NEWS
Online Tutoring Offered by Learning Zone
Photo courtesy of Unsplash Thursday, March 12, Elizabethtown College announced its decision to transition to a remote learning experience in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, but as classes are online, students continue to require services offered in the Learning Zone. Assistant Director of the Learning Zone Tammie Longsderff and Writing Wing Fellow Richard Fellinger are
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Today’s Technology
Photo courtesy of Unsplash While the world seems to slow to a crawl in the midst of a pandemic, the United States Senate does not. Thursday, March 5, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the bipartisan Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act, usually referred to by the abbreviated name,
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Student Senate
Photo courtesy of Unsplash Student Senate met Thursday, March 12 for an unconventional meeting. Senators pushed off their scheduled agenda and began with a session for President Cecelia McCormick and Vice President for Student Life Celestino Limas to answer questions regarding Elizabethtown College’s recent COVID-19 update. McCormick began by saying that she hopes the College
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CAMPUS LIFE
Business Profile: Spence Candies
Calling all sweets lovers! If you are looking for a place to satisfy your sweet tooth, then look no further then Spence Candies, located at 558 East High Street in Elizabethtown. Spence Candies is a confectionary shop that specializes in the art of chocolate making. They have a wide variety of candy and chocolate products
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Simplify your savings: Use these nine simple tips to save money every day
Saving money is a valuable skill to develop, but it can be one of the hardest skills to implement. Why can saving money be so difficult? One reason for the struggle of saving is the constant pressure from the media to keep up with trends and to overcome moments of sadness by purchasing commodities. Due
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Music Review: Glass Animals album provides “musical utopia”
lass Animals came out with their second studio album, “How to Be a Human Being,” in August 2016. While every song contains its own unique vibes, the whole album has an addictive quality. The band includes Dave Bayley, Drew MacFarlane, Edmund Irwin-Singer and Joe Seaward, who met while in secondary school in Oxford, England. The
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SPORTS
Offensive outbursts help women’s soccer earn two wins
The Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team had scored just one goal through its first three games of the season before their matchup against Franklin & Marshall College on Sept. 9. A goal by Senior Kara Weller in the season-opener against Union (N.Y.) College helped the Blue Jays settle for a 1-1 tie on Sept. 1.
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Men’s soccer loses first game of season, upended by Diplomats
The Elizabethtown men’s soccer team kept their winning streak going after winning both of their games this week. Both games are road victories for the Jays. They have scored in the first 10 minutes every game so far this season and that did not stop on Wednesday. Gilbert Waso recorded his first goal for the
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Rain affects tennis at King’s Invitational
The Elizabethtown College women’s tennis team kicked off their fall season with the King’s Invitational in Wilkes-Barre, PA on Saturday, Sept. 13 and Sunday, Sept. 14. The Blue Jays won one flight in a tournament that included opponents from King’s College, Marywood University, Misericordia University, Muhlenberg College, and Susquehanna University. On day one, Etown was
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FEATURES
Eli Hastings discusses trauma writing, narrative therapy, explains importance of narrative, storytelling for helping fragmented memories
On Monday Nov. 10, Bowers Writers House held an afternoon craft talk and evening reading with memoirist and therapist Eli Hastings. Hastings discussed the craft of trauma writing and later gave a reading of his memoir “Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips.” He identified himself as a writer, father and
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Office of International Student Services holds information tables, special dinner as part of International Education Week
Asking Elizabethtown College students about the weather at this time of year is usually met with complaints about frigid temperatures from legions of chattering teeth. The same question asked closer to the equator would most likely be answered next to an air conditioner on full blast. At Etown, the Office of International Student Services (OISS)
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Students travel to see Newsies in Philadelphia through S.W.E.E.T.
This past Saturday, S.W.E.E.T. sponsored a trip for students to see the musical “Newsies” at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Pa. This highly anticipated event was a huge success, with many students attending. “Newsies” tells the true story of the Newsboy Strike of 1899. This Disney musical is about Jack Kelly, a newspaper delivery boy
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