NEWS
New Marketplace To-Go program
Photo by Paula Groff Over fall break, Dining Services announced via the E-town Jays App that a to-go program known as Marketplace To-Go would begin Oct. 14, 2019. Through the to-go program, students will be able to utilize their to-go meals as a form of a meal replacement, and they must be consumed outside of
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2019 Kreider Lecture: “More than Just a Pretty Campus”
Photo by Meghan Kenney Associate professor of sociology Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor presented the Kreider Award Lecture Thursday, Oct. 10 in the Susquehanna Room. The Award Lecture began at 7 p.m. with a dessert reception where Kozimor greeted every attendee at the door. Once people had found their seats around 7:30 p.m., Dean for Academic
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Student Senate
Photo courtesy of Flickr Student Senate held its weekly meeting Thursday, Sept. 12 at 3:45 p.m. in Hoover 212. The meeting started with a few student comments. Senior Margaret Fix asked if Elizabethtown College was planning to get patio furniture for the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being, since it’s pictured in the sketches.
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CAMPUS LIFE
“Swiss Army Man” an odd yet unique film not for everyone
Swiss Army Man” first came on my radar when reports came out about its first public showing at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. Apparently, the opening sequence caused about half of the audience to storm out of the theater booing, while the other half endlessly praised the film. The reason so many people
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Campus Life serves as redesigned Opinion section, continues to encourage students to share their opinions of the College
As I am sure many of our readers have noticed, the Opinion section has been recently redesigned as the Campus Life section for this year. In the past, the Etownian has gone back and forth between the Opinion and Campus Life section, often switching between the two in an effort to redistribute the focus of
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Pokemon Go helps get students exercising, socializing on campus
You’ve seen it on Twitter, you’ve seen it on Facebook and you’ve seen it on at least one friend’s smartphone. Whether you have watched hoards of people crowding around a landmark with their phones in hand or noticed the Twitter hashtags that have been trending on and off, there is a great chance that you
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SPORTS
Women’s dual season ends in loss to Frostburg
The Elizabethtown College women’s swim team left Frostburg State University in defeat on Friday, Jan. 30. Frostburg came up with wins in the final two events, snatching the competition away from Etown with a final score of 135-124. Heading into the second to last event, the 200-meter individual medley, the Blue Jays held a tight
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Pflanz takes sixth at Peter Willson-Wheaton Invitational
Junior Bryan Pflanz placed sixth at the Pete Wilson-Wheaton Invitational in Illinois on Friday, Jan. 30 and Saturday, Jan. 31. The Elizabethtown College wrestling team took eight individuals to the competition to face-off against an array of teams, nine of which were nationally-ranked. Junior Mike Lammer was confident about the weekend. “I expect the whole
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Women’s basketball earns gritty victory over Catholic
On Saturday, the Elizabethtown College women’s basketball team traveled to the University of Scranton to face a Royals team that was ranked 14th in the nation by D3hoops.com. The Royals entered the game with a 17-2 overall record and an almost unblemished 9-1 record in the Landmark Conference. Before the game, the Blue Jays sat
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FEATURES
Spanish program used to immerse children in language, give students service experience
Every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 6:50 p.m., one professor, two Spanish education students, two service learning students and eight children meet in Nicarry 104 and 106 to learn Spanish in an immersive environment. The Children’s Spanish Program, headed by Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of Modern Languages Dr. Charla Lorenzen, is an intensive
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Religious studies professor speaks about Vedanta’s effects on popular culture
At 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 15 in the Susquehanna Room, Dr. Jeffery Long, professor of religion and Asian studies, delivered a lecture about what he said is his favorite topic to present. Long delivered this same lecture to an audience of about 15,000 people while in India for the 150th birth anniversary of Swami
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Alumni display artwork in Lyet Gallery, allow viewers to develop their own reactions
On September 12 at 5 p.m., the opening reception showing the artwork of two Elizabethtown College alumni was opened to the public in the Lyet Gallery in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Kristina Funk and Tom Yurkovic have shown their art in various galleries throughout Pennsylvania, including one gallery located in Philadelphia. Until Oct. 24,
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