NEWS
Etown looks to expand service dogs on campus
They say that the dog is man’s best friend. Service dogs are a perfect example of this. These dogs make for loyal partners for people with disabilities: they can guide a person who is blind, prevent panic attacks, aid with mobility and much more. In fact, around 500,000 Americans have built partnerships with a support
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College Republicans host 9/11 tribute
Nearly 3,000 flags lined the academic quad at Elizabethtown College last Monday in a tribute to the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. A group of roughly ten students from the College Republicans worked to place the flags, one by one, around the quad on Sunday evening, after the club coordinated with facilities and the
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Social justice aligned changes are made to the Club and Org Handbook
With 80+ clubs on the Elizabethtown College campus, there must be a set list of standards. With that comes the Office of Student Activities (OSA) and the annual club handbook they put out. “The biggest thing I want people to know is that I’m not trying to hinder or limit what your club is doing.
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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
Marshmallow Game
On Wednesday, Sept. 22, in Grantham Pa., the Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team faced off against a relentless Messiah College attack all night, battling to a 0-0 draw in the annual Marshmallow Bowl game. With the tie, the Blue Jays record changed to four wins, one loss and one draw on the season while the
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Hershey Bears
On Oct. 3, 2021, in Hershey, Pa., the Hershey Bears announced the initial roster for its 2021 Training Camp, set to open on Monday, Oct. 4 at GIANT Center. The hockey team hits the ice to begin its 84th season Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 10:30 a.m. under new head coach Scott Allen. This year, the
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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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FEATURES
Senior Capstone Series: Innovative and compassionate engineering
As a liberal arts college, Elizabethtown College has a large variety of majors, minors and programs. One commonly shared aspect of majors is a capstone project. For the engineering major at the College, the senior capstone project actually begins in junior year when students are assigned to project groups based on their interests and begin
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Former White House staff member encourages youth political engagement
Elizabethtown College recently had the pleasure of hosting Daniella Gibbs Léger, the executive vice president for communications and strategy at American Progress. Léger was on campus as the Woodrow Wilson visiting fellow, and on Thursday, Feb. 28 she was interviewed in Gibble Auditorium by Etown junior Pleasant Sprinkle-Williams. In discussing how she got involved with
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Scene on campus: art, music come together prior to Ware lecture
In anticipation of this year’s Ware Lecture on the cultural exchanges of the Silk Road, student volunteers came together to show the interconnectivity between peacebuilding, art, and music by painting greenery on a piano in the halls of the Baugher Student Center. This piano will be freely available up until the lecture itself for those
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