NEWS
Campus Security, borough police on high alert for alcohol violations at Homecoming
Happy Homecoming celebrators saw flashing lights as both Elizabethtown College Campus Security and the Elizabethtown Borough Police sped to the Schreiber Quadrangle early on Oct. 16. Several parties taking place caught the attention of the officers, who appeared at the Quads around 12:30 Sunday morning. C1 and C2 were residences reported as allowing underage drinking
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Chung delivers second annual Kreider Lecture
r. Edward Chung delivered the second annual Kreider Prize Lecture on the evening of Oct. 13, taking the opportunity to share his passion for teaching with the campus community. The associate professor of marketing was selected in the spring of 2016 to receive the Kreider Prize for Teaching by a student panel and members of
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Irish UN ambassador gives lecture
Elizabethtown College welcomed David Donoghue, the U.N. Ambassador to Ireland, on Monday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. Donoghue gave a lecture titled “The U.N. in a World of Crisis” in Gibble Auditorium, which was full of students, faculty, staff and community members. The College’s Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) sponsored the lecture. Donoghue
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CAMPUS LIFE
Will more security actually improve safety?
There was a bias-related incident in Schlosser Residence Hall on Feb. 10. This incident occurred between the hours of 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., and involved writings on dorm room doors’ whiteboards. These writings contained messages of a racially unacceptable and threatening nature. Instances of harassment and hate crimes such as these are not tolerated
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Trending: nonfiction on the rise in films
A media trend of realistic nonfiction films has become more and more noticable. This year’s Academy Awards have three nonfiction films competing for Best Picture, “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Argo” and “Lincoln.” Movie critics worry about the effects the fictional aspects of these films will have on teenagers and college students. Many adolescents, myself included, went
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Immigration to U.S. increasing?
People move for all kinds of reasons. Wars. Conflicts. In the Middle East, a growing number of refugees from the civil war in Syria have sought shelter in Lebanon. With American forces all set to withdraw from Afghanistan, nervous Afghanis are trying to emigrate from their country. The economic crisis in Europe is also leading
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SPORTS
Football analysts detract from enjoyment of game
In a sports world dominated by football, one of the most coveted positions one can hold after being too washed up to play or coach anymore is to be an NFL Network or ESPN analyst. Former players can stay in the spotlight and compare every play to ones they used to make, and old coaches
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Welsh, Tempone lead teams to second place at Dickinson
For only hoping to show a steady improvement from the teams’ previous performances, the Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s cross country teams exceeded expectations at the Dickinson Long and Short Invitational Saturday, Sept. 28. The men’s team took second in the short course team standings, while the women, who also ran the shorter race, tied
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Jays continue winning streak
After their seven-game winning streak, the Elizabethtown College volleyball team won two more matches at the tri-match in Gettysburg this past weekend against Haverford College and Gettysburg College. A total of 21 kills in the two games made by senior captain Holly Bubb was just one instance of the many spectacular plays the Blue Jays
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FEATURES
“Time of Our Lives” unravels mysteries of philosophy
Time, particularly to the average college student, can be a cruel mistress. It flies when fun is had and crawls with every minute spent staring blankly at a textbook. It cannot be stopped or rewritten as it passes. We have our ways to measure its passage, formally with clocks and calendars, and informally through cups
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John Dernbach encourages environmental sustainability in lecture
“I hate talking about what I’ve done. I’ve always thought that my work spoke for itself.” Speak for itself it does. Even John Dernbach’s reaction to an inquiry about his accomplishments exemplifies his down-to-earth nature … pun intended. Dernbach is Elizabethtown College’s 2011 Peace Fellow, and he recently presented a lecture, “Green Peace,” on Nov.
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Alumni musician, Carmen Chiles, to release second album
“Music is that universal language that connects all different kinds of people throughout the world,” Carmen Chiles, a 2001 Elizabethtown College graduate and current recording artist, said. Chiles released her debut album, “SOULution,” in 2007. Before that, though, she lived in Schlosser Hall. “I call it the birthplace of my on-stage experience because Etown was
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