NEWS
Pennsylvania Politics: The 2024 Senate race begins
On Monday, April 10, Democratic Senator Bob Casey Jr. announced that he will be running for re-election in 2024, seeking a fourth term. This decision marks the beginning of a likely competitive and expensive 2024 PA Senate race. “Folks, I’m running for re-election,” Casey wrote on Twitter. “There’s still more work to do to cut
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Etown hosts Congress to Campus events
On Monday, March 27, Elizabethtown College hosted several Congress to Campus events that were open to the campus community. The event was coordinated by the Center for Global Understanding and Peacebuilding (CGUP) and the theme was Civil Dialogue in Action. CGUP coordinated the event through Director Shannon Haley-Mize, the CGUP student leadership team and the
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We the People: Referendums, ballot initiatives and democracy in PA
As the 2023 off-year election season gets underway, it is important to take a look at the complex process of amending the Pennsylvania Constitution that occurs in nearly every off-year election cycle. In Pennsylvania, the state constitution can only be changed by constitutional amendment. Amendments are passed by a simple majority of the Pennsylvania General
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CAMPUS LIFE
Horoscopes: Which Halloween movie should you watch?
Happy Hallo-week, my moon children. With the best holiday of the year this Monday, the spooky movies are in full swing. Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween is rounding to a close, and the scary movie sections of streaming services are in their prime. With all this content, do you ever wonder which Halloween movie your
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Club Feature: Emotion
E-Motion Dance Club is the ideal opportunity to experience new things, make new friends and get involved in the environment. E-Motion is one of the several clubs available at Elizabethtown College. Its goals are to forge personal connections, make memories and foster a sense of belonging. E-Motion continues to implement its goal of fostering meaningful
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Welcome to the Jungle: Meet Prim
Prim is an American Domestic Shorthair cat with a turtle coat, belonging to senior criminal justice major and RA of Brinser Hall’s second floor Nyvani Molina. Molina adopted Prim during last spring semester. Throughout April, Molina had been going through some tough times and was struggling with his mental health. “I just wasn’t feeling like
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SPORTS
Cross Country meet – Sept. 25
Saturday Sept. 25, the Elizabethtown College Cross Country team traveled to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. for the Dickenson Long/Short Invitational. Both the men and women’s teams finished in third place in their longer events. The longer event for the men is an 8-kilometer run and for the women it is a 6-kilometer run. The
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Athlete of the Week
Senior Christian Schaaf has been running for most of his life. He began running around the age of 12 when his mom, a former long-distance runner in high school, inspired him to start running. “One of the first races I did, I did in honor of my aunt…who was diagnosed with breast cancer. She did
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Women’s Volleyball
On Saturday, Sept. 18, the Elizabethtown College women’s volleyball team split its three weekend matches, falling to Franklin & Marshall College before topping Lancaster Bible College, the host of the match, 3 sets to 0 on Saturday afternoon. With the split, the Blue Jays’ win to loss record moves to 5 wins and 4 losses
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FEATURES
Graduating senior staff says their “farewells” to the Etownian
Almost four years ago I walked into the Etownian news room and (at least it feels like) I never walked out. While I cannot speak for everyone, I know many of our seniors had similar experiences. The Etownian is where I found my true home at Etown, I found a family within my fellow writers
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Music Review: Indie artist “Still Woozy” channels funky, dreamlike sound
Say “thank you” to the Internet. Straight from a garage in Oakland, California comes the positive vibrations of Still Woozy, directly into your ears. Still Woozy is not quite a band name. It’s a stage name for the 25 year-old solo artist Sven Gamsky. Named a 2018 “Artist to Watch” by Purple Sneakers (an Australian
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SCAD presentations showcase student creativity and intellect
Beginning in 2007, Elizabethtown College has held a spring event to showcase student academics. At Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD), students showcase their creativity and intellect through presentations about topics that are significant to them. To ensure academic quality, all SCAD presentations must first be approved by a professor. Beyond that, however, the responsibility
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