NEWS
Senior earns 2014 Paul M. Grubb, Jr. Student Peace Award
The Elizabethtown College Alumni Peace Fellowship honored senior Bhim Thapaliya with the 2014 Paul M. Grubb, Jr. Student Peace Award at a reception last Saturday. In recognition for his peace- and justice-related work with refugees through the Act for Humanity Foundation (AFH) and its Etown chapter that he founded, Thapaliya received $2,000 to invest in
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Kopko anticipates becoming director of Honors Program
Last Tuesday, the Honors Council hosted a lecture by Dr. Kyle Kopko ‘05 as the first event of the new Honors Lecture Series. Kopko, an assistant professor of political science and the director of the pre-law program at Elizabethtown College, will succeed Director of the Honors Program and Associate Professor of English Dr. Dana Mead
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Student Wellness holds Alcohol Awareness Week, educates students
Oct. 19 through 26 is Student Wellness’ Alcohol Awareness Week. The week is a national collegiate movement, and colleges all across the country are programming on this topic. The purpose of the week is to educate students and help keep them safer when they make decisions regarding alcohol. Programs held during the week addressed questions
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CAMPUS LIFE
2012 Presidential election presents options
On Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, the American people will cast their ballot for president. Will we have four more years with Barack Obama, or will a to-be-determined GOP candidate take the win? The general presidential election tends to yield a voter turnout of about 50 percent of the voting-age population, a much higher turnout than
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Does Student Senate advocate student rights?
At every level of American society, there are elected officials who have been voted into a position of power by one group or another to lead someone or something. Going hand-in-hand with that are the complaints filed against those leaders—if something goes wrong, it’s their fault, they caused this catastrophe. If something goes right, they’re
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Black Friday causes shoppers to stress
Black Friday is a time for people to tent out in front of stores, like Best Buy, for eight hours in hopes of getting 30 percent off items like iPads. It is a marketing invention used to delude people into thinking they are getting the best deals on the hottest items. People become animalistic over,
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