NEWS
Impact of Shift to Remote Work
The shift to remote and hybrid work has altered corporate business, from core functions like finance, marketing and accounting to interactions among staff. It seems what started out of necessity during the pandemic has become a trend that will last and possibly make some transformative changes in how we work and manage our daily business
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Germany’s Far-Right Party Looms in Local Elections
Germany’s right-wing party (AFD) is winning huge support within key local elections across eastern Germany. This support is unprecedented, as it hasn’t been seen for a far-right movement since the 1940s. As election season for them is also ramping up, a lot of citizens both inside Germany and abroad are worried about this sudden change.
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550 Students Join The Flock This Fall
Each year, it seems a new bigger incoming class comes to Elizabethtown College. In the 2023-2024 application season, 3,618 senior high school students tried to join the Etown flock, making it 3 percent higher than the year prior and the most number of applications ever. The class snapshot for the class of 2028 indicated that
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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
Blue Jays make noise in Landmark Conference Championships
After a superb season, Elizabethtown College’s women’s basketball team was unable to capture the Landmark Conference Championship this past weekend. After an encouraging win over the Catholic University Cardinals on Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the semifinal game, the Blue Jays came up short in the Conference Championship versus the #3 Scranton Royals on Saturday. The
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Third time’s the charm for the XFL?
The Xtreme Football League (XFL) made yet another return this past weekend. After two tries and two failures, the league rebooted for a third attempt at success this past weekend. The former owner, Vince McMahon, whose most recent attempt in 2020 failed in part due to COVID-19, decided to sell the league to former college
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Etown Basketball regular season comes to a close
This past weekend, the Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s basketball teams played the final bout of their respective regular seasons this past weekend on Saturday, Feb. 18. Both teams traveled to Baltimore, Md. to play Goucher College on the road. For the women, it was an opportunity to put their talents on display one last
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FEATURES
Migration Stories of Mennonites on the Move
On Thursday, Oct 21, Dr. John P. R. Eicher presented a lecture summarizing the main idea of his recent novel, “Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in the Transnational Age.” The book was published by Cambridge University Press, 2020, and recently received the 2021 Dale W. Brown Book Award. Eicher is an assistant professor
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Annual Into the Streets greatly benefitted those in need
Elizabethtown College Center of Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) hosted their annual Into the Streets. This day of service was held on Saturday, Oct. 23 and spanned from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Clubs, teams and individuals flocked to their designated area to volunteer; this included places throughout Elizabethtown, neighboring towns and work on campus.
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Women in STEM discuss their club
Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a newer club on Elizabethtown College campus. Senior Christina Schnee explained via email that she and a few friends got the idea for the club in fall of 2020, but the club didn’t become official until spring of this year. Currently the club’s officers are president
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