NEWS
An examination of accessibility for Etown students
The accessibility of the Elizabethtown College campus has been a reccurring question among students and faculty who may or may not be familiar with the current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliances. Is the College as ADA compliant as it could be? Or are there steps the College should be taking to make the campus
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Olympic medalist finds her passion in projects of advocacy
Photo: Emma Pile Olympic fencing medalist and ambassador Ibtihaj Muhammad gave the 2018 Carlos R. and Georgiana E. Leffler Memorial Lecture Wednesday, Nov. 7 at Elizabethtown College. Muhammad is the first Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal for the United States and the first American woman to compete in the Olympics while wearing a
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The Global Perspective
Saturday, Oct. 27, 11 people were killed and six more were wounded in a shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. The massacre is believed to be the deadliest attack on the American Jewish community in U.S. history. “My holy place has been defiled,” Tree of Life rabbi Jeffrey Myers said to AP News. Myers
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CAMPUS LIFE
Senior responds to recent email concerning off-campus parties
There’s no easy way to say what I intend to say; I am simply completing my assignment. I would like to make clear, though, that the views I express are entirely my own. As a 21-year-old college senior, my perspectives may not be the most objective. I can say with certainty, however, that my views
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Conveniences save students time, effort, prompt appreciation
Between classes, homework, extracurricular activities, jobs and that rarity we call “sleep,” we college students appreciate anything that makes our busy lives more convenient. For example, the new card access system for our campus’s residence halls offers us an opportunity to be a little lazier than before. The laborious process of getting out our student
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Senior reflects on year in England, recommends study abroad program
Like most seniors making their way through their last year of college, I have nostalgic moments around every corner of campus. Whether it be a certain room, event or even meal option at the Marketplace, it seems as if I can recall a fond memory within everything. Although everyone’s college story is unique with its
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SPORTS
Major League Soccer to begin regular season
Major League Soccer has undergone major changes since it first began play in 1996. 18 years ago, the League had only 10 teams with relatively small fanbases. As the 2014 season gets underway, the League has 19 teams in the United States and Canada, 11 of which now play in soccer-specific stadiums. The League averages
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Women’s lacrosse falls to Susquehanna in Landmark opener
Elizabethtown College’s women’s lacrosse team fell short last week in the team’s first two home games of the season at Wolf Field. The team lost to McDaniel College on Wednesday, March 12 and Susquehanna College on Saturday, March 15. The Blue Jays made their only free position attempt count, as first-year Megan DeMichele scored her
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Dayhoff breaks weighted- throw record at meet
The Elizabethtown College track and field teams sent a group of athletes up to Medford, Mass. to compete at Tufts University at the Tufts Last Chance Meet at the 70,000 square-foot Gantcher Center. Senior Lucas Dayhoff, who finished in fourth-place at the MAC Indoor Championships with a toss of 16.69m, broke his own school record
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FEATURES
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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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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