The Walk of Love cross country 5k run and fun walk took place at Elizabethtown College on Saturday, Oct. 25. Participants came together to raise money to benefit orphaned children around the world. Sophomore Juliana Mowen lives in the Hope House Student Directed Learning Community (SDLC) and works with the charity Brittany’s Hope to help
READ MOREn Friday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m., the new Bollman Fabrication Laboratory was dedicated. The lab replaced the greenhouses attached to Esbenshade. The advanced prototyping lab, nicknamed the “Fab Lab,” will be used in several engineering courses to give engineering students a place to complete various projects. According to an email distributed prior to the
READ MOREOn Friday, Oct. 24, Class of 1976 alumna Nancy Dering Mock received the Service Through Professional Achievement Award of 2014. The ceremony took place during the President’s Dinner held at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown. The Alumni Council selected Mock as one of three recipients of the Educate for Service Awards. Rachel Jones Williams (’06)
READ MOREWhat if you found out that your slaving away for a 4.0 was in vain? What if I told you that, instead of investing in your education, you should be shelling out for a nose job and some liposuction instead? While I would never actually tell you to swap your books for a brow lift,
READ MOREIt is that special time of year for sports fans everywhere. Baseball is just starting, playoff hockey and basketball is getting underway and the Summer Olympics are right around the corner. For this reason, I would like to take this chance to rant to you about some of the issues I have with sports (what
READ MOREAs we push forward to become a truer liberal arts institution, promoting “Learning Everywhere” in every piece of Strategic Planning literature we print, the College needs to do a better job of engulfing its faculty in this very same principle, ensuring academic cooperation from all departments toward a singular goal of a premier student education.
READ MOREThe Elizabethtown College swim team has its first home meet on Saturday, Nov. 5 against Arcadia University. The team is excited with the prospect of racing against them again, as the level of competition may be higher than in past years. “Last year, we beat them by a lot. This year, we’re hearing rumors that
READ MOREThe members of the Elizabethtown College wrestling team are ready to throw down the competition this season. They are prepared to bring intensity to the mat and work toward attaining a Metropolitan Conference Championship. “I am very anxious to get back on the mat and start competing again,” junior Julian Meaney said. “I have been
READ MOREOn Oct. 22, the men’s cross country team competed in the Battle for the Buggy Race in Lancaster, Pa. The race, which has been run for eight years, is unique in that it allows alumni to participate in addition to the current college runners. This year, it was Elizabethtown College alumnus Greg Wetzel ‘06 who
READ MOREThe Pennsylvania Sociological Society held their 61st annual meeting at Seton Hill University in Greensberg, Pa., on Oct. 1, at which two Elizabethtown College students were awarded for their social research. Seniors Barbara Prince and Michael Shields received this recognition, and they attended the conference with their mentor and professor, Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King. According
READ MORERoger Hoerl is an Elizabethtown College alumnus. He is also the leader of the applied statistics laboratory at GE Global Research. Hoerl leads a team of about fourteen professional statisticians who work with probability to make predictions and forecast the outcome of risks that the company is considering taking, usually on long-term service agreements. For
READ MOREEvery college needs a well-rounded, caring and passionate outreach and alumni liaison. Fortunately, Elizabethtown College has that and more in Mary Krikorian. She is what people in her field might call a lifer, meaning that Krikorian has been doing this sort of job for a very long time. Her experience in the field of career
READ MORE