NEWS
EdOrG hosts vitual walkathon for A-T
Elizabethtown College held a virtual “Walk it Out for A-T” event April 23 through 25 hosted by the Education Organization (EdOrg) benefiting the A-T Children’s Project. Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare and fatal genetic disease that affects children, progressively debilitating their muscle control, causing cancer and developing immune complications. The walk was a call for
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Derek Chauvin convicted of all charges
Throughout the third week of the Chauvin trial, Derek Chauvin invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and opted not to testify at the trial, a topic which his defense attorney noted that they debated throughout the course of the trial. Members of the jury heard over 40 witnesses, as well as experts who took the stand.
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Senior staff reflects on time at the Etownian
Writing this means I am accepting that my time at both Elizabethtown College and the Etownian are coming to an end (which is something I do not want to think about, in all honesty). I have been in the academic world for so long, I do not know who I am going to be once
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CAMPUS LIFE
Music Review
Photo courtesy of Unsplash Last time I was rotated onto the music review, I wrote about the music from the popular video game “Persona 5.” Now that I’m here again, I figured I’d make this my niche to set me apart from the others. This week I’ll be writing about another video game with a
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The Weekly Chirp: The Presidential primary race
Photo courtesy of unsplash.com The United States presidential primary race is well underway. The formal results of the 2020 United States presidential primary election as of 7 p.m. EST are that 86 of the 87 declared Republican delegates will support President Donald Trump with the remaining delegate declared to former governor Bill Weld. The Democratic
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Music review: Lyrical analysis
Photo courtesy of unsplash.com The way I see it, there are two ways to approach a music review (Okay, maybe three — but all music reviews require introductory meta-analytical explorations of what music reviews are, so perhaps that is an overarching category, or a prerequisite, rather than an approach). The first is to plunge into
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SPORTS
Despite the weather, soccer teams play on and takes losses
The Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team traveled to Ewing, N.J., Sept. 8 to play Rutgers University-Newark. The ending score was 3-0, Rutgers. Within the first three minutes, the Scarlet Raiders scored the first goal and didn’t stop there. In the 14th minute, first-year Garrett Winchilla had a scoring opportunity, as did junior Travis Wilson in
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Women’s volleyball competes in the Spartan Invitational at York College
Friday, Sept. 7 and Saturday, Sept. 8, Elizabethtown College’s women’s volleyball team competed in the York College Spartan Invitational. Etown’s first game was Friday against #16-ranked Johns Hopkins University, who won all three matches over Etown. Junior Elle Shatto led Etown in kills and sophomore Aiyana Tietze-Di Toro had a game-high 13 digs. The Jays
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Men’s soccer comes out with a tie, women’s team takes a win: A non-conference game against Babson came out scoreless, the women’s game ends 2-4 Etown
The Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team faced Babson College Saturday, Sept. 1 in a non-conference match. The players ran for 110 minutes with over 28 shots attempted between both teams and a great effort on both sides. Although shooting opportunities were fairly limited, the Jays still outshot the Beavers by four, two of those shots
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FEATURES
“Me Too” campaign response brings sexual assault into conversation
Etown students received another email regarding an alleged sexual assault in the Ober residence hall that occurred last week. Sexual assault is a hot topic of conversation right now, especially on many college campuses. For many it is not an easy thing to talk about. The “Me Too” campaign is about the issue of keeping
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Creative nonfiction workshop discusses writing through inspiration
Nov. 16, the Bowers Writers House hosted a creative writing workshop and reading from two English professors from Elizabethtown College. Adjunct professor of English Cass Daubenspeck and lecturer in English and Etownian co-advisor Erica Dolson were asked to co-host the event by professor of English Dr. Carmine Sarracino. Director of the Bowers Writers House Jesse
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Snowden lecturer shares her research about technology
Thursday, Nov. 16, Snowden fellow Dr. Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar presented the Snowden lecture in the Hoover Center for Business in room 212. The lecture focused on the responses of Ultra-Orthodox and Old Order Amish women on the Internet. By gathering research on Lancaster County’s Amish population and their thoughts on the Internet, Shahar compared them
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