NEWS
Featherton Crossing Apartments become a new housing option
Beginning in fall 2018, Elizabethtown College upperclassmen will be able to live on-campus without physically being there thanks to the new Featherton Crossing Apartments housing option. The apartments are located under two miles from campus but are considered on-campus housing because students do not need to break their housing contract to live there. The apartments
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Schlosser shower renovations continuing after winter break
In the fall semester, leaks in the second and third floors of Schlosser Residence Hall forced Facilities Management to shut down the showers closest to the stairwell in Schlosser 2-West for safety, since the water began to leak into the lobby. However, over a month passed and little to no progress was made on shower
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Today’s Technology Column
Drones zip over Rwanda, leaving a trail of blood. The California-based company Zipline has been operating in Rwanda since fall 2016. As of Oct. 2017, Zipline drones have delivered 2,600 units of blood over the course of 1,400 commercial flights. Zipline has designed and built drones that can carry 1.5 kilograms of blood at a
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CAMPUS LIFE
False excuses imply laziness
We have all heard — and quite possibly used ourselves — the “my dog ate my homework” excuse during elementary school. Or middle school, if you were dumb enough to think it would work that late in your schooling career. As college students, we tend to employ our own ridiculous excuses for forgetting our homework
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Do viewers or media perpetuate fandoms?
Our culture is packed to the brim with various “fandoms” or obsessions with various forms of media. These fandoms seem to have gained prevalence within the last few years. As an obsessive fan of “Game of Thrones,” “Breaking Bad,” “The Walking Dead” and “House of Cards,” among others, I find great joy in following the
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Professors should not be expected to post course grades on Blackboard
Every syllabus handed out to Elizabethtown College students is required to contain several different parts, regardless of the class or department. One of the most important sections being a statement of class policy about grades, attendance, examinations and other expectations of the students. Each section extensively describes and outlines the course work and requirements that
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SPORTS
Softball takes down Ursinus in DH
he Elizabethtown College softball team recently fell to the Messiah College Falcons, but the Jays were able to pick up a sweep against the Ursinus College Bears. On April 13, the Falcons won 7-6 and 7-5. The next day, tough defense by Etown kept Ursinus’ offense stifled, and the Jays swept the doubleheader 1-0, 2-0.
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Falcons squeak by Blue Jays in overtime
he Elizabethtown College women’s lacrosse team fought to the last second against the nationally ranked (No. 14) Messiah Falcons April 13 on Wolf Field. Senior Becky Porter found the net to tie the game with 24 seconds remaining in regulation to send the game into overtime. The Blue Jays could not find the net in
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Baseball grabs one win in series loss to Messiah, moves to 12-20
he Elizabethtown College baseball team entered into a series last weekend with Commonwealth Conference rival Messiah College. The Falcons grabbed the 9-6 win in the series opener Friday, April 12 and a 4-3 win in game one of Saturday’s doubleheader. Although the Blue Jays grabbed a 9-4 win in game two of the doubleheader, Messiah
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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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