Campus life

Black Student Union fundraiser game pits the (victorious) Streetball Kingz against the hometown Wreckin’ Royals

by Alicia Ygarza

The Wreckin’ Royals were expected to lose, and lose big they did, during an Oct. 30 fundraising basketball game against the Richmond-based Streetball Kingz at Eastern Mennonite University’s Yoder Arena.
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‘This generation’s cigarette’: media and religion professors team up to analyze selfie culture

by Kara Painter

Cell-phones are this generation’s cigarette. That was one analysis provided by Jerry Holsopple and Linford Stutzman to students participating in an October Living and Learning Forum at Eastern Mennonite University.
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Join international students in celebrating women around the world at the third annual International Education Week

by Randi B. Hagi

October 12-16 marks a time of education and celebration at Eastern Mennonite University of “how women around the world have influenced us in one way or another,” says International Education
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Chilean-American writer Marjorie Agosín helps to inaugurate Latino Heritage Month, brings poetry and art to campus

by Lauren Jefferson

Many on the Eastern Mennonite University campus are anticipating the Sept. 17-18 visit of Chilean-American writer Majorie Agosín. A professor of Latin American studies and Spanish language at Wellesley College,
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Sustainable Food Initiative partners with Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community farm to grow, harvest vegetables

by David Brennan

When Tyler Eshleman took the helm of Eastern Mennonite University’s sputtering student-led Sustainable Food Initiative (SFI) last year, his goals were modest: to return the weed-choked campus gardens to their
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