How President Trump Is Already Making America Great Again
Andrew Barbin By the time you read this article, there will have been a changing of the guard at the helm of the free world. Indeed, Barack Obama will have passed the…
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Being A Compassionate Community
Anthony Barr On a cold and rainy evening midway through last semester, I texted a close friend: “I need a hug and maybe a cup of tea.” It had been a particularly…
Choosing to Live in a New Year
Victor Adepoju Everyone has heard the familiar adage “life speeds by,” yet I never considered that reality would be so harsh. Time flies, and life goes on: the reality of that truth…
Is There Really a Santa Claus? A panel discussion (Sponsored by yet another Eastern Task Force)*
Madeleine Harris Santa Exists…Duh by Madeleine Harris To be honest, the fact that it is even necessary for me to write this article is an outrage and a disgrace. There has truly…
Thank You, President Obama
As your second term as our president draws to a close, I want to thank you, President Obama, for these eight years that you have served our nation. We did…
Community After the 2016 Election
Kelsey Fiander-Carr In the wake of the recent presidential election, I walked around the hills of Eastern and saw many students who looked sad and shocked. I also saw people who were…
Faith Focus: C.S. Lewis on Friendship
Eliza Brown Not too long ago I read C.S. Lewis’s “The Four Loves.” I underlined passages and bracketed entire paragraphs and sticky-noted pages that moved me, paragraphs, passages and pages that were…
Standing With Standing Rock
Matt Wolek What is the problem with the Dakota Access Pipeline? Why is everyone protesting this? Why is Shailene Woodley getting arrested: Is this a part of her secret life as an…
Faith Focus: On Being Grateful
Jared Maier You may or may not be familiar with this situation, but I know it all too well. It is Thanksgiving. All of the food has been passed around the table,…
How Modern Sci-Fi Sees Humans
In 1964, a researcher at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum created the program ELIZA which functioned as an early version of Artificial Intelligence (AI). ELIZA operated on a script which was…