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
Welcome to the Jungle: Natasha the Kitty
Meet Natasha, the spunky cat belonging to fourth-year Campus Life Editor Charlie Carberry! Natasha, affectionately referred to with a host of nicknames including Natasha Grace, Tasha, Kitters, Miss Thing and Sweet Pea by Carberry’s partner, is a one-year-old tortoiseshell cat brimming with personality. “She’s super playful,” Carberry said. “Her favorite toys are the pompoms on
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Horoscopes: What store at Park City Center are you based on your zodiac sign?
After a long week of stressful classes and homework piles that never seem to end, a shopping trip is sometimes all you need. Even just walking around the mall can be a great change of scenery after looking at our (lovely) campus all week. So Jays, for this week of the Horoscopes, let’s find out
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Business Review: WhirliGig Unique Boutique
Are you looking for a shop that’s warm, cozy and inviting? Are you a fan of drinking coffee, shopping for gifts and trying on cute clothes? Last but not least, do you like to treat yourself to charming gifts and trinkets from small businesses with kind shop owners? If so, then WhirliGig Unique Boutiques is
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SPORTS
Athlete of the Week: Matt Fick
Matt Fick is a senior cross-country runner. He has been on the Elizabethtown College’s men’s track and field team since fall of 2021. He was also a fall 2022 All-Conference athlete in the fall of 2022 after placing 12th overall out of 84 athletes. Fick and the rest of the team recently finished their indoor
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Women’s Basketball falls in second round of NCAA Tournament
The women’s basketball team qualified for the Division III National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Women’s Basketball Tournament in Newport News, Va. for the second year in a row two weeks ago. They made some noise in the tournament, but their run ended on Saturday, March 4 after a duel with #1 seeded Christopher Newport University.
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Octopath Traveler II Review
“Octopath Traveler I” is a masterpiece of game design. From the memorable stories to the finely crafted turn-based RPG combat, the game shows just what the artistic medium of video games can accomplish. Making a sequel to such a game might cause it to lose its charm as the developers try to fruitlessly recapture the
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FEATURES
Students begin process to restart College Republicans
Prior to COVID-19, Elizabethtown College’s College Republicans was an active club on campus; however, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the club became inactive, as had other clubs on campus, such as the History Club, which recently restarted. Like juniors Eric Schubert and Gavin McCabe who serve as co-presidents of the History Club, first-year Timothy Mackall expressed
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Recital gives seniors an opportunity to perform their craft
The Elizabethtown College School of Arts and Humanities presented a Senior Recital that featured two students’ dedication. The Department of Music showcased soprano Natalie Blanton and Joshua Koch on clarinet. The performance was on Sunday, Nov. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Elizabethtown College staff, students, alumni and family and
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Professor Benowitz presents his chapter at National Collegiate Honors Council
The National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) conference occurred from Oct. 27 to 31, 2021. It occurs annually, and this year’s theme was “Reimagine Honors: Past, Present, Future.” It discussed a monograph called “Place, Self, Community: City as Text in the Twenty-First Century.” Professor Jean-Paul Benowitz presented his recent chapter named “Transforming Community Based Learning Through
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