• Etown kicks off Black History Month with flag raising

    Etown kicks off Black History Month with flag raising

    Black History Month is being celebrated  at Elizabethtown College in February. Collaborating with other departments, the Department of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging has organized celebrations and educational events aimed at fostering dialogue among diverse identities on campus to support racial reconciliation and acknowledgment on campus.  Associate Director of the Department of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging Darcey Mills spoke on the importance of understanding the

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  • First Lecture Series this semester presented by Olivia Troye

    First Lecture Series this semester presented by Olivia Troye

    Olivia Troye was the voice of the night at Elizabethtown College’s second hosting of its 2023-2024 Lecture Series: Evenings of Enlightenment in Leffler Chapel at 7 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2024. As a former homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, Troye took the world by storm when she accused President Trump’s

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  • My Bloody Valentine Murder Mystery

    My Bloody Valentine Murder Mystery

    When you think of Valentine’s Day activities, a murder mystery event probably is not the first thing to come to mind, but on Feb. 2, RecWell, Office of Student Activities (OSA), Mad Cow and Sock and Buskin clubs collaborated to bring “My Bloody Valentine Murder Mystery”  to the Elizabethtown College community. Those who wished to

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  • OEP provides series of KNV workshops to the Etown community

    OEP provides series of KNV workshops to the Etown community

    On Earth Peace (OEP) is a nonprofit organization that works on helping communities by teaching the discipline of “Kingian Nonviolence (KNV) Conflict Resolution.” OEP spreads knowledge about KNV mainly through workshops aiming to bring personal and societal change. In celebration of Black History Month and as part of the Beloved Community Collective, Elizabethtown College is

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  • Roll for Initiative: Dungeons and Dragons undergoes renaissance at Elizabethtown College

    Roll for Initiative: Dungeons and Dragons undergoes renaissance at Elizabethtown College

    It’s almost midnight. You and your friends are huddled around a table in one of the old lab rooms on campus after hours. You are up to your ankles in sheets of paper, calculations and logs of items, tallying up numbers from dice rolls. But you’re not here because of a project or a mathematics

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  • ECDT hosts first annual “Dancing with the Jays” competition

    ECDT hosts first annual “Dancing with the Jays” competition

    The Elizabethtown College Dance Team (ECDT) announced that they will be hosting the first annual “Dancing with the Jays” contest, which is a spin-off of the show “Dancing with the Stars.” Each ECDT member has selected one member of the student body to be their partner in the competition. The partnered dancers will play the

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  • Editor in Chief farewell

    Editor in Chief farewell

    People have given me many confused looks over the years due to my involvement with The Etownian. “But you’re an occupational therapy (OT) major,” they’d say, waiting for me to protest. I would smirk, do my standard giggle and respond with the answer that sent them into further bewilderment. “I am,” I’d say. “And one

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  • #riseoftherejects: Elizabethtown college students establish a community hockey team

    #riseoftherejects: Elizabethtown college students establish a community hockey team

    The Rejects are on the rise through passion, hard work and dedication to the sport of ice hockey. The Rink Rejects recently joined a local league, hoping to bring community engagement and interest to the sport of hockey. The Rink Rejects started through interest by a few college students and local guys who missed the

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  • Etown’s graduate programs ranked in Intelligent.com’s Top Six Awards

    Etown’s graduate programs ranked in Intelligent.com’s Top Six Awards

    Elizabethtown College’s School of Graduate and Professional Studies (SPGS) was recently ranked in the top six for online adult education programs by Intelligent.com. Etown’s graduate program has been recognized in six different categories, some of which include academic quality and graduation rate. After a student’s four years of undergraduate studies, many move on to obtain

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