NEWS
Disability Services expands current media solutions
Elizabethtown College’s Center for Student Success, partnered with the College’s Disabilities Services, has added SensusAccess to its list of accessibility resources for current students. SensusAccess provides students, faculty, alumni and staff with alternative media solutions. SensusAccess allows campus community members to automatically convert documents into a range of other media sources including audio books, e-books
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Today’s Technology
The next few weeks will focus on security and how you can protect and improve your experience on the Internet. Before we dive into anything too heavy, let’s start with something familiar: passwords. To start, let’s discuss different methods on how to construct a strong password. First, something to keep in mind, is the content
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Student Senate
The Student Senate meeting Thursday, Nov. 8 ran differently than its usual weekly meetings; Senate instead held its semi-annual senior staff meeting. Senators hosted members of the senior staff, as well as a Board of Trustees member, to ask questions regarding Elizabethtown College. This year, the senior staff also brought along questions to ask the
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CAMPUS LIFE
Benefits to due dates before Thanksgiving break do exist
Imagine lounging in front of a roaring fire with a delicious hot beverage and mellow holiday tunes playing on the radio. You are catching up with your favorite aunt or uncle, laughing between bites of pumpkin pie. You feel like you have zero cares in the world, when suddenly a horrifying and thoroughly unwelcome thought
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Newest Christopher Nolan film “Interstellar” includes striking visuals, solid acting, complex scientific ideas
This fall, Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” opened on Nov. 7 to positive reviews and is quickly rising to be the biggest box office hit of the season. In under a week, “Interstellar” has made almost $50 million in ticket sales and holds a “Certified Fresh” rating on the notable movie critic website Rotten Tomatoes. Lagging just
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Semester concludes smoothly for those with good study habits, organization skills
Before the most wonderful time of the year comes the most stressful time of the year. As the end of the semester draws near, it is important to establish a game plan to conquer the last projects, papers and exams of 2014. Grab your textbooks and some coffee, and prepare to ace your exams! Here
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SPORTS
Field hockey beats Del Val, records first win after 0-3 start
The Elizabethtown College women’s field hockey team lost its first three games against Franklin & Marshall College, Messiah College and Muhlenberg University in the opening weeks of the Fall 2014 season. The Jays hosted No. 8 Franklin and Marshall for the opening game August 29, but could not score a goal against the Diplomats, losing
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Cross country teams off to successful start
“Every year is the same. Win the conference, get a national bid,” Coach Brian Falk said of the men’s and women’s cross country teams. Although their four-year conference championship streak was broken this past season, they have the athletes to reclaim their place atop the throne this year. They, along with the rest of the
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Track and field teams prepare to compete in MAC Championships
This past weekend, the men and women’s track and field teams competed at the Paul Kaiser Classic at Shippensburg University. This was the team’s last meet until the Outdoor MAC Championships this weekend. Senior Matt Rever ran the 800 and finished in 1:53.21, taking second place. Also running the 800 was first-year Mike Twist, finishing
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FEATURES
Amish wedding season in Lancaster County spans over October
The month of October marks the beginning of the wedding season for Lancaster County’s Amish community. Their wedding traditions are widely varied and have been chronicled by Dr. Donald B. Kraybill, scholar of Anabaptist traditions. Kraybill is a faculty member in Elizabethtown College’s sociology and religious studies departments. Kraybill is also the series editor of
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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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