NEWS
Individualized degrees create “major” opportunities
In the 2018-2019 school year, Elizabethtown College introduced nine new majors on campus. These majors include business data science, chemistry laboratory science, criminal justice, data science, engineering: biomedical and civil, financial economics, graphic design and marketing. These majors include classes that have been available through the College for an extended period of time. For example,
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Campus-wide outages bring long blackouts
Elizabethtown College suffered two major, campus-wide power outages Tuesday, Aug. 28 and Wednesday, Aug. 29. The first of the two power outages lasted from approximately 7 p.m. until 8:35 p.m. The second power outage occurred around the same time. In a statement sent out to the campus community Aug. 28, Facilities Management and PPL, the
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College announces tuition transparency plan
Wednesday, Sept. 12, the Office of the President announced Elizabethtown College’s new tuition transparency plan, set to begin during the 2019-2020 academic year. Under this new financial program, the College announced in a campuswide event plans to reduce incoming first-year students’ tuition by 32 percent, making the “sticker price” of the College drop to $32,000.
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CAMPUS LIFE
Renovations in Nicarry demonstrate commitment to majors in the arts, humanities by modernizing academic building
Four score and seven years ago, I stumbled into summer orientation at Elizabethtown College with a mixture of emotions — roughly one quarter excitement and three quarters fear. I, like every other high school graduate at orientation, scanned my first college course schedule for any horrific-sounding classes, like “Alligator Wrestling,” “Non-Stop Jumping Jacks” or, worse
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Orientation, first week solidify choice of school
Hauling refrigerators up two flights of stairs, making plans to dine with friends, praying the bookstore has that one last rental textbook … First-years: we’re just like you. August 21 was my designated move-in date. As an honors student, I moved in a day earlier than the rest of my class in order to attend
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Starbucks latte controversy fails to deter enjoyment of seasonal beverage
Fall is coming, which means it’s time for all of our fall favorites: football, sweaters and pumpkin flavored everything! Now, if you’re like me, then you love pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks or pumpkin anything from Dunkin Donuts. And again, if you’re like me, then you don’t always seem to care what you are putting
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SPORTS
Baseball prepares to rebound from disappointing season
The Elizabethtown College baseball team is preparing for a new season and the last playing in the Middle Atlantic Conference’s Commonwealth Conference before Etown makes a move to the Landmark Conference in the fall. The Blue Jays look to improve on their 17-22 (10-11 CC) record in 2013, which gave them a season finish of
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Men’s basketball finds win against Arcadia in rescheduled game
The Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team is in the midst of a battle for the final position in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) playoffs. The team began this push this past weekend when it took on Alvernia University at Thompson Gymnasium. Despite the Blue Jays’ best effort, the Crusaders were too much to handle, defeating
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‘Band of Sisters’ sets sights toward playoff berth in Landmark debut
The Elizabethtown College women’s softball team fell one game short of making the Commonwealth Conference Playoffs last season. “Last season, we were so close we could taste it, and I think that taste is still fresh going into this season,” junior outfielder Kaylee Werner said. “As a team, we have created goals for this season
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FEATURES
Students’ plays given staged readings in New Playwrights Fest
he Etown New Playwrights Fest featured the work of nine students April 25 and 26 in Tempest Theatre. These young playwrights wrote 10 to 15 minute plays for their final projects in Associate Professor of English Dr. John Rohrkemper’s playwriting class last semester. These plays were performed as staged readings, so the focus was on
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Faculty, staff members Grimm, Minton, Talarico-Beerman to present creative writing projects at Bowers Writers House
Start off your summer with the “Literary Reading with Wilkes Graduates” event at the Bowers Writers House on Saturday, May 11 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will showcase the current writing projects of three Elizabethtown College faculty and staff members: adjunct English professors Tyler Grimm and Jeff Minton and Integrated Marketing Manager
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Bergel celebrates retirement from social work department
fter over 30 years of teaching social work at Elizabethtown College, Dr. Vivian Bergel is retiring this spring. In addition to teaching, she has acted as the field director and liaison for the social work department and as an advisor for Hillel, the Jewish student association and has played a vital role in the women
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