NEWS
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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Colleges Against Cancer collects bras for bra chain
This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Colleges Against Cancer club (CAC) will be having various events to add to the awareness here on campus. The club will mostly be accepting donations and promoting awareness. Various sports teams on campus will be participating in a pink out by wearing pink either during warm-up
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Secretary Clinton comes to Harrisburg, encourages locals to register to vote
I can’t do any of this without you,” Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said as she addressed 1,500 people gathered at the Zembo Shrine in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Clinton said she is running for president to keep America safe and “lead America with strength and steadiness.” She said she wants
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CAMPUS LIFE
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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American rights versus citizens’ security
In place to protect their people, governments are posed with the curious predicament of creating laws that protect their people without dictating their day to day routines. This balancing act has proven a challenge for those in power. The question that is always to be considered; when does enough become too much? The gun control
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SPORTS
New talent looks to bring team victory
For the Elizabethtown College’s volleyball team, the 2012 season brings a chance for the team to wipe away bad memories of 2011 season and replace them with a conference championship. The Commonwealth Conference added two tough competitors this year in Stevenson University and Hood College. “We want to bounce back after last season and show
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Demanding schedule, young roster tests Jays
The 2012 season will be a trial by fire for the Elizabethtown College Men’s Soccer team. The blue and gray will play nine teams that made the NCAA tournament last season. With the gauntlet of games the Jays have to play, the team will show the Commonwealth Conference the depth of its character. “I think
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Indictment may have strong hold on foundation’s future
Sports, in many cases, are used as a tool by adults to teach children the values of hard work and fair play. Unfortunately, sometimes the same adults who are supposedly enforcing these rules, are the individuals who act as children when it comes to the compliance of them. In recent years, a multitude of professional
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