NEWS
Melica competes against regional schools in ICCA Quarterfinal at Drexel
The Elizabethtown College women’s a cappella group, Melica, went to the International Championship of Collegiate A cappella (ICCA) Quarterfinals Saturday, Jan. 28 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. This year’s ICCA took place at Philadelphia’s Drexel University in its main auditorium where Melica competed against eight other college a cappella groups from around the mid-Atlantic
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Leffler Lecture receives new date after cancellation
The annual Elizabethtown College Leffler Lecture has been rescheduled after being postponed last semester. NPR radio journalist and host Michele Norris will now speak Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The lecture and several related events were originally scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 15, and Norris apologized for postponing her
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Prospective students compete for business scholarships
Elizabethtown College’s 2017 annual Business Scholarship Competition was held Saturday, Jan. 28 on campus for students looking for extra financial assistance. Prospective and current Etown students attended the event and competed for one of the many scholarship awards available to them through funding from those who support the cause. In past years, the Business Scholarship
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CAMPUS LIFE
Joining too many extracurricular activities has its downside
As college students, we are trained to work incessantly towards a purpose; we are taught that we must configure our lives in such a way that they catalyze our careers. How can we catalyze our careers to embody the purpose of our lives? How might we plan for the future without limiting our activities for
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Wearing Blue Jay-themed shirts demonstrates school pride
hen your clothes start spilling out over the top of your laundry basket, you know what time it is: laundry time. I procrastinate on doing my laundry so often that I’m regularly forced to examine the shirts that I wouldn’t typically wear. I dig through my dresser to find some articles of clothing suitable for
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DeNiro leads star cast in ‘The Family’
obsters have a way of dealing with problems the dirty, family way. They can’t help that it’s in their nature to do so with explosives, baseball bats or dragging someone behind a car. Mix that with dark comedy and family psychodynamics, and it becomes an intriguing mixture with memorable moments, known as “The Family.” The
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SPORTS
Tennis falters against Mary Washington
The Elizabethtown College women’s tennis team travelled to Mary Washington University on March 16 hoping to keep an undefeated title, but lost the match 8-1. Senior Allison Burkhardt was the only team member to win her three-set singles match. Mary Washington’s Cassie Bownman beat Burkhardt in the first set 6-0, but Burkhardt made a strong
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Stevenson ends Jays’ perfect start to season
After an impressive start to the season with wins over Newmann University 7-2 and placing 15 goals behind Emmanuel College on the team’s spring break trip, the Elizabethtown College men’s lacrosse team had a tough set of games this week as they played Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Md. Frostburg State was coming in at
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Weather keeping baseball off field after spring break trip
The Elizabethtown College baseball team had a rough start to the season, ending 4-5 on their spring break trip to Fort Pierce, Fla. After their trip down south, the Jays have not only had to battle their opponents, but also the weather. While in Florida, the Jays could not seem to get the sweep of
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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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