NEWS
550 Students Join The Flock This Fall
Each year, it seems a new bigger incoming class comes to Elizabethtown College. In the 2023-2024 application season, 3,618 senior high school students tried to join the Etown flock, making it 3 percent higher than the year prior and the most number of applications ever. The class snapshot for the class of 2028 indicated that
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2024 PA Ren Faire Season Starts
With fall classes starting and the workload already starting to pile up, an excursion outside of campus is what many students are looking for during their weekends. This leads to a lot of students going to the local restaurants and shops in town that they have been to many times before or making a drive
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PA Politics: Legal Hurdles for Independent Hopefuls Bar Candidates as November Looms
Pennsylvania Democrats have won a series of legal challenges keeping the Party for Socialism and Liberation from the presidential ballot in late August. A PA Commonwealth Court judge agreed with Democratic Party challenges, ruling that the paperwork filed by Party for Socialism and Liberation was fatally flawed and ordered the party’s candidate, Claudia De la
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CAMPUS LIFE
Club Feature: Etown Kindness Project
If you’re ever feeling stressed or down, look to the Etown Kindness project for some words of encouragement! Starting Nov. 7, there will be biweekly meetings at 7 p.m. held in Nicarry Hall 228, during which all students are welcome to attend and take part in the club’s activities. The club was founded by second-year
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Business Review: Folklore Cafe and Co
Let’s face it: we all love a warm, aesthetic café to study, read or simply escape from the chaos of campus. Soft lighting, quiet conversations and mouthwatering smells of rich espresso fill the air, making it the perfect place to relax and unwind. It’s as if you walked straight into a beautifully written Taylor Swift
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Welcome to the Jungle: Penny the cat
Sweet and silly Penny works hard as an Emotional Support Animal (ESA) for senior early childhood education major Brooke Seislove. Penny is a two-year-old black and white domestic shorthair cat with a cute little black spot on her pink nose. Seislove had been wanting a cat for a long time and was hoping to get
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SPORTS
Track and Field NYU D III Invitational recap
Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s track and field teams each had their fourth meet of the season this past Friday. The teams made their way up to New York City, N.Y. for the NYU DIII Invitational. The events were held at the New Balance Track & Field Center at The Armory at 5 p.m. on
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Swim Team’s season recap and championship preview
Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s swim teams’ regular seasons came to a close at the end of January. On Jan. 28, both the men’s and women’s swim teams had their last regular season meet. Both teams had a successful regular season, each sporting a winning record as championship weekend nears. The men’s swim team jumped
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Friends Fitness Challenge is underway
The Friends Fitness Initiative is a fitness challenge that runs through the month of February. The challenge is hosted by Elizabethtown College’s Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being. This challenge is going on now. This challenge is a little different than the Leave 2022 Behind You, because the challenges are slightly different. To register,
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FEATURES
Mosaic Unbound–Hispanic Heritage Month
Lauren Robitaille wears a lot of hats. The Elizabethtown College student is simultaneously an intern with the Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging, Bowers Writers House and the High Library. On Monday Sept. 20 these three organizations collaborated to sponsor a meeting of the Mosaic Unbound dialogue series to kick of Hispanic Heritage Month at
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Latino Mennonites
Latino Mennonites? Yes, they do exist, and Associate Professor at Texas A&M University Dr. Felipe Hinojosa is one of them. On Thursday Sept. 16, Hinojosa delivered a lecture to Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Hinojosa is a historian focusing on the Civil Rights era but that wasn’t his first intended line
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Cultural dance workshop
The Elizabethtown College Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging hosted a Cultural Dance Workshop to celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. On Sept. 15, Etown students gathered in the Koon’s Activity Venue (KAV) to take part in this collaborative movement. Assistant Director of Residence Life Kayshen Morel led the class, establishing a comfortable pace
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