NEWS
Student Senate
The Student Senate meeting Thursday, Oct. 11 began with a special order regarding the upcoming Leffler Lecture. Director of the High Library Sarah Penniman and Executive Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Peggy Stauffer spoke to senators about the events surrounding the lecture and asked for input on
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Series: Etown expands recruitment pool
Recently, a huge focus of the Elizabethtown College administration has been to increase enrollment. As seen with the second article in this series, Etown has seen a decline in applications (though some of it was a purposeful decline) and enrollment over the years. As such, the responsibility falls on the College to increase those numbers
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Hispanic/Latinx Task Force initiative promotes diversity on campus
Photo: Miranda Fedor The Hispanic/Latinx Task Force, an initiative started in the spring 2018 semester, held its first meeting Thursday, Oct. 11 at 3:30 p.m. in Hoover 110. Within the meeting, students, faculty and staff discussed how Elizabethtown College can better support and assist students who identify as Hispanic or Latinx, as well as promoting
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CAMPUS LIFE
Ice Bucket Challenge dominates social media feeds, raises awareness, money for medical research for ALS
If you manage a personal social media account, your newsfeeds, homepages and timelines were probably bombarded with hundreds of smart phone-shot videos of your friends, relatives and enemies dumping buckets of ice water on their heads with varying degrees of logical explanation. It was probably hilarious at first, if only for the gimmicky nature of
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Professor reflects on recent news story, nature of teaching profession
Homer read the headline “Idaho Professor Shoots Himself in the Foot” and was baffled. Professors have been known to make mistakes now and then. After all, thought Homer piously as he bit into a scone at the Blue Bean, to err was human. So why would a news website use an idiom to refer to
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Executive cabinet introduces redesign of Opinion section
Campus Life is the redesigned Opinion section. We hope that this change will enable the Etownian to have a broader scope. Redesigning this section allows us to widen our lens to include the Elizabethtown community, and it is our hope that the section will encourage students to also look beyond the boundaries of the campus
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SPORTS
Alumna returns to coach Blue Jay volleyball program
The Elizabethtown College women’s volleyball Head Coach Randall Kreider announced Jan. 29 that Terry Hutchinson and Crystal Agnew will be joining the program as assistant coaches this spring. Terry Hutchinson is a sports performance trainer and volleyball instructor at Spooky Nook Sports in Manheim, Pa. Hutchinson became involved with the Blue Jays during the Fall
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Olympic games in full swing as Team USA goes for gold
After day five at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the United States has totaled nine medals during competition: three gold, one silver and five bronze. This puts Team USA fourth in medal totals behind Norway, Canada and the Netherlands. Despite the lack of hardware, Team USA has already had some remarkable victories during
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Women’s basketball sits in tie for second place in conference after beating Widener
he Elizabethtown College women’s basketball team came into this week with a four-way tie for first place in the Commonwealth Conference. In their last four games, the Blue Jays faced the three teams that share the top spot in the standings. Etown went 2-1 in those three games, defeating Stevenson University and Lebanon Valley College.
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FEATURES
Diversity Dialogue Series: Immigration Reform
What should I know about immigration reform? Dr. Montserrat Linares-Farras, chair of the modern languages department, led this discussion, which is close to her heart since she is an immigrant herself. Linares started out by asking the small group if they knew anything about the new immigration reforms. First year Claire Halpin answered with what
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Columnist Reflects on bombings, pride in American heritage
For my last article this year, I’m going to take a more serious note which is very rare for me. I think that I’ve covered every funny thing I wanted to say about campus for the time being, and instead want to reflect on my fascination with the situations that kept every American glued to
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Gasland Documentary
“Well that was depressing,” Professor and Department Chair of Geoscience and Engineering Dr. Michael Schanlin said at the conclusion of Elizabethtown College’s screening of “Gasland.” “And if you weren’t thoroughly frightened by that, you should be.” This 2011 Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Josh Fox, which showed at the College on April 22 as the closing
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