News

  • Etown Prepares for Homecoming Weekend

    Etown Prepares for Homecoming Weekend

    • News
    • September 20, 2024

    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

    READ MORE
  • GPS for the Moon in Development

    GPS for the Moon in Development

    • News
    • September 20, 2024

    More than 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. Since then, 11 other people have joined him and became moonwalkers. What comes next, though?Recently, it has become apparent that the next step for lunar progress will be a global positioning system (GPS) on the moon. NASA, in

    READ MORE
  • Elizabethtown College class aims to highlight ‘The Community of Etown’ with upcoming project

    Elizabethtown College class aims to highlight ‘The Community of Etown’ with upcoming project

    Elizabethtown College is home to many fields of study, from the arts to the sciences. Our college truly values this diversity of academics. While some may be in an Organic Chemistry Lab for 3 hours every Monday recrystallizing with Dr. Walby, others of us may spend their fair share of Tuesday evenings working tirelessly to

    READ MORE

  • Business Buzz: The downfall of self-checkout

    Shoppers who prefer self-checkouts will be disappointed as giant retailers, such as Walmart, Target, Five Below and Dollar General, start to phase out self-service lanes from their stores. This is an attempt to avoid shrinkage, or stolen merchandise. In 2022, Target lost over $200 million dollars because of shrinkage.  Walmart has already removed the self-checkout

    READ MORE
  • Global Perspective: Tunde Onakoya holds chess marathon to raise money for education

    Global Perspective: Tunde Onakoya holds chess marathon to raise money for education

    In a world climate of constant wars, dictators flashing the nuclear button, and unstable and unnerving elections it can be a lot sometimes to just go about our days without always looking over our shoulders. However, for every bad news line there is still another good happening in this world. Even if it’s a Nigerian

    READ MORE
  • House passes bill to potentially prohibit TikTok, hopes to push ByteDance to sell platform

    House passes bill to potentially prohibit TikTok, hopes to push ByteDance to sell platform

    This just in screen watchers: the House of Representatives has voted in favor of forcing Bytedance to sell TikTok to an American investor or else see it banned in the United States. Bytedpace, a Chinese-based tech company, is looking to take this to court rather than selling one of their most profitable assets.   The Senate

    READ MORE
  • Multiple bias incidents on campus prompt conversation

    Multiple bias incidents on campus prompt conversation

    On Monday April 15, the Elizabethtown College campus community received an email about a racial slur being found written on a board on the second floor of the Baugher Student Center. While the campus waited to see what updates they would receive about who wrote the slur or what was being done, another email came

    READ MORE
  • Etown celebrates Truman’s impact

    Etown celebrates Truman’s impact

    Depending on who you ask, the biggest celebrity on Elizabethtown College’s campus likely isn’t human. Rather, he is a big golden doodle named Truman. Truman is not your average pup: he is a therapy dog who makes his rounds around campus and even shows up at campus-wide events. Truman is a therapy dog here at

    READ MORE
  • PA Politics: Predicting the 2024 Senate elections in Pennsylvania 

    PA Politics: Predicting the 2024 Senate elections in Pennsylvania 

    In the upcoming elections this November, one of Pennsylvania’s Senate seats is up for grabs between Democratic incumbent Bob Casey and challenger Dave McCormick. Although current polling indicates that this election is not going to be as close as the last Senate race between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz, with Casey maintaining 45 percent support

    READ MORE
© Copyright 2019 — The Etownian. All Rights Reserved.