NEWS
Education students react to recent Parkland shooting
Fourteen students and three staff members died when Nikolas Cruz, 19, entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida Wednesday, Feb. 14. Since then, the nation has engaged in a gun control and mental health debate similar to the ones sparked by many recent mass shootings. This time, however, the teenaged shooting victims have
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The Study Abroad Experience
Studying abroad:” A term that excited me and filled me with dread all at once. It seemed like the greatest adventure and the biggest risk. There were so many things, both clichéd and not, that I heard before I stepped off the plane in Italy. The first was to keep an open mind and be
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Today’s Technology
When the tech talks back, that’s when I’ve officially gone crazy.” Once those were wise words by one of the many of us who have a habit of thinking out loud and talking to our technologies. Now, the idea of technology talking back to the user is normal. Innovative technology from Apple’s Siri to smart
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CAMPUS LIFE
Campus conveniences do not always yield expected benefits for community
Changes are instituted every year as the school administration sees fit. In order to improve the quality of education and life at Elizabethtown College, those changes span all areas of the school, from education to athletics and everything in between. Without fail, these improvements are included in the “best of Etown” highlights that are mentioned
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Professors may still conduct class despite campus-wide closings
Lately, the weather has been everything but cooperative for students and faculty. With a snow storm Sunday night and freezing ice following just days later, Elizabethtown College has faced a handful of delays in the past week. Delayed and cancelled classes encroach on lesson plans and due dates. Some professors bypass the metaphorical closed sign
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‘Which character are you?’ quizzes grow popular, entertain curiosity
If you were to log onto Facebook right now, you would probably have to scroll down for no more than two seconds in order to find a “Which character are you?” quiz that someone recently took. What could be more fun than finding the character from your favorite movie, TV show or book series that
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SPORTS
Men’s soccer competes against Messiah
our days after winning their 800th game of all-time, the Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team fell to No. 3 Messiah College 3-0 in the first “Marshmallow Bowl” played at Ira R. Herr field in three years on Saturday, Oct. 12. The game marked the tenth straight win for Messiah against Etown and the last conference
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Men’s tennis begins fall season with USTA-ITA two-day tournament
The fall season started this past weekend for the Elizabethtown College men’s tennis team. The team took part in the two-day United States Tennis Association-Intercollegiate Tennis Association (USTA-ITA) Southeast Regional Championship, held on Saturday, Sept. 28 and Sunday, Sept. 29. The championship was held on the University of Mary Washington campus in Fredericksburg, Va. The
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Women’s soccer shuts out No.7 Misericordia University 1-0
Then the women’s soccer team is down, do not count them out. After falling at home to Haverford College in overtime in the Blue Jays’ last game, they welcomed nationally-ranked Misericordia University last Wednesday. The game on Sept. 25 brought the country’s seventh-ranked team, undefeated coming into the game, to Ira R. Herr Field. The
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FEATURES
Poet Laureate Daina Savage reads, presents lecture on process
There was a sweet sound – music to an English major’s ears – floating from the Bowers Writers House on the evening of Jan. 31. That, of course, was the voice Daina Savage sharing some of her own poetry. She selected and read twenty of her poems, gracing both Elizabethtown College students and members of
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Eberly to teach Pathology in O.T. Dept.
Beth Eberly, an Elizabethtown College graduate, continues her involvement with the College as she teaches the Pathology I course in the occupational therapy department this semester. Eberly, who is a full-time occupational therapist and the manager of the physical and occupational therapy department at Health South Rehab Hospital of York, was contacted by the College
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Team committed to innovating marketing, communications strategies
“The moment of truth. Elizabethtown College.” All of Etown’s prospective students buzzed about theirs when it was received in the mail. Everyone who earned acceptance into the College discovered that single white envelope protruding from their mailbox. As they opened the trademark blue envelope and devoured the white lettering in the center, it was the
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