NEWS
High center is turning 20!
The S. Dale High Center for Family Business recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The Center invited some of their best speakers from past events to speak at the annual Family Business Forum. The event was held Thursday, March 26 at the Marriott hotel in Lancaster. The High Center was founded in 1995 by a group
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Pledge of Academic Integrity receives update
The Pledge of Academic Integrity has recently been rewritten to include a more personal aspect of commitment to the students’ promise to Elizabethtown College. Last year, Seth Previty, a current senior business major, realized that the former Pledge did not include elements that his peers felt strongly about. Etown students recognized they were promising to
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Retired professor of modern languages emerita passes away at age 80
On March 8, Suzanne Schmitt Goodling, associate professor of modern languages emerita at Elizabethtown College, passed away after battling cancer. She was 80 years old. Goodling taught in the Modern Languages department at Etown for 35 years before retiring in 1999. Born and educated in Gettysburg, Pa., she attended Valencia, Madrid and Valladolid Universities in
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CAMPUS LIFE
Te’o caught in catfish scandal
In early September 2012, Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman nominee Manti Te’o received tragic news regarding not only the death of his grandmother, Annette Santiago, but also of his longtime girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. However, it was recently released by deadspin.com that while it was true that his grandmother had died the “relationship” that he had
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Keynote speaker ignites debate among students, faculty
Angela Davis visited Elizabethtown College, leaving a trail of controversy behind. Angela Davis is known for her desire to bring justice across the nation, as well as the industrial prison complex. She wants a world without imprisonment. Mrs. Davis has first hand experience with the prison process having been in jail for 18 months and
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Photographic project manifests into Hurricane Sandy fundraiser
While Hurricane Sandy may have left Elizabethtown College and the surrounding areas mostly unscathed, other areas of the East Coast, such as New Jersey and New York, were battered with gale-force winds and torrential downpours, leaving parts of these places underwater and some homes destroyed. In the face of this adversity, many campaigns sprung up
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SPORTS
Runners grab first place at Misericordia Cougar Classic
Elizabethtown College’s cross-country teams continued their stellar performances at the Misericordia Cougar Classic Saturday, Sept. 15. They took first place out of 14 teams with a total of 36 points. Overall the Blue Jays had seven women and eight men finish in the top 20 for their separate races. The teams’ total time was 2:16:51.42.
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Benefits, disadvantages of adding football program weighed
As September moves along, thoughts turn to dreams of crisper autumn weather, complete with crunchy leaves and pumpkin-flavored treats. For me, fall brings about one of my favorite times of year: Homecoming. Although I have always had a blast with Elizabethtown College’s Homecoming celebrations, I still miss the traditional homecoming football game. In the Middle
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team taps offensive power against Wilkes, scores four goals
The Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team showed their dominance this past Saturday as they defeated the Wilkes University Colonels 4 to 1 on Ira R. Herr Field Senior Adriano Maneo, Jays’ center mid fielder, got the chance to even the score with a corner kick. Striking the ball perfectly, Maneo hit his teammate junior Kyle
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FEATURES
25th annual student art show opens in Lyet
Elizabethtown College is holding its 25th Annual Juried Student Art Show. The show will house roughly 77 pieces of original, student-created art. Anyone is allowed to submit artwork, as long as it was created in an Etown art class or under the supervision of an Etown art faculty member. The art pieces will be judged
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Cavender, students present cancer research for Inaugural Lecture
Medical breakthroughs don’t occur overnight; they take years of research, ingenuity and thousands of people working toward a common goal. One of the most baffling mysteries facing scientists today is the search for a cure for cancer. Although research continues, the basic understandings of cancer and tumor-related research starts at a biological level, and this
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‘The Children’s Hour’ provokes critical thought
How would you feel if you were exiled from your community and shunned by almost everyone you know? On March 26 at 7 p.m. in Gibble Auditorium, there will be a showing of “The Children’s Hour,” a diversity film centered around lies, revenge, homosexuality and false accusations. When a female student, who attends a school
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