NEWS
Pledge of Academic Integrity receives update
The Pledge of Academic Integrity has recently been rewritten to include a more personal aspect of commitment to the students’ promise to Elizabethtown College. Last year, Seth Previty, a current senior business major, realized that the former Pledge did not include elements that his peers felt strongly about. Etown students recognized they were promising to
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Retired professor of modern languages emerita passes away at age 80
On March 8, Suzanne Schmitt Goodling, associate professor of modern languages emerita at Elizabethtown College, passed away after battling cancer. She was 80 years old. Goodling taught in the Modern Languages department at Etown for 35 years before retiring in 1999. Born and educated in Gettysburg, Pa., she attended Valencia, Madrid and Valladolid Universities in
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Young Americans for Liberty promote club ideals at conferences
embers of the Young Americans for Liberty organization, also known as YAL, have attended political conferences within the past two months including International Students for Liberty Conference, Conservative Political Action Conference and the Pennsylvania YAL State Convention. The political organization also hosted a “Voice Your Concerns” event on Monday, Feb. 23 in the BSC as
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CAMPUS LIFE
Commuter voices concern over lack of safety as a result of current parking policies
Most of us have probably heard or observed that there has been a decent amount of concern over parking restrictions for students on campus. The restrictions are frustrating for everyone involved, especially in that moment when you’re walking to your car and from 20 feet away you can already see that angry orange envelope stuck
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Critical thinking: What is it? Are we getting enough?
I’ll be honest: I had to Google what “critical thinking” meant before I began writing this article. It’s a term we’ve all heard, but most of us probably don’t know what it means. In the simplest of terms, critical thinking is “the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.” I realize we pay an atrocious amount of tuition to
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Last “Bourne” film disappoints
This past Wednesday, I took the time to go to MoviE-Town to see the final installment of the critically acclaimed Bourne series, “The Bourne Legacy.” I was a huge fan of the first three movies that starred Matt Damon as a former CIA assassin that the government was attempting to eliminate. The first three movies
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SPORTS
Field hockey adds Albright College to season’s list of victories
Friday, Oct. 14, the Elizabethtown College women’s field hockey team played their first Homecoming game on the resurfaced turf at Wolf Field. With the spirit of Homecoming Weekend, the Blue Jays started the weekend off well with a 4-0 victory over Albright College. “The atmosphere was great! We had a lot of fans out, families,
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Paul Whitman, Josh Riehl both win MAC Championships
On the weekend of Oct. 8, the Elizabethtown College men’s tennis team competed in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Individual Championships. The team came home with two singles champions in the event for the first time in six seasons. Star players from the MAC Championships include juniors Paul Whitman and Josh Riehl, who brought home
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NCAA bans five flavors of VitaminWater from athletes
What do you think is on the National Collegiate Athletic Association banned substances list? Steroids? Check. Cocaine? Check. Marijuana? Check. VitaminWater? Umm—check? That’s a decision currently in debate among the NCAA substances panel, which is looking into the possibility that certain VitaminWater flavors, produced by a NCAA partner, Coca-Cola, may create an unfair advantage during
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