NEWS
The Electoral College
With less than four weeks remaining until Election Day, the direction of the presidential race has become clear. Barring a surprise of biblical proportion, Donald Trump is not going to be the next President of the United States. Hillary Clinton’s decisive first debate victory on Sept. 26, followed by a week of erratic Trump behavior
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Learning, Disability Services return to former testing accommodations after learning of faculty concerns
Elizabethtown College’s Learning Services and Disability Services have returned to its old policies regarding procedures for students who need certain accommodations for taking tests. This switch comes after different policies adopted at the beginning of the year received negative feedback from faculty. According to Learning and Disability Services Director Lynne Davies, the policies and procedures
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Political clubs help students register to vote
Monday, Oct. 10 marked Elizabethtown College’s final attempt to help students on campus register for voting this year. The political clubs held a registration drive from 7 to 9 p.m. in Room 110 in the Hoover Center with the goal in mind to register as many students as possible in preparation for the 2016 Presidential
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CAMPUS LIFE
‘Gun-free zones,’ a striking common denominator for mass murder in U.S.
James Holmes, planning mass murder, drove past seven theaters that were showing “The Dark Knight Rises” to get to one in particular that he had in mind. Some were quite close to his home. Others held unusually large audiences that he might target. But he drove past these and headed for a specific theater in
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ graphically depicts search for bin Laden
The movie “Zero Dark Thirty” is a dramatization of one of America’s most compelling stories; the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. The code “Zero Dark Thirty” is the military term for thirty minutes past midnight, the exact time that the Navy Seals entered bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. This movie has received an immense
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Put Your Records On: Radio 104.5’s Winter Jam concert feat. Tegan and Sara
Every year on the last Saturday in January, Philadelphia’s alternative music radio station, 104.5, puts on an amazing free outdoor show called Winter Jam, and gets some of the best bands around to perform. This year was no exception, with crowd-pleasing sets from June Divided, Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon and Tegan and Sara,
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SPORTS
W. Lacrosse hopes for strong conference finish
The Elizabethtown College women’s lacrosse team was well on their way to having yet another winning season as they entered into MAC conference play last week. With a record of 7-3 and one conference victory under their belt against Lycoming College on April 5, the Blue Jays look forward to continuing their winning streak against
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Assistant coaches: Key assets to athletic success
For the 2010-2011 school year, the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays fared well at both the conference and national level. Five teams grabbed their conference titles, and 28 athletes were individual conference champions. Five students were named conference Players of the Year, and three more achieved Rookie of the Year status. Many other Blue Jays made
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Softball dominates Albright, Susquehanna
The Elizabethtown College softball team has once again returned to the infamous scene. “For the game today it is definitely going to be a challenge because Albright is known to fight to the end so we definitely can’t let our guards down,” senior Julie Sebastian said. “We are going to have to play our hardest
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