NEWS
Student Senate
Campus leaders, donors and alumni flocked together this past week for the seasonal Board of Trustees meeting. As a student organization, Senate was invited to participate in three specific Board meetings: The President, Sean Fiedler, was invited to the Board’s Student Life Committee meeting, the Executive Cabinet was invited to experience the Strategic Planning meeting
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Trustees brainstorm ways to increase retention
The Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees held their fall meeting Saturday, Oct. 29 in the Susquehanna Room behind Myer Residence Hall. The meeting began with breakfast and a student-faculty research presentation before moving on to cover the business agenda. In addition to the officers and members of the Board of Trustees, members from different parts
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500 students, staff join Into the Streets
The Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) hosted the 34th annual Into the Streets event Saturday, Oct. 22. Over 500 Elizabethtown College students and staff participated in the day of service. Into the Streets volunteers worked in three areas of the community: Fall Fest, raking and winterizing and volunteering at local agencies. Many student
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CAMPUS LIFE
Forgetting to bring what truly matters
We’ve all been there before. You’re unpacking all of your belongings on move-in day, and something seems amiss. Towels? Check. Folders? Check. Your brand new guitar that you wanted to show off at the next Soul Café? Check. You think of all the important things you might have forgotten — things that you absolutely need
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PUT YOUR RECORDS ON: “Art Pop” by Lady Gaga
Welcome back Jays to another fabulous installment of Put Your Records On. For new readers, I usually talk about the music I love and think you might like: why would I waste your time with anything substandard? Today, however, we will be taking a different focus as I ask you to think critically about the
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First steps: first-year students explore their surroundings
Cheers to all the peer mentors who resolutely sprinted and squealed with enthusiasm during the First-Year Walk. You can hold me responsible for any intense suffering in the heat that day, and I especially apologize to my fellow first-years for bringing beach-necessary weather to a place devoid of beaches; driving to Pennsylvania from Florida, I
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SPORTS
Blue Jays finish regular season with wins over ranked teams
After two postponed meets and one cancelled meet this season, all due to snow, the Elizabethtown College wrestling team was looking to end the regular season with a pair of wins this past Friday. The Jays started their last meet of the regular season on their Senior Night against two ranked opponents, No. 19 Messiah
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Season ends for team in semifinal game
The Elizabethtown College women’s basketball team’s dreams of a chance to fight for a conference championship fell through Wednesday night. The Blue Jays lost in the Commonwealth Conference semifinal game to the Messiah College Falcons, 58-48. Etown came into the game with a four-game win streak, but Messiah, ranked No. 1 in the tournament, was
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Susquehanna meet prepares team for indoor championships Saturday
This past Friday at Susquehanna University, the Elizabethtown College track and field teams began their final tune-up before the Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Championships this upcoming Saturday at Lehigh University. For some athletes, this was the last chance to make their qualifying marks prior to championships. The Etown women’s distance medley relay (DMR) team ran
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FEATURES
Visiting artist Fuhrman “plays with fire”
Visiting artist James “Jay” Fuhrman has been playing with fire. Fuhrman gave a follow-up lecture and demonstrated his incendiary technique when making some of his art pieces during the “Painting with Fire” event outside of Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performing Arts Center last Friday, Oct. 20. Furhman’s show in the Lyet Gallery will be
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Alumni share original, favorite work at Bowers
Saturday, Oct. 20, the Bowers Writers House welcomed four Elizabethtown College alumni who returned to campus for Homecoming Weekend to read original and favorite works that they had written or read during their time as graduates. Patricia Cangelosi ’11, Austin DeMarco ’11, Matthew Salyers ’10 and Rachel Jones Williams ’06 were the few and talented
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“The Human Google,” one of 20 with superior autobiographical memory
If you ask Brad Williams what happened on April 10, 1970, he will immediately be able to tell you that it was a Friday and the day that Paul McCartney left The Beatles. That is because Brad Williams is one of only 20 people documented to have hyperthymestic syndrome. Hyperthymestic syndrome is a condition in
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