NEWS

  • Interhall visitation allowed

    Interhall visitation allowed

    Elizabethtown College announced in a COVID-19 campus update email Monday, April 21 that interhall visitation would be permitted starting Thursday, April 15. In an email sent a few weeks earlier Monday, March 22, the COVID-19 Task Force said that they would not permit interhall visitation at that time but would instead continue to monitor the

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Student Senate met Thursday, April 15 at 3:45 p.m. over Zoom for their weekly meeting. Vice President for Student Life Dr. Celestino Limas began the meeting with his administrative report. He started by saying he is disappointed by the number of inappropriate responses on the “before I graduate” boards in the Baugher Student Center (BSC)

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  • Pennsylvania Politics

    Pennsylvania Politics

    Article II, Section 17 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania states, “In each year following the year of the Federal decennial census, a Legislative Reapportionment Commission shall be constituted for the purpose of reapportioning the Commonwealth.”  With the 2020 Census having finished on October 15 and 99.98 percent of American households being counted,

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CAMPUS LIFE

  • Pop Culture: Fake News or Fabulous Stories Featured in Tabloids?

    Pop Culture: Fake News or Fabulous Stories Featured in Tabloids?

    Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com Pop culture news comes from everywhere nowadays. It’s on paper, it’s on about every social media app on your phone and it’s what you’re reading right now. But how do you know what tea you’re reading is real? Obviously I’m trustworthy, but what about the millions of articles, stories, ads, pages

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SPORTS

  • Track & field regular season ends with Blue Jay Tune Up wins

    Track & field regular season ends with Blue Jay Tune Up wins

    Photo: Megan White Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27, the Elizabethtown College track and field teams participated in this year’s Penn Relays at Franklin Field. Thursday, senior Maria Anderson ran the 3,000-meter steeplechase for the women’s team. According to the Penn Relays website, she placed 26th with a time of 10:56.39 and nearly broke

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  • Etown earned a win in the first game of their doubleheader

    Etown earned a win in the first game of their doubleheader

    The Elizabethtown College baseball team jumped to an early lead Saturday, April 21, in the first of two games against the Susquehanna University River Hawks. After senior Anthony Lippy worked out of a jam in the top of the first, back-to-back singles from junior Anthony Knight and senior Colby Smith set the stage for a

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FEATURES

  • Panel on reform lines up with anniversary of Protestant Reformation

    Panel on reform lines up with anniversary of Protestant Reformation

    Elizabethtown College hosted an event Tuesday, Nov. 14, sponsored by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies about three different reform movements and leaders: Martin Luther, John Calvin and Swiss Anabaptists. Each speaker discussed the history and choices made by the reformists. The presentation allowed audience members to ask questions or make comments at

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  • Final event of World War I lecture series shares view from the East

    Final event of World War I lecture series shares view from the East

    Monday, Nov. 13, the High Library hosted the last installment of the World War I and America program for the fall 2017 semester. The lecture featured Dr. David Kenley, the Director of the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking and professor of history at Elizabethtown College. Dr. Kenley’s area of expertise is Asian studies, with

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  • Governor visits Etown’s solar field to announce new solar energy bill

    Governor visits Etown’s solar field to announce new solar energy bill

    Monday, Nov. 13, at 10 a.m., Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf greeted government officials and Elizabethtown College students and faculty at the College’s solar field to sign House Bill 118, which encourages Pennsylvanians to produce and use their own efficient energy sources. House Bill 118 was signed into law as Act 40 Monday, Oct. 30, according

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