Newly-founded club Thread Heads has partnered with Youth Against Complacency and Homelessness Today (YACHT) to provide knitted and crocheted hats and gloves for the homeless in the Philadelphia area. Beginning in spring 2016, senior entrepreneurial studies major Somer Jordan founded the club coined Thread Heads to express her passion for crocheting. […]
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An Eastern press release recently announced some exciting news for the university. In the 2017 edition of the Best Colleges List, which is published by U.S. News & World Report, Eastern was again ranked in the Top Tier of North Regional Universities. Eastern is at number 91 on the list of top-tier schools
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On Saturday, Nov. 20, the Radnor and Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Societies will be cosponsoring a special presentation on two Mainline architects who played intricate roles in the development of the local area. During the 1880s, architects Newton B. Culver and T. Mellon Rogers formed a partnership that would be responsible for the building
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In a recent news publication, Prince Albert of Monaco was announced to be the new owner of a home in the East Falls section of Philadelphia. This home has a special connection to Prince Albert’s family. In a press release, 6abc Action News stated: “The Philadelphia home where Oscar-winning actress Grace Kelly grew
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It is no secret that Eastern has undergone a great deal of change recently. One of these changes is the dissolving of the College of Theology and Ministry (CTM), which included theology, biblical studies, youth ministries, missiology and theological and cultural anthropology, and Palmer Seminary. These programs have been redistributed into the College
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“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.” So said Sir Winston Churchill about his close friend and World War II ally after the president’s death, in April 1945. John Boyer and I weren’t moving armies and navies around the Western world,
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“So why is it important to learn about Arabic culture?” I ask. Eastern student Maddy Lee smiles. “I’m very interested in the idea…of getting us out of our own heads and our cultures,” she says. Lee is a member of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Executive Council at Eastern University. The
Eastern Meets the Middle East: Students attend Arabic culture events. Read Post »
Students, faculty and family ambling around whilst proudly clad in maroon Eastern apparel is always a welcoming sight when homecoming occurs each fall. The sense of identity that people find in their college is reaffirmed upon returning to Eastern where they are greeted with an overwhelming sense of school pride. Homecoming is a
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Woman gets stuck inside WEPA machine An unidentified woman got stuck inside Warner Memorial Library’s WEPA machine. A work request was filed, but sadly Plant Ops did not respond for several weeks due to backlogged work requests. A handful of librarians attempted to pry her out with numerous methods, including rope, crowbars and
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More than three years deep in college, texts and tests, one of the only things I’m certain of is that to be a good student, we must be capable of good conversation. Every time we step foot in a classroom, every time we crack open a text, scrawl notes into our
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