Thank You, President Obama
Anthony Barr 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…
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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…
A Question on Work-Life Balance
Madeleine Harris On Friday, Oct. 28, I attended a panel discussion held on campus, entitled “Women, Family and Leadership,” where four professional, working mothers spoke about what their lives have looked like…
A Call to Red Letter Christians
Waltonian Red Letter Christians are followers of Jesus who try to live out those words of Jesus which in many Bibles are highlighted with red letters. Among those red letters we…
Reflections on InterVarsity’s Decision
Lauren Murphy Staff at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, an evangelical organization with more than 1,000 chapters on college campuses nationwide, are not only being asked to take a stance on the topic of…
The Humanity of the Criminal
The problem of dehumanizing criminals in our minds and in our prison systems is a perennial one. Because we as a society feel betrayed when crimes are perpetuated, it is…