Last Tuesday, Elizabethtown College’s Office of Career Services held its first Pre-Law Night event in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Elizabethtown College’s Pre-Law Club and Pre-Law Advising also sponsored the event. The event primarily focused on providing pre-law students with information about law school applications and options. The event also provided an opportunity for current
READ MOREElizabethtown College is in the process of establishing the W. Wesley McDonald Memorial Scholarship to commemorate Dr. W. Wesley McDonald, an Elizabethtown College professor in the political science department who passed away on Sept. 9 of this year. According to Director of Major Gifts Marty Thomas-Brummé, the scholarship is “not [entirely] developed at this point.”
READ MOREThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently presented a “Capacity Building for the Humanities” grant of $100,000 to Elizabethtown College. This is the second time that the Mellon Foundation selected the College as an award recipient in its “Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities” program area. The College received $25,000 of funding from the organization
READ MOREOver the past few weeks, if you’ve been near a TV, newspaper, computer, or another human being, you’ve probably heard of multiple gun-related incidents: Colorado, Wisconsin, New York and Maryland; twenty people have been killed, and an additional eighty-two injured. Now, if you’re privy to this, chances are it was through the internet, which has
READ MOREIn two weeks Elizabethtown College is asking five hundred of its most dedicated, hard-working students to politely leave. Throwing us through the Etown bubble into a world that four years of classes taught us is in ruins. Deserting us for a new batch of unpolished, wide-eyed 18-year-olds who know more about Snooki and iCarly than
READ MOREDon’t be like my brother. Don’t waste five years of your life choosing to not listen to Dr. Dog.
READ MOREThe Elizabethtown College Blue Jays swim team started their season strong by winning the meet against Arcadia two weeks ago at Etown’s Alumni Pool. The men defeated the Knights 146-58, and the women claimed victory with a score of 119-65. As Arcadia is a Middle Atlantic Conference opponent, the meet was an important win for
READ MOREFan shirts: you can find people wearing them anywhere, from dorm buildings to sporting events, as they are a popular trend here at Elizabethtown College. The shirts are sold individually through team members, and anyone can buy them. This is just one of the ways that Etown’s sports teams are advertising and helping students become
READ MOREThe Messiah College Falcons have snapped the four-game winning streak of Elizabethtown College’s men’s soccer team with a heartbreaking 2-0 victory on Monday, Oct. 31. However, past wins over conference opponents Lycoming College and Arcadia University give the Blue Jays a 4-3 record in the Middle-Atlantic Conference (MAC) and a fourth-place spot in the postseason
READ MOREThis November, the faculty of Elizabethtown College will sponsor a multimedia program centered on Paris. The presentation of “Paris at the Turn of the Century” will be free and open to the public. This event will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center and will begin at 7:30 p.m.
READ MOREOnce there was a little girl who grew up in a very artistic family. Her uncle was a professional artist who began teaching her studio methods before the age of 10. It was a family involved with painting, photography and drawing. The little girl’s family never looked down upon her artistic dreams, but instead encouraged
READ MORE“Fuzzy socks, plaid shirts, cowgirl hats, boots, belt buckles and horses” are just a few things that remind Elizabethtown junior Mindy Geesaman of her best friend, Arianna Krayo. This may seem strange at first, until you talk to anybody who knew Arianna and see that they would also form the same list. So it should
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