NEWS

  • Liberian ambassador discusses rebuilding, state of his home country

    Liberian ambassador discusses rebuilding, state of his home country

    Yesterday evening, Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah Sulunteh visited the Elizabethtown College campus to speak about his home country, Liberia. Sulunteh has been an ambassador to Liberia since May 2012. He attempted to run for Vice President in 2005 and plans to run for President in the future. He previously served as a professor of economics at

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  • Career Services holds first Pre-Law Night event

    Last Tuesday, Elizabethtown College’s Office of Career Services held its first Pre-Law Night event in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Elizabethtown College’s  Pre-Law Club and Pre-Law Advising also sponsored the event. The event primarily focused on providing pre-law students with  information about law school applications and options. The event also provided an opportunity for current

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  • Scholarship fund honors political science professor

    Elizabethtown College is in the process of establishing the W. Wesley McDonald Memorial Scholarship to commemorate Dr. W. Wesley McDonald, an Elizabethtown College professor in the political science department who passed away on Sept. 9 of this year. According to Director of Major Gifts Marty Thomas-Brummé, the scholarship is “not [entirely] developed at this point.”

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CAMPUS LIFE

  • Hallow’s Eve traditions progress throughout history

    It seems to me that Halloween, more so than any other holiday, means something completely different to each age group: children are hell-bent on scouring the neighborhood for candy; the young adult generation that, since having abandoned the trick-or-treat quest, will use the day as an excuse for another themed party; and the older folks,

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  • Professor considers implication of online advertisements

    The Etownian recently published a piece on Convocation. The Sept. 15 article dealt with speeches made at the event, and was also published online at etownian.com, and as Homer perused it, his eyes were drawn to links at the end of the article. These links, presumably generated by Web technologies that scour global databases to

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  • Halloween dinner, entertaining or terrifying?

    Halloween dinner, entertaining or terrifying?

    Theme dinners have become a custom here at Elizabethtown College. The various theme dinners held are Final Exam Treats, TGIS Picnic, Convocation Picnic, Homecoming Dinner, Thanksgiving Dinner, Holiday Dinner and Halloween Dinner. All of the theme dinners reflect a time at Etown where everyone comes together to have fun. The Halloween-themed dinner in particular allows

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