Matthew Shank

Spring training offers MLB teams chance at fresh start 0
- Sports
- February 26, 2014
One of the biggest signings of the off-season was the New York Yankees’ pickup of Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka for a reported $155 million over seven years. Some baseball analysts have expressed skepticism at the amount of money being given to the pitcher, who previously has only pitched in the Japanese league. He was 24-0
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Baseball prepares to rebound from disappointing season 0
- Sports
- February 13, 2014
The Elizabethtown College baseball team is preparing for a new season and the last playing in the Middle Atlantic Conference’s Commonwealth Conference before Etown makes a move to the Landmark Conference in the fall. The Blue Jays look to improve on their 17-22 (10-11 CC) record in 2013, which gave them a season finish of
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Men’s basketball falls to conference rivals Lycoming, Messiah 0
- Sports
- January 30, 2014
The Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team followed a last-second victory against Stevenson University last Wednesday with a loss at home to Lycoming College on Saturday. At one point in the first half of Wednesday’s home game against Stevenson, the Blue Jays trailed the Mustangs by 10 points, but they finished out the half on a
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Emojis do not reflect inability to express oneself via texting 0
- Campus Life
- November 13, 2013
Our culture is saturated with pictorial representations of words and concepts, which have been dubbed “emoticons” or, in Japanese, “emoji.” Sometimes, entire conversations are expressed exclusively by emoticons. What implications does this popular form of communication have for our culture? Are we approaching what some call an image-based culture, or are these emoticons simply supplemental
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