NEWS
Chung delivers second annual Kreider Lecture
r. Edward Chung delivered the second annual Kreider Prize Lecture on the evening of Oct. 13, taking the opportunity to share his passion for teaching with the campus community. The associate professor of marketing was selected in the spring of 2016 to receive the Kreider Prize for Teaching by a student panel and members of
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Irish UN ambassador gives lecture
Elizabethtown College welcomed David Donoghue, the U.N. Ambassador to Ireland, on Monday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. Donoghue gave a lecture titled “The U.N. in a World of Crisis” in Gibble Auditorium, which was full of students, faculty, staff and community members. The College’s Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) sponsored the lecture. Donoghue
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Colleges Against Cancer collects bras for bra chain
This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Colleges Against Cancer club (CAC) will be having various events to add to the awareness here on campus. The club will mostly be accepting donations and promoting awareness. Various sports teams on campus will be participating in a pink out by wearing pink either during warm-up
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CAMPUS LIFE
Disgruntled junior mourns the loss of College’s favorite event
et’s all take a moment of silence to mourn the loss of one of the most important aspects of Elizabethtown College’s campus culture. I don’t even need to say it; you all know what I’m talking about. KĀV dances have been cancelled, never to be heard of again. I don’t know if it’s forever, or
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‘42:’ a must-see film about
any people think of flowers and warmer days when they think of spring. But, for some people, it’s the thought of cleats sliding into home plate, the thud of a bat hitting a ball, the smack of a closing glove and the thrill of cheering for their favorite team. Yes, for some, spring means the
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WWEC 88.3, the Sound of Elizabethtown, underappreciated
ou may or may not realize it, but Elizabethtown College has its own radio station, “WWEC 88.3. The Sound of Elizabethtown.” Students have radio shows throughout the week in which they can play different kinds of music, and talk about a variety of topics. It’s a pretty cool privilege that students at Etown can have
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SPORTS
USA Field Hockey moves home to East Hempfield Township
USA Field Hockey announced last Tuesday that they have partnered with Spooky Nook Sports to make the complex the new home of the U.S. Women’s National Team. The partnership makes the sports complex, located in East Hempfield Township, the home of USA Field Hockey through 2022. The complex, on which construction is not yet finished,
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Jays drop close match to Dutchmen
According to senior Katy Fogel, “Coach said to us in the locker room that we have everything to gain from this game, and they have everything to lose. I think that was the mentality of the game. We just wanted to go onto their home court and play hard and that’s exactly what we did.”
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Seniors honored at King’s meet; men come away with win
As the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays swim teams neared the end of their regular season, they traveled to Chestertown, Md. to go head-to-head with the Washington College Shoremen Wednesday Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. In the Blue Jays’ penultimate meet of the season, the men battled to a 130-64 loss, and the women were also
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FEATURES
Quito: Diving from El Puente de Rio Blanco
Last Saturday I lifted my trusty SWEET pen to my life’s to-do list and, with great gusto, checked off item twenty-seven: jump off a bridge. Indeed, during a leisurely bike ride through the Andes, some friends and I took a short break to take turns diving dolphin-style off el Puente de Rio Blanco – the
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Fashion Column: Printed pants and midis flood stores for fall
The summer season may be coming to an end, but its warmth won’t completely abandon us until mid October. It’s during this transition of summer warmth and autumn chill that we see the blending of seasonal styles. Our peers begin matching tees with pants and sweaters with shorts. This makes it the perfect time to
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New communications professor encourages tenacity
New assistant professor of communications, Dr. Matthew Telleen, recently told me something that I will never forget. It applies to everyone who seems unsure of what path to take in life. “Try what you think you’re going to like, and if it doesn’t work out, there are other options,” he said. Telleen tried multiple majors
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