Campus Life is the redesigned Opinion section.
We hope that this change will enable the Etownian to have a broader scope. Redesigning this section allows us to widen our lens to include the Elizabethtown community, and it is our hope that the section will encourage students to also look beyond the boundaries of the campus to the community. We plan to run articles about community events students might otherwise not hear about, interview off-campus individuals and offer students’ perspectives on businesses, venues and entertainment in the surrounding area.
Our main focus will always be Elizabethtown College, but we feel it would be a disservice to wholly ignore the rest of Elizabethtown. When students choose to attend a school, they become part of the on-campus community, but they also are residents of the area that serves as the geographical context of the campus.
Since we are a college newspaper, though, we will prioritize articles about the College over those about the community. Additionally, we will only cover community happenings in this section. The News, Features and Sports sections will continue to exclusively cover on-campus news.
The best articles in the Opinion section were those firmly grounded in life on campus. We will still run plenty of this kind of opinion article, as you’ll see in this week’s issue, but we’ll strive to only include articles directly
relevant to Etown students. These articles might be opinion pieces about campus goings-on, outside news that affects Etown students or community happenings.
We want to get away from more general opinion articles and make sure that only the best ideas make it through the publication process. We expect that increasing the number of places from which we can draw ideas for content will make it easier to find and select topics sure to be of interest to our readership.

Campus Life has existed in past years, but it was removed when it began to intersect with the Features section. We plan to keep the Campus Life section completely distinct from Features. Coverage of on-campus arts and culture events will always be placed in the Features section. In addition, while Features, along with News and Sports, contains purely journalistic writing, the tone of this section will be more creative than that of the other three sections.
Of course, Campus Life will remain journalistic, but we hope to include more of the experimental pieces we’ve had in the past as well as some new ones. This section will include satire, list articles, round-up pieces, infographics and photojournalism in addition to the Etown-centric opinion pieces that will continue to make up the bulk of the section.
Like the Opinion section of prior years, this section will house Letters to the Editor sent to us by students, faculty and staff members and individuals from the community.

Our staff and writers are excited about this redesigned section and are looking forward to this year of the Etownian. If you have ideas for content, feedback about this section or questions, please use the contact form on our website, etownian.com, or email us at EDITOR@ETOWN.EDU. We welcome and appreciate input from our readership.

Thanks so much for your continued support as a reader. Welcome back to Etown!