NEWS
2024 PA Ren Faire Season Starts
With fall classes starting and the workload already starting to pile up, an excursion outside of campus is what many students are looking for during their weekends. This leads to a lot of students going to the local restaurants and shops in town that they have been to many times before or making a drive
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PA Politics: Legal Hurdles for Independent Hopefuls Bar Candidates as November Looms
Pennsylvania Democrats have won a series of legal challenges keeping the Party for Socialism and Liberation from the presidential ballot in late August. A PA Commonwealth Court judge agreed with Democratic Party challenges, ruling that the paperwork filed by Party for Socialism and Liberation was fatally flawed and ordered the party’s candidate, Claudia De la
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Etown Prepares for Homecoming Weekend
Homecoming rolls around every year as a chance for students and alumni to come together and celebrate Elizabethtown College and their time at the beloved institution. Last year, thousands of people from Etown’s past and present celebrated the college with several autumn events. The alumni were invited to an outdoor Oktoberfest party with food, live
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CAMPUS LIFE
Welcome to the Jungle: Darwin the rabbit
Everyone say hi to Darwin! Darwin is a four-year-old Holland Lop rabbit. First-year Jillian Spiller, Darwin’s owner, got him in Ohio on the way home from a road trip in early August of 2020. They picked him up from a farm. “I think it was called ‘Darwintin’s Farm,’ which is why we named him Darwin,”
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Activity Review: Field of Screams
With Halloween coming to an end, I decided that going to a haunted house would be the perfect spooky season activity. I went to the notorious haunted attraction Field of Screams, located in Mountville, Pa., which will remain open until Nov. 11 . This attraction opens around 6:30 p.m. and all visitors must arrive by
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Recipe Review: Pizzadilla
As the semester becomes busier and busier, a meal that’s quick and easy to make is essential. That’s why quesadillas are such a great recipe for a quick bite as the semester winds down towards finals. So this week, we’re sharing a fun twist on the classic quesadilla: the pizzadilla! To start, gather your ingredients.
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SPORTS
Men’s Basketball loses to Scranton
On Saturday, Feb. 11 in Elizabethtown, Pa., The Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team faced off and lost against Scranton University with a final score of 80 for Scranton and 70 for Etown. Prior to the game, the team honored graduate student Jalin Robinson for senior day. Through the first five minutes of play, Etown didn’t
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Men’s Volleyball falls to Marymount
The Elizabethtown College’s men’s volleyball team was handed their first road loss of the season on Saturday night, Feb. 11. The Blue Jays were able to take one set, but that would be all, losing the match one set to three (1-3). This is the team’s fourth loss of the season, but they still maintain
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The NBA’s new all-time scoring leader
LeBron James cemented his name into yet another page of the basketball history books, this one being a monumental milestone. On the night of Feb. 7, in a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder, James took hold of the record for the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) all-time leading scorer. The record
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FEATURES
Series helps students with their freelance businesses
The Digital Humanities Hub, School of Arts and Humanities, Bower’s Writers House and Office of Alumni Relations are working together to help students market their freelance work. The four-part series is focused on “creating and managing your own freelance business” and is entitled “More Than a Side Gig: How to Value and Market Your Freelance
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Don’t feed the plants!
For the uninitiated, the comedy-horror musical “Little Shop of Horrors” follows Seymour, a wimpy employee in a flower shop, who purchases an unusual plant from a mysterious source. He names the plant Audrey II after his coworker and crush Audrey. That’s before he realizes the plant has needs besides the standard water, soil and sunlight.
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CGUP Discusses White Supremacy and Global Colonization in Recent Lecture
This year has seen the implementation of various new projects and events by the Elizabethtown College Center of Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) in order to better align the organization with not only its values of peacekeeping, but with those of social justice. One of these new projects is a series of events, presentations and
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