NEWS
Honors Program initiative: “Learn, Serve, Lead”
In early March, the Elizabethtown College Honors Program launched exciting new initiatives to keep up with the changing aspects of on-campus life. These changes range from simply adopting a new motto to promoting comprehensive community engagement. I interviewed Honors Program director Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca and other students from the Program to see how they felt
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Students receive HEERF II funding
Students at Elizabethtown College received emails from the Business Office Monday, March 1, informing them that the College was distributing direct emergency funds. The payments come as part of the Coronavirus Relief and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA) Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund II (HEERF II). The College received more than $675k in funding. According
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Pennsylvania Politics
The Pennsylvania Republican Party endured an hours-long meeting last week over the issue of Senator Pat Toomey’s (R) vote to convict former President Donald Trump after his second impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. The soon-to-be retired senator narrowly avoided the formal expression of disapproval late into the night Monday, March 2; rather, the party
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CAMPUS LIFE
The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in: What does the Trump administration’s redefinition of gender mean?
The Trump administration proposed a new memo to narrow the definition of gender to say that it is a biological condition prescribed at birth and related to genitalia Oct. 21. This decision has the potential to roll back what the Obama administration did to loosen the definition of gender to recognize it as a person’s
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Etown Simplified: Simplify your life with DIY
Written by Catherine Amos, Kayla Anderson, Lila Bolze, Lucy Conrey and Giselle Taylor The acronym DIY, which means “do it yourself,” may spur images of colorful crafts and sad Pinterest fails, but a modern wave of the DIY initiative is influencing bloggers and social media. Modern DIYers coined the name “Makers” to describe themselves and
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Eight great ways to reuse Halloween pumpkins
Photo: Megan White Those cheap, festive, farm-fresh pumpkins are too irresistible to pass up during the spooky season. Halloween has come and gone, though, and now you are left with an excessive amount of carved pumpkins and Halloween candy. Before you throw your masterpiece away, here are eight do-it-yourself ways to extend your pumpkin’s life
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SPORTS
Women’s and men’s soccer shut out Goucher on the road
Saturday, Oct. 14, the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays held the Goucher College Gophers to only two shots throughout the whole match and remained powerful for 90 minutes. Etown won the game 3-0, keeping their fouls down to half of what Goucher gave up. The Blue Jays stayed composed with the ball and kept the shots
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The Elizabethtown College athletic program through the years: the 1960s
Elizabethtown College’s athletic program was off to a strong start in the fall of 1960 with the men’s soccer team winning its first national championship. The Blue Jays did not win the MAC championships again, but they did make it to the national championship where they tied 2-2 with Newark College of Engineering to share
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Cross Country dominates at Rochester Yellowjacket Invitational
The Elizabethtown College women’s and men’s cross country teams both took home wins Saturday, Oct. 14 at the Rochester Yellowjacket Invitational. Placing first for the third time this season, the women’s cross country team soared to the finish line. Seniors Brenna McNamee, Maria Anderson and Kelsey Brady led the Jays in the race, placing first,
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FEATURES
Human trafficking awareness month events hosted by Office of Center for Community and Civic Engagement
According to United States Department of State, human trafficking is defined as “the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.” Regarded as the new slavery, there are approximately (#) people in the U.S. who have been forced
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Blue Jay studying abroad in Japan expresses excitement for new experiences, opportunites
“Ittekimasu!” I say to my dorm-father as I rush out the door at 7:45 am to catch the last train that reaches my university’s building on time. Normally, I would grimace at the mere idea of a half an hour commute to school, but the past two weeks in Tokyo, Japan have really expanded my image of
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Anatomy of a good interview
Practice makes perfect. Job interviews evaluate distinctive qualities about your personality and work ethic, so many tend to contain the same questions. The internet is a great source to review common questions before your interview. Not only does practice give you a sense of how the interview might go, but it ensures that you gain
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