The Campus Lantern

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AMONG the roughly 2,500 vintage vehicles offered at the collector-car auctions that began last week in Arizona were one-off design studies by automakers, racecars that soldiered through international events and vehicles once owned by celebrities

From the outside, it looks like any other well-preserved show car

But it’s safe to say there was nothing else like the [...]

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In 1848, Phineas Gage became a medical miracle.
Gage was a 25-year-old railroad foreman, who was known for being efficient and friendly. One September day, his crew was laying track in Cavendish, Vt. As he was tamping explosive powder into a hole in the rock, the powder exploded prematurely, driving the tamping iron straight through his [...]

Habitat Shack-a-Thon

At 8 AM on November 3, ECSU’s Habitat for Humanity set up cardboard boxes between the campus library and Webb Hall for Shack-a-Th on. Th e students slept in these cardboard makeshift houses overnight. Th e morning of November 4 was 31?F, so students were literally sleeping in the freezing cold. Students still attended their classes and went to work during the 24-hour event. “Th is isn’t [...]

Ladybugs: They’re EVERYWHERE!

The “ladybug infestation” has swarmed into towns all over Connecticut, as well as in surrounding states, and Willimantic has been no exception. Eastern students may have noticed the little bugs all over campus recently; they are literally everywhere! Just look out a window on the top floor of Constitution Hall and you can see ladybugs [...]

Relay for Life Rallies Students and Community

Saturday October 17th, more than three hundred Eastern students joined members of the Windham community on Eastern’s baseball field for their annual Relay for Life event. Eastern’s Director of the Center for Community Engagement, Kim Silcox, noted that such a high number of student participants in this year’s event was a “tremendous turnout”. Eastern was [...]

Top Haunted Happenings In Ct

Halloween is almost here and a lot of people like to get in the scaring kind of mood.  Instead of going to see the overhyped Paranormal Activity or the redundant Saw VI films, go visit a haunted house or take a drive down a creepy road.  Whether someone prefers a spooky graveyard with a legend [...]

Columbus, the Man, the Myth, the Holiday Not Taken

Remember the old days when everything learned in early grade school was deemed, without a doubt, actual fact?  Pluto was a planet, numbers weren’t supposed to be mixed with letters when solving equations, and Christopher Columbus was the man responsible for discovering America.  In acknowledging that last note, everyone who has grown up with the [...]

Monthly Oscar Predictions-October

As the lovely month of October draws to a close, It’s time to look back on some of the films released. It’s needless to say that October has been the bearer for plenty of attention deserving movies. With the Academy Awards coming in just a few months, I’ll be interested to see which movies make [...]

Complainers R’ Us

Complainers are people who express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: (dictionary.com).
Complainers are an annoyance to society. There are people who honestly believe that ears were made to listen to hours of pointless babble. For example: in one of the past issues of the Campus Lantern, I wrote about minority scholarships. Many [...]