NEWS
Admissions updates: Accepted Student Day
Photo courtesy of Elizabethtown College Flickr Since the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, Elizabethtown College’s Office of Admissions has seen many changes, from a new Vice President to a change in the leadership for tour guides. There have also been changes made to Accepted Student Day, which will be applied for the first time
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McCormick speaks to Student Senate
Photo courtesy of Matt Smith Elizabethtown College President Cecilia McCormick addressed Student Senate for its Thursday, Feb. 6 meeting, focusing on updates from the recent Board of Trustees meeting, which was closed to Student Senate and the Etownian attendance. “I wanted to make sure I’d be here for the Board recaps,” McCormick said at the
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Global Perspective
Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Brexit, the breakup between the United Kingdom (U.K.) and The European Union (EU), is official. After three and a half years of negotiations and multiple delays, the U.K. formally left the EU Friday, Jan. 31., becoming the first country to leave the EU since its inception in 1957, then called the
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CAMPUS LIFE
The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in: Should “nonbinary” be added as a gender option on state ID?
Early in October, California lawmakers passed a bill that would allow Californians to have gender-neutral and nonbinary gender options on licenses and identification papers. The bill, known as the Gender Recognition Act, is set to be in effect by 2018. California will be the second state in the U.S. to offer gender neutral options for
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Review: “Stanger Things 2”
One of the most popular TV shows of 2016, Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” is back in time for Halloween with a second season. Never fear—no spoilers for this season, but if you haven’t seen season one yet, sorry. I have no remorse for you. Playing off all the best 80s archetypes, “Stranger Things” follows the disappearance
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Learn to get more meaning out of eating
How many times have you purchased takeout food, skipped a meal or eaten on the run in the past month? Can you remember specifically what you ate for breakfast, lunch or dinner yesterday? When was the last time you focused on the food in front of you, noticing the colors, subtle textures and aromas? How
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SPORTS
Women’s basketball wins third straight, defeats Merchant Marine
Heading into Monday’s Martin Luther King Day matchup at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, the Elizabethtown College women’s basketball team was right in the thick of the Landmark Conference playoff race. Sitting in the fourth and final playoff spot, one game ahead of fifth-seeded Drew University, the Blue Jays squared off with the Mariners
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Deam places fifth in pole vault as track competes at Collegeville
The men’s and women’s track and field teams had their meet moved up a day in an attempt to avoid Winter Storm Jonas this past weekend. The Collegeville Classic took place Friday, Jan. 22 at Goucher College, as opposed to Saturday. The men’s team scored a total of seven points and placed 13th in the
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Men’s swim team defeats Frostburg State, women drop close meet
Before the storm postponed the men’s and women’s swim teams’ meets against McDaniel College , the teams each faced Frostburg State University at home on Jan. 18, 2016. The men clinched a win for the final meet at home, while the women were defeated by just three points. The men won 111-87 against Frostburg. First-years
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FEATURES
Shelly explains difficulties of starting a small business
Andrew Shelly of Andrew Douglas Jewelers in Elizabethtown came to talk about his store and a bit about his experience with business as part of the M&M Mars Lecture series. Growing up, his father was a business owner, so business was always a part of the conversations at the dinner table. His father owned a
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Wilson explains negative portrayal, absence of females in video games
Senior and Etownian webmaster Luke Wilson presented on the portrayal of women in video games, focusing on the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of many female characters as part of a computer science club tech talk last night. Wilson used DotA 2 as an example of stereotypes in video games. DotA 2 features 110 playable characters. “It
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Gans details Auschwitz, death marches during Holocaust
On April 1, a lecture was held in Gibble Auditorium by Holocaust survivor Philip L. Gans who presented his experience as a survivor of Auschwitz, one of the most well-known concentration camps during World War II. Gans began his presentation with a retelling of the time he and his family were discovered by Nazis in
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