NEWS
CCCE Promotes Voter Registration
With a presidential election on the horizon and political advertisements coming up on everyone’s social media pages, politics and voting have become the forefront of many conversations. This is the first major presidential election that many college students have been able to vote in and with that can come a lot of emotions and issues
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Elizabethtown College welcomes Penn Medicine Health Center to campus
Elizabethtown College announced the opening of the Penn Medicine Elizabethtown College Medical Center just before the fall semester began. The center is located at 530 East Cedar St., directly across from Ober Residence Hall. Aug. 20 marked the official opening of the facility, and students now have access to on-campus medical care. The change came
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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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CAMPUS LIFE
Media Review: “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” film
In Nov. 2022, I, like many others, did not survive the Ticketmaster Great War and failed to purchase Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour tickets for one of the Pittsburgh, Pa. dates. I have been a fan of Swift since the early days of my childhood, and although I saw her during her Reputation Stadium Tour,
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Job Spotlight: Founders A Resident Assistant
For every residence hall on campus, there’s a handful of resident assistants, or RAs, ready to step in when things get out of hand. Most students know that RAs are given their own rooms and don’t have to pay to live on campus, which can make the college experience a little more pleasant and affordable
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Students of Etown: Marie Deily
College can be both exciting and stressful as you decide what you want to do for the rest of your life, and first-year Marie Deily knows that feeling well. When she started the semester here at Elizabethtown College, she was a biology major with a concentration in pre-vet but over time discovered it just wasn’t
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SPORTS
Staying fit during Spring Break
Spring break is just around the corner, bringing a week of relaxing, procrastinating and sleeping. Students take the time to recuperate from midterms and the stress of college. Here are some tips to stay mentally healthy as well as active during Spring Break. First, keep a regular sleep schedule or start one if you lost
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MLB Spring Training Begins: A look at the new rule changes
Major League Baseball (MLB) is back, folks! After an offseason that felt much too long, Spring Training has kicked off over the past few days and has done so in an intriguing fashion. Spring Training will go on for about a month, wrapping things up on March 28 and paving the way for the 2023
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Men’s Wrestling places seventh in Mideast Regional Championships
The two-day competition for the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Division III Wrestling Championships kicked off on Friday, Feb. 24 at 11 a.m. and Etown looked to be in terrific shape by the day’s end. Four different Blue Jays reached the semifinals for their respective weight classes that day. These Jays included junior Dorian Gonzalez,
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FEATURES
Students Enjoy Tasty Treats on a Cold Day
What better way to warm up on a cold winter morning than with hot chocolate and pancakes?! On Friday, Jan. 28 in the Elizabethtown College Bowers Center Demonstration Kitchen, Assistant Director of Health Promotion and professor Joni Eisenhauer whipped up some blueberry lemon pancakes and hot chocolate for students to stop by and try. By
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Nonviolence discussion encourages peace
On Friday, Jan. 28, Elizabethtown College held a discussion on the power of nonviolent principles, led by Rev. Amy Shorner-Johnson. This talk was part of the Beloved Community Collectives series. The idea of the “Beloved Community” comes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He saw it as the end goal of nonviolent boycotts. It is
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CGUP hosts focused events and programs on racism
Over the course of the fall 2021 semester, the Elizabethtown College Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) has hosted multiple programs and events related to its first annual Forum on White Supremacy and Global Colonization. According to CGUP, the forum can be concisely summarized as being “focused on examination of how white supremacy and
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