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Crucial Pennsylvania judicial races on the ballot this year
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- November 3, 2025
Election day is Nov. 4, but unlike last year’s presidential election or next year’s midterm elections, no candidates for federal office will be on the ballot. Despite this, a typically calm off year election has the potential to shake up Pennsylvania’s political institutions. In Pennsylvania, off year elections are when voters will elect officials at
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UN meets in Vietnam for cybercrime convention
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- November 3, 2025
Delegates from around 60 countries met in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Oct. 25 to sign a new United Nations treaty for fighting cybercrime. The signing marks the next step in years of negotiations on how nations can work together to prevent and prosecute crimes carried out through digital networks. Formally titled the U.N. Convention on Countering
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Amazon’s cloud glitch exposes a business problem money can’t fix
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- November 3, 2025
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down this week, the internet seemed to go with it. For nearly 15 hours, an error buried deep in AWS’s automation system disrupted everything from financial platforms to gaming apps. Amazon later said a software defect in its automated domain management system caused the issue. That small error made
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Canvas outage disrupts coursework across campus
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- November 3, 2025
On Oct. 20, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage caused widespread disruptions that left Elizabethtown College students and faculty without access to Canvas for much of the day. Canvas serves as the college’s primary learning management system, providing access to class materials, assignments and grades. When the outage began early that morning, many students were
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Commuter lounge comes to Elizabethtown College
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- November 3, 2025
For commuter students, a place to call home on campus is not easy to find. Elizabethtown College hopes to change that. This is why the college is making its first exclusive commuter lounge designed specifically for students who do not live on campus. This project was made possible with funds allocated by the Student Assembly
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US mediates Thailand-Cambodia dispute
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- November 3, 2025
This past weekend brought about large moves within the diplomatic playground in Southern Asia as the President of the United States, Donald Trump, began his tour to multiple different countries. Most notable is the brokered peace agreement between Thailand and Cambodia, which brought several skirmishes along their border. Along with this are several trade agreements
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Elizabethtown Alumna runs for Robeson Township Board with bipartisan backing
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- October 30, 2025
Margaret Jean Fix, an Elizabethtown College alumna, is running for a seat on the Robeson Township Board of Supervisors, aiming to bring greater efficiency, communication, and collaboration to local government. Fix, who serves as director of marketing and administration at Alarm Tech, earned nominations from both the Democratic and Republican parties for one of two
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Business Buzz: What Taylor Swift’s ‘Showgirl’ says about the business of attention
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- October 30, 2025
Critics have been sharply divided over The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album. The record’s theatrical pop sound and self-aware tone have been called uneven and overproduced by some reviewers. For Swift, the mixed reception may be less a setback than a calculated move. Few artists have mastered the business of attention
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How the government shutdown is affecting Pennsylvania
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- October 27, 2025
As the government shutdown reaches its third week with no end in sight, most states are feeling the pain of losing all federal funding. Pennsylvania residents, however, are in a double crisis, as the state government is four months into a budget impasse. Essentially, Pennsylvania is in its own government shutdown alongside the federal shutdown,
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