NEWS
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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The Global Perspective
Flames engulfed the National Museum of Brazil the night of Sunday, Aug. 2, endangering over 20 million treasures of Latin America and beyond. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as well as French and Egyptian officials, have offered financial and technical assistance towards the museum reparations. The museum was home to important
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Campus remembers community members lost over the summer
Over summer break, Elizabethtown College lost two members of its community. Textbook/Receiving Manager Debbie Peterson passed away Wednesday, Aug. 8 at the age of 60. Peterson battled breast cancer for six months before passing away. Peterson joined the Etown community in 2005, working as an administrative assistant for the education and computer science departments. College
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CAMPUS LIFE
Student Wellness’ TGIS safety pledge encourages positive choices
I’m pretty sure we all know what big campus event just happened. Yeah, that’s right — Thank Goodness it’s Spring (TGIS). This has to be one of the biggest events that happens on campus, and I’m sure that you were all super excited about all of the activities that were being held on campus last
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Group projects prepare members for future work environments
As the semester comes to a strenuous end, professors are piling on the last assignments. To their credit, many attempt to ease our stress by making our final assignment a group project — more people, less work. That sounds ideal, right? In this utopia, the work is divided equally and each member provides exceptional information
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First-year shares discomfort with campus support of Planned Parenthood
The pro-choice ideology is not merely a set of beliefs. It involves actions that reverberate beyond a woman’s right to choose. Since abortion is a universal issue, the pro-life movement is also a worldwide endeavor. Elizabethtown College, like the majority of colleges, openly supports Planned Parenthood (PP), the largest abortion provider, through Student Wellness. Student
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SPORTS
Men, women’s track teams move indoors to face off at Ursinus College
On Friday, Jan. 24, the Elizabethtown College track and field teams competed at the Collegeville Classic at Ursinus College. Senior Brian Layng had a very successful day of competition. He walked away with second place in pole vault, jumping at a height of 3.80 m, or 12’5-1/2″. Right next to Layng, senior Kevin Brady took
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Men’s basketball falls to conference rivals Lycoming, Messiah
The Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team followed a last-second victory against Stevenson University last Wednesday with a loss at home to Lycoming College on Saturday. At one point in the first half of Wednesday’s home game against Stevenson, the Blue Jays trailed the Mustangs by 10 points, but they finished out the half on a
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Pro Bowl offers football fans new game format
The National Football League continued its last ditch efforts to save the Pro Bowl. Sports analysts and fans alike have made a mockery of the NFL’s all-star festivities, and rightfully so. Most of the aspects of football that NFL fans have come to love since the league’s inception in 1920 are virtually non-existent during Pro
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FEATURES
‘Clay, Regional Ceramics and Beyond’ exhibit opens in Zug’s Hess Gallery
Burn treatment. Plates. Bricks. Roofing materials. Pottery. What do these seemingly unrelated goods have in common? Clay: all can be (and are) made with clay. “Art is about ideas and finding the best media to express your concept,” Milt Friedly, Elizabethtown College gallery director said. “And that can be with any material.” “Clay, Regional Ceramics
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Sophomore speaks on Covey’s ‘The Speed of Trust’
Room 211 in the Hoover Center for Business was quiet on April 4 as students listened to sophomore Aurora Landis speak about Stephen M. R. Covey’s book “The Speed of Trust.” Covey is continuing down the path of his late father, Stephen R. Covey, who wrote a number of books on principled leadership, including the
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Journalist Adam Penenberg hosts craft talk on research, stylistic reporting, ‘virtual reality’ of online media outlets
Adam Penenburg, a journalism professor at New York University and a freelance investigative journalist, gave a craft talk at the Bowers Writers House for the Humanities Readers Series on Tuesday, April 2. He is well known for exposing journalist Steven Glass for fabricating stories in The New Republic in 1998. The 2003 film “Shattered Glass”
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