NEWS
Campus remembers community members lost over the summer
Over summer break, Elizabethtown College lost two members of its community. Textbook/Receiving Manager Debbie Peterson passed away Wednesday, Aug. 8 at the age of 60. Peterson battled breast cancer for six months before passing away. Peterson joined the Etown community in 2005, working as an administrative assistant for the education and computer science departments. College
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Today’s Technology
Mold. It makes its way into everything, just like sand. However, unlike sand, mold can prove a much more serious threat to a person’s health. This hazard extends beyond our own health; it can even affect our electronics, such as computers and phones. Due to the reproductive nature of mold, it can find its way
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Student Senate
Written by: Student Senate Executive Cabinet The Elizabethtown College Student Senate is excited to start another school year! With a new year comes change, some of which has already been implemented. Sean Fiedler, Ally Killen and Zach Dennin, the executive president, vice president and elections chair, respectively, all graduated in the spring, leaving open positions
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CAMPUS LIFE
Midterm examination week proves stressful but temporary
Midterm exams are a stressful time for everyone involved: the students taking them, the professors that have to grade them and even the parents that have to worry whether their college students are passing their classes and simultaneously getting enough to sleep to keep them going. However, any college student would tell you that sleep
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Senior responds to recent email concerning off-campus parties
There’s no easy way to say what I intend to say; I am simply completing my assignment. I would like to make clear, though, that the views I express are entirely my own. As a 21-year-old college senior, my perspectives may not be the most objective. I can say with certainty, however, that my views
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Conveniences save students time, effort, prompt appreciation
Between classes, homework, extracurricular activities, jobs and that rarity we call “sleep,” we college students appreciate anything that makes our busy lives more convenient. For example, the new card access system for our campus’s residence halls offers us an opportunity to be a little lazier than before. The laborious process of getting out our student
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SPORTS
Women’s lacrosse falls to Susquehanna in Landmark opener
Elizabethtown College’s women’s lacrosse team fell short last week in the team’s first two home games of the season at Wolf Field. The team lost to McDaniel College on Wednesday, March 12 and Susquehanna College on Saturday, March 15. The Blue Jays made their only free position attempt count, as first-year Megan DeMichele scored her
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Dayhoff breaks weighted- throw record at meet
The Elizabethtown College track and field teams sent a group of athletes up to Medford, Mass. to compete at Tufts University at the Tufts Last Chance Meet at the 70,000 square-foot Gantcher Center. Senior Lucas Dayhoff, who finished in fourth-place at the MAC Indoor Championships with a toss of 16.69m, broke his own school record
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Golf team heads into Gettysburg Invitational prepared for success
The Elizabethtown College men’s golf team is taking a swing at the 2014 season. The team has been preparing vigorously in the off-season to contend with the tough Middle Atlantic Conference teams it will be up against. Going up against top programs like York and Messiah Colleges, Etown feels it has the athletes it needs
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FEATURES
Hassina Sherjan, Lt. Col. Burgess discuss mid, post-war Afghanistan
Hassina Sherjan, scholar-in-residence at Bowers Writers House, is owner and chief executive officer of Boumi Co., an international home accessory business. Sherjan has a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School and an honorary doctorate of law from Queen’s University in Canada. She also founded and is the chief executive officer of Aid
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Morella speaks on women’s equality
onstance Morella opened her lecture Thursday evening with a quote by Joseph Addison: “I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties, till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that
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Representatives of Big Brothers Big Sisters present on non-profit businesses
On Oct. 18, just before the Blue Jays finished preparing for Homecoming and Parents’ Weekend, Elizabethtown College welcomed several leaders of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lancaster County to speak in Leffler’s M&M Mars Room. Melissa Siwiec, executive director of BBBS of Lancaster County, as well as Luann Smith, Lancaster County’s BBBS school based program
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