NEWS
PA Politics: The Push to Win Pennsylvania Voters
Entering the home stretch to the 2024 presidential election, Pennsylvania Democrats hold the weakest voter registration advantage compared to Pennsylvania Republicans in recent decades. The Democratic Party’s raw registration numbers saw a brief rise following Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race in late July, and although this trend has continued, the number of Republicans
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Elizabethtown College announces faculty cuts ahead of projected deficits
Editor’s note: The Etownian chose to grant anonymity to all sources due to the sensitive subject matter. This story was updated to include the fact that the meeting took place over Zoom due to COVID-19 protocol. A faculty assembly meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 24 announced faculty cuts and a five-year deadline for Elizabethtown College to
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Is the Talent War over in America?
After COVID, companies fought each other to hire new employees to fill vacancies created by massive layoffs, retirements and “quiet-quitters” that surged during the pandemic. The rate of employee departures went from 2.3% each month to 3% at the beginning of 2022. Fighting for highly skilled workers at all levels made companies go toe-to-toe with
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CAMPUS LIFE
Bottle Debate: Owala or Stanley?
Trend changes are everywhere, and the Elizabethtown College campus sees a lot of them: claw clips, regular or flair leggings, Nike or Adidas and baggy jeans. A new wave of color has been spreading like wildfire around Etown these past few months: Owalas. The vibrant bottles are even rivaling the persistent Stanley. Throughout middle and
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Horoscopes: What flower are you based on your zodiac sign?
Have pigs finally learned to fly, Jays? Could it be that the sun has finally decided to make an appearance? Sure, we’ve had our fair share of rain this month, but you know what they say: “April showers bring May flowers.” The sun has shone its way through the clouds a few times, even if
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Learn about DaniRae Renno’s passion for her new position
At the start of this semester, there were a few positions that became available at the Etownian due to members completing their time here at Elizabethtown College. Third-year journalism and professional writing double major DaniRae Renno took up the mantle of being the Etownian’s managing editor, and is dedicated to continuing to work with her
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SPORTS
Field hockey celebrates Senior Day with big win
The Elizabethtown College Blue Jay field hockey team took the win against Goucher College on Wolf Field on Saturday, Oct. 21. It was a strong Senior Day for the team and they started things off on the right foot with a goal in the first two minutes of the first quarter. First-year Hannah Long scored
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Etown golf Landmark Conference Championship Preview recap
This past weekend, on Oct. 21 and 22, the Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s golf teams traveled to East Stroudsburg, Pa. for the Landmark Conference Championship Preview. The teams took to the course at the Shawnee-On-The-Delaware Inn and Golf Club as they started to wrap up their seasons. The men’s team took seventh place out
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Dietary timing: How food affects exercise
One of the biggest questions regarding one’s health revolves around dietary choices shortly following exercise. Researching this relatively simple question delivers a plethora of articles that can overwhelm with startling efficiency, which causes general confusion regarding how food affects the body during exercise. If people desire to get healthy in an efficient manner, then this
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FEATURES
“In Light of Color” opens in Lyet Gallery
On Feb. 9, the art exhibit “In Light of Color” opened in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center’s Lyet Gallery. The collection brings together ten artists who use the element of color differently in their work. “I wanted to showcase artists that use color in a unique way and to represent various styles of contemporary painting,”
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High Library launches James Baldwin exhibit to celebrate Black history
On the first day of Black History Month, Elizabethtown College’s High Library launched the “James Baldwin, In Conversation with America” exhibit to highlight one of the most influential African American figures. The exhibit is located in the library’s IDEA lab and is scheduled to run until May 12, 2023. The exhibit’s goal is to highlight
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Sports Symposium educates students on careers in sports
On Feb. 7, 8 and 9, Elizabethtown College held their inaugural “Career in Sports Symposium,” which allowed students who are interested in having a career in sports here from those who are already in the industry. The Symposium had speakers from multiple areas in the sports industry, such as health and wellness, communications and marketing,
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