NEWS
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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Student Senate
Hi Blue Jays, My name is Sean Fiedler, and I am the newly elected Executive President. Firstly, I’d like to thank you all for the opportunity to serve in this role for the coming year. It has been an interesting beginning to the semester as Senate has assumed a new identity, one of progress and
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Former associate director of admissions loses battle with cancer
On Saturday, Oct. 1, Elizabethtown College lost an honored faculty member, Debi Murray. She battled breast cancer for many years and was the associate director of admissions at Etown, a job which she began in 1998. In 2004, she became the senior associate director of admissions, and one year later, she was promoted to the
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CAMPUS LIFE
PUT YOUR RECORDS ON: Fall Out Boy
The first time I ever heard Fall Out Boy it was the summer of 2005, back when MTV was actually Music Television (sort of). I remember seeing the music video for “Sugar, We’re Going Down,” where the main character had these bizarre deer antlers. Regardless of the surreal videography, the song stuck with me, and
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Women allowed on the ‘front line,’ will cohesiveness in combat change?
If you’ve tuned in to any sort of news media in the past two weeks, you’re most likely now well aware of the issue surrounding front-line women combatants in the military. Now, this came as a shock to me because I assumed that those who sign up for military service, be they men or women,
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
If you regularly use any social networking sites or attend music festivals you may have seen the iconic To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) logo. It is often worn on T-shirts by musicians or advertised online and at festivals such as the Vans Warped Tour. I for one have seen this logo frequently, but
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SPORTS
Baseball team fights for playoff spot
The Elizabethtown College baseball team is fighting for a playoff spot. After a tough 9-3 loss to Stevenson University on April 11, the Blue Jays rebounded and won 7-2 against Albright College on April 13. Stevenson gave Etown momentum early on with some errors. On Wednesday, senior Steve Motika was able to drive sophomore Ian
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Teams remain undefeated against Commonwealth opponents
The Elizabethtown College women’s and men’s tennis teams had an extremely demanding but rewarding weekend. With three matches at Etown and two away at LVC, the pressure was on for both teams to perform at their best. The women’s team started off their winning streak by defeating Division I La Salle with a score of
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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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