NEWS
Coca-Cola Releases AI-Generated Ad
Coca-Cola’s annual Christmas advertisements are pretty much a cultural institution. Glowing lights on those imposing red delivery trucks have symbolized holiday cheer since the mid-1990s. However, this year, Coca-Cola broke with tradition with quite a step into the unconventional: an AI-generated reboot of its classic “Holidays Are Coming” ad campaign. For some, it’s a technological
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The popularity behind iced coffee
I’m sure a lot of people love iced coffee. I enjoy a wonderful, iced drink during warm days. However, there does come a point in the weather that it seems that iced drinks are a bit silly. My personal opinion is when it gets cold, drink something warm. However, the iced coffee business has been
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Farewell from the Managing Editor
My friends and peers around Elizabethtown College would often stop to chat with me, eager to get the inside scoop on campus events or student concerns. Keeping them on their toes, I’d always tell them they’d have to wait until Thursday—when the Etownian was circulated in print on campus. I first heard about the Etownian
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CAMPUS LIFE
Horoscopes: Are you classy, demure, modest, or mindful?
The words demure, modest, classy and mindful have been popularized by a viral TikTok. Posted on Aug. 2 by user ‘joolieannie’, a transgender woman was able to afford her gender affirming surgery due to the revenue from her video. This horoscope can count as a congratulations to her, as well as a farewell to a
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Job Spotlight: Art & Design Student Assistant
There are many jobs available on Elizabethtown College’s campus, which can be a great way to earn some cash, gain work experience and even make some new friends. Student positions appear in nearly every building and span a wide variety of interests, including working the circulation desk at the High Library, helping other students polish
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Media Review: Cake Mania Series
If you owned a Nintendo DS in the mid-2000s, you’ve probably heard of this exhilarating cake baking game! “Cake Mania” is a game that focuses on timing and skill. The faster you work, the better you’ll fare. The game was produced by Sandlot Games and released as an online flash game. The game quickly gained
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SPORTS
Men’s and Women’s Basketball bounce back over the weekend
Last Saturday afternoon, Elizabethtown College’s men’s (8-13, 5-9 conference) and women’s (15-6, 11-3 conference) basketball teams produced wins against Moravian University (M: 7-14, 3-11 conference, W: 7-14, 6-8 conference), 68-65 and 84-46 respectively. The men’s team put on a dominating first half, outscoring Moravian 43-26. Fourth-year Dylan Rowe opened the scoring with two buckets, pushing
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Video Game Review: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
As I blazed through my backlog of video games over winter break, one game I found rather unenjoyable was Gearbox Software’s latest entry in the eponymous Borderlands franchise— Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Despite the exemplary gameplay and presentation of this expansion on Borderlands 2’s best DLC pack, the poor writing, unfulfilling level design and overall lifelessness
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Athlete of the Week: Drew Bridges
Drew Bridges, a sophomore field hockey player and chemistry major, is this issue’s Athlete of the Week. She had eight goals, one assist, 50 shots and 37 shots on goal. Bridges was the leading goal scorer for our Jays this year, followed by first-years Hannah Long and Mia Fino. Starting her field hockey career at
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FEATURES
Etown holds job and graduate school expo for students
Elizabethtown College has various opportunities for students to make connections within their majors by helping them look for jobs in the student’s near future. One of these ways Etown helps its students connect is with the Job, Internship and Graduate School Expo, which was held by the Career Development Center on Oct. 25. At the
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Etown wrestling team puts on haunted house for Into the Streets
Elizabethtown College has an annual event called Into the Streets around Halloween to incorporate the community and students. Students are learning skills and experience from volunteering engagement in a social environment. Events happen all around Elizabethtown that the community could be involved with. Etown has this function on campus in the KAV and is held
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Display brings awareness to domestic violence
October is Dating and Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DDVAM), and one of the many ways Elizabethtown College honored this is with the Silent Witness Display. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, DDVAM is a chance for people to unite in the work to end domestic violence, which is defined as abuse or aggression that
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