NEWS
Campus rally day continues dialogue about gun violence
photo: Emma Pile Friday, April 20, an all-day campus rally was held at Elizabethtown College as the final installment of a three-part series of events on gun violence organized by junior Bekah Smith. The first event, the ENOUGH: Vigil for victims of the Parkland shooting, represented “remembrance.” The second event, the ENOUGH: Walkout, represented “solidarity.”
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Community Fellows program to begin in ILUs starting this fall
Community Fellows will replace Resident Assistants (RAs) in the Vera Hackman Apartments, Schreiber Quadrangle and Featherton Crossing Apartments starting in the 2018-2019 academic year. The application period to become a Community Fellow closed Friday, April 6. Community Fellows have some of the same duties as RAs, including making door decorations and closing buildings before breaks.
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Annual Ware Lecture emphasizes the importance of compassion
Wednesday, April 11, Elizabethtown College welcomed Dr. Karen Armstrong, renowned historian and theologian of world religions and author, to speak on the importance of compassion at the annual Ware Lecture on Peacemaking. In addition, groups of students were invited to meet with Armstrong in small-group discussions Thursday, April 12. Throughout Armstrong’s lecture, she compared different
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CAMPUS LIFE
Blue Jays react to Honors Program privilege of possessing early course registration time slots
Registration is coming! Registration is coming! Wouldn’t Paul Revere be so proud of all the Blue Jay posters and emails exclaiming, “Prepare for registration!” Yeah, I know it’s important to be informed of how and when we can sign up for courses. Yet isn’t that entire process merely a period of impending depression if you’re
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Busy weekends amuse Jays
With a quick look at the Office of Student Activities’ (OSA) calendar, one can see that the weekends after spring break are filled with activities. Each weekend, there are plenty of college-sponsored events for students to attend and participate in, but one weekend that seems a bit more packed than others is this weekend. With
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Out-of-class field trip requirements cause financial strain
The value of out-of-class experiences is hardly debatable. Seeing the information that I had read about in a textbook come to life on a field trip helped to reiterate the lesson and cement it in my memory. Reading about the Amish in a textbook and eating lunch with an Amish family left two very different
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SPORTS
Men’s soccer looks to win first Commonwealth Conference Championship since 2006 season
The Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team finished out the regular season with a 1-0 home win against Widener University on Senior Day last Saturday. The Widener Pride soccer team came into the game at Ira R. Herr Field with the MAC Commonwealth Conference’s worst in-conference record, 1-4-3, their only win having happened against Lebanon Valley
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Men’s basketball looks to rebound from past season
he Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team is looking to improve on last year’s disappointing season which saw the Blue Jays go 5-13 in Commonwealth Conference play and 8-17 overall. Etown hopes to make it back to the playoffs after missing the postseason the two previous years. With a slew of returning veterans, the Blue Jays
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Heisman watch: QBs lead the race
That bronze statue, known as the Heisman Trophy, has players diving for extra yards, throwing bullets to wide receivers and leaving everything they have on the field. The Heisman Trophy, named after the man who innovated the game of football, is given annually to a player who stands above the rest in collegiate football. There
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FEATURES
‘Fagbug’ creator details journey, addresses critics
What would you do if you returned to your car and you found it vandalized? Worse yet, what if you found yourself a victim of a hate crime? Both of these things happened to Erin Davies, and instead of searching for revenge, she decided to take action. When she found “fag” and “u r gay”
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Get graphic: patterns, brights for spring
Yeah, you know what it is, blue and gray, blue and gray, blue and gray! Those are our college’s colors of course, but it also seems to be the only colors we see around campus in the colder months. Where are the bright colors, the patterns, the texture? I’ll tell you where — the runways.
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Besse discusses ancient birth control, women of pre-history
At last Friday’s “Fantabulous Friday” event, Dr. Jennifer Besse, an adjunct faculty member in Latin and the department of English, explored women and birth control’s prominence in prehistory as evidenced by the Egyptians and the Knossos Minoans, an unusual topic. Most people think of birth control as a modern invention, but this Fantabulous Friday event
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