NEWS
ITS offers free Microsoft Office products to current students
Elizabethtown College’s new agreement with Microsoft will make students’ penny-pinching less of a necessity for some. Microsoft has started a Student Advantage Program which Etown, like many other institutions, has instituted this year. This new program allows students to download Microsoft Office for free. Previously, the College had exclusively purchased Microsoft for campus computers due
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Literary magazine undergoes rebranding
The campus literary magazine, formerly known as “Fine Print,” has been renamed “VOX.” Senior Kyler Koons, a professional writing major and editor-in-chief of the magazine, is responsible for the revamped name and the overall rebranding of the magazine. A veteran staff member of Fine Print, Koons felt that the title was unoriginal, and that it
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BCA suspends Rome study abroad option
Brethren Colleges Abroad recently decided to suspend their Rome, Italy program for the coming year. Newly hired Director of Academic Affairs Dr. Stephen Burwood, explained why students interested in traveling abroad to that location can look forward to a completely redesigned curriculum in the near future. “What was happening was that we were getting a
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CAMPUS LIFE
Death of Gadhafi creates military venture
Last week, Muammar Gadhafi, the former Libyan president, died from a bullet wound after several months of bloody civil war. Back in March of this year, President Obama authorized Operation Odyssey Dawn, the code name for the U.S. involvement in Libya to enforce a no-fly zone. This was reported as an international operation, in which
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Treatment of disabled student raises questions
Should every college student be given the equal opportunity to speak up in class? Professors should be encouraging their students to participate and answer questions. However, a New Jersey college professor, Elizabeth Snyder, asked one of her students to stop participating by refraining from asking and answering questions in class because of his stutter. Snyder
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Halloween, ghost of senior’s childhood past?
It is finally October. A time when the leaves are changing and the weather is turning. And there is one thing on every college student’s mind: “What am I going to be for Halloween?” Personally, I feel like I have grown out of Halloween over the years. The idea of dressing up in a costume
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