NEWS
Student Senate
Thursday, March 1, 2018 the Elizabethtown College Student Senate met in Hoover 212. As all meetings do, it began with a Call to Order by senior Senate President Sean Fiedler. Following the Call to Order at every meeting is the Special Orders section, which includes guest speakers, Oaths of Office and more. In this meeting,
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Relay for Life event raises money and spreads awareness
According to the American Cancer Society’s website, both men and women have about a one in three chance of developing some form of cancer and a one in five chance of dying once diagnosed. Decreasing that probability is a goal of Elizabethtown College’s annual Relay for Life, which starts at 3 p.m. Friday, March 23
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Student job and internship search enhanced
Elizabethtown College’s Career Services department introduced Handshake this school year, replacing Jobs for Jays as an online database for students to find jobs and internships locally, statewide and nationally. Though professional networking website LinkedIn shares a lot of similarities with Handshake, it would be beneficial for students to start making profiles on both services as
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CAMPUS LIFE
Chairman of Board of Trustees gives insight into comprehensive fee
To the Editor of the Etownian: As the chairman of the Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees, I am grateful to the editor of the Etownian for providing the venue by which I am able to deliver a message to students on behalf of our Board of Trustees. As many students know by now, the comprehensive
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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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SPORTS
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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Women’s Cross Country team finishes top ten in long and short courses at Dickinson
Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the Dickinson Long/Short Invitational in Carlisle, Pa. on Saturday, Sept. 28. The men’s team was able to race on either a 4,000 meter course or an 8,000 meter course, and the women’s team had the option of racing on either a 6,000 meter course or
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FEATURES
Department, Office of Diversity, Dean sponsor lecture, dance demonstration by Piscataway Indian Nation singers, dancers
On Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 11 a.m., the sociology and anthropology department, in conjunction with the Office of Diversity and Dean of Faculty, sponsored a lecture and dance demonstration by the Piscataway Indian Nation Singers and Dancers. Founded by Mark Wild Turkey Tayac, grandson of the late Chief Turkey Tayac and son of current Chief
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Seniors ‘STRIVE’ for post-grad success
How do I manage my finances? Where will I live after I graduate? How will I find a job? These are all questions beginning to creep into the minds of seniors as they move closer and closer to graduation. Fortunately, Career Services has designed special events, just for seniors, to address many of these pressing
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Ware Seminar features Ozkanca, Craig, Davis to share expertise
The Susquehanna room was filled Tuesday night on the Elizabethtown College campus as students, faculty, staff and locals came out to the 2012 Ware Seminar that was specifically focusing on the topic of the current conflict in Syria. A panel of three distinguished individuals, Dr. Oya Ozkanca, Ambassador John Craig and Dr. Joyce Davis hosted
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