NEWS
Two professors receive awards for teaching and mentorship
Photo: Madeline Kauffman Two Elizabethtown College professors recently received awards for their teaching and commitment to student success. Professor of political science Dr. E. Fletcher McClellan received the Craig L. Brians Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Mentorship from the education section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). According to the APSA website,
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Etown responds to funding cuts at local college
Lebanon Valley College’s Board of Trustees announced its plans to cut academic funding by $1.6 million. Humanities majors are expected to be targeted by these cuts, which may result in the elimination of low-enrollment majors such as French, German, philosophy and religion. There are only 12 students currently enrolled in all majors considered for elimination
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Series: Improving transparency for students at Etown
Transparency is a very broad term, referring to how Etown faculty and administration are trying to be more open with big decisions made around campus. They are trying to bring students further into a decision-making role. Transparency has been a highlighted topic around campus recently with issues such as the tuition transparency announcement and the
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CAMPUS LIFE
College students are at high risk for depression
Everyone knows her: captain of a sports team, straight “A” student, campus personality. She never seems to have a bad day. She has a gift for making people around her laugh. And despite all that she has going for her, she suffers from depression. She doesn’t fit the “depression” stereotype, so no one would ever
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Professors’ office hours allow time to ask questions, form relationships
A class syllabus is an extremely beneficial and critical document. Most syllabi consist of the schedule, homework assignments and other class-related sections. On the top of every syllabus, the professor adds his or her office hours. Office hours are times outside of class where students can find professors in their offices to ask for help,
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Junior encourages considerate etiquette, efforts toward cleanliness in dorm bathrooms
We’re not big on etiquette in this country. The word itself brings connotations of ladies’ manners schools or Downton Abbey-type stuffiness. Use the correct fork. Embroidered hankies. The whole bit. That’s not us. America is a take-care-of-yourself, free-to-do-what-you-want sort of nation. While I tremendously enjoy that in almost every facet of life, it does not
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SPORTS
Golf team finishes 16th at Spring Blue Jay Classic, prepares for MAC Championships
After having multiple tournaments cancelled due to wet weather, the Elizabethtown College golf team was back on the links when it hosted the Spring Blue Jay Classic at Hershey Country Club’s East Course last Thursday. Led by first-year Kyle Hakun’s round of 80, the Blue Jays finished up the weekend in 16th place. Hakun led
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Baseball wins two out of three games against Alvernia
ast weekend, the Elizabethtown College baseball team faced the defending conference champions, the Alvernia University Crusaders, in a two-day three-game series that brought together the Commonwealth Conference’s two best pitching staffs. The Blue Jays managed to win one of the three games, handing Alvernia its second conference loss. On Saturday, the Blue Jays (10-10, 4-6
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Women’s lacrosse falls to Landmark opponent Drew Rangers
The Elizabethtown College women’s lacrosse team fell 1-14 to Drew University on Saturday at Wolf Field. First-year Addie Stang had the only goal for the Jays that she worked off an assist by sophomore Dana Robidoux. The goal came only 40 seconds in, when sophomore Mary Nell Donahue gained the first possession off of the
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FEATURES
Dunlap discusses ‘Evolution of the Coming Out Process’
ow would it feel to completely dismantle your past identity and replace it with another, more real version of yourself? What is the process? How and when does one come to this decision? As part of a series of lectures in the social work department, Dr. Andrew Dunlap, assistant professor of social work, gave a
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Gombert presents geometric artwork in Hess Gallery
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist,” French poet Charles Baudelaire said. He understood the fleeting sense of reality when he used this analogy. Carl Gombert demonstrated this idea and combined it with what he called “plausible fiction” in his art gallery hosted at Elizabethtown College
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Stephanie Blythe and Les Violons du Roy perform Monday in Leffler Chapel
It is rare to see such a tour-de-force of musical talent featured together in one evening at Elizabethtown College. Featured on Monday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, the chamber orchestra “Les Violons du Roy” was conducted by internationally renowned director Bernard Labadie and featured Musical America’s 2009 vocalist of
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