NEWS
Today’s Tech: Lawmakers combat AI
2024 is an election year, and while it seems to be a repeat of 2020, there is one new player in the game: Artificial Intelligence (AI). People around the world are expressing concerns over how AI can skew the results of the elections. AI can be used to create incriminating videos or audios of candidates
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New ID cards issued to students
Over the winter, Campus Security was hard at work implementing a new change: students have now been issued brand-new ID cards. As of this semester, the old ID cards will not work for any of the scanners on campus, and can be disposed of into a black box located in the Mail Services room in
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Fine Print Magazine prepares to feature students’ creative work
As Elizabethtown College has just opened its doors once more for a new semester, it seems one group on campus has hit the ground running. Walking through the BSC you may have seen large banners and posters referring to an opportunity to submit for the “Fine Print Magazine”. Those posters refer to a magazine full
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CAMPUS LIFE
Horoscopes: What encouragement do you need to hear in the last weeks of classes?
Hello again, Blue Jays! The semester is rounding to a close, and the end of the year is nearly within reach. Needless to say, life is getting hectic as we approach the last week of classes, final season and, for some of us, graduation. With that, I think we could all use a couple words
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Copy Chief Senior Farewell: Bye Bye Bye
Though it’s hard to wrap my head around it, graduation inches closer everyday. Before this year—before this month, even—I thought it would be such a relief to finally be done, to not have to worry about homework, projects, essays and other college responsibilities anymore. But as the countdown on my phone ticks away—30 days to
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Welcome to the Jungle: How six cute cats keep Cassidy Rohrman company
What’s better than one cat? Six of course! Sophomore public health major Cassidy Rohrman has five cats living at their dad’s house in Windsor, Pa., and one living at their mom’s house in Red Lion, Pa. The oldest of the bunch is Nefertiti, or Titi for short. Titi is a 10-year-old black rescue cat. She
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SPORTS
Pro Sports update
Australia’s Ash Barty, the No. 1-ranked women’s tennis player in the world, has recently announced her retirement from the sport at the age of 25. Barty said in an emotional video posted on Wednesday, March 16 on her social media accounts: “I’m so happy and I’m so ready. I just know at the moment in
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Video Game Review: Pool Elite
“Pool Elite” is an old game, but it is worth a review. This game is a three-dimensional pool simulator, enabling you to play several different variations of pool including but not limited to: 8-Ball, 9-Ball, 3 Cushion, Carom and even Snooker. This game is very realistic, as it is based in physics. This means that
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March Madness tournament update
This week, March Madness continued on Sunday, March 20, with eight more second-round games for the NCAA’s Men’s Basketball tournament as well as eight second-round games for the Women’s tournament. It all started with the ninth seeded team, Texas Christian University. TCU took its loss in an upset towards the very end of the suspenseful
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FEATURES
Etown Alumna Amita Mehta discusses career success as part of Executive Lecture Series
Feb. 12, Elizabethtown College alumna Amita Mehta spoke to Etown students as part of the Executive Lecture Series. This series is sponsored by Mars Wrigley Confectionery and the Etown Department of Business, of which Dr. Krichevskiy, associate professor of economics, is the coordinator. Mehta’s lecture, titled, “If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Lessons
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Celebrating Valentine’s Day while social distancing
With the world’s first Valentine’s Day in quarantine quickly approaching, many people find themselves considering just how drastically relationship norms changed since last March. Couples in long-term relationships have been forced to go extended periods of time without seeing one another, and healthy marriages have been challenged by heightened tensions and stay-at-home orders. Perhaps the
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Etown engineers build machines, writing skills, too
Director of the Bowers Writers House Jesse Waters tells it like it is. For the past several years, he has hosted Super Science Saturday, a lecture series for whipping engineering students’ writing into shape. Feb. 5, Waters Zoomed with a small group of Elizabethtown College’s engineering students to give the second talk in this semester’s
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