NEWS
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
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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Finance and international business professor awarded Polanowski Prize
The winner of the 2020-2021 Polanowski Prize for Excellence in Faculty-Student Advising and Mentorship was announced March 26. The recipient of the award was Turnbull-Jamieson Chair and Professor of Finance and International Business Hossein Varamini. The award is intended to celebrate a faculty member’s excellence in advising and mentorship of students toward graduation and future
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CAMPUS LIFE
Etown Traditions: Rocky Horror Picture Show
The stage is set. Makeup by the pound sits on standby. Red tubes of lipstick have been bought and opened, ready to mark the foreheads of the newbies. It’s Rocky Horror Picture Show season at Elizabethtown College and the message is being spread across community and campus; get ready for the creatures of the night
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Etown Simplified: Less is more in the town of Tiny Estates
Written by: Cassidy Dunn, Matt Gress, Abby Goodman, Zosia Proch, Hanna Ward, Tim Zeiber When our Simple Living class arrived at Tiny Estates, we passed by houses that were about the size of some of our dorm rooms. We stared in amazement as we imagined life living in a house that small. Farther into the
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Movie Review: Hugo: A golden film that deserves to become classic
IT’S BEEN A WHILE!” Those are the only words of that song that I know. Thankfully that song exists on another plane where it’s normal not to know all the words and weird if you do. If you do know all words, I don’t think you’re weird. I consider you positively unique. In my opinion,
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SPORTS
Field hockey team falls 3-4 to Juniata College in a shootout on senior day
Saturday, Oct. 28 on Elizabethtown College’s Wolf Field, the Juniata College Eagles outscored the Blue Jays field hockey team in a shootout. Etown’s senior day was tarnished by the 4-3 loss, bringing their record to 8-9. The Landmark Conference game began in favor of the Blue Jays, with seniors Emma Christman and Megan Eppley taking
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Annual Alumni Ultimate Frisbee Game
Every year during Homecoming Weekend, alumni of Elizabethtown College’s ultimate frisbee team, the Jelly Swatters, come back to Brinser Field to play current members of the team. It was a close game going into the half with the alumni up by four. The current members of the team fought back hard in the second half,
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Women’s soccer loses Homecoming game, men’s team wins 1-0
Saturday, Oct. 21, Elizabethtown College’s women’s and men’s soccer teams faced off against Susquehanna University in back-to-back home games. Both games were crucial for the teams’ future in this season’s playoffs. The women’s game kicked off at 1 p.m. and they opened their game with a scoreless first half despite four shots made by the
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FEATURES
Pressure to find jobs causes anxiety, excitement for seniors entering professional world
Welcome back Blue Jays! By now I’m sure we are all back in the groove and have our schedules pretty much set. For some of you it is your second semester of college and for others it is your last. No matter where you are in your schooling, there are some things that you should
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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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