NEWS
Amtrak selects College to help launch PaTripsbyTrain
Elizabethtown College launched a pilot program on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in partnership with PaTripsbyTrain to bring students accessible and affordable Amtrak train tickets for the Keystone and Pennsylvanian lines. PaTripsbyTrain began with a partnership between PennDot and Amtrak to increase ridership on the trains through promotional work with Sacunas Integrated Communications (Sacunas). According to Sacunas’
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Trump defeats Clinton in race for Presidency
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, the people of America cast their votes and elected Donald Trump as the next president of the United States. Trump finished with 276 electoral college votes, compared to opposing candidate Hillary Clinton’s 228 votes. He won 47.51 percent of the popular vote, with Clinton taking 47.66 percent. Trump was in the
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Music therapy seniors research emotional expression through playing instruments
Senior music therapy students Zoe Robinson, Sarah McCollum, Ashley Doron, Cody Thompson, Bethany Wentling and Madison Button are currently engaged in conducting research for a senior project. Their study aims to discover the way in which different emotions are communicated by different instruments. Each student has been equally involved in the various aspects of the
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CAMPUS LIFE
Personal computers might reveal details of lifestyle, personality
hen I get back to my apartment after a long day of classes, activities and navigating Elizabethtown College’s gigantic campus, I usually do several of the same things out of habit. I greet my wonderful roommates with an elongated “Yo,” which would contain too many “o”s if written as spoken. I drop my backpack onto
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Custom grading scales prepare Jays for future careers
bet we all have heard it from our parents before, “Get good grades!” Sometimes I think parents forget what it was like to be in school, because getting those good grades is not always as easy as they make it out to be. With each new class that we take, we experience different professors, different
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Apple releases new iPhone model: Is it worth the upgrade?
olor. Yet another reason to love iPhone.” This slogan is the pitch that Apple is using during the release of the new iPhone 5c. “c” standing for color in this instance. Now it would be ridiculous to assume that the only new feature about the 5c is the fact that you can now choose from
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SPORTS
Men go 1-1 in recent conference play
xpectations were high Saturday April 6 as the Blue Jays men’s lacrosse team prepared to battle against Widener University, coming off their 14-2 win at Hood College Wednesday. Unfortunately they came up short, falling 12-4 in a heroic effort. After this weeks games the team improved its record to 7-3 and 2-2 in the conference.
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Baseball looks for more conference wins to secure playoff spot
n April 2, the Elizabethtown College baseball team beat Juniata College in a non-conference match 12-4 as sophomore Kristopher Davis pitched a perfect game. On April 5 and 6, the Blue Jays competed closely with Alvernia University during the first two games of the series, but lost all three games. Although it was a non-conference game,
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College leaves
Tuesday, April 2, Elizabethtown College announced its plan to join the Landmark Conference, leaving the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC), officially becoming a member on July 1, 2014. Etown will be the conference’s ninth member and the first institution to join the Landmark Conference since it began in 2007. Etown will be accompanying Catholic University of
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FEATURES
Perception, feeling, action: Rudy explains the experience of, resolutions for, conflict
Have you ever had a fight with your best friend? Or maybe you’ve fought with your sibling over who gets the last slice of pizza? No matter what the situation, people are always finding reasons to be mad, which tends to lead to an argument. Believe it or not, communication is something that needs to
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Only at Etown: Mr. Fix-it
Upon returning to campus this January, my roommates and I undertook some major rearranging in our dorm room. Once everything started looking more like an actual dwelling and not a homeless shelter, we decided it was time to finally report the missing tension rod for one of the windows in our room. We had gone
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Poet Laureate Daina Savage reads, presents lecture on process
There was a sweet sound – music to an English major’s ears – floating from the Bowers Writers House on the evening of Jan. 31. That, of course, was the voice Daina Savage sharing some of her own poetry. She selected and read twenty of her poems, gracing both Elizabethtown College students and members of
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