Campus Life

  • Boy Scouts exclude gay members: controversy in rebuttal of policy

    Boy Scouts exclude gay members: controversy in rebuttal of policy

    Last week in the news, the truth was revealed about both the White House and Obama’s opinion towards the Boys of America’s ban on gay members. While Obama expressed his disagreement with the policy, the issue was not settled. It was not until last week that the White House issued a definite yes in disagreement.

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  • Policy for cell phone regulation during work begins debate

    Policy for cell phone regulation during work begins debate

    Elizabethtown College’s Phonathon recently implemented an office rule regulating the use of cell phones while at Phonathon. Employees must now leave their cell phones in a basket on the manager’s desk during their shift, and they are only allowed to use their cell phones outside of the office during a 15-minute break. Is this an

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  • Letter to the Editor: Professor pleased with critique, controversy

    Letter to the Editor: Professor pleased with critique, controversy

    Two years ago, I was hired on as an assistant professor of sociology here at Elizabethtown College. While there are many things that drew me to this campus, the desire to truly advocate for social justice and have open and honest conversations about what that means and the various (and sometimes contradictory) ideas of how

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  • PUT YOUR RECORDS ON: Fall Out Boy

    PUT YOUR RECORDS ON: Fall Out Boy

    The first time I ever heard Fall Out Boy it was the summer of 2005, back when MTV was actually Music Television (sort of). I remember seeing the music video for “Sugar, We’re Going Down,” where the main character had these bizarre deer antlers. Regardless of the surreal videography, the song stuck with me, and

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  • Women allowed on the ‘front line,’ will cohesiveness in combat change?

    Women allowed on the ‘front line,’ will cohesiveness in combat change?

    If you’ve tuned in to any sort of news media in the past two weeks, you’re most likely now well aware of the issue surrounding front-line women combatants in the military. Now, this came as a shock to me because I assumed that those who sign up for military service, be they men or women,

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  • FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

    If you regularly use any social networking sites or attend music festivals you may have seen the iconic To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) logo. It is often worn on T-shirts by musicians or advertised online and at festivals such as the Vans Warped Tour. I for one have seen this logo frequently, but

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  • American rights versus citizens’ security

    American rights versus citizens’ security

    In place to protect their people, governments are posed with the curious predicament of creating laws that protect their people without dictating their day to day routines. This balancing act has proven a challenge for those in power. The question that is always to be considered; when does enough become too much? The gun control

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  • ‘Silver Linings’ a relatable account of overcoming adversity

    ‘Silver Linings’ a relatable account of overcoming adversity

    Making fun of someone with a mental illness never seems to fly well with an audience, especially when it comes to the big screen. However, director David O. Russell was not afraid to go against the proverbial grain when doing just that with his movie “Silver Linings Playbook,” starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. In

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  • Record low temperatures reignite global warming debate

    Record low temperatures reignite global warming debate

    On Jan. 24, Elizabethtown College hosted comedian Seaton Smith. One of his several hilarious jokes was on the hot topic, no pun intended, of global warming. He asked the rhetorical question, how are we supposed to stop global warming? His punch line, was just putting a plastic bottle in a recycling bin. While he was

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