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

  • A review of the Super Bowl’s funniest commercials in 2020

    A review of the Super Bowl’s funniest commercials in 2020

    Photo courtesy of unsplash.com How about that Super Bowl? Am I right? Okay, so while I was physically present during the entirety of what I’m sure was a really good game of football, sports aren’t really my jam. This is Campus Life, though, so you will be receiving my abundant opinions. What on? The commercials,

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  • Music Review: The Lumineers: New album narrative-style, powerful, insightful

    Music Review: The Lumineers: New album narrative-style, powerful, insightful

    Photo courtesy of Flickr Friday, Sept. 13, 2019 (yes, Friday the thirteenth), The Lumineers released their third studio album, aptly titled “III.” The narrative-style album presents the effects of addiction on members of the imaginary Sparks family. It’s beautiful, tragic and evocative, but we’d expect nothing less from the group that gave us “Sleep on

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SPORTS

  • The track and field teams finished second and third in all

    The track and field teams finished second and third in all

    Photo courtesy of Etown Athletics @ etownbluejays.com Saturday, April 7 Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s track and field teams participated in the Millersville Metrics meet at Millersville University. The men’s team finished with 81 points, coming in second out of 19 teams. The women’s team finished third out of 19 teams with 52 points. First-year

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  • Softball’s first landmark losses in doubleheader with Catholic

    Softball’s first landmark losses in doubleheader with Catholic

    Photo: Megan White Saturday, April 7, the Elizabethtown College softball team lost both games in a doubleheader at home against Landmark Conference opponent Catholic University of America. Junior Emma Varrato got the Blue Jays off to a strong start in the first inning, hitting her fifth homerun of the season. This sent graduate student Kirstin

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  • Field Hockey: a universal sport

    Field Hockey: a universal sport

    The Hockey World Cup is the biggest competition for field hockey outside of the Olympics, where it is also an active sport. Field hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by moving a ball with a hockey stick. Field hockey also happens to be the national sport of both Pakistan

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FEATURES

  • Career Palooza celebrates professional development through trivia

    Career Palooza celebrates professional development through trivia

    Elizabethtown College’s career center hosted its annual Career Palooza event in the Baugher Student Center and Blue Bean. The event lasted from 5 to 7 p.m. and featured a variety of interactive games for students to learn about the services that the office provides. Senior Matthew VanCleef is a student assistant who had helped with

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  • Professor researches prophecies and how to determine the truth

    Professor researches prophecies and how to determine the truth

    How can we determine if we should believe everything prophets of the 21st century are telling us? Religious studies professor and researcher Dr. Julia M. O’Brien spoke about this topic at Elizabethtown College Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. Her research goal was to determine if what prophets say is true and how a society of

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  • Diversity team hosts second part of series, a panel on gender identity

    Wednesday, Oct. 11 the Elizabethtown College Diversity Team hosted the second part of their “Blue Jays Talk” series, a panel on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation at the Mosaic House. The event featured three panelists: Dr. T. Evan Smith, associate professor of psychology, Dr. Andy Dunlap, associate professor of social work and Dr. Michael Long,

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