NEWS
End of the on-campus semester
Elizabethtown College is heading home for Thanksgiving break, and students won’t be coming back until late January. The decision made by the College not to have students return to campus to finish the semester after Thanksgiving break was made in August as part of the Fall 2020 Semester COVID-19 Plan. This plan is intended to
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Today’s Technology
During the tumultuous summer of this year, law enforcement agencies were able to deftly use facial recognition software to make arrests in protests and robberies. One such case was of a protester in Indiana who was arrested when a picture of him resurfaced on Twitter and was then fed into a facial recognition system. This
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Student Senate
Student Senate met for their weekly meeting Thursday, Nov. 12 over Zoom. This meeting was different, as it was their semesterly Senior Leadership Team (SLT) meeting. Sophomore class president Andrew Furman moderated the meeting, which included reports and questions divided into four sessions. The topics included COVID-19, increasing involvement and engagement on campus, residential renewal
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CAMPUS LIFE
The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in: Will private security contractors replace TSA at airports in the future?
Before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, airports used private contractors for security screening. After 9/11, Congress created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to handle security screening at the United States’ 440 airports. In 2002, Congress also opened a voluntary program that allowed airports to hire
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Mental Health Awareness Week: Ways to Stay Healthy
Mental health is extremely important to take care of because it can affect an individual’s everyday life, and it can range from stress to disorders. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one out of five Americans has a mental health disorder. Most cases can be treated in various ways, but only about half
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Music Review: Johnny Balik
Canadian R&B artist with smooth lyrics Street corners, coffee shops and college dorm rooms are just a few natural habitats of aspiring musicians. And they don’t have to produce fancy-labelled albums to amass fan bases. All they need are a few hours in a recording studio, a SoundCloud page, a suave vibe and a dash
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SPORTS
Track and field takes second in the Landmark Conference
Susquehanna University hosted the Landmark Conference Championship for track and field in which the men’s and women’s teams both took second place overall while Moravian College took first. The Blue Jays earned 13 medals total, with three athletes now holding gold. Senior Kelsey Brady earned first place in the mile with a time of 5:16.20.
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Winter Olympics come to an end
As the 2018 Winter Olympics finished up this past weekend with a total of 92 countries participating in the events, PyeongChang has awarded many great athletes with medals. The total number of medals received is 307. Coming in first with the most medals of the Olympics was Norway with a total of 39 medals. This
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Lacrosse season starts off on a good note for the Blue Jays
Wednesday, Feb. 21, Elizabethtown College’s women’s lacrosse team defeated Hood College on 16-7 Wolf Field, earning the Jays their first win of the season. First-year Lexie Sharp kicked off the game for Etown, scoring the first goal of the game and her first career goal under five minutes into the first half. Senior Katie Thompson
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FEATURES
New poetry book on fracking read at Bowers, lecturers share artwork
The Bowers Writers House held two events featuring Julia Spicher Kasdorf, the latter a joint effort with Steven Rubin on Thursday, Oct. 12. The pair is joining forces in a new book on the effects of fracking, which will feature both poems from Spicher Kasdorf and photographs from Rubin. Fracking is the process of shooting
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Discovering differences in gender ratios according to major
Does gender affect what major college students choose? Nationally, some majors have relatively even gender ratios, while others have more uneven gender ratios. What causes this? There are several possible answers, and each major is different. According to a 2014 Georgetown University study titled “What’s It Worth?: The Economic Value of College Majors,” some majors
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Etown alumna now lives in Mexico and co-owns two companies
Where will your major take you? Elizabethtown College graduate Stephanie Watts ‘93 majored in business administration with a concentration in international business management and a minor in French. She currently lives in Puerto Vallarta, a resort town in Mexico. Watts and her husband, Conner Watts, moved to Puerto Vallarta a year after having their destination
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