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World Renowed Chief Rabbi Lectures on “Religion and the Common Good”

On October 7, Eastern English Professor Rebecca Lauren Gidjunis (‘01) and Natalie Diaz, professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts Low-Res MFA Program in Arizona, held a poetry reading and discussion for Eastern faculty and students entitled “The Mythology of Faith and Family.” Diaz and Gidjunis met at Old Dominion University while studying for

  “Before we start, would you like a cup of tea?” Making time for tea has become a daily ritual for psychology professor Douglas Trimble. “There’s something very civilized about it. Everyone in Pakistan drinks tea.” For the past five years, Trimble has been serving and teaching in Lahore, Pakistan, a city of about 10

After 16 days of closed national parks, employee furlough and all around annoyance, Congress has decided to resolve the government shutdown by extending funding for the government until January 1 and allowing the Treasury to borrow until February. However, the House and the Senate still need to agree on a spending budget by December 21

College tuition is expensive,  and every student fears that the price will skyrocket at the end of each year. Huffington Post has found that this year “the cost has gone up – but not as much [as] in the past.” College tuition has always drastically increased from year to year, oftentimes making it difficult for

Three years after the University of Michigan Law School began enforcing affirmative action in their admissions process, Michigan voters repealed its ruling. Instead, they opted for the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which prohibits the government from granting preferential treatment to any individual or group based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. Initiated after

EU Broadens Curriculum

From October 7 through 12, the recipients of the 2013 Nobel Prizes were announced in Stockholm, Sweden.  This year, all six Nobel Prizes will be awarded on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, December 10, at ceremonies in Oslo, Norway and Stockholm. On the first day, James E. Rothman and  Randy W. Schekman of the