NEWS
Bean Blasters blast back to Blue Bean Café
Starting Monday, March 11, the Blue Bean Café is selling milkshakes and the Bean Blaster again after they were removed from the menu because of the switch to Starbucks products. The switch to Starbucks products at the Blue Bean joined the many other changes that occurred over the summer of 2018: Myer Residence Hall was
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The Global Perspective
This weekly column will cover a variety of contemporary global issues including climate action, global health, international peace and security and gender equality. I hope that this column will act as a platform to advocate for global progress and to empower young leaders to get involved in international affairs. If there are certain global issues
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Today’s Technology
This weekly column will feature the latest topics and trends constantly emerging in a rapidly-growing technical world. Each week, we will focus on a specific technical topic, with topics covering a wide range of technical issues and the latest technical gadgets. If there are any topics or products that you would like to see covered
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CAMPUS LIFE
Closing of Sweet Briar College alarms, brings liberal arts into question
Almost a century ago, in 1921, Albert Einstein emphasized to Thomas Edison what the majority of our country today seems to have forgotten: “The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
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FASHION COLUMN
Years ago, it seemed to me that dark, black clothing meant a dark personality. To wear black every day was to express to the world that you had a dark soul and a disdain for color. It was gothic and emo. It embodied a rebellious nature, against brightly colored wardrobes and normalcy. But over the
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) causes depression in campus community during fall, winter months
For people like me, the coming of spring means more than just melting snow and warmer, longer days. I, like many, have seasonal depression. Getting through the winter seems impossible to me. As the weather changes and cools, my mood takes a nose dive. Often, I struggle just to get out of bed in the
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SPORTS
Men’s basketball to host second bowling event after favorable turnout in Spring
The Elizabethtown men’s basketball team hosted its first annual bowling fundraiser last spring at the Clearview Bowling Lanes in Elizabethtown. The event, which featured raffles, prizes and food, turned out to be a big event for the athletic program and the student body. The bowling fundraiser took place on April 27, bringing in family and
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Men’s swimming drops season-opening meet at home against York, Susquehanna up next
The Elizabethtown College men’s swim team looks to rebound from losing their season-opening meet against York College (Pa.) on Saturday, Oct. 25. In a 127-44 defeat at home, bright spots appeared for the Jays in first-year David Foery, who won the 100-yard freestyle, and placed second in the 200-yard event. He was the only event
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Four first-place finishes not enough to push women’s swimming past York College (Pa.)
The Elizabethtown College women’s swim team opened the 2014-2015 season when they hosted York College (Pa.) on Saturday. The Blue Jays took home four individual victories on the day but fell short against the Spartans. York came to Alumni Pool and defeated Etown 112-87 in the season-opener for both teams. Fifth-year OT student Kimberly Cosgrove
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FEATURES
Minor visits campus, discusses short, contemporary fiction
The evening of Jan. 30 began with a bang. Or rather, a mass-cracking of knuckles. These dramatics were led by Bowers Writers House Director Jesse Waters as he introduced the first event of the spring 2014 semester at 8 p.m. last Thursday: a “Contemporary Fiction Reading with Kyle Minor.” The Elizabethtown College event marked the
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Nigerian ambassador uses art to communicate peace
“Is there an eternity in our hearts?” Ibiyinka Alao said. “There is an infinite outside of us as well as an infinite within us. These two infinites are superimposed on one another and awaken in me the essence of love, art and prayer. An artist is a person with an infinite inside that is equal
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Religion Department Chair Christina Bucher gives lecture on Song of Songs, relates sexuality, human desire to Bible, Christianity
Sexuality and Christianity. Homosexuality and the Bible. When reading these couplings, it is clear that these topics are often taboo when mixed together. Dr. Christina Bucher, the Carl W. Zeigler professor of religion and current chair of the department of religious studies, however, made these four topics blend together during her lecture this past week.
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