NEWS
Day of Positivity event covers campus in thousands of inspiring sticky notes
Wednesday, Nov. 30, the students of Elizabethtown College gathered as a group and acknowledged the campus’s first ever Day of Positivity. The event was put together and sponsored by the Class of 2020 Student Senate to celebrate diversity on campus and spread positivity among students over the unease of the recent Presidential election, as well
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BE Inspired campaign continues raising funds
The Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees (BOT)and the Elizabethtown College Alumni Association (ECAA) have been raising funds in a variety of ways. The money raised from both organizations’ efforts will benefit the entire College community. The BOT has been raising money through the College’s BE Inspired campaign, which began in April. The goal of the
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October sees several new hires at College including event technition, librarian
This October, Elizabethtown College welcomed a group of new faculty and staff members, including Jennifer Strain, Tina Morris, Amy Berra, Melissa Hagman, Taylor Frombaugh, Michelle Henry and Marie Joseph. Strain works in the High Library as the instruction and scholarly communications librarian. She will be instructing students and helping them to get the most out
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CAMPUS LIFE
Peace Non-violence & Understanding
A community is only as good as the standard of human rights it creates for each of its citizens. When the personhood of individuals is challenged by acts of flagrant hatred, they test the integrity of that standard. How we react to that test and how we defend those who have been targeted determines the
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Spirit of altruism in Hoover
Homer was getting ready for his mathematical economics class. Partial derivatives would have to be found, equations solved, graphs drawn. Firms would be neck deep in profit maximization, while consumers gamely strove to maximize utility. The language of calculus would be put to good use. There was no time to waste, thought Homer, as he
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Why humor, not beauty, wins ‘Mr. Etown’
The purpose of a pageant is to reach a state that promotes self-esteem and public-speaking abilities of the contestants. Winners of pageants are said to feel a sense of accomplishment. Pageants can be affiliated with community or social organizations in order to raise money for charities. Some of the better known pageants are ones such
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SPORTS
Teams grab eighth place at regional competition in Ohio
The Elizabethtown College cross country team competed in the Oberlin College Inter-Regional Rumble this past Saturday in Oberlin, Ohio. Of the 32 competing teams, both teams took eighth place. With a time of 25:18.2 and finishing first for the Etown men, senior Aaron Focht crossed the line as the 40th runner in the Oberlin Inter-Regional
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Successful fall leaves men, women hopeful for spring
The Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s tennis teams finished their fall season with a successful Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Individual Championships. After a successful day in the first half of the tournament, five women’s singles players and all three doubles teams moved on to the semifinals. Senior Madison Pipkin was seeded first in the No.
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Jays’ winning streak continues
The Elizabethtown College women’s field hockey team have asserted themselves as a force to be reckoned with this season, winning their last five games and holding a conference record of 4-1, placing them third in the highly competitive Commonwealth Conference. Not only are they in the mix of things in the conference, but the Blue
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FEATURES
Accomplished first-year Cayla Kluver working on fourth book
All our lives we have been told to look up to our elders and follow the example of those wiser and more experienced than ourselves. However, there is a huge lesson to be learned from this young, bright and determined Elizabethtown College student, 19-year-old Cayla Kluver. A Wisconsin native and resident her entire life, Kluver
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Shorts Fest provides opportunity for aspiring directors to learn skills
The Shorts Fest has become a tradition here at Elizabethtown College for students in the fine and performing arts department’s directing for the theater (TH320) class to showcase their skills as directors of a short play of 10 to 20 minutes in length. This year, the Shorts Fest consists of six short plays, two of
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The Thrill of the Chaste: lecture highlights Amish novel allure
We have all seen them. There is no point in denying it—for fifty cents in cardboard boxes at yard sales, or shoved rudely in the magazine aisle of the grocery store, or on the sad, half empty bookshelves of our sad, half-empty Kmart. This is a genre as perplexing as it is intriguing: the Amish
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