NEWS
Groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate new Bowers Center
Friday, Feb. 2, Elizabethtown College will have a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the beginning of building the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being. The Bowers Center will be 78,000 square feet upon completion and is the largest building to be built on campus in 20 years. The Bowers Center will be built behind Wolf
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Featherton Crossing Apartments become a new housing option
Beginning in fall 2018, Elizabethtown College upperclassmen will be able to live on-campus without physically being there thanks to the new Featherton Crossing Apartments housing option. The apartments are located under two miles from campus but are considered on-campus housing because students do not need to break their housing contract to live there. The apartments
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Schlosser shower renovations continuing after winter break
In the fall semester, leaks in the second and third floors of Schlosser Residence Hall forced Facilities Management to shut down the showers closest to the stairwell in Schlosser 2-West for safety, since the water began to leak into the lobby. However, over a month passed and little to no progress was made on shower
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CAMPUS LIFE
Senior reflects fondly on first impressions upon entering college
M y first impression of Elizabethtown College was a beautiful one that left its mark like a postcard in my mind. I first noticed the school shortly after relocating to Etown, as my boyfriend and I were riding our mud-splattered mountain bikes home from the Conewago Rail Trail on a sunny April day. “Look,” he
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Optional homework assignments only aid
Like the end of almost any other class period, you throw your notebook, textbook and writing utensil of choice into your backpack while half-listening to the professor’s closing remarks. You briefly glance at the homework listed on the board as you leave the room. Are you going to complete the assignment by the time your
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Success of peer editing depends entirely on personal outlook
Something that seems to be growing increasingly prevalent in Core and WRI courses–– most of these being housed within the English department –– is the utilization of peer editing exercises. If used properly, peer editing helps you in two ways: You the Writer receive feedback that escaped you while you were actively invested in the writing
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SPORTS
Field hockey takes down second nationally-ranked team; Blue Jays hold onto first place seed in conference standings entering playoffs
The Elizabethtown College field hockey team continued their, until recently, undefeated season in Commonwealth conference play with a 3-1 victory over the nationally-ranked Messiah Falcons this past weekend. This was the Blue Jay’s fourth straight win and the seventh straight in conference play. With the victory, Etown was then 7-0 in the Commonwealth Conference, solidifying
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Men’s cross country takes first at Hood Open; women place second
Elizabethtown College’s men and women’s cross country teams competed at Hood College located in Fredrick, Md. this past weekend. The men’s team was able to take the win on Saturday while racing without their full team on the course. Junior Dan Gresh took second place overall at the meet and first for Etown on the
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Men, women’s cross country teams finish top 10 in Ohio; Trama places 16th
The Elizabethtown College cross country teams traveled to Ohio to compete in the Oberlin Inter-Regional Rumble, which featured many DIII programs from the Midwest, Great Lakes and Atlantic regions. The men’s team took 11th in the varsity 8k race and 7th in the open 8k, led by sophomore Zach Trama, who was Etown’s top finisher
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FEATURES
Whitcas ’98 shares 14 years of experiences as TV producer
ome people are born craving the spotlight. Since she was very young, Elizabethtown College alumna Deborah Whitcas ’98 exemplified this as she craved a job in entertainment. Now an Emmy-nominated television Producer with an impressive history involving a myriad of television stations including ABC, CBS Fox, Style/E and several more, Whitcas has made quite the
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Villella presents on author Stephen Covey’s ‘Seven Habits,’ offers advice
ave you ever felt stressed out about all the things you are experiencing in your life as a college student, but you do not know how to figure it all out? Toni Villella, director of student activities and campus recreation, recently facilitated a seminar on author Stephen Covey’s popular self-help book “The 7 Habits of
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‘Pitch Like A Girl’ addresses gender identity, encourages women to ‘pitch’
re you pink or blue? This was the first question posed by senior and self-proclaimed feminist Sarah Steinmetz during her April 9 presentation on “Pitch like a Girl: How a Woman can be Herself and Still Succeed,” a book written by Ronna Lichtenberg. The overall theme of the book appeared to be not only that
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