NEWS
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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Young Center opens, celebrates anniversary
Photo: Melissa Spencer Saturday, Oct. 20 at 1:30 p.m., students, faculty, family and friends gathered in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopening of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This ribbon-cutting ceremony commemorated the 29th anniversary and reopening of the Young Center’s newly expanded building. Director of the Young Center
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CAMPUS LIFE
Abundance of T-shirts acquired from Homecoming Fair prove useful as keepsakes but not sensible garments
Homecoming weekend has passed in a blur again. With a weekend packed full of activities for students, the Homecoming parade and market on Saturday, there was excitement all around. I am sure there was a common theme that everyone noticed while strolling around the fair: T-shirts. It seems like almost every club was selling T-shirts
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Intentional scare attractions, films give Halloween enthusiasts opportunity to prove bravery or enjoy scare
Halloween is quickly coming upon us, and with it come the scares and attractions we all love: witches, skeletons, costumes and, of course, candy. But with that fun comes amusement park events such as the Field of Screams and the Pennhurst Insane Asylum. What makes these spooky attractions so appealing to us, the obsession to
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Senior reminisces about KAV dances, anticipates Halloween dance
Not too long ago, I wrote about how Elizabethtown College keeps getting more and more convenient for its Blue Jay inhabitants. Sometimes, improvements to the school can lead to temporary impediments, like the construction outside the main door of the Brossman Student Commons, or the BSC, as we affectionately and lazily refer to it. Other
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SPORTS
Baseball overcomes early deficit to split double-header
Because of the harsh winter that has postponed several games, the Elizabethtown College men’s baseball team had a busy week. The Blue Jays have played eight games in the past week, going 2-4 in that stretch. Last Thursday, the Blue Jays faced the Arcadia University Knights in Philadelphia. After four innings, the Blue Jays held
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Golf team starts spring season with ninth-place finish in invitational
The Elizabethtown men’s golf team participated in the Gettysburg Spring Invitational this past Saturday at Bridges Golf Club. The Blue Jays had a great showing as the team placed ninth in the entire tournament. Facing teams like York, McDaniel, and Keystone, Penn State Harrisburg and many others, the Blue Jays had their hands full entering
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Tennis teams find opposing results in match vs. Harford
Elizabethtown College’s men and women’s tennis teams traveled to Bel Air, Md. this past Saturday, March 22 to compete against Harford Community College in non-conference matches. The men’s team finished with a loss of 3-6 while the women’s team won 8-1. In the men’s match, the team won fifth and sixth singles plus third doubles.
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FEATURES
High Library showcases anthropology students’ summer fieldwork
Animal bones, cracked pieces of pottery and beaded jewelry are currently on display in the High Library alcove. Elizabethtown College students have been digging in Washington Boro, Pa. since 2006 looking for artifacts of the Susquehannock Indian tribe, who resided nearby from about 1600-1630. Students’ discoveries can provide insight to a unique group of people
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Students share Vietnam summer service experience
This past May term, a group of students took Elizabethtown College’s “Educate for Service” motto and applied it to their lives by attending a trip to Vietnam. The trip explored both North and South Vietnam within a 19 day time frame, featuring four in-country flights, two overnight train rides and a lot of commuting via
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Grubb Student Award promotes peacemaking
Imagine traveling to Northern Ireland to research a way to end the violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics, or spending a summer in Southern Sudan to build a preschool. If these seem like humanitarian efforts for a seasoned social work graduate to tackle, you’d be wrong. They are projects any Elizabethtown College undergraduate can start
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