NEWS
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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Student Senate
Student Senate met Thursday, April 22 at 3:45 pm for the first meeting of their new term. The meeting was held both in-person in Gibble Auditorium and virtually over Zoom. Since it marked the beginning of a new Senate term, the meeting began with the Oath of Office for all senators. Senators then continued with
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Global Perspective
India is currently facing a COVID-19 crisis, with millions of reported cases and no end in sight. More than 20 million COVID cases have been reported as of Tuesday, May 4, including approximately 3.5 million people who are currently being treated. In the past week, the number of COVID cases in India had increased by
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CAMPUS LIFE
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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Music Review: Vampire Weekend: Six years of waiting well worth it, indie lovers say
Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com Six years. That’s how long it’s been since we’ve had a fresh album from indie sensation Vampire Weekend. That finally changed this past May. The band released “Father of the Bride,” an album with a whopping total of 18 tracks. 18 tracks! This album has some of my new favorite Vampire
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Welcome to the Jungle: Harper: Guinea pig treated like a princess, lives with a fun crowd
Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com I’m only talking to you because you’ve promised me a big bowl of grapes after this. The red kind, not the nasty green ones! I like the finer things in life, you know. I’ll only eat leaves that are the right length, red grapes and music sheets with lots of tasty
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SPORTS
Cricket evolves in Asia and Europe
Cricket is an evolving sport that, as of right now, is only played in countries in Asia and Europe. It is very popular in India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom. Cricket is a bat and ball game played between two teams. The teams are made up of 11 players; substitutes are only permitted for certain
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Track and field compete with some outstanding athletes
Saturday, April 21, Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the Mason-Dixon Invitational at Gettysburg College. The men’s team finished sixth out of 15 teams with 62.5 points, and the women’s team placed fifth out of 11 teams with 69.5 points. Senior Mitch Schlegel took first for the men’s team in
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Men’s and women’s tennis play well in doubles matches
Sunday, April 15, the Elizabethtown College men’s tennis team played against the University of Scranton, taking a loss 9-0. Etown’s doubles team of senior Ryan Caris and sophomore Tristan Boheim took a loss, giving Scranton a total of three right in the beginning. Four sets of doubles were matched as Scranton took a four-win streak.
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FEATURES
Speaker expresses passion for nonprofit organizations and artwork
Be out in the world and be comfortable with that,” internationally famous artist Sean J. Patrick Carney said. Carney dedicates his time, passion and artistic talents to working for nonprofit organizations. Carney spoke at Elizabethtown College Monday, Oct. 16. He gave two different presentations: “Making the Nice a Bit Nicer: Management, Engagement and Contribution in
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Afternoon craft talk leads students to write creatively about photos
You’re making the painting speak, the sculpture speak,” poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf said during her craft talk Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Bowers Writers House. Spicher Kasdorf spoke about the relationship between poetry and image. Poets have been writing in response to images and photographs for years. Spicher Kasdorf told the audience about the Imagist
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Guest lecturer on photography shares stories behind his photographs
During a photography lecture Thursday, Oct. 12, photographer Steven Rubin shared some of his projects and the scenarios of the people he had photographed. As an associate professor of art in the Photography Department at Pennsylvania State University, it is no wonder Rubin has pursued a diverse amount of projects. After Elizabethtown College professor of
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