NEWS
Education department hosts panel on teaching in a post-Ferguson world
On Monday, March 14, the education students joined panelists in the Susquehanna Room for a program called “Education in a Post-Ferguson Society.” The panelists discussed four major points, including racial inequalities that continue to exist in the United States and are mirrored in schools, overrepresentation of children of color who are suspended and identified for
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Honors student hosts toy drive, supports child radiation therapy patients
There will be a toy drive in Brossman Commons from April 7 to April 10 to help patients at the Pennsylvania Proton Radiation Therapy Center. Sophomore Irene Snyder has taken on the planning and advertising around campus. Snyder has a personal connection because her sister had treatment at 11 years old, but her disease won
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Anonymous social media app Yik Yak creates controversy
Since its creation just over a year ago, the anonymous social media app Yik Yak has massively grown in popularity on college campuses across the country. Unlike social networks like Facebook or Twitter, Yik Yak allows messages to be sorted by geographic location with posts only able to be seen within a 1.5-mile radius of
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CAMPUS LIFE
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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What I know now: reflections on the first year of college
I have yet to master college. I’m two years and a month into my collegiate career, and I’m still trying to learn how to survive in an environment that is simultaneously foreign (Lancaster County) and home (Etown). With each semester that goes by, I feel as if I learn something more about myself and my
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