa., I…
The Blessing of the Holy Day: Encouragement from Dr. Phillip Cary
Phillip Cary Is there any time more stressful than Christmas? Like Thanksgiving, it is a time when families come together, gathered from far and wide to re-establish contact, to be nervous around…
The Philly Project: New developments proposed for Center City
A development site near the eastern bank of the Schuylkill River was purchased from PMC Property Group, which plans to build two towers of mostly glass and metal. The company…
In Memoriam Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Harold Hairston
Madeleine Harris On Nov. 1, Philadelphia lost Harold B. Hairston, age 76, the city’s first African-American Fire Commissioner. Hairston will be remembered as a loyal friend, a faithful husband of 41 years,…