Campus Life

  • Field hockey takes down Stevenson

    Field hockey takes down Stevenson

    The Blue Jay field hockey team has been flying high in the midst of a five-game winning streak. The team is clicking on all cylinders after consecutive victories against York College, Arcadia University, Juniata College, Albright College and, most recently, Alvernia University. A few weeks ago, the Elizabethtown College field hockey team was 3-3 and

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  • Fall break schedule changes proves to be undisruptive to Jays

    Get your bows and arrows out and hit the woods. That’s right; it’s time for fall! It is the time of the season where the leaves are changing color and starting to drop, birds are migrating south and the football  season is underway. Fall is the season filled with beautiful colors and warm smells that

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  • Students must persevere despite stress, importance of midterms

    Students must persevere despite stress, importance of midterms

    It’s that time of the year again — and I’m not talking about Etown monsoon season. There is another storm that hangs over the campus, causing tears and sweat to fall like rain from students’ faces. Forcing people to stay inside and hit the books. Darkening the usually vibrant Etown climate. It’s midterm season. Some

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  • Face-to-face communication retains value despite technology

    Face-to-face communication retains value despite technology

    Let’s face it, we all know that technology runs our lives, or at least it plays a huge part of it. With this great power also comes great change. I mean, really think about it, when was the last time you had a genuine conversation with someone in person? When was the last time you

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  • Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ combines strong acting, impressive visuals

    Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ combines strong acting, impressive visuals

    Can you imagine free-floating in space? Can you imagine having absolutely no communication with the world while floating away? Can you imagine knowing you may never see your loved ones again? The weekend’s number one box office movie was Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity.” Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock stars as Dr. Ryan Stone alongside costar Oscar-winning George

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  • Deadline leniency displays empathy

    e’ve heard it said all our lives. Our elementary school teachers warned us about the horrors that await us in middle school. Our middle school teachers preached how kind they were compared to the harrowing high school teachers. But when we got there we realized that we could handle the pressures of high school just

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  • Parody Twitter accounts generate debate

    Parody Twitter accounts generate debate

    Almost all of us are on social media these days. Whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Vine or Tumblr, you have probably have used all of these sites at one time or another. Twitter seems to be the most popular social media website for college students, ever since our relatives decided to get Facebook accounts and

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  • Traditional means of testing students doesn’t account for all kinds of intelligence

    Traditional means of testing students doesn’t account for all kinds of intelligence

    ll this time, have we been evaluating intelligence the wrong way? Middle school and high school were all about being taught to the test. The advent of standardized testing ensured that students were no longer learning for the sake of learning, but learning to make their school look good in comparison to others so they’d

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  • Letter to the editor argues laptops unnecessary in class

    After reading last week’s article, “Laptops, tablets acceptable note-taking resources in class,” I decided the alternate viewpoint needed to be discussed. By college, one can make decisions for him or herself; hopefully, these will be good decisions. Taking one’s laptop to class is a decision that students make everyday, but rarely think about. Are there

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